Best Pete Dexter Podcasts (2024)

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The Last Dance...Fucker, Dance! 55:38

4y ago55:38

55:38

In the series finale, The Offspring and a reformed Punk Rock Council of Science team up one last time to save the city from an old threat. featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (Goodbye Viking/Street Jail), Luke Gunn (Dollar Signs), Matt Scifres (Not Half Bad), Luke Lorenzen and Aaron Wimmer (The Ill Motion…

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From Orange County With Love 48:50

4y ago48:50

48:50

When one of their old enemies resurfaces in Boston, The Offspring team up with the Dropkick Murphys to take him down and help the Murphys with a little "rat problem" while they're at it. featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (Goodbye Viking/Street Jail),Luke Gunn (Dollar Signs), Matt Scifres (Not Half Bad),…

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So Alone 44:11

4y ago44:11

44:11

After washing up on the shores of an island, Dexter investigates a mystery while the rest of The Offspring search the seven seas for him. featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (Goodbye Viking/Street Jail), Luke Gunn (Dollar Signs), Matt Scifres (Not Half Bad), Luke Lorenzen and Aaron Wimmer (The Ill Motion)…

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IPA, but the 'A' is the Anarchy Sign 43:29

4y ago43:29

43:29

When the Punk in Drublic Festival receives an anonymous threat that someone might be trying to poison the craft beer supply, The Offsprinng head north of the border to investigate...and maybe try to weasel their way onto the lineup while they're at it. featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (Goodbye Viking/S…

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I Smell Dex and Candy 43:29

4y ago43:29

43:29

The Offspring lose a team member and gain a new one as they go undercover to infiltrate a gathering of a secret society of 90's musicians they weren't invited to. featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Matt Battaglia and Adam Pero (Hell Here), Matt Fullove, Shannon Gerdano and Jenny Green…

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The Future is Now! 36:52

4y ago36:52

36:52

When the team gets a glimpse of the possible near future, The Offspring must hunt down one of their own in order to stop a murder. featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Eli Kellogg (Fentruck/MATTER), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing), Shannon Gerdano and Jenny Green

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Hope You Like My Genocide Squad 41:22

4y ago41:22

41:22

In the SEASON THREE PREMIERE, The Offspring are recruited by the United States Government to stop the villainous Legion of Eternal Night (LEN) from stealing the world's sunshine. featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Jeff Berman (Divided Heaven), Matt Fullove, Shanon Gerdano, Eli Kellogg and Jenny Green…

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Offspring in the Outfield 39:55

5+ y ago39:55

39:55

In the Season Two Finale, the team comes out swinging in a last-ditch attempt to save the world Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Matt Fullove and Jed Bookout (Post Nothing) and Jenny Green

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Ixnay on the Harambe 31:03

5+ y ago31:03

31:03

Imagine, if you will, a world where The Offspring came back from their space mission (episode 202) to find that the Earth was now the Planet of the Apes! Well, imagine no further! Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Nick Martinez, Andres Rodriguez and Eric Fujimoto (lysolgang) and Jenny Green…

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No Dex in the Champagne Room 38:08

5+ y ago38:08

38:08

The Trial of Dexter Holland. Something's rotten in the Punk Rock Council of Science and the team must investigate who the mole is. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Todd Smailes, Mike Spaid and Dr. J (Gentlemen Prefer Blood), Ryan Corbett (ACxDC) and Jenny Green

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Punk Rock Academy 43:01

6y ago43:01

43:01

When Dexter is invited to give the commencement address, the team heads to Punk Rock Academy and takes a stroll down memory lane. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Jared Stinson (SIC WAITING), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing) and Jenny Green

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The Sundance Kids (aren't alright) 40:14

6y ago40:14

40:14

The team heads to Westworld to rage against the machines and stop a robot uprising featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Jared Stinson (SIC WAITING), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing), Jenny Green and Shannon Gerdano

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Kings and Queens and Self Esteem 37:27

6y ago37:27

37:27

All hell breaks loose as the team attends the Royal Wedding Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing), Tyler Coe (Reneovation Candle Company), Jenny Green, Shannon Gerdano and Taylor Pancake

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Why Don't YOU Get a Job? 35:09

6y ago35:09

35:09

Noodles struggles to find something to do while the rest of the team is preoccupied with a mission. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing), Tyler Coe (Renovation Candle Company), Jenny Green and Shannon Gerdano

