Nordic Thunder's podcast tells the truth about air guitar. Justin Howard better known as Nordic thunder at least in Oulu Air Guitar world. Now he starts his own podcast "Let's Get Nordic". Nordic's first guest is his soulmate Jaakko Jokipii.

1. The Village Idiot

Hott Lixx Hulahan, 2008 World Air Guitar Champion expected to do a ”fart sniffing” interview with Nordic Thunder but they ended up talking about suffering and how to really lean into love. Hot Lixx, also known as Craig Billmeier also tells how air guitar immediately showed him the creativity and community support that is the core of Air Guitar. Justin "Nordic Thunder" Howard is hosting the show.

5. Getting Nordic Is Traveling That Distance

Air Guitar ambassador, Champion of Champions Justin "Nordic Thunder" Howard gets Nordic with William Ocean

6. Take It Easy

This time Nordic Thunder is interviewing a fresh World Champion Kirill "Guitarantula" Blumenkrants!

7. Even The Darkest Moments Can Teach You Something

Nordic Thunder discusses his witnessing a murder on the streets of Chicago one day after returning from Oulu, Finland and examines the question "Does playing air guitar really create world peace?"

8. Does Playing Air Guitar Really Create World Peace?

Nordic Thunder sits down with Thunder Mother and the two discuss the chords of life and the skill of just winging it.

9. Just Wing It

Time travel, no New Year’s resolution, and practicing self love.  Nordic Thunder talks with friends Paul and Lady Attila about all this and more.

10. The More Tries You Have The More Successful You Can Get

French air guitar royalty, Lord Scrat, talks with Nordic about hitch hiking, the return of Ireland to the Air Guitar World Championships and pushing yourself out of your comfort zone by doing weird things.

11. Not Everything In Life Has To Be A Competition

A man with many names joins Nordic on the one year anniversary of the show to talk about living in a simulation, beatboxing with Flavor Flav and taking it easy.

12. We're Living In A Simulation

Dirty Airy joins Nordic and the two talk about acknowledging ones self esteem or lack there of, being sober and the weirdness of being a “rock star”.

13. Air Guitar Is A Litmus Test To Measure Progress

In this month’s episode of “Let’s Get Nordic”, Nordic chats with his friend of 20 years, “The Hebrew Hammer”.  The two talk about staging a mugging, road tripping across the country, judging air guitar but also learning not to judge life.

14. It's Just A Matter Of Opinion

Let’s get Nordic is a 30-60 minute long show that will explore the very real lessons one can learn about themselves and their lives through the power of love, play, and belonging to a community that revolves around a unified mission.  That mission of course is one of world peace and understanding.

”Let’s get Nordic” will consist of conversations with individuals who have been involved with the community of air guitar either from a competitors perspective, an organizational perspective or that of those who have witnessed the power of air guitar from the peripherals.  The guests on the show will talk about and share with listeners the real impacts of playing an invisible instrument has, had and continues to have on their lives and the lives of those around them.

The purpose of the Air Guitar World Championships is to promote world peace. According to the ideology of the competition, wars would end, climate change stop and all bad things disappear, if all the people in the world played the Air Guitar. This is why the whole universe is invited to play the Air Guitar for the world peace at the end of the competition. The competition started in 1996 and it is celebrated every year in August in Oulu.

Music: Aallokko – Tyynyjen Tyyny (Tuuli Jartti, Aki Latvamäki)

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