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09/06/2026

🕷️ A filmmaker afraid of spiders decides to make a movie about them. What could possibly go wrong?

For writer-director Sarah T. Schwab, Arachnophilia Film began with something very real: her own childhood fear of spiders.

Years later, that fear helped inspire a psychological thriller. Now Sarah and her Cardinal Flix partner Brian Long are preparing to bring the movie to Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Today on HarmonyTALK, host Lisa Champeau goes behind the camera with Sarah and Brian to talk about fear, filmmaking, raising money, surviving stressful shoots and the persistence required to make independent movies.

They also explain why they see NEPA as a place where their filmmaking story could continue well beyond one production.

📻 Listen today at 4:30 p.m. on WVIA Radio.

🎧 HarmonyTALK: “Spinning Suspense Into Gold: Inside the Independent Film Journey of Brian Long & Sarah T. Schwab”

09/05/2026

If you could interview anyone past or present, who would you choose? 🎙️ The Harmony Talk hosts had a few answers ready, including Gandhi and Einstein… which would definitely make for a pretty hard guest to follow.

09/04/2026

🎬 Hollywood isn't the only place where movies get made.

Independent filmmakers Sarah T. Schwab and Brian Long are bringing their next feature film to Northeastern Pennsylvania, and they believe the region has something filmmakers need.

Within minutes, you can move from city streets to suburban neighborhoods to rural landscapes. Scranton is close enough to New York to bring in cast and crew. And, Sarah and Brian say, the people they've met here have been ready to help.

Their next project is Arachnophilia film, a psychological thriller preparing to film in the region. But Cardinal Flix is already looking beyond a single production, with additional films that could also find a home in NEPA.

On this week’s HarmonyTALK, host Lisa Champeau talks with Sarah and Brian about why they chose Scranton, what it really takes to finance and make an independent movie, and why waiting for someone else to discover you may be the worst career strategy of all.

📻 Hear “Spinning Suspense Into Gold: Inside the Independent Film Journey of Brian Long & Sarah T. Schwab” Sunday at 4:30 p.m. on WVIA Radio.

09/02/2026

🎬 What does it really take to make an independent movie?

Ask filmmakers Sarah T. Schwab and Brian Long of Cardinal Flix, Inc, and they'll tell you there is nothing easy about it.

There is money to raise. Actors to cast. Crews to assemble. Locations to find. Distributors to court. And when something goes wrong on set, somebody has to fix it. Fast.

But there is also the moment when a story that once existed only in someone's imagination finally comes alive on screen.

On the new HarmonyTALK, host Lisa Champeau sits down with Sarah and Brian, co-founders of Cardinal Flix, for a candid conversation about the risks, relationships and persistence behind independent filmmaking.

They also take us inside their next psychological thriller, Arachnophilia Film , preparing to film right here in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
And then there's Charlotte Webster.
She's a tarantula.

🕷️ You'll have to listen for the rest.

🎧 “Spinning Suspense Into Gold: Inside the Independent Film Journey of Brian Long & Sarah T. Schwab” streaming now on HarmonyTALK.
Link in comments.

09/01/2026

Meet Lisa Champeau, one of the voices behind Harmony Talk. 🎙️

Lisa has a way of getting past the polished answers and into the stories people actually want to hear: the ideas, pivots, lessons, and moments that shaped the journey.

For her, a good interview starts with making people feel comfortable enough to just talk.

08/30/2026

The kid had a tape recorder and a dream.
The dream was to call basketball games.
What happened next lasted 27 seasons.

Today at 4:30 p.m. on WVIA Radio, HarmonyTALK revisits our conversation with legendary Philadelphia 76ers play-by-play announcer Marc Zumoff.

Host Todd Stephens talks with Zumoff about discovering his calling as a sixth-grader in Northeast Philadelphia, breaking into broadcasting and ultimately becoming the voice generations of Sixers fans welcomed into their homes.

More than 2,100 games.
19 Emmy Awards.
One remarkable career.

And now, retirement offers Zumoff the chance to look back at just how far that childhood dream took him.

📻 Tune in today at 4:30 p.m. on WVIA Radio for The Voice of the Sixers: How Marc Zumoff Turned a Childhood Dream Into a Legendary Career.

08/28/2026

Before Marc Zumoff became the voice of the Philadelphia 76ers, he was a sixth-grader in Northeast Philadelphia practicing play-by-play into a tape recorder.
He already knew what he wanted to be.

This Sunday on WVIA Radio, HarmonyTALK revisits one of our favorite conversations as host Todd Stephens talks with the legendary Sixers broadcaster about turning that childhood dream into a remarkable career.

Zumoff spent 27 seasons and more than 2,100 games behind the Sixers microphone, collecting 19 Emmy Awards and becoming one of the most recognizable voices in Philadelphia sports.

Now retired, he can look back on something few people ever get to say:
He became exactly what he dreamed of becoming.

📻 Hear The Voice of the Sixers: How Marc Zumoff Turned a Childhood Dream Into a Legendary Career Sunday at 4:30 p.m. on WVIA Radio.

08/26/2026

He was in sixth grade when he decided what he wanted to do with his life.

Marc Zumoff would sit with a tape recorder in Northeast Philadelphia and practice calling games, dreaming that someday there might be a real audience listening.
There was.

For 27 seasons and more than 2,100 games, Zumoff became the television voice of the Philadelphia 76ers and part of the soundtrack of Philadelphia sports.
This week, we're bringing back one of our favorite HarmonyTALK conversations.

In this special encore presentation, host Todd Stephens talks with Zumoff about the kid who dreamed of becoming a broadcaster, the persistence it took to make that dream real and the remarkable career that followed.

Now retired, Zumoff's story has an added layer of perspective.
He dreamed it. He worked for it. And he got to live it.

🎧 The Voice of the Sixers: How Marc Zumoff Turned a Childhood Dream Into a Legendary Career is streaming now on HarmonyTALK.
Listen at the link in comments.

08/23/2026

Who were your parents before they became your parents?
It is a question that sits at the heart of today’s HarmonyTALK.

Author and family psychotherapist Nancy Head Thode joins host Lisa Champeau to share the story of rediscovering her mother, mid-century writer Ann Head, through the journals, letters and literary work she left behind.

Along the way, Nancy uncovered a woman who challenged convention, wrote candidly about women’s lives and became an important mentor to a young Pat Conroy, long before The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides made him one of the South’s most celebrated writers.

The journey eventually became Nancy’s book, Ahead of Her Time.

📻 Hear this encore HarmonyTALK conversation today at 4:30 p.m. on WVIA Radio.

08/21/2026

How well do we really know our parents?

This Sunday on WVIA Radio, HarmonyTALK revisits a fascinating conversation between host Lisa Champeau and author and psychotherapist Nancy Thode.

Nancy’s mother, Ann Head, was a successful mid-century writer, an unconventional voice for women and an important early mentor to Pat Conroy, who would go on to write The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides.

Decades after her mother’s death, Nancy began uncovering the journals, letters and stories that allowed her to see Ann not simply as her mother, but as a woman, writer and creative force in her own right.

That journey became Ahead of Her Time: The Trailblazing Life and Literary Legacy of Ann Head.

📻 Listen to this encore presentation of HarmonyTALK Sunday at 4:30 p.m. on WVIA Radio.

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