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Casino Royale with Cheese 42:34

6y ago42:34

42:34

The team flies to Vegas for a high-stakes celebrity poker tournament and to help professional daredevil Harvey Danger with his big motorcycle jump. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Aaron Wimmer (The Ill Motion), Liz Wimmer (Chicago Podcast Festival), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing), Jenny Green and Shannon Gerdano…

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Once Upon a Time in Shaolin 36:36

6y ago36:36

36:36

The team helps their friends The Wu-Tang Clan plan a heist to break into a government facility to steel back their one of a kind record. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing), Tyler Coe (Renovation Candle Company), Jenny Green and Shannon Gerdano…

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Don't Fuck with Dahui! 34:04

6y ago34:04

34:04

While on vacation, the team tangles with a surf gang and encounters an ancient totem Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (The Replicators), Luke Gunn (Dollar Signs), Matt Scifres (Not Half Bad), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing), Jenny Green and Shannon Gerdano

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Mall I Want 37:32

6y ago37:32

37:32

After last week's adventure in outer space, the team unwinds with a trip to the mall and Noodles has a run-in with an old enemy. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (The Replicators), Luke Gunn (Dollar Signs), Matt Scifres (Not Half Bad), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing), Jenny Green and Shannon Gerdano…

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Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco-Cinco...SPACE! 37:14

6y ago37:14

37:14

It's the moment you've all been waiting for: THE OFFSPRING IN SPACE! When a disturbance is detected on Tom Delonge's orbiting space station, The Offspring must travel into space to answer the distress call. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (The Replicators), Luke Gunn (Dollar Signs), Matt Scifres (Not …

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Million Miles Away (SEASON TWO PREMIERE!!!) 38:11

6y ago38:11

38:11

In the Season Two Premiere, the team struggles to deal with the loss of one of their members and the disappearance of another. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (The Replicators), Luke Gunn (Dollar Signs), Matt Scifres (Not Half Bad) and Jenny Green

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Pretty Fly for a White Christmas 33:12

6+ y ago33:12

33:12

Happy Holidays! It's Christmas time in Orange County and Dexter finds out what life would be like if he never formed The Offspring. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Jan Drees and Curtiss Lopez (The Shell Corporation), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing), Jenny Green, Tyler Coe and Shanon Gerdano…

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Episode 10 - Of Ice and Men 40:15

6+ y ago40:15

40:15

In the Season 1 Finale, the team buries one of their own and gathers as many of their allies as they can for one final siege on Josh Freese. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Jan Drees and Curtiss Lopez (The Shell Corporation), Jenny Green and Tyler Coe

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Episode 9 - Red Dawn 36:46

6+ y ago36:46

36:46

The Offspring's base is under attack and the team must deal with old demons as they battle old friends. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (Computer Class), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing) and Tyler Coe

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Episode 8 - The Conspiracy of One 37:07

6+ y ago37:07

37:07

Secrets are revealed as the team finally uncovers the truth about the Conspiracy of One and must race to protect an old friend from an unexpected threat. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (Computer Class), Matt Fullove (Post Nothing), Tyler Coe, Jenny Green and Shannon Gerdano…

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Episode 7 - Trouble on Fyre Island 41:04

6+ y ago41:04

41:04

When all hell breaks loose at a music festival, the team must keep the festival-goers from slipping into chaos while also trying to complete their mission of not letting Chad Smith get murdered. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (Computer Class), Luke Gunn and Arion Chamberlain (Dollar Signs), Aaron Wim…

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Episode 6 - Blood Feud 41:07

6+ y ago41:07

41:07

Davey Havok returns for revenge, only this time he brought backup. Who will win in this, the ultimate battle between The Offspring and AFI? Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Luke Gunn (Dollar Signs), Ian Russo (comedy) and Jenny Green

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Episode 5 - Original Pranksters 37:45

6+ y ago37:45

37:45

After a string of murders continues after the man thought responsible is arrested, Dexter must go on a solo mission around the world to look for clues to find out if he put the wrong man behind bars. The team stays behind to watch the base. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (Computer Class), Luke Gunn (…

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Episode 4 - The End of The Line 37:28

