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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January 8, 2026 91 mins

Next up on HSNE Goes Old School we're breaking out the black coat, white shoes shoes, black hat, Cadillac and we're talkin about Rancid's 1995 record ...And Out Come The Wolves. Mark from The Two Point Conversation Podcast joins us to walk through this old school ska/punk classic and debate what's Rancid's biggest single. 

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It's a new year and a new theme here on HSNE. We're going back back to the old school and visiting some albums that were influential on the pop-punk scene. To start, we are going into The Descendents and their first record Milo Goes to College

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December 25, 2025 84 mins

It's a Christmas miracle! We've brought all 3 of our HSNE Jeopardy Champions together for a Tournament of Champs. We PunkishDad vs Tom vs Dave to see who is the champ of champs. The questions have gotten harder and the board has gotten bigger. Listen in and see who prevails for a very special prize!

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We're capping off our 2025 Recap with a deep dive on Motion City Soundtrack's new album The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World. It's been 10 years since we've heard a new album from these guys and this is the first Wingman Steve and Chris-183 have seen released as official fans. Tom Good joins us as the resident MCS expert to talk about this one track by track.

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Next on our list of 2025 albums we couldn't wait to chat about, it's Hot Mulligan and The Sound A Body Makes When It's Still. Call it emo, screamo, midwest emo, whatever you want, we were just stoked to dive into this one and how could we resist all the fun song titles?

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December 4, 2025 103 mins

We've waited 18 years for a new Starting Line full length album and they delivered with 2025's Eternal Youth. We're joined by lifelong Starting Line fan Sam to break this one down, discuss the hooks and sounds and debate where it scores in the Starting Line discography.

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November 27, 2025 71 mins

It's the end of the year and it's time to reflect back on all the beautiful pop-punk music we were given in 2025. In our first of several 2025 Recap episodes we're deep diving Yellowcard's first full length record since their reunion, Better Days. Huge singles, violins, some electronics, Travis Barker, Avril, Matt Skiba... we have a lot to discuss.

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November 20, 2025 65 mins

For our final HSNE Collabs, we're chatting with Chris from across the pond and The Wasting Time Podcast. Chris chats with us all about their show, some cool guests they've had on, and their involvement with our favorite music festival - Four Chord!

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November 16, 2025 65 mins

In this Patreon episode, we took 10 Yellowcard songs, 10 Starting Line songs, and 4 total wild cards and did a fantasy draft with our buddies Stew and Steve Kelly. We also invited third party analysts Dr Bernie and Sam to evaluate the teams and see who came out on top!

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November 13, 2025 71 mins

For our next HSNE Collabs we are chatting with Lisa from Stereo Therapy Podcast. We talk all about the local music scenes in Chicago and New Jersey and discuss the importance of mental health in the scene. Check them out @stereo.therapy!

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November 6, 2025 89 mins

This month we're collabing with some awesome fellow podcasters. We're kicking things off with our friends Wiley and Steve from Playlitest. We talk all about playlists, CD-RW's, their show and more. We even created a Quintessential Pop-Punk Playlist which you can listen to! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2d0Ec1TIJjT211rv4sgqsS?si=63d7c0d824b4451b

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October 30, 2025 79 mins

In our next Rocktober episode we get to the transitionary period where Linkin Park goes from nu-metal to rock, and that's Minutes to Midnight. We bleed it out together and deep dive this 2007 banger!

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October 23, 2025 131 mins

It's Rocktober and we're gonna chat a little bit about some rock bands. To kick us off we're starting with Aerosmith. This is a band Wingman Steve has been following for over 30 years and we're gonna talk about their compilation album Big Ones that covers their Permanent Vacation, Pump, and Get a Grip albums. We're joined by long time friend Jello to share his perspective on the boys from Boston.

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October 16, 2025 75 mins

Unfortunately we were not able to make it to this year's Warped Tour reunion shows, but we have Warped Tour experts Aaron and Drew from The Warped Band to re-live the old Warped glory days and give us a recap of what went down this year. Check out The Warped Band at a city near you at warpedband.com!

 

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It's time to put a pin in Four Chord Music Festival 11, and to do that properly, we have Rishi Bahl, the founder of the festival on to talk all about how the fest went with some behind the scenes info. Make sure to sign up for early updates for next year at www.fourchordmusicfestival.com

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It's time to put a pin in Four Chord Music Festival 11, and to do that properly, we have Rishi Bahl, the founder of the festival on to talk all about how the fest went with some behind the scenes info. Make sure to sign up for early updates for next year at www.fourchordmusicfestival.com

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September 25, 2025 53 mins

It all comes down to this. We have our 3 winners from this season, Jeff, Dave and Chris facing off against each other to see who is this season's champion! 

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September 18, 2025 52 mins

As we get close to wrapping up Season 3 of HSNE Jeopardy we need to find out the third person to join the elite winner's circle and advance to the championship. This week Chris, Dave and Matt face off!

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September 11, 2025 48 mins

It's Game 2 of HSNE Jeopardy Season 3! Today we have Dave, Tyson and Kevin facing off to see who's got the pop-punk knowledge to advance to our championship!

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