Podcasts about Minus the Bear

Minus The Bear is back! So we sat down for a chat with their bassist extraordinaire, Cory Murchy. From just how good it feels being back with the band to water rights, hunting and high-desert fun, this one def goes off-track. Episode's word of the week: Respect. Check out Cory's art on his website Minus the Bear website

Minus the Bear was an American indie rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 2001, and comprising members of Botch, Kill Sadie, and Sharks Keep Moving. Their sound was described as "Pele-esque guitar-taps and electronics with sophisticated time signature composition.” They released six albums and four EPs. On July 17, 2018, the band announced their retirement and accompanying farewell tour. Their final live performance was December 16, 2018, at The Showbox in Seattle. I got Erin on the Skype and this is what we chat about: Kill Sadie Forming Minus the Bear Menos el Oso Planet of Ice Recording Omni Partying with Braid Animal Backwards the video for My Time Getting sober (a solid listen for anyone out there struggling with drinking) Getting kicked out of the band And a ton more Check out his new projects: Lil Lebowski, Ghost Work, and INDIE DRUMMER COLLECTIVE. Lastly I started doing whiteboard animations so if your marketing department has said recently “Hey, we need a whiteboard animation” then email me at mike@drive80.com.

Join me as I talk all things Minus the Bear with bass player and founding member Cory Murchy. We talk about Cory's love of ska music, forming Minus the Bear, a painful back injury that threatened to sideline him and what he is doing now. If you like the Podcast Subscribe! You can find us on all major Podcasting platforms at Welcome to the Scene Podcast.Instagram TikTok Youtube

No Luke for this one because Mike ran late at work. You get Steve & Govier this time around. Where was cocaine use at in the 1950s? We got your emails! Joe checks in with some possible show title replacement options including a classic crack about Luke's movie passion. Steve has a reminder about the incredible resourcefulness of your local public library. The Trip starring Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon never gets old for the fellas when it comes to Anthony Hopkins & Michael Caine impressions. Mike's first job ever was at a bowling alley & golf range fun place where he had ot be at work picking up golf balls at 6AM. Finn Gurrer emails in to ask which one you got: one bourbon, one scotch or one beer? George Thorogood style. The word is out that there are plenty of micro plastics floating around in the testes of male humans & dogs as well. Welcome to hell. Ticketmaster & Live Nation are finally having their monopoly challenged by the federal government. Eddie Vedder is celebrating today! The guy from Band of Horses is from James Island in the Charleston South Carolina area. Steve has a classic tale about drinking with that dude one night long ago with friend of the show David. Mike is then reminded of when some bars in the Charleston area were open until 5AM which is a terrible idea. Braid & Minus The Bear show tales ensue as well. Steve & Mike recall the summer adventure of witnessing major league baseball underachiever Yoan Moncada live at the Charleston Riverdogs minor league ballpark back in 2015. Steve's frustrated about the foul call disparity in every NBA playoff series the Indiana Pacers are involved in this playoff season. Lastly, Steve shares the name of a fella who is paying attention to how lame Bill Simmons has become now that he's a lazy millionaire. We love you all! This talk show is not the same without you listening and emailing us your highly entertaining thoughts. We close the show with May 16 by Lagwagon. If any of our nonsense provokes your thoughts, please share them with us at isitsafepod@gmail.com or check out our Discord:https://discord.gg/wXPdgujdSj

Our fact checker Jeff Brownen discovered a "Lost Episode" (as you're reading this, say it with 1950's fading echo, lost episode... lost episode... lost episode....)... This episode begins on March 17th, 2006 at the Cains Ballroom with Opeth & DevilDriver.... Followed by the Shirts For A Cure Tour w/ Thursday & Minus The Bear & The Number 12 Looks Like You at the Cains Ballroom! Nine Inch Nails at the Ford Center with Saul, Max reminisces about seeing NIN live at Kinetics in Bricktown on the Pretty Hate Machine Tour. Max once again did a two stage local metal show at the Cains that had Horse Called War on the bill. We also discuss the very first Bullet For My Valentine show in Oklahoma at Curly's with Forte, which was legendary... A brand new metal band, with young kids, with all the hype behind them on the same bill with Metal / Thrash legends Forte.... If you were asked to guess who would have the best grass, Willie, Merle, or Ray Price? Most would have no idea that it would be Ray Price.... If you know, you know! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jordan Butcher is an Art Director and Photographer that goes by Strange Practice. I first knew about Jordan's work at the beach when I was drinking out of my friend's hot to go mug from Minnows NYC. I thought this logo was sick and have to go to this bar but who did this logo? Lo and behold it was Jordan's and made me go into a deep dive of previous work. Jordan has been Grammy nominated for his work on the Caspian record ‘On Circles' for Best Recording Package, he's worked with my favorite bands growing up such as Thrice, Minus The Bear, Converge, and Sunny Day Real Estate. Jordan has also did the branding for Pals, Dallas Green from City and Colour's brand which somehow happened to be my top listened artist on Spotify wrapped. Let's get strange. Please welcome Jordan Butcher to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/strange.practice ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/rashadrastam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rashadrastam.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wearmanyhats.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Don't cry, it's Know Your Writes! This week, Robb and Colton engage in a spirited debate involving Seattle's Minus the Bear. Listen as they spar over the band's second and third albums (Menos el Oso and Planet of Ice). Other topics include: - 00's rock singles  - Colton's salty history with MTB - Do lyrics actually matter?  Other bands mentioned in this episode: - Muse - Queens of the Stone Age - Circa Survive - Pinback  - Jimmy Buffet

Electric artists have been playing acoustically since the beginning of recorded music. Usually, the slower ballads and the prettier mellow songs by rock artists were accompanied by acoustic guitars. This week we are celebrating bands that can re-imagine their songs with acoustic instruments and still rock! We are pulling the plug… and gasping for air guitars!What's this InObscuria thing? We're a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This week we discuss the FORGOTTEN. Mtv started a series in 1989 called “unplugged”, and almost every mainstream relevant act started producing acoustic albums or versions of their songs. This week we listen to some artist that you may have never considered as having acoustic interpretations of their songs.Songs this week include:Classless Act – “All That We Are” from Welcome To The Acoustic Show - EP (2022)Minus The Bear – “Knights” from Acoustics (2008)The Pretty Reckless – “Only Love Can Save Me Now” from Other Worlds (2022) Backyard Babies – “Th1rt3en Or Nothing” from Silver & Gold (2019)Flyleaf – “Fully Alive” from Flyleaf (2005)Machine Head – “Darkness Within” from Unto The Locust (2011)Sway – “Stood” from Kawfee Talk (1998)Please subscribe everywhere that you listen to podcasts!Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/inobscuria/og-shopCheck out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/

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Today on the podcast we welcome David Knudson from Botch and Minus the Bear. I was so excited that David said yes to the podcast and we spoke recently after the first set of Botch reunion shows. We talk about being creative, Seattle in the 90s outside of grunge, and his battle with making better choices in life. Including a deep conversation on how alcohol can catch up with you and the lessons he learned from rehab but also his family. This new Botch tour and music wouldn't have happened without love from his family and friends to see this other side. We're the lucky recipients of that but now knowing the struggle and the strength David had during that time was truly inspirational.

Indie rock band Minus The Bear created a unique sound that blended a multitude of genres: math rock, emo, pop, prog, and yes, ska. Well, at least, the bass lines were informed by ska and reggae. Bassist Cory Murchy grew up obsessed with ska music. And when it came time to write interesting and moving bass lines, he often drew inspiration from the bass masters in reggae and ska bands. Besides, who plays bass better than ska and reggae bass players?Today, Cory joins us to talk about the secret ska influence of Minus The Bear. We break a few songs that lean the heaviest into ska territory ("My Time," Memphis & 53rd," "Pachuca Sunrise"), and we also talk about Cory's ska formative years growing up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He even discusses his high school ska band, Soulskats.We talk about the impact seeing Mealticket live had on Cory, we discuss a few of the key New Mexico DIY spaces, and we talk about the Seattle indie rock scene that Cory joined when he got a little older (and its connection to Animal Chin)! We find out why Suicide Squeeze's David Dickenson has a "Cory Murchy" tattoo and we learn what ska tattoo Cory has on his body. And during the interview, Cory casually drops a huge reveal on us. His mom used to babysit Kurt Cobain!  Support the show

Keith sits down with Jake Snider to discuss the formation and early days of Minus the Bear, their final tour, adjusting to life off the road, some of the music we enjoy, Jake's early influences, Sharks Keep Moving, changes in music over the years, how Jake ranks the band's catalogue and more. Guest co-host: Dave Masters of Signal Hill. We discuss Dave's new ambient music, streaming on Twitch, Signal Hill and more.

Jamie Gordon played keyboards and percussion in The Constellations, and went on tour with acts such as: Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Minus The Bear, and Jimmy Chamberlin (Skysaw / The Smashing Pumpkins). He played cowbell in Maylene & The Sons of Disaster. He is an active member of the elite Indie Drummer Collective. He runs has an amazingly entertaining, pandemic-born Instagram page called "Kid Kit Covers" where he posts videos of him playing drum covers on his kid's drum set. Jamie is from Birmingham, Alabama and has a legacy within the Birmingham music scene. He was in a band with Dallas Taylor (Maylene & The Sons of Disaster, former Underoath). On this episode, Jamie and I discuss all of these topics. We also do an in-depth recap of Furnace Fest 2022, we discuss bands we would like to see play Furnace Fest 2023, and much more. Jamie's links / socials: Kid Kit Covers Instagram - @kidkitcovers Indie Drummer Collective Instagram: @indiedrummercollective Indie Drummer Collective Link Tree: linktr.ee/indiedrummercollective www.kidkitcovers.com Two Week Notice Podcast partners: www.piebald.com Downeast Hard Cider - https://downeastcider.com/ Furnace Fest - for tickets & more info, visit https://www.furnacefest.us/ Follow Furnace Fest on Instagram: @furnacefest & @furnace_fest_community Go to www.plugyourholes.com and enter the code "TWNPOD" at checkout for a 15% discount Ways to support the Two Week Notice Podcast: Follow Dana on Instagram: @danafuggenb Follow the podcast on Instagram: @twoweeknoticepodcast iPhone users - give the show a 5-star written review on Apple Podcasts Non-iPhone users - give the show 5 stars on Spotify Spread the word on the socials, and tell a friend! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dana-bollen3/message

David Knudson's been having a busy year. He put out his first solo album, The Only Thing You Have to Change is Everything (including a song with his former Minus the Bear bandmate Jake Snider on vocals), his beloved '90s mathcore band Botch put out their first new song in over 20 years alongside Sargent House's new reissue of We Are The Romans, he's been posting tons of guitar playthrough videos of old Minus The Bear and Botch songs, and he's got another new solo EP that'll be out before the end of the year (which will feature Cursive's Tim Kasher). With all of that, plus the upcoming 20th anniversary of Minus The Bear's classic debut album Highly Refined Pirates, we decided to catch up with Dave for the latest episode of the BrooklynVegan podcast.   Music featured in episode - "Varv" by David Knudson

Episode 121 is here! Check it out as we give a Chitshow merch update (7:08), RIP James Caan (17:08), Shinzo Abe assassinated (22:53), codeswitching or cosplay (27:53), Leo's ACE Family experience (41:47), Netflix quietly releases new Dave Chappelle special (1:06:25), fan edit of Obi Wan Kenobi (1:10:12), Andrew Shultz' new special drama/come up (1:13:53), Danny plays Monster Hunter: Rise/Final Fantasy XIV (1:21:32), Leo talks Usher's Tiny Desk concert (1:27:20), and more! We also talk/feature (1:31:00) music from Brent Faiyaz, Westside Gunn, and Burna Boy, and . Our intro/outro music is "Throwin' Shapes" by Minus The Bear. JOIN OUR DISCORD SERVER! Link in bio on IG or: https://discord.gg/VEHKKbVQXK Danny on IG: @therealdanko Danny on Twitter: @bulldozerdanko Danny on Twitch: twitch.tv/bulldozerdanko Leo on FB/IG/TT/Twitter: @iamdjbrute Leo's music: soundcloud.com/iamdjbrute >>> www.djbrute.com

Whether through monstrous riffs in Botch or innovative, live sound manipulation in Minus the Bear, David Knudson is regarded as one of indie-rock's most mind-blowing guitarists. Where many musicians would use effect pedals to just obscure or amplify, David's insane finger-tapping talents and masterful footwork -- often tweaking things on the fly, in front of a live audience -- brought a human heart to MTB's most locked-in rhythms. In support of his first solo album, The Only Thing You Have to Change is Everything (released earlier this month), David visits today to discuss his favorite Botch and MTB artwork over the years, obsessing over seven-inches in his youth from Seattle's Fallout Records, and how his creativity has flourished since becoming sober. Pre-order his new album on vinyl from davidknudson.bandcamp.com, and follow @davidknudson on Instagram.

