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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fred Stonehouse joins me via skype from his home in Milwaukee. We talk Journeyman, Always Yes, Cocaine, Boredom, Primal Behavior, Playing All Day, Freak Shows, Low Brow High art, Stink of History, Hybrids, This is not a pipe, and The joy of portraiture

Johnny KMNDZ Rodriguez joins me from his studio in Burbank,Ca. We talk Commands, Reality Answers, Show Postpartem, Dissatisfaction, Taking Due Credit, LA, Pranksterisms, Family, Good Parenting, Jiu Jitsu, Personality, Knowing How To Heal, I'd Rather Love You, and Compliments.

Christian Rex Van Minnen joins us via skype from his studio in New York. We talk Dutch Names, Leading a Congregation Tribalism, Jiu Jitsu, Elephantitis, Empathy, Under The Skin, Ophillia, Child Artists, Birthday at The MET, Robischon Gallery, The Tricks of Reality, Misinterpretation, Hitching The Cart, and Tattoos.