Josh Gaines's guest appearances

Josh Gaines

The Vinyl Me Please Podcast

Thick in the Throat, Honey

Joe and His Friends Podcast

Paul Simon

Sharon Van Etten

Daniel Norgren

Courtney Barnett

Julia Jacklin

Bruno Mars

Calvin Harris

Grace Campbell

Maren Morris

David Nail

Kacey Musgraves

Danny Brown

Laura Marling

Margaret Malone

Angel Olsen

OwlTail

Special episode! Josh Gaines comes to the Ping Pong Podcast Studio to discuss how he reversed (cured?) the Crohn’s Disease that he had for nearly 30 years. We all get to benefit from the wisdom he has gained over the course of his dramatic health improvement. He even shares the story of how his son was able to eliminate his 3-year progressive Tourette’s in a matter of six weeks! This enlightening interview is soon to be part of a new podcast completely separate from “Joe and His Friends”, so stay tuned for more info on that. If you want to hear more from Josh, you can reach out to him on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/Keto_Insider

Special episode! Josh Gaines comes to the Ping Pong Podcast Studio to discuss how he reversed (cured?) the Crohn’s Disease that he had for nearly 30 years. We all get to benefit from the wisdom he has gained over the course of his dramatic health improvement. He even shares the story of how his son was able to eliminate his 3-year progressive Tourette’s in a matter of six weeks! This enlightening interview is soon to be part of a new podcast completely separate from “Joe and His Friends”, so stay tuned for more info on that. If you want to hear more from Josh, you can reach out to him on Twitter at: <a href="http://twitter.com/Keto_Insider" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/Keto_Insider</a>

Episode 15 – Reversing Decades of Crohn’s Disease with Josh Gaines

"I like to say I ditched a promising military career to write books, run a profitless press, and build blanket forts with my daughter..." People become poets for many reasons, but stage fright is not usually at the top of the list. When Josh Gaines was an Air Force Captain he had terrible stage fright. Horrendous. "I would almost be sick and I had to give generals reports on weapons. So, I thought of the most embarrassing thing I could do. I had these 3 poems. I began reading them several times a week in front of open mike audiences, and, one day, I thought, I could do better. I can write better poetry." So, Josh became a poet and a regular at the open mike he started attending in Oklahoma, and, then, once he left the military he helped organize and run more readings in North Carolina and, then, Chicago, culminating in a graduate degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a partnership and daughter, and a press, ThoughtCrime, where he supports the work of other writers and is supporting his desire for a better country. "I like to say I ditched a promising military career to write books, run a profitless press, and build blanket forts with my daughter. My biggest challenge in making work since having a kid has to do with alone time at the right time. I get up, make her lunch, make her breakfast, and my wife takes her to school on the way to work. Then it's my time to write, but even getting into that head space takes a couple of alone hours for me. Then I start to stress and by the time I get to writing, I only have an hour or two before I have to run by the post office to mail books out and then go pick up my daughter. I admit I kinda quit here and there, and then I'll get to a point where I become a far less happy human and a few hours of writing brings everything back in line."

"I like to say I ditched a promising military career to write books, run a profitless press, and build blanket forts with my daughter..." People become poets for many reasons, but stage fright is not usually at the top of the list. When Josh Gaines was an Air Force Captain he had terrible stage fright. Horrendous. "I would almost be sick and I had to give generals reports on weapons. So, I thought of the most embarrassing thing I could do. I had these 3 poems. I began reading them several times a week in front of open mike audiences, and, one day, I thought, I could do better. I can write better poetry." So, Josh became a poet and a regular at the open mike he started attending in Oklahoma, and, then, once he left the military he helped organize and run more readings in North Carolina and, then, Chicago, culminating in a graduate degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a partnership and daughter, and a press, <a href="http://thoughtcrimepress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ThoughtCrime,</a> where he supports the work of other writers and is supporting his desire for a better country. "I like to say I ditched a promising military career to write books, run a profitless press, and build blanket forts with my daughter. My biggest challenge in making work since having a kid has to do with alone time at the right time. I get up, make her lunch, make her breakfast, and my wife takes her to school on the way to work. Then it's my time to write, but even getting into that head space takes a couple of alone hours for me. Then I start to stress and by the time I get to writing, I only have an hour or two before I have to run by the post office to mail books out and then go pick up my daughter. I admit I kinda quit here and there, and then I'll get to a point where I become a far less happy human and a few hours of writing brings everything back in line."

Episode 8: Interview with Josh Gaines (writer and editor)

This week, Andrew is on a roadtrip through the South so Tyler's friend Josh Gaines fills in as guest host. Josh is a filmmaker and fiction author from Denver and he stops by to talk fiction writing, his new short film, and some of the records he keeps closest. We get into Beck's penchant for inducing meditation, why Muse was sort of heady sort of not, and what it's like living in a (possibly?) post-post-Rock world and still loving Mogwai.

Beck, Mogwai, and Muse with Special Guest Josh Gaines