EP. 90: Punk Rock Resilience | Pete Parada

This week, I sit down with punk rock drummer Pete Parada. Pete was the drummer for Offspring for over a decade and was let go when he refused to be injected with the COVID-19 vaccine.
On This Episode We Cover:
2:09 - Pete and why he was fired from The Offspring
8:35 - Standing up against vaccine mandates and walking away from a career
10:20 - Courage is contagious
14:15 - Social pressure to get the vaccine
17:38 - The power of fear
19:12 - The music industry and how the pandemic impacted it
27:30 - People turning on you if they don’t agree with you
30:15 - Did Pete get any new opportunities from his stance on the vaccine + his new band The Defiant
32:07 - The evolution of the audience experience
34:16 - The bastardization of science
38:00 - What is a PAR-Q
40:25 - mRNA and reverse transcriptase (RT)
42:05 - When can we hear new music from Pete Parada?
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