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The NINTH episode of the show features my good friend Brandon Votaw (lighting on Black Panther, Loki, Gemini Man, Fast 8).
Conversations like this one are the reason I wanted to start this podcast. This one means a lot to me.
The Fromonda commercial is in Thai. Don’t skip it because the subtitles took me a really long time. Tell me I’m funny.
BRANDON AND I talk about working out to pop music, we get an inside scoop on his experiences working in TV/film on some of Hollywood’s biggest film and tv projects, and we do a real heavy nerd-out on all things Shang-Chi and why this movie was so special to us. I cry a lot in this one.

The EIGHTH episode of the show features my good friend Kyle Durham (NerdEDU podcast, education, is weird like me).
This one is all over the place, in my favorite way. If you can correctly count all of the JR Smiths in this episode, message me and you'll win a prize. Early in this conversation, Kyle refers to the two of us as “high five guys”. This is an extremely accurate descriptor for the ways in which the two of us have always bonded on our quest for knowledge and our enthusiasm for the works of art that we love.
KYLE AND I talk about our many different fandoms - from the Detroit Lions to the Star Wars prequel trilogy, our mutual fascination with regional American accents, Kyle’s experiences in education - both as a student and an educator, we examine the differences between Eastern and Western philosophies, and dissect the concept of personal agency.
DARTH WHISKEY
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/darthwhiskey
WEBSITE: https://www.darthwhiskey.com
KYLE DURHAM
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/kyle.wd
PODCAST: NerdEDU

The SEVENTH episode of the show features my good friend Drizz Valdez (stand up comedy, marketing).
Structurally, a gazebo and a pagoda are very similar. Pagodas are large, standalone structures traditionally of East Asian origin, which served as temples, places of worship, and spiritual sites for many centuries. In contrast, gazebos are a harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect.
DRIZZ AND I talk about challenging our prejudices, comparing music and comedy as creative outlets and Drizz’ experience being a standup comic in New York, I talk about Dave Chappelle for like 20 minutes straight, we discuss questionable advertising and marketing practices, private jets, and watching Cuban machete dancers almost impale themselves.
DARTH WHISKEY
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/darthwhiskey
WEBSITE: https://www.darthwhiskey.com
DRIZZ VALDEZ
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/just.andrewvaldez

THE SIXTH EPISODE of the show features my good friend Oscar Ericsson (guitar/vocals for The Demtones).
Holy meatballs, have I got some real cringy memories for you on this one. The Swedish assassin and I sat next to each other during some Reading and Theory classes in our first few days of music school and quickly connected through our shared passion for Joe Perry.. and our shared dispassion for actually doing any homework. A little over a decade later and armed with the cynicism, perspective, and gray hairs that come with waving goodbye to your twenties - Oscar and I had a really fun time reminiscing on this formative chapter of musical adolescence and how truly awful my pants used to be. I used to wear two wallet chains and they would always get caught on stuff. My jewelry would jangle audibly as I walked around wearing sunglasses inside. I dislike myself.
OSCAR AND I talk about all of our music school adventures and the multitude of lessons we've learned in our time since then, the never-ending quest for creative fulfillment, we catch up with his electrifying power trio The Demtones, and I tell one of my most embarrassing stage moments ever - which involves the consequences of my poor choice in fashion accessories and my fixation on style over substance.
DARTH WHISKEY
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/darthwhiskey
YOUTUBE: Byahhhhhhhhh
WEBSITE: https://www.darthwhiskey.com
OSCAR ERICSSON
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/ericsson_oscar
THE DEMTONES, HX FESTIVAL 2021: https://youtu.be/b1VMHjgBEYw

THE FIF EPISODE of the show features my good friend Tyler Liem (guitar/vocals for Second Rate Kings).
It's not often one makes a genuine friend in the comments section, but when elite athlete/canine lover/standup comedian Bert Kriescher ran the LA Marathon and posted a video of Tyler and his band playing on the side of the marathon course, something something extremely long sentence, friendship!
TYLER AND I talk about our shared love of blues guitar, standup comedy and its similarities to live music, how people need to be nicer to Nickelback, how legitimately dope as f**k the new Miley Cyrus album is, and lots more. A Knight's Tale is a great movie. We talk about that too.
DARTH WHISKEY
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/darthwhiskey
YOUTUBE: I mean, where else would you go?
WEBSITE: https://www.darthwhiskey.com
TYLER LIEM
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/tliems
SECOND RATE KINGS: https://www.instagram.com/secondratekings

THE FOURTH EPISODE of the show features my good friend Raz Azraai (guitar).
Back after a brief hiatus and time-management crisis, I make up for being away by presenting you the silliest and most visual episode I've done yet. Lots of visual interruptions. Do you know how rubber is made? It's a very erotic arboreal process that's among the many subjects Raz and I explore in this episode. He's a ferocious guitar player but even more than that, a genre-defying creative. One minute you're grooving to the cheeky dance pop of his band Meen Streets and the next you're smashing your neck to his industrial synthrock project Dollars. And even through the lens of his party/protest photography alter ego Dance Floor Murder - there's an underlying spirit of fun and spontaneity in everything that Raz does, which is the shit.
RAZ AND I get silly and talk about guitar playing, creating the neon disco inferno of the infamous Geo Metro Party, his experiences photographing the BLM protests of last summer, and the overall constant struggle and journey of finding creative fulfillment.
DARTH WHISKEY
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/darthwhiskey
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/darthwhiskey
WEBSITE: https://www.darthwhiskey.com
RAZ AZRAAI
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/raz_azraai
DANCEFLOORMURDER: https://www.instagram.com/dancefloormurder
DOLLARS: https://www.instagram.com/dollars.project