Welcome back! (ok, we took a little summer vacation)
But this time Pearce is on the east coast and Milo is in the Minnesota. Long distance, new mic, and...
Life on the road and Shakespeareyness, stumbling around onstage during a heat wave in Elizabethan clothes, hittin' the beach at Asbury Park in the land of THE BOSS, Milo's summer job, turning 20 and adulting and a deep dive into the movie "Long Legs"
-SPOILER ALERT!!!- if you don't want to hear anything about the movie, pause at
39 minutes in and fast forward to 1:07!

Growing Up Naked theme composed, arranged and performed by Isaac Dell
Music:
The A Team, written and performed by Ed Sheeran, from the album
"Ed Sheeran"
Wild Billy's Circus Story, written and performed by Bruce Springsteen.
from the album "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J."

There's mayhem in the world and we're talking about it!
Like a bat out of hell we go from war (oops- the "special operation") in Ukraine to war in Israel and Palestine to student protests, then segue (in our inimitable style) into dwarves and Larry David, with a birthday shout out to our old buddy Ryan Dawes, a hey ho to Heart To Gold and Why Not, and a happy landing on cows, horses and goats. Yeah, as usual we're all over the place- who isn't?
Plus some more tasty musical tidbits!

Growing Up Naked theme, composed, arranged and performed by Isaac Dell
Music
Sensitive New Age Guys, performed by Christine Lavin, from the album
"Attainable Love"
Just Friends, by John Klenner and Sam M. Lewis, performed by Milo Bunting
Just Friends, by John Klenner and Sam M. Lewis, performed by Bobby Darrin
from the album "Beyond The Sea"

Links to things we talk about-
Ukrainian Words project
https://www.theatrenovimost.org
20 Days in Mariupol documentary
https://20daysinmariupol.com/
An open letter to the Columbia protesters from a peace activist in Israel
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-798832
Unsettled Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unsettled/id1253624935
Smartless episode w/Larry David
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/larry-david/id1521578868?i=1000651575207

For better or worse, imagine yourself a fly on the wall.

Casually conversatin' about affairs of the heart (literally), staying in touch with the ones you love (and not waiting for a podcast),
more understudy drama, Julian Lage, Martha Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Staten Island, and featuring a couple of musical revelations by Adrianne Lenker and Friko.
Layin' back loooong distance with love and the like.

Growing Up Naked theme composed, arranged and performed by Isaac Dell
Music:
Real House composed and performed by Adianne Lenker, from the album Bright Future
Where We've Been composed and performed by Friko, from the album
Where We've Been, Where We Go From Here
Dry Your Eyes composed and performed by The Streets from the album
A Grand Don't Come For Free

Welcome back to school everybody! High School, Music School and the School of Life.
It's a little time machine for you back to last Thanksgiving, 2023, in which we sit down with Milo's band mate, Willis Ray. (yeah, we got episodes stockpiled!)
Much is discussed- Understudy drama, awkward Thanksgiving moments, TERF's, and the cost of playing clams. It's a magical and musical communion with a couple of Gen Z's and a boomer, looking forward and looking back.
Willis is the shit and we love him.


Growing Up Naked theme composed, arranged and performed by Isaac Dell
Music:
Little Grey Houses composed and performed by Willis Ray
Without Me composed and performed by Mac DeMarco,
from the mini-LP Another One

Listen to More Willis Ray on Spotify or Apple Music!

Hey there, it's been a while 🤪!
We're back with the Season 5 premier spectacular (!!!) where stories rear their pointy heads, from opening night anxiety to grace for a sick friend, rough encounters on the streets of New York, gender neutral bathrooms, grandparents struggling with cell phones and the incident at Katz's Deli.
Like a ri-VUH, yo! It's good to be riding the airwaves again!

Growing Up Naked theme, composed, arranged and performed by Isaac Dell

Music:
Off Minor by Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk/piano,
Art Blakey/Drums, Gene Ramey/Bass, from "Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1"
Off Minor by Thelonious Monk, performed by Kenny Wessel/guitar,
Mark Mommaas/tenor saxophone, Jay Anderson/acoustic bass from "In the Briarpatch"
Oxford Town composed and performed by Bob Dylan, from "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"

For more information about James Meredith- https://50years.olemiss.edu/james-meredith/
For more information about Henry Gallagher-https://a.co/d/09gpdOT

WORK WORK WORK! We're always working on ourselves and each other!
Our final episode of Season 4- Episode # FORTY! And after taking MO to see a show in NYC, cousin Sarah came to MN a couple days later to see a live show of her favorite podcast (which evidently isn't ours). We talk about work at school, working for a school, working on hard stuff, the glorious trials of the middle school years, the trials and tribulations of being a teacher and a principle,
the MTA, world disasters, personal disasters, family, impaired memory and, of course, music.


Growing Up Naked theme composed, performed and produced by Isaac Dell
Music-
Sea Journey (Chick Corea), performed by Gary Burton (vibraphone),
Eberhard Weber (double bass), Pat Methany (guitar), Steve Swallow (bass guitar), Dan Gottlieb (drums). From the 1977 album "Passengers"
Boozophilia by Low Cut Connie from the 2016 album Audiotree Live.
Adam Weiner (piano, vocals), Dan Finnemore (drums, guitar and vocals),
Will Donnelly (guitar and vocals), James Everhart (guitar), Larry Scott (bass)
https://lowcutconnie.com

Milo's on their own in NYC, flourishing, struggling and wrastlin' with the good and the less good, magnificently.
No context in this episode- just pure, raw conversation. If there's a theme, it's what's underneath.
A conversation that takes the road less travelled and feels the truth of winter coming. Sleeplessness, Rhett and Link, Marsha P. Johnson, Angry Birds, Minnie Riperton, String Cheese Incident, neurodivergence, committing a content-focused epistemic injustice, window salesmen and gender are all on the path.
We're doing what we do best- loving each other and listening.

Growing Up Naked theme composed, performed and produced by Isaac Dell
Music-
Les Fleurs, sung by Minnie Riperton from the album "Come to my Garden"
Take Five, performed by String Cheese Incident from the album "Carnival '99"

For more information about Marsha P. Johnson, go to-
https://wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-turmoil/growing-tensions/marsha-p-johnson/

For more information about Minnie Ripperton and String Cheese Incident-
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/minnie-riperton-mn0000500889#biography
https://www.stringcheeseincident.com

Ok, it's not that hard to edit and put up one of these episodes, so why did this take so long? Well, life and how we do it is a little more confusing since Milo left the Minneapolis. But now he's in the BIG APPLE-ISS and THIS IS OUR FIRST LONG DISTANCE EPISODE!
We talk about a new life in New York, which in Milo's case involves bumping into a jazz guitar legend, college, roommates, classes, pet turtles, A LOT of jazz vernacular and yes, missing home. Enjoy!

Growing Up Naked theme composed, performed and produced by Isaac Dell

Music-
Equinox by John Coltrane, from the 1964 album "Coltrane's Sound"- John Coltrane (tenor sax), McCoy Tyner (piano), Steve Davis (bass), Elvin Jones (drums)
The Pioneers by Bill Frisell, from the album "Four"- Bill Frisell (guitar), Greg Tardy (tenor sax, clarinet), Gerald Clayton (piano), Jonathan Blake (drums
Question, composed and performed by Milo Bunting