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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 take 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 t...

"Waco" is one of Netflix's most-watched shows in the shelter-in-place days of spring and summer of 2020. The story of the FBI's standoff with the Branch Davidians is based in part on "Stalling For Time", the memoir of longtime FBI hostage negotiation head Gary Noesner. Gary's book served as part of the source material for the min-series, and he was on set during the filming (Gary was portrayed by...

You probably know Donny Most for his iconic role as Ralph Malph on the TV classic Happy Days, but in his long Hollywood career, he's done lots more cool stuff! From TV shows like Glee to roles in movies and theater, to a successful stint singing and swinging the standards from the Great Amerian Songbook, Donny is one of the good guys in Hollywood, and he's got some terrific stories to tell! Visit...

The Team Choices Summer Summit is happening every Thursday in August at 3pm ET on YouTube!  It's jam-packed with short bursts of master motivation...real talk for students and others who need the boost in this very challenging 2020! You can find out more about the event here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=-Icf8vjc_S8&feature=emb_logo  It's totally FREE, and you can regis...

Today's Big Time Talker podcast guest Jeff Weber has been a widely recognized music industry professional for forty years. He has produced over 200 albums with releases on just about every major label as well as a host of independent labels. Along the way, his projects have yielded two Grammys, seven Grammy nominations, at least seventeen top ten albums, two number one albums, and an assortment of...

The Big Time Talker Podcast powered by Speakermatch welcomes Mountain Stage host and artistic director Larry Groce to the show! Larry has been with Mountain Stage since its beginning in 1983. His taste and personality have helped set the tone of this long-running radio show. Larry was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1948 and attended Adamson High School in the Oak Cliff section of that city. It was appa...

Today's guest is Dave Damiani, a New Jersey-born singer, songwriter, and producer now based out of Los Angeles, CA. Having started as a bartender at the famed CHARLIE O'S JAZZ CLUB in Valley Village, CA, Dave Damiani had the opportunity to work, learn and become friends with some of the best musicians on the planet. Legends like Earl Palmer, Marty Harris, Ross Tompkins, Sam Most, Teddy Edwards, Jo...

Today's Big Time Talker podcast guest is Stacey O’Byrne, and she wears many hats-mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, proud US Army Veteran, Success Strategist, Change Maker, Game Changer, Transformational Specialist and a Success Creator.  Stacey is also the author of the book Secrets to Becoming a Master Networker. Stacey is also there co-author of Messages that Matter and Savvy Women – Revving Up Fo...

Mitch McCracken is the foremost Memphis musiciologist; from Elvis to Al Green, Sun to Stax, Mitch has the insider track to the biggest names in Memphic music.  He's an author,  broadcaster, podcaster and most of all, a fan of the music and musicians from Memphis that make up the soundtrack of our lives.  Visit him online at www.mitchmccracken.org.  The Big Time Talker podcast is available at iTune...

Today's podcast guest Clint James is an actor known for Mine 9, The Magnificent Seven, Chicago Med and Fear The Walking Dead. He's a United States Air Force veteran of 9 years who served in the U.S and Europe. In August of 2002 he left the military to pursue his acting career full time. Clint resides in Queens, New York. We talk about his time in the service, his daughter Jesse Ray James (named af...

There are special forces. There are U.S. Navy SEALs. There is the select and secretive group of highly trained operators known as SEAL Team Six or MOB VI as they like to call it...and then there is Justin Sheffield.  When it comes to talking about the most experienced, effective, and deadly warriors in the world, Sheffield is part of an exclusive group that can be counted on one hand. None have se...

There are numerous super-session musicians in Nashville, but very few with the longevity of West Virginia native Charlie McCoy. In addition to being a fixture in Nashville studios for over five decades, he has recorded almost 40 solo albums, and served as the music director for eighteen years for the syndicated television series, “Hee Haw”. Charlie became one of the in-demand session players in Na...

Jorma Kaukonen is our guest on today's 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 magazine as one of the 50 gre...

