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Decibel Geek Podcast
Decibel Geek Times May 2025 (2nd Half) - Ep627

Decibel Geek Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 82:45


Aaron Camaro returns this week to give you an extra edition of Decibel Geek Times! This week on Decibel Geek Times, we remember some of rock's greatest legends on their deathdays — including Bob Kulick, Chris Cornell, David Wayne, Ray Manzarek, Nick Menza, Paul Gray, Bradley Nowell, Duane Allman, Roky Erickson, and Derek Frigo.  Then we take a loud trip through time with 2025 album anniversaries, highlighting major releases turning 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 45, and 50 years old — from Faith No More's Sol Invictus to BTO's Four Wheel Drive, and everything in between.  Plus, we cover new music from Deraps, Midnight, Fly!, Animalize, Holler, The Dead Daisies, and a brand-new EP from EightBall, a ROCKNPOD favorite! We hope you enjoy Decibel Geek Times and SHARE with a friend! Decibel Geek is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcasts family. Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe to our Youtube channel! Support Us! Buy a T-Shirt! Donate to the show! Stream Us! Stitcher Radio Spreaker TuneIn Become a VIP Subscriber! Click HERE for more info! Comment Below Direct Download  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rock N Roll Pantheon
Decibel Geek Podcast - Decibel Geek Times May 2025 (2nd Half) - Ep627

Rock N Roll Pantheon

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 81:45


Aaron Camaro returns this week to give you an extra edition of Decibel Geek Times! This week on Decibel Geek Times, we remember some of rock's greatest legends on their deathdays — including Bob Kulick, Chris Cornell, David Wayne, Ray Manzarek, Nick Menza, Paul Gray, Bradley Nowell, Duane Allman, Roky Erickson, and Derek Frigo.  Then we take a loud trip through time with 2025 album anniversaries, highlighting major releases turning 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 45, and 50 years old — from Faith No More's Sol Invictus to BTO's Four Wheel Drive, and everything in between.  Plus, we cover new music from Deraps, Midnight, Fly!, Animalize, Holler, The Dead Daisies, and a brand-new EP from EightBall, a ROCKNPOD favorite! We hope you enjoy Decibel Geek Times and SHARE with a friend! Decibel Geek is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcasts family. Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe to our Youtube channel! Support Us! Buy a T-Shirt! Donate to the show! Stream Us! Stitcher Radio Spreaker TuneIn Become a VIP Subscriber! Click HERE for more info! Comment Below Direct Download  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barbarian Noetics with Conan Tanner
Santeria | Zany Audio | LR Original

Barbarian Noetics with Conan Tanner

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 3:07


Send us a textLove doves and fancy freaks,Just cooked up a lil nostalgic sumthin for everyone. Hope you enjoy. I have memories of walking along Lake Michigan carrying a battery operated boombox blasting the original version. Who misses 1996?Palomas de amor y frikis extravagantes,Acabo de preparar algo un poco nostálgico para todos. Espero que lo disfruten.Tengo recuerdos de caminar por el lago Michigan con un radiocasete a pilas escuchando la versión original. ¿Quién echa de menos 1996?TRACKLISTSublime - Santeria (Instrumental) Santeria was released as the third track on the album Sublime on July 30, 1996, and as a single on Jan. 7, 1997. Songwriters were Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson, Bud Gaugh. Produced by Paul Leary. Label: MCAun amor,lr kerkawwwwSupport the showTip me in Solana:Address: 9XPHpqH7GawTGtPgZAzfXFU6oPWTpSua1QXwRYAWVh9y Find me on IG: barbarian_noetics Direct Donate on PayPal @barbarian.noetics@proton.me Cash App@ $BarbarianRavenbuymeacoffee.com/noetics.Spread the word and tell a friend. Remember to set the BNP on Auto Download after you subscribe. I appreciate you all. Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 allows for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, education and research.

Super Retro
Throwback/Best of: EP28 Top 10 NES Covers, Going to the Mall and a Wiz Khalifa/Chrono Trigger Sample

Super Retro

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 66:57


#Throwback #Nostalgia #80's #90's #Sublime #Childhood #BestOf #Podcast #RetroGaming #00s #Sega #NES #Nintendo #wizkhalifa PODCAST UPDATE. As most of you know will was sick last week with the flu and we were not able to get an episode filmed. He also gave the flu to his family and that carried over into this week and, again, we were not able to get an episode filmed. On top of that I messed around and got sick, not the flu, but pretty sick

Dem Vinyl Boyz
Dem Vinyl Boyz EP 121 - Sublime - 1996

Dem Vinyl Boyz

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2025 70:00


In this episode of Dem Vinyl Boyz, we dive into Sublime’s groundbreaking 1996 self-titled album, a record that has become synonymous with the laid-back yet edgy sound of 90s alternative music. Tragically released just two months after the untimely death of lead singer Bradley Nowell, this album stands as both a swan song and a legacy for the Long Beach-based band. Packed with unforgettable tracks like "What I Got," "Santeria," "Wrong Way," and "Doin’ Time," Sublime’s self-titled album masterfully blends ska, punk, reggae, and hip-hop into a genre-defying sound. The lyrics balance humor and social commentary, while the music captures the sun-soaked, gritty vibe of California life. The album’s success propelled Sublime to legendary status, even as the band’s story came to a heartbreaking end. In this episode, we’ll explore the making of this iconic album, the cultural impact of Sublime’s music, and how Sublime continues to inspire generations of fans. From its chart-topping singles to its deep cuts, this album remains a timeless tribute to Bradley Nowell’s talent and the enduring spirit of the band. Join us on Dem Vinyl Boyz as we celebrate Sublime’s self-titled album, a record that shaped the sound of the 90s and beyond, cementing its place as one of the most influential albums in alternative music.

Rock N Roll Pantheon
Rebel Rockers: Long Beach Legends - The Roots of Sublime's Greatness

Rock N Roll Pantheon

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2024 23:01


On this episode of Rebel Rockers with Native Wayne, we honor Sublime, the groundbreaking rock reggae trio from Long Beach. Blending punk, reggae, and hip-hop, Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson, and Bud Gaugh crafted a sound that redefined music, with hits like "Date Rape" sparking their meteoric rise. Sublime's legacy endures through Sublime with Rome and the next generation led by Bradley's son, Jacob. Their DIY ethos and soulful authenticity created a timeless influence on music. Sublime inspired artists like No Doubt's Gwen Stefani, Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath, and Michael Franti. Their genre-defying music, led by Bradley's unique voice and powerful songwriting, remains a blueprint for rock reggae bands like Stick Figure and Rebelution. From underground gigs to chart-topping hits, Sublime's story is a testament to their artistry and the Long Beach roots that shaped them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trax FM Wicked Music For Wicked People
Karen's Roots & Toots Reggae Show Replay On www.traxfm.org - 1st December 2024

Trax FM Wicked Music For Wicked People

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 120:00


**Karen's Roots & Toots Reggae Show Replay On www.traxfm.org. This Week Reggae/Lovers & Contemporary Reggae Featuring The Hip Abduction, J Boog x The Green x Common Kings x Fiji, The Movement, Collie Buddz, Khalia ft Mortimer, Marcia Griffith x Clive Hunt, Mystic Firm ft Ilements, Sublime x Stick Figure ft Bradley Nowell, Kes ft Queen Omega, Surfer Girl ft Collie Buddz, Sally Mwalr, Bugle x Buju Banton x Damien Marley, Irie Souljah x Medisun, Mystic Firm ft Winston McAnuff & More #originalpirates #reggae #reggaemusic #loversrockreggae #ContemporaryReggae #rootsreggae Karen's Roots & Toots Reggae Show Every Sunday From 9AM UK Time Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**

The Geek-out Podcast
304: Interagnumrock Penguinimity

The Geek-out Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2024 75:16


Pol, Bud, and Art talk Thunderbolts, Squids, Gladiators, Batmen, and Asteriks. Erm, asterisks. Bud's Weekly Geek-out 15:27 – BC earthquake alerts Coming Soon 22:47 – Thunderbolts* (in theatres May 2, 2025) (Zoner Ewan) related: Kevin Feige says the * mystery will remain intact until 2025 29:01 – Squid Game: Season 2 (Netflix series, December 26) 33:26 – Gladiator II (in theatres November 22) (Zoner Mary) 41:33 – Sublime biopic casts Riverdale's KJ Apa as Bradley Nowell 44:07 – The Apprentice (in theatres October 11) related: Sebastian Stan tells all: becoming Donald Trump, gaining 15 pounds and starring in 2024's most controversial movie Geek News Proper 59:39 – Cineplex slapped with record $38.9M fine over $1.50 online booking fee Reviews and Recommendayshes 51:22 – Slow Horses (Art) 55:17 – Industry (Art) 1:00:40 – Transformers One (Zoner Bryce) 1:03:53 – The Penguin (Art) 1:10:51 – Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos (Pol) Join The Geek-out Podcast's Facebook page (where we'll release new episodes, and where you can talk with us) and Facebook group (where fans of the podcast can gather and talk geeky stuff)! Questions? Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? e-mail geekout@TheZone.fm Subscribe to The Zone's Geek-out Podcast on Apple Podcasts. Or, copypasta this link to subscribe using your podcatcher of choice: https://omny.fm/shows/the-geek-out-podcast/playlists/podcast.rss And, get more Zone podcasty goodness at TheZone.fm/podcast

FRUMESS
Sublime is making new music with Jakob Nowell?! What is Virginia Beach Dub?| Frumess

