Live Free 166 w/Michael Alvarez

Brian Barneclo Interviews me for a special episode celebrating the 5 year anniversary of the podcast. We talk about how and why the show got started, as well as my art, and attitude.

Stephanie Buer joins me via skype from her studio in Portland. We talk LFP Show, Drilling Wells, Mega Quakes, Detail Oriented, Hiking and Sitting, Outdoor Fear, Detroit, Hunting, Cowspiracy, Lucky Charms, Trail Mix, and Doing The Hard Work First

Nicomi Turner joins me via skype from her studio in Oakland. We talk Making Mistakes, Flojos, Namesake, Periscopes, Digitial Reality, Missed Experience, Emily the Strange Connections To Nature, Baddass Ranch Girls, Drawing, Mythologies, The Female Experience in Arts, All Female Mountain Gang, and The Four Percenters

Eric Yevak joins me via skype from his studio in Minneapolis. We talk Straight Edge Porn, Addiction, Earned Arrogance, Never Remembering, Holidays, Dooms Day Decisions, This Is Your Life, Other People's Fights, Fighting Skinheads, Blinded By The Light, Feminine and Masculine, and Luck

Christopher Konecki joins me via skype from his studio in San Diego. We talk Pacifico, Surfside Film School, All The Cogs, Control Freaking, Setting Expectations, Evolving To Survive, San Diego Art Scene, Cohort Collective, Serial Killers Hate Murals, Work Ethic, Foraging, Sustainability,KAABOO Del Mar, and Boopity Boppity Idiots

Don Pendleton joins me via skype from his studio in Ohio. We talk Alien Workshop, Skateboarding Rebirths, Your Own Heros, Work Ethic, Commercial vs Personal, Galleries, Over Population, Painting Nerves, Grammy Award Winner, One Hitter, Going Down In Flames

Michael Alvarez joins me via skype from his studio in LA. We talk Year Zero, Going Big, Art Center, Soups, Building a Narrative, Hand Painted Ads, The Real Shit, The Gilmore Girls, 90's Nostalgia, Time Travel, Painting Friends, Making An Art, Teaching, and 5 Year Show

Travis Louie joins me via skype from his studio in New York. We talk Stalkers, Airplane Seat Lottery, Clown Circus, Talent or Marketing, Count Your Blessings, Perception, Joke Thievery, Age of Immigration, Financial Collapse, Socialism, Good Looking Artists, Doubt, Interconnectivity, Flux, East Coast West Coast, and Insecurities

Chris Haueter joins me via skype from his studio in Los Angeles. We talk Self Proficiency, Putting Art Aside, Jiu Jitsu Graphic Novel, Bully Pheromone, The Fight Equation, Enviornment Over Will, The Language, Early West Coast Jiu Jitsu, Black and Whiting, Martial Arts Cults, Politics in The USA, Expanding The Frontal Cortex and All

Judith Supine joins me via skype from his studio in New York. We talk Richmond, Selective Mutism, Athleticism, Antagonism, Masculine vs. Feminine Roles, Transgression, Land Lady Anxiety, Intuitive Response, Loosing Appeal, Evolution of Art Outside, The First Follower, White Judicial System, and Being True To Ones Self.