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.

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

New From 2024: Why Would I Watch 01/16/2025

New From 2024: Why Would I Watch You might be saying to yourself, Hot Mulligan's Why Would I Watch is from 2023 and you're supposed to be covering albums from 2024. Well, look at you Mr or Mrs Mathematician. It doesn't matter, we wanted to talk Hot Mulligan! 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/34887435

New From 2024: Neck Deep 01/09/2025

New From 2024: Neck Deep Last year we covered Neck Deep for the first time and bought in big time. This time around we tackle their newest self-titled album from 2024 along with our bud PunkishDad 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/34791510

New From 2024: There are Worse Things Than Being Alive 01/02/2025

New From 2024: There are Worse Things Than Being Alive Happy New Year! To kick things off we're going back to last year and deep diving some new records that came out. First up is Bayside's There are Worse Things Than Being Alive. We first covered Bayside last year and now we're going to check out what they've been up to lately with the help of our friend Sam. 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/34683380

20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: American Idiot 12/26/2024

20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: American Idiot We close out 2024 and our look back on 2004 with an epic discussion of one of the biggest records of all time - Green Day's American Idiot. Tom Keiger and DJ Rossstar join us for a VERY in-depth conversation and a breakdown of the American Idiot storyline. Check out Ross' YouTube Channel for some awesome content: 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/34527185

20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: A Hangover You Don't Deserve 12/19/2024

20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: A Hangover You Don't Deserve This week as we reflect back on 2004, we take our first ever deep dive on a Bowling for Soup album! We're talking all about A Hangover You Don't Deserve. Even if you live in Ohio, this will be a fun listen! 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/34527170

20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: Chuck 12/12/2024

20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: Chuck For our second 2004 look back, we're going to the war-torn Congo and deep diving Sum 41's Chuck. Was this one also all killer with no filler? Or is the darker Sum 41 just not what we're looking for? 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/34372880

20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: Futures 12/05/2024

20 Years Later, 2004 Look Back: Futures Wrapping up the year we are going to take a trip in our time machine back to 2004 with a look back on some awesome 20-year old albums. First up we have Ashleigh join us for an in depth discussion on Jimmy Eat World's banger Futures. 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/34170755

New Found November: Resurrection 11/28/2024

New Found November: Resurrection We wrap up New Found November with their Resurrection. As first album as a 4-piece does this one hit the mark or fall short? Friends Andy and Steve C join along for the convo! 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/34170680

New Found November: Not Without a Fight 11/21/2024

New Found November: Not Without a Fight New Found November rolls on and this week we're skipping a few albums ahead and deep diving Not Without a Fight. OG NFG fan PunkRockMom joins us for a deep dive on this one and we decide whether NFG jumped the shark at this point or not. 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/33907572

New Found November: Sticks and Stones 11/14/2024

New Found November: Sticks and Stones For our second New Found November we're going for the big guns - it's Sticks and Stones! Bailey joins us and we discuss whether it's really proper to pick my friends over you. 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/33907522

New Found November: Nothing Gold Can Stay 11/07/2024

New Found November: Nothing Gold Can Stay It's been quite a long time since we've discussed New Found Glory at length, and this time we are gonna do it slow and steady, album by album. New Found November dives into one of pop-punks founding fathers album by album. We're kickin’ it off where it all started, with Nothing Gold Can Stay. 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/33709342

Alt-ober: High/Low 10/31/2024

Alt-ober: High/Low We're head of our class, we're popular. Its the end of Alt-ober and we're diving into Nada Surf's High/Low. If you only listened to Popular, give the album a listen and follow along our discussion! 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/33615437

Alt-ober: Automatic For the People 10/24/2024

Alt-ober: Automatic For the People Whether you're a shiny happy person or you think that everybody hurts, growing up you probably listened to some REM. This week we deep dive their 1992 album Automatic For the People along with Jameson. Here's a playlist to Jameson's ultimate REM tracks: 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/33592347

High School Never Ends : A Pop-Punk Dad Podcast

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