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The show that allows professional sports Mascots to reveal their bizarre, funny, and inspirational stories from behind the mask and give exclusive insight on what it's like behind the scenes and between the fur of the pro Mascot world. Hosted by NBA Mascot Performer Kenn Solomon. For fans of sports, entertainment, and those looking for a good laugh!
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I recently had the chance to sit down with my longtime friend, Supermascot Rocky, the iconic face (or should I say fur) of the Denver Nuggets, whom I've known for over 33 years. In a candid and heartwarming interview, Rocky (Kenn Solomon) finally reveals the secrets behind the mask after all these years. We've shared so many memories together, from…
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Camping on the roof of Pepsi Center, viral "OK GO" Treadmill Dance & Rocky's Giant Ladder Shot. Kenn Solomon & his former assistant, Jay Evans, reminisce about their unforgettable run as an unstoppable Mascot team. Behind-the-scenes stories, valuable industry insights & just how much impact a skilled Mascot performer can have. Dive into the value o…
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Welcome back to the show. Thank you for being here. My guest today is Kenny Wyland, a small business owner and real estate investor. This episode was originally designed to have two average American guys talking about why one of them loves Trump and one does not. For the sake of understanding either "side". Sadly my conservative Trump fan had sched…
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Hanson Ho (@bidetofevil) is an Android Architect at Embrace, the mobile-first observability solution built on OpenTelemetry. Embrace began as a proprietary platform but went open-source at the end of 2023. Hanson shares about how the project is still at the beginning of its open-source journey and why his team is committed to collaborative developm…
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Hello ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening. My guest today is Alicia Keller, VP of Sales for the brand new luxury living community in south Utah County called Three Bridges in Salem, Utah. She gives us a sneak peak into the origin, vision, and progress of this amazing new high-end golf and amenity-rich community nestled between the ba…
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Stephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Steph…
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Curtis Dvorak, the original Jaxson de Ville, of the Jacksonville Jaguars, for 19 years. Curtis shares unforgettable behind-the-scenes stories, from supportive management, to pushing the boundaries of ever-changing NFL rules. He dives into his infamous beefs with NFL players and his legendary feud with coach Bill Cowher. Curtis discusses why he beli…
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Ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening, once again, welcome back to the program. I have two special guests today. They are Elizabeth Allen and Ellie Higginson, former and current Utah State cheer champions from Salem Hills High School. They reveal the not-so-secret world behind the scenes of competitive cheer teams. It's a grueling leve…
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Ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening, thank you again for listening to the show. My guests today are Landon and Camille Pollard, Jennah Lee Sheffield and Emily Parrish. Almost 5 years ago, we had all of them on the show in an episode called "Perspectives on Life, Like from Teenagers." They're all official adults now so we invited them…
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Ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening, welcome back to the program. My guests today are Cary and Reiley Snowden, a father-son app development team and creators of Simple Migrane Tracker and most recently, Rock Logster, a music and memory journaling app for those who love concerts. A blogging and genealogy meets Yelp app of sorts. The S…
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Ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening, welcome back to the program. My guests today are sisters Ashlie Sanders (@the_nuanced_mormon) and Emilie Call, hosts of the growing podcast called That's Church. Both are lifelong members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) who are building bridges & fostering unity by exp…
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Mark Randall shares his journey from aspiring athlete to NBA player to Mascot Assistant. Mark takes us behind the scenes of a unique and unexpected chapter in his life working with Rocky, and the Denver Nuggets. Discover how this unexpected duo brought energy, entertainment, and unforgettable moments to fans and the community. FOLLOW: 🔥⁠ Kenn Solom…
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Today my guest is Tiffany Sowby, founder of a new foundation, Rising Violet, supporting mostly women who are trying to establish financial independence from previous partners who were the sole bread winners. Many women feel cultural expectations and pressure to rely entirely upon their partners for financial security, but due to death, divorce, and…
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Welcome back to the program ya'll. On the show today is my queer daughter Eden Strader. She came out to us three years ago. The process was a serious growth challenge for us as her parents. We handled it a little bit right but mostly wrong. Not out of malice but ignorance. A lot of damage was done but we've learned how to love better and deeper. It…
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Welcome back to the show. My guest today is the Mayor of Woodland Hills, UT, Brent Winder. He joins me today to talk about what it's like to put yourself out there, run for and hold public office. Taking a look behind the curtain and to brag a little about why this community is such a draw for those looking to move to Utah Valley at the base of Loa…
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Welcome back to Parrish The Thought podcast. Today, we have the pleasure of speaking with Rachel and Aaron Earnest, who have recently relocated to the breathtaking mountain neighborhood of Summit Creek in Woodland Hills, Utah. Join us as they share their journey and reveal why they chose this stunning community as their new home. #SummitCreekUtah #…
