What's Yer Deal?

I (Pete Normal) interview Milwaukee, WI photographer, activist, historian, and archivist Marc Ponto. We discuss a variety of topics, including Marc's pursuit of making a living and supporting his family doing photography and related work, while continuing to grow as an artist. Marc goes in-depth about a photo he took of 2x NBA MVP and Milwaukee Buck, Giannis Antetokounmpo, during The Bucks' championship parade in the summer of 2021, and what it took to make that image possible. I also get Marc to share a story about being held for questioning by the FBI in relation to the assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate George Wallace by Milwaukee resident Arthur Bremer. This is the second of a two-part episode.The intro and outro music in this episode were by my recording project, The Burrow. You can hear more and download for free at https://theburro.bandcamp.com/music

I (Pete Normal) interview Milwaukee, WI photographer, activist, historian, and archivist Marc Ponto. We discuss a variety of topics, including Marc's journey as a photographer in the early 1960s, leading him to the world of photojournalism as a staff photographer for Milwaukee's counter-culture newspaper, The Kaleidoscope, in the late 60s / early 70s, and how his approach to his craft has shifted over the years.This is the first of a two-part episode.The intro and outro music in this episode was by my recording project, The Burrow. You can hear more and download for free at https://theburro.bandcamp.com/music

I (Pete Normal) interview researcher and professor of marine climate science and my good friend and former musical collaborator, AyK. We discuss what drew us together as friends and songwriting partners, why we stopped being friends, and the ways in which fate brought us back together. We discuss AyK's wild time of touring with Everclear as a guitar tech, and how this led her to pursue meaning and purpose in her life via ecophysiology and biogeochemistry.AyK can be found on Instagram @queer_rednecksThe intro music is by my recording project, The Burrow. You can hear more and download for free at https://theburro.bandcamp.com/musicAdditional music by my band with AyK, Dopamine. The songs were Juice and Icepickindoodle. Look for them on Soundcloud. Outro music was the song Saved By Myself by AyK's band Forsorcerers.

Faith Gardner is a writer / novelist best known for her YA novels, but in this episode we discuss the downsides of getting pigeon-holed as a certain type of writer, among many other aspects of her writing career. She was also my bandmate in Oakland's Hooray For Everything, and we get into talk of that band, as well as her current musical project, Plot 66. As in previous episodes, there's also lots of talk of mental health and individual creative processes.Intro music by The Burrow (that's me!),and episode features songs by Faith's bands:Plot 66 (Living Ghost)Hooray For Everything (Solipsist)and her solo project Scarlet O'Hara (How Now)

I (Pete Normal) interview my old friend and three-time bandmate, Jason Miller. We discuss care giving for elderly parents, the intersections of our musical development in the Portland, OR punk scene, mental health, Jason's love of glam rock, and coping with a turbulent world through creativity and service to others. . Jason and his art can be found on Instagram @puzawuzaThe intro music is by my recording project, The Burrow. You can here more and download for free at https://theburro.bandcamp.com/musicThe episode also features songs from Jason's bands Ignoramous Monkey Anus, Comrade Bane, Low Rent Souls, and his current project, Puza Wuza. You can here more Puza Wuza at https://soundcloud.com/user-932281856