The Secret Paint Mix Behind Flawless Pinball Machines - Why Am I Ashley Ludwig
What do you do when you spend 40 hours on a pinball playfield and the very last coat undoes it all? If you're Ashley Ludwig, you go home, have a good cry on the shower floor, and show up the next day to fix it. In this episode, Greg talks with Ashley, a pinball restoration artist from Rochester, New York, about the Craigslist ad she ignored for almost a year, a decade of figuring things out alone with homemade paint mixtures and a lot of trial and error, and why the best restoration work looks like nobody did anything at all. They also wander into house and techno shows, straw sculptures, stained glass, and what comes next after ten years of doing the one thing she can't imagine not doing.
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19 Oct 2026
Nobody Tells You a Big Heart Burns Out on Death - Why Am I Monte Leach
What happens when a kid raised by Nashville musicians, bounced between Tennessee, California, and Texas, finally figures out what he was made to do? Greg sits down with Monte Leach, a registered nurse, Navy honor graduate, dad, and self-described "dude" to everyone, to trace the winding road from Austin debauchery and a Christmas tree lot to the ICU in Houston's Med Center. Along the way, Monty opens up about grief, burnout, a late dyslexia diagnosis, a year when his baby daughter saw him as a stranger, and the quiet gift of being able to put his hands on people and help them heal.
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12 Oct 2026
He Turned Mario Music Into Two Grammy Wins - Why Am I Charlie Rosen
What if the Super Mario Bros. theme, a 45-second loop built on the most rudimentary hardware imaginable, turned out to be a great piece of music all on its own? Greg sits down with Charlie Rosen, a Broadway music director, arranger, and two-time Grammy winner who grew up surrounded by his parents' instruments and went on to lead the 8-bit Big Band, a jazz orchestra devoted to video game music. They talk about the 'Bob Ross of music' job of coloring in a song, the thrill of the sitzprobe when a cast first hears the full orchestra, how a 22-year-old pitched a nightclub on a house big band, and why a Sega-versus-Nintendo debate says so much about how music makes us feel.
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