Tai Davis is the founder and owner of Aether, Alchemy Bakery and Sacred Geometry.

tai-davis.com

@iofthetyler

  7:00 - Intro

11:45 - Inter-disciplinarian

15:15 - Growing up as a nomad

18:00 - Leaving the church & religion

26:30 - Learning the cello

31:00 - Burnout with young musicians

35:00 - Going away to college at 15

39:00 - Working while going to school

40:45 - Working in assisted living & learning to cook

47:30 - Entrepreneurs aren’t better, just different

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50:15 - Culinary ARTS

53:00 - Being resourceful

58:00 - Having faith in yourself

59:15 - Average day

1:06:30 - Making lists

1:11:00 - Meditation

1:14:00 - Alchemical Healing

1:18:00 - Maintaining mental health

1:20:45 - The isolation of being a chef

1:22:00 - Making a change

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1:24:30 - Recent projects & TV appearances

1:31:00 - Food Photography

1:32:45 - Self-publishing

1:37:00 - Do your own research

1:42:00 - Throwing yourself into projects

1:43:30 - Outro

Kevin Lemp is the Founder of 4 Hands Brewing Company and 1220 Spirits

4handsbrewery.com

1220spirits.com

@4handsbrewingco

   5:00 - Intro

  6:15 - Forbes Articles

  7:00 - “We’re no longer a brewery.”

10:15 - Working at Gallo Winery

11:45 - First craft beer experience

13:45 - There’s less loyalty to beer brand right now

14:30 - City Wide is 4 Hand’s most successful beer 

17:15 - 8 Years ago, 1,400 breweries. Today there are over 8,000

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18:45 - College years

19:30 - Early career

23:00 - Learning by observing

24:00 - Making a business plan

25:00 - Putting in his notice

28:00 - STL Brewery “Class of 2011”

31:45 - Meeting Josh Rowan

33:15 - Bringing Nick Kanter on board

34:15 - Getting first draft line at Blueberry Hill

35:30 - Inch wide, mile deep approach

37:00 - Breaking into new markets

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42:00 - The Anheuser Busch influence

43:45 - Bitter Brew

46:30 - Important growth markers in 4 Hands success

52:00 - Ego free company

54:00 - Dealing with the Schlafly conflict

54:30 - Drama

56:00 - Women Who Whiskey charity

56:45 - Battle in the market, come together for philanthropy with UCBC 

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58:30 - Ballast Point Story

1:02:15 - Anti-nepotism

1:04:00 - Be polite and work hard

1:06:30 - It’s good to struggle

1:09:00 - What 2020 will bring

1:11:00 - Chasing trends vs. Originality

1:13:00 - The seltzer boom

1:14:30 - What’s the next step?

1:17:30 - Scratch Brewing

1:18:00 - Narrow Gauge Brewery

1:19:30 - Excited for St. Louis

1:23:00 - Outro 

Tom Hück is an American Print Warlord

http://evilprints.com

@evilprints

  9:00 - Intro

12:30 - Can’t stand not working

14:00 - Prince’s death making work more urgent

17:00 - Getting into an online fight over John Singer Sargent

18:30 - Kelley Walker CAM controversy

          - Tom’s article/response

20:10 - Real life rules don’t apply to art

22:00 - The fucking banana duct-taped to the wall

24:40 - “I like athleticism in art.”

26:00 - On Banksy

28:15 - The art world sucks

30:00 - Great art is a marriage of concept & technique

32:30 - Traveling as a youth and seeing art

36:15 - Looking for porn and finding the Tower of London

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40:00 - Growing up in Potosi, Missouri

43:00 - Taking college art classes in high school

48:30 - Finding his style & content

52:00 - Making woodcut prints about his hometown

52:30 - Driving around and selling his work to a museum

53:30 - Story about receiving negative feedback at 12 years old

58:00 - Getting revenge 9 years later

1:03:15 - You can find something good in every shitty piece of art

1:06:15 - Build your life around the art, not the other way around

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1:07:30 - Landfall Press

1:11:45 - Teaching

1:12:30 - First commercial gig working on The Roots “Phrenology”

1:15:00 - Figuring out what to charge

1:18:00 - Speed & whiskey

1:23:00 - Influencing the printmaking world

1:26:00 - The Outlaw Printmakers

1:31:30 - Viewing art in person

1:33:30 - Art is hard to make

1:35:00 - Van Gogh’s suicide

1:40:00 - Catching Tom’s NYC Electric Baloneyland show in 2017

1:45:30 - Archive of work coming out

1:46:30 - Making more affordable work

1:52:00 - Grafik House

1:58:00 - Living in/near Potosi now

2:03:00 - Outro

David Choi is the owner of Seoul Taco.

