Why Am I Podcast

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Tawny Lara.  She is a child of two worlds; one is as a rock and roll California kid and one as a journalist from my ultra conservative hometown of Waco Texas.  Somewhere in all of it she lost herself in the bar sc...

Welcome to the warmup exercise for the Why Am I podcast called “the Fantasy Restaurant.” In here my guests get to pick their favorite: drink, appetizer, main, sides, and dessert…anything goes. I learned a lot during this meal…we drink Mudgee Mud and Man Salad…yeah, I had no idea what it was either. It’s not the craziest meal, but it is…interesting. I think I could get down with it, and hopefully I...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Craig Coombes.  I’m going to rip the bandaid off…Craig has terminal cancer.  Everyday is a struggle for this guy in ways most of us will never understand.  Rather than sit on his ass and do nothing, he prefers to...

Welcome to the warmup exercise for the Why Am I podcast called “the Fantasy Restaurant.”  In here my guests get to pick their favorite: drink, appetizer, main, sides, and dessert…anything goes.  Woody has a simple pallet and he says “he’s not a foodie”...until we hit dessert that is 🙂  I hope you enjoy this meal with Woody. Please show them some love on their socials here: ⁠https://www.woodyshtic...

Welcome to the warmup exercise for the Why Am I podcast called “the Fantasy Restaurant.”  In here my guests get to pick their favorite: drink, appetizer, main, sides, and dessert…anything goes.  Spencer builds a good’un with some Joe Joes that take me back to when I was 16, broke, and working at a grocery store LOL.  I hope you enjoy this meal with Spencer.  Please share this with a friend and hel...

Welcome to the warmup exercise for the Why Am I podcast called “the Fantasy Restaurant.” In here my guests get to pick their favorite: drink, appetizer, main, sides, and dessert…anything goes. I could not be more pleased with Bill’s m night shyamalan twist. We start with a whisky and then completely pivot away from food, and on to my favorite subject, people. I hope you enjoy the atmosphere and gu...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Bill Hammack.  You may not recognize his name, but you will never forget his voice…he is the “Engineer Guy.”  Bill is a multi discipline engineer, a professor, an author/contributor to many books, a radio broadcas...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Rob Lawless, or as I like to refer to him(a younger, better looking Greg).  Rob is on an adventure to make 10K friends. This mission is so important that he quit the rat race to pursue it full time, and after seve...

Welcome to the warmup exercise for the Why Am I podcast called “the Fantasy Restaurant.”  In here my guests get to pick their favorite: drink, appetizer, main, sides, and dessert…anything goes.  Chuck orders everything…and I do mean everything LOL.  I mean, most of it is good, so why not go hog wild in the “whadever you like” restaurant. Please share and help us grow! Please show them some love on...

Welcome to the warmup exercise for the Why Am I podcast called “the Fantasy Restaurant.” In here my guests get to pick their favorite: drink, appetizer, main, sides, and dessert…anything goes. Catherine came prepared…with notes. It appears she does nothing by half measures. I enjoyed this simple meal and I, obviously, agree that everything is better with coconut LOL. I hope you enjoy this meal wit...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Catherine King.  I found her via her work as a sign language interpreter for some of the biggest european comedians out there, and in particular a bit where she was signing crazy phrases with various accents…it’s...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Michael Vasconez.  Mike started out as a fighter, so the Marines felt natural to him.  Unfortunately, dealing with your trama isn’t what they teach you…quite the opposite, they teach you to squash it to survive. ...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Caleb Boylei from Boylei Hobby Time.  First this dude stays busy, I think I’ve been chasing him for the better part of a year, but as with most things persistence pays off LOL.  Caleb is a wildly successful youtub...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Mather Zickel.  He’s a professional actor who started life in NYC, and with multiple tries, finally made the migration to LA.  He’s started in theater, and as expected moved to TV, and movies; he’s actually been a...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Chuck McCarthy.  He’s somewhat hard to describe; he’s worked in the film industry both in Atlanta and LA, he’s a prolific artist, something of a serial entrepreneur, a TEDx alumni, children’s book author, and a fo...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Greg Olijnyk(Oh-lean-ick).  During the day he’s a graphic designer, and at night he’s meticulously creating the most marvelous little scifi worlds out of cardboard and a scalpel.  Some of these intricate pieces ta...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Nikki Vasconez.  She is a lawyer turned pet psychic…yep, you heard me correctly.  She  regularly connects with clients pets to communicate things, from what makes a pet happy to what might be making them sick.  On...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Scott Longert.  He’s first and foremost, obsessed with baseball.  He’s written several books that chronicle the lives and times of ball players to give folks today the sense of what these people were like in the e...

Welcome to the warmup exercise for the Why Am I podcast called “the Fantasy Restaurant.”  In here my guests get to pick their favorite: drink, appetizer, main, sides, and dessert…anything goes.  The Coldspot team does quite well, even with me throwing them some curveballs.  This is the first time I’ve had three people in the restaurant, so I was worried the kitchen would have trouble keeping up, b...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is actually a team, the Coldspot Paranormal Investigators, which is composed of Josh, Jamey, and Aleca.  I found this trio via their podcast, Paranormal Peeps, but what has me most interested is their “shor...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Spencer Mirabal.  He’s made films, played steel drums for an Xmas album, done screen writing, poetry, published a chapbook, podcasting(about Murder She Wrote), and has a spoken work album.  Spencer...

Welcome to the warmup exercise for the Why Am I podcast called “the Fantasy Restaurant.”  In here my guests get to pick their favorite: drink, appetizer, main, sides, and dessert…anything goes.  Scott read the brief, then he said “How about we do it live.”  I can tell you this is the most fun I’ve had in the Fantasy Restaurant ever, and I can’t wait for you to enjoy this fly by the...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Scott Wiener.  This dude is pizza personified.  He has been running a pizza tour business in NYC since 2008 called Scott’s Pizza Tours.  This guy is live, and spontaneous as everything he does...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Marianne Apostolides.  She’s a long time writer, not author, who has several interesting books.  Marianne is a deep thinker who brings philosophy into her work where she tries to explore what her bo...

Hey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today.  My guest this go around is Woody Shticks.  Woody is a self described comedy stripper and Queer with a capital Q.  He grew up in a puritan religious community…with this in mind he learned to advocate for himself and then begin...