Atypical Daydream

Episode 34: This week on Atypical Daydream, Nancy Cheng shares her DJ origin story and Robb Gilbear takes us through a typical night as a raver but ends with a disastrous twist. Robb Gilbear   Book: https://mybook.to/DieBeforeTheyDo Newsletter: https://www.growthhabit.org/blog Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbgilbear/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robbgilbear -----------------...

Episode 33: This week on Atypical Daydream, barista world champion Dale Harris and world traveler Seth Caldwell showcase the magic of surprises that come with traveling in far flung places. Dale Harris https://www.instagram.com/acousticcoffee/ https://www.womenincoffee.org Seth Caldwell https://vansareswell.com/ --------------------------- SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAM Want more Atypical Daydream? Che...

Episode 32: This week on Atypical Daydream, Sima Cunningham (Finom) and Jessy Schwartz share two LA stories, each sure to test anyone's nerves. Sima Cunningham Check for upcoming tour dates in Europe and the US for Finom and Sima solo. Finom tour dates - https://www.finommusic.com/tour Sima Cunningham tour dates - https://www.simacunningham.com/shows www.simacunningham.com simacunningham.bandcamp....

Episode 31 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with Karthik Nagarajan. Karthik grew up in Pune, India in the 1990s, five minutes from the Rajneesh ashram made famous by the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country, with a French best friend from the commune next door and a father who had very different ideas about what success should look like. He shares how he d...

Episode 30 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with journalist and writer Jacob Ward. As NBC's technology correspondent, Jake's job was supposed to be covering disinformation and social media. Then COVID hit and rewrote his beat entirely, sending him to wildfires and, eventually, to the Oakland protests following the murder of George Floyd. What followed was o...

ATYPICAL DAYDREAM A podcast about life on the road. Hear stories from musicians, athletes, comedians, journalists, sailers, filmmakers...anyone who has a great road story to tell. Coming January 2nd! SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAM Want more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories! Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRT Start your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFU...

Episode 29 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with his brother Patrick Caldwell and photographer Jeffrey Martin. Patrick hitchhiked across the US in the mid-80s with his friend Judd and a guitar, no plan, and a willingness to get into whatever came along. He shares one particular ride through West Texas in a beautiful Cadillac that started with beer and rotti...

Episode 28 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with video producer and former news reporter Jeremy Sage and returning guest, musician and songwriter Keith Waggoner. Jeremy shares what happened when he and a cameraman trekked into the Indiana woods to find a hidden waterfall nobody had ever heard of, without telling anyone where they were going. Then Keith Wagg...

Episode 27 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with veteran producer Michael Merryman for the first episode of season four. In 2005, Michael was hired to shoot a global still campaign for a major automotive brand, tasked with finding the world's longest, tallest, highest, and widest. Over two months he found himself at the world's highest active volcano in Ecu...

Episode 26 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with former TV journalist Lucy Griffiths. In 2001, Lucy left the UK with a plan to travel around the world without using a plane. Over the next two years she went by train, bus, boat, yacht, donkey, and anything else that moved, reporting from some of the most difficult and dangerous places on earth along the way....

Episode 25 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with studio owner, record producer, and microphone wizard Manny Nieto. In 2011, Manny bought a one-way ticket to Shanghai with a cover story, a backpack of microphones, and a plan to record underground punk and avant-garde bands across China. What followed was two years of navigating Cold War bunkers, lotus ponds,...

Episode 24 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with therapist, writer, and photographer Bill Bruzy. Bill has lived one heck of a life and today he takes us through some of the years he spent lost, wandering, and slowly finding his way back. From buying random plane tickets after his father died, to a solo overnight bus to Chicago where the night kept deliverin...

Episode 23 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with Valerie Warren, a Sinophile and former Mandarin Chinese student who once lived in Taiwan to study Mandarin. In 1993, a simple visa run from Taipei to Bangkok turned into one of the most relentlessly stressful solo travel days you will ever hear about. With no cash, no credit cards, a passport she couldn't acc...

Episode 22 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with Austin-based singer and songwriter Giulia Millanta and returning guest Ian Lee, tour bus owner and driver. Giulia shares two unsettling road stories from England, including a night above a pub with a self-playing cello and a dream in a converted convent that took on a very different meaning the next morning....

Episode 21 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with location manager and scout David Warren. Dave has spent years finding the perfect spots for film and TV productions across Georgia, and the stories that come with that job are unlike anything else. From calling gators out of the Okefenokee Swamp on a golf cart with a stick, to accidentally setting off a polic...

Episode 20 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with multi-instrumentalist and Beachwood Sparks founding member Farmer Dave Scher. Dave takes us through a life spent deep in the music, from the early days opening for the Black Crowes on a US tour that found itself on the road in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, to a band implosion in New Mexico that accidentall...

Episode 19 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with writer and director Jacob Vaughan. In 1999, Jacob sold everything he owned, gave away the rest at a party, and crossed the border into Mexico with a backpack and no plan to come back. What followed was a journey guided almost entirely by instinct, a willingness to say yes, and a photograph with a letter scraw...

Episode 18 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell and his longtime writing partner Robert Bell recount a road trip across the American West that was supposed to produce a screenplay and produced almost nothing of the sort. Armed with a laptop, a Ford Mustang, and a plan to write a Mormon Western while driving through Utah and Idaho, the two set off on a week-long loop thro...

Episode 17 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with songwriter and punk rock poet Ed Hamell of Hamell on Trial and clown, writer, and Vegas performer Tyler Watson. Ed shares how he built a 30-year touring life around his son, logging 300,000 miles and 16 cross-country trips together since the kid was six years old, and what that kind of road life gives a child...

Episode 16 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with composer, drummer, percussionist, and teacher Stephen Flinn. Stephen takes us through eight wild months driving a cab through the streets of San Francisco, from a Folsom Street Fair pickup that left him speechless, to a Halloween night that took a very unexpected turn, to a Sunday on the Haight with four pass...

Episode 15 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with singer and songwriter Susan Otten and Navy veteran Forrest Malnar. Susan shares highlights from 25 years touring as a backup singer with Maria McKee, including the night she witnessed Lemmy do something before walking on stage that she still can't quite believe, and a small European show where switching instr...

Episode 14 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with musician, songwriter, and storyteller Frank Hurricane. Frank takes us through a 65-day tour across the US with his best friend Invisible Dave, a journey that included a spice-addicted house show in Jacksonville, a psychedelic high school scene in Lubbock Texas, a very memorable encounter with US border agents...

Episode 13 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with singer, songwriter, and band leader Joey Siara of Near Beer and the Henry Clay People. Joey shares two stories about the kind of moments that remind a band why they actually love each other, even when they're five weeks deep into a tour and can barely stand the sight of each other. The first unfolds at a truc...

Episode 12 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with producer and writer Kent Adamson and fiddle player and bowmaker Katy Cox. Kent takes us up into the mountains above LA to the opening shoot day of Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One, where a pearl-handled pistol, a defiant AD, and a very particular introduction to Lee Marvin made for one of the most unforgettabl...

Episode 11 In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with artist, writer, and old friend Scout McComb. Scout takes us deep into Guatemala, first into a Highland Mayan village where he found himself running with a mob toward something he couldn't have anticipated, and then into the depths of the Petén jungle on a multi-day trek to one of the most remote and significa...