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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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HSNE Jeopardy: Season 3 Championship
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!…
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HSNE Jeopardy: Season 3 Game 3
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…
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HSNE Jeopardy: Season 3 Game 2
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!…
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HSNE Jeopardy: Season 3 Game 1
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…
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Chris Picks: The Knife
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…
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Steve Picks: Mest feat Tony Lovato
We're sneaking in another Steve Picks episode and this week it's gonna be the Mest's self-titled record. We reached out to the man himself, Tony Lovato, who…
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Rankin It Summer Showdown: The Great Debate
Welcome to the finale of the Rankin' It Summer Showdown: The Great Debate! We are joined by friend of the show Stew and we nominate our quintessential pop-punk…
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Rankin It Summer Showdown: 2002 Albums
We had so much fun doing a Rankin It Summer Showdown with albums from 2001 that we decided to move forward 1 full year and do it all again. If you're playing a…
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Rankin It Summer Showdown: 2001 Albums
In our next Rankin It Summer Showdown we've compiled a list of 20 albums that came out in the year 2001 and we're rankin' 'em all from 20-1. Play along at home…
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Rankin It Summer Showdown: Drive-Thru Records
This summer we're having a showdown. A Rankin It Showdown! This week we are presenting each other with a list of 20 Drive-Thru Records bands and we're gonna…
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We're All Just Teenage Dirtbags Baby feat Brendan Brown
This week we're joined by the one and only Brendan Brown, founder of Wheatus! We go back to the beginnings of the band and Brendan's influences, talk about the…
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The Road to Four Chord featuring Keep Flying
It's been a hell of a month hyping up Four Chord Music Festival and we're ending it with a bang. One of the coolest, most unique bands out there Keep Flying…
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The Road to Four Chord featuring Mallory Run
On our road to Four Chord Music Festival this week we're chatting with Joe and Bert from the band Mallory Run. Based out of Edinboro, PA they are about to be 3…
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The Road to Four Chord featuring Home Grown
Next up on the Road to Four Chord we're checking in with one of our favorite OG bands, Adam and John from Home Grown! Since we've last spoken with Adam the…
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The Road to Four Chord featuring Rishi Bahl
For the month of June we're hyping up one of the coolest indie festivals out there - Four Chord Music Festival in Pittsburgh. We're devoting all our episodes…
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Movie May Soundtrack Edition: Not Another Teen Movie
We conclude this year's Movie May: Soundtrack Edition with a conversation about a spoof movie and it's all-covers soundtrack. Not Another Teen Movie features…
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Movie May Soundtrack Edition: Not Another Teen Movie
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Movie May Soundtrack Edition: BASEketball
Our breakdown of fun movie soundtracks continues with a deep dive on BASEketball! We're not sure what about Tre Parker and Matt Stone playing a newly…
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HSNE Pop-Punk Madness
We had so much fun recording this bracket-style matchup of pre-2001 pop-punk bands for Patreon that we're releasing it for all as a special patron exclusive…
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Movie May Soundtrack Edition: Dumb & Dumber
In our next Movie May Soundtrack Edition we're deep diving the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack! We're joined by Steve Kelly who played in a cover band that solely…
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Movie May Soundtrack Edition: American Pie
Movie May is back with a brand new spin! All month we will be diving into some of our favorite movie soundtracks. First up, a movie that captivated us all and…
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Patron Picks: The Greatest Generation
Patron Picks April wraps up as Tom chose a band that we really needed to talk about. This week we deep dive The Wonder Years and their album The Greatest…
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Patron Picks: Monster
We're back to Patron Picks April and next up Ashleigh chose REM's Monster. We deep dive the album and talk a whole bunch about REM! BECOME A PATRON and support…
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Awful April: M A N I A
Awful April was so fun last year that even though it's not our official theme for the month we had to sneak one in there. A vote on social media dubbed Fall…
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Quick Hits: Old Neon
Quick Hits is back! In a special bonus episode we sit down with Sean and Mike from Pittsburgh's Old Neon! They talk us through playing through several natural…
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Patron Picks: Sweet Tooth
For April we raffled off our episode topics to our Patrons. PunkishDad's name was first drawn so he got to pick the topic and he went with Mom Jeans and their…
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Steve Picks: A Lesson in Romantics
In our final Steve Picks episode, we're talking about a pop-punk emo staple, Mayday Parade and their debut album A Lesson in Romantics! BECOME A PATRON and…
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Steve Picks: Superhero
Never before spoken about in HSNE history, we're talking about musical comedy! This week on Steve Picks we're deep diving Stephen Lynch's album Superhero. It's…
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Steve Picks: You're Awful, I Love You feat. Mike Landlot
Since the launch of the show Wingman Steve has been talking up the band Ludo as the best band not enough people have heard of. Today we're joined by Mike…
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Steve Picks: American Hi-Fi
It's now March and it's Wingman Steve's turn to pick any album he wants. First up, we're going with America Hi-Fi's debut self-titled album. Was this album…
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Chris Picks: A Place in the Sun
In the final Chris Picks February, we're taking a trip to A Place in the Sun by Lit. Is this album more than just the big singles? Is it rock, or pop-punk, or…
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Chris Picks: Still Searching
Next up on Chris Picks, we're heading back to NJ to deep dive Senses Fail and their sophomore album Still Searching. Chris has loved this album for a long…
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Chris Picks: No Pressure
Sometimes when our listeners make suggestions we actually follow through on them! This week we got a recommendation to listen to No Pressure's self-titled…
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Chris Picks: Sam's Town
This month it's Chris-183's world and we're just listening along. Chris personally picks whatever album he wants and it's all kicked off with a discussion of…
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New From 2024: Supercharged
We're wrapping up our New from 2024 series with some old school punks doing some new music. This week resident Offspring expert Bailey joins us for a deep dive…
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It's Jaret!
