High School Never Ends : A Pop-Punk Dad Podcast

Thirty-Something Dads, ‘Wingman’ Steve and Chris-183, nerd out over the power-chorded glory that was 90's and 2000’s pop-punk. Their hearts are Blink and Yellowcard but their brains are pure Baby Shark.

Rankin It Summer Showdown: The Great Debate 07/31/2025

Rankin It Summer Showdown: The Great Debate Welcome to the finale of the Rankin' It Summer Showdown: The Great Debate! We are joined by friend of the show Stew and we nominate our quintessential pop-punk albums of all time and then whittle them down to a top 10. This exercise is not for the faint of heart and was not without it's challenges. Enjoy! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/37526345

Rankin It Summer Showdown: 2002 Albums 07/24/2025

Rankin It Summer Showdown: 2002 Albums We had so much fun doing a Rankin It Summer Showdown with albums from 2001 that we decided to move forward 1 full year and do it all again. If you're playing a drinking game, take a sip every time we mention how tough this was and play along! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/37526115

Rankin It Summer Showdown: 2001 Albums 07/17/2025

Rankin It Summer Showdown: 2001 Albums In our next Rankin It Summer Showdown we've compiled a list of 20 albums that came out in the year 2001 and we're rankin' 'em all from 20-1. Play along at home and see if you agree with us! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/37420800

Rankin It Summer Showdown: Drive-Thru Records 07/10/2025

Rankin It Summer Showdown: Drive-Thru Records This summer we're having a showdown. A Rankin It Showdown! This week we are presenting each other with a list of 20 Drive-Thru Records bands and we're gonna see who comes out on top! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/37358160

We're All Just Teenage Dirtbags Baby feat Brendan Brown 07/03/2025

We're All Just Teenage Dirtbags Baby feat Brendan Brown This week we're joined by the one and only Brendan Brown, founder of Wheatus! We go back to the beginnings of the band and Brendan's influences, talk about the ride from Teenage Dirtbag, the multiple waves of resurgence of Dirtbag and more! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/37156530

The Road to Four Chord featuring Keep Flying 06/26/2025

The Road to Four Chord featuring Keep Flying It's been a hell of a month hyping up Four Chord Music Festival and we're ending it with a bang. One of the coolest, most unique bands out there Keep Flying just released their first full length record and they're on tour forever promoting it. We talk to John about how the band started, their history with FCMF and more. Check out Keep Flying's Time & Tide out now BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/37156490

The Road to Four Chord featuring Mallory Run 06/19/2025

The Road to Four Chord featuring Mallory Run On our road to Four Chord Music Festival this week we're chatting with Joe and Bert from the band Mallory Run. Based out of Edinboro, PA they are about to be 3 time alums to Four Chord. We talk about the beginnings of the band, rock one of their tracks and chat about what Four Chord has meant to them. Make sure and check them out on Spotify: BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36966370

The Road to Four Chord featuring Home Grown 06/12/2025

The Road to Four Chord featuring Home Grown Next up on the Road to Four Chord we're checking in with one of our favorite OG bands, Adam and John from Home Grown! Since we've last spoken with Adam the band has reunited, played a handful of shows, and booked Four Chord. We chat all about the past, present and future of Home Grown! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36966355

The Road to Four Chord featuring Rishi Bahl 06/05/2025

The Road to Four Chord featuring Rishi Bahl For the month of June we're hyping up one of the coolest indie festivals out there - Four Chord Music Festival in Pittsburgh. We're devoting all our episodes to bands playing this year's Four Chord and we're kicking it all off with the man himself... the creator of the entire event... and frontman for Eternal Boy - Rishi Bahl! We dive in deep to Eternal Boy and how the festival got started plus get some inside info into the booking process of the festival. Join us at the show - tickets are available at BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36851255

Movie May Soundtrack Edition: Not Another Teen Movie 05/29/2025

Movie May Soundtrack Edition: Not Another Teen Movie We conclude this year's Movie May: Soundtrack Edition with a conversation about a spoof movie and it's all-covers soundtrack. Not Another Teen Movie features some pop-punk covers, some all-time great ones, and some really bad ones. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36774840

Movie May Soundtrack Edition: Not Another Teen Movie 05/29/2025

Movie May Soundtrack Edition: Not Another Teen Movie BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36774835

Movie May Soundtrack Edition: BASEketball 05/22/2025

Movie May Soundtrack Edition: BASEketball Our breakdown of fun movie soundtracks continues with a deep dive on BASEketball! We're not sure what about Tre Parker and Matt Stone playing a newly constructed sport has to do with ska... but we're here for it. Movie Steve joins in on the fun! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36680900

HSNE Pop-Punk Madness 05/15/2025

HSNE Pop-Punk Madness We had so much fun recording this bracket-style matchup of pre-2001 pop-punk bands for Patreon that we're releasing it for all as a special patron exclusive freebie! Play along, here's a link to the bracket: BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36475260

Movie May Soundtrack Edition: Dumb & Dumber 05/08/2025

Movie May Soundtrack Edition: Dumb & Dumber In our next Movie May Soundtrack Edition we're deep diving the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack! We're joined by Steve Kelly who played in a cover band that solely played this album which is the definition of an expert. Enjoy the episode and we hope it's not the most annoying sound in the world. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36475180

