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  • Happy Friday | Pet of the Week with Woods Humane Society

    Happy Friday | Pet of the Week with Woods Humane Society
    Apr 3 2026

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    Life Elements

    City of SLO

    WoodsHumaneSociety

    Tin City Distillery

    Original Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner Collective

    Moonshiner on Spotify HERE

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    14 mins
  • KB OF IMVA Talks the Resurgence of Michael Jackson: The Movie and a Night of Tribute Live at Libertine in SLO | Up+Adam

    KB OF IMVA Talks the Resurgence of Michael Jackson: The Movie and a Night of Tribute Live at Libertine in SLO | Up+Adam
    Apr 1 2026
    Sponsored by The Mountain AirSome guests come on to promote something. KB came on to confess something. Kahonukai Boro, lead singer of IMVA, has been living inside the world of Michael Jackson since before he could explain it. Fedora to elementary school. Gold compilation CDs on repeat in the Honda CRV. A 12-minute mock rock performance at the Paso Fairgrounds that ended in cardiac arrest. And then, on the table at Children's Hospital LA, waiting for surgery, he looked up and saw Michael Jackson's signature on artwork donated to the very walls around him. That is not a coincidence. That is a calling.In this conversation, KB and Adam dig into what it actually takes to build a living as a musician on the Central Coast, how IMVA learned the power of saying no, and what it means to dedicate an entire night of music to one artist with zero originals, zero safety nets, and everything on the line. KB also performed "Butterflies" live in the studio, and honestly, clear your schedule because you are going to want to rewind it. Michael: A Night of Tribute happens Friday, April 24th at Libertine in San Luis Obispo. Tickets are just $5 in advance and $10 at the door. This is the kind of night the Central Coast was made for.Grab your tickets here: Michael: A Night of Tribute at LibertineFollow IMVA on Instagram: @imvamusicFollow KB on Instagram: @kboro143Win tickets + more at: adammontiel.com********Sponsored by Portabidet*PORTABIDET: UP+ADAM IS AN OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR PORTABIDET - USE THIS LINK FOR UP+ADAM LISTENERS TO LEARN MORE AND GET YOURS!*Timbre Event with Cal Poly EIM Students Info HEREListen to Up+Adam with Adam Montiel:Official Website: adammontiel.comApple Podcasts: Up+Adam on Apple PodcastsSpotify: Up+Adam on SpotifyiHeartRadio: Up+Adam on iHeartRadioYouTube Music: Up+Adam on YouTube Music********CHECK OUT OUR WOODS HUMANE PET OF THE WEEK!********ADAM’S TEDX VIDEO IS HERE!********FOLLOW ADAM ON INSTAGRAM*********Sincere Thanks to the current supporters of Up + Adam. Please take a moment and visit them and thank them for supporting local broadcasting, and valuing what we do here. Thank you for supporting them!Life ElementsCity of SLOWoodsHumaneSocietyTin City DistilleryOriginal Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner CollectiveMoonshiner on Spotify HEREPlease Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.
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    58 mins
  • Are You Daughtering? The Invisible Work of Adult Daughters with Dr. Allison Alford | Up+Adam

