Nest Of Vipers Podcast

Episode 14: Take This Job...

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Nine-to-five, punch the clock, bring home the bacon and all that jazz. Let’s face it, work can be such a drag. Finding a job you like can be harder than finding inner peace. Even if you do find a job you love, there’s office politics, inter-office drama or a borderline psychopath lurking in a nearby cubicle. In other words, the working life provides plenty of material for another action-packed Nest of Vipers. This week’s team of fundits share tales of dishwashing, salmon gutting, international banking and working for a major pant concern. Hosted by filmmaker Danny Plotnick.

Late Breaking News: Nest of Vipers breaks out of the San Francisco micro-celebrity ghetto. Using the latest in modern technology, Pete Jordan (author, Dishwasher) joins the crew live from Holland for this episode.

Our guests include:

Anthony Bedard. Degenerate by night, international banker by day. In this episode Anthony Bedard reveals top secret international finance gossip circa 1994. He also admits to his Jakarta Post addiction and his fascination with the Clove cigarette trade. Since leaving the banking game, Bedard has gone on to run Past It Records and the current comedy label Talent Moat. He is the booker for San Francisco’s Hemlock Tavern in addition to playing guitar for the Hank IV.

Pete Jordan was a counter culture hero in the 90s. His wildly popular zine Dishwasher chronicled his quest to wash dishes in all 50 states. Hounded by major publishing houses for years, he finally broke down and revisited and re-chronicled his adventures in the recently published memoir also called Dishwasher. He currently lives in Amsterdam.

Kurt Keppeler has worked at an Alaskan Cannery, as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, sang with an Up With People-like singing group and performed dinner theater as a teenager. He currently plays guitar in the band Fierce Antler. This is his third stint on Nest of Vipers.

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Episode 13: Young & Stupid

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Ah…to be young and stupid again. This week our guests share embarrassing tales from their youth, telling stories about foolish behavior that can be chalked up to a combination of inexperience and ignorance. Huffing film cleaner, shoplifting cheap wine, botching a major label record deal, and disobeying traffic laws are just some of the tales told on this episode of the Nest of Vipers. Hosted by filmmaker Danny Plotnick.

Guests Include:

Michael W. Dean is the author of the books $30 Film School, $30 Music School, $30 Writing School, and Starving in the Company of Beautiful Women. He directed the films D.I.Y. OR DIE: How To Survive as an Independent Artist and HUBERT SELBY JR: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow. Michael played guitar in the band The Beef People. He sang and played bass in Baby Opaque, and Bomb (Warner Brothers.). He keeps the blog Stinkfight and has an awesome podcast called Clone The Homeless.

Becky Haycox marches to her own homemade drum. A member of various creative communities, she uses more than her fair share of hyphens as crafter-blogger-actor-partygirl-teacher-designer-geek. However, she does not know the definition of turpitude. Her eclectic musings can be found at beckyhaycox.com/hamblog.

Lee Lynch is a filmmaker. His recent feature Transposition of the Great Vessels has been playing the festival circuit for the past year. He is currently finishing a feature length doc on the last wild Buffalo hunt in the United States.

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Episode 9: Customer Service Hell

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If you’ve ever been a mindless drone in the workplace being yelled at by an irate customer or been an irate customer exasperated by the incompetent boobery of the American workforce, then you won’t want to miss this episode of the Nest of Vipers. Working the phone lines at Play Station on Christmas morning, being the a/v tech dude at a proctologist convention, being a bag boy in a retirement community, and dealing with couriers that lose your priceless packages are just some of the customer service problems dissected this episode. Hosted by filmmaker Danny Plotnick.

Guests include:

Anthony Bedard is a drummer and guitarist. He drummed for San Francisco’s legendary Icky Boyfriends, a band known to clear the room at lightning speed. He is currently playing guitar in the panic-skiffle rock combo known as Hank IV. Bedard also books The Hemlock Tavern, a San Francisco watering hole and rock club.

Jack Boulware, raconteur extraordinaire and chronicler of the depraved is author of the books Sex, American Style and SF Bizarro. He is co-founder of San Francisco’s annual Litquake literary festival, and is currently buried in a new book project, a history of punk rock in the Bay Area.

Bucky Sinister is the author of three acclaimed books of poetry—King of the Roadkills, Whiskey and Robots, and the brand new All Blacked Out & Nowhere To Go. Bucky honed his writing skills and performing chops as emcee of the outrageous poetry brawl scene at the Chameleon in San Francisco’s Mission District during the mid 90’s. His poems have been included in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and King of the Roadkills inspired a short-lived clothing collection in Australia. He recently completed watching 500 movies on DVD this past year as part of the Q500 Experiment.

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