Latest Howie Podcast Episodes
Approaching Wildflowers
The Tom Petty Project - April 24, 2024 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhen climbers finally decide to take on the holy grail of all ascents, Everest, they first face a nine day journey to base camp, which includes two full rest days. This journey alone weeds out about thirty of explorers. Those who are lucky enough to make the arduous trek to the first staging pos...
The Emotional Lives of Animals with Dr. Marc Bekoff
Defender Radio and The Switch - April 22, 2024 09:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMaking an emotional connection to a non-human animal is a defining moment in many peoples’ lives. It could be the family dog, a squirrel who hops past a window every day, or a black bear known to meander through a local forest. It’s that connection that can help people understand the depth of no...
Russell Mark Returns (Swing and a Miss)
The Tom Petty Project - April 17, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsOne last non-Petty episode before we being digging into Wildflowers! This time, Russell Mark, from The Nextdoors is back to talk about their new single "Swing and a Miss". We talk about perfection in art and whether it's worth striving for, we nerd out over specific production choices and songwr...
VICTORY: Fighting Ag-Gag in Ontario with Camille Labchuk
Defender Radio and The Switch - April 15, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsInvestigations into farms by animal advocacy groups is an essential tool to exposing serious, systemic abuses of animals, failures to follow basic policy, and have led to criminal charges. But the Ontario government wanted to stop that – and introduced Bill 156 in 2020. The Bill, Security from...
#174: "A Silver Lining" + Crypto Warning Signs + California's New Minimum Wage
Cash Daddies With Sam Tripoli, Howie Dewey and Johnny Woodard - April 11, 2024 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsThere has been a silver (and gold) lining to the recent economy, and we get into on this week Cash Daddies. We also discuss Howie's tips for warning signs at crypto projects, California's apparently troubled economy, and whether the president has anything to do with the economy. Copy James McMah...
Jake Thistle Returns (The Half Left Out)
The Tom Petty Project - April 10, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThis is another special non-Petty episode of the podcast with the fantastic Jake Thistle, who found time in his insanely busy schedule to sit down with me to discuss his label debut, The Half Left Out. We chatted a little about Gainesville and Tom of course, but mainly we dug into the weeds arou...
Greatest Hits (with John Paulsen)
The Tom Petty Project - April 03, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsA really fun one today folks. John and Kevin dig deep into inclusions and ommissions from 1993's Greatest Hits. We have a conversation about formats (CD vs vinyl), chronological ordering vs sequencing, and whether ballads belong on Greatest Hits compilations. Both John and Kevin have one song th...
#173: "Doing it Live!" + Boeing's Troubles + Gold in Howie's Portfolio
Cash Daddies With Sam Tripoli, Howie Dewey and Johnny Woodard - March 28, 2024 03:44 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsIt's the first ever live edition of Cash Daddies, and we're talking oil and energy, and finding out why gold makes up an increasing part of Howie's portfoloio. We also get into Boeing's troubles and their change at the top, the Baltimore bridge collapse, more Bitcoin and crypto news, and Howie gi...
The Petty 8ight with Sean and Todd McGinity
The Tom Petty Project - March 27, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday’s episode is the third installment in my Petty 8ight series, where I bring in musicians who aren’t Pettyheads, give them eight deeper cuts that they likely haven’t heard before, and get their thoughts on them. In this episode, my willing newbies are Sean and Todd McGinity. The brothers are...
Depaving Hamilton with Green Venture
Defender Radio and The Switch - March 25, 2024 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsA concrete laden Barton Street runs the distance of lower Hamilton, marking the transition from residential housing to commercial and industrial spaces – what many people think of when they hear Steel City. But along this busy street something magical is happening: swatches of concrete are vanis...
#172: "Crypto Jesus" with James Duryea + Reddit's Big IPO + Howie's Picks
Cash Daddies With Sam Tripoli, Howie Dewey and Johnny Woodard - March 22, 2024 08:34 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsThis week the guys welcome cryptocurrency expert James Duryea to discuss a number of names in the alt-coin space that could be winners in the near and long term. James also explains to us why Sam is "Crypto Jesus." Later in the episode we get into the Reddit IPO and Howie gives his picks! Check ...
Something in the Air
The Tom Petty Project - March 20, 2024 16:28 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsA major change in this cover version is the format of the lyrics. Something in the Air is a fairly ominous call to arms. The original was released in May of 1969 when the Vietnam War was still raging at its most furious. Speedy Keen said that told ZigZag magazine in 1975 of the song "It was a re...
Mary Jane's Last Dance
The Tom Petty Project - March 13, 2024 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhen author Paul Zollo asks Tom about the song in his book Conversations With Tom Petty, and mentions that the song had been partially written some years previously, Tom confirms this, saying, “That was one I wrote during the Full Moon Fever sessions. I wrote all but the chorus. I just had the l...
The Art of Simone Diamond
Defender Radio and The Switch - March 11, 2024 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsSimone Diamond is a Coast Salish artist who creates art pieces in the Coast Salish style. You may have seen Simone’s designs featured on products from companies like Native Northwest, on her popular Instagram account, or in The Fur-Bearers’ kids activity book. Simone joins Defender Radio to ta...
Peace in L.A.
The Tom Petty Project - March 06, 2024 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn March and April of 1992, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were wrapping up the European final leg of their Into The Great Wide Open tour. This leg saw them play dates in Germany, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Norway, and on April 3rd, they closed out the tour in Malmo, Sweden,...
#171: "CryptOMG!" + Credit Unions vs. Banks + Gates, Zuckerberg Kiss the Ring
Cash Daddies With Sam Tripoli, Howie Dewey and Johnny Woodard - March 05, 2024 21:14 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsCrypto is all over the place (mostly up), and we talk about that and how the new BTC ETFs are contributing. We also discuss Disney's future, a failed merger of major airlines and how cord-cutting is failing. Sam also considers whether he should switch to a credit union, and we get into other hea...