Erin David Tate returns for another wonderful conversation! In this episode he talks about what lead to him leaving Minus The Bear, his battle with Alcoholism, Indie Drummer Collective, and more. Follow Erin on Instagram: @erindavidtate Follow Indie Drummer Collective on Instagram: @indiedrummercollective Follow me on Instagram: @danafuggenb @twoweeknoticepodcast Podcast sponsors: www.plugyourholes.com - enter the code "TWNPOD" at checkout for a 15% discount Follow Piebald on Instagram as we celebrate the 20 year anniversary for the album, "We Are The Only Friends We Have" - join us for exclusive content and giveaways: @piebald Ways to support the Two Week Notice Podcast: Subscribe Share with a friend Give a 5-star written review on Apple Podcasts Give 5 stars on Spotify Donate via Vemo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2618032933306368533&created=1634066440.210597&printed=1 Most importantly - listen & enjoy ❤️ Dana B! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dana-bollen3/message

This week's guest is Erin Tate, founding member of the Seattle-based indie-rock, Minus the Bear, but he's played with many great bands throughout his career including Kill Sadie (from Minneapolis), Ghost Work, Time Pieces (etc.) in addition to running Indie Drummer Collective…which we get to right off the bat. Erin has an incredible ability to weave his way through odd time and syncopated phrases with seaming-ease and confidence. He's a legend and a big inspiration to a lot of my peers (especially having grown up in the northwest). I've know Erin for a few years now, but this was the first time we've had the chance to chat like this and I was grateful to say the least. Please please PLEASE go check out Erin's discography. He truly is a drummer with a uniquely unique creative voice. You're amazing Erin. So here are the top 5 records that shaped Erin's approach to the drumset. Alright cheers! Podcast Artwork by Trevin Frame For more information on Big Fat Snare Drum, check out www.bigfatsnaredrum.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok

This week's guest is Erin Tate, founding member of the Seattle-based indie-rock, Minus the Bear, but he's played with many great bands throughout his career including Kill Sadie (from Minneapolis), Ghost Work, Time Pieces (etc.) in addition to running Indie Drummer Collective…which we get to right off the bat. Erin has an incredible ability to weave his way through odd time and syncopated phrases with seaming-ease and confidence. He's a legend and a big inspiration to a lot of my peers (especially having grown up in the northwest). I've know Erin for a few years now, but this was the first time we've had the chance to chat like this and I was grateful to say the least. Please please PLEASE go check out Erin's discography. He truly is a drummer with a uniquely unique creative voice. You're amazing Erin. So here are the top 5 records that shaped Erin's approach to the drumset. Alright cheers! Podcast Artwork by Trevin Frame For more information on Big Fat Snare Drum, check out www.bigfatsnaredrum.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok

Minus the Bear was a fascinating band for so many reasons.  So much talent crammed into some of the catchiest tunes of the last two decades.  So I was thrilled to have the opportunity to speak to Jake Snider about all things MTB and beyond for many many reasons.   We talk gear, writing to loops, reflecting back on their expansive career, audiophile habits, the curation of their "Farewell" LP that just dropped, and so much more. You can listen to Minus the Bear wherever you listen to music and order the vinyl for "Farewell" off Suicide Squeeze's site. If you want to hear more of THIS conversation, the extended version is available to patrons on all tiers at the Rigs of Dad Patreon page.  More gear talk, more stories, more laughs, and much more.  You can even take some deep dives with more of my guests, get some Patreon exclusive swag, and more by checking out the Rigs of Dad Patreon page OR just download the Patreon ap, search for Rigs of Dad, and you can support creators like me and so many more in the process!   Head over to Age of Ruin's Instagram and dive into some of the best thrash I have ever heard.  Their new album is coming soon.  It's produced by Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour and is just a relentless and refreshing metal cleanse. Big shout out and congrats to the homies at www.shearrevival.com as well...  8 YEAR!!!  Take care of yourself by investing in your body care.  Look good, smell good, and feel good.  Treat your body and neighbors nose with love using Shear Revival! Use the code CLEANTONE10 to get 10% off your order!! Huge loves to the incredible Sacha Dunable.  Check out www.dunableguitars.com if you need some real tone in your life.  SHOP SMALL BUSINESSES this holiday season and the dude has more tone packed in than the biggest of businesses. I also want to give a shoutout to Quantum Industries.  These dudes are putting out true tanks of guitar cases.  Check them out at BE SURE to enter ROD10 for a discount on your order!!! Much love to the fine folks at Custom District Pedalboards for allowing me to pack the heaviest tones on the lightest boards.  Get yours over at www.customdistrictpedalboards.com

I Don't Wanna Hear It Podcast147 – One and One Are Five: New Jersey Michael's Submarine SandwichesJust in time for turkey day, here's ten not shitty things we're thankful for. Instead of speaking to your family this Thanksgiving listen to us yammer on as you gorge your gullet. It's not like you talk to your relatives anyway: Uncle George went full Q and Aunt Beatrice died in the bath. Fuck these people.Check out more of our stuff at I Don't Wanna Hear It and join the Patreon, jabroni. I mean, if you want. Don't be weird about it. Oh, and we publish books now at WND Press because we want to be bankrupted by a dying medium.Episode Links:Crystal's CakesChurch of MiseryTrash TalkBlack Friday Death CounterMy Work Is Not Yet Done by Thomas LigottiFarewell by Minus the BearRed Letter MediaDead MeatDescender by Jeff LemireAscender by Jeff LemireEverything's Eventual by Stephen KingFollow Wasteland @wastelandpod on InstagramWasteland Podcast on SpotifySome of our old bands are on Spotify:Absent FriendsWe're Not DeadYears From NowMusical Attribution: Licensed through NEOSounds. License information available upon request.“5 O'Clock Shadow,” “America On the Move,” “Baby You Miss Me,” “Big Fat Gypsy,” “Bubble Up,” “C'est Chaud,” “East River Blues,” “The Gold Rush,” “Gypsy Fiddle Jazz,” “Here Comes That Jazz,” “I Wish I Could Charleston,” “I Told You,” “It Feels Like Love To Me,” “Little Tramp,” “Mornington Crescent,” “No Takeaways.”

Over six proper studio albums and a slew of EP's and seven-inches within 15+ years, Seattle's Minus the Bear established themselves as one of indie-rock's most unique, shape-shifting bands. On today's episode, vocalist/guitarist Jake Snider discusses the band's new triple-LP live set recorded over several shows of their last tour in 2018, and how the band focused on the quality of the vinyl master with each recording. 

Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Lieutenant talks with Erin Dave Tate of Minus The Bear and Ghost Work presented by the Indie Drummer Collective. https://bit.ly/3AKq4VI

Minus The Bear (and Botch) guitarist, Dave Knudson joined us to talk about a naked-Botch show witnessed by teenage Benny, home studio techniques, silly porn names and his 9yr. old's beat making attempts.

Mikey Kent (Private Hell) and Joe D join the show to talk about 2007's Scared People EP.   NOTES riffage drawing the line at Limp Bizkit Violent Spirit Final Gasp Mess Ideation///Florida is popping ETID (dogma) hardcore punk is having a good year skinny dude HC “carry your emotions in the shape of a knife” fortelling post-punk layout artwork in 2021 Negative FX bold Violence Violence take hardcore living in the youtube era a weird Minus The Bear rant that went no where         to get your copy of the latest issue Sex And Glue Zine visit SEXANDGLUEZINE.com or sexandgluezine.bigcartel.com   for contact about booking as a guest on the show or for advertising, please email sexandgluezine@gmail.com   find me on IG @sexandgluezine     Please visit the sponsors essexcoffeeroasters.com (use the promo code SNGZINE10 to get 10 percent off your entire order)   sonixcollaborative.com        

In the first installment of a semi-regular series, I reveal 5 essential alternative rock songs you've (likely) never heard before. As a self-proclaimed "music snob", I tend to fall in love with lesser-known bands, as I dive deep into their catalogs and search for the best songs that never see the light of day. These first 5 songs were meticulously handpicked and I can't wait to share them (and many more) with you. Each track gets a small intro/synopsis and then you get to indulge in the ENTIRE SONG here on the pod. I'm proud of this one. Enjoy. Featuring the bands: Big Wreck, Future Islands, Minus The Bear, Boy and Bear, Creeper Lagoon. LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE...ANYWHERE YOU GET PODCASTS!

Dream come true! What is more fun than sitting down with one of your favorite musicians and talking about mid-century modern design & architecture? We spoke about Jake's personal connection to Herman Miller, learned about hi-fi audio equipment, reviewed influences & style in his music, and discussed architecture across Europe and the Northwest US. Go listen to “Absinthe Party At The Fly Honey Warehouse”, sit down in your favorite chair, and come join our tour & conversation with Jake Snider.Episode Artwork Photo by Ryan Muir

Stuart Hill of Shudder To Think talks with  Erin David Tate of Minus The Bear and Ghost Work presented by the Indie Drummer Collective. https://bit.ly/3AKq4VI

(17:40) Erin David Tate is a professional drummer. He had a crucial role in the formation of the legendary band, Minus The Bear. In addition to MTB, he also played drums in the hardcore band, Kill Sadie. In this episode we discuss how these bands formed, Erin's musical influences, the writing process of early Minus The Bear songs, his sobriety, and so much more. Erin also is spearheading Indie Drummer Collective; which is a group of over 100 professional drummers in the scene | Follow IDC on Instagram: @indiedrummercollective | Follow Erin on Instagram: @erindavidtate | Follow the podcast & podcast host on Instagram: @danafuggenb & @twoweeknoticepodcast | Two Week Notice Podcast Production: Ioanis Pintzopoulos & Dana Bollen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dana-bollen3/message

EP209 is with special guest Jake Snider of Minus the Bear. We talked about the band releasing a new live album post breakup, working at a record store, life post-band, living in quarantine, politics, comic books and more! Video version: https://youtu.be/yDBAjjoVFg4 Follow him on IG & Twitter: @jakehsnider Follow Minus the Bear: @minusthebear For all things Minus the Bear: https://www.minusthebear.com/ Intro song: "Pachuca Sunrise" by Minus the Bear Outro song: "Double Vision Quest" by Minus the Bear Don't forget to like, share & subscribe and follow us on social media Instagram & Twitter: @RRBGPodcast RRBG is a proud member of the Podbelly Network! Check out all the great shows on our network here: https://podbelly.com/​​ PLEASE check out the Patreon page. Support the podcast and earn exclusive content like full audio interviews from Psycho Las Vegas from acts like Andrew WK, Red Fang, CKY and more. www.patreon.com/rrbg Sponsors! Sheath Underwear The best underwear ever created for active humans. Especially if you have a big ol' sack like myself. They come with a separate pouch for your genitals! See why everyone is talking about them! Order a pair today! https://www.sheathunderwear.com/​​ El Yucateco 50+ Years of making the staple Salsa Picante! If you've ever been to a Mexican Restaurant you've probably seen the bottles there. Fantastic on tacos or quesadillas but also great on wings and burgers! Check them out at : www.elyucateco.com Kill Cliff The premier recovery & energy drinks come from Kill Cliff. Their Mango Tango comes with 25 MG of CBD and it's the perfect way to recover from a hard work out or to work on your yoga practice. Check out their variety of flavors and styles. https://killcliff.com/​ Liquid Death Hey you! You need to drink more water. I'm sure you are not drinking enough! Crush a can of water today and say "Death to all Plastic!" Stay hydrated or DIE!  www.liquiddeath.com Saint Joints Check out our friends at Saints Joints providing the Pacific Northwest with carefully crafted Mixed Strain Joint packs. Featuring artwork from artists such as Skinner.

