Bobby Pickles' Podcast™️

Bobby speaks, on location, nestled in the chess area at New York City's Bryant Park, with Wendy Oliveras, proud, NJ-based, Latina entrepreneur, successful business owner and author of "Let's Play SHESS: Succeed in your game of life and business by playing chess: from Pawn to Queen". They discuss the parallels between chess, the strategic board game, and life, a game in its own right.

Bobby speaks, on location from the big, red staircase in the middle of Times Square, with Mr. Locario, aka Trends – actor, author, rapper, producer, radio host and masterful guru in the art of seduction. That's a hell of a laundry list of handles, however, the conversation focuses primarily on "How to Have Sex with Two Women A Day", which is the title of Locario's most recently published book.

Bobby is on location at the Museum of Sex (MoSex) in New York City where he speaks with "Crazy James" Zinkand, who, five years after being on the CBS reality show, Big Brother 9, isn't so "crazy" anymore, although he has his moments. Zinkand is only 26 years old, but he's had a truly "crazy" life, hence the moniker. They discuss globetrotting, cross-country bicycling, Zinkand's habitual sexually degenerate lifestyle, yet on a lighter note - his positive future goals.

Bobby speaks with Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, founder and president of the Italian American Museum located on Mulberry Street at the heart of Manhattan's Little Italy. The consummate academic, Dr. Scelsa has many degrees and distinctions – a doctorate in sociology and education from Columbia, plus a long career as director of the Italian American Institute developing a variety of courses for the City University of New York. The museum is host to numerous exhibitions. For more information please call (212) 965-9000 or visit www.ItalianAmericanMuseum.org.

Bobby sits down with Justice John W. Sweeny, Jr. to discuss his role at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department. Mr. Pickles speaks with Justice Sweeny in his chambers inside of the historic Appellate Division courthouse at 27 Madison Ave. They discuss life, judgery and Sweeny's upcoming reelection campaign.

Bobby opens the show with a new segment entitled "NYC Subway Music" in which Bobby interviews and records live performers in NYC's subway system. This week's guest is an African-American cello player/singer named Gabriel Royal.

Bobby conducts this podcast episode over breakfast at the Beechwood Café, just down the road from the Grove Street PATH stop, in the city some say is "New York City's sixth borough" unofficially of course, depending on whether you reside here or in Hoboken. The setting is Jersey City, home to Jayne Freeman, a Childbirth Educator certified through the CEA/MNY (Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York). Jayne hosts a popular Jersey City public access show about parenting, pregnancy and childbirth called 'Mamarama'. It airs in JC on Comcast Cable Channel 51 on Wednesday and Thursday nights at 10 and 6:30 pm respectively. She also writes a regular column for the Jersey City Independent with the same name and subject matter. Awesomely unconventional in the true sense of the word, she speaks about her life as mother, mentor, writer, and of her role on 'The Snooki and JWOW Show'.

Bobby is on location in the city of angels, Los Angeles -- on the set of the smash hit TLC reality series, "America's Worst Tattoos" -- more specifically, Broken Art Tattoo, sitting in the chair and doing this podcast while receiving his awesome cover-up for the show. His artist, and subject of the episode, is an amazing and talented tattooer by the name of Jeremy Swan, the shop's curator.

Furthermore, Bobby speaks with Mr. Michael "Burko" Burko, the show's soundman, and a very interesting character. Burko's story reigns true with the whole idea of the Bukowski-inspired tattoo Bobby is receiving while conducting the interviews. Bukowski's motto was "don't try, do". Burko runs with that intuitively throughout his life.

As for Mr. Jeremy Swan, he is the consummate professional and a true talent. Bobby very much appreciated both of these awesome individuals being on his show. Please make sure you tune in to Season 1 of "America's Worst Tattoos".

Bobby speaks on location, at a quaint coffee shop called Elsewhere Espresso, with Aliah Rosenthal, poet, musician and talent-agent, about life growing up on the mean streets of the East Village, an area once generally considered to be the epicenter of the counterculture in New York City -- home to a vast array of artists and bohemians -- the Beatniks arose from this neighborhood, Allen Ginsberg, the father of "the beat generation" was just one of its famous residents, Punk Rock emerged from its slums, etc.

Bobby also reports from the field about a hip, fresh, unconventional concert experience known as Sofar Sounds.

Bobby speaks with Dr. John Boik, founder of the Principled Societies Project, which is a science-based effort to design and test pioneering systems that improve well-being and speed the transition to a sustainable society. He is also the president and founder of New Earth BioMed, a 501(c)3 nonprofit cancer research organization, which is working to discover a new generation of safe anticancer therapies based on mixtures of plant products. Dr. Boik received a Bachelor's of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the University of Texas, Health Sciences Center, Houston. He also completed postdoctoral work at Stanford University, Department of Statistics and he has written a new book entitled Creating Sustainable Societies: The Rebirth of Democracy and Local Economies - his first book outside the field of biomedical research. In the book, he applies "systems thinking" (an important perspective in biology) to our wider financial, economic, and governance systems.

Bobby speaks with Dr. Lawrence Gelman, a South Texas-based physician, hospital administrator, novice rancher, conservative activist and media personality. Dr. Gelman is the host of the Dr. Lawrence Gelman Show, a radio program focusing on today's political, social, and economic issues from a traditional and unrelenting conservative perspective. His radio program is syndicated on numerous stations throughout the U.S. Bobby probes Dr. Gelman about his views regarding Obamacare, Gun Control, Immigration, Roe v. Wade, etc.