DropTheDis Augusta

DropTheDis Augusta is a local conversation show with a clear center of gravity: Augusta is best understood through the people actively building, serving, funding, teaching, hiring, and promoting it. The show’s register is friendly and conversational, but its subject matter is often practical. James and Samantha speak with guests about the work behind visible community life. That can mean Paceline’s walk, run, and ride fundraising for cancer research. It can mean a business owner explaining how a Crumbl Cookies sale connected to a new pickleball concept. It can mean Claudia Jones and Shalanda Morris discussing plumbing, office operations, trade careers, internships, and the reality of being a woman or person of color in the field. Short stories carry a lot of the show’s momentum. Someone remembers a phone call, a ribbon cutting, a conference, an audition, a first week on air, or a business choice that could have gone another way. Then the conversation widens. Augusta becomes a place of niche communities, local investment, relationship marketing, trades education, customer service systems, and people who keep finding reasons to stay. The show is boosterish, but not vague. It returns to names, facilities, fundraisers, chambers, associations, courts, trucks, studios, and storefronts. Guests are usually asked how they got started, what changed, what the city still needs, and why local support matters. The pacing is relaxed enough for backstory and tangents. It still keeps a useful throughline: people can make things happen in Augusta when they get outside their routines and connect with others. Cancer research, small-business risk, skilled trades, military-influenced leadership, morning radio, and recreational sports all fit inside that frame. The show works especially well as an informal map of local energy. It is less about breaking news than about recognizing who is already moving the city forward.