Garland Pepper presents.

Eric Ross is a shy man, but a passionate man.  Hanging out with Eric is full of adventure.  and we have had many, from skating to bicycling, hiking and Rocking to just hanging out.   Eric is passionate about Music most of all, he has followed his passions for Skating, Bikes, Surfing, and music down deep rabbit holes.  We talk about #Scottishgames #JohnHenryRoss #Caber #tos...

I met Zaidi in California and have known Zaidi for thirty years but became much closer when he moved to Klamath Falls from Hawaii.  My job would take me to K -Falls and i would hang out with Zaidi and his family in their Geo thermal heated home in Klamath Falls Oregon.  There are no falls in Klamath Falls T hat being said this is a great conversation between two friends that spans the oc...

Tim was more than gracious to accept the first show in the morning and do the show that night.  I went into the talk assuming that Tim had chosen the Stage only side of acting. He has acted in films and one that is out now and streaming.  the film is called Burn Country and Stars Dominic Rains, Melissa Leo, James Franco, Rachael Brosnahan, Thomas Ryan and Tim Kniffin.  We explore the world of Jerz...

Michael is a musician with a rock pedigree that includes an uncle in Hawkwind a band with members like Ginger Baker and Lemmy.  Michael and his brother carry on the family tradition and start the band LAC they move up in the world and get a contract with Warner Music Group.  On thier way up Michael looses it all and ends up serving time.  This is the story of recovery and redemption...

The Women in Business Series has been so much fun.  It has been inspiring and a blessing to hear these stories of creativity and perseverance.  Evann is an ambitious woman up for the challenge of improving the food children eat.  Fresh and Local is the brand and it is not always easy to keep to the core principles, but they guide the mission and keep it moving the right direction. &...

Who is Tim Kniffin?  That depends on which night you see him.  Tim is an amazing actor and has done the deep work to be a master at his craft.  Tim really loves acting it is his life purpose.  His film credits are many  including Burn Country, Adjunct, Marvelous Mrs Maisle, Parallel, Chance, ,Without Words, Trauma, and many others.  The thing I really love about talki...

Some people go their own way.  They must create they must perform, and they are unable to conform anymore.  Liv grew up a preachers daughter and there is a whole lot of conformity in that world, and she conformed for the most part all the way through Williams College graduation in which George Bush told the class to follow their dreams and boom! That's all it took.  Liv goes to Port...

So I reached out to a few places to build the women in business series and Bex is someone who showed up.  That's the ticket folks show up.  So Bex is a Young woman who is embarking on a career in editing audio for podcasts.  She actually cleaned up this show Thanks Bex.   She is also into the mystical arts, and we do a reading.  This is a fun show Bex is a delight. &n...

I love restaurant people, and Treva is about as good as they get in the business.  Restaurants are tough to make work the margins are low and the management of people product and money all impact the bottom line.  It is a balancing act at best especially during these times.  Treva is creative and thinks on her feet.  She accepts the reality that's given to her and finds creativ...

I really wanted to study the field of psychedelics  as the news of more promising treatments in addiction and depression.  I reached out to the Heffter institute after looking through their materials through an open e-mail to whoever would answer from the organization.  My motive is to get more information to the public regarding the issue of Psilocybin which is on the ballot. &nbsp...

Summer and Julie have teamed up bringing their talents together reimagine the Infinity Room in Salem which was a Capital City Theatre a comedy and improv venue.  Summer and her partners from The Space a music venue made agreements with Julie to merge the concept.  The infinity room is now Comedy and Music with a delicious vegan menu.  This show was recorded in the construction zone that is the inf...

 I just love Nicole Dennis she is an entrepreneur who built her business Abiqua Naturals.  based on two factors Health and Lifestyle.  This is the story of someone who assessed her life and determined that she would need to build her world her way.  She is a force of nature and a beautiful soul.  Abiqua naturals produces a delicious and healing elderberry syrup.  List...

Sara Grigsby is one of the most fascinating people I have ever met.  Sara is from Nashville Tennessee and she has the southern story telling gene, if there is such a thing.   I was enthralled to hear her emergence story.   Sara changes organizations through some well designed tools she gathered from Masters at the Harvard Business school and MIT labs to Interaction Associa...

Heather Demarteau Fast is a Silverton business owner of Stamen and Pistil, a local plant shop. Heather grew up in love with the natural world. She grew up on a farm and followed through with her passion of nature by getting a degree in horticulture and landed a job working at the Oregon Gardens and worked there for ten years. She decided to jump into her dream a few years ago. With a small loan of...

Kari McKelvy has had an experienced life. She grew up in a large Baptist church her dad was a minister in the church. She rebelled and became a teenage mom worked on her degree widowed at 28 with two daughters she rebuilt her life after doing construction business and Real estate she has decided to do deeper Transformational work of helping people tell their stories and break into their real story...

Mary Babits Overfield  is a survivor and a thriver.  Marys story is the Phoenix story,  After years of building a successful business with her husband he got into some legal trouble cheated on her strung out the divorce, took all the money from the court settlement and ran off to Costa Rica.  Mary was forced into bankruptcy.  Mary used her skills in bookkeeping to build a book of clients and was a...

Marta is a force of creativity and energy,  She is a student of Ballet who took her dreams all the way to NYC if you can make it there you can make it everywhere.  Well 9/11 happened and she came back to Silverton and started the AAPAC American Academy of Performing Arts Center. During her time there she taught all the performing arts and would culminate all the arts into a show at the end of the...

In this episode we talk about religion family addiction hyperactivity, the values of human connection.  We talk about being honest with ourselves and never feeling up to par with the requirements of society.  People with hyper activity are always in trouble.  They just can't sit and do noting for long periods of time.  The world doesn't fit the hyper active child so we drug them.  Then we think it...

Dan Miletta is a hard working man who love beer and cars.  His passion has led him to work with cars for 20 years and during this time discovered a passion for brewing,  Dan becomes so passionate that after keeping up to ten taps going and being the neighborhoods favorite garage hang out, he decided to open his own brewing company it grew and he was looking for a way to expand his busine...

I  Met Randy about twelve years ago he was the lead manager in a statewide launch of our new Lottery systems.  He worked for a Lottery vendor at the time and their team was tasked with training the people throughout the state of Oregon about the new terminal.  Randy worked with many different people from all over America and the world in this position.  I was impressed with his...

It truly was a privilege to speak with Josh Kinsey  Josh an artist with an aesthetic that could be easily described as steam punk a term Josh doesn't really care for because most steam punk art is not actually functional.  Josh Kinsey makes art that does things whether it's a telescope or an ancient encryption device, even his sketches tell the story in numbers on gears and gauges. &nbsp...

PETE HOLMSTROM Peter Holmstrom is an Artist at the core of his being. . Pete has several projects going all the time, with musicians from all over the world. Pete is humble kind curious obsessively engaged and highly accomplished. Confident and yet self- effacing. Most of us know Pete from his amazing performances With The Dandy Warhols where he sculpts aural masterpieces of massive rock landscape...

Andrea is in the final stretches of finishing her Doctorate in Gerontology and Psychology with a focus on Alzheimer’s. She works from a holistic approach. I learned so much. Thank you Andrea. This was an enlightening conversation.

Stefania is a contributing writer to You Might Need To Hear This. Com. A non fiction exploration into the challenges of our times. She is a 3rd generation Italian American challenging the cultural discussion around Columbus. We learn much more about Stefania who was delightful and a joy to hang out with.

Colin and I have a good conversation, he grew up in Salem Oregon, we talk about zip code challenges. Gaming #Everquest was his game of choice. We talk about classism. Photography strippers, music and on and on.