this is TRUCK Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/truck There's something about being in an old car. Is it loud? Yes. Does the AC work? Absolutely not. Are the seatbelts load-bearing? Debatable. But outside the window everything shifts to another place and time. Podcast journalist Alex Vespestad picks up musicians in vintage rides and drives the California coast. They talk career highs, late nights, the stories that've never made it to an interview. And when the conversation reaches an end, they get in the back for a serenade under the open sky. It's a feeling you've known your whole life...you've just never heard it like this. © 2026 Alex Vespestad 5b657b02-b2ad-505f-afb9-112526d30c15 yes Alex Vespestad en Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:54:32 -0700 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:55:13 -0700 http://www.truck.live https://img.transistorcdn.com/qw9RDJ_VD9SEB_tn7Y1YdqGD3FH0GK5TAxL1nyaheWY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNGI2/MmI1MzUwNjFjN2Mx/N2U2YjFhMTRkNjYy/YTM0ZS5wbmc.jpg this is TRUCK http://www.truck.live episodic Alex Vespestad There's something about being in an old car. Is it loud? Yes. Does the AC work? Absolutely not. Are the seatbelts load-bearing? Debatable. But outside the window everything shifts to another place and time. Podcast journalist Alex Vespestad picks up musicians in vintage rides and drives the California coast. They talk career highs, late nights, the stories that've never made it to an interview. And when the conversation reaches an end, they get in the back for a serenade under the open sky. It's a feeling you've known your whole life...you've just never heard it like this. There's something about being in an old car. This is truck, truck, Alex Vespestad, Vespestad, music, music interviews, acoustic, live performance, road trip, vintage cars, confessions, behind the music, California, Los Angeles, untold stories, country, americana, indie, rock, folk Alex Vespestad alex@truck.live No No Arts Fishing Club | Viral Hot Dog Fame, Cursed Tour Vans, & Writing an Album at 30 Below 5 5 Arts Fishing Club | Viral Hot Dog Fame, Cursed Tour Vans, & Writing an Album at 30 Below full 846b85b5-8aa8-4cdd-a0a5-82bbb5528a8f https://share.transistor.fm/s/a68859bf Christopher Kessenich and Jody Lee Oliver hop in the truck. They talk a tour done entirely on foot, a van that knew too many secrets, and an unreleased song about Macho Man Randy Savage that they can't figure out how to record.

At the end of the ride they a brand new song you can't hear anywhere else: “Wait No Longer”

Their latest record —  Pocket Full of Mumbles — releases September 2nd.

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]]> Christopher Kessenich and Jody Lee Oliver hop in the truck. They talk a tour done entirely on foot, a van that knew too many secrets, and an unreleased song about Macho Man Randy Savage that they can't figure out how to record.

At the end of the ride they a brand new song you can't hear anywhere else: “Wait No Longer”

Their latest record —  Pocket Full of Mumbles — releases September 2nd.

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]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:35:00 -0700 Alex Vespestad Alex Vespestad 2335 Christopher Kessenich and Jody Lee Oliver hop in the truck. They talk a tour done entirely on foot, a van that knew too many secrets, and an unreleased song about Macho Man Randy Savage that they can't figure out how to record.

At the end of the ride they a brand new song you can't hear anywhere else: “Wait No Longer”

Their latest record —  Pocket Full of Mumbles — releases September 2nd.

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]]> This is truck, truck, Alex Vespestad, Vespestad, music, music interviews, acoustic, live performance, road trip, vintage cars, confessions, behind the music, California, Los Angeles, untold stories, country, americana, indie, rock, folk No Alex Vespestad Paul Greene | Surviving the Himalayas, Lessons with Fear & Love, and Giving Up Being Right 4 4 Paul Greene | Surviving the Himalayas, Lessons with Fear & Love, and Giving Up Being Right full 7d32a918-5fe0-4e54-9fc6-01f9627c01be https://share.transistor.fm/s/d9b3e3d1 A while back, Paul Greene watched an argument between two people he loves. Neither one was wrong. Nobody was listening. So he made a short film about it, The Rabbit Hole, and wrote the song that runs underneath it.

You might know Paul from five seasons on When Calls the Heart, or seventeen Hallmark Christmas movies, or Carnegie Hall. None of that is the interesting part. Instead we talk about surviving an avalanche in the Himalayas, a decade singing to strangers on the New York subway, how fear makes you rigid, and the lessons he’s learned to overcome it.

At the end of the ride: Pale Blue Dot, live from the truck bed.

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]]> A while back, Paul Greene watched an argument between two people he loves. Neither one was wrong. Nobody was listening. So he made a short film about it, The Rabbit Hole, and wrote the song that runs underneath it.

