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Just Friends Podcast: The JuiceMorucci's of Walnut Creek Featuring Will Levy of The Story So FarOk, we're not going to sit here and pretend we didn’t vanish for a while. We did. But now we’re two episodes deep into this comeback tour, and frankly, we’re feeling pretty good about it.
Recorded on Memorial Day, powered by Celsius, donuts, and a near-total audio meltdown (we recovered beautifully, thank you).
Will Levy of The Story So Far returns to the pod to talk about the band playing Bottle Rock Festival in Napa and we dive deep into the mystical art of setlist building
And of course we end wi...2025-07-211h 04Just Friends Podcast: The JuiceDunkalatte Diaries: Turnover, Tailors, and a Photo ShootYanko’s on tour with Turnover and Balance & Composure playing Berkeley so we snuck in a mid-tour check up over some Dunkin. He got a Dunkalatte. First time in about a month we’ve all caught up since Yanko hit the road and Sammy and Brond wrapped the UK Just Friends run.
In the second segment Sammy goes suit shopping for his wedding and gets called fat by some San Francisco stores. Brond did a photo shoot for Mother Selene with Kay Dargs and somehow made it look easy.
We wrap it all up with a ma...2025-07-181h 06Just Friends Podcast: The JuiceUK Cheesesteaks, Coconut Milk & Cold Nuggets: UK Invasion Part 3 the FinaleUK trilogy: complete! Three episodes, one tour, too many questionable snacks, and unforgettable moments. This episode of The Juice is the full debrief.
We just wrapped our first-ever headline tour across the UK, and now we’re back in the Bay: grateful, emotional, maybe still jet-lagged.
- Every show? Broken down.
- Food? Yep, way too much.
- Shoes? Discussed & admired.
Highlights? Fans singing the riffs back at us (you made us feel like rockstars). Brond got us a hawk walk in Ireland. YES! We had a hawk land on our ha...2025-05-231h 25Just Friends Podcast: The JuiceBeans for Breakfast, Pea Soup for the Soul: UK Invasion Part 2
Recorded just a day before we hopped the pond, this episode is a Central Valley special. We’re joined by Ben from Just Friends, along with Bart and Logan from Chain: the full 559 crew in effect.
We dive into what it’s like commuting for hours, not just for band practice, but also to pile into a van and disappear for a month on tour. We unpack the legendary, steaming green mystery that is Pea Soup Andersen’s. And then it gets real: from touring the U.S. and hotel habits, to van hierarchies and the weird l...2025-05-151h 21Just Friends Podcast: The JuiceTaking Beef Out For A Ride: UK Invasion Part 1We are back! The kickoff to our three part UK Tour series! Recorded one week before we left for our first-ever headlining tour in the UK, starting in Ireland and working our way from Glasgow down to Brighton. Yes, we’re international now.
Sammy and Brond break down what they’re looking forward to, what’s keeping them up at night, and why this tour feels different. In the second half of the episode, we drop some bittersweet news: our boy Yanko won’t be on this run. He’s heading out as a guitar tech for Balance...2025-05-061h 31Just Friends Podcast: The Juice"Bean & cheese on the rider" ft. Will Levy of The Story So FarThis is a monumental episode, people. A landmark. The moon landing of The Juice. Why? Because for the first time ever—we’ve got a guest. And not just any guest. We’re joined by Will Levy of The Story So Far. Guitar slinger. Riff wizard. Chill dude supreme.
We kick things off with some hometown talk—and yes, the rumors are true: the A’s are now in Sacramento, and it hurts. It hurts deep in the soul. So we pivot to something more joyful—like memories from The Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, where dreams are loud and...2025-04-111h 27
Two Men and a Movie PodcastEpisode 37: UHFJoin Matthew and Harrison for Two Men and A Movie Podcast, where each week one man shows another man a movie he can't believe he hasn't seen!The boys are out of the March Madness of Sci-Fi and back to greener pastures (or at least ones Harrison likes more!) This week they watch UHF, the cult classic by one Alferd Matthew Yankovich. Also, Harrison almost dies.2025-04-0741 minJust Friends Podcast: The JuiceOff the RumchataWe start off the show catching up on the weekend. Brond was back in the studio with Marta, cooking up new stuff but of course, nothing’s ever easy. They discovered an issue with one of the very expensive mics. You know the one. The fancy mic. Meanwhile, Sammy and Yanko were out at the Oakland Roots home opener, and look Sammy’ll say it every time: the Coliseum is his favorite place on Earth.
We talk Mom Jeans Summer, California headliner dates, and then we somehow jump from Sacramento to Birmingham, Alabama in a 24-hour span for...2025-04-041h 10Just Friends Podcast: The JuiceTomato StyleYanko survives a near-death driving experience, then we dive into “My Recent Obsessions” Ibanez guitars, one song on repeat, and Sammy’s passionate (and concerning) love for cold cheese from In-N-Out.
