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Hey everyone! My name is Joseph Carter. I have spent most of my life trying to understand the world we live in. My journey has introduced me to faith, military service, a career in mental health, and huge servings of humility as a result of various trials, failures, time spent living life on life's terms. Despite what many would consider a successful life, I find myself realizing more and more that my place in this world is... well - average, and I'm ok with that. I have learned to enjoy what I enjoy, and I find contentment in being able to share these experiences with others. Which brings me to this podcast. As a therapist, I have learned that listening and asking the right questions, with the simple intention to understand, is in fact valuable. For me, this podcast is another way I can share this experience with others. I am simply an average Joe that wants to listen, learn, and facilitate this process for others. So feel free to stick around, and hopefully we can learn together!

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  1. 1d ago

    Average Joseph Podcast E40: Josh Page, Mayor Candidate

    Average Joseph Podcast E40: Josh Page, Mayor Candidate

  2. 6d ago

    Average Joseph Podcast E39: Halloween Special

    Salem, Annabelle & The Great Horror Movie Draft | Halloween Special | Average Joseph Podcast Ep. 39 It’s the Halloween special. Kailey McMurtry joins Joseph in the studio the day after they got back from Salem, Massachusetts. They go through the whole trip: two dinners at Turner’s Seafood, standing in front of Annabelle at the Warren museum, the Salem Witch Museum, the Hocus Pocus house (and the parking ticket they barely avoided), the long line at Black Craft, running into the Nun, and Kailey’s first plane ride. They also get into the Salem witch trials (John Proctor, Giles Corey, and the girls who made it all up) and a real question that came out of the Annabelle visit: can a Christian be possessed? Then the main event, a 10-round horror movie draft. You pick the winner. 🎃 KAILEY’S LIST A Nightmare on Elm Street The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) The Conjuring (2013) Bride of Chucky Saw The Blair Witch Project Friday the 13th (1980) The Ring The Nun Insidious 🔪 JOSEPH’S LIST Halloween (1978) Scream (1996) Halloween II (1981) Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter The Thing (1982) Scream 2 The Exorcist Hereditary The Sixth Sense Child’s Play (1988) 🗳️ VOTE in the comments: Team Kailey or Team Joseph. Voting closes at the end of the day on Saturday, October 31. The loser has to scratch the winner’s back for a full hour. Happy Halloween from the Average Joseph Podcast. #AverageJosephPodcast #Halloween #HorrorMovies #Salem #SalemMA #Annabelle #WarrenMuseum #HorrorDraft #Podcast #MonroeCountyKY

  3. Oct 25

    Average Joseph Podcast E38: James Comer, Chairman, House Oversight Committee

    E38: Congressman James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Monroe County’s own Congressman James Comer sits down in the Average Joseph studio for a wide-ranging conversation about what the House Oversight Committee actually does, what ten years in Washington have taught him, and whether he’ll run for governor of Kentucky. Comer describes the committee’s job as rooting out waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in the federal government. He explains the difference between serving as ranking member and as chairman, which comes down to subpoena power. He walks through the committee’s investigation into welfare fraud in Minnesota and the questions it has raised about Rep. Ilhan Omar, and gives his view on why Medicaid fraud ends up hurting the people the program is meant to serve, including patients and doctors here in Kentucky. As a combat veteran, Joseph asks about the Afghanistan withdrawal and what the investigation found. Comer explains why the military is so difficult to oversee under any administration. The two also discuss exit strategy, Vietnam, Iran, and how drones are changing warfare. Comer also talks frankly about how Congress works today: the “firebrands” playing for viral moments, the 218-vote math, why the Senate moves so slowly, and the lame-duck rush to pass one giant bill before Christmas. Before he heads to the Monroe County Chamber of Commerce, he addresses the encouragement he’s getting to run for governor in 2027. In this episode: What the House Oversight Committee does, and why subpoena power matters The Minnesota welfare fraud investigation Medicaid fraud and its effect on eligible patients and providers Accountability for the Afghanistan withdrawal Iran, drones, and the problem of exit strategy Why Congress has become more partisan, and the role of social media How a bill actually becomes law, and why it stalls in the Senate A possible 2027 run for governor of Kentucky Manufacturing, NAFTA, and Monroe County’s economy 🎙️ Average Joseph Podcast: real conversations with the people who shape Monroe County and beyond. #AverageJosephPodcast #JamesComer #HouseOversight #Kentucky #MonroeCountyKY #Congress #Veterans #Podcast

  4. Oct 18

    Average Joseph Podcast E37: Carmen Starnes, D.C.

