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Choppin' It Down

Daniel Rivera

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Choppin' It Down is a show where three young men talk about the topics that need to be talked about. We look at society from different aspects and reflect on the world that is consistently changing around us. Plus, we also have fun while doing so!
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Power Spike

Last Free Nation

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Power Spike features hosts Christian "IWillDominate" Rivera, Adrian "Jamada" Wharlton-Thorne, and Daniel "Dgon" Gonzales in a segment-based talk show discussing global League of Legends.
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('Blind Pig': a speakeasy, an elicit establishment that offers illegal alcohol) Blind Pig is BGO's official round table discussion of all-things Washington Commanders Football. Come pull up a chair, pour a libation of your choosing, and join in some passionate DC Football debate. BGO, a 'Burgundy and Gold Obsession', is the most passionate, intelligent community of Washington Commanders fans on the web since 2009. Join us at www.bgobsession.com!
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Sucker Punch

Sam Rivera

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All things and Combat Sports: The Sucker Punch podcast speaks on a variety of topics; everything from MMA to current events. It is hosted by a couple of weirdos who revel in how truly bonkers the current state of the world has become. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/SuckerPunch/support
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The Film Scorer

Nicholas Marcus

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The Film Scorer Podcast features a wide array of long-form interviews with film composers, including up-and-comers, established veterans, and everybody in between. Hear first-hand from masters of the craft about the film scoring process, see behind-the-scenes, and learn all about the art of film and film music.
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Helping active duty, guard, reserves, and military spouses make a successful career transition into the world of financial planning. Welcome to the Military to Financial Planner podcast with your host, Daniel Kopp. Join him as he shares his unique perspectives and career transition advice, help you leverage your military experience, be intentional about each step of your career journey, and ultimately build the post-military life and career that you want.
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JESUS TREJO BOOK CLUB - Podcast Hi, I'm Jesus Trejo! Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, TV host, Foodie, and award-winning children's book author. Welcome to JTBC, the book club for fellow book lovers! If you're passionate about stories, creativity, and all things literary, you're in the right place. Here on JTBC, we'll dive deep into the world of books, talking with authors, illustrators, editors, art directors, and more. Plus, we'll feature in-depth book reviews to keep your reading list fr ...
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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show note ...
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City of Ames’ podcasts that bring you closer to the people, programs, and events that make Ames a great place to live. Just follow City of Ames’ Podcasts wherever you get your podcasts and you will get two great podcasts in a single feed! Get more information about things happening in Ames at www.CityofAmes.org
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** Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks ** Host David Barr Kirtley, author of the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories, talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Simon Pegg, Bill Nye, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy has appeared on recommended podcast lists from NPR, The Guardian, Wired, The A.V. Club, BBC America, CBC Radio, WVXU, io9, Omni, The St ...
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Changing Tomorrow

Gayathri Unnikrishnan

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Join Gayathri as she engages in conversations with today's most impactful changemakers, uncovering how they are shaping a brighter future. In each episode, these innovators candidly share their unique perspectives, hard-earned lessons, and invaluable tools for others. "Changing Tomorrow" serves as a masterclass in crafting an impactful career, offering practical tools to navigate your work in ways that create ripples of positive change for the future. This is Changing Tomorrow. The future we ...
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Worship leaders, you need a source of high-quality, engaging content that get's right to the point. With over 150,000 leaders and musicians trained through our online platform, we're on the front lines of what worship leaders need right now. The Worship Online podcast exists to empower, equip, and journey with worship leaders as we discuss worship and the heart behind it. In these weekly episodes, you'll discover new ideas, tips, and practical guidance to encourage you and your team to be th ...
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In the (Fume) Hood

