High School Never Ends : A Pop-Punk Dad Podcast

It's our final HSNE Goes Old School and we're deep diving Bad Religion's 1994 record Stranger Than Fiction. Is this a classic album you enjoy? Is this the best Bad Religion album? Tune in and hear our thoughts! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com fo...

Tell me what you thought about that time we got to sit down with Ken Vasoli and chat about the Drive-Thru Records days, the new album Eternal Youth, his favorite records, and more! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and mor...

There's nothing that says Old School surf punk like a SoCal band from the 90's. This week we are deep diving Lagwagon and their 1998 album Let's Talk About Feelings. Do you think this is in the top 50 pop-punk albums of all time? We shall discuss! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpo...

Next up on HSNE Goes Old School we're breaking out the black coat, white shoes shoes, black hat, Cadillac and we're talkin about Rancid's 1995 record ...And Out Come The Wolves. Mark from The Two Point Conversation Podcast joins us to walk through this old school ska/punk classic and debate what's Rancid's biggest single.  BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: ht...

It's a new year and a new theme here on HSNE. We're going back back to the old school and visiting some albums that were influential on the pop-punk scene. To start, we are going into The Descendents and their first record Milo Goes to College BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod an...

It's a Christmas miracle! We've brought all 3 of our HSNE Jeopardy Champions together for a Tournament of Champs. We PunkishDad vs Tom vs Dave to see who is the champ of champs. The questions have gotten harder and the board has gotten bigger. Listen in and see who prevails for a very special prize! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsn...

We're capping off our 2025 Recap with a deep dive on Motion City Soundtrack's new album The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World. It's been 10 years since we've heard a new album from these guys and this is the first Wingman Steve and Chris-183 have seen released as official fans. Tom Good joins us as the resident MCS expert to talk about this one track by track. BECOME A PATRON and support the show wh...

Next on our list of 2025 albums we couldn't wait to chat about, it's Hot Mulligan and The Sound A Body Makes When It's Still. Call it emo, screamo, midwest emo, whatever you want, we were just stoked to dive into this one and how could we resist all the fun song titles? BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on a...

We've waited 18 years for a new Starting Line full length album and they delivered with 2025's Eternal Youth. We're joined by lifelong Starting Line fan Sam to break this one down, discuss the hooks and sounds and debate where it scores in the Starting Line discography. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on a...

It's the end of the year and it's time to reflect back on all the beautiful pop-punk music we were given in 2025. In our first of several 2025 Recap episodes we're deep diving Yellowcard's first full length record since their reunion, Better Days. Huge singles, violins, some electronics, Travis Barker, Avril, Matt Skiba... we have a lot to discuss. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access...

For our final HSNE Collabs, we're chatting with Chris from across the pond and The Wasting Time Podcast. Chris chats with us all about their show, some cool guests they've had on, and their involvement with our favorite music festival - Four Chord! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEp...

In this Patreon episode, we took 10 Yellowcard songs, 10 Starting Line songs, and 4 total wild cards and did a fantasy draft with our buddies Stew and Steve Kelly. We also invited third party analysts Dr Bernie and Sam to evaluate the teams and see who came out on top! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on al...

For our next HSNE Collabs we are chatting with Lisa from Stereo Therapy Podcast. We talk all about the local music scenes in Chicago and New Jersey and discuss the importance of mental health in the scene. Check them out @stereo.therapy! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visi...

This month we're collabing with some awesome fellow podcasters. We're kicking things off with our friends Wiley and Steve from Playlitest. We talk all about playlists, CD-RW's, their show and more. We even created a Quintessential Pop-Punk Playlist which you can listen to! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2d0Ec1TIJjT211rv4sgqsS?si=63d7c0d824b4451b BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access...

In our next Rocktober episode we get to the transitionary period where Linkin Park goes from nu-metal to rock, and that's Minutes to Midnight. We bleed it out together and deep dive this 2007 banger! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official...

It's Rocktober and we're gonna chat a little bit about some rock bands. To kick us off we're starting with Aerosmith. This is a band Wingman Steve has been following for over 30 years and we're gonna talk about their compilation album Big Ones that covers their Permanent Vacation, Pump, and Get a Grip albums. We're joined by long time friend Jello to share his perspective on the boys from Boston....

Unfortunately we were not able to make it to this year's Warped Tour reunion shows, but we have Warped Tour experts Aaron and Drew from The Warped Band to re-live the old Warped glory days and give us a recap of what went down this year. Check out The Warped Band at a city near you at warpedband.com!   BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/...

It's time to put a pin in Four Chord Music Festival 11, and to do that properly, we have Rishi Bahl, the founder of the festival on to talk all about how the fest went with some behind the scenes info. Make sure to sign up for early updates for next year at www.fourchordmusicfestival.com BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure...

It's time to put a pin in Four Chord Music Festival 11, and to do that properly, we have Rishi Bahl, the founder of the festival on to talk all about how the fest went with some behind the scenes info. Make sure to sign up for early updates for next year at www.fourchordmusicfestival.com BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure...

It all comes down to this. We have our 3 winners from this season, Jeff, Dave and Chris facing off against each other to see who is this season's champion!  BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversat...

As we get close to wrapping up Season 3 of HSNE Jeopardy we need to find out the third person to join the elite winner's circle and advance to the championship. This week Chris, Dave and Matt face off! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for officia...

It's Game 2 of HSNE Jeopardy Season 3! Today we have Dave, Tyson and Kevin facing off to see who's got the pop-punk knowledge to advance to our championship! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversa...

Welcome to Season 3 of HSNE Jeopardy! It's a pop-punk trivia game show modeled after the famous show - you get it. Today in our first game, Jeff, Sam and Adam square off with some fun categories! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merc...

To wrap up our August hodgepodge, it's Chris' turn to pick an album to deep dive. He settled on Goldfinger's The Knife which is basically a pop-punk-ska supergroup of artists. PunkishDad joins in on the fun and the debate on whether Goldfinger is ska, punk, ska-punk, or something else! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure t...