What Ya Into?

Hey Listener, this week on What Ya Into? First time podcast guest Matt Farley is on the show to talk about poetry. Topics this week include: Our love letter to The Root Cellar and it’s place in Cincinnati brewing history. Arranging your life around being a poet. Getting up at spoken word open mics. Hip hop artists and poetry. The fear of public speaking. Place, gentrification, and biodome neighborhoods. Making art accessible and being alone. The question of Why? Learning from others’ mistakes. Escapism and therapy. Catching fairy dust. How do you know when your poem is done? Putting cheese on your broccoli. Was your nude model in good shape? Being in play instead of competition. The joy of teaching. The urban Appalachian queer experience. Writing for change. Preparing for the future.   

Hey Listener, you're going to need your headgear and some dice this week because Michael Williams from Smiling Demon Games is on the show to talk about creating his own martial arts trading card game: Warrior Within Underground. WYI?’s resident martial artist/nerd Jaimie Filer is the perfect co-host for this episode. This week’s topics include: The spreading of Warhammer 40K to new media. Why are they doing this to the Crow? Playing Magic the Gathering during wrestling tournaments. The journey into no holds barred fighting. Don’t use the time machine. Picking a good walkout song. Looking at fighting like a computer. How do you beat up your friend in a deathmatch? Planning how to fight a guy who knows Kung Fu. Sometimes you learn with a concussion. An oil check leads to a full special meter. Being dudes is making fun of things your friends like. I’m not a mad dawg psychopath. Men that create their fantasyland of toughness. What was the first fight like? Conan. No one wants to fight you so lets get you a pro fight on a card where Royce Gracie and Don Vito will be in attendance. Defeating racism and then getting a weird pep talk from Royce Gracie. Gravity works. Going solo, creating, and pitching the game. The intimidation of MTG. Drawing inspiration from Street Fighter II. Being able to move your character into all of the different worlds of fighting. Creating a system. The importance of creating cool looking stuff.  

Hey Listener, grab your gear bag because I’m sitting down with Heather Sampanis (bass/singer) of Alex Kasznel & The Board of Directors and Luke Effler (guitar) of Ten Gauge to talk about being parents that are in bands. Topics this week include: Check out the Company Picnic Music Festival on March 23rd at Oddfellows in OTR (Cincinnati, Ohio). What is it like to be a band that gets a vinyl album pressed? What is a Costumer? BFAs of the world unite! Hailing from a family with musicians. Power chords for children. Life/Band balance. The differences between being a solo creator and someone working with others. Critiquing your friends. Faster and louder. Playing out and being cool with low standards. What’s it like being in the backstage locker room? The tricks of figuring out the name of someone you’ve already met. Pre show rituals. I’m inspiring you, not intimidating you. Tap dancin’ Luke Effler and the karate robot. The heartache of a bad show. Go watch The Greatest Night in Pop.   

Hey Listener, did you download your tickets, because today we’re talking being a live sports fan with Josh Wilson from 5th Line. You might recognize him from his work at 16 Lots Brewing or as the guy with the braids in his beard that sits in front of the drummers in the Bailey at FC Cincinnati games. Topics this week include: Beer art and bad ways to die. Beer festivals of yore. Your host loves staying at home. The perks of being a season ticket holder. Things that weren’t designed for the 21st century. Finding your place in the Bailey during the bad times. Which is better tailgates or pregaming at a bar? Wearing body paint is how you impress a girl. Interacting with the bad guys when the come to town. Now that’s a hot ass mascot. Broadway and live wrestling shows. What is the worst thing to pee in at a living sport event? Always making noise. Random video game talk. Stadiums and arenas that we want to go to.

Hey Listener, grab a broom because this week Jack Emery and Thomas Cochill are on the show to talk about the sport of Curling. Topics this week include: The host meets someone that actually listens to the show and it’s weird. It doesn’t matter what you collect, everyone wants variants. Going from soccer fans to season ticket holders. This a very pro Nippert Stadium podcast. Jack loves wordy bands. Finding Curling through the Winter Olympics. Caring for and appreciating the ice. 2 quarries in Scotland. Equipment. Competing on a deteriorating playing surface. The strategy of the game. Welcome to your rookie season. Finding your Yoda. A game with etiquette. The joy of kicking teeth in and the misery of being paired with a team that doesn’t like each other. Husband down. The skills you need to be a good Curler. How do you practice if you aren’t on the ice?