http://seoultaco.com

@davidchoistl

  5:00 - Intro 

10:00 - How we met 

10:30 - Little Saigon

13:00 - Hip Hop

17:00 - Working in a baseball card shop

18:30 - Skipping school to get celebrity autographs

22:45 - Getting asked to speak at his high school

27:15 - Growing up in the church

29:00 - Figuring out how/when to work for your self

32:15 - Working for yourself out of necessity

33:30 - Immigrant entrepreneurs

37:00 - Roy Choi

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39:30 - Working 3-4 jobs at once

45:00 - Cooking at friend’s parties

47:00 - Finishing college 

52:15 - Paying it forward with friends

54:30 - Supportive friends vs. Haters

58:30 - Giving & receiving feedback

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1:02:45 - Buying the first food truck for $18,000

1:08:00 - The first food trucks in St. Louis

1:09:45 - First run at Food Truck Friday

1:11:45 - First Seoul Taco location

1:13:00 - Second location

1:16:00 - Staying fresh with growing popularity

1:22:45 - Growing up without internet

1:26:45 - Opening up in another market

1:32:15 - Columbia, MO location

1:35:15 - Chicago locations

1:40:45 - Employee Management

1:42:00 - People freak out too much

1:42:30 - Streetwear collabs

1:45:00 - Collaboration “fever”

1:47:45 - Not caring vs. Not letting things get to you

1:49:00 - Sports talk

1:52:30 - What’s happening in 2020

1:59:00 - Continuing to learn

2:06:00 - Outro

Michael Frachetti is a Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. His current projects include studies of medieval Silk Road cities of Uzbekistan and ancient maritime trade throughout SE Asia and Indian Ocean.

https://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty-staff/michael-frachetti

@mdfrachetti

  4:00 - Intro 

  7:00 - Contemporary value of information

  9:00 - Real deal facts vs. Audience-friendly content

11:20 - Authenticity of Wikipedia

14:00 - It takes forever to fact check now

16:45 - Knowing how to talk to people

18:45 - Older generations strive for a longer childhood for their children

22:30 - Captain Fantastic

23:00 - The Tech Age

25:00 - There’s no more remoteness

32:00 - Generational differences

33:15 - Instagram over-saturation

36:30 - Getting too “preachy” on captions

38:00 - What should social media be used for?

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49:00 - Growing up with martial arts

50:00 - Seven Samurai 

55:00 - Meeting his archaeology mentor

59:00 - Geographical Information Systems defined

1:03:45 - Focusing on nomads

1:15:00 - What is the purpose of Archaeology?

1:17:00 - Re-contextualizing data from the perspective of different identities

1:21:00 - Redefining what “civilization” means

1:24:30 - Doug North on Institutions

1:26:00 - Similarities between the lived experience in individuals

1:29:00 - Audience for his new book

1:31:30 - David Wengrow

1:33:30 - The Utopian Paradox TEDx Talk

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1:39:00 - Shifting focus after publishing

1:44:00 - Does popularity affect findings in archaeology?

1:49:30 - Upside and downside of Guns, Germs & Steel

1:51:00 - Michael Pollan

1:52:00 - Developing writing skills

1:55:00 - Nuance is necessary

1:58:00 - Outro

Jon Wheatley is a Product Designer & Founder. He’s currently working on launching a new social media platform @Stopwatch

https://jonw.com

@jon

  6:00 - Intro 

  7:00 - Moving back to St. Louis

15:00 - Why I'm Moving My Business from San Francisco to St. Louis

18:30 - ArchGrants

22:00 - Going into Y Combinator

23:45 - Starting DailyBooth in 2009

28:30 - Judging Y Combinator applications

35:00 - Favorite American city

42:30 - Investors in DailyBooth

46:30 - Getting “banned” from America

54:00 - Using a telepresence robot for a year

58:30 - DailyBooth winding down

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1:01:00 - Starting up Peel

1:04:00 - Doing his own fulfillment 

1:06:00 - Good & bad of transparency 

1:10:30 - Pitfalls of a Kickstarter campaign

1:14:30 - Other Need/Want Projects

1:20:30 - Managing time & projects

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1:23:30 - Stopwatch

1:26:00 - Launching a “social network” in 2019

1:28:00 - How Stopwatch works

1:32:45 - Join the Private Beta

1:36:30 - Stopwatch business model

1:41:30 - Moderating & Censorship

1:48:00 - The grimey tech of ‘Prospect’

1:51:00 - Influenced by old ideas of the future

1:56:00 - Algorithms & Moderation

2:04:00 - Bruce Mau

2:07:30 - Making slingshots / Dead Eye Club

2:12:45 - White House trip

2:21:00 - Outro

Bob Brazell is the Chef & Co-owner of Byrd & Barrel and Tamm Avenue Bar. He’s currently working on re-opening The Tenderloin Room at The Chase Park Plaza.

