Explore every episode of the podcast A Prairie Punk House Companion
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| EP16- To All the Dead Homies | 14 Sep 2024 | 01:15:00 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear pay tribute to some in the scene and friends of the scene who have died, including Jason, a Manhattan, Kansas, punk who was supposed to be the guest this week, but passed just a few days before recording. This is a sad one, so pour out a 40 oz if you have one on hand. TRIGGER WARNING: There are mentions of murder, self harm and suicide in this episode. If you feel that you might need help to not self-harm, please call 988, the suicide help line. | |||
| EP15- Top Five Punk Bands: Neck and Jer Talk Music | 31 Aug 2024 | 01:35:20 | |
In this episode Neckbone and Jerbear go over their top five punk bands, why they are their top five punk bands and personal anecdotes about them. Even though these lists are fluid, this is where they landed this week. The scientifically calculated greatest punk band of all time will shock you! Or maybe it won't. You can find the bands discussed in the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/29aniegcKEOhsiNJZtyt9K?si=YxCILXUjTwe-fO-oC1oWPA&pi=4xBkLFjSREu_a Or on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd4zIWXzNzUq4sqdmsmNGz8VtCni-SA7l | |||
| EP6- Filling the Kansas City Gaps; an Interview With Sarah About the KC Scene | 27 Apr 2024 | 00:50:51 | |
In this episode Neckbone and Jerbear interview Kansas City scene legend Sarah. Sarah offers a new perspective on the scene and receives an overdue apology from Jerbear for the poster destruction controversy (Is that an overly dramatic way to phrase that? Yes, but we try to get as much clickbait as possible in these descriptions). | |||
| EP5- It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Kansas City | 13 Apr 2024 | 01:45:59 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk about moving on to Kansas City and leaving Wichita behind. | |||
| EP4- Filling the Wichita Gaps; an Interview With Ronbert About Kansas Street | 30 Mar 2024 | 00:53:40 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk with Kansas Street legend, Ronbert, the Rube Goldberg of destruction. This is the last Wichita episode, next stop Kansas City! | |||
| EP3- "The Houses of Wichita" or "How I Learned to Love Living in Punk Houses" | 16 Mar 2024 | 01:12:48 | |
In this episode, Neckbone and Jerbear talk about the Wichita, Kan. houses. OK, so they really were more apartments than houses, but they were still chaos. Visit us at www.prairiepunkpress.com | |||
| EP2- The Long Messy Journey to Punk | 10 Mar 2024 | 01:00:58 | |
In this episode, Neckbone and Jerbear talk about their personal and messy journeys to punk, through phases of heavy metal and alternative in the 80's and 90's. Visit us at www.prairiepunkpress.com | |||
| EP1- "Defining" Punk and What it Means to Us (or attempting to) | 02 Mar 2024 | 01:01:05 | |
In this episode, Neckbone and Jerbear talk about what punk means to them, and what can be defined as punk (in their humble opinions). Visit us at www.prairiepunkpress.com | |||
| EP0- Introduction | 02 Mar 2024 | 00:03:46 | |
This is a mini introduction to the podcast. Visit us at www.prairiepunkpress.com | |||
| EP14- Non-sequiturs with Joe: Talkin' Flanders House and Central House 2 | 17 Aug 2024 | 01:12:29 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear make sure to start and stop this one with comments so random, you'll never see them coming! On this episode, Joe stops by the (virtual) studio to talk about the finer points of living in not one, but two houses with no functional toilet, house shows and surprise roommates. Don't forget to monitor everyone's porn use while you listen to three guys in their 40's try to remember stuff. | |||
| EP13- Cults, Movie Productions and Failed Attempts at Sobriety | 03 Aug 2024 | 01:10:29 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk about their divergent paths in both Wichita and Kansas City. Jerbear tries to get sober in Wichita while Neckbone fulfills his Clerks fantasy by working at an independent video store. Neckbone also talks about the time he almost joined a cult and also the time he got to work with Mike Patton and Karen Black on a movie (sort of)! | |||
| EP12- End of an era: Goodbye to Lawrence and the Annex | 20 Jul 2024 | 01:14:37 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk about the end of the Annex and their separate paths leaving Lawrence, Jerbear to Wichita to get sober and Neckbone back to Kansas City to continue the debauchery. More Rainbow Dungeon of Rock and the beginning of the Central House 2 era. | |||
| EP11- Pirates, Rainbows, Batteries and Killed in the Face! | 06 Jul 2024 | 01:02:14 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk to Mike about the Pirate House, the Rainbow Dungeon of Rock, Killed in the Face and batteries thrown in Olathe, Kan. | |||
