ROBERT VALOR MUSIC (Producer/Songwriter)

HOA member, former board member and resident of many Florida HOAs walks you through the ins and outs, good and bad of living in a Florida HOA and why you may not want to be in an HOA, sit on an HOA board or even be a board President. Namely you can be SUED and if you piss anyone off or are in violation of the HOA covenants you will be fined. HOAs are not for everyone, but I do believe the CONS out...

Robert Knauer CPCM CPPO former professor and senior govt. official explains the ins and outs of our U.S. debt crisis, how it starts, by whom, and how it got this bad as well as what the end ramifications will be if we don't curtail federal spending and get our house in order and take care of AMERICA first. Our debt will cause the collapse of America as we know it and give rise to CHINA taking over...

Economics and contracts professor ROBERT KNAUER explains in a personal phone call how the GOP will single handedly destroy the American economy, our currency and our ability to interact with all other nations that use the US Dollar by their failure to pass the debt ceiling.

This autobiography is about how truth can set you free once you go back in time and realize where you really came from as a child. It’s about how one white child out of many that grew up in Florida were raised, nurtured, loved, educated and cared for by black American women and men. In my case, it was my nanny, our maid, and our family foreman. World War II and the Korean War were over and began a...

Podcaster ROBERT KNAUER explains what an old navy captain once told him that "less is more" meaning the less possessions you have the less your life will be burdened, stressed out and financially depleted. Based on this advice, my wife and I finally acted on it and are now happier having less burdens. We are FREE.

Professor, podcaster, contracting officer, novelist and ethics SME Robert Knauer gives his personal spin on why no one should ever speak to law enforcement, federal agents or otherwise, without first having their own attorney present and at their side during any form of questioning. The case of David Safavian of OFPP and JIm of NIH and the U.S. Public Health Service is discussed and how it relates...

Yesterday, 12/4/22, was the 1st planned terrorist attack by right wing extremist groups (white power, Neo Nazi, etc) that has been planned by these groups to bring America's power grid down. All it takes is to attack just five power substations and the entire grid on the eastern seaboard can be brought down putting America into the dark ages. This info has been published in Inspector General repor...

Podcaster Robert Knauer talks about how he mentored a female stripper (pole dancer) who worked at a strip club near the MCAS Cherry Point Marine Corps base on leaving stripping to become a federal contracting officer. THIS IS ALL TRUE and one of the more interesting mentoring efforts I ever encountered in my 30 plus years of government work.

Podcaster Robert Knauer CPCM CPPO, details the TRUE STORY about how he mentored and coached a nude stripper and pole dancer near Marine Corps base Cherry Point NC on how to apply for and what she had to do to become a federal contracting specialist in order to have a chance at a better life for her and her daughter. THIS IS TRUE AND GUT WRENCHING.

Podcaster Robert Knauer describes his intimate details of his life and why he is so GRATEFUL for all that he is, has achieved and where he is in life for all that he has been through as a young man, teenager, college student, trainee, naval officer, senior government contracting official, owner and CEO of a DC Consulting firm and now in retirement.

Professor of Contracts Robert Knauer CPPO CPCM talks about the Two-Step Sealed Bidding process using both FAR Parts 14 and 15 and how doing so using two-step sealed bidding in many cases gets the same outcomes as using only Part 15 and does so in much less time with much less effort. The best thing about using Two-Step Sealed bidding is there are literally NO PROTESTS.

Being a junior supply corps officer does NOT mean you are inferior to a senior officer. This short story about the 1st time I met LCDR. Kathleen O'Sullivan exemplifies what NOT to do when you do NOT know to whom you are speaking. Never assume you wield more power than someone else unless you know you truly do have the power. Case in point this junior supply corps officer to a senior female officer...

Podcaster, Robert Knauer, former Navy Supply Corps Lieutenant, Navy Supply Management Analyst explains how he was ordered by then Navy Supply Corps Commanding Officer Admiral Ebert and his XO then Captain Tully to deliberately possess and hold Top Secret documents knowing it was wrong, how he told his higher ups I didn't want to do it, and felt despair as to what to do without pissing off the comm...

