The world's a mess. So we do what we do when the world's a mess: Bring in Mike Schulte from The Pork Tornadoes to confront reality for a few minutes, and then to talk about everything BUT what's bringing us all down.

Among the topics for this sprawling distractioncast is: Dan's gig, Craft beer, Social (distancing) Media, Haircuts, and Back to the Future.

As the world begins to open up, we confront what that means for musicians. First off: everyone gets to have their own assessment of the risk and reward and decision-making around that. Here we explore ours.

In this week's episode we interview Jordan Olds aka Gwarsenio Hall. Jordan is a musician and comedian who hosts a youtube series called "Two Minutes to Late Night". In this interview we discuss Van Halen, how he approaches covering songs on his show, and Ice Cream Men.

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What else are you going to do with no gigs to play? We talked about it. We had lofty ideas about it. Now it's time to actually get down to it. What actions are you going to take to make you, your band, and your brand stronger, tighter, faster, and better coming out of this mess?

This week, Adam's found time to record a tune with his friends, and Dan's found a Reddit post that bugged him. So let's talk about that!

Here we are on the ultimate gig hunt. Lock down has us all live streaming if anything. But some of us have governors who insist we're going back to normal. So.... What does "normal" even mean for musicians after all this?

The boys lay down another livestream-hybrid podcast, and MIGHT someday get okay at it. Don't mind the echo on Adam's mic in the first few seconds, we got to the bottom of that super quick.

NOW! What else are you going to talk about when your whole gigging life is on hold? GEAR, obviously! New mics, new mic stands, new Helix firmware, new preamps.... All super exciting things to own when you can't take them out of the house to use!

The guys return to form: none of that "this is the audio from a thing you really had to be there for" nonsense. In this episode we catch up on the happenings of two playas who can't play, and talk about some ways to handle the events of our current world--mentally, emotionally, and socially.

Podcast listenership globally is in the tank now that nobody's commuting or going to the gym. Our numbers are no exception. And you know what that means? A super low-effort episode from ya boys!

With the help of longtime listeners and friends Paul Schuh and Ben Ivey, we have a Zoom chat about stuff, and you can listen in. Enjoy it or something!

You saw it live, maybe. Now hear it not-live!

The times being what they are, more and more performers are turning to live-streaming to make ends meet. In this episode we disgorge what your humble hosts have learned about livestreaming AND in burst of irrepressible meta-ness, we do it WHILE livestreaming!

Any reference to things you can see, or any visual aspects of this presentation were entirely appropriate at the time, we promise.