La Jolla Babylon: The Making Of A Suburban Punk

By Aaron Hartman

Your host, musician and writer Aaron Hartman, shares stories about his stormy youth growing up punk in a conservative beach town with his Millennial sister, actor, writer and comedian Katie ... more

· Comedy
· Society & Culture
· Comedy Interviews
· Music
· Personal Journals
· Music Commentary

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How many episodes does La Jolla Babylon: The Making Of A Suburban Punk have?

The podcast currently has 27 episodes available.

La Jolla Babylon: The Making Of A Suburban Punk episodes:

November 15, 2025 Hold On Tightly, Let Go Lightly
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
at the end of this one. These stories can sometimes cut a little close to the
bone, and we felt like what would have been episode 4 might be pushing too far into other peoples’ lives. It was a good one but we decided to err on the side of privacy. Email us a [email protected] if you want to know more (we’ll tell you everything privately).
Also, I was diagnosed with ADHD and am trying out some
meds to see what they do.
All I know about astrology I know from Harvey Sid Fisher
songs. In the same way that all I know about Christianity I know from Jesus
Christ Superstar.
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
couple of his astrology songs in Olympia, 1995. https://youtu.be/eEsl6Ddni2k
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
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!
Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/
https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/
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39min
November 01, 2025 Post-Halloween Special!- Everyone has a Ghost Story
Adam meets someone special in the bathroom.
In this bonus episode, Aaron tells a true story in which he
sees a ghost and then teases Katie for believing in ghosts. Big brother/ little
sister dynamic!
Katie and Aaron talk about Halloween as the punk Christmas,
get woo-woo, talk wearing costumes on stage, ghosts and all that jazz (spoiler: Aaron is a party pooper).
Video of Old Time Relijun playing insane Halloween party and
Aaron’s ghost costume:
https://youtu.be/EG3Okwy3Mj4?si=AK_3sPfA7vX37dju&t=129pumpkin
photo
Our sister Karen Hartman’s substack:
https://the100dayreckoning.substack.com/
go to https://www.instagram.com/lajollababylonpodcast/
to see Katie’s Graucho Marx costume and Aaron as a Stormtrooper.
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
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30min
October 18, 2025 The Wrong Tools
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!
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42min
October 12, 2025 Season 3 announcement!
La Jolla Babylon is excited to announce our triumphant return! Season three, the Undoing of a Suburban Punk begins on Saturday, October 18. This
season: Dan Jones’ dad gets out of prison, Adam sees a ghost, makes a porn for college credit, almost gets famous, and gets stranded deep in the Bible Belt. Episodes will be slightly more intermittent than in the past, so just keep us in your feed and we’ll pop up every couple weeks.
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
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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2min
June 07, 2025 Going to Chicago with Grandma Blues
Going to Chicago with Grandma Blues
This is one of a few short episodes that will be
sprinkled throughout the coming weeks as we finish season 3.
“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)
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!
Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/
https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

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27min
May 31, 2025 Terry and the Cat
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
sprinkled throughout the coming weeks as we finish season 3.
In which Adam and Dan Jones visit Terry at the house he’s
renting. Visitors are not allowed.
Katie and Aaron forget to introduce
the podcast because it’s been so dang long! A shorty but goody.

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
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!

Links:
Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/
https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

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26min
April 12, 2025 The Ascent of a Suburban Punk

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?
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49min
April 05, 2025 The Education of a Suburban Punk

The Education of a Suburban Punk

Chapter titles:
Adam stops at the army on the way to college and drives away with some clarity. Then the next thing in life happens.
In the discussion, Katie and Aaron talk about elephant skin boots and why they are bad
We enter what is conceptually the second half of this “lightly fictionalized” memoir. Really the last third. Or maybe more like 4/7th? You get the point.
**Update! Katie’s dog, Bongo, is fine! The biopsy turned out not to be cancerous.

51 Dan In The Army
52 First Days
53 Getting The Bass

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman
Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com
Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: “To Be Named” https://marinelayer.bandcamp.com/album/no-room-music-to-block-out-other-music
Conn organ, Global acoustic guitar, Telestar electric guitar, Kay upright bass, Goodwill drums, snapping, clapping, singing 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!

Links:
Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/
https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/
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50min
March 29, 2025 A Suburban Punk Leaves Home
A Suburban Punk Leaves Home

Adam is given an ultimatum and he gets out of town for a while.
Aaron talks about his favorite way of sneezing. Katie and Aaron say the word “cancerous” too many times.
Our grandfather’s real name was Harry Hartman. He really did coin the phrase “going, going, gone!”. Here’s a link to one of the websites talking about it. https://mediaheritage.com/harry-hartman-1931-1933/

Chapter title:
48 Not Quite
49 But First
50 Two Adams

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman
Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com
Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: “OK OK” https://marinelayer.bandcamp.com/track/ok-ok
Conn organ, Global acoustic guitar, Telestar electric guitar, Kay upright bass, Goodwill drums, snapping, clapping, singing 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!

Links:
Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/
https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

Podcast summary
Welcome to La Jolla Babylon Season Two: The Education Of a Suburban Punk, A podcast where I read stories of my Generation X youth to my Millennial sister - writer, actor and comedian Katie Hartman.
“We dig deep, get real and laugh about death.”
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55min
March 22, 2025 The Electrification of a Suburban Punk
The Electrification of a Suburban Punk

This episode contains details of teenagers getting intimate. Please be advised. Especially if you’re related to Aaron.
Adam’s first real girlfriend. Laugh, cry, wonder why.
The person described in this episode is a cocktail of several people. Some situations may have been changed for the sake of privacy and narrative.

Chapter title:
47 Hairier

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman
Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com
Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: “Burnt Flag” (unreleased) By Aaron Hartman
Drums: Germaine Bacca
Guitar: Arrington De Dionyso | arrington.bandcamp.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!

Links:
Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/
https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/
...more
43min

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How many episodes does La Jolla Babylon: The Making Of A Suburban Punk have?

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