More Than That with Kyle Bendert

Drew Verdé, real name Drew Green is a musician with a huge creative passion to use the world and his situations as a reflection of his art. He is a deep thinking, selfless and big hearted individual who can paint a detailed picture of the things he is passionate about. We talk about his music, his influences, his process, his upbringing and so much more.

In today's episode we talk everything that needs to be known to the general public about the COVID-19 Vaccine with science teacher, vaccine recipient and former guest of the podcast Thomas Brylewski

Schuyler Williams is a young entrepreneur and a spiritually minded person. Someone who described himself humbly as a "plain ol' Joe". We chat it up about work ethic colliding with a pandemic, the importance of supporting our friends, art and the idea of going other places through meditation.

Nikyra Howard is a self described "Black Woman, Activist, and Everyday Person" who participated in the Black Lives Matter protests this summer. We have a good in depth conversation about those protests and about her life in general.

A former guest of the show had the idea that we do an episode where I am the one being interviewed, so that the listeners might get to know the host a bit better... well here it is. We talk about my life story, politics, spirituality and all the good stuff.

This is the very first installment of a series I really hope continues for a long time, Hip Hop Homework. Me, Jalen McKinney and Antonio Cuevas break down our top albums of 2020, our top 5 rappers of all time along with our top 5 favorites. We break down the entire discographies of Nas and J. Cole and debate how all of the albums in each artists discography stack up against each other. I really hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Star Punk is someone who i consider to be a very unique individual. She considers herself to be an animal lover, an old school punk, and a woods witch. She is the person who runs the thermal temperature scanner to get us into work in the morning and runs an animal rescue out of her house. We chat it up about animals, witchcraft, spirituality and the state of the world at the moment.

Anthony Hamilton has a brilliant story of overcoming adversity to become a successfull member of society. He was the speaker at our high school graduation ceremony. He is a Passionate individual, a visionary even. He is a Christian and a hardworking young man in all of his endeavors. He is an Artist who works as a Contractor. He considers himself to be a realist, but b his story makes me feel very optimistic about life and I hope it does the same for you.

Antonio Cuevas is another former classmates of mine from Butcher (Community High), who currently works selling electrical material. We share a 2 major interests, being football and hip hop, the former we get into a bit, but the big scoop that we dive into is that Antonio is recovering from COVID-19.

Cortez Davis El is a friend and former co-worker of mine. He is a member of the Crips, who served 25 years of what was supposed to be a natural life sentence in prison for 1st degree murder. A murder that he did not commit. Cortez is out now. A returning citizen, a husband and father of 2. He is a Moorish American and member of The Moorish Science Temple of America Inc. We talk about all of that, get the news of who won our presidential election and more. Check it out.