Yo! That’s My Jawn: The Podcast
Yo! That’s My Jawn is a podcast/website/brand/movement/way of life dedicated to the embrace and championing of your passions. Featuring conversations with musicians and creatives about finding their passions and acting on them, and segments celebrating anything you love unapologetically. Let’s take the guilt out of guilty pleasures. Displace the Guilt, Embrace the Pleasure.... and shout to the world, Yo! That's My Jawn!
Episodes
Nate talks with writer & musician Sam Sadomsky about his path to music journalism and songwriting, shaped by Bruce Springsteen, the blog era, and Pitchfork. They dig into the future of music criticism, the value of deep listening and real perspective, and how Sam balances writing about music with making his own in The Bird Calls, like his latest album, Take Leave, is out this Friday (8/28).
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On today's episode, Nate chats with guitarist/songwriter Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz, Sad13) about her latest release, the 13 track 16-minute mixtape, 1331. Sadie shares her journey from math student to musician, discusses her creative process for short songs, and reflects on her recovery from a serious bike accident. Also... MySpace.
Nate gives a brief update on the goings on of former guests of the podcast before sitting down for a chat with Chris Ballew about his career in music and his latest release, Newborn Human. Stories about Beck, Madonna, Weird Al, the Sir-Mix-a-Lot collaboration Subset and MORE!
An All New Season! Nate returns to the podcast with a conversation with Tamra Davis, director of the new documentary The Best Summer that captures the 1995/1996 Summersault Festival in Australia, featuring the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, Beck, the Foo Fighters and others. They chat about a wide range of topic from her start in music videos, her pivot to feature films and MORE!
A fond farewell to 2025 and a list of thanks....
The audio from the Sixth Annual Holiday Ukulele Sing A Long Livestream, recorded this past Saturday, December 20th.
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The holiday season brings with it a unique blend of nostalgia, joy, and sometimes, a touch of chaos. In this episode of the Yo! That's My Jawn podcast, Nate and his festive co-hosts Ferris, James & DX sit down for their annual Christmas roundtable, sharing their thoughts on the season's festivities, traditions, and even a little music. Then, they compete in the first ever Christmas Draft, drafting teams comprised of the followi...
Nate talks Turkey, teases the upcoming Holiday episodes of the show and then sits for a chat with comedian/writer Josh Gondelman. They chat about the RISK! Podcast, Josh's childhood in Massachusetts, his exposure to comedy in his early years, finding ways to still appreciate the art of awful people, reconciling old material, being responsible while writing, his path into comedy writing, working on Billy On the Street, Last Week Ton...
Back with an all new episode, Nate chats with songwriter/author Chris Dalla Riva about his new book, Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves. They discuss the relationship between music and data, growing up, first songs on guitar, going to college and studying math, early songwriting, writing, Chris's viral key change article, starting the Billboard listening project that would become the...
We're back (again)! Nate drops a bombshell announcement and then shares some bonus content from the interview he did with the Philly band, Kulfigirls as a guest host on Dan Drago's 25 O'Clock Podcast.
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On this day, five years ago... Yo! That's My Jawn: The Podcast was born....
In honor of the anniversary, Nate shares an unreleased segment from his season four chat with Zach Eastman.
Thank you to everyone who has ever listened to this silly little show put together by a guy in his basement with delusions of grandeur.
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Nate has a chance to sit down with singer/songwriter David Wilcox for a chat about his new album, The Way I Tell The Story & MORE! They talk about David's childhood, learning guitar at 18, his early songwriting, starting to play out at open mic nights, Joni Mitchell, cutting his teeth busking in Philly on South Street, Nightshift Watchmen, being prolific, what it was like being signed to a major label, major vs. indie releases,...
"Better Nate than never...." Nate is back with a fun hang with the brother & sister creative team, Samantha & Tommy Gongol! They chat about their childhood, the genesis of the Flash In The Pan web series, doing a web series over a sitcom, casting the roles of their parents, wrapping production, using social media to promote a web series vs. music, using the single "Flash In The Pan"as the theme song for the show, the announ...
Nate gives an update on the recent delayed episode releases and ponders out loud about the generative AI band with hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify. Then, Nate sits down with David Lowery (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven). They talk about David's childhood living across the world as a son of a member of the Air Force, how music entered his life, the move to California and exposure to neighborhood bands, forming the band Si...
After an extended break Nate returns with an all new episode! He is joined this week by Kevin Hanson (The Fractals, Huffamoose) for a chat about the new EP, Rescue & MORE! They talk about growing up in Washington, moving to Philly, learning guitar, playing in jazz bands as a teen, the gutting of funding for public school music education, the state of young guitar players, the formation of Huffamoose, winning the Pepsi Battle of...
Nate caps off his run of weekly episodes with a conversation with the writer/director of the new film O'Dessa, Geremy Jasper. They discuss growing up in New Jersey, the path from music to film, finding and appreciating different styles of music, the Fever, Outlaws, myths and epics, what influenced O'Dessa, making such an original film in the current landscape of film, casting Sadie Sink in the lead role, writing the music for the f...
Nate's back with a chat with Canadian singer/musician, Art d'Ecco. In a dense chat, they talk about the Non-COMMvention, WXPN, growing up in Canada, how Beethoven led him to piano, the early Art d'Ecco music, his first album, Day Fevers, producing, how the two months he spent in New York City birthed Serene Demon, the lack of movements in contemporary music, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the "Disco Sucks" and anti-Glam movements o...
Nate is joined this week by Nick Hexum of the band 311. They chat about Philly show memories, his early music memories, learning how to play piano and pivoting to guitar, Fish Hippos, how prolific band was early in their career, the range of music in the 90s, the end of Capricorn Records, "Love Song" and the 50 First Dates soundtrack, the NIck Hexum Quintet, Waxing Nostalgic and the EP release plans, playing in the same lineup for ...
Nate chats with entrepreneur/technologist Benji Rogers. They talk about meeting years ago at Fergie's Pub, growing up in a family of music industry managers, getting into music, the true purpose of streaming, the CD-R and MP3 era, Bandcamp, content collapse, the give & take of technology, Substack, Sureel.AI and attribution, and how it has been received by the industry. Then, Benji hangs out for The Jawntlet!
Nate's back with an all new chat with the team behind the new nine part HBO documentary Celtics City, director Lauren Stowell and producer Gabe Honig. They chat about Nate's Sixers fandom, Lauren's SC Featured piece The Dutch Destroyer, finally getting t share the doc with the world, how the doc handles the racial dynamics of Boston & the NBA, the weight of telling this story, favorite teams, their favorite eras the covered, ho...
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