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Conversations with Calcaterra
by Ken Calcaterra
Real people living extraordinary lives, names you've never heard, stories you'll never forget. Conversations with Calcaterra is about people who are passionate about what they do, whether it be art, business, entertainment, or healing and the spiritual experience when doing so!
Episodes
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EP76 – James Brown (Musician) – Conversations with Calcaterra
“It was just my heart was just going like, like 180 or something. It was just that, yeah, just crazy. But then kind of got used to it. You don't get as nervous anymore. Now it's just second nature.“ -James Brown describing the experience of first playing with Geoff Tate on Conversations with...
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EP75 – Mike Steimel (Music Producer/Musician) – Conversations with Calcaterra
“Art or humor can both be defined by taking two things that don't seem to be connecting and connecting them and making a third thing. And I thought, Man, that is really cool. That is an awesome quote.“ – Mike Steimel sharing a quote from a successful band manager on Conversations with Calcaterra...
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EP74 – Mark Morrison (Educator) – Conversations with Calcaterra
“Baseball was boring to me…I wanted to get up and down. I wanted to run and jump so Basketball was perfect for me. Now at 5’ 11” and white probably not the best choice looking back at it. I took my body to the limit.” – Mark Morrison on Conversations with Calcaterra “The odds…crazy! Three to 5...
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EP73 – Rebecca Schaaf (Entrepreneur) – Conversations with Calcaterra
“One of my favorites was the metal trivia night. We had tons of people coming in, all cocky with their cool shirts. They left crying because they didn’t know half the answers.” – Rebecca Schaaf on Conversations with Calcaterra “His mad genius drew me to him. Made me fall in love with him a little...
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EP72 – Eric and Darren Vorel (Musicians - TLB) - EXPLICIT – Conversations with Calcaterra
“There is no time to go over songs because they (Darren Vorel and Tom Higginson) literally drop them on me at the last second. So I gave up on learning the songs and found that just going into the studio is like F you guys. You’re going to get what you get. – Eric Vorel on Conversations with...
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EP71 – Javier Mendoza (Singer/Songwriter a.k.a. Hobo Cane) – Conversations with Calcaterra
“People will give me a recording of a show but I don’t listen. Once I do I’ll realize how bad I am at this.” – Javier Mendoza on Conversations with Calcaterra “Because of Covid I don’t think I’ll ever want to play a show without a drummer anymore…because of playing at home all all the time…
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EP70 – Phil Johnston (Writer/Director – Ralph Wrecks the Internet)
“There’s an old Disney joke...if you don’t want to work on Saturday, don’t even bother coming in on Sunday.” – Phil Johnston on Conversations with Calcaterra “I suspect Stay Puft (Marshmallow Man) has references back to King Kong also. We’re all fishing in the same pond.” – Phil Johnston on...
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EP68 – Randy Burns (Music Producer, Engineer – Suicidal Tendencies, Megadeth)
EP68 – Randy Burns (Music Producer, Engineer – Suicidal Tendencies, Megadeth) – Conversations with Calcaterra “It’s the only band I know that had jazz fusion guys come into a metal band and that set them apart.” – Randy Burns about Megadeth on Conversations with Calcaterra “Dave (Mustaine) looked...
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EP67 – Jason McEntire (Music Producer, Engineer) – EXPLICIT - Conversations with Calcaterra
“Rock and Roll is not dead it’s just seemingly hard to discover. It’s hard to find now because there is so much else out there. It’s not just RGB anymore.” – Jason McEntire on Conversations with Calcaterra “I personally like being the least talented person in the room or at least feeling that…
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EP69 – Eddie Van Halen Tribute with Jimmy Griffin, Eric Grossman and Joe Meyer (Explicit)
“Eddie Van Halen…he never did anything that didn’t sound like EVH. His voice was so unique.” – Jimmy Griffin on Conversations with Calcaterra “He’s the Bill Murray of guitar players.” – Eric Grossman about Eddie Van Halen randomly hanging out with fans. (Conversations with Calcaterra) “Dirty…
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EP66 – Tom Bober (Educator) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“I was raised with a lot of self doubt, so... I walk out of work everyday and think...how can I get a little better?” – Tom Bober as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “If somebody is always sharing something that you have to question and crowd source for them because they haven’t done it...
