High-Dere

This week on High-Dere, Ian & Joe get passionate and real with their thoughts and opinions, which is pretty much just like any other show. With the reveal of the existence of Caitlyn Jenner, Ian & Joe find themselves entrenched in conversation about identities, ADHD and medication for it, derailing a train, and living in a Dick-less world. And by that, we mean RIP Phillip K. Dick. We hear about mid-air laser projections, Project Soli and then we get motivated by Shia LaBeouf. 

We hear why coincidence in social media happen and what we might be currently being distracted from. Some shady things going on, and Ian & Joe feel like we have the right to be left alone to our own privacy. 

Then we invite Hanson and Imogen Heap on the show. And shout out Shania Twain. 

They wrap up the show with how impressionable people seem to be, by reading an article from Adbusters, and the strange things that happen to us in our own beds. 

That’s this week’s episode of High-Dere.

This week on High-Dere, Joe isn’t feeling well so we unwrap an archived episode from the basement days of High-Dere and show you how new and green Ian & Joe were to podcasting. 

We open with an a-cappella demo of the theme song and jump right in with the executive decision to just use first names, our heroes review a strain of weed right off the bat. 

Then they dive into the world of Church and how it was to grow up in that world. Vomit Duck was born, which leads to a story of projectile puking in Ian’s car. We then hear how fresh everything was. Ian’s belongings had just been stolen, we had no websites yet, and we had a show that has now been packed away, We2D2. 

Hear why Ian & Joe decided to start podcasting, and why they think it’s worth diving into. And then we hear the backgrounds of our two hosts, including Joe’s discography, his musical history and the collaborators from his first album, 2009’s If I Could. Ironically we also ask how many episodes it’d be before we had Kevin Smith on a show. And if you think about it, it really only took 1. But as a LIVE guest on the show, we’re at 36 and counting... 

And, as usual, we hear them stumble for the first time toward the end, while they try and figure out their sign off. 

All on this week’s moth-ball smelling episode of High-Dere.

This week on High-Dere Ian & Joe marvel at the supernatural, the manipulation of people through marketing and needless birthday gifts. Do werewolves exist? Ask Lon Chaney Jr. 

That’s what our heroes begin this week’s show with. 

This leads them to ask about other mythical creatures and people who apparently don’t age, like Keanu Reeves and Nicolas Cage. What if the The Fast & The Furious was made in the 1940’s, but set in 2015? 

They remember that Mother’s Day just passed, which leads to a chat about what Ian thinks would really be appropriate plans for someone’s birthday. And then, we hear how manipulation starts and how teachers have to be strong willed and have themselves together. Or you could just be a rebel like Ian’s mum, and homeschool! 

And why does Marvel think that it can keep putting out movies that are so formulaic that they’re starting to blend together? Oh, that’s right, because marketing practically shoves it down our throats so that it’s the first thing that people think to do when they have any down time. They close it out by shouting out to Hurlbut Visuals for their Strategies in Filmmaking series. 

And did you know that people race their drones through the woods? Yeah, neither did we. 

All this and more on this week’s episode of High-Dere.

This week on High-Dere, Ian & Joe discuss how art is made, with the most honest of intentions. After starting the show with Maddie, they wonder how would be the most enjoyable way to demolish a building, given a blank check to do so. 

They talk about the documentary “The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?”, the bizarre notion of a Nicolas Cage Superman, and the Kevin Smith Q&A afterward. 

Then they move to people, and how generations have changed. People almost need someone now that has a Robin Hood complex, like Guy Fawkes. And where the hell did bullshit banking and ATM fees come from? 

Then Joe tells us about his weekend in the studio, tracking drums for some new Awake or Sleeping music with Jeff Peters, James Gabbie and Benjamin Rice at Pie Studios. He is amazed at the process of putting together a song, getting it recorded and produced, but he admits that he misses the camaraderie of playing together as a group and feeding off each other’s energies. The challenge now is promoting, which leads Ian to wonder why an artist should have to take on that role as well as his artist role. 

They then move into an improv session of the ElfTree Podcast Network Elevator Pitches, touch briefly on religious violence in Ian’s hometown, and then stumble into our 34th ending, while encouraging people to reach out and say hi! 

All on this week’s episode of High-Dere.

This week on High-Dere, Ian & Joe find themselves in the observers seat of a few different kind of experiences, and tell you all about it! Joe finds himself the very passive observer of a tense text message string throughout the show! 

This leads our heroes to discuss the mis-interpretive nature of text messaging, and how people need to chill out! Joe then remember’s he hasn’t texted someone back in about 4 hours, prompting them to shout-out Lifehouse, Scott Stapp and Scott Speedman all at once. 

Then we hear about their experience reaching out, and demo’ing the Oculus Rift, courtesy of their friend Ben Worthen, who’s going to be on Episode 34. 

We hear how it felt to have a steering wheel that responded very well to the visuals seen inside the Oculus Rift. Shout out to Jeremy Clarkson at this point, while singing “Goodbye Horses” and some rendition of the angry text string is put to song as well. Jim Carrey’s twitter photo makes an appearance after a brief commercial. 

Then they wonder about the weather. 

Somehow, we hear them jump around to catholicism, a new show titled Um, Erica, Napoleon Dynamite, feeding Ian the complete works of William Shakespeare, Richard Simmons and Russell Simmons and working on an Oil Rig in the middle of the ocean. Flashback to the Toypedo pool toy! We hear Maddie fall asleep and it entertain the hell out of Ian. 

We hear one last set of the emotion filled text string before wrapping it up with an In-The-Car de-briefing of our immediate thoughts of the Oculus Rift from the night before. 

All this, and much more, on this week’s episode of High-Dere.