Up + Adam with Adam Montiel

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  Josh Turner: From 'Long Black Train' to 'Your Man', 20 Years of Country Staying Power | Up+Adam

  Aug 13, 202617 min

  Sponsored by The Mountain Air | Sponsored by Benny’s Pizza | SLOFreeParking Country star Josh Turner is celebrating 20 years of Your Man, the career-defining album that gave him his first No. 1 and helped cement one of the most unmistakable voices in country music. On this episode of Up+Adam, Josh joins Adam Montiel for a conversation that goes well beyond charts, certifications, and anniversary nostalgia. They talk about hearing the younger Josh Turner inside those recordings, what he knows now that he could not have known then, and the surreal experience of watching a song travel so far beyond its original moment that people around the world now claim it as part of their own lives. Josh even shares the wonderfully bizarre story of a police officer overseas picking up a guitar and playing “Your Man,” proof that the song became much bigger than he ever imagined. There is also a deeply personal side to looking back. Josh’s wife Jennifer starred alongside him in the original “Your Man” video, forever preserving a young married couple just beginning to navigate fame, family, and a very public life together. Josh opens up about what they see in that video today that the rest of us cannot, why releasing “Your Man” after “Long Black Train” was an intentional move to show another side of him as an artist, and how he has stayed rooted in traditional country music while continuing to prove his range. For Adam, the conversation is full circle too. He was working in country radio when Josh was coming up, crossed paths with him at CRS, and now gets to reconnect two decades later as one of country music’s signature albums reaches a milestone. The Your Man 20th Anniversary Edition arrives August 14, 2026, with special vinyl, CD, and digital editions, including the fan-favorite bonus track “Hard Headed.” Josh is also currently touring, with dates continuing across the country. • Josh Turner Official Website • Your Man 20th Anniversary Edition and Official Store • Josh Turner Tour Dates • Josh Turner on Instagram • Josh Turner on Facebook • Josh Turner on X ******** *PORTABIDET: UP+ADAM IS AN OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR PORTABIDET - USE THIS LINK FOR UP+ADAM LISTENERS TO LEARN MORE AND GET YOURS! Listen to Up+Adam with Adam Montiel: Official Website: adammontiel.com Apple Podcasts: Up+Adam on Apple Podcasts Spotify: Up+Adam on Spotify iHeartRadio: Up+Adam on iHeartRadio YouTube Music: Up+Adam on YouTube Music ******** CHECK OUT OUR WOODS HUMANE PET OF THE WEEK! ******** ADAM’S TEDX VIDEO IS HERE! ******** FOLLOW ADAM ON INSTAGRAM ********* Sincere Thanks to the current supporters of Up + Adam. Please take a moment and visit them and thank them for supporting local broadcasting, and valuing what we do here. Thank you for supporting them! Life Elements City of SLO WoodsHumaneSociety Tin City Distillery Original Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner Collective Moonshiner on Spotify HERE Please Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com ©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.

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  Maria Garcia: Why Pop Culture Matters | Muy Excited | Up+Adam

  Aug 12, 202633 min

  Sponsored by The Mountain Air | Sponsored by Benny’s Pizza | SLOFreeParking Maria Garcia knows the stuff we call “pop culture” is rarely just pop culture. On this episode of Up+Adam, Adam Montiel sits down with the award-winning journalist, storyteller, and Executive Editor of Futuro Studios to talk about her new podcast, Muy Excited with Maria Garcia, a show that takes the songs, celebrities, movies, memories, and wonderfully random cultural moments we carry around with us and asks a deceptively simple question: why did this matter to us? Each week, Maria picks apart a piece of nostalgic or contemporary culture with humor, reporting, and curiosity, looking at what it reveals about who we were then and who we are now. Adam and Maria get into the strange power of nostalgia, including the way time can soften the edges of the past while also making us forget what was actually happening around us. Maria shares how an upcoming Britney Spears episode caused her to reconsider the media culture of the early 2000s through the eyes of a 41-year-old mother, and why revisiting those moments can reveal just as much about us today as they do about the past. They also talk Ricky Martin, what happens when the icons that defined one generation mean absolutely nothing to the next, and Maria's belief that even the things dismissed as silly, frivolous, or “lowbrow” culture deserve serious curiosity. Maria also opens up about a turning point in her own storytelling career. While making the acclaimed Anything for Selena, she realized that telling the most truthful version of a story sometimes meant acknowledging her own place inside it. That philosophy has stayed with her through My Divo and now Muy Excited. Her goal is not just to tell you what happened. She wants you to come away understanding something more about people, memory, storytelling, and why certain things stay with us long after the moment itself is gone. And ultimately, that may be the widest invitation of Muy Excited. Maria tells Adam that specificity can create universality. A story can come from one person's very particular experience and still hit something recognizable in somebody halfway across the world. In a time when so much content feels automated, disposable, and engineered for attention, Maria makes a pretty compelling case for following our curiosity and remembering that storytelling is still one of the most human things we do. Listen, watch, and follow Maria: • Muy Excited with Maria Garcia on iHeart: Listen here • Muy Excited on Spotify: Listen here • Muy Excited on Apple Podcasts: Listen here • Maria Garcia on Instagram: @maria_is_muy_excited • Futuro Media: Learn more about Maria and Futuro Studios ******** *PORTABIDET: UP+ADAM IS AN OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR PORTABIDET - USE THIS LINK FOR UP+ADAM LISTENERS TO LEARN MORE AND GET YOURS! Listen to Up+Adam with Adam Montiel: Official Website: adammontiel.com Apple Podcasts: Up+Adam on Apple Podcasts Spotify: Up+Adam on Spotify iHeartRadio: Up+Adam on iHeartRadio YouTube Music: Up+Adam on YouTube Music ******** CHECK OUT OUR WOODS HUMANE PET OF THE WEEK! ******** ADAM’S TEDX VIDEO IS HERE! ******** FOLLOW ADAM ON INSTAGRAM ********* Sincere Thanks to the current supporters of Up + Adam. Please take a moment and visit them and thank them for supporting local broadcasting, and valuing what we do here. Thank you for supporting them! Life Elements City of SLO WoodsHumaneSociety Tin City Distillery Original Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner Collective Moonshiner on Spotify HERE Please Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com ©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.

