Today's guest is comedian Ricky Velez whose debut comedy special 'Here's Everything' is now available on HBO Max. Pete Davidson & Judd Apatow are executive producers of the special. Michael Bonfiglio directs. Ricky acted in & co-produced last years hit comedy 'The King of Staten Island' with Judd Apatow and is currently working with Judd on a new top-secret project... of which we'll learn ...

Zakk Wylde is the founder, guitarist, and lead singer of the heavy metal band band Black Label Society who you can catch this Friday, October 8 at the Roseland Theater in Portland. The group’s new full length album 'Doom Crew Inc' drops appropriately enough on Black Friday of this year. The record is a tribute to the BLS road crew and a salute to band’s loyal legion of fans.  Zakk’s also featured on Ozzy Osbourne’s forthc...

Flula Borg is a German actor, musician, comedian, YouTube personality and DJ who stars as 'Javelin' in the 2021 feature film The Suicide Squad. His character serves in the first team of Task Force X in the DC action adventure.  Flula's also teamed up Reggie Watts + virtual DJs Ivan and Peter on a new dance release, “Javelin (Move Your Body),” inspired by the movie’s character.  Portland-based art-pop project MANE cha...

Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home is the new The #1 New York Times Bestseller from Roger Bennett, one-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo. The longtime culture and soccer commentator traces the origins of his love affair with America in the biography, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980s Liverpool to become the quintessential Englishman in New York. Music used ...

Carole Hooven teaches in and co-directs the undergraduate program in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She was a featured guest last month on the Joe Rogan Experience promoting her new book 'T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us,' which is also the basis of our chat today. Music used under license. Support The Portland Podcast by visiting  http://pdxpodca...

4-time Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Michael League is the founder of Snarky Puppy and musical director for David Crosby and has just released his debut solo album So Many Me via GroundUP Music. Quarantine found League in a tiny apartment in Cadiz, Spain with no Snarky Puppy projects or major production gigs on the horizon. He found himself with the time to compile the footnotes, drafts...

From Auto-Tune to boy bands to the rise of country pop, THIS IS POP dives deep into some of the most significant moments in pop music history over the past seven decades. The 8-part series is now available streaming on Netflix & features exclusive interviews with the artists, producers, songwriters and superstars including Shania Twain, Boyz II Men, ABBA’s Benny Andersson, T-Pain, Brandi Carlile, Public Enemy’s Chuck D and many...

For much of a year, Sebastian Junger and 3 friends walked the railroad lines of the East Coast as an experiment in personal autonomy, but also in interdependence. Dodging railroad cops, sleeping under bridges, cooking over fires, and drinking from creeks and rivers, the four men forged a unique reliance on each another. Sebastian's latest book 'Freedom' weaves his account of this journey together with primatology and...

Michael Easter is a leading voice on how humans can integrate modern science and evolutionary wisdom for improved health, meaning, and performance in life and at work. Michael’s investigations have taken him into ancient monasteries in Bhutan, US Special Forces training grounds, high-tech genetic labs in Iceland & some of the world’s most remote wilderness areas.
Michael chats with us fresh from his appearance on the Joe Ro...

Today we chat with comedian, author & USC professor Wayne Federman whose just released his new book 'The History of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle' which chronicles the evolution of the art form of American standup from its earliest pre-vaudeville practitioners like Artemus Ward and Mark Twain to present-day comics. Wayne also is currently co-producing HBO's upcoming George Carlin documentary with Ju...

In American Detective, Lt. Joe Kenda trades in his own case files from his previous show Homicide Hunter to bring viewers  investigations from across the country. Each episode features a different homicide detective whose tireless efforts help put a killer behind bars.
Joe's new book Killer Triggers explores the many triggers of homicide such as fear, rage, revenge, money, lust, and, sheer madness. The book is a follow-up ...

SYML will perform at Seattle’s iconic St. Mark’s Cathedral Sunday, April 25. The set starts at 11am PT and will be livestreamed globally. SYML's forthcoming EP DIM is due April 16. You can catch the single STAY CLOSE right now... it's a deeply personal song touching on grief & a supernatural sense of love. Support The Portland Podcast by visiting http://pdxpodcast.com/ & rating on Apple Podcasts. Music used under ...

New York Times best-selling author Jon Acuff on his new book Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking  which drops today Tuesday April 6, 2021.  When we don't control our thoughts, our thoughts control us. If our days are full of broken soundtracks, our mind can be our worst enemy, but the solution to overthinking isn't to stop our thoughts, it's to put the needle to the vinyl of improved soundtracks. Sup...

Saxsquatch is the saxiest and smoothest squatch in the woods. You can hear him tickling the brass and dancing with his big feet from miles away. The MVP of social distancing has become a viral star with a sold-out national tour and the #1 live streaming music show in the US. John Oates of Daryl Hall & John Oates has teamed up with the viral sax-playing star to transform the original chart-topping hit “Maneater” into an electro-...

Today's guests are Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, the Academy-award winning directing team behind the new HBO documentary feature film TINA, an intimate portrait of the legendary singer Tina Turner. Director Chris Shimojima chats with us in the  second part of today's show. He's the director of the indie film Alberto and the Concrete Jungle which recently screened at The Portland International Film Festival & curre...