Motorcycle Knuckle Busters (Knuckle Buster Radio)

Episode #1 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our first guest Marilyn Stemp. Moto-journalist, writer, editor, photographer, and gearhead. We talk about the Strider Bikes at Mecum Auctions, the Strider All Kids Bike Program, Jessi Combs, and the upcoming Builder Breakfast in Daytona.

This interview was recorded with Marilyn Stemp on February 9th, 2022. 

Episode #2 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guests, Jack Mcintyre and Johnny Marcella.

Meet Jack, in a nutshell, a Philly Boy, Penn State University, US MARINE CORPS Vet, Biker, and Photographer all rolled into one. He’s been shooting bikes & the biker lifestyle since the 90′s & has more than 900,000 published images worldwide.

Meet Johnny Marcella,  Owner/Fabricator at Johnny Mac's Chopper House. Former Champion bodybuilder and Dragster racer.

In this episode, we talk about the Freedom Bike they built that benefits the Tunnel to Towers Foundation that was auctioned off at the Mecum Auctions a few weeks ago.

This interview was recorded with  Jack Mcintyre and Johnny Marcella on February 12th, 2022.

Episode #3 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guests, 14-year-old Lilah Eberly her father A.J. Eberly, sister Piper and Uncle Bart. Lilah has been taking home hardware from all the bikes shows and now is building her 2nd bike. Piper is starting on her first bike. 

Lilah’s chopper named Lilah’s Ride is Ten-time winner best in class, two-time winner best in show, and received the Jessi Combs best builder award in Sturgis in 2020. Be ready to be impressed and inspired by these two young ladies and the men who guide them on their journey.

Episode #4 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest Michael Lichter. Michael Lichter is an American writer, biker, and photographer of the biker-lifestyle, known for his work with Easyriders magazine.

Since the early 1980s, Michael Lichter has been photographing custom motorcycles and photographing packs of bikers in places like Daytona Beach and Sturgis, South Dakota for the pages of Easyriders magazine.

This interview was recorded with  Michael Lichter on February 24th, 2022.

Episode #5 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest Gina Woods. Gina Woods, hailing from a strong background in radio and co-creator/host of Open Road Radio, a Motorcycle Talk Radio program in which she Interviews & showcases Industry personnel and reports on the latest motorcycling scoop for 25 years!

Gina has been featured in multiple news and magazine articles including Easyriders Magazine, IronWorks Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and The Rapid City Journal. Gina also created a non-for-profit Gina Woods’ XX Chromes All Women Bike Builders – a women’s team of motorcycle mechanics that builds motorcycles for charity.

This interview was recorded with Gina Woods on February 22nd, 2022.

Episode #6 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest Ken Condon. For over 40 years Ken Condon has been a commuter, tourer, off-road rider, track day instructor, road racer, drag racer, and plain old street rider who enjoys riding with friends and family.

He is the author of two books,  Riding in the Zone and Motorcycling the Right Way. He also has previously written for Motorcyclist Magazine and in Motorcycle Consumer News. He was the lead instructor for Tony’s Track Days for 24 years, and currently operates “Riding in the Zone” Non-Sportbike Track and Street Training.

Episode #7 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest Vera Bloom. Vera Bloom is an Alt-Rock performance artist out of Nashville. Vera talks about how riding her motorcycle is part of how she finds musical inspiration.

This interview was recorded with Vera Bloom on March 9th, 2022.

Episode #8 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest Rick Fairless. If you are into choppers, then you’ll know who Rick Fairless is. The owner of the Strokers Dallas bike shop is considered a legend in the motorcycle world.

Fairless has appeared on Discovery Channel's Biker Build-Off and SPEED Network's Texas Hardtails. Fairless is known for his saying “I want to leave the motorcycle industry better than I found it.”

Episode #9 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest Momma D Diamond. Momma D has lived many lives. She’s toured in show bands and rock and roll bands across the US. She’s been a choreographer, competitive bodybuilder, professional trainer, and entrepreneur. Now she can add history-making motorcyclist, author, and motivational speaker to that list.

