High Dive is Alabama's first listening lounge. Bart Stephens is our guest and the founder of High Dive. Bart spent years traveling the world visiting all of the best listening lounges in the world. He took all that experience and channeled it into what will certainly go down as one of the best listening lounges in America. World class food, amazing service, and most of all incredible music. This is a must visit!

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0:00 intros

1:30 Favorite album this week?

5:30 Growing up

11:00 The college years

19:00 Moving back to Birmingham

22:00 Becoming an audiophile 26:00 Career before High Dive

34:00 The birth of High Dive

60:00 What is the future?

The SEC mind cannot comprehend. We've talked about this once before, Step Sing is show choir for adults. It's a riot of a time where an entire college campus buys into making a singing and dancing show for 100,000 people to watch. It's wild.

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Tyler Gilbert is a painter based out of Birmingham, AL. His primary subject is the automobile. His fascination with cars has been a lifelong pursuit and he is taking the leap to make art and cars his full time gig. We brought him on to learn how about his artistic process and where he is planning on taking this passion of his.

Check out Tyler's art!

https://tg-creates-103713.square.site/

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0:00 intros

5:00 College and orthodontic school

17:00 Finding art

25:00 Where the passion for cars started

45:00 Buying the dream truck

51:00 Art techniques

58:00 2 car garage

1:15:00 fin

Merritt is a jack of all trades. She's a hustler, an entrepreneur, and she's pretty funny. From the MET Gala to South Africa to building businesses, she does it all.

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0:00 intros

4:00 Day in the life

11:00 Making money

25:00 College years

37:00 Social media good or bad

50:00 What’s the dream

58:00 The Met Gala

1:10:00 fin

Duquette is a man of many, many talents. His life is a wild one. From touring with the Foo Fighters, going to prison, starting a mens retail store, to fighting the FED in Washington DC. It seems like he has lived 5 lives in 50 years. He is one of the most beloved people in Birmingham, AL and a seriously cool dude.

https://clubduquette.co/

https://ruggedandfancy.com/

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0:00 intros

2:00 growing up

17:00 Getting into the music scene

31:00 The business of music and art

40:00 The Lost Years and getting arrested

1:01:00 Economic impact of music on a city

1:10:00 Doing new things

1:17:00 A new way of doing business

1:32:00 Club Duquette and fashion

1:55:00 Getting involved in politics

2:26:00 fin

Cole Stefanek is the founder of Over The Mountain Cruisers. He has built an auto shop solely focused on making Land Cruisers outlive people. These are some of the most robust vehicles ever built and Cole has built his career around making them last forever.

Check out OTM here!

https://otmcruisers.com/about/

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0:00 intros

3:00 The love affair with Land Cruisers begins

8:00 the business starts

27:00 Off-roading

40:00 2 car garage

47:30 The future

57:00 fin

We have been putting out Word of Mouth episodes for 2 years now. Hard to believe it sometimes. Our friend AK was around when Stephen and i first became friends. This week we wanted to spend some time reflecting on the years being friends and making the podcast together.

0:00 intros

1:00 Who is AK

12:00 What were our first impressions of each other?

25:00 When was the podcast born

30:00 the name

38:00 The newly wed game

1:18:00 the mission of WOM

1:29:00 fin

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Bob Miller is an award winning film maker based here in Birmingham, AL. He has traveled the world creating films that speak for those with no voice. His work includes films like Exodus and Medina's Song which tell of the struggles the people of Sudan have faced during war and times of unrest. He is here to tell us the story his path to becoming a full time film creator.

Check out Bob's work here!

bobmiller.works

0:00 intros

4:30 What does Bob do

6:30 How Bob got into film and photography

25:00 Film grad school

36:00 Advocacy work

56:00 Medina’s Story

1:13:00 Wrapping up

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