The Most Fascinating Podcast in the World

Pat DiCerbo
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Everybody's got a story. Everybody who's ever done anything worth doing has dreamed big, failed mightily, and mostly started from humble beginnings. Everyone loves a Horatio Alger story. This is a podcast about such people. Overcoming adversity is interesting. The Most Fascinating Podcast in the World is fascinating because of the stories of the human beings.

  1. JAN 23

    Adrian Comstock: Lessons from Real Estate, Russia, and Racing

    Pat DiCerbo sits down with Adrian Comstock, founder and CEO of Comstock Realty Partners, for a fast‑moving conversation covering Adrian’s path from Southern California to Russia in the 1990s, his pivot into real estate, navigating the 2008 financial crisis, and building a development business through challenge and uncertainty. They also explore how strategy, endurance, and mindset shape everything from entrepreneurship to racing cars.The episode wraps with Adrian’s stories from competitive motorsports, including endurance racing at Spa‑Francorchamps, and how he applies the same discipline to business and life.

    1h 19m

  2. JAN 21

    Gene Bolger: A Life Built on Curiosity, Courage, and the World Beyond Comfort

    Gene Bolger is one of those people who doesn’t fit neatly into a single label - and that’s exactly what makes his story compelling.In this episode, Pat DiCerbo reconnects with a longtime friend whose life has unfolded across countries, cultures, and careers. From studying abroad together in Mexico to traveling through Spain decades later, their conversation weaves through childhood memories in New York, faith and family, living abroad, raising children across continents, and choosing curiosity over fear.They explore what it means to really engage with the world - learning languages, trusting strangers, resisting the temptation to live safely on the sidelines, and saying yes to experiences that expand how you see life. Along the way, they reflect on fear, courage, spirituality, travel, parenting, and the habits that quietly shape who we become.This is a thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation about living deliberately, staying open, and becoming more fully yourself - one trip, one risk, one conversation at a time.

    1h 4m

  3. JAN 13

    Rodney Schultz: Turning a Career Detour Into Long-Term Wins

    Rodney Schultz has lived multiple careers inside one remarkable life - contractor, executive, operator, author, and quiet industry transformer. In this wide-ranging conversation, Rodney reflects on growing up in St. Joseph, Missouri, in a fourth-generation electrical contracting family shaped by grit, discipline, and Depression-era work ethic. He shares how a promising football career ended abruptly with a devastating neck injury, forcing a hard pivot away from sports and toward business. Rodney walks through his unconventional path…from nuclear engineering to business school, from family enterprise to major commercial projects across the country. Along the way, he found himself at the center of some of the construction industry’s biggest shifts, including early lean production adoption, large-scale consolidations, and operational turnarounds that reshaped how contractors think about efficiency. He also dives into the behind-the-scenes realities of leadership: shutting down failing companies, balancing family life with constant travel, seizing opportunities before feeling “ready,” and why mentorship and continuous improvement matter more than titles.

    1h 14m

  4. JAN 12

    Jeffrey Zorn: Why Goals Are BS and Expectations Win

    Jeffrey Zorn and Pat DiCerbo go way back...Union College rugby days, decades of friendship, and a whole lot of life lived in between.Jeff opens up about growing up in the Bronx and Long Island, including an early childhood incident rooted in anti-Semitism that helped push his family out of the city. He shares the complicated story of his biological father, being adopted by his stepfather, and the emotional realization (years later) that what he wanted wasn’t paperwork, it was for his dad to fight for him. He also describes the surreal twist of fate: his biological father and stepfather died on the exact same day, forcing him to write two eulogies in the same stretch of grief.From there, the conversation shifts to the lighter (and classic) stories: high school football glory in the middle of a legendary losing streak, getting fired for being too honest, and the chaos and camaraderie of Union rugby.Then it turns serious again - Jeff’s career path into sales and Northwestern Mutual, and how he thinks about success: goals don’t move him; expectations do. He talks candidly about feeling a little uninspired lately, and how mountaineering became his way of proving something to himself, while also creating deep bonding experiences with his kids.Jeff shares his path from local hikes to major climbs like Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, Denali, and Rainier, the brutal reality of carrying 100+ pounds of gear, and why he refuses to use porters or supplemental oxygen.

