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...
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!...
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,...
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...
78 RPM quests, Bix Beiderbecke’s mystery trail, Joe Bussard’s basement Mecca, digitizing history and making-me-blush blues songs. It’s all brought here by this week’s guest...
A whole village under the thumb of one snake, avenging a father one never knew, the safety in being useless, piting lions against each other,...
Nashville, Tennessee is famous for the country music industry, hot chicken and a ton of colleges. But it’s also full of individual stories, of which...
1980’s are back, at least in our reminiscing. This time around: high school hard boiled press hounds, fist fighting everyone from Tennessee to Chicago, club Medusa’s...
Solitude, books, gardens, shady trees, being defined by enemies, honesty and man-children! Hear all these topics rolled around and discussed with folks from various walks of...
Jack Teagarden, Louis Jordan, Ukulele Ike and Percy Mayfield are all names that aren’t heard much on the lips of folks these days. But musicologist...
Unconnected stories! From the back of the recording drawer we’ve got folks talking about inventing an Amiga computer for the domestic engineer, the blossom and...
We’re back over in China’s interior for another lesson in the ways of the Taoism. This time around we’re talking with a “Mr. Wu” who...
Foxy Chinese lady spirits, a mud-faced mexican witch, meat rain, prison haunts, oujia manipulations, Sudanese brotherly betrayals and tunnels from of the dead offsprings of fornicating clergy. It’s...
More creepy Patches From a Second-Hand Planet stories! These two called “When you went away” and “Worse in it’s absence” involve travelers and the ghosts they pick...
Mr. Mister’s liturgy, Margaret Thatcher’s reign, hiding in the ceiling, talking to girls, climbing up the school building, falling off the school building, first crushes...
Half of this episode will be in the ocean depths and the other half will be over in China; and a guy we’ll call ShuǐXià LaoWai will...
To some Falun Gong is just way to exercise or meditate, to others it’s brought them great inner peace and then to others it somehow...
Miami Vice, mullets, shoes but no socks, a video game starring the members of the band Journey, Flock of Seagull hair, Mexican female bodies stuffed...
Not everyone in the 1980’s were walking on sunshine. On this installment of our look back podcast, we talk back to bullies, go to Southern...
Been a long time since you strained your brain? Come join us Back by the Woodpile for more word wrestling as we discuss saints, sinners,...
Welcome to another dig through the often overlooked music of the 1980s! This time around journalist and author John J Thompson of True Tunes fame...
The final in the series of interviews conducted at the 2016 International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, music enthusiastic Phil Oldham talks about the state...
Dr. Ming Wang is an Ophthalmologist and scientist who’s pioneered both the fields of health technology and molecular biology, having published research papers and...
Thieves have stolen all the arms and legs of a sweet child’s baby doll collection! Who would do such an inconsiderate thing? We’re not sure...
Joe Torre has been around the computing block both in soft and hardware since the 1970’s. By taking advantage of his luck and pushing discipline...
DJ Ron Slomowicz has been pumping dance beats out onto the club floors, airwaves and media avenues for over 20 years now. In a moment of...
Another flip through our 1980s back pages, this time around: interning at one of the first hip hop radio stations ever, getting that first kiss...