Atypical Daydream

Episode 59:In this week’s episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell explores what happens when the road starts to feel a little too much like an omen. We sit down with Austin writer and filmmaker James Ease and Jeff Smith, the legendary frontman of the Austin cow-punk band The Hickoids.James takes us on a West Texas road trip haunted by a series of eerie coincidences that felt like driving straight into a horror movie. Then, Jeff Smith details a brutal run through Northern Europe during a record-breaking cold spring, involving glitchy gear, a confusing loop around Antwerp, and a mad dash through an airport just to get back to the Texas heat.James EaseWebsite: https://www.jamesease.com/Instagram: @jameseeaseStoned In Texas book trailer: https://youtu.be/5c7ixno7910—--------------------Jeff SmithFB:https://www.facebook.com/TheeJeffSmithhttps://www.facebook.com/hickoidshttps://www.facebook.com/SaustexIG:@hickoids@saustex @flagship_store_san_antosaustexrecords.bandcamp.comhickoids.bandcamp.comLatest label releases:Trippin' Through Texas, by Joecephus and The George Jonestown MassacreBarbed Wire Road, by The KrayolasRead the full episode transcript HERE---------------------------SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAMWant more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories!Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRTStart your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFULMake high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM---------------------------Music by Visual AidProduced by Josh CaldwellCopywriting by Miranda CaldwellMore info at: atypicaldaydream.comAtypical Daydream™

Episode 57In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with world traveler, entrepreneur, and photographer Flannery Foster.Flannery is on a mission to visit all 330 countries, colonies, territories, and exclaves on earth. She shares where that mission came from, how she finances it on resourcefulness rather than wealth, and what she's found in the hundred and sixty-five places she's been so far, including a Bob Marley bar in every political entity on earth and some situations she's lucky to have walked away from.flanneryfoster.com (travel, wellness & art) —-> Contact via Calendar all330.com (travel education)redheadedbastard.com (memoir, music, photography)Coming Soon: Bad Yoga Podcast : Sex, Drugs & The Unbearable Business of Yoga goodyoga.comRead the full episode script HERE---------------------------SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAMWant more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories!Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRTStart your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFULMake high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM---------------------------Music by Visual AidProduced by Josh CaldwellCopywriting by Miranda CaldwellMore info at: atypicaldaydream.comAtypical Daydream™

Episode 56In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with his oldest family friend Joanna Athey, and then with his daughter June, recorded when she was four years old.Joanna shares the story of a childhood defined by independence and early awareness of what the world expected from her, and how a solo trip to Europe at fifteen, ending near Istanbul, confirmed that the only way forward was through the wider world. Then June Caldwell, age four, tells two very short stories. One involves Klaus Kinski and a flying mask. One involves booby traps and a sandwich you do not want to eat.Next time you travel, stay at a youth hostel!https://www.yha.org.uk/https://hihostels.com/Read the full episode script HERE---------------------------SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAMWant more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories!Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRTStart your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFULMake high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM---------------------------Music by Visual AidProduced by Josh CaldwellCopywriting by Miranda CaldwellMore info at: atypicaldaydream.comAtypical Daydream™

Episode 55In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with musician and songwriter Wayne Gottstine of Split Lip Rayfield.Wayne shares two stories from a life shaped by music and mortality. The first is about his bandmate Kirk, who was given six months to live and spent them on the road. The second is about Wayne himself, who got his own terminal diagnosis five years ago and has since played fifty shows a year, lost two-thirds of a lung, and found something he needed at a Monday night church dinner in Kansas City.Split Lip Rayfield - https://www.stitchgiver.comInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/waynegottstine/Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@waynegottstine2.0Read the full episode script HERE---------------------------SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAMWant more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories!Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRTStart your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFULMake high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM---------------------------Music by Visual AidProduced by Josh CaldwellCopywriting by Miranda CaldwellMore info at: atypicaldaydream.comAtypical Daydream™

