Chapter 67 Spartanburg

The last episode of season 3! Keep us in your feed - we’ll pop up everyone once in a while with some bonus eps between now and season 4! We’ll see young Adam get in and out of trouble. And then in again. We’ll see post-adolescent Adam meet some fates.

In this episode:

Adam gets hired as a professional tour manager and breaks down in the buckle of the Bible Belt.

A Baptist family tries real hard to convert him.

First of all - when I wrote the conversations between Adam and Bishop, I was not considering that I would need to read his voice some day. What you’re hearing is a white guy from the west coast - who is not an actor - trying to change his voice just enough so the listener knows the character has changed. When I switch to a character that is not Adam, I am only trying to indicate that the voice is from the south. I am not trying to indicate the person is of another race. This is Aaron being a bad reader with a shitty southern accent. NOT Aaron doing “black voice.” I love this episode and I love the people I met in Spartanburg so many years ago. It was 72 hours that changed my life for the better and if there’s a microbe that comes across as disrespectful, I apologize sincerely.

Please write in to [email protected] and let me know how I should have handled it. Or write me and I’ll dish more about that band I managed.

 Additional music: Katie’s Podcast Song (unreleased)

Vibes: A. Walker Spring

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Let us know what’s what: Have a story about growing up as a latchkey kid? Did you have a sibling who lived a completely different life than you? Did you cause mayhem in the 1980s? Send us your questions, comments, corrections and condescensions. We read every DM and email we receive. Find us: @lajollababylonpodcast on Instagram or write us at [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you!

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The You-Know-What Episode

 Chapters

64 WOLFIE

65 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

66 FILMMAKING

Explicit content. In other words, another one the

Adam makes a Porn for college credit.

In which Aaron miraculously gets out of reading in front

When it’s time to move out of a small town, it’s really

“I’m not self aware enough to know what cartoon animal I would have been.”

 Some of my favorite fake live albums:

Nighthawks at the Diner

Beach Boys Party!

Charles Mingus presents Charles Mingus - asking waitresses not to rattle the ice!

I was always singing the Nutcracker, so my dad got me the

My explanation of Annie Sprinkle comes from memory -

Shout out to the Olympia International Film Festival!

Don’t fact check me on whether Holy Mountain and El Topo

Mentioned: Zak Margolis - Here’s his insane animations! https://zakmargolis.com/

 Additional music: I Don’t Know How To Surf-Rock

Drums: Germaine Bacca

 Music: La

Vocal: Alicia

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

More Links:

Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/

https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

Everybody But Me Wang Chunged That Night

Chapters:

62

63

Aaron dishes about getting kicked

Afraid of being an “unreliable narrator” - Aaron asks Katie not to let him off the hook. As the stories get closer to modern day, it’s getting less cute to hear about Adam and his bad choices. As Katie says, “If you’re looking for someone to dress you down, I think you should pull our other siblings in here.”

Aaron talks about the metaphor that saves his relationship.

Some other notable quotes:

“Sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing”

“The man who edits controls the knowledge”

Correction: It’s the PRESIDENTS of the United States of America. But you knew that.

**Update! We chose not to air another episode. This is going

These stories can sometimes cut a little close to the bone,

Mentioned links:

Previously unseen link to the show where Old Time Relijun’s

Aaron’s band being introduced by an iconic singer in1999. https://youtu.be/LgiJbVglQEI?si=sATy7zibUXgnlhk0&t=97

Golem live! https://youtu.be/ze6ONmmBBbA?si=3xf1ziWn14ua0U9q&t=126

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

The end of Dan Jones. Friend break-ups are the hardest.

Katie and Aaron talk ADHD.

**Update! We chose not to air the episode Aaron describes

Also, I was diagnosed with ADHD and am trying out some

All I know about astrology I know from Harvey Sid Fisher

 Mentioned links:

Video of 10 year old Elijah killing it at the talent show - https://youtu.be/yATe2qeWspc

Recently unearthed video of Harvey Sid Fisher playing a

Telephone Call by Old Time Relijun - https://arrington.bandcamp.com/track/telephone-call

 Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Let us know what’s what: Have a story about

 Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/

https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

Adam meets someone special in the bathroom.