Then, Chain’s debut record No Spirit is out! We celebrated the right way by rolling up to Chain Reaction with a Blackstone grill
And Just Friends is making a new record! Bart Thompson (Mom Jeans, Chain) is producing, and we’re deep in the lab making a punk rock dance party
Finally, the mailbag! We love your questions, we love you, and we can’...2025-03-261h 18Just Friends Podcast: The JuiceThe Magic of TajinMagic of Tajín: Mom Jeans, Metal, and Mother Selene
We kick things off with a gift from the heavens Brond’s signature egg sandwich, featuring mayo mixed with Tajín. A perfect choice.
Then, in The Most Current Thing Happening, Sammy’s band, Mom Jeans, just got announced for Aftershock 2025. Yes, the same festival packed with metal and hardcore bands. Emo at Aftershock? Sacramento’s getting adventurous, and we’re here for it.
Next, Brond takes us deep into her new doom project. She just wrapped a studio session with Marta from Pure Hex an...2025-03-1951 minJust Friends Podcast: The Juice"Taters Tots for Dinner"On today’s show, we take a trip down memory lane with some tour toilet war flashbacks because of course, that’s where we’re starting. Yanko gives us the inside scoop on a dinner outing at Thee Parkside in SF (was it good? Was it terrible? Who knows?). We break down our weekend run with Chain, and then Brond soft-launches her new doom project, Mother Selene big things happening there. And finally, we dig into the mailbag, where we get some love from the listeners, answer your questions, and bask in the warm embrace of the Just Friends commun...2025-03-1352 min
Jurassic Park CastEpisode 60 - Almost ParadigmWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 60 - Almost Paradigm.
In this episode, my terrific guests Matt Kelly and Matthew Milligan of the Weird Al-gorithm podcast join the show to chat with me about:
PeeWee Herman and Paul Reubens, The Bicycle Thieves, Weird Al Yankovich, One Hit Thunder, Wheatus, podcasting, digging through music shops to find Weird Al albums, polkas, Yoda, MacArthur Park, Alapalooza, Off The Deep End, Bohemian Rhapsody v. Bohemian Polka, the...2023-08-031h 35
I Saw It On Linden StreetUHF (1989)An unemployed daydreamer becomes the general manager of a local TV station, challenging the town’s network affiliate with his successful, oddball shows. Tune in as Chris talks Weird Al Yankovic, superheated fish, & Orion Pictures as the LSCE screens the 1989 cult comedy classic “UHF.” Join Us!
Check us out www.LSCE.com
Works Cited:
Anderson, Sam. The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic.” The New York Times. April 9, 2020. Article Link. (Accessed 4/11/2022)
Ebert, Roger. UHF. Chicago Sun Times, July 21, 1989. Article Link. (Accessed 4/6/2022)
Holden, Stephen. “The Mop as a Metaphor for Life and Ot...2022-04-181h 33
Simply Designed Life | Business, Lifestyle Design, and Productivity Tips From Women Entrepreneurs and Gamechangers046: Prerna Malik on How to Avoid Shiny Object SyndromeI, like everyone else can be prone to shiny object syndrome, especially when it comes to online courses and offerings that look so appealing and is bound to help me do great things in business or life, like become more productive, create the perfect sales funnel, have stellar content marketing so you could grow your business and live in the beach like what's portrayed in the Four Hour Workweek. Funny enough, I spotted a lady reading that book with its red and orange cover (must be the newer version) while at my son's basketball clinic.
Living in the attention economy...2018-04-1700 min
The "Weird Al" Phabet#112.5: Yankovich SongsHAPPY EASTER-FOOLS! Listen to Michael's Hamilton parody: "Alfred Matthew Yankovic"!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byndwL7f9TQ Fest Of Al tickets:http://www.festofal.com/ KendallCast:http://www.kendallcast.ninja/ BUY OUR NEW 100th EPISODE SHIRT! https://www.redbubble.com/people/weirdalphabet/works/29367468-weird-alphabet-100th-episode Special thanks to Allura March (@RetroAutomaton) for the awesome design!https://retroautomaton.tumblr.com/ https://www.instagram.com/retroautomaton/ https://twitter.com/retroautomaton?lang=en Support us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com...2018-04-0134 min
Intuitive Transformation RadioFind Power in Your Personal Brand and Social Media in Business, Karen YankovichAre you an entrepreneur who wants to super-size your growth but feels confused about how? Are you bombarded with ideas about marketing, branding and social media but unsure how to use them effectively? This week on Intuitive Transformation Radio, Matthew Engel will be chatting with marketing, branding and social media expert Karen Yankovich.Social Media Brand Strategist, Business Consultant and Speaker, Karen Yankovich is the CEO of Dimare Group, LLC. Having “been there and done that” in the arena of losing (and then re-finding) a focused approach to business and life, Karen now offers coaching and consulting for entrepr...2015-01-221h 00