Anything & Nothing Podcast

Robin Heaston

Hosted by Robin Heaston, the Anything & Nothing Podcast is a conversation series with the kind of people you'd want to sit across from at a kitchen table — entrepreneurs, builders, thinkers, and the occasional person who just has a hell of a story. Each episode is a long-form, unhurried conversation. No five-minute segments, no rapid-fire interview format, no script forcing things into a tidy arc. Robin sits down with one guest at a time and lets the conversation go where it goes — sometimes deep into business, sometimes into family, sometimes into the strange tangents that make real conversations interesting. The show is named for the range it covers: anything that's worth talking about, and the nothing in between that usually turns out to be the most honest part. The guests are varied by design. A former corporate executive who pivoted into something completely different. A craftsman who's been doing the same trade for thirty years. A founder figuring it out in real time. The throughline isn't industry or expertise — it's people willing to talk straight about how they got where they are and what they're still working out. If you're into podcasts that respect your attention and don't try to manufacture moments, this one's for you. New episodes released weekly. Anything & Nothing is produced in Columbia, South Carolina.

Episodes

  1. 5d ago

    006 - Vashawne Alexander

    Vashawne Alexander is a Columbia, SC entrepreneur and the founder of Trash in the Truck, a local junk removal company. Born and raised in Camden, South Carolina, he turned a side hustle into a growing business — and brings the hard-won perspective that came with the journey. In this episode, Vashawne talks about growing up in Camden, getting into entrepreneurship, building Trash in the Truck from a side hustle to a real company, the failures along the way, and the lessons he's still applying. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro 0:47 Growing Up in Camden 2:12 Starting Trash in the Truck 6:07 Marketing & Sales Mindset 8:39 Side Hustle to Full Time Leap 13:33 Health Scare & Turning Point 17:04 Operations, Team & Expansion 24:28 On the Job: Best & Strangest 33:33 Faith, Work-Life & Mentorship 41:37 Personal Life & Best Advice 47:56 Legacy & Closing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Trash in the Truck (junk removal, Columbia SC area) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Want to be a guest? www.anythingandnothingpodcast.com/be-a-guest Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #VashawneAlexander #Entrepreneur #JunkRemoval #ColumbiaSC

    51 min
  2. Jun 19

    005 - Burna Gramz

    Burna Gramz is a Columbia, SC artist and music producer with a multidisciplinary creative practice — beats, visual art, the SC Aliens cartoon series, and more. He brings a deep love of classic hip-hop and a producer's ear to a wide-ranging conversation with host Robin Heaston. In this episode, Burna talks about his journey into music production, the craft of beat-making, his cartoon work, manifestation and the business of creating, and how he keeps pushing forward through setbacks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro 0:46 Music Production Origins 3:18 SC Aliens & Creative Process 10:44 Family, Radio & Content Strategy 16:28 UFOs, Aliens & Cosmology 28:33 Manifestation & Entrepreneurship 44:09 Music Industry, AI & The Future 54:38 Life Lessons & Influences 1:05:18 Health & Body Optimization 1:20:18 Legacy & Closing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Facebook: Burna Gramz Instagram: @burna_grmz_839 TikTok: Burna Gramz SC Aliens (cartoon series) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Want to be a guest? www.anythingandnothingpodcast.com/be-a-guest Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #BurnaGramz #MusicProducer #HipHop #ColumbiaSC

    1h 26m
  3. Jun 12

    004 - Dr. James "Doc" Fisher

    Today I'm speaking with Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher — a former Marine, lifelong educator, and analytical philosopher now affiliated with ERA USA. Born in 1933 in the Flint Hills of Kansas, Doc earned his doctorate from Indiana University in 1971 and went on to teach philosophy at Quincy College, Southern Illinois University, Allen University, and Cairo American College in Egypt. At 93, he's currently writing three books. We talk about everything from 1930s rural Kansas and Marine Corps boot camp to simulation theory, the Anunnaki, the nature of consciousness, reductionism versus emergentism, and the questions that still pull him into the work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro 0:46 Dr. Fisher's nickname origin 2:28 Growing up in Kansas 5:07 Military service and travel 6:30 Life in 1930s rural Kansas 9:40 Childhood memories and smoking 13:00 Parents' backgrounds and origins 14:29 School system and early education 15:19 Marine Corps and basketball recruitment 17:09 Boot camp training and discipline 19:23 Early philosophy and hunting ethics 21:33 Path to teaching and science education 22:42 Scale of universe and particles 24:08 Simulation theory and artificial intelligence 26:23 Soul and consciousness discussion 28:43 Perception and sensory pathways 30:38 Human evolution and African origins 32:05 Anunnaki theory and alien beings 35:38 DNA mutation and lifespan modification 39:01 Longevity peptides and biological age 41:34 AI business and large language models 42:41 Artificial vs. natural intelligence 46:50 Reductionism and emergentism philosophy 52:33 Knowledge and scientific method 54:47 Writing three books 56:37 Socratic method and AI interaction 58:05 AI personification and consciousness 1:02:16 Teaching in Cairo and Africa 1:04:08 Cairo American College and international schools 1:05:16 Published books and analytical philosophy 1:07:20 Shift to experiential philosophy 1:08:02 Closing remarks and gratitude ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher / ERA USA [Rob: fill any website/socials Doc wants linked] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Want to be a guest? www.anythingandnothingpodcast.com/be-a-guest Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #DocFisher #AnalyticalPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #Anunnaki #SimulationTheory #MarineCorps #ColumbiaSC

