Best Darien Washington & Sam Sarver Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 73 | The Biracial Kiss of Bill Shatner 53:15

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Hi. So we are going on break for the remainder of August! Exciting! And maybe a little sad. But we’re due for a breather and we’ve gotta take some time to recalibrate. We’ll be back in September with the new hotness, a slew of updates and new additions to the madness. With all that said, this week Sam and Darien talk about the recent loss of the le…

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Episode 72 | Werewolf Horoscope 1:13:08

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We’re back on our bullshit at the Food for Worms Podcast and this week we’ve dragged our favorite Norine down into the pits with us. This week we discuss Darien getting checked for mansplaining, and dive into our astrological signs. Do we think ours align? Our experiences with the interpretations of the stars in our lives, and if the reputable spac…

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Episode 71 | Butts Tough 1:06:44

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This week we discuss at varying lengths, eating ass and the hold it has on the sexual zeitgeist of the world right now, the Skittles food coloring not being fit for human consumption in parts of Europe, but not in the US, BMW’s luxury microtransactions and the film: Thor: Love and Thunder. We're back, baybeeeeee. Submit Anonymous Topic & Questions:…

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Episode 70 | Bing, Bong, Robert Redford, Drake & Josh 1:18:50

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This week we talk about our worst skateboard wipeouts, prison films, Robert Redford, Drake, his step brother, Josh, and what it means for us to hold a grudge. The journey’s we go through to letting them go, and how we may or may not forgive. Fun times in Babylon. It’s Tuesday.Consider helping our homie Catie Hoeschen while she fights Adenoid Cystic…

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Episode 69 | Global Coworkers with Cassandra Page 1:20:48

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On the pod this week is the homie Cassandra Page (@eldbitch_horror). We discuss the phenomena of “global coworkers” in the touring world. The absolute wonders of why and how ETID is one of the best bands on the planet, and Cassandra shares her experience and entry point into the world of sex work. Lessons learned. Misconceptions debunked. It’s Tues…

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Episode 68.5 | Sum of Its Parties 1:06:00

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The first rule of Fight Club is to: HAVE FUN AND BE YOURSELF! We’re back! This week we have a surprisingly long conversation about Adam Sandler, and offer some recommendations on the shows we are watching right now. And we have a mini follow up on our conversation about Clout, and how at some point the partying got out of hand, but it wasn’t all ba…

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Episode 68 | Pop Punk Polka with Tane Graves 1:28:04

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It’s a nebulous topic, and it takes on many forms for innumerable reasons, but this week we are talking about “clout”. It’s a wide-ranging conversation about the power of popularity. The ways it’s earned, the ways it can be abused, and how mindfulness of your words and actions when those power dynamics are in play is always the bees actual knees. T…

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Episode 67 | The Art Before The Storm with Tyler Borresch 1:04:42

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We live and die for the bit here at the Food for Worms Podcast. Live and die. It’s just the best. Today we wax poetic with our old friend Tyler Borresch (@shamecame). Burlesque dancer, filmmaker, actor and performance artist, who is not for the faint of heart. Tyler shares the methods of his creativity, his work in front of and behind the camera. A…

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Episode 66 | Couching Sam, Hidden Friendship 59:14

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It’s story time on the pod this week! Sometimes someone takes a chance on you because of the hat you’re wearing. Sometimes you're publicly shamed over the airport wide intercom. Lessons were learned, egos were destroyed, friendships were made over manual labor. Charge your cell phones and call your wife, we back! Submit Anonymous Topic & Questions:…

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Episode 65 | Cartoon Fever Dreams with Brookie B 59:51

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And we are back! Hello! It’s your boys! We had some traveling and much needed breathing to do! But we couldn’t (and wouldn’t) stay away long. This week we are joined by the lovely Brookie B for a much needed check in. What’s it like having a new kid in the house, mourning the loss of a pet, fever dreams cartoons, and reimagining darker versions of …

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Episode 64 | Falling with Style with Enkrypt Los Angeles 1:39:40