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 36:10


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FRUMESS
Sublime's Last Show: The Oral History of May 24, 1996 at Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, CA | Frumess

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 91:54


On May 24, 1996, Sublime played their last show at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma. No one knew it'd be their final concert. But no one knew at the time, either, that singer Bradley Nowell would pass away the next morning at a motel in San Francisco. Sublime would go on to sell over 17 million records, and for obvious reasons, that final show in Petaluma has attained mythic status. An audio bootleg exists; legal issues over still-unreleased video footage have continued for years; and snippets of people's memories can still be overheard at parties in and around Petaluma. But only 900 or so people witnessed Nowell's final performance. The rest of Sublime's millions of fans always want to know: what was it like? FRUMESS is POWERED by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.riotstickers.com/frumess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Frumess ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Super Retro
EP28: Top 10 NES Covers, Going to the Mall and a Wiz Khalifa/Chrono Trigger Sample

Super Retro

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 68:57


On this episode of the podcast we talked about the Top 10 NES Covers, Going to the Mall back in the day, Big Wheels in the 80's, Riding the School Bus, Bo Jackson being an absolute unit, Ready 2 Rumble on the Sega Dreamcast, Tuck's stolen Tommy Hilfiger jacket story, a super dope Wiz Khalifa/Chrono Trigger sample, being immortalized in a Link to the Past, Robin Williams easter egg in Breath of the Wild, Bradley Nowell's son ,Jakob Nowell, stepping in to become the lead singer of Sublime, the iconic performance from DMX at Woodstock 99, a Mailbag from Kaiju Cut and Sew, honorable mentions on the NES covers, listening shout outs, and a ton more! Email: SuperRetroPod@gmail.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/superretropodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@superretropodVideo episodes available at YouTube!

Cold Beer Surf Club
EP 06: JAKOB NOWELL - Sublime stories, Their new single “Feel Like That,” Performing at Coachella & the US Open of Surfing, Honoring his father's legacy, Carving his own path with Jakobs Castle, So Cal roots, Sobriety, and His love of mythology

Cold Beer Surf Club

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 59:08


Sublime frontman, musician, and son of the late and legendary Bradley Nowell, Jakob Nowell, joins the 805 Cold Beer Surf Club. Conner and Jakob talk about growing up in Long Beach and O'ahu, and how his upbringing inspired his music. He reflects on his father's legacy with Sublime and the responsibility he feels to honor him as the new frontman of the legendary and beloved So Cal band. He describes performing in front of the biggest crowd he's ever done at Coachella, their new hit single “Feel Like That,” and looking forward to performing at the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach. He discusses the duty he feels to Eric and Bud as the original members of the band to carry the torch despite originally not wanting to go down this path with Sublime. He talks about the serendipitous moment when he decided to be the band's frontman and how the stories of Sublime's visceral impact to their fans inspire him to do so. He details the struggles of being sober in the decadence of the music industry, juggling his own band Jakobs Castle, the release of their debut album ENTER: THE CASTLE, and how music is the healing he and the people need from generational trauma and pain. He explains how Eric, Bud, and Fletcher Dragge from Pennywise have mentored him in this industry and also pours one (water) out on the Cold Beer Surf Club rub in memory of a late teacher who truly inspired him. New episodes drop every month. Follow, subscribe, and join the Club now. Follow Conner Coffin. Follow Jakob Nowell. Get the latest 805 Beer content, the gear, and of course, the beer. Join the conversation, follow the league, and stay updated on all things WSL.

The Nostalgia Test Podcast
121. ☀️ Sublime Self-Titled (1996) w/ Longtime Friend Steve Herrera

The Nostalgia Test Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2024 68:09


Dan & Manny welcome back their longtime friend & Nostalgia Test Podcast Allstar Steve Herrera to put the 1996 Sublime self-titled album to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! This is an old fashion basement hangout. There's a ton of inside hometown jokes, references, & tangents, the guys reminisce about listening to Sublime, their favorite songs off this album, they talk about the lyrical prowess of the late great Bradley Nowell, 90s Rock music, singing these songs at age 13, Steve does an amazing cover of "Wrong Way," and so much more!!!  Sit back with your best friends, open a can of your favorite gas station beer, and let's go back to 1996.    SUGGEST A 90s TEST FOR AN UPCOMING EPISODE!   EP.121 COMING SOON TO YOUTUBE!   Some Episode Notes Sublime (Album 1996) Bradley Noel The Dirty Heads Ska Punk Hardcore 311 Nirvana Nirvana MTV Unplugged Kurt Cobain The Foo Fighters “Voodoo Child” by Jimi Hendrix MxPx Layne Staley Alice in Chains Shannon Hoon Blind Melon Chris Cornell Oasis Alt Nation “My Neck, My Back” by Khia Powder (Movie 1995) Pantera David Gilmour Roger Ebert Gwen Stefani No Doubt   Contact/Book The Nostalgia Test Podcast! Podcast Guest Appearances Themed Parties Hosting Screenings Corporate Events Reunions Weddings Birthday Parties Trivia The Nostalgia Test Podcast will create a personalized Nostalgic experience for any occasion! Email us at thenostalgiatest@gmail.com or fill out the Google Form below to get the process started. We're open to in-person and virtual events. Pricing may vary depending on the details of your event/party.   LET'S GET NOSTALGIC!       Keep up with all things The Nostalgia Test Podcast on Instagram | Twitter | TikTok | YouTube | Facebook   The intro and outro music ('Neon Attack 80s') is by Emanmusic. The other music ("ABCD") is by Pudge. Any other music you hear, The Nostalgia Test Podcast does not own.

WFYM Talk Radio
WFYM 233 - Antam Sanskaar for Lou Dog (PREVIEW)

WFYM Talk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2024 5:13


I'm Sikh.   of Bradley Nowell and his dead dog trying to make Santa create obscene celebrity scenarios and deliver fifi gifts and Venoms and Charleston Chew and turquoise dentist candy and gay porn disguised as Jesus statues to prison

The SDR Show (Sex, Drugs, & Rock-n-Roll Show) w/Ralph Sutton & Big Jay Oakerson

Sublime lead singer Jakob Nowell joins Ralph Sutton and James Mattern and they discuss Sublime lead singer Jakob Nowell joins Ralph Sutton and James Mattern and they discuss why Jakob Nowell never wears shirts, the passing of his father Bradley Nowell the former lead singer of Sublime, growing up with sex workers and drug addicts, Jakob Nowell getting kicked out of high school for fighting but going on to completing college because he wanted to be a teacher, where Jakob Nowell's love for music began, currently the age his father Bradley Nowell was when he died, writing a song in middle school about a crush, spent 10 years on the road with a band called Law, lack of live footage of Bradley Nowell performing hits with Sublime, singing in both Sublime and Jakobs Castle, the origin behind the band name Jakobs Castle, the Jakobs Castle song Ashlyn and why it always makes him cry, figuring out the future of Sublime, Jakob Nowell's suicide attempts and now having 7 years of sobriety, Jakob Nowell's first concert, first drug and first sexual experience and so much more!(Air Date: June 1st, 2024)Support our sponsors!YoKratom.com - Check out YoKratom (the home of the $60 kilo) for all your kratom needs!To advertise your product or service on GaS Digital podcasts please go to TheADSide.com and click on "Advertisers" for more information!The SDR Show merchandise is available at https://podcastmerch.com/collections/the-sdr-showYou can watch The SDR Show LIVE for FREE every Wednesday and Saturday at 9pm ET at GaSDigitalNetwork.com/LIVEOnce you're there you can sign up at GaSDigitalNetwork.com with promo code: SDR14 for a 14-day FREE trial with access to every SDR show ever recorded! On top of that you'll also have the same access to ALL the shows that GaS Digital Network has to offer!Follow the whole show on social media!Jakob NowellTwitter: https://twitter.com/JakobsCastleSublime Twitter: https://twitter.com/SublimeInstagram: https://instagram.com/JakobNowellSublime Instagram: https://instagram.com/SublimeJames L. MatternTwitter: https://twitter.com/jameslmatternInstagram: https://instagram.com/thejamesmatternRalph SuttonTwitter: https://twitter.com/iamralphsuttonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamralphsutton/The SDR ShowTwitter: https://twitter.com/theSDRshowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesdrshow/GaS Digital NetworkTwitter: https://twitter.com/gasdigitalInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gasdigital/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Loudwire Nights: On Demand
Sublime's Founding Drummer Is Excited to Keep Diving Into the Band's Vaults

Loudwire Nights: On Demand

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2024 13:45


Bud Gaugh, founding drummer for Sublime, celebrates the release of the band's song "Feel Like That," featuring vocals from Bradley Nowell and Nowell's son, Jakob.

The Jersey Shore Morning Show With Lou and Shannon On Demand
Sublime's Founding Drummer Is Excited to Keep Diving Into the Band's Vaults

The Jersey Shore Morning Show With Lou and Shannon On Demand

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2024 13:45


Bud Gaugh, founding drummer for Sublime, celebrates the release of the band's song "Feel Like That," featuring vocals from Bradley Nowell and Nowell's son, Jakob.

