Pod Studio 1 Podcast

This 3rd week Blake continues his conversation with some of our first guests and see what they've done since we've talked to them last.

Page Wisher, Caitlyn Parris, and Danny Perdieu sit down with Blake and catch up.

This Blake continues his conversation with some of our first guests and see what they've done since we've talked to them last.

Page Wisher, Caitlyn Parris, and Danny Perdieu sit down with Blake and catch up.

This week we catch up with some of our first guests and see what they've done since we've talked to them last.

Page Wisher, Caitlyn Parris, and Danny Perdieu sit down with Blake and catch up.

Susan, a self-described life-long band nerd and a strong advocate for proper grammar, began her musical adventures at age 9 at a piano keyboard.  While her heart told her to pursue music as a career, she decided that the world needed at least one more scientist;  Susan then headed to North Carolina State University, where she spent most of her time in the music department.

After graduation, she spent almost a whole year setting accidental fires in a chemistry lab and decided to seek her fortune as an attorney.  After graduating with a law degree from Texas A&M University School of Law, she started her law practice in Tennessee.

When she’s not playing bass guitar, arguing with people in court, diagramming sentences, or scouring the digisphere for the newest and most exciting things in Americana for the Hype Machine-listed Mother Church Pew to dazzle your ears, Susan is fervently helming her independent and alternative music site, East of 8th, in Nashville.

Recently Susan became the wonderfully outgoing publicist who runs HearthPR's Nashville branch. A well-known writer and interviewer in the Nashville scene, Susan broke into this notoriously closed music community by the power of her writing, personality, and musical curation.

She runs Mother Church Pew, a go-to site for Americana music nationally, as well as East of 8th, a website focused on Nashville's independent and alternative music scene. She lives in Nashville with her husband Lynn, who is a fabulous cook, and two small rambunctious boys.

Listen to Stacie Collins as she sits down and talks to Blake about her band, hanging out on stage with Steven Tyler, and even plays her harmonica for us! Stacie is a blues musician and the lead singer in a rock n roll band with her husband Al Collins. They call it STACIE COLLINS & The AL-Might 3. They've managed to release 4 records and one live DVD/CD of original material on their own label. They've been touring Europe 3 to 4 times a year for the last 7 years and have had 3 successful fan funded records.

Join Blake as he talks with Scott Walker.

Scott is the president of WGNS, the local talk radio station in Murfreesboro, TN. He's an avid photographer that loves to tell stories about the town he lives in and the people that make it up.

Meet Drew Johnson, a vet, a husband, a father, and a truck driver.

Listen to this guy's crazy story as he describes how he got into the service, got out, and got into trucking.

This week Blake hung out with his friend from school, Grant Riley. Grant worked on the 2016 Marco Rubio campaign and continues to be heavily involved in politics and even does some consulting.

Blake and Jason go back a little ways and now they're catching up on the PS1 Podcast!

Jason anchors the weekend morning shows and reports during the week for WMNT in West Michigan. He's known since elementary school that he wanted to be in the news business.

Hang out as Blake catches up with and finds out a bit more about him!

Blake is with Ali Hemyari this week! As the training director at Nashville K-9, Ali oversees all company operations on a daily basis. He’ll make sure your dog’s training program fits your needs and produces results beyond your highest expectations.

He enjoys participating in triathlons, SCUBA diving, flying helicopters and airplanes, and traveling the world.

As a philanthropist, he donates hundreds of hours each year to middle Tennessee communities, police departments, and humane organizations.

Ali is the only civilian K-9 trainer in the state of Tennessee that has completed and graduated from a police mandated S.W.A.T. K-9 School recognized by the National Tactical Officers’ Association (NTOA K-9). As a tenured police officer, he has commanded multiple police department K-9 teams and two rescue squad K-9 teams with a total of over 40 handlers under his direction. His vast experience and knowledge come from the discipline of a working/sport dog background along with the integration of government K-9 applications. He has trained dogs across the nation, from the smallest of Chihuahuas to the largest of Mastiffs, and his participation in several trials and trainings across the world has led him to be considered one of the best trainers in the southeast United States. Ali is also a certified AKC Evaluator.