Topics: Baby Gas Mask Records, background noise, following Ween around, turning unspeakable tragedy into something positive, circumstance, home studios, Skid Row cassettes, Debbie Gibson, growing up in the film Whiplash, finding REM, fringe music, the Tucson to Philadelphia connection, infrastructure issues, coping mechanisms, running a record label, the vinyl trade, filling gaps, learning curves, the death of selling out, creativity as a local industry, and the things we do for love.