How Long Gone
636. - Jakob Nowell (Sublime)

How Long Gone

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2024 64:51


Jakob Nowell is the son of Sublime's Bradley Nowell, and now their singer. Sublime played their first show with Jakob at Coachella last week. See them and Jakob's Castle, his solo project, live this summer all over. We chat about the last time Chris ate leftovers, a pesky Twitter user, his hairless cats, rolling his own cigs, Chris and Jakob's mutual love of weird independent gyms, how much time he spends shirtless, why he performs shoeless, his protein intake and workout routine, how many Celsius he can drink in a day, how to infiltrate pop music, his future political plans, how emotionally draining their Coachella sets were, given his unique situation, what kind of music he'd DJ if he DJ'd, and his love of Clown Core. instagram.com/sublime instagram.com/jakobnowell twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Mix
OTM: Ep #88 - Sublime and the Death of singer Bradley Nowell

On The Mix

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2024 27:29


Sublime is a 90s Ska-Punk band from California that made it big with songs like Santeria, Doin' Time, and What I Got - all featured on their self titled third album. It would prove to be their last, when singer Bradley Nowell died tragically at 28 while on tour only 2 months before the release of the album. Today we learn about the history of Ska, Sublime's history, and Bradley's passing. Intro created by Cracked Prism Studios https://beacons.ai/crackedprism Sign up for an Audible 30-Day Free Trial with the podcast affiliate link! https://www.audibletrial.com/onthemix Follow me for more music content, and how you can support OTM :) OTM Blog: https://onthemixpodcast.wordpress.com/blog/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onthemixpodcast/ Become a supporter!: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/on-the-mix/support Donation/Tip: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/onthemixpodcast --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/on-the-mix/support

Tuna on Toast with Stryker
Tuna on Toast w Jakob Nowell - Sublime - Jakobs Castle

Tuna on Toast with Stryker

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2024 25:19


In this episode, Ted Stryker welcomes Jakob Nowell to Tuna on Toast w Stryker. Jakob tells Stryker all about his new Jakobs Castle album which is out now titled Enter the Castle. Jakob and Stryker discuss how the great Tim Armstrong worked on the album. Jakob discusses his favorite bands growing up like Queens of the Stone Age, System of a Down and Tool! Jakob and Stryker talk about Jakob's Dad, the late great Bradley Nowell and what it's like to now be the frontman of the band Sublime, with Bud and Eric. Will Jakob and Gwen Stefani be able to meet up and perform "Saw Red"?  We hope that happens! Jakob is smart, cool, and hardworking and when you have a moment, go stream his brand new album, it's fantastic!

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
Dopey 459: DOPEY TUESDAY: Jakob Nowell! Trauma! Meth! Booze! Sublime! Jakobs Castle! Recovery!

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2024 82:46


This Week on Dopey Tuesday! We are joined by Jakob Nowell, the creative force of Jakobs Castle also a drug addict in recovery! Jakob was born into SoCal Rock and Roll Royalty. His father Bradley Nowell was the lead singer, songwriter and guitar player in legendary So-Cal punk/reggae/alternative legendary band SUBLIME. Bradley tragically died at age 28 when Jakob was only a 1 year old. Now, Jakob is 28 and is the new lead singer and guitar player for SUBLIME.  Jakob tells his whole story of drug addiction and recovery and what it was like with the pain, pleasure and pressure of being a musician in Southern California and the intensity of stepping into the shoes of his dead in order to be a 'custodian of the legacy' of SUBLIME! It is a heavy talk with a super talented singer, songwriter and guitar player in long term recovery! More About Dopey:   

FRUMESS
Sublime vs. Rome - Rome Ramirez speaks in Rolling Stone Interview about farewell tour | Frumess

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2024 58:49


Sublime with Rome is touring this year, as is Sublime without him. In his first interview about the drama in Rolling Stone Magazine, Rome Ramirez — who has a new solo single — tells his side of the story. BY BRIAN HIATT FRUMESS is POWERED by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.riotstickers.com/frumess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET 200 DIECUT STICKERS FOR $69  RIGHT HERE - NO PROMO CODE NEED JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Frumess ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

FRUMESS
Eric Wilson on Sublime with Rome Statement | Frumess

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024 52:43


Eric Wilson of Sublime speaks on his status in Sublime with Rome after reuniting with Bud Gaugh and bringing Jakob Nowell on as frontman. FRUMESS is POWERED by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.riotstickers.com/frumess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET 200 DIECUT STICKERS FOR $69  RIGHT HERE - NO PROMO CODE NEED JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Frumess ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Sublime: How did it happen? Jakob Nowell and Bud Gaugh Spin Interview | Frumess

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 62:26


More on Jakob Nowell and original Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh discussing the band's unexpected reformation. The No Values Punk Rock Festival from Goldenvoice is also discussed. FRUMESS is POWERED by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.riotstickers.com/frumess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET 200 DIECUT STICKERS FOR $69  RIGHT HERE - NO PROMO CODE NEED JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Frumess ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Rolling Stone Music Now
Inside Sublime's Unlikely Return

Rolling Stone Music Now

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2024 50:56


Bradley Nowell's son Jakob Nowell and original Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh tell host Brian Hiatt about bringing the band back for Coachella and beyond — and Nowell explains what it was like growing up in the shadow of his father, who died when he was just one year old. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FRUMESS
The Future of Sublime?! Jakob Nowell and Bud Gaugh Rolling Stone Interview | Frumess

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2024 29:31


In their first interviews, Jakob Nowell and original drummer Bud Gaugh explain why they're bringing Sublime onstage again, and how they're planning on recording lost Bradley Nowell compositions FRUMESS is POWERED by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.riotstickers.com/frumess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET 200 DIECUT STICKERS FOR $69  RIGHT HERE - NO PROMO CODE NEED JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Frumess ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Booker & Stryker Podcast
Booker and Stryker chat with Gwen Stefani

Booker & Stryker Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2024 21:44 Transcription Available


Booker and Stryker here! We are super excited about this one. The amazingly talented and beautiful Gwen Stefani honored us with her presence. She talks about her NEW song "Purple Irises" and how it came to be. Working with her dream producer and Husband Blake Shelton. She also chats about the collaboration she had with the late great Bradley Nowell from Sublime. And of course the BIG reunion with No Doubt coming up at Coachella. Did we get her to tell us which day they will be performing?? Listen in and find out!! Always great catching up with the amazing Gwen Stefani!!

Rock News Weekly Podcast
Sleep Token member doxxed, Mick Mars VS. Motley Crue update, Songwriters Hall Of Fame class of 2024 and the Sublime reunion at Coachella & more! S6 E3 - Week of 1/22/24

Rock News Weekly Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2024 68:51


A member of Sleep Token was doxxed and had his birth certificate & other personal information posted online, Mick Mars gets a victory against Motley Crue in their current legal battle, The Songwriters Hall Of Fame announces their class for 2024, Sublime confirms an official reunion with Bradley Nowell's son Jakob and announce their Coachella appearance & more… PLUS this week in Rock & Roll History Trivia, Weekly WTF & so much more!   Everything is up at www.rocknewsweekly.com   Watch us LIVE, chat with us & more… Every Sunday around 2pm PST @ https://www.twitch.tv/rocknewsweekly   Watch all of our videos & interviews on demand at Youtube.com/@rocknewsweekly   Follow us online: Instagram.com/rocknewsweekly Facebook.com/rocknewsweekly Twitter.com/rocknewsweekly   All of our links are up at www.rocknewsweekly.com every Monday, where you can Check it out on 8 different platforms (including Amazon Audible & Apple/Google Podcasts)   #rock #news #rocknews #rocknewsweekly #rocknewsweeklypodcast #podcast #podcasts #metal #heavymetal #alt #alternative #classicrock #70s #80s #90s #indie #trivia #sleeptoken #doxxed #sleeptokenIII #sleeptokendoxxed #songwritershalloffame #songwriters #songwritershalloffame2024 #motleycrue #mickmars #sublime #sublimereunion #jakobnowell #coachella #coachella2024

FRUMESS
Sublime and their partnership with Michael "Miguel" Happoldt and Skunk Records | Frumess

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2024 42:59


Michael "Miguel" Happoldt and Skunk Records were synonymous with the band Sublime. Today we look at a contract between Miguel and the band and the nature of their partnership. FRUMESS is POWERED by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.riotstickers.com/frumess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET 200 DIECUT STICKERS FOR $69  RIGHT HERE - NO PROMO CODE NEED! JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Frumess ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Nick Major Show
Sublime REUNITE with late-vocalists son, Knox interview sneak peak & ‘David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived'

Nick Major Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2023 51:38


Last week, Sublime reunited with late-vocalist Bradley Nowell's 28 year old son on vocals/guitar... could/should the band reunite with him? Plus, Knox interview sneak peaks and the new documentary 'David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived' - which follows the story of the stunt performer paralyzed in a terrible accident on the set of Harry Potter. The post Sublime REUNITE with late-vocalists son, Knox interview sneak peak & ‘David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived’ appeared first on idobi.