In The (Fume) Hood

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Professors Matt Cooper and Jason Bara talk about chemical engineering and education (among a variety of other fun topics) with a focus on Material & Energy Balance courses using the seminal textbook by Felder, Rousseau & Bullard as a guide.
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Location independence as a family is possible for everyone! Along our travels, we have met families all around the world who have embraced this lifestyle. This podcast is all about how you too can choose to live a location independent lifestyle as a family. We cover topics such as homeschooling, roadschooling and worldschooling as well as remote working and running a location independent business. Join us as we fly, sail and RV around the world!
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Bending Spoons is the acquisition machine of the tech world. They have acquired the likes of Evernote, Vimeo, Eventbrite, Streamyard and more. However, they never open their gates to the secrets behind Evernote's product machine. Today that changes with Federico Simionato joining 20Product. Fede has been a Product Lead at Bending Spoons for 8 years…
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In this episode of Up Close, host Casandra Eames sits down with Daniel Pixley, whose journey started in Ames before taking him across borders. Casandra and Daniel reflect on what it means to live in different parts of the world, and how two people from very different places ended up meeting at Iowa State University. They talk about the rhythm of li…
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Your worship team isn't just playing music. You're teaching theology and shaping hearts. So why are we settling for cover versions of songs when the church should be leading the world in creativity? For centuries, the church birthed the world's greatest art: Bach's masterpieces, Handel's Messiah, hymns that shaped nations. But somewhere along the w…
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AGENDA: 04:20 Thrive and OpenAI Partnership 07:14 Databricks Raising $5BN at $134BN Valuation: Cheap or Not? 17:39 Eventbrite Acquired by Bending Spoons for $500M 21:39 Pagerduty's $1BN Market Cap, Just 2x Revenue 26:59 The TAM Trap: Why SaaS Is Like Japan 37:42 Lessons from Companies Hitting $100M ARR 44:57 The Future of Labour Markets is F****** …
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Send the BGO Blind Pig podcast crew a Text Message The Pigs talk moral victory vs. tryptophan hangover? It’s a ‘Hard Knocks’ life for Commanders fans… Please visit our video podcast at https://www.youtube.com/@bgobsession2243 and like and subscribe to our feed. Rating the podcast on both You Tube and your favorite audio podcast provider is sincerel…
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In this episode of Ames in Focus, we zoom in on the Ames Public Library and how community support turns a great library into something extraordinary. From career journeys to curated booklists, it’s a behind-the-scenes look at what makes the library tick and how you can be part of it. You’ll learn how donations fuel programs like the IDEA Center, yo…
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Jonathan Siddharth is Founder and CEO of Turing, one of the fastest-growing AI companies advancing frontier models. Jonathan has led the company to an astonishing $300M ARR with just $225M raised and a profitable company. A Stanford-trained AI scientist, Jonathan previously helped pioneer natural language search at Powerset, which was acquired by M…
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John McMahon is widely regarded as one of the greatest enterprise-software sales leaders of all time. He's the only person to have served as Chief Revenue Officer at five public software companies: PTC, GeoTel, Ariba, BladeLogic and BMC Software. He helped scale BladeLogic from a startup into a public company — ultimately leading to its ~$880M sale…
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AGENDA: 04:06 Anthropic's $30BN Investment from Microsoft and NVIDIA 07:01 Google vs. OpenAI: Sam Altman's "War Mode" Memo 15:27 NVIDIA's Customer Concentration: Bull or Bear 22:12 Is "War Mode" BS: Does Hyper-Aggressive Ever Work? 36:12 Sierra Hits $100M ARR: Justify $10BN Price? 46:14 Implementation is the Biggest Barrier to Enterprise AI Growth …
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In this episode of Up Close, host Casandra Eames welcomes back three recent guests: Dylan Kline, Sarah Huffman, and Angie DeWaard. Together, they reflect on the themes that connect their stories, including community, curiosity, and care. Casandra shares the threads she noticed across their conversations, from volunteering and raising kids to the sm…
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Send the BGO Blind Pig podcast crew a Text Message The Pigs sit down and touch on a couple of the hot Washington Commanders topics... Should we pursue Aiyuk? Should Jayden get back out there? Please visit our video podcast at https://www.youtube.com/@bgobsession2243 and like and subscribe to our feed. Rating the podcast on both You Tube and your fa…