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EP65 – Steve Berry (Fine Arts Educator - Theatre) – Part 2 – Conversations with Calcaterra
“The world gets smaller and smaller the older you get so be careful.” – Steve Berry as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “A little story about being Sting’s…Sun.“– Steve Berry on Conversations with Calcaterra “I remember trying to be so artsy for 12 Angry Jurors…It didn’t work.“– Steve…
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EP64 – Steve Berry (Fine Arts Educator - Theatre) - Part 1 - Conversations with Calcaterra
“I graduated college in 1988 and put out a half dozen resumes. My parents who had taken care of the education put out hundreds.” – Steve Berry as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “You know the saying. “Once a Hawk always a Hawk.” So in one sense of the world I’m still a lifer.” – Steve…
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EP63 - Ousley And Sawyer (Content Creators) - Conversations with Calcaterra
Ken talks to the creative team of indie comic classics; The Rough and Tumble, Dead Palace, The Butcher Queen and their upcoming series Butch Queen Planet of the Dead. Jim and Ben begin collaborating about a decade ago and talk about their creative process and influences. Check out their…
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EP62 – Jeremy Bohannon (Human Google of Pop Culture) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“1986 was when Dark Knight Returns came out. And that is probably the single greatest year in the history of comics. Cause, and if for no other reason than you could say Dark Knight returns and Watchman in the same year.” – Jeremy Bohannon as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “For 9 years I...
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EP61 – Craig Nobbs (Screenwriter) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“I’m the writer who likes to show up as close to everyday. A friend in my writers group wrote a book about comedy screenwriting, he had a term called ass in chair which I’m an advocate of. You show up each day even if you don’t see output.” – Craig Nobbs as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra...
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EP60 – Jake Cowan (Storyteller - Traveler) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“I will insist professional wrestling is storytelling!” – Jake Cowan as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “Just because you know how to run a $10 million dollar business in the profit world doesn’t mean you know how to run it in the non-profit world.” – Jake Cowan as stated on Conversations...
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EP59 – Patrick Lawrence (Filmmaker/Musician) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“It’s a weird incestuous relationship with me and The Killers (band).” – Patrick Lawrence as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “I watch the Oscars and I wonder when is that job going to fall into my lap. When am I going to be able to do that?” – Patrick Lawrence as stated on Conversations...
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EP58 – Marlon West (Animator/Filmmaker) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“All the initial films were lessons in managing disappointment.” – Marlon West as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “I’m just trying to spark conversation. I’m a guy who makes cartoons for a living not a hard core advocate or anything like that. I felt it was something to do to have a...
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EP57 – Jimmy Griffin (Musician) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“El Monstero is the monster truck version of Pink Floyd…It’s as if Pink Floyd had seen a KISS concert before becoming Pink Floyd.” – Jimmy Griffin as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “You’ve got to love to do it (play music) if you want anybody else to be interested in you doing it.” –…
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EP56 – Artist Panel (Fine Art) EXPLICIT - CWC
Thumbnail art by Alex Johnmeyer “One of my favorite quotes that I have read is your future self is talking shit about you.” – Steven Walden as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “The argument is if Leonardo DaVinci was alive today would he be making film.” – Henryk Ptasiewicz as stated on...
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EP55 – Craig Hawksley (Retired Comedian) EXPLICIT - Conversations with Calcaterra
“I hate to write but I love having to have written…that’s the biggest bunch of crap I’ve ever heard.” – Craig Hawksley as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “I wish I would have had guys like me now to help me write then. To give me advice that it took me 40 years to learn…the hard way.” –...
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EP54 – Tim James (Health Coach) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“62% of all bankruptcies in the United States are related to medical bills.” – Tim James as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “You have all the power to turn your health around, to get your energy back…to lose the weight. It’s not some mystical deal. You just drink water, clean out your gut...
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EP53 – Adrian Todd Zuniga (Author) EXPLICIT - Conversations with Calcaterra
“The idea of starting tomorrow is a lie.” - Adrian Todd Zunica as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra “Do not move to LA unless you have a project.” - Adrian Todd Zunica as stated on Conversations with Calcaterra Adrian Todd Zuniga is the author of the debut novel, Collision Theory (Rare Bird...