FRUMESS
Rome leaves Sublime with Rome after Jakob Nowell joined Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh | Frumess

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2023 39:47


Sublime lives as Sublime with Rome dies. Rome has announced he is leaving and has done so in the worst possible way from a PR standpoint, in my opinion. I will explain why. This is on the heels of Jakob Nowell joined Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh for at Positive Mental Attitude: A Benefit For HR of Bad Brains! put on by Norwood Fisher of Fishbone and Kentyah Fraser featuring Angelo Moore, Dave Lombardo, Fred Armisen, Mad Lion, Israel Joseph I, and more. FRUMESS is POWERED by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.riotstickers.com/frumess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET 1000 STICKERS FOR $69  RIGHT HERE - NO PROMO CODE NEED! JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Frumess ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

FRUMESS
SUBLIME LIVE with Jakob Nowell joining Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh | Frumess

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2023 159:10


Sublime LIVES! Jakob Nowell joined Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh for at Positive Mental Attitude: A Benefit For HR of Bad Brains! put on by Norwood Fisher of Fishbone and Kentyah Fraser featuring Angelo Moore, Dave Lombardo, Fred Armisen, Mad Lion, Israel Joseph I, and more. Having now watched the footage I have SO MANY thoughts, feelings, and opinions. FRUMESS is POWERED by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.riotstickers.com/frumess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET 1000 STICKERS FOR $69  RIGHT HERE - NO PROMO CODE NEED! JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Frumess ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Maxwell's Kitchen
MK125 - Things to see in Split, Croatia - Dalmatia

Maxwell's Kitchen

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2023 7:24


A travel guide on transportation, lodging, and food in Split, Croatia. Split is the second-largest city in Croatia and lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. The city's founding is estimated to have been in 3rd century BC, and was home to Roman Emperor, Diocletian - where there are portions of the palace he constructed still visible today.Previous episodes - MK124 - Cinque Terre, Italy - https://youtu.be/L_y1Znpx-UIMK123 - Finale Ligure, Italy - https://youtu.be/W_vvRjbbNykMK122 - Monaco - https://youtu.be/JxhjHNlfnZ4MK121 - Nice, France - https://youtu.be/bVTU_XMjZ-gMK120 - How to backpack Europe - https://youtu.be/pFtwBOMdczYMK86 - Venice - https://youtu.be/sPGUJ7VHMCEMK85 - Vienna - https://youtu.be/DK6G7RB9g_kMK84 - Dubrovnik - https://youtu.be/FD_xIqmV4w4MK45 - Dublin - https://youtu.be/DYDSk7pBbNUMK44 - Marseille - https://youtu.be/TQrESbBJ7QYMK43 - Palma de Mallorca - https://youtu.be/YtOHgY67XoIMK42 - Amsterdam - https://youtu.be/CJxlYIoon00Opening song “Doin Time" written by Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Heyward, Bradley Nowell, and Maggie Plum; performed by Sublime. All production by Cody Maxwell. Artwork by Cody Maxwell. Opening graphic assets by sonorafilms. sharkfyn.com maxwellskitchenpodcast.com

FRUMESS
Sublime (2019) Documentary Review | Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson, Bud Gaugh | Frumess

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2023 95:18


Iconic California band Sublime fused reggae, punk, ska, dub, and hip-hop into a genre-defying new sound that electrified diverse audiences and airways in the mid-1990s. This definitive documentary charts their meteoric rise, tragic end, and lasting legacy. Jeff reviews this documentary directed by Bill Guttentag and written by Bill Guttentag and Nayeema Raza. The documentary had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019 and has since been seemingly shelved. FRUMESS is POWERED by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.riotstickers.com/frumess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET 1000 STICKERS FOR $79  RIGHT HERE - NO PROMO CODE NEED! JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Frumess ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

FRUMESS
Sublime without Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson, or Bud Gaugh is WRONG | RANT | Frumess

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2023 73:15


Rome will be performing as Sublime with Rome WITHOUT Eric Wilson. This is wrong. Sublime without Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson, or Bud Gaugh is WRONG. FRUMESS is POWERED by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.riotstickers.com/frumess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET 1000 STICKERS FOR $79  RIGHT HERE - NO PROMO CODE NEED! JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Frumess ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Salt Lake Dirt
Lisa Johnson - Photographer // The Punk Rock Museum - Episode 159

Salt Lake Dirt

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2023 29:55


On this episode of Salt Lake Dirt I welcome photographer Lisa Johnson. Lisa's work as a rock photographer has given us incredible images of bands like No Doubt, The Vandals, and Nirvana. Today we talk about her iconic image of Bradley Nowell from Sublime, her work with the Punk Rock Museum, and her involvement with the Warped Tour. Lisa's work had a huge impact on the trajectory of my life and we also get into that on the show. Great chat! Make sure to check out Lisa's photography at the Punk Rock Museum. Thanks for listening.Kyler --- Episode Links: IG: ⁠@lisajohnsonrockphotographer⁠ The Punk Rock Museum --- SLD Podcast Info: www.saltlakedirt.com Radio Broadcast every Monday on KPCR 101.9 FM Santa Cruz - 6PM - 8PM PST Listen on APPLE Podcasts Listen on SPOTIFY Instagram: @saltlakedirt

The Confused Breakfast
BRUNCH: Reviewing Sublime's Self-titled Album

The Confused Breakfast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2023 43:07


We dedicate an entire Brunch episode to Sublime's 3rd and final studio album. This masterpiece and known and loved by many and was released shortly after Bradley Nowell passed away. Come hang with us while we chat about it. —————————————————————— SPONSORS: **Rocket Money- Stop wasting money on things you don't use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions – and manage your money the easy way – http://RocketMoney.com/confused **Visit us at Http://confusedbreakfast.com or leave a voicemail about your thoughts of the show! 319.804.9596 —————————————————————— **Support us at http://patreon.com/confusedbreakfast like these fine people- Robin Fawcett, Dane, Joel, Nick Merulla, Mark Prior, Keerlana, Elisha, Camden Griffith, Cameron Jay, Bud Larsen, Katie Beeks, Mr. and Mrs. Roommate, Cale James, Jason Davis, Shaun Dixon, Emilio Perez, Skyler Brunssen, Jordan Hooten, Brynna Misener, Willie Cox III, Jenel Lewis, Joe Thomas, Chris DeAro, Marshall G, Mitch Cavanaugh, Josh Miller, Condumb, Jason Botsford, Chris Prior, Jason Hahn, Travis Scanlan, Gary McCarthy, Corey Vaughn, Ranger Rick and Suebaloo, Damien Zemek, Revis, David Waggoner, Jeni Wilson, Tim Nash, Mike Zachar, Robert Vens, Joey Piemonte, David Waters, Allen Cross, negaduck, ZerophoniK, Amy N, Ryan O, David Gould, Seth Murray, Leeloo Dallas Multipass, Lance Davis, Dale Prystupa, Derek Foreal, Mike Wheeler, Mike Oxhard, Gerret Layoff, Aaron Baker, Ryan Grabski, Michael Nash, Adam Bathon, Ryan Weaver, Quinton Moore, Zach Evans, Justin Wooley, Todd Fatjo, Jared Bushman, Melinda Miller, Luke Bittues, SHADOWxViking, Rachel Heintz, Bailey Rome, Merkie, Tyler Darke, John Miller, Caleb Kampsen, Dean Roan, Austin Hartman, Jason Ruby Rod Rodgers, Chris M, Cody Kirker, Chris Kleman, Starling, Tanner Gray, Quincy Mullen, David Amodei, Matthew Rosendahl, Jon Martinez, Jackson M, Spaceballs the Username, Erin, Richard Harding, Brandon Anderson, Bryant Wayland, Jacob Stahl, Alex Navarro, Richard Burciaga, Peter Fitz, Jay Bender, Steve Bland, Andy M, Matt Cruz, Terry Pyatt, Kyle Donnelly, Kyle Eberle, Jose Leusch, Robert Ross, Steve Primm, Lee Rash, Michael May, Trent Crutcher, Austin Pellazari, Father Peña, Domin Brown, Travis Ferris, Mr. and Mrs. Beers, Midnight Rider, Todd Zeutenhorst, Mindy Zellis, Emma Page, Damien Zemek, Mitchell Lundy, Aaron George, Zachary Schild, Matt Wendt, Mo Muzach, Diggity Dave, Grant Trickel, Anthony Fenstra, Nick Bryant, Ross Eickhoff, Grady Not Brady, Rickey Simpson Jr, Joshua Johnson, Morgan Babic, Jeremy Farnell, Eric Graham, Lew Gilly, Michael Giuliano, Johnny Wood, Brother Nick, Aaron Vandergriff, Christopher Valis, John, Joseph, Chad Miracle, RastaLion, Nicholas Blackwell, Chris Colell, Nicholas Blackwell, Tony Read, Taco Tycoon, Steven Moore, Devin Carlisle, Benjamin Dugger, Jonathon, Ethan Hopkins, CJ Hellmann, Evan Buscher, Chris, Matt Dukes, Taylor Roberts, Wes Clark, Sean Okusko, Jason Hagen, Sean D Green, Chris M, Melanie Johnson, Steve Jones, Beej, Alex Navarro, Child of the Watch 73, Bryn Hughes, Adam Hoy, Matt Rowell, Luke FIlewal±+ker, Ryan, Nate, Bobby Oberschlake, Lee Rash, Mr. Rivers, WokeMorty, Josh White, Bryan Hernandez, Ryan Holder, Peter High, Jay Tuttle, Andrew Castillo, Jameson McKenna, Jeff Jewell, Laura, Justin Pankonin, Rory, The Digital David, Nick James, Barry Mitchell, Canned Sandwich, Glizzy Borden, Midnight Rider, Coby Iatham, Katelyn Heasley, John Sanders, Erik Kenneth John, Birdman, Tyler Greene, Anthony Marier, Jim Nanni, Kinzer Keel and Brandon Anderson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cannabis Talk 101
Jakob Nowell Lead Singer of JAKOBS CASTLE.

