Adventure Hat Podcast

In this episode, I interview the one and only Meredith Shaw . Meredith is a singer and songwriter based in Columbia, Missouri. She has a country heart, a rock n roll sensibility, and a whip-smart sense of humor. Also, full disclosure: I (Seth) am in her band, Meredith Shaw and the Borrowed Band. I play lead guitar, sing some harmony, and do bandleader things. And so, I have an insider’s perspectiv...

I read something that said grief is not a feeling or even an emotion, but a container for all of the feelings and emotions one experiences around loss. I think grief is one of the most misunderstood human experiences. We tend to think of it as something to avoid—a dark, sticky, scary place where you can become trapped and drown in black quicksand. Although it is of course dark where grief exists,...

Sometimes, songs just write themselves. In those rare and delicious cases, the task of the songwriter is primarily to pay attention and gently deliver the song-baby into the world like a musical obstetrician. So it came to pass with this tune, “Carrboro,” a sappy, cutesy love song. The song emerged towards the end of a stretch of days when my partner was far away, visiting family on the east coast...

I’ve long wanted to treat other artists’ songs the way I’ve started sharing my own—here on the Adventure Hat Podcast, in a format where we dig deep on a single song and talk about where it came from, what it means, and how it was put together. (Like my recent episode, “ Arizona Pines .”) And so it has come to pass! In this episode, I interview one of our local (Columbia, MO) country favorites: Tra...

This is the story behind a song I wrote called “Arizona Pines.” It was inspired by a generous family member, a trip out West, personal musical renaissances across generations, and gratitude. Surely that’s enough words to entice you to listen? I’ve embedded this podcast episode into a post on the Substack, too. If you subscribe to the Adventure Hat newsletter (and if you don’t , please do ), you do...

So we spent a week in Paris. Avid readers of Adventure Hat will recall that I wrote several stories about our time there. Well friends, in case you don’t feel like reading 7,000 words, now you can just listen to all of them at once here in one big ‘ol supercut! This episode of the Adventure Hat Podcast contains all of those Paris stories, with new original music and narration. The stories include:...

Hey there good people. This is a story that Adventure Hat readers should be familiar with. (It’s the first one I posted, actually, back in 2020.) It’s about the worst travel day of my life …a day full of poor decision-making, faulty planning, terrible luck, a refusal to acquiesce to the laws of physics, and one volcano. As I’m rolling out the new Adventure Hat podcast (which is basically just audi...

Hey there good people. I’m Seth. This is Adventure Hat…the podcast! Actually, this is a podcast introduction…to the podcast. ( Actually actually, what you’re currently reading is a modified version of the script for the podcast introduction to the podcast.) So, uhhh welcome to the Adventure Hat Podcast! First, what is Adventure Hat ?  Simply put, Adventure Hat is an umbrella for all of my music, s...