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EP52 – Sylvester Chisom (Entrepreneur) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“Tomorrow is the busiest day for everybody.” – Sylvester Chisom as said on Conversations with Calcaterra “Never let laziness be the reason why you didn’t get something done!” – Sylvester Chisom as said on Conversations with Calcaterra “You don’t have to be great to get started but have to get...
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EP51 – Eric Grossman (Fitness Trainer) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“You heard of people who are farm strong? You start by picking up a calf every day and then at one day you’ll be picking up a cow.” – Eric Grossman “A 1000 mile journey starts with one step.” – Eric Grossman “Eating is one of my joys in life and I’m not going to deprive myself, but I put in the...
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EP50 – The Smash aka Asher Benrubi (Radio Icon / Musician) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“I ain’t complain, I’m explainin.” – The Smash aka Asher Benrubi “The best education is from the University of Doing It!” – The Smash aka Asher Benrubi “Honor God, help people. If you’re helping people you’re honoring God.” - The Smash aka Asher Benrubi Join Ken on this milestone episode as he...
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EP49 – Joe Sanfilipo (Chef/Entrepreneur) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“You’re only as good as your last meal.” – Joe Sanfilippo “You can’t qualify your life as successful just because of finances.” – Joe Sanfillippo Joe’s career in the restaurant business began at the age of 11 when he filled in at one of his uncle’s restaurants on New Years Eve as a busboy. He...
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EP48 – Tony West (Filmmaker) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“A large cross represented a person who had died of cancer and a small cross represented those who were battling cancer. There were way to many crosses out there.” – Tony West “People said you’re a television cameraman, what do you know about nuclear waste. Well I’m learning. You have to learn.”…
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EP47 – Cardinals Baseball (Themed) - Conversations with Calcaterra
Baseball is as American as apple pie is the old saying and people all over the USA are excited for opening day especially St. Louisans who pride themselves for their sports fandom especially for the beloved Cardinals. Opening day in St. Louis feels like a holiday and it highlights the change of…
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EP46 – Jason Cleaveland (Entreprenuer) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“I love the pull yourself up by your bootstraps philosophy but that implies that you have boots.” – Jason Cleaveland “We've created so many barriers to entry for the for these low-level entry-level jobs that were people are really doomed to life a life of poverty.” - Jason Cleaveland “So many…
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EP45 – Benjamin Hochman (Sportswriter) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“For me the idea that I was wanted in life is to be a sports voice of the city. In my profession of sports writing, few things are more enamored than the guy or girl who writes something that everybody reads. Who says something everybody hears, that’s pretty cool.” – Benjamin Hochman “In the…
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EP44 – Matt Simms and Lucas Yochum (Content Creators) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“The whole origin for doing this project was…it gives us an excuse to explore the city. Learn more stuff around us and hopefully be better St. Louisians or just people in general because were going out and exploring something.” – Matt Sims “Well it's important to think about that the "24 hour…
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EP43 – Matt Hodel (Tattoo Artist) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear. It takes a couple of attempts to push through the fear to realize you can!” – Matt Hodel “If you don’t know where to start…it’s forward. Just go! Start…continue!” – Matt Hodel “On working with other people – “I think a lot of times it’s just...
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EP42 - Bernie Siegel (Healer/Author) - Conversations with Calcaterra
This episode is dedicated to Ken Calcaterra Sr. “I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet each of us in our own way.” – Bernie Siegel “Mother Theresa said that she would not attend an antiwar rally, and the people who invited her were very upset, but she said to them, “If your...
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EP41 - Steve St. Cyr (Founder Songbird Cafe) - Conversations with Calcaterra
Step into the world of Songbird Café a unique St. Louis listening experience modeled after the Nashville’s famed Bluebird Café. Ken sits down with Songbird founder and curator Steve St. Cyr to discuss some of Steve’s favorite moments from the past five years of Songbird Shows on the eve of the...
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EP40 - Bengie Molina (Athlete / Author) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“Everybody knows us, the Molina brothers in the Major Leagues…this man, this dad we had was our Hall of Famer!” – Bengie Molina “All of us were pulling for each other, and we battled our butts off out there! We wanted to be very special, we wanted to do it! Sometimes you don’t have that in the...
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EP39 - Jeff Stevens (Entrepreneur / Creative) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“We’re going to raise hell…responsibly! – Jeff Stevens (Entrepreneur/Creative) – Well Being Brewing Company “Because of the speed of communication the standard of perfection really isn’t there. It’s more about trying shit! – Jeff Stevens (Entrepreneur/Creative) – Well Being Brewing Company Jeff...
