Ryan Is Super Strong!

The bad news is: we are going on a 2-3 month extended Holiday break! The good news is: there are PLENTY of other podcasts to keep you happy during the break, and you can continue to go back into the archive, re-listen, and continue hyping our show!!! TONS of bad ass stuff is planned for 2017, so don't fret! We will be back crazier than ever!!!!! Enjoy your holidays, hug your family, and we'll see you in a couple months!!!!! (If Ryan is in a good mood...MAYBE you'll hear some crazy holiday content throughout the next couple months as well!!) Our personal thoughts for you today: Love you so much, and you're the best friends we've ever had HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!

Strength Level: Thanksgiving Leftovers This week, wipe the stuffing crumbs off your face & get ready for another dooooozy of an episode of your favorite podcast! Super Strong Ryan invited his friend, KYLE LALONE, into the studio this week, not only to face the hard questions & tell things to get their dang butts out of their faces...but also, to hype Kyle's brand new, self-titled EP that JUST dropped on bandcamp!! Kyle is another great guy who we are proud to have on the show, and you should check him and his new album out ASAP!! Our personal Thoughts for You Today: If you weren't happy and thankful already, this episode will give you something to feel both of those feelings about.

Strength Level: The Relationship between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans (when they first met) Gobble gobble baby!! Happy Thanksgiving everybody!!! We love you! And that's why we brought ANOTHER bad ass guest this week: HELEN DE LA ROSA!!! Helen, from the Dominican Republic, is an enormously talented drummer who is kicking ass, taking names, & for inspiring so many new female drummers everywhere to keep hittin!! Helen sits down this week with Super Strong Ryan, Regular Strength Nathan, & Intern Neil (who is back!!!), & has a blast getting thrown into the segments that you guys know and love! And we talk about our love of Thanksgiving!!!! Enjoy this week, RATE and REVIEW, and have an INCREDIBLE holiday!!! Our personal Thoughts for You Today: No one is more thankful for you, than we are.

Strength Level: The Electoral College Man we got a GOOD one for you today! The wonderful, talented, tall man, JUSTIN OLIVER is here!!!! Also in studio is past guest (& brother of the host) CHRISTIAN KNUDSEN! The guys have a great time as usual, & get goofy as hell as always, however this time, definitely with a political twinge & an exhaustion we can all probably relate to. We hope this episode is something you can relate with, & still be able to find your little bit of a break from reality that we normally try to provide! Check out Justin Oliver, Slim Jenkins, & EVERYTHING this guy does ASAP. What a sweetie pie! Our personal Thoughts for You Today: We love you so dearly

Strength Level: Long Distance Relationships What's better than friendship? Maybe some things....but certainly not a lot of things. This week, we have on someone who exemplifies and embodies the word friendship. Saxophone extraordinaire: HUNTER DIAMOND! Super Strong Ryan scored a little of Hunter's time while he was in LA for a weekend, & now you get to listen to the hang! If you like jazz, sweetie pies, friendship, etc, you're gonna love this guy. Our personal Thoughts for You Today: Voting is good if you're voting for the lady

Strength Level: Brave Little Toaster If you think last week's saxophone player, or the two bass players before that were cutie pies....get ready to get your socks knocked clean off your little feet! This week, Super Strong Ryan invited a new dear friend of his, AN LA SUPER TALENT, KATIE JOHNSON!!! Katie sits down with SSR, Regular Strength Nathan, Intern Neil, AND (special past guest appearance) her lovely boyfriend, Nick Stone. They shoot the shiz, talk the hard stuff, get into the nitty gritty, & have a blast together, & YOU GET TO LISTEN IN!! Katie is genuinely a wonderfully strong, talented, & inspiring woman, so if you like those kings, check her out & get on the Katie Johnson band wagon TODAY!!! Our personal Thoughts for You Today: Gobble gobble time is on its way......use your favorite foods to start stretching your stomach out now for the holiday meals yo momma gonna cooka for you.

Strength Level: Forgetfulness. This week, we have a guy who is makin big moves in the LA based horn player scene, & the reason he's doin that, is cuz he's a real sweetie. Jeremy Lappitt is here this week! Sax player for all kinds of cool stuff (i.e. Brian Setzer, DISNEY, etc), Jeremy is here to face the spookiest episode of the month.....the Halloween week episode. It's hard to get any spookier than October, and then Halloween happens. Anyway, check out Jeremy ASAP & join the bandwagon early! Also! DUH! Go rate and review the podcast DUH! Our personal Thoughts for You Today: Nothing is spookier than never rating and reviewing the podcast.

