Burke Allen's Big Time Talker Podcast — by SpeakerMatch

From 1967-83, Legendary Harlem Globetrotter Nate Branch entertained millions of fans on basketball courts around the world, television variety shows, guest appearances with the 'Trotters on television programs, and his likeness was even featured in some of the day's most popular Hanna-Barbera cartoons (Nate was "Fluid-Man", and voiced by none other than Scatman Crothers!) Along with his legendary...

In Calvin Fisher’s “Northfield”, clouds of neon death have suffocated the earth’s surface for over a decade. When Mark Northfield gets blackmailed in this world into an assassination mission, his only choices are to accept his own execution or corrupt himself forever.  Find out more about “Northfield” and author Calvin Fisher online at https://calvinfishermedia.com/ And, be sure to subscribe to th...

Today's Big Time Talker podcast (powered by Speakermatch.com) guest is Chip Rowan, the head honcho at the amazing Beautiful Rainbow Cafe, an award-winning vocational training program of the Gadsden AL City Schools...and one of the cities best lunch spots! Its mission is to use innovative strategies to enable adolescents and young adults with significant cognitive disabilities to acquire employment...

Today's Big Time Talker guest is Vanessa Otero, the creator of the Media Bias Chart, the viral image that prompted many lively discussions around the internet about where people get their news. In addition to being a practicing patent attorney, Vanessa is the head of Ad Fontes Media, fulfilling the need revealed by the popularity of the Media Bias Chart—the need for an easy-to-understand, reliable...

Going on the road with a bunch of talented musicians isn’t all glitz and glamour, says today's Big Time Talker guest Paul Abraham, but a more enjoyable job would be hard to find. Paul takes us behind the scenes, offering intimate details of the kind of life a roadie or a musician leads.  Having grown up in the Mississippi Delta, the Birthplace of the Blues, Paul’s interest in music flourished and...

Dr. Carole Lieberman's multi-dimensional career as an internationally renowned "Media Psychiatrist" is always leading edge! On TV, Radio and the Internet, in Film and Print,, Dr. Carole's insights help people seize the moment to live happier, more fulfilling lives. Emmy nominated as the talk show host of "Dr. Carole's Couch". Dr. Lieberman analyzes the psychological impact of world events, as a gu...

The U.S. has administered more than 4.2 million coronavirus vaccine doses but is lagging behind several other countries as hospitalizations continue to surge following the holidays. The federal government had repeatedly promised 20 million people would have received their first shots by the end of the year; they didn't come close. Dean Fanelli, Ph. D., a vaccine expert and an expert on pharmaceuti...

Author Kevin Miller's new book "White Skies, Black Mingo" is set in the 1800s, as a young Native American girl from the Ohio Seneca tribe flees an epidemic with her mother and grandmother and after being orphaned, ends up in the darkest hours of the Civil War. The book is a fascinating read based on author Kevin D. Miller's family history, and he joins us as a special guest on this edition of the...

Filipino singer Arnel Pineda landed his dream job as the lead vocalist for the iconic band Journey after someone sent the band a YouTube video of Arnel belting out a Journey hit in a karaoke bar.  He was soon given an audition for the job, and the rest is history. Now, 14 years later, Arnel continues in his role with Journey, while also pursuing an active solo career. And, due to the pandemic, he'...

Don McLeod has made a very good living, for a very long time, doing very strange things.  But he does them in a place that rewards that sort of behavoir, Hollywood.  You've probably seen Don in a movie, TV show or commercial but just didn't know it...first he was a top mime, touring the world with Diana Ross as part of her show (!). Then, he wore a $30,000 gorilla suit in dozens of movies, TV show...

Musician, singer, songwriter and producer Ron Sowell set out to be an attorney. He was even the president of his student body in college...but then music took him away on a lifetime journey. Now, he's the Musical Director for NPR's "Mountain Stage", heard on almost 300 radio stations nationwide each week and he's performed with the biggest artists on the planet. Hear his amazing life story, which...

How many of us wish we could get a do-over for 2020? Richard Battle can give you a much-needed shot of optimism as we head into the holidays and then 2021.  Richard is the award-winning and Amazon best-selling author of six previous books including his latest Navigating Life's Journey-Common Sense in Uncommon Times, along with Conquering Life’s Course,Unwelcome Opportunity, The Four-Letter Word Th...