You might know Paul from five seasons on When Calls the Heart, or seventeen Hallmark Christmas movies, or Carnegie Hall. None of that is the interesting part. Instead we talk about surviving an avalanche in the Himalayas, a decade singing to strangers on the New York subway, how fear makes you rigid, and the lessons he’s learned to overcome it.

At the end of the ride: Pale Blue Dot, live from the truck bed.

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]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:08:26 -0700 Alex Vespestad Alex Vespestad 2470 A while back, Paul Greene watched an argument between two people he loves. Neither one was wrong. Nobody was listening. So he made a short film about it, The Rabbit Hole, and wrote the song that runs underneath it.

You might know Paul from five seasons on When Calls the Heart, or seventeen Hallmark Christmas movies, or Carnegie Hall. None of that is the interesting part. Instead we talk about surviving an avalanche in the Himalayas, a decade singing to strangers on the New York subway, how fear makes you rigid, and the lessons he’s learned to overcome it.

At the end of the ride: Pale Blue Dot, live from the truck bed.

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]]> Paul Greene, TRUCK podcast, TRUCK show, Alex Vespestad, Pale Blue Dot, Rabbit Hole short film, truck bed performance, acoustic performance, live acoustic, unreleased song, music podcast, artist interview, singer songwriter, When Calls the Heart, Carson Shepherd, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark movies, Hallmark Christmas movies, Hallmark actor, Cary Grant of Hallmark, When Calls the Heart cast, Hallmark actor interview, NCIS, The Newsroom, Bitten, Himalayas motorcycle trip, The Highest Pass, Ladakh, avalanche survival, singing on the subway, New York subway musician, gospel music, church drummer, fear and love, giving up your right to be right, model turned actor, Alberta Canada, Long Way Home album, Freedom For Your Soul, Nashville sound, California country, Americana, country music, pedal steel, live album, one take recording, Carnegie Hall, open tuning, Fink, music interview podcast, artists on the road, California coast, vintage truck, serenade, actor musician, faith journey, comeback story, motorcycle adventure No Alex Vespestad Kalie Shorr | One Spot Above Taylor Swift, Why Green Day Plays Casinos, & a song about an 8-Year Situationship 3 3 Kalie Shorr | One Spot Above Taylor Swift, Why Green Day Plays Casinos, & a song about an 8-Year Situationship full 576e7a25-fe0d-4e9e-bc0b-40bea30adf1a https://share.transistor.fm/s/6746dc71 Kalie Shorr made her debut album in a one room studio on no budget and The New York Times ranked it one of the best albums of 2019. She was placed one spot above Taylor Swift. Three months later she rang in the new year on stage with Stevie Nicks in front of 200,000 people. What happened next is the part nobody saw coming... and it involves a referee costume. 

Kalie talks about going viral by telling the truth with no shits given, getting her masters back, producing her own records, and the eight year 'situationship' that walked out of the fog and became a song.

At the end of the ride, she climbs into the truck bed and plays us a brand new one. It's called "Fever Dreaming". Completely unreleased - heard for the first time from the back of this truck bed.

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]]> Kalie Shorr made her debut album in a one room studio on no budget and The New York Times ranked it one of the best albums of 2019. She was placed one spot above Taylor Swift. Three months later she rang in the new year on stage with Stevie Nicks in front of 200,000 people. What happened next is the part nobody saw coming... and it involves a referee costume. 

Kalie talks about going viral by telling the truth with no shits given, getting her masters back, producing her own records, and the eight year 'situationship' that walked out of the fog and became a song.

At the end of the ride, she climbs into the truck bed and plays us a brand new one. It's called "Fever Dreaming". Completely unreleased - heard for the first time from the back of this truck bed.

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]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:01:40 -0700 Alex Vespestad Alex Vespestad 1998 Kalie Shorr made her debut album in a one room studio on no budget and The New York Times ranked it one of the best albums of 2019. She was placed one spot above Taylor Swift. Three months later she rang in the new year on stage with Stevie Nicks in front of 200,000 people. What happened next is the part nobody saw coming... and it involves a referee costume. 

Kalie talks about going viral by telling the truth with no shits given, getting her masters back, producing her own records, and the eight year 'situationship' that walked out of the fog and became a song.

At the end of the ride, she climbs into the truck bed and plays us a brand new one. It's called "Fever Dreaming". Completely unreleased - heard for the first time from the back of this truck bed.

