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This Week’s Episode (2.16.15): Ryan Nee Again

Ryan Nee returns again this week to continue his conversation with Jon of All Trades about his world travels. When we left off last week, Ryan was describing visiting his brother Bill in Chile, and we pick up right there this week. We then venture through China, India, Vietnam, frickin’ North Korea, and take a…

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This Week’s Episode (2.9.15): Ryan Nee

This week’s guest features, for the first time, a sibling of one of our former guests. Ryan Nee is a world traveler, and also happens to be the younger brother of William Nee, China Researcher for Amnesty International, from Episode 21. The Nee Family is international, by God! This is the very first two-part episode…

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This Week’s Episode (2.2.15): Deirdre Wildman

This week’s guest is Deirdre Wildman, senior event designer, and self-anointed “Hospitalitarian,” at Four Five One Events. What exactly is a “hospitalitarian?” According to the write-up Deirdre received as part of the Denver Business Journal’s 2012 40 Under 40 award winners, she defines it as “someone who supports, advocates and practices the hospitality doctrine through…

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This Week’s Episode (1.26.15): John Dicker

Our final installment of #GeekMonth features the head honcho of Geeks Who Drink, John Dicker. The road to Geek Bowl IX is nearing its end, and I’ve saved the big dog for last. On this week’s episode, John shares with me the humble origins of what has become this pub quiz juggernaut, how he’s successfully…

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This Week’s Episode (1.19.15): Christopher Short

Deeper, ever deeper, we penetrate Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes on the road to Geek Bowl IX! Having now heard from a fearsome team of players and an awesome party host of a quizmaster, we level up once again by going inside the black box of the editorial process with Geeks Who Drink Head Editor…

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This Week’s Episode (1.12.15): Quizmaster Johnny

Continuing Geeks Who Drink month on the road to Geek Bowl IX is Quizmaster Johnny! You’ve heard from the players, now hear from one of the many who work every night of the week (except for basically Friday – because, y’know, bars don’t really need help getting traffic on Fridays) bringing you the geekiest, drinkiest…

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This Week’s Episode (1.5.15): The Slumpbusters

Welcome to 2015! To kick off the new year, and because I love the company so much, all throughout January I’m featuring Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes! That’s right, we’re on the road to Geek Bowl IX, and to get you in the proper frame of mind, we will be spending the next four weeks…

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Jon of All Trades By the Numbers

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the year-end wrap-up of the Jon of All Trades Podcast. I’m your host, Jon Eks. Thank you for joining us, glad to have you back once again. On March 19th of this year, I debuted the first three episodes of the Jon of All Trades Podcast. Since then, I’ve rolled out…

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This Week’s Episode (12.15.14): Jeff Bontrager

This week’s guest is Jeff Bontrager, founder and creator of Neckitecture, your brand new source of custom neck ties. Jeff sits down with Jon and talks about why he developed a passion for neckties (especially in the casual landscape of the Rocky Mountain West), his process for creating new ties, the unusual materials he uses…

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This Week’s Episode (12.8.14): Jarrod Perrott

This week’s guest is Jarrod Perrott, owner of FastFrame of LoDo. Locally owned and operated, FastFrame of LoDo provides custom picture framing in Denver. They’re located on 15th Street in the heart of Historic Lower Downtown Denver (LoDo).  Jon sits down with Jarrod and while they talk some about framing, the bulk of this week’s…

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