Wet Brain Walter Pearce and Honor Levy

Walt and Honor are two of the sharpest, most interesting voices emerging onto the scene of… actually, they transcend the concept of “scene”. Their FaceTime audio calls to a multigenerational network of family, friends, and acquaintances are a real-time oral history of how we create - and how we consume and interpret what others have created - against the backdrop of love, faith, and other existential dramas of our everyday lives. They cover literature, fashion, art, film, etc without explicitly being about any of those things, and they’re a pro-sobriety podcast without being a podcast about sobriety. They’re two friends who know many fascinating people and it’s a privilege to get to listen in on their conversations.

When I was coming up, it was more common for a young man to describe himself as apolitical. As a fringe musician, raised on punk, metal, and jazz, in various underground scenes in New York, there was always some basic assumption that, if I ever were to dig my heels into a proper political ideology, it would be something on the left end of the spectrum, given the attitudes baked into my social and cultural milieu: opposition to corporate power, openness to radical otherness and difference, and a commitment to some general concept of the minoritarian. But, even as reading theory became a serious hobby of mine over the years, it was always more about philosophical questioning for me, rather than ideological identification or commitment. My sense of what it meant to be a weirdo artist never required, maybe even precluded, committing to any agenda or activism. Any “politics” I had were implicit, vague, su