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  Entertainment Journalist Thea Glassman: The Untold History of New Girl | Back Inside Apartment 4D | Up+Adam

  Aug 11, 202643 min

  Sponsored by The Mountain Air | Sponsored by Benny’s Pizza | SLOFreeParking Some television shows entertain us, some define an era, and a select few somehow become a place we keep going back to. On this episode of Up+Adam, Adam sits down with entertainment journalist Thea Glassman to talk about her new book, Who’s That Girl: The Untold, Definitive History of New Girl, a behind-the-scenes look at the beloved Fox comedy and the creative chaos that made Apartment 4D feel like home. Glassman, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, and Rolling Stone, spoke with creator Liz Meriwether, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone, and members of the writers, directing, design, and production teams to trace the show from its unlikely beginnings to its life as a streaming-era comfort classic. Adam and Thea get into what made New Girl different from the traditional network sitcom, the chemistry that emerged during casting, the relentless pursuit of the perfect joke, the Nick and Jess kiss that almost happened much sooner, the wonderfully baffling creation of True American, Prince walking into the New Girl universe, and the final season that nearly did not happen. But underneath all of it is a bigger conversation about why certain shows become cultural shorthand, why we return to fictional friends during very real moments in our lives, and how a comedy that once fought for its place on network television found an entirely new generation through streaming. Whether New Girl is already one of your comfort shows or this conversation sends you toward Apartment 4D for the very first time, this one is for anybody fascinated by how television magic actually gets made. Who’s That Girl: The Untold, Definitive History of New Girl is available now from St. Martin’s Press in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. • Thea Glassman: theaglassman.com • Instagram: @theaglassman • Who’s That Girl at St. Martin’s Press: Book details and purchase options • Amazon: Who’s That Girl by Thea Glassman ******** *PORTABIDET: UP+ADAM IS AN OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR PORTABIDET - USE THIS LINK FOR UP+ADAM LISTENERS TO LEARN MORE AND GET YOURS! Listen to Up+Adam with Adam Montiel: Official Website: adammontiel.com Apple Podcasts: Up+Adam on Apple Podcasts Spotify: Up+Adam on Spotify iHeartRadio: Up+Adam on iHeartRadio YouTube Music: Up+Adam on YouTube Music ******** CHECK OUT OUR WOODS HUMANE PET OF THE WEEK! ******** ADAM’S TEDX VIDEO IS HERE! ******** FOLLOW ADAM ON INSTAGRAM ********* Sincere Thanks to the current supporters of Up + Adam. Please take a moment and visit them and thank them for supporting local broadcasting, and valuing what we do here. Thank you for supporting them! Life Elements City of SLO WoodsHumaneSociety Tin City Distillery Original Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner Collective Moonshiner on Spotify HERE Please Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com ©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.

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  Director Daniel Stamm: Inside Lockbox, The Last Exorcism and the Psychology of Horror Films | Up+Adam