    Dr. Carmen Starnes has been a chiropractor for 16 years. She started in Memphis, then built a practice in Glasgow, and in 2022 opened Active Health Chiropractic in Tompkinsville. She got into the field by working the front desk at a chiropractor’s office and watching patients come in barely able to move and leave smiling. Joseph asks her the question a lot of people won’t say out loud: why do so many people think chiropractors are quacks? Carmen answers it directly. Chiropractic isn’t something you believe in. It’s a licensed, regulated profession with a board, continuing education and insurance billing, and physical therapists and DOs are trained in joint manipulation too. She’s also honest that some chiropractors, herself included, sometimes explain it badly. They also cover what she actually sees in the office. Sciatica is number one. Then there are migraines, stiff necks from summer box fans, sore backs at planting time, TMJ and vertigo. She explains dry needling, shockwave therapy and spinal decompression, why you shouldn’t crack your own neck, and why keeping muscle mass matters more than anything as you age. Along the way: medication and talk therapy working together instead of against each other, the brain’s ability to rewire itself, how she trained herself to manage pain before a home birth, Joseph admitting he’s burned out three months into private practice, why Active Health has no plans to get big, and a detour into why Five Star is the best gas station around. What ties the conversation together is honesty. A good provider will tell you “I don’t know” and send you to someone who does. Active Health Chiropractic is a sponsor of the Average Joseph Podcast. This episode is general conversation, not medical advice.

  5. Oct 11

    Average Joseph Podcast E36: On the Spectrum

    The day after being diagnosed autistic (ASD Level 1), Joseph sits down with Kailey McMurtry of The NightShifters to talk through it openly as it happens.Joseph has known since childhood that he experienced the world differently. He talks about learning early on to withdraw, and later to mask. The Army forced him to learn to work with people, and he got there by watching who was well liked and copying how they carried themselves. He also explains how that path led him to counseling and becoming an LCSW.Topics in this episode:What ASD Level 1 means, and why “different” is a more accurate word than “something wrong”Masking: how it starts, how automatic it becomes, and why he plans to do less of itLooking back at his life after the diagnosis, and the hard question of what might have gone differentlySensory overload: noise, crowds, and why a reassuring touch helpsSarcasm, figures of speech, and why “have fun at work” doesn’t compute for himDirect questions, direct answers, and why honest feedback matters more to him than reassuranceRoutines, social scripts, and what happens when they break, from checkout lines to concerts to a stranger getting into their UberNavigating a relationship when one partner’s brain processes the world differentlyWhy going public matters to him, including the risk that some people will question his clinical judgmentJoseph’s position is that his job is not to learn to fit in better. It is to learn what normal is for him, and to keep contributing as himself. If you or someone you love is on the spectrum, this conversation is for you.This episode describes one person’s experience. It is not medical or clinical advice.🎙️ Average Joseph Podcast: conversations from Monroe County, Kentucky🌙 Kailey’s show: The Nightshifters#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance #Masking #Neurodiversity #MentalHealth #Veterans #AverageJosephPodcast

  6. Oct 10

    Average Joseph Podcast E35: Kristi Castillo, District Judge

    She's been Cumberland and Monroe County's district judge for seventeen years this month — appointed in her early thirties, elected ever since — and this conversation moves between two things at once: what the job actually looks like day to day, and what it's cost her to hold a courtroom's worth of other people's worst days with a straight face.Judge Castillo walks through the arc from WKU undergrad to University of Louisville law school, two years as assistant county attorney in Cumberland County, a stint in private defense practice, and then the judgeship — a path she says she picked out loud at age eight and never really wavered from. She and Joseph get into how seventeen years on the bench changed her from someone who saw cases in black and white to someone who's learned that almost nobody ends up in front of a judge starting from the same place. The case she names as the turning point: an 18-year-old charged alongside both parents for manufacturing methamphetamine, and the moment she realized the kid had been raised into it.The back half is drug court — the felony-diversion program she's run for over a decade, where participants spend up to two years under supervision (drug testing, mandatory employment, counseling, GED requirements) instead of prison. She breaks down the five-phase structure, the honest recidivism numbers, and why she thinks the people who stay sober are the ones who stop treating recovery as something they finish. They also get into what it's like to be a public figure who legally can't defend herself when rumors spread, why she still thinks Zoom court lost something real during COVID that in-person hearings never will, and — because it's Average Joseph — exactly what you should and shouldn't say to a judge if you're the one standing in front of the bench.Off the bench: growing up a UK fan in a family of UofL diehards, tennis over football, and why she agreed to root for the Falcons just for this episode.Got a guest you want to hear from, or a question for a future episode? Drop it in the comments — Joseph reads all of them.🎙️ Subscribe for new episodes of the Average Joseph Podcast, recorded in Tompkinsville, KY.#AverageJosephPodcast #MonroeCountyKY #DrugCourt #DistrictJudge #KentuckyCourts #CriminalJustice #Tompkinsville

