Burke Allen's Big Time Talker Podcast — by SpeakerMatch

The West Virginia Music Hall of Fame induction telecast happens Saturday, November 14th at 7pm ET on West Virginia Public Television and online at www.wvpublic.org.   Hall of Fame Executive Director Michael Lipton gives us the lowdown on this year's inductees, his favorite part of being associated with the Hall Of Fame, playing in the Mountain Stage house band and lots more. If you're a music fan,...

Today's guest on the Big Time Talker Podcast powered by Speakermatch.com is Abigail Child, who has been at the vanguard of experimental media since the 1980s. In her latest project, she offers viewers an eerie and exciting look into the present and future of artificial intelligence through the perspectives of robotics scientists, entrepreneurs, and even a Black lesbian robot named BINA48. Explorin...

Open Hydrant Theater Company @ The Point's mission is to maintain an ensemble-based theater company in the densely populated, yet under-served, Hunt's Point community of the South Bronx. Their purpose is to produce yearly seasons of creative works based largely on, but not limited to, non-traditional, interactive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays, as well as other literary classics and work by...

Actor Chris Ellis first burst on the scene in the film DAYS OF THUNDER, and since then he's appeared in dozens of Hollywood blockbusters and dozens more hit television series. Get his behind the scenes stories about working with Tom Cruise, Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Garner of lots more! Find out which movie cast still has lunch together every Thursday 25 years after filming wrapped on their...

It's the Seventh Year of the Tribulation, and the world is in ruins. Christianity has all but disappeared, except for small bands of believers who are hiding, surviving — and waiting for the Second Coming. That's the premise behind the new end times action/adventure mini-series "The Dark," now streaming on Pure Flix and also available at Amazon. Big Time Talker podcast pal Kevin Sizemore (Pastor P...

The music and live event industry has been affected dramatically by the pandemic. Live entertainment worldwide is down 90% since March, putting hundreds of thousands of entertainers and behind-the-scenes workers on the sidelines. We talk with industry insider Jack Forman, President of Manhattan-based booking agency BiCoastal Productions about the state of the live entertainment industry, what will...

R&B singer/songwriter Theo Peoples has an amazing story to tell; he's the only singer to ever be a member of two of the most legendary vocal groups of all time: the Temptations AND the Four Tops!  Theo dishes about how that happened, what life is like singing with music legends, his famous wedding guests, singing at the Superbowl, dueting with Aretha Franklin, writing a hit song on the Tempts...

Diana Hart is well known to fans of pro wrestling. She comes from what is arguably the most famous wrestling family of all time, the Harts...and her romantic novel series takes place in that rough-and-tumble world that she knows like few others. We talk with Diana about the famous and not-so-famous folks she grew up around, the amazing way she was raised in a family filled with pro wrestlers, her...

The Big Time Talkers Podcast welcomes political satirist and author Tanner T. Roberts to our microphones from his home in Houston, Texas. Tanner graduated from Texas A&M in 2013 with a B.S. in Economics and released his debut book, Dumb Politics: The Political Rhetoric and Blissful Ignorance of a Generation, in 2019. It reached number one on Amazon's new release lists for several weeks and rec...

Jorma Kaukonen is our guest on today's encore presentation of the Big Time Talker podcast powered by Speakermatch.com!   Jorma is an American music icon-a founding member of Jefferson Airplane who still tours with Airplane member Jack Casady in Hot Tuna, which started as a Jefferson Airplane side project 50 years ago. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jorma was ranked by Rolling Stone ma...

Our Big Time Talker podcast guest is Melanie Choukas-Bradley is a Washington, DC author and naturalist who leads field trips, tree tours and forest bathing walks for the Audobon Naturalist Society, U.S. Botanic Garden, the Smithsonian, Rock Creek Conservancy, the Nature Conservancy, Politics and Prose, the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and other organizations.    Melanie’s newest book is...

MONEY MACHINE tells the story of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history when Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more during a country music festival in Las Vegas.   We chat with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ramsey Dennison about Paddock's motivations, the massive coverups after the shooting, and how the shooting victims and the families of those killed got ripped off in...

As a small-town Southern WV lawyer, L. Scott Briscoe has seen, and heard some pretty amazing things. He posts the most outrageous courtroom shenanigans on his "Free Legal Tips" social media blog. Now, he's going viral with over 50,000 views to his page, a Reader's Digest feature article and an upcoming book on the way!  Scott shares some of the biggest, craziest and funniest things he's seen and h...