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Austin Fritts, the high-flying professional dunker and social media sensation. With over 3 billion views in just three years and close to one million followers online, Austin has become a household name in the realm of basketball entertainment. Austin shares his incredible journey from local courts to the grand stages of the NBA, including Denver N…
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Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API consumption. According to Eyal, it’s very easy to integrate with APIs, but difficult to keep them maintained, and there was a clear nee…
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Shirshanka Das (@shirshanka) is the CTO of Acryl Data and founder of DataHub, which bills itself as the #1 open-source metadata platform. It enables data discovery, data observability and federated governance to help tame complex data ecosystems. Shirshanka first developed DataHub while at LinkedIn, but has grown it into an independent project with…
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Ladies and gentlemen, and whoever else is listening. Welcome back again to the show. This may be one of the most intriguing episodes in the last 5 years. Several months ago I interviewed author Charlene Paul, Episode 159, who wrote a book called Devotion Deliverance Deception, Keep Sweet - Pray and Obey, Isaac's Story about a young mans' life journ…
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My guest today is the author of The Gift of a Punishment-Free Childhood, Rebecca Woulfe. This book is a refreshing oasis for parents—a loving and humorous account of one mother’s journey of parenting her children without punishment. Rebecca Woulfe empowers you to trust your instincts, address each child’s unique needs, and uncover the solutions tha…
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My guest today is Troy Warner of First Class Home Mortgage. We talk about the current concerns in the market and why it's still a great time to own real estate, if you can manage it of course. It also may not be a dark as it seems. One tip. Stop watching the media as basis for your research in making real estate decisions. CONTACT TROY http://troyw…
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After his first child was born, Matt Wonlaw (@tantaman) imagined giving his son life advice. What kind of life did he want his kid to lead? At the time, he was working for Facebook, and he decided that his own life needed a change in direction. So Matt started vlcn, aka Vulcan Labs, a research company that develops open-source projects like CR-SQLi…
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My guests today are the hosts of the long-time LDS podcast called The Sisterhood Podcast. Two LDS women who have created a hopeful place for women who love the gospel but struggle with the church. Promoting love and understanding for women all over the faith spectrum. We talk about how we as humans and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latte…
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Ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening. Welcome back to the program. Today my guest is former NAR, National Association of Realtors president, Kenny Parcell here to talk about, and clarify, the recent court ruling against NAR and what that actually means for buyers, sellers, realtors and the real estate industry as a whole. We also touc…
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My guest today is Hunter Rasmussen, otherwise recently known as the 1 Legged Hunter. About 5 months ago, in a freak hunting accident, he was accidentally shot by his friend and ended up losing his leg below the knee. As a young man about to start the rest of his life, this was a devastating blow. In the dark corners of his mind, his life was over…o…
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Welcome, my guest today is Malory Ruesch, author of the book Inspired to Recover and owner of Ruesch Recovery. She has deep knowledge of the ups and downs of addiction and recovery as she is a recovering addict herself, of almost 10 years. We deep dive into the choices that led her down the dark paths she had to travel in order to meet an incredibl…
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Amplication is an open-source development platform for scalable and secure Node.js applications. It allows engineers to skip writing boilerplate code and offers the flexibility to customize and add components. Amplification was created by Yuval Hazaz (@Yuvalhazaz1), a veteran developer who determined that low-code platforms save time but restrict f…
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Journey back to the early days of NBA mascots, where Kenn Solomon and his assistant Scott Strate formed an inseparable team, mastering the art of Mascot mind-reading, improved performances, and thriving under intense pressure. Beyond the success of their performances, Scott's unwavering support and keen intuition not only ensured Kenn's well-being …
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My guests today are two. Jennifer Grimshaw and Heather Morley. Two amazing humans, utah realtors and most impressive of all, they’re both working single moms. Life happened to both of them in a hard way but they embraced uncomfortable and are killing it in real estate and being pretty dang cool moms. Just ask any of their kids. #SingleMoms #SingleM…
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OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes (@didier_lopes). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal that Didier began working on shortly before the Gamestop short squeeze in January 2021. Today, OpenBB has evolved into an infrastructure platform that allows users to build extensions and access finan…
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My guest today is Amy Watkins Jensen, faithful member of the LDS Church, wife, mother, and creator of the IG account, Women on the Stand. This episode is primarily for members of the LDS Church but has implications in all religions and organizations. Why is this important? In a typical LDS Church meeting, for example only the Bishop and his counsel…
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OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting and managing telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been more successful than expected, becoming the second fastest growing project in the CNCF. It allows for flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in, making it attractive to startups and large enterprises alike. On today’s show, Eric (@…
