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BEHOLD! The first part of this year's Dreyfest podcast. Give a listen to see who you'll be into at this year's fest, and get some info on where everyone's playing! SEE YOU AT DREYFEST Notes Music from this year's Dreyfest musicians. For more info visit www.waste-division.org !!! Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit our Patreon page. This helps us with operating costs so we can continue to supply you with good stuff like this! Podcast produced by Phillip Griffin. Graphic by Cooper Malin.

Overview Phil tries his hand monologuing, broadcasting from his kitchen late at night, overworked, and a lil buzzed up. His band Bull Market is hitting the road and they released a tape! You can hear it here. Monologue + music. Seems like a decent recipe. Let's see how this goes! Notes Music from Phil's band Bull Market, with their new cassette tape Loaners. For more info visit www.waste-division.org !!! Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit our Patreon page. This helps us with operating costs so we can continue to supply you with good stuff like this! Podcast produced by Phillip Griffin. Graphic by Cooper Malin.

Join us this month as we discuss William Goldman's fantasy romance novel (satire??), The Princess Bride! Notes Music by Julia Louis-Dreyfest headliner Bob Bowman with his tune "Sandra's Strut," off his album Songs for Sandra. For more info on our DIY arts and music fest visit www.waste-division.org. We just released the lineup! If you're in or near Billings, MT please drop by. Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit our Patreon page. This helps us with operating costs so we can continue to supply you with good stuff like this! Podcast produced by Phillip Griffin. Graphic by Cooper Malin.

Overview Mario Miner is one cool dude. He makes guitar amps out of ammo cans, grenade canisters & cow skulls, and he makes some rad distortion pedals. And he has a band that kicks ass! Phil and Mario talk about Mario's history growing up near the Fort Belknap Reservation and how that informs the work he does in a DIY mode. They also talk about The Reddmen, the blues, substance abuse, and they mess around with some of Mario's homemade music gear. Check out @miner_glitch_electronics on Insta or FB and catch Mario's band As The Crow Flies on Bandcamp or at this year's Julia Louis Dreyfest in August! For photos of the dope Miner Glitch stuff we talk about visit waste-division.org. Show Notes    Music: "HYSMB" by As The Crow Flies, from their album The Murder.   We have renamed our book club feed in the spirit of providing an open platform much like our website, to which people can submit work and “try out” podcast ideas without going thru the rigamarole of setting up their own channel. If you have an idea

Overview   In the latest broadcast of Waste Radio, Waste correspondents Eric Toennis and Chris Tsekouras journey to the heart of the witch's lair for a very special episode. On a farm outside Tillamook, OR they sit down with herbal artist Laura Sanders of Rogue Witch Apothecary and visual artist Sara Dread to talk about witchcraft, paganism, magic, and what it means for them to be witches in their daily lives. They even do a tarot card reading! Check out all the great herbal creations and visual art these two have to offer at roguewitchapothecary.com and saradread.com!     Notes  We have renamed our book club feed in the spirit of providing an open platform much like our website, to which people can submit work and “try out” podcast ideas without going thru the rigamarole of setting up their own channel. If you have an idea for a podcast, send a pilot to admin@waste-division.org !!! And be on the lookout for more stuff from Waste Radio every Wednesday. Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly i

In the first official episode of Philthy Talk (and the opening of Waste Radio!), Phil has musician, entrepreneur, jiu jitzu student, and conversationalist Drew McMannus over to talk about a bunch of shit, including climate change, The Hussle, identity politics, discipline, revolution, and Drew's band Satsang. Check out their new record Kulture wherever you get music! We have renamed our book club feed in the spirit of providing an open platform much like our website, to which people can submit work and “try out” podcast ideas without going thru the rigamarole of setting up their own channel. We are thinking of it as a sort of incubator for eggs like Philthy Talk. If you have an idea for a podcast, send a pilot to admin@waste-division.org !!! And be on the lookout for more stuff from Waste Radio every Wednesday. Music by Satsang with the track "So Far" from Kulture. For more of our work check out www.waste-division.org Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit ou

Join us this month as we discuss Chris Ryan and Cacilda Jethá's nonfiction book about prehistoric human sexuality, Sex at Dawn! Overview If you're looking for a comfortable read, you're likely not going to find it here. The authors of this book pull no punches as they undertake a big task: undermining what they call the "standard narrative of human sexuality," which they see as potentially very harmful to humans given how we likely evolved and behaved for hundreds of thousands of years.  We are all familiar with the standard narrative, having been raised in a culture that saturates our existence with love songs, rom-coms, and countless other forms of propaganda that seem to insist that the fundamental condition of human sexuality is heartbreak. Under the standard narrative, we must always be on guard for the two-timing dude or the gold-digging lady, arguably a microcosm of a larger scarcity culture. Indeed, the authors trace our issues back to what seems to be the root of many of our problems: the agricul

