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I Wanna Hear From You! Leave Me A Voicemail.
Yep, you can click a link, send me voicemail message, and I can answer your question, or even respond to your rant.
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What Am I Making #016 - Kevin and Scott Robertson of The Vapour Trails
Listen now (68 min) | Learning to play guitar, writing songs, fatherhood, and being saved by your son.
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What Am I Making #015: BONUS EPISODE! - Booking a Dream Night By Nightmare
Listen now (21 min) | AUDIO VERSION: Just a month out from my 17 night solo acoustic tour, and things are getting real.
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What Am I Am Making Podcast #001 - Pete Dominick
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A Good Band Is Easy To Kill
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An American Masterpiece Turns 40
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Debutante Darlings: The Cars
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MFFS #004 - St. Augustine
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Big Announcement: Booking A Dream Night By Nightmare
Just a month out from my 17 night solo acoustic tour, and things are getting real.
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A Good Band Is Easy To Kill
The story of an unappreciated pop masterpiece and the demise of a great band that never got their due.
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Debutante Darlings: The Stone Roses
Welcome to Debutante Darlings, a spot where we occasionally break down the greatest debut albums in recorded musical history.
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What Am I Making #014 - Sometimes The Shark He Go Away
Listen now (38 min) | An audio version of an earlier essay. The real message for me behind Spielberg's single greatest scene, and how it might be the…
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How Would You Have Done It?
Oblique Strategies Installment #2 asks you to acknowledge the work others may do better or more easily than you do. It also allows you to see and give…
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What Winning Really Looks Like
A team, a town and a pair of celebrities show us what it really means to be champions
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What Am I Making #013 - Chris Piascik on drawing daily, and work begetting work
Listen now (50 min) | Chris Piascik first made a name for himself as a freelance illustrator by publishing a drawing every single day, for 1000 days…
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Oblique Strategies: What Wouldn't You Do?
Installment one in our Oblique Strategies series has us pondering addition by subtraction
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Happy Mother's Day To My Hero
Words are a damned poor way to show the proper level of gratitude.
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What Am I Making
What Am I Making
An exploration of making a life and earning a living in music and the arts in the 21st century.
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