Talk About the Passion

Episode 4: Elevate Me Later (A Conversation with Michael Brousseau)

Episode four is a talk with tattoo artist and owner of Hope Street Tattoo in Providence, RI, Michael Brousseau. We talk in detail about his artwork and how he went from an early love of Mad Magazine, to grafitti, to tattooing and everything in between. We spend a good amount of time on hip-hop music as well as 90's indie rock. Michael talks in detail about the infamous "Guilty of Being Delicious" tattoo he did on his close friend. 

Michael has a great personality, is hilarious and is a great story teller. The perfect guest for Talk About the Passion, a good friend that can hold an in depth coversation about anything. His passion and love of his artwork and an intense love of music are glaring throughout this conversation. 

Episode 3: Dance of Days (A Conversation with Jason Kooken)

Episode Three of Talk About the Passion is an in depth conversation with my friend Jason Kooken. Jason talks about his time growing up in New Jersey, Washington DC and other parts of the country. His time getting into hardcore in Washington DC just as the "Revolution Summer" hit, his time serving in the Coast Guard as well as working as a policeman in Massachusetts. He also talks about his recent injury that almost left him permanently paralyzed as a result of a stage diver at a hardcore show in NJ. His numerous bike tours raising money for families of fallen police officers as well as many other charities. 

This was my first interview I did for this podcast, Jason is a great storyteller, an intense, smart guy that has a lot of great things to say. His story and his outlook on life is the very definition of passion. 

Episode 2: Look Back & Laugh (A Conversation With Peter Bebergal)

Episode Two is the first "conversation" episode of Talk About the Passion. My guest is author Peter Bebergal (Season of the Witch, Too Much to Dream, The Faith Between Us) We talk about growing up in the suburbs of Boston discovering outsider music, hardcore music, punk rock music, playing Dungeons and Dragons, adventuring into the city and where we're at now with music. 

There is a companion Spotify playlist I made with some of the artists we talk about on this episode here 

You can buy Peter's books here

Episode 1: Meet the Press

This first episode is an introduction of sorts. It's my introduction to interviewing people, being around famous people, not so famous people and people who love what they do. 

Once you get through my umm's and ahh's I talk about interviewing Keith Morris of the Circle Jerks at age 15, feeling taller than Tommy Shaw of Styx at age 7 and where I'd like to see the podcast go in the future. 

This is a short episode, around sixteen minutes. I expect most of the interview episodes to be around an hour or so. 

Music in this episode is from my band from 2000-2009 Presley.