In this episode Waste correspondent Phil Griffin had Don Corcoran over for a long conversation about addiction, pleasure, family, fundamentalism, and dying, among many other topics. Don has a progressive form of blood cancer and was leaving for a possible cure treatment just days after this recording, and yet he still made time to tell his story & talk. For about 15 years Don lived a life modeled after Rimbaud & Kerouac, dodging police and consuming any substance he came in contact with. After 10 years of sobriety and a new life of faith, he finds himself facing his death every day. He's an amazing storyteller with a perspective worth considering. We extend many thanks to Don for his time. Music in this episode features Grant Jones' "Newborn" and Bull Market's "Invested," per Don's request. Find them both on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get ur tunes. For more of our work check out www.waste-division.org! Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit

Waste Correspondent Phillip Griffin had computer nerd, entrepreneur, and all-around badass Jeff Jones over for homemade kombucha and kimchi and a big conversation! Topic areas include capitalism, the tech industry, life in LA, and how fucked we all are. Get in on this wide-ranging conversation with a guy who seems to know wtf he's doing! He's pretty cool despite being a filthy capitalist. Also check out his radio-phone company at beartooth.com! Music by the Alex Nauman Organ Trio with their track "The Spock" off the album Loud Lullabies. For more of our work check out www.waste-division.org Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit our Patreon page. This helps us with operating costs so we can continue to supply you with good stuff like this! Podcast produced by Phillip Griffin. Graphic by Cooper Malin.

Waste Correspondents Mary Kate Teske and Phil Griffin hang out with Billings, MT visual artist  Natalie Myers for a meandering conversation about work, being a parent, living in your hometown, and hair care. Homies Sawyer Peterson and Kianna Valasquez chime in too! To see more of Natalie's stuff check out @nataliekay19 on Instagram! Music on this week's episode from the band In Rapture, with their track "Writhe" from the album In Rapture. Check 'em out on Bandcamp, Spotify, or wherever you get music! To see more arty stuff by our funky collective of ne'er-do-wells visit waste-division.org Also if you're interested in subscribing to our monthly independent art distro visit our Patreon page! Produced by Mary Kate & Phil.

Join us this month's book club as we discuss Maggie Nelson's queer memoir The Argonauts! Overview Maggie Nelson’s 2015 book The Argonauts combines theory and memoir in a successful attempt to prove that the political is personal. Combining queer theory, feminism, a bit of Marxism, a dollop of psychoanalysis, heaps of gender theory, and a healthy dose of highfaluting post-structuralism, Nelson undertakes an odyssey like the mythic Argonauts not in pursuit of any Golden Fleece but a record of the self’s permutations and the difficulties with understanding others when all of our experiences appear so diverse. Nelson’s writing comfortably rests between the informality of a blog and the professionalism of a tenured professor. Her writing rests in this golden mean by suffusing her text with quotes as wide-ranging as Ralph Waldo Emerson to Judith Butler, Michel Foucault to her partner Harry. Rather than introduce each zinger of a quote like an academic paper she cites the quote in italics while identifying its a

For the latest episode of the Waste Books appendices Waste Correspondent Phillip Griffin sat down over coffee with a MT-based painter, gallery owner, and all-around sweetie Tyler Murphy to talk philosophy & other shtuff. Topics include discursivity, Story Night at Montana Gallery, danger & vulnerability in modern life, Paul Tillich's book The Courage to Be, and Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. For more of Tyler's work visit montanagallery.net! Music in this episode features Bust! The track is called "Slip Mat." Check out their bandcamp page! For more of our work check out www.waste-division.org! Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit our Patreon page. This helps us with operating costs so we can continue to supply you with good stuff like this! Podcast produced by Phillip Griffin. Graphic originally by Tyler for his Lonely Painter Podcast, but "reappropriated" for this one by Phil.

Cooper Malin tries his hand at being "professional" and a "storyteller." It totally "worked" and wasn't a "weird exploration into ASMR." For more of our work check out www.waste-division.org! Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit our Patreon page. This helps us with operating costs so we can continue to supply you with good stuff like this! Podcast produced by Cooper Malin. Graphic also by Coop. Check out his new art page on Instagram @rustyfleece!

