Episode 235 - Eric Howk

The Cripescast Podcast

Charlie Berens

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, Portugal. The Man’s lead guitarist Eric Howk joins Charlie for a conversation from a green room in Portland to talk all things touring. Having grown up in a small town in Alaska, Eric moved to Seattle at 18, diving head first into life as a young and hungry musician. From his early days living out of a van, to adjusting to life on the road after a paralyzing accident at age 26, to joining Portugal. The Man in 2015, Eric’s spent a collective 25 years on the road. Now, at 44 years old, he’s ready to take a step back from touring to enjoy life on his farm. In this episode, Eric shares wild stories about his grandfather’s airplane junkyard, Charlie gives us a taste of his harmonica playing skills, and the two of them joke about starting a blues band.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the Krepscast. I'm your host, Charlie Barron's. This is the podcast where we talk to people for and or from the Midwest.
0:07.0	We are powered by Everleg Solar and here is this week's episode. Hey, everybody, my guest this week is Eric Hawk. He is the guitarist of Portugal, the band.
0:17.1	Eric and I have been buddies for a couple of years ever since Joey's song last, maybe two years ago is when we first met.
0:23.9	But he lives out there in Portland.
0:25.9	I had a show in Portland.
0:27.9	And so we decided to link up, do it in person.
0:30.4	It was a lot of fun.
0:31.4	By the way, sorry, we have gone a couple weeks without a new episode.
0:34.8	It's just been a little crazy with filming the special and then
0:38.3	jumping right back to the road. So we're going to try to not do that as much as possible.
0:44.0	But yeah, it was super fun talking with Eric. We discussed everything from like where he is on
0:50.8	his sort of music journey right now, the things that he's up to, his history with Portugal,
0:56.6	the band, or I'm sorry, with Portugal the man. And then just kind of, you know, he's from Alaska.
1:06.3	So Alaska versus Midwest, we dove into that a little bit and also the Pacific Northwest versus the Midwest.
1:14.8	A lot of quirks, a lot of fun things.
1:17.9	We had a great conversation.
1:19.6	We also talked some bucks.
1:21.0	He's a big NBA fan.
1:22.4	So a lot of great stuff.
1:23.6	But anyway, that interview coming up here soon.
1:25.6	In the meantime, I want to let you guys know,
1:27.7	I am in St. Louis on 321 and then Cedar Rapids the next day, Omaha, after that. On 328,
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