The Oddville Revue

Filmmaker and dope soul Johanna Unden stops by the pod this week to talk about her upcoming short film project, "Cecilia" and the process of what it takes for an independent creator to bring stories from a script to the big screen. Dealing with imposter syndrome. The importance of art/life balance. Getting your artistic reps in. Appreciating the boulders we push up and down hills.keep up...

Adam's back in D-Town from a Lake Tahoe adventure in the DESOLATION WILDERNESS ... Hiking and rafting and Bears .. oh my! What happens when the offspring of the bear you killed comes back to avenge you? The guys talk about their favorite book of the moment, "Braiding Sweetgrass," by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Check it ou...

Infant psychotherapy?!? Adam Shlimazel's an entire bus with a stowaway hornet while John smokes up a guy in the drive-thru on an everyday adventure in his new wheels! Why does contentment always seem to be just around the corner? The Reviews are in: Learn to take a compliment and process criticism.

This "lost" episode got skipped in the rotation due to technical difficulties. This one is for the writers.

Lucy & Ricky: Relationship goals or toxic relationship? John compromises his moral fiber in the name of Chick-Fil-A and cookies and nearly dies of a fart-attack. Everything is a drug and more ...

This week, John talks about his trip back home to Duluth and a Lost Boy campout and tubing trip in Trego with his day one's and their family's. Can a Swan transform into a Flamingo? Adam wants to find a pen pal nemesis and bring back chain letters, only in journal form, and without the imminent threat of bad luck for 7 years if you don't send it off to 12 people in the next 5 days.

Adam's got butterflies about playing with The Slamming Doors for the Grandma's Marathon crowd while John recants the highs and lows of working in the service industry during marathon weekend. "The Gout." Model ships. Jury Duty. Keep it separated; art & the artist ... Adam has one-legged pigeon that needs a name! Leave a comment with some name suggestions! Thank you for tuning...

This week, Adam plays Ouija with a stranger in his yard and John hits the town and makes friends with strangers with familiar stories. A lab baby created as a race experiment and raised on Epstein Island? THE Rhonda from 'Help Me, Rhonda.' by The Beach Boys?

John has been talking to remarkable strangers at the bus stop again and Adam has been researching the "man-o-sphere" and "black pill" ideology for an upcoming project. The guys talk some shop about audiobook production. What's said in the garage, stays in the garage.

This week, the guys talk cat logic and bird wisdom; the art of the "sloppy copy;" the Cat Stevens Mandela Effect; silly doctorates; and the probability of past lives.

Adam is back from Morocco, (barely!) with tales of falling into a manhole and almost getting grifted and robbed. John had a similar adventure getting catfished on Instagram, but there was no manhole. John also wrote another hip hop track with friend of the show Dre AKA Jamaican about Lost Boy Shit and Adam wrote a screenplay based on The Great Yeti hand heist of 1957.

This week Adam catches John up about the "I.C.E.-Y" roads in Minnesota and how the mayhem in Minneapolis is affecting the folks up north in Duluth. Adam has been hard at work with his new travel show "Common Waters" and writing plays while John has been busy in the booth recording audiobooks and making friends with the new entity he found inside of himself, Hector the PTSDemon....

This week, the guys what the recently passed bill banning hemp means for the local brewery industry and how it may affect the surrounding community. John lifts the ban he imposed upon himself to take a break from reefer and goes on a chocolate cake bender. Everything is a drug!

This week, the guys open up about the lows and woes of being a creator in the public eye. Doordashing. Hotdog stand adventures. Writing memoirs. Bookfairs.

Happy Halloween! This week, Adam and John talk about their favorite childhood tricks and pranks and share some insights and talk shop about writing and the creative process. They also contemplate the necessity of Machiavellian literature, making up new words and phrases as a pastime, and the artistic medium of podcasts in general.

This week, Adam and John recant the precious memories of work-families and the fun and games they shared together which made them forget they were working. Sex robots. AI musicians. Purposeful depression???

This week, Adam plans a hiking trip to Dracula's castle, contemplates the monsters in his own novels, and imagines Barack Obama doing regular black people stuff. John is getting his groove back with fairy's in Neverland and spending all his royalties from Pete & Gwendoline Grew Up! Copies of Pete & Gwendoline Grew Up and How 2 Write a Novel in V Years: a Hero's Journey are avai...

This week, Adam takes a stroll down Memory Lane on his way to Canada. A real friend takes off his shirt and walks out of Applebee's with you. John is fully housed once again, re-opens the Pelipan Portal and recants the growth he experienced while on his quest for stability. Bliss is in the journey!

This week, John's dear friend Rob K Peach shares his origins in, and love of hip hop and the culture which embodies it. The guys reflect upon the process of growth which the genre has experienced over the past 50 years; how we as a culture have grown in terms of our perceptions of race, gender, and sexuality; and Adam chimes in about the latest Brooks & Dunn album! Follow your bliss and fo...

Who taught Grok's Mecha Hitler how to fix the worlds problems? What is Adam's new podcast adventure, "Old Water" all about? Has John fallen head over heals in "Like?" Join the guys this week for a good old fashioned Oddville hang and find out!

This week, Adam and John welcomed Debra Bryant, RScP and member of the Everyday Center for Spiritual Living, to share her personal journey into spirituality after moving to Santa Fe in 1987. Debra shares the five step treatment plan of her spiritual practice, The Science of Mind, (not Scientology ...) as well as a little bit about the author of her tradition, Ernest Holmes. Debra also breaks down...

Recording artist and long time friend of John, Sativa Minerva, stopped by this week to bless the pod with a glimpse into the hero's journey she's traveled so far as a recording artist, her philanthropic goals and aspirations, and her love for being a apart of the creative process. Is it possible for an artist to be fully in love with and devoted to their craft and a romantic partner at the...

This week, Adam and John riff about the good ol' days of this lifetime and the not-so-good ol' days of lifetimes past. Adam makes plans to live out the movie "The Burbs," and John makes plans to build the backyard from "Honey I Shrunk the Kids." If you would to support John's Lost Boy ambitions, you can grab a copy of his books, Pete and Gwendoline Grew Up , and How...

Adam's back from Spain with a rekindled distain for mimes and shares stories about kind grifters. John's book, Pete & Gwendoline Grew Up, is for sale on Amazon and through his website www. JSTheartist.com. Also, the guys make plans to buy a town and start a homestead. Never stop dreaming.

Author, painter and set designer John Jason Phillips joins us this week to talk about his trilogy of novels and his experience in the 1980s as a gay man in San Francisco's Castro district. Jason also fills us in on the details of a potential movie deal for his second novel in the series, Queen of the Mission. visit Johnjasonphillips.com to check out his art and stay updated on book releases!