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Send us Fan Mail Most people expect a conversation about death to feel heavy. This one feels surprisingly hopeful. This week on Here's What We Know , we sit down with Mike Oppenheim, host of the podcast Coffin Talk, for a conversation about fatherhood, grief, faith, forgiveness, and the question every person eventually asks: What happens when we die? Mike shares the heartbreaking story of los...

Send us Fan Mail What really happened in the months leading up to the Declaration of Independence? Most of us learned the broad strokes of the American Revolution in school. Professor Robert G. Parkinson believes the real story is far more interesting and far more human. In this special episode of Here's What We Know , we sit down with the Binghamton University historian and author to explore...

Send us Fan Mail What keeps someone creating after the industry changes, the paycheck shrinks, and the path gets harder? This week on Here's What We Know , we welcome comedian, producer, and podcaster Deadair Dennis Maler for an honest conversation about radio, stand-up comedy, podcasting, and the lifelong search for your own voice. Dennis shares how growing up in punk rock shaped his do-it-y...

Send us Fan Mail What can golf teach you about life? This week on Here's What We Know , former PGA Tour professional Jay Delsing joins us to share lessons from 25 years competing at the highest level of golf. From stories about Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus to conversations about failure, resilience, mental toughness, and what separates elite athletes from everyone else. We also discuss why p...

Send us Fan Mail What keeps a person moving forward after loss, trauma, disappointment, and heartbreak? This week on Here's What We Know , we sit down with country music artist Michael Peterson, known for hits like Drink, Swear, Steal and Lie , From Here to Eternity , and When the Bartender Cries . Michael shares the story behind the music, how he survived a childhood marked by abuse, loss, a...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the thing you love most becomes the thing you can never completely walk away from? This week on Here's What We Know, conductor and pianist Robert Emery returns for a conversation about creativity, music, and the curious ways our minds work. From practice rooms to Abbey Road Studios, Robert shares what life is really like for a professional musician, why crea...

Send us Fan Mail Why are people willing to spend thousands of dollars on concert tickets? Why do fans sit in online queues for hours, refreshing browsers and hoping they get lucky? And why do live experiences still matter so much when we can almost stream everything? This week on Here’s What We Know , Michael Dodsworth, CEO and founder of Fanfare, joins us for a conversation that starts with ticke...

Send us Fan Mail Some people play golf for fun. Joseph Bronson turned it into something deeper. This week on Here’s What We Know , we sit down with the award-winning author, longtime business executive, world traveler, and passionate golfer for a conversation that starts with golf… but doesn’t stay there for long. Joseph has played 93 of the world’s most iconic golf courses, teed it up with legend...

Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest moments in your life come down to one simple decision? Show up. This week on Here’s What We Know, we sit down with rising country artist and songwriter Kyle Clark for a conversation about faith, songwriting, Nashville, and the unpredictable moments that can change everything. Kyle shares the story behind how one late-night decision to “just show up” led to a so...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the biggest adventures begin after life falls apart. This week on Here’s What We Know , our host, Gary Scott Thomas, sits down with author Teri M Brown about surviving emotional abuse, rebuilding self-worth, and riding a tandem bicycle across America with her husband. Their 3,102-mile journey became more than a cycling trip. It became a story about resilience, relationsh...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Here’s What We Know , James Rollins shares how bestselling authors actually create stories that last. James Rollins is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers translated into more than forty languages. His Sigma Force series has been called one of the “top crowd-pleasers" by the New York Times and one of the “hottest summer reads” by Peo...

Send us Fan Mail There’s an idea we all want to believe. If you’re talented enough, you’ll make it. This week on Here’s What We Know , we sit down with singer-songwriter Trey Calloway, a rising country artist navigating the reality of building a career in today’s music industry. And what we uncover is something a lot of people don’t want to admit: Timing matters more than talent. We talk about cou...

Send us Fan Mail You ever get into one of those conversations where you think you know the subject… and then suddenly you’re ten layers deeper than you ever expected to go? That’s what happened here. This week on Here’s What We Know , we’re joined by Danny Johnson, a stand-up comedian making his mark in the world of clean comedy. We start by talking about the craft, how a joke is built, why timing...