  Aug 6, 202632 min

  Sponsored by The Mountain Air | Sponsored by Benny’s Pizza | SLOFreeParking Director Daniel Stamm joins Adam Montiel for a fascinating trip inside the craft, psychology, and very human heart of horror. Daniel is the filmmaker behind The Last Exorcism, Prey for the Devil, 13 Sins, and the new supernatural thriller Lockbox, starring Carla Gugino, Lou Taylor Pucci, and Katharine Isabelle. Inspired by a story from Soren Narnia’s cult audio series Knifepoint Horror, Lockbox follows Ellen, a grieving woman whose attempt to rebuild her life is shattered when an otherworldly force begins hunting her severely traumatized cousin, Winthrop. The film is now available to rent or buy digitally. But even for listeners who do not usually reach for horror, this conversation opens a much wider door. Daniel explains why a frightening scene cannot work until the audience cares about the person trapped inside it, why love and compassion can make a character both stronger and more vulnerable, and how being believed can stabilize someone whose entire reality is falling apart. Adam and Daniel also explore the creative challenge of taking Knifepoint Horror from audio to screen. The podcast leaves empty spaces where the listener’s imagination can build its own monster. A movie has to preserve that unease while also delivering a satisfying conclusion. Daniel shares why Lockbox would succeed or fail on its third act, and how screenwriter Justin Yoffe helped transform Soren Narnia’s haunting original story into a complete cinematic experience. Knifepoint Horror identifies Lockbox as an adaptation of one of its 2019 stories. The conversation gets deeply personal as Daniel discusses living with narcolepsy, the disturbing nightmares in which he is often the perpetrator instead of the victim, and his fascination with the loneliness and secrecy surrounding evil. He also reveals how a year spent studying Buddhist psychology forced him to ask why making horror movies was a worthwhile use of his life. His answer is unexpectedly beautiful. Horror gives audiences the chance to survive something safely. It creates catharsis, reminds us that we are still alive, and can make the ordinary problems waiting outside the theater feel a little less terrifying. Daniel also talks about the responsibility he feels when viewers give him ninety minutes of their finite lives, why character must never take a backseat to spectacle, why Psycho remains the most frightening movie he has ever seen, and how Snickers bars help carry him through the anxiety of directing a film set. This is a conversation about horror, but it is also about empathy, grief, faith, denial, human blind spots, and the darkness that grows wherever we refuse to shine a light. • Watch the Lockbox trailer: YouTube • Find where to watch Lockbox: JustWatch • Explore Lockbox: IMDb • Follow Daniel Stamm: Instagram • Explore Daniel Stamm’s films and television work: IMDb • Listen to Knifepoint Horror: Apple Podcasts ******** *PORTABIDET: UP+ADAM IS AN OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR PORTABIDET - USE THIS LINK FOR UP+ADAM LISTENERS TO LEARN MORE AND GET YOURS! Listen to Up+Adam with Adam Montiel: Official Website: adammontiel.com Apple Podcasts: Up+Adam on Apple Podcasts Spotify: Up+Adam on Spotify iHeartRadio: Up+Adam on iHeartRadio YouTube Music: Up+Adam on YouTube Music ******** CHECK OUT OUR WOODS HUMANE PET OF THE WEEK! ******** ADAM’S TEDX VIDEO IS HERE! ******** FOLLOW ADAM ON INSTAGRAM ********* Sincere Thanks to the current supporters of Up + Adam. Please take a moment and visit them and thank them for supporting local broadcasting, and valuing what we do here. Thank you for supporting them! Life Elements City of SLO WoodsHumaneSociety Tin City Distillery Original Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner Collective Moonshiner on Spotify HERE Please Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com ©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.

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  Dan Curcio & Elyse Black: Under the Moon at Dairy Creek | Moonshiner Collective | Up+Adam

  Aug 5, 202656 min

  Sponsored by The Mountain Air | Sponsored by Benny’s Pizza | SLOFreeParking Dan Curcio and Elyse Black join Adam for a conversation about music, homecoming, and one of the Central Coast’s most beloved live concert experiences. Dan takes us inside Moonshiner Collective’s Under the Moon series, where the night begins with intimate songs that invite people to really listen, then builds into the kind of full-send dance party longtime fans know and love. Elyse, fresh from graduating from Berklee College of Music, talks about returning to the Central Coast, finding her voice as an independent artist, and building a set that feels right for the warmth and energy of an Under the Moon crowd. She also shares what she learned from leading bands, arranging music, and preparing to release new original songs more consistently. The August 14 Under the Moon concert at Dairy Creek is sold out, but the next concert is already on the calendar for Friday, October 2, 2026, and tickets are available now. Keep up with Moonshiner Collective for ticket information, upcoming performances, and new music. • Moonshiner Collective Official Website • Moonshiner Collective on Instagram • Listen to Moonshiner Collective on Spotify • Under the Moon Tickets and Upcoming Events • Elyse Black Official Website • Elyse Black on Instagram • Listen to Elyse Black on Spotify ******** *PORTABIDET: UP+ADAM IS AN OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR PORTABIDET - USE THIS LINK FOR UP+ADAM LISTENERS TO LEARN MORE AND GET YOURS! Listen to Up+Adam with Adam Montiel: Official Website: adammontiel.com Apple Podcasts: Up+Adam on Apple Podcasts Spotify: Up+Adam on Spotify iHeartRadio: Up+Adam on iHeartRadio YouTube Music: Up+Adam on YouTube Music ******** CHECK OUT OUR WOODS HUMANE PET OF THE WEEK! ******** ADAM’S TEDX VIDEO IS HERE! ******** FOLLOW ADAM ON INSTAGRAM ********* Sincere Thanks to the current supporters of Up + Adam. Please take a moment and visit them and thank them for supporting local broadcasting, and valuing what we do here. Thank you for supporting them! Life Elements City of SLO WoodsHumaneSociety Tin City Distillery Original Music by Dan Curcio and Moonshiner Collective Moonshiner on Spotify HERE Please Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast, and learn more at AdamMontiel.com ©2026 Up+Adam with Adam Montiel / LoBro Studios, All Rights Reserved.

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