Nicholas Dominic Talvola: Musician / Photographer / Skeet Shooter / Cheese Connoisseur / Hobbyist

08/18/21 • 89 min

Nic lives in a bird house and we are pecking at his food.
I have met my match in cheese connoisseurry (that is a made up word). We are also very deep into Sotolo and if you don’t know, now you know - it’s a mix between tequila and mezcal. Yes. What the what is what I said as well. Join us on our sloshy jazzy journey through life experiences and an insane slide guitar performance.
Interview highlights:
+ on buying a trumpet for $3,000 and getting a one-way ticket to Spain
+ how schlongs become best friends
+ being creative by not using your creative tools
+ being obsessive, having 10 hobbies, getting bored to get better
+ untouched places
+ intuition and knowing
+ ”happy” - in “finger” “quotes”
+ living a crazy international life
+ psychotic uninvited camping guests
+ money is no object
+ acid, mushrooms, DMT
+ hipster hippie water
A taste:
“I ended up falling in love with her and we hooked up and that’s how I learned to speak Spanish. As soon as I learned how to speak Spanish we broke up...as soon as we started understanding each other.”
“Intuition was a big play in why I was there. I knew I had to be there I don’t know why, it was this inside thing that says you need to stay here no matter what. I know it’s going to be hard but you’re going to cry and you’re going to be poor and you’re going to be stealing shit [...] I did everything I could to stay there and I did [...] You need balls, like, in life.”
Favorite quote:
“Is showing doing?”

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Violet Rose: 1st grade teacher / Tequila Drinker / Topless Tanner / MILF

Violet is in the therapy chair.
It’s the loveseat on her porch, which is the hub of the house. Everything happens here. Dogs fighting, tequila drinking, nude sunbathing, smoking, Ke$ha karaoke, guitar playing, fort building, kid snuggles, vulture soaring.... Violet thrives on chaos - it’s her supercharger.
Interview highlights:
+ Neurodiversity appreciation and autism as brain evolution
+ Delegation is a talent
+ Being "different" makes a better teacher
+ White supremacist thinking as "productivity"
+ Transforming put-downs into a personal strength
+ On teachers NOT being a hero
+ Poverty/scarcity mentality
+ Mental health and addictions
A taste:
“So I don’t actually have a lot of dreams right now. This is the first time in my life I haven’t had a list of aspirations. It’s partially because I’m pretty fucking content. [...] I love my life [...] There’s nothing to get away from.”
“There’s this new talk out right now about white supremacist thinking and part of that is goals and the whatcha! - that’s a slavery whip right there - and task master and getting stuff done and goals and the whole capitalist slavery thing.”
“I don’t like stop and chats. I like deep connections with people.”
Favorite quotes:
“Fuckin-A”
“I love my life”
“What would Mr. Davies do?”

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Paul Figone: Race Car Teammate / Weenie Roaster / Luger / Hang Glider

Paul made me cry.
And then I made him cry. So we’re even. Sometimes you meet people you go fast with. You become fast friends...355mph fast. That’s me and Paul. Within 10 minutes of meeting me, he agreed to be interviewed. As I was leaving, his race car teammates asked if they should get my autograph because I’m famous. I said, “No, but this guy’s about to be.”
Interview highlights:
+ memory loss and name associations
+ healthy childhoods
+ racing to beat 355mph on the salt flats
+ learning to luge at 70 yrs old
+ hang gliding makes him cry
+ life lessons on happiness
+ race cars, hot rods, rat rods
+ the community of sports competition
+ the tallest mountain in the world is in tibet
+ smoking pot in the 70's
A taste:
“I think it has a lot to do with how you’re brought up. Unfortunately today there’s a lot of young people - there’s a lot of guys out there - young men, 21 yrs old - who can no more change a light switch in a wall, fix a toilet, or change a flat tire as go to the moon. They just don’t know anything, a lot of them. They have computer skills but they have no technical skills.”
"What’s the tallest mountain in the world? They don’t know. It’s Mount Everest. Where is it? It’s in Tibet. What’s the square root of nine? Three. What do you get when you mix red and white? Pink. Blue and yellow makes green. [...] Common sense is not common.”
Favorite quotes:
“I like everything old except food.”
"Never been so happy."