Conversations With Dwyer

Conversations With Dwyer

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Conversations With Dwyer episodes

  • Dave Alvin, Musician
    Musician Dave Alvin formerly of the Blasters & X delivers an onslaught of fascinating tales to the CWMD microphones. He tells a great and hilarious tale of the Blasters opening for queen, managing Big Joe Turner when he was a kid and sneaking into honky-tonks and blues clubs when he was twelve. Mr. Alvin's Queen story may be the best piece of non-fiction to grace the show.

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    1 hr 5 min
  • Clay Tarver, Musician/Screenwriter
    Musician screenwriter and director Clay Tarver joins Matt Dwyer in a topic packed episode. Clay discusses working at MTV in the 90s, creating "Jimmy The Cab Driver" with Donal Logue, writing for "Silicon Valley," and why television is more artistically freeing than film. Clay also shares what it is like to be on stage with a band that is tearing a fucking hole in the roof.

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    1 hr 13 min
  • Duncan Trussell - Podcaster, Comedian, Human
    Strap on your thinking cap get ready to open up your consciousness and question all things around you because comedian & podcaster Duncan Trussell returns to CWMD for a whirlwind mind expanding conversation that covers everything from the lies your parents fed you to facing death. Get ready for a hilarious, thought provoking and insightful hour.

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    1 hr 13 min
  • Cindy Caponera, I Triggered Her Bully
    Author and TV writer Cindy Caponera joins Dwyer to discuss her book of essays I Triggered Her Bully, growing up in never changing Canaryville, going from blue collar to arts and lounging in swimming pools while wearing wool.

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    1 hr 22 min
  • Wayne Kramer, Guitar Legend, Activist & Composer
    "CWMD" is very thrilled to have Wayne Kramer return to the program. He joins Dwyer to discuss his new album "Lexington", prison reform, addiction, Marxism and the coolest thing he's ever done in his life - becoming a dad.

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Mick Betancourt, Comedian/Writer/Producer
    Mick Betancourt is a man with a great story. From the trough and tumble streets of Chicago to the writing and producing "Law & Order SVU" & "Breakout Kings." Mick speaks truthfully about growing up in a world of drug addicts, gang bangers and alcoholics to looking into himself and seeing what he needed to do to change his life. It's a great and inspiring episode.

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    1 hr 13 min
  • Rodney Anonymous, The Dead Milkmen
    Dead Milkmen frontman and punk legend Rodney Anonymous joins "Conversations" for a whirlwind faced paced chat about music Stalinism, punching your heros in the face, Christopher Hitchens, and why you there is no real underground music scene anymore. Also, Rodney makes me laugh the harder than I have in the two years of this show. Fuck yeah The Dead Milkmen!!

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    1 hr 10 min
  • Dave Archer, Tesla Coil Artist
    Artist Dave Archer joins Dwyer in a conversation about the road that lead him to creating art with a Tesla coil, the early sixties in North Beach San Francisco hanging out with Steve Martin, Janis Joplin and a story about one of the strangest way a person has ever died.

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    1 hr 18 min
  • Dustin Marshall, Feral Audio
    Founder and Producer of Feral Audio joins Dwyer in a discussion about the road that lead him to comedy podcasting and the importance of the medium.

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    1 hr 25 min
  • Andrea Portes, Bury This
    Author and screenwriter Andrea Portes returns for a second visit to Conversations to discuss her new novel Bury This. Ms Andreas also chats about being neighbors with some of LA's more dangerous residents, growing up in rural Nebraska, various names for male/female anatomy and how eavesdropping lead her to write about murder.

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    1 hr 15 min

About Conversations With Dwyer

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Conversations With Matt Dwyer is a music podcast that focuses on the lives and work of legendary, established and emerging new artists. The interviews are not your typical Q&A format but an…