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A podcast about life, music, people and the stories that bring us closer. With interviews, folkpunk & our own personal experiences, we discuss how you can show up through the many challenges of life and celebrate the victories when you do. There's no reason to do this alone, we can learn from each other even if we make some mistakes along the way. Join us as we embark on a journey to figure out how to find meaning & balance & grow with you. We have a strong connection to the folk-punk commun ...
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Surviving 13 Years in Prison w/ Ping Lieu #27
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Pepe talks with Ping Lieu who spent 13 years in prison for discussing a potential crime he never actually carried out. This is an older but unreleased episode Pepe recorded while he was fighting his own case and preparing to enter prison himself. What led Ping to serve 13 years in prison What it was like for Ping to receive his sentence The hardest…
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Sister Wife Sex Strike talk Folkpunk, Unauthorized Starbucks Show, Spirituality & More #26
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Folkpunk Dad sits down with Sister Wife Sex Strike who have been making a name for themselves in the folkpunk community lately. They talk about their recent TikTok fame, their popup Starbucks show, songwriting, anarchism + spirituality & more. Enjoy! Highlights: Getting into folkpunk Accessibility within folkpunk Blowing up on Tiktok Not having per…
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"The only thing that saved me was DIY punk." Punk With A Camera (PWAC) & Pepe discuss having no place to fit in or feel welcomed until finding DIY punk, filming, working with bands & difficult times with parents while growing up. There's talk about starting a project or passion, learning from our mistakes, supporting the community & much more. HIGH…
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Navigating band life with Tall Travis #24
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Folk/punk musicians Tall Travis sit down to talk with Folkpunk Dad about a range of topics regarding maintaining a band, creating music and friendship. It's the first time we have an entire band on the podcast all at once. They also discuss their appreciation for superstition, magic, whimsy & mystery. We also play their new song Ghost Of Apartment …
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Rise and Shine w/ Pepe Bandit & Folk Punk Dad #23
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How we show up in (or retreat from) the world is greatly influenced by how we wake up in the morning. Pepe Bandit & Folkpunk Dad discuss the value of morning routines & share some things they've done as they developed their own morning routines. They both share how not having a morning routine kept them stuck in unhealthy places.They share what hel…
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It's Show Time with Trashboat And The Ambush #22
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"We're very obsessed with soup" Trashboat And The Ambush join Pepe for a fun & lighthearted conversation largely centered around setting up DIY shows. First they start off with stories about punk pits, cats & the internet & then dive into their experiences and advice for organizing shows & the community that gets built around this. Towards the end,…
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Inside A Women's Prison with Tray Johns #21
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"You are in a capacity where you don't have eminent domain over nothing in your life, EXCEPT how you respond and that's the only thing you really have." Pepe talks with Tray Johns who was sentenced to over 12 years in a women's Federal prison for about $500 worth of drugs. You will learn about life inside a women's prison and hear the story of Tray…
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Days N Daze / Escape From the Zoo on Relationships, Relapse & the X-Files #20
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Je-C (Days N Daze / Escape From The Zoo) & his wife Veronica (Escape From The Zoo) come on the show to talk about relationships, relapse & the X-Files. They share some laughs, shed some tears & also discuss Nick Lutsko, their intro to punk music, why they didn't come on the show last year as planned, romanticizing the tortured artist idea & relatio…
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Finding Happiness In Our Broken Places with Mitchell Gray # 19
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"If I let myself be available to be happy, most of the time it does happen." Pepe connects with Mitchell "Trash" Gray as they discuss their prison experiences, exploring their broken places & their individual relationships to happiness that developed through the journey. It's an emotional conversation at times that traverses topics from addiction t…
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Finding Hope, Connection & Radical Compassion with Average Joey # 18
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Folk Punk Dad talks with DIY musician, zine writer and full time traveller, Average Joey. It's a wide ranging conversation with a theme flowing around toxic capitalism & the potential for collective healing. We end the episode with the track "Indifference" by Average Joey! HIGHLIGHTS: Average Joey's new record Impermanence Agnostic gospel songs Jes…
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Finding Ways We Can Step Out Of Loneliness w/ Pepe Bandit & Folk Punk Dad #17
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With the holidays among us we thought it would be good to talk about loneliness. Loneliness can show up in many ways & some may be unexpected (like Pepe discovered while making this episode). We share our experiences with it and dive into how it manifests and some evolutionary reasons behind our responses to it. We end discussing some things that h…
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Folk Punk Dad aka Will talks with songwriter, rapper, spoken word poet & all around great human, Myles Bullen. The conversation revolves heavily around the concept of community - what it is, how to find it, how to become a part of it, how to contribute to it and much more. Loneliness & music is also discussed. HIGHLIGHTS: Community & the internet F…
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Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains...Good or Bad + Prison Talk #15
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Please take the poll in the Spotify show notes whether you think Johnny Hobo was good or bad overall....we wanna know what you think. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains can be viewed as a single project or part of a larger whole when it comes to the music of Pat The Bunny. Either way it has been loved by some and divisive for others since it was firs…
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The Swamp Rats Talk Cryptids , Anxiety & More #14