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Kenn sits down with John Nunez, the former embodiment of the iconic "Benny The Bull" Mascot for eight thrilling years. From donning the beloved costume at a young age to facing the intense pressure of maintaining a character with an immense reputation, John shares the highs and lows of his journey as the famous Mascot. FOLLOW: 🔥 Kenn Solomon 🔥 John…
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My guest today is Careshmeh French and a couple years ago, she lost her soul mate, best friend and husband. All who happened to have been the same amazing man. This loss has left her broken beyond anything she has ever experienced before. The strange part about this is how those around her are uncomfortable with her grieving process and feel like s…
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My guest today is author of a new-ish book which takes us on a personal tour inside the FLDS church through one man's personal experience at the feet of Warren Jeffs, Charlene Paul. Issac's life is nothing short of astonishing! A shocking and mesmerizing story of faith, abuse, courage and freedom. It is well written with a blend of honesty, accepta…
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OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the information they need to make decisions. Today, we’re talking to Or Weis (@OrWeis), co-creator of OPAL and co-founder of Permit, the e…
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Welcome back to the show. Today the microphones are flipped and I am in the hot seat as a guest on Cheryl Knowlton's Command Performances podcast. Cheryl is a public speaker and a public speaking coach, real estate coach and a ton of other energetic things. She grills me and gets me to tell my story into podcasting and real estate and the big life …
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Today's episode is with Tom Burgoyne. Dive into the fascinating world of pro Mascots as Kenn chats with the iconic Phillie Phanatic performer about the art of keeping traditions alive and maintaining the magic that fans cherish. Discover the artistry, dedication, and the fascinating stories behind the unwavering consistency in the realm of Mascots.…
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Episode #64. In this inspiring episode we dive into the remarkable journey of Mike Walsh, the former mascot for the Colorado Rapids, known as Rapidman. Despite facing the challenges of hearing impairment since childhood and the gradual loss of his vision, Mike has turned adversity into opportunity. Discover the incredible story of how Mike not only…
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After a long and successful career as a high school coach and administrator, Mark was "sentenced" to prison by his local school board. He became the academy principal with the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison, Utah. Arriving at the "Island of Misfit Toys", he quickly realized a massive opportunity to truly help and correct inmates. He…
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FerretDB enables users to run MongoDB applications on existing Postgres infrastructure. Peter Farkas (@FarkasP), co-founder and CEO of FerretDB, explains the need for an open source interface for document databases. Peter also discusses the licensing change of MongoDB and the uncertainty it created for users. He emphasizes the importance of open st…
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Welcome back to the second episode in my series for LDS (Mormon) parents of gay children. In part 1, Episode 155, Jake guided us through this first phase of his coming out journey as a 34 yo man to his parents a little over 4 months ago. On today’s episode, we have an additional special guest, Sue Petersen, who was the Stake Relief Society presiden…
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Episode #63 Meet today's guest Trey Humphreys, formerly the force behind the Atlanta Falcons Mascot persona "Freddie The Falcon". Trey has evolved into a multifaceted individual, now making waves as an accomplished author of the book "Love is Bananas", personal branding strategist, and international speaker.In every endeavor, Trey continues to embo…
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Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming incremental changes, allowing for easy data recovery in the event of a server crash. LiteFS, on the other hand, is built on LiteStream but u…
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Welcome back to the program Parrish The Thought listeners. Today's episode is the first in a short series I'm doing for LDS parents specifically and also applies to parents of all faiths. My guest and new friend, Jake, is 34 and has recently come out to his LDS parents. Having an already strained relationship for the past 15 years has been hard eno…
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Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is part of the Tokio stack, which is a library that provides an asynchronous runtime for Rust and more tools to write async applications. Today, Lucio Franco (@lucio_d_franco) of Turso joins the podcast …
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rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database built on Raft and SQLite. Founder Philip O’Toole (@general_order24) decided to combine these technologies while working at a startup years ago. The startup no longer exists, but rqlite is going strong. Today, Philip is an engineering manager at Google, while he continues to be the driving for…
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Ladies, gentlemen and whoever else is listening. Welcome back to the show. I appreciate you stopping by. A couple months ago I was having a chat with my co-worker Quintin, bantering back and forth about hobbies and the frivolities of life. Come to find out he is a serious sports cards collector and trader. My dear friends, this is a world I knew no…
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My guest today is the funnyman himself, Corey Zimmerman, co-owner and sales manager of the one and only Elevate Homescriptions. Covering Utah and Arizona for more than 10 years. For those who might be wondering what that means, well its a home warranty on steroids. He is with me today to talk about what it all means and why it matters to anyone who…
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