
Episode 33: Parry Gripp
Parry Gripp and I talk about his early years, his love of RUSH, what it was like touring with Weezer while they supported "Pinkerton" and how he created the "nerdcore" musical subgenre in the mid-90s....
15 Apr 20191h 28min

Episode 32: Greg Carlisle
On today's podcast, I sat down with Greg Carlisle, a theater professor at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky. I was playing a show in Lexington, so I rented a car and came to visit him. ...
8 Apr 20191h 32min

Episode 31: Lisette Rimer
Lisette Rimer went through something that no mother should have to, the loss of her son Patrick Wood to suicide in 2006. In trying to figure out why someone so brilliant and succesful would take his ...
1 Apr 20191h 55min

Episode 30: Howard Scott Warshaw
In 1982, programmer Howard Scott Warshaw had five weeks to create an Atari 2600 game based on Spielberg's hit movie "E.T.", and he was up for the challenge. According to urban legend, when fans found...
25 Mar 20191h 37min

Episode 29: Sean Donnelly
Twenty years ago, Sean Donnelly and I were both teenage artists attending Stevenson high school in Pebble Beach, California. He was a year older than me and always inspired me to be creative and do m...
18 Mar 20191h 25min

Episode 28: MC Hawking
MC Hawking (Ken Lawrence) and I met online over ten years ago when I posted my misgivings with nerdcore's problematic potential racist overtones. We performed together in and around Boston for the fo...
11 Mar 20191h 23min

Episode 27: Louis Logic
Louis Logic once rapped as part of the Demigodz and was a protégé of Vinnie Paz from Jedi Mind Tricks. This week, we talk about his childhood on Long Island, the beginnings of his career as a Philade...
4 Mar 20191h 40min

Episode 26: Vinnie Caruana
I met Vinnie Caruana when I Am the Avalanche, Plain White T's and I played a show at Rutgers in 2007. We kept in touch over the years and crossed paths again at the VANS Warped Tour in 2013. On toda...
25 Feb 20191h 26min



