Cannabis Talk 101

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2023 44:36


Jakob is the son of Bradley Nowell the former lead singer of Sublime. Catch his next show at A TRIP TO GARDEN GROVE on St. Patrick's Day March 17th at The GARDEN AMP presented by Big Bag Entertainment. Get your tickets at www.gardenamp.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Pat Walsh Show
The Pat Walsh Show Feb 22 Hr 3

The Pat Walsh Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2023 36:40


Rick Rubin says Paul McCartney is the “best of all bass players”, McCartney wrote a love song for pot for The Beatles and ‘Let Me Roll it' is about ‘rolling a joint', Happy Birthday to the late Bradley Nowell + your calls!

Indexed
IDX 025.0 - Sublime

Indexed

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2022 61:43


Welcome to Indexed.On this episode we dive into the discography of Sublime. Smoke 'em if you got 'em for this episode of Index as we try to bring some sunshine and good vibes to the cold winter weather. We welcome friend Tim O'Connor as well to give us his thoughts and feelings on the band.Don't like our rankings? Think we nailed it? Reach out on social media to let us know where you stand.Instagram: @indexed_podFacebook: IndexedShow Email: indexedpodcast@gmail.comIntro / Outro Music by VHX (https://soundcloud.com/djvhx)

Like It Or Not
Ep. 93 w/Jakob Nowell

Like It Or Not

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2022 57:42


Jakob Nowell is an up and coming musician based out of Long Beach CA. He is the son of late Sublime singer Bradley Nowell and we talk with him about all of it here!

Bob Forrest's Don't Die Podcast
Episode Two Hundred

Bob Forrest's Don't Die Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2022 67:08


Bobs back from his Covid near death experience, mean people treated him like a leper, questions of where he contracted it, should you wear a mask at a music festival, Scott Wieland, Bradley Nowell, Buddy Arnolds mission, Johnny Depp's poop story, music and up coming Ohana fest, Stevie Nicks, Paul Westerburg, Lou Reed

Talksicology
A Sister's Perspective - Kellie Nowell

Talksicology

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2022 59:38


Join our hosts Jason Cabello and Joseph Gorordo as they sit down with Kellie Nowell, Executive Director of The Nowell Family Foundation, as they discuss the impact of addiction on the family during active use, the healing process after the loss of a loved one, and life of her brother, Bradley Nowell of Sublime.

Why Did Peter Sink?
31. The Foolish Brother

Why Did Peter Sink?

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2021 23:53


As I've mentioned in earlier episodes, when you find the drink or drug or vice that suits you, you know it immediately. Even if you didn't recognize it happening, it happens. For people with addictions, which is pretty much everyone, the substance or experience was pinned on their hearts so long ago that they don't even know it's there anymore, nor do they know when it happened. The addiction merges into you, sometimes gradually, but is so ingrained into life that it's unseen. Like mixing two different paint colors, separating the two is impossible. Well, impossible for us humans anyway. Unless you somehow get jolted awake, no recognition happens, the paint is just mixed into you and you are now both colors of paint.To illustrate the point, take most men today as an example: they will keep popping beers and opening porn sites and feeding political/personal hatreds, without ever noticing they've been overtaken. They will do this while they simultaneously complain about the immorality of everyone else. They are not wrong about the immorality of everyone else, but they don't recognize the massive plank in their own eye. And I include myself in that entire accusation. I am the foolish brother in the Prodigal Son parable, but I am the other brother as well.When you find the thing that “does it for you,” you can be conquered quickly. You will embrace it and know that this - yes, this - delivers something that was lacking before, something what you sought, what you had been looking for. You didn't know you were seeking it, but you found it. Once you found it, now it's part of you, unless you do battle to remove it.The most visible examples of this comes with meth or heroin addicts, as you can watch it happen so fast, where the first high elevates the user to such great heights that they are lost in the first experience, after which we get to watch their ungracious collapse, their meteoric crash into the mountain of life. But for most people, for our accepted and private addictions, it happens slowly. The drug or experience hooks you, but you dabble, silently and out of sight. Over time you assemble your cheerleaders to support you, the enablers that must be found to allow continuing on further down the path. Then you keep dabbling at it for the rest of your life, stuck on the problem, but keeping up appearances, thinking that it's not a problem. The meth or heroin addict reaches the conclusion fast and publicly, like a short violent film, but the rest of us require a full five-act tragedy to play out over 75 years. We make drug users and criminals our cautionary tales, our modern outcasts, as their illustration provides such an obvious error that even a child recognizes the mistaken path. Their suffering gives us a sign of one road to avoid, but there are many well-lighted paths that take more circuitous routes but end up at the same place.I have heard this notion of “instant addiction” from users of opioids, marijuana, meth, sex, gambling, and porn. I've actually observed it happen in a gambler once, as he acquired the “taste” for the win. The pleasure of winning a bet spread across his face like The Grinch as he hatched his evil scheme to steal Christmas. When the right wrong touches you, even if you aren't looking for it, you will know. At that moment, this wrong will then gather its belongings and take up residence inside your head permanently, like a bad tenant that you cannot evict. Just ask anyone who got addicted to oxycodone or other narcotics by accident after receiving pills for pain from a doctor. They didn't know they were looking for that thrill, but they found it by pure accident. For most people the pills won't cause a problem, but for others their entire life self-destructs into a pursuit for more prescriptions. To those observing other people with theses vices, especially with vices we do not share, this behavior is bizarre. Yet for most people there is a something like an opioid that draws us in like bugs to a trap, and we just can't help but taste that sweetness. I recall a night out long ago when I was at a bar with two others. One was a man obsessed with sex. The second was terribly overweight and still obsessed with food. Then there was myself, who just wanted to drink to drunkenness. And as I looked around our table in that bar, I thought to myself, “Aren't we quite the trio.”As for me, drinking beer took a bit of getting accustomed to, but as a teenager I had acquired “the taste” and never again lost it. But I wasn't really after the taste. None of us are after the taste, not really. We want the effect. I'll take the result, not the taste, thank you very much. The idea that we love the taste is a cool trick. We dress up beer and liquor in a thousand flavors. Ethanol tastes terrible, so it has to be disguised for us to ingest it. We want the buzz. This is the little secret of wine “aficionados” and “craft” beer drinkers and whiskey “connoisseurs,” but they will defend to the death that they love the taste, and surely they do believe it, once alcohol has merged into their life and taken up residence. But without the buzz there is no reason for acquiring a taste. I am not trying to say that drinking is bad. This is not a teetotaler tirade. I needed to remove the tap from my own life, but I don't ever pretend that drinking is bad for all people. Drinking provides much joy for people. We are all just wired for different problems, and mine happens to be alcohol, which is why I babble on about it here, but I feel that one addictive experience can help understand other addictive experiences. Most people can handle a few drinks, although there are many who think they can, but really can't. What I aiming at is this: people lie about why they drink, because no one does it for the taste. This is how we justify our sins, with simple and sometimes elaborate lies. For the record, drinking is not a sin, but drinking to drunkenness is a sin most definitely. I didn't make that up, but I think it's fairly obvious that a large portion of the awful things that happen in our lives and in many families can be traced directly back to drunkenness. Generations of families are ruined by drunkenness, sometimes stemming from a single night that a father or mother was drunk, which begins a domino effect. A good rule is the G.K. Chesterton line, “We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.”But for those of us that do drink too much of them:An impulse to do the wrong thing can conquer me. Even knowing something is wrong doesn't provide enough reason to not to take the wrong action. Reason need not apply. Like the Lotus Eaters in the Odyssey, the high is wanted again and again and the mind never tires of it because it appears to put anxiety, suffering, and mental pain to rest.Except it doesn't. The Lotus flower doesn't fix anything, not at all, but the sailors want to believe it has solved their problem. They forget other things, like where they were going, their home, their families, replacing goals or hobbies with the substance and experience that they now treasure. Odysseus' men gladly forget all things important to them:“…those who ate of this honeyed plant, the Lotos,never cared to report, nor to return:they longed to stay on forever, browsing onthat native bloom, forgetful of their homeland. (from the Robert Fitzgerald translation)The Lotus replaces the men's motivation and direction. There is also the loss of innocence, which is part of everyone's journey, and this personal pathway is different for all but there are similarities between those who find the Lotus in achievement or status or gambling or drinking or sex, or some combined cocktail of those things. The sense of right and wrong is still present after the first few times, but begins to diminish the more the wrong thing is chosen. Soon the wrong way becomes increasingly normal and eventually becomes a permanent fixture that you don't want to have judged or reviewed. Then you will not care one bit that some guy named Isaiah ever said, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” because you will want to be with your precious. Remember, Gollum started out as Smeagol. He was a cute and happy little hobbit before the ring transformed him into a ghoulish murderer.The echoes of this desire to do the wrong thing is sometimes subtle and you may or may not notice when it happens, but you can hear it plain as day in songs, like One Republic's Counting Stars. The lyrics cannot be heard but as a yearning to do what his conscience tells him is wrong. This guy gets it.I feel something so right by doing the wrong thingAnd I feel something so wrong by doing the right thing…Everything that kills me makes me feel aliveThe strange twist on those lyrics is not just his desire to do the wrong thing, but his repulsion at doing the right thing. His is an advanced case of lost innocence, but common, as once the decision is made to “call evil good and good evil” then wrong behavior becomes the standard, not the exception. There is even a death wish in these lyrics of wanting to be on the edge of life and death merely to feel alive. You can see this path of destruction in a one-liner from the Parable of the Prodigal Son: “…the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation.” Surely he knew it was wrong, but he chose that path anyway. He wanted to live wildly and riotously. That was his drug.There is excitement in doing the wrong thing. Fun and pleasure can come from good things, but the devil plays on the other side of that fence in the activities that we know are wrong. We think, or want to believe, that's where the fun is at. For me, coloring outside the lines appeared to free the soul from the tethers of morality and furthermore seduced me with the promise of creativity, which I saw in others who had traveled the road of excess. For reference: see every dead rock star. Janis Joplin to Jim Morrison to Bradley Nowell to Amy Winehouse to Scott Weiland to Chris Cornell. Flawed people, but creative souls who achieved a kind of greatness in music, as a side hobby all had major drug or alcohol problems. The result is that we mashup creativity and freedom into one bowl, thinking they go together. This opens the gate to choosing actions that our conscience tells us not to do, like a nerdy hall monitor. When the conscience tells us to “No running, go back and walk,” we decide we are tired of listening to this fuddyduddy, that running in the hall is more fun, so we beat up the hall monitor and take his lunch.This same “freedom” I saw in writers that I admired. They all seemed to disregard common rules only to make their own and become more creative because of it. Many of these favorite writers also ended up losing their marbles and soon after their life by their own hand, like Ernest Hemingway and Jack London and Hunter Thompson and Sylvia Plath.Extracting myself from this rut going in the wrong direction, required extra help. Far more motivation and direction was needed to get out of this rut than I needed to get into it. Anyone who has found themselves in a literal rut, whether by plowing a field, driving a car on a gullied out dirt road, or even while using the tow-rope at a ski resort, you can find your way into the rut much easier than you can pull out of the rut. In fact, when watching the tow rope ferry skiers up a hill at a ski resort, I have watched kids fall down in order to get out of the rut, and that matches my own experience. Falling down is sometimes the only way to get out of the rut, otherwise you just end up following the rut to its end. Wiser folks than myself just avoid putting their skis into the rut, or having dropped into the rut, carefully step back out of it. I applaud them on their good sense.When I was, at long last, able to step out of the rut, I reached a point where I assumed that the problem was solved. “That was easy,” I thought, shaking the snow off my hands, “Problem solved. I'll never do that again.”But as I've mentioned in earlier episodes, my first attempts to stop drinking failed after a month, or after six months, or even after a year. I had to try and try again. And it's not impossible, not by a long shot, that even after five years of sobriety I won't fall headlong right back into the rut again. It happens all the time to people. The rut is always there, if we only choose to put our ski back into it.Switching metaphors here, let's move from skiing to dragons. The dragon doesn't go away. There is a decent chance I will revert back to the same mistakes of the past. But beyond that, even if I may have penned the dragon of drinking, there are plenty of other dragons to face in the world and nearly every day these cause struggle and trouble for me, or rather I allow struggle and trouble into my life. Some days are better than others. Some days I feel that there is nothing that can derail me from doing the right thing. On other days I struggle from the moment I awake in the morning. Those are the days when I forget about God. Why Did Peter Sink? Yes, again, the same answer. He took his eyes off God.Without a doubt, as creatures we will never be perfect. It's impossible. The lizard brain is strong, but we can strive away from its wiles that seduce us. Rather than go toward it, we try to resist it. But there are times that we fail. Two sayings I like about perfection are as follows:Progress, not perfection.Perfection kills.I can't claim either of those quotes, but I will steal them for my purposes. Now, these quotes could be interpreted as license to do whatever you want and then seek forgiveness afterward, making them half-hearted enablers of the vices. After all, you could distill “Perfection kills” to mean “I'll never be perfect, so why try at all?” But that is reducing it to an all-or-nothing scenario where our efforts toward the good are nullified. Even though we will fail, we must strive toward goodness. When we fall it is by choice. Adults are just like any child who wants a cookie, who knows that it's often easier to get forgiveness for eating the cookie than it is to get permission. So we often perform the act and then the supplication is made later.This is what often bothers people about Christian forgiveness, as it can come late in a person's life. However, if there is one thing Jesus makes clear, repeatedly, it's that God doesn't care if the change of heart comes late in life, he only cares that it happens. There is the parable of the laborers, where those laborers who worked only an hour in the field received the same pay as those that worked all day. “It's not fair,” they complain. But nothing is lost for those who worked all day. The eternal reward is the same and just as great. There is no keeping score on who turns back to God, or when they turn back to God. Those already turned should have joy now, and when others turn they should share in their joy. The expectation of getting more than others is one of our human flaws that must be shed if we are ever to understand the idea of salvation. The death row confession and plea for forgiveness angers people. Yet that forgiveness is precisely what the penitent thief on the cross next to Jesus receives in his final hour. An overarching theme across all the Gospels is “the first will be last and the last will be first.” As a reader, I almost feel beaten over the head by that concept, which is good, because that's the only way I remember anything. The idea goes against our instincts, especially in our merit-based society.So what happens when you do screw up and revert back to old ways? First of all, there was a saying in AA meetings: “We don't shoot our wounded,” which always seemed like the right answer for those who struggle but keep trying, who need a hand. For anyone who started drinking again, but returned to the meetings, an acceptance was there but no one was offering a sappy “poor me” attitude. There was acknowledgment from the group but not praise.Obviously, the goal should be to avoid the error at all times. Obviously. But who among us can say they don't make mistakes? Wait, I forgot: we have Facebook and everyone's life on there is perfect. But just for an instant, imagine a world where people didn't pretend to be perfect, like say, well, in the real world, the non-digital world, on a planet called earth. Imagine our actual world where people are flawed and screw up all the time and say they will do one thing but do another.We mess up. That is what we do. We think that we won't mess up, but then we do. So let's say you start eating the Lotus flowers and then by some miracle you stop eating them. Then after a while, you may forget why you stopped eating the Lotus flowers because life was easier with them. Life was more enjoyable while you were escaping to eat the flowers. Then what do you do? Wouldn't it be easier to just go back to old habits?I don't have all the answers, but I've had some good advice given to me.The first thing to do is this: take the next right action. That is all you can do for starters. Stamp it on your forehead. “Next right action.” And after that action, you can take the next right action. Wash, rinse, repeat.I can't fix much, but I can fix one thing. One thing at a time, one day at a time. The “next right action” idea must be volleying around in my head just like “surrender to win” and “Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner” and “Why did Peter sink?” These phrases are the way back. One step at a time, one cheesy little quote at a time.There is a second danger I need to share, and this is just as dangerous as the wayward ways of the Prodigal son, the foolish brother. You get into the first rut through disobedience to what your conscience knows is right behavior. But there is a second rut that can be fallen into, on the other side of the screw-up, after you've corrected the first error. This other rut is carved by righteousness, and in that rut lies the other sin, the oldest and greatest sin of all: pride. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whydidpetersink.com