Waste correspondent Eric Toennis sat down with his friend Chris Tsekouras to talk about their road trip from Eugene, OR to Billings, MT for Julia Louis-Dreyfest last August. They tell of their experience volunteering for the fest, as well as attending concerts and a comedy show there. Dreyfest also inspired these guys to pack a drumset back from MT and start jamming themselves. Music in this episode features Dreyfest vets, Lung, from Cincinnati, OH. The track is called "All The King's Horses." Graphic by Cooper Malin. For more of our work check out www.waste-division.org! Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit our Patreon page. This helps us with operating costs so we can continue to supply you with good stuff like this! Podcast produced by Phillip Griffin.

Join us this month as we discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's anarchist utopian space novel, The Dispossessed! Overview With all this talk about walls, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed is a timely masterpiece for science fiction. Her novel chronicles the physicist Shevek who travels from the utopian but inhospitable planet of Anarres for the earthly Urras where the landscape is verdant but capitalism and hierarchy dominate society’s mores. Rather than present a fable filled with hyperspace travel, exotic alien species, and intergalactic threats to peace, Le Guin utilizes the freedom of the genre to experiment with societal alternatives rather than provide our society with brash escapism. Shevek’s home planet of Anarres is an anarchist culture where possessive pronouns are nonexistent, play and work are indistinguishable, and nothing has a monetary value. But even this perfect world starts to reveal its limitations in the exclusionary practices of those who resist the planet’s groupthink. Shevek is seen as a thr

Waste correspondent Phillip Griffin sat in a hot tub with an old friend who finds himself training to be a Naval Flight Officer, achieving the dream of flight he's had since he was a kid. They talk about flying, discipline, guns, and music in the latest episode of the Waste Books Appendices! Get the low-down on the up-high from this Grade-A Derelict Wastoid. Speaking of music, The track at the end of this is a demo called "Dry County" by the pilot himself. Graphic by Cooper Malin. For more of our work check out www.waste-division.org! Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit our Patreon page. This helps us with operating costs so we can continue to supply you with good stuff like this!

Mary Kate Teske is a woman of many talents. She's a photographer, graphic designer, web designer, videographer, musician, crocheter, talker, classic car maintainer... etc.etc.etc. In a word: she's dope! And she's doing a lot of stuff. To check out her work visit her Instagram or her website. Aaaaaaand to see her web design and other work check out www.waste-division.org! Also if you're interested in subscribing for monthly independent art deliveries visit our Patreon page. This helps us with operating costs so we can continue to supply with good stuff like this! Illustrations of Mary Kate as your 80s boyfriend (mullet included) were sketched by our own Cooper Malin.

This is a new addition to our show & feed, a series of mini-episodes that feature one-on-one conversations between the Waste Books doods, orrrrr other cools peeps we manage to sit down with. Cooper and Phil catch up on their non-WB projects, including Coop's new ventures into graphic design commission work and Phil's training as a professional musician. Topics include social media & self promotion, conspiracy theories, our reading practices (or lack thereof), and of course the extracurricular books we've been on, including The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, and More Than Two - A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory by Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert. This is a looser, "over coffee"-type conversation compared to our regular show. And shorter! Let us know what you think. To see more arty stuff by our funky collective of ne'er-do-wells visit waste-division.org Also if you're interested in subscribing to our monthly independent art di

Join Dan, Cooper, Eric, Phil, and Jordan as we discuss Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17! Music by Grant Jones, with the track "Something for Me." Check out his album Nighttime Friends on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get music. Check out more of our work at waste-division.org, and if you'd like to get on our list to receive monthly art packages please visit our Patreon page! Produced by Phillip Griffin. Graphic by Cooper Malin.

Join us this this episode as we discuss the second half of Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic, Dune! Overview Ten years after Lord of the Rings, twelve years before Star Wars, and nineteen years before David Lynch’s godawful adaptation, Dune holds true as perhaps the greatest science fiction epic of all time. Frank Herbert’s masterwork of a novel (and five sequels) realizes through the mythos and mystique of the planet Arrakis (a.k.a. Dune) the fertile intersection of ecological, colonialist, feminist, Marxist, religious, and philosophical debates compacted in this prophetic, addictive, and somehow familiar journey through the most unfamiliar of worlds. Dune is heavy without pretension, enjoyable without ease, and immersive without the escapism that cheap science-fiction promises: fantasy without the reminders of why we choose to look elsewhere for answers. The journey that readers and the characters themselves take on this hostile planet begins with Herbert’s hero Paul Atreides being initiated into the rites of