Musicians, mischief, and seven-question chaos.
Bacon is My Podcast treats music interviews like a hangout with a mischievous question deck nearby. Jimmy and Mike steer guests through music, tour survival, favorite obsessions, awkward hypotheticals, and the personal “bacon” that keeps life flavorful.
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Bacon is My Podcast is a music-interview hangout with a strong appetite for side roads. Its recurring “What’s Your Bacon?” in 7 Questions format gives Jimmy and Mike a structure, then gives everyone permission to wander. The show is less interested in polished biography than in the odd little details that make creative people feel human. A guest might arrive to talk about a new record and end up debating fantasy, sci-fi, swordplay, pizza orders, tour drinks, first-date exits, or the moral limit on lawn gnomes. That looseness is the point. The conversation often starts with music, releases, videos, bands, and touring, then slides into the personal rituals and comic instincts behind the work. Jessie Wagner’s episode brings in her touring vocalist background, Army of the Underdog, War Within, and genre-bending songwriting, but also makes room for playful verbal oddities. Rob Eberle’s visit connects singer-songwriter craft and Signal Fades with Long Island, L.A., NY pizza loyalty, horror characters, and decorative yard figures. CARR’s appearance catches the show at its most candid, with talk of road habits, hydration, social discomfort, and the strange art of crossing a line without losing the room. AyoDylan’s episode turns an in-person Miami setup into part of the joke before the questions even begin. The “Random Question Generator” installments show the same engine without a formal guest: prompts, Patreon interaction, and two regular voices building momentum from whatever appears on the phone. The show can be blunt. It can be silly. It likes uncomfortable hypotheticals and theatrical overstatements, but its best moments come from genuine curiosity disguised as messing around. Instead of treating musicians as press releases, Bacon is My Podcast treats them as people with taste, habits, fears, jokes, and escape routes. For listeners drawn to casual conversation, music stories, and interviews that feel more like a late-night greenroom than a formal sit-down, it offers an approachable, scrappy, personality-forward lane.
Made for: Best for fans of informal musician interviews, backstage banter, and comedy-leaning conversations that favor personality over polish. It especially suits listeners who enjoy tangents about touring, songwriting, pop culture, and personal obsessions.
What sets it apart: The seven-question format gives the show a repeatable spine without sanding down its looseness. Guests are revealed through odd prompts, quick riffs, and specific everyday preferences rather than standard career-summary interviews.
Passions, escapes, life goals and the things in life that make it tasty.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Rob Eberle gets a warm musical introduction before the gnome debate quietly steals the room.
What's Your Bacon in 7 Questions brings Rob Eberle into its familiar seven-question setup, presenting him as a singer-songwriter and producer from Long Island, now based in L.A.
Joe Wong interviews drummers and musicians about craft, history, and the working musician's life.
Records, careers and arguments, weighed by people who listen closely.
Pop artist Rob Eberle joins the hosts to discuss his debut album, Signal Fades, which he created after a difficult breakup.
Two hosts use a random question generator to ask each other funny questions while interacting with live patrons.
Two hosts interview a guest in a hotel room, asking seven life-changing questions with comedic banter.
Bacon is My Podcast hosts Mike and Jimmy question Nicola Person, the artist behind CARR, about discomfort, sexuality, touring, and personal habits.
A Northeast snowstorm stretched a planned Las Vegas weekend for Joan Jett's residency into a seven-day stay with sink-washed laundry.
On Bacon is My Podcast, Jimmy G and Mike combine boxed lunches with a March 2 discussion of political polarization and online arguments.
Brian from Good Terms joins Jimmy and Mike on Bacon Is My Podcast to promote the deluxe double-LP edition of "Burnout" and a spring tour that includes a February 23rd Brooklyn date.
Bacon is My Podcast's Discussion & Drinks episode, recorded February 19, 2026 over Jameson Black Barrel, opens with Mike's coffee-and-IPA bitterness theory and a story about Gavin, 12, not understanding 'Seb's' for 7-Eleven.
Singer-songwriter Grace Annabella Anderson opens Bacon is My Podcast's seven-question format by saying a song marks the end of a feeling for her: "something's really over for me once I write about it." She then answers questions on pillows, margherita pizza and whether cereal is a soup, voting "false" because soup needs a broth or stock.
Jimmy hears for the first time the comments on short clips from the Christmas religion episode, including his line "hold on to it tightly, but not so tightly that you'll strangle a neighbor." His co-host reads responses from Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, among them Nicholas James Yoga's "double craft IPA with a craft squealer burger for $24.99" insult.
Host interviews touring vocalist Jessie Wagner about her career, new album, and personal journey.