American Inexperience

We're back! Will joined us this week and brought along his friend David Sonney. David is a military veteran and has some awesome stories to tell about some of his military experience and dodging bullets when he arrived back in the States. We tell some stories, talk local "dive bars", and discuss the new Metaverse coming to a reality near you! Had a great time getting to know David a...

What an F1 season! Our F1 expert, Ben is here to go over the thrilling season finale in Abu Dhabi. 

We're back after taking a little break over Thanksgiving. This week Ashley Carter is back and she has taken over the American Inexperience. Ashley asked our friend and professional equestrian, Katie Stewart-Siwicki to come on the show and talk all about riding horses. Ashley has recently gotten back on a horse after not riding for many years. Katie and her dad have welcomed her back to R. Ste...

Ben is back and fresh off his trip to Austin, Texas for the US Grand Prix F1 race! Ben is quickly becoming the show's F1 Expert and we're talking all things going on currently with the 2021 F1 season as it winds to a close. We talked a little about our afternoon golfing a few months back, shortening major league baseball games, and making nascar races shorter. But, most of all we talked...

My good friend Ryan comes by this week. Ryan owns Sackett Flooring in Kalamazoo and has also been involved in the IT field for a long time. We talk a bit about his career both past and present, but decided we had probably sit down and talk about our poor luck deer hunting this season, especially after I had a bad miss a few weeks back on a good buck. Ryan also recently got back from an elk hunt in...

We're back! This week we had Tyler Hassing come by after a long hiatous from the show. Tyler not only showed up but brought his long time friend Luke Krick on with him. Luke owns Shelbyville Garage in Shelbyville, Michigan. He does a lot of racing and is looking forward to fielding a template late model stock car for the 2022 season. We told lots of stories and had a lot of laughs. It was gre...

We're back with Greg Brettin this week. Greg works in IT and cyber security. Unfortuantely due to some government security clearance issues that the American Inexperience doesnt have, we couldn't get quite in depth as I hoped we would. But Greg filled us in as best as he could. On top of that, he has been building a Nissan 370z and learning every skill needed as he goes. Its an impressiv...

We're back! Not only are we back, but we've finally got "Jim the Pilot" on the show! Jim is a graduate of, and currently a flight instructor for Western Michigan's School of Aviation. We are talking all about air travel. We talk a little about Jim's interests and hobbies, his flight training, and we hit him with the hard questions like where does the airplane lavitory...

We're back this week with the one and only Chris Merry. Chris is fresh off making the fastest passes in his twin turbo G8 ever! We figured it was only fitting to have him on and talk all about it. We get into talking about some current events and probably show just how little we know about what is actually going on in this great nation of ours. It's always good catching up with Chris! Co...

Will is back with me this week on the show. We talk a little bit about work, my struggles truck shopping, current sporting events with post season baseball upon us, football started back up, and Bubba Wallace's big win at Talladega! We also talk about The Bob and Tom morning radio show and a funny story from Josh Arnold about his alias in college.  This week's show is brought to you by F...

After months of trying to line up our schedules, I was finally able to have my good friend Ben on the show. I convinced him to come on by telling him we would talk about racing so that's what we did. We talked F1, NASCAR, golf, and gambling. Always good a good time!

Mason and Megan Young came all the way from North Carolina last week and spent some time here with us in Michigan. We traveled up to Mackinac Island and then onto the Upper Peninsula and visited Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Tahquamenon Falls, and White Fish Point. We got to spend some time together in Kalamazoo and luckly got to catch day one of Hotrod Magazine's Drag Week event at US13...

Travis Ridenour came by this week to talk motocross! Travis is big into motorcycles and dirtbikes. He's host of The Moto Aftermath Podcast and owner of TLR Coatings in Kalamazoo. Find him @travisridenour on instagram and check out tlrcoatings.com and @tlrcoatings on Instagram and Facebook. And for all you motocross fans and riders, check out the Moto Aftermath Show on all major podcast platfo...