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]]> Kalie Shorr, TRUCK podcast, TRUCK show, Alex Vespestad, Fever Dreaming, truck bed performance, acoustic performance, live acoustic, unreleased song, music podcast, artist interview, Taylor Swift New York Times list, best albums 2019, Open Book album, Stevie Nicks New Years Eve, Nashville New Years Eve, how I got unfamous, viral TikTok series, independent artist, getting masters back, re-recording masters, Fight Like a Girl, music industry interview No Alex Vespestad James Ghareeb | Evacuating a War, When It Rains It Tsunamis, & Songwriting While in Heartbreak 2 2 James Ghareeb | Evacuating a War, When It Rains It Tsunamis, & Songwriting While in Heartbreak full fb4a2faf-cc44-47c1-a956-4f9fdab656f7 https://share.transistor.fm/s/2b11c292 James Ghareeb is a folk songwriter and one of my closest friends. Which means this one goes deep fast. James is in the middle of what he calls wreckage. A breakup he didn't want. A homeland under attack. Family in Beirut he checks on morning and night. You're gonna hear about the summer he was 11, when war broke out in Lebanon, the airport was bombed, and a US military helicopter carried him and one handbag out of the country while most of his family had to stay. And you're gonna hear why he doesn't believe when it rains it pours anymore. 

He plays for us "Time Enough". He texted me the night he wrote it and said it might be the best song he's ever written. 

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]]> James Ghareeb is a folk songwriter and one of my closest friends. Which means this one goes deep fast. James is in the middle of what he calls wreckage. A breakup he didn't want. A homeland under attack. Family in Beirut he checks on morning and night. You're gonna hear about the summer he was 11, when war broke out in Lebanon, the airport was bombed, and a US military helicopter carried him and one handbag out of the country while most of his family had to stay. And you're gonna hear why he doesn't believe when it rains it pours anymore. 

He plays for us "Time Enough". He texted me the night he wrote it and said it might be the best song he's ever written. 

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]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Alex Vespestad Alex Vespestad 1936 James Ghareeb is a folk songwriter and one of my closest friends. Which means this one goes deep fast. James is in the middle of what he calls wreckage. A breakup he didn't want. A homeland under attack. Family in Beirut he checks on morning and night. You're gonna hear about the summer he was 11, when war broke out in Lebanon, the airport was bombed, and a US military helicopter carried him and one handbag out of the country while most of his family had to stay. And you're gonna hear why he doesn't believe when it rains it pours anymore. 

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She goes by DINER. It’s not her real name, but when you have the secrets to the world’s best french toast recipe, it’s a name you deserve. DINER is a hell of a country singer, planting her flag for the genre out here in California, not Nashville, of all places to pursue country. 

You're gonna hear how she’s fighting in a major standoff to win back her own masters. How she ended up on a Stagecoach stage and playing on a literal NASCAR track. And how, somewhere in all that, she figured out how to survive this industry with nobody's hand on her back but her own.

And at the end of the talkin’, in the back of this 1970 Ford, sky wide open, she plays us a song nobody's heard yet. Brand new. Unreleased. Hitting air this summer of 2026. It’s called "Traditional." And trust me. It's about a whole lot more than you think. 

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]]> First guest ever. It took some work (and hours of mechanical repairs) to get here, but dammit did we make it happen. And couldn't be more stoked about this singer. 

She goes by DINER. It’s not her real name, but when you have the secrets to the world’s best french toast recipe, it’s a name you deserve. DINER is a hell of a country singer, planting her flag for the genre out here in California, not Nashville, of all places to pursue country. 

You're gonna hear how she’s fighting in a major standoff to win back her own masters. How she ended up on a Stagecoach stage and playing on a literal NASCAR track. And how, somewhere in all that, she figured out how to survive this industry with nobody's hand on her back but her own.

And at the end of the talkin’, in the back of this 1970 Ford, sky wide open, she plays us a song nobody's heard yet. Brand new. Unreleased. Hitting air this summer of 2026. It’s called "Traditional." And trust me. It's about a whole lot more than you think. 

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]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:39:42 -0700 Alex Vespestad Alex Vespestad 2072 First guest ever. It took some work (and hours of mechanical repairs) to get here, but dammit did we make it happen. And couldn't be more stoked about this singer. 

She goes by DINER. It’s not her real name, but when you have the secrets to the world’s best french toast recipe, it’s a name you deserve. DINER is a hell of a country singer, planting her flag for the genre out here in California, not Nashville, of all places to pursue country. 

You're gonna hear how she’s fighting in a major standoff to win back her own masters. How she ended up on a Stagecoach stage and playing on a literal NASCAR track. And how, somewhere in all that, she figured out how to survive this industry with nobody's hand on her back but her own.

And at the end of the talkin’, in the back of this 1970 Ford, sky wide open, she plays us a song nobody's heard yet. Brand new. Unreleased. Hitting air this summer of 2026. It’s called "Traditional." And trust me. It's about a whole lot more than you think. 

Listen to DINER https://open.spotify.com/artist/7dvHlnKgD5EWy243QylvvC?si=L14YqWsiRpKF37ljZ81laQ

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