Stories from the Center of the Universe
A Podcast about the Human Experience
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 74 minutes
- Episodes
- 344
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 184: Audra Becker
Audra Becker and Paul used to work together and she admitted that for a while, she was 50/50 on doing the podcast and telling her story. She joins us from Arizona where she was born and raised though…
Mon 14 Nov 2022
Episode 183: Stacie Straus and Acie Wyatt
Stacie Straus and Acie Wyatt are the first twins to be on the podcast. They are from Ashland and Stacie is still in the area. Acie lives in Charlotte, NC. Paul asked a couple of questions about being…
Mon 07 Nov 2022
Episode 182: Nikhil Brahmbhatt
Nikhil Brahmbhatt and Paul know each other from working at the same company in the past and they talked about how they first met. Nikhil was born in Kalol, India and grew up in Ahmedabad and was the …
Mon 31 Oct 2022
Episode 181: Zach Gilman Turns 21
This episode is a celebration of Paul’s son Zach turning 21! Paul, his wife Lisa and their daughters, Lindsay and Melissa went to Blacksburg, Va. to visit Zach on his birthday weekend. Paul, Lisa and…
Mon 24 Oct 2022
Episode 180: Mac’s Service Center - Mac McManus
Downtown Ashland Association Series …
Mac McManus was born in Fredericksburg, raised in Woodbridge and later moved south to the greater Richmond area for work. His parents knew at an early age that h…
Thu 20 Oct 2022
Episode 179: William Flippen
William Perkins Flippen joins the podcast via William Kevin Flippen, the occasional co-host and his son. William was born in Buckingham County, but grew up in Richmond, Virginia. William was #8 out o…
Mon 17 Oct 2022
Episode 178: MH Studios - Michelle Hollender
Michelle Hollander joins the podcast as part of the Downtown Ashland Association Series. Michelle is from Ashland and she and Paul reminisced about sledding on Goddin’s Hill when they were kids in di…
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Episode 177: Dave Klisz
Dave Klisz met Silent Rob about twenty-five years ago and joins Paul and Rob on the podcast. Dave was born in California, but moved around quite a bit early on due to his dad’s job with General Elect…
Mon 10 Oct 2022
Episode 176: Red Vein Escape - Kitty Barnes
Red Vein is the latest addition to the Downtown Ashland Association Series on the podcast. Kitty Barnes is a co-owner of Red Vein and moved to the Richmond area from Maryland about sixteen years ago.…
Thu 06 Oct 2022
Episode 175: Donnie Morris and Jock Jones
On this episode, we have two repeat guests who are here together, know each other well, but haven’t seen each other in about twenty years. Donnie Morris (Episode #138) and Jock Jones (Episode #148) p…
Mon 03 Oct 2022
Episode 174: Your Path Counseling Center - Eddie Martinez-Cunion
Eddie Martinez-Cunion joins the podcast via the Ashland Downtown Association to talk about her business, Your Path Counseling Center. Eddie says she is a military brat, but she calls Maryland home. A…
Thu 29 Sep 2022
Episode 173: SpeedyCop
Jeff Bloch, aka SpeedyCop, comes to the podcast via a connection with John Watts (Episode #50). Jeff grew up in New Jersey and New York and was the 2nd of nine kids. Jeff and his family did a mission…
Mon 26 Sep 2022
Episode 172: Ross Luck
Paul, Rob and Ross Luck have been friends since childhood. Ross grew up just outside the Ashland limits and growing up, he spent time going to Kings Dominion (later worked there) and the Hanover Coun…
Mon 19 Sep 2022
Episode 171: Kevin Mills, Part 2
Kevin Mills is back for Part 2. Paul and Kevin finished the story about Kevin being diagnosed with a tumor. Kevin went into detail about finding out about the tumor, the surgery and the first thing h…
Thu 15 Sep 2022
Episode 170: George Monroe
George Monroe knows Paul and Kevin from when they worked at the Bakery. George lives in Hanover, but grew up in Albemarle and Charlottesville. While in Albemarle, he grew up on a farm where he said h…
Mon 12 Sep 2022
Episode 169: The Boogie Woogie Man
Jimmy “The Boogie Woogie Man” Valiant joins Paul and Kevin on the podcast and he started off with a bang! Jimmy was born in Tullahoma, TN and just turned 80 years old a couple of weeks ago. Before he…
Mon 05 Sep 2022
Episode 168: Daninelle Derricott
Dani Derricott is from Ashland, went to Patrick Henry and told Paul and Kevin the story about “the trail” as an alternate way to get to school. As a younger kid, Dani talked about how they played all…
Mon 29 Aug 2022
Episode 167: Kevin Mills, Part 1
Kevin Mills and Paul know each other from their time in the National Guard together. Kevin grew up in Ashland (Paul did know his older brother) and he told Paul he did all the normal running around a…
Mon 22 Aug 2022
Episode 166: Tony Tran
Tony Tran comes to the podcast through Mike DiMaggio who he went to school with and Paul knows Mike via a family connection. Tony and Paul talked about many things, but started with an amazing surviv…
Mon 15 Aug 2022
Episode 165: Buck Sessoms, Part 2
In Part 2 of the podcast with Buck Sessoms, Paul and and Buck talked about his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Buck told Paul the differences between deployments and some of the stories of what …
Thu 11 Aug 2022
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