Champs Not Chumps

Series produced by Thomas Dodson

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Champs Not Chumps is an audiopodcast featuring interviews with people who are pursuing creative, social, or intellectual projects. Tom Dodson and Alana Kumbier produce the show and take turns hosting. You can find us at http://champsnotchumps.org.

Champs Not Chumps is an audiopodcast featuring interviews with people who are pursuing creative, social, or intellectual projects. Tom Dodson and Alana Kumbier produce the show and take turns hosting. You can find us at http://champsnotchumps.org.

So far, we've done episodes on alternative comics, flash fiction, accessible farming, teaching meditation to kids, you name it. We're agnostic when it comes to subject areas and omnivorous in our interests--we're guided, really, by the people we know who are doing something awesome and whose work or ideas we want to showcase.


5 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Caption: Bunnies posing at Dr. Sketchy's, Credit: Justin Moore
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is not your typical drawing session. It’s held in a bar, for starters, and features models ranging from circus perfor...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 03, 2011
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chris Willard, author of Child's Mind (2010, Parallax Press)
Champs Not Chumps talks with psychotherapist Chris Willard about his book, Child’s Mind.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 31:10
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Champs Not Chumps celebrates National Poetry Month by inviting some of our favorite people to read some of their favorite poems.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:11
Caption: Death Bear taking away painful memories, Credit: Photo by Kevin Walsh
Performance artist Nate Hill describes a harrowing break-up.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 05:08
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Clips from Champs Not Chumps podcast 2010. Hear what you've been missing.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 02:07