Episode 54In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with his wife and collaborator Miranda Caldwell.In the year 2000, eighteen-year-old Miranda left Kalamazoo, Michigan with 500 dollars, a gold Chevy Cavalier, a MapQuest printout, and a month to drive around the country looking for where she belonged. She shares what she found, what she lost, and what she came home with that she didn't know she was carrying.Read the full episode script HERE---------------------------SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAMWant more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories!Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRTStart your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFULMake high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM---------------------------Music by Visual AidProduced by Josh CaldwellCopywriting by Miranda CaldwellMore info at: atypicaldaydream.comAtypical Daydream™

Episode 53In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with teacher, academic, and former European tour manager Matthew Roberts.Matthew takes us through a life that has always been pointed outward, from a childhood in Wales that planted the seeds to a first job in the Canary Islands at eighteen, teaching in China, and eventually guiding coaches full of people across Europe with the right music cued for every moment. His stories move between the profound and the joyful in a way that's entirely his own.Bluesky: @matqbritholiday.bsky.socialQueering the British Holiday - Society of Antiquaries of London by Matthew RobertsJanuary 27, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm (lunchtime lecture)2026 marks key anniversaries in British travel history, from Gulliver’s Travels to Butlin’s first holiday camp. This lecture traces the often-hidden presence of LGBTQ+ lives in the British holiday, revealing how liberation, desire, and surveillance shape three centuries of leisure. Through the Grand Tour, Music Hall coastal culture, Butlin’s camps, and Club 18–30, we explore travel as both method and metaphor—a queer pilgrimage into the liminal spaces of pleasure.Matthew Roberts is a writer in his fourth year of a part-time PhD in Text, Practice as Research at the University of Kent, examining Queering the British Holiday. His critically acclaimed plays have appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and been featured in The Guardian, The South Bank Show, BBC 5 Live and LBC. After a decade in the tourist industry, he taught English in China, Liverpool, Manchester and London, and has presented research at major national and international conferences. He also volunteers at Queer Britain: The National LGBTQ+ Museum.Read the full episode script HERE---------------------------SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAMWant more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories!Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRTStart your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFULMake high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM---------------------------Music by Visual AidProduced by Josh CaldwellCopywriting by Miranda CaldwellMore info at: atypicaldaydream.comAtypical Daydream™

Episode 52In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with punk pioneer Alice Bag of The Bags for the final episode of the season.Alice shares the story of a Troubadour show in late-seventies Hollywood that started with a chance encounter at Canter's Deli, escalated when Tom Waits showed up in the front row, and ended with a score being settled before anyone was allowed to leave with their equipment.Website: https://alicebag.com/Bandcamp: https://alice-bag.bandcamp.com/Read the full episode script HERE---------------------------SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAMWant more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories!Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRTStart your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFULMake high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM---------------------------Music by Visual AidProduced by Josh CaldwellCopywriting by Miranda CaldwellMore info at: atypicaldaydream.comAtypical Daydream™

Episode 51In this week's episode of Atypical Daydream, host Josh Caldwell sits down with Nitya Chambers, SVP of Content and Executive Editor at Lonely Planet.Nitya grew up in western Pennsylvania as the daughter of Indian immigrants, navigating two worlds without a map for either one. She shares what it felt like to go to India for the first time as an eight-year-old, to arrive somewhere where she looked like everyone else for the first time in her life, and what she's carried from those summers with her grandparents ever since.Sign up for the Lonely Planet newsletter at lonelyplanet.com Follow us on InstagramRead the full episode script HERE---------------------------SUPPORT ATYPICAL DAYDREAMWant more Atypical Daydream? Check out my PATREON for exclusive bonus stories!Buy the official: ATYPICAL DAYDREAM T-SHIRTStart your t-shirt business today for free: PRINTFULMake high quality podcasts with ease from anywhere: RIVERSIDE FM---------------------------Music by Visual AidProduced by Josh CaldwellCopywriting by Miranda CaldwellMore info at: atypicaldaydream.comAtypical Daydream™