Workforce thought leader Cara Silletto, MBA, CSP, works with organizations of all sizes to reduce unnecessary employee turnover by bridging generational gaps and making managers more effective in their roles. As a Millennial herself, she knows first-hand what it is like to have a heightened sense of entitlement, very little employee loyalty and dependency upon her smartphone. However, unlike many Millennials, Cara has figured out exactly how these attributes were cultivated during her formative ...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 360
As a U.S. Army Combat Veteran of Iraqi Freedom, he served honorably for 9 yrs. & was a Non-Commissioned Officer before getting out of the Army in 2008. After leaving the Army, Jeremy went to school at Mid-Continent Univ. studying Bus. Mgt. & started a career in Oper. Mgt. in the Manufacturing & the Supply Chain Logistics Industry. As a man with an Entrepreneurial heart, he wanted to do more to support the Veteran community & founded in KY. the Veteran’s Club Inc in KY. & has ...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 359
Having grown up in Texas, Jarrod played many organized sports all such as football, baseball, golf, track, & tennis. He then graduated from Meridian High School in Meridian, TX., & joined the US Navy obtaining an SSBI-(which stands for Single Scope Background Investigation, for a Top Secret Clearance-serving 4 years & did a combat tour in Iraq/Persian Gulf…not TOO shabby! Jarrod then got out of the Navy & started attending McClennan Community College, while working as a Defense C...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 358
As an entrepreneur, business owner, professor, and active community member, his story is one of survival, determination, & service. In other words, MOXIE! You see, Tran’s family immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam in March 1995. They came with very little, so he had to work hard. He did not know how to speak English when he arrived in 1995. His personal goals have been and are to champion small business ownership and success by working to remove the obstacles that keep people from achieving ...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 357
Join Kirt as he goes over the history of July 4th!
Jul 05, 2021•3 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Kirt talks about the important history of Juneteenth.
Jun 28, 2021•3 min•Season 2Ep. 6
McGarity grew up in rural South Carolina, his mom & mamaw instilled a passion for food at an early age. After going to culinary school at Johnson & Wales University & working in Charleston, SC for many years. In 2004, he moved to Louisville and was encouraged that the food scene had much to offer a young chef & fell in love with the city. After working at several Louisville fine dining places as Executive Chef, he was ready to open a restaurant as both Executive Chef & Owner....
Jun 14, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 356
From the time she learned how to draw at the age of 2, Ms. Baker has dreamt of becoming an artist. Endowed with a strong work ethic & the support of her parents, Alfred Seiders & Rosalee (Wilson) Withrow, she continued to practice art until enrolling in college. Though her friends & counselor advised her that she should pursue her passion & natural talent in painting, she originally majored in psychology. Ultimately, Ms. Baker’s true calling gained predominance, & she graduat...
Jun 07, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 355
Join Kirt for a discussion about the brief history of Memorial Day.
May 31, 2021•2 min•Season 2Ep. 5
May 24, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 354
After completing graduate studies & military service, Steve joined Owens Corning, a leading manufacturer of construction & building products. He held several Human Resources positions & also acted as a business leader for a manufacturing department. In 1998 Steve joined Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon Endo-Surgery in Cincinnati, Ohio, as HR Director for the Corporate support organizations & Research & Development. He was then promoted to Vice President, Human Resources, J&...
May 17, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 353
Listen to this very unique segment where Kirt talks with such various Cosplay characters as Master Chief from Halo Video Game Series, “Steam Punk” Princess Leia, Green Arrow, The Flame Hero named Endeavor, AND Rorschach from the Watchmen DC Comics’ series.
May 10, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 352
Join Kirt for a short trip into the history of Mother's Day.
May 09, 2021•1 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Join Kirt for an off-the-cuff segment about the Cinco de Mayo celebrations.
May 06, 2021•1 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Bin Furuya is best known as the original SUIT actor behind ULTRAMAN which was first broadcast in 1966. His other roles include films such as GHIDRAH: THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER, THE WARE OF THE GARGANUAS, GORTATH, and INVASION OF ASTRO-MONSTER. He’s also appeared in several episodes of ULTRA Q and ULTRASEVEN.
May 03, 2021•1 min•Season 1Ep. 352
Jerry “The King” Lawler is a living legend in the world of professional wrestling! Since 1970, Jerry has headlined main events across the world for Memphis Wrestling, WWF, WWE, NWA, AWA, World Class Championship Wrestling, United States Wrestling Association, and Smoky Mountain Wrestling. He has held 168 wrestling championship titles in his career and has done work acting in film, drawing comic books, as a commercial artist, as a musician, and as a businessman. He is the cover artist for Headloc...
Apr 26, 2021•11 min•Season 1Ep. 351
Lou Ferrigno is an American actor, fitness trainer, fitness consultant, and retired professional bodybuilder. As a bodybuilder, Ferrigno won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles and appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron. As an actor, he is best known for his title role in the CBS television series The Incredible Hulk and vocally reprising the role in subsequent animated and computer-generated incarnations. He has also appeared in European-produce...