Hey Listener, its Part 2 of our sit down chat with Jackie Mellinger and Kelvin aka Mistah_Mojo from Retro Records Podcast about the Gamecube. This episode where are focusing on Nintendo exclusives. Topics this week include: Are you sure it’s Gale and not Veil? Kirby’s Air Ride was made for children and high people. Ain’t no Party like a Mario Party because a Mario Party don’t stop. Mario Kart: I Keep Dat Thang on Me. The fun weirdness of Mario themed sports games. Pikmin is so weird. Making friends and celebrating holidays in Animal Crossing. Trying to figure out where Metroid Prime fits. Cartoony Link vs. serious adult Link. The strangeness of Luigi’s Mansion. The goodness of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Why does Mario need a squirt gun backpack? The perfection of Super Smash Bros Melee.

Hey Listener, get ready to pick up some small discs because Jackie Mellinger and Kelvin aka Mistah_Mojo from Retro Records Podcast are here to talk about the Nintendo Gamecube. Topics this week include: 2024 Oscar talk. Retro gaming, a mixture of childhood nostalgia and sometimes frustrating controls. Life skills. Kelvin was a Nintendo boy. Getting Keanued on Nintendo facts and back when drug commercials were fun. Nuts and bolts of the Gamecube. A very unfortunate release date and Slayer Conspiracy Theories. You want the Dolphin? Was the small disc a mistake? The Gamecube controller. The handle for the party cube. The Mega Man X Collection. Singing the songs on a Sonic soundtrack. Getting hammered to add a new level of difficulty to Super Monkey Ball. Eternal Darkness a cool, odd title for the Gamecube. Playing a fun JRPG with your cousins that makes you grow up quick. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle: Kelvin and Jackie become best friends. Resident Evil 4: zombies(?) in Spain(?), the President’s daughter, and a jet ski.

Hey Listener, set your phasers to listen, because this week Callie Wright from the podcast Philosophers in Space is on the show to talk about Star Trek. Topics this week include: Is it better to be the host or the hosted on a podcast? Microphones are scary. The cast dives into philosophy, religions, and death. From Enter Sandman to being in a band. How people engage in fandom. Trying to find a friend who likes the Enterprise. Teaching a Klingon bonding ritual. Friends. Never cut your hair. Living in a Post Scarcity future. They’re not gay, they’re aliens. Learning about life from Captain Jean-Luc Picard. The Misfits. Riker isn’t a normie? What’s your favorite vessel? Whats up with the shirts? Learning about the culture of Klingons. How do you make an alien language? Stories outside of Star Fleet.

Hey Listener, I don’t think you’ll need your SAG card, because Stand Up Comedian/Creator of Quaint Volcano Jeremy Johnston is on the show to talk about his love of indie movies and film making. Topics this week include: Coming out the gates wobbling. Writing new jokes. You can’t be to cool of a teacher. Being into Jim Carrey and getting a video camera at a young age. Being able to plan how to hurry up and wait. Jarring edit. Shooting films on very obtainable cameras. Video game side quest. People and Permits. Making a movie for $5,000 or less. Find a dentist and ask for money. Video camera talk. Going home safe. Filming in a replica Michael Myers house. They could’ve been weird looking boobs. The gateway drug of anime. Putting more tools in your tool belt. Stealing from Netflix. Not knowing that punk rock is easy. Making a film.   

Hey Listener, leave the safety gear and learn how to fall because this week Kleo returns to the show to talk about her journey into skateboarding from quad rollerskating. Topics this week include: Being a Rink Rat and mom’s don’t like alligator pits. Tribalism and skatepark politics. The importance of balance. The complexity of hitting an Ollie. The safety differences between Street and Vert skaters. Check out WYI? Episode 33 Skateboarding is a Flat Circle with Chris Rice and Ryan Malott as the companion episode of this one as we discuss the art vs the sport of skateboarding. How does competition and friendship work in skateboarding? We can’t skate together.Getting credit carded. Yelling at the scooter kids. Blacklist Boardshop shout out. Is Longboarding skateboarding? Going to skateboarding school. The importance of documentation in skateboarding. Being able to roll through the city. Learning the lingo. Going to the spot. Skate Park etiquette tips.

Hey listener, we’re headed back to the ballpark this week as podcast host Scott Kyser from Craft Brewed Sports and Backwards K Baseball is on the show to talk about America's Passtime. Topics this week include: The Inception of Petty. Defining what style of country you’re talking about and going full old man about music. A kids movie about getting a DUI and coaching a jr high team. The power of Superstations and being able to follow a sport then and now. Following the entire league. What would managers wear if they didn’t wear an uniform? A shorter season. Defense is cool when it’s your team. Computer Umps. The Unwritten Rules of Baseball. Getting punched in the ribs for doing your job. If you’re going to clear the benches someone better be throwing punches. Getting worried when guys are wearing extra stuff. What age is the cut off for bringing a baseball glove to the game? The history of the game and will it ever go away? Things that make us sad about boxing.   

