IN DEEP With Dan 05: Renaissance Man, Guitarist, Blacksmith, and Disaster Prepared Chris Koterba visits the show to talk about Zombie Squad, Music, and Life

IN DEEP With Dan Podcast

I met Chris Koterba at The Steaming Cup cafe (Waukesha, WI) a good 10 years ago, because he was noodling something fierce, on his guitar, and I was probably drunk and yelling "Wooooo!". This talk was just two guys having a conversation about whatever came up. Chris and Dan probably had never said more than a couple sentences to each other, ever. They made up for it this time, for sure. This is why this is the first of a two-parter, with the second part to be aired at an undisclosed time, in an undisclosed bunker, in the dystopian future. There was simply too much fun chatting to contain within a single show.

Chris sees the “obvious horizon, off in the distance” (mortality), but until then, he’s livin’ this life.

Topics include marrying at this age. Women get questions about “When are you having kids?” far more often and adamantly than men.

Discussion of kids as a species.

Discussion of Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder. Dan told Chris about Eddie’s Ukulele albumn. Check out this sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W0B-1iF6S4

Chris said when working with mechanics one cannot show weakness, or they will ceaselessly play a tune that bothers one...ad nauseum.

Dan thinks “Grace Under Pressure”, by RUSH, may be more well known than “Amazing Grace”. Probably not.

Chris belongs to Zombie Squad, an emergency preparedness group, started out of St. Louis.

Watch “Dead Snow”. Zombie Squad is a mentioned org in the Dead Snow sequel.DS is a Norwegian film. Chris talks about how the dead Nazi army (localized, one battalion) is coming for their booty. Uh-oh!

Dan mentioned Gale Anne Hurd (Producer extraordinaire) having been on WTF (podcast) and talking about how the CDC contacted her (related to The Walking Dead) asking for her participation in helping the public with disaster preparedness. For more information see WTF episode 954 and the CDC’s site, https://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombie/index.htm .

It turns out he wasn’t playing “Pong” during the interview.

Influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Brian Setzer. Was in “440 Hum” and also “50 Breaks”. Went punk.

Blacksmithing, hand injured. Better now.

Podcasting - He engineers ‘Plot Points’ show.

Henry Rollins came up. Chris loves him, and Dan wants more Rollins. Chris suggests “Henry & Holly” podcast. Rollins has also been on “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Comedian Bert Kreischer was mentioned, also as having been on Joe Rogan’s show. Chris suggests Bert as someone to check out too. Great. Just when all my shows are back from hiatus...now I have more content to consume. Well then, I’d best get to it….