Podcaster Robert Knauer, then Lt.(jg) Knauer, relays his time aboard the carrier Kennedy as disbursing and sales officer, and how Bazar Sales Inc, was the culprit behind over 400 Seiko watches coming up missing from inventory when the manufacturer shipped them to the JFK, and also how NIS was involved. A True Story.

Podcaster Robert Knauer discusses advice given him prior to his departure from DCMA for Washington DC to be "careful" in what he said to people. A preacher told me, "Bob whatever you say in DC will be overheard by someone and they will tell on you." Well...that all turned out to be true in my story about the Assistant Secretary of Finance and Admin at DOl when I referred to him as a little Hitler...

In a true to life horror story, Lt. Knauer recounts in 1976 during a special burial at sea detail that the MARDET (Marine Corps Detachment) was ordered to "open fire" with rounds to sink the wooden casket that was slowly sailing away from the ship because the holds to sink it had not been done properly and the weights were not properly installed to have the casket sink on que. That situation is wh...

In this episode of Robert Knauer describes a real life situation that was life-threatening and occurred at the Washington DC's Bureau of Engraving and Printing office in 2003, a situation where a rogue and undisciplined BEP police officer while not properly exercising due care and diligence nearly cost Robert Knauer his life because the "cop" was horsing around while on duty. THIS IS A TRUE STORY.

AUTHOR ROBERT KNAUER explains how the development of his novel MURDER ON STEEL BEACH came to be, and how much of it is based on true to life events. The main difference he points out is the novel is a fictional account of a fictional ship and navy captain who gets murdered. The question is who did it and what the outcome is which only the reader can discern by reading the entire novel. @Amazon boo...

In 1983 upon reporting to my cargo ship in Subic Bay, the Phillipines, I loaded the ship out with hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh, frozen foods and vegetables along with consumable supplies and repair parts and when we finished the load out we discovered we had a 2-degree list on the ship. Normally one goes to the engineering officer to remove the list by simply shifting ballast. That did...

Robert Knauer who is a former Republican, now Democrat and retired naval officer, federal contracting officer and CEO of a DC consulting firm discusses a recent meeting with a Trumper (Trump supporter) during a meeting to sell him a TREK bike. What took place was not only interesting, but exceedingly scary and saddening about the state of our nation, our adult lack of facts and intelligence and us...

Robert Knauer discusses his views on America today, where it is headed, and what is needed to stop the slide. From Assault Weapons (guns), broken supply chains, jobs outsourced to China and the Asian basin are but a few of the factors that is making AMERICA the laughing stock of the world for just plain stupidity where our CONGRESS is to blame

Podcaster Robert Knauer tells about his time in the U.S. Navy finding out about Humpty Dumpty and the Camp Fire Girls of Naples, Italy from his friend and mentor, Silvio Polidoro and his son Ernesto, while he was a young naval officer serving in the Mediiterranean and parts of Italy. Humpty Dumpty actually did sit on a wall, and Humpty Dumpty did have a very great fall.

Professor Robert Knauer CPCM CPPO discusses the real life situation where he personally terminated a DC federal IT contractor for DEFAULT (due to discrimination against females) on a DOT contract he was in charge of .....and how the CEO and COO reacted when he notified them in person of the need to change their behavior in less than 10days. YES YOU REALLY CAN TERMINATE A CONTRACT FOR DEFAULT

Professor Robert Knauer CPCM CPPO tell a real life story about how a Navy Contracting Officer was terminated from federal service after routinely divulging many confidential contract secrets to his girlfriend (the enemy)..who worked for a competing government contractor. He was fired but nothing happened to her. Life and government contracting have rules to live by....he failed.

Podcaster Robert Knauer talks about the time in the late 1990s at the Defense Contract Management Agency how an automated Contract Reconciliation System program was rammed down their throats without any Beta Testing. It did not work and thousands of man-hours were wasted/lost and millions of dollars pissed down the drain, that is....until Mr. Knauer stood up at a CRS conference and informed the ni...