{"podcast":{"title":"Tour Stories/The Check-In with Joe Plummer","slug":"tour-stories-the-check-in-with-joe-plummer-3168262","podcast_index_feed_id":3168262,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/tourstories/","website_url":"https://www.ruinousmedia.com/tourstories","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/efecf97e-d290-4584-99fc-cc189095006b/Pod-Tile.jpg","author":"Ruinous Media","episode_count":334,"summary":"Joe Plummer and friends share their stories from life on the road. We hear funny, sad and sometimes scary tales from musicians, comedians and writers. He's also \"Checks-In\" with artists to hear new music, find out what they've been up to and whats next on the creative docket. Have a tour story? Want to get in touch with Joe? Send a message to hello@ruinousmedia.com. Tour Stories is produced by Ruinous Media. http://www.ruinousmedia.com/tourstories/","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T16:23:30.096546+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tour-stories-the-check-in-with-joe-plummer-3168262"},"episode":{"title":"The Check-In with Dawson Daugherty-Almost Monday","slug":"the-check-in-with-dawson-daugherty-almost-monday","published_at":"2026-06-26T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tour-stories-the-check-in-with-joe-plummer-3168262/the-check-in-with-dawson-daugherty-almost-monday","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tour-stories-the-check-in-with-joe-plummer-3168262","url":"https://www.ruinousmedia.com/tourstories","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b7f196d1-de6d-40fe-a86c-2a59b3ecb6fb.mp3","summary":"Dawson Daugherty is a singer, songwriter and founding member of Almost Monday. Their second album Thank God It’s Almost Monday is due out September 9 via Hollywood Records and are on tour now with Young The Giant and Cold War Kids. This week Joe reports from the back of a tour bus where Dawson share’s the unique origin of Almost Monday, how surfing played a role in the formation of the band and why Dawson with inspired to delve into songwriting as a youngster. The two discuss the sophomoric pressure for the new record, how it came from extreme highs and lows for the band and why that lends to its diverse song to song sound. Dawson tells us why the lead single Leaving Is Easy is an important song for the band, he shares some insight into his writing process, and we get a sample of the newest single, Delicate. Almost Monday Tour Stories supported by Kingston Union who is having their Summer Slip On sale now. Use code SUMMERSLIPS25 for 25% All Slip-On's. Go here Kingston Union Tour Stories would like to welcome our newest sponsor Kuma Coffee. Kuma Coffee is a 100% Independently owned roasting company right here in Seattle since 2008. Kuma is a 5-person team, roasting over 100,000lbs of exclusively high scoring coffee each year. They source their coffees direct from origin and pay well over fair trade pricing to farmers. This guarantees the highest quality, while supporting rural farming communities throughout the Global South They also just launched an instant coffee… (Joe’s favorite instant) Find everything Kuma at Kumacoffee.com Episode supported by our friends Izotope This episode is produced with Ozone 12, the newest from Izotope. Head over to izotope.com now for savings on all their production software. Go check out Ozone 12 and RX 12 and master with the best and sol…","meta_description":"Dawson Daugherty is a singer, songwriter and founding member of Almost Monday. Their second album Thank God It’s Almost Monday is due out September 9 via…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1782,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tour-stories-the-check-in-with-joe-plummer-3168262/episodes/the-check-in-with-dawson-daugherty-almost-monday/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tour-stories-the-check-in-with-joe-plummer-3168262/the-check-in-with-dawson-daugherty-almost-monday.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}