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Episode 38: Anthony Rossomando - Part 2 Mar 05, 2020

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In Part 2 of this interview with guitarist and song writer, Anthony Rossomando, it all stalls out and the money dries up. But what in retrospect looks like a long quest for meaning somehow leads to sobriety and the now legendary collaboration with Gaga, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt. I had - in truth - forgotten how powerfully Shallow hit me when I first heard it in A Star Is Born, but man— this conversation brings it all back and reveals the crazy magic that led to that song.

Episode 37: Anthony Rossomando - Part 1 Feb 26, 2020

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Anthony Rossomando is a song writer and guitarist who is perhaps most famous for his work with the English rock band The Libertines and for writing (with Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt) the achingly beautiful song "Shallow" which became the centerpiece of the most recent remake of A Star Is Born. In this first part of a two part interview he shares stories of the early years: his musical influences, his time in the Boston area band The Damn Personals and tales of fear and loathing and excess on the road as a rock star.

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Episode 36: Katherine Wyrick Feb 13, 2020

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Katherine Wyrick hales from Little Rock, Arkansas where she first learned to party in her early teens and while life took her to boarding school in New England and on the road with her husband's band, it was only when she returned to Arkansas, had children and found herself on a kind of spiritual quest that she ultimately made her way to sobriety

Episode 35 - Rami Even-Esh aka Kosha Dillz Jan 28, 2020

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Rami is a rapper who performs under the stage name Kosha Dillz. He grew up in New Jersey and spent some time in and out of jail before getting sober and finding his calling in the world of music. He won the 2009 Hot 97 Rap Battle at Giants Stadium. He has performed with Snoop Dogg, RZA, Matisyahu to name a few and appeared at Sundance and SXSW. Follow him @koshadillz

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We recorded this in the Sundance Festival's sober space with special thanks to the Harmony Foundation. (www.harmonyfoundation.com)

Episode 34: John Gillen Jan 08, 2020

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John Gillen hails from Glasgow Scotland where he grew up in a family of coal miners. Small in stature he left school at an early age to pursue a career as a jockey which eventually led to a very successful stint as the head trainer and manager of a prestigious thoroughbred stable in England. But when his drinking eventually got the best of him, he found himself homeless on the streets of Glasgow before finally finding the humility to get help. Now, 19 years later he runs a successful recovery operation in the UK and Spain and shares here the journey that brought him there.

Learn more here: https://oceanrecoverycentre.com/about/about-john-gillen/

Episode 33: Zander Schloss Dec 12, 2019

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This is a very special episode. Zander Schloss - the bass player for the seminal punk band The Circle Jerks - brought his guitar to this session, and he not only tells an amazing story of his career in music, the steep toll of addiction and his hard fought journey thru recovery but he also plays original songs that reflect the long, complex path of his life. This is a story of acceptance and surrender but also of persistence.

You can support this podcast at my Patreon Page:

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Episode 32: Joshua Shea Dec 03, 2019

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Joshua Shea hails from Lewiston Auburn, Maine where he sat on the City Council and where his entrepreneurial spirit gave birth to the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival and Lewiston Auburn Magazine before his meteoric rise was undone by alcoholism and porn addiction. He is the author of the memoir "The Addiction Nobody Talks About" and the upcoming book, "He's a porn addict. Now what?" He reached out to me thru the podcast and phoned in from Maine and shares here a pretty inspiring story of incomprehensible demoralization and recovery.

Episode 32: Josh Shea Dec 03, 2019

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Episode 31: Eric Hahn Nov 20, 2019

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Eric Hahn is a stand up comedian who grew up in a steel town in Ohio where he started drinking at age 12. He narrowly escaped a career as a butcher before finding his way to Los Angeles via a lucrative career in the restaurant business which was upended when his employers saw his first stand up set on YouTube. I realized Eric was sober via his hilarious twitter feed, and he shared with me here some frank and very very funny stories about coming of age as a gay man in the mid-west.

Episode 30: Vincent Castellanos Nov 08, 2019

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Vincent Castellanos is an actor who appeared in Anaconda, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive. He was born in Cuba and immigrated to Miami when he was 9 years old where he found a sense of excitement and belonging in the Miami night club scene of the late 70s. He moved to New York to pursue a career in acting and dancing but ran afoul fo the hedonism of Manhattan in the 80s. Once he got sober he quickly found the career success that eluded him and has since discovered a sustaining daily spirituality.

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