WorkTape
#18 - Are Sublime All That Sublime?

WorkTape

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 28:48


How do you feel about Christmas music? Were Sublime really in a league of their own? Here are some of the topics that we go over in this episode: Who are some key pianists in popular music? What made "40oz. to Freedom" a 90s staple? What made Bradley Nowell a unique songwriter and frontman? Do people throw out quality for sentimental bias with music?

The Wolf Who Cried Women
Ep. 12 - Evan Wolf Sends His Regards

The Wolf Who Cried Women

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2021 89:22


Content Warning: Evan is an unbelievably disgusting classist in this episode so just prepare for that. In this episode Evan is struck with a bad case of Harvard-mania and also taken with the lovely Becky Bangladesh. But before that, we begin with an extended discussion of Mormon soaking, examine whether we should be disclosing the podcast to our paramours, debate the appropriateness of ghosting before moving into what our goals were as 16 year olds. Be that as it may, Evan decides to take summer courses at Harvard, co-founds an Accapella group and wouldn't you know, chenaningans ensue. I don't do spoilers, but here's what I can promise you: this is like #1 with a bullet for Evan making strange decisions. Pop Culture Discussed: F Scott Fitzgerald, Bradley Nowell, Robert Service, Talking Heads, SATs, Wes Anderson. Email us: Wolfwhocriedwomen@gmail.com

Why Did Peter Sink?
19. You Are What You Read (or Watch)

Why Did Peter Sink?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2021 32:54


