MSLD — also known as Michael — is a wildly talented musician blending deep musical training with pure creative play. You’ve probably seen him on TikTok geeking out over gear or tearing it up with a talkbox, and you can hear his catchy, genre-blending tracks on Spotify. In this episode, we dig into his influences, his creative process, pop music, franchise bands, session playing, making a living off music, remaining authentic as an ovethinker, and a bunch more

Paul Byrd started from the bottom at IRS, and spent 30 years becoming an expert on how to get things done there, but recently his team was abruptly notified they would be dissolved and they would all be losing their jobs. It was a completely unprecedented at the IRS.

If you've worked at IRS for a while, Jerry Heschel was probably your boss at some point. If you haven't, then you might have no idea who he is. Not only does he have 40 years of experience, some of it at the highest levels of managment, he's represented the IRS in countless negotiations with their labor union (NTEU), and he's led IRS employees through major events like RIFs, restructuring, and large-scale process changes.

The Ogden IRS world is like a community within a community, and a lot of us never get to learn about it. But with drastic changes being proposed for federal employees at breakneck speed, the impact will spread beyond IRS community and into the larger Ogden community as well.