Creativity Is The Cure
In each episode, Malcolm Moore interviews fascinating people of diverse ages, cultures, spiritualities, and professions about how creativity influences their daily lives and work. Malcolm lives in California with his wife and cats. Episodes, in general, drop every Wednesday and Sunday.
Episodes
18-year-old composer, guitarist and singer Ethan Morrow discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life. Heavy emphasis on extreme metal, classical music and music theory!
Topics include; Xanthochroid, Meshuggah, Steve Terreberry, DragonForce, Blast beats, guitar shredding, Drowning Pool, Insomnium, Dimmu Borgir, Mastodon, Secundal tone clusters, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Fear Factory, Eric Whitacre, Henry Ro...
Drum Workshop DWe Brand Manager Mike Sutton discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life. Heavy emphasis on electronic drumming.
Topics include; *DWe, Drum Workshop, electronic/acoustic hyrbrid drum sets, Roland, music technology...and everything you ever wanted to know about the infamous Monocle-Wearing Taco-Tasting Group!
*DWe™ introduces the first-ever acoustic and electronic convertible drum set with ...
Animator, Guitarist, Songwriter and Mixologist Justin Wilcott discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life.
Topics include; Justin3dart, Dear David, SuperJazzyJustin, Yacht Rock, John Mayer, Hall & Oates, 3D printing, cats, baby sea turtles, pirate ships, Intelligentsia cold brew, A.I., Roblox, and promoting concerts on The Block for Laufey, The Weekend and KPop Demon Hunters. Oof!
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Drummer, Store Owner and Educator Dave Cohen discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life. Cohen studied privately at The Eastman School of Music with Bill Cahn and John McNeil as well as with legendary jazz drummer Vinnie Ruggiero in Rochester, NY. College: University of North Texas with Ed Soph.
Topics include; Prime Time Funk, CMD, Back Seat Sally, Buddy Rich, Steve Gadd, Barry Kiener, Tony Williams,...
11-year-old Soccer player, drummer, rapper and singer Axel Archila discusses how creativity affects his personal life.
Topics include; Soccer, Paris Saint German Academy Los Angeles, Gorillaz, Rage Against the Machine, Avenged Sevenfold, using toilet paper for a soccerball...and how his dogs, Kato and Norman, have a HUGE bite force!
*Recorded October 2025 in Los Angeles, CA.
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Audio engineer, public speaker and world traveler Everett Mohr discusses how creativity affects his personal life and what it's like to be a teenage Waymo Beta Tester!
*Recorded September 2025 at Maestro Machinations Studio in Palmdale, CA.
Topics include; Creative technology, Musack.org, Snap Circuits, origami, Mohrigami, ADHD, Anxiety, Patrick Mohr, Carolyn Mohr, Grammy Camp, poetry, theater, drama club, Ableton,...
Drummer, composer, producer and Grammy winner John JR Robinson, the most recorded drummer in history, discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life. JR shares rare insight on his recent autobiography, KING OF THE GROOVE.
Topics include; Andre Agassi, Jude Cole, Cindy Crawford, Daft Punk, Miles Davis, John Fogerty, David Foster, Steve Gadd, Mick Guzauski, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Chaka Khan, Dean Par...
Motion Capture Artist Deirdre Krupa discusses how creativity affects her work and personal life.
Topics include; Motion Capture, pick jackets, A.I., Unreal Engine, The Volume, Industrial Light & Magic, Star Wars, Ashoka, Skeleton Crew, Indiana Jones, Wicked, flying monkeys, mental health, ADHD, KISS, Pokémon, Detective Pikachu, The Drexel Motion Capture Club...and how once someone called Motion Capture &q...
Writer/Director/Producer Satie Gossett discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life. Gossett is storyteller, thinker and an image builder. In this episode, he expounds upon Pan and Zoom, his show where he interviews entertainment industry professionals about their career journeys. He is also currently filming a documentary about his late father, legendary actor Lou Gossett Jr.
Topics include; Lou Gosset...
Music industry icon Joe Testa discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life. As Vice President of Artist Relations at Zildjian/Vic Firth, Testa shares an impressive and humorous overview of his impressive career and longevity in the music business.
