Michael Bendure is a longtime Funk fan and host of the 40 Minutes of Funk podcast and Tonic: The Funky Groove Show on KGOU (metro Oklahoma City's NPR affiliate), a weekly two-hour music program that features instrumental Funk, groove, soul, disco, jazz, hip-hop, and more. Michael is an award-winning writer, photographer, and singer/songwriter who performs regularly throughout the Norman, Oklahoma, area in bands Heartbreak Rodeo and The Whiskey Gingers. He is also an avid abstract painter who specializes in acrylics.