Damaged Goods Podcast

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is author, technician, & speaker Telisa D. The two discuss not only connecting with the readers of your work, but the connection that can be made amongst fellow authors writing about similar subjects with similar experiences, how hot the damn lights on when you're on stage speaking or performing, taking your own responsibility when it comes to what media and entertainment you take in, and why people have more choice & control with that they they acknowledge, and why sometimes you have to say "F@*# 'em". Follow Jake @jthes & Telsida @TelisaD and check out her books and work at http://bit.ly/TeLisaDEPK

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is DJ, producer, and video & lighting technician, SB The DJ, aka Special Blend. The two discuss why you don't shake hands with Wolverine, embracing your honesty, working live shows in crazy areas of cities w/ crazy streetgoers, why you shouldn't dine & dash, how he has taken DJing to the streets in a unique mobile fashion, improvising in the face of adversity, why everyone in your crew can't be Bill Murray from Ghostbusters, traveling through international borders on tour, & more. Follow Jake @jthes & SB The DJ @SBtheDJ. 

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is DJ, producer, executive producer & entreprenuer DJ Deadeye. The two discuss why it's important to branch out, the value or merchandise, dealing with deprerssion and what to do when it infiltrates your creativity, why live hip-hop can get a bad rep & what makes a good live performance, the young VS old age gap nonsense within Hip-hop, Deadeye's favorite NON-Hip Hop live performance, and why it includes fake titties but not the kind you are thinking of. Follow Jake @jthes @damagedgoodspodcast & Deadeye @DeadeyeSTdot 

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake shares some movie remakes that actually DON'T suck. It's rare. Jake addresses the catalyst of the remake/reboot trend, denounces some he can't stand, but strives to look at the glass half-full, offereing eight movie remakes that are good. Some are movies that you might not have even known where remakes, while he discusses why he enjoys the art of film differently than other art forms. Follow Jake @jthes & @damagedgodspodcast

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is artist Tyler Farmen. The two discuss how & why he got into graffiti, getting jumped into a crew, the loyalty and expectations that come with that, the love of skateboarding, many brushes with the law, coming to a fork in the road with graffiti/life and how to continue as an artist, selling art, curating & running an art gallery, teaching art to youngsters, & more. Follow Jake @jthes and Tyler @tylerfarmen. 

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The snake discusses the complex, and ever present matter of, can you seprate the art from the artist? Do the political leanings of certain music artists change your ability/desire to listen to them? Why he hates Facebook, how everything that is polarizing will politicized, and he shares a chapter from his book, Quicksand, available now. Follow Jake @jthes @damagedgoodspodcast

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is musician & engineer, Aziz The Shake. The two discuss taking more control over your creative process, do artists have to speak out on social issues? Professional & collegiate sports and their accountability to their players, the current work Akon is doing in Senegal, teaching yourself new skills & crafts later in life, how live music being currently postponed has affected momentum in music careers, bike-ride lectures about smoking, & more. Follow Aziz @aziztheshake and Jake @jthes @damagedgoodspodcast

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is author, journalist, historian, and Bostonian, Dart Adams. the two discuss different writing processes, harnessing creativity when it comes, the journey every artist takes to find their voice, how skateboarding & skateboard videos influneced both of their artistic lives, having problems with publishers & editors, the heart-attack that is loosing all your files/computer/art you have worked tirelessly on, & what Dart WILL steal if you ain't careful. Follow Jake @jthes & Dart @dart_adams.

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is decorated barber and host of the Shop Talk podcast, Steve Ferreira. The two discuss how their early experiences with college radio impacted them podcasting, the barber as a therapist, imagination as a tool & a weapon, the struggle for social butterflies during this pandemic, the different ways people take in & digest music, and the power of knowing what you DON'T like. Follow Jake @jthes and Steve @este617

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake recounts his recent venture back from Mexico to California amidst the inetrnational pandemic, bribing cops, roadside shrines for those who have died on the same path, sleeping in your car adjacent to drug transactions, the Give-A-F@&% Meter, the fascination with the statement and notion of "not giving a....", what it should mean, reassessing your priorities, & more. Follow Jake @jthes @damagedgoodspodcast

On this episode of Damaged Goods, Jake The Snake flys solo, with a semi follow up to the previous episode, with more stiories of his time in a foreign country, during a pandemic, taking care of ill loved ones, the fear you never knew, the concept of artists having to suffer/endure adversity to create their best art, the unnfair exchange of fans getting this great art while an artists may suffer, and 5 books and 5 movies he strongly recommends that you will dig. Follow Jake @jthes @damagedgoodspodcast

