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Pat Jobe is a lifelong journalist. He wrote his first newspaper story when he was 14. He is married to Gabriele Rissmeyer and between them, they have children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, foster children, and passionate causes. Jobe is in his 18th year of broadcasting for WNCW and in 2006 spun a brief career in television with a show on local access cable and Free Speech Television called The Connection Independent Television. The TV show connected him to Ms. Rissmeyer who saw it while stuck in a snowstorm in New Mexico. He currently serves The Unitarians of Lake Norman and All Souls Community as minister of the two congregations.

Connecticut native Mark Hauser has visited forty-nine states and lived in six, but he hit the cosmic lottery in late 2018 when his family had the opportunity to move to Fields, Oregon, population 17. Prior to relocating to the high desert Mark resided in Mauldin, South Carolina for 26 years while working as the play-by-play radio voice for the now defunct Greenville Braves and the Wofford College football and men's basketball teams. Hauser, his wife Jennifer, and adult children Samantha and Emma got to know Mark's "Radio Free Bubba" brother Pat Jobe as members of the Greenville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Mark's most cherished professional honor was being named to the Wofford Athletic Hall of Fame, but he'll tell you being a Bubba is a bigger deal. Mark began broadcasting Radio Free Bubba stories in the summer of 2023.

Todd is your host from 3 to 6pm on Goin' Across the Mountain and 6 to 7pm on The Tall Grass.

Don founded Close To Home on Blue Ridge Public Radio (previously WCQS) in 1985. The show moved to WNCW in 2024. Don also offers mountain dulcimer workshops, books, videos, and weekly Zoom jam sessions.

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Simone Popperl is an editor for NPR's Morning Edition and Up First. She joined the network in March 2019, and since then has pitched and edited stories on everything from the legacy of burn pits in Iraq, to never-ending "infrastructure week," to California towns grappling with climate change, to American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin's ascendance to the top of her sport. She led Noel King's reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Steve Inskeep's reporting from swing states in the lead up to the 2020 Presidential Election, and Leila Fadel's field reporting from Kentucky on the end of Roe v. Wade.

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Eric Whitney is NPR's Mountain West/Great Plains Bureau Chief, and was the former news director for Montana Public Radio.

A former road scholar, Jaclyn made her first donation to WNCW from the cab of her big rig in 2007 and became a volunteer not long after. She hails from just down the road in Lincoln County. When not at the station, Jaclyn can be found foraging in the woods, making jellies and preserves, or tending her bee hives. In addition to bees, she cares for a cat named Poot and many plants.

Jasmin was born and raised in beautiful Mitchell County, North Carolina. She was most influenced musically by her father, who had her playing guitar by age 12, and listening to bands such as The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, The Band, Mike Cross, and The Osborne Brothers. She now lives in the Lake Lure area with husband Ben and two boys, Henry and Kai. They enjoy hikes in the woods, record stores, and listening to all kinds of music together. Jasmin says, “Nothing makes me happier than sharing good music with good folks, and I am so blessed to be a part of the WNCW family.”