Episode 28 - Justin Staple (Director, Producer)

Today I am joined by Justin Staple. Justin is a producer, director, photographer and documentary filmmaker. Justin double majored in economics and film at the University of Chicago. He then went on to work for Vice for many years where he produced the series The Therapist, and Noisey, He worked on Fightland among many other things. He is an accomplished videographer and stills photographer and has shot the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Post Malone, Fetty Wop, and Katy Perry to name a few. In this interview we dive deep into a bit of background, the parallels of the creative processes for visual art and music and we dive into the shallow end of the crypto world, specifically Non Fungible Tokens, or NFTs and their current and potential use in the world of creative media. Justin directed the FIRST NFT Music Video with his production company All The Smoke.

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Episode 22 - JOE GODINO (The Menzingers, NEW YEAR!)

Episode 22 - Joe Godino!!!!

Joe is my best friend and the drummer of The Menzingers. Besides being one of the most creative people I have ever met Joe is also an inspiration of healing and self improvement, an avid meditator, hilarious, and a regular devil in the best way.

In this episode we talk about plans for the year, predictions, dry january, the band’s patreon, lexus commercials, forgiving yourself, and our newfound loves of videography and photography.

If you’d like to reach Joe you’ll have to contact me first Tom@Futurefriday.net and we will deem if you are worthy of such an honor.

********EPISODE NOTE I talked some shit on alcohol sales and our shows and it turns out I am most likely wrong, and probably just projecting my own insecure vulnerability out into the world in, manifested as cynical shit talking. But without that would we have punk rock?

Olive Juice.

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Episode 18 - Stan Gordon (UFO/Paranormal Researcher, author, documentarian)

Stan Gordon is one of the most experienced UFO and paranormal researches on the planet, with over 60 years of research into the subjects. He has been conducting research and giving lectures since 1969. He is the premier investigator of the Keksburg PA UFO crash incident and produced an award winning documentary on the subject titled “Keksburg The Untold Story”. He is the author of three books, and has been featured on The History Channel, Discovery Channel, Unsolved Mysteries, and the SyFy channel, Coast to Coast AM, you name it.

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Episode 16 - Corey Ciresi (Lee Corey Oswald, The Family Foundation School)

Episode 15 - Corey Ciresi

Today’s guest is Corey Ciresi. Corey is the owner of Enjoy Co. Hair Studio, a salon in Portland, Oregon. He is the drummer of Lee Corey Oswald. Now our main focus of discussion today, however, is his time spent at a now-defunct small boarding school fo special needs adolescents in rural Hancock N.Y. called The Family Foundation School, aka The Family School, aka Allynwood Academy. The school closed in 2014, They said it was due to money problems from declining enrollment. However they were plagued with accusations of abuse for many years. T

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