Like the site, this is a wide-ranging podcast with a similar aesthetic as the site, though it will primarily focus on music and musicians to start. Hoping to also interview former athletes about famous games/moments in baseball, and sprinkle in-between with other arts, culture, policy and local personages.
Hosted by Chris Parker (The Guardian, Variety, Billboard, Undark, Village Voice, High Times, LA Weekly), who''s been writing about music for three decades and has interviewed hundreds of musicians, including big hitters like Ray Davis, Lindsay Buckingham, George Clinton, and cult faves like Mastodon, Neko Case, Conor Oberst, John Darnielle. Joss Stone, M Ward and countless others. Has also interviewed 4 Nobel Prize winners. multiple senators, and several NBA allstars.
He's the author of 2016's King James Brings the Land a Crown and a forthcoming book on how '80s-'90s country/folk-punks helped create a self-sustaining underground not reliant on labels and charts, tentatively titled, Roots Rebels.
The theme music, "So Why Not" is courtesy of Marvin Etzioni.
- Sports Economist Dr. David Berri discusses WNBA contract, MiLB, & Sports Stadiums
We discuss the WNBA's historic new collective bargaining agreement, put that in context, and discuss minor league baseball, volleyball, how deeply participatory most sports are in relation to basketball and end talking about the economics of public stadium financing. - Musician David Dondero traverses his nearly 40-year career, discusses the troubadour lifestyle, and his new novel, Chaos the Cat
We discuss the Midwestern vibe, moving, Dave's wandering nature, his early DIY punk underpinnings, sobriety and stepping back from music for a moment to better appreciate life, which now includes painting and short story writing. We discuss his book Chaos the Cat inspired by his job doing carpentry on a pot farm, and we discuss his last album, 2023's Immersion Therapy, about the culture and the "orange goblin." The opening comment refers to this song ("When the Pendulum Swings").