Dave and Demian lose track of time and structure almost immediately, which causes Dave to forget to ask Demian how he got the nickname “The Spice” back in the day. Despite that, the conversation does end up going most of the places it needs to go, with particular focus on late-80s skateboarding, politics, conspiracy theories, and ghosts. Everything one might expect, with some great Undertow tour stories thrown in to boot.

Dave and Bret take a trip back to their middle school years in Bellingham, WA to try and sort out their first meeting, where they discover the possibility that they might have unknowingly started off as bitter enemies in an ancient grade school blood feud. The route back swerves though breakdancing, graffiti, and skateboarding, Punk Rock and Straight Edge, and three decades of Bret playing music in killer bands that continues on to this day.

Dave visits Mr. Edge at his home shortly after he broke his back in a bike accident. Medicated and confined to a wheelchair, Aaron is unable to get away and must endure his own private version of Misery as Dave forces him to relive painful past memories in story form. Tales of being the neighborhood’s only white ninja lead eventually to the obvious conclusion of joining a Hare Krishna cult. And also Straight Edge, because, y’know, it’s his actual name.

For the first episode with a content warning right up front, long-time Larson collaborator Matt Matsuoka sits down for an interview after getting far too high for even his infamous “Stoned Bill Clinton” impression to work properly. The standard show format goes out the window as Dave attempts in vain to keep Matt on topic. The discussion swerves unpredictably from Matt’s days playing guitar and singing in 10:07 and RED ROCKET to likely all-too-true tales of sexual deviancy, vandalism, and...

After many years away from the States, Lex returns triumphant and shares with Dave tales of international drama and intrigue. Somewhere in there they also find time to go over their meeting in the early days of the Old Firehouse Teen Center, how long one must go to shows before they are allowed to “X up”, how she was asked to join a band based on the color of her hair, and the day the idea for her infamous Pyramid of Hardcore Involvement schematic crystalized in her brain. Along the way Lex...

Dave has always had a lot of respect for Soto, going all the way back to the days when he was one of the only other long-hairs in the local scene. Together they sort through the confused timelines and early passions of a young, Greek metalhead, including a dizzying amount of moving and changing schools, how a girlie mag subscription in grade school will get you toys, and how eyeliner in middle school will get you girls. Plus a bunch of stuff about Punk & Metal. UNITE OR DIE!

Dave and Michaelanne welcome Aram in for a very long conversation with topics ranging from Straight Edge to Straight Edge. Don’t worry if that doesn’t interest you, because there’s plenty in between. Aram tells some wonderfully embarrassing tales from his youth, inspiring stories from his present, and issues a difficult challenge that the listener can participate in as well.

In Part 2, Dave and Kevin move the conversation along to more recent times. Topics include Straight Edge, Skeeno, changing musical styles over the years, the pitfalls of running record labels, Kevin’s quest to write 400 songs in 2015, and a particular unintelligible lyric in one of his most recognized songs.

Dave sits down with Kevin for a discussion that’s at least a couple of decades overdue. Kevin delves into tales of his early life and the formation of 7 SECONDS, including battles with a bully, particular perils of positioning himself front and center at his first RAMONES show, the large role that women played early on in the band’s career, and how others mistaking his band graffiti for gang tags nearly led to a summertime gang war during the formation of the Skeeno scene.

MINUS THE BEAR’s Jake Snider sits down with Dave to try to dredge up fuzzy memories from the swirling depths of time. Their success may be questionable, but there is no question that important topics like the exact nature of Beast’s mutant abilities, the classic Yoda puppet’s range of articulation, and the levels of suck that were 1980s Nash skateboards are given as much consideration as discussions of the sketchy content of old Descendents lyrics, the validity of belief in Bigfoot, ghosts,...

It can be argued that Ron is the guy who did most of the heavy lifting in the creation of the Pacific NW Hardcore scene. Dave makes that argument frequently, but finds little to argue about in this lengthy conversation that covers such topics as Ron’s struggle to make it through to graduation without getting kicked out of high school for a final time, a bold haircut decision that lost him a girlfriend but put him on the road to the Straight Edge and being asked to join the band BROTHERHOOD,...

Nate sits down with Dave to discuss his early days discovering Punk and Metal in junior high, cutting class, and getting caught up and busted in random acts of vandalism. Jump ahead a few years and a chance meeting at a sandwich shop leads Nate to join the band STATE ROUTE 522 despite not being able to play any instrument. Multiple bands and tours later, time has its way, and life drags Nate from Alaska, to Antarctica, to Portland, Oregon. Desolation at every step. Also, Dave made him play a...

Mahdis played the lead female role in Dave’s 1990’s Punk vs. Straight Edge gang film THE EDGE OF QUARREL. Shortly after that, she went on to do amazing things working on human rights issues of worldwide importance in conjunction with the U.N., while Dave pretty much just kept going to hardcore shows. Now finally back together in the same room, Dave and Mahdis rake through the coals of the past and uncover various bright embers including harrowing tales of prejudice encountered at 4 years old,...

Dave met Bill Baker (JAYHAWKER, SLOWSIDEDOWN, Incision Records) on the mean streets (playgrounds) of Bellingham in the 1970s. They formed a bond that carried them through violence and revenge, attempted murders, and classroom behavior that would get a kid expelled and/or heavily medicated today. It was really fun. Later they got into skateboarding, punk, hardcore and Straight Edge, formed bands, put on shows, started record labels, and had various other adventures of the sort you can only...

For our second episode, Rocky Votolato sits down with Dave to discuss how and when they might have met for the first time. From there, Dave goads Rocky into unearthing all sorts of potentially incriminating dirt from his childhood. All goes well until an unexpected interruption threatens to derail the whole thing. How does it all turn out? You’ll just have to listen. Rocky’s New record is called HOSPITAL HANDSHAKES. It will be released on April 21st, 2015. You can find information on...

Episode 1 of a new Podcast. This first episode brings Dave back together with Greg Bennick (TRIAL, BETWEEN EARTH & SKY, One Hundred For Haiti, wordsasweapons.com, etc.) Dave and Greg discuss their first probable meeting, a bunch of other stuff, and mimes.