Modern Hominid

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Thanks to the ridiculous talent of Tanner Fruit, this 22 minute track took us exactly 22 minutes to make. Off the top, no plan, first take, 100% improvised.

It ain’t perfect and it’s not supposed to be.

We hope you enjoy the first, and possibly only, track within the up-and-coming genre of Improvisational Deep House Meditation.

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If you want more fuego like this, go check out Fruit’s other work here.

In this episode my new friend Enoch and I sit down and talk about the human nature to create art, what art is, making money with art, and, of course, bikes. Enoch is one of the most creative people I know and I’m excited to highlight him here. Check out some of his artistic endeavors, they’re cool.

I hope you enjoy.

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ABOUT THE NAME: Modern Hominid

Modern: now, today, 2022.

Hominid: our taxonomy. One step larger than our genus and species; our family— great apes, chimpanzees, bonobos, and us; hominids.

In the spirit of trying something new, Morgan and I participated in a professionally recorded conversation hosted by StoryCorps, the renowned story telling non-profit. We saw the ad in SLUG magazine that StoryCorps was coming to Salt Lake, then we read their mission statement (“to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.” ), and now we have a conversation (and a fart, listen closely) archived in the Library of Congress.

I think I may be the only person in history to be fart-chived with the Library of Congress, how neat is that?!?

Anyways, in this episode Morgan and I discuss what we owe each other as humans, we reflect on the desire to help others, what drives us to help others, and discuss teaching and how it impacts our sense of identity.

Enjoy.

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Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, if you prefer.

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ABOUT THE NAME: Modern Hominid

Modern: now, today, 2022.

Hominid: our taxonomy. One step larger than our genus and species; our family— great apes, chimpanzees, bonobos, and us; hominids.

We’re trying something new here. Experimenting. Playing. I’m not sure what to even call this but it sure was fun to make. Mainly because I got to collaborate with Morgan Bakarich.

We had no plan to make this, no vision for it, it just emerged. Both of our current passions synched up and this is what was birthed.

If you like the ambient track send Morgan a shout out. She just started playing with Garage Band and is already lacing fuego like this.

More to come.

We hope you enjoy.

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Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, if you prefer.

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ABOUT THE NAME: Modern Hominid

Modern: now, today, 2022.

Hominid: our taxonomy. One step larger than our genus and species; our family— great apes, chimpanzees, bonobos, and us; hominids.

In this episode I try to shed my expectations to be good, or care what people think, and just create. I attempt to let go of my fear of judgment and let the metaphorical beast out. I speak to focusing on process over outcome, the principle of DGAF, and some ideas for how us “adults” can play better.

Enjoy.

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Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, if you prefer.

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ABOUT THE NAME: Modern Hominid

Modern: now, today, 2022.

Hominid: our taxonomy. One step larger than our genus and species; our family— great apes, chimpanzees, bonobos, and us; hominids.

In this episode I share some thoughts on grades, learning, growth, intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation, and the public education system.

Enjoy.

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Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, if you prefer.

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ABOUT THE NAME: Modern Hominid

Modern: now, today, 2022.

Hominid: our taxonomy. One step larger than our genus and species; our family— great apes, chimpanzees, bonobos, and us; hominids.

In this monologue I riff about the power of story and work culture in the U.S.

Enjoy.

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Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, if you prefer.

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ABOUT THE NAME: Modern Hominid

Modern: now, today, 2022.

Hominid: our taxonomy. One step larger than our genus and species; our family— great apes, chimpanzees, bonobos, and us; hominids.

In this monologue I riff on my experience over the past 2 years sans vehicle. I share the upsides, the downsides, and paint my version of a velotopian future.

Enjoy.

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Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, if you prefer.

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ABOUT THE NAME: Modern Hominid

Modern: now, today, 2022.

Hominid: our taxonomy. One step larger than our genus and species; our family— great apes, chimpanzees, bonobos, and us; hominids.

In this episode I riff on public education, school, learning, teaching, the system, and the question of what is school for?

If my rant resonates, I hope you’ll continue the conversation by sharing with any others who might be interested.

Enjoy.

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Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, if you prefer.

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ABOUT THE NAME: Modern Hominid

Modern: now, today, 2022.

Hominid: our taxonomy. One step larger than our genus and species; our family— great apes, chimpanzees, bonobos, and us; hominids.

In this episode I sit down with my new friend, Aaron Woodall. Aaron is a middling actor, “decent” comedian, and amazing dad. He has a podcast called Mormon and the Meth-Head and was named one of Conan O’Brien’s Comics to Watch at the 2018 New York Comedy Festival. More than that, he is just a good person. In this episode we talk about his creative process, story telling, the similarities between stand-up and teaching, the similarities between stand-up and extreme sports, flow state, ego, self-love, and cancel culture’s impact on stand-up comedy.

He’s got some upcoming stand-up shows he desperately wants you to come to this fall. This guy is the real deal y’all, I hope you can show up and support.

Oct 5 Pocatello, ID; Click here for tix. 

Oct 6 Billings, MT; Click here for tix.

Oct 7 Bozeman, MT; Click here for tix.

Oct 8 Missoula, MT; Click here for tix.

Oct 9 Helena, MT; Click here for tix.

Nov 7 Salt Lake City, UT (free @ Blue Genes)

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