Our first guest of 23 is guitarist and songwriter Zach Blair of Rise Against.

We talk about growing up in small towns, being straight edge in a band troubled by drugs (GWAR) and, of course, we talk about Rise Against.

Check out Zach's podcast Anti-Heroes, Rise Against new(ish) EP Nowhere Generation 2.

Thank you so much to Phantom Brewing Co for sponsoring the podcast. Check out the upcoming Hop Punk Festival on the 25th and 26th of February. For more details, click this link.

Thanks, Dave Eats Mud, for being our band sponsor for this episode. You can check out their new EP of the same name via this link 

Thank you to Fidlar for not suing us and letting us use Cheap Beer as the podcast's opening track.

Tracks played on the podcast in order of play:

• Nowhere Generation - Rise Against
• Bricks - Rise Against
• Battle Lust - GWAR
• Hero of War - Rise Against
• Prayer of the Refugee - Rise Against

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