Ep516: Punk Cinema with Kevin Smith & Josh Roush
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Smith and Josh Roush discuss punk cinema and share how the DIY ethos of punk rock influenced both their filmmaking careers and their lifelong love of music and vinyl records.
September 20 at the Punk Rock Museum - book now!
Topics Include:
- Josh Roush introduces his punk rock film "Wrong Reasons" screening at Punk Rock Museum
- Film described as dramedy about fan kidnapping singer to clean her up
- Josh discovered punk through Rancid track in Beavis and Butthead movie
- Kevin Smith joins, reveals his rebellion was hip hop not punk rock
- Kevin explains his DIY punk ethos despite loving Run DMC and Public Enemy
- Jason Reitman told Kevin that "Clerks" is essentially a punk rock song
- Kevin compares his film career to Anthrax (the band not the disease)
- Josh wrote "Wrong Reasons" for his love of punk rock
- Discussion of Punk Rock Museum displays including Lemmy's boots and Germs footage
- John Hughes soundtracks praised for passionate music curation and detailed planning
- Kevin reveals his vinyl collection started with father's stolen postal records
- Heavy Metal Parking Lot documentary celebrated as authentic snapshot of 1980s culture
- Josh secured soundtrack through Tim Armstrong connections, most artists said yes immediately
- Licensing music from Black Flag, The Wipers, L7 and more.
- Kevin shares $400,000 Fleetwood Mac "Tusk" song licensing horror story from film
- Lindsay Buckingham put "fuck you" price on track, producers paid anyway
- Vinyl collecting discussed as communal church-like experience for non-religious people
- Josh rips personal vinyl at high quality for authentic movie soundtrack pops
- September 20th museum screening includes Q&A, signed posters, and bar party
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:10.0 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:13.0 | Well, hello everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to episode 516 of the Final Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:22.8 | And dear people, this week we've got a very extraordinarily entertaining conversation with a couple of guys, including one Josh Rausch, filmmaker, writer, and director of the movie Wrong Reasons. |
| 0:35.8 | It's an ode to his love of punk music and records specifically. |
| 0:40.4 | And we're also joined by his friend Kevin Smith, who is also a filmmaker, writer, director, |
| 0:45.6 | an actor who truly embodies the punk ethos in the movies he's made, which include clerks, |
| 0:52.0 | dogma, chasing Amy, and more. Now, we talk all about the role that |
| 0:56.2 | music and punk specifically plays in the lives of Josh and Kevin. We also talk about film |
| 1:02.7 | soundtracks, movie licensing for film. How difficult is it to work with folks from Black Flag to |
| 1:08.0 | Fleetwood Mac? These guys have done it all. We talk all about record |
| 1:11.1 | collecting, music films, and lots more. And I want you all to really quick mark your |
| 1:17.8 | calendars. Saturday, September 20th, there will be a movie screening of wrong reasons at the |
| 1:24.4 | Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas. And alongside that movie screening will be an appearance |
| 1:29.1 | of Josh, as well as a very silent friend who cannot be part of the advertising for various |
| 1:35.4 | reasons. So if you are anywhere near Las Vegas, you are not going to want to miss this. Hell, I live |
| 1:40.9 | in Australia, and I'm seriously considering getting there. So, here it is. |
| 1:45.6 | Saturday, September 20th, be at the punk rock museum, see the film wrong reasons, and stick |
| 1:51.3 | around for the QA with Josh and his silent buddy. You're sure to have a great time. So just before |
| 1:57.0 | we get to the interview, I want to welcome everyone who's new to the Vinyl Guide podcast. |
| 2:01.2 | I appreciate all these new listeners coming in. |
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