Growing Up Naked

Welcome back to the show! SEASON SIX, EPISODE FIFTY ONE! Holy shit- Thank you for sticking with us! We're back and revealing our souls in all their raw and naked glory. What comes up this time? Vunerability, neck fat, EGO and need. That demonic little voice that asks "will I ever work again?", trying to live in the present with all the insecurities that add to to the recipe of your essence and make you complete. Then...

Are these guys still making this podcast???
YES WE ARE!
And to our faithful listeners we offer you more G.U.N. pearls!
There's a lot to chew on- this volatile world, the cold, the fires, a "squeezed into a shoe box" vacation with the family, grandparents, could we have a family band? (random), movie acting, fame, Bob Dylan, and Garth Hudson.
Enjoy a back from NYC in-person sit around with us two- st...

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Holidays, the cold weather of Minnesota is here
but things are nice and toasty in the podcast shack! Just Pearce and Milo having a Thanksgiving catch up and shootin' the shit about dogs and turtles, the tv show "From" (spoiler alert- we give a lot away about the latest season finale starting around the 27 minute marker). We also get into the perils of bingeing and obsessing over TV an...

Serendipity! We actually recorded this episode in August right before Milo moved back to NYC and before the election changed life as we thought we knew it. But it turns out there's no better tonic for the blues than a laugh filled swim in Hudson river life with our pal, Aarnuts. He's as authentic a human being as you could ever hope to meet and our conversation lifts off like a rocket as we talk about NY life, theater- on...

Ok, WE'RE BACK! Sorry about the delay.
We (like everybody else in this country with a pulse) are having a lot of feelings (of course, Pearce is especially worked up). Join us we reconnect- Growing Up Naked style- with another pithy sit down that includes (among other things) THE ELECTION!, roach clips, broken teeth, Mo moving back to NYC, THE ELECTION!, Sandusky, Ohio, giant spiders and punching praying mantises, THE ELECT...

Welcome back! (ok, we took a little summer vacation)
But this time Pearce is on the east coast and Milo is in the Minnesota. Long distance, new mic, and...
Life on the road and Shakespeareyness, stumbling around onstage during a heat wave in Elizabethan clothes, hittin' the beach at Asbury Park in the land of THE BOSS, Milo's summer job, turning 20 and adulting and a deep dive into the movie "Long Legs"<...

There's mayhem in the world and we're talking about it!
Like a bat out of hell we go from war (oops- the "special operation") in Ukraine to war in Israel and Palestine to student protests, then segue (in our inimitable style) into dwarves and Larry David, with a birthday shout out to our old buddy Ryan Dawes, a hey ho to Heart To Gold and Why Not, and a happy landing on cows, horses and goats. Yeah, as usual...

For better or worse,  imagine yourself a fly on the wall.

Casually conversatin' about affairs of the heart (literally), staying in touch with the ones you love (and not waiting for a podcast),
more understudy drama, Julian Lage, Martha Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Staten Island, and featuring a couple of musical revelations by Adrianne Lenker and Friko.
Layin' back loooong distance with love and the like....

Welcome back to school everybody! High School, Music School and the School of Life.
It's a little time machine for you back to last Thanksgiving, 2023, in which we sit down with Milo's band mate, Willis Ray.  (yeah, we got episodes stockpiled!)
Much is discussed- Understudy drama, awkward Thanksgiving moments, TERF's, and the cost of playing clams. It's a  magical and musical communion with a couple of G...

Hey there, it's been a while 🤪!
We're back with the Season 5 premier spectacular (!!!) where stories rear their pointy heads, from opening night anxiety to grace for a sick friend, rough encounters on the streets of New York, gender neutral bathrooms, grandparents struggling with cell phones and the incident at Katz's Deli.
Like a ri-VUH, yo! It's good to be riding the airwaves again!

Growing U...

WORK WORK WORK! We're always working on ourselves and each other!
Our final episode of Season 4- Episode # FORTY! And after taking MO to see a show in NYC, cousin Sarah came to MN a couple days later to see a live show of her favorite podcast (which evidently isn't ours). We talk about work at school, working for a school, working on hard stuff, the glorious trials of the middle school years, the trials and tribulatio...

Milo's on their own in NYC, flourishing, struggling and wrastlin' with the good and the less good, magnificently. 
No context in this episode- just pure, raw conversation. If there's a theme, it's what's underneath.
A conversation that takes the road less travelled and feels the truth of winter coming. Sleeplessness, Rhett and Link,  Marsha P. Johnson, Angry Birds, Minnie Riperton, String Cheese Inc...

Ok, it's not that hard to edit and put up one of these episodes, so why did this take so long? Well, life and how we do it is a little more confusing since Milo left the Minneapolis. But now he's in the BIG APPLE-ISS and THIS IS OUR FIRST LONG DISTANCE EPISODE!
We talk about a new life in New York, which in Milo's case involves bumping into a jazz guitar legend, college, roommates, classes, pet turtles, A LOT of...

Sigrid Nielsen is a beautiful human and mom. She's brilliant, courageous, disciplined, supportive and adventurous. Her son Beckett is a 16 year old aspiring filmmaker and High Schooler, who although quiet, is fully present in the moment and keenly aware.
We sat down with with these amazings to learn about their lives, their unique
mother/son relationship, the things they stand for and the people they're becoming....

Lisa Channer is a theater artist, teacher and filmmaker. Her 18 year old son, Daniel, is going to music school this fall, just like Milo, except in Chicago. We've known these guys for a long time-ever since Milo and Daniel were little pip squeaks. We sat down to catch up and had another great Growing Up Naked conversation about the kids' different views of leaving home, what it's like being children of theater people...

It was always going to be like this- if we got together with Irve Dell in the cozy room it would no doubt be a nitro A.D.D. wildfire of a conversation that spins and digresses and changes on a dime faster than superman (creepy crawler variety) chases a speeding bullet. I mean we do slow down sometimes but...
 Irve Dell, the Why Not dad, Isaac Dell's father, joins us and we cover A LOT of topics from cinnamon toothpicks to ...

In which we return after a long hiatus (last episode-April-WTF???), recording late at night in the bouncy room with the window fan blowing and fireworks in the distance. Milo's move to NYC, family trips, Tedeschi Trucks, The Grateful Dead, relationships- we have a lot to catch up on but... WE'RE BACK! 
With more episodes to follow soon!

Growing Up Naked Theme composed, played and recorded by Isaac Dell
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Mike Halleen, Milo's Grandpa and Pearce's father-in-law, was born in 1938. He's a Minnesota boy who's witnessed the world grow up in the 20th century and beyond. As a Covenant pastor, he took up the calling of both his grandfathers and has always been a steady flame of faith, compassion and understanding for his family.
Mike can tell a story (or a thousand) and move you to tears and laughter while captivatin...

Darius Dotch- Minnesotan by way of Baton Rouge, Louisiana- hip hop artist, actor,
life /fitness coach, podcast host and compassionate motivator is in the HOUSE bringing inspiration to the cozy room!

Growing Up Naked theme by Isaac Dell
Music- Soul Food, I Ain't Proud Of That, They Selling Crack
                 written and performed by Darius Dotch
Listen to Darius' podcast, "Mastering The M...