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EP38 - Connor Weinstein (Musician) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“Music along with love is probably the most powerful force in the universe and I think it has the power to change lives!!!” – Connor Weinstein (Singer/Guitarist) – Next Door to the Moon “The most meaningful aspect of being a musician is making an emotional connection with someone who hears your...
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EP37 - Shane Presley (Podcaster) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“The theory behind it all is to shine a light on the St. Louis music scene. I’m of the mentality that if one succeeds we all benefit.” – Shane Presley – Rock Paper Podcast “People hit me up all the time…how do I do a podcast? I want to do it and I’m like, do it! Grab a mic and do it and have some...
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EP36 - Tony Rehagen (Writer - Journalist) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“Life is collecting experiences and that’s literally my job!” – Tony Rehagen - Journalist “I think that the definition of success is when work becomes fun and a lot of people never get to experience that. I feel extremely fortunate that I have.” – Tony Rehagen - Journalist Is what we know as…
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EP35 - Ryan Gaughan (Educator - Musician) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“If you want to build a fan base do it by caring about that fanbase!” – Ryan Gaughan, Among Criminals – La Capitana “Holding yourself accountable to other people is the best muscle to start holding yourself accountable! – Ryan Gaughan, Among Criminals – La Capitana How many musicians do you know...
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EP34 - Jimmy Buckets Tribute - EXPLICIT - (Musicians)- Conversations with Calcaterra
Art is one’s legacy. When we create art a piece of our soul is infused in the work and when we leave this planet it remains for others to cherish our energy. Jimmy Smith affectionately known as Jimmy Buckets based on his prowess behind a drum kit (and sometimes plastic construction buckets) left...
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EP33 - Curtis Wylde - EXPLICIT - (Pro Wrestler/Public Servant)- Conversations with Calcaterra
“If you get out of politics and you’re rich, it’s because you either got bought off, you sold out your people or you did something wrong. I’m a public servant!” – Curtis Wylde, Professional Wrestler and Public Servant “I don’t ever want to be called a politician. To me the word politician is like...
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EP32 - Elle Brodsky (Yogi - Entrepreneur) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“There’s just something about being barefoot in a public place that makes you feel really connected to it and those around you.” – Elle Brodsky, Founder Yogabuzz “Yogabuzz is one of my favorite activities as I’m able to take part in a fun yoga practice and then meet new people and observe my...
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EP30 - Corey Stulce - (Author) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“I definitely wanted it to be not just a glossy Hollywood tale but to have some drama.” – Corey Stulce on “The Union of the State” What is the current Union of the State? Do you even know who the State are? If not then you should definitely tune in to learn why author Corey Stulce spent 7 years...
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EP31 - Evan Grae Davis (Documentary Filmmaker) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“Art is the almost undefinable component that creates a distinction between information and a story.” – Evan Grae Davis “Even the corporate work that pays well, I’m not going to do unless I can do it in a way that moves my soul!” – Evan Grae Davis There are not many people out there who offer…
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EP29 - The Notchs - (Educational Disrupters) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“Focus on the finish line. That finish line isn’t moving it’s waiting for you!” – Ronnie Notch “It’s all about planting seeds and when you plant those seeds you get the chance to watch the tree grow and the fruit is the students through where they go! Later we’ll see the seeds they plant through...
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EP28 - Julie Longyear - (Entreprenuer) - Conversations with Calcaterra
Which organ in the human body is the largest? Wait for it…this episodes guest is Julie Longyear owner of a Blissoma a company which manufactures and distributes holistic skincare and apothecary products, plant based which is good for the body and the planet. The skin is the largest and fastest...
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EP27 - John and Amy Camie - (Spiritual Guides) - Conversations with Calcaterra
“Money is only a problem when it becomes the coin of the dragon.” – John Camie “When you Believe, the patience will reward you!” – John Camie What would you like to discover about yourself? Where does the power lie within? These are questions which can be examined by using a fun and powerful tool...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Real people living extraordinary lives, names you've never heard, stories you'll never forget. Conversations with Calcaterra is about people who are passionate about what they do, whether it be art, business, entertainment, or healing and the spiritual experience when doing so!
HOSTED BY
Ken Calcaterra
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