| EP10- Lawrence a Go-Go: More tales of the legendary college town | 22 Jun 2024 | 01:04:31 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear become roommates again, this time in Lawrence, Kan. The end of STL, Lawrence drive-by shooting and September 11, 2001. | |||
| EP9- Little Johnny fills some gaps: Flanders House, Pirate House and Lawrence in general | 08 Jun 2024 | 01:49:48 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk with Little Johnny to fill some gaps about Lawrence, Kan. We talk random shows, the Flanders House, the Pirate House, the Haunted Kitchen, Rainbow Dungeon of Rock and mysterious cigarette butts! | |||
| EP8- Kansas City Chaos: Neckbone and Jerbear leave KC behind and head to Lawrence and STL | 25 May 2024 | 01:07:38 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear bid farewell to the Kansas City era and find greener pastures in Lawrence and St. Louis. Crime, booze, squatters and the welcoming of the first Central House kids to Boston Apartments! | |||
| EP7- Less Talk, More Spock; Neckbone and Jerbear Get Off-Topic | 11 May 2024 | 01:19:51 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear keep it a-political. Politics have no place in punk so we keep it light. I promise there is nothing political in this episode, trust me, this is not sarcastic. In this episode we talk about everything from what is going on right now in the news to Buffy and Passions. Despite the title, Star Trek is only mentioned once (by Neckbone), but we needed it to rhyme and pay homage to Propagandhi, so there you go. | |||
| EP36- Rednex Revolt Now! Talkin' with our Wichita Redneck Punk Homie | 21 Jun 2025 | 01:25:57 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear interview Wichita a redneck punk legend! Politics, music and hunting. Redneck leftism is a thing, get hip to it. Also, thanks to Nicole from Ad Astra Comix for our new logo. Check her stuff out here! | |||
| EP35- Talkin' Toxic Masculinity in Punk (and in General) | 07 Jun 2025 | 01:05:24 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk toxic masculinity in punk and in general. Have you ever been curious about the unbelievably dull white reggae singer Abba Alabanza? Or host of the Whatever podcast, POS Andrew Wilson? Well they suck, but we talk about them too! Check out Katiclyzm's video about Andrew Wilson here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ghZ2CKkkA&t=120s | |||
| EP26- Total Chaos (not the band): Happy Kansas Day & Random Smack Talk | 01 Feb 2025 | 00:45:44 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear break their promise and talk politics in this very short episode. Kansas makes some terrible laws on Kansas Day and Neck and Jer talk smack on Trump appointees while proposing replacing all Confederate statues with statues of cast members of Star Trek: The Next Generation which lasted nearly twice as long as a the Confederacy. Look it up. | |||
| EP25- A Prairie Poseur Companion: Non-Punk Music we Love | 18 Jan 2025 | 01:34:07 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk about non-punk music they like. Everything from Hip Hop, Indie, Metal and even some Country. They even find time to talk smack on Glenn Danzig. Does that make them poseurs? Probably. But so are you. Check out the playlists here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1rZtur28emm3CqurgpL5dQ?si=8PThU4EJQraYPpzb0LCDBw https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4PgCglT206A9QdPOAe5FiH?si=Zto-htEjRNOVMmv115Dtog&pi=EeDcu6DaQU650 Best Danzig video ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urtVBtgwuHc | |||
| EP24- The Kids Aren't Alright: Why Does Gen Z Think Conservatives are Based? | 04 Jan 2025 | 01:14:14 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear embrace their old man yelling at cloud moments while they ponder why Gen Z men are starting to shift conservative and why so many people think conservative is the new punk. SPOILER: It isn't. So settle in, make a nice cup of tea and enjoy two Gen Xers with seasonal flu complain about the kids, billionaires and The Young Turks. Also, delete your Twitter! | |||
| EP23- Our Dinner with Laszlo: We Interview KCMO Scene Legend Laszlo | 21 Dec 2024 | 01:33:53 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear interview Laszlo, who was active in the KCMO scene, Food Not Bombs, and booked legendary shows in Lawrence and Kansas City. We don't actually have any dinner with Laszlo, but just wanted to make a "My Dinner With Andre" reference for no real reason. We actually just talk about shows and music in this one, we don't get overly political! For real, we don't! | |||
| EP22- Gatekeeping in Punk, UnitedHealthcare and Thanksgiving, Oh My! | 07 Dec 2024 | 01:37:03 | |
In this episode Neckbone and Jerbear talk about gatekeeping stories that happened to them, that they were the perpetrators of and when it's OK to gate keep. They also discuss the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, and dealing with conservative family members at Thanksgiving. Also delete your X (Twitter), Elon Musk sucks. You can read the Shout article here: https://www.shoutwichita.com/a-prairie-punk-house-companion/ | |||
