Pew Pew vs. Clang Clang: A Drummer, a Memoir & a Glen-and-Jen Hour | The Sportcat Show

A drummer who lost everything — and the universe wouldn't let him quit. That's hour one. Then our second guest never showed… so hour two became Glen and Jen doing what they do best. At 9 PM ET, David Deane Haskell joined us live from Japan — drummer and show designer who spent nearly a decade performing at Disney and Universal in Japan, until addiction and childhood trauma shut his creativity down cold. His memoir WOUNDED ANGELS is the true story of the crash and the long road back: losing everything he cared about — including, for a time, the love of his daughter — and the inner-child healing work that gave him his voice again. His newest novel, THE SOLARIAN DEEP, began as a serialized mermaid fantasy and turned into cyberpunk sci-fi along the way — and just as he was ready to throw it away, the word "Solaria" started following him across Asia. His earlier novel EMERGENCE is free on his website. Then at 10 PM ET, our scheduled second guest couldn't join us — so the Deuce turned into a Glen & Jen hour. And you know what? Last time that happened it pulled some of the best numbers the show has ever had. Dyslexia war stories (the "multiple donkeys" incident), the writing life, Glen's rave about Jamie Davis's Extreme Medical Services, a Ted Nugent tease, the Michael Jordan story and Jen's Michael-Dollywood blind spots, glow-in-the-dark Halloween gummies, 100% recycled toilet paper, Seinfeld's "Dolores" — and the question Glen had saved for the guest who never came: if we create AI and it becomes better than us, what makes us so special? And as always on The Sportcat Show, we ended up in the strange: every guest faces our Big Question — have you ever had a paranormal experience, or seen Bigfoot? David's answer is a synchronicity story you have to hear to believe. And Glen's got a Bigfoot-hunting story of his own from a Florida swamp. 📚 Find the books: • David Deane Haskell — daviddeanehaskell.com · Wounded Angels: mybook.to/woundedangels · The Solarian Deep: mybook.to/solariandeep · Emergence is FREE at reads.daviddeanehaskell.com • Jen Shaw — jmshawauthor.com · the Callum Walker series (four books, fifth on the way) New episodes Wednesdays at 9 PM ET. Leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/sportcat · Instagram: @sportcatshows · Subscribe and ride along — the strange things happen on Wednesday nights. CHAPTERS 02:21 — David Deane Haskell joins us live from Japan 05:50 — Wounded Angels: the healing work, written in real time 07:20 — How much of yourself is in the fiction? 08:21 — Five years of writer's block (2019–2024) 08:43 — The Solarian Deep: its characters know themselves better now 13:41 — "I'm not into toxic positivity": healing first, memoir later 15:01 — The darkest stuff: losing his mother at nine 17:59 — Sci-fi goes "pew pew," fantasy goes "clang clang" 19:07 — Could his 22-year-old daughter live to 300? 20:41 — "No rest for the wicked — I must be evil, because I never stop" 25:17 — Courage, and the empath's curse 27:42 — Glen's MARTA bus story: when lawyers write checks 32:34 — Rock bottom: "I lost everything that I cared about" 34:36 — Introverts, inner children & talking to empty chairs 36:10 — Back on stage: getting his life back, one show at a time 38:00 — Can we ever overcome the past? "You can get better" 39:53 — Generational trauma: Grandma, the Depression & the McDonald's job 42:25 — "Owning your shit": the military version 46:27 — Why can we help everyone but ourselves? 48:29 — Rescuer syndrome: "You're all here because you were broken" 50:51 — "Happiest moment of your life" — 30 seconds, go 53:13 — More afraid of failing… or succeeding? 64:26 — David says goodnight (good morning, Japan) — it's Glen & Jen now 67:07 — Writing trick: take your character for a walk around the neighborhood 69:12 — Jen's fifth book: write one character's chapters straight through 70:24 — Glen's rave: Jamie Davis's Extreme Medical Services (vampire & werewolf medics) 85:26 — Dr. Google: white stools, 12 glasses of milk & the inchworm-green crayon 87:30 — Glow-in-the-dark gummies & the November ER prediction 88:03 — Glen's Bigfoot hunt: the glowing frogs of Florida 89:02 — 100% recycled toilet paper: a horror story 92:22 — Seinfeld: the breakup episode & "something in the toilet" 95:00 — Solved: her name was Dolores 101:41 — The preschool incident: bad words, good words & a teacher talk 106:58 — The IKEA chair that threw Jen's back out 116:31 — "It's therapeutic": why these Glen & Jen hours work 120:01 — Closing theme #SportcatShow #WoundedAngels #DavidDeaneHaskell #TheSolarianDeep #InnerChildHealing #Recovery #AddictionRecovery #Memoir #SciFiBooks #Cyberpunk #IndieAuthors #AuthorInterview #Synchronicity #Paranormal #BigQuestion #Bigfoot #Drummer #Japan #GlenAndJen #TheDeuce #ExtremeMedicalServices #JamieDavis #TomLee #Seinfeld #BookTube