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July 13, 2025
Episode #217 - SW Threaded
MW Components sales VP Kara Bosse sells manufacturing, INxSQL expands with Rob "Big Country" Reynolds. On the Fastener News Report, Baird analyst Dave Manthey and Mike McNulty examine the latest FDI surge. Carmen Vertullo highlights conical spring washers. PLUS: Ed Smith of Würth leads the NFDA.
July 6, 2025
Special Report: The Mud Racers
Mud racers Bob "GQ" Baer, Jake "Valdez" Davis and Bobby "Tater Tot" Wegner join host and fellow mudder Eric "E-Roc" Dudas to prep for another year of the fastener industry's dirtiest networking event, and urge everyone to join the team.
June 24, 2025
FTR Unthreaded: Link Magazine Publisher Leo Coar
Legendary publisher of Distributor's Link Magazine, Mr. Leo Coar tells it like it was, and the way he sees it in the days ahead, from the rise of the master importers, and early days of the trades shows, to the coming impact of AI on fastener distribution.
June 12, 2025
Episode #216 - Special Nut Report
Marketing pros Rosa Hearn of BBI and Joe Shoemaker of AFC get the right messaging to the industry. Würth Industry USA director Chapman Revercomb joins Mike McNulty. SPS fire fall out with Perigee Mfg CEO Michael Topolewski. Online standards with Carmen Vertullo.
June 4, 2025
Special Report: Fastener Fair USA 2025 Floor Interviews
Fastener Fair USA in Nashville was a huge success. Attendees interviews by the lovely and talented Lynn Dempsey, including Josh Winkler, Louis Speedon, GHIII, Heidi Volltrauer, Tim Vath, Kim Penland, Bob Chiricosta, Henning Cybulski, John "Cool Hand" Butler and many more.
Recent Episodes
July 13, 2025
Episode #217 - SW Threaded
MW Components sales VP Kara Bosse sells manufacturing, INxSQL expands with Rob "Big Country" Reynolds. On the Fastener News Report, Baird analyst Dave Manthey and Mike McNulty examine the latest FDI surge. Carmen Vertullo highlights conical spring washers. PLUS: Ed Smith of Würth leads the NFDA.
July 6, 2025
Special Report: The Mud Racers
Mud racers Bob "GQ" Baer, Jake "Valdez" Davis and Bobby "Tater Tot" Wegner join host and fellow mudder Eric "E-Roc" Dudas to prep for another year of the fastener industry's dirtiest networking event, and urge everyone to join the team.
June 30, 2025
FTR Unthreaded: The Art of AI B2B Fastener Sourcing with Sam and Anders
A deep dive into the evolving world of fastener sourcing, exploring why it's still very much an art, despite rising interest in AI and B2B e-ecommerce. With Fastenal veteran turned homesteader Sam Aldinger and ERP code-slinger Anders Green, founder of ALOX4.
June 24, 2025
FTR Unthreaded: Link Magazine Publisher Leo Coar
Legendary publisher of Distributor's Link Magazine, Mr. Leo Coar tells it like it was, and the way he sees it in the days ahead, from the rise of the master importers, and early days of the trades shows, to the coming impact of AI on fastener distribution.
June 12, 2025
Episode #216 - Special Nut Report
Marketing pros Rosa Hearn of BBI and Joe Shoemaker of AFC get the right messaging to the industry. Würth Industry USA director Chapman Revercomb joins Mike McNulty. SPS fire fall out with Perigee Mfg CEO Michael Topolewski. Online standards with Carmen Vertullo.
June 4, 2025
Special Report: Fastener Fair USA 2025 Floor Interviews
Fastener Fair USA in Nashville was a huge success. Attendees interviews by the lovely and talented Lynn Dempsey, including Josh Winkler, Louis Speedon, GHIII, Heidi Volltrauer, Tim Vath, Kim Penland, Bob Chiricosta, Henning Cybulski, John "Cool Hand" Butler and many more.
May 26, 2025
Episode #215 - Dodging Lynn
The fastener industry heads to Nashville for Fastener Fair. NCFA Distributor Social attendees, Gary Graham, Justine Urban, Morgan Wilson speak with Lynn Dempsey, Carmen Vertullo on structural bolt standard changes. PLUS: Who actually won the FTR award?
May 24, 2025
FTR Unthreaded: Fastening to Farming with Sam Aldinger
Fastenal veteran Sam Aldinger jumps into homesteading, discusses why he left a great position, the importance of data, B2B e-commerce, the culture at Fastenal, and sheep psychology.
May 8, 2025
Episode #214 - Tariffs & BBQ
Field president Adam Derry joins McNulty to explain how tariffs are impacting and crashing the FDI. Goebel CEO Christian Reich checks in. John "Cool Hand" Butler announces the biggest bed build ever.
April 15, 2025
Special Report: Stuttgart 2025 with Craig Penland of Eurolink
Eurolink FSS founder and president Craig Penland reviews this year's edition of the world's largest fastener show in Stuttgart, Germany.
About the Hosts
Brian Musker
Known as the "hardest working man in the online thread game", Brian Musker earned his advanced engineering degree with a thesis on fastening technology many years before entering the fastener industry with the launch of the FCH Sourcing Network in 2006. Today, he is known as the developer of the industry renowned "FCH Scrubber" software that cleans and cross-matches fastener inventory for distributors across the industry. He is also a strong advocate for his beloved breakfast spread, Vegemite.
Eric Dudas
Eric Dudas got the idea of launching Fully Threaded Radio in the early days of podcasting as he pondered how to promote the FCH Sourcing Network to an industry that wasn't doing much with traditional social media. Fifteen years later, the show has a life of its own and has opened more doors than he could have imagined. More recently, he's been working to build the NFBBQA (National Fastener BBQ Association) to help fastener professionals better enjoy cooking meat over fire. He also enjoys chicken ranching at his small farm in semi-rural northeast Ohio.
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