A Pickle Home Companion

It's part two of our Thunder Fest Thursday series! The Squids adventures in Portland continue as they look at the first day of the festival.

Thunder Fest

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This week while The Squids recover from Furnace Fest we take a look back at some untold stories from past episodes. They discuss the mystery of who sent Jared a Christmas gift, more mall stories, annoying your coworkers with your music choices, high school jobs, Squid Line nonsense, and more!

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It's part one of our Thunder Fest Thursday episode! The Squids aimed to keep the full recap short, and as usual were long winded despite being completely exhausted. This episode looks at the day leading up to the festival, adventures in Portland, meeting up with listeners and online friends, and more.

Thunder Fest

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In todays Second Part Sunday episode the "Brock-less pod" conversation with Mike Almquist continues. They discuss intricate vinyl packaging, live albums, a little more Five Iron Frenzy talk, and Pete does some online shopping.

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This week's episode features a conversation with Mike Almquist the manager of mewithoutYou and his love of Five Iron Frenzy, his and Kevin's unknowing shared first experience seeing them in concert, live DVDs, managing bands & more. But first Jared explores new candy and they once again try and answer a listeners voicemail question.

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Furnace Fest 2025 is almost upon us! Kevin, Pete, & Jared are joined by Josh Lollis to talk about their trip with Chad Johnson, the founder of Furnace Fest! They talk about harmless pranks, heap praise on their guest, chat about the festival, community, play a game, and have plenty of laughs along the way.

Furnace Fest

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Mikee Bridges (TomFest, Sometimes Sunday, Twin Sister, Tragedy Ann) joins the show to talk about the Portland music scene, his bands, going from opening clubs to starting a legendary festival, what makes a good moderator, running a strict festival schedule, and more.

TomCon

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The Squids explore podcasting for profit and the rights that their college degrees offers them. Thom Daugherty from The Elms joins to talk about the upcoming reunion show, tour life, the superiority of physical media, Glen Phillips, getting music in video games, and make a startling Bandcamp discovery.

The Elms

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In todays Special Sunday episode Jared, Pete, Brock, & Kevin discuss school drop off playlists, Adirondack chairs, types of records other than vinyl, Pete's job at a comic museum, listen to voicemails, and Josh Lollis drops a reverse Squid Game on the hosts.

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This week Jared, Pete, & Kevin sit down with Louis DeFabrizio for a fun conversation and some mayhem. They discuss NY vs Boston, old Instagram trends, Furnace Fest, not free "free" tattoos, wild stories from his many bands (The Kick, Dear Ephesus, Gasoline Heart, Summer Rental), the new album, and more.  As an added bonus, Louis sets the bar for Season 2 guests by being the first musical performance on the pod.

Gasoline Heart (Bandcamp)

Summer Rental (Bandcamp)

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