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This Town OKC

This Town OKC

Von: Rick Allen Lippert
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 Cities are defined by their cultures. Those cultures could entail sports, or business, or certainly arts and entertainment. Oklahoma City is thriving in all of these areas. But who makes that all happen?

This Town OKC explores the people behind the cultures. Their origins, their motivations, their challenges, and their dreams.

I’m Rick Allen Lippert. I’ve been in this town for over fifty years with a front row seat to seeing the culture grow from a dusty bus stop on the southern plains to a flourishing destination.

Join me as we meet the folks behind the culture on This Town OKC.2025 Kunst Unterhaltung & Darstellende Künste
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  • S1E19 Jackson Gifford

    S1E19 Jackson Gifford
    Dec 12 2025
    Normally, This Town OKC highlights the people with decades of experience behind the cultures. This guest, however, barely has two decades of existence on Earth. He’s here because of his potential to enhance the culture of This Town.

    Jackson Gifford is one of those people who knew at an early age what they wanted to do with their life, and that is running a professional theatre. Precocious and audacious, his personal drive took him to prestigious schools where he grew as an artist while facing the challenge of the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, the first production of his fledgling professional theatre company (while still in college!) was mounted during the time of outdoor-only performances, and to a disastrous result. Undeterred, however, his Southern Plains Productions has flourished and is now in its sixth season.

    Sponsored by Carpenter Square Theatre
    Post-production by Fred O. Bishop
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    47 Min.
  • S1E18 Shannon Rich

    S1E18 Shannon Rich
    Nov 24 2025
    As the President & CEO of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame for the past two decades, Shannon Rich has overseen the creation of the Gaylord-Pickens Museum, the formation of programs to involve high school students and young adults, as well the production the annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Before that, she started her career in hospitality by talking herself into a postion at the Renaissance Hotel where she worked hand-in-hand with developer John Q. Hammons in opening up several hotels in other states. Her story of why she took up golf is inspriational. Admittedly not a great golfer, she has combined her love of the game with her desire to create a women's business network and founded LeadHERboard.
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    50 Min.
  • S1E17 Mike Knopp

    S1E17 Mike Knopp
    Nov 3 2025
    It’s safe to say that one man is responsible for bringing international recognition to This Town’s river sports, and that man is Mike Knopp. Of course, he had help along the way, but from first seeing the U.S. Navy rowing team on Chesapeake Bay to finding a crew at Oklahoma State University to starting rowing teams at both Oklahoma City University and the University of Oklahoma, Mike has had a vision. Considered by many people for many years as fanatical, his vision, and persistence, has resulted in making Oklahoma City a true Olympic city.

    Softball notwithstanding, the whitewater Canoe and Kayak events of the LA28 Games will be held in This Town thanks to a guy who staged some rather wild stunts to bring awareness to the unique opportunity for the Oklahoma River.

    Post-production by Fred O. Bishop
    Sponsored by Carpenter Square Theatre
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    46 Min.
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