Real Talk with Benny T

Please enjoy this week’s special… Uber Stories: Louder Than Life. Plenty of stories and audio from the weekend, plus some juicy new developments in the Machine Gun Kelly and Slipknot beef.

Buckle up baby, this one’s a banger. After running through a quick intro and some descriptions for the stories, I spend some time recapping a pretty cool opportunity working with ESPN for the U of L/UCF football game last week (7:04) and some pretty awesome feedback I received from a few real ones that only reinforced the belief that I’m on the right path. Jumping into our stories and leading thin...

Wanted to take this week's episode to reset and re-introduce myself to some of the new listeners we now have riding with us, welcome in my friends 🥳 On a lot of the interviews, you'll hear me ask my guests, "alright, give me your realest talk, give me some of the truest things you've found that apply to life, people, business, etc." And I thought, ya know, I should probably be prepared to answer...

And so it continues, Pt. II of the Columbus saga. I hope you'll enjoy the small collection of rides fo those from, which include: Drug Mule (36:43) – a man who’s late to the airport gets some real talk regarding whether or not he’s got any chance at making his flight, then shares the most interesting case he’s ever worked on as an attorney, which involves the Columbian Cartel. The Counterfeiter (4...

WE’VE GOT AN ALL-TIMER OVER HERE 🥳 Welcome to Uber Stories: Columbus Pt. I. In this episode, you’ll not only hear an amazing collection of Uber Stories, but also a brand new concept that I’m HYPED to unveil that’s called the Open Mic Sessions, where I setup my mics and equipment on a table in a high traffic area and chop it up with the people of that city or college campus. It couldn’t have gone...

You guys, this is a historic episode 🥳 It is with extreme pleasure I introduce you to Godfather Media's first intern EVER, please join me in welcoming Mr. Konnor Duwe (@konnor.duwe) to the team 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 In this episode, Konnor and I lay out some of the goals and objectives that we're going to be working towards throughout the duration of this internship, as well as workshopping some o...

New week, new episode, new segment: the open mic sessions. This is something I’m going to be doing more of as I go along, but this is the first week I took my brand new logo-branded table cloth, a table, two mics, two chairs, and setup in a high traffic area as I invited people to sit down and gimme some real talk. And ya know what? It went really well 🥳 So I’ve got a few highlights from those in...

It’s good to be back, baby… It’s good to be back 🥳 I got the car back so I’m back in the streets, the upgrades to the studio are done so I’m back in there, I’ve got a few announcements I run through at the top (3:52), and then it’s onto the stories. I’ve got five of them for you today – three that are legit and two that are pretty quick but we’re gonna kick things off with a heavy one: I’ll Say I...

Roz Poole is a longtime educator, teacher, storyteller, and one of my superheroes. I was so thrilled that she was down to come on the show and share her story with me, beginning with how she learned to tell stories and how she learned about life and people through storytelling: first through learning about religion and the stories told in the bible, then later building upon that as a contestant in...

Sometimes I just wanna capture everything in the moment and share that with people. And ya know what... if I can't share it with my friends at the end of the night, I can certainly share it with the microphone 🎙 Post-show recap of Louis the Child plus various thoughts and a fucking 101 lesson on how to hustle and be an entrepreneur 🥳 Subscribe, rate and review, follow @bennytomp18 or @realtalkwbe...

Alright guys, I’ve got a banger for you this week 🥳 My guest today is Josh Sewell (@sewellsidee). Josh is a doctoral student at NYU specializing in higher education and he’s somebody that I’ve got a lot of love and respect for. After reconnecting recently and following along with the things he frequently shares on his Instagram stories with respect to topics such as self-love, self-discovery, hea...

Ohhh! Two in one day?? Watch out world, the kid’s flowing. This is a shorter episode, but I wanted to share some thoughts and themes from a recent hike I went on with some friends. It’s funny… Whenever I feel the most connected spiritually and mentally is when I can get out into nature and walk around shit that’s bigger than me. Redwood trees, massive boulders, caves, bodies of water… whatever it...