Strength Level: Silver Bullet An hour more powerful than ever before.... This week, we have crossed a HUGE milestone for the podcast. 60 EPISODES!!! To celebrate, we invited past guests: Tom Rasulo Granison Crawford Nick Stone Kyle Traska Russell Stout And with those past guests, Super Strong Ryan, Regular Strength Nathan, & Intern Neil tested their strength with a LIVE power hour. Each minute more challenging than the next, Ryan throws challenge after challenge at his guests as they take shots of beer every minute for an hour!! We hope you'll get to a safe place, & play along this week!!!! This episode was a blast, & you will want to keep up with ALL of these great entertainers. So check out the podcast Instagram, follow all the players, & get on all of their bandwagons EARLY!!! Our personal Thoughts for You Today: If you haven't done a power hour before....now's your chance to do one with people who love you dearly.

Strength Level: Jolly Green Giant This week, we have a very special guest for you: The one and only, MICHAEL MACKLEY. We actually tried to have Mike on once before, but now, it's finally here! Finally time to have our dear friend tell you his feelings on all of the issues you CARE about!! Check out Mike online ASAP because he truly is a bad asssss musician who you are going to LOVE! And also, go rate and review our wonderful podcast!!! Because we love you and would do it for you if you asked us to. Our personal Thoughts for You Today: We know it's scary this month...... we know! Just be brave.... be as brave as you possibly can.

Strength Level: Walkin around Skeletons Ahhhhh!!! SPOOKY OCTOBER IS HERE AGAIN! Well everyone....it's the time of the year we all dread and have nightmares about.........SPOOKY OCTOBER. The feeling of fear is undeniable, but to help us all get through, Super Strong Ryan has invited one of his old buddies, DAVID MCNALLY to the show! They talk about the hard stuff, reflect on fright and fear, reminisce about times of old, and much MUCH more on this week's new episode of the podcast! David is a great guy, bass player, member of the band Monark, engineer, fellow Kansan, and more! So check him out on social media (@dmcnall) and become friends with him TODAY!!! Our personal Thoughts for You Today: Be brave....this is only the beginning of the spookiest month....

Strength Level: BEST OFS PART 3 Oooooo EEEEEEA, it's round 3!!!!! If you've been keeping up with us the last few weeks, then you already KNOW what's about to happen! The 3rd installment of our best of series is HERE, & we think you're gonna love it! This episode features some of our favorite moments with guests like: - Ben Azzi - Chris Luebeck - Sotiris Eliopoulos - Todd Glass - Reuben Gingrich - Julian Hoffman - Alessandra Castronovo - Tom Rasulo - Ethan Golub - Dr. Timothy Tesh - Josh Johnson - Dustin Koester - Ana Laidley - Granison Crawford - Carolyn Jania - Adam Ceschin - Nate Lee - Neville Wickstrom It's been an amazing first year of our show, we couldn't be more proud of our amazing list of entertainers, & we hope you guys will all stick around for PLENTY more bad asses as we start this new year of shows!!! Our personal Thoughts for You Today: If you don't love the show after these best of's....you may be a monster person.

Strength Level: BEST OFS PART 2 WAHOOOOOO, it's round 2!!! If you are one of the many who enjoyed last week's best of episode, you are gonna LOVE this one! Because it's freakin round TWO BAYBEEEEE!! This week's episode features some of our favorite memories from episodes 19-36, featuring guests: - DWNTWN - DJ Potira - Tim Jo - Shewan Howard - Tara Louise - Angela Muhwezi - Chelsea Gonzalez - Marrque Nunley - Matthew Grant - VARNA - Gretje Angell - Frank del Corral - Liza Wallace - Kira Hooks - Jeff Goodkind - David Supica - Shane Williams - Arianna Fanning - Cameron Bedell This crop of clips also features guest producer, & friend of the show, COLEMAN COOK from when we did the 7 episode Nashville series! Basically, this show is jam packed with the goods. So sit back, relax, & get ready for a FUGGIN BLAST FROM DA PAST! Our personal Thoughts for You Today: Memories can be such a nice present from your brain to you

Strength Level: BEST OFS PART 1 Whooaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!! This week, we decided to release part 1 of THREEEEEE "best of" episodes! This week featuring guests from episode 1-18!!! That means you're gonna hear from: - Christian Euman - Erica Davis - Stephen Rothkopf - Nick Stone - Jade Cienega - Tim Barbour - Kyle Traska - Lori Pasqualino - Annie Knudsen - Nick Brown - Josh Frackleton - Ben Morgan - Chris Hackman - Lisa DePiro - Megan Aclan - Karli Kaiser - Chad Coleman - Russell Stout - Christian Knudsen - Anna Butterss Whether this is your first time listening, or you're an old friend to the show, we think you gonna really like what we have in store for ya! So buckle your little seatbelt or else you gonna fall off dat chair. (Cuz of the laughter movements) & after this show is done, go check out ALLLLL the episodes, & more importantly, EVERY ONE OF OUR BAD ASS GUESTS!!!!!! Our personal Thoughts for You Today: Isn't reminiscing with your friends so nice to do?

