The Maté Experience

Enjoy this episode with Jarod Hartter, and hear what makes a firefighter run into a fire.

This is one for the birds. Join us, along with Jacob and Silas Rassi, and hear about birds, watching birds, listening to birds, making lists of birds. In short all things birds.

The Maté Experience sits down with pilot Tyler Grimm in Ep. 19 to explore the wonders of flight. But unexpected topics distract us, the international dateline, Jared monologues about reality, and so on.

For Episode 18 we sit down with Aaron Hertzel. Aaron gives us the rare opportunity to delve into his experience with a DUI, and all the ways it has continued to affect his life.

Join us along with serial guest Thomas Beer as well as Evan Mogler making a debut appearance. Hear about the big city of Philadelphia, refugees, art, and all other happenings in the world of Thomas.

Join us in the 16th Episode of Season 3, along with returning Guest Jacob Klopfenstein, to discuss how Hard Work effects our lives.

The 15th Ep. of Season 3 finds us on the road to a small town in the Midwest. Join us in a conversation with Cody Lanus, and hear about how life has dumped him in West Bend Iowa. After years in Federal Prison, next door to his brother William Kuhn. Find all the details of that experience, spiritual, physical, and emotional, right here on The Maté Experience.

Jared and Fritz sit down and catch up in a guestless episode. Topics range from Marcus Aurelius to the Lockheed CL-1201.

In this closing Episode of Fritz's time in Antarctica, we join him, for his last day on the Ice. And then fly north with him to Christchurch. Where the sun sets everyday and rises in the morning, where one can experience rain, and the smell of green grass, back to the real world.

In our second edition of the Rooftop Roundtable, we are joined by four young men from the East. Hear what Anchor, Jacob, Alex, and Eli have to say. Both roof oriented and non roof oriented.

In this standard bi-weekly Episode we turn to the South Pole. Join us to visit with Adam Yurkiewitz in the dead of winter at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Hear about his work there, the ice tunnels, and of course the weather.

In this special off week edition of The Maté Experience. We interview a large group of volunteers from a local roofing project. To learn more about this and meet our guest's, listen to the first edition of the Rooftop Roundtable series.

Some people live in the same place all there lives, literally in the house they were raised in. And then there are others that pick up and move thousands of miles. Learn a new language, and send there lives down a whole different pathway. Meet Gardy Moreau, a man born in Haiti, raised in Brooklyn, and now living in Connecticut. Join us for Episode 11 of Season 3 and hear how such a path plays out...

Episode 10 brings Monika Fehr and returning Guest Ty Strahm, in another unprecedented double appearance. In this multifaceted episode Monika and Ty discuss the different aspects of being adopted, and how it effects there lives. (Monika would like to note she can pronounce reciprocity)

In a double guest appearance Sarah Rokey and Alyssa Strahm join us for the 9th episode of Season three. Italy, the Colosseum, Venice, the Dolomites, and even Austria. Hear all about it, and more, in this extra long episode.

Join us for a unique interview with husband and wife Addison and Carla Metzger. In the age of online dating, hooking up, and breaking up. The Metzger's give us an inside look at how they moved past all of this by trusting in God, stick around and immerse yourself in their experience with Faith Marriage.

Thomas Beer joins us as a returning guest, to discuss school. Public school, Private school, Homeschool, or the lack thereof.

Jonny Tomic Joins us from Ohio, along with Justin Steiner, Silas Cottrel, and Braxton Martin. Jonny Tomic has various thoughts and theory's, about life, religion, and the broader universe. Listen and find out what they are.

You may know Jarod Hartter the Fireman. But have you met the one who went to Africa? Join us as we travel to Kenya with Jarod, along with Danny Lehman. Music Credit, Dreamers by Jungkook

After months of working his way south, to the very bottom of the Earth. This episode finds Fritz turning Northward.

Join us for a last minute discussion that has turned into Episode 3 of our 3rd season. Willpower is the illusive yet desirable trait of our focus.

Already 2025 has brought us to Episode 2 of our 3rd season. Excited to join us is Ethan Moser all the way from the eastern seaboard. Ethan gives us a personal account of his quest for purpose in life.

Season 3 of the Maté Experience opens with a visit from Aaron Calhoun. Aaron a recent graduate of West Point, shares his experience in getting appointed to this long running Army officer school. As well as pursuing a career as an Army Diver.

Isaac Hartzler joins from Ohio and helps us wrap up Season two of The Maté Experience. And to share a few laughs over Calvin and Hobbes, and other childhood (and adult) comic memories.

As 2024 nears enters its last days, Blake Gay joins us from the capital city. In an informal sit-down, Jared and Blake compare their childhoods, and beyond.