Apr 19, 2021•5 min•Season 1Ep. 350
Birthed at the Gathering of The Juggalos, and a staple at Juggalo events! Now emerging at other festivals, and beyond. The Mankini is going global! MANKINI IS FOR THE PEOPLE!
Apr 12, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 349
Artist/Owner & Manager of Gallery X in New Orleans, Louisiana with an addiction to create.
Apr 05, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 348
Heavy music deserves a heavier message. That’s what Fire From The Gods deliver on their Rise Records debut, Narrative. Speaking from a platform cast in heavy metal power, hip-hop consciousness, and even a little reggae spirit, the Austin, TX quintet—AJ Channer [vocals], Jameson Teat [guitar], Drew Walker [guitar], Bonner Baker [bass], and Richard Wicander [drums]—urge for change through conveying a story that’s both personal and universal. That story stems directly from AJ’s life. Born in the Br...
Mar 29, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 347
Kirt talks about the history behind the “Ides of March”.
Mar 25, 2021•2 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Take Me Home is a not for profit, volunteer-based foundation that has been saving the lives of homeless animals since 2001. Many families living in low-income areas cannot afford medical care, basic vaccinations, or spay/neuter surgeries for their companion animals. The donations raised help us to fund mobile veterinary hospitals to travel into these under-served areas to provide free spay and neuter, vaccinations, microchipping and administer medical care for animals in desperate need. Take Me ...
Mar 22, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 346
You hear it again and again. When one door closes, another one opens. However, it‟s true – especially in the case of Sick Puppies. Weathering and persevering through potentially life-changing events, the gold-selling, chart-topping Los Angeles-based and Australian-bred hard rock outfit knew one thing. They were going to make more music as Sick Puppies. “There was no question” affirms Emma. “We had no doubt that we wanted to continue. Mark and I got together and basically said, „first and foremos...
Mar 15, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 345
Anemic Royalty is a garage rock band from Louisville Kentucky. Since their formation in 2014 these guys have been hanging out in basements, backyards, dismantled minivans, music festivals, and rock clubs, writing and performing loud melodic hook-laden rock songs. In 2013 two shaggy-haired weirdos from Highland Middle school, Jeremy Rochman (Vox/guitar) and Seamus Coyle (Guitar/vox) who didn’t know much about anything discovered a mutual unconditional love for guitars and Green Day. Apparently th...
Mar 08, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 344
In 2005 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, “Fxck Cancer” was started by the late Brandon McGuinness in Huntington Beach, California. He was an avid surfer, skater, snowboarder, and loved by everyone who knew him. Brandon lost his life to cancer in 2007 at the very young age of 26 years old. He started Fxck Cancer in order to help victims and their families battling this terrible disease. Fxck Cancer, aka F C Cancer Foundation, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization with proceeds going tow...
Mar 01, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 343
The Melvins were formed in Montesano, Washington in 1983 by Buzz Osborne, Matt Lukin, and Mike Dillard. Lukin and Dillard left the band and drummer Dale Crover stepped in shortly thereafter. Osborne and Crover have been the Melvins’ mainstays throughout their 29-year metamorphosis. To date, the band has released 27 original albums, numerous live full-lengths and far too many to count singles and rarities. They’ve partnered with Jello Biafra, Lustmord and Fantomas for individual releases and tour...
Feb 22, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 342
Checking in at six feet one inches and over 350 pounds, not to mention covered in tattoos, it’s impossible to ignore Jason “Jelly Roll” DeFord in a room. And that’s before his booming country-twanged voice enters the conversation. “I’m just a regular fat piece of white trash with some real people that relate,” he loudly explains with a wide grin, sending everyone else within earshot into riotous laughter. For the 27-year-old Jelly, a nickname he picked up from his mother and kept to honor an inc...
Feb 15, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 341
Learn Kirt’s thoughts on what it was like to be a human being on Planet Earth in the United States of America-in the year 2020 A.D., including the 25 words he was able to add to his vocabulary, YOU MIGHT JUST BE SURPRISED!
Feb 11, 2021•8 min•Season 2Ep. 1
An alternative rock band from Houston, Texas, Junkbunny’s spirited and irreverent deliverance spills from the speakers and all over the stage when JunkBunny comes around. Crafting rock hooks with an emotive resonance beyond their years, the scrappy riff-rock trio made their major-label debut before they could legally buy booze.
Feb 08, 2021•9 min•Ep. 340
Dropkick Murphys formed in 1996 in Boston, MA. The band was originally just a bunch of friends looking to play music for fun. We started playing in the basement of a friend’s barbershop and our goal was to blend the musical influences we had grown up with (Punk Rock, Irish Folk, Rock, and Hardcore) into one loud, raucous, chaotic, and often out of tune mix that we could call our own. To our surprise, people seemed to like it and we began to record music and tour constantly. To date, we have rele...
Feb 01, 2021•12 min•Ep. 339
