High School Never Ends : A Pop-Punk Dad Podcast

High School Never Ends : A Pop-Punk Dad Podcast

Thirty-Something Dads, ‘Wingman’ Steve and Chris-183, nerd out over the power-chorded glory that was 90's and 2000’s pop-punk. Their hearts are Blink and Yellowcard but their brains are pure Baby Shark.

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May 8, 2025 99 mins

In our next Movie May Soundtrack Edition we're deep diving the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack! We're joined by Steve Kelly who played in a cover band that solely played this album which is the definition of an expert. Enjoy the episode and we hope it's not the most annoying sound in the world.

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Movie May is back with a brand new spin! All month we will be diving into some of our favorite movie soundtracks. First up, a movie that captivated us all and a soundtrack that has 90's written all over it... it's American Pie! Dave Dross joins in on the fun.

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April 24, 2025 112 mins

Patron Picks April wraps up as Tom chose a band that we really needed to talk about. This week we deep dive The Wonder Years and their album The Greatest Generation.

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April 17, 2025 102 mins

We're back to Patron Picks April and next up Ashleigh chose REM's Monster. We deep dive the album and talk a whole bunch about REM!

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April 10, 2025 60 mins

Awful April was so fun last year that even though it's not our official theme for the month we had to sneak one in there. A vote on social media dubbed Fall Out Boy's MANIA as AWFUL. Do we agree?

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April 6, 2025 69 mins

Quick Hits is back! In a special bonus episode we sit down with Sean and Mike from Pittsburgh's Old Neon! They talk us through playing through several natural disasters and we check out their brand new single from their upcoming EP Resolution. Check out Old Neon on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wlS5mhA0UzBOuLfaeMQvx?si=J6b4gL_IS1qThXKzpOuUPQ

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April 3, 2025 86 mins

For April we raffled off our episode topics to our Patrons. PunkishDad's name was first drawn so he got to pick the topic and he went with Mom Jeans and their album Sweet Tooth.

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March 27, 2025 76 mins

In our final Steve Picks episode, we're talking about a pop-punk emo staple, Mayday Parade and their debut album A Lesson in Romantics!

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March 20, 2025 122 mins

Never before spoken about in HSNE history, we're talking about musical comedy! This week on Steve Picks we're deep diving Stephen Lynch's album Superhero. It's inappropriate and hilarious - don't listen with your kids in the car. Local comedian Jesse Draham joins in on the fun - follow him on Instagram @jessedraham

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Since the launch of the show Wingman Steve has been talking up the band Ludo as the best band not enough people have heard of. Today we're joined by Mike Landlot, owner of over 216 small businesses to discuss their album You're Awful, I Love You. You can find Mike's podcast all about Small Busness here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/small-busness/id1796984419

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March 6, 2025 80 mins

It's now March and it's Wingman Steve's turn to pick any album he wants. First up, we're going with America Hi-Fi's debut self-titled album. Was this album just a flavor of the weak or does it hold up in its entirety?

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February 27, 2025 89 mins

In the final Chris Picks February, we're taking a trip to  A Place in the Sun by Lit. Is this album more than just the big singles? Is it rock, or pop-punk, or something else? Find out as we deep dive the album and more!

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February 20, 2025 77 mins

Next up on Chris Picks, we're heading back to NJ to deep dive Senses Fail and their sophomore album Still Searching. Chris has loved this album for a long time, tune in and see if Wingman can get on board!

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February 13, 2025 61 mins

Sometimes when our listeners make suggestions we actually follow through on them! This week we got a recommendation to listen to No Pressure's self-titled album and it's Chris Picks February so Chris picked it! Is this a new school call back to the old school? Listen to the album and our episode for our thoughts!

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February 6, 2025 75 mins

This month it's Chris-183's world and we're just listening along. Chris personally picks whatever album he wants and it's all kicked off with a discussion of Sam's Town by The Killers.

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January 31, 2025 85 mins

We're wrapping up our New from 2024 series with some old school punks doing some new music. This week resident Offspring expert Bailey joins us for a deep dive on SUPERCHARGED. Is this album truly supercharged or is it a dead battery? Listen and find out!

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January 23, 2025 106 mins

The originator of the phrase "High School Never Ends" Mr Jaret Reddick joins us for an epic conversation this week! We tackle the real hard questions including the best actors of our generation, preferences in beer and of course a ton of stuff about the greatest band in the world - Bowling for Soup!

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January 16, 2025 78 mins

You might be saying to yourself, Hot Mulligan's Why Would I Watch is from 2023 and you're supposed to be covering albums from 2024. Well, look at you Mr or Mrs Mathematician. It doesn't matter, we wanted to talk Hot Mulligan!

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January 9, 2025 84 mins

Last year we covered Neck Deep for the first time and bought in big time. This time around we tackle their newest self-titled album from 2024 along with our bud PunkishDad

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Happy New Year! To kick things off we're going back to last year and deep diving some new records that came out. First up is Bayside's There are Worse Things Than Being Alive. We first covered Bayside last year and now we're going to check out what they've been up to lately with the help of our friend Sam.

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