| EP21- Best and Worst Punk Jobs & Delete X (Twitter) | 23 Nov 2024 | 01:32:51 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear keep it light in this episode, just talkin' about some of the best and worst minimum wage and working class jobs they had in Wichita, Lawrence and Kansas City. This episode refuses to talk about politics, just good clean fun talking about what the punkest jobs are....no but seriously it descends into talking about class war while talking smack on capitalism and billionaires. | |||
| EP20- Trump Won, Now What? We Have All the Answers (Maybe) | 09 Nov 2024 | 01:09:04 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear discuss avenues forward, what a second Donald Trump presidency could mean, how to prepare for potential hardships, organizations you can join and a little bit of smack talk on the clown Elon Musk. | |||
| EP19- An Interview with Comic Book Artist and Pirate House Veteran Nicole of Ad Astra Comix | 26 Oct 2024 | 01:26:39 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear interview Ad Astra Comix creator and Pirate House veteran Nicole about her time in the Lawrence punk scene, the Pirate House and life in the Maple Leaf state (Canada). Check out Ad Astra Comix here: https://adastracomix.com/ | |||
| EP18- An Interview with Film Director Patrick Clement AKA Seabold Krebs | 12 Oct 2024 | 01:22:05 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear interview Wichita based film director Patrick Clement AKA Seabold Krebs about his work, sobriety, homelessness and the punk scene in his native Boston. That's right, someone moved from Boston to Wichita....on purpose! You've got to hear it to believe it. For more info about this legendary punk rock film director, visit his IMDB page here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2718960/ | |||
| EP17- Can you Separate the Art from the Artist? The Answer Won't Shock You | 28 Sep 2024 | 01:16:20 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear discuss whether you can still appreciate music, movies and TV shows made by awful people. Where is the line? You won't really find out here, but it's still fun to listen to us struggle to figure out if we can! | |||
| EP34- Backdoor Pilot: Neck and Jer Talk Mental Health Horizontal Style | 24 May 2025 | 00:59:05 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk about modern mental health issues while also veering way off topic as usual, speaking about higher education. Wanna get a degree? Wanna pay nothing!? Get a degree for free in just a few seconds today! https://thunderwoodcollege.com/ | |||
| EP33- Interview with Chris, Who May or May Not Have Been a Member of Killed in the Face! | 10 May 2025 | 01:20:32 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear interview potential Killed in the Face member and confirmed Flanders House resident, Chris! Was Jerbear a getaway driver, or just an innocent bystander? Listen to maybe find out. | |||
| EP32- Interview with Matt from the Wichita Based Bands Ricky Fitts, Powerlifter and Milkwave | 26 Apr 2025 | 01:30:15 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear interview Matt from Milkwave (currently) and Ricky Fitts and Powerlifter (previously). They talk venues, music and the finer points of integrating pro wrestling and Game Boy into your music. Check out Milkwave here: https://milkwave.bandcamp.com/ | |||
| EP31- Interview with Alex from Legendary Wichita Based Ska Band O'Phil | 12 Apr 2025 | 01:26:16 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear interview Alex from the ska band O'Phil, a staple of the Wichita scene. O'Phil dominated the 90's scene in Wichita, both playing and booking shows at all the major venues. In this episode they also decide who is more punk, Michael Jordan or George Brett. The answer won't shock you! | |||
| EP30- What is Happening and Why the Frack am I so Angry? | 29 Mar 2025 | 01:34:49 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear once again fail to live up to their promise to not talk politics and end up talking smack on both Republicans and Democrats. They also announce their new YouTube channel Horizontal W/Neck & Jer. Head over to our YouTube channel to start seeing more videos. | |||
| EP29- An Interview with Ian from Wichita Based Skate Punk Band Hey Radio | 15 Mar 2025 | 01:21:56 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk music, venues, skinheads and Buffy with Ian from Hey Radio, a Wichita based skate punk band. Check out the Hey Radio Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/heyradioband | |||