Christopher Munch is one of the most respected indy filmmakers working in Hollywood, and his new movie The 11th Green just might blow your mind, with it's talk of extraterrestrial visitors, Barack Obama fever dreams featuring conversations with Dwight Eisenhower about UFO's, a conspiracy theory journalist on their trail and more. The Chicago Sun-Times Richard Roeper digs it, but suggests a pot bro...

Leith Burke co-stars in the new Christopher Munch indy film "The 11th Green" as a very Obama-like president who comes face-to-face with extraterrestrials and the ghost of Dwight Eisenhower while still looking cool in the middle of the chaos! We talk with him about the life of a working actor, his latest Emmy nominated role, his love for theater, getting back to work post-pandemic and lots more! Ch...

Economist and author Mark Thornton from the Mises Institute on the campus of Auburn University weighs in on the Big Time Talker Podcast powered by Speakermatch on the post-pandemic economic forecast. With record unemployment, businesses, and families reeling with losses and political and racial upheaval, things look grim, but Mark says there are some positives if you look hard enough for them. All...

The Big Time Talker Podcast powered by Speakermatch welcomes C. Becker, former medical technologist, educator, and author of Finding Euphoria to the show to give parents hope to persevere through the rampant drug epidemic hitting the nation. The drug epidemic has touched many teenagers’ social circles, many to unaware parents. Other parents wish they were oblivious. Parents of children trapped in...

Jonathan Jakubowski joins us to talk politics on this Big Time Talker podcast, powered by Speakermatch! Jon's new book Bellwether Blues-A Conservative Awakening of the Millennial Soul is already on its second printing and is striking a chord with conservatives everywhere. The book has received kudos from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, the Rush Limbaugh Show, and more for it's common sense approach at...

We have all been impacted by COVID-19 on both personal and work levels. Many millions of people have lost their jobs, income, and businesses, been diagnosed with the virus, or lost loved ones. There are very few degrees of separation between us and someone we know who has suffered personally in some significant way. Our hearts go out to these people and we’ll work together for a quick economic rec...

Today's guest is Grace Allison Blair , an award-winning self-help and motivational author, and podcast host, who has assisted thousands to find their spiritual wisdom to solve everyday challenges. Throughout her adult life, Grace became a serious student of the spiritual. She found that, often, psychological principles and practices were incomplete, but could be filled out by adding the missing sp...

Raised in the hills and forests of West Virginia, one of Karl L. Stewart's first memories was of writing poetry for his mother. Much later, following a stint in the US Army Special Forces during the late Sixties, Stewart graduated from the UW-Madison in 1972 with a double major in Political Science and History. Then, following a career teaching high school, he returned to his first love, writing....

Danny Boyd has done just about everything in the creative space. He's been an award-winning documentary filmmaker, written and directed three feature films, released graphic novels, collaborated on musical theatre adaptations of his movies, and now is about to release his first children's book!  The Fulbright scholar has wandered the globe from far-flung outposts including Tanzania and Belize but...

Dreama Denver is an award-winning author, actress, radio personality and the wife of late "Gilligan's Island' Star Bob Denver. We talk about their 30 years together, Dreama's award-winning new children's book and all points in between. Don't miss this episode of the Big Time Talker Podcast, powered by Speakermatch.com on the Blog Talk Radio Network. Please remember to subscribe at iTunes.com, Stit...

The Big Time Talker Podcast is sponsored by Speakermatch, the United States largest online speakers bureau. We thought it would be good to check in with Speakermatch CEO Bryan Caplovitz to see what happens when all the conferences and venues where speakers do presentations get shuttered by a global pandemic; how are speakers and planners adapting online, is it working, how are contracts being hand...

What is the role and responsibility of journalists in the midst of a global pandemic, historic unemployment and racial unrest rocking the foundation of America, all at once? A former small-town publisher and university professor of journalism, and raised in a newspaper family, Tony Hylton fully understands the responsibility to use freedom of the press to hold public officials accountable. "The Fi...