Level E (with Eric LeMay)

Molly Butterworth started her museum career and began nurturing her love of vehicles in her home state of Ohio. She earned her bachelor's degree in history and English and her master's in Public History. She was hired at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis and became director there. She is now an historic building preservationist in St. Louis and in the copy editing phase of her first book t...

Since there are about 5,000 podcasts about poker, Eric sat down with his friend Dave to talk about the subject more generally with regards to history of the game, types of poker, and tournament play...with a few minutes talking about Las Vegas and New Orleans. Think of it as a "poker show" for non-poker players.

Leif Hansen,  CEO of Spark Interaction, has been speaking at events, facilitating team trainings and offering 1-1 support to indy professionals on a variety of leadership related topics for over two decades. His highly interactive & often playful events have been experienced by tens of thousands of participants, as well as featured on national media such as NBC's Today Show and  PBS MediaShift . L...

Hi, this is Eric: I was soooooo sick of the sound of the Fourth of July after hour number six last night, I decided to put on headphones and see if, in one hour, I could produce a podcast with my (unscripted) narration, two or more other sound tracks, and some audio I got off the internet. Even though the message is really important, this was just as much learning how to use the equipment. I chose...

Hi, this is Eric... This one was special for me for a few reasons. LeMay Inc. (which included Pierce County Refuse) was a family-run business most of Ric Thompson's 41 years there. And then it was sold to Waste Connections, a much huger garbage company from Wall Street. For more than four decades, Ric went through all of the changes in the politics, equipment, recycling demands, etc. He is of a ge...

Eric's cousin Pamela Shandrow talks about her two stints touring North America with a couple of the biggest box-office successes in the history of musical theater. We mostly talked about "Phantom of the Opera" (where she played Carlotta in 76 performances!) and "Wicked." She lives in NYC city with her two dogs, Sweet Pea and Puddle. Theater Geeks Anonymous podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/po...

This was mostly seeing what Eric could do without an actual microphone; just the hand-held recorder and no headphones (totally naked of anything other than the recorder, and how well Garageband works for editing at this point). Meh.  But not horrible. Mike was tremendous. Just stellar. The editing on Garageband to make all of the pieces work together...it needs a better piece of software. Its just...

Bob MacMahon, or as he's called around Marymount, "Battery Bob," touches on his early life, how he first met Harold LeMay, and other things he's experienced in a long and varied life around cars. The music comes from Marymount volunteer Jack Mueller from a 1968 album for car dealers titled, "In My Merry Oldsmobile." Basically, a maestro named Glenn Osser took the original 1908 music and led differ...

Currently an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, Pete Wevurski talks with Eric about his storied history with newspapers, journalism and sports; he also offers some great thoughts on the value of journalism and the future of newspapers. This is a long one, clocking in at 90 minutes (you're lucky...it could have been four hours).

Eric's mom, Sharon LeMay, talk about what happened when her cousin, a recluse, died in Minnesota and she was one of the heirs. But there's a lot more to the story, as she tell Eric and Pilar.

Eric has "known of" Rachel Kerr since Shining Mountain Elementary School where she was a year younger -- right through junior high and high school. But, as a Seahawks fan and season ticket holder, he kept paying attention to her career and life because she was a SeaGal (or Seahawks cheerleader) most of the 1990s. She is passionate, smart and really great at articulating her thoughts and beliefs (a...

Annalaan and Lane sit down with Pilar and Eric to talk about the second half of their journey from Seaport, New Jersey to Seaport, Oregon. Heads up: This was Eric's first time with four hot mics all plugged in at once creating four separate tracks, so some of the sound levels are a little funky because we were all sitting so close together. (This is still a production learning process.)

Eric's daughter, Annalaan, and her boyfriend, Lane, are traveling about 2800 miles from West Long Branch, NJ to Spanaway, WA. It's their first big cross-country road trip. They've made it to Fargo. Here are their impressions so far when they talk to Eric and Pilar.

Due to something that came up, Eric's scheduled guest this week had to bail at the last minute (That's what he gets when he waits until Sunday for a show released on Sundays.). But this is the story of getting lost in the woods near Mr. Rainier (The Mountain). Its about 30 minutes...and we'll be back to our regularly interview format next week.

Artists Philip Mack talks about his art, his process, and learning how to create a career out of being an artist. Check out his stuff: Website: www.dran2draw.com Instagram: drawnIIdraw Facebook: Drawn to Draw This was Eric's first time using a multidirectional microphone in a huge space. He thinks the sound quality is great, but you might need to turn it up a little in mono. :-)

A frequent visitor on the early episodes of "Level E," first-time feature film director John Crye talks about the experience of making the movie "Chance" and the story itself. CHANCE trailer on YouTube:   https://youtu.be/KAr4EFAF5oY   CHANCE on Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/Chance-The-Movie-1606511052799111/   CHANCE on Instagram:   @Chancethemovie

Eric and Pilar talk with his dad Norm LeMay about his approach to teaching junior high art in the in the 1970s and 1980s. There are some interesting things about technique, philosophy and education. If you're an artist or educator, this is a fun hour. (A few of the historical references are clunky by Eric, so ignore them, please, with a grain of salt.)

Eric and Pilar talk to Jack Mueller about his early days in television and growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

LeMay-Marymount docent and volunteer talks about his friend, industrial designer Brooks Stevens. Consider this a bonus preview episode of a possible future Marymount podcast about art, design, cars, technology and culture. It's done in the Marymount library, so there are echoes.

Which cars do you think changed the world? Name 20 right now... This is a panel discussion from the 2019 National Association of Automobile Museums annual conference in South Bend talking about (and still debating) their answers to that question. But it's also an interesting insight into how historians, curators, and other museum professionals can collaborate to at least get a little consensus on...

Eric kicks off opening day of baseball season with the story about when he was 10 years old and might have stolen signs the Yankees were using and MIGHT have contributed to two wins by the Mariners.

Eric talks about his time in South Bend, Indiana for the National Association of Automobile Museums annual conference hosted wonderfully by the Studebaker National Museum. This includes trying to get onto the Notre Dame Stadium grass and some observations South Bend. But the bulk of the show is a presentation by CPAs from the firm Kruggel Lawton talking about the effects of the new tax laws on non...

This episode, television comedy writer Bill Daly gives some insight into how the sausage is made in the writer's room. He also talks about writing a key episode of "8 Rules for Dating My Daughter" that dealth with the death of TV icon and show star John Ritter. 

Eric and his Emerson College roommate, Bill Daly, discuss how Bill ended up in Los Angeles being a comedy TV writer. WARNING: There are some rough edits in here because they started gabbing like old women who have know each other forever. (Mostly, Eric is just happy anytime he can get Bill on the phone for an extended period...so the chatty stuff had to be edited out.)

Stacy is was one of the founding employees of the LeMay Collections at Marymount and continues as a volunteer to help the organization. This is Eric and Stacy sitting down at Marymount and just talking about travel in general, some things we've learned on road trips, and some observations along the way.