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Ep. #1025: Esther Rose

Esther Rose is here to discuss her new album Want, living in New Mexico and how locals regard Vince Gilligan’s groundbreaking TV shows, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, growing up in Detroit and going to London, Ontario to attend punk shows, the raw, confessional work of John Lennon, dealing with trauma and exploring ketamine-based psychedelic therapy, giving up drinking and pondering alcohol’s oddly dominant role in the music industry, recording emotional songs live to tape, loving standup comedy and Ann Powers’ book Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, writing new songs, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1016: Abby Govindan

Abby Govindan is here to discuss her Pushing 30 stand-up show at Just For Laughs Toronto on September 22, visiting her family in her beloved Houston, Texas hometown, her excitement as a New Yorker with high hopes for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, being outspoken, translating one’s affluence into empathy and fighting for those who are less fortunate than you are, the end of centrism, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, how first generation immigrant alienation can lead to anxiety, stress, and depression, why a traumatic self-harming incident drew her family closer together, the end of her How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents performance run and building a new hour with Pushing 30, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #864: Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements

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Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements discuss their wonderful new album, Rain on the Road, a secret Sonic Youth show they both attended in North Carolina before they knew each other, their work and connection with Weyes Blood, their interest in synthesizing acoustic and otherwise distinctive instruments to conjure new sounds, how they got into harp and accordion respectively and music lessons along the way, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance, elemental influences and The Far Side by Gary Larson, avoiding bears to get to a show, touring, other future plans, and much more.     

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Ep. #821: Kurt Vile
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