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Mississippi stories, told face to face.
Now You're Talking with Marshall Ramsey profiles the people who shape Mississippi through service, culture, education, public media, and community work. The conversations move easily from local humor to serious reflections on storms, museums, schools, art, and the ties that keep communities connected.
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Now You're Talking with Marshall Ramsey is a Mississippi-rooted interview show about the people who keep the state's civic and cultural life moving. It is built on conversation, not hurry. Marshall Ramsey, identified on the show as an editorial cartoonist committed to telling Mississippi stories, speaks with guests from public media, schools, museums, volunteer service, the arts, conservation, sports, and community work. The show likes a good origin story. It asks how someone from Sebastopol ends up helping build the Mississippi Children's Museum, how a watercolorist and a brand strategist turn a gallery into a community hub, or how a volunteer leader thinks about disaster plans before the next storm arrives. The details matter here. Trees on houses, tarps, church vans, Antique Roadshow events, WPA museum work, East Lauderdale classrooms, downtown Clinton, and MPB membership drives all become part of the larger map. The pace is unhurried and personal. Guests often explain not just what they do, but who taught them to care about it, from grandparents and working-class parents to teachers, spouses, staff, and local partners. The show is comfortable with admiration. It is also comfortable with teasing, especially when a conversation turns toward marketing oneself, outfit choices, retirement jokes, or the impossible confidence required to say, honestly, that one does not know everything. Its best moments come when civic seriousness and everyday humor share the same room. A discussion of arts funding becomes a meditation on foundations, both literal and cultural. A segment on volunteering becomes a practical reminder that communities need plans before trouble arrives. An interview about MPB events becomes a case for public trust built face to face. The final episode gives the archive a farewell frame, with MPB Think Radio staff honoring Ramsey after more than a decade on the air. That ending gives the show a reflective edge. It now plays like a record of Mississippi voices gathered while the microphone was still warm. The format is simple, but its value is cumulative. Over many conversations, it sketches a state through the people who teach, paint, raise money, coach, conserve, rebuild, and keep showing up.
Made for: For listeners drawn to regional culture, public radio interviews, and grounded stories about Mississippi service, art, education, and community life. It suits anyone who prefers patient conversation over hot takes.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating local institutions and everyday civic work as story material worthy of real time. Its Mississippi specificity is the point: names, towns, museums, storms, classrooms, galleries, and public media relationships carry the meaning.
You’ve probably seen his work in a newspaper near you, but now, you can put a voice to the name. On Now You’re Talking with Marshall Ramsey, you’ll hear commentary on the latest news, punch-lines from his latest cartoons, interviews with fellow cancer survivors he’s met along the way and compelling stories of known and unknown people, places, and things of Mississippi. Email the show: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Marshall Ramsey connects Mississippi's personal stories to the practical work behind its cultural and civic institutions.
Marshall Ramsey makes Mississippi's public life legible through warm, detail-minded interviews. He asks guests how their work actually gets done, moving from personal histories to the machinery behind museums, volunteer networks, galleries and public broadcasting.
Mississippi arrives person-sized here, so you meet the people before inheriting the headlines.
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A warm Mississippi radio farewell where memory, gratitude, arts advocacy, and Marshall Ramsey's next chapter share the stage.
Marshall Ramsey's farewell to Now You're Talking plays like a memory album, circling back to favorite guests whose strength and perseverance helped define the show before settling into staff gratitude and his move to Oxford to help educate and advocate for future journalists at…
A grounded look at Mississippi volunteering, emergency planning, and the people who show up when help is needed.
National Volunteer Week gives Marshall Ramsey a natural opening to consider what volunteering means across Mississippi. Suzanne Rutherford, executive director of the Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Service, ties her work with Volunteer Mississippi to the commission's…
An Oxford appraisal event leads to a conversation about how MPB gets to know its audience.
An upcoming antique appraisal event in Oxford gives Marshall Ramsey and Angela Crossley-Ferraz a chance to talk about meeting MPB's audience in person. Angela remembers people returning to events with another object after making friends there.
A warm, candid look at the marriage, marketing, and daily handoffs behind Wyatt Waters's art business.
Wyatt and Christy Waters make the business of art feel unusually human. Wyatt comes through as a nationally recognized watercolorist whose vivid Southern scenes have their own momentum, while Christy brings decades of marketing and brand strategy to the gallery, the client…
A warm Mississippi museum episode about Angel Ronke, natural history, and the public work behind conservation education.
Angel Ronke's work with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science gives this episode its human center, connecting conservation, education, tourism, and leadership through the daily life of a public museum.
Marshall Ramsey's conversation with Jermaine Flood becomes a candid portrait of cartooning, fatigue, and practiced idea-making.
Jermaine Flood turns the microphone toward Marshall Ramsey, the show's own host, and the result is a warm, compact portrait of a working cartoonist shaped by childhood, public events, and long practice.
Pacific Northwest history, still in motion.
Washington, told by the people inside it.
Japan, art, and ambition in raw form.
Host Marshall Ramsey interviews entertainment attorney and author Mike Frescona Jr.
Host Marshall Ramsey interviews Chris Newcomb, CEO of Nuke's, discussing food, life, cancer, and entrepreneurship in Mississippi.
Host Marshall Ramsey interviews Nina Parikh, director of the Mississippi Film Office, about the state's film history and its 50th anniversary.
Host Marshall Ramsey interviews Coach Bill Courtney, whose story of turning around a high school football team became the Oscar-winning documentary Undefeated.
Host Marshall Ramsey interviews the 2024 Mississippi Teacher of the Year, Shawna Waters, discussing education and back-to-school topics.
Host Marshall Ramsey shares favorite moments from 2024, including interviews and discussions about Mississippi people and places.
Host Marshall Ramsey shares favorite moments from 2023, including interviews and stories about Mississippi people and culture.
Marshall Ramsey, host of Now You're Talking with Marshall Ramsey and editor-at-large at Mississippi Today, describes moving from Atlanta and San Diego to Mississippi in 1998 after a job call from Dan Turner.
Michael Orr says his foundation puts a success coordinator inside schools for two students at Lipscomb Academy.
Marshall Ramsey marks National Volunteer Week with Suzanne Rutherford, executive director of the Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Service, and frames Volunteer Mississippi as a statewide service network.
Angela Crossley-Ferraez tells Marshall Ramsey that Mississippi Antiques Showcase began as a members-only event after watching Antiques Roadshow and then sold out in two weeks.
Marshall Ramsey talks with Wyatt Waters and Christy Jacob Waters about the business and travel behind Wyatt’s watercolor practice, from Clinton, Mississippi, to Natchez and France.
Marshall Ramsey interviews Angel Rohnke, director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science since 2024, about her upstate New York roots, her 19-plus years at the museum, and her recent recognition as Museum Professional of the Southeast.
Host Marshall Ramsey interviews Susan Jard, executive director of the Mississippi Children's Museum, about her journey and the museum's recognition as third best in the US.