THE WANDERING WOLF

117- Advance Base (Owen Ashworth). At the tail end of a tour they do together, Yoni and Owen (formerly Casiotone For The Painfully Alone) get together in Cleveland for a little talk. They talk about how Owen started out in music, recording, performing, religion, and touring.

116- Andy Miller. Visual artist and podcaster (Creative Pep Talk), Andy makes his way to a pool party Yoni is at in Cincinnati just before Yoni hits the road. They discuss art rap, inspiration, the creative process, the craft of songwriting, making polarizing art, and monetizing art.

115- Duncan Trussell. Yoni heads to Columbus, Ohio to check out Duncan's stand up gig. After, they meet for the first time in Duncan's bus and end up taping a chat. They philosophize about video games as reality simulation, artificial intelligence, the nature of time and space, color, LSD, and God.

114- Becky Wolf 3 (Sister). While Becky is in Cincinnati for the holidays, the two siblings take some time to talk. They discuss having conservative parents, family dynamics, and dark matter.

113- Sylvan Esso (Amelia & Nick). While they are in Cincinnati to play Midpoint festival, Sylvan Esso and Yoni take some time out to talk in Sylvan Esso's tour bus. They discuss Nick's musical upbringing and participation in several semi-successful rock bands, Amelia's youth as a contortionist, Amelia's father as a professional Santa Claus, Mountain Man, mountain men, making thinking persons' pop music, and living in a small city.

112- Pictureplane (Travis Egedy). While Yoni is in Denver, he meets up with Pictureplane in the park for a talk. They discuss Travis's early career, his process, his love of harshness, his clothing line, rap battles, fascism, and teenage pranks and antics.

111- Ravi Zupa. Yoni and old friend, accomplished artist, Ravi, get together during Yoni's weekend in Denver for Goldrush festival. They sit on a bench in the park and discuss monogamy vs. polygamy/polyamory, anger, God and religion, Ravi's family history, loss, being like a tree, and living up to one's potential.

110- Sole (Tim Holland). Yoni flies to Denver to play Goldrush festival. The afternoon before his performance he heads over to his old friend Tim's house to pay his respects to the twenty-plus year rap veteran and co-founder of anticon records. They talk about Sole's early years and current career, the genesis of anticon as a collective and label, politics, philosophy, and social justice.

109- Juiceboxxx. While JB is in town Cincy for a show, Yoni and he meet up for an acquaintance making chat. They discuss JB's atypical career path, his upbringing in punk and hip hop, reopening the conversation around the Rap-Rock genre, conceptual art, outsider artists vs. artists with intention, riding trends vs. sticking to one's guns, curating the Thunder Zone catalogue, and being the subject of a notable book.

108- P.O.S (Doomtree). Yoni and Stef (P.O.S) meet up in Yoni's rental car outside of the legendary club, First Avenue in Minneapolis. They discuss Stef's upbringing, early influences, his high school punk bands, having a teenage son, his career arc, getting a kidney transplant and the trials surrounding it.