We've left 1985 behind and blasted forward through time to 2007 where we've been watching Spiderman 3 while queuing up to get our savings out of our Northern Rock bank accounts. We've also been talking about whether KT Tunstall is really as bad as Tracey previously thought, If rollerboots are cool or not, and whether Trent Reznor is a witch.We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Ian's wife Lydia, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them to Colin's wife Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order. Helen also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year. Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - Arcade Fire, Band Of Horses, Battles, Between The Buried And Me, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes, The Chariot, Clutch, Edwyn Collins, The Fall, Girls Aloud, Grinderman, PJ Harvey, Richard Hawley, King Creosote, Avril Lavigne, LCD Soundsystem, Malcolm Middleton, Minus The Bear, Thurston Moore, Neurosis, Nine Inch Nails, Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, Mark Ronson ft Daniel Merriweather, Kelly Rowland, 65daysofstatic, Stars, Strike The Colours & Patrick Wolf.Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2jENZ7wGCfLRONGaYYKgao?si=yQKPgmNHSiWBQeOHX1_JHQ The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -1st place - 20 points2nd place - 18 points3rd place – 16 points4th place – 14 points5th place – 12 points6th place – 9 points7th place – 7 points8th place – 5 points9th place – 3 points10th place -1 pointHosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey BGuest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia ClarkeRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig PodcastsThanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast We're part of the We Made This podcast network. Find all our episodes plus other brilliant shows such as We Buy Records, Pick A Disc, Giddy Carousel Of Pop plus Colin and Ian's other podcast Free With This Months Issue and loads more at http://wemadethispod.com/ You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.comSupport the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: www.patreon.com/wemadethis

We've left 1985 behind and blasted forward through time to 2007 where we've been watching Spiderman 3 while queuing up to get our savings out of our Northern Rock bank accounts. We've also been talking about whether KT Tunstall is really as bad as Tracey previously thought, If rollerboots are cool or not, and whether Trent Reznor is a witch. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Ian's wife Lydia, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them to Colin's wife Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order. Helen also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine. Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year. Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - Arcade Fire, Band Of Horses, Battles, Between The Buried And Me, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes, The Chariot, Clutch, Edwyn Collins, The Fall, Girls Aloud, Grinderman, PJ Harvey, Richard Hawley, King Creosote, Avril Lavigne, LCD Soundsystem, Malcolm Middleton, Minus The Bear, Thurston Moore, Neurosis, Nine Inch Nails, Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, Mark Ronson ft Daniel Merriweather, Kelly Rowland, 65daysofstatic, Stars, Strike The Colours & Patrick Wolf. Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2jENZ7wGCfLRONGaYYKgao?si=yQKPgmNHSiWBQeOHX1_JHQ The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows - 1st place - 20 points 2nd place - 18 points 3rd place – 16 points 4th place – 14 points 5th place – 12 points 6th place – 9 points 7th place – 7 points 8th place – 5 points 9th place – 3 points 10th place -1 point Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown. Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia Clarke Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system. Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast We're part of the We Made This podcast network. Find all our episodes plus other brilliant shows such as We Buy Records, Pick A Disc, Giddy Carousel Of Pop plus Colin and Ian's other podcast Free With This Months Issue and loads more at http://wemadethispod.com/ You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: www.patreon.com/wemadethis

