Set Lusting Bruce: The Bruce Springsteen Fan Podcast

Terry Moore @Terrymooreart writes and draws stories about interesting people. He joined Jesse for a short visit (Jesse had to cut the talk short due to flat time emergency). He talks about his characters, his cousin who inspired him and why he explores different genres in his storytelling. Find his stories here https://abstractstudiocomics.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A collection of messages from listeners and fellow podcasters congratulating the podcast hitting 1000 episodes! Please send feedback to [email protected], go to our Patreon to support the show https://www.patreon.com/setlustingbruce Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest episode featuring voice mails from listeners sharing their thoughts about the latest Bruce Springsteen shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are down to the sweet 16, tough choices are made and one song becomes your champion. You might be surprised. Joining Jesse @jessejacksondfw is Steve @stevepryorGPISD, Chris @flickris, Jaclyn @jaclynnjohnston, Henrik @joe_roberts, Darrin @dfos42, Timothy @LVMtgConcierge and Rachel @rachel_berc After you listen to the episode, go here to see the journey. Disagree? Send feedback to [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our Bruce Springsteen Song Tournament. We go from 128 songs down to the Sweet 16. Joining Jesse @jessejacksondfw is Steve @stevepryorGPISD, Chris @flickris, Jaclyn @jaclynnjohnston, Henrik @joe_roberts, Darrin @dfos42, Timothy @LVMtgConcierge and Rachel @rachel_berc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In honor of Set Lusting Bruce hitting 1000 episodes, several of my online friends joined Jesse to go from 256 songs down to one! In this first of three episodes, we go from 256 songs to 128 songs. Joining Jesse is .. Rachel, Steve, Chris, Timothy, Henrik, Steve, and Darrin. Come back tomorrow for part 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Set Lusting Bruce hits 1000 episodes, Jesse is joined by Peter Ames Carlin @peteramescarlin. Peter is a writer and the author of several books, including HOMEWARD BOUND: THE LIFE OF PAUL SIMON, published in October, 2016 and BRUCE, a biography of Bruce Springsteen published in October, 2012. They discuss his writing, his fandom and his plans for future books. https://www.peteramescarlin.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we start the celebration of the Podcast hitting 1,000 episodes. The Creator & CEO at Pantheon Media Christian Swain joins Jesse to welcome the podcast to the Pantheon Media Network. The explore Chris' background and discuss the mission statement of the network, preaching the gospel of music. http://pantheonpodcasts.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the young man thinking that shows up on the cover of the album Darkness on the Edge of Town, Here is Timothy Hoffman opinion. If you want to share your thoughts or do a Springsteen minute, reach out to me at [email protected] Cover art of Darkness done by Frank Stefanko Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yedda @yeddinha is a passionate Springsteen fan who shares her story with Jesse @jessejacksonDFW. Growing up in Brazil, seeing the political state in her home country, coming to American, finding CD stores and making her way in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig Colby joins Jesse to discuss his opinion of the story that Bruce is telling his audience with the song selections in this current tour. Some fans say static, others say consistent story telling. Let us know what you think by sending thoughts to [email protected] or leave a voice mail at 469-249-2442 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake joins Jesse in what hopefully will be a series of episodes where he and a guest define their Springsteen fandom by picking 5 lyrics from Springsteen songs. What 5 lyrics would you pick? Send your feedback to [email protected], find us on twitter at @setlustingbruce Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John grew up in West Texas and has been a fan of Bruce since he heard Born to Run on the radio. He joins Jesse today to talk about his Bruce Journey. https://imbalancedhistory.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the other podcasts I do is a pop culture review show with Lou @LouWSytsma and Karen @aleveria. Each week, we are watching Babylon 5 in chronological order and discussing them. We also take turns picking other movies, books or series to review. It was my turn so I picked Bruce's Western Star movie to help celebrate the podcast hitting 1000 episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Shannon @kevins2u loves Bruce Springsteen and U2. He joins Jesse @jessejacksonDFW in today's episode talking live shows, his musical fandom and how a few years ago during The River Anniversary Tour his musical fandom came full circle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Dempsey @mkd1973 joins me fresh from his business trip to the US, shares stories of attending 3 shows and getting to break bread with me and some of my friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A short bonus episode where we catch up and talk about plans for April. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig Colby returns to the podcast to catch up on all things Springsteen and the tour. Craig had written a wonderful column named "YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME. HOW BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ALIENATED HIS MOST RABID FANS AND WHY THAT’S A GOOD THING." https://www.colbyvision.net/theswissaccount/2023/2/14/youre-not-the-boss-of-me-how-bruce-springsteen-alienated-his-most-rabid-fans-and-why-thats-a-good-thing We discuss this and other fun topics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan McInerney, one of the hosts of my newest podcast obsession, The Story Song Podcast @story_Song joined Jesse @jessejacksondfw a few weeks ago looking very dapper in his apricot scarf. (A reference to the song Your So Vain). Jesse and Dan share stories about podcasting, his early obsession with song lyrics and if they are ever going to cover a Bruce Springsteen song on the podcast. https://thestorysongpodcast.wordpress.com/ The Story Song Podcast is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network @pantheonpods Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A few fans call in sharing their quick thoughts about stops during this leg of the E Street Band world wide tour! Let your voice be heard, call - 469-249-2442 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A GRAMMY Award-winning music historian, producer, and educator, Santelli was the Founding Executive Director of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles and the author of more than a dozen books on American music, including the New York Times best-seller, Greetings from Asbury Park: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. In our countdown to our 1,000 episode, here is Jesse's discussion with Bob. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If death awaits all adventurers, then the salvation of resurrection is always the hope. But what about the waiting period? Stuck in the afterlife awaiting a cleric's blessing to return you from a critical failure–how do you bide your time? The composer of the soundtrack of a new Table Top Game - The Black Ballad, Drake Mefestta joins me for a great conversation about music, storytelling and gaming. Learn more about the game and the campaign here - Here is the trailer for the Black Ballad if you want to check it out. https://youtu.be/qMl18HCc_FI Please use this link for people to go to the Black Ballad Backerkit. https://www.backerkit.com/c/storytellers-forge-studios/the-black-ballad?ref=Southgate Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/diamorteofficial/ Tag: @diamorte Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/diamortemusic?lang=en Tag: @diamortemusic nstagram Link: https://www.instagram.com/diamorteofficial/ Tag: @diamorteofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEd-rWsj3ossTkuyyK7Gtgg Website: www.diamorte.com LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/diamorte Email: [email protected] Other Social Media Links: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/6509596 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Russ Burlingame @russburlingame returns to the podcast to talk about the latest Springsteen tour and his plans to attend at least one show. We talk about the set list and his expectations. We also talk about his new Kickstarter. He is writing a new Book - Time to Be Heroes: A Totally Unofficial Oral History of DC Legends of Tomorrow. Legends of Tomorrow is one of the best CW Super-Hero shows and Russ has already tons of interviews recorded and is planning to get more. Please go to the link and check out the kickstarter. www.theworstchris.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie Myers & Stephanie Pena host the wonderful Stephanie & Stephanie Talk Tunes podcast part of the Pantheon Family of Podcasts. Stephanie and Stephanie met in college and bonded over velvet pants and a love of music. They share stories about Austin, New York and podcasting. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stephanie-stephanie-talk-tunes/id1561009536 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you host a podcast and need a promo, I'd love for you to share my latest promo for the podcast. If you have a promo for your podcast, let me know so I can help promote your podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amy Scruggs @amyscruggssd is a nationally known country music artist, a successful sales and media coach, the mother of 4 and a former TV host. She joins Jesse to talk about her passions, her latest album and green M&M's. Find out more about her music here - https://www.amyscruggsmusic.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zack Morrison @zackmorrison18 is a comedy writer and filmmaker from New Jersey, currently living in Los Angeles. He is the writer and director of Everything's Fine: A Panic Attack in D Major, a 2019 Television Academy student Emmy winner. He joins Jesse to talk about his film making and his Springsteen fandom. Check out his work at https://www.zackmorrison.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A few voice mails from fans talking about the first few shows of the current Springsteen tour. Let you voice be heard - call 469-249-2442 Photo by Alec Solomita Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike @mikecagley is a fellow DFW resident and in today's episode we get very Sportsy. We do talk a little music but we spend a great deal talking about covering Sports, his podcast and radio show and heaven help us the Dallas Cowboys. https://illiniguys.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We wrap up February and talk about the podcast plans for March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erik Lin @MusingsForest joins Jesse on the podcast to discuss their thoughts on Bruce’s music and Springsteen’s influence on his creativity. They thinks that Bruce’s relationship with nonwhite audiences is a nuanced, tricky and important topic. As a child of Taiwanese parents and a native New Jersians ,Erik had diverse influences growing up. Please check out Erik’s You Tube Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGY71Ml4zRE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Mahony @MahoneyReturns has played in a few bands, in Mahoney & The Moment with my wife who is from New York and we play Folk: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3CYHwXYkHNSY2yn9IMjLDG… and The Milkshakes a very E Street style band that play Rock & Roll: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0CcMVf1ffagHQkNabCAbh8… He also does a monthly comedy podcast interviewing other grass roots artists called A Bev with Stev: https://pod.link/1165101919 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Mensch has a long and successful career as a TV Documentarian. His newest career is writing best selling histories that read like novels with his fellow writer Brad Meltzer. Their last book is The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, And Churchill. We discuss their writing styles and get into his love of music including Bruce's early albums. The book can be fournd here - https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Conspiracy-Secret-Roosevelt-Churchill/dp/1250777267 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A self proclaimed "Old School" Springsteen fan takes over the Set Lusting Bruce Channel and shares his thoughts on the Austin Set List. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Markham @byAlexmarkham joins me from Valencia Spain to tak about his writing and his Springsteen fandom. Check out his writing at https://byalexmarkham.medium.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stefan Stevenson @StefanVersusTex Is a Former reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for 25 years and he continues to Freelance. He covered the Dallas stop of the new tour, here https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/article272399133.html?taid=63e79159be05cf00017811d2&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source= We have a great talk about a wide variety of subjects. We recorded this a few weeks before the Dallas show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bruce Springsteen and a short handed E Street Band played the American Airline's Center in Dallas Texas on Feb 10, 2023. They were missing Steve, Soozie and Patti. The band worked extra hard knowing that they were a little light in the line up. Here is my thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Randy Andrews loves to make people laugh. He uses his skills to motivate, entertain and to inspire. He has a new podcast where he uses music to explore his guest's life. Find it here https://open.spotify.com/show/17FAGWMxBPLKRdNK5biKry?si=e0539bd6033245ae Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jen had reached out to the Spring-Nuts group sharing the story behind the Say Hi to Max book, after talking to Max's family, I knew I needed to hear Jen's story as well. She shares her long time Springsteen fandom and stories from shows and her favorite songs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A few voices mails from fans sharing their thoughts on the opening night of the 2023 tour. You can leave your thoughts by calling ‪(469) 249-2442‬ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all wanted to be where the Bands were last night. It sounds like the fans in Tampa were treated to a great show (duh!). Here is my thoughts on the set list. If you want to be spoiler free of what might get played during upcoming stops on the tour, please skip this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Luis Viera @CouncilmanViera is the Tampa City Councilman for District 7. He wrote a guest editorial in the local Tampa paper talking about why Bruce Springsteen matters and who him touring again is a big deal. The Councilman joins me to talk about his love Bruce's music and how Born in the USA speaks to him as a Cuban American. https://www.cltampa.com/music/ahead-of-bruce-springsteens-tour-launch-in-tampa-city-councilman-luis-viera-reflects-on-the-importance-of-the-boss-14997987 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aron @aronkozin returns to the podcast after too long of an absence. We catch up on his youtube channel, discuss our plans for the 2023 tour and make plans to do a Springsteen Heardle Live! https://www.youtube.com/live/TcqlBuIVwhs?feature=share Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eden Levin joins me from Germany via Israel. She is an entrepreneur, Female entrepreneurs meetup organizer and the lead singer for the Swing Metal Band Shoo Bee Doom. She joins me to talk about her musical journey, how she misses the food from her home in Jerusalem and we discuss the inspiration of their new single Old School Medicine. Find more about the band here = https://linktr.ee/shoobeedoom check out the single here - https://youtu.be/PwOgPUN-3c4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Alba @jonalba returns to give Jesse and them a chance to catch up. They talk Letter to You, Only the Strong and the 2023 Tour! https://www.patreon.com/WrestlingAccordingToAlba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a cross over episode with Perfectly Good Podcast, John Fox joins Sylvan @sylvangreeneyes and Jesse @jessejacksonDFW to discuss @johnhiattmusic 6th album Riding with the King Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Matthews joins me to catch up and to discuss the introduction of a brand new Bruce Springsteen Fan Podcast "E Street Cafe" https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-e-street-cafe-podcast/id1667108880 please go subscribe and rate and review the new podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake Berry @jakeberrynh returns to pick his Songs of your Life choices. 11 questions, 11 different songs, no repeats! 1. Song I hate (I don’t get) 2. Song that I think is overrated 3. Song that is under appreciated 4. Song that I love 5. Song that you can listen to over and over again 6. Song that made me fall in love with Bruce 7. Song that changed my life 8. Song that surprised me 9. song that is a Guilty Pleasure 10. Song I wish I had seen live 11. Great Song to see live Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fresh from the release of her new Album Lotus, Molly Healey joins me on the podcast to talk about her music, her discovery of looping and touring and performing with The Ozark Mountain Daredevils. You can find her music and more information about her at www.mollyhealey.com listen to her cover of Dancing in the Dark here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz4yH_pqVfM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris, Colin and Jesse are back to wrap up the regular season and give their predictions for the Dallas/Tampa playoff game on Monday 1/16/23. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices