Shanna Christmas was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV. She is a stand up comedian, writer, actor and producer. She stands at 6’3’’ and played volleyball in college, despite much protest. Her comedy style has been described as “Edgy/Classy” as she finds ways to speak about complicated issues that can offend, but she’s so charming that you can’t be mad at her. Shanna has performed across North America, including Montreal and Edmonton in Canada. You can see her backside on episode 5 of Amazon’s “In...
Sep 01, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 31
Brennan Whalen of Memphis, Tennessee is a salesman, above ground pool enthusiast, and lead singer/guitarist of HEELS. I met him a few years back when I was one the road and he's become one of my closest friends and my favorite musicians. We talk about nude grilling, how Brennan drank himself out of both hips, his hot mom, and learning to cope with inconceivable loss. If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred p...
Aug 25, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 30
Josh McLane is the drummer for HEELS, operator of the South Point Kitchen, a recovering drug addict, lackluster husband, and decent dad. I met Josh in 2014-2015 when I was on the road with Star Anna. He was an incredibly accommodating host and his bandmate Brennan was a fan of mine so I assumed that he would be the worst and that his band would also be the worst. Dear reader, I was wrong. Josh is the best and HEELS is the best and now I have Josh and Brennan's dumb faces tattooed on my dumb body...
Aug 18, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 29
Lou Poster is a songwriter, musician and author from a coal-mining town in West Virginia. He was the primary architect for the band Grafton. Today's episode features 3 songs from his band Drift Mouth's 2020 album, 'Loveridge is Burning'. His story "The Kindness of Strangers" will be available soon on svjlit.com. He lives in Athens, Ohio with his partner Dawna and a pack of animals. If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on y...
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 28
Dean Delray is a case study of turning passion into a labor of love, merging his affinity with music and comedy into a thriving career on stage and a growing podcast network. When he’s not talking to musicians on his podcast, Let There Be Talk, chances are he is headed to his next stand up comedy gig, having performed almost 5,000 times over the past 12 years.
Aug 04, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 27
Rad Pinckard is a skateboarder, former drunk, and a songwriter. I met him a couple of years ago when I needed cheap labor and we kept in touch. No, you probably haven't heard of him but I wanted to have him on the podcast because he's been writing some really incredible songs. They're sad and funny and playful and self-deprecating and terribly catchy. The recordings... well, yeah, we are both just starting to learn how to record ourselves. But I really think his cobwebbed-but-hopeful heart shine...
Jul 28, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 26
Hands down, this is the best podcast I've ever done, maybe the best one I will ever do. Elaine Lalonde was born in Makwa, Saskatchewan in 1947, the second of seventeen children. I've known her for 45 years because she is my mom. No other person has had a greater influence on who I am or what I've done with my life (well, the good stuff, anyway). We talk about dogs with people names, growing up poor, the power of positivity, and making peace with maybe losing a child to addiction. Follow her on I...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 25
Swapcast with my friend Jonas Barnes about mental illness, sobriety, addiction, and getting your ass handed to you during the pandemic! Back to new, exclusive content next week! Lauryn Petrie and Jonas Barnes Present: The Traumedy Hour 2 Comedians + A Guest + All The Things Society Tells Us Not To Talk About. Lauryn & Jonas talk to a guest every week about the trauma, pain, mental illness and vices that we all live with in our own way, every day. There are no holds barred as we peel back the...
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 24
Josh LaJaunie was born and raised in south Louisiana. He grew up hunting, fishing, drinking, eating, playing football, and getting fat. In early 2011, he found himself tipping the scales at over 400 lbs. He's since lost 200 lbs, become a badass ultrarunner, and is now exclusively a plant-based, plant-powered athlete. I met Josh through our friend Rich Roll and we hit it off immediately. I don't see or talk to Josh too often but when we connect, it's always epic. We had some audio difficulties wi...
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 23
You probably know Max Collins as 'the guy from Eve6,' one of the sharpest, funniest, most thoughtful people on Twitter today. You probably know Eve6 as the band behind 'Inside Out,' which you probably know as "the heart in a blender song." You probably don't know that they wrote that album when they were 16/17 years old and that Max has had a wild ride since that song hit #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart in 1998. We talk sobriety, mental illness, writing, and second acts. Max Collins is an Am...
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 22
Laura McKowen is the author of the bestselling We Are the Luckiest , host of T ell Me Something True podcast, and founder of The Luckiest Club , a global sobriety support community. https://www.lauramckowen.com/blog
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 21
Roberto Bentivegna was born in London of Italian parents. He grew up in Milan and London, attending Emerson College in Boston before pursuing an MFA at Columbia University. His short films have screened at international film festivals including Locarno, Atlanta, and Miami, and are distributed by Film Movement and Shorts International. Whilst at Columbia University, Roberto was awarded the Carla Kuhn fellowship, the Hollywood Foreign Press Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting award and the Fa...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 20
Joe Cardamone has been on my radar for fifteen years but I actually met him for the first time at Lanegan's funeral. He made a keychain for Mark's friends like the old hotel keys, imprinted with "Mark Lanegan, the Night Porter, 1964-2022." This is our first real conversation and, man, it was really so fantastic to talk to him. Los Angeles native artist Joe Cardamone has lived a few lifetimes while leaving a wiry dent in the global underground music and film scenes. The band that Joe fronted for ...
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 19
"To describe Star Anna’s sound would depend on the day, the show, the album, or the band. Alt country, folk, blues, soul, and Americana are all fitting, but what remains the central focus of every performance is her voice. Whether she’s sitting on a stage with only her acoustic guitar or backed by some of Seattle’s finest musicians, it’s her voice that defines her music. It is belted with a raw, grittiness that bellows from a deep, dark reserve. It is softly laid down atop gentle strings, aching...
Jun 03, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 16
Jake Flores is an American rock band formed in 1995 in Southern California , best known for their hit singles " Inside Out ," "Leech," " Here's to the Night ," and "Promise." They disbanded in 2004, returned for numerous tours in 2007 with a new lineup, and finally reunited with all three original members in early 2011. They signed to Fearless Records in the spring of that year, and released their fourth album Speak in Code , containing the singles "Victoria" and "Curtain," in April 2012. In 202...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 18
Andy Falkous is the mouthpiece/ architect of mclusky/ Future of the Left/ Christian Fitness.
May 19, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 17
Josh Malerman is an American novelist, short story writer, film producer, and one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. He is best known for writing his post-apocalyptic novel, Bird Box, which was the inspiration for the Netflix film of the same name. In 2020, he founded the production company Spin a Black Yarn with manager Ryan Lewis; their first film, We Need to Do Something, was shot in secret during the pandemic.
May 12, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 15
"You’re never too old, too broke or too busy. Do what you want forever. Start at the bottom bust your ass til you get to the top." Coke, guns, and wrestling in the streets... I fucking love Kris Pierce. When I look back at my life, I don't see any justification for how far off the rails I went. Kris endured pretty hardcore abuse and abandonment as a child but somehow never turned into a drunk/ druggie/ degenerate/ asshole. Instead, somehow wrestling, hardcore, and comedy led him to become a succ...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 14
Now that I am a grizzled podcasting veteran with whoahhhh 12 entire episodes behind him, I can look back at the good old days and identify tropes that unfold on nearly every episode. On nearly every episode, I talk about having near instant kinship with my guest. With Keith Buckley, man, I don't know, every time we talk, we're both restraining ourselves from going right into the woo shit. He's one of those 'deck of tarot cards' people: from minute to minute, he feels like my younger brother/ old...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 13
Wow, I didn't even make it through six months before breaking from my self-imposed structure for the podcast... lately, I've been listening to a lot of Why You Mad , a podcast hosted by my old friend Jake Flores and Luisa Diez . I've found their conversations about pop culture, gender, sex & sexuality to be incredibly helpful during my "rebuilding" year. Even when I don't agree with her (maybe especially when I don't agree with her) I've found Luisa's takes to spur me on because she's done h...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 12
I honestly don't know what's wrong with Rich Wilson . By which I mean that he is a joyous artist and, having fallen prey to the trope of the "tortured artist" so many times in my life, I find his persistent good cheer hard to understand. I also feel an incredibly deep kinship with this man on the other side of the ocean who I think I've actually only hung out with in person twice. Rich's podcast, Insane in the Men Brain is brilliant enough that I consider it canon for my own podcast, by which I ...
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 11
I met Renee Watt briefly at a storytelling event in Phoenix with my great friend Andy Baker. Then we adjourned to a gay strip club and talked about DMT and multiverses and shapeshifting, as one does. I *officially* don't believe in, well, basically anything she does (astrology/ horoscopes/ psychic readings/ tarot) but when I was down the well last summer, I was desperate enough to feel better that I sought out her help. Surprise, surprise, my hour long tarot reading with her was incredibly helpf...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 10
I met Ben Schafer in the process of working on Mark Lanegan's book with him. I have a lot of resistance to meeting publishing/ music industry/ entertainment industry folks because it always feels so ingenuine, like "I will pretend to be your friend until it no longer serves my business interests, at which point I'll pretend you never existed." From our first meeting, I recognized that Ben was, like me, just an earnest fan of Lanegan's work. We talked about how great Lanegan's voice and writing w...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 9
"I'm a huge Black dude, I'm strapped... leave me alone so I can enjoy the people I love." -- Dante Powell One of the good things about yielding your life and sanity to the road/ comedians/ comedy for a couple of years is that it has allowed me to become a bigger fan, to become a better fan, to become a deeper fan. I met Dante a couple of years ago at the Bird City Comedy Festival and it gave me an opportunity to experience his art over a timeline as it has rapidly evolved. Put another way: this ...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 8
I met Alec in... Jesus, 2001? Ironically, we met partially in the context of me grieving a friend who had passed. We met again through music. He had started a record label in order to put out the music by a new band from Ohio called The National. I was managing Baby Dayliner, who wound up on Brassland. But our way into the conversation today is Mark Lanegan. When Lanegan's memoir 'Sing Backwards and Weep' published, Alec read it and plunged into Lanegan's music during the pandemic. We cover a lo...
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 7
I caught up with singer/ songwriter Lydia Loveless while I was going up on a purloined Baja Blast and she was coming down from shrooms. We talk about the struggle to produce vs the struggle to be happy, Patreon vs foot porn, the specific love hangover after you end a relationship, guitar nerds vs musicians, the road vs true love… we talk about a lot. I’ve been a big fan of Lydia’s for a long time, please give this is a listen and then spin all of her records....
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 6
Scott Kummer is a lawyer, an ultrarunner, a race director, and a podcast host, but maybe in reverse order? Scott was a fan who became a friend. We talk about running and sobriety and podcasting and getting molested as kids. Hear much much more of Scott at https://www.tenjunkmiles.com
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 5
Of course, the best podcast I will ever do is about Mark Lanegan. May you find the peace in death you never found in life.
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 4
Today I caught up with my grief buddy, Sari Beliak. We yuk it up about her book deal going south, her getting hit by a car, her father's death last year, loss, fury and weeping behind the wheel. Honestly, I swear, you need this conversation. Things aren't always as dark as they seem. Sari Beliak is a writer and comedian from Phoenix, AZ. She is a senior contributing writer for The Onion and a regular contributor to sites like The Hard Times and Reductress. She was a finalist for NBC's Late Night...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Still in beta testing-- hopefully my voice sounds better? Let me know what you think!
Feb 06, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 2
