Doug's Front Porch

About Doug's Front Porch

Join host, Doug Madenford, as he welcomes guests onto his front porch for some good old-fashioned conversation. New episodes air on the 1st of each month.

Publisher

Doug Madenford

Category

education · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Apr 2020

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 121 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   116 - Christopher Malone

   Host Doug is joined by curator Christopher Malone to explore how historical objects illuminate the Pennsylvania German experience and the Muhlenberg family's story.

2. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   115 - Tim Dedman

   Doug welcomes Tim Dedman, National Education Association leader and Masonic District Deputy, to discuss leadership and his career journey in this insightful interview.

3. 

   1 Aug 2026

   114 - Frank Redmon (Replay)

   In this episode we welcome Dr. Francis (Frank) Redmon on to the Front Porch. Frank was the superintendent of schools for the Keystone Central School District in Mill Hall, PA...and my boss. We discuss his childhood growing up the son of a Marine father and all of the many places that he moved to and lived in. We also discuss his path to becoming a teacher, a principal and finally to the role of being a superintendent. We discuss his philosophy on leadership and how he envisions public ed movi...

Inside a recent episode

115 - Tim Dedman

Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And it's like, look, folks, we all have a job to do here. And so much of middle school is social, that you have really got to be able to accommodate the social aspect of what's going on in these kids' lives. Because not only are they dealing with hormones and growing and moving from kids to young adults and all of that, but there's just so many things at work in the minds and bodies of middle schoolers now could you imagine teaching middle school today in 2026 with i mean all the things you just talked about are still there but then there's all of this other nonsense and craziness that is you know the culture that they've grown up in i i i can't i can't imagine uh what it must be like there is no way i could do it today when i retired a couple years ago a few years back um someone asked me hey you know, maybe you should be a substitute teacher. […]

Who has been a guest on Doug's Front Porch

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Christopher Malone
• Tim Dedman
• Ashley Bowes
• Derek Shope
• Christiana Gladden

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,962,840

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

30 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

16 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

56

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

77

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