Our guest is New York Times global technology correspondent Paul Mozur. His upcoming talk, titled 'The Killer Robots Have Arrived: The Actions & Ethics of AI in a Changed World' will explore the rapid changes that AI has brought to a surprising space: warfare. Mozur’s work with the Times has explored the introduction of AI to “off-the-shelf” drones…

Today's takeaways are Colonel Sanders, Tekken, and Halloween vibes. How do they gel together? LISTEN! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for today's music.Av Robot Cache

On today's episode, Utah author Sariah Wilson previewed her latest book and offered some writing advice.Av Tom Williams

Oct 2, 2024. We talked with Rich Christiansen, author of "BlindSighted: A Journey of Identity, Faith, and Healing."Av Tom Williams

Folklorist and author Tom Mould was in Logan last week to give a lecture at Utah State University.Av Tom Williams

"Games are good and games can help your mental health" is the tl;dr of this news-heavy episode. So if you need those Friday fuzzies...LISTEN! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for today's music.Av Robot Cache

UPR has formed a new partnership with KRCL, presenting their newest show The Music Never Stopped on UPR Sundays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.Av Tom Williams

Our guest today is the Founder of Indigenous Performance Productions, Andre Bouchard (of Kootenai/Ojibwe/Pend d’Oreille/Flathead Salish descent). The Aunties is coming to the Ellen Eccles Theatre in Logan on April 5, 7:30pm. This is part of a Utah Humanities Grant, in partnership with UtahPresents/Kingsbury Hall. This show is part of the CacheARTS …

New news! The gaming industry is projected to hit $500 billion a year, Disney's Skeleton Crew was inspired by an old gaming classic (click to find out more), EA shows off their new AI game creation tech, the latest from the famitsu charts, and so much more! LISTEN! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for today's mu…

We revisit our conversation with James Davison Hunter. He who introduced the concept of “culture wars” 30 years ago, and tells us in this new book that historic sources of national solidarity have now largely dissolved.Av Tom Williams

Today we’ll talk with Laura Paskus, editor of the new book Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth.Av Tom Williams

This week in gaming news we're talking about the surprising leader in patent filing in gaming, how games are preparing boyfriends for travel, Tim Walz in Crazy Taxi, the benefits of gaming as said by college students, and so much more! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for today's music.…

Marking the 10-year anniversary of when 43 Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College students disappeared southwest of Mexico City, Utah Tech University is commemorating the victims’ lives with Remember the 43 Students art installations and campus engagement events. Our guests are composer and musician Andres Solis, and Scot Hanna-Weir, Associate Professor…

On this episode, join Tom Williams live on location from the event at the Hansen Family Sports Complex in North Logan. His guests included the organizer of the 9/11 event Jenny Taylor, who is the Gold Star Widow of Utah Army National Guard Major Brent Taylor. He was also joined by the designer of the 9/11 exhibit Johnny Ferry, who is a Major Brent …

Kevin Fedarko has spent the past twenty years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications. We’ll revisit our conversation with Kevin Fedarko from May.Av Tom Williams

We revisit our conversation with Author Michael Wallis from June of 2017 about his book 'The Best Land Under Heaven'.Av Tom Williams

HEAT WAVE! Our host braves the heat to bring you the latest news about Sony's new shooter closing after only two weeks, South Africa's growing gaming community, liking things made for you, Silent Hill 2 remake's new visual settings, and ANOTHER definitive study on video games and violence. LISTEN! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to…

Aired Sept. 3. In "The Peanuts Papers," 33 writers and artists, including Ira Glass and Ann Patchett, reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture.Av Tom Williams

Aired Sept. 4. In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and created Project 562 to photograph all 562+ Native American sovereign territories in the U.S.Av Tom Williams

Tom Williams is in Moab for a special Access Utah program celebrating the Moab Music Festival. Our guests today include Maya Miro Johnson, Roydon Tse, and Connor Chee, along with John Weisheit, Co-Founder at Living Rivers and a Colorado Riverkeeper and Howard Dennis, Howard is a religious leader, a Flute Chief, and a clan leader from the village of…

A fastidious FMCU! Today we're discussing controlling games with brains, GameStop is so retro now, what is 'the best' game of all-time, and much more! LISTEN! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for today's music.Av Robot Cache

Today we’ll talk with writer Pam Houston about her new book Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom.Av Tom Williams

Holy moly it's a fast read through news today covering Gamescom announcements, better mental health through games, a hydrogel can play pong, the role of datamining in today's industry, and so much more! LISTEN! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for today's music.Av Robot Cache

