Emo Kids Anonymous
Emo Kids Anonymous is a podcast about emo and emo-adjacent music. With multiple new episodes every week, Emo Kids Anonymous is your home for everything emo. Previous guests include Saturdays At Your Place, Kerosene Heights, Winona Fighter, Origami Angel, Greywind, sports., Riley!, and so many others.
Emo Kids Anonymous is...
Amanda Valdivieso
As the resident Fall Out Boy aficionado, Amanda is one of the co-creators and co-hosts of the NAPNET podcast, Emo Kids Anonymous (EKA). She’s a proud emo mom raising two future emos that wants to share her passion, love, and knowledge of all things emo/pop punk with others. When she’s not hosting a podcast, she’s going to every show she can, posting her Patrick Stump cosplay, and keeping up with the latest in entertainment news. Also, ask her about her love of Lord of the Rings… She may just end up quoting the movies to you.
Robb Laffoon
Robb Laffoon (he/him) is an entertainer and the co-host and co-creator of the Emo Kids Anonymous podcast. Born in Maui and raised primarily in sunny Southern California and northern Alberta Canada, Robb found his way to alternative culture via blink-182 and later punk-o-rama compilations. After a decade as an unsuccessful musician, he eventually found his way to his true calling of lip syncing to pop punk and emo songs and rambling about bands both up and coming and classic. Currently based just outside of Los Angeles, Robb is now a grown man with two kids who still listens to emo music. Just don’t call him an “elder emo”.
CZB
CZB—aka Catherine/Cath/Cat (but never Cathy)—is the resident y’allternative of NAPNET, serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief & Content Officer. She is also behind-the-scenes showrunner and Executive Producer of the Emo Kids Anonymous podcast. Though her emo roots run deep, her diverse music taste and love of shows has taken her on many cross-country journeys: from cruising with Lamb of God in the Caribbean, to enjoying organic corndogs with outlaw country legends at Farm Aid, to lamenting lack of decent arch support with fellow elder emos in Las Vegas at When We Were Young (emphasis on the Were). In between travels, you’ll find her holding down the fort in Charm City at local shows and sharing medium cringe content, ft. occasional cameos from her husky, Pepper. For inquiries: CZB.NAPNET@gmail.com
Episodes
155. Andrew Sacher: Author, Editor & Historian Talks Fourth Wave Emo & His New Book "Emo Revival" | Emo Kids Anonymous
Welcome to EKA 155! Today we are joined by Andrew Sacher, senior editor and podcast host at Brooklyn Vegan, to talk about his upcoming book Emo Revival! When Andrew's book was announced I was hoping we'd be able to have him on to talk about this important period together. Along with a deep dive o...
154. JER: Video Game Soundtracks, Skatune Network & Fighting Bigotry | Emo Kids Anonymous
Welcome to EKA 154! Today we are joined by the CEO of ska themself, the one and only JER of Skatune Network! If you exist on the internet, you are familiar with Jer, who has been building a following over the last decade + with their work in We Are The Union, founding Skatune Network, and the sol...
153. halftimeshow: Bryce & AJ break down their debut album "Soft Spot" & AJ Challenges Ronnie Radke | Emo Kids Anonymous
Welcome to EKA153! Today we are once again joined by Bryce and AJ of the band halftimeshow out of Joplin MO (among other places. As you know, the halftimeshow song Hero of Roku City is our shows theme song and the band has finally released the follow up, their first full length "soft spot". Unfor...
151. Kiss The Scientist: KROQ, Kylo Ren, Emo Origins & The Price of Pringles | Emo Kids Anonymous
Welcome to EKA152! Today We're joined by Max Tomack-Villalobos from the band Kiss The Scientist outta the 818! KTS are signed to Take This To Heart like so many previous guests (Palette Knife, T!IHI, PONY, Future Teens) so we knew we had to have them on! Fresh off the heels of releasing a new sin...
151. Me.: Mike Jansen & Mark O'Connell Talk Me., Sobriety & Starting Over After TBS | Emo Kids Anonymous
Welcome to EKA151! Today we are joined by Mike Jansen and Mark O'Connell of the band Me.! You may recognize Mark from the 20+ years spent behind the kit with Taking Back Sunday, but Mike is new to a lot of us so we had him tell us his story as well as how he went from submitting music to singing...