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Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Tom Gerencer join us to discuss the Jean-Claude Van Damme movies Timecop, Universal Soldier, Cyborg, and Replicant. Time stamps: Timecop (15:21), Universal Soldier (41:27), Cyborg (1:01:35), Replicant (1:19:53). Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks. Learn more about your a…
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Curious what it’s like to ride shotgun in a patrol car or dust for fingerprints at a mock crime scene? In this episode, Community Resource Officer Nate Rivera returns to Ames in Focus to pull back the curtain on the Citizen Police Academy. This hands-on program gives Ames residents a rare peek inside the day-to-day world of local policing. Since la…
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Maor Shlomo is the Founder and CEO of Base44, the AI building platform that Maor built from idea to $80M acquisition by Wix, in just 8 months. Today the company serves millions of users and will hit $50M ARR by the end of the year. Before Base44, Maor was the Co-Founder and CTO of Explorium. AGENDA: 00:05 – 00:10: How Vibe Coding is Going to Kill S…
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Max Altman is Co‑Founder & Managing Partner at Saga Ventures, a US$125 M early‑stage fund. Before Saga Max was an investor with Apollo Projects, Hydrazine Capital and Altman Capital (where he helped deploy over US$500 M) into breakout names such as Rippling and Reddit. AGENDA: 03:55 – Venture Capital Is FULL of Tourists With Single-Digit IQs 06:20 …
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My guest today is once again Stephen Jenkinson, a culture activist, teacher and author, and principal instructor of The Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded with his wife Nathalie Roy. He has Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). The School, though now formally closed, has made an incredibly si…
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In this episode of Up Close, host Casandra Eames talks with Angie DeWaard, who first came to Ames to study literature at Iowa State. Though her career path has taken her into the world of IT, Angie’s love for stories and observation shines through in a different way, behind the lens of her camera. Angie shares some of her favorite spots around Ames…
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AGENDA: 04:47 Cursor Raises $2.3BN at $29BN Valuation 11:36 What Gemini 3 Means for Lovable, Cursor and Replit 30:54 Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA: The Bubble Bursting? 48:54 Oracle Credit Default Swaps: The Risk is Increasing 01:07:22 Stripe Does Tender at All-Time High: Why the Best Companies Will Never IPO 01:19:18 Why Retail WIll Cause a…
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My guest today is Miki Dedijer, a writer, ecologist, and mentor devoted to the ancestral arts of belonging, fatherhood, and grassroots initiation. In our conversation, Miki invites us to look at the crisis facing young men and the absence of meaningful adulthood in our time. He speaks to the ecological and emotional consequences of failing to initi…
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In this episode, we welcome back Vanessa Baker-Latimer, Housing Coordinator and longtime organizer of the City’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration. Vanessa shares what’s in store for the 2026 event, happening January 19 at the Ames City Auditorium. From powerful speakers and moving tributes to student voices and community connection…
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Send the BGO Blind Pig podcast crew a Text Message The Pigs review Sunday's Commanders loss to the Miami Dolphins in Madrid, and discuss where the team goes for the rest of the 'sub-optimal' 2025 season. Please visit our video podcast at https://www.youtube.com/@bgobsession2243 and like and subscribe to our feed. Rating the podcast on both You Tube…
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Dr. Andrew Ng is a globally recognized leader in AI. He is Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Executive Chairman of LandingAI, General Partner at AI Fund, Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera. As a pioneer in machine learning Andrew has authored or co-authored over 200 research papers in machine learning, robotics and related fields. In 2023, he was named …
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Relive the epic conclusion of the 2025 League of Legends season in this special Power Spike finale! We break down T1’s nail-biting 3-2 victory over KT in the Telecom War, cementing Faker’s status as the greatest of all time with his sixth Worlds Championship. From underdog stories to championship glory, we cover the opening ceremony highlights, pla…
