The Brad Rykal Brief

James King is on the show talking about the history of King Family Vineyards, how the King family got from Texas to Crozet, how it became the polo sports venue, the journey of the vineyard and their family. This is a great conversation and you get to know the King family by listening to this conversation. You can find out more about them at kingfamilyvineyards.com Even better - you can visit the t...

Tim Tolson is on the show to today to talk about the Crozet Community Association (CCA).  The CCA was incorporated in February 1985 by a group of local Crozet residents who saw the need to work together to protect, preserve, and enhance our Crozet community and establish a forum where all are welcome. We also talk about the Downtown Crozet Initiative and the old Acme Visible Facility lots as well...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, is the world’s first full-scale planetary defense test, demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection technology.  For the first time in the history of the planet, a species has the technology to prevent its own extinction. Dr. Mallory DeCoster from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab is on to talk about this NASA mission to test new...

This is part 2 of my conversation with Leonard Sandridge. The first part of the conversation is episode 75 if you want to hear the story from the beginning.  We talk about his time at college, the US Army and coming back to Crozet starting at UVA.   I hope you enjoy the show.  -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show - subscribe, leave a review or tell a f...

Tom Loach is on the show today talking about moving to Crozet, his time on the CCAC, iterations of the Crozet Master Plans and his time on the Planning Commission.   I hope you enjoy today's show. -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show - subscribe, leave a review or tell a friend.  --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal Blog:  https...

I have a mid-week emergency podcast drop because Brett Rykal got back from backpacking part of the AT here in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  It was a week long, rainy time and he enjoyed the challenge and I wanted to get him on to talk about it and capture the memories.   I hope you enjoy the show. -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal Blog:  https://bradrykal.blogspot.com/ If...

Gary Amoroso is taking over the hosting duties of the show today and interviewing me.  He came up with this idea a few weeks back to ask me questions.  Gary came prepared and asked a lot of great questions.  This podcast was a lot of fun for me and to be honest it is way easier to be asked the questions then listen and ask them for a change.   Enjoy today's show. -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbri...

Leonard Sandridge is on the show today. He is talking to me about being literally born in Crozet, growing up here in the 1950's, the businesses that existed and how things were starting to change during a crucial period in Crozet.  Leonard is well known through central Virginia but if you would like some more background on him you can click on the link below.  https://uvamagazine.org/articles...

Dave Wagner is on today to talk about the history of his family's grocery store in Crozet.  Opened in 1954 and he and partners sold in 2016.  That is a lot of years in the grocery business.   I hope you enjoy today's show. -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show - subscribe, leave a review or tell a friend.  --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com T...

Today on the show Terri Miyamoto is on talking about the Crozet Trail Crew.  The trails in and around Crozet are one of the best parts of this town.  For more information on the CTC or to donate visit: https://crozettrailscrew.org Enjoy the show. -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show - subscribe, leave a review or tell a friend.  --- Email: bradrykalbri...

Bill Schrader is back on the show talking about the revenue sharing agreement between Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville.  This RSA started in 1982 and the county has paid the city a lot of money over the course of this time.  A lot of this information was news to me and Bill does a great job describing the climate in 1982, how it got started, the effects and how to approach a soluti...

Brett Rykal is back on for his semi-annual update.  Since Spencley is crashing with us he joins us.  We talk about Brett's 7th grade year, books, movies, sports, and what is planned for the summer.   At the end of the show Brett lays out his plan for post high school as well.  I hope you enjoy today's show. -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the sho...

According to the CDC the life expectancy of a person born in the United states is 78 years.  Little less for males and a little more for females but that is the average.  The average works for this show.  That is just over 4,000 weeks worth of life that you have on this planet.   This should be a existential crisis . It should move us to action on things that mean the most to us.  Not just importa...

Dennis Odinov and Betsy Eaten are on today to talk about why they and the other members of the Village of Rivanna Community Advisory Committee (VORCAC) felt it necessary to resign in protest.  Dennis was the Chair of the VORCAC and Betsy was a long time member of the committee.  There are tensions between the county and these community advisory committee's and this is an example where the dif...

My guest today is Bill Schrader.  Bill is  is Chairman of the Build Crozet Library Fundraising Committee.   Bill came on the show to talk about how the Crozet library got built, the huge lift by the people of Crozet to make it happen and interesting notes on how libraries work.   I hope you enjoy today's show! -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show...

MINONG SERIES My buddy Jeremy Visger is back on the show to give the audience an update on his health, how he keeps his relentless optimism and facing tough times.   It was a great conversation with Jeremy and I hope you enjoy the show. -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show - subscribe, leave a review or tell a friend.  --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.c...

MINONG SERIES Big T is back after a year.  We talk about what he has been up to, how is family is doing, what it is like to own a bar and much more.  If you like the shows from my friends in Wisconsin you will like this one. I hope you enjoy the show. -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show - subscribe, leave a review or tell a friend.  --- Email: bradryk...

On today’s show I have another Crozetian and fellow Western Ridge resident - Eric Bryant. We talk about how he got to Crozet, working at Rolls-Royce and , and renewable energy.  You can find more of Eric on his LinkedIn I hope you enjoy today’s show!  -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show - subscribe, leave a review or tell a friend.  --- Email: bradryk...

Today on the show I have Michael Marshall, long time resident of Crozet and founder of the Crozet Gazette - our local, award winning newspaper.   I reached out to Mr. Marshall to more fully understand what the conditions were of Crozet when he started the paper.  Crozet has changed a lot.  We talk about his work experience and life leading up to starting the Crozet Gazette, how the town has change...

I recently finished the book Die with Zero by Bill Perkins.  I discuss the book and the concepts of how to spend your money throughout your life to get maximum value out of it instead of accumulating wealth and dying with a bunch of money.   I hope you enjoy today's show. -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show - subscribe, leave a review or tell a f...

In today's show we cover the stock market (S&P 500) being down 14% from all time high's. This is a great opportunity to check in with yourself and see if you are invested correctly because drawdowns happen all the time.   I hope you enjoy the show. -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show - subscribe, leave a review or tell a friend.  --- Ema...

D3A is the targeting process in the US Army.  It helps defeat your enemies, see them driven before you and I have found it as a model to help my life when I need to put cognitive effort towards a problem.  It is model that can be used from macro to micro and I go into detail about why it is better than other decision making processes out there.  I hope you enjoy the show. -Brad --- Email: bradryka...

Dr. Tom DeCoster is back on the show discussing his final years of residency at the University of Vermont back in the 1980's.  This a part 4 of a series of shows that I am doing with Tom about his life story.   Previous shows: Episode 49  (Part 3) Episode 34 (Part 2) Episode 5 (Part 1) --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show - subscribe, leave a review or...

Gary Amoroso is back on the show to discuss his book - A Call To Reframe US Intelligence Analysis and US National Security.  We discuss the background of our book, the problems with in the US Intelligence Community (US IC) and some solutions.  Buy it on Amazon here .  I hope you enjoy today's show! -Brad From the back cover: The United States is the most powerful country in the history of hum...

Gary Amoroso is back on the show.  We talk about his fight with multiple myeloma, his time with the Peace Corp, and his retirement from the Defense Intelligence Agency.   I hope you enjoy today's show. -Brad --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal If you like the show - subscribe, leave a review or tell a friend.  --- Email: bradrykalbrief@gmail.com Twitter: @bradrykal Blog: ...