ABOUT
THE SHOW
A barbershop, a gift card, and two guys with the same name.
How Two Strangers Named Nick
Started a Podcast
In May 2020, a guy named Nick walked into a barbershop owned by a different guy named Nick. He had a gift card. That's it. No grand plan. No networking. Just a haircut.
They got to talking. Baseball came up. Then drones. Then the kind of stuff you don't usually get into with someone holding scissors near your head. They kept coming back to the same idea: there are conversations people need to have but don't, and someone should make space for them.
So they went to Scooters, bought some coffee, and started vision-boarding. Not in a wellness-retreat way. In a "two dads drawing on napkins at a coffee shop" way. They spent two years planning. Testing the idea. Talking themselves into it and out of it and back into it.
Then they hit record.
Unspoken launched from Nick Brown's basement with no budget, no producer, and no idea whether anyone would listen. Turns out, people were hungry for this. Not polished interviews. Not hot takes. Just real conversations with real people who have something worth saying.
Twenty-six episodes later, the show has hosted NFL players, therapists, Marines, entrepreneurs, psychic mediums, and a teenager who stole the episode from both of them. The guest list is wide because life is wide. And the best conversations happen when you stop trying to control them.
The Hosts
Nick Brown
Marine Nick
The Anchor
Nick Brown is a barber, a Marine veteran, and the guy whose basement you're technically sitting in when you listen to this show. He spent eight years in the Marines before coming home to Kansas City and opening a barbershop that became more of a community gathering spot than a place to get a fade.
He's a father of two teenage boys, married to Katie, and has a gift for asking the question that makes someone say the thing they didn't plan to say. On the show, he's the steady hand. The one who listens long enough for the conversation to go somewhere real.
Nick Deichler
Land Nick
The Accelerator
Nick Deichler is a project manager by day, a former college baseball player, a drone pilot, and the reason most episodes run longer than planned. He's the energy in the room — the guy who connects a story about youth baseball to a theory about parenting to a joke about his neighbor's kid in the span of thirty seconds.
He's a father of young kids, a veteran of a previous podcast, and the kind of person who says "one more thing" four times before actually stopping. On the show, he keeps things moving, keeps things funny, and occasionally says something so unexpectedly honest it catches everyone off guard — including himself.
The Standard
Why Unspoken?
Unspoken has always been unscripted. Interruptions stay in. Tangents stay in. Emotion stays in. Guests aren't shaped into sound bites, and stories aren't cleaned up for performance.
Over time, that choice became a posture. Real over polished. Not as a slogan. As a standard.
We started this show because we believed the most important things people carry around are the things they don't usually say out loud. The job title that doesn't capture who they actually are. The season of life that almost broke them. The friendship that held something together when everything else was falling apart.
Everyone who sits down with us has a version of that story. We just give it room.