Episode #10 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest Carl Pusser. Carl Pusser can be found at his motorcycle shop, Walkin’ Tall Cycles. Pusser, an East Peoria native, is the nephew of the famed Buford Pusser, a sheriff in McNairy County, Tenn., whose one-man war on all things illegal became the basis of two Hollywood movies called “Walking Tall.” The 1973 original, which his nephew greatly prefers, starred Joe Don Baker. The 2004 version, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, dropped the Pusser name but kept a similar plot.

Episode #11 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest Valerie Thompson. Valerie is the World’s Fastest Female Motorcycle Racer and a 10x land speed record holder with membership in the Sturgis Motorcycle Hall of Fame as well as eight 200 MPH Clubs and one 300 MPH Club. She is consistently ranked as one of the World’s Top 10 Fastest Motorcycle Racers. In 2018, she piloted the BUB 7 Streamliner to a record speed of 328.467 mph. 

Episode #12 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guests Buck & Tonya Shaw. Promoters Of The Tennessee Motorcycles & Music Revival. Nothing better describes the feeling of attending TMMR than the word REVIVAL. It brings you back to what we love the most about Motorcycles, Music, and Friends.

Episode #13 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Bubba Blackwell. Bubba Blackwell Has broken all of his childhood hero Evel Knievel records, Using the same type of Harley-Davidson motorcycle and same size ramps. The Discovery Channel describes Blackwell as "best known for breaking Evel Knievel's jump records for both cars and buses. He's known as "king of the Harley" and he's had some really bad falls with 42 broken bones, to date. Bubba attempts jumps over objects that include helicopters with blades in full rotation as he earns big dollars for big jumps to support his family."

Episode #14 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Crazy Chuck from Discovery Channel’s Moonshiners. He is well known for his special recipe “Purple Jesus”. You may also know him from his riding name “Chopper Chuck”.  We talk about him growing up in small-town Ohio, Motorcycle Racing, and him being on Moonshiners. 

Episode #15 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Shirley Petchprapa. Shirley Petchprapa started her professional career as an art director and graphic designer. After 15 years working with clients including MTV and the fader Magazine, she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown NYC to make films. She directed a couple of internationally awarded shorts and worked with various clients directing and producing narrative and commercial content. Largely self-taught, she co-owned a fabrication shop in 2014 for 5 years working with metal, wood, and other materials, and then left and opened her own fabrication shop issaralabs. in 2019.

Episode #16 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Andy Lang. Lang's Army career began as an infantryman. His passion for being unconventional pushed him to become a Green Beret.

Along the border of Kuwait, passing the time as his team awaited orders to invade, Lang told an Army buddy that he could make wine out of items in his Meal Ready to Eat. He boiled water from a bottle, melted a pack of MRE Skittles, and added a crushed piece of shelf-stable bread. Then he let it sit. The sugar and yeast started to ferment. 

And just like that, he had booze.

Episode #17 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Billy Lyons. Billy "Spacey" Lyons is an Actor, Musician, Tattoo Artist and Motorcycle Enthusiast. You can check Billy out in the film John Nieto: An American Spirit Walk, he also has a part in the new release "Rough Boys". 

Episode #18 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Billy Lane of Choppers Inc.

Episode #19 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Evan Favaro Owner of Speakeasy Motors. Evan is also the Former Creative Director / Fabricator of Orange County Choppers. He is currently working on his newest project, Speakeasy Motors Whiskey Co.

Episode #20 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Rod “Woody” Woodruff founder and CEO of the Sturgis Buffalo Chip. Since 1981, Woody has transformed what was once 20 acres of land into a 600-acre entertainment destination. Top name entertainment acts consistently fill The Chip’s concert lineup year after year, including icons like Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Kid Rock, and Ozzy Osbourne. Woody has turned the Buffalo Chip into the Largest Music Festival in Motorcycling.

Episode #21 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Chris Hopper. 100,000 miles in 100 days makes for one epic adventure. Chris Hopper, completed this record ride on a Road Glide Limited while raising both awareness and money to fight Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Learn more about Chris' adventure in this episode.

Episode #22 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, author of “The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles". Pierson is also the author of “The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcycling’s Endless Road,” We discuss Pierson’s books and her love of Moto Guzzis.