I become what I consume. Obviously I'm only referring to the mind, not the physical, for if this were true for the body, I would have turned into a bowl of breakfast cereal by now. But over years of reading and watching movies, with the gift of hindsight, I realize that I do merge with what I read, which isn't anything new. The old saying rings true: “Where your treasure is, there also your heart will be” - even when the treasure is a destructive one. While throwing around proverbs, I'll just add another: “Be careful of the company you keep.” I'd apply that same statement the books or movies or media you keep.Charles Bukowski, the alcoholic poet that I loved to read in my early twenties, is the subject. Yes, Bukowski, the carnal, rejectionist, drunken, insane, brutally honest, self-destructive societal outsider. Who doesn't love that kind of guy? He's the guy that follow no rules whatsoever and yet is a virtuoso of victimhood. But then he also wrote from the heart and could spin sentences into gold. He reminds me of the Oscar Wilde quote, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Bukowski did look at the stars, but just as often he would lie face down and describe the gutter itself, in great detail.In my own days of drinking, I knew there was a problem around control, a dysfunction that I couldn't manage. I knew it from the very first time the buzz spun me around, that this was my drug, what I had been looking for. But I also knew there was something not right about this affinity but I didn't want to face the problem. However, when I stumbled onto Charles Bukowski, I found a kindred spirit where I didn't have to care about the problem. I just let the problem be. I could let it exist. I just wanted to allow myself to not feel lost and empty, which meant letting the desire live unfettered. Not wanting to deal with the problem, I found Bukowski giving me a fist bump and saying, “Just go with it. Embrace it.” One quote that sticks in my mind was this one:“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”There is no question that Bukowski was a deep addict that could speak profoundly, often striking deep at the paradoxes written in our souls. Honesty and raw pessimism makes his writing hit readers hard. His gutter-style of writing, from the dark places, made him famous. He compared himself to a Roman writer named Catullus, another poet of the alleyways who lived on the hidden streets of society. The humor in Bukowski's stories made me laugh out loud, as he crossed every line and broke every taboo. This appealed to me because, like a court jester, he stood outside of society and mocked all of our facades. The masks that we wear and our modern rituals meant nothing to him. Throughout history, outsiders like the comedian and the bum on the street both hold special privilege to mock us “normies,” and Bukowski played both bum and comedian. He didn't fit the mold of expected society, so he flung himself far from it and laughed at the absurdity, like a failing student slinging mud from the back row of class. Or he at least appeared to be unbothered by his flaws.But then he would write something that let his own mask slip from his persona, like a poem called “Bluebird” that, when I first read it, struck me like a shovel to my forehead. A flicker of light remained within him. He knew something deep about his spirit, admitting that he recognized something like hope within.there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not goingto let anybody seeyou.there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I pour whiskey on him and inhalecigarette smokeand the w****s and the bartendersand the grocery clerksnever know thathe'sin there.That poems sits in great contrast to his more common themes of nihilism, insanity, and pessimism, which fired on all cylinders through most of his writing. He touches on something very far down, very deep, in his spirit, and his Bluebird is like the last refuge of his hope, and it reminds me of a teaching of the Catechism that states the same thing, but without the references to whiskey and smoke:In the depths of his conscience…always summoning him to love good and avoid evil, the voice of conscience when necessary speaks to his heart: do this, shun that. (GS 16 & CCC 1776)Bukowski, even in full rejection mode, taps into the center of something that cannot be drowned with booze or smoked out.What fascinated me in his writing is that he avoids all political correctness, which was already a thing in his era, and goes straight to the bottom, to the blind alleys, and just says the things that few would say or write. He was a prophet of the “Big Empty” where nothing matters, and where nothing is important. In his world, everything is a waste of time. I recall reading this quote and nodding along, as so many mornings you would wonder why the day needed to happen:“I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?”Or darker still, Bukowski could enter a contest against Sylvia Plath for the saddest sentence ever written. There was always a yearning for suicide in the writing of both of their works. Here was a writer that could articulate depression. An example from Bukowksi:“If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.”Similar to Hemingway's quote, “Drinking is a way of ending the day,” Bukowski had a devastating idea about drinking as a way of killing hisself each day:I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.When I was reading Bukowski, the sentiments confirmed ideas that I held. The rejection of society and self I felt, even while I was going through the motions of proper society externally. The mask I wore in society, Bukowski just discarded it. He had no need of approval, or so he said - which is funny, because he actually did need approval. He wrote for approval and constantly sent out his art for publication. But like the person today who posts on Facebook, “I don't care what anyone thinks about me, I am who I am,” it's the same plea for approval. Declaring that you don't care about approval is always a cry for support from others to approve of you. I know quite a few people who need to be seen in a big pickup and drinking beer and talking sports who say, “I don't care what people think of me.” It always make me laugh, as this is like a very lite beer version of Bukowski, who took that sentiment and no parachute and jumped all the way to the bottom of that lie.The sadness that could be discerned in his writing so often bordered on thoughts of suicide, which is unavoidably where this way of life leads. My own feelings were bolstered by Bukowski's announcements about the cruel “truth” of the world. My suspicions were that the Big Empty was it, that life had no meaning, and here was the first author I found that wasn't afraid to declare it without a bunch of “isms” like subjectivism or positivism or communism or existentialism or deconstructionism or just plain old atheism. Bukowski didn't write happy endings or pretend the world was good. He saw the world as a mess and so he pushed the eject button.After reading many of his poems, however, his notions of being at odds with everything start to seem self-congratulatory. Today, what I see so many years later in his quotes is an addict in full bloom, with no remorse or intention to change. The same celebration of alcohol and recognition of emptiness can be felt in the books of Hemingway and Fitzgerald as well, but they have more refined plots and complex characters. Bukowski's dissatisfaction finds an outlet to pleasure through drinking, as the state of drunkenness removes what ails his heart, and so that becomes the center of his life. (This is not surprising to anyone that enjoys drinking or drugging, but differs none for those chasing other addictions like porn, gambling, cheating, food, work, shopping, plastic surgery, fitness, or internet and video games.) His rough youth and escapades are illustrated in his books via his alter ego Henry Chinaski. The path of his addiction is so well recorded that his life reads like a manual: this substance that gives pleasure initially becomes less satisfactory, but then you can't stop doing it because you're looking to get the high back again. Always repeating the same loop of events, he drinks to escape life. Then the isolation and self-pity infiltrates his life and everything else becomes pointless, stupid, a waste of time, and no one understands him. The reason he claims to love isolation so much is because of the grip alcohol had on him, not because he actually enjoyed isolation. The spiral of depression takes a person to a lonely place, and while the user feels like the vice lifts him up, it's a trick of the mind, and it only took me about 20 years to realize that this is literally what the word “hell” means. Bukowski celebrates this error because his addiction wants him to stay there and be lonely with it. A false worldview has trapped him, so he claims to love his self-absorption and self-pity. For all the humor and deep thoughts in his writing, that's what it is. He's in a hell that he's chosen and is too stubborn and addicted to ever leave.As the saying goes, the devil won't bother you while you are already doing what he wants; he only bothers you when you try to stop. If you don't believe me, stop doing the thing that troubles you the most and report back in one year about how it went for you.Repeatedly in his stories you can hear this bottoming out, this hopelessness, as he just wants to be left alone with writing and liquor because there no one can hurt him. No one but himself.I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. This is actually why I like Bukowski still today. He's just so honest about the problem. I read it very differently now though having called closing time on my own pity party. As I was adrift in adulthood, despite having a good job and wanting for nothing, this gnawing sense of meaninglessness led me to seek and explore the emptiness, since if nothing was all there was, why not make the most of it? There are billions of people in this state today. I can sense it in conversations and see it in their faces. I have felt what Bukowski describes and if you attend recovery meetings, you will hear this sentiment over and over and over again. One thing that has always amazed me at recovery meetings is that people will admit things very much like Bukowski. They will utter these damaged and lonely ideas to strangers because they felt no one would understand, and then, to their surprise, everyone understands. If it were not so sad it would be comical, that we all carry this burden, asking ourselves, “What is the meaning of life?” but feeling inadequate to articulate the feeling, we just say “Screw it,” and dive back into our problem because we think others would find our ideas crazy. As I've said before, at recovery meetings, no one is going to be surprised at your darkest thoughts or what you have done in the past because you lack the uniqueness you imagine. Yes, it hurts to hear it. Bukowski was unique in his writing, but he was not unique in his drinking or his addiction. In fact, he would have still been a great writer without the booze.As I've mentioned, I was a big fan of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime. Both died in their twenties. Both had drug and alcohol problems. I once referred to Kurt Cobain as my “hero” years before I had discovered Charles Bukowski. When someone pointed out that “hero” might not be the right label for a lead singer who was a drug addict that killed himself, I ignored them, believing that the rock star life of full-speed-unto-death was a more honest life than most (insert laugh-track here). So I was already primed for Bukowski and my discovery of his writing was far from accidental. In fact, I sought such corroboration of my worldview, just as we all do.What drove me to anger in those years were Christians, who represented everything opposite of Charles Bukowski, who was so “free”. The Christians appeared fake and gullible and obnoxious, as they embodied a quote by Bukowski: “Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”But those boring damned people were not damned, because while Bukowski was “free” to do whatever he wanted, he was miserable. His identity came from his writing, but he worshipped his image as a rebel. He loved his fame once he got a taste of it. In fact, he needed all those boring people to loathe, but he also needed them as readers, so that he could justify himself. What was valuable to him? He claimed it was nothing, but it was three things: writing, drinking, and insulting everything that wasn't his own writing or drinking.I suppose I should cut to the chase. In those Bukowski-admiring years, I had come to have faith in atheism, believing that nothing mattered. I say “faith” because to believe in nothing is as much a leap as believing in God. This conversion had taken place over years, but once I was finished with college and making my way in the world, living alone, I found no purpose whatsoever to anything. There was making money and moving up the ladder at work, but even then I knew something major was missing from those pursuits.That march toward nihilism had begun in college. No, even before that, when I first started to lose faith as a teenager over questions around the Resurrection of Jesus and I couldn't get any satisfactory answers. I was grasping at God in those years, trying to find God and getting hung up on literal readings from fundamentalists, which I could not accept. But once I hit these Bukowski years, I was now straight-up fleeing God. I wasn't grasping at all, I was running.What I did not understand is that while sprinting away from God, I was going to run in a full circle once I realized, years later, there is nothing in that void, that is has nothing to offer, and that a worldview aimed at the void is simply wrong. If I had been educated in the faith, so many questions would have been answered, but it seems that the idea of blind faith and not asking questions bumped me sideways to the point where I had to go searching for different answers. In observing bad behavior in Christians, I lumped them all together as one blob of humanity and ignored learning any actual doctrine.What's funny to me now is that the Church was well-aware of my entire experience long before I stumbled onto it, and as I mention often, it hurts to find out how unoriginal I am. In 1965, the Catholic Church published this:For, taken as a whole, atheism is not a spontaneous development but stems from a variety of causes, including a critical reaction against religious beliefs, and in some places against the Christian religion in particular. Hence believers can have more than a little to do with the birth of atheism. To the extent that they neglect their own training in the faith, or teach erroneous doctrine, or are deficient in their religious, moral or social life, they must be said to conceal rather than reveal the authentic face of God and religion. GS 19I could tick all of those boxes, and tick them off about many Christians that I knew. Neglect of training or education? Check. Erroneous doctrine? Check. Deficiencies in moral and social life? Without a doubt.Furthermore, in their explanations of modern atheism, the following description also stuck to me like flypaper:For while God is expressly denied by some, others believe that man can assert absolutely nothing about Him. Still others use such a method to scrutinize the question of God as to make it seem devoid of meaning. Many…contend that everything can be explained by this kind of scientific reasoning alone…Moreover, atheism results not rarely from a violent protest against the evil in this world, or from the absolute character with which certain human values are unduly invested, and which thereby already accords them the stature of God. Modern civilization itself often complicates the approach to God not for any essential reason but because it is so heavily engrossed in earthly affairs. (GS 19)Now when I consider that statement against a Bukowski quote about being his own god, he is like a case study of a lost sheep. Bukowski realizes that without God, he is a god, and with that arrangement, nothing has any meaning but that which he declares meaningful.“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god…”In other words, there is no truth for Bukowski, and ultimately no meaning. He is “pliable” and “adjustable” which boils down to a pretty weak lower-case god.The great realization that I had was two-fold: there is a God, but more importantly I am not God. That short sentence - I am not God - changes every single thing I see in the world. This is like standing in a room full of mirrors and then suddenly stepping outside, where before all I could see was myself and my expressions, my feelings, and suddenly I saw everyone else. The way of seeing the world radically differs between a believer and a non-believer, and it changes even further for Christians. When your life is no longer about you, nothing looks the same.Bukowski even knew there was something good in the world, and in him. He actually reveals why he hides his beloved Bluebird in the second verse of his poem. Why does he keep this beautiful Bluebird hidden in his heart? Because he likes his rebellion. His status as a rebel feeds his ego. If he shows his Bluebird, he has to give up his outsider status, which helps him sell books.there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say,stay down, do you want to messme up?you want to screw up theworks?you want to blow my book sales inEurope?The appeal of Bukowski to those adrift is his stubbornness to never let his light shine, even when he knows the little light is in there, deep in his heart. There's even a parable about hiding a light under a bushel basket. As an artist, Bukowski was actually grasping at something higher, but he could not admit it to the world.For those that do come to faith, the former life of standing in the room of mirrors comes to be seen as a false life, a different life - almost a life that didn't exist because of the focus on the self. When Jesus cures the blind man and the blind man says, “All I know is I was blind, and now I see,” his life is changed in the literal sense of vision but also of his outlook on the world and his soul. The lives of many saints are remarkable in similarity when this change occurs, like Ignatius, Augustine, Paul, Dorothy Day, Elizabeth Anne Seton.If you are a doubter, just consider the annoying people who are always talking about Jesus and seem to have a wellspring of happiness. Aren't they annoying? Aren't they boring?But the sense of joy is honest in them. It's real. The turning toward God changes people in ways that cannot be understood unless you experience it. This blindness-into-sight is what happens to people who experience conversion. Once it occurs, you realize that it's not boring. Life is not boring. Faith makes every day worth living, so that you don't wake up and put on your shoes, and like Bukowski say, “Oh, now what?” This way of seeing makes you wake up filled with hope instead of despair. You know the world has flaws, and so do you, but still there is hope.This way of seeing flips everything on its head, just as you see with Matthew or those who “come to Jesus.” Nothing is the same for them ever again. They would not even recognize their former lives and would never want to go back to old ways. Like me and so many others, unfortunately, you almost have to arrive at this destination the hard way - by following things to their end, to realize that you were looking in the wrong place.Now I think back to the influence of writers like Bukowski had on me, and how I allowed myself to celebrate my errors and flaws. That wasn't a mistake so much as a guidepost along my way. We are raised today to believe that fulfilling our wants and desires is path to happiness, but the only times I've grew spiritually is when I don't get what I want, when I deny myself. The many freedoms we have today to satisfy the self is actually what chains us to a life of misery. The self always wants more, whether it's food or sex or comfort or honor or pleasure or wealth. Bukowski did what he wanted all the time and it's pretty obvious he was miserable.If anything I'm grateful for the entertainment of Bukowski's books as it hustled me along to the end of the path, where I could realize that it is not better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. Turns out that serving myself creates a kind of living hell. Separating myself from belief in a loving God makes this life into a place of endless wants and desires. Elevating myself into a god - it's just too much work! It's too empty if I am the only decider of right and wrong, the lonely chooser of what is meaningful and meaningless.I wouldn't advise anyone to read Bukowski, not because I think he's a bad writer. I think he's amazing, and I still laugh just thinking of some of this quotes. Rather, I wouldn't recommend him because the influence of reading can be strong on a mind and persuasive in tugging one toward blind alleys. If you are seeking that kind of writing, you will find it anyway. If you are already one of the “boring” people that Bukowski hated, who has faith and hope, I would strongly recommend remaining boring and full of hope.I could give a drunkalogue on adventures undertaken under the influence of alcohol which might lead you to believe that pursuit of selfish pleasures is anything but boring, but I can assure you, if you go to any recovery meeting, you can watch people roll their eyes or fall asleep when a newcomer tries to wow ex-drinkers with his or her tales of debauchery. No one cares. Everyone has heard it. Moreover, no one wants to hear it, whether in a recovery meeting or regular life. Drunk stories only entertain the teller. All “wild” stories of intoxication are a dime a dozen. The aftermath of “wild” stories may be the only interesting part, since the epilogue is not about the teller, but about the people the story impacted and quite often hurt.Once again, as the saying goes, “Where your treasure is, there also your heart will be.” If your treasure is nothing, your heart will find those who celebrate it, such as Bukowski or Camus or Marx or Dawkins or Foucault, or so many others who preach faith in nothing. They may not all be labelled as nihilists, but at the bottom, of you follow it to the end, that's what the underlying doctrine really is.A better recommendation would be to find a better treasure. For anyone looking for a reading recommendation, I would start with the Word on Fire Bible, and read all the side commentaries. Don't just read the Gospels, read the explanations of why the parables and encounters of Jesus are so profound. Don't just pick up any Bible, read a study Bible and start with the Gospels, since that is where the real treasure is. That was the book I needed. Had I read the Gospels with this kind of understanding instead of following Bukowski's adventures, I may have never gone down those aimless paths. At the very least, I likely would not have got stinking drunk and bought a one-way ticket to…oh never mind. That alone would have been worth giving the Gospels a solid try.Lastly, idolizing drunk writers and artists allows justification of bad behavior. When I fancied myself a writer, I fell for the cult of drinking in which Hemingway and Faulkner and Fitzgerald are lionized for their maladies. Creativity, as the hypothesis goes, is linked to drinking. But as anyone who is not a creative genius knows, there is a fine line between skills being sharpened by a buzz and falling off a cliff after drunkenness. For anyone that has been drinking while playing card games or pool or darts, or even backyard beanbag toss, or anything involving the brain - yes, the drink loosens you up and there's a moment of genius and skill…right before it takes you downward into the abyss of stupidity and acting like an ass. If our heroes happened to write something great, and perhaps they got loosened up with a few drinks, that's one thing. But to celebrate heroic drinking is a fool's errand. And yes, I'm calling myself a fool for falling for this idea. I fell for it because I wanted to allow my flaws to flourish, rather than deny them and face my problems. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whydidpetersink.com