| EP28- Much Ado About Filmmaking: Our Additional Interview with DIY Filmmaker Mark Covino | 01 Mar 2025 | 00:51:26 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear interview A Band Called Death and The Crest film director Mark Covino and talk about the ins and outs of independent, DIY film production, The cruelty of the industry won't surprise you! Also it is the one year anniversary of A Prairie Punk House Companion! We'll keep going as long as we can, but we hope it is for many more years. The Crest is available on Tubi here: https://tubitv.com/movies/498306/the-crest A Band Called Death is only available on DVD or Blu-Ray here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ABCDmerch Or can be watched on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbY9TeyC3JE&t=4s | |||
| EP27- Embarrassing Punk Tales: Drunk (and Sober) Tales of Woe | 15 Feb 2025 | 01:11:30 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear will regale you with their most embarrassing punk tales. Some from just being drunk, some from just being dumb. Some are a combination of the two. Parappa the Rapper is awesome and Elon Musk sucks. Delete X (Twitter). | |||
| EP37- Neck and Jer Interview Gina from Wichita Hardcore Legends, Hardcore Mothaf**kas! | 05 Jul 2025 | 01:08:40 | |
For all you hardcore fans out there, Neck and Jer interview Gina from 90's Wichita hardcore legends the Hardcore Mothaf**kas! | |||
| EP54- PART 1-@MsEntropy Stops by to Talk Politics | 28 Feb 2026 | 01:14:07 | |
PART 1 of 2-Neck and Jer talk to their Wichita punk scene friend and extremist expert Amanda, also known as @MsEntropy, about politics, white supremacy, and the Islamic State. You know, keeping it light! | |||
| EP53- Album Reviews: Blatz/Filth Split | 14 Feb 2026 | 00:48:48 | |
Neck and Jer review the Shit Split, Blatz/Filth. Another episode of a punk rock podcast that actually talks about punk rock! Also, check out the Joplin, MO band Gravehuffer and Wichita band Verruckt before you go see them live with Sabot Cat! Gravehuffer: https://linktr.ee/Gravehuffer Verruckt: https://verruckt123.bandcamp.com/album/the-problem-at-hand | |||
| EP44- The Modern Wichita Scene w/ Scene Local Kevin & Caden From the Band Verruckt | 11 Oct 2025 | 01:30:20 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk to Wichita locals Kevin and Caden from the bands Verruckt and Clawed Out. | |||
| EP43- Take Two! Talking Recent Events | 27 Sep 2025 | 01:19:03 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear talk about recent events in the U.S. We promise we'll have a guest next time! | |||
| EP42- Fostering Working Class Solidarity (with constant non sequiturs) | 13 Sep 2025 | 01:46:14 | |
Neck and Jer talk about the working class, exploitation of the working class and modern struggles of families. Oh and also traffic and chuds. | |||
| EP41- Invasion Chicago: Getting Political Again | 30 Aug 2025 | 01:33:49 | |
Neck and Jer talk about the invasion of American cities and the next cities on the list. Wanna know what you can do? We certainly don't have all the answers, but we might have some! | |||
| EP40- Interview with LA Punk Scene Veteran Ryan Love | 16 Aug 2025 | 01:36:14 | |
Neck and Jer interview Instagram reeler and LA punk scene veteran Ryan Love. Check out his page here: https://www.instagram.com/therealryanlove/ | |||
| EP39- Smack Talk Special: Bill Maher Sucks, Richard Dawkins Sucks, Jubilee Sucks | 02 Aug 2025 | 01:04:06 | |
Neck and Jer talk smack on various things and people. They also talk about the new Superman movie, which Neckbone only saw because fascists hate it. Oh yeah, and the IDF sucks. | |||
| EP38- Nothing but Nonsense! Neck and Jer 100% Off-Topic | 19 Jul 2025 | 01:07:34 | |
A REAL show about nothing (take that Jerry Seinfeld!) Neck and Jer switch topics so much on this one, it was hard to come up with a name for this episode! Also, support Ad Astra Comix if you can! | |||
| EP52- The World is Watching | 31 Jan 2026 | 00:58:12 | |
Neckbone and Jerbear can't resist politics! In this short episode they talk about Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Greg Cow (Bovino) and shoutout to our homies in Minnesota (Little Johnny)! Stay warm, stay safe. The world is watching. | |||
| EP51- Album Reviews: Crass and Propagandhi | 17 Jan 2026 | 01:24:47 | |
Neck and Jer review the Crass album, Feeding of the 5000, and the Propagandhi album, Less Talk, More Rock. An episode of a punk rock podcast that actually talks about punk rock! Crass-Feeding of the 5000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XlJfwtoz0U Propagandhi-Less Talk, More Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q_dPygKDuY Habak: https://share.google/7wQKKT1rMwHhEeaPI Lagrimas: https://share.google/VkdDXbOIr9uHw3Xj0 | |||
| EP50- Shades of Clip Show: Thankfully not a Clip Show | 03 Jan 2026 | 01:26:20 | |
Neck and Jer talk about fears and hopes for 2026, presidential health, sofa enthusiast J.D. Vance and holding Dem Soc feet to the fire. Let's make 2026 a great year and primary those Blue Dogs! Star Wars S*x Line (Satire) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q-hV8rKQw4 60 Minutes CECOT Story via The Mayday Network YouTube Channel (actual 60 Minutes segment 4:47-15:15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E4kZkaXPcY Bill Clinton SNL 90's Sketch: | |||