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Mike Gaston is the President of Stage TEN Studios, and a creative and social provocateur known for "programming between the lines". We discuss launching a profitable poetry press and soon after declaring personal banktuptcy, selling his first music video to MTV, founding viral digital studio Cut.com, and how he'll shape the future of livestream media. Subscribe to our newsletter. We explore the intersection of media, technology, and commerce: sign-up linkLearn more about our market research and executive advisory: RockWater websiteFollow The Come Up on Twitter: @TCUpodEmail us: tcupod@wearerockwater.com--EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:Chris Erwin:Hi, I'm Chris Erwin. Welcome to The Come Up, a podcast that interviews entrepreneurs and leaders. Mike Gaston:This is going to sound insane. And I'm going to share this, but my thought was, is it possible to rob a bank and not go to jail? I'm like 19. Now when I'm thinking this way. And then I thought, yeah, I'll just take out a bunch of money on credit cards and then claim bankruptcy. And so like I took on all these credit cards and then I've just started traveling the world in a way that was just absurd. Chris Erwin:This week's episode features Mike Gaston, the President of Stage Ten Studios. Mike is a creative savant, who's known for programming between the lines. He had breakout success when he founded a viral digital studio, cut.com whose first video was about Grandmas Smoking Weed. You see, Mike is the ultimate provocateur, and he's been conducting social experiments since an early age. Like when just 20 years old, Mike launched a profitable poetry mag while apprenticing for an Irish poet. And then intentionally went into personal bankruptcy. Or when he created a music video for a friend's band, just for fun and ended up selling it to MTV. In Mike's current role at Stage Ten, he'll shape the future of live stream media. He talks about his recent work as well as some of his creative side projects at the end of our chat. All right, let's get into it. Mike, thank you for being on The Come Up podcast. So let's talk about where you grew up. What was your household like? What was your parental situation? Tell me. Mike Gaston:I grew up in West Seattle and my mom is an immigrant. She's from the Philippines. She didn't become a citizen until two years after I was born. And my whole family actually immigrated from the Philippines. So all my aunts, my uncles, my grandparents, my cousins, they're all here. And so had that very large Filipino side of the family around me. And then my dad, he's a white dude and he had a very small family that the only people I really got to know were my grandparents and then his brother and my cousin. But we weren't terribly close to them. And so the family was interesting. I had a bunch of essentially under five foot tall Filipinos about. So culturally, everything that I perceive was very much from a Filipino-American experience and not from the experience that my dad had. There wasn't a very strong kind of like a family philosophy or perspective from their side. But from my mom's side, my Filipino side, it was very strong. It pretty much informs everything that I think about today. Chris Erwin:When you mentioned that there was these the strong Filipino identity and cultural values, what were some of those that you remember growing up. Mike Gaston:Family is primary. It's also a very... It's a matriarchal culture. It's funny to say that because you look at authoritarians like Duterte, who actually is leading the country right now. And you're like, Oh, that seems very macho. And that's true. But it's really the women that do things like handle the finances. Chris Erwin:Interesting. Mike Gaston:And are really leading the family. And it's very common to never move out of the house, to live there forever and then your parents die and then you just take over the home. And so it's a very tight knit family structure, that's one. And then the second thing, which kind of I experienced growing up and then moved out of was this sort of mystical form of Catholicism. In Filipino culture, I felt like my grandmother practiced a magical form of Catholicism where it was like, everything was steeped in sort of miracles and possibility, right? I mean, this is a country where they crucify people, literally crucify people as part of holiday rituals in certain parts of the country. And so it's this sort of magical realism idea when it comes to religion. And that informed a lot of my early childhood. Chris Erwin:And when you say it informed a lot of your early childhood, because I'm also thinking to where you are today, which we'll get into, this like visionary in the media space and a point of view of the responsibility of creators. But what seeds was that planting in you at an early age? Mike Gaston:Honestly story. So I was fascinated by the stories that my grandparents would tell me and my mother would tell me. It was interesting because my dad converted to Catholicism as part of his wooing of my courtship of my mother. And he was never, I would call him a believer. I kind of think most Catholics are, it's very much like a more bureaucratic than it is like a belief to him. Whereas the Filipinos and my family is very strong believers in that kind of thing. And I remember as I was growing up, we would go to church every Sunday. And then right after church, we would go to the movies. And at some point, I want to say, when I was around eight or nine, I somehow convinced my parents that we should stop going to church and only go to the movies, which is probably why I make videos now. And I'm not a priest. Mike Gaston:But it's just something, there's some weird connection that was happening there between this religious communal experience that I was having in church. And then the kind that you have in a dark theater, staring at a screen with a bunch of people experiencing different states of emotional catharsis, right? Somehow I attached a more profound meaning to my experience with movies than I did with my experience in the church. Chris Erwin:And as you matured, maybe your sense of, Oh, I have to go to church to have the theater experience. And then you realize, and I think there's some parts of this story that will come out even more later, I don't need the church. I can just go right to the theater. And I think that comes up about you thinking about some of your coursework in school and saying, "Well, some of this coursework is great and some of it is not, I don't need it." Mike Gaston:Yeah. That just general sort of obnoxiousness definitely found its way into my schoolwork too. Chris Erwin:And so thinking also about your character as you kind of grew up and as a teenager and going to high school before you went off to college, reading some of your blog posts, you described yourself as a scared of everything extrovert. Tell me a little bit more about that. Mike Gaston:I've pretty much always been comfortable in social situations. I don't mind meeting new people, although it does have a tendency to impact me energy-wise. But any new scenario that I was in would instantly hit me with a kind of anxiety. There's just sort of a discomfort that comes with suddenly being presented into a new situation. Anytime I had to meet new people, initially, I would be kind of really timid about it. I was sort of in a corner, kind of a bit of a wallflower until I got acclimated to the temperature of the room. And then suddenly I was in the center in some way. And maybe it was certain aspects of my family life or in the early days we moved a bit around. There was so much attention from my mother's side of the family that I felt always like there's a spotlight on me. Mike Gaston:And so that made me kind of shrink into myself. So I would be freaked out a lot about different scenarios that I would be put into. But at the same time, once I got again, acclimated to the temperature, it wouldn't be tough for me to perform suddenly. But yeah, initially I would be freaked out by a lot of things, pretty often actually. Chris Erwin:Did you feel that people sought your attention or sought to interact with you? Because I look at you now and people seek you out for, they want to hear your point of view. They want to hear you speak, at conferences, at summits and for you to attend their events, but you don't always immediately engage. And so curious, going back, did you feel that social groups were like, "Hey, this is an interesting guy. We want to interact with him." Or did that attention not exist? Mike Gaston:So this is strange given it feels like a backdoor brag, but it's not intentional. I was friends growing up, I could be friends with literally anybody, with all the different kids. But I was popular among the popular kids, but I wasn't necessarily a popular kid because I didn't behave like a popular kid. I didn't behave in a way where I was seeing differentiation between me and other kids. So I was friends with a lot of kids. And then for some reason I would end up popular among the popular kids. I think maybe it's, I just knew from very early age, I would ask myself what I wanted. And then I would only just do the things that I wanted. And I think that that creates a gravity that people are attracted to because I think a lot of people don't ask themselves what they want or are uncertain about going after the things that they want. And so it's attractive when you see it in other people. Chris Erwin:So what did you want back then? Like in your teenage years. Mike Gaston:I wanted you to know why, why we did any of the things that we had to do. So I want to say when I was about 12, I became friends with this kid named Jorge Morales he was a really smart dude. The things that he would read was far beyond what everybody else was reading. He was a multi instrument kind of like musician. And he was unpretentious about all the things that he was really interested in, but he seemed so brilliant. And he was the one who introduced me to philosophical thinking in different types of philosophies. And so as a result of that, I instantly became, over the course of that year of seventh grade, I would say, I became really introspective, really reflective. And then what happens as a result of that is I was just suddenly in a question state where I was just trying to understand what are the things that I wanted? Mike Gaston:And I was trying to understand the why's behind the decisions that people were making, especially when you're a child, right? When you're a child, you're subject to what other people want of you, right. You have very little agency over the things that you want. Chris Erwin:Yes. Mike Gaston:And when you become a teenager is when most of that conflict starts to kind of arise. And it's because you're starting to feel your own agency, it's in a conflict with your parents' and their expectations. Well, that happened way earlier for me, that happened before high school. And that's largely because I was asking those questions all the time of what do I want, why do I need to do any of these things? And that became a lot more a macro sort of philosophical point of view for me going on. Before that, before I had discovered philosophy is more tactical, things would come to me and then I would just question it. I had a natural sort of questioning sort of personality. And again, I think there's a thing that happens with kids where you're told so often, your life is so prescribed to you that you're kind of go on a track. You do the things and you don't even know why you're doing any of the things. You're just doing it because that's the expectation. And I was never like that. I was always asking questions my whole life. Chris Erwin:This manifests in a story about your coursework in high school, you rejected one of your courses, tell me about that. Mike Gaston:Yeah. This was actually happened in seventh grade. This is actually before high school. But as I was asking those questions, I started thinking about... My mother again is Filipino and there's that cliché, the Asian tiger mom is not a cliche. That's just real to me. So she was very aggressive with my education, well, before I even got into kindergarten. So I was reading at three and I was writing full on essays before I got into kindergarten. And so by the time I was in kindergarten, everything was slow. Everything was crazy slow to me. Because for her, she was always trying to get me ahead. She wanted me to go to the best high schools, go to the best college, have the best job. And I remember around some of, when I was starting to have like a larger sense of myself and a larger sense of applying this questioning sort of personality but to my entire life. Mike Gaston:I started asking why I had to do any of these things, why do I have to get A's in all these classes? And so then I just started reshaping my world with experiments. And so I was like, "Okay, well, what if I just got A's in everything except this class that I don't really like." And that class was a religion class. Because I was going to private school. And I was like, I've been studying religion for eight years now. I'm in seventh grade. I had gone to Sunday school before I was even in kindergarten. This all feels really repetitive to me. How about this? I'm just going to do the tests. I got a D in that class. I do great on the test. And then I would just not do any work. Chris Erwin:How did that feel to get a D because you probably had excelled in school? Mike Gaston:Satisfying. Chris Erwin:Satisfying, okay. Mike Gaston:It felt liberating to get a D. Chris Erwin:Which probably frustrated your parents who were like, "Oh, you should be disappointed." And they're seeing you elated. Mike Gaston:Oh, yeah. My mom was very unhappy because she was like, "This is easy. Why are you going to getting a D?" This is the class that everyone gets an A in, why are you getting a D in this class? And I was like, "Well, if everyone gets an A and it's clear that I can get A's, why do I need to do that for this class? Well, what is the purpose of this?" And then she would say things like, "You're jeopardizing your chance again to a good high school." And I was like, "Well, then what happens after that?" If I get into a good high school, then it's about a good college and it's about a good job and then I die. I was literally, I would just go to the end of everything. What is the end effect of literally everything that is to that moment. Mike Gaston:And then I was like, "This doesn't seem like a track I want to be on." And my dad, again, because he was more transactional about his relationship with religion. I remember driving with him in the car and he was like, "Yeah. So you got a D." And I go, "Yeah." He's like... He just turned to me, he's like, "Whatever." He's like, "It's not a big deal." And I'm like, "Exactly." It was this moment where I was like, "It isn't a big deal." And so it became a thing where I had started to seek out moments of failure because I wanted to experience it. I wanted to experience what it was like to not meet my own expectations or meet my parents or meet anybody else's. But the way I started to approach it was different. In that instance, it was me not doing things that I knew I had to do in order to achieve something. Mike Gaston:And what it became was I started to seek out failure by doing things that were much harder and it felt impossible. And it was like, well, I'm just going to do this thing and then try and then get comfortable with that feeling. Chris Erwin:Yeah. It feels like you're a provocateur where there's the societal and cultural foundations. And you're like, if I poke at this crack, does that destabilize anything? And if so, does it actually change my life in a meaningful way or not, or change the end state in a meaningful way. And I think it's a very fast way to learn to provoke. Mike Gaston:It absolutely is. It was one of those things where I was just trying to find the boundaries to, everyone has a shape to their life. And it's one that they construct for themselves because we're all kind of editing our lives on our own. And I was like, what is the boundaries to this thing? What could it actually look like? What if I just started doing these things and stopped doing these things, or I start doing these things and stop doing these. Do any of these things matter? We invest meaning in so many, of the things that we're doing. And I was kind of in a constant state of questioning that. And just asking why. Chris Erwin:From there, there is a traditional path that does take place in the beginning of your career. You go to the University of Washington, and then from there, you end up at Boeing, a big company. So I'm curious to hear, just touching on University of Washington. What were the intentions there? Mike Gaston:Actually, out of high school, I didn't want to go to college at all. My plan was to go on a walkabout, but my mom was so disappointed with the idea that she had invested so much of her personal identity into my future success as an academic that I had to go to college, that I actually went to Seattle University for a year. And while I was at Seattle University, my grandfather, my white grandfather, my dad's father, he was in the midst of dying from diabetes and they had no help. So after school and before school, I would go to his house and I would help him. I would help my grandmother, I would help take him to the bathroom. I would help shower him, wipe his ass. He was literally... He couldn't walk, he couldn't... He was blind, had no feeling in the left side of his body. Mike Gaston:And he was literally falling apart. And I was the most depressed I'd ever been just like sort of a witnessing this and being a part of it. And I told him one day, I was like, "I got to leave, man. I can't be... I'm not happy in school. Because I don't want to be in school right now. And I can't do this." And he's like, "Yes, you need to leave." And I was like, "I'm just going to leave." So then I just started leaving the country and then I left the country for awhile and I didn't return for a couple of years. And then when I finally returned, that's when I went to UDaB. Chris Erwin:So when you were leaving the country, were you enrolled in any academic programs or no? Mike Gaston:No. I just left. So I would travel around Europe and I would meet up with friends in Mexico, in different countries. And then I found a mentor and apprenticed with him in Ireland, lived on his farm on the Southwest Peninsula and just study poetry. So I actually met him when I did a study abroad in Ireland. It was like a two week study abroad program. And he was a professor on that program and he was an Irish poet who had been born in Boston. So he had like dual citizenship. And then he would occasionally go and teach at Wesleyan University. And when I was traveling around, I ended up on his doorstep and I was like, "Hey, is it cool if I hang out here for a bit?" And then a bit turned into well over a year. Chris Erwin:So you lived on the farm? Mike Gaston:I lived on the farm and I was so broke. I would have to fish for food every day on the beach. And he was broke as hell too. Because he was... I mean, he's a poet. There's this thing about John? His name was John O'Leary. He was so broke. I remember when creditors would call him and they would demand he pay for bills. One of the last times I was there, he goes, his response to them was, "Now here's the thing. I'm going to tell you what I tell every creditor, I have a fishbowl and in the fishbowl are all my bills. Every month I put them in there. And then once a month I dip my hand into the fishbowl, I twirled it around and I pull out a bill and that is the bill that I pay for. Now, if you keep calling me, I'm going to put you out of the game." And then he just would hang up on them. He was a total character. He was a total character. Mike Gaston:He was such a wonderful weirdo. He looked a little bit like Walt Whitman's corpse on acid, incredibly skinny with crazy wild hair and that kind of thing. And and he was brilliant. He was the type of guy you could start reading from The Unabridged Shakespeare. And then he could just pick up without looking at it. Chris Erwin:It must have been, despite living in near poverty, having to fish for food every day, a very special experience, because I believe that you try to start your own poetry, newsletter or business, knowing you having experience of how difficult the business model is. And you did end up in bankruptcy, but you did it anyway. Because you're like this felt right. Mike Gaston:I don't know what happened like it. Part of my leaving the country a lot, initially when I was leaving the country a lot, I would do it in that sort of romantic nomadic kind of way that everyone who reads Jack Kerouac on the road kind of does where they go out and they're like, "Okay, I'm going to sleep with homeless people in the Gare de Lyon, and I'm going to eat nothing, but like baguettes because it's cheap and really cheap wine or whatever. And I'm going to try like hop on trades and then get off before anyone tries to get me to buy anything." And that gets real old, real fast. After the first many months of doing that, I kind of cracked, so this is getting to the bankruptcy, but what happened was I had a thought to myself and this is going to sound insane. Mike Gaston:And that I'm going to share this, but my thought was, is it possible to rob a bank and not go to jail? So this is, I'm like 19 now when I'm thinking this way. And then I thought, yeah, I'll just take out a bunch of money on credit cards and then claim bankruptcy. And so what I did, that's literally what I did. I took... Chris Erwin:Legal robbing, yes. Mike Gaston:That was legal robbing. And it was one of those things where I was just like, why not? And so I took out all these credit cards and then I just started traveling the world in a way that was just absurd. I didn't have luggage with me. I just had a Jansport backpack. And then if I needed clothes, I would buy it. I would stay at really nice hotels instead of the hostels that I was sort of surviving in. And then when people asked what I did, I would say things like, have you ever seen Doogie Howser? And they go, "Yeah." And I'm like, "I'm not saying the show is about me." And then I would just let it hang. And then I got to a point where I was broke and that's when I was living with the poet. And I was like, now I have to survive by fishing for food. And I had a little bit left over towards the end of my journey there with John. Mike Gaston:I was like, "I'm going to start a poetry press." And that's what I did. And I started this poetry press. And at first, it actually made money. It actually made money. And it's because I would find people like John who actually had a really great following and sell the books at these readings and I would set up tours. And I actually created kind of an independent bookstore distribution. Chris Erwin:Is this in the United States or is this in Europe? Mike Gaston:Both. Where I would do things in the United States and Europe. Chris Erwin:Wow. Mike Gaston:So the books would be in Shakespeare and Company in Paris and they would be in City Lights bookstores in San Francisco. And I would get it in all these places. Chris Erwin:How old were you? Mike Gaston:I was 20. It was kind of crazy because the more I would do things, the more people would buy into it. And so it came to a point where I had professors in all these different institutions hitting me up to publish their work because I was publishing really legit poetry by people that I had met in Europe and different things. And so suddenly they were like, "Well, this guy he's publishing stuff." And so it was very easy for me to find people whose work was actually meaningful within these circles. And I'm 20 and I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I'm just sort of doing it. And then I started going a little bit too crazy and started publishing people who literally didn't have any audience, but I just really appreciated their work. I want to say the first two books were profitable. The next two books broke even, last four books, it was negative dollars in a big way. And that's when I claimed bankruptcy. Chris Erwin:Thinking back to your earlier childhood stories where you wanted to poke the foundation and see what happens when things fail, did you are pushing this business, like how hard can I push this? Mike Gaston:Definitely moments where I was like, "Where are the boundaries again in this scenario? Can I continue to publish books and make money here?" So there was some of that, but largely the desire was I just really respected those writers. And I wanted to see that work get created. Even if I knew that the likelihood of making money was low. Chris Erwin:Another parallel from your early years is rejecting the certain institutions or coursework, but then going to university and then you start to go in different paths and try different things out and travel and go live on a farm and write poetry and start a poetry business. And then you go to Boeing, more like a traditional path again. So how did you end up there? Mike Gaston:Okay. So I claimed bankruptcy and then I decided to go to University of Washington and finish up school. It was one of those instances where I no longer felt like I had to go to school. It was this choice I was making and it was okay. As long as it was a choice I was making. And once I graduated from there, I got into grad school. I was going to go study Shakespeare at St. Andrews in Scotland. My wife now, who was my girlfriend then, got into Cambridge to get her Master's in Philosophy and History. And I was dead broke. I mean, I had claimed bankruptcy a few years before then. I had been paying my way through college. I had taken on two jobs at one point. I would go to UPS very early in the morning, take classes, then work at a sub shop late at night to pay for everything. Mike Gaston:And so I was totally broke and she goes, "One of us should probably have a job." Right. And I go, "Well, you got into the better school. You go to Cambridge and then I'll go get a job." And I applied to Boeing as a joke. Both my parents were working at Boeing at the time. And I had told myself my entire life, I would never work there. But they were hiring. And so I showed up and I was the only one, I remember that it was like this mass sort of they were doing tons of interviews and it's because for years, Boeing had been doing layoffs. And so there's this giant gap between where they had a bunch of people who are about to retire and they had no middle career people because they had laid them all off. And so then they were trying to like backfill with a bunch of young people. And I was the only one who kind of didn't want a job there. And the only one not dressed like they were applying to be on the apprentice. And then I got hired. Chris Erwin:It's like office space, like the less interested you are, the more appealing of a candidate you become. Mike Gaston:So one thing I'll say, here's a little bit of a story when I was offered the job, I was so stunned that they offered me the job because I'm an English major, right. And at the time, I have been told over and over again was that business people get business degrees. And so I didn't think this was going to be a thing. And I remember they called me and they go, "We'd like to hire you for this position. This is their HR department." It was like $42,500 a year to start or something. And this was back in 2004, I think. And that's a lot of money to a person who's been broke, literally his entire life. And so, but my instinct in that moment was to push it and kind of fuck with it. And I go, "Well, that's great. I really appreciate the offer. But I'll be honest with you. When I took the interview, I had a different number in mind." Mike Gaston:I'm literally making all this up off the top of my head because I was just stunned they even called me and they're like, "What are you thinking?" I was like, "Well, I was thinking more like 50,000." And then they came back at like 45 or something like that. And I was like, "Okay." And then I took the job, but it was one of those things where I was just sort of making it up as I went along. And then when I met with my boss for the first time I asked him, I was like, "Why did you hire me?" And he goes, "Your poetry press." I was like, "Really? You mean the thing that utterly failed?" And he goes, "Yeah, absolutely." And I go, "Why?" Mike Gaston:And he goes, "You actually understand something about business that the majority of your colleagues who are new here don't because you actually ran a business where you actually had to create contracts, negotiate that with artists. And also with universities, you had to create a distribution system for your books. You had to literally create tours for your authors. You created a budget for yourself." It was one of those things where it was a... And I was like, "Dang, you're right." I actually did learn a lot just doing that. Chris Erwin:You're at Boeing, but then fast forward, because I want to start setting up the story about you founding Cut and your entertainment drift. You do pull the rip cord at Boeing in a pretty interesting way, that includes pushing the quote unquote red button. Tell us about quitting day and pushing the red button. Mike Gaston:So I was at Boeing for a few years and it became a thing where I was just generally unhappy. There was enough novel problems at Boeing that I'd be interested for awhile. But what made me unhappy was that, this leads to me quitting was that I remember my boss came to me one day and he goes, "Mike, we're having some serious problems with this specific type of part that I was responsible for." Right? I was responsible for a contract that was worth millions of dollars. And there was a specific part that was constantly getting damaged in the factory. And that was impacting everything. And I was like, "Well, let me go investigate that." And I didn't know what I was doing. So my instinct was to then go and essentially create, what I learned later was a lean initiative where I would bring in all these different people who were a part of this whole flow, this process flow in the factory and to understand what was happening. Mike Gaston:And during that, we discovered that where the damage was occurring, why it was happening and how to fix it. And then we created a proposal for fixing it. I got promoted. I was saving the company lots of money. Fantastic. Three months later, my boss came to me and he's like, "Mike, we have this problem that's happening in the factory." And I was like, "Oh, really weird. So let me go investigate." I went investigated it. And I told him, I go, "Glenn, I literally solved this several months ago." Oh you did? I'm like, "Yeah, dude, you promoted me." And I go, "Here's the proposal." He's like, "Oh, fantastic. This is great." And then he left, I would continue to do different work. And then several months later he came to me. He was like, "Mike, we're having this thing. That's happening in the factory." Mike Gaston:I was like, "What is going..." And then when I research, I go, "Glenn, several times now I've solved this. This happened probably four times. And I've felt like I was going insane." Finally, my counterpart on the vendor side of it and I were talking and he had originally been at Boeing and now he was working at this supplier and he's been in this industry for like 30 years. And he goes, "Mike, Mike, Mike, here's the thing, buddy. This is a problem within this airplane since it's been created. And it's over a decade now that they've had this problem. And the thing that you came up with is exactly the solution that a handful of us came up with almost a decade ago." I'm like, "Why am I still solving it?" And he was like, "It's the machine. This is like the inertia of a large machine, like a company like this, where people are changing." Mike Gaston:There's a lot of heuristic stuff in a company like this. And it's very easy for things to kind of fall through and for stuff to get ignored and he was like what happens is, "Every now and then there'll be a new young guy like you who comes in, who discovers the problem, will fix the problem. And then it doesn't get fixed or it'll be fixed for a little period of time, then it'll get broken again." And that was so insane to me that I had been spending a good, over a year now solving the same problem over and over again and it not being fixed. That was like, I have to get out of here. