University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley Percussion Professor Marco Schirippa stops by to talk about teaching at UTRGV and getting the tenure-track job (2:40), growing up in Syracuse, NY, having parents in the stand-up comedy business, having an older brother in music, video games and pro hockey (18:50), going to Ithaca College (NY) for undergrad and getting a degree in theory along the way (38:35), working at Target before getting his master’s and doctorate at Indiana University, along with discussion of “intentional playing” (51:00), teaching at Tennessee Tech as an adjunct, finishing up the doctorate, and job-related stress (01:10:45), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions segment (01:22:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 film The Worst Person in the World (01:46:15).

Links:

Marco Schirripa’s homepage

Joe W. Moore III on the podcast

Mark Ramirez

Daniel Hunter-Holly

Kevin Bobo on the podcast