The originator of the phrase "High School Never Ends" Mr Jaret Reddick joins us for an epic conversation this week! We tackle the real hard questions including…
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New From 2024: Why Would I Watch
You might be saying to yourself, Hot Mulligan's Why Would I Watch is from 2023 and you're supposed to be covering albums from 2024. Well, look at you Mr or Mrs…
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New From 2024: Neck Deep
Last year we covered Neck Deep for the first time and bought in big time. This time around we tackle their newest self-titled album from 2024 along with our…
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New From 2024: There are Worse Things Than Being Alive
Happy New Year! To kick things off we're going back to last year and deep diving some new records that came out. First up is Bayside's There are Worse Things…
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20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: American Idiot
We close out 2024 and our look back on 2004 with an epic discussion of one of the biggest records of all time - Green Day's American Idiot. Tom Keiger and DJ…
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20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: A Hangover You Don't Deserve
This week as we reflect back on 2004, we take our first ever deep dive on a Bowling for Soup album! We're talking all about A Hangover You Don't Deserve. Even…
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20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: Chuck
For our second 2004 look back, we're going to the war-torn Congo and deep diving Sum 41's Chuck. Was this one also all killer with no filler? Or is the darker…
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20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: Futures
Wrapping up the year we are going to take a trip in our time machine back to 2004 with a look back on some awesome 20-year old albums. First up we have…
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New Found November: Resurrection
We wrap up New Found November with their Resurrection. As first album as a 4-piece does this one hit the mark or fall short? Friends Andy and Steve C join…
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New Found November: Not Without a Fight
New Found November rolls on and this week we're skipping a few albums ahead and deep diving Not Without a Fight. OG NFG fan PunkRockMom joins us for a deep…
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New Found November: Sticks and Stones
For our second New Found November we're going for the big guns - it's Sticks and Stones! Bailey joins us and we discuss whether it's really proper to pick my…
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New Found November: Nothing Gold Can Stay
It's been quite a long time since we've discussed New Found Glory at length, and this time we are gonna do it slow and steady, album by album. New Found…
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Alt-ober: High/Low
We're head of our class, we're popular. Its the end of Alt-ober and we're diving into Nada Surf's High/Low. If you only listened to Popular, give the album a…
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Alt-ober: Automatic For the People
Whether you're a shiny happy person or you think that everybody hurts, growing up you probably listened to some REM. This week we deep dive their 1992 album…
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Alt-ober: Vs
Pearl Jam was one of the most influential bands of our youth, so this week on Alt-ober we're doing a deep dive on their sophomore album Vs. Whether you'd…
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Quick Hits: Show Recaps!
In a special Quick Hits, we are recapping our adventures to both the Weezer show (Chris) and The Matches show (Steve). PunkishDad and Shawn Harris join in for…
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Alt-ober: Secret Samadhi
For our second Alt-ober episode, we're skipping over the Live album EVERYONE knows and deep diving 1997's Secret Samadhi. If you have any idea what the lyrics…
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Alt-ober: A Boy Named Goo
For the second year in a row, we're celebrating alternative music. We kick things off by inviting Tony from Tired Radio and Tom from Houston Calls to chat…
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Victorious! Discovering the Waterfront
Victorious! concludes with another first time chat on a scene staple band. This week we deep dive Silverstein's Discovering the Waterfront. Whether you're a…
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Victorious! If Only You Were Lonely
This week on Victorious we chat about some mid-00's screamo. Dave Dross joins in for a discussion on Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely. Be sure to…
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Victorious! Straylight Run
Victorious continues! Today we talk about our first indie record basically ever. We're breaking down Straylight Run's debut self-titled album with a new guest…
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Victorious! The Walking Wounded
Welcome to Victorious! It's not a Nickelodean show, it's a month where we're spotlighting albums and artists that came from Victory Records. First up, we're…
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HSNE Jeopardy 2: Championship
This is it! It's our Season 2 Championship Round! We pit our 3 winners against each other to see who will be crowned the Season 2 HSNE Jeopardy Champion. Will…
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Quick Hits w/ Pooh (Greg & Alex)
If you've ever been to a pop-punk show in NY or NJ, you might have seen a dude dressed as Pooh Bear. It's been 25 years, but we finally tracked him down and…