Send us Fan Mail There’s what people see on stage, and then there’s everything else. This week on Here’s What We Know , we welcome back Jerry Flowers, a seasoned bassist, an accomplished songwriter, and music industry veteran, best known for his longtime role as Keith Urban’s bass player and bandleader.  We’ll talk about what life on tour is really like, from playing in front of 80,000 people at m...

Send us Fan Mail Some conversations make you lean in… and some conversations make you uncomfortable because you realize just how much you don’t know, and this is one of those. This week on Here’s What We Know , we welcome Neal K. Shah, who went from a successful career as a $250 million hedge fund manager in New York to becoming a caregiver for loved ones facing dementia and cancer, and ended up u...

Send us Fan Mail There are people who know a little about a lot. And then there are people like Pete A. Turner. This week on Here’s What We Know , we sit down with a former Army counterintelligence agent who turned a life of asking hard questions into something unexpected: a podcast built on curiosity, connection, and listening. What starts as a conversation about baseball and sports turns into so...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Here’s What We Know , we welcome Eric Hayden, founder and CEO of Urban Catalyst, a company that’s helped drive billions of dollars in development across Silicon Valley. He was also named the 2025 Silicon Valley Business Journal Newsmaker of the Year. That’s the resume. But that’s not the story. Because this conversation goes beyond real estate and development. It’s ab...

Send us Fan Mail History tends to remember the loudest voices in the room. But sometimes the person who actually helped prevent disaster is the one sitting in the middle. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the world stood just hours away from nuclear war. Most of us remember the names Kennedy and Khrushchev. What we often forget is the man working behind the scenes at the United Nations, try...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes what looks like an overnight success story is really a 25 year journey that most people never see. Country artist Chas Collins knows that road well. This week on Here’s What We Know , we sit down with Chas Collins to talk about what the music business really looks like behind the curtain. They dive into the long road of touring, the reality of chasing a dream, and why so...

Send us Fan Mail What does it really take to build a fictional universe that readers cannot get enough of? This week on Here's What We Know , let’s welcome back bestselling author Shawn Inmon, the wildly prolific and deeply thoughtful author behind the Middle Falls series, to explore the discipline behind writing every single day, the emotional depth of the Middle Falls series, and the surpri...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Here’s What We Know , join us for an unforgettable conversation as we sit down with Mick Wienholt, a man who survived a catastrophic avalanche that should have taken his life. With a fractured skull, a broken jaw, and massive blood loss, Mick walked three miles back to his truck before collapsing into emergency brain surgery. But that miracle was only the beginning. Y...

Send us Fan Mail For 25 years, Phil Vassar has written and performed songs that defined an era of country music. But behind the hits like Just Another Day in Paradise , Carlene , and The Sound of a Million Dreams is a story of rejection, resilience, health scares, and hard-earned perspective. This week on Here’s What We Know , Phil reflects on the roadblocks that nearly stopped him, the heart atta...

Send us Fan Mail What really happens inside the room when Pro Football Hall of Fame decisions are made? This week on Here's What We Know , we sit down with longtime NFL writer and Hall of Fame voter Jason Cole to pull back the curtain on a process most fans think they understand but usually don’t. Jason explains how Hall of Fame voting actually works, why the math matters more than people rea...

Send us Fan Mail Now and then, a conversation reminds you why you love sitting down with people in the first place. This week on Here’s What We Know, Clayton Johnson stopped by, and what unfolded was more than just an interview but a long, winding talk about music, patience, heartbreak, and paying attention while you’re living your life. We talked about Nashville, classic country, the importance o...

Send us Fan Mail Every once in a while, after years around country music, you hear a voice that makes you stop and listen. On this Once Around the Country Edition of Here’s What We Know , we welcome singer and songwriter Hannah Marie Kelley and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and producer Gabriel Kelley, a real-life country music couple creating music that does more than entertain. It heals. Ha...