The Guest List with Patrick Hicks

Today Patrick sits down with content creator Barry Enderwick to build the playlist of his life. Barry Enderwick is best known for his series Sandwiches of History where every day at lunch time he makes a sandwich and reviews it. He makes sandwiches from throughout history - from old 19th century recipe books to user submitted sandwiches - then tries to improve them and lets us know whether they’re...

Today Patrick sits down with actor and director Sean Whalen to build the playlist of his life. Sean Whalen is one of the ultimate “That Guys” in movie history. You might know him as That Guy from The People Under the Stairs, That Guy from Twister, or That Guy from the original Got Milk commercial. In addition to his acting credits in everything from Batman Returns to Lost. Recently he’s also start...

Today Patrick sits down with author Chris Dalla Riva to build the playlist of his life. Chris is a music writer who loves to look at the data behind popular songs. From analyzing streaming numbers to breaking down the frequency of key changes in pop music through the years, his Substack newsletter Can’t Get Much Higher and his videos on social media have garnered him tons of followers and millions...

Today Patrick sits down with comedian Morgan Jay to build the playlist of his life. Morgan Jay is a massive social media star with clips of his live shows being seen by millions and millions of people. The viral videos are of him doing crowd work while using auto-tune on his mic, which has led to many calling him the auto tune comic. But he’s a lot more than that. He has jokes, he plays guitar, he...

Today Patrick sits down with comedian Nick White to build the playlist of his life. Nick White was studying for a master’s degree in architecture in his native Australia when he had the realization that he wanted to do comedy. He had started doing stand up and had done well in some stand up competitions, but he had already invested a lot of time and money into studying architecture. So he finished...

Today Patrick sits down with the band Automatic to build the playlist of their life. The Guest List is back with something special for our 25th episode - instead of one guest we’ve got a whole band. The LA band Automatic releases their third album this week - Is It Now? (out Sep 26). It’s a delightful blast of post-punk groove with dark synths, dancey bass lines, and meaningful lyrics. It’s one of...

Today Patrick sits down with actor Drew Talbert to build the playlist of his life. After college Drew Talbert moved from Nashville, Tennessee to LA to make it in the movies. Like so many other aspiring writers and actors he worked as a server to pay the bills while he pursued his dreams. He eventually joined the legendary Groundlings theater company and was a teacher there for years. But he wasn’t...

Today Patrick sits down with musician and author Doug Robertson to build the playlist of his life. Doug spent a lot of his life as an elementary school teacher and turned that experience into several acclaimed books, including He’s The Weird Teacher and A Classroom of One . But in his 30s he had a revelation that he was constantly asking his students to challenge themselves and to do things they’d...

Please rate and review if you enjoyed the episode! Today Patrick sits down with content creator Mike “Source” Smith to build the playlist of his life. Source was one of my earliest mutuals on TikTok; he has such a deep love and knowledge of music that it was only natural to get him on the Guest List to talk about some of the songs that shaped his life. On TikTok and Instagram he is the go to exper...

Please rate and review if you enjoyed the episode! Today Patrick sits down with vintage fashion content creator Gabi Jones to build the playlist of her life. Gabi didn’t expect to make a career out of posting about vintage fashion online. But like a lot of creative people when COVID hit- she was an actress who was in college studying theater- she turned to social media as an outlet for performing....

Please rate and review if you enjoyed the episode! Today Patrick sits down with comedian Margaret Cho to build the playlist of her life. Margaret Cho is one of the greatest stand up comedians of all time, but she also makes some awesome music (her latest album Lucky Gift came out this year). Having grown up in the San Francisco punk and new wave scenes, Margaret brought that alternative edge into...

Please rate and review if you enjoyed the episode! Today Patrick sits down with journalist Miki Hellerbach to build the playlist of his life. Miki is a writer whose work has appeared in Complex, Okayplayer, Men’s Health, NPR, and more. He also has a Substack called Inside the Credits which focuses on music producers. And his current project is a show called The Spot where he visits the hometown of...

