Welcome back! Our guest this time out is Brendan Hesse. Brendan is a writer for Digital Trends, a Pacific Northwesterner and a former colleague of Dan's at Nine Circles -- so you know there's gonna be some metal in this chat. But would you guess there's also some Backstreet Boys? And a TOTALLY awesome "Always"? (Seriously--shit-eating grin material, y'all.) Jump in and check it out! **BRENDAN'S LINKS** Digital Trends: http://www.digitaltrends.com/users/bhesse/ Nine Circles post archive: http://ninecircles.co/author/homelessviking/ Twitter: twitter.com/Brendan_LH **OUR LINKS** Web: firstlastalwayspod.tumblr.com Twitter: twitter.com/FLAPodcast Instagram: instagram.com/firstlastalwayspod Facebook: /firstlastalwayspod Email: firstlastalwayspod@gmail.com