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Hertz

I spend more time than I would probably like in Houston, TX. Approximately 99% of that time is spent on business, and when you’re dealing with a sprawling, spread-out metropolis such as Houston, that means rental cars. And rental cars are fucking goofy.

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This Week’s Episode (5.19.14): David Martin – CONFIDENTIAL Series

David Martin continues our CONFIDENTIAL Series with a discussion about the aerospace, airline, and flight industry. David works as an auditor inspecting the everything from your armrest to video displays to cockpit instrumentation to wing spars. He gets into the use of ISO 9001 and AS 9100 (for you standardization nerds out there), the value…

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Ep. 11: Krista Welch – Photographer, Wedding Expert, Owner of Love Song Photo

Krista Welch is the owner, creator, and head photographer at Love Song Photo, based in Seattle. She and Jon have been pals since high school, so this episode has an easy rapport, friendly banter, and a fun vibe. Krista shares her story about boldly leaving a job she was dissatisfied during the economic downturn that…

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Smoking

(I wrote this while half in the bag Friday night. Outside of a few minor grammatical corrections, this is untouched from that writing.) I’m watching WWF Vengeance 2001 on the WWE Network. It’s the one where Chris Jericho unifies the two world championships into one belt. As a Jericho fan, it’s probably the pinnacle of…

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This Week’s Episode (5.12.14): Krista Welch

This week’s guest is Krista Welch, owner of Love Song Photo. We talk all things photography on this week’s show, with special focus on weddings. Krista is a former interior designer who fled the corporate world and made the bold decision to strike out on her own, even while many of her friends were getting…

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Workout Song of the Moment #12

Since my fat ass has actually started RUNNING, I’ve had to add several songs to my workout rotation. What will follow is a periodic update of whichever song has given me added juice while crisscrossing my neighborhood and hating everything about it. Download these yourselves and enjoy. “Joker and the Thief ” – Wolfmother Sweet…

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Ep. 10: Ben Brown – U.S. Finance Industry (CONFIDENTIAL Series)

Ben Brown kicks off our CONFIDENTIAL series with a discussion of the United States financial sector. He also happens to be my brother-in-law. Ben has worked in finance for over a decade and has served in both buy-side and sell-side trading for both large financial institutions and small hedge funds. He currently works for a…

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Reunion

Last Saturday night 90.5 KCSU fm, my old college radio station, hosted an alumni party in honor of its 50th Anniversary. I’m pretty sure my era of KCSU turned out the most people, and you can see a bunch of us in the photo below. That’s what former college radio DJs look like in their…

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This Week’s Episode (5.5.14): Ben Brown – Launch of Confidential Series

This week we launch our CONFIDENTIAL series of the Jon of All Trades Podcast with Ben Brown, a man who’s worked on and around Wall Street in the U.S. financial sector for nearly 15 years (and is also my brother-in-law). What is the CONFIDENTIAL Series? So far on the Jon of All Trades Podcast, we’ve…

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Speech

Having now completed 12 interviews for the Jon of All Trades Podcast (and posted 9 of them), I have spent more time listening to the idiosyncrasies of people’s voices than ever before. Each interview is usually just shy of an hour, which then takes me about two to edit. That’s three hours of listening intently…

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