Help On The Way Podcast
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Discussing everything Grateful since 2022! A spinoff of the long running Grateful Dead subreddit thread, join your hosts FiG, Game and Knob as they discuss the weekly show, Grateful Dead (and GD adjacent) news, and stay tuned for an extra treat!
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A weekly podcast deadicated to all things grateful. The Help on the Way Podcast is a spin-off of the long running reddit series. Each week our hosts, TheGame, FiG, and Knob listen to Grateful Dead sho...
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Hey Bluesky!
We're Help on the Way! Every week, we listen to a randomized Grateful Dead show and discuss it! We've had guests like Charlie Miller, Betty Cantor-Jackson, Jay Blakesberg, David Gans. We've posted a weekly show since 2022, which you can listen to at
helponthewaypod.podbean.com
We're Help on the Way! Every week, we listen to a randomized Grateful Dead show and discuss it! We've had guests like Charlie Miller, Betty Cantor-Jackson, Jay Blakesberg, David Gans. We've posted a weekly show since 2022, which you can listen to at
helponthewaypod.podbean.com
Thinking about in 1941 when Time Magazine was going to give Person of the Year to Dumbo the elephant, but then Pearl Harbor happened so they scrambled to give it to FDR
December 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thinking about in 1941 when Time Magazine was going to give Person of the Year to Dumbo the elephant, but then Pearl Harbor happened so they scrambled to give it to FDR
Tuned back into the Yule Log and heard the end of a SMOKING Deal. Looked it up, turns out it was the same Deal I was wowed by a week ago when tuning into the Yule Log. Shoutout 3/19/90 Deal, you're awesome
December 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Tuned back into the Yule Log and heard the end of a SMOKING Deal. Looked it up, turns out it was the same Deal I was wowed by a week ago when tuning into the Yule Log. Shoutout 3/19/90 Deal, you're awesome
Guy with an acoustic guitar just BELTING “Black Hole Sun” on the L Train at 1:05 in the morning
December 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Guy with an acoustic guitar just BELTING “Black Hole Sun” on the L Train at 1:05 in the morning
Rewatching Monterey Pop. I just think that The Mamas should’ve gotten to kill The Papas with hammers
December 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Rewatching Monterey Pop. I just think that The Mamas should’ve gotten to kill The Papas with hammers
Incorporating the Grateful Dead into today as much as possible (talked the director of the play I wrote to include Dire Wolf in the pre-show)
December 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Incorporating the Grateful Dead into today as much as possible (talked the director of the play I wrote to include Dire Wolf in the pre-show)
Listening to 3/19/90 on the Grateful Dead Yule Log. This is a nutso good It's All Over Now. Brent vocalizing his solo always a good time
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Listening to 3/19/90 on the Grateful Dead Yule Log. This is a nutso good It's All Over Now. Brent vocalizing his solo always a good time
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i wrote for flaming hydra about my sober-addict relationship to all the drug use in The Last Waltz
flaminghydra.com/issue-454/#t...
flaminghydra.com/issue-454/#t...
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
i wrote for flaming hydra about my sober-addict relationship to all the drug use in The Last Waltz
flaminghydra.com/issue-454/#t...
flaminghydra.com/issue-454/#t...
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Looking at the Spotify 100 as it fills with holiday songs, interesting the number of stone classic Christmas songs that aren't on there/aren't actually that popular (Fairytale of New York, Christmas Wrapping, Christmas in Hollis, 2000 Miles)
December 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Looking at the Spotify 100 as it fills with holiday songs, interesting the number of stone classic Christmas songs that aren't on there/aren't actually that popular (Fairytale of New York, Christmas Wrapping, Christmas in Hollis, 2000 Miles)
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Who's ready to watch couples break up because they can't agree on Spafford?
Who's ready to watch couples break up because they can't agree on Spafford?
'Wooking For Love' Reality Dating Show Based On Denver's Music Festival Scene Seeking Contestants
Calling all wooks: 'Wooking For Love', a new reality dating show centered on Denver's music festival subculture, is now casting contestants.
liveforlivemusic.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Who's ready to watch couples break up because they can't agree on Spafford?
Who's ready to watch couples break up because they can't agree on Spafford?