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This week we are joined by Enkrypt Los Angeles, a photographer, film director, creative and homie based out of that very city to talk about growth. The pains, the gains and the constant reevaluation and “figuring it out as you go” of it all. Enkrypt shares with us her story, how and why she takes pride in her work, and how taking a chance on yourse…

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Episode 63 | America’s First Vampire President 46:21

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Hello intrepid heroes and welcome back for another round of the Food for Worms Podcast. This week is a short one! Darien and Sam discuss their preferred vampire age transition and the vast array of oddities, moral quandaries and likely social dynamics they expect to come into play when one becomes a creature of the night. From there, your boy Darie…

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Episode 62 | Stress Connection and the Costume Collection with Norine 1:05:56

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G’morning sweet lovers! It’s yer good time boys over at the FFW, back up in that ass. …that went a few places, and for that, we don’t apologize. But we promise to chill out moving forward. This week! We are back with the home girl, and designated shooter, Norine of the MNtersectional podcast to talk about STRESS. How it manifests, and how we manage…

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Episode 61 | Bad News Bares Teeth 1:03:12

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First and foremost! Rest in Peace, Jack. You were a perfect asshole. You were our perfect asshole. And you will be missed, little buddy. This week on the Food For Worms Podcast, we talk about the recent passing of Sam’s cat, Jack. We talk about dealing with the grief that follows from a sudden loss, and learning how to navigate grief in its many fo…

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Episode 60 | Black to the Future with AmirSaysNothing 1:55:47

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This week we are joined by hip-hop artist, good homie and the Protagonist, @AmirSaysNothing. He joins us on a verbal journey pondering the questions: has Stevie Wonder run a fade on someone? What would an all black Back to the Future look like? And how do you grow past who you are and not stay Version 1.0 of yourself? We rally, and have a lengthy a…

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Episode 59 | Past Life Court 59:35

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Hi! We are back! Fancier than ever. This week Darien & Sam chat about the virtues and collective shenanigans of owning and operating a suit. Look at you! You’re gorgeous. Then Darien walks to the fine line of being a hater. Have a solid day. Submit Anonymous Topic & Questions: https://bit.ly/FFWGRABBAG This episode of the Food For Worms Podcast is …

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Episode 58 | The Food Pyramid Scheme 1:02:10

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We sure are glad our moms probably don’t listen to the pod cause we are set trippin for Christ on the Food For Worms Podcast. This week yer’boys have another lengthy discussion about their relationships with food, and share dishes that we need a privacy curtain for. And then top it all off with a discussion on unlearning the brutality from the phra…

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Episode 57 | F@$% Around and Find Out with @ClintSchaff 1:23:06

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On the Food for Worms Podcast, we can fly, we can fight, and we can crow. Welcome back! This week we are joined by friend, father and good, good human, Clint Schaff. You can find Clint on the weekly radio show he DJs and hosts, Hip Hop Hello, on both KOBV 103.3 Bentonville Community Radio and KUAF 91.3 Public Radio (NPR affiliate for Northwest Arka…

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Episode 56 | The Great American Chokehold 57:21

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This week Darien & Sam discuss the new Batman movie, social contracts, violating those social contracts and gearing up for change when you can see the rug getting ready to be pulled from beneath you. Welcome back, we missed you. Submit Anonymous Topic & Questions: https://bit.ly/FFWGRABBAG This episode of the Food For Worms Podcast is sponsored by …

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Episode 55 | Other From Another Other with Sometimes V 1:23:25

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Hey everyone! Welcome back to the Food For Worms Podcast! This week we sit with friend, and West Coast musical maven, Sometimes V (@sometimes__v) from the #DontCastnDrive & #LadyBlerdsSingsTheBlues Podcasts. We talk about Lady Blerds and her journey in podcasting, Stranger Things, The Fab Five and nerd out quite handily. From there we top it off wi…

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Episode 54 | Cheap Thrills 666 with Chad Gross 1:23:57

