RadioACTive Pop! talks sports and true crime with KSL reporter Amy Donaldson

  • March 24, 2025
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From I-15 expansion to World Autism Awareness Day, Voices Amplified with Utah Vipers Coach, Project Rainbow's TDOV plans, and more.

Tonight's edition of RadioACTive features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community:

RadioACTive's Connor Estes checks in from a community update on I-15 expansion. It's going on from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at Mary Jackson Elementary, 750 W. 200 N., SLC. Event by People Over Freeways, NeighborWorks Salt Lake & HEAL Utah.

  • TONIGHT: "Join us for a panel discussion with the Utah Department of Transportation and Salt Lake City about the I-15 expansion project and where we go from here. The panelists will cover topics ranging from environmental impacts to the funding landscape, and will also take questions from residents about the infrastructure project." To reserve your free seat, click here.

Jacey Thornton, executive director of Project Rainbow. The nonprofit has surged to record-breaking TDOV numbers despite Utah state lawmakers passing a new law banning Pride and other non-approved flags at schools and public buildings. 

Voices Amplified with rising journalists sharing stories of Women & Sports in Utah, a partnership between RadioACTive and Amplify Utah. Tonight: Alex Hooper introduces us to Utah Vipers Coach Olive Ahotaeiloa. She helped form the women's rugby team alongside fellow coach Dave Shelledy in 2014. Since then, Ahotaeiloa has led the steady rise of the Vipers program and even led them to a Division 1 national championship game appearance in 2024. 

  • March 28: Utah Vipers vs. Black Ice DI, 11:00 a.m. at Murray Rugby Field, 202 E. Murray Park Ave., Murray. FREE!

World Autism Day is April 2. RadioACtive learns more from Cheryl C. Smith, Carson’s mom, a longtime autism advocate, Past President and a founding member of the Autism Council of Utah and has served on many boards and committees serving the autistic community. The following are some resources in our community:

RadioACTive Pop! with Olivia Jaramillo walks the pop culture boulevard to find unique stories and common ground. Tonight, meet Amy Donaldson, host of KSL podcasts Making of A Moment: The RSL Story and true crime pod The Letter. Sometimes there's a connection between sports and true crime, but not tonight ... we don't think so. Links to her podcasts:

  • "In Making of a Moment: Season 1 - The RSL Story - host Amy Donaldson looks at the unlikely 2021 playoff run of Real Salt Lake. That post-season performance from a team expected to finish last is much more than the Cinderella story witnessed by RSL faithful. It’s the story of an underdog club engaged in a fight for survival off the field while trying to prove they deserved to compete for a championship."

  • "The Letter is a podcast exploring journeys through grief, resilience and forgiveness hosted by reporter Amy Donaldson. Season 1- Longtime friends on the verge of adulthood - Zachary Snarr and Yvette Rodier - headed into the mountains a few miles from their Salt Lake City homes, where they planned to spend the evening taking pictures of the rising full moon in August of 1996. But a 19-year-old stranger carrying a gun happened across them, changing dozens of lives with one fateful decision. The crime sent shockwaves through the community. But no one expected what came next — The Letter." 

  • BOOK PICK: Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America by Julie DiCaro. "Covering everything from the abusive online environment at Barstool Sports to the sexist treatment of Serena Williams and professional women's teams fighting for equal pay and treatment, and looking back at pioneering women who first took on the patriarchy in sports media, Sidelined will illuminate the ways sports present a microcosm of life as a woman in America—and the power in fighting back." Now available in paperback at your favorite local bookseller.

How'd you like the show? Share your thoughts, suggestions and observations by calling the RadioACTive hotline: ‪(385) 800-1889. Or, send a voicememo to radioactive@krcl.org. Please tell us your name and neighborhood and leave a short message that may air on the show. So, keep it clean!

Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

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