We’re riding around another locale and getting all the good stories! This time we cruise the hills and hollers of Hopkins County, Kentucky to talk...
Peter Horse is back ready to talk about all kinds of things that could get us carted off to prison, including Liu Xiaobo, Taylor Swift...
We go back to another 1980s episode with some stories and performances from The Alarm, embarrass ourselves in front of Melissa Manchester and revisit the song...
Poet Mario A. Pita (Lyrical Emissary, Image Marriages) comes back by the woodpile to not only share his verses but talk everything from science and spirituality,...
Our woodpile is over in China again! This time around Peter Horse brings over his chair and mouth to talk writer Lu Xun (鲁迅), Chinese...
Our favorite Salvadorian girls are back to help us learn some of the key Spanish words to songs by Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe, Salsa Clave and Alvaro...
Last night, the city of Los Angeles honored beloved Batman actor, Adam West, by shining the bat signal onto the city hall building made famous...
1980’s racism is what’s on tap on our look back podcast this time around. Specifically how it played out in two spots on the globe:...
The 1980’s are back, at least in our minds. This time around we rap re-issuing early Hip-Hop, dreams of meeting Lena Zavaroni, flying high in the US...
Author Lisa See comes Back by the Woodpile to talk about her new title The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, which centers around a Chinese ethinic minority...
Meet Tonary Modal, a SoCal model and Maxim Hometown Hottie! We got to know her playing video games back in that day and being...
Trying to learn another language is frickin’ hard! But since rocking along to sweet music ain’t no chore, why not bop and cram at the...
Members of the Rebellion, it’s Star Wars day, today! To celebrate, we’re giving you the best shots of the Chicago Comicon, C2E2, on Instagram. How...
Chilly fradulent fuzzy worms, Darwinistic romantic calculations, Salvation Army pickings, Cover Your Hind End Insurance…it’s all here as Roxy Forest, Nick McNasty and Corey McFly...
Snapshots into the lives of ordinary Chinese folk, ranging from doctors to students to the spiritually minded.
The walls do speak- and sometimes wail- of which musicologist and tour guide Phil Pospychala can hear them. So on this episode of In the...
Come to find out Gina McGaha is a lying tease! But she does put our heroes onto a mystery and cash reward involving someone wiping...
Corey McFly has finally cornered the iron pumping boyfriend of the object of his affection- Gina McGaha- on the town square lawn. This encounter somehow...
Philosophical banter, this time around inspired by the words of John Hughes spoken by Leah Thompson, Mary Stuart Masterson & Eric Stoltz via 1987’s Some...
The crew are in town and have acquired some mysterious Scratch n Sniff stickers, cassingles and Rubiks cube. Corey McFly is ready to give his...
Nick McNasty is still imprisoned in his bedroom, Roxy Forest is trapped between a wall of fists and a radio full of ghosts, Skirdette is...
A role-playing game set in the 1980’s! Music lover/aspiring dancer Roxy Forest, football jock Corey McFly and computer geek Nick McNasty join gamemaster Spun Counterguy...
With the Chicago Auto Show wrapping up last week, the Brophisticate made its annual pilgrimage to Media Day for a close-up and personal exploration of...
Thoughts, words and responses are flung here and there on this latest edition of Tryna Herd Cats, the philosophical dialogue podcasts Back By the Woodpile!...
Okay, let’s first assume your desk has more than paper clips on it. Heck, even a pencil sharpener would have more usable parts. Seriously though,...
1980’s artists fogotten, neglected or never heard in the first place. This time John J. Thompson of True Tunes fame helps us remember The Alarm,...
Hold it! Don’t revoke our man card. We all remember SNL veteran Chris Kattan’s orange Miata in Corky Romano. And, we seriously don’t wanna be...
Millennials trust in tech. There’s an app for almost everything after all and ones like Uber or Lyft have created countless jobs when presidents and...
In the lead up to the world being plunged into a second world war, the Japanese invaded China and subjected the country to a living...
Philosophy throwdown! Somehow between sneaky neighbors, withered trees, unaware beauty, unaware virtue, Chinese sages and missing axes, we find a little insight. To hear on...