# 'NEW WAVE THEATER' w/ Rob Zabrecky Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/new-wave-theater-w-rob-zabrecky Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/new-wave-theater-w-rob-zabrecky.md Podcast: [REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE](https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757) Published: 2026-03-05T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/revolutionspermovie/episodes/new-wave-theater-w-rob-zebreky Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/64de4e5db2838f0011a11fce/e/6932242eaef2c71c1d94f531/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/episodes/new-wave-theater-w-rob-zabrecky Duration seconds: 4592 ## Resource This week, I’m joined by actor, author, magician, mentalist, and songwriter  Rob Zabrecky  ( Zabrecky ,  Possum Dixon  & author of  Strange Cures ), who chose to discuss a music TV series close to both of our hearts:  NEW WAVE THEATER .   We also talk about the fantastical stories from Rob's life including his F.B.I. impersonating Uncle and convincing  Sherman Hemsley  of The Jeffersons to buy  Black Flag ’s TV Party single, how truth will always out-weird fiction, going out on the road with  Dead Milkmen , how it was not unusual to see  Drew Barrymore  making coffee while Ann Magnuson performed at the legendary L.A. art-weirdo venue Pick Me Up, trying to get  Wall Of Voodoo 's  Stan Ridgway  to produced Possum Dixon, Rob walking into Kenzo’s Yogi Magic Mart in Baltimore and it changing his trajectory from music towards magic, the disappearing condom magic stage act of Possum Dixon and  Peter Buck 's take on seeing it live, performing in front of  Penn & Teller , discovering New Wave Theater,  Night Flight ,  Fear ,  Suburban Lawns , the weirdo bands that appeared on NWT who never made a record, the incredible life of host  Peter Ivers , Peter opening for  Fleetwood Mac  in only a diaper, Peter Ivers super fan  Jello Biafra , Peter writing the music for and singing "In Heaven" for  David Lynch’s  Eraserhead , the dark world of NWT producer/director  David Jove , the unsolved murder of Peter Ivers,  Circle Jerks , the performance of "The Film We Never Made", the one-act play Rob wrote about Peter Ivers, who should be cast to play Peter Ivers, NWT's opening monologues and the Chris Genkle commercials,… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/episodes/new-wave-theater-w-rob-zabrecky/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/new-wave-theater-w-rob-zabrecky.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.