Filler

By Joseph Wasserman & Stephen Sbiroli

Filler is a where Joe and Steve discuss all kinds of media including books, music, movies, comics, and more to explore how it moves and inspires them as creatives.

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The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.

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February 23, 2026 28: Pre Pod Productions
Have you ever wanted to write a movie or story? Learn from two guys not using their bachelor's degrees!
Steve and Joe talk writing craft through their two genres: screenwriting and prose fiction.
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Art by Zach Schweikert
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1h 30min
January 26, 2026 27: Steve and Joe Pour One Out for 2025
Time sure does fly, huh?
Steve and Joe reminisce about some movies, music, television, and video games that kept them afloat throughout 2025.
Maybe 2026 will be the year that Joe plays Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? Perhaps Steve will finally watch LOST?
Hahahaha.
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1h 10min
July 21, 2025 26: the LVP Make Music
In our season one finale, Joe and Steve explore what it's like to make music in a band.
the LVP are Steve, Joe, Vince Camarista, and Thomas Raker. Collin McClutchy of Sword and Dagger Audio produced their EP, I Feel Too Many Things, But I Don't Have the Room. It is streaming everywhere now!
How does creating art in collaboration with others make us better and grow as people?
the LVP are playing a show in celebration of the release at Main Drag Music on July 24. If you don't go, you will hurt their feelings.
Thank you to everyone who supported this first season of the show. We'll be back soon!
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59min
July 14, 2025 25: Thomas Masters a Dungeon, Part 2
Thomas leads Joe, Steve, and Vince to the end of their journey.
What horrors await the heroes in their slumber and wake? Will they succeed? Did they learn anything?
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Art by Zach Schweikert
Intro music by Vincent Camarista
Production, music, editing, and mixing by Joe Wasserman
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59min
July 07, 2025 24: Thomas Masters a Dungeon, Part 1
Drummer of the LVP and Union Fool, Thomas Raker leads Joe, Steve, and returning guest Vincent Camarista (Easy Tigress) through a one-shot Dungeons & Dragons session.
Thomas discusses how collaborative storytelling through D&D enriches his life.
He swears he isn't a dungeon master, but we don't believe him.
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Art by Zach Schweikert
Outro music by Vincent Camarista
Production, music, editing, and mixing by Joe Wasserman
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1h 33min
June 30, 2025 23: Collin Has a Mouth and Loves to Read
Collin McClutchy is a talented person. He produces records for Sword and Dagger Audio in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to crafting soundtracks for multiple seasons of My First Dungeon, Collin creates “synth music for sworn swords and sorcerers” as BE/HOLD. Somehow Collin also finds time to be an avid reader of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative fiction.
How does reading speculative fiction inform one’s own artistic and professional path?
Collin McClutchy aka Sword and Dagger Audio aka BE/HOLD aka in contrast
Listen to My First Dungeon
Listen to Harlan Ellison's Narration of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"
Read "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison
Behind The Bastards - Part One: The Zizians: How a Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult
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Art by Zach Schweikert
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1h 5min
June 23, 2025 22: Vince Roleplays a Songwriter
Vincent Camarista is a compassionate, thoughtful person who also happens to be the lead guitarist of the LVP. Before that, before binging episodes of Attack on Titan and Bocchi the Rock, he began his personal musical project, Easy Tigress.
How does pursuing your own creative project, on your own terms, fuel a life worth living?
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1h 16min
June 16, 2025 21: Learn to Live by Dying: A Conversation About Vertigo's Daytripper
Brazilian twins Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá created Joe’s favorite comic ever, Daytripper. They call it “an honest meditation on mortality.”
How can a comic about death make a person want to live more and better?
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Art by Zach Schweikert
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1h 56min
June 09, 2025 20: State of the Pod I
Joe and Steve explore how making the podcast fills their cups. They discuss what could be better, what's been working, and where they might go from here.
Listen to "Mom v. Dad: Dawn of Justice" by the LVP!
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Art by Zach Schweikert
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1h 3min
June 02, 2025 19: The blink-Files: "More Sh*theads Than D*cks"
In the midst of recording The blink-Files previously this year, Joe and Steve got tickets to see Mark Hoppus and Dan Ozzi on their book tour for Mark's memoir, Fahrenheit-182.
On this episode they revisit some opinions from their original deep dive and reflect on Mark's excellent book and how it speaks to them.
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Art by Zach Schweikert
Production, music, editing, and mixing by Joe Wasserman
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1h 24min

FAQs about Filler:

How many episodes does Filler have?

The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.