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Mike Gaston:I have to. I feel like I'm in a time loop and I need to leave, but I felt bad. I felt bad because my whole life I've been told that I'm like a quixotic temperamental creative. And that part of me getting a job at Boeing was also sort of like a proof point to Jenny, who's my wife's now family that I wasn't just a crazy romantic artist. I could hold down an actual job that people have. And so I was like, is there a way to get fired? That would be interesting. So I actually tried to get fired, but I made rules for myself for getting fired. I was like one, I have to continue to do my work and I have to do it well, that's one. But two, I can't do anything that would be obvious to get fired. I'm not going to do drugs at work, I'm not going to bring a gun to work. I'm not suddenly going to become like abusive towards people and those types of things. Is it possible to get fired just through non-sequitors? Mike Gaston:Just by being strange. So I would do things, I remember again, the vast majority of the workers at the time were these older white men. And I would do this because I would enter into the restroom. I would apply lipstick on my lips just to see how they would respond. I would busk in the hallways, like with a guitar, I would stand on my desk and rock out to Andrew W.K. Don't Stop Living In The Red. Now, mind you, I'm doing my work at the time. I'm still doing it and I'm doing it well. I'm just being strange. I would do things like I would go to different offices and sit in conference rooms and wait. And then people would show up and then I would run the meeting without telling anyone who I was. Mike Gaston:So I'd be like, "Okay, let's begin the meeting." And I would go, "Let's go around the room. Everyone tell me who you are, how long you've been at Boeing, what your position is." And then I'd point to people. And then they would tell me, and then I'd write notes and I had to assign action items and then I had to leave and I never see them again. Chris Erwin:It seems that you wanted immediate reaction. Because everything you had done in your prior life that you talked about was you do something and there's an immediate result. Mike Gaston:Yeah. Chris Erwin:You hire writers that are not popular. And then you start bankrupting the company, right. You reject coursework, you get a reaction from your mother. So at Boeing is you solve this problem. You're expecting them to be like, "Okay, great recognition." But more of, okay, things are now going to change. That's not happening. So you're like, okay, at this culture, you have to find ways to actually provoke and get reaction. So did you get the reaction that you wanted? Mike Gaston:No, the thing is there would be no reaction. I would do these things and I would get weird stares or things like that. But mostly people were afraid of me or it felt like that. It felt like there was a weird intimidation. And I think part of it is that when you're working in a company like Boeing also, there's a lot of rules. There's rules for literally everything. There's a million rules in they're called PROS, PROS. And there is a PRO for literally every decision that you have to make. And it became a thing where I would say I wanted to get something done and someone would say a PRO about why it couldn't be done. And I became so frustrated by that because I wanted to see things get fixed and changed and I want to see things improve that I just started making a PROS. Mike Gaston:So I would say something in a meeting, I'm like, "This is something that we have to do." And then someone goes, "Well, according to PRO5236, we can't do that for these reasons. I'm like, "Well, actually PRO2348 supersedes PRO5236 because it says that we have to do that. And the thing is no one reads the PROS, man. So I could say these things and then people will be like, "Oh, I guess we have to do it." And then I would get shit done. And it was one of those things where I was like, I have to kind of work outside the system to get things done. The way I quit ultimately was where I was like, "Gosh, I seem to keep doing well at my job and I'm not happy here. I'm just going to leave." Mike Gaston:And at Boeing, their internal intranet and it's called... I think it's called toll access. I can't remember. But there was a big red button on the intranet and it was a self terminate button where you press that button, you were self terminating. And I wrote one day I just press the button. And then I instantly got a call and it was from HR and they go, "Is this Michael Gaston?" Yes, this is. Okay. Well this is Boeing's HR. And we noticed that, did you press the self terminate button? I go, yep. Oh, do you want to self terminate? And I'm like, "That's why I pressed the button." And then they go, "You do realize that once this goes through, it's very hard to turn this around." And I go, "I don't want to turn around. I want to self terminate." Mike Gaston:And then they try to make an argument for why you should stick around. And I just told them that I wasn't interested and this went on for a very long time. And then eventually they got the hand and that's how I fired myself. I literally pressed the eject. Yeah. Right after... So I got married about a year or two years and still working at Boeing. And I was hanging out with a friend of mine who was at my wedding and he used to be in a band called Minus the Bear. And I told him one day I was like, "I got an idea for a music video." And he goes, "Great, but you've never made a music video." And I go, "Well, I'm going to make a music video anyways. And I'm just going to make it. And if you like it, great. And if not, no biggie." Mike Gaston:They were touring at the time. So it didn't matter. And then I went, I created a treatment for it and I hooked up with a friend of mine who was in the New York film industry, but then had moved to Seattle. And then he hooked me up with a really great director of photography. And I brought him over and we made this music video and then I gave it to the band and they all dug it and the label dug it and they showed it to MTV and MTV loved it. And they were like, "Yeah." Chris Erwin:Was the band in the video? Or was it just the- Mike Gaston:No. Chris Erwin:-Music and... Okay. Mike Gaston:Yeah, no, it was for a song called Throwin' Shapes. And it actually starred my wife and one of my good friends and they play these two kind of opposing basketball players who aren't actually playing basketball. They're fake playing basketball on the street. And then they battle. And then the label like, "Yeah, we want to buy this." And so I sold it to them and then it was on MTV. And I was like, why don't I just do this? Why don't I just make videos? Because the first thing I made went on MTV. Chris Erwin:And you had never created any videos prior to this? Mike Gaston:No, I'd love movies. I'd love videos. I grew up in a time where it seemed impossible because equipment is expensive and I didn't go to film school and it felt like outside my reach. But in that instant, I was just like, well, whatever, I'm just going to go make one. And I remember talking to my friend who was in the New York film industry and he would tell me all the things I couldn't do. And I was like, "Well, I'm just going to do them anyways." Right. And then we got it done. And he was like, "How did you do that? How did you..." And I was like, "Well, nothing's really impossible, right? You can pretty much do anything." The hardest thing to do is to decide that you're going to do it. And then you just do it. Chris Erwin:You just fast forward to an end state that you want. And you don't worry about, what are all the different structures or the normal ways for how people would achieve this. You're like, "I'm going to find a way, I'm creative and I'm going to talk to people and I'm going to get it done." And you did. So this starts what I described as you hit the red exit button and you start the entertainment drift. And you're at a few different companies for pretty short stints of time, like one to three years, CBS, Rogue Scholar, Stripes39 and then SFST. And I think some of these companies are related. So during this period tell me... It seems that you're seeking something out or wanting to learn something. What was going on during those years? Mike Gaston:Once I made the decision that I was going to leave Boeing and do videos, the next thing that occurred to me was that I don't know how to do videos, right? I had made a thing and I had sold it, but that... I wasn't suddenly invested with a ton of confidence and about how to do any of these things. And when I was discovering at that moment was actually what my voice was. I'd always wanted to be a writer and tell stories, but I was circling in on the types of stories I wanted to tell and the reasons behind it. But what was still kind of opaque to me was the hows, how to actually get it done. So then my instinct was to just do as many things as possible. I started working for free on a ton of different projects, just to understand how other people ran sets and shoots and then taking jobs at different places. Mike Gaston:It was part of that same kind of instinct. I read every book, I would take jobs, I was taking in inputs to synthesize my own kind of perspective on how I wanted to make anything. Right. Chris Erwin:You always had an output focused mind. So at these companies were you also having an impact? Mike Gaston:To some degree, the thing is part of the reason why I would leave was because I wasn't satisfied necessarily with the impact that I was making. I was having an impact, but it always felt too slow to me in some of these places where... Like CBS, one of the places I worked at was at CBS Radio Seattle, where I worked for a show called the Bob Rivers Show, which was a National talk show. And my job as the video production manager. And there was only so much that you can get done as a video guy at a radio show. And so even though I was having an impact, it wasn't super satisfying. And so then once Bob was moving on from his contract with CBS Radio Seattle, it was clear to me that I had to move on too. And that's when I went and started a nonprofit focused on the digital humanities called Rogue Scholar. Mike Gaston:And I did that and much like my poetry press, that was a no-profit company, made a significantly negative profit. And after doing that for a little over a year, I needed to make money. Again, and I took a job at Stripes39. And this one was interesting because Stripes39 was a startup in internet marketing. And it was the first place that I worked at where suddenly people would listen to me. The CEO would listen to what I was saying. And it was jarring. It was jarring because I had been so used to being kind of like feeling frustrated because I would point out all the things that need to be fixed and how I would fix it. And no one would listen. And finally, there was a guy who I remember telling him, this isn't how I would run a creative side of your company at all. Mike Gaston:And then he was like, "Really?" I go, "Yeah." And then he took me into a room and then spent three hours whiteboarding with me about how I would do it. And then he basically was like, "Go and do that." I was stunned. I was suddenly in an environment where people would listen to me and that changed everything. Number one, it made me a lot more circumspect about the things that I was saying. Suddenly when people are paying attention, you can't get away with the feeling like, "Oh man, I have all these great ideas and no one's listening." Suddenly you have to really examine are these ideas great at all? Because they are listening. Chris Erwin:It's like, crutch to ready yourself for dismissal saying, "Oh, I can say all these big ideas, but no one's going to listen to me. So I'll just... Too bad for them. I'm just going to go on to the next thing and throw out some big ideas." And then all of a sudden they're saying, "No, Mike, this is great. Now do it." And so now this is a new muscle of execution responsibility. And you're getting what you wanted, be careful what you wish for. Mike Gaston:Absolutely, Boeing was formative because I learned a lot about how to create processes in a place and also to work within a large organization. And as much as I was a total brat, when it comes to things I was trying to get away with, I was still doing my job. I was still doing work. And I learned a lot there about project management and about moving things through something really bureaucratic. When I go to Stripes39, it's the exact opposite of Boeing, right? Boeing makes products that last for 40 plus years and that are heavily regulated. So they have nothing but red tape. Then you go to the internet and you're doing internet marketing. And these are for products that lasts for about 30 seconds, right. And then you have to make an entirely new thing. And then you're doing it in a startup where there's literally no process. Mike Gaston:And so one can be paralyzing because of the weight of the amount of buy in that you have to have. And the other one can be paralyzing because all there is, is opportunity with no checks and balances. Chris Erwin:It's chaos. Mike Gaston:And so it's like... It's chaos. And so there was an instance where I was like, "Whoa, people are paying attention." And then what happens is you level up way faster in a world like that because you have to. You suddenly have to be like, "Okay, the things I do have a real impact. So how do I make sure that I'm doing things that have a real impact and not just be the guy who's readying himself for, you said for dismissal, but the guy who knows, well, they're going to hold me to these things." So I actually have to execute on it. Chris Erwin:So you start executing against his vision and what happens? Mike Gaston:So the company ended up turning into a startup studio and they would incubate different business models and then invest in them and Salil, the president of the company early on, knew that he wanted to invest in video. And we got to talking and that's kind of where SFST came out of. He knew that you wanted to invest in video, but we didn't have a business model that we were committed to. So SFST was kind of essentially a creative studio. We were doing for other companies, what we had been doing up to that point for Stripes39, which is create content that would help those companies get to number one on Google. My task at the time was to create viral content for brands like InsuranceQuotes.org and Medical Billing and CodingCertification.net, which is like pushups. If you can make something go viral for a company like that, you can pretty much make it for anything. Chris Erwin:Say if the product or the company wasn't super appealing to you, did you enjoy the challenge of like, "I'm going to make you a really cool video." Mike Gaston:Always. To me, they were just interesting problems to solve. And again, this goes back to this belief that nothing is impossible. So it was fun. It was fun to think of these as exercises. Like, okay, well, how do I get this thing to go viral? How do I make this thing? And then every time we would make something, it would appear on like Gizmodo or some other large site. I feel like I'd won something. Chris Erwin:Yeah. But then it seems that you want to solve more things, but you need more time, more resources and focus to do that, which then seems to be a precursor to the co-founding of Cut.com. Tell me about that transition. Mike Gaston:So Cut was interesting. Because after a year of doing this sort of like creative work for other companies and in that first year we were profitable, but I was not happy. I wasn't happy having to do service work for other companies that I didn't feel really got it. And Salil wasn't happy because he wasn't interested in investing in a production or creative agency. When you're a startup studio, you're investing in products that you're hoping is going to scale to such a degree, that's going to become a billion dollar company. We were at an impasse about what we wanted to make. And I remember having a very specific conversation with him. He was friends with a guy named Matt Inman who created the Oatmeal. And then he created Exploding Kittens and has had massive success in translating his IP into actual products that people want to buy. Mike Gaston:And he would talk about Matt all the time. And I told Salil, I was like, "Listen, you would never invest in Matt, in reality. Matt could never do what he is doing now in your system because you have a very rigid perspective on how things get done." Salil is I think he's a very smart person. I think he's one of the most logical rational people that I met in this industry. And he has like a very specific framework for getting things done that make it difficult for, I think, outliers to exist in his world, which is funny for a guy who essentially creates companies that deal in vitality, right. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Mike Gaston:And I told him, you would never invest in a Matt, and I think that was a dare to him. Because he was like, "Well, what do you want to make?" I was like, "I think if we want to make a company that's focused on media, then it should be about making things that are premium because ultimately what's the point of doing videos, if you don't want them to be premium and actually have an impact on people." The way everyone is doing videos right now, does it make sense to me? And so I told him, I was like, "If you want predictable sources of revenue, don't make videos. Go be a plumber, go buy a bunch of funeral homes because people are always going to die." But for you doing videos, it doesn't make sense to try to eke out money for views through advertising. It's all diminishing returns. Mike Gaston:I'm like, "What you have to do is create content of such supreme intrinsic value to the audience that they end up paying for it or things related to it because it's part of their universe." And he was like, "Okay, go do that." You know, Salil he's a very much a prove it guy. So he was like, "Okay, prove it. I'll give you six months of runway." And at that time I was just like, I doubled down on that. I go, "If I can't make something that's going to go viral, that's going to speak to this editorial vision that I claim to have in a month, I don't need six months. I need a month to do it." Right. And he's like, "Okay." And then within a couple of weeks I made a video called Grandmas Smoking Weed for the first time. And then it seemed like every week after that, me and my co-founders Jason Hakala and Blaine Ludy, we would just keep making formats that would somehow hit the zeitgeists. Mike Gaston:And very quickly after that, we got a lot of interest from a bunch of different companies to invest in us or buy us. And then after that Salil largely trusted my vision for what I wanted to create and then gave me the runway for the rest of the year before I went out to go raise money from Comcast Ventures and Compounder and Sky. Chris Erwin:How did you feel with this success? Was it validating, was it exciting or was it also in a way, could it be interpreted as frustrating where it's like, Oh, maybe I didn't provoke or think bigger and maybe I got to change that. What was going through your head? Mike Gaston:It was validating, I had spent so much time sort of arguing for these things and then as we were doing it, it was like we were proving out exactly what I was saying. And then the attention was validating, but honestly, I wasn't worried about whether or not the vision was big enough. I was more concerned about how were we going to continue to keep executing against it. Right. I had created a model that was completely dependent on the idea that we could always create outliers. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Mike Gaston:And we were doing it and it was just a matter of like, okay, now how do I get to the next level? How do we scale this in some way? Another part of the model was this idea of use the internet as a place to kind of rapidly prototype formats, see if there's an audience and then find ways of leveraging that in some way. And that second part, the leveraging it, was a much harder thing to figure out than the first thing. I was kind of blown away at how our instinct for creating things that would spread was kind of on point, just about everything we were making was killing it. And then it was a question of like, Oh, shit, how do we actually exploit any of these things? Because everything that we're making is doing well, how do you prioritize how you want to then turn that into a revenue stream. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Mike Gaston:And that took a couple more years. Chris Erwin:And did you enjoy thinking through how do we scale this up and spending more time on that part of the business? Mike Gaston:At first, at first, yeah, because it's novel problems. The thing is it's really difficult to get bored in a startup because things are changing so fast, things are moving so quickly. And so every new thing was delightful until it stopped being delightful. When it stopped was when I took a step back and I started examining the things I was focused on and it occurred to me that for a couple of years now, I had stopped asking myself what I actually wanted. My whole life, I had been asking, what do I want, why am I doing this? Why is any of these things happening? I become a lot less reflective on that. And I, instead it was more like I was just solving problems. A problem would introduce itself to me and then I would figure it out and it would be novel and interesting. And then a new one would show up and then I would approach it like that. Mike Gaston:But then when I kind of like woke up for a minute and I looked at what I was doing and I thought is this even what I want anymore? And then I realized that it wasn't. And then I had been sort of distracting myself with the momentum that comes with a startup. Chris Erwin:A startup is all consuming. And then I think with the responsibilities of, I have a team, people that rely on me for employment, investors that are looking to me for return and premium of the capital they've given me, that responsibility you get lost in it. But it is clear that you have this ingrained code in you that is always asking what else or how can this be different? It's interesting to hear that you felt that, Hey, something's missing here. And it's the fact that you're not able to ask yourself these reflective questions. And I think it was when I first met you, I was reaching out to you on behalf of a client we were working with, I got to know you. I saw you at the YouTube summit. You came to some of our events. Chris Erwin:And I remember you said, "Chris, my role is changing. I was just a creative and now it's management and fundraising and I'm on this speaking tour." And I sensed that there was this inner turmoil where you weren't sure, you were like, "I guess this is like the path, I'm doing these new things because there's success here. But is this the success that I want? I'm not sure if this is for me." Mike Gaston:You're literally articulating exactly what was going on in my head, in terms of suddenly I had found myself on a track. Like the person that I thought I was, the person who was sort of like avoiding tracks, suddenly found himself on one. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Mike Gaston:And I'm like looking around being like, "Is this even what I want?" Everyone's telling me, this is what I should want. The company is successful. It's making money, it's profitable. We have all this traction. It seems like opportunity is everywhere. And at the same time, I'm like, "But is this even what I want?" And then I was like, "No, this isn't what I want. There's all these things that I don't like about this. And I don't want to perform this role anymore." It felt like I had solved something and it was no longer interesting to me to continue down the path because I could see where the end point was. There was like real existential crisis happening for more than a year before I eventually left the company. Mike Gaston:And people think all the time, they were like, "Well, you're the CEO of a company that you founded, shouldn't you be able to do whatever you want." I'm like, "No, that's not true. That's not true." When you're really the leader of a company, you're actually beholden to a whole lot of people. You're beholden to all the people that work for you, all the people that invest in you. And then all those tangential people who are around you also, who are kind of invested in your success. And so up to this point, my mom didn't know what I did, right. She did not understand anything. But she understands that there's a name of the company that I founded on a building. She understands that there's a lot of people who work there now for me, she understands that everything that I'm making is appearing on the news and various other things. Mike Gaston:And so it becomes a thing where everyone's so invested in this idea of success that you're creating. And you're like, "Ah, it's my job to prop this up. It's my job to continue to kind of keep this thing moving." And it felt like a trap. Chris Erwin:So I think I got a sense that you did start to act out a bit. Similarly to when you were at Boeing, I remember, I think I may have first met you in person at the YouTube summit in Venice and immediately thought you were a very smart guy, unique point of view, but you felt introverted. And I knew you were about to speak on stage. Wasn't sure if that energy was going to translate, but it definitely did. Mike Gaston:Thank you. Chris Erwin:And I think I remember you speaking, you approached the topic with a really unique point of view and everyone at the summit was talking about your talk after the fact. And then I think there was another talk that you gave at VidCon. I was not there for that. And I think you had been tasked with just talking about building a content business in the new digital economy. And I think the expectation was just talking about me, and I'm making it very tactical, but you commandeered the reins and you went in a very different direction talking about creator responsibility to the audience, to viewership. Mike Gaston:Yeah. Chris Erwin:And so it seems like, from these experiences that this inner turmoil was starting to come out of you, is that right? Do you agree with that? Mike Gaston:No. That's kind of right. I mean, I think there's a... I can't help it, honestly, I can't help. But yeah. I was telling this to Melinda Lee, who I work with at Stage TEN and I go, the difference between how she operates and how I operate is little, is different and neither is good nor bad. Although, maybe you could say that mine is flawed. Companies can be complicated, incredibly complicated and there could be tons of entanglements that make it difficult to get anything done. She is so effective because she knows how to create a path around and through entanglements to get to the thing that she is trying to get done. And I can do that. I can totally do it and I have done that, but I'm kind of like... It almost feels like a mental health issue. Mike Gaston:I can do that for a time, but when I hit a certain entanglement, my instinct isn't to try to find a way around it. My instinct is to literally untie the knots. It's to literally make them untangled. And that is, can be self-defeating, right. Because that's philosophical and foundational and is trying to really get everyone aligned in one way. And so when I would go and have these talks, I wasn't interested in doing the things that I knew, what are the best practices for a talk, right. Okay, I got to speak this quickly and I have to move around the stage and I have to you know, Gary V it up in some way, and I got to put it in very simple terms for people and it's got to be incredibly tactical and practical. And instead when I wanted to do was be more introspective and reflective around the why's and the wants that we all have when we're creating any of the things that we're creating. Mike Gaston:And try to give people some kind of framework for developing their own principles around it. That's really all... I was like, "I'm more interested in that." I'm not interested in optimizing this talk in a way that somehow gives me more credibility with this audience. All I'm interested in now is just articulating for them how I perceive things. And then maybe it strikes, or maybe it doesn't. I don't know. Chris Erwin:If you want to build a sustainable business model, instead of telling people, "Spend this much money on production, put out these types of videos that are optimized for X, that you can get programmatic and direct sales and also build out some DTC channels." What you're saying is that's just a bunch of tactical knots. And the way that we can really untangle this from the top is, here's how to have a creative vision. Here's the creativity that the world needs today. And if you focus on that, you will find success for yourself, for your team and for your audiences. So start bigger. Mike Gaston:Yeah. I literally walked them through the questions that I asked in order to then set out, making a company. Because the point is that if you give people a hundred best practices to deploy, then you actually haven't set them up for success. Because if everyone does those things, then all they're doing is competing with each other, which doesn't give you the traction you think it does, right? Like early days at Cut, I remember Salil who's the president Startup Studio. He wanted me to copy what Buzzfeed and Upworthy was doing. And I remember asking him why. And he goes, "Well, they have all the money. If they have all the money, that means they're hiring the data scientists and the technologists who are essentially creating the tools to help them to predict virality online. Our job is just to draft off their success because you're small and you can do that really quickly." Mike Gaston:And I said, "I don't know, in the history of anything where a smaller force has somehow defeated a larger force by copying the strategies and tactics of the larger force." It doesn't make any sense to do that. My point in some of those talks that I gave was to give people a path where they weren't actually competing with each other, they were competing to create relevance for the audience. Because that's the only thing that matters. Chris Erwin:I liked that because there's also a sentiment that all of you are special. All of you are very capable. Now find your own way and we can all win. Mike Gaston:No, it's absolutely is. I mean, again, this goes back to even raising money. I remember talking to Sam landman at Comcast Ventures. And initially he was like, "Mike, we're not investing in advertising plays." And I go, "This is great because why in God's name would I make a company that orbits something nobody likes." And he's like, "Well, I don't understand what are you making then." I go, "I'm going to make something of such intrinsic value that people are going to pay for it or things related to it." And I go, "I don't need to be Mark Zuckerberg. I don't need to consume the internet in a world where there are billions of people watching videos online every day, I need a million people giving me 10 bucks a month. Can I do that?" Mike Gaston:And that's the truth. If you're creating a media company, you don't need billions of views. You only need that, if you're making like 0.001 cent on every view. What you need is a cross section of people who are invested in your success because you are creating something of value for them. And so they were paying for it. Chris Erwin:You fire yourself, you write a blog post about it. And I want you to give us the summary. And then we're going to talk about what you're doing at Stage TEN. And we'll close with some rapid fire. Mike Gaston:At the end of last year, I became probably the most frustrated with my position. And there had been tension between the things I wanted to do and my board and mind you, my board is actually very... They're probably most flexible and adaptable board you can possibly think of. It's just the things I want to do were not the same as what they wanted. And so it came to a head where I was like, "Yeah, these are things that I need to happen or else maybe I should go." And then out of that, they're like, "Well, what if we did things like this? And could it look like that?" And I'm like, "Nah, I really can't. I got to go." And that was really tough