    1h 11m
  4. Jun 8

    003 - Sam Vohra

    Today I'm speaking with Sam Vohra — suit designer at Paul the Designer in Pattaya, Thailand. Sam grew up in a small town about 260 kilometers north of New Delhi before relocating to Thailand to build his business. We chat about bespoke suits, custom tailoring, his journey from northern India to Pattaya, and the craft of dressing people well. Check out their suit shop in Pattaya Thailand at Soi 13/4 Pattayaland 2 Shop no 325/12, Nong pure, Banglamung, Chon Buri 20150 Pattaya City, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri Order a suit online at www.paulthedesigner.com Make sure to follow them on their socials https://www.facebook.com/TailorPaulPattaya ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro 0:46 Moving to Thailand from India 1:07 Family suit business background 1:53 Childhood and easy life in India 2:36 Responsibilities and culture shock 3:46 School and leaving India 4:30 Language learning and connections 5:12 Indian food and favorites 5:56 Traffic and living conditions 6:39 Starting the suit business 7:46 Passion for cooking and vegetarianism 8:28 Dim sums and cooking styles 9:14 Trying meat in Thailand 9:57 Hotel management and family business 11:25 Business expansion and next steps 12:08 Daily work routine 13:15 New client acquisition 13:36 Customization and product offerings 14:18 Relationship status and future plans 15:31 Shop location and history 16:45 Real estate market observations 18:18 Hobbies and dancing 19:03 Tourist recommendations for Thailand ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sam Vohra / Paul the Designer: Pattaya, Thailand ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #BespokeSuits #CustomTailoring #Entrepreneurship #PaulTheDesigner #Pattaya #Thailand #ColumbiaSC

    21 min
  5. May 29

    002 - Mark Ostendorf

    Today I'm speaking with Mark Ostendorf — recently retired, transitioning back home to Fort Mitchell, Kentucky after closing shop in Camden, South Carolina. Mark grew up on a rural farmland in northeast Indianapolis as one of nine siblings, raised four children, and now has seven grandchildren. We chat about retirement, family, life stories, and the long arc of building a meaningful life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #Retirement #Family #LifeStories #ColumbiaSC Chapters: 0:00 Intro & Welcome 1:07 Retirement & Relocation 1:54 Growing Up Rural 4:59 Business Ownership Journey 6:46 Selling The Business 10:31 Leadership Philosophy 11:32 Family Over Business 17:37 Marriage & Relationships 21:17 Retirement Planning 22:44 Market Losses & Recovery 26:16 Travel & Bucket List 28:08 Faith & Spirituality 30:00 Learning From Failure 33:01 Gratitude & Life Perspective 35:53 Egocentrism & Purpose 38:50 Legacy 42:08 Travel & Global Perspective 44:21 Communication & Speaking 47:43 Bucket List Adventures 51:28 Advice To Young Self 53:04 Politics & Government Trust 55:17 American Patriotism 58:19 Iran & Global Issues 1:00:49 Final Advice & Closing

    1h 5m
  6. May 22

    001 - Phillip Kelley

    Today I'm speaking with Phillip (Marshall) Kelley — founder and owner of Nylah's Squeeze Eazy, Warrior MMA Fitness & Personal Training, and Lockdown Security and Protection. Phillip has multiple business ventures and charity endeavors. We chat about his businesses, philanthropic work, life theory and stories, and what drives him to keep building. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro 5:52 Nylah's Squeeze Eazy 11:30 Trucking Company and other passions 14:37 Raising a daughter 21:24 Iran and AI propaganda 26:32 Security Business and hiring plans 43:39 Bullying ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Phillip Kelley: facebook.com/sogucci.kelley Nylah's Squeeze Eazy: nylahssqueezeeazy.com facebook.com/nylahssqueezeeazy instagram.com/nylahssqueezeeazy Warrior MMA Fitness: instagram.com/warrior_mma_fitness ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #Entrepreneurship #SmallBusiness #MMA #Philanthropy #ColumbiaSC

    1 hr

About

Hosted by Robin Heaston, the Anything & Nothing Podcast is a conversation series with the kind of people you'd want to sit across from at a kitchen table — entrepreneurs, builders, thinkers, and the occasional person who just has a hell of a story. Each episode is a long-form, unhurried conversation. No five-minute segments, no rapid-fire interview format, no script forcing things into a tidy arc. Robin sits down with one guest at a time and lets the conversation go where it goes — sometimes deep into business, sometimes into family, sometimes into the strange tangents that make real conversations interesting. The show is named for the range it covers: anything that's worth talking about, and the nothing in between that usually turns out to be the most honest part. The guests are varied by design. A former corporate executive who pivoted into something completely different. A craftsman who's been doing the same trade for thirty years. A founder figuring it out in real time. The throughline isn't industry or expertise — it's people willing to talk straight about how they got where they are and what they're still working out. If you're into podcasts that respect your attention and don't try to manufacture moments, this one's for you. New episodes released weekly. Anything & Nothing is produced in Columbia, South Carolina.