We're back! After a busy couple weeks, we had the opportunity to sit down with Jared Fulton, Chris Merry, and of course Matt is back too. Jared co-owns Freedom Firearms in Battle Creek, Michigan with his brother. He also co-owns the Cricket Club bar in downtown Battle Creek, Swonk's Flowers and Gifts in Battle Creek, and Michigan Tackle in Battle Creek. To top it all off, he's also...

Long time friend, Benjamin Dykstra came out and sat down with us to talk about what is going on across the used car market and car sales in general. Ben has spent his career selling cars for dealerships, eventually moving into management positons, and recently leaving all of that to develope his own business training dealers and other people in car sales. He has also started a business buying used...

Kaj Carlson and Corey Lucas come on the podcast this week and we talk duck hunting. Kaj is one of the only guys I know who is an avid duck hunter. So, when I messaged him about doing a podcast about ducks, I was super excited when he agreed to come on the show, and man, he did not disappoint. Best part is he brought a complete stranger, Corey Lucas. Corey runs Cedar Run Decoys and hand crafts some...

Tyler and Jessica came by to talk about their recent trip to the Pike's Peak International Hill Climb race. We also talk about Tyler's big win in the True Street 10.0 class with his Mustang a few weeks back at the NMRA/NMCA race here at our home track US131 Motorsports Park. Don't worry, it isn't all about racing though, we briefly discuss Hotwheels cars and other toys that two...

Our good friend, engineer, and cool car guy Mike comes on the podcast. Mike is an engineer for a consulting firm here in Kalamazoo. He's a wealth of knowledge and has all kinds of really cool experience. He spends a lot of time road racing his Nissan 300zx and has also raced competivily in the 24 Hours of Lemons series for many years now. Good time sitting down with Mike tonight and talking c...

A quick trip to Charlotte, North Carolina this past weekend to hang out with our good friend Mason, see a couple awesome bands, and drive a truck home to Michigan. Mason and I sat down Saturday afternoon and talked about a number of things including: Mason and his wife's recent trip to Alaska, Etsy, Amazon, racing, music and much more. We even had another first time guest call into the Podcas...

Trevor Tracy is a husband, father, coffee aficionado, and before this podcast....a complete stranger! Trevor works in hospitality managing a coffee shop and cafe in downtown Kalamazoo . He knows coffee, and knows it well! I was hopeful going in that I'd learn something new, and Trevor didn't disappoint. He has a wealth of knowledge of the coffee industry and the hospitality industry. Sup...

We've been back from our trip to South Dakota for a few weeks. We finally got some time to sit down with our friend Matt Mihm and talk about our trip. I talk about my successful turkey hunt the week before we left as well. Our travels imspired a lot of thoughts on the Black Hills area, the land, the natural beauty, and the Lakota people who call this area home. We ponder some thoughts about p...

Back from a week of vacation and with an awesome episode! Chris Merry came back this week and brought his long time friend, tattoo artist Art Solis. Right away I knew we were in for a great time and lots of laughs! Art is an extremely talented artist who has done everything from airbrushing t-shirts to building insane custom motorcycles, and now spends his days tattooing. It was a lot of fun leari...

Ashley and I loaded up the car and headed West for a very special episode live from Omaha, Nebraska. We had a great time visiting some long -time family friends Jamie and Kathy. We spent the day touring the town of Omaha and seeing quite a few things it had to offer. Excited to get back! 

Chris and Matt come by the podcast once again. We talk a bit about Matt's new business venture and get some updates from Chris on his recent shoulder surgery. We talk a little music and going to concerts which turns to complaining about current COVID restrictions and the hope of getting back to normal. Probably should have just called this one "Shooting the Sh*t with Jake"!

The second half of our conversation with Jessie and Tyler goes a little deeper into Jessie's world. Moving to Michigan, not wanting to sleep in the race car trailer, and swimming with manatees in Florida. Thanks for listening!