Movie May Soundtrack Edition: American Pie 05/01/2025

Movie May Soundtrack Edition: American Pie Movie May is back with a brand new spin! All month we will be diving into some of our favorite movie soundtracks. First up, a movie that captivated us all and a soundtrack that has 90's written all over it... it's American Pie! Dave Dross joins in on the fun. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. www.dragonwagonradio.com /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36395340

Patron Picks: The Greatest Generation 04/24/2025

Patron Picks: The Greatest Generation Patron Picks April wraps up as Tom chose a band that we really needed to talk about. This week we deep dive The Wonder Years and their album The Greatest Generation. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36290145

Patron Picks: Monster 04/17/2025

Patron Picks: Monster We're back to Patron Picks April and next up Ashleigh chose REM's Monster. We deep dive the album and talk a whole bunch about REM! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36160050

Awful April: M A N I A 04/10/2025

Awful April: M A N I A Awful April was so fun last year that even though it's not our official theme for the month we had to sneak one in there. A vote on social media dubbed Fall Out Boy's MANIA as AWFUL. Do we agree? BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/36080100

Quick Hits: Old Neon 04/06/2025

Quick Hits: Old Neon Quick Hits is back! In a special bonus episode we sit down with Sean and Mike from Pittsburgh's Old Neon! They talk us through playing through several natural disasters and we check out their brand new single from their upcoming EP Resolution. Check out Old Neon on Spotify: BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/35890840

Patron Picks: Sweet Tooth 04/03/2025

Patron Picks: Sweet Tooth For April we raffled off our episode topics to our Patrons. PunkishDad's name was first drawn so he got to pick the topic and he went with Mom Jeans and their album Sweet Tooth. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/35983410

Steve Picks: A Lesson in Romantics 03/27/2025

Steve Picks: A Lesson in Romantics In our final Steve Picks episode, we're talking about a pop-punk emo staple, Mayday Parade and their debut album A Lesson in Romantics! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/35890805

Steve Picks: Superhero 03/20/2025

Steve Picks: Superhero Never before spoken about in HSNE history, we're talking about musical comedy! This week on Steve Picks we're deep diving Stephen Lynch's album Superhero. It's inappropriate and hilarious - don't listen with your kids in the car. Local comedian Jesse Draham joins in on the fun - follow him on Instagram @jessedraham BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/35785160

Steve Picks: You're Awful, I Love You feat. Mike Landlot 03/13/2025

Steve Picks: You're Awful, I Love You feat. Mike Landlot Since the launch of the show Wingman Steve has been talking up the band Ludo as the best band not enough people have heard of. Today we're joined by Mike Landlot, owner of over 216 small businesses to discuss their album You're Awful, I Love You. You can find Mike's podcast all about Small Busness here: BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/35644560

Steve Picks: American Hi-Fi 03/06/2025

Steve Picks: American Hi-Fi It's now March and it's Wingman Steve's turn to pick any album he wants. First up, we're going with America Hi-Fi's debut self-titled album. Was this album just a flavor of the weak or does it hold up in its entirety? BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/35555630

Chris Picks: A Place in the Sun 02/28/2025

Chris Picks: A Place in the Sun In the final Chris Picks February, we're taking a trip to A Place in the Sun by Lit. Is this album more than just the big singles? Is it rock, or pop-punk, or something else? Find out as we deep dive the album and more! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/35476475

Chris Picks: Still Searching 02/20/2025

Chris Picks: Still Searching Next up on Chris Picks, we're heading back to NJ to deep dive Senses Fail and their sophomore album Still Searching. Chris has loved this album for a long time, tune in and see if Wingman can get on board! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/35368945

Chris Picks: No Pressure 02/13/2025

Chris Picks: No Pressure Sometimes when our listeners make suggestions we actually follow through on them! This week we got a recommendation to listen to No Pressure's self-titled album and it's Chris Picks February so Chris picked it! Is this a new school call back to the old school? Listen to the album and our episode for our thoughts! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/35244255

Chris Picks: Sam's Town 02/06/2025

Chris Picks: Sam's Town This month it's Chris-183's world and we're just listening along. Chris personally picks whatever album he wants and it's all kicked off with a discussion of Sam's Town by The Killers. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/35166105

New From 2024: Supercharged 01/31/2025

New From 2024: Supercharged We're wrapping up our New from 2024 series with some old school punks doing some new music. This week resident Offspring expert Bailey joins us for a deep dive on SUPERCHARGED. Is this album truly supercharged or is it a dead battery? Listen and find out! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/35094430

It's Jaret! 01/23/2025

It's Jaret! The originator of the phrase "High School Never Ends" Mr Jaret Reddick joins us for an epic conversation this week! We tackle the real hard questions including the best actors of our generation, preferences in beer and of course a ton of stuff about the greatest band in the world - Bowling for Soup! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. /episode/index/show/highschoolneverends/id/34887475

High School Never Ends : A Pop-Punk Dad Podcast

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