In this bonus episode, Aaron tells a true story in which he

Katie and Aaron talk about Halloween as the punk Christmas,

 Video of Old Time Relijun playing insane Halloween party and

https://youtu.be/EG3Okwy3Mj4?si=AK_3sPfA7vX37dju&t=129pumpkin

Our sister Karen Hartman’s substack:

https://the100dayreckoning.substack.com/

go to https://www.instagram.com/lajollababylonpodcast/

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

 Additional music: “Uncool Oncologist” by Aaron Hartman

https://marinelayer.bandcamp.com/track/uncool-oncologist

The Wrong Tools

Aaron and Katie reunite on the mics and bring you the first episode of a brand-spankin new season - just in time to save the world! Sorry it took so long. Episode 1 brings us into Dan Jones’ family of origin and Adam tries to keep up. Adam returns to his childhood home and meets the friendly cult that has moved in. Adam is growing up this season, but only sort of. As Katie says, “Adult, but still not very mature.”

Chapters:

57 OF CACTUSES

58 OF RENOVATIONS

59 TOOLS

Links:

Here’s my friend’s book I was talking about: Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust

Psychedelic Memoir by Seth Lorinczi https://www.spiralpathcollective.com/

Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/

https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: “Fire in My Head” (unreleased) by Aaron Hartman

Let us know what’s what: Have a story about growing up as a latchkey

kid? Did you have a sibling who lived a completely different life than you?

Did you cause mayhem in the 1980s? Send us your questions, comments,

corrections and condescensions. We read every DM and email we

receive. Find us: @lajollababylonpodcast on Instagram or write us

at [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you!

La Jolla Babylon is excited to announce our triumphant return! Season three, the Undoing of a Suburban Punk begins on Saturday, October 18. This

Katie and I can not wait to get back into it with you!

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Let us know what’s what: Have a story about

Going to Chicago with Grandma Blues

This is one of a few short episodes that will be

“The food was terrible – and such small portions!”

Please subscribe so you don’t miss an episode!

And don’t forget to rate this show to help others find it!

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: “Early Morning Sunset” (unreleased exerpt)

Let us know what’s what: Have a story about

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La Jolla Babylon: Shenanigans Edition, Terry and the Cat

Terry and the Cat

**A warning that there is the slightest mention of what could be considered cruelty to animals. If you are especially sensitive to this sort of thing, I suggest reading the transcript before listening to the episode.**

This is the first of a few short episodes that will be

In which Adam and Dan Jones visit Terry at the house he’s

Katie and Aaron forget to introduce

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: “IV Lounge” By Aaron Hartman https://marinelayer.bandcamp.com/track/iv-lounge

Let us know what’s what: Have a story about

Links:

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https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

The Ascent of a  Suburban Punk

Keep us in your feed! Season 3 will sneak up on you before you know it.

In this last episode of what has been an emotional and illuminating season, we bring on Arrington DeDionyso, the multi-lingual, muti-instrumental musician and Aaron’s longtime collaborator in Old Time Relijun.

Chapter titles:

54 The Delightful Calvary

55 Addington

56 Clarity of Purpose

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Featured music:

“Earthquake” by Arrington DeDionyso https://arrington.bandcamp.com/track/earthquake

“King of Nothing” by Old Time Relijun https://oldtimerelijun.bandcamp.com/track/king-of-nothing

“Bionic Trunk” by Old Time Relijun https://oldtimerelijun.bandcamp.com/track/bionic-trunk

Not heard, but mentioned: “Everything is Broken” by Old Time Relijun https://oldtimerelijun.bandcamp.com/track/everything-is-broken

Lyrics all by Arrington DeDionyso

Additional music: “JB Was Not Here” (Unreleased)

Drums: Germaine Bacca

Guitar: Arrington De Dionyso

Let us know what’s what: Have a story about growing up as a latchkey kid? Did you have a sibling who lived a completely different life than you? Did you cause mayhem in the 1980s?