Haus of Decline

I talk to webcomic artist Nick Vost aka Foolibuster. We uncover the deep lore of the Abuse Goblin in this hard-hitting list of mind-bending expositions. #4 will shock you! ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the little E signifies.    ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Horror illustrator and Toronto Inhabitant Trevor Henderson joins me to discuss looming figures in the distance, obscure VHS schlock and terrible consequences of everyone's desperate need for lore. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the little E signifies.    ★ Support t...

Altamira joins me to discuss her new Lush Pop record "How to Get Off The Ground." We talk about the Beatles. We also get into the weeds about vocal training technique. We teach you how to do the Girl Paul McCartney voice. It's grand! ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what t...

I am joined by musician and multi-talented artist Lex Walton to discuss her wonderful new album "Ultimate Love Forever." We also throw down in a Big Eye competition to see who has the biggest eyes. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the little E signifies.    ★ Support...

I am joined by Emerson Borakove to discuss her band Prairie Princess and their recent excellent album "Jewish American Prairie Princess." We talk hardcore compositional theory. We gas up Hildegard von Bingen. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the little E signifies.   ...

I am joined by Josh Boerman of "The Worst of All Possible Worlds" and "Ill Conceived" podcasts! We preside over a smorgasbord of 2016-ass topics from Grimes' Technofascism to the enduring legacy of Hamilton to electoral strategy in a ruined world. We do this entire podcast in period dress. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. E...

I am joined by Claire of My Silly Comics to discuss the semiotics of cuteness, Catholic iconography, our favourite aquatic lifeforms and the madness that drives one into the arms of webcomics. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the little E signifies.    ★ Support this...

I am joined by Rock n' Roll musician Jacqueline Tucci. We discuss her songs, the nature of modern isolation, getting purged of the last of your dopamine and other topics relevant to the recovering doomscroller. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the little E signifies. ...

I am joined by Annie and Max from the hilarious and poignant Rock n' Roll band, Ceippo! We discuss queer identity informing musical choices, the power of anime, the artistry of Elvin Jones, and the structural difficulties in and around the Hardcore Punk scene.  ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You...

Me and my friend Shima aka xodkaar get progressively drunker and rowdier as we delve into various subjects of increasing spiciness. From dating, to Albert Ayler, to state of Iran, to political violence, we cover just about the entire gamut of human experience. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You...

We're interviewing Hamilton Folk Punker Mia Romantica who will be playing at the Anti-Spectacular show on May 10, 2026. Hear us wax poetic about the beauty of live music and free expression, and then maybe see some live music/free expression. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That...

I am joined by the inimitable Rory Blank to discuss dealing with intense burnout and attempting to be a jokey lil' guy in a blighted and ruined world. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the little E signifies.    ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Brie Stupid Twink joins me to discuss our favourite Invader Zim themed Math Rock bands while passing a gun back and forth between each other. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the little E signifies.    ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

I talk with Harris Fishman AKA Beetle Moses about hard cartoon ethics. Like, is it OK to use Fred Flintstone to kill if it could save several other Fred Flintstones? ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the little E signifies.    ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

On this episode, we talk with caustic riff rockers "Super Kill Me Now" about attempting to subvert nostalgia, a musician's social obligation to community and the legacy of the Languorous Rock of the 2010s.  ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the little E signifies.    ★...

Hooray! The latest and final format change for this podcast has occurred and now it's a program where I interview bands that I play shows with . The inaugural guest for this format change is Kitchener No Wave outfit, Frankie Teardrop! We discuss gestural guitar playing, the Kitchener Noise scene, and your 2026 Toronto Blue Jays. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdeclin...

I am joined by Jane from the venerable Batting Around Podcast in order to discuss nightmarish 2014 animated straight-to-DVD feature Henry & Me in which a cancer-stricken child is visited by the ghost of Lou Gehrig who whisks him to the nether-region between life and death which just so happens to be Yankee Stadium. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.co...

On this episode, I am joined by Baroque Synthpop Music Band Sherry CD-Rom and its constituent members, Sherry and Claire to discuss the power and limitations of attempting to organize community through art. We also discuss the attempt to find happiness amidst a world militating against it and the desperate need to resist the tide of misery with profundity and not triteness.  ~~~ Please email compl...

On this episode, we have musician blackwinterwells aka Rodney to discuss the recent retraction of false allegations surrounding him. We're discussing this not to assign blame, but rather to investigate the possible reasons and motivations behind this thankfully uncommon, yet oddly reoccurring phenomenon wherein a person's character is wholly assassinated based not on specific actions, but rather a...

It's been a year since I start HRT and I thought I would offer some of my various neuroses to you. I talk about my anxiety in dealing with promoting oneself as an 'identity-brand,' and how this provided unique colour in the more general experience of changing how I am perceived in the eyes of others. Cursed with the mark of the media, I try to reconcile my discomfort in the act of mass promotion w...

I am joined by 19-year old alcoholic musician Jim E. Brown to discuss his life of constant pain and misery. Catch him in Toronto on May 9 at Collective Arts! ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the little E signifies.    ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Writer, Cartoonist, Musician and generally talented multi-hyphenate Mattie Lubchansky is here to discuss the most powerful thing you can do in the face of an encroaching hopelessness: little jokes and cartoons. We also discuss her book Boys Weekend and the intense flimsiness and tackiness of the aesthetics of modern wealth. ~~~ Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gma...

It's Gamer Time folks. I am joined by Champion Sloth Casey Explosion to discuss finding joy in a medium with vast potentials for wondrous creativity in spite of a countervailing force that uses this medium as a seemingly crass, but continually relevant wedge issue to stoke reactionary sentiment. Is all nostalgia Fascist? We answer this definitively. The answer is yes. ~~~ Please email complaints,...

I talk about the relationship between gender transition, the work of Guy Debord, and the howling terror of grief. ~~~ Support Haus of Decline on Patreon! Visit hausofdecline.com Nostalgia is fleeting, but @hausofdecline is forever Please email complaints, suggestions, or requests to hausofdecline@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. Explicit Content Warning . You WERE warned.  That's what the litt...

I am joined by journalist Eric Wickham to discuss something that's been a mounting background problem in everybody's lives: why are food prices so dang high and who helps to maintain this profound injustice? Turns out it's The Food Gooner. ~~~ Eric Wickham Links Eric on Twitter The Hoser Grocery Tracker Big Shiny Takes ~~~ Support Haus of Decline on Patreon! Visit hausofdecline.com Nostalgia is fl...