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This week I wrote about the history of my favorite new old jam band song: Thunder
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Thunder Strikes Twice
The History of "Thunder" by Robert Hunter and Billy Strings
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This week I wrote about the history of my favorite new old jam band song: Thunder
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
This week I wrote about the history of my favorite new old jam band song: Thunder
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
Thunder Strikes Twice
The History of "Thunder" by Robert Hunter and Billy Strings
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This week I wrote about the history of my favorite new old jam band song: Thunder
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
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Went to see Reprise a couple weeks ago. Had a lot of thoughts about them, JRAD, and why we pit cover bands against each other
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Why Is “Cover Band” Such a Dirty Word?
Or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DSO
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November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Went to see Reprise a couple weeks ago. Had a lot of thoughts about them, JRAD, and why we pit cover bands against each other
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
Is Seven Nation Army our last great guitar riff? Can’t really think of a more modern riff to break through into wider culture
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Is Seven Nation Army our last great guitar riff? Can’t really think of a more modern riff to break through into wider culture
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What's the point of holidays that don't have special concerts to go to? What else am I supposed to do with a long weekend? Visit family?
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
What's the point of holidays that don't have special concerts to go to? What else am I supposed to do with a long weekend? Visit family?
Went to see Reprise a couple weeks ago. Had a lot of thoughts about them, JRAD, and why we pit cover bands against each other
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
Why Is “Cover Band” Such a Dirty Word?
Or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DSO
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Went to see Reprise a couple weeks ago. Had a lot of thoughts about them, JRAD, and why we pit cover bands against each other
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...
Phenomenal set 1 from Billy Strings tonight. Will be talking about that All Time Low > Running for a while
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Phenomenal set 1 from Billy Strings tonight. Will be talking about that All Time Low > Running for a while
I like Leaders and I like Planet Caravan, but I gotta say the Leaders > Planet Caravan combo sucked all the energy out of the room
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I like Leaders and I like Planet Caravan, but I gotta say the Leaders > Planet Caravan combo sucked all the energy out of the room
This day four years ago, two of our three cohosts saw Billy Strings for the first time in Philly! Was a killer show all around, was fun to hear Billy play Loser back in his Dead Days
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Billy Strings - Loser - 11.10.21 Fillmore
YouTube video by Borrowed Tune
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November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This day four years ago, two of our three cohosts saw Billy Strings for the first time in Philly! Was a killer show all around, was fun to hear Billy play Loser back in his Dead Days
youtu.be/X82TvGMml7s?...
youtu.be/X82TvGMml7s?...
Who up Reprising their 7/26/97
Fun first set from Reprise. Stash, You Enjoy Myself > Izabella, Cars Trucks Buses, and Limb by Limb especially killed
Fun first set from Reprise. Stash, You Enjoy Myself > Izabella, Cars Trucks Buses, and Limb by Limb especially killed
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Who up Reprising their 7/26/97
Fun first set from Reprise. Stash, You Enjoy Myself > Izabella, Cars Trucks Buses, and Limb by Limb especially killed
Fun first set from Reprise. Stash, You Enjoy Myself > Izabella, Cars Trucks Buses, and Limb by Limb especially killed
Who’s hitting Reprise at the Brooklyn Bowl tn?
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Who’s hitting Reprise at the Brooklyn Bowl tn?
Bar in Penn Station playing the studio Viola Lee Blues??
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Bar in Penn Station playing the studio Viola Lee Blues??
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Those are in fact the only choices
November 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Those are in fact the only choices
A little touch I’ve always loved from Donna is the ending to Ramble on Rose. Always been a sucker for the build up and release on that last “GOODBYE MAMA AND PAPA.” And starting in 77, Donna would start singing a “YEA-A-A-AH.” One of those small touches where the song feels hollower without
November 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A little touch I’ve always loved from Donna is the ending to Ramble on Rose. Always been a sucker for the build up and release on that last “GOODBYE MAMA AND PAPA.” And starting in 77, Donna would start singing a “YEA-A-A-AH.” One of those small touches where the song feels hollower without
Spending the afternoon with The Closing of Winterland
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Spending the afternoon with The Closing of Winterland
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Also I'm proud of the way the deadhead discourse shifted around Donna in the last generation: from a mixed bag with a lot of mean spirited critique and no small amount of overt misogyny, to an overwhelming wave of love and respect. You don't have to love her work but if you disrespect her you're OUT
November 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Also I'm proud of the way the deadhead discourse shifted around Donna in the last generation: from a mixed bag with a lot of mean spirited critique and no small amount of overt misogyny, to an overwhelming wave of love and respect. You don't have to love her work but if you disrespect her you're OUT