ListenVegas records the Las Vegas that actually lives and breathes here.

We give residents, workers, artists, and builders a place to tell their own story, untouched by tourism and unscripted by marketing. We keep those voices clear enough to hear today and worth keeping later.

Listening is not a concept here. It is the product.

A city this loud already knows how to talk AT people. The rare skill is actually hearing them. Our rule has three parts, and it applies to everyone, not only the polished, famous, or convenient. Neighbors, late-shift workers, small business owners, artists, longtime locals, interesting contributors and newcomers who actually do life here.

• Quick to Listen

  Ready, careful, thoughtful. The microphone points at the guest. We don't decide what the content is about before they talk, and afterward we should be able to tell their story in their words, not only in our theme.

• Slow to speak

  Few words, the right words. We don't fill every silence, correct anyone's Vegas, or turn a life into a tip list or an ad. One good question is better than a speech. In editing, we cut out the host before we cut the guest.

• Slow to anger

  Patience with real people. Guests ramble, stall, contradict themselves, get nervous, get lost for words or miss the amazing ending we imagined. We don't rush them or steer them. We stay with the person until the true meaning shows up.

• The guest is not content. The guest is the point.
• Locals over visitors. Authenticity over postcard.
• Ask, then wait.
• Do not answer before you have heard.
• Do not form a person into a pitch.
• Silence is part of the craft.
• Edit to reveal, not to replace.
• A voice saved is a story that does not have to shout to survive.

Three doors. One assignment: just let people tell their story.

• The ListenVegas podcast

  Front-row seats to unscripted conversations with people who live here and have a story to tell. Not the Strip's version of the city nor the peoples' lives. A record of what it is like to live a life behind the neon.

• Podcast production and mastering

  The same discipline, offered to other shows: hear what is meant, clean the sound, and never edit you out of the equation. See production packages

• AudioCurios™

  Voices and stories kept as personal keepsakes, not for the public. A parent, a friend, a family member, a memory or moment that should not vanish after the room goes quiet.

Every episode has to answer these honestly before it goes out.

• Did this start with their world, not ours?
• Can we tell their story in their words?
• If you removed the host, would the episode still stand?
• When it went sideways, did we grab control or stay with the person?
• Are we still letting ordinary people through, or only the easy guests?

Everything on this page grows out of one line I have carried with me for a long time. It comes from my faith, and it is the personal reason I work the way I do. I am not sharing it to tell you what to believe. I am sharing it so you know what to expect from me when I open your microphone.

Whatever you believe, I think you will recognize it as a good way to treat someone who is telling you their story, no matter your background.

Scripture quotation adapted from the Amplified® Bible (AMP), Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.lockman.org