The Friday Nooner

The Friday Nooner is a weekly, live, half-hourish program in which the GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and cohost talk all things Triangle tech every Friday at Noon (ET). Each week, they also welcome a guest. You can watch live on Facebook, YouTube , or LinkedIn . Or, if you are more of an audio learner, you can listen to the podcast version. Episodes will appear on this feed a few hours after they premiere. You can read about past episodes or watch the full archive on YouTube:

The Friday Nooner is a news podcast hosted by GrepBeat, with 130 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

GrepBeat hosts The Friday Nooner, a news show with 130 episodes published.

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  Episode #129

  An Old Friend Joins For Holiday Fun In The Nooner’s *Series* Finale

  Dec 20, 202443 minS0

  <p>The Friday Nooner returned this week for one final episode. While more podcast/show content is coming in 2025, the Nooner as you’ve come to know it has now wrapped up its run. And what better way to celebrate said run than with some holiday cheer, old friends, and (as often comes with one such old friend) trivia?!</p> <p>Check out this final installment to test your knowledge of Nooners past, muse about plans for the holidays, and enjoy a certain someone being back on the air (ok fine, it was Pete). You’ll even be treated to some old h...

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  Episode #128

  Christmas Tree Timing And A Visit From Victoria Fritz Of Baby Bumps

  Dec 6, 202442 minS0

  <p>The Friday Nooner returned today after a one-week break for Thanksgiving. <b>GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy</b> was joined by co-hosts <b>Melissa Crosby</b> and <b>Kaitlyn Dang</b> and the trio discussed Christmas decoration timing. More specifically, Joe revealed that his distaste for pre-Thanksgiving Christmas trees is… um… fiercer than we realized.</p> <p>The main event was an interview with <b>Victoria Fritz</b>, who beamed in from D.C. Victoria is the Founder and CEO of Chapel Hill-based <b>Baby Bumps</b>—a startup that connects couples with surrogates (sort of like “Hinge for surrogacy,” as she once...

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  Episode #127

  A Bit Of Grepsgiving And A Chat With American Underground’s Tim Scales

  Nov 22, 202434 minS0

  <p>Today’s episode of the Friday Nooner was triple-hosted by GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy, Kaitlyn Dang, and––making his Nooner debut, kind of—Cesar Romero. They opened the show with a few words on what they were all bringing to our midday “Grepsgiving” lunch. (We feasted immediately after the show.)</p> <p>Today’s main course was American Underground Executive Director Tim Scales. Tim spoke about the difference between AU and other “coworking” spaces like WeWork, indulged us in a place-of-origin guessing game, and filled us in on his journey from theater major (fun fact, yours truly was a theater studies minor, b...

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  Episode #126

  Alpacasews CEO Emily Foster’s Budding Plushie Empire (And Love of Clouds)

  Nov 15, 202437 minS0

  <p>Today on the Friday Nooner, co-hosting trio Joe Colopy, Melissa Crosby, and Kaitlyn Dang got us started with some conversation about CED’s GRO Demo Day, which took place Thursday evening (and which you can read more about here). </p> <p>Somehow this led to the revelations that Joe believes he’s going to die at 86 and Kaitlyn was a talented viola…ist… in high school. Evidently there’s now potential for a future musical episode on which Kaitlyn plans her instrument and I honk through an oboe reed.</p> <p>Finally we got to the important part and welcomed thi...

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  Episode #125

  Destination Discussion Abounds As Annie Combs Talks Us Through ECPC Travel

  Nov 8, 202436 minS0

  <p>On today’s episode of the Friday Nooner, <b>GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy</b> was back in the hosting chair alongside <b>Melissa Crosby</b> and new co-hosting addition <b>Kaitlyn Dang</b>—both of whom, to be clear, were in their own chairs. They started off with a bit of banter about Joe’s brush with death (he nearly crashed his new “GrepBeat red” vespa).</p> <p>Then, our trio of co-hosts welcomed this week’s guest, <b>Annie Combs</b>. Annie is the Co-Founder and CEO of ECPC Travel, which she describes as the “eco-friendly, socially conscious Expedia.” </p> <...

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