Allison Hibbard, Jaimie Filer, and Zach Bender aka Uncle_Analog return to  talk about HorrorHound. Topics this week include: You got to get naked at camp. The hot boy photo shoot. Jaimie reminds everyone that this is an audio only format. The Green Day of horror. If you quit watching after the first season, then everything is OK.  Your host lost everyone’s names after 2020. Vending for Fangoria Magazine. Having a good booth buddy. The importance of bootlegged stuff. The Monroe Exit is wild. Do you have a Horrorhound shopping list? Don’t read the list until you’re into the line. The weirdness and levels of celebrity at Horrorhound. Cash is king at the Con. How to talk to celebrities and what not to do. The weird booths. People want to see Uncle_Analog’s gigantic naked lady tattoo. The people watching is top shelf. Bigfoot vs. Jason. Give me the illusion of safety. Flower planters are a good place to find knives. From the mouths of babes to horror actors’ ears. Having White Claws with Art the Clown and Horrorhound after parties. The fine line between horror and porn. “It’s smoothing”.

Hey Listener, grab some NOS and leave your brain at the door because the host of Cool Show, Man/Stand Up Comedian Giles Chickering is here to talk about the Fast and the Furious franchise. Topics this week include: This is Giles’ Star Wars and the worst double date ever. The world before September 2001. The 25th anniversary of the Sopranos. Giles is in a hardcore band now. A movie franchise that begins with bandits robbing DVD players off of trucks. Is this woke or racist? Vin Diesel isn’t in the business of making sequels. Taking it to Miami. The power of nitrous in this universe. And now we’re in Japan? Giles pitches his the 4th Fast and the Furious movie should have been the actual third one to end the trilogy theory. Viagra at the box office always wears a tactical vest. Vin Diesel has a clause where he can never lose a fight in a movie. Its totally cool to drive a bank vault through Brazil. Ludacris went from small business owner in Miami to master level hacker. We’re now beyond drug cartels and into cyber terrorism. Your host likes movies where one big car fights a bunch of small cars. Jason Statham is here now. Paul Walker is alive in canon. We’re now parachuting cars out of planes. A white lady with cornrows. Punching torpedoes. The Rock and Diesel have beef? Idris Elba is a super human? Tyrese and Ludacris go to space. White dudes with muscles can be brothers. Two white guys argue about the new Roadhouse. A two part sequel Harry Potter style. Jason Momoa’s “overacting”. The Fast and the Furious universe.

Hey Listener, grab your penalty flags because this week Corey King is on the show to talk about reffing high school football. It’s a fun look behind the curtain for any football fan. Topics this week include: Bottle artwork. A modern beer baron/smuggler. The joys and pains of living in Chicago. Finding your way into the music industry in the late 90s and trying to figure out how to counter Napster. The balance between a job and something you love. The impact of venues taking merch money from bands. Of course they’re putting the Grateful Dead in the Sphere. If you do something positive like giving an underage kid your ID, it will comeback to you. Tightend talk. The game needs linebackers. Rugby dudes are on a whole different level. The insanity of the hours you work as a coach. I can’t cause a problem if I don’t throw my flag. Who gets to make the call? Making the right call no matter what the crowd is chanting. How do you regulate the emotion of a game? What is the atmosphere in the refs’ locker room? How do you get assigned games? All business on game day. Put on your knee pads! Working with the medical staff. Trying not to laugh at trash talk. Hey ref, let’s keep it clean. The Corey King rule. A violent game. Giving to others.   

Hey Listener, grab your armor plated leather jacket because Lee Laney is back on the show to talk about riding motorcycles. You can follow his band on IG at The Everyday People Band and check them out whenever they are playing near you. Topics this week include: Losing and finding new hobbies during 2020. How did you find the roller derby circus and trying to make new friends after 30. Captain Overzealous. Why roller derby after parties so chill now? How did you get into motorcycles and how did you learn to ride one? “On a bike, you’re completely exposed”. If you wreck, you don’t want your shoes to fly off. “It’s your head, do whatcha want”. Never a Master, but always trying to upgrade. Riding in the rain. Gas station Walmart. Sometimes a road isn’t a road. Finding weird stuff in the middle of nowhere to pee beside.  Riding playlists. Dead animal proof. The aging out of a demographic. Collecting Harley shirts. Filming as an extra in The Bikeriders movie. Opening up a community motorcycle garage and the return of Captain Overzealous.   