Though it already cemented his legacy as one of the world's greatest songwriters, Tom Petty originally intended 1994's Wildflowers to be a double-album. Now over 25 years later, fans can finally hear these long-buried tracks, along with home demos, alternate takes, live cuts, new liner notes from Rick Rubin and more as part of Wildflowers & All The Rest, a mammoth archival undertaking that ranges from 2 CD's to 9 LP's, depending on your budget and fandom. On today's show, we'll talk with Nick Steinhardt, one of the art directors and package designers on this massive reissue about his connection to Tom Petty's music, his role as the release took shape, and his diverse catalog of work, ranging from Paul McCartney to Britney Spears to Minus The Bear. Follow @nicksteinhardt on Instagram, and visit smogdesign.com and 23in.com to view Nick's work. You can find the Wildflowers reissue, as well as the new album Lament from Nick's band Touché Amoré, wherever you get music.

Is a musical mad-scientist.  Whether it's with devastatingly heavy riffs in the seminal hardcore band Botch or the mind-blowing loops and tap dancing of Minus the Bear, David Knudson is a Fret-Force to reckon with. We talk gear, riffs, what influenced him, what made him such an influential player, and his upcoming solo project which sounds awesome! FWIW, I love talking about bandcamp and supporting artists through that wonderful platform...  AND right now, you can check out Botch's entire catalogue at www.botch.bandcamp.com hear David's fury in its full glory on the only platform that seems to be truly helping artists stream their music these days. If you want to hear more, be sure to check out the Rigs of Dad Patreon page at www.patreon.com/rigsofdad OR just download the patreon ap, search for Rigs of Dad, and you can support creators like me and so many more in the process!  There is an extended version of this conversation and many more over there! This episode was made possible by the fine folks over at Gillibus.  Book your next party with Gillibus over at www.gillibus.com Be sure to check out all the incredible stuff being put out by Sacha Dunable over at www.dunableguitars.com including his new JazzerSized pickups that will fit in a Jazzmaster as well as a stocking this holiday season. I also want to give a shoutout to Quantum Industries.  These dudes are putting out true tanks of guitar cases.  Check them out at https://www.quantumindustries.jp/ Big shout out to the homies at www.shearrevival.com as well...  Take care of yourself.  Treat your body and neighbors nose with love using Shear Revival!  

