This week it's just Pete on his family vacation, talking about a couple of things that are important in his life these days: being a PopPop and his musical endeavors.

Theme Music: “Hard Fought Victory” by Chris Martyn and Geoff Harvey at www.purple-planet.com.

Please consider donating to Al Otro Lado. Al Otro Lado provides legal assistance and humanitarian aid to refugees, deportees, and other migrants trapped at the US-MX border. Donate at alotrolado.org/letsdosomething.

You can contact Pete at peter dot kemmerer @ gmail dot com with comments, questions, or if you'd like to be a guest on an upcoming podcast.

On this week's show, Pete chats with his friend Kim Wentzel, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who lives in St. Croix and just happens to be a singer and a guitar player too! Kim is also the daughter of the late, great Al Rosenberg of MTV, Imus and the Howard Stern Show fame. Kim talks about her background, what got her started in social work and performing, life on the island, and they both talk about their experiences and memories related to Al, including a benefit Kim and Pete played for Al's favorite charity, RISE of NJ.

You can learn more about RISE of NJ and donate if you choose at http://njrise.org

You can listen to Kim's dad Al on the Miserable Men Show at Pete's archive site at http://www.miserablereplay.com Al is on the show from January 2008 thru December 2010. Shows were originally broadcast on SiriusXM radio and are maintained for historical (and hysterical) purposes only.

Theme Music: “Hard Fought Victory” by Chris Martyn and Geoff Harvey at www.purple-planet.com.

Please consider donating to Al Otro Lado. Al Otro Lado provides legal assistance and humanitarian aid to refugees, deportees, and other migrants trapped at the US-MX border. Donate at alotrolado.org/letsdosomething.

You can contact Pete at peter dot kemmerer @ gmail dot com with comments, questions, or if you'd like to be a guest on an upcoming podcast.

In this episode, Pete talks with Mike Em, Hilary Brown and Steve Collins of Bellwether Ritual, a very talented band out of the Allentown, PA area that writes and plays original music that is difficult to categorize but easy to enjoy! The band talks about their origin, how the band has changed, their songwriting process, Hilary’s bass gear (because Pete is a bass gear head), working on their first full-length album and more.

Stay tuned after the episode for their single, “Lock And Key,” used with permission of the band. You can find Bellwether Ritual on all the usual social media platforms, and their music is on all your favorite streaming sites and Bandcamp.

Steve Collins’ luthier site is http://www.theotherluthier.com

Theme Music: “Hard Fought Victory” by Chris Martyn and Geoff Harvey at www.purple-planet.com.

Please consider donating to Al Otro Lado. Al Otro Lado provides legal assistance and humanitarian aid to refugees, deportees, and other migrants trapped at the US-MX border. Donate at alotrolado.org/letsdosomething.

You can contact Pete at peter dot kemmerer @ gmail dot com with comments, questions, or if you'd like to be a guest on an upcoming podcast.

In this episode, Pete breaks down the pre-training camp Philadelphia Eagles, position by position and commits to his very early predictions on a game-by-game basis for the 2025-2026 season. Talk about sticking your neck out there! We will revisit the Eagles and his comments just prior to the beginning of the season to see how he made out.

Theme Music: “Hard Fought Victory” by Chris Martyn and Geoff Harvey at www.purple-planet.com.

Please consider donating to Al Otro Lado. Al Otro Lado provides legal assistance and humanitarian aid to refugees, deportees, and other migrants trapped at the US-MX border. Donate at alotrolado.org/letsdosomething.

You can contact Pete at peter dot kemmerer @ gmail dot com with comments, questions, or if you'd like to be a guest on an upcoming podcast.

In this episode, Pete tells a story of serendipity and destiny that began nearly 50 years ago and resulted in the peace of mind knowing, despite not having a clue along the way, that he ended up where he was supposed to.

Theme Music: “Hard Fought Victory” by Chris Martyn and Geoff Harvey at www.purple-planet.com.

Please consider donating to Al Otro Lado. Al Otro Lado provides legal assistance and humanitarian aid to refugees, deportees, and other migrants trapped at the US-MX border. Donate at alotrolado.org/letsdosomething.

You can contact Pete at peter dot kemmerer @ gmail dot com with comments, questions, or if you'd like to be a guest on an upcoming podcast.

This week Pete talks with Shawn Semmel, co-founder of and drummer for the Lehigh Valley, PA-based band, MidSummer. Shawn takes us through the origin of the band, why the debut EP is "Vol. 2," the challenges facing original music bands, and more. Following the interview, Shawn and the band share the full opening tune from their EP "Tales Of The Time Traveler, Vol. 2, "Crashing Walls."

Theme Music: “Hard Fought Victory” by Chris Martyn and Geoff Harvey at www.purple-planet.com.

MidSummer:

https://www.facebook.com/MidsummerPA

On this short and sweet episode of Pete's Pub, Pete tells you about two television shows and one book series that are currently exciting his molecules. He also shares an easy-to-prepare and delicious meal prep, and his wife Denise's favorite summertime cocktail.

Theme Music: “Hard Fought Victory” by Chris Martyn and Geoff Harvey at www.purple-planet.com.

Murderbot:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30444310/

Somebody Feed Phil:

https://www.netflix.com/title/80146601

Dungeon Crawler Carl:

https://www.audible.com/series/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-Audiobooks/B0937JMKYV

Pesto Chicken & Veggies

https://tasty.co/recipe/weekday-meal-prep-pesto-chicken-veggies

Floradora:

This pink stunner is an homage to the "Florodora Sextete," six

scandalously beautiful young ladies who danced in the 1900 musical

Florodora at New York's Casino Theatre. Just like the dancers who

went on to marry millionaires--as David Wondrich recounts in his

book, Imbibe!-the Florodora cocktail is unapologetically alluring, a

mess of muddled raspberries swirled with lime, gin, and ginger soda.

It was most definitely drunk by the well-heeled crowds who sidled up

to its likely barroom of origin, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.

4 RASPBERRIES

1½ OUNCES GIN

½ OUNCE SIMPLE

SYRUP

1 OUNCE LIME JUICE

GINGER ALE, TO TOP

GARNISH

ORANGE WHEEL,

LIME WHEEL, AND

A RASPBERRY

In a cocktail shaker, muddle raspberries with simple syrup. Add

gin, lime juice, and ice and shake until chilled. Double strain into

a Collins glass over ice. Top up with ginger ale. Garnish with an

orange wheel, lime wheel, and a raspberry.

On this week's show we do a deep dive interview with the delightful Denise Stajkowski, author of the book "Let's Talk About It - A Healing Journey Through Pain To Peace" based on Denise's own experiences from around age six to today. I found this to be a difficult read, but an ultimately rewarding one as well. I should mention that the book touches on some very dark and disturbing behavior, so be aware.

Theme Music: “Hard Fought Victory” by Chris Martyn and Geoff Harvey at www.purple-planet.com.

You can get Denise's book from Amazon, including a Kindle version here:

https://a.co/d/4TUbVhp

or directly from her website at http://www.denisestajkowski.com