The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt
Jay Thunderbolt's business card is a little mysterious. It reads, "Thunderbolt - Party Naked" and gives a phone number.
Best Documentary: Gold2011 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition2011 / Brendan Baker / Nick van der Kolk / Nick Williams / Love + Radio, USA
Jay Thunderbolt's business card is a little mysterious. It reads, "Thunderbolt - Party Naked" and gives a phone number.
Call the number and Thunderbolt will invite you over to a private strip club that he runs out of his bungalow in a working-class neighborhood in east Detroit. But that's only part of his long, tangled, and surprising story, rendered here in a hybrid of interview and song.
WARNING: As you might've guessed, this story is for mature audiences only.
The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt won the Best Documentary: Gold Award in the 2011 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. It was produced by Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker with Nick Williams, for Love + Radio.
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Brendan Baker (@BrendanPBaker) specializes in creative editing and sound design for highly-crafted radio and podcast productions.
Nick van der Kolk (@nickvdk) is a radio producer, sound designer, and events organizer whose work has aired on numerous radio outlets worldwide.
Nick Williams is tough to pin down, but for now we'll call him a multi-media artist and pop culture expert currently living in Chicago, IL.
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