Between Awesome and Disaster with Will Carey

Lily Giannoni is the process of building an extensive body of work in acting, sketch and screen writing.  She talk to Will about growing up in small town New York, studying screenwriting, auditioning in New York City, writing and acting in short films, sketch comedy and the community around The Pit NYC, Her love of Ska music and what she wants to create next. Lily's short films: https://linktr.ee/...

Vinnie Fiorello (Less Than Jake, The Inevitables, Fueled By Ramen Records) returns to Between Awesome and Disaster to discuss the opening of The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas.  He talks to Will about how Fat Mike brought him into the project, curating a museum that encapsulates 50 years of punk rock history, why Las Vegas is the perfection location for the project, the Museums' Jam Room,  punk art...

Lunachicks guitarist Gina Volpe combines a lifetimes worth of musical influences into her new single Drink Me and upcoming new album.  She talks to Will about growing up in New York City, playing shows at CBGB's as a teenager, working in the studio with Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth, Fat Mike from NOFX, playing shows with the Ramones, touring the world, playing in Japan, and the w...

Comedian Matt Ziegler is in the middle of his dream as a performer in New York City.  He talks to Will about the recent Sketchfest at The Pit in New York City.  Growing up between Florida and Columbia, working in Radio, how he got to NYC, Sketch Comedy, his group Febster and where he hopes to go next in comedy.   Matt on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ztron01/ Will's Website:  www.awesomedis...

It's 2023 and Leo and Will's Favorite band has put out a new album.  Leo Quinn returns to the podcast to breakdown track by track Blink 182's new album One More Time.   Will's Website:  www.awesomedisaster.com Podcast Merch:  https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster Listen to Will's band on Spotify:...

Ray Harkins from 2019

Matt Pezza of All Systems Go returns with the bands drummer Joe Codispoti after a summer that saw the band experience and overcome a tragic loss.  The talk to Will about the writing and recording of the band's newest single The Lowdown, working with producer Gary Cioni, how the song took on added meaning, and the alarming number of emails one has to send to be in a band in 2023. Listen to All Syst...

Jake Flores from 2019

My chat with Schaffer the Darklord from 2018

Comedian Gianmarco Soresi from 2018

Comedian Gia Doxey and Will are former high school theater kids who made good on their plans to move to NYC and make art.  She talks to Will about growing up conservative in Florida, musical theater, moving to New York City, how close she got to her dream of working at 30 rock, her love of sketch comedy, stand up comedy and her podcast about the musical Jersey Boys. Gia on Instagram: https://www.i...

Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon continues to push himself as a songwriter on the band's first album in nine years History Books.  He talks to Will about the bounty of creativity and great bands he saw in the New Jersey basement scene of the later 90s, performing at open mics as a solo artist, smaller cities and towns that surprised him on the 59' Sound tour, getting stuck in a bullet train i...

Comedian FreddyG and Will share the comedian trait of learning about a subject and then learning everything about said subject.  Freddy tells Will about growing up in Queens, attending Jewish school, finding improv as an escape from his day job and then later stand up, the NYC open mic scene, getting millions of views on TikTok, current day politics, and how his further readings on religion will i...

Lana Ryma has been in music as a drummer, a venue owner, and now a lead vocalist with The Get Arounds.  She talks to Will about the music scene in Canada, getting to tour with Blink-182, becoming a lead singer after years behind the drum kit, songwriting, advice for bands as a venue owner, and The Get Arounds debut full length I Wanna Live.   Listen to The Get Arounds: https://open.spotify.com/alb...

Brandon Bujnowski makes music with his band Bedpan Fight, releases it with his label Knuckledown Records, and records it and others at his studio If and Only If Productions.  He talks to Will about Blink- 182's recent Madison Square Garden show, his love of 90s melodic punk rock, growing up with a stand up comic mom, recording school, producing trapbeats, and how his band Bedpan Fight came togethe...

Chris Griggs' years of experience as a stand up comic and improvisor informs his approach as a teacher at The Peoples Improv Theater.  He talks to Will about working to get passed at New York City Comedy Clubs, Improv comedy, his recent experiments in playing with the traditional forms of improv, acting and his approach to teaching improv to comics. https://www.chrisgriggscomedy.com/ https://www.i...

Comedian Myq Kaplan is a brilliantly funny, and insightful comic with a command of language.  He talks to Will from his hotel room in Minnesota about what makes the best comedy clubs the best comedy clubs, is masters degree in linguistics, how he got into stand up comedy, touring, performing material for crowds that don't agree with you politically and incorporating Buddhism teachings into his wor...

Comedian Patrick Hastie returns to Between Awesome and Disaster after an eventful 5 years that includes several goals from his last appearance coming into existence.  He talks to Will about how the Covid-19 pandemic affected him mentally, and his comedy career, the steps he took to improve his mental health, how he avoids online arguments about stand up comedy to focus on his own comedy, his upcom...

Rerelease of my chat with Frnd Crcl Drummer Aaron Smith from 2021

Rerelease of my chat with Zac Johnson of Frnd Crcl from 2021

Alex's band Brooklane got to play a single show before the Covid pandemic shut down live music.  He talks to Will about growing up in North Dakota, how he found his love of singing, his beginnings in deathcore, writing the song Here to Stay and getting Jason Lancaster to do a guest vocal, and the bands new EP Stay Toxic.   Brooklane on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brooklanemidwest/ Listen...

Comedian Brendan Fitzgibbon's interviews lifestyle coaches on his podcast Spiritual Asshole, and as of this moment is a comedy writer on strike.  He talks to Will about the conditions that have lead to the current WGA strike and why it's important for the future of writing as a career option, moving to New York City from the Midwest, and then trying stand up for the first time, why he doesn't wast...

Chris Wrenn began what would become Bridge 9 Records as a teenager in New England, and has since but out over 300 records.  He talks to Will about Deep Purple being is gateway into heavy guitar music, the New England Hardcore scene, how he started putting out seven inch splits with local bands, what Bridge 9 looks for in bands it works for, what bands can do to help get themselves positive attenti...

Rerelease of Episode 2 with Drew Whitney Morgan from January 2016

Becca Burg finds that Improv comedy allows her to be in a flow state of Singular focus.  She talks to Will about growing up and being exposed to Theater in Florida, studying Environmental Science, the North Atlantic Garbage patch, finding improv as an outlet from Work and studies, moving to New York City, discovering The Pit, directing sketch comedy and finding what she want's to work on creating...