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Goose Obsessed Radio Personalities (GORPs) & Station Contributors

Our community of contributors is part of what makes WTED Goose Radio a great source of detailed history, background, and trivia surrounding some of the best Goose performances in their catalog. Our Goose Jockeys and GORPs are featured so you can learn more about their background and history with the band below. Want to join their ranks? Join the Community!

Michael "Mjbasty1" Basty

Michael is an active Goose Jockey and the WTED Program Director, contributing to show analysis on WTED Radio as well as moderating the WysteriaLane Community site. He resides in Oregon but still has Michigan close to his heart. When not working on the WTED Radio station, he enjoys live music (shocker), water sports, cycling, and golf.

Michael says:

Saw Goose live in Feb 2020 as my first time hearing the band. Very impressed. Followed a little bit during the pandemic. Mission Spotify release got me listening again at the end of 2021. Saw my second show in Feb 2022 and can pinpoint the exact moment during set one that I "got it". The hook was fully set. Immediately started consuming every soundboard upon release as well as most of the back catalog. Beyond the music, the community surrounding Goose and the friendships I've made because of them are unrivaled in my life so far.

Tug "OldManRising" Martin

Tug is a WysteriaLane Community site moderator, Goose Jockey, contributor of Goose lore, and dispenser of sage old man wisdom. He and his family live in Virginia after having spent a long stint in the Denver, Colorado area. When not conversing on the WTED community chat, he enjoys music, baseball, mountain sports, boating, guitar, beach-time, and discovering more happiness through less.

Tug says:

Found my way to Goose via Nugs net back in early 2019. Happened upon them on a lark when I was getting bored with all of the other stuff. Kicking myself for not realizing they played close by a few times and not going to see them. Can't really pinpoint a moment or song that hooked me. But I was definitely hooked. Went back to the beginning of their stuff on Nugs and have listened to every soundboard released at least once. I am unabashedly in this bands pocket and will follow them wherever they take us. No other band that I've listened to over the years gives me so much joy. If we are all individual tuning forks, Goose has hit my frequency with greater force than any other thing out there.

Brett "Gratetful Goose Gizzard Biscuits" Dunkin

Brett is a WysteriaLane Community moderator and Goose Jockey for WTED Goose Radio. He's a huge live music fan, having been to more than 350 concerts, festivals, and other shows, starting when he was eight years old and his dad took him to see REM at the Hollywood Bowl. He lives in Los Angeles and enjoys that California Magic.

Brett says:

My first introduction to the Jamband world was the Fare Thee Well shows in San Francisco in 2015, though I didn't really become a true "fan" of the Grateful Dead until my sophomore year of college, when I listened to Europe 72 on a long drive back to school after a weekend hometown visit. My first introduction to Goose was watching the 2019 Peach Fest set. After hearing the cover of Mississippi Half-Step and that ripping Madhuvan, I knew these guys were something special. My first Goose show was at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in August of 2022 with my dad, and I've seen them nine more times (and counting) since then!

I am super excited to be a part of this wonderful radio station and cannot wait to see it grow into something magical. Thanks for listening!

Simeon "SimTurner" Turner

Sim is a frequent Goose Jockey and the executive assistant and tour companion to the Wysteria Lane Program Director. When he isn't making snide comments in the chat here on Wysteria Lane, he is probably hanging out with his wife, his daughter (known around these parts as Little Yeti), or trying to figure out where to hang yet another Goose poster on the walls of his basement. Born and raised in Colorado, Sim is happy to contribute to CO attendance bias for Goose any time.

Sim says:

Goose grabbed me in 2023 and I am so grateful for it. The community here at WL is something wholesome and special, a rare find on the internet nowadays, and I am so thankful to be a part of it, and I'm equally thankful for the band and their music that has drawn us all together here. Having a bad day? Go listen to San Diego Madhuvan! 😜

Ben "BenChasingSatellites" McDermott

Ben is a Midwestern transplant residing in the desert Southwest with his wife and two children where he is living out the idyllic themes of a classic western ballad by Marty Robbins. Ben is a certified GORP master even though he would vehemently disagree with that assessment but that's ok because he remains, as ever, in the hands of the team of evil druids that control space and time and the internet which, incidentally, is made of a series of tubes.

Ben says:

We are good people attracting good people. I am beyond grateful to be part of a team and community that brings out the best in us. Thank you for listening, we are glad you are here.


Shawna "ShawnaLee" Boynton

Shawna is our "Best Social Media Director in the History of fan-run Goose Radio Stations" and GORP. She's the one behind the screen, cranking out goofy posts and thriving on community involvement. She's especially passionate about supporting and lifting up other women in the scene, and striving to ensure every fan's voice has a place here. Based in the scenic Finger Lakes region of NY, she shares her home with her husband, dogs, and ducks; balancing her digital work with passions like gardening, hiking, baking, and various art projects.

Shawna says:

I truly had no idea I was a 'jam band' fan until 2016, when friends took me to a three-night Phish run. My mind expanded ten sizes that weekend, and I never looked back. Those same friends insisted I'd love Goose, and they were absolutely right! I started following the band more closely in 2019, but my true obsession status wasn't achieved until I listened to the 2023 Live at the Salt Shed album about 4,000 times.


Kyle "WysteriaLane" French

Kyle lives in Bedford, TX (a suburb of Dallas/Fort Worth) with his wife since 2009 and his daughter, their only child, born in 2015. He once wrote, in as brief a way possible, about their lives and relationship with the band for the El Goose Times, featured in the STTF/EGT collaboration issue. Kyle also hosts his primary Goose blog space at www.wysterialane.org.

He has been the face behind the WysteriaLane account on many of the internet platforms we all frequent; where he admits to inevitably searching for that feeling of community that never seemed to grasp his true spirit so much as it has at the WysteriaLane community. Thus, he says, is why he created it; not only for selfish reasons, but for the community at large (so all of this is really his fault). If you can't find him there, you'll find him doing one of a variety of things with his family: assisting at his daughter's soccer practice, on a date with his wife, on a random weekend family fun outing with their 21' featherlite trailer in tow, at a Dallas Stars hockey game, or in their family sized 14' tandem kayak in various small bodies of water surrounding the greater DFW area.

Kyle says:

At the very heart of my being is finding what keeps things balanced. Balance is key. This community, surrounding this music, with this certain ethos that I believe in; it helps me find balance. I will never stop pursuing that balance for all the wonderful people that join me on this journey, known and unknown. Thank you all for the support over the years.

Corey "BeefofAges" Terrell

Corey is a Wysteria Lane Community administrator, station manager for WTED Goose Radio, and profoundly silly person. He handles all of the gory, behind-the-scenes technical details that make WysteriaLane, the Community, WTED Radio, and the Goosemas Night Zero livestream run smoothly. And when they don't run smoothly, it's probably because he did something real dumb, for which he proactively apologizes.

Corey lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (site of your 2025 JOTY) with his wife (who is an immeasurably better person than he is) and a jerk cat; he enjoys travel (especially for live music), using too many parentheses, proselytizing the good news of Central Texas style barbecue, and the bar he was legally required to build in his basement.

Corey says:

Is this thing on? Who did this? Why is that sticky? Where's my hammer?