Dirt Talk Podcast

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June 01 African Mining Adventure (Building BuildWitt 55) - DT447
June 1, 2026
African Mining Adventure
BuildWitt Update #55 – DT 447
Aaron recaps the wins and lessons learned at BuildWitt this week.
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20 min
May 28 "It's Not the Pay, It Never Was" - Ken Rusk (DT446)
May 28, 2026
It's Not the Pay, It Never Was
Ken Rusk w/ Rusk Industries – DT 446
Ken Rusk is the author of Blue Collar Cash, founder of Rusk Industries, a drainage and excavation company in Toledo, Ohio, and a Fox News contributor who has appeared on over 327 podcasts in the past two years. He spent 40 years figuring out why some employees thrive and others just survive — and the answer had nothing to do with pay or benefits. He reveals why employers who can't find good workers are the actual problem — and the surprisingly simple system he's used for decades to turn blue collar workers into goal-crushing machines.
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Learn more about Rusk Industries at: https://www.kenrusk.com/
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1 hr 58 min
May 25 Dirt World Sold Out (Building BuildWitt 54) - DT445
May 25, 2026
Dirt World Sold Out
BuildWitt Update #54 – DT 445
Aaron recaps the wins and lessons learned at BuildWitt this week.
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15 min
May 21 They Tried to Undo 100 Years of His Family’s Work - Herb Sargent (DT 444)
May 20, 2026
They Tried to Undo 100 Years of His Family's Work
Herb Sargent w/ Sargent Corporation – DT 444
Herb Sargent is the Board Chair of Sargent Corporation, a 100-year-old employee-owned civil construction company in Maine, and co-host of the Starbuck & Sargent podcast. He bought back his family's company — six times the size of his own — the same year a German-owned parent company tried to undo everything his grandfather built. He reveals why the construction industry's biggest problem isn't workforce shortage, it's leadership — and why employee ownership might be the only vehicle left to rebuild the American middle class. His new book, “The Hard Work Starts Today,” documents the 100-year Sargent journey, from simple REO Speedwagon to a 9-figure business.
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2 hr 17 min
May 20 Speaking, Waiting Lists and Solving Problems (Building BuildWitt #53) - DT443
May 20, 2026
Speaking, Waiting Lists and Solving Problems
BuildWitt Update #53 – DT 443
Aaron recaps the wins and lessons learned at BuildWitt this week.
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13 min
May 14 Give Us the Dirt - Brandon Lindsey (DT 442)
Brandon Lindsey is VP at Hoopaugh Grading Company, host of the Give Us the Dirt Podcast, and Co-Founder of Dream on 3, a sports dream-granting organization for kids battling life-altering conditions. He quit his 20-year corporate career the day he was finally offered the job he'd been working toward his whole life and joined Hoopaugh Grading in 2018. He reveals why the construction industry doesn't have a workforce problem - it has a development problem - and why the companies ignoring that are headed toward extinction.

Follow Brandon on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonlindsey272/

Learn more about Hoopaugh Grading Company and Dream on 3 at: https://hoopaughgrading.com/ and https://dreamon3.org/

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1 hr 47 min
May 11 Indian Adventure (Building BuildWitt #52) - DT441
Aaron recaps the wins and lessons learned at BuildWitt this week.

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28 min
May 07 Who’s Actually Building America? w/ Jim Vinoski (DT 440)
Jim Vinoski is the Co-Founder of Firesteel Industrial Solutions, a consulting business for modern American manufacturing companies. Jim’s a major advocate for reindustrializing America, with many contributions to Forbes, his Manufacturing Talks Podcast, and his new book “American Manufacturing: 22 Tales of Integrity, Ingenuity, and the Modest Heroes Who Built a Nation,” out this June.

Follow Jim on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimvinoski/

Learn more about Jim & his podcast, Manufacturing Talks, at: https://www.manufacturingtalks.com/

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2 hr 22 min
May 04 South Korea Adventure (Building BuildWitt #51) - DT439
Aaron recaps the wins and lessons learned at BuildWitt this week.

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17 min
April 30 From Family Business to Winning Major Contracts - Ricky Webb (DT 438)
Ricky is the owner of East Coast Demolition, a third-generation abatement and demolition company serving North Carolina and Virginia. As he’s taken over the business, he’s focused on investing further in equipment, people, and safety to compete at a higher level with major GCs and the US Government.

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2 hr 13 min

About Dirt Talk Podcast

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Welcome to the Dirt World's top podcast (self-proclaimed). Every week, host Aaron Witt, founder of BuildWitt, interviews construction and mining industry leaders in long form and shares updates on…