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Welcome back for episode 54 of the Food for Worms Podcast. ***sludgy bass riff*** This week we are joined by musician, friend and tundra rock national treasure, Chad Gross. We talk about the scene of the past, the now closed venues we came up in. We talk about growing up, growing out and moving on and watching the new kids do their thing, Chad shar…

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Episode 53 | Partying is Such Sweet Sorrow with Luke Plowman 1:11:24

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G’morning party people. This week we rewind to a time of gravity bongs and Pauly Shore summers with our dear friend and Glass & Metal artist, Luke Plowman of Lucky Luke Art. Once we get done waxing poetic we talk about how we manage burn out, how we jumpstart our creative process and how/when we listen to our bodies as we get ever closer to kicking…

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Episode 52 | Temptation Island 1:00:49

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We're back on the beach on this riveting episode of “Isla de la Tentación: Edición del podcast Food for Wors”. Join your hosts Darien & Sam as they journey through a whirlwind and relatively insightful conversation about reality television and the fine and gigantic lines between them. We do a deep dive on early-2000’s shows like Room Raiders, Viva …

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Episode 51 | One Year Anniversary - We Were Promised At Least Parachutes 1:42:34

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Was it worth it? We’re here to say that, yes, yes it was. On this, the One Year Anniversary of the Food For Worms Podcast! Guests from episodes past join us for some micro sessions to check in and indulge into some anecdotal debauchery. We’re listening to our boundaries, spreading rumors about Darien’s coffee preferences, writing scripts for post E…

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Episode 50 | Moshpit Bonds of Violence and the Cornbread Dilemma 1:15:21

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Sam is back! This week on Food For Worms, the boys talk about the late Bob Saget, James Avery and the Every Time I Die break up. From there the boys share stories from the mosh pits of yore and the emotional whiplash of the recently announced “When We Were Young Festival”. We catch up and dust off some GRAB BAG questions and talk about their impend…

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Episode 49 | You Know What I Hate About Your Podcast? with Nikki Jean & Sean Daley 1:41:36

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Welcome back to Food For Worms, a podcast that believes that Live, Laugh, Love is solid advice, for anybody. On this week’s pod we welcome back Sean Daley (Slug of Atmosphere), who is filling in for Sam. We sat with our friend, colleague and fellow musician Nikki Jean to talk nachos, cats, narrowly avoiding running out of gas, running out of gas an…

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Episode 48 | Testosteroni & Cheese with Norine 1:29:51

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Hail and well met true believers! On this week’s episode of Food For Worms, Darien is joined by friend of the show, cooler than cool, ice-cold-co-host, Norine from the MNtersectional Podcast. Sam’s out on account of his son being born and we geek about that for a few minutes. This time ‘round, we unpack the follys and hard earned growth from our ow…

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Episode 47 | Good Vibes Onlyfans and the Happy New Year 1:16:57

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Hot and bothered at the new and shiny Anchor.fm, Samuel & Darien ring in the New Year chatting about resolutions past, resolutions present, starting a podcast Only Fans, K-Pop album reviews and get into the main topic, Optimism. How we may, or may not maintain it while the world around us persists in beautiful and often nightmarish ways. This must …

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Episode 46 | “A Merry Friggin‘ Christmas with Alex Azure” 59:57

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***Warning***We get a little candid about the holidays and the existence of their respective avatars on this episode of the Food For Worms Podcast. It’s all in fun and we don’t dwell on it long, but we don’t want to burst anyone's emotional bubbles. So do yourself a favor and put on some headphones. This is a written warning, and there is a verbal …

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Episode 45 | ”Jazz Hands with Ben Hering” 1:12:10

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We’re like Arby’s, but instead of meat sculptures of Kenan & Kel, we got art. …we’ve got the art. Sorry. This week we are hanging with Ben Hering, painter, our jazz band friend, and trumpeteer to talk about music, sobriety and shifting how we can to tap into our creativity through vulnerability rather than party-time-fun-juice, all the time. Ben sh…

