Live Free Podcast With Mike Maxwell

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.

Andrew Hem joins me via skype from his studio in Los Angeles,Ca. We talk Comic Con, HR Giger, Cambodian Genocide, Disconnect from History, Immigration, Landscapes and Portraits,Fake Rules, Andre, Figure Drawing, Thomas Kincaid, Doodling, Plain Air, Hippness, Murals, and Crying At Art Shows.

Celeste Byers joins me via skype from her studio in Ocean Beach,Ca. We talk Speechism, Downhill Skateboarding, Makers Quarter, Social Media Friends, Staying Young on The Inside, Unsolvable Puzzles, Neo Hippy Movement, The Bias of titles, Farm living, Backseat Designers, and Anti Aging

Beau Roulette joins me via skype from his studio in Los Angeles. We talk Gassing Your Torch, Dueling Dabs, Venture Capitalists, Sharing Ideas, Toys, Empire 7 Studios, Risking Failure, Creeptographers, Open Relationships, Art Historian Mistakes, Wedding Photos, Black 13, and Periscope.

Bwana Spoons joins me via skype from his studio in Portland,OR. We talk Technical Difficulties, Grass Hut, Moving To The Work, Forced Independence, Toy Art, Japanese Monsters, Never Playing Drums, Dumb 20 year olds, Comic Con, Dinosaurs, Male Pattern Baldness and Hummingbirds.

Martin Wittfooth joins me via skype from his studio in Upstate NY for a two part episode. Pt.2 We talk Mocking Ideology, Team Tribalism., Critique of The Oppressed, The Need For a Viewer, Man vs Nature, Apes on Mushrooms, Last Breath, Helping as Harming, and Getting Elevated.

Martin Wittfooth joins me via skype from his studio in Upstate NY for a two part episode. Pt.1 We talk Foot Wit, Themes, Kings and Queens, Mavericks, Upstate Balance, Stoned Apes, Outrage Culture, Ayahuasca, and Sam Harris.

Porous Walker joins me via skype from his studio in Napa Valley. We talk Super Man Underwear, French Fries, Playwrites, Dance Parties, Burnt Rope Smoke, Birds and Bees, The Coppola Clan, Dirty Coloring Book Phase, Jerry Saltz, Daniel Rolnik Gallery, Twitter War, Anno Domini Gallery, Pants Off, and Dick Kimonos.

Van Arno joins me via skype from his studio in LA. We talk Private School, Christian Science, Growing Legs, Otis in The 80's, Illustration Golden Hour, No Rules, Making Saints, Roots, Solo Shows, The Formula, Eric White, and Po Show.

Dave McDowell joins me via skype from his studio in LA. We talk New Perspectives, Curious George At The Museum, Shower Art, No More Buttholes, Everyone's Agenda, Main Vein of American Vanity, Taste Makers, Slime Trails, Society Getting OFf, Digging Up The Ocean, Being Nice, and Shit Cake.

Steve Caballero joins me via skype from his home in Carlsbad. We talk La Bodega, San Jose, Skateboarding, BMX, C.H.iP.s, Evil Knievel, Collaboration, Creative Symbiosis, Taking The Call, Longevity of Health and Career, Patience, Nothing Really Matters, and Half Cabs.