{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"hearthis.at","provider_url":"https:\/\/hearthis.at","height":"150","width":"100%","title":"036 ::: DARREN PERRON ::: 3SOME ::: 2 humans discuss 3 songs ::: nov '26","description":"Welcome to Episode #036\u00a0of 3SOME.\r\n\r\nMy amazing guest today is an anchor, Award-Winning Reporter & Executive Producer for the WCAX-Channel 3 News\u00a0(as well as the host of the show You Can Quote Me). A native Vermonter from the Northeast Kingdom (who attended Lake Region Union High School), \r\nhe earned a bachelor's degree in Mass Media Communications from Castleton University & was inducted into the Vermont State Colleges Hall of Fame in 2017. His career at Channel 3 news began in 1995. Prior to that, he was a print reporter for "The Chronicle" \r\nin his hometown of Barton, Vermont. Throughout his outstanding professional work,\u00a0 he has won:\u00a0 \r\n-\u00a0 4 Emmy Awards \r\n-\u00a0 14 Associated Press Awards \r\n-\u00a0 numerous readers' choice awards in Seven Days, Times Argus & the Rutland Herald\u00a0 (for his reporting & anchoring)\u00a0 \r\n& \u00a019 Edward. R. Murrow Awards (including 1 national).\u00a0 \r\nHis national Murrow Award\u00a0-\u00a0one of the most prestigious journalism awards\u00a0in the U.S.\u00a0-\u00a0honored his investigation into open-air burn pits in war zones that were potentially making veterans ill.\u00a0He has also won the VAB Broadcaster of the Year Award multiple times, \r\nwon VAB Awards for Outstanding TV Interview in both 2024 & 2025, & was awarded the distinguished Excellence in Journalism Award \r\nby the organization as well. His series about Vermont's transgender community called "Becoming" lead him to becoming the only non-network reporter in the U.S. to be nominated for a GLAAD Award in 2009.\u00a0And the NLGJA\u00a0 Association of\u00a0\u00a0LGBTQ\u00a0 Journalists awarded him a national Excellence in Journalism Award for telling the coming out story of Vermont Electric Co-op CEO Christine Hallquist, who is transgender. \r\nHe is also a contributing correspondent to InvestigateTV, the national investigative program, which airs in more than 100 TV markets across the US. \r\nAnd lastly, he shares that: 1)\u00a0-\u00a0he has\u00a050 first cousins, and\u2026 2) -\u00a0that his\u00a0go-to karaoke songs include both Billy Ray Cyrus's\u00a0Achy Breaky Heart\u00a0&\u00a0the Asia classic\u00a0-\u00a0Heat Of The Moment.\r\n\r\nLadies & gentlemen -\u00a0please welcome to today's episode\u2026 My favorite little chicken nugget\u00a0 \u00a0& news reporting legend\u2026\r\n\r\nMister\u00a0 Darren\u00a0Michael\u00a0Howard\u00a0Perron\r\n\r\nDarren's 3 songs are:\r\n\r\n1. Like A Virgin by Madonna\r\n2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by Eurythmics\r\n3. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/img.hearthis.at\/5\/7\/0\/_\/uploads\/69995\/image_track\/14761211\/w1200_h628_q70_ptrue_v2_m1794342967----cropped_1794342964075.jpg?m=1794342967","thumbnail_width":1200,"thumbnail_height":628,"html":"