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Episode 44 | ”Death Walker Texas Ranger with Lacey Hunt” 1:17:36

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Lacey Hunt, dear friend, cat mom, very real witch and future Death Walker joins Darien & Sam for a light hearted conversation about her new path into the very real, and apparently lowkey field of becoming a Death Doula (Lacey and FFW advocate for and prefer ‘Death Walker’). We laugh, we don’t manage to cry, but we laugh hard enough that we almost d…

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Episode 43 | ”Shank You Very Much with Kelsey Gonzales” 1:06:58

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Are you there God? It's your interns, Darien & Sam, and this week we are sitting with friend, colleague, poet and visual artist, Kelsey Gonzales to talk about resilience and where that little voice comes from when we are at our lowest and need to press on. The IDLES new album, past internships and industry chit-chat are also laid to bare as we gigg…

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Episode 42 | ”The Wes Andertaker” 59:50

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What do The Undertaker, Wes Anderson and the elderly have in common? Very little! This week Sam & Darien chat about their relationship with their elders. They swap stories on times they’ve spent, and their own hopes once they reach the ripe age of gray hair and advanced arthritis. We also have a winding road of a conversation about The Undertaker, …

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Episode 41 | ”Too Macho For Oxygen with Norine” 1:16:59

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Gonna start out this by saying that everyone should keep their fucking hands to themselves. This week we are joined again by our dear Norine, as we all goof, catch up and swap stories about trying to enjoy activities without the shroud of alcohol. And eventually we talk about “risk”. Not the board game. When we’ve felt at risk the most with the lif…

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Episode 40 | ”The Existential Chrysler” 1:06:19

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Welcome back to the Food For Worms Podcast. After a Ghostbusters rant and a past Halloween costume appreciation conversation, Darien and Sam (still in the attic); sit and discuss what may be next for them in life. We talk about where our heads and our hearts are at, and what budding interests may be in our fully nude horizons. Forward, always forwa…

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Episode 39 | ”Teenage Mutant Ninja Hoarders” 50:51

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Back in the attic! This week Darien & Sam are in the studio… attic space for the first time in what feels like exactly one month, three weeks, 1 day and 17 hours. Riding the wave off their reunion of chilly, and godchild hangs they begin to unpack their relationship with clutter and the varying ranges of sentimentality they feel. Mayhaps it will be…

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Episode 38 |”These Thighs Are Cryin‘...” 1:00:47

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It’s almost always leg day at the Food For Form Podcast. This week we touch on our relationships with money, talk about the original “Halloween” film, and recreate a classic song, in a way that might upset some or all of you. How do you feel about day-old coffee? Is there a wrong answer? Have a good day yo. Submit Anonymous Topic & Questions: https…

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Episode 37 | ”No Fawkes Given with Joe Olson” 1:20:31

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Welcome to the Food For Worms Podcast, the show where everything is made up and the points don't matter. That's right, the points are like most of the Netflix holiday movies. This week, we sit with our good friend Joe Olson to talk about Pope Day and how it may have eventually became Halloween as we know it. Imagine a Downton Abbey quality level Br…

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Episode 36 | ”Big Grief Energy / Top 3 Cover Songs with Alex Azure” 1:23:05

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If you want to skip the relatively grimdark part, fast forward thru: 00:11:00 - 00:27:00 This week Alex Azure returns to the pod to discuss one of our mildly darker subjects, GRIEF. It comes in waves and many shapes and sizes. It’s not one size fits all, but the shoe will eventually fit, and in our discussion we explore a few layers of grief from o…

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Episode 35 | ”Levar Burton is Noone‘s Sloppy Seconds with Jeshua Marshall” 1:06:04

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This week we are joined by Bend, Oregon’s esteemed musician, good human and moon killer, Jeshua Marshall. We’re celebrating his debut solo album, 'SHOOT THE MOON' (out now on all streaming platforms!) and after some technical issues we talk about: Comfort Zones! The things we’ve told ourselves to stay firmly planted in our safety, and getting to th…

