Yo! That’s My Jawn: The Podcast

An All New Season! Nate returns to the podcast with a conversation with Tamra Davis , director of the new documentary The Best Summer that captures the 1995/1996 Summersault Festival in Australia, featuring the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, Beck, the Foo Fighters and others. They chat about a wide range of topic from her start in music videos, her pivot to feature films and MORE! The Bes...

A fond farewell to 2025 and a list of thanks....

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The holiday season brings with it a unique blend of nostalgia, joy, and sometimes, a touch of chaos. In this episode of the Yo! That's My Jawn podcast, Nate and his festive co-hosts Ferris, James & DX sit down for their annual Christmas roundtable, sharing their thoughts on the season's festivities, traditions, and even a little music. Then, they compete in the first ever Christmas Dra...

Nate talks Turkey, teases the upcoming Holiday episodes of the show and then sits for a chat with comedian/writer Josh Gondelman . They chat about the RISK! Podcast , Josh's childhood in Massachusetts, his exposure to comedy in his early years, finding ways to still appreciate the art of awful people, reconciling old material, being responsible while writing, his path into comedy writing, work...

Back with an all new episode, Nate chats with songwriter/author Chris Dalla Riva about his new book, Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves . They discuss the relationship between music and data, growing up, first songs on guitar, going to college and studying math, early songwriting, writing, Chris's viral key change article , starting the Billboar...

We're back (again)! Nate drops a bombshell announcement and then shares some bonus content from the interview he did with the Philly band, Kulfigirls as a guest host on Dan Drago's 25 O'Clock Podcast . Kulfigirls website Kulfigirls Instagram Kulfigirls Bandcamp 25 O'Clock Podcast ⁠⁠⁠ Yo! That's My Jawn on Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the Y!TMJ Newsletter !⁠

On this day, five years ago... Yo! That's My Jawn: The Podcast was born .... In honor of the anniversary, Nate shares an unreleased segment from his season four chat with Zach Eastman . Thank you to everyone who has ever listened to this silly little show put together by a guy in his basement with delusions of grandeur. ⁠⁠⁠ Yo! That's My Jawn on Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the Y!TMJ...

Nate has a chance to sit down with singer/songwriter David Wilcox for a chat about his new album, The Way I Tell The Story & MORE! They talk about David's childhood, learning guitar at 18, his early songwriting, starting to play out at open mic nights, Joni Mitchell , cutting his teeth busking in Philly on South Street, Nightshift Watchmen , being prolific, what it was like being signed to...

"Better Nate than never...." Nate is back with a fun hang with the brother & sister creative team, Samantha & Tommy Gongol! They chat about their childhood, the genesis of the Flash In The Pan web series , doing a web series over a sitcom, casting the roles of their parents, wrapping production, using social media to promote a web series vs. music, using the single " Flash I...

Nate gives an update on the recent delayed episode releases and ponders out loud about the generative AI band with hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify. Then, Nate sits down with David Lowery ( Cracker , Camper Van Beethoven) . They talk about David's childhood living across the world as a son of a member of the Air Force, how music entered his life, the move to California and exposure...

After an extended break Nate returns with an all new episode! He is joined this week by Kevin Hanson ( The Fractals , Huffamoose ) for a chat about the new EP, Rescue & MORE! They talk about growing up in Washington, moving to Philly, learning guitar, playing in jazz bands as a teen, the gutting of funding for public school music education, the state of young guitar players, the formation of H...

Nate caps off his run of weekly episodes with a conversation with the writer/director of the new film O'Dessa , Geremy Jasper. They discuss growing up in New Jersey, the path from music to film, finding and appreciating different styles of music, the Fever, Outlaws , myths and epics, what influenced O'Dessa , making such an original film in the current landscape of film, casting Sadie Sink...

Nate's back with a chat with Canadian singer/musician, Art d'Ecco. In a dense chat, they talk about the Non-COMMvention , WXPN , growing up in Canada, how Beethoven led him to piano, the early Art d'Ecco music, his first album, Day Fevers, producing, how the two months he spent in New York City birthed Serene Demon , the lack of movements in contemporary music, the Rocky Horror Picture...

