Georgia Hardstark shares her story of being an outsider in Orange County, her search for career and how the Nugatini lead the way to her being a regular on the Cooking Channel. Georgia and Matt also share their irrational fears about loved ones being abducted in parking lots and their admiration for the great Alton Brown.

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Author and legend Jerry Stahl returns to the CWMD mics to explore the themes that he and Dwyer seem to love most in life, neurosis, death, dead dads, scandal and fun with guns.

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Linda Tirado is the Author of Hand To Mouth: Living In Bootstrap America. The book examines how Americans view poverty, what life is like as a impoverished person and why the poor people do do what they do. Ms. Tirado joins Matt to discuss the exhausting life of having three demeaning jobs, how our society lacks compassion for those on hard times and her new life as an author. Hand To Mouth is an incredible and important book.

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Ryan Kattner aka Honus Honus from the great band Man Man joins Dwyer in candid conversation about touring life, career crossroads and the acceptance of being in a band with a cult following. Mr. Kattner is humorous and open about his life of his life in music and writing. The episode ends with "Head On" a song on the most recent Man Man album On Oni Pond.

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Dorian Wood is a composer and musician whose brilliant music challenges society art and sexuality. He joins the CWMD mics to talk about the power of anger and violence in art, the importance of creating trends opposed to following them and where good ideas come from. Dorian Wood also talks about his other creative passion Pet Portraits.

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Matt Farley of Motern Media is a song writer who is manipulating the system by flooding Spotify and Rdio with sixty thousand songs that are charming fascinating and often hilarious. Mr. Farley joins CWMD and talks about recording hundreds of songs a day, debunking the myth of tortured artists honesty in song writing. Matt Farley is unique and brilliant man subverting the system.

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Author Peter Bebergal returns to discuss his new new book Season Of The Witch Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock & Roll. Mr. Bebergal and Dwyer explore when Rock took the turn towards the dark, the taboos associated with Occult imagery, the importance of album covers and Dungeons & Dragons as a midlife crisis.

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Front man of the Boston indie band Hallelujah The Hills joins CWMD to talk about the complexities of the music business, the Overdub Tampering Hoax, and mobsters in the music business.

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Chicago filmmaker Michael Caplan joins the CWMD mics to talk about writer Nelson Algren and his documentary about him entitled, Algren. They also discuss the working class splendor of Chicago, the genius of Wayne Kramer and why Chicago writers like Studs and Algren are selflessness.

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Tom Spanbauer is powerful novelist who has been a important influence on the authors of the Pacific Northwest. He joins CWMD to discuss his approach to writing which he calls Dangerous writing. We also converse about how no one pays attention to literary fiction the way they used, humanities inner battles and his new novel, I Loved You More. Mr. Spanbauer is open and candid about his pains and struggles to inspiring levels.

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