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The Shelley Irwin Show Podcast for 8-4-25

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The Curious Minds Club, National Night Out, Google Trends for July, The List, and the Michigan Lupus Foundation.

Michigan Author Lily Boehm comes to GR for a book signing. We talk The Curious Minds Club, using fun characters and storytelling to teach STEM concepts to kids—covering topics like entropy, viscosity, photosynthesis, and more. The books are playful, accessible, and designed to spark curiosity in early learners, and several have already hit number 1 New Release on Amazon. We talk to Lily.

National Night Out happens tomorrow night, this annual community building event to promote police neighborhood partnerships and camaraderie so the city is a safer and better place to live. Feyen Zylstra teams up with the City of Walker, Walker Police and the Walker Fire Dept. to welcome attendees at FZ's Headquarters. EB Sonheim shares details of the event.

Google Trends expert Justin Burr shares what's trended in July. Topics that fascinated the U.S., selected from millions of Google searches include the GenZ stare, Coffee Aesthetics, Tech gadgets, and more.

Best Selling author Steve Berry discusses The List, a novel of historical fiction genre, pure suspense. Berry also founded History Matters, a nonprofit keeping history alive. We talk to Berry about his extensive research and tips for struggling authors.

Michigan Lupus Foundation launches a comic book to fund lifesaving work. We talk to ED Kimberly Dimond, taking a new approach to advocacy and fundraising with The Invisible Illness. This powerful story reveals the unseen struggles of living with lupus and the lifesaving role community support plays.

Transcripts are provided upon request.

Shelley Irwin is the host and producer for The Shelley Irwin Show, a news magazine talk-show format on the local NPR affiliate Monday through Friday. The show, broadcast at 9 a.m., features a wide variety of local and national news makers, plus special features.
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