The Supremes set the standard for girl groups and Motown music history, and two of the Supremes hang out and talk about the tunes, the times and so much more on this Big Time Talkers episode, sponsored by Speakermatch.com.  Sherrie Payne and Susaye Greene helped carry the Supremes torch into the 1970's after Diana Ross departure from the group, and they've got an amazing story to tell.  We touch o...

Today's Big Time Talker guest Joe Blunt became a member of the legendary Drifters in 1975. During his years with TheDrifters, Blunt was privileged to perform alongside two inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and perhaps the most prolific lead singers in The Drifters’ storied past — the legendary Ben E. King and the late great Johnny Moore.  Blunt was also featured as lead singer on so...

On today's Big Time Talker Podcast sponsored by Speakermatch.com, we talk with Jodi and Melissa from the Applaud Our Kids Foundation,  which provides 100% funding for children ages 7-18 who meet the financial needs requirements to take ongoing lessons in vocal instruction, dance, acting, and instrumental music for the entire school year and for summer programs. The students take these ongoing less...

Our Big Time Talker Podcast guest Wanda Allen is an International Speaker, Coach, Corporate Trainer and she’s the author of "Follow Up Sales Strategies" and "Follow Up Savvy". Prior to founding her company, Wanda had a very successful 25-year corporate career. She started as a secretary when she was 19 and worked her way up the corporate ladder and was promoted to Senior Vice President at the age...

The Big Time Talker Podcast, powered by Speakermatch.com welcomes singer/songwriter and keyboard wiz Bob Malone to the show. Bob has toured the world as a solo artist for two decades and has played keyboards with rock legend John Fogerty since 2011. He is also a busy session player and arranger, and is featured on the latest Ringo Starr record, “Give More Love.” His recording of “You’re A Mean One...

Alain Nu mysteriously appears on this episode of the Big Time Talkers Podcast powered by Speakermatch.  Alain is an American mentalist, illusionist, television personality, author, and speaker. He is known for demonstrations of ESP, mind reading, telekinesis, metal bending, and illusions.  Nu's career as an entertainer has spanned more than three decades, with performances and appearances in many...

Our guest on the Big Time Talker Podcast powered by Speakermatch.com is the author and researcher Michael Betrus. The COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in 2020, resulting in most governments locking down their countries in an effort to slow the spread, so hospitals didn't get overwhelmed at once. These lockdowns came at a huge cost to the citizens of the world.  In his new book COVID-19: Lockdowns...

On this episode of the Big Time Talker podcast powered by Speakermatch, Hall of Fame country music DJ Lew Dobbins shares stories of his many friendships and interviews with some of the biggest names in the business. George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Charlie Daniels, Faron Young, Conway Twitty and so many more have been Behind The Microphone with Lew Dobbins...which, not coincidentally is the name of hi...

More than fifty years ago, John Brown was drafted into the US Army and a few months later was provided an all-expense-paid tour of Southeast Asia. He served a year in Vietnam (1969-70) as an Army enlisted man in the Americal Division.  When John returned from Vietnam and was admitted to graduate school, he decided to write about his experiences in the war. He wrote a couple of chapters and sent th...

Felicia Searcy’s mastery is helping people create a life they love.  Her purpose is her passion: to empower you to discover and express your best self as you create the life that you love. She is an award-winning transformational coach, international speaker, author, and minister who has helped thousands create a path for living their dream life. We chat with her about overcoming the hand that's b...

Bruce Hendrix has spent the past two decades circling the globe as the keyboard and guitar tech for some of the music industry's biggest artists. Now, like thousands of other music industry pros, he is sidelined by COVID-19, and there is no word on when the music will play again. Get great behind the scenes stories from Bruce, plus find out how the music industry is coping with the collapse of the...

Pat DiCesare is a legendary concert promoter, whose career spanned the latter half of the 20th century, and his Pittsburgh-based DiCesare-Engler Productions was one of the top-grossing businesses amongst U.S. concert promoters In September 2014 his book, "Hard Days, Hard Nights" was released by Headline Books. The City of Pittsburgh and the State of Pennsylvania declared the week of September 14 "...