On this episode, Jake The Snake flys solo and tells crazy stories on his recent exodus from L.A. to Mexico during the Pandemic lockdown, taking insane precautions, crazy car accidents in the middle of nowhewre, having to be in hospitals during the pandemic, new problems facing his family, corrupt cops robbing him, books/movies to inspire strength, why staying isolated should make you feel proud, & more. Follow Jake @jthes & @damagedgoodspodcast

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is renown photographer Adam Amengual. The two discuss the ways in which the Coronavirus crisis has effected artists, creatives, freelancers, and the self employed, what some measures are that can be taken by both the individuals effected and state & federal officials to help their situation, things do do while self quarantined to keep one's mind occupied, healthy, informed, entertained, and distracted, why you should be careful where you get your information from, and why we have to still be kind mofos. Follow Jake @jthes and Adam @adamamengual

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is DJ, producer, & artist Khari. The two discuss his animated project, the interesting backstory of how/why he got into DJing, working for KSEX radio, being the assistant to a famous porn star, almost getting sexually jumped by Ginger Lynn in the radio studio, why having a trained fighting background is good if your work in nightclubs, why DJing in strip clubs was an easy transition, the jockey VS the horse, bar fights & more. Follow Jake @jthes & Khari @kharix

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is music-touring vet, VIP Coordinator, executive assistant, Courtney Angela. The two discuss what it's like to be on big live-music tours as a woman in a field filled with mostly men, life-hacks to being on the road living in hotels & tour buses, the liberation of quitting, eyebrows, what to NOT do on a tour bus, historical facts about Cincinnati, embarrassing herself in front of John Mayer, being the direct assistant to mega-superstar's manager & the insanity that went along with that, recycling initiatives on music tours, and working a Jennifer Lopez show at Madison Square Garden during a crazy citywide blackout in NYC. Follow Jake @jthes & Courtney @styled.byca

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is director/producer/actor Johnny Hickey. The two discuss what makes his new film, Habitual, more than a horror movie, micro-dosing, how to work yourself our of depressive spells, how he got comfortable and too a step back after his 1st film, Oxymorons, came out, how to reignite that inspiration and motivation, telling the stories he wants to tell through the form of various genres of film, being critical/analytical while watching movies, inaccuracies in Boston-based movies & more. Follow Jake @jthes & Johnny Hickey @thejohnnyhickey

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is music artist Justin Clancy. The two discuss crazy diets, physical exercise & cardio regiments that help his live performance, Jake's disdain for construction, why Justin doesn't like "recovery" rappers, his feelings on incorporating (or not) his journey of getting clean & sober into his music, not appreciating artists who take the easy path, how the entertainment industries in NYC & LA are more similar than most acknowledge, what makes good storytellers, why artists can be more critical or art than just consumers/fans, and why it's OK and natural to call stuff corny. Follow Justin @justin_clancy & Jake @jthes @damagedgoodspodcast

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake's guest is barber extraordinaire, Ronnie McCoy III. The two discuss how fast things have evolved for him moving from Michigan to LA and how to prepare for what you want next, getting to barber for some artists he has looked up to, hitting the red carpet at the VMAs, why its important to take time away from social media and unplug, how his trips to Japan give him perspective, how to gently tell a customer the hairstyle they want won't work, & more. Follow Jake @jthes and Ronnie @barberextraordinaire

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake discusses Dick Tricks and the phenomenon of your private parts playing tricks on your mind that have unsavory consequences and undesired consequences, shares stories of his recent month long solo Mexico adventure, driving through a pack of feasting vultures, almost getting stranded in the desert in the middle of nowhere in The Baja, and 5 guaranteed weight loss techniques. Follow Jake @jthes @damagedgoodspodcast

On this episode of Damaged Goods Podcast, Jake The Snake discusses his new book Quicksand, which is out now from finer retailers. Jake gives some information and back stories to the cover and inside photo, the inside illustrations which he did, a brief explanation of the chapter titles, difficulties he had with his first book that he hopes to iron out on forthcoming projects, pretentiousness he finds associated with the literary world he hoped to avoid yet fears he is guilty of too, why he is sick to his stomach, all recorded in Mexico. Follow Jake @jthes @damagedgoodspodcast & the book Quicksand by Jake Fraczek, available now on Amazon, other retailers shortly.