@byrdbarrelstl

  2:00 - Intro 

  8:00 - Athlete Eats

10:30 - Finding the Byrd & Barrel building

12:00 - Having good partners

14:00 - Owning restaurants is entrepreneurship on steroids

16:15 - Dealing with depression

18:00 - Desire to work in food & hospitality 

22:00 - Restarting his life & going to culinary school

24:15 - Working at Monarch with Josh Galliano

25:30 - Working at Niche with Gerard Craft

29:00 - Asking a question and writing a paper 

30:30 - Generational differences in workers

35:00 - Being a positive influence

36:30 - Working with his fiancee 

39:00 - Social media & City Hall

45:00 - There needs to be a chef/restaurant alliance

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47:00 - Finding his business partners

52:30 - Roles in the partnership

55:30 - Why fried chicken?

57:30 - Importance of keeping the drive-thru 

1:00:30 - Getting into the Enterprise Center

1:04:00 - Working on the Tenderloin Room

1:07:30 - The myth of the chef

1:09:00 - Rick Lewis

1:14:00 - Be your brand

1:16:00 - Taking over an established business

1:29:30 - Old school cool coming back in fashion

1:31:30 - Social media for businesses now

1:36:15 - Soft opens

1:37:30 - Receiving feedback

1:47:00 - Maturing as a business owner

1:55:30 - Business highlights

1:59:00 - Outro

Matt Murphy is a producer/videographer focused on maintaining productivity while raising a family.

@dekkoinc

   8:00 - How we know each other

13:30 - Reading

17:30 - What Matt does

23:00 - First job

27:00 - Learning software on the fly

30:30 - Troubleshooting & failure

32:30 - Building his business

36:00 - Getting connected with Tony Robbins

38:00 - What he specifically does at a Tony event

43:30 - Working on “non-flashy” clients

45:30 - Educating clients on video content

48:00 - Society’s attention span influencing work

54:00 - How he’s expanded in his niche field

58:00 - Getting beyond the negatives of motivational speakers

1:00:00 - Herbalife and MLM’s being annoying

1:05:00 - Separating work and beliefs 

1:07:00 - Realizing the importance of money at a young age

1:12:00 - Getting his kids to save money

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1:18:00 - Developing a pilot for a tv show

1:21:00 - Funding the initial production 

1:25:00 - Editing the pilot

1:29:00 - Abandoning the project

1:52:30 - Time is our most valuable currency

1:36:00 - The ineptitude of Corporate America

1:38:20 - Vacations when working full-time vs. working for yourself

1:40:00 - Workplace efficiency

1:44:30 - Investing

1:46:15 - Preparing for the next recession

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1:51:00 - Recording adventure travelogues

1:57:00 - The human element of resorts & cruises

2:04:15 - Matt’s “escape” from Zambia

2:09:30 - Love/hate of India

2:13:30 - Eating & getting sick while traveling

2:15:30 - Beating jetlag

2:21:15 - Getting enough sleep

2:24:00 - Diversifying  

2:28:20 - David Goggins

2:35:00 - The inherent selfishness of success

2:39:00 - Balancing humility vs. confidence

2:45:00 - Outro

Michael Franco is a music and pizza maker on the south side of St. Louis.

michaelfranco.bandcamp.com

@mpfranco

  5:00 - What we’re trying to do

  6:00 - Current state of NBA

12:45 - Lebron James

14:00 - CTE influencing NFL viewership

16:30 - Under promoting good movies

18:30 - Prank calling thru deaf-relay website

23:00 - Lebron & China

28:30 - Hong Kong protests

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35:00 - Kanye finding Jesus

39:00 - Jesus is King

41:00 - Evangelical vs. Catholicism

48:00 - Kanye, etc.

52:00 - Songs & Albums becoming shorter

58:00 - Virgil x IKEA drop

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59:30 - Things that you don’t know how to process that you end up loving

1:04:15 - Epstein didn’t kill himself

1:07:00 - Zeitgeist & becoming a skeptic

1:09:30 - Is Franco a truther?

1:12:00 - Applying stoicism to your skepticism

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1:16:00 - Benioff & Weiss leaving Star Wars

1:19:00 - Apple+ vs. Netflix vs. HBO

1:24:00 - Airpods as status symbol?

1:27:30 - L. Ron Hubbard & Scientology

1:32:30 - Joseph Smith and Mormonism

1:36:00 - Recap

1:38:00 - Outro

Mike Spakowski is Partner and Creative Director at Atomicdust – A Branding and Marketing Agency.

www.atomicdust.com

@mspako

  6:00 - What I’ve learned

13:30 - Upcoming guests

19:00 - Mike’s year so far

21:15 - Working together on Tempus

23:30 - Dressing up to fly

25:00 - Meeting the Mayors of St. Louis

32:00 - Creative community not active

34:45 - Kanye, Jesus is King & “badly” designed merch

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43:00 - Becoming better at podcasts

46:00 - Austin Kleon

49:30 - Making writing a habit

54:00 - Stephen King

56:00 - A24 Films 

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58:00 - Fine Art & Design

1:02:30 - Historicity defined

1:04:00 - Graphic Design as a trade vs. art form

1:10:30 - Tom Townsend

1:18:00 - Anheuser Busch history

1:20:30 - DC Trip highlights

1:26:00 - Outro