6+ y ago37:28

37:28

The team finds themselves in hot water with the police after a bomb-threat cancels their show at The Forum in LA and they have to call in an explosives expert from up north to help them out. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Jed Bookout, Matt Fullove and Riley Thorn (Post Nothing), Jenny Green and Shannon Gerdano…

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Episode 3 - High Stakes, Rare Steaks and Heartaches 35:21

6+ y ago35:21

35:21

The team battle Davey Havok, Taylor Swift and half of the music industry as they race from new York to Los Angeles to try and save the Grammys. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Luke Gunn (Dollar Signs), Jenny Green and comedian Ian Russo

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Episode 2 - Enter The Bandito 35:39

6+ y ago35:39

35:39

The team calls upon their old friend, hired-gun mercenary Josh Freese to help them save Noodles. Dexter creates a new persona to go in undercover. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (Computer Class), Luke Gunn (Dollar Signs), Jenny Green, Shannon Gerdano and Tyler Coe…

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Episode 1 -Ignition 32:28

6+ y ago32:28

32:28

In the first episode, the team infiltrates a plot to destroy the city, ne, the world and comes under scrutiny from the Punk Rock Council of Science. Featuring the voices of Nick Schambra and David Green (Moonraker), Tyler Colton (Computer Class), Luke Gunn (Dollar Signs), Jenny Green and Shannon Gerdano.…

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Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn, by Ken Auletta 26:04

7+ y ago26:04

26:04

If president-elect Donald Trump learned anything from his mentor Roy Cohn, it was this: punch first and never apologize. Cohn was notorious for going on the attack—as counsel for Senator Joseph McCarthy during the communist witch-hunts of the fifties, and later as a pugnacious attorney for whom the only bad publicity was no publicity. With hooded e…

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The Plane at the Bottom of the Ocean, by Bucky McMahon 26:26

7+ y ago26:26

26:26

The question is astonishingly simple: In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all the time, how does a massive airplane simply go missing? To find the answer, writer Bucky McMahon boarded one of the vessels searching for Malaysia Air 370 in one of the most isolated and treacherous stretches of ocean on the plane…

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The Price of Being President, by Richard Ben Cramer 23:50

7+ y ago23:50

23:50

Published in 1992, Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes: The Way to the White House remains the richest and most unvarnished account of the personal price of running for president. The irony, as Cramer pointed out to C-SPAN shortly after the book came out, is that to become president a candidate must sacrifice the entire life that had prepared him or…

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The Old Man and the River, by Pete Dexter 22:39

7+ y ago22:39

22:39

Norman Maclean published A River Runs Through It when he was seventy-three, and only after his children implored him to write down the stories about fly-fishing, brotherhood, and the wilds of Montana that he’d told them for years. The resulting novella is a classic of economy and clarity. A few years later, Pete Dexter visited Maclean in Montana an…

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The Days of Wine and Pig Hocks, by Jim Harrison 24:08

7+ y ago24:08

24:08

Jim Harrison, the novelist and poet who died earlier this year at the age of 78, had a gargantuan, fearless appetite that would make both A.J. Liebling and Anthony Bourdain proud. He wrote about food—about eating, really— in a woolly, baroque style for Esquire’s “The Raw and the Cooked” column. He began one piece with this Hors d’oeuvre: “Distraugh…

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Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case! by Garry Wills 30:16

7+ y ago30:16

30:16

In 1968, just hours after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the future Pulitzer Prize–winning author Garry Wills—then a young writer for Esquire—rushed to Memphis, Tennessee, where he watched as King’s body was embalmed at the mortuary; later, Wills traveled twelve hours by bus with mourners to King’s funeral in Atlanta. Nearly fifty years a…

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Love in the Time of Magic, by E. Jean Carroll 29:23

7+ y ago29:23

29:23

On November 7, 1991, Magic Johnson held a press conference announcing that he had contracted the HIV virus, effectively ending his Hall of Fame career with the Los Angeles Lakers. The news sent shockwaves through popular culture, as well as the more narrow subculture of millionaire athletes and the woman who pursue them. Magic Johnson was not only …

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The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce, by Tom Wolfe 25:41

7+ y ago25:41

25:41

It was a meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce, who, in inventing the integrated computer chip and founding Intel, willed Silicon Valley into being, and Tom Wolfe, who, in holding a magnifying glass over the social and class currents that shape America, rewrote the laws of what it meant to be a journalist. Their resulting Esquire story from…

