Podcast
Between Awesome and Disaster with Will Carey
Hosted by Will Carey · EN
Comedian and musician Will Carey sees life as a balance between two kinds of moments, awesome and disaster. He sits down with a guest to talk about their life, creative interests, and taking a disastrous moment and turning it into an awesome one.
www.awesomedisaster.com
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Episode 347 - Tom Lee Rose of On Hiatus
Sep 2, 202401:21:52Tap to summarizeOn Hiatus vocalist/bassist Tom Lee Rose is dedicated to building up the punk rock scene in Des Moines, Iowa, and continuing the band throught van tours and incrediable loss. He talks to Will about the band's recent tour, the music scene in Iowa, the music that drew him to bass guitar, self recording the band's newest ep One More Day, and the small victories that need to occur for a band to get on stage. Listen to On Hiatus: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6jYIcwKrCbqkYeMRcOODY5?si=f9SfTl4jSlSsDh0dimkkow Follow the band and Tom on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onhiatusband?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== https://www.instagram.com/tomonhiatus?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Listen to Rhode Island by Skip Lag: https://open.spotify.com/track/6StU3cjkNVf3zASJ77w3hA?si=bc34291a71f84e76 Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster Awesome Disaster Highlights! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07 Will's Band: https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/
Transcribe →Episode 346 - Stuart Mckillop of Precursor
Aug 26, 202401:08:03Tap to summarizePrecursor guitarist Stuart Mckillop says the bands music is a product of their surroundings and the angst that you discover when you get older. He talks to Will about the band's new album Thick & Thin, working with the bands lead vocalist on song rewrites, the recording and engineering of the album, the punk scene in Vancouver, BC of the late 90s early 2000s, his time in Daggermouth and how Precursor is the natural extension of this musical style. Listen to Precursor. https://open.spotify.com/album/3WWcjT7IvFYLR5MLB5fe6Q?si=ps6l4eJfSxSeoGOd2yUHNg Stuart on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sturules604/?hl=en Listen to Rhode Island by Skip Lag: https://open.spotify.com/track/6StU3cjkNVf3zASJ77w3hA?si=bc34291a71f84e76 Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster Awesome Disaster Highlights! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07 Will's Band: https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/
Transcribe →Episode 175 - Marc Abbott
Aug 17, 2020Tap to summarizeStoryteller and Moth Grandslam Winner Marc Abbott begins this episode with the story of the time we worked security at a Tupac Concert in Atlanta. Then he tells Will about meeting a surprisingly down to earth Michael Jackson, growing up in Brooklyn, how big an impression Star Wars made on him as a child, studying film, the moment he realized he had to make his own path in show business, self publishing, and how a storytelling show at his local bar led to him Winning the Moth Grandslam, developing solo shows, and how he and Will may be doing socially distanced shows in Tents until the pandemic ends. https://whoismarclabbott.com/ Marc's apperance on RISK http://risk-show.com/tag/marc-abbott/ Will's Social Media, Patreon, Band, and Merch here: https://linktr.ee/WillCarey
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Episode 75 - Lex Friedman
Jan 28, 2019Tap to summarizeLex Friedman's journey into the world of comedy podcasting was not traditional. He talks with Will about growing up in an observant Jewish household in Pennsylvania, his love of Weird Al, His dream of writing for SNL, sending postcards of jokes to Jay Leno, his time with the Groundlings in LA, his early exposure to tech podcasts, and developing ad selling skills on his own leading to his current position as Chief Business Development Officer at Stitcher and Host of Earwolf's The Wolf Den. Lex's Podcasts The Wolf Den https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/earwolf/wolf-den Turning This Car Around https://turningthiscararound.com/ The Rebound http://reboundcast.com/ Lex on Twitter:@lexfri Will on Twitter: @comicwillcarey
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