Our guest this episode is David Knudson, former guitarist of Minus the Bear and the now legendary Tacoma band, Botch. David has one of the most intense, unique, and identifiable guitar styles around and is known for his extensive use of the Line 6 DL4 delay pedal to create and trigger loops and samples live during shows. But, he's certainly not one to use effects as a crutch. David is a monster player and I'm very much looking forward to hearing the solo album that he is currently working on. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation, our first ever, and I hope you do, too! Thanks for listening and for your continued support. If you enjoy the Couch Riffs Podcast and/or the videos we are producing please consider supporting us with a monthly pledge of as little as .99/month! You can do that HERE at anchor.fm/couch-riffs. Also, don't forget to visit couchriffs.com to find a hub for all things Couch Riffs: videos, podcasts, and a link to our Etsy Store where you can pick up a 100% Couch Riffs t-shirt or stylish trucker hat. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/couch-riffs/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/couch-riffs/support

On this episode the boys discuss the 2002 album "Highly Refined Pirates" by Minus the Bear nottherockpod.com Jason's Links: Instagram - @hessisbest.com Website - hessisbest.com Alpha Bravo Charlie - abcwilco.com Josh's Links: Instagram - @grenadesohio Favorite Band - https://tinyurl.com/ydb7vbzlOn --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nottherock/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nottherock/support

Hey, wanna throw up? Pod me naked. Ryan, John M, and Justin are talking about Minus the Bear.Learn Em and Love Em People.

Hey, wanna throw up? Pod me naked. Ryan, John M, and Justin are talking about Minus the Bear.Learn Em and Love Em People.

New to InObscuria? Typically what we do is exhume obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. In the case of this particular episode, we are leaning towards the LOST. Although there is a definite audience who follows this genre and it’s sub-genre counterparts, Math Rock bands are mostly lost on the general music consuming public… Hope you dig!Songs this week include:Minus The Bear – “The Fix” from Menos El Oso (2005)The Dismemberment Plan – “Gyroscope” from Emergency And I (1999)Brazil – “Io” from A Hostage And The Meaning Of Life (2004)Protest The Hero – “Moonlight” from Scurrilous (2011)Enemies – “We’ve Been Talking” from We’ve Been Talking (2010)Shudder To Think – “Chakka” from Pony Express Record (1994)These Arms Are Snakes – “Deer Lodge” from Easter (2006)Please subscribe everywhere that you listen to podcasts!Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/inobscuria/og-shop

In the latest Like This Pod Mini, Jacqueline and Meghan react live to songs their significant others think they’re going to like.  Songs:Love Me Dead - Ludo (T.J.)Farewell Transmission - Songs: Ohia (Matt)Rich Kids - New Medicine (T.J.)Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse - Minus the Bear (Matt)Imaginary Days - Mark Morton (T.J.)Time Bomb - The Dismemberment Plan (Matt) Follow I Think You're Gonna Like This Podcast on social media:InstagramFacebookTwitterWebsiteJacqueline InstagramMeghan Instagram If you like the podcast and want to support us, click here.

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We went full Indie on the latest episode of the InStereo Podcast. Built to Spill's sensational guitar-laden pop ballads from their 1999 release Keep It Like a Secret and Minus the Bear's Prog-Rockesque 2007 gem Planet of Ice. Get ready to take a dive into the Underground.

