[1][2] At Visual Data, he was the head of the shipping and receiving department, in which he was responsible for delivering episodes of The Bernie Mac Show and Malcolm in the Middle to Fox Broadcasting Company.

[4] Growing up in California in the 1990s, he saw local nu metal bands such as Linkin Park, Papa Roach, System of a Down and Static-X perform live before the genre saw mainstream success.

That year, he released Down Time which included tour stories, poems, advice for hosting basement shows and a transcript of his first interview ever with Jacob Bannon in 2004.

[8] Each week, Bolm discusses a series of firsts with his guest – be they a musician, a cartoonist, a photographer, a comic book creator or some other type of creative.

Guests so far have included Reba Meyers of Code Orange, The New Yorker cartoonist Madeleine Horvath and record producer Will Yip.

Bolm played the role of Jeremy Barf, guitarist of a fictional punk rock band, in the 2022 biographical parody film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.