Episode #23 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest,  NASCAR legend Rusty Wallace. Rusty Wallace was inducted into the Nascar hall of fame in 2013. Now he teams up with his youngest son, Stephen as they set out with one goal in mind: to build the world’s baddest custom motorcycles. Southern Country Customs is a premier builder of custom Harley-Davidson motorcycles. SCC operates from a 15,000-square-foot facility in the heart of NASCAR country in North Charlotte.

Episode #24 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast. Enjoy our next guest, Scott Jacobs. Scott Jacobs is internationally recognized for his photorealistic artwork of everything from wine bottles to Harley-Davidsons, but he knows art is about so much more than just capturing an image perfectly.

USMC & US Army Combat Veterans, Scooter Brown and Donnie Reis, storytelling through song with a guitar and violin and sharing their lives as two War Hippies.

Ross Flora is a seasoned, multifaceted singer and musician out of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Growing up just south of Roanoke, he was surrounded by strong influences in both R&B and Bluegrass. When asked what his first musical memories were, he said, “My dad would stand me up on the back of a church pew and teach me harmony parts with the congregation.” When Ross was 12, his dad came home to find him playing along to a Van Halen CD and went to sign him up for guitar lessons that day.

Our guest for Ep. 27 of the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters podcast is Dr. Gregory W. Frazier, who has traveled around the world six times on a motorcycle, including once with a passenger. He has ridden motorcycles on six continents, with well over 1,000,000 miles on his personal odometer. Dr. Frazier is a prolific author, photographer, and filmmaker, with 16 books, hundreds of articles, and 10 films to his credit.

Paul D'Orleans is a writer, historian, filmmaker, curator and the founder of The Vintagent, a wildly successful online cultural repository of the history, lore and personalities and of motorcycling. Paul d’Orléans is a globally recognized expert on the history of motorcycles and motorcycle cultures. His website TheVintagent.com has been the gold standard for motorcycle writing since 2006.

Lauren is the founder of Ride My Road. In 2016, Lauren set out on a 10,000-mile solo motorcycle journey across the United States to photograph American survivors of human trafficking. Six years later, Ride My Road has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for survivor-led organizations, hosted dozens of events across the country, and educated thousands of motorcyclists on the realities of human trafficking in America.

Former Orange County Choppers co-star Josh Allison recently opened a shop called American Metal in Danbury, Connecticut. Fans of Allison's work may also remember his appearances on American Chopper and Wrench Against the Machine, in addition to the impressive custom builds he helped to fabricate with the Teutels on OCC.

Tonight's guest is an industry legend. Paul Teutul Sr., is the founder and owner of Orange County Choppers, and starred in the hit TV series American Chopper, Orange County Choppers, and American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior. He’s also a founder of the OCC Road House and Museum in St. Petersburg Florida, a travel destination, with a restaurant, concert hall, and a museum showcasing many of Paul Sr.’s custom builds.

Alonzo Bodden is an American comedian and actor known for winning the grand prize in the third season of the reality-television series Last Comic Standing. Check out his newest special Stupid Don't Get Tired. He also has a podcast that is worth checking out called Who's Paying Attention?

We would like to invite our special guest, Grainne Owen, founder and President of Curing Kids' Cancer, Inc.

She started raising money off her kitchen table, and now Curing Kids' Cancer has raised over $23 million since 2005 for childhood cancer research. Her ultimate goal is to turn childhood cancers from lethal diseases into curable ones in our lifetime. Together, we hope to raise awareness about being able to provide and turn life-saving medicines into fundable treatments.

We also seek to address the cost of multiple treatments, which hinders many from seeking the care they truly deserve.

We honor her son, and we hope that through this podcast we will continue to tell his story and share her story of hope with others!

The Gift of Hope

We are honored to be able to help support this important cause and make a difference in a child's life. Join us in spreading awareness! Curing Kids Cancer partners with the Motorcycle Knuckle Busters Podcast to raise awareness for childhood cancer research.

25 artists from around the country have come together to design custom helmets that showcase the importance of the number 25 and the significance it has towards making all the difference. We share with you this important cause: being the change and ensuring that every child has a fighting chance!

Earl Dotson is a Former Green Bay Packers Offensive Tackle & Super Bowl XXXI Champion. He played for the Packers for 10 seasons. He started in Super Bowl XXXI and XXXII.