Yelling at concrete

This week was a real honour, I reached out at random to an animator I love the work on and who has been involved with some of my favourite shows in the past decade and he was kind enough to text back! Aaron long is a Canadian animator who has his own animated web series called Sublo and Tangy mustard which is how I discovered him and quickly got a nostalgia hit for the animations I grew up with bu...

This week I sit down to talk all things cool. Are kids cool? did they lose their edge? Can you be cool whilst not being self destructive? Are we a generation which is cooler than the last or the next or are we simply interested in the things around us which highlighted the mood of the time? Either way I don't think I'm cool enough to answer these questions but I shall try in a ramble of nostalgia,...

This week I catch up with Natal who is the founder editor and Chief of Bi-pan Magazine which a completely free paperless online Zine focused on Bipoc and Queer media. I met Natal though Coke-Oven.com when she submitted her work to me and was instantly taken in by the very open nature of the Bipan magazine project and how it's working to bring more representation to the world but also looking to he...

Following up from my talk on educational institutions lets talk those of us out in the wild! This time we talk diy values learning new skills and how whenever learning anything the best way is to take it steps at a time to get going otherwise you'll kneecap yourself. I think it's possible to learn at any age but we forget how to learn, we forget how to skill build and manage and how to strip back...

This week i get to sit down with cool retro art cat Anthony Carranza. Anthony is an LA artist who specialises in producing vintage inspire work and retro sentiments. I found his work through the instagram and caught up with him to find out firstly why the focus on retro but also how he's approached work in general. Anthony is a big proponent of keeping a positive outlook but also gives some great...

THIS week we sit down behind the sneeze guard of education. Getting ruined on grammar and reflecting on the history of my education and what the past was like. How institutions of education are not reflective of a learning process or setup to nurture a process but are businesses and how you slowly learn this as you go through school and university. So as you all return to education this summer and...

This week I got a little blown away to be able to get in touch with a musician I've been following for a long old while now and that is Mega Ran! Raheem Jarbo under his stage name Mega Ran is a rapper, hip hop artist, DJ, producer...you name it he's done it. Having been around in the game of music and art for years he's a regular on my playlist and is heavily known in the chiptune, nerdcore commun...

This week I give you a clickbait title and we sit down to discuss a little experiment I've been running. During 2021 I made a change to the cast a change which would potentially have positive or negative implications and that was to only have Female and non-binary guests for a whole year! I wanted to see a few things: 1.If anyone would notice 2.If it would affect my audience and stats I get about...

This week I get further Zine focused as i get to sit down with Zine distro owner and founder of Phoenix zine fest Charissa Lucille. Charissa runs a zine distro in a physical location in Arizona a place which acts as a community space with the focus of being accessible and uplifting for the QTBIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled and chronically ill, neurodivergent within the area and farther afield! Charissa...

It's today! Five years since we launched Yelling at concrete podcast. But what is less known is that this also marks 10 years of being on Youtube! So this week I take a look at how I formed the podcast, how it's evolved over the years. We also take a look back at the last ten years and how my life has changed and where the brush marks for the format and style of the show which can from my early yo...

This week I get to sit back and chat with comic creator Lucy Sullivan Lucy's work i discovered during Hackney Zine fest and her book "Barking" and quickly fell for it. She has a powerful style and creates fantastic art work about subjects which really cut to the core of humanity. We caught up to talk not only her work in comic but animation and the challenges within creating something like a graph...

Ignore someone and they'll stop right? Right?! No that's not true, ignore someone and depending on their countenance for your approval they will continue or escalate what they do in order to get your attention of simply because they didn't care in the first place. Something I was taught early as a child was not to do things for approval and whilst that is damaging as it teaches you to never seek a...

This week we're back on our folk history grind. In wanting to find out more about the folk world and the history or all things word of mouth I caught up with Amy Boucher who is a writer and researcher of all things folk tale. From the black country of the UK I.e out Birmingham way for those who don't know she caught me up on a few tales of the black death and drunk monks. We also discuss how super...