Congratulations to my grandparents who just celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary! My brother and two of my cousins and I all went down to visit our grandparents in Florida and spent four days hanging out with them and spending quality time together, so this episode is a recap of that plus some of their thoughts on the keys to a successful marriage and what's contributed to the longevity of th...

Today’s guest is Jade Stanton (@jadementalhealthcoach), a mental health coach and mental health WARRIOR who not only has dedicated her life to managing her own experiences with borderline personality disorder (BPD), but also to helping others with their struggles, too. In this episode, Jade and I define and discuss what BPD is, where it comes from and how it develops, what some of the common sympt...

Went out last night with the boys, something I haven't done in a very long time, and woke up this morning wanting to recap the night. Now, usually the way these things go is I've got a couch or a living room full of dudes to sit with the morning after and recap all of the night's funny little moments, which is always my favorite part of the entire process, tbh. But since I didn't have that, I just...

“I was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. 10/22/45. I came to Louisville in search of a teaching job when I graduated from Alcorn State University. I never was a great sports hero, but I was like every other kid… I was on the baseball team and I thought I was gonna be the next Jackie Robinson. And growing up in Mississippi without running water, without electricity, and all the other comf...

THE VILLE IS BACK THE REAL IS BACK LMAOOO AYEEEE I lead things off today with some great news about the car (2:06), followed by a thank you for your patience (11:54), and finally the best analogy I can come up with to help someone understand bipolar (19:04). Then, it’s story time. I’ve got three stories for you today, which include: Owner vs. 8-5 Mentality (28:05): a man with an interesting source...

Up and down we go, where it stops, nobody knows.

Hello, my friends. You'll have to excuse me as I'm terribly sorry not to have an episode ready to go for you today, and also for what feels like a slight dip in the last month 📉 I think I've been so consumed and concerned with so many different things lately, all of which necessary for the show and its growth, but I'm feeling like I've drifted away a bit from the storytelling and the people 😔 Th...

Well, my friends, as the late, great Dicky Fox once said, roll with the punches, tomorrow’s another day. Uber Stories: Chicago was amazing in that I got to spend time in one of my favorite cities in the world, got to meet some really cool people, learn about their businesses, and become a collaborator with them while I was in town. However, the thing that I came up to do – meet the people of Chica...

🎶 And I’m only getting older, somebody shoulda told ya, I’m on one 🎶 That’s right baby, I’m a year older, a year wiser, and even though I’m now 29, who could tell with this baby face I’m rocking 👶🏻 Uber Stories: Chicago Pts. I & II are gonna be dropping over the next couple weeks, but today is the birthday special. And when you hear the story of how what was supposed to be a great day hiking w...

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. I present to you, Uber Stories Pt. 30 🥳 After introducing the stories with quick descriptions at the top of the episode, I share a goal I hit this week that I set a while back and felt really awesome to finally achieve it, before transitioning into the stories, which include: Cocaine Cowboy (27:34) – A man recalls his involvement with a scanda...

Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Memorial Day Special 🥳 Memorial Day is about honoring the brave men and women who have paid the ultimate sacrifice fighting for this country, and I couldn’t think of a better way to pay my respects than to dedicate this episode to them 🇺🇸 Today’s episode also marks the one-year anniversary of this show in its current format and me beginning on this path, so I...

Nashville. The music city. The Las Vegas of the South. A city so bustling with people and content that for the first time ever, I was forced to split the episode into a two-parter. If you haven't heard Pt. I yet, I quickly recap some of the highlights from that episode (12:36) before picking back up where we left off last week, which was bankrupting a couple bums in Monopoly (15:22) and a line in...

Nashville. The music city. The Las Vegas of the South. People come from all over the county to stand in honkey tonk bars on Broadway and comb the streets on a thirsty peddler. Because of this, it makes it a prime city for an Uber Stories episode. So, I did it. This will have to be a two-parter, there's no other way. So today’s episode will cover the first half of the trip up until Friday night, in...