Atypical Daydream

Josh Caldwell
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A podcast about life on the road. Hear stories from musicians, clowns, comedians, journalists, athletes, bus drivers, anyone who has a road story to tell, each revealing the everyday magic we all long to feel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Apr 9

    James Ease & Jeff Smith: Cinematic Nightmares & South Texan Freeze Out

    Episode 59: In this week’s episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell explores what happens when the road starts to feel a little too much like an omen. We sit down with Austin writer and filmmaker James Ease and Jeff Smith, the legendary frontman of the Austin cow-punk band The Hickoids. James takes us on a West Texas road trip haunted by a series of eerie coincidences that felt like driving straight into a horror movie. Then, Jeff Smith details a brutal run through Northern Europe during a record-breaking cold spring, involving glitchy gear, a confusing loop around Antwerp, and a mad dash through an airport just to get back to the Texas heat. James Ease Website: https://www.jamesease.com/ Instagram: @jameseease Stoned In Texas book trailer: https://youtu.be/5c7ixno7910 —-------------------- Jeff Smith FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheeJeffSmith https://www.facebook.com/hickoids https://www.facebook.com/Saustex IG: @hickoids @saustex  @flagship_store_san_anto saustexrecords.bandcamp.com hickoids.bandcamp.com Latest label releases: Trippin' Through Texas, by Joecephus and The George Jonestown Massacre Barbed Wire Road, by The Krayolas Read the full episode transcript HERE --------------------------- SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAM Want more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories! Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRT Start your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFUL Make high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM --------------------------- Music by Visual Aid Produced by Josh Caldwell Copywriting by Miranda Caldwell More info at: atypicaldaydream.com Atypical Daydream™ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    James Ease & Jeff Smith: Cinematic Nightmares & South Texan Freeze Out

  2. Mar 26

    Gwyneth Herbert: What Is Remembered, What Is Forgotten, What Is Conveniently Left Out

    Episode 58 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with songwriter and composer Gwyneth Herbert. Gwyneth shares three trips to Kenya that kept finding her at the exact moments she was running from something in her own life. The first in 2013, rooted in music and stories and an orphanage choir that became one of the most beautiful gifts she's ever received. The second in 2019, rooted in the politics of colonial memory and the things she wasn't ready to face in her own. And a third in 2025 where she finally arrived not to run, but to listen. Website: www.gwynethherbert.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gwyneth_herbert.com Malindi District Cultural Association: Preserving Mijikenda heritage through art, music & community while protecting its keepers. https://www.instagram.com/madca_culture/ Maabara Atelier: Arts collective based in Kenya encouraging experimentation and curiosity through process-based practices. https://www.instagram.com/maabara_atelier/ Mahogany Opera: Stretching the boundaries of what opera can be and who it is for. https://www.instagram.com/mahoganyopera/  The Common Room - our community artspace here in Weston: making work with and for the people. https://www.commonwaves.org/  https://www.instagram.com/the_common_room_wsm/ Read the full episode script HERE --------------------------- SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAM Want more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories! Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRT Start your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFUL Make high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM --------------------------- Music by Visual Aid Produced by Josh Caldwell Copywriting by Miranda Caldwell More info at: atypicaldaydream.com Atypical Daydream™ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Gwyneth Herbert: What Is Remembered, What Is Forgotten, What Is Conveniently Left Out

  3. Mar 12

    Flannery Foster: 165 Down, 165 to Go

    Episode 57 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with world traveler, entrepreneur, and photographer Flannery Foster. Flannery is on a mission to visit all 330 countries, colonies, territories, and exclaves on earth. She shares where that mission came from, how she finances it on resourcefulness rather than wealth, and what she's found in the hundred and sixty-five places she's been so far, including a Bob Marley bar in every political entity on earth and some situations she's lucky to have walked away from. flanneryfoster.com (travel, wellness & art) —-> Contact via Calendar  all330.com (travel education) redheadedbastard.com (memoir, music, photography) Coming Soon: Bad Yoga Podcast : Sex, Drugs & The Unbearable Business of Yoga  goodyoga.com Read the full episode script HERE --------------------------- SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAM Want more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories! Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRT Start your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFUL Make high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM --------------------------- Music by Visual Aid Produced by Josh Caldwell Copywriting by Miranda Caldwell More info at: atypicaldaydream.com Atypical Daydream™ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Flannery Foster: 165 Down, 165 to Go

  4. Feb 12

    Joanna Athey & June Caldwell: Almost Istanbul and the Booby Traps at Dr. Phil's House

    Episode 56 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with his oldest family friend Joanna Athey, and then with his daughter June, recorded when she was four years old. Joanna shares the story of a childhood defined by independence and early awareness of what the world expected from her, and how a solo trip to Europe at fifteen, ending near Istanbul, confirmed that the only way forward was through the wider world. Then June Caldwell, age four, tells two very short stories. One involves Klaus Kinski and a flying mask. One involves booby traps and a sandwich you do not want to eat. Next time you travel, stay at a youth hostel! https://www.yha.org.uk/ https://hihostels.com/ Read the full episode script HERE --------------------------- SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAM Want more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories! Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRT Start your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFUL Make high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM --------------------------- Music by Visual Aid Produced by Josh Caldwell Copywriting by Miranda Caldwell More info at: atypicaldaydream.com Atypical Daydream™ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Joanna Athey & June Caldwell: Almost Istanbul and the Booby Traps at Dr. Phil's House