  7. Oct 10

    Average Joseph Podcast E33: Debra Staples, Hog Wild BBQ

    Debra Staples didn't set out to open a restaurant. She set out to be home with a two-pound baby. When Rylan was born at 35 weeks he weighed two pounds, two ounces — a growth restriction called IUGR that Debra had never heard of until it was hers. He spent 24 hours in Glasgow before a plane came for him, then ten weeks at Kosair. Somewhere in there she and Shannon split a single cheeseburger in the hospital McDonald's, because that was all the money they had, while four kids at home were being raised by grandparents, aunts and uncles. They got him home. Then he caught whooping cough and went back for twelve more weeks. He coded five times. The longest was two and a half minutes. She'd been at Walmart twelve years managing sixteen departments, and she loved it — but a preemie's calendar doesn't fit a shift schedule, so she never went back. She mowed 55 yards instead, with a nine-year-old running the weed eater and an eleven-year-old on the mower. Shannon had been catering on the side for years as S&S. Their first real setup was a fundraiser in front of her sister's store in Albany: $300 that Saturday, and they felt like the richest people on earth. They went back the next week, and the next. In the fall of 2013 it became Hog Wild. Then a 10x20 tent on the Mix House lot. Then Brookie Baxter told her flat out she had the wrong lot and drove her over to North Magnolia that same evening. Then a storage building with two windows — order at one, pick up at the other. Then a contractor named Tim Anderson, who she met because she talked him out of a shoulder sandwich and into a hamburger, looked at what she was trying to do and said, “You have big dreams. I just want to see where it goes,” and let her build it a piece at a time and pay as she went. That building is eight years old now. And when Rylan was sick, Monroe County passed the hat for them. Debra told Shannon that if they ever got to where they had an extra ten or twenty dollars, it was going back. Santa's Christmas Blessing is in its ninth year. The first one drew more than 500 people to the National Guard Armory. Last year it was over 1,600 plates — and the people who couldn't come get one, shut-ins, folks with disabilities, veterans, had theirs delivered by the sheriff's office and the police department. We also get into: • Why she gutted the entire Hog Wild menu two weeks ago and rebuilt it in about three hours • What a “usual” is actually worth to a small-town restaurant, and why twice a week keeps the lights on • Franchising, the creek, and the property line she has already run out of • Whether Christmas stays magical when you're the one making it happen for everybody else • Judge Carter, a go-kart, and a mailbox that didn't survive

  8. Sep 27

    Average Joseph Podcast E34: Billy Joe Murphy

    Average Joseph Podcast, Episode 34 — Dr. Billy Joe Murphy: Offensive Line, Old Friends, and Fifteen Years in Kentucky Schools Before he was Dr. Murphy, he was the biggest kid on the Monroe County High School line — a three-year starter, a 4.0 student, and a top Kentucky recruit who signed with the Wildcats out of Gamaliel. This one's a homecoming: Joseph and Billy Joe played together at Monroe County, and this is the first time in almost twenty years they've actually sat down and talked. They open on UK football — 2007 to 2011, redshirted as a freshman, 43 games and 19 starts at right tackle and guard, team captain, five-time SEC Academic Honor Roll, and a degree in Kinesiology and Health Promotion. Billy Joe tells the story of the rookie camp that told him it was over, and why walking away with no regrets mattered more than making the roster. From there it turns into a real conversation about knowing when to quit something versus when to push through — Joseph brings his own Army story into it, and neither of them lets the other off easy. The second half is Billy Joe's other career: fifteen years in Kentucky public education, from classroom teacher to assistant principal to principal at Monroe County Middle School, a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of the Cumberlands, and now Director of Nutrition Services and Facilities Director for Barren County Schools. They get into what middle school does to a kid's friend group, how COVID actually changed classrooms for the better and worse, and the honest case for skipping college if the degree doesn't lead anywhere you're going. And because it's Average Joseph, there's a face-plant running out of the tunnel at Tennessee, a teammate who refused to move seats so the team plane could take off, and a very cold playoff game against a sea of Carhartt. Got a guest you want to hear from, or feedback on where the show should go next? Drop it in the comments — Joseph reads all of them. Congressman James Comer is on deck for October, and county election coverage starts soon. 🎙️ Subscribe for new episodes of the Average Joseph Podcast, recorded in Tompkinsville, KY. #AverageJosephPodcast #MonroeCountyKY #KentuckyWildcats #UKFootball #KentuckyEducation #Veteran #Gamaliel

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Hey everyone! My name is Joseph Carter. I have spent most of my life trying to understand the world we live in. My journey has introduced me to faith, military service, a career in mental health, and huge servings of humility as a result of various trials, failures, time spent living life on life's terms. Despite what many would consider a successful life, I find myself realizing more and more that my place in this world is... well - average, and I'm ok with that. I have learned to enjoy what I enjoy, and I find contentment in being able to share these experiences with others. Which brings me to this podcast. As a therapist, I have learned that listening and asking the right questions, with the simple intention to understand, is in fact valuable. For me, this podcast is another way I can share this experience with others. I am simply an average Joe that wants to listen, learn, and facilitate this process for others. So feel free to stick around, and hopefully we can learn together!

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  • Creator
    Joseph
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    76
  • Rating
    Explicit
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