When Elizabeth Weinlick walked into the Mall of America in 1998, she didn’t know she would leave married. David Weinlick had invited friends and family to help him choose a bride, turning his wedding into an unusual experiment in love and commitment that endured until David’s death.

What began as a public spectacle became a deeply loving marriage that lasted nearly 20 years and included four children.

Elizabeth reflects on what made their relationship work, the role laughter played in their life, what it was like caring for David after his terminal cancer diagnosis and why she still considers saying yes to a stranger one of the best decisions of her life.

Suggested episodes:

• Secret Mall Apartment: The story behind four years of hiding in plain sight
• Married Over 50 Years: “Love Each Other Even When You Don’t”
• Forget meet-cutes: How lasting love can blossom in unexpected places

GUEST:

• Elizabeth Weinlick: Married David Weinlick, essentially a stranger, after his friends and family selected her to be his bride at the Mall of America. What began as an unconventional experiment turned into a remarkable love story. They shared nearly 20 years together, raising four children before his death from cancer in 2018

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For the past two years, at the end of interviews for Audacious, host Chion Wolf has been asking guests one question: have you ever had a dream or premonition that came true?

Twenty-three guests describe vivid dreams, sudden urges, eerie intuitions, and moments of certainty that later proved accurate in ways they can’t explain. Some sensed love before it arrived. Some saw danger coming. Some felt loss before they knew what they were losing.

Take a personal look at intuition, mystery, and the possibility that the world may be stranger and much more connected than we realize.

This episode originally aired on May 15, 2026.

Suggested episodes:

• Life advice, one Audacious guest at a time
• Forgiveness: How we define it and how it defines us
• Why you so salty?
• What smells remind you of childhood?
• Kitchen objects with a story. Listen at your own whisk
• Awe yeah! Exploring the magic of mind-blowing moments
• How regret teaches us to live
• Stories of everyday courage, from getting a needle in the eye to tackling a purse thief
• The surprising ways we ritual
• Are you superstitious or just a little 'stitious'?

GUESTS (in order of appearance):

• First segment: Caroline Mandaro, Casper ter Kuile, Timothy Schultz, Christine Ha, Achivai Sofer, Tom Burgoyne, Kerry Kennedy, and Joe Stone
• Second segment: Dr. Gale Ridge, Katina DeJarnett, Rachel Lithgow, Andy Corren, Bill Edgar, Lindsay Childress-Beatty, RoseMarie Wallace, and Dr. Kruti Parekh
• Third segment: Bettina Hunt, Joy Brooker, Paperboy Love Prince, Rebekah Spicuglia, Leslie Wharton, Sarah Napoli, and Harriet Newman Cohen

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A robot Christmas ornament. A clay golem from Prague. A piece of JFK's inauguration cake that's been around for more than six decades.

No, this isn't the inventory of a particularly eccentric museum. It's what people brought to our fifth Audacious LIVE Show & Tell!

Back at Dead Language Beer Project in Hartford, we invited CT Public listeners and audience members to speak about meaningful objects in their lives. And once again, the stories behind those objects took us places we never could have predicted.

Suggested episodes:

• Audacious Live! Show & Tell in Stamford
• Audacious Live! Show & Tell birthday bash in Hartford
• Audacious Live! Show & Tell in Willimantic: From rare computers to hand grenades
• Audacious Live! Show & Tell in Winsted: From movie props to prophylactics

GUESTS:

• Chris DeGasero: Co-owner of Dead Language Beer Project in Hartford, who brought a Billy Baloney ventriloquist dummy of Pee-wee’s PlayhouseBrittney Mihalich: Avon resident, who brought a clay golem from Prague
• Krystaline Gregory: New Britain resident, who brought a robot Christmas ornament made of glass
• Brenda Kestenbaum: West Hartford resident, who brought her late sister’s coffee can
• Maggie Róisín: New Britain resident, who brought a family heirloom: a glass jar with a piece of JFK’s inauguration cake
• Nora Pasco: New Britain resident, who brought a labradorite ‘dragon egg’ necklace
• Pamela Morrison-Wolf: West Hartford resident (and Chion’s mother!), who brought a statue of Saint Francis and the wolf of Gubbio
• Amy LaBossière: Hartford resident, who brought two multi-colored fabric dolls inspired by Peter Max that hook together
• Suzanne Hopgood: Longtime Audacious supporter, who brought a wall plaque saying ‘Love you to the moon and back,’ reminding her of her late husband, Frank Lord

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