Topics include; Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth drumsticks, Balter Mallets, Yamaha drums, DCI Music Video, drum machines, 4 track recorders, fax machines, metronom...
Steve Petersen is a Cuban-American, award-winning Creative Director known for producing work that combines live-action and visual effects. Petersen discusses with Malcolm how creativity affects his work and personal life.
Topics include; Miami Vice, Syracuse University, Jenna Ortega, Star Trek, Ricardo Montalban, Walter Koenig, Judge Judy, The X-Files, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Future Cat, Viva (2022), HEAR NO EVIL (2025)...
Actor, public speaker and soccer player Pomona Cicco discusses how creativity affects her personal life and what it's like to be a teenage equestrian!
*Recorded August 2025 in Los Angeles, CA.
Topics include; Books, horses, dark chocolate, theater, pottery, Tiverton, CBGB, David Byrne, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Kate Pierson, Andy Warhol, Lydia Lunch, The Runaways, Deborah Harry, Sid Vicious, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Spirit:...
Percussionist, drummer and educator John McNeill discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life. This one was very special to me because John was my drum teacher for nearly a decade in the 70's and 80's. He has greatly influenced my life and inspired me in myriad ways ever since then.
Topics include; The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, The Eastman School of Music, John Beck, Ruth Cahn, Bill Cah...
J.C. Gabel continues to discusses with Malcolm how creativity affects his work and personal life. Part 6, the final episode, focuses heavily on social media and how it affects book publishers.
Topics include; The Loved One, Gary Baseman, Brian Roettinger, David Lynch, Marc Maron, Noah Wyle, Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Barnes & Noble, the 21st century surveillance capitalism advertising agency...and how p...
Singer, musician, author and prolific composer Andy Toomey discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life.
Topics include; Zachary Alford, LuAnn Dunkinson, Rick Grice, Pete Levin, Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta, Pat Mastelotto, Scott Petito, Iggy Pop, Markus Reuter, Goatika Creative Lab, Stick Men, Dreamland Recording Studios, Endangered Wise Men studios, NRS Recording Studio, Tuvan throat singing, how to avoid...
J.C. Gabel continues to discusses with Malcolm how creativity affects his work and personal life. Part 5 of their discussion focuses heavily on the current global financial system and how it affects book publishers.
Topics include; The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, John Cale, Brian Eno, The Cure, Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, Blur, Damon Albarn, Minutemen, A to Z Media, The Numero Group and the book Slash: A Pu...
Ever wonder how to turn a human into Chester Cheetah and beam him into Las Vegas as a hologram? Paul Salmons, experienced film and TV producer with a strong background in cinematography and post-production, discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life.
Topics include; Holograms, Pepper's ghost, Whitney Houston, FilmOn TV, The Volume, AI, Salvador Dali, Tim Burton, David Fincher, Se7en, Brad Pitt, M...
Digital Storyteller and musician Rev. Samuel discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life.
Topics include; Torch and Hammer, Schwag, Where Is the Chesterfield King?,The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Monkey's Paw, The Sphere of Density, The Interloper, Save the Cat!, Salem's Lot, Destroy All Monsters, Star Trek, Smog Monster aka Hedorah, Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Lord of the Rings (1978), Mohai...
J.C. Gabel continues to discusses with Malcolm how creativity affects his work and personal life. Part 4 of their discussion focuses heavily on the current global financial system and how it affects book publishers.
Topics include; Los Lobos, Warren Ellis, Rutger Bregman, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Los Angeles culture and history, Dub Lab, Big Table podcast, The Decline of Western Civilization Parts 1 and 2, Slas...
Drummer, composer and painter Chris Parker discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life.
Topics include; Saturday Night Live, Bob Dylan, G. E. Smith, T-Bone Wolk, Will Lee, Steve Gadd, Frida Kahlo, Thelonious Monk, Stuff, Brecker Brothers, Don Grolnick, Steve Khan, David Sanborn, Quincy Jones, The Parker Brothers Extravaganza, Sneaky Cookin', Mikell's, Woodstock, New York, Salt-N-Pepa, Emu Sp12...
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