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Positive Blatherings Podcast

Positive Blatherings Podcast

Written by: ROC Vox Podcast Network
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Scott "Fitz" is a radio host in Rochester, NY and a filmmaker who has battled depression and celebrates sobriety. His podcast is his attempt to surround himself with positive successful people and to just have an organic conversation. Join him as he takes an organic approach to the standard interview. No preparation, no script. Letting the conversation have a mind of its own: a Blathering.Copyright ROC Vox Podcast Network Spirituality
Episodes
  • Will Powell | AI Is Coming For You

    Will Powell | AI Is Coming For You
    Oct 6 2026
    Will Powell has been a motivational speaker, a voiceover talent, and the driving force behind The Player 1 Academy in Rochester, where kids work through math, reading, and social studies inside VR headsets and alongside personal robots. He automates his outreach to schools across the country, takes meetings in smart glasses that transcribe and fact check in real time, and juggles around 11 projects at once. Fifteen years ago he shelved an idea for a puppet show because it needed a puppet builder in Canada, puppeteers in Nebraska and California, and a ton of money. Now he builds it on a laptop.

    In this episode he talks about why ChatGPT is just the beginning, the AI agent that reaches out to 20 school leaders every morning at 8:00 and books the Zoom call without him touching a keyboard, and his warning that anyone who doesn't know AI in three years is done. He and Fitz get into layoffs and universal basic income, the environmental cost of data centers, whether college is still worth it, AI slop and the one sentence that fixes it, and why so many local AI experts don't hold up to a real question. He also shares how he learns (YouTube, a stack of notebooks, and one big new tool every 90 days), why AI is a tool and not a second brain, and how he's putting it to work on ROC Recode and the Hip Hoppets, before dropping Fitz into his own AI-generated studio for the closing segment.

    CONNECT

    The Player 1 Academy → https://www.player1academy.org
    Will Motivates → https://willmotivates.com
    ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com

    New episodes every Tuesday.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Bushnell's Basin, NY.

    Learn more at https://rocvox.com

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording and Production Studios, Rochester, NY.
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Corey Keyes | The Keyes To Spirituality

    Corey Keyes | The Keyes To Spirituality
    Sep 29 2026
    Corey Keyes managed the college radio station at SUNY Brockport, worked as a spokesman for the Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, and heard his calling while driving alone through the state after Hurricane Hugo in 1989. He finished seminary at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, and in 1996 he was called to West Bloomfield Congregational Church, the church he grew up in, where the congregation grew like gangbusters. Then the pandemic had him preaching to an empty sanctuary, with photos of his congregation taped into their favorite pews so he wouldn't be alone, and it burned him to a crisp.

    In this episode he talks about why a call isn't something that suddenly arrives but something you finally uncover enough to hear, how stepping away to lead the Haden Institute brought him back to the pulpit, and the five-day window that led him to Mountain Rise United Church of Christ in Fairport, recorded on his 21st day as pastor. He and Fitz get into ego and self-care, gratitude and grief after losing his brother in 2017, regret, why it's harder to forgive yourself than someone else, and why he keeps both a therapist and a spiritual director in his corner. He also shares why he believes faith doesn't require a church, and where to find his writing on Substack.

    CONNECT
    Corey Keyes on Substack → https://coreykeyes.substack.com
    Mountain Rise United Church of Christ → https://mtriseucc.org
    ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com

    New episodes every Tuesday.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Bushnell's Basin, NY.

    Learn more at https://rocvox.com

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording and Production Studios, Rochester, NY.
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    52 mins
  • Adrian Esposito | Filmmaking on the Spectrum

    Adrian Esposito | Filmmaking on the Spectrum
    Sep 25 2026
    Adrian Esposito is a Rochester filmmaker who has been writing, producing, and directing films for more than a decade, from Bury My Heart with Tonawanda, a family film about how the Tonawanda Seneca Nation cared for its own people with disabilities, to Greetings From Tromaville!, his documentary on Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Entertainment. He is on the autism spectrum, spent his whole life in special education, and makes a point of putting people with disabilities in the kinds of movies you would never expect to see them in. His latest, Special Needs Revolt!, took six years to get made. In 2023, with the cast finally secured and the crowdfunding still short, he and his mom decided to pay for it themselves. In this episode he talks about the action comedy at the center of Special Needs Revolt!, a Rambo style hero with Down syndrome who takes down a dictator who has sent people with disabilities back to institutions, and the Troma, South Park, and Josh "The Ponceman" Perry influences behind it. He gets into the SAG-AFTRA complications that kept Perry out of the cast, why he believes ableism shaped how some of his crew treated him, the cue cards that helped lead actor Nolan Tierce deliver the film's closing speech, and the day he broke down and cried when an actor threatened to walk off halfway through production. He also shares where he stands on AI in filmmaking, the disability language he is comfortable with and why only the villains use the R word, and his next projects, Campfire Stories and a horror film called Wrong Town. Special Needs Revolt! screens Thursday, October 1 at 7:30 PM at The Little Theatre in Rochester.

    #SpecialNeedsRevolt, #DisabilityRepresentation, #IndependentFilm, #AutismSpectrum, #PositiveBlatherings, #ROCVox, #DownSyndrome, #RochesterFilm, #Troma

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording and Production Studios, Rochester, NY.
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    33 mins
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