🎙️🌍🤝 Episode 25 — Robbie Boyd | The Price of Luxury, the Cost of Loneliness, and Why Friendship Still Wins 🌍🤝
This week on Chopping It Up, Keith sits down with a man who should probably charge him rent for all the space he takes up in his head — his good friend Robbie Boyd, calling in from the opposite coast with a sharper wit…
🎙️💥 Episode 24 — (Part 2) - Efran Pulido | From 500-Pound Bombs to Santa Ynez Real Estate 🏡🇺🇸
In Part 2 of this episode of Chopping It Up, Keith picks back up with Efran Pulido right where we left off — on MSR Bug in Iraq, at the height of the IED war.Efran walks us through dismantling devices while insurgents…
🎙️💣 Episode 24 (Part 1) — Efran Pulido | From Elm Street to the Triangle of Death 🇺🇸
This week on Chopping It Up, Keith sits down with homegrown Valley kid Efran Pulido — and Part 1 of his story starts a long way from real estate signs and collared shirts.Efran walks us through how his family first came…
🎙️🪨 Episode 23 — Emily Cody | Remembering John Cody, THE Artist of the Valley 🌲
This week on Chopping It Up, Keith sits down with mason and maker Emily Cody to remember her father, legendary sculptor and back-country builder John Cody — the man Keith calls “the Da Vinci of the Santa Ynez…
🎙️⛳ Episode 22 — Johnny Hogan | Golf, Grit & the Hidden Magic of the Alisal Ranch Course 🌄🏌️♂️
This week on Chopping It Up, Keith sits down with local legend Johnny Hogan — the guy who didn’t just grow up at the Alisal, he shot 60 out there and holds the course record at the Ranch Course.They get into what makes…
🎙️🥣 Episode 21 — Eric Steinkamp | Feral Future & Eating Like You Actually Live Here 🌿🔥
This week on Chopping It Up, Keith sits down with Eric Steinkamp, the mind (and hands) behind Feral Future / Feral Foods, to talk about what really happens when you stop eating like a lab rat and start eating like you…
🎙️🏊♀️ Episode 20 — Lisa Palmer | Building the Santa Ynez Aquatics Future 🌊❤️
This week on Chopping It Up, Keith sits down with community powerhouse Lisa Palmer to dive into the vision behind the Santa Ynez Valley Community Aquatics Foundation—and why a world-class, two-pool complex right on the…
📚🍷 Episode 19 — Adam McHugh | Blood From a Stone → From Hospice to Wine in the Santa Ynez Valley 🌄❤️
In this one, we sit down with author (and valley neighbor) Adam McHugh, whose memoir Blood From a Stone is a love letter to the Santa Ynez Valley and a raw, honest look at going from hospice chaplain and grief counselor…
🔪⚒️ Episode 18 — Clem’s Knives | From Code to Forge, Valley-Made Heirlooms 📻🌲
Clem Boyleston went from building high-tech solutions to hammering out purpose-built knives you’ll hand down to your kids. We talk Santa Barbara → Santa Ynez migrations, the smell of upturned dirt over the pass, and why…
🎡🚜 Episode 17 — Mary Nash | Day in the Country: Parade, Pie & Small-Town Magic 🍎🥧🍷
Los Olivos, this one’s for you. Mary Nash (Los Olivos Chamber of Commerce) joins me to spill everything about the 45th Annual Day in the Country—happening Saturday, October 11. We talk why this day still feels like the…
🎸🔥 Episode 16 — Jonathan Firey | From Oklahoma Bluegrass to Santa Ynez Soul 🌄✨
This one hums. Jonathan “John” Firey grew up in an Oklahoma bluegrass family (matching velvet suits and all), turned down basketball scholarships to chase songs in Nashville, became a session ace, and quietly racked up…
🎻 Episode 14 — Aidan Woodruff: The Most Interesting Young Man in the Valley 🐟
Some kids pick a lane. Aidan built a freeway. At 20 years old, this UCLA cello phenom can make a room go silent with a bow stroke—then turn around and free-dive 60 feet in the Channel Islands hunting halibut with a…
🛒 Episode 15 — Alfred Holtzhoy | 🥩☕️🌶️🥪 The History of El Rancho Market
From a shuttered “Buy Wise” in 1966 to the beating heart of the Santa Ynez Valley, this one has it all. Alfred Holtzhoy takes us inside his family’s immigrant-to-owner story—dad a German-trained master butcher who…
🔥 Episode 13 – Dave Gonzales | Listen in Case of Fire 🔥
Wildfire isn’t a what if in the Santa Ynez Valley — it’s a when.In this episode of Chopping It Up, I sit down with Dave Gonzales, a man who’s been running toward the flames since 1973. With more than fifty years in the…
🤠 Episode 12 – KJ Murphy | The Hatmaker of Segundo Street 🤠
In this episode of Chopping It Up, I sit down with KJ Murphy—the man behind the hats on Segundo Street in Santa Ynez. KJ doesn’t just sell hats, he crafts heirlooms. We talk about how a cabinetmaker’s hands found their…
🍷 Episode 11 – Brielle Saarloos | Father & Daughter 🍷 Talking about The Summer Allocation
🍷 Episode 11 – Brielle Saarloos | Father & Daughter 🍷In this episode of Chopping It Up, I sit down with my daughter, Brielle Saarloos, for a father–daughter conversation about our Saarloos and Sons Summer Allocation.…
Episode 10 🥐🏍️ Thomas Birkholm | Baking Tradition & Riding Fast
In this episode of Chopping It Up, Keith sits down with Thomas Birkholm, third-generation owner of the iconic Birkholm’s Bakery in Solvang. For over 70 years, the Birkholm family has been serving up Danish pastries,…
Episode 9 🧢 Ian Palmer | The Family Who Put Up the Flagpole in Los Olivos
In this episode of Chopping It Up, Keith sits down with Ian Palmer, a true homegrown son of Los Olivos whose family has been part of the Santa Ynez Valley for over a century. From his great-grandfather riding a bicycle…
Episode 8 🥋 Tatiana | World #1 in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu – The Dangerous Woman in the Valley
In this episode of Chopping It Up, Keith sits down with Tatiana—a woman many of us know from morning coffee runs at Good Seed, but few realize is also ranked #1 in the world in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (Masters 6, Purple…
Episode 7 🎬 Adrian Kays | The Man Behind the Movie Trailers - HE GOT JOHN WICK MADE!
This week, Keith sits down with longtime friend and Valley local Adrian Kays—an award-winning trailer editor whose work has helped launch films like John Wick, Longlegs, I Saw the Devil, and more. From driving an ’87 FJ…