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A weekly podcast deadicated to all things grateful. The Help on the Way Podcast is a spin-off of the long running reddit series. Each week our hosts, thegame, fig, and knob, listen to Grateful Dead show and discuss it. These shows are chosen at random, and span from the most primal of primal dead to the MIDI-filled 90s. Paradise waits...
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Signup to Generate a PitchA weekly podcast deadicated to all things grateful. The Help on the Way Podcast is a spin-off of the long running reddit series. Each week our hosts, thegame, fig, and knob, listen to Grateful Dead show and discuss it. These shows are chosen at random, and span from the most primal of primal dead to the MIDI-filled 90s. Paradise waits...
Recent episodes include "Fireworks of Feeling - 3/12/92" (23 August 2026, 175 minutes), "Busted Down on Bourbon Street - 1/31/70" (8 August 2026, 7 minutes), and "ISO The Best 80s Other One - 6/30/85" (22 July 2026, 135 minutes).
Help on the Way publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 86 minutes across 100 episodes.
Booking probability for Help on the Way is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Help on the Way requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Help on the Way's contact route on record: public web form.
Help on the Way is a music podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Episode #137
Join your cohosts FiG and Knob as they Go to Nassau in this extraordinary 1992 show! Along the way they'll be discussing the days between, the first summer after Bobby, NPR, and a huge shout for friend of the pod Mike...
Episode #136
Your host for the evening FiG brings you an interesting set plagued by technical issues but historic nonetheless as later that night the Dead would go on to be busted down on bourbon street . No set is attached to the...
Episode #135
Join your hosts FiG and Knob as we explore 6/30/85 over in Columbia, MD. Along the way we'll discuss some GD X MLB collabs and Bobby and the Midnights (now on streaming services!) Here's the set: One Mississippi...
Episode #134
FiG here coming atcha with another HOTW Minisode! Lots of Reddit chatter about this one so would be remiss not to highlight all the fun! Here's the link to the Reddit thread where you can find the archive link...
Episode #133
FiG coming atcha with another mini-sode to highlight 7/30/83 -- you can find more info on the show here! https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/1u6h09h/help_on_the_way_your_weekly_listening_thread/
Episode #132
...and take another step back in time to this excellent show from the promised land of 77. Your hosts FiG and Knob discuss some GD news and updates and of course walk you through the weekly show, which Dick chose as his...
Episode #131
Another HOTW MiniSode, this time from Landover, MD in October 1994. Not one of their bests but some interesting stuff (last China Doll, I beleive -- also Jerry on Drums) and we get a JWG3 reaction post so I'm gonna talk...
Episode #130
More on this format change!! In between episodes where more than one of us can chat about a show, we're gonna feature mini episodes which discuss very briefly the weekly Reddit thread (including comments from all ya'll...
Episode #129
And we're back! As your hosts for the evening catch up, introduce a format change to the pod, and bring you they're discussions of a Spring '89 heater from Milwaukee! Here's the set: One Hell In A Bucket > They Love...
Episode #128
In a quick one here your host FiG discuss an early 78 show. Enjoy! One Cold Rain And Snow [5:43] ; Mexicali Blues [3:30] > Big River [5:55] ; They Love Each Other [7:02] ; Looks Like Rain [7:41] ; Loser [7:21]...
Episode #127
Welcome back to another episode of the Help on the way podcast! Lots of negging on this random show from 1995 but your host FiG rather liked it! What say you all? One - [1:01:00] Jack Straw ; Peggy-O ; Wang Dang Doodle...
Episode #126
Join your host FiG for some BBQ and Good ole Grateful Dead as the band takes on Kansas City, MO, 7/7/81! Here's the set: One New Minglewood Blues [6:22] > Bertha [5:23] > Dancing In The Street [8:10]; Big Railroad Blues...
Episode #125
Join your host FiG on a (northbound) train headed to midtown Manhattan on what was undoubtedly a cold, rainy night in 83! Cold Rain And Snow [6:43] ; New Minglewood Blues [9:15] ; Ramble On Rose [6:55] ; My Brother Esau...
Episode #124
It's May 77, it's Baltimore MD and it's ... Not a sell out?? FiG takes you back to the past to enjoy one from the Golden age and ponders whether the music can ever be too perfect? One The Music Never Stopped [7:03]...
Episode #123
One Playing In The Band ; Bertha ; Mama Tried ; Mexicali Blues ; Ramble On Rose ; Little Red Rooster ; Bird Song Two The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) [4:17] ; Dancing In The Street [7:00] > Black Muddy River [5:41] >...
Episode #122
Join your host FiG as he discusses another excellent show in GD history, this time from the very day the Steal Your Face album was released! One The Promised Land [3:59];[1:17] ; Sugaree [9:27] % Cassidy [4:12] % Row...
Episode #121
In which FiG let's us know his thoughts on this one from juuuust before Jerry's coma One Feel Like A Stranger ; Friend Of The Devil ; Mama Tried ; Big River ; Loser ; Cassidy ; West L.A. Fadeaway ; Let It Grow Two...
Episode #120
We're headed to to bean town with your hot FiG. Will this one make his book of the dead? The length of the pod indicates yes! Here's the(excellent) set One Good Times ; Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told ; West L.A...
Episode #119
One Week after Bobby we're back featuring a heater from 1990 (VW's second ever show with the band). FiG takes the mic to tell you about the show and all of the eulogies and well wishes that have come pouring in over the...
Episode #118
FiG and Knob bring you a sad but special episode as we remember the life and legacy of Grateful Dead guitarist and co-founder, Bob Weir. Along the way we'll be discussing our personal rememberances as well as those that...
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