Nah-Cademics

Brett Ryan Stewart, John Dennis

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SOCIETY & CULTURE
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Nah-Cademics

We don't know. Now you won't either. There is no expertise to be found here; it is but the spinning of wheels. What can be found, however, is two clueless troubadours asking some of the questions you might have felt like you were the only one asking.Come, overthink with us.

SEP 9

Episode 1: Hope is the Thing with Tethers

Send us a textIs it just us or has everything been feeling a little stagnant lately? As we find ourselves caught in the monotonous whirlpool of tending to responsibilities, making ends meet, and feeling just that much older every time we come up for air, it can start to feel like our lives have lost all momentum—and the longer we’re forced to cling to these empty routines, the harder it seems to grasp firmly the hope that used to buoy us towards our imagined futures.Kicking off the much antic...

37 min
MAR 18

Episode 8: The Limitation Game

Send us a textWhat is true artistic freedom? We’d all almost certainly argue that it looks something like having no boundaries or restrictions to one’s creative process or the time needed to perfect it. Maybe it means having the resources to rent a studio and pay musicians for months on end, or maybe it looks more like being able to create any convention-defying work you want without fear of rejection or financial consequence—ideally, not a podcast. Regardless, we all have a tendency to ...

22 min
MAR 4

Episode 7: Last Place in the Rat Race

Send us a textWhy is it that no matter how vigorously we run the race of life, we always end up feeling like we’re falling behind? Whether we’re losing ground, time, or patience, why do we invariably get so bogged down by what we know to be but mundane detours in our quest for joy that we put on the back burner any of the activities that will actually bring us closer to our true goals?In this episode, our favorite carping creatives, Brett and John, revel in their own Sisyphean struggles when ...

43 min
FEB 19

Episode 6: Friends In No Places.

Send us a textA good friend can be hard to find. How is it that, for a subset of people who define themselves by their sensitivity and depth, it can feel so difficult to find relationships that aren’t centered on networking and shallow small talk?Sure, we may know a hundred other artists who we get along well with, but how well do we really know these folks, and how well do they know us beyond what shows we have coming up or what new projects we’re working on? Casual acquaintances are great, ...

55 min
FEB 5

Episode 5: All the World’s a Stage… When’s Intermission?

Send us a textSometimes it gets to feeling like the acts we put on pervade well beyond the literal stage. In an age where we feel like the eyes of the world are always upon us (at least in our heads), it can become difficult to know who we are underneath it all—both as artists and as people.In this episode of Nah-cademics, Brett and John try to get to the bottom of this exhausting —and ultimately unnecessary—performative tendency.-Though we feel repulsed when we feel ourselves putting on an a...

50 min
JAN 14

Episode 4: You Are Not Your Art

Send us a textEpisode 4: You Are Not Your ArtWhy does it matter so much that others like our art ? Sure, we can all cling to the rational platitudes of “it doesn’t matter, so long as we personally love what we’re doing,” but let’s face it, it still hurts our feelings when others don’t share the belief that we’re doing something special—and more importantly, don’t constantly remind us of such. In today’s episode, Brett and John dive into these feelings and wax (un)poetic about the dangero...

28 min
12/12/2023

Episode 3: "Holi-choly" aka, Holly Jolly Melancholy...examined, part 2.

Send us a textPt 2: New Year, Same Me‘Tis (still) the season! In this follow up holiday episode, Brett and John shift their rambling from the past-looking pathos of Christmas to the futile futurism of New Years—for what better cure for spending another holiday ruminating on all that we’ve lost and fallen short of than to set new resolutions to invariably regret next year; but hey, anything for some content!Are New Years Resolutions even helpful? Is it possible to be goal oriented without meas...

42 min
11/28/2023

Episode 2: "Holi-choly" aka, Holly Jolly Melancholy...examined, part 1.

Send us a textPt. 1: Walking Backwards Through Life’Tis the season! On this two-part episode, Brett and John sing the holiday blues—not literally, thank goodness—and attempt to get to the bottom of that subtle, unspoken sadness that always seems to undergird this time of year.Maybe it’s the dwindling sunlight, the passage of time, or having too keen an awareness of where this shopping cart full of Beanie Baby equivalents will eventually end up (it ain’t eBay), but it is sometimes difficult to...

46 min
09/13/2023

Episode 1: The Co-Dependent Creative

Send us a textCome, overthink with us. Who do you make art for? Do you feel like you owe it to anyone to keep being an artist? Is starting a podcast (and calling it art) really worth disappointing your parents over?This podcast will not help you answer those questions—well, except maybe the last one—but in the debut episode of Nah-cademics, Brett and John discuss: The feeling that one is letting down their loved ones by not “succeeding”The ways in which their goals for life have evo...

49 min

9 Episodes

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We don't know. Now you won't either. There is no expertise to be found here; it is but the spinning of wheels. What can be found, however, is two clueless troubadours asking some of the questions you might have felt like you were the only one asking.Come, overthink with us.

Creator

Brett Ryan Stewart, John Dennis
Years Active

2023 - 2024
Episodes

9
Rating

Explicit
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