Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast

Andy sits down with Phil Rosenthal, the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond and host of Somebody Feed Phil, for a deep, funny, and surprisingly real conversation about life, travel, and finding joy. Topics include: Overcoming fear of the unknown Why travel is the ultimate life hack, loneliness, success, and building a meaningful life Hollywood, rejection, and reinventing your career Why most people are better than their governments ...

Mark Brownstein joins Andy for a candid conversation about the recent Disco Biscuits split with their drummer, Allen Aucoin, and the public fallout around it. Mark shares his perspective on how things unraveled, including communication issues inside the band, the challenges of long-term creative relationships, and the business realities that can complicate everything even more.

Andy also connects it to his own recent breakup with S...

Billy McFarland, the disgraced founder of Fyre Fest, joins Andy Frasco and Nick to talk about life in prison, his biggest mistake, his relationship with Ja Rule, Blink 182 lying, and much more in his crazy life and career saga. This is a quick-hitting, back-and-forth interview with tons of great stories and even an Epstein-related tale he has never said before on a podcast, so check it out. No opening this week, we're getting right...

Andy Frasco and Nick welcome rising bluegrass troublemakers, Magoo, to the World Saving Podcast for an interview that starts unhinged and then gets genuinely heartfelt. The conversation opens with tour-life, stories about the "rock band" era (opening for Buckcherry, shiny pants, chaos, ego, and bad decisions) before sliding into what really shapes musicians: sobriety, heartbreak, and the moments you realize you can't keep "sending ...

This week on the World Saving Podcast, Rock n' Roll Hall of Famer Nancy Wilson joins Andy Frasco and Nick for an interview that covers the entire span of her career. They talk about scoring movies like Elizabethown and Almost Famous, being a trailblazing woman guitarist in a male-dominated industry in the 70s, what's next for Heart in terms of albums and a movie, and much more. She also discusses what it was like switching up their...

Andy Frasco sits down with Wolves of Glendale for a wildly honest, hilarious, and surprisingly deep conversation about comedy music, blowing up online, and saying "yes" when the universe nudges you. They break down how Wolves of Glendale went from Berklee kids and side projects to opening for Tenacious D, selling out shows, and building a massive fanbase. You'll hear how comedy and musicianship collided to create something real, pl...

Andy Frasco and Nick ditch the guest format and go fully unfiltered on this episode of Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast, tackling one of the most honest conversations in the jam-band world, including who needs to quit and why.

The episode spirals into a ruthless (and mostly bleeped) breakdown of bands that should probably hang it up, bands that should come back, and why the scene feels oversaturated right now. From there, the tar...

Amigo the Devil joins Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast for an honest conversation about grief, coincidence, creativity, and what happens when life resets you overnight.

This episode starts with Andy and Nick setting the scene, then Danny opens up about losing his home in a fire, what it meant to him, and the strange twist that he was recording a different song as it was happening. They talk about the shock of having no warning, t...

This two-hour holiday special of Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast is a chaotic, honest, and hilarious end-of-year hang featuring deep laughs, uncomfortable truths, tour stories, and zero polish, exactly how this podcast is meant to be experienced. The episode includes extended conversations with Todd Glass, touching on stand-up comedy, mental health, creative...

Patton Oswalt joins Nick & Andy for a really great interview that ranges from silly to profound. 

• The meaning of life today
• Did Trump perform fellacio on Bubba?
• Todd Glass stories
• Grief and getting back on stage
• Living in a hallucination
• Eating mushrooms at Bonnaroo
• Patton's best advice
• Biggest mistakes
• Backlash to Patton's IG photo with Dave Chappelle
• Neal joins to ask Patton about roller coasters

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Andy and Nick sit down with STS9's Hunter Brown and Alana Rocklin for a very jam band episode of the World Saving Podcast.

They dive into The Human Dream, STS9's new concept-leaning record, why it captures what Sound Tribe really sounds like in 2025, and how their Santa Cruz environment and the devastating Big Basin fire shaped the music.

They get honest about the modern jam band scene, from fan tribalism to former member Murph pla...

Comedian Deric Cahill stops by and joins us for a hilarious conversation that goes all over the place. We discuss parenting when you're on the road all the time, how Deric left his corporate job to start a chocolate company, and the DUI arrest that changed his life. He even invited the cop who arrested him to his show 13 years later. We also talk about making content for social media vs his standup act, getting comfortable with you...

Jake Owen just released a new album, Dreams to Dream. In this conversation we don't talk about that at all; instead we go deep on his family life, mindset, and competitive nature. We also touch on how Nashville has changed over the years, antics with his twin brother, and the roundabout way he got to live his father's dream by golfing with Jordan Spieth at Pebble Beach and talking trash to Phil Mickelson.

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This week Andy is joined by Jeremy Salken and Josh Litwack, two of the founders of Quantizr, a new financial management platform specifically for touring artists. This one is for the real music industry junkies. Here's some of the highlights:

• Jeremy and Josh's backgrounds and why they started Quantizr
• Why the music industry is run on Excel Sheets and Google Drive
• How this compares to other industries (no surprise, the music in...

In this episode Andy gets to chat with one of his heroes, Travie McCoy. They chat about Gym Class Heroes, Riot Fest, Andy's time working at Fueled by Ramen, and Travie's deal with Hopeless Records. Andy and Travie swap Berlin arrest stories. Then the conversation takes an initimate turn, as Travie discusses his history with drug addiction and bi-polar disorder. This was a really fascinating and fun interview and we hope you enjoy i...

Last week the Disco Biscuits rocked the jam community with the news that they have replaced longtime drummer Allen Aucoin. Why is everyone replacing their drummers? We brought in Neal Evans of Dopapod and Scotty Zwang of Umphrey's McGee to help us figure it out.

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Taz Niederauer joins the podcast this week! We have a really great conversation that touches on his time at Yale, touring with Jon Batiste, becoming a songwriter, and more. Here are some of the highlights:

• New Haven Pizza
• Yale secret societies
• Growing up on the road and fitting in with his own generation
• Becoming a songwriter and finding your own sound
• Andy's love life - Taz's advice
• Going shirtless
• NBA basketball
• Andy's newes...