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Carl Rivera is the Chief Design Officer at Shopify, where he previously led both Merchant Services and the Shop App as VP of Product. Before joining Shopify through its acquisition of Tictail, Carl was the co-founder and CEO of Tictail, the "Tumblr for e-commerce," where he built one of the most beloved design-forward commerce platforms of its era.…
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In this episode of Up Close, host Casandra Eames talks with Sarah Huffman, whose path to Ames included a lot of movement, from travel across the U.S. to couch surfing and time spent living abroad. Now rooted in Ames, Sarah shares how the city became more than just a stop along the way. As a volunteer and active community member, she finds Ames to b…
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Do you want to see your church become passionate about the original songs your worship team is writing? Alexandra Osteen from Lakewood Music reveals the simple language shift that transformed their congregation from passive listeners to passionate champions of their original worship songs. In this episode, you'll discover: • The one word change tha…
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AGENDA: 04:22 Sequoia's Leadership Transition 09:46 Michael Burry's Big Short on Nvidia and Palantir 17:41 Gamma Raises $100M at a $2BN Valuation 32:34 Does Defensibility Exist Today When Copying is Easy 40:31 Should All Funds Be Way More Diversified 47:12 How to Run a Fundraising Process & What Not To Do 57:57 Datadog Surges 20% and Duolingo Crash…
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Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Anthony Ha join us to discuss Season 1 of the FX series Alien: Earth, a prequel to the classic films Alien and Aliens. Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy David Barr Kirtley
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Send the BGO Blind Pig podcast crew a Text Message The Pigs talk continuing Washington Commanders woes, a growing injury list, and make predictions on what we might see against the Dolphins in Madrid, Spain. Please visit our video podcast at https://www.youtube.com/@bgobsession2243 and like and subscribe to our feed. Rating the podcast on both You …
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In this Veterans Day edition of Ames in Focus, host Bill Gebhart talks with two City of Ames employees who have dedicated their lives to service in more ways than one. Jason Ziph, a Fire Inspector and Navy veteran, and Brad Campbell, a Police Officer and member of the Army National Guard, share how their time in the military has shaped their career…
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Ev Randle is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the best funds in venture capital. In their latest fund, they have Mercor ($10BN valuation), Sierra ($10BN valuation), Firework ($4BN valuation), Legora ($2Bn valuation) and Langchain ($1.4Bn valuation). To put this in multiples on invested capital, that is a 60x, two 30x and two 20x. Before Benchm…
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The end is here! Well, the end of season 5 at least. That's right, after over twelve months the season is finally over (making it, I think, the longest season of The Film Scorer yet), and what better wait to celebrate than to chat with Max Richter? Max's (Ad Astra, The Leftovers) latest score is for the incredible historical drama Hamnet, a fiction…
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Worlds 2025 is reaching its peak, and Power Spike is here with ALL the drama, analysis, and biggest moments from the Playoffs! IWDominate, dGon, and Jamada dive into every playoff matchup, discussing KT's unlikely victory over GenG, G2 coming up short against a vulnerable TES, and much more. We then take a look at the Worlds Final matchup. Who will…
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I’m pleased to share this #mini episode with Maria Souza, a Comparative Mythologist, Poet, and Educator, and founder of Women & Mythology. As we name in the conversation, we’ve known about each other for some time and appreciated each others’ work from afar. Just as Robert Bly’s ‘Iron John’ is the book that ignited the mythopoetic men’s movement, s…
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Chad Peets is one of the greatest sales leaders and recruiters of the last 25 years. From 2018 to 2023, Chad was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures. Chad has worked with the world's best CEOs and CROs to build world-class go-to-market organizations. Chad is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Lacework and Luminary Cloud and on…
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In this episode of Up Close, host Casandra Eames sits down with Dylan Kline, a builder in more ways than one. After arriving in Ames for a construction job, Dylan found himself laying deeper foundations as a leader, a volunteer, and a father. Dylan shares how his role with the Ames Alliance allows him to help shape the city’s future, while his even…
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