Jon Of All Trades

Scott Yates is a former journalist, founder of MyTrafficNews.com, Legislative Database, and BlogMutt. He’s also the guy you can thank when he succeeds in ending the stupid time change in this country that screws up your circadian rhythm, messes up your kids, and ultimately has deadly consequences. That’s right… DEADLY! Where can you find out...

Brad Swartzwelter is a train conductor, President of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail Transit Workers Local 166, and author of Faster Than Jets, a book dedicated to examining high speed travel via maglev trains. On this week’s show, Brad shares with me a charming story of how, while skiing at Winter Park, he saw the...

Jon of All Trades is celebrating its 3-Year Anniversary by re-visiting our first 3 guests and seeing how their lives have changed since this show launched! Our final installment of the 3-Year Anniversary features Jason “Bird” Calloway, who first appeared on Episode 3 of the Jon of All Trades Podcast. I’ve written at length about...

Jon of All Trades is celebrating its 3-Year Anniversary by re-visiting our first 3 guests and seeing how their lives have changed since this show launched! Our second of three episodes features Cindy Sovine-Miller, who first appeared on Episode 2 of the podcast. Cindy spent a good chunk of her career lobbying for the healthcare...

Jon of All Trades is celebrating its 3-Year Anniversary by re-visiting our first 3 guests and seeing how their lives have changed since this show launched! First up is Jeff Julin, who is the partner of Episode 1 guest Mike Gaughan, both in life and in business. Sadly, Mike passed away in August of 2015,...

This week it’s just me once again, and I go completely unfiltered. In a profanity-filled and expletive-laden 30+ minutes, I make the case not only for why you should vote for me in the Westword Readers’ Choice 2017 Best of Denver Awards, but why you should listen to my show at all. Why does this...

Midian Crosby is the founder of Monster Makeup FX, whose mission statement you can find below: “We believe that special effects makeup and in-camera special FX are experiencing a powerful renaissance. We passionately support independent film and video-content production by creating super-realistic practical special FX and special effects makeup for movies, TV shows, commercials, and a...

Tarek Chacra is the founder of Media Dynamics, a Denver-based creative services agency he founded in 1991. Anyone who can start their own business and remain successful for more than 25 years is someone I’m extremely interested in talking to both because that’s impressive on its own, and I want to unlock the secret of...

If you’ve ever asked me about my show, you’ll know one of the most common things I’ll tell you about it is that some of the best things I hear happen once the microphones are turned off. So, since Episode 123 ran long anyway, and since we still had a buttload of beer to drink,...

Patrick Combs is Mad Sensory Scientist for Avery Brewing and is a Certified Cicerone. He’s a self-taught expert in beer’s off-flavors, styles and tasting and began his career by designing an educational program for bars, restaurants and others in the history, service, and nuance of beer. Josh Clauss is also a Certified Cicerone, a beer...

Mia Klosterman is lead singer of the badass all-female Denver rock band The Hits. She’s also an actor, a graduate in theater and psychology from UNC, aspiring National Anthem singer at a Denver Broncos game, and an all-around ray of sunshine. And she’s bringing me back to my interviewing roots! I got my start interviewing...

Nick Gossert is the creator, booker and head referee for Lucha Libre & Laughs. If you’re a fan of both Mexican style lucha libre wrestling and stand-up comedy, this is the show for you. Winner of two prestigious Westword Best of Denver Awards for Best Comedy Night – here’s the writeup for their 2016 award...

Nick Jackson and Tony Pigford are the Head of School and Dean of Students, respectively, of The Boys School of Denver. Based on the highly successful instructional model of the GIRLS ATHLETIC LEADERSHIP SCHOOL (GALS) in Denver, The Boys School will provide a small-school learning environment predicated on best practices in gender-based and active learning...

Patrick Sheridan is the Executive Director and Host of the Emerging Filmmakers Project. He also works with young actors and prepares them for how to act on film. Patrick has also served as a script doctor and done punch up for a number of projects. He’s a prolific, talented and engaged artist. But his primary...

Brad Lucero is the Chief Operating Officer of The Stout Street Foundation, which provides the necessary services and support in a totally structured therapeutic community environment to assist addicts and alcoholics to help themselves in rehabilitation, recovery, and transition in returning to society as productive and responsible citizens. On this week’s show, Brad shares with...

Check out that episode title… 2/3 ain’t bad? Nah, too easy a joke. But that’s what you can expect from this week’s special solo episode. It’s a big week around here for our parent company Deft Communications as we preview a very special happening for the company here on the podcast. I’m not going to...

(At the time of this recording, Avi worked for Jay Feder Jewelers. He has now founded and opened Bulow Jewelers, which you can find at 910 16th St. Suite 1223, Denver, CO 80202 and on the web at BulowJewelers.com or on Facebook here.) Avi Bulow has grown up around the jewelry business. And although he swore...

Jim O’Heir brought life to Jerry Gergich on Parks and Recreation which ran for 7 seasons and 125 episodes. Since Parks and Recreation is one of my all-time favorite things in the history of the universe, the opportunity to sit down with Jim O’Heir for an hour was an enormous thrill. Just like Jerry, Jim...

If you’ve ever watched a movie, a television show, or played a video game, you’ve consumed the art of foley. You may not have appreciated it, but you experienced it nevertheless. Actors of Sound is a documentary about the art of foley. What is that? From footsteps to bone cracks, Foley artists bring films to...

Jeremy Stulberg is the producer and editor of Growing Up Coy, a feature-length documentary about a young Colorado family who engages in a highly publicized legal battle and landmark civil rights case, as they fight for their 6-year-old transgender daughter’s right to use the girls’ bathroom at her elementary school. The film asks a universal...