  5. Jan 29

    Wayne Gottstine: This Is Gonna Keep Me Alive

    Episode 55 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with musician and songwriter Wayne Gottstine of Split Lip Rayfield. Wayne shares two stories from a life shaped by music and mortality. The first is about his bandmate Kirk, who was given six months to live and spent them on the road. The second is about Wayne himself, who got his own terminal diagnosis five years ago and has since played fifty shows a year, lost two-thirds of a lung, and found something he needed at a Monday night church dinner in Kansas City. Split Lip Rayfield - https://www.stitchgiver.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/waynegottstine/ Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@waynegottstine2.0 Read the full episode script HERE --------------------------- SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAM Want more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories! Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRT Start your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFUL Make high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM --------------------------- Music by Visual Aid Produced by Josh Caldwell Copywriting by Miranda Caldwell More info at: atypicaldaydream.com Atypical Daydream™ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Wayne Gottstine: This Is Gonna Keep Me Alive

  6. Jan 15

    Miranda Caldwell: Gin and Tonic Swimming in Her Eyes

    Episode 54 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with his wife and collaborator Miranda Caldwell. In the year 2000, eighteen-year-old Miranda left Kalamazoo, Michigan with 500 dollars, a gold Chevy Cavalier, a MapQuest printout, and a month to drive around the country looking for where she belonged. She shares what she found, what she lost, and what she came home with that she didn't know she was carrying. Read the full episode script HERE --------------------------- SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAM Want more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories! Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRT Start your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFUL Make high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM --------------------------- Music by Visual Aid Produced by Josh Caldwell Copywriting by Miranda Caldwell More info at: atypicaldaydream.com Atypical Daydream™ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Miranda Caldwell: Gin and Tonic Swimming in Her Eyes

  7. Jan 1

    Matthew Roberts: Wherever You Go, There You Are

    Episode 53 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with teacher, academic, and former European tour manager Matthew Roberts. Matthew takes us through a life that has always been pointed outward, from a childhood in Wales that planted the seeds to a first job in the Canary Islands at eighteen, teaching in China, and eventually guiding coaches full of people across Europe with the right music cued for every moment. His stories move between the profound and the joyful in a way that's entirely his own. Bluesky: @matqbritholiday.bsky.social Queering the British Holiday - Society of Antiquaries of London by Matthew Roberts January 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm (lunchtime lecture) 2026 marks key anniversaries in British travel history, from Gulliver’s Travels to Butlin’s first holiday camp. This lecture traces the often-hidden presence of LGBTQ+ lives in the British holiday, revealing how liberation, desire, and surveillance shape three centuries of leisure. Through the Grand Tour, Music Hall coastal culture, Butlin’s camps, and Club 18–30, we explore travel as both method and metaphor—a queer pilgrimage into the liminal spaces of pleasure. Matthew Roberts is a writer in his fourth year of a part-time PhD in Text, Practice as Research at the University of Kent, examining Queering the British Holiday. His critically acclaimed plays have appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and been featured in The Guardian, The South Bank Show, BBC 5 Live and LBC. After a decade in the tourist industry, he taught English in China, Liverpool, Manchester and London, and has presented research at major national and international conferences. He also volunteers at Queer Britain: The National LGBTQ+ Museum. Read the full episode script HERE --------------------------- SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAM Want more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories! Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRT Start your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFUL Make high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM --------------------------- Music by Visual Aid Produced by Josh Caldwell Copywriting by Miranda Caldwell More info at: atypicaldaydream.com Atypical Daydream™ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Matthew Roberts: Wherever You Go, There You Are

  8. 11/20/2025

    Alice Bag: Home Turf Troubadour

    Episode 52 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with punk pioneer Alice Bag of The Bags for the final episode of the season. Alice shares the story of a Troubadour show in late-seventies Hollywood that started with a chance encounter at Canter's Deli, escalated when Tom Waits showed up in the front row, and ended with a score being settled before anyone was allowed to leave with their equipment. Website: https://alicebag.com/ Bandcamp: https://alice-bag.bandcamp.com/ Read the full episode script HERE --------------------------- SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAM Want more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories! Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRT Start your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFUL Make high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM --------------------------- Music by Visual Aid Produced by Josh Caldwell Copywriting by Miranda Caldwell More info at: atypicaldaydream.com Atypical Daydream™ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Alice Bag: Home Turf Troubadour
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A podcast about life on the road. Hear stories from musicians, clowns, comedians, journalists, athletes, bus drivers, anyone who has a road story to tell, each revealing the everyday magic we all long to feel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Josh Caldwell
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    62
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Josh Caldwell
  • Show Website
    Atypical Daydream