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"It's hard not to love Mothman" The Swamp Rats join us and talk about Mothman, anxiety, always being on tour, the music they perform and more. After the interview we play their song Butcher's Knife. HIGHLIGHTS: Skunk Ape & Moth man Other Cryptids Ghost Stories Cryptids as a manifestation of anxiety Anxiety on the road/tour "We can do hard things" U…
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Listener Feedback: Getting Unstuck From Procrastination & more w/ Pepe Bandit & Folk Punk Dad #13
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A listener asks how we deal with procrastination & another asks about our interests outside of this podcast/music. We also talk about the feeling of not having enough time in your life & offer a new perspective that has been useful for us. If you have any questions or comments for us please reach out through the email below. We'd love to hear from …
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Pepe & Folk Punk dad reconnect after not doing an episode together for a few months. Then we hear from various bands that performed at this years Compost Heap festival as they answer questions from Folk Punk Dad & other bands. It's a fun & engaging episode where you get to hear a lot of really awesome people in the DIY/folk punk community share som…
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Ceschi Opens Up About His Father, Living A Fast Life & The Bittersweet Feeling In His Music #11
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"I'm continually fighting against living a regular life. That's led me to some really bad decisions at times but, it's also been the best decision of my life." Rapper, folk & punk musician Ceschi (pronounced Chess-Key) talks with Pepe. Their close friendship allows them both to open up on the podcast about some very personal experiences from their …
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Brook Pridemore - The early days of anti-folk/folk punk, The Reflecting Skin & fun Stories #10
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"After a 6 month long tour...I was drinking an awful lot, I put no light into the world at that time & when I got home I tried to kill myself & failed. That was the thing that struck me sober, that was when the unmanageability of my life was clear to me." Folkpunk Dad talks to Brook Pridemore about the anti-folk to folk punk connection they travele…
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Rent Strike on Breaking Bread, Time, Covid, Alchemy & Becoming Whole #9
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"When I'm writing music & lyrics, the best thing I can do is just empty my head...that's the best way to make art that is authentic." In this episode Pepe talks with John Warmb of the band Rent Strike. They discuss the hug John & Pepe shared when they first met, time, solitude vs. solitary confinement, the psychological value of alchemy, the proble…
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Preparing For Freedom - Pepe's interview one week before prison #8
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While Folkpunk Dad is away on tour & unable to be in the studio, we're airing an older interview Pepe gave 1 week before he went to prison in 2019. Pepe talks about originally facing 10 to life, the work he did to keep his relationship(s) intact, preparing for release before he was even sentenced, being in relationship while one partner is incarcer…
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Homeless Gospel Choir - A Hopeful Conversation Around Music & Mental Health #7
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"There's moments where I feel like all the good songs are written...I'm able to look at my friends who are writing amazing songs & are filled with love & gratitude & I feel, well maybe there's some hope left in this old guitar for me too & I'll get back in there & give it a try." Derek Zanetti a.k.a. Homeless Gospel Choir has an inspiring conversat…
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How To Show Up For Others & Yourself During Difficult Times w/ Pepe Bandit & Folk Punk Dad #6
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Pepe is trying to show up for people in his life that are currently facing challenging times. Him and Folk Punk Dad discuss what this means and how you can actually do it. Then they talk about how showing up for yourself is just as important. Thoughts on swamps, compassion, resentment & snitching are also shared. HIGHLIGHTS: Showing up for friends/…
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Endless Mike & the Beagle Club talks WDU, bad Amerikan theology & desiring a different world #5
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"Nothing had ever spoken to me before I got into music...The first 16 years of my life...I was just faking my way through it all." We bring you closer to Mike Miller of Endless Mike And The Beagle Club endlessmikeandthebeagleclub.bandcamp.com/music which also played as the backing band for Wingnut Dishwashers Union. In this conversation Mike talks …
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DIY Bandits, Folk Punk Dad & the Intuitive Process #4
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Listener feedback, the married life & the early days...Pepe discusses opening an illegal venue, the origins of the DIY Bandits (meeting a young Pat The Bunny) while Folk Punk Dad points out the many aspects of intuition involved. Folk Punk Dad shares stories & practical steps that helped him access intuition & he helps Pepe become more comfortable …
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Getting Intuitive with P.T. Burnem' #3
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"We have to think about music as a physical touch. It moves from my mind, through my body, through the string and then to you." We bring you closer to independent rapper, P.T. Burnem' ptburnem.bandcamp.com/music who has a unique way of combining the organic and the technological in his music. In this conversation Burnem' shares his ideas around int…
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid w/ Pepe Bandit & Folk Punk Dad #2
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Folk Punk Dad brings you closer to Pepe through a deep dive into fear and his responses to it. Pepe shares personal stories & practical action steps around fear. We talk about prison, regret, doing the work & more. Support the podcast (& get exclusives!) patreon.com/BackontheGrind HIGHLIGHTS: The advice Pat The Bunny gave Pepe about fear before he …
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"I was fucking terrified...there just wasn't a sober moment...I feared a sober moment." We bring you closer to April Hartman, founder of the influential folk punk band Apes Of The State. In this conversation she shares intimate details of her journey through addiction and fear, we talk about the world of folk punk, loneliness, relationships and at …
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Welcome to the show! Meet your hosts of Back On The Grind. Find out what the show is all about, here's a quick list of topics you can look forward to hearing about: Life Music People Stories that bring us all closer Episodes are published twice a month. On the 1st of every month we interview a musician. On the 15th of every month we will share our …
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