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Chapter 2 of Jack's look at those local places the thought of which evoke that kind of pure childhood joyful nostalgia. The kind of nostalgia you can still smell and go back to with a few notes of a song. From waterslides to ice cream to pizza to retail, let's all remember some places together. From shopping mall record stores to arcade cigarette smoke to weirdly cheap movie theaters to a mini golf course that would kick you out but you still loved.

Jack talks to the Lincolnite and UNL professor of Political Science and Director of the University's National Security Program about a whole lot of questions many of us laypeople have when it comes to headlines about national security, Russia/Ukraine, China and more.

This week we mix in a solo show from Jack as we will be featuring some more variety along with our regular longform interviews during season 3. Among those will be a recurring deep dive countdown show we'll call, appropirately, Jack's Top 10. This week, Jack looks back into his childhood and picks the ten places in Nebraska that evoke that kind of pure childhood joyful nostalgia. The kind of nostalgia you can still smell and go back to with a few notes of a song. From waterslides to ice cream to pizza to retail, let's all remember some places together.

The second half of our interview with aspiring actor turned sports radio host turned middfle school teacher Jake Bogus. In part 2 we delve into the REAL life of a teacher in 2023 and it's unique challenges from working with parents to the modern day teenager to being in an industry that's short-staffed all over the country and how we fix that.

The Jack Mitchell podcast returns for season 3 with a two part interview with one-time aspiring actor turned sports radio host turned middfle school teacher Jake Bogus. In Part 1 we find out how he went straight from Minden High to decling offers to smoke weed in 'The Valley', his slingshot back to Nebraska, his foray into sports radio working with the likes of Jason Peter, Adrian Fiala and Nick Bahe and why it ended.

Jack talks to Channel 8 Meteorologist Rusty Dawkins about his little known career as an electrician, how and why he has left and returned to the TV Market in LIncoln during different times in his life, why snowfall is so much more difficult to predict than other weather, which weather apps he has on his phone and of course, we debate whether the DOME is real!