    1h 16m

  5. 12/30/2025

    Simon Balint: Risk, Travel, and the Power of Saying Yes

    Simon Balint is an entrepreneur, world traveler, and builder...of companies, experiences, and second chances for old places.In this conversation, Simon shares how a childhood spent on a rundown farm outside Albany shaped his independence, curiosity, and work ethic. At 17, with $3,000 in his pocket, he deferred college and took a one-way ticket to Europe, backpacking through Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the collapsing Soviet Union, China, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Japan in a journey that would permanently alter how he views risk, opportunity, and life.Simon recounts bribes paid in five-dollar bills, nights sleeping in construction sites, months riding the Trans-Siberian Railway, and working odd jobs across Asia just to keep moving. He later connects those formative experiences to his career: building a global emergency-response simulation company from scratch, selling complex systems worldwide, and eventually returning home to restore historic buildings in Troy, New York.This episode is about curiosity over comfort, calculated risk over fear, and why staying still can be just as dangerous as moving forward.

    1h 17m

  6. 12/19/2025

    Daniel Byrne: The Missing Link Between AI and Better Healthcare

    Daniel Byrne is a Johns Hopkins professor and one of the earliest pioneers working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare, with more than 40 years of experience inside the medical system.In this conversation, Daniel shares how his early work helped make surgery safer for older patients long before AI was a buzzword…and why today’s AI moment risks being driven more by hype than results. He explains what most people misunderstand about AI in medicine, why many tools fail at the last mile, and how rigorous testing, similar to how we evaluate new drugs, is the only way AI can truly improve patient outcomes.Daniel breaks down how AI can move healthcare from reactive to proactive: preventing blood clots, postpartum hemorrhage, missed cancers, and other costly medical errors before they happen. He also addresses private equity, administrative bloat, and why evidence, not marketing, will determine which hospitals win in the next decade.The conversation closes with a thoughtful detour into the American Dream, happiness, contribution, and why progress, not possessions, is what actually sustains fulfillment.

    1h 10m

  7. 12/08/2025

    John Robinson: Building a Full Life in a World Not Built for Him

    John Robinson was born a quadruple congenital amputee, and from the start his life required problem-solving most of us never think about. But this conversation isn’t about limitation...it’s about the way he built a full, grounded, meaningful life in a world not designed for him.John talks about growing up in a small New York town, summers on his grandparents’ dairy farm, and the role his parents and community played in shaping his outlook. He shares what discrimination looked like in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, how he taught himself independence one task at a time, and what it felt like to be turned down for job after job despite being qualified.We cover the break that finally launched his TV career, the persistence behind his sales success, meeting Andrea in Toronto, raising three children, and why he ultimately founded a company focused on employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Toward the end, we talk legacy, identity, and how he hopes to be remembered by the people who knew him best.It’s an honest, thoughtful look at a life shaped by challenge, family, humor, and hard-won perspective...told by someone who has lived every word of it.

    1h 9m

  8. 11/20/2025

    Rosannah Harding: The Prodigy Who Never Stopped Building

    Rosannah Harding is a New York City architect who started college at 12, entered architecture school at 14, and never really took her foot off the gas. In this episode, she talks about growing up in a big military family, getting homeschooled, testing into college early, and fighting her way into Auburn’s architecture program and later Cooper Union. She walks through working at Diller Scofidio + Renfro on The Shed at Hudson Yards, what it’s like to take a building from model to jobsite, and why most of architecture is disciplined “drudgery” with flashes of payoff. We also get into seeing in 3D, why drawing is still a weapon in a digital world, what it really takes to ship big projects, and how she balances running her own studio with doing hard, interesting work that actually gets built.

    1h 17m
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Everybody's got a story. Everybody who's ever done anything worth doing has dreamed big, failed mightily, and mostly started from humble beginnings. Everyone loves a Horatio Alger story. This is a podcast about such people. Overcoming adversity is interesting. The Most Fascinating Podcast in the World is fascinating because of the stories of the human beings.

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