Nate is joined this week by Nick Hexum of the band 311. They chat about Philly show memories, his early music memories, learning how to play piano and pivoting to guitar, Fish Hippos, how prolific band was early in their career, the range of music in the 90s, the end of Capricorn Records, "Love Song" and the 50 First Dates soundtrack, the NIck Hexum Quintet, Waxing Nostalgic and the EP release pla...

Nate chats with entrepreneur/technologist Benji Rogers. They talk about meeting years ago at Fergie's Pub, growing up in a family of music industry managers, getting into music, the true purpose of streaming, the CD-R and MP3 era, Bandcamp, content collapse, the give & take of technology, Substack, Sureel. AI and attribution, and how it has been received by the industry. Then, Benji hangs out...

Nate's back with an all new chat with the team behind the new nine part HBO documentary Celtics City, director Lauren Stowell and producer Gabe Honig. They chat about Nate's Sixers fandom, Lauren's SC Featured piece The Dutch Destroyer , finally getting t share the doc with the world, how the doc handles the racial dynamics of Boston & the NBA, the weight of telling this story, fav...

Nate sits for a chat with Master puppeteer and Animatronic Designer, Dave Barclay to chat about his new autobiography, My Life With Animatronics. Movies, Puppets and Beyond . They discuss Dave's childhood growing up in England, his parents's puppetry group, his desire to get into film and special effects makeup, Yoda and bridging puppetry and animatronics, how Mark Hamill got him into the...

Nate is back with a recap of the Eagles victory in Super Bowl LIX before a great conversation with singer/songwriter Andrew Dost. They talk about the Dead Milkmen , growing up in Michigan, unfinished projects, Andrew's musical Columbus! , recognizing and growing from early missteps, scoring for film, finding himself musically after the dissolution of fun. , playing the Metal Bubble Trio materi...

Sexy Season Six!! Nate is back riding high from the Eagles heading back to the Super Bowl with a great chat with keyboardist/producer/composer, Corey Bernhard! They chat about growing up in Massachusetts, the music that played around the house when he was a kid, learning the piano, children's resilience with failure, playing Phish and Led Zeppelin in early bands, becoming a Jazz head, writing shee...

Nate sends off 2024 with a recap of the year and a long list of Thank Yous for his friends, family, contributors and listeners.... Mentioned in this episode: 25 O'Clock: Nate Runkel (Yo! That's My Jawn) Single Season Record - Whole In One: MTV's Movie Life: House Of Wax RISK! Ep. #1537 - Nihilist in the Streets, Boy Scout in the Sheets What Did We Just Watch - Tango & Cash (1989) Your Next Fav...

Nate delivers the audio version of his yearly ukulele singalong livestream, 'Twas the Jawn Before Christmas 5! Mentioned Links: 'Twas the Jawn Before Christmas [VIDEO] The Christmas Jawns Vol. 3 playlist Nate's Substack Subscribe to the Y!TMJ Newsletter!

Nate is joined once again by his pals, James and D.X. Ferris to once again chat about Christmas. This season, they tackle some Christmas likes and some Christmas dislikes. So fashion yourself a glass of eggnog, settle down by the fire and enjoy!! D.X. Ferris on Amazon DXMas XXX: 30, Flirty & Thriving (2024) Y!TMJ The Podcast presents... Christmas Jawns vol. 3 Subscribe to the Y!TMJ Newsletter!

Nate kicks off his return with a quick update on Oops! All Bards , 2OLD / 2NEW , the WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century wrap up show on Your Next Favorite Band , and the upcoming fifth 'Twas the Jawn Before Christmas . Then Nate sits for a quick chat with actor/writer/director Jack Huston to talk about Jack's directorial debut, Day of the Fight ! Day of the Fight website Day of the Fight...

Back with an all new episode, Nate makes a plea for you to vote on November 5th before sitting down for a chat with comedian/musician/writer/podcaster/actor Dave Hill. They talk about the RISK! Podcast , growing up in Ohio, Sons of Elvis, signing to Priority Records, the Higher Learning soundtrack, meeting Flava Flav, entering the comedy world, being a hyphenate and finding time to do so, the form...