Tag: Ed Button

Shimbo Challenges You to Take a Chill Pill: The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is Good For Social Media

by Shimbo I love people. Except when people are busy being “people”. One of the natural by-products of the Internet Age is an increasingly solipsistic point of view; how could it be any different? So often we sit behind our computer monitors or our smartphones, and digest everything the internet has to offer, while filtering it through our own ideals. Sometimes… Read more →

Peer Pressure For a Good Cause? Ed Button Has an Ice to Pick With the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

by Ed Button For those of you who haven’t somehow been on the internet in the past two weeks or so, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a campaign that seeks to raise funding to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. It’s a condition that affects voluntary muscle movement, and eventually leads to death. The “Challenge”, as it were, is… Read more →

Episode 177: Sarah Symonds: Mistress No More, or, “Well, Look What I Found!”

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On this edition of the Never Daunted Radio Network, Shimbo gives a really brief, yet rave review of Guardians of the Galaxy, and shares his Cheap Bastard’s Guide to Moviegoing, where he tells you how there’s no shame in snagging the Senior discount, and you judge him silently. Next, a Scottish woman has the discovery of her life when she… Read more →

Episode 176: Talkin’ Shop With Biegel and Royce; Saying Goodbye to Jim Rockford

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After a number of technical difficulties, missed connections and other issues none of you really want to know about, we’ve finally got Episode 176 right here! We start off with a remembrance of James Garner, who passed away over the weekend at the age of 86. Shimbo shares some memories and why he feels Jim Rockford of The Rockford Files,… Read more →

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Meet Our Latest Contributor, Ed Button

A longtime friend of the Never Daunted Radio Network, Ed Button joins us to occasionally contribute articles and essays both for the site and for the show. Ed is an award winning broadcaster and News Director of afamily-owned five station radio network based out of West Plains, MO. After flirting with the idea of contributing, he finally decided to sack up… Read more →