I had a chance to meet up with Daria Albers, Women's European K1 Champ, while she was visiting New York City and crashing with my buddy Gavin Van Vlack

I met Jonathan  few months ago when he approached me about doing an interview for his website STEEL FOR BRAINS. Since then, we've been building up a friendship based on common interests in the more fringe topics that we discuss on the podcast.  Also, he's a high ranking Freemason; how cool is that?

I catch up with John Congleton and we discuss the state of music, the Amanda Palmer situation and our favorite sandwich shop in Dallas.

Mike Scondotto (Inhuman, The Last Stand) joins me to talk about our Top 5 Records of 2012.

This time around, we have Decibel Grand Master Albert Mudrian on board, talking about the upcoming 100th Issue Show, the early years of Decibel Magazine and some of his favorite records of 2012. The podcast was done using Skype, though I usually have excellent results, this one turned out a little noisy.

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Larry Betz talks about training hard, eating right and learning how to squat from Henry Rollins.

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Once again, utilizing the magic of Skype, I was able to extend my tentacles all the way across the country to Los Angeles and talk to J. Bennett, co-founder of Idea of Gemini.

I've had the honor of calling Aaron Harris "friend" for nearly two decades. I remember seeing his band Loga play way back in the early 90's on a cold winter night in Old Town, ME and being totally blown away. I remember hanging out wit those guys afterward at this diner, drinking coffee and eating grilled cheese sandwiches.

As I grow older, I see the value in these deep friendships. I went through many years of my life believing that I could go it all alone, singular, solipsistic, but I'm lucky to have an inner circle of good people around, despite all of the shabby behavior that I've engaged in.

Once again, technology is used to bring me and Kill the Client singer, Champ Morgan together for an evening of spirited conversation.

I've been friends with comics creator Josh Bayer for several years; we met back in the halcyon days of Cosmic Comics, one of the coolest comic shops in Manhattan.  If you want to check out his work, hit him up at www.joshbayer.com