Please rate and review if you enjoyed the episode! Today Patrick sits down with content creator Coco Mocoe to build the playlist of her life. Coco is an expert on all things trends, marketing, content strategy, and pop culture. She makes videos for her over 1 million followers on TikTok, writes a newsletter on Substack , and has her own show The Middle Row with Coco Mocoe where she sits in a movie...

Please rate and review if you enjoyed the episode! Today Patrick sits down with journalist Melissa Locker to build the playlist of her life. Melissa is a writer, editor, and podcaster whose work has appeared in Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, and many more publications on a wide variety of topics. But I wanted to have her on because she has just written a fascinating book about the...

Today Patrick sits down with music content creator Jacob Givens to build the playlist of his life. Do you remember the first time you heard the Smashing Pumpkins? What about Rage Against the Machine or Tori Amos or Radiohead? Jacob Givens does. And he has made an art of capturing the feeling of hearing iconic artists like those in short, often funny, videos on social media . His videos have been v...

Today Patrick sits down with machine learning engineer and content creator Shane Morris to build the playlist of his life. Shane is normally on podcasts discussing topics like “Data Engineering in the Federal Sector” since his day job is working as a senior executive advisor in the world of defense and national security. But before all that he was also in the music business, working for MySpace Mu...

Today Patrick sits down with music producer and reality show star Jay Thomas Manuel (aka Mini Producer) to build the playlist of his life. Jay was born with a rare bone disease called Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type 3 and his parents were told he likely wouldn’t live past childhood. Not only did he survive he has thrived - working as a hip hop producer, getting married to his wife Pamela who also has...

On today’s episode Patrick sits down with licensed therapist and social media star Jeff Guenther aka TherapyJeff to build the playlist of his life. Jeff has been a therapist for 20 years but recently found himself becoming an influencer with millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram . He is also the author of the book Big Dating Energy and the host of the podcast Problem Solved . Jeff and Patr...

Today Patrick sits down with the queen of pop culture podcasting - Joanna Robinson - to build the playlist of her life. Joanna is a senior staff writer at The Ringer and a podcaster on The Ringer podcast network where she hosts shows like House of R and The Prestige TV podcast and is a frequent guest on The Big Picture and The Rewatchables. Her 2023 book MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios was a New...

Today Patrick sits down with Will Ramsey AKA MyEmoDiaries to make the playlist of his life. Will is a musician, content creator , and author of books such as Say the Quiet Part Out Loud , a love letter to his namesake musical genre - emo. We talk about how Will got into the emo scene, how Nirvana became his favorite band of all time, what bands he’s tried to get his Top 40 loving partner into, and...

Today Patrick sits down with comedian, actress, and content creator Franchesca Ramsey to build the playlist of her life. Franchesca first made waves with her mega viral hit video S**t White Girls Say to Black Girls in 2012 and has since hosted her own MTV show Decoded, written a memoir , written for TV, acted in shows like Broad City and Superstore, done stand up comedy, and gone viral on social m...

Today Patrick sits down with songwriter and content creator Rod Kim to build the playlist of his life. Rod is a professional songwriter who in his spare time makes hugely popular Tiktok videos on nostalgia for 90s and 00s music. His videos on everyone from Backstreet Boys to Green Day to Rihanna and Shakira have gotten millions of views and hundreds of thousands of followers. On this episode Rod t...

Today Patrick sits down with television writer Jen Capra to build the playlist of her life. Jen is a writer who has worked on Sesame Street for over 15 years and was recently nominated for an Emmy for her writing on the show. She is also a content creator on Tiktok and was one of the first people to follow me so it’s extra special to have her on the Guest List. We talk about the music she grew up...

Today Patrick sits down with journalist Larisha Paul to build the playlist of her life. Larisha went from running a One Direction stan account on Twitter to being an in demand freelance writer to now working as a staff writer for Rolling Stone. She specializes in pop music and has written brilliant pieces about everything from Liam Payne’s passing to the rise of what she dubs “ Voice Audition Core...

Today Patrick sits down with Denali Foxx , a drag performer who is currently competing on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 10, to make the playlist of her life. Denali is not only one of the best drag queens in the world but also an accomplished figure skater and a serious music nerd. She talks about songs she grew up with, songs she loves to skate to, and songs she loves to lip sync to. Listen...