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High School Never Ends : A Pop-Punk Dad Podcast
Thirty-Something Dads, 'Wingman' Steve and Chris-183, nerd out over the power-chorded glory that was 90's and 2000's pop-punk. Their hearts are Blink and Yellowcard but their brains are pure Baby Shark.
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Frightfully Bad: Puppet Master
On our next Frightfully Bad, we're going back to 1989 to discuss Andre Toulon's ancient magic to bring inanimate objects to life. We are joined by Mike Elfers…
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Frightfully Bad: Halloween H2O
In the spirit of Halloween, we're switching things up and taking a look at some frightfully bad horror movies. First up we chat with Movie Steve all about the…
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Chords & Records: Say Hello to Sunshine
It's taken a little while but it's time to wrap up Chords & Records. To cap things off we visit Finch's sophomore album Say Hello To Sunshine. We didn't have a…
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Chords & Ducks
Following Four Chord Music Festival, we sit down with Ducky and Cat of Most Pit Ducks and talk about the festival, spreading joy through ducks, pop-punk music…
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Rest In Peace Chad Gilbert
This week our community lost a pioneer. We're joined by several friends of the show to celebrate the life of Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory and talk about his…
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Chords & Records: You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
Considering they are one of the headliners, we decided to give Knocked Loose a deep dive. This one is.... very different than what we're used to. Stew joins us…
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Chords & Records: Boys Like Girls
Next up on Chords & Records we head to Boston to talk some Boys Like Girls. We deep dive their debut album, their huge single, their skinny jeans and more!…
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Chords & Records: Collide With the Sky
Welcome to Chords & Records! As we prep for our trip to Four Chord Music Festival we're taking a deep dive on some artists and albums we are either new to or…
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The Summertime Weezer Spectacular: The Gold Album
The Summertime Weezer Spectacular concludes in a grand way with the deep dive of a brand new Weezer record. Wingman Steve returns to the show and Ashleigh…
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The Summertime Weezer Spectacular: Everything Will Be Alright In the End
This week the Summertime Weezer Spectacular rolls on with a look at Weezer's 9th Studio Album, "Everything Will Be Alright In the End." Chris 183 is joined by…
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The Summertime Weezer Spectacular: The Green Album
The Summertime Weezer Spectacular continues with a deep dive of the 2001 Green Album. Tom Keiger returns once again to help Chris 183 deep dive one of the most…
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The Summertime Weezer Spectacular: The Black Album
It's a brand new month, and for this episode we kick off August with a brand new series - The Summertime Weezer Spectacular! Join Chris 183 as he chats one on…
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The Road to Four Chord feat. Brooks Betts of Mayday Parade
To wrap up The Road to Four Chord we're joined by Brooks from Mayday Parade! We go back to the beginnings of the band, talk Fearless Records and Punk Goes, and…
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The Road to Four Chord feat. Driveways
This week on the Road to Four Chord we sit down and chat with Pat and Ryan from the post-hardcore band Driveways. We talk all about their music, the fall, and…
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The Road to Four Chord feat. Nick Thompson of Hit the Lights
Next up on the Road to Four Chord we're chatting with Nick from Hit the Lights! We did a deep dive on Skip School, Start Fights earlier this year and they're…
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The Road to Four Chord feat. Rishi Bahl
There's no better person to hype up Four Chord Music Festival than Pittsburgh's own Rishi Bahl. He founded the show and has put in a ton of work year over year…
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The Road to Four Chord feat. Will Pugh of Cartel
Four Chord Music Festival in Pittsburgh is coming back to town on Sept 25-26 and we're taking the month of July to celebrate the festival and some of the bands…
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You Pick 'Em June: Hold On
In the final episode of You Pick 'Em June we're going back to 2004 to discuss Name Taken's Hold On. We have Blake and Ryan from the band on to deep dive the…
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Quick Hits: The Cab
In a special episode, we catch up with Alex & Joey of The Cab to talk about their first album in 14 years, their headlining tour, and much more! BECOME A…
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You Pick 'Em June: Pollyanna
Next up in You Pick 'Em June we're going back to 2004 to discuss an album that many would consider a cult classic. We're joined by Jessie and we're deep diving…
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You Pick 'Em June: Avalanche United
For our second You Pick 'Em June, you wanted us to talk about I Am the Avalanche and their album Avalanche United. We have some IATA super fans in Dave and…
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You Pick 'Em June: Box Car Racer
You Pick 'Em June is back! You chose the albums for the votes, and you chose the winners. First up, a monster of an album we've never officially broken down…
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HSNE Kills It Live: Live In Phoenix (Fall Out Boy)
It's our final HSNE Kills It Live and we're talking about Fall Out Boy Live in Phoenix. Whether you're a huge Pete Wentz fan or not, this is peak early Fall…
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HSNE Kills It Live: Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album (Reel Big Fish)
If you've ever dreamed of hearing us discuss a 35-track live album featuring THE Reel Big Fish, today's your day! We are deep diving the banter and the songs…
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HSNE Kills It Live: Somebody's Gonna Miss Us (Starting Line)
HSNE Kills It Live continues this week with a chat about The Starting Line's "final" tour and subsequent CD/DVD Somebody's Gonna Miss Us. We break this one…