This is my chat with the one and only Dave Knudson from Minus The Bear! Listen in as we discuss the final days of touring, what life is like now at home, and what he has in store for the future.  09:08 Get Botch Back Together... 10:13 That’s The Connection 14:29 Levels of Finality  19:30 Professional Time Killer  22:01 The Reflective Period  26:50 That’s so Botchy  29:45  A Good Spectrum  34:54 Addicting to Looping 38:35 No Bad Juju 41:54 The Last Tour  46:29 Alexa, Play Minus the Bear  50:42 Pedal Geekdom  53:49 The Dave L4 Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE, RATE, REVIEW, & tell a friend!  We love to hear from YOU! PeerPleasurePod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Knudson of Minus the Bear and Botched swings by to chat with Matt and Bill about live sampling, sentient pedalboards, van days, straight edge graffiti and post band life.  

Mixed Up Confusion is our vehicle to discuss the culture that surrounds our weekly conversation about Bob Dylan. This week we open Season 3 by looking back on our two months off, bookended by two shows: Tallest Man on Earth in November and Minus the Bear in their final Portland show in December. We begin with Tallest Man on Earth (3:30)before going to Kelly (15:00) talking "lo-fi hip hop" memes, Bonobo, Little People, and PUP. Daniel (22:30) shouts out the documentary Jazz, '60s playlists, Better Oblivion Community Center; and a few new books. We close with the farewell tour and final Portland show of a band that meant a lot to both of us for over a decade: Minus the Bear (28:00). As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Minus The Bear lyrics paint such vivid pictures of life I'll never live but Yacht, Absinthe and Pills never sounded so good. Yet through listening to their songs I get a chance to experience these foreign lives. In this episode we deep dive into the lyrics of some of their most well known songs.Blog Post:http://musicsthehangup.com/blog/s01e06-minus-the-bear-is-the-hang-up/Join us online:Website - http://musicsthehangup.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/MusicsTheHangUpInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/musicsthehangup/Discord - https://discord.gg/34RcqkNSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/musicsthehangup)

Before the band rides off into the sunset, they provide one last glimpse how they formed their tasty grooves over layered loops and IDM-inspired textures by way of Line 6 DL4s.

In a world where the #MeToo movement has made such a huge impact, more and more people are becoming aware of the importance of embracing the feminine in our world. Join me this week as I talk with author Hallie Iglehart Austen about the myths, and history of the divine feminine and her newly re-released book, "The Heart of the Goddess: Art, Myth and Meditations of the World's Sacred Feminine". It's an important conversation that empowers all listeners, male and female alike.Get "The Heart of the Goddess":https://amzn.to/2RTjias (https://amzn.to/2RTjias)Hallie Inglehart Austen's website:https://heartgoddess.net/ (https://heartgoddess.net/)Hosted by Stephanie James. Produced by Chris Lanphear for NoCo Media, Ltd.Music: "Erase" by Minus The Bear, "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood MacHear new episodes Wednesdays at 9pm Eastern/7pm Mountain on NoCo FM: https://noco.fm (https://noco.fm)Listen to us on the RadioPublic app: https://www.thesparkpod.com/pod/radiopublic (https://www.thesparkpod.com/pod/radiopublic)The Spark With Stephanie James is supported by its listeners, and by Audible.com. With over 180,000 titles to choose from, Audible.com allows you to listen to an immense library of books for every taste on your iPhone, Android, Kindle, tablet, or computer, including Resilient by Rick Hanson and Molly's Game by Molly Bloom. Audible.com has a special offer for listeners of The Spark which includes a free audiobook of your choice and a 30-day free trial.Learn more and get your free audiobook now at https://thesparkpod.com/audible (https://thesparkpod.com/audible). Support this podcast

Concept Albums! All sorts of different kinds and examples. Did you have any thoughts? Comments? Please send them to us at joyouseclectic@gmail.com! Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/joyouseclectic/ | https://www.facebook.com/joyouseclectic/ | https://twitter.com/joyouseclectic   Songs Used Chad Songs: "Pacchuca Sunrise" by Minus The Bear, "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Are, "I Used to Have A Heart" by Say Anything, "Transatlantacism" by Death Cab for Cutie Matt Songs: "Los Ageless" by St. Vincent, "The Suburbs" "Deep Blue" and "Sprawl II" by Arcade Fire, "Desire" "Humility" "Perspective" and "Truth" by Kemasi Washington, "Five Years" and "Starman" by David Bowie Parker Songs: "Branch In The River" by Thrice, "The Ocean" into "Breakdown" by Mae, "Night Diving" "Moving Mountains" "The Arsonist" and "Daedalus" by Thrice, "Overlord" by Forevermore All intros/bumpers/outros written and recorded by hosts.  Check out our 'sister' podcast "Two Bros Driving" here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/two-bros-driving/id1349804668?mt=2 or follow their social media @twobrosdriving Photo credit to unsplash

Brian is back... but forgot to setup his microphone (so he sounds like shit).  New songs from Minus The Bear, Microwave, Drug Church and Racetraitor.  Album of the week is 7744 by As The Sun Sets.

Premier Guitar is on location in Des Moines, Iowa, where PG's Shawn Hammond visits with guitarists Jake Snider, Dave Knudson and bassist Cory Murchy of Minus the Bear. In this segment, the guys talk about their current live setups and demonstrate the band's elaborate use of samplers.

On episode 64 of PRP, Grendel and Greg welcome in Jake Snider, lead vocalist and guitarist for the legendary Seattle band Minus the Bear. They talk about growing up in the greater Seattle music scene, the history of Minus the Bear, life on the road, the state of politics in this era of Donald Trump, and so much more. 

Sorry for the fan noise in the background... but we're still dealing with summer.  New stuff from Joyce Manor, Alkaline Trio, Restorations, and Minus The Bear.  Album of the Week is The Resignation By The RX Bandits.  Also, lots of Dewey Cox quotes.

Five years between in records is a drop in the bucket for many groups. For Minus the Bear, however, it marks the longest gap between albums in the band’s 17 year history.  The making of Voids was marked by both personal and professional changes, as the group shuffled members and began to settle down and have kids. But there’s a fresh energy on the record, kicked off by “Lass Kiss,” which find the band in peak form. It’s a document of a band that still has has something to say. In this short interview, the group sat down back stage, following an opening slot for The Silverspun Pickups in Brooklyn to discuss changing dynamics and Donald Trump.  

Ep 77 Jake Snider - Minus the Bear Jake and BD sit down to talk backstage at the Showbox in Seattle. Jake tells BD about his upbringing in the PNW. How he found his way into music as a teenage guitarist before being pushed into the frontman roll and what the Seattle music scene was like 20 years ago. Also, an exclusive Pre-Release Listen to the New Single “No One Else” from BD+theSheeks 2017 Album “1, 2 and A 3” that you can only hear here until the Release on May 25th Buy Minus the Bear Music here: https://www.minusthebear.com/discography/ Sponsored today by: http://www.blumensteinaudio.com

Greetings and welcome to episode 6 of Daydream Nation: a Music conversation Podcast! On this episode, we discuss Minus The Bear’s Menos El Oso. Be sure to come back next week for episode 7, where we will be discussing Snoop Doggy Dog’s Doggystyle. Until then, be excellent to each other!

Greetings and welcome to episode 5 of Daydream Nation: a Music conversation Podcast! On this episode, we discuss Saves The Day’s Stay What You Are. Be sure to come back next week for episode 6, where we will be discussing Minus The Bear’s Menos El Oso. Until then, be excellent to each other!

In Episode #33 of Beats, Beards & Brews, the gang finds Jesus ... Even More Jesus Imperial Stout that is, the highest abv beer drank on the podcast so far, clocking in at a solid 12% abv. Things start off pretty normal with a review of Minus the Bear's latest album VOIDS, which brings Evan back to his college days. No one is overly impressed by the band's sixth studio album, but Eric is glad it's not your typical indie BS. Next up, Dan and Eric go in-depth answering the question "What makes for a good beard oil?" and give a breakdown of everything they look for when rating a beard oil for the podcast. Thank God (or Jesus) that Eric made a list for this discussion as the imperial stout starts to kick in about this time, but everyone sort of keeps their composure. Finally, Evan, Eric and Dan get to the main event ... and things quickly go off the rails in the beer portion of the podcast as Evan shares his expert knowledge on Evil Twin Brewing gleaned from a documentary on the Brooklyn-based "brewery" that he partially watched on YouTube. Great job, Evan! As the three craft beer enthusiasts continue to explore the history of Evil Twin Brewing and imperial stouts they gradually lose the ability to speak, which makes for a pretty hilarious description and review of Even More Jesus. We highly recommend you pick up a four-pack of Even More Jesus tall boys or some other really syrupy/chocolatey/boozy flavored high abv imperial stout, sit back and enjoy the ride.

In this episode, we find Todd and Alex talking about what you would expect; their JCWs. Alex gives us more information about his new car that I know many of you will enjoy. Then we talk tech and the JD Power survey. For those of you heading out to MTTS, find our girl AJ starting in Atlanta if you are looking for MTTS badges, decals or magnets. Then watch for Todd starting in Minnesota.   

MINUS THE BEAR’s Jake Snider sits down with Dave to try to dredge up fuzzy memories from the swirling depths of time. Their success may be questionable, but there is no question that important topics like the exact nature of Beast’s mutant abilities, the classic Yoda puppet’s range of articulation, and the levels of suck […]

This 2 hour edition of the Coast Highway Shuffle Show showcases songs about rain and storms. We're featuring cuts by Bob Dylan, XTC, Buddy Guy, Level 42, Sasha Evans, Minus The Bear, REM, Sonny Landreth, Bombay Dub Orchestra and SO many more!!!! Enjoy!

Brought to you exclusively by Enjoy The Ride Records (enjoytheriderecords.com). I called up Jake Snider from Minus The Bear to discuss many things including his earlier bands State Route 522 and Sharks Keep Moving, being political and how a band operates.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

This week, Patrick brings us some Indie rock with Minus The Bear and their album Infinity Overhead. Listen and enjoy!

We sit down with this Seattle based indie super group featuring David Totten (The Quiet Ones), Erin Tate (Minus The Bear) and Matt Benham (Black Swedes) and discuss dogs named Chicken, the Kanye West beef with Jimmy Kimmel, playing adult Apples and Apples with your parents, we play a round of "Mental Metal" and talk good van names. Stick around to the end to hear the BlindBlindTiger live version of Hand Of The Hills song "PAHA"1st Break Song - Master Musicians of Bukkake "People of the Drifting Houses"2nd Break Song - Everest "House of 9's"End of Pod songs - Crystal Skulls " Airport Motels" & Hand of The Hills "Paha" flive rom the BlindBlindTiger SpeakeasyFind out more about Hand of the Hills at www.facebook.com/handofthehills

The Fifth album by this Seattle Indie band combines anthemic rockers with slow, hypnotising musicianship for their most polished album to date.

Ep. 11 - Alex & Cory from Minus the Bear talk food w/ Zach & Chuck.  They give their pics for Seattle, Los Angeles, and the best things to eat at New Mexico truck stops. We also pay tribute to their YouTube sensation "Chicken Wrapped in Bacon", and talk about eating chicken buttholes in Japan. Their new album Infinity Overhead, which was had the working title "Dinner", comes out on Dangerbird Records August 28th.  

SMI Radio presents it's 2nd annual Post Bumbershoot Special Interviews and music from Pickwick, Phantogram, Urge Overkill, Das Racist, Minus The Bear, Ben Carson from Hot Bodies in Motion also interviews with Seattle PI Music critic, Gene Stout, KMTT The Mountain's Shawn Stewart and John Fisher to get their takes on the festival.

[Source: JUSTIN GO BOOM!!!]Day 290: Some Minus The Bear, It Prevails, Super Tennis, and The Chariot for your listening pleasure. Plus I find a solution to my car / iPhone 3G charging issue...Click here to download the episode!