The West Virginia Music Hall of Fame induction telecast happens Saturday, November 14th at 7pm ET on West Virginia Public Television and online at www.wvpublic.org.   Hall of Fame Executive Director Michael Lipton gives us the lowdown on this year's inductees, his favorite part of being associated with the Hall Of Fame, playing in the Mountain Stage house band and lots more. If you're a music fan,...

Today's guest on the Big Time Talker Podcast powered by Speakermatch.com is Abigail Child, who has been at the vanguard of experimental media since the 1980s. In her latest project, she offers viewers an eerie and exciting look into the present and future of artificial intelligence through the perspectives of robotics scientists, entrepreneurs, and even a Black lesbian robot named BINA48. Explorin...

Open Hydrant Theater Company @ The Point's mission is to maintain an ensemble-based theater company in the densely populated, yet under-served, Hunt's Point community of the South Bronx. Their purpose is to produce yearly seasons of creative works based largely on, but not limited to, non-traditional, interactive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays, as well as other literary classics and work by...

Actor Chris Ellis first burst on the scene in the film DAYS OF THUNDER, and since then he's appeared in dozens of Hollywood blockbusters and dozens more hit television series. Get his behind the scenes stories about working with Tom Cruise, Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Garner of lots more! Find out which movie cast still has lunch together every Thursday 25 years after filming wrapped on their...

It's the Seventh Year of the Tribulation, and the world is in ruins. Christianity has all but disappeared, except for small bands of believers who are hiding, surviving — and waiting for the Second Coming. That's the premise behind the new end times action/adventure mini-series "The Dark," now streaming on Pure Flix and also available at Amazon. Big Time Talker podcast pal Kevin Sizemore (Pastor P...

The music and live event industry has been affected dramatically by the pandemic. Live entertainment worldwide is down 90% since March, putting hundreds of thousands of entertainers and behind-the-scenes workers on the sidelines. We talk with industry insider Jack Forman, President of Manhattan-based booking agency BiCoastal Productions about the state of the live entertainment industry, what will...

R&B singer/songwriter Theo Peoples has an amazing story to tell; he's the only singer to ever be a member of two of the most legendary vocal groups of all time: the Temptations AND the Four Tops!  Theo dishes about how that happened, what life is like singing with music legends, his famous wedding guests, singing at the Superbowl, dueting with Aretha Franklin, writing a hit song on the Tempts...

Diana Hart is well known to fans of pro wrestling. She comes from what is arguably the most famous wrestling family of all time, the Harts...and her romantic novel series takes place in that rough-and-tumble world that she knows like few others. We talk with Diana about the famous and not-so-famous folks she grew up around, the amazing way she was raised in a family filled with pro wrestlers, her...

The Big Time Talkers Podcast welcomes political satirist and author Tanner T. Roberts to our microphones from his home in Houston, Texas. Tanner graduated from Texas A&M in 2013 with a B.S. in Economics and released his debut book, Dumb Politics: The Political Rhetoric and Blissful Ignorance of a Generation, in 2019. It reached number one on Amazon's new release lists for several weeks and rec...

Jorma Kaukonen is our guest on today's encore presentation of the Big Time Talker podcast powered by Speakermatch.com!   Jorma is an American music icon-a founding member of Jefferson Airplane who still tours with Airplane member Jack Casady in Hot Tuna, which started as a Jefferson Airplane side project 50 years ago. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jorma was ranked by Rolling Stone ma...

Our Big Time Talker podcast guest is Melanie Choukas-Bradley is a Washington, DC author and naturalist who leads field trips, tree tours and forest bathing walks for the Audobon Naturalist Society, U.S. Botanic Garden, the Smithsonian, Rock Creek Conservancy, the Nature Conservancy, Politics and Prose, the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and other organizations.    Melanie’s newest book is...

MONEY MACHINE tells the story of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history when Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more during a country music festival in Las Vegas.   We chat with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ramsey Dennison about Paddock's motivations, the massive coverups after the shooting, and how the shooting victims and the families of those killed got ripped off in...

As a small-town Southern WV lawyer, L. Scott Briscoe has seen, and heard some pretty amazing things. He posts the most outrageous courtroom shenanigans on his "Free Legal Tips" social media blog. Now, he's going viral with over 50,000 views to his page, a Reader's Digest feature article and an upcoming book on the way!  Scott shares some of the biggest, craziest and funniest things he's seen and h...