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HSNE Kills It Live: Kill It Live (New Found Glory)
Welcome to a month full of live music! It's HSNE Kills It Live and we're kicking it off with New Found Glory's Kill It Live, an album recorded from their live…
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Acoustic April: My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue + The Acoustic Things
We're wrapping up our Acoustic April with a double dose of acoustic guitars from 2 of our favorite bands. This week Justin from Cheer Up Dusty joins us to…
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Acoustic April: Dashboard MTV Unplugged 2.0
We could not do a full month about acoustic albums and not feature one on Dashboard. So we went back to the days of MTV Unplugged as we walk through their…
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Acoustic April: Ocean Avenue Acoustic
Next up on Acoustic April it's another "Avenue" but this time it's Yellowcard's Ocean Avenue. We never actually did a full spotlight on the original so it's…
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Acoustic April: Page Avenue Ten Years and Counting
For April we're calming things down and going acoustic. First up, we have an acoustic re-imagining of Story of the Year's Page Avenue called Page Avenue: Ten…
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March Madness: Movie Bracket
OK so it's April now, but we had one more March Madness bracket to finish up, and that's a mega 64 choice bracket featuring movies! Of course Movie Steve joins…
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March Madness: AI's Screamo/Post-Hardcore Bracket
Four our next March Madness bracket, we turned back to AI and asked it to give us a list of 32 top screamo/post-hardcore songs. Stew and Darin help us crown…
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March Madness: Pop-Punk Road Trip Snacks Bracket
This week's March Madness comes courtesy of Jason C who gave us 32 Road Trip Snack Foods that correlate to pop-punk bands for us to determine what is the…
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March Madness: AI's Pop-Punk Song Bracket
Welcome to HSNE March Madness! This week we asked AI to pick 32 top pop-punk songs and put them in a bracket to see which will prevail the winner! Eternal Boy…
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March Madness: AI's Pop-Punk Song Bracket
Welcome to HSNE March Madness! This week we asked AI to pick 32 top pop-punk songs and put them in a bracket to see which will prevail the winner! Eternal Boy…
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Patreon Sneak Peek: Blink No Singles Setlist Challenge
This week we're giving you a sneak peak into our Patreon exclusives! PunkishDad was calling the shots for February and asked us all to make the perfect…
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Forgotten Favorites February: Vacation
We wrap up Forgotten Favorites February with a discussion about everyone's favorite topic... Vacation! This is the album Vacation by Seaway, and we're joined…
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Forgotten Favorites February: Skip School, Start Fights
We do not endorse our listeners to skip school or start fights, but we do endorse you to check out Hit the Lights and their album Skip School, Start Fights…
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Forgotten Favorites February: Unwritten Law
For our next Forgotten Favorites February we're talking about a band that somehow we have overlooked for years. Today we are joined by D-Rock and we're talking…
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Forgotten Favorites February: Sound the Alarm
Our HSNE Jeopardy Tournament of Champions Winner PunkishDad gets to pick the content for our show for all of February! He's demed this "Forgotten Favorites…
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Stranger Than Fiction
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…
High School Never Ends : A Pop-Punk Dad PodcastEternal Youth feat. Ken Vasoli
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…
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Let's Talk About Feelings
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…
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...And Out Come the Wolves
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…
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Milo Goes to College
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…
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HSNE Jeopardy Tournament of Champions!
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…
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2025 Recap: The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World
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…
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2025 Recap: The Sound A Body Makes When It's Still
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…
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2025 Recap: Eternal Youth
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…
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2025 Recap: Better Days
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…
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HSNE Collabs: Wasting Time
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…
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Fantasy Draft: Yellowcard + Starting Line
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…
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HSNE Collabs: Stereo Therapy
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…
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HSNE Collabs: Playlitest
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…
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Rocktober: Minutes to Midnight
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…
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Rocktober: Big Ones
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…
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Warped Tour '25 Recap w/ The Warped Band
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…
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Four Chord Music Festival Aftermath w/ Rishi Bahl
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…
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Four Chord Music Festival Aftermath w/ Rishi Bahl
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…