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Episode 34 | ”Quarter Life Infinite Crisis / Top 5 Villains” 1:21:06

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This week your protagonists at the Food For Worms Podcast discuss how life can come at you fast, and decided to switch it up and do a Top 5 Villains list. If you listen intently, you’ll hear Darien clearly throwing the assignment to the wind… villain material? Who’s to say? *looks into camera* *winks*. Submit Anonymous Topic & Questions: https://bi…

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Episode 33 | ”Fear and Self Loathing at the Cart Corral” 1:03:22

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Welcome true believers! This week on the Eff Eff Double-You, we talk about the shopping cart test and how far inward our negative self talk and self loathing can go. Maybe it’s imposter syndrome, maybe it’s Maybelline? We’re still having fun here. Have a good day! Submit Anonymous Topic & Questions: https://bit.ly/FFWGRABBAG This episode of the Foo…

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Episode 32 | ”What The McRib Wishes It Was” 1:16:52

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You’re giving us a toothache from how sweet you all are. This week we check in after Darien’s move to NYC, open up the FFW Grab Bag, and talk about our incredibly personal relationships with the great white devil, sugar. Submit Anonymous Topics & Questions: https://bit.ly/FFWGRABBAG Find us on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever y…

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Episode 31 | ”Bear Milk” 59:40

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Dearly Beloved, We are gathered here today for a bit that isn't that funny and goes on way too long. ...Sorry for that. It is Darien's Birthday week and he's living it up in the big city. So, we gave him the week off and we are graced with the presence of our dear, Cody.The boys get into the movies they have been watching lately. War movie marathon…

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Episode 30 | "Minnesota Goodbyes and The George Feeny Fan Club" 1:17:20

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It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galax-wait! Shit! ...on this week’s Food For Worms Podcast, Darien is moving to NYC to finally fulfil his dreams of joining a sewing circle with a bunch of mid-twenty-to-thi…

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Episode 29 | "Our Common Denominator, Cody Johnson" 1:08:08

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For this episode we are kicking it with one of our best friends, and living catalyst for many important moments in our lives, Cody. We’ve mentioned him here and there and now you get to hear all of us… in the same room, together. We trade stories of the yesteryears and contemplate what it means to stick around for friendships that are sometimes har…

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Episode 28 | “Goth Prom & Universal Halloween Horror Nights with Sarah Dope” 1:07:16

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For this week’s offering we get to sit with friend Sarah Dope, a fantastic photographer, Level 20 Arch Goth, Sorcerer, Astro Gaming Celebrity & Artist Relations Manager and Streamer. She’s worn many hats and is showing no sign of slowing down. We get into a number of strange topics but eventually Sarah shares parts of her journey from the early MyS…

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Episode 27 | "What The Cuss? with Peter Fradette" 1:20:03

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Episode # 27| What The Cuss? W/ Peter Fradette This week Sam & Darien catch up with the hometown hero, Peter Fradette. A central Minnesota staple musician and fellow past bandmate of Sam's playing in such groups as Pick It Up Pete, Whiskey City Tango, Why We Cant Have Nice Things and My Vigilante Superego. The fellas reminisce about playing shows a…

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Episode 26 | “A Blood Feud Over Nothing with Jesse Sendejas” 1:00:32

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This week Sam & Darien sit down with Jesse Sendejas of the luminous Houston Thrashgrass band, Days N Daze, as well as Escape From The Zoo among other many associated acts. Jesse shares with us what he’s been up to during the downtime from the road, the DIY band going from recording in closets and basements to having the opportunity to record in a p…

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Episode 25 | "Adapt or Die" 1:03:38

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This week Darien & Sam ask each other some seemingly random and vaguely profound questions. First Kisses? Hidden, stupid, hobbies? True childhood joy? What parts of getting older are we excited about? The twists do not justify the turns and some of the foolishness we get into is *makes face*, fun. The Food For Worms Podcast is back and is hopefully…

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