Strength Level: Time Capsule 5 guests come to ring in the new year!!!! This week, this VERY special week, is our happy New Years episode!!! For this very special episode, we've invited FIVE past guests to come have fun with us & talk about true human strength. Past guests, Christian Euman, Lori Pasqualino, Angela Muhwezi, Matthew Grant, & Marrque Nunley are in the house to reflect on RISS's first year on the pod! As well as catch us up on how they doin these days!!! Check out everyone online ASAP, & once again, thanks to EVERYONE who has been a part of this show so far. Recording this show has been more fun for us than we ever thought it would be!!!! (And we knew it was gonna be very fun) Our Personal Thoughts for You Today: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Strength Level: Sherlock Holmes This week, a South AfriCAN!!! On this week's episode of RISS (and our last episode of our FIRST podcast year!), we invited the wonderful & talented DJ/event planner/jack of all trades, NEVILLE WICKSTROM to the show! Neville not only answers all the hard questions, but he buys in completely & begs the universe HARD, & tells things to TRULY get their dang butts out his face. Can't be happier about this guest, or ANY of our guests for the past year!!!! Our Personal Thoughts for You Today: Thank you ALL for joining us each week....now don't you DARE stop!!!!

Strength Level: Spider-Man's Webs The Master Nate himself This week on RISS, we've invited an old friend of SSR, NATE LEE! Percussionist extraordinaire and extreme gentleman, Nate, and SSR sit down to talk the hard issues, have a blast in Learning by Listing and so much more! Check out Nate and all he does in the Atlanta music scene ASAP!! Our personal Thoughts for You Today: it's hot out! Take a dip and cool off you silly goose!

Strength Level: A snake's venomous fang If this is what friendship is like, sign me up for a big helping of friendship for dinner. This week, Super Strong Ryan invites not only a HUGE studio audience, but the comedic duo CAROLYN JANIA and ADAM CESCHIN!!! It's basically a laugh a second, and your face & mouth will hurt physically from the amount of good feelings your heart and mind will have. What else can we say? Check out Carloyn, Adam, and SCHMABERET ASAP!!!! If you like laughter and nice things, you owe it to yourself. Our Personal Thoughts for You Today: for goodness sakes your hair is nice today!!!!

Strength Level: Cap'n Crunch Another friendship grows in strength this week. This week, Super Strong Ryan invited the delightful, multi-talented, & hilarious GRANISON CRAWFORD to the show! Having just met Regular Strength Nathan when walking into the studio, you can literally HEAR how quickly this guy makes friendships! SSR and Granison talk the hard issues, compliment the hell out of each other, and as always, tell some figurative butts out of their DANG FACES! Check out Granison ASAP. He is a comedian on the rise in a big way in LA, and you will want to prove that you were on the band wagon EARLY when everyone is telling you about their favorite "new and cool comedian" they "discovered" on Netflix! Our Personal Thoughts for You Today: Car problems can go to hell, and if you're having car problems, know you are not alone in this life.

Strength Level: SAMBA She danced into Nathan's studio... and now she'll dance directly into your heart. This week, Super Strong Ryan got the WONDERFUL human being, Ana Laidley into the studio and it is a TREAT for your dang ears! Ana is an AMAZING samba dancer from Brazil who Ryan fell madly in love with, and now all of you will too. She is a sweetie pie, hilarious, and a huge ball of contagious energy!!! Check her out ASAP, try to take her samba dance classes if you can, and listen to the episode over and over until some of her great juju rubs off on you! :) Our Personal Thoughts for You Today: Dance.... all you need to do today.... is dance.

Strength Level: Steamroller I caught them all, when I caught this friend This week, Super Strong Ryan invites his fellow Hoosier/Drummer/Beer drinker friend, DUSTIN KOESTER to the show! They sit down & let you learn while Dustin lists. They sit down & slow things down in a listener interactivity based platform game that is basically changing the face of podcasting. What else could you want? Go check out Dustin ASAP, rate & review the show, & become friends of ours as soon as possible because our friendship will make you smile & hugs will be free. Our Personal Thoughts for You Today: Catch them...catch them all