To conclude February Folly we're taking our signature segment "Rankin It" and expanding it to a full episode! We are joined by Houston Calls frontman Tom Keiger and rank everything from our favorite 2023 songs to our favorite breakfast cereals. Check out our Rankin It playlist and listen to some of our favorites in multiple categories: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eMQ6zN5ZuCjJjTCdQXii3?si=0d80725a40454976
Running With Scissors
You can't talk about fun and silly and leave Weird Al out of the conversation. Today we talk all about Weird Al parodies, originals, polkas, and album spotlight "Running with Scissors." Check out a playlist of all of our favorite all-time Weird Al songs here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Cc5UzmZqMKVZoElE7JR1b?si=9d31af30966f4c36
Not Another Teen Movie
This week's folly takes us back to a spoof movie from 2001. Movie Steve joins us as we talk all about the teen rom-coms that inspired Not Another Teen Movie. Does it hold up? Is it cringe? Watch the movie before you listen and let us know what you think!
Host Vs Host Pop-Punk Trivia Extravangza
After a super fun month of HSNE Jeopardy, our producer, Jake Lloyd Bacon offered to take over the show and put together a fun trivia contest to pit Wingman Steve against Chris-183. There are lots of twists, turns, and fun categories, and even questions submitted by you, the HSNE community!
Fun with AI
In our new series February Folly we explore some fun and silly concepts. This week we're talking all about AI in general and in music. We take a listen to some AI-generated pop-punk and give our reactions along with resident silly man Dave Dross from No Advisory!
HSNE Jeopardy Championship
It’s the Season 1 HSNE Jeopardy Championship Round! This week all 3 of our previous winners face off for a very special prize. It's PunkishDad vs Bailey vs Matt - who will be crowned the very first HSNE Jeopardy Champion??
HSNE Jeopardy Game 3
The winner of our 3rd HSNE Jeopardy! game will take on the winners of Games 1 & 2 next week in the championship! This week it's Matt vs Krystin vs Freddy. Tune in and play along!
HSNE Jeopardy Game 2
It's our second round of HSNE Jeopardy! Today we pit PunkishDad, Andy, and Jessie against each other to see who emerges victorious!
HSNE Jeopardy Game 1
Welcome to HSNE Jeopardy! We took 22 volunteers and randomly picked our contestants to battle their wits in pop-punk and emo trivia! Today, we have Bailey, Tom and Mike Elfers going at it to see who will be victorious and make it to our tournament of champions!
2023 Look Back: Tear Me To Pieces
We close out 2023 and our look back with a deep dive on the newest Story of the Year record Tear Me to Pieces. This one has some major nostalgia and reminiscence to Page Avenue. We talk sings, we talk screams, and we thank all our listeners for a great year!
2023 Look Back: GUTS
This week we're gonna be talking more about the pop inside pop-punk. We've given a good listen to Olivia Rodrigo's 2023 record GUTS and we're primed to talk about piano ballads, Avril-inspired rock and more. Can a couple of 40 year old dudes relate to a 20 year old pop star?
2023 Look Back: 152
The boys from Strong Island are back with an all new record. This week we look at 2023's new Taking Back Sunday album 152. This one is quite different than other TBS albums - tune in to hear our thoughts!
2023 Look Back: Find A Way Home
Next up on our 2023 Look Back is the newest record from MxPx. This one came out this summer and definitely has some throw back vibes. We're joined by Punkish_Dad and Stew and we all weigh in if this album found its way home to our streaming platforms.
2023 Look Back: One More Time…
We're taking the next month to talk about albums that came out this year, and there's no better place to start than with blink-182's highly anticipated reunion with Tom DeLonge One More Time. We're joined by Mike Elfers to break down the album Tom called the best blink album of all time track by track and rank our favorites.
November Nostalgia: Take This To Your Grave
We're wrapping up November Nostalgia with a light on in Chicago. This week we head back to '03 and discuss Fall Out Boy's debut album Take This to Your Grave. How does it stack up in the FOB discography? We chat track by track and discuss!
November Nostalgia: Deja Entendu
Next up from the 2003 time machine, we walk through Brand New's Deja Entendu with our bud Steve Kelly from Sinking Ship Records. Coming off a pop-punk album and transitioning to a more emo rock vibe was a big risk, do we think it paid off?
November Nostalgia: So Long, Astoria
What do you get when combine angsty pop-punk and The Goonies? The answer is The Ataris 2003 "So Long, Astoria." We take a deep dive during November Nostalgia to talk about the record that features a huge cover song and a lot of other gems.
November Nostalgia: Good Mourning
This November we're doing a play on nostalgia. 2003 was a hell of a year for pop-punk and we're going to go back and spotlight a bunch of awesome albums that came out, kicking it all off with Alkaline Trio's Good Mourning. Mike Damante, Alk Trio enthusiast and punk rock journalist joins us for this deep dive.
Quick Hits w/ Wiley J
We're back for another episode of Quick Hits and our guest today is in not 1 but 2 active bands. Wiley is the guitarist for Hey, Disarray and the singer and guitarist for Die Criminal. We talk about his work with Dan Marsala, his musical influences, and listen to a track from each band. Make sure and follow them on your music platform of choice and socials!
Alt-ober: Purple
Is it you? Is it me? We couldn't finish up Alt-ober without a "traditional" 90's grunge album so that's what we're doing! This week we deep dive STP's Purple.