A Talk in the Attic

an essay excerpted from 2021's turkey day special

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christmas music has no place in november. that's why we're bringing to you the first certified banger that's all about turkey day. check out the lyric video on youtube, or sing along with the lyrics …

Garrett Ritterhaus has been interested in what makes people tick since he was in high school. Now a performance consultant and trainer with Dale Carnegie in Grand Rapids, Garrett stops into the attic…

listen in on a phone call between kirk and author christopher tallon. topics include: burnout, kevin nealon, the art of interviewing toddlers, mac miller, mitch hedberg, and the unorthodox 2-4-4-2 co…

Marc Rebillet superfan Dax has been emulating his hero for more than half of his 4 years on earth. Learn all about this pint-sized star in the making and how he felt about getting called onto the sta…

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learn about our brand-new fake sponsor, THERAPY WARS, a ground-breaking app that gamifies your mental health journey. earn calm coins after every breakthrough. climb the leaderboard in hyper-realtime…

for this milestone episode, kirk fields questions from his listeners. this 200th installment is proudly sponsored by therapy wars, a brand-new mental health app that gamifies your mindfulness.

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Adam Riley was born in an industrial town in England in 1985. Since then, he's lived a life of adventure that culminated this year in his awesome performance on History Channel's ALONE Season 9. He p…

after a reflective opener about work-life balance and digging in when things get tough, kirk shares his very first written set of standup comedy. written in impromptu fashion a few weeks back, the fi…

President of the WMCG board, Landon Bartley, drops in for a pot-focused discussion about cannabis in our local community. He oversees a GR-based organization that focuses on a number of activities, i…

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  NASA engineer Kevin Rainbolt was the featured guest in E147 (listen or watch his original appearance), but we had to bring him back for this deep dive into the first  image…

internet bully tommy tucker replied to e194: forest fam, unite! with some vitriol. kirk talks through his emotion. check out what tommy hated so much on youtube now!

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...this is the audio version of an animated tale about the magical Electric Forest music festival in Rothbury, MI. The episode follows a group of 8 rel…

Kirk is joined by high-performance coaches Jason Jaggard (Founding Partner, CEO), Janet Breitenbach (Partner, Director, Coach), and Dan Leffelaar (Partner, Sr. Director, Coach), who school the host i…

kirk welcomes back aspiring emcee garrett ritterhaus for their second joint session in the attic. the result of this studio time is a lo-fi hip-hop banger that can't help but hit you in the feels.

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*watch on youtube* ...kirk looks back on an awesome experience at movement 2022, an electronic music festival in downtown detroit. in a world filled with negativity and judgment, a 3-day memorial day…

this excerpted bonus episode is just the song from episode 189. listen to the full episode to learn what brought about this live session.

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*watch on youtube* ... meet garrett ritterhaus of grand rapids, who stopped into the studio for his first-ever hip-hop recording session. a long-time poet and rap enthusiast, this episode highlights …

Jose Paguada is cut from cowboy cloth. A roughneck at heart with enough ambition to keep him working 18 hour days spread amongst (at least) 3 jobs, none more exciting than his business G.I. BINS, a p…