FRUMESS
Sublime and Bradley Nowell: The Last Days and the Birth of their Self-titled Masterpiece

FRUMESS

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2021 217:15


"Twenty-five years ago, Sublime released their third album, a sprawling magnum opus of sunburned ska, punk, reggae, and stoner anthems that turned three kids from Southern California and a Dalmatian into legends. This is the story of how it came together, the tragic end of the band, and why the songs still live on." PLEASE NOTE: This podcast IS SOURCED from the UNEDITED audio created from video live podcast streams from the Frumess channel on youtube and comes from the Streaming eviLIVE Show. Something that will change in the future. __________________________________________________________ JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! https://www.patreon.com/Frumess

Bradley’s House
Episode 28: Lisa Johnson

Bradley’s House

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 48:11


Kellie and Jarett talk with legendary photographer, Lisa Johnson!https://www.instagram.com/lisajohnsonrockphotographer/?hl=enContact the show► bradleyshousepodcast@gmail.comLinkTree ►►https://linktr.ee/nowellfoundationCopyright:"Last Ska Song" (c) Perro Bravo 2015"Lou Dog Went To The Moon" (c) Bradley Nowell 1995

The Billy Shears Club!
Episode Twenty-Five: Sublime Acoustic-Bradley Nowell and Friends/Black Music For White People

The Billy Shears Club!

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2021 61:19


Caleb Clark and Zelda Devons discuss alternative reggae rockers Sublime's acoustic album and shock R&B singer Screamin' Jay Hawkins. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/caleb-clark6/support