Tinman Podcast

Brad Estes is the new President of Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, joining the reigning USL Champions about six months ago after a short stint away from the game.  He brings with him years of top level experience at the helm of perennial USL power Louisville City.  While with the Louisville side, he saw the club’s parent company Soccer Holdings Inc. construct a new soccer specific stadium, launch an academy program, and secure and...

Walt Wells is the Head Football Coach at Eastern Kentucky University. He is a veteran of the sidelines having served more than 20 years as both an offensive line coach and coordinator. Besides his stops at Eastern Kentucky, Wells has also spent time at South Florida, Western Kentucky, New Mexico State, Tennessee, and Kentucky. 

He has won championships and Coach of the Year honors, but his biggest win came in 2022, surviving a hear...

Trip Rogers, the new Head Women’s Soccer Coach at Transylvania University, joins for a fun conversation.  Rogers is a veteran of the college game, having coached at the Division I, II, and III levels in both the assistant and lead roles.  

For the past three years Rogers has coached with one of his best friends in Jay Hoffman, the Head Coach at Centre College.  We explore that relationship and what the opportunity meant on both a p...

Ronnie Gregg is the frontman for Southern Accents, the ultimate Tom Petty tribute experience. Originally from Nashville, Gregg is a songwriter and producer with plenty of accolades of his own, including working with Jellyroll.

For the last decade he has committed to playing the part of one of his favorite artists in Petty. We talk about Gregg's individual journey, some of his influences, and the formation of Southern Accents.  We a...

Tony Scalzo is a musician and songwriter best known as the lead singer of Fastball.  Scalzo grew up mainly in California, gravitating to music from an early age and joining bands by the time he was 14.  In 1992, he decided to move to Austin, TX where he would eventually Joey Shuffield and Miles Zuniga.  The trio formed Fastball in 1994.

Fastball combined a fondness for melodic, Beatles-inspired pop with the alternative aesthetic of...

Jeffrey Seller is a Tony Award-winning producer best known for his work on Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights, and Hamilton. His shows won 22 Tony Awards, including four in the Best Musical category. Seller’s Broadway productions and tours seen by more than 43 milltion people have grossed over $4.6 billon, and he is also the only producer with two Pulitzer Prize-winning musicals. 

Seller recently released Theatre Kid: A Broadway Memoir...

Katie George serves as a reporter for ESPN/ABC Saturday college football games alongside Joe Tessitore and Jesse Palmer, and contributes to coverage of several ESPN properties, including the NBA, UFL, and Premier Lacrosse.

Prior to joining ESPN, she worked WDRB in Louisville as the station’s sports anchor and reporter. Most recently, George was the Milwaukee Bucks’ team sideline reporter for the 2018-19 season.

George, the 2015 ACC...

Katherine Blanford, a Louisville, KY native joins the podcast during Derby week!  After racking up millions of views on her Don’t Tell Comedy set, Katherine hit the road sharing confessions of her southern family secrets and awkward adolescent years across the country and internationally.  She has appeared twice on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Vice TV’s Super Maximum Retro Show, Af...

Scott Davenport was a national championship basketball coach at Bellarmine University.  He grew up in Louisville, just blocks from Churchill Downs.  Four years ago he combined two of his passions by starting the Davenport Derby Dash.  The event takes place on the Wednesday night of Derby week with the money raised benefiting the Davenport Family Scholarship for student managers.  Items up for auction or raffle include a personal ba...

The 151st Kentucky Derby is almost here!  Kevin Kerstein is part of the communications team with Churchill Downs Inc. and co-host of the Inside the Kentucky Derby podcast.  He shares this thoughts on a selection of horses from this year's field, from presumptive favorite Journalism to some of the longer shots.  We also talk about how post-position and weather can impact the race.  Get your handicapping started with insights from KK...

March Madness is here, a perfect time re-visit our conversation with NCAA Tournament hero Ty Rogers. His 2008 buzzer beater to lift Western Kentucky over Drake earned him as ESPY. Originally recorded prior to his 2024 induction into the KHSAA Hall of Fame, Rogers shares some memories from his stellar career at Lyon County High School.  Among the things we learn are the fact that one of his high school coaches was Jeff Rogers, which...

Cam Clark joins the podcast to talk about his debut solo album, The Outer Reaches!  Clark lists some of his musical influences as Ray Charles, Al Green, and the Motown sound, while also being enamored with the excitement of live performances of bands like Queen.  It should come as no surprise then that his album provides a healthy mix of rock, R&B, and soul.

A touring artist for over a decade with C2 and The Brothers Reed, the ...

Bobby Ray has spent over a decade officiating women's college basketball games in the ACC and numerous other conferences.  The seventh of seven kids and son of a coach, basketball and competition have been part of his life from day one.  After his own stint as a coach, Ray eventually dove headfirst into the world of officiating.

Our conversation touches on a variety of topics, including the nuances of calling a game, interacting w...

Gary Dunn is a two-time Super Bowl champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers.  As part of the Steeler's dynasty in the 1970s, he helped the juggernaut win Super Bowl XIII over the Dallas Cowboys and Super Bowl XIV over the Los Angeles Rams.

Dunn was drafted by Pittsburgh in 1976 as a defensive tackle out of Miami (FL).  He had to battle to earn his spot on the team, trying to make a name for himself among the Steel Curtain defense feat...

Daymeon Fishback has contributed as a game and studio basketball analyst for ESPN and the SEC Network since 2014.  You can find him on your tv set multiple times a week breaking down college hoops action.  We discuss his experiences as a player, the deeply competitive Southeastern Conference, and the greater college basketball landscape. 

Growing up in Bowling Green, KY, Fishback starred at Greenwood High School, leading the team t...

Amanda Buechel played six years of college soccer, overcoming two ACL tears.  She has since competed in two Ironman competitions while continuing to stay connected to the game she loves.  In 2024, Buechel decided it was time to move to Italy and learn Italian! Once there a professor who learned of her passion for soccer referred her to a team.  She got a tryout, and is now playing for Salernitana 1919 in the Italian Serie C!

In thi...

We kick off Season 3 with Joe Gruschecky, front man of Joe Grushecky and Houserockers.  With over 20 albums to his credit Grushecky has delivered powerful live performances, spent years collaborating with Bruce Springsteen, and helped raise over 8 million dollars for the Light of Day Foundation to fight Parkinsons and ALS.  Most of this was done while maintaining a full-time career as a special education teacher, making Grushecky o...