At Least It'll Be a Good Story with Peter von Kahle

Sam Pyo spent a flight from Athens to Rome (with Peter present) convinced the man behind him was a terrorist. I told him he wasn't. Then Italian authorities arrested the guy in the Rome airport, in front of both of us, holding his mug shot on a piece of paper. We recorded this in a trailer in the woods in Grayling, Michigan, and it's mostly about a documentary shoot in Greece where nothing turned...

Tom Pounder was Peter's youth pastor at Cedar Run Community Church starting in 2003. He's still one of Peter's closest friends, which is what this episode is actually about — when did the kid you were trying to keep out of trouble become the friend you grab sushi with every month? Tom and Peter go deep on the Seinfeld-inspired driving range break-in (which Tom, it turns out, worked at), the infamo...

Adam Henry had 31 jobs before he turned 26. Now he's a sheriff's deputy training new recruits and he's hoping this one sticks. Adam is a friend from book club. We've known each other for years and I still learned more about him in this conversation than I had in all that time combined. We get into all of it - the Christmas tree farm, the overnight call center, getting his tie cut in half on his fi...

Peter's little sister Claire is a licensed therapist — which means this episode was always going to turn into a session. Within the first two minutes, they're debating whether an Instagram therapist named Shannon knows what her handle looks like to the rest of the internet. From there it's childhood chaos (the Von Kahle kids once taped every doorway in the house and called it Tape Day), their dad'...

Melanie Tatum was a Baltimore Ravens cheerleader - not once, but twice - and she never tells anyone. I'm not even sure how I found out about it. She was a gymnast her whole life who thought she had no chance of making an NFL cheerleading roster but wanted to give it a try. So she taught herself to fly. Went to grad school. Then she taught herself to dance. And she made the cheer team both times on...

A Job with Less Stress with Eric Robinson Eric Robinson spent 12 years in Christian ministry — youth pastor, associate pastor, church planter — before telling his wife he needed a job with less stress. So he joined the FBI. For 24 years, Eric worked drug cartels in Chicago, SWAT operations across the Midwest, crimes against children, white collar fraud, counter-terrorism, and everything in between...

Paul Granger hasn't received a paycheck since 2018. He has a wife, kids, a mortgage, and a 1905 house that was the least energy efficient thing one inspector had ever seen — and he does full-time volunteer ministry with no salary. Peter sits down with Paul to find out how that actually works, and some of the answers don't have explanations. They get into the stories behind God's creative provision...

Peter sits down with longtime friend Ryan Day — writer, sports journalist, and the man who got Flagler College on Facebook. They cover Ryan's journey from starting a Capitals Twitter account to writing for SB Nation's Big Cat Country, the time NFL security called him about a tweet, how getting suspended in 10th grade turned him into a drummer, spending a week living homeless for a college journali...

What happens when a kid who failed algebra becomes a firefighter - and a viral musician on the side? Caleb Mitchell sits down with Peter von Kahle to share his unconventional journey from summer school to first responder, storyteller, and musical artist chasing dreams on 10 days off a month. This conversation goes deep. Caleb opens up about barely passing high school, discovering purpose through f...