    Are You Daughtering? The Invisible Work of Adult Daughters with Dr. Allison Alford | Up+Adam
    Apr 2 2026
    Sponsored by The Mountain AirDr. Allison Alford is a communication researcher, keynote speaker, and the founder of Daughtering 101 and her debut book Good Daughtering gives a name to something millions of women have been doing their entire lives without ever getting credit for it. Daughtering is the invisible labor, the emotional heavy lifting, the crisis management, the deep breath before you answer the phone and the even deeper one after you hang up. It's the planning, the worrying, the checking in, the smoothing over. It's just Tuesday. But Tuesday has a cost.In this episode, Adam and Dr. Alford get into the messy middle, the space where you love your family deeply and it's still complicated. They talk about the internal "enoughness" meter that never quite shuts off, why daughters protect their parents' feelings at the expense of their own needs, how siblings can hold completely different memories of the same parent and both be right, and what it actually looks like to reclaim your role without blowing up your relationships. If you have ever felt stretched thin, unseen, or quietly exhausted by the weight of being the one who holds it all together, this episode was made for you.Buy Good Daughtering: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/good-daughtering-allison-m-alfordDr. Allison Alford's website: https://www.daughtering101.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/daughtering101Substack: https://www.substack.com/@daughtering101********Sponsored by Portabidet*********PORTABIDET: UP+ADAM IS AN OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR PORTABIDET - USE THIS LINK FOR UP+ADAM LISTENERS TO LEARN MORE AND GET YOURS!*Timbre Event with Cal Poly EIM Students Info HEREListen to Up+Adam with Adam Montiel:Official Website: adammontiel.comApple Podcasts: Up+Adam on Apple PodcastsSpotify: Up+Adam on SpotifyiHeartRadio: Up+Adam on iHeartRadioYouTube Music: Up+Adam on YouTube Music********CHECK OUT OUR WOODS HUMANE PET OF THE WEEK!********ADAM’S TEDX VIDEO IS HERE!********FOLLOW ADAM ON INSTAGRAM*********Sincere Thanks to the current supporters of Up + Adam. Please take a moment and visit them and thank them for supporting local broadcasting, and valuing what we do here. Thank you for supporting them!Life ElementsCity of SLOWoodsHumaneSocietyTin City DistilleryOriginal Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner CollectiveMoonshiner on Spotify HEREPlease Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.
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    33 mins
  • Rider Strong: Boy Meets World, The Red Weather, and the Truth About '90s Nostalgia | Up+Adam

    Rider Strong: Boy Meets World, The Red Weather, and the Truth About '90s Nostalgia | Up+Adam
    Mar 31 2026
    Up+Adam for March 31, 2026 Sponsored by PortabidetWhat happens when you stop telling a story… and start questioning it?In this episode of Up+Adam, Adam sits down with Rider Strong, best known as Shawn Hunter from Boy Meets World, to talk about his bold new podcast The Red Weather, and what unfolded was a genuine, wide-open conversation about memory, storytelling, nostalgia, and what we owe the people whose stories we decide to tell. Rider grew up in the redwoods of Northern California, surrounded by communes and communities he didn't fully understand until he was well into his 40s. That curiosity became the engine behind The Red Weather, an eight-episode autofiction series from iHeartPodcasts that blends a fictional 1995 cold case with real documentary-style interviews featuring his actual family, his childhood best friend Ocean, and his own unfiltered past.They go deep on the ethics of true crime storytelling and who gets to be the hero of someone else's tragedy. They unpack the "cracked nostalgia" of the 90s, the warm glow we all feel, and the casual misogyny, homophobia, and blind spots hiding inside it. Rider gets real about why he stopped acting, what it felt like to be a teen idol he never wanted to be, and why playing himself in The Red Weather felt more freeing than playing any fictional character ever did. Adam also brings his own story to the table, his connection to the Jimmy Farris case, a real conversation with the man convicted of his friend's death, and the two find common ground in what it means to carry a story that belongs to someone else.Oh, and Rider Strong's name. They go there. Boogie Nights, laser discs, and all.The Red Weather on iHeartRadio: The Red Weather PodcastRider Strong on Instagram: @rider_strongPod Meets World (Rider's Boy Meets World rewatch podcast): Pod Meets World*********PORTABIDET: UP+ADAM IS AN OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR PORTABIDET - USE THIS LINK FOR UP+ADAM LISTENERS TO LEARN MORE AND GET YOURS!*Timbre Event with Cal Poly EIM Students Info HEREListen to Up+Adam with Adam Montiel:Official Website: adammontiel.comApple Podcasts: Up+Adam on Apple PodcastsSpotify: Up+Adam on SpotifyiHeartRadio: Up+Adam on iHeartRadioYouTube Music: Up+Adam on YouTube Music********CHECK OUT OUR WOODS HUMANE PET OF THE WEEK!********ADAM’S TEDX VIDEO IS HERE!********FOLLOW ADAM ON INSTAGRAM*********Sincere Thanks to the current supporters of Up + Adam. Please take a moment and visit them and thank them for supporting local broadcasting, and valuing what we do here. Thank you for supporting them!Life ElementsCity of SLOWoodsHumaneSocietyTin City DistilleryOriginal Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner CollectiveMoonshiner on Spotify HEREPlease Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.
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    30 mins
  • Actor Paul Rust: Love, Comedy, and The Napa Boys | Woods Pet of the Week | Up+Adam

    Actor Paul Rust: Love, Comedy, and The Napa Boys | Woods Pet of the Week | Up+Adam
    Mar 27 2026

    Up+Adam for March 27, 2026 Sponsored by Portabidet

    Paul Rust is one of those actors you know. You have seen him. You have felt his work. Maybe in ‘Inglourious Basterds’, maybe in ‘Love’ on Netflix, maybe somewhere else where he quietly stole the scene. And then you realize he is not just funny. He is thoughtful. He is a little uncomfortable in the best way. The kind of storyteller who makes you laugh and then makes you sit with something real.