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things.Av Tom Williams

Helen Thayer once walked 4,000 miles across the Sahara from Morocco to the Nile River, kayaked 2,200 miles of the Amazon River, and became the first woman to travel alone to any of the world's poles.Av Tom Williams

Today our guest is writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times."Av Tom Williams

Good news good news that's...all we're about! Today we cover 400+ consoles connected to one tv, how one mom's pov on games flipped 180 degrees, Amazon creating a new series about video games, single-player games, and so much more! LISTEN! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for today's music.…

Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. Their father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet’s first white supremacist website.Av Tom Williams

We’re compiling another UPR community booklist and we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now?Av Tom Williams

In the midst of a contentious presidential election year, many of us are feeling the need for increased peace in the world, the nation, our neighborhoods, families, and in our hearts.Av Tom Williams

Positivity in the face of (industry) adversity! That's the theme today as we jump into news covering favorite game soundtracks, how you could make a Batman game, a new publishing group for indies, how playing games preps you for a career, and Bach! Yes, that Bach! LISTEN! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for tod…

On this episode we revisit our conversation with novelist, feminist, and philanthropist Isabel Allende about her latest book.Av Tom Williams

Anthony Doerr’s' All the Light We Cannot See' was published in May 2014 and in September of that year Anthony Doerr visited Utah for several events as a part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. We revisit our conversation from then.Av Tom Williams

“I began my writing career by exploring the tracks humans have left in nature. Now I’m mostly interested in the tracks nature leaves in us.” That’s author Gary Ferguson. He says that nature provides beauty, mystery and community, traits that each of us very much needs. He is the author of 25 books.Av Tom Williams

Today we discuss the latest gaming news and ask the important questions like 'which game has the best fan base' and 'which game do you talk about the most'? It's a riveting affair on this special late night version of the FMCU. LISTEN! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for today's music.…

On this episode we revisit our 2018 conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner John Branch about cowboys, the rodeo, and traditions of the West.Av Tom Williams

In "Riding Like the Wind," biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb. It was Babb's field notes and oral histories of migrant farmworkers that John Steinbeck relied on to write "The Grapes of Wrath."Av Tom Williams

Today we’ll talk with Timothy Winegard about his new book "The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity." Dr. Timothy C. Winegard is a New York Times bestselling author of five books including "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator."Av Tom Williams

Big news today as we ramble about the esports Olympics(!), turn-based dialog in games, young people slang, and the 17 year old MMO from the Minnesota Zoo that's STILL chugging along. LISTEN! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for today's music.Av Robot Cache

What do a bunch of well-seasoned river gals do on river trips without their men? Everything you might imagine, and more.Av Tom Williams

Graffiti-covered industrial concrete ruins are all that remain today to remind us of the lives, adventures, and human relationships that once animated Bauer, Utah.Av Tom Williams

Gaming as a $300 billion dollar business, resurrecting the 'are videogames art' discussion (kinda), there's a pickelball game, and according to new research most gamers think positively of brands and ads in games. Tune in for more of a laid back FMCU. LISTEN! Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for today's music.…

With former president Donald Trump’s announcement that Sen. J.D. Vance will be his running mate, we revisit our interview from October 2016 with then-bestselling-author J.D. Vance.Av Tom Williams

Are there too many partnerships in games? Is the industry getting too big? What does it mean that GAME will stop accepting pre-orders? And are video games ready to be considered 'cultural canon'? Dive into these questions and more in today's episode. LISTEN Our official site: Robot Cache - Games Thank you to OverClocked ReMix for today's music.…

Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels and a collection of essays. We revisit our conversation from September 2021.Av Tom Williams

On this episode we’ll revisit our conversation from August 2018 with Richard Russo about his book Chances Are…Av Tom Williams

We’ll revisit our conversation from August 2018 with Earl Swift, talking about his book Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.Av Tom Williams

Our guest Richard Hatch joins us for the hour to talk about magic, as well as his recent translation of the 1933 book 'Die Juden in der Zauberkunst', or 'Jews and Magic,' from a German author killed in the holocaust.Av Tom Williams

Bang! Boom! It's an explosive post-4th FMCU news episode discussing the second(?) rise of indie games, the funniest game you've ever played, which character would you like to hang out with, cozy games, a man jailed for carrying a 'fidget' zelda sword, and more! Make sure to LISTEN to this short holiday episode. Our official site: Robot Cache - Game…

Lynne McNeill is an associate professor at Utah State University as well as co-founder of and faculty advisor for the USU Folklore Club.Av Tom Williams