Quinn and Adam are two mild-mannered guys with alter egos as fun as my own. By day, Adam is a Middle School art teacher, and Quinn hangs out at the airport, picking up suitcases at Baggage Claim to sell on Craigslist later. But at night, they become something greater than the sum of their parts. That's right folks, Q&A, the greatest Karaoke hosts on the planet, blessed me with their presence. Many moons ago, Quinn taught me everything I knew about the Karaoke game and when Adam became a host, I taught him everything I knew. That's right Average Smoothcast Listener! I used to take tickets from drunken shmucks and let groups of chubby old ladies butcher Love Shack like nobody's business! You'd think that, with a guest named Q, it would have been a great time to put up my signature 10Qs, but instead, I tried out Hot Fire/Hot Garbage. There's some comedy gems here people (and possibly slander, but what the heck do I know) but that's all just a day in the life of these wacky mofos!

Check out Q&A's Facebook Fan Page HERE.

Q&A Session with Q&A

This is Kevin. UNO master, longtime Smoothcast contributor, and depending on the day, worthy Mario Kart competitor. I love Kev--sorry, K.O., as he prefers to be called these days (Look who's gone Hollywood!)--but unlike most of my guests, he is not a music guy. Not even a music fan really, which we find out in our new segment, Hot Fire/Hot Garbage, wherein he confirms that his favorite CD is the soundtrack to a Sylvester Stallone film, and you wouldn't believe me even if I told you which film either. Kid's a weirdo through and through, but he is real, and he is hilarious. Also unlike most of my guests, in a positive way, he actually has experience recording, and had a dream not far off from my own of getting on the radio, which he accomplished and relinquished for reasons we may or may not have discussed in this episode. Sadly, I recorded this ep right after installing a new HD in my computer, and it gave me an error that I'm still not really clear about, which ended up messing up the recording but I didn't know it until AFTER the first half, and while we initially admitted defeat, I came back over the next day, much to the chagrin of his loved ones and re-recorded the first half again. It was very meta, very Pulp Fiction, very, dare I say? Smoothlouvian. You can use that.

Some of these 'casts are fun for different reasons, or informative for various reasons, but let me just throw this out there: This is my all-time personal favorite. Let me know if you agree in the comment section below!

Follow K.O. on Twitter HERE.

I'm Gonna Knock You Out

That’s right, Luis Rod-danger-riguez!

This was the last of the Smoothcasts that I recorded with my cohost/ex-wife Carrianne, whose schedule was somehow even harder to work with than mine. She's great because she knows all kind of guys in the Chicago rock scene (intimately...), and even though we had another guy who cancelled on us like fifteen times, she called up Mickey Molinari of the rock band Danger Is My Middle Name and dude dropped everything to get on the show. I'm sure she told him that this was actually a really good idea for his career, and then he showed up and realized that I'm just a dude with a portable studio and decided to stay anyway, which says a lot about him (mostly good).

I guess this is the point where I explain that I've been recording all these Smoothcasts and I haven't been able to actually get them up on the site! Well, now I'm chilling on a comfy couch at my mama's house at a wifi hotspot and decided to put up as many as I could at the same time. The situation is getting better folks! Next month, I'll actually have the internet in my home, if you could even believe it. I know, crazy right?

So, on to the Smoothcast. What do we talk about? Well... <deep breath> schnitzel-karaoke-madeupwords-Carrianne'sdirectingskills-Mickey'sTERRIFYINGdoodoostory-10Qs-Mickey'shighschoollovelife-homeremediesyouprobablyshouldn'ttryathome <whooooooooooo!> And all kind of stuff in between.

Oh, and this happened:

Check out Mickey's stream of consciousness twitterfeed HERE and his fantastic band's website HERE.

Podcasting is fun! Enjoy!

Danger is My Last Name's Middle Name featuring Mickey Molinari of DIMMN