“Smeltz’s Personal Podcast”

Hello everyone, we are back for the first time in months. And then today’s episode we get really really personal today’s episode. We are diving deep into something that nobody ever talks about. It is officially the month of June and June is men’s mental health awareness month and since nobody else is gonna talk about it here I am to talk about it and break the silence. Men struggle on a daily basi...

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode of the pod today we decided to honor the life and legacy of President Jeffrey R Holland. President of the quorum of the 12 apostles for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Jeffery R Holland passed away at age 85 on December 27, 2025. Holland’s Legacy is a legacy that will never be forgotten. From the very first time you hear him speak, you...

Hello everyone and welcome the first episode of the new year 2026 in today’s episode we kind of took a reflection on 2025 what we’re proud of what we wish we could’ve changed and we also set goals and expectations and intentions for the new year as we all step into a new year, I hope that whatever goals you guys have you can stay disciplined you can stay grinding and always remember that if you ar...

Hello everyone and welcome to the final day of the 12 days of Podcastmas 2025 I’m gonna keep the short and sweet but welcome to this special episode Christmas themed. It’s officially Christmas Day. It is super sad that this amazing special of the pod had to come to an end but you know all good things had to come to an end, but don’t worry the 12 days of Podcastmas will return in 2026 and every yea...

Hello everyone and welcome to the 12 days of Podcastmas 2025. It’s officially Christmas Eve everybody so I thought that for today’s episode of the 12 days Podcastmas I would read you all the world famous poem known as twas the night before Christmas.

Hello everyone and welcome back to The 12 days of Podcastmas 2025. In today’s episode, we tell a frightening Christmas folklore about the character known as Krampus where Krampus is the known as the anti-Santa where he punishes children through lessons if you’re naughty so children take caution this Christmas and make sure that you’re not naughty rather be nice. You want to be visited by Saint Nic...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the 12 days of Podcastmas 2025. In today’s episode, we dive into the two most historical holiday figures in the history of Christmas. We compare the differences and similar similarities of the Jolly Fatman, Santa Claus, and the very scary and frightening Krampus, where Santa Claus uses joy and Krampus uses fear. They both may have differences, but they have alway...

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 8 of the 12 Days of Podcastmas 2025. In today’s episode, we dive deep into the joy and magic of Christmas music. We dove into some of the differences between modern Christmas music and classical Christmas music and we also talked about why Christmas music is so joyful and why it’s overplayed and why so many people play it sometimes early. Feel free to comment your...

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 7 of The 12 Days of Podcastmas 2025. In today’s episode, we dove into the history behind the nativity and why it is important in this holiday season well of course why the nativity is so important is where it reminds us of the birth of our savior. Jesus Christ and I hope you guys during this holiday season can be reminded of the importance of why the nativity matt...

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the 12 Days of Podcastmas 2025. As the holiday season wraps us in twinkling lights, cozy sweaters, and the smell of fresh cookies, there’s one figure who seems to appear everywhere we look — Santa Claus. But who is Santa Claus, really? Is he just a jolly man in a red suit with a flying sleigh, or is there more to his story? Today, for our special Christmas episo...

Hello Everyone and Welcome to Day 5 of the 12 Days of Podcastmas. In today’s episode, we took a look back in time from the years 2004 to 2025 to take a look at what were the hottest selling Christmas items for those years. Hope this video can give you guys maybe some ideas to get your family or friends or kids for Christmas this year

Welcome everyone day 4 of the 12 days of Podcastmas wearing in today’s episode I went around and asked people to give me Christmas related questions so I was asked the questions and I gave the answers. Here is a Christmas Q&A related episode

Hello everyone and welcome to day three of the 12 days of Podcastmas today I brought on my best friend Wade Roper, and we gave our honest rankings of 10 classic Christmas movies. Feel free to comment your favorite Christmas movies and what you would rank all the Christmas movies we named. Here are the list of the Christmas movies we ranked Polar express A Christmas story A Charlie Brown Christmas...

Welcome to day 2 of the 12 days of Podcastmas today we get into the holiday spirit by taking a trip down memory lane and reliving and talking about some of my favorite Christmas memories/family traditions feel free to comment some of your favorite traditions and memories. Would love to hear it.

It’s officially the most wonderful time of the year. It is the Christmas season for today’s episode. I decided to bring forth a new idea that just came up this year introducing the 12 days of Podcastmas. The point of the short and brief episode is to explain to you guys. What these next 12 episodes that you’ll be listening to are going to entail and officially kick off the holiday season merry Chr...

In today’s episode, we dive deep into the most commonly asked, and the most asked question that probably every single human being on the planet has ever asked “why do bad things happen?” We get really deep and talk about the pros and cons and we also dive into two lenses which is the physical aspect and the spiritual aspect of why bad things happen the positive and the negative of why bad things h...

Today’s episode of the pod is a very personal one. We dive into talking about failures and setbacks, and failures don’t define us, but they only give us strength. I hope that when you guys listen to today’s episode, you are impacted by what I say and it helps you in any way if you are dealing with a failure right now just understand that it is not the end. It is only the beginning. And if you feel...

In today’s episode of the pod, we honor the life and Legacy of the late prophet and 17th president of the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Russell M Nelson. A man of many titles heart surgeon authority, Seventy, a member of the Quorum of the 12 apostles, 17th President of the church, but most importantly Russell M Nelson was a disciple of Jesus Christ and dedicated his life day and day...

We are back with an amazing episode today is officially the day that I turned 21 that’s right it’s my birthday y’all and I decided to film and record the special episode to celebrate my 21st birthday with y’all by reflecting on the last 21 years of my life what I’m grateful for what things I wish I would’ve changed and how blessed I am to have lived to see 21 and Cheers to the next 21 years of lif...

In today’s episode is a very serious matter a very serious topic today I touched on the most recent news about what transpired on September 10, 2025 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, where 31 year-old conservative activist and turning point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on his America’s comeback tour. His message resonated with thousands—sometimes millions—of young people who...

In today’s episode of Smeltz’s Personal Podcast we are back after so many months one of my missionary companions/my district leader while I was serving in Corona, California is visiting in town from Colorado to film today’s episode, we talked about what life was like as companions in Corona, California. The funny experiences the sad experiences, and we both bore our testimonies of how true the chu...

What’s Poppin everyone welcome to episode 57 today. I have a very, very special guest after being away for so long I decided to bring on my mission companion my Trainer my very first ever companion I had when I went to the California Riverside mission Elder Kadin Pulley so we decided to share our experience as companions while being in the CRM are ups or downs, are fun times and so much more we al...

What’s Poppin everybody in today’s episode I brought on my best friend Mason and we talked about an important topic that not mainstream media social media or just anyone in general doesn’t like to talk about so we’re here to talk about it for y’all. In today’s episode men’s mental health and how important it is we talked about our own personal experiences with dealing with it and others having it...

What’s up everyone todays episode I’m flying solo once again to talk to y’all about my new Work opportunity. You’re looking at the newest Brand Ambassador for Bucked Up. So in todays episode I explained how the ambassador position works and so much more. But one if the most important is the perk you all can receive. In the link down below you guys can use it to go to Bucked Up’s website and use a...

In today’s episode, I flew solo to talk about the fact that it is a brand new year 2025 and I also decided to not only talk about some of my resolutions and goals and dreams and so many other things that I have planned and going on for 2025 I decided to reflect on the past year 2024 all the amazing memories I made the resolutions I made And all the things that happened and all the fun amazing memo...