News out of Silicon Valley has been inescapable lately from the current financial debacle to the Twitter Files to mass layoffs, but putting aside the giant tech corporations and culture warrior CEOs driving the news cycle, what does the day-to-day coder think of everything that’s been going on? Josh brings in his longtime friend, Software Engineer Armon Arcuri to find out. Across their convo they discuss SVB, the future of AI, green tech, and much more.

In today’s episode, I talk with filmmaker and digital marketer George Oliver, about the entertainment industry’s current seismic shift from a legacy media-dominated landscape to one increasingly driven by independent creators. Across our conversation we talk about why younger generations of creators aren’t interested in working for legacy media, the effects race and politics have on content development and casting, the disruption potential of A.I. and much more.

In today's episode, I have the pleasure of talking with Roger Stolle about his journey from a successful career in advertising to following his passion for blues music. He moved to Clarksdale, Mississippi where he founded the Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art store and organizes the town's annual Juke Joint Festival, among other endeavors. Throughout our conversation, we discuss pursuing one's dreams to build something new outside of mainstream systems, Clarksdale's history and current blues music scene, and much more. This is a super motivating conversation for anyone who is looking for inspiration to turn their passions into their livelihood, especially during a time when many are reevaluating their priorities and career paths.

Featured blues song entitled "Down South" by Big George Brock from Cat Head Presents "Club Caravan" album (2005).

Josh talks with L.A. restaurant owner and consultant Dino Pantazis about why restaurants suck right now. Across their conversation they discuss the tough decisions restaurant owners must make when triaging their businesses, the high tech future of restaurant service, and much more.

Today on the show, we talk all things sleep with military sleep researcher and author of the book Meathead: Unraveling the Athletic Mind, Dr. Allison Brager. Across our conversation we discuss a number of topics including cocaine experiments with transgender mice, the military’s evolving attitude towards sleep, the rash of accidents that led to their renewed interest in sleep research, and how everyday people can apply the findings of her study in their daily lives. This should be the last episode with the wonky video/audio. God willing :)

The politicians and commentators won't STFU about classified documents lately, but do you actually know any more than you did before this madness about what makes a document "classified" and how they work? To get to the bottom of these burning questions, today on the show I sit down with former CIA case officer Doug Laux. Across our conversation, Doug speaks candidly on this subject touching on the process of how documents are classified, 4 main levels of classification (plus 2 people don't know about), why documents need to be classified, and much more.

Audio and video seem to be a little better this week, and we made a little bonus skit for you at the top of the episode too. Enjoy!

Today on the show, as part of my continuing series "Humans Who Do Shit," I talk with ice road biker and adventurer, Brokentooth. Across our conversation we talk about lots of topics including how to silence distractions to find focus, success through failure, and how to live an epic life. Tooth is one of my favorite dudes ever. I hope you love hearing from him as much as I do.

Still figuring out audio/video specs. Should improve slightly after the next ep.

Today on the show, a deep dive with award-winning filmmaker Matt McWilliams about what it takes to make an indie horror film.

Across my conversation with Matt we touch on quite a few topics including: building the right formula of resources and inspiration to jumpstart creative projects, the challenge of juggling creative focus and logistics, problem solving on the fly, and so much more.

It’s a conversation that translates to anyone who’s ever had entrepreneurial ambitions or an artistic vision outside of their day job and has had to bootstrap and fight to make their dream real.

Note: The first few episodes of JHI have some issues with audio and color correction in the video episode. This will improve - as will Josh... :)