10 Questions with Peter Nester
The Tom Petty Project - February 28, 2024 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday's episode is my ten questions with the brilliant Peter Nester. I usually put these out as bonus episodes in the same week as my chat with that guest, but Pete's answers to these questions were so thorough, considered, and beautifully expounded, that I felt this needed to be a regular relea...
#170: "FIRE!" + Howie's MRNA Play + Vice Goes Bye Bye
Cash Daddies With Sam Tripoli, Howie Dewey and Johnny Woodard - February 27, 2024 19:12 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsHowie recaps a solid week, with a big score with Moderna, then we get into the possible demise of the Kroger-Albertsons deal, Vice going bye-bye, and of course more plays for the week to come. Copy James at www.copymycrypto.com/sam! Cash Daddies on social media: https://lnk.bio/d1sj/ Check out...
Jeff Slate Returns
The Tom Petty Project - February 23, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThis is a special non-Petty episode of the podcast. I haven’t recorded one in ages, but when former guest Jeff Slate reached out to me to ask if I’d be interested in talking to him about his new single which is out now and the album it’s from which will drop in May, it wasn’t a hard sell for me ...
#169: "One Weird Trick To Get $10,000" + Walmart Buys Vizio + Cathie Wood Gives BTC Kiss of Death?
Cash Daddies With Sam Tripoli, Howie Dewey and Johnny Woodard - February 22, 2024 07:35 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsFunny things were happening in the markets while we recorded, and Howie shared an angle on how it can make us some money. Also this week, we discussed Uber's success, Walmart's big acquisition, and whether Cathie Wood is giving BTC the kiss of death. Copy James at www.copymycrypto.com/sam! Cash...
Peter Nester
The Tom Petty Project - February 21, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsI have two words for you: Yogi Berra. But what does the Yankees catcher have to do with my conversation with Pete Nester? Tune in to find out! Today's episode is a sprawling, hugely enjoyable conversation I had with a fellow music podcaster who I've been listening to for a couple and a half yea...
Into the Great Wide Open (with John Paulsen)
The Tom Petty Project - February 14, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsAnother long one this season folks! But again there's so much to talk about with this album and we felt we needed to talk about each individual track. John and I had a good discussion about the background to the recording of this album and where this sits in the evolution of Tom's songwriting. W...
#168: "Celsius Finally Pays!" + WWE/UFC Future + Super Bowl Ads + Bud Light Regaining Trust?
Cash Daddies With Sam Tripoli, Howie Dewey and Johnny Woodard - February 13, 2024 19:22 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsHuge news on the Celsius front this week, but before that we get into lessons learned from the Super Bowl ads, the future of WWE/UFC, and whether Bud Light can regain the trust they lost. Also this week Howie talks about the effects of layoffs at Cisco and a major brewery, and possible labor acti...
The Lives of Wild Dogs with Dr. Valli Fraser-Celin
Defender Radio and The Switch - February 12, 2024 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsImproving the lives of dogs across Canada and around the world is a hefty goal – but by talking about the lives of wild dogs, Dr. Valli Fraser-Celin is getting closer to reaching that goal every day. Dr. Fraser-Celin, who has worked with African wild dogs, dogs in Indigenous communities in Can...
Built To Last
The Tom Petty Project - February 07, 2024 20:17 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe lyrics in Built to Last are unambiguously hopeful and quietly resilience. Perhaps it’s Tom’s last attempt to build a creative buttress around his failing marriage. Perhaps its an equal attempt to put up a wall around a band that had gone through a major friction point and were probably still...
#167: "Wanna Become the Wealthiest Person on Your Block?" + Amazon and the Government + Coinbase/Crypto
Cash Daddies With Sam Tripoli, Howie Dewey and Johnny Woodard - February 07, 2024 01:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsWe're back to discover what fund lost tens of billions in investor funds over the last decade, and to identify a few ways for you to avoid investing with losers. We also discuss why Coinbase's stock price doesn't track with crypto, and whether Amazon is an extension of the government. Copy James...
The Switch: Winter Planting for Wildlife
Defender Radio and The Switch - February 05, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIt’s grey, generally cold, damp, and rather unpleasant in early February across Canada. Fortunately, it’s a great time of year to get outside and start planting! Now, I know I’m out on a bit of a limb here, but late winter and early spring are actually ideal for sowing many vital, native plant s...
Makin' Some Noise
The Tom Petty Project - January 31, 2024 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsI know that, because you’re listening to this podcast that you must love rock n roll music. And when you hear the crackle of a cable being plugged into an amp, or that low buzz from the speaker, there’s just something primal and irresistible that happens to you if you love this type of music. Yo...
Trapped In The Past Documentary Series with John E. Marriott
Defender Radio and The Switch - January 29, 2024 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsKilling neck snares are cruel devices that experts and scientists have shown to be ineffective and inhumane. Yet they remain common across Canada. A new documentary series, Trapped In The Past, is challenging why killing neck snares remain legal to use, what impact they have on wildlife, and how...
#166: "Civil World War III" + Insane Allegations Against Vince McMahon + Tesla's Tough Time
Cash Daddies With Sam Tripoli, Howie Dewey and Johnny Woodard - January 27, 2024 09:09 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsWe're back after a little break, and shit is getting weird. We're on the verge of Civil World War III, Tesla is a mess, and Vince McMahon is accused of some gnarly stuff. Copy James at www.copymycrypto.com/sam! Learn more about free breakfast for life at www.hellofresh.com/cashfree! Cash Daddi...