Drinks with Tony

Gabriel Hart is the author of On High At Red Tide. He’s also the lead singer of Jail Weddings and The Starvations.

October 5th is the first Drinks with Tony Bookclub, we’re reading Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age and we’ll discuss the book as well as do a writing exercise.

October 3rd join Gabriel Hart for his Los Angeles release event for his novel at Stories bookstore and cafe in Echo Park.

On this episode we discuss how time is more important than money, the trap of corporate America, how to truly live the writer’s life, the importance of editors and also walking away from your story for a bit, the grief and heartache of book releases, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony also airs every Thursday night at 6pm on 92.9FM KPCR, Los Gatos and 101.3FM KMRT-LP, Santa Cruz.

Krystal Kenney is the author of Paris, A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir.

We discuss tourist scams of Paris, where are the best neighborhoods, how Krystal moved to Paris from Baltimore without an EU citizenship, and so much more.

Remember to join the Drinks with Tony Book Club, this month we’ll discuss Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal on October 5, 2024.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.

Marianne Leone is the author of Five-Dog Epiphany: A Memoir.

Marianne is an actor you may know from shows like The Sopranos. Her book tackles the grief of losing her son with her husband actor Chris Cooper and how their son Jesse brought dogs into their lives.

We discuss how her an her husband have stayed together for 41 years, when they met in acting school exactly how their romance started, her push for Chris to take the groundbreaking part in American Beauty, her activism to create inclusive classrooms for the quadriplegic and how that manifested a healthy social circle for her son Jesse and his friends before he died, and so much more.

The Drinks with Tony bookclub starts this month. We’re reading Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal. Then reserve your spot for our zoom discussion on October 5th at 9AM Pacific / 12PM Eastern. We’ll take a deep dive into the craft and story of the novel.

Along with Drinks with Tony bookclub I’m bringing back Nick Cave Monday. All can be found at my substack: dushane.substack.com, subscribe now.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.

Colleen McKeegan is the author of Rip Tide: A Novel.

We discuss what to do when you have a major brain crush on an author, training for mascots of sports teams, the definition of a book hangover, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.

Jessica Maguire is the author of The Nervous System Reset: Heal Trauma, Resolve Chronic Pain, and Regulate Your Emotions with the Power of the Vagus Nerve.

We discuss the micro-communications that happens with our eyes, face, and hands, how to calm a 15 month old baby, how to look within ourselves after bad romantic relationships, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.

John A. Dailey is the author of Tough Rugged Bastards: A Memoir of a Life in Marine Special Operations.

We discuss the subconscious mind work of repetitive drills, the emotional response of combat, his deployment to Afghanistan after 9/11, what movies about war are closest to portraying the real thing, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.

Bobi Conn is the author of Someplace Like Home.

We discuss doing psychedelics, her family heritage of moonshiners, how to get out of the way of our characters, collective anger of sports fans, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.

Alexander Boldizar is the author of The Man Who Saw Seconds.

We discuss living in a refugee camp after fleeing Slovakia in the 1979, the art of learning new languages, keeping authenticity as a writer while still entertaining the reader, Commedia dell’arte, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.

Peter Houlahan is the author of Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the Story of Sagon Penn.

We discuss his coverage of Sagon Penn’s case of being found not-guilty of shooting and killing a police officer, how our brains are being hacked by data collection, when happens when you don’t back up your work, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.

Paul Cody is the author of Walk The Dark.

We take a deep dive into his time teaching in prison, what landed him in the psych ward and how it changed his life, when after 25 years of sobriety he fell off the wagon to dire consequences, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM in Los Gatos and 101.9 FM in Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio, KPCR-LP.