Nah-Cademics
We don't know. Now you won't either.
There is no expertise to be found here; it is but the spinning of wheels. What can be found, however, is two clueless troubadours asking some of the questions you might have felt like you were the only one asking.
Come, overthink with us.
Episodes
10 episodes
Episode 10: The Re-Creative Process
When was the last time we really loved what we were doing? Really loved the art that we set out, however long ago, to create and the art made by others? For some of us (!?!), maybe that was as recently as today, but for many of us, that l...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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49:29
Episode 9: Hope is the Thing with Tethers
Is it just us or has everything been feeling a little stagnant lately? As we find ourselves caught in the monotonous whirlpool of tending to responsibilities, making ends meet, and feeling just that much older every time we come up for air, it ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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37:05
Episode 8: The Limitation Game
What is true artistic freedom? We’d all almost certainly argue that it looks something like having no boundaries or restrictions to one’s creative process or the time needed to perfect it. Maybe it means having the resources to rent a studio an...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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22:17
Episode 7: Last Place in the Rat Race
Why is it that no matter how vigorously we run the race of life, we always end up feeling like we’re falling behind? Whether we’re losing ground, time, or patience, why do we invariably get so bogged down by what we know to be but mundane detou...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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42:54
Episode 6: Friends In No Places.
A good friend can be hard to find. How is it that, for a subset of people who define themselves by their sensitivity and depth, it can feel so difficult to find relationships that aren’t centered on networking and shallow small talk?Sur...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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55:22
Episode 5: All the World’s a Stage… When’s Intermission?
Sometimes it gets to feeling like the acts we put on pervade well beyond the literal stage. In an age where we feel like the eyes of the world are always upon us (at least in our heads), it can become difficult to know who we are underneath it ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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49:39
Episode 4: You Are Not Your Art
Episode 4: You Are Not Your ArtWhy does it matter so much that others like our art ? Sure, we can all cling to the rational platitudes of “it doesn’t matter, so long as we personally love what we’re doing,” but let’s face it, it still h...
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Season 1
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28:05
Episode 3: "Holi-choly" aka, Holly Jolly Melancholy...examined, part 2.
Pt 2: New Year, Same Me‘Tis (still) the season! In this follow up holiday episode, Brett and John shift their rambling from the past-looking pathos of Christmas to the futile futurism of New Years—for what better cure for spending anothe...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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42:22
Episode 2: "Holi-choly" aka, Holly Jolly Melancholy...examined, part 1.
Pt. 1: Walking Backwards Through Life’Tis the season! On this two-part episode, Brett and John sing the holiday blues—not literally, thank goodness—and attempt to get to the bottom of that subtle, unspoken sadness that always seems to u...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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46:08