This week I get introspective and talk my long term plan for myself, my dreams and how that has evolved over the years from when I was a kid wanting to lock myself in a room and tell everyone else to sod off to now where I want to lock myself in a room and help everyone else how they can get their own room. Retiring from humanity is something the bitter, the hurt, the ultra rich want to do but you...

You know when you're scrolling through reels and you see those cute videos of animals and you wonder "What is this person all about?" Well this week I got to find out! This week I sit down with Duck enthusiast and genuinely lovely fella Jimmy Longbottom who runs a duck ranch out in Cincinnati. I saw his videos on Instagram and was hooked with his humour but also his approach to educating and ethic...

Throughout my life I have been told one thing often. "We don't have much but we have enough" and this is a true statement of my youth and something I try to maintain today. SO today we're doing a dive on wealth. Some would say again. But this week I'm talking about this aspiration for wealth which has overtaken the main media as the main goal. I ask which goal you're on and look into the differenc...

This week I get change to visit the furthest away I have visited via the podcast as we hook up with Japan and Zine maker/reviewer Craig Atkinson! I've been wanting to chat with Craig for a while as he's lived what seems like a dynamic life across the globe and found himself with a world view wide of my own which I love hearing about. We got together to discuss Zines of course but also why we make...

This week I do something I never really do and get specific about a company but it's hard not to when they are setting a good example! So I'll prefix this with Tony's chocolate I have not idea if you're reading this but I love your product but you do pose a conundrum conceptually. If you haven't guessed this week I sit down to talk about the "recent" advent calendar controversy surrounding chocola...

This week I sit down with Author Jen Sookfong Lee who is an acclaimed writer and talented human being. She's a writer, broadcaster and all round interesting person as her work deals with identity and heritage and the stories woven by these struggles. This week we take a look at our own past with pop culture, different upbringings and experiences with meeting celebs and ask how do you know when you...

This week I sit down to discuss my own self destructive behaviour, curious of if others do the same but also reasoning why I noticed it and how that relates to my own self worth. I found over the years it's a reaction I've used to many situations and noticed it in other of in moments of peril or strife that I can turn the conversation or the moment to be less dangerous by making myself the butt of...

This week I have the absolute pleasure of catching up with Kate Cherrell. Kate is a writer, editor and lecturer in all things gothic and spooky. Having studied to PHD level on these subjects she's more than over qualified to come talk to me about what makes these subjects so engaging. Why we have a fascination with the dead and burial culture and for me to learn more about seance and the history o...

If there is one thing which irks me it's Gatekeeping, whether it be in education, fashion, music, hobbies you name if there is a level of gate keeping going on I'm going to either. A. Find the key and duplicate it to get past you or B. Irritate you to a point where you have to acknowledge your ridiculousness. We get a lot of it in society and have seen it hugely in alternative and gothic culture a...

This week we are back! Jumping into 2021 with a recap of the best and worst we saw in the year and discussing what 2021 really meant to us. In a move not yet tried on this channel I grabbed Martyn my brother and two close friends for a four way chat. Talking about favourite things from 2021, why Psychonaughts has such a profound impact on Martyn, why chilling has become a core value for Brett and...

Yelling at concrete podcast is a three times a month podcast hosted by myself "Graham". Founded in 2017 I have been finding and catching up with guests and friends for what will be five seasons going into 2022! Each week a new cast goes up and a new topic is discussed. In solo episodes Graham dives into a thought or idea attempting to bring some sort of balance to the chaos which is online discuss...

This week i sit down and talk animal affinity, the want of people to be the king of the jungle. Exploring their animalistic natures and what over showing your hand of anger and strength can really be saying. Of course I do have a bear on my arm so we get into that as well for the final episode of the year as i get a little reflective and more comfortable being a sasquatch. Itunes https://podcasts....