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The House That Thurman Munson Built, by Michael Paterniti 26:41

7+ y ago26:41

26:41

Reggie Jackson once called himself “the straw that stirs the drink” but there was no question that Thurman Munson was the pride of the Yankees—like Lou Gehrig before him and Derek Jeter after. For Michael Paterniti, consistently one of the most inventive and entertaining magazine writers going—Munson, the gruff All-Star catcher, was the perfect chi…

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The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald 33:09

7+ y ago33:09

33:09

In 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald, then a struggling writer battling depression and alcoholism, published “The Crack-Up,” a radical series of essays in Esquire about his mental breakdown. Celebrated poet and memoirist Nick Flynn discusses with host David Brancaccio Fitzgerald’s mindset at the time, the ridicule he faced from friends like Ernest Hemingwa…

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The Brain That Changed Everything, by Luke Dittrich 34:41

7+ y ago34:41

34:41

In 1953, a twenty-seven-year old factory worker named Henry Molaison, cursed with severe epilepsy, underwent a radical new version of the lobotomy that targeted the most unexplored structures of the brain. The operation was performed by Dr. William Scoville whose brilliance as a surgeon was only tempered by an adventurousness that bordered on reckl…

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“I, Stalkerazzi” and “Angelina Jolie and the Torture of Fame,” by John H. Richardson 27:39

7+ y ago27:39

27:39

It’s hard to think of a profession more maligned than the paparazzi, but in 1998 Esquire writer at large John H. Richardson decided to find out for himself what it feels like to hunt celebrities for money in “I, Stalkerazzi.” Two years later, he learned what it was like to be the hunted when he profiled a still-rising and very vulnerable Angelina J…

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Nureyev Dancing In His Own Shadow, by Elizabeth Kaye 28:38

7+ y ago28:38

28:38

Rudolf Nureyev was one of the most dynamic performers of the twentieth century. “He was Mick Jagger before Mick Jagger,” remembers Elizabeth Kaye, who specialized in writing in-depth profiles of men in power for Esquire in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Kaye spent a full year with the famously volatile dancer, who unbeknownst to the public was dying…

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Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, by Gay Talese 31:58

7+ y ago31:58

31:58

Fifty years after it was first published, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” remains the most influential and talked-about magazine story of all time. Author Gay Talese joins host David Brancaccio to discuss how this groundbreaking work of New Journalism came about, the evolution of celebrity, and why his story remains as resonant as the day it was first p…

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Styron’s Choices, by Philip Caputo 25:01

8y ago25:01

25:01

When journalist Philip Caputo set out to profile William Styron in 1985, it was something of a dream assignment: Styron, then at work on the novel The Way of the Warrior, was one of the towering figures in American letters. The two men’s shared experience as Marines—Styron himself praised Caputo’s 1977 Vietnam memoir, A Rumor of War—formed a connec…

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The Falling Man, by Tom Junod 33:55

8y ago33:55

33:55

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day. Thus begins Tom Junod’s “The Falling Man,” which over the past fourteen years has becom…

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The American Male at Age Ten, by Susan Orlean 26:32

8y ago26:32

26:32

In 1992, writer Susan Orlean was sick of celebrity profiles. Instead, she wanted to do something bigger and much harder: She wanted to profile the inner life of an average American boy. After convincing her editor, Orlean spent more than a week going to fifth grade and hanging out with Colin Duffy, a ten-year-old from Glen Ridge, New Jersey. The re…

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My Father, the Bachelor, by Martha Sherrill 28:43

8y ago28:43

28:43

Martha Sherrill’s father, Peter, rakish and handsome, was an irrepressible charmer and natural raconteur; when he died, she was flooded with calls from his ex-girlfriends who wanted to pay their respects and share their stories about this man who adored women. This week Sherrill joins host David Brancaccio to discuss her intimate 1999 Esquire essay…

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A Few Words About Breasts, by Nora Ephron 41:46

8y ago41:46

41:46

“A Few Words About Breasts,” from May 1972, is Nora Ephron’s comic lament about how her late onset of puberty and earliest sexual experiences gave her a lifelong obsession with her breasts. Jessi Klein, head writer for “Inside Amy Schumer,” joins David Brancaccio to discuss Ephron’s famous Esquire story and its lasting influence on the way women pe…

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