Celebrating 1000 Career Episodes

Celebrating 1000 Career Episodes

A super special edition to celebrate the one thousandth episode hosted of Bruce Wawrzyniak’s podcasting career. In this special release, there are excerpts from all of the shows he has hosted over the years: Now Hear This Entertainment, Catholic Sports Radio, TASCAM Talkback, Capture Your Art, and the PBLA Podcast. Below are links for easy access to go hear any one or more of either the specific interviews featured here or just the podcast(s) in general. It took over eleven-and-a-half years to get to this point, but this is indeed a truly special milestone worth commemorating in this way.

Guest quotes:

(Eva Gardner) “When you’re really pushed and you really have all that pressure, for me, you just have to reel it back in and just remember that we’re here to play a show. We’re all sharing a stage. We’re all here for the audience. The audience is here for us and just to have fun with it because that’s why we’re all here in the first place.”

(Dom Morley) “If you’re working with someone like Sting or someone that’s just been doing it a very long time, … you’ve just got to make sure that you’re providing the environment that they’re used to, to create and to be as good as they can be because they’ve got more pressure as an A-Lister than somebody who’s doing a new project because the person’s doing a new project, obviously, they’ve probably paid for themselves. So, there’s definitely a lot of pressure there. But they don’t have a whole company of people that are relying in them to do a certain level of commercial success, which I think is challenging for anybody, particularly when they’re doing an artistic endeavor.”

(Mark Osegueda) “Decades after … it was released, we were approached by Carl’s Jr. for that to be used in a commercial. We thought when we were contacted by them that at first it was some sort of joke to say that someone was playing a joke on us, but no, it was true.” (Rob Cavestany) “It was also one of the three songs that was on our Kill As One demo tape that was produced by (Metallica’s) Kirk Hammett, that inevitably got us signed to our first record contract.”

(Mark Parfitt) “I was just blessed to be able to mix a song with Carter (Lang), and it came out and I’m just really happy because this is something that, it took me years to even be able to get in front of Justin Bieber and be able to record him, let alone have the chance to mix a song.”

(Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein) “It’s a lot of work. It’s fun because it’s something you like but it’s grueling man. Touring is hard. You play every night. It’s just like a job. Your friends will come and see you at certain cities and to them it’s party night and you get off the bus and want to go to bed. I’ve worked all day. I’m shot, you know, but it’s good.”

(Kyle Schmidt) “Even right after the game, still with my gear on, it was not to downplay winning a national title, especially the first in your program’s history. It was incredible and everything I dreamed of, but the one thing that I couldn’t wait to do was get back up to Duluth and later that month become Catholic.”

(Fr. Michael Lightner) “And then I hear this voice, and it says, ‘If I get her out of the, out of the wheelchair, will you enter the seminary?’ And I’m like, ‘No, I’ve got a whole career ahead of me. You know I want to play football’.”

(John Livsey) “I think that when you look at the business of sports, it’s so dynamic and it’s so ever changing that if you get a chance to take a ride on the roller coaster of any project or league or team, it’s sports, it’s cool, it’s great because what I always loved about sports is that there’s a beginning and there’s an end.”

Links:

NHTE 283 Eva Gardner (bass player for P!NK)
NHTE 308 Death Angel (GRAMMY nominees)
NHTE 360 Dom Morley (GRAMMY-winning producer)
NHTE 540 Mark Parfitt (recording & mix engineer)
Capture Your Art 4 Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein (Misfits guitarist)
TASCAM Talkback
CSR 2 Kyle Schmidt (hockey player)
CSR 80 Fr. Michael Lightner
PBLA 1 John Livsey