Hey Listener, grab your favorite black t-shirt and get ready to dive head first into the world of Mastodon! For the second time in WYI?’s history we’re dedicating an entire episode to a band and Paul Gonzalez is here to go on this journey. Topics this week include: PAWL is here so of course we have to talk movies. The modern evolution of Metal. Meeting Mastodon. Are the first four albums about the elements? The worst day of Mr. Ed’s life and the art of Mastodon. A weird Playboy sidequest. Jurassic Park trivia. The greatest metal album of the century? Let’s get a bunch of cool musicians to make guest appearances on our third album. Can I sing along and strip to it? Creating a perfect album. Finally making an album that isn’t a concept album. Sometimes you leave before the headliner. Our least favorite Mastodon album. The album that your host kept in his car for a half decade. Separating the art from the artist. The sad adult album. Seeing Mastodon live and band mascots. Seeing shows in the basement of the Taft. No one in the audience has a beard. Getting fooled by Ghost. The Ashes of Leviathan tour.   

Hey Listener, get your fantasy apps out because this week I’m on the road in Pennsylvania to talk with my brother-in-law Jonathan Bishop about our mutual love of Fantasy Football. Topics this week include: A small budget and a fixer upper first home leads to DIY construction. The sheer amount of NFL games to watch. Moving franchises to new cities. Finding and staying in a Fantasy League. The sheer joy of trashing your friends on Draft Day. Shout out to The Magazine. Sun, Sand, Salad. Snakin’. Trading and waivers. What's up with the refs? Sports betting, a new weird world. The short career spans of Running Backs. Buying jerseys for your fantasy guys. Game Day nerves. The Stanley Cup is the best. Fantasy 4 Life.   

Hey Listener, get ready to explore the paranormal as What Ya Into? Is on the road this week. Lauren Bishop and I sit down with fellow content creator Jeremy Foster aka The Twilight Emporium which can be found on TikTok and Instagram. Topics this week include: Leaving Appalachia, getting a Religious Studies degree, and leaving the city during Covid. Being a single, smart gay man in a rural area. Becoming Spooky Daddy. The venn diagram of real life and social media. The art of Researching. Low attention spans and technology addiction. Being a CIA Psyop and dinosaurs didn’t exist. The importance of education and critical thinking. Skinwalkers. What’s your favorite cryptid? The beings of your spiritual belief system. Bigfoot Kink. Do you believe in ghosts? The weirdness of living alone. Aliens Exist. Unfortunately controversy equals cash. The worst two weeks of my life.

Hey Listener, get some milk and cookies because this week on WYI? Jaimie Filer and Allison Hibbard return to talk about Christmas movies. Topics this week include: The Christmas movie genre can be in every other genre. Your Grinch ass host and people who love Christmas. The importance of background music. The story behind A Christmas Story. Jaimie recommends a Rom Com? A Tim Allen White Sniffmas. Ernest kink.Michael Caine and Muppets. Billy from Predator in a XXX-Mas movie.Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and a Charlie Brown Christmas. From Swingers to Santa. The Home Alone deathmatch. Feldog. Allison’s proudest Christmas moment. Gremlins, Dick Miller, and a future Christmas card. Dan the Man. Grizzly Adams and Nazi Elves. The LAPD watching a Christmas gladiator fight. Decorating for the season. Go to Brothers in Silverton (Cincinnati, Ohio) and visit their Grinch.

Hey Listener, grab the extension and your body armor, because Hannah Wells is on the show this week to talk about Onewheels and Electric Unicycles (EUCs). Topics this week include:  Building a brand and reputation while running a construction business. The advantages of being a female owned construction company and bringing visions to life. Dealing with clients who do and don’t know what they want. Your hobby scares me, have you always been a risk taker? Onewheels and EUCs connection to mountain biking and their possibilities for the future. A case of dry lung and the transition from fossil fuel to batteries. Fighting small niche groups. Sport vs. art. The mountain bike towns of Arkansas. Getting a good night’s sleep or partying with your girlfriends? The joy of being in a small scene. How do you prepare for race day? Lizard brain. How does race season work? The power of being mentally prepared for a sport. The evolution of a sport. The muscle memory of children. Being comfortable can be dangerous. Breaking your ankle on your honeymoon. Investing in body armor. New models. The statement of a helmet. Riding and chilling with the Drift Sisters. Experiencing the United States. It’s time to race.