Bad Idea Social Club

Aaron McCall, Joe Matteson

Booking Overview

This independent creative-arts interview podcast focuses on artistic process, creative careers, personal struggle, mental health, and candid life stories, typically featuring working artists, photographers, poets, and creative business owners. Strong pitch candidates include distinctive creative practitioners, arts entrepreneurs, and experts with compelling personal or professional transformation stories; booking difficulty is low because recent guests are accessible regional and independent professionals rather than major celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 89

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 24 subscribers

Instagram: 3.8k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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Host

Aaron McCall - Graphic designer and independent podcast producer focused on candid conversations about creative work, process, struggle, and personal growth.

Joe Matteson - Photographer who contributes a visual-arts perspective to the show as its co-host and sidekick.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Working artists, photographers, writers, poets, designers, and creative business owners with an established practice and a candid perspective on their work or life journey.

Required Achievements:

Operating an independent creative business, Publishing books or other creative work, Holding a regional arts or civic distinction, Founding or leading a mission-driven organization

Recent Guest Discussions

Rae Lang - Artistic Evolution, Creative Entrepreneurship, Simplifying Life, Parenting, And Redefining Success.

Trish Hadley - Vulnerability And Trust In Boudoir Photography, Clients’ Motivations, And Changing Direction When A Career Path Feels Wrong.

Marcel Fable Price - Creativity, Mental Health, Grief, Loss, Love, Storytelling, Nonprofit Leadership, And Holding Space For Transformation.

Recent Topics

Design, Photography, Art, Mental Health, Entrepreneurship

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Bad Idea Social Club

⏮ REWIND // Khalid Ibrahim: In Love & Focus

August 18, 2026

Part of our REWIND summer series, we’re revisiting eight conversations that crawled into our brains and hearts, nested, and just live there now. This time, it’s "Khalid Ibrahim: In Love & Focus" from Season 2.Khalid Ibrahim (photographer, Eat Pomegranate) opens up with Aaron McCall about connecting with his subjects, balancing his creativity with his life as an epidemiologist, and how his experiences growing up in both Pakistan and the United States have influenced his relations...

⏮ REWIND // Alyssa Pacheco: Mirror Mirror

August 11, 2026

Part of our REWIND summer series, we’re revisiting eight conversations that crawled into our brains and hearts, nested, and just live there now. This time, it’s "Alyssa Pacheco: Mirror Mirror" from Season 4.Alyssa Pacheco (poet, author, artist) shares her story with Aaron McCall as they discuss the deeply personal nature of her work. Alyssa opens up about the influence of her family dynamics, the vulnerability in her words, and how her lived experiences serve as a form of discovery,...

⏮ REWIND // Scott Millington: Real AF

August 04, 2026

Part of our REWIND summer series, we’re revisiting eight conversations that crawled into our brains and hearts, nested, and just live there now. This time, it’s "Scott Millington: Real AF" from Season 5.Scott Millington (photographer) has always had an eye for real-life moments and in photography, he found the language to document them. Scott sits down with Aaron McCall to talk about how the camera gave him purpose, community, and a way to show the world as he sees it. From indie wr...

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