    In this episode of Up+Adam, we get into it. Paul joins us to talk about his new film The Napa Boys, a wild, self-aware comedy that plays like the fourth installment of a franchise that does not even exist. But underneath the absurdity, there is something deeper. We talk about how comedy can be a disguise for the things that scare us, what he learned working with Judd Apatow about vulnerability, and why relationships on screen feel more honest when they are a little messy. We also get into wine culture, performance, and that feeling that maybe all of us are acting just a little bit whether we are dating, creating, or sitting at a tasting bar trying to sound like we know what we are talking about.

    This is one of those conversations that starts fun and ends somewhere real. Exactly where we like it.

    • Watch the trailer for The Napa Boys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DV80S8rZy4

    • Follow Paul Rust on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paulrust

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    Life Elements

    City of SLO

    WoodsHumaneSociety

    Tin City Distillery

    Original Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner Collective

    Moonshiner on Spotify HERE

    Please Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com

    ©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.
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    35 mins
  • Ben Higgins of The Bachelor: From Final Rose, Full Disclosure, and a Franchise in Freefall | Up+Adam

    Ben Higgins of The Bachelor: From Final Rose, Full Disclosure, and a Franchise in Freefall | Up+Adam
    Mar 30 2026
    Up+Adam for March 30, 2026 Sponsored by PortabidetIf you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, yours, someone else's, or the one playing out on your screen right now, this episode is for you. Adam sits down with Ben Higgins, the man America met on Season 20 of The Bachelor, and what unfolds is something far more interesting than a rose ceremony recap. Ben opens up about what vulnerability actually taught him on national television, how imposter syndrome doesn't care how famous you are, and why the moment fame stopped filling him up became one of the most important moments of his life.They get into Ben's podcast If You Can Hear Me, a show built on the belief that the secular and the sacred can sit in the same room and have an honest conversation, and what he has learned from guests walking through grief, loss, and the kind of pain that doesn't have a clean ending. Ben also pulls back the curtain on Generous Coffee Company, a business where every dollar of profit goes straight to social good, and why radical transparency is the only way a purpose-driven brand earns real trust.And then there is The Bachelor franchise. Ben was there when the show was about love. He watched it become about drama. And now, with Taylor Frankie Paul's Bachelorette season pulled just days before its premiere amid multiple domestic violence investigations, the conversation about what the franchise has become and what it cost is one Ben is uniquely positioned to have. This one goes there.Ben Higgins on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/higgins.benIf You Can Hear Me Podcast on iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-if-you-can-hear-me-319562960Generous Coffee Company: https://www.generouscoffee.com*********PORTABIDET: UP+ADAM IS AN OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR PORTABIDET - USE THIS LINK FOR UP+ADAM LISTENERS TO LEARN MORE AND GET YOURS!*Timbre Event with Cal Poly EIM Students Info HEREListen to Up+Adam with Adam Montiel:Official Website: adammontiel.comApple Podcasts: Up+Adam on Apple PodcastsSpotify: Up+Adam on SpotifyiHeartRadio: Up+Adam on iHeartRadioYouTube Music: Up+Adam on YouTube Music********CHECK OUT OUR WOODS HUMANE PET OF THE WEEK!********ADAM’S TEDX VIDEO IS HERE!********FOLLOW ADAM ON INSTAGRAM*********Sincere Thanks to the current supporters of Up + Adam. Please take a moment and visit them and thank them for supporting local broadcasting, and valuing what we do here. Thank you for supporting them!Life ElementsCity of SLOWoodsHumaneSocietyTin City DistilleryOriginal Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner CollectiveMoonshiner on Spotify HEREPlease Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.
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    37 mins
  • Driving Support for THS Athletics: Templeton Boosters Launches More Than a Golf Tournament

    Driving Support for THS Athletics: Templeton Boosters Launches More Than a Golf Tournament
    Mar 26 2026
    March 26, 2026 Up+Adam Sponsored by PortabidetTempleton High School athletics gets the full community treatment in this conversation with Jessie Yates and Joe Farley, two people helping power the THS Athletic Boosters and rally support for student-athletes across the campus. They join Adam in the LoBro Studios to talk about the THS Athletic Boosters Golf Tournament at Hunter Ranch Golf Course in Paso Robles on May 3, a day built around golf, community spirit, sponsor support, a silent auction, prizes, and a whole lot of Eagle pride. This is one of those events that makes it easy to see how much can happen when a town decides its kids matter.Jessie and Joe break down how the tournament brings people together beyond the fairway, with ways to participate whether you are golfing, sponsoring, donating, bidding in the auction, or just showing up to support. There is real fun built into this one too, from special on-course moments to reception tickets and community energy that feels very Templeton. And yes, as heard on Up+Adam, businesses that jump in as sponsors of at least $1000 for this event can score a month of free advertising on the show.LINKS• Register for the 2026 THS Athletic Boosters Golf Tournament• Tournament packages, sponsorships, singles, twosomes, and foursomes• Templeton High School Athletic Boosters website• Become a Booster• Contact the THS Athletic Boosters• Instagram: @thsathleticboosters• Facebook: Templeton High School Athletic Booster Support Club• Email: thsathleticboostersclub@gmail.com*********PORTABIDET: UP+ADAM IS AN OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR PORTABIDET - USE THIS LINK FOR UP+ADAM LISTENERS TO LEARN MORE AND GET YOURS!*Timbre Event with Cal Poly EIM Students Info HEREListen to Up+Adam with Adam Montiel:Official Website: adammontiel.comApple Podcasts: Up+Adam on Apple PodcastsSpotify: Up+Adam on SpotifyiHeartRadio: Up+Adam on iHeartRadioYouTube Music: Up+Adam on YouTube Music********CHECK OUT OUR WOODS HUMANE PET OF THE WEEK!********ADAM’S TEDX VIDEO IS HERE!********FOLLOW ADAM ON INSTAGRAM*********Sincere Thanks to the current supporters of Up + Adam. Please take a moment and visit them and thank them for supporting local broadcasting, and valuing what we do here. Thank you for supporting them!Life ElementsCity of SLOWoodsHumaneSocietyTin City DistilleryOriginal Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner CollectiveMoonshiner on Spotify HEREPlease Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.
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    28 mins
  • Próxima Parada x SLO Symphony: The Overture of Something Bigger | Nick Larson is Up+Adam

    Próxima Parada x SLO Symphony: The Overture of Something Bigger | Nick Larson is Up+Adam
    Mar 25 2026

    March 25, 2026 Up+Adam Sponsored by Portabidet

    Próxima Parada’s Nick Larson returns home for something far bigger than a concert. This is a full-circle moment rooted in San Luis Obispo. From busking downtown and playing local coffee shops to stepping onto the stage at the Cal Poly Performing Arts Center, the band is reimagining their original, SLO-born music alongside the San Luis Obispo Symphony for one night only. What makes this even more powerful is that the band is writing every orchestral part themselves, turning their songs into something entirely new while staying true to where they came from.

    In this conversation, Adam and Nick get into the emotion behind the moment, the creative risk, and the reality of what it takes to pull off something this ambitious. There is humility, a little imposter syndrome, and a deep love for the community that helped shape the band. Not just a performance, but a love letter to SLO, a celebration of growth, and a reminder of what can happen when artists bet on themselves and bring their people along for the ride.

    • Get info for Próxima Parada with the SLO Symphony

    https://www.pacslo.org/events/detail/proximaparada

    • Event tickets (Eventbrite)

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/proxima-parada-with-the-slo-symphony-tickets-1985106519036

    • Follow Próxima Parada

    https://www.instagram.com/proximaparada_music/

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    Life Elements

    City of SLO

    WoodsHumaneSociety

    Tin City Distillery

    Original Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner Collective

    Moonshiner on Spotify HERE

    Please Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com

    ©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.
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    53 mins