Episodes

Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
he doesn't wear a thong in this one
00:00:00 - inside you there are two jazz wolves
00:01:01 - james murphy: the third menendez brother
00:02:33 - allison’s cat, chairman meow
00:04:42 - Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
00:05:10 - schrödinger’s tim burton
00:08:19 - Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (for real this time)
00:25:57 - aesthetic superficiality vs. thematic intent
00:32:32 - biblically accurate squidward
00:34:19 - pinocchio covers nine inch nails
00:38:00 - trevor derails the conversation to mock italians
00:42:22 - pinocchio’s james dean phase
00:49:23 - respecting an imperfect vision
00:58:50 - when the whimsy breaks
01:03:13 - dream casting
01:10:56 - yo, who invited the fuckin cricket?
01:15:45 - stop motion glazing
01:20:32 - marcel the shell curb stomps pinocchio
01:23:22 - the reason allison chose this film: a weeb is born
01:25:19 - ratings
01:28:58 - trevor’s pick for next episode (Hole - Live Through This)

Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
pull on yr wife beater, crack open a monster energy drink, and dive into these diamond eyes
CW: this episode contains references to and discussions about suicide. See below for timing if you wish to avoid.
00:00:00 - neil young tries to kill trevor
00:02:12 - kenny g and the jazz wolf
00:08:16 - faux real: the menendez brothers of pop
00:13:57 - a deftones history lesson (and a sound city detour)
00:21:53 - Diamond Eyes
00:26:07 - you will absolutely literally never escape yr own humanity
00:31:07 - 976-EVIL
00:33:22 - slut metal
00:36:40 - CMND/CTRL
00:41:36 - finding music through video games
00:44:25 - dynamic whiplash
00:47:09 - You’ve Seen the Butcher
00:51:26 - Beauty School (feat. Mike Shinoda)
00:54:21 - Risk
00:59:09 - traversing the metal minefield
01:02:14 - Prince
01:06:50 - Sextape
01:10:46 - forgetting how this podcast works
01:13:45 - the reason andrew chose this album: overthinking/under-being (CONTENT WARNING)
01:22:57 - ratings
01:28:19 - allison’s pick for next episode (“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio”)
01:31:42 - glazing 2017
01:35:18 - leftists vs. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Monday Mar 31, 2025
Monday Mar 31, 2025
todaytodaytodaytodaytoday
i consider myselfmyselfmyselfmyselfmyself
the luckiest podcasterodcasterodcasterodcasterodcaster
on the face of the earthearthearthearthearth
00:00:00 - who let the…cats?…IN??
00:02:24 - sneaking into canada
00:05:53 - crash landing revisted
00:10:57 - Eephus
00:18:09 - omnes films: when new englanders discover arthouse
00:22:23 - baseball: america’s greatest export
00:31:06 - the new baseball
00:36:21 - as real as fiction gets
00:44:22 - the rhythm of the game
00:48:20 - dudes rock
00:55:24 - how can you not be romantic about baseball?
00:57:46 - period with purpose
01:01:57 - dissolving the individual into the whole
01:03:57 - livin la vida local
01:07:41 - it’s a beautiful day for a beautiful game
01:11:47 - 2 little things
01:15:32 - picking for nits and coming up empty
01:19:49 - the reason trevor chose this film: the pain of remembering
01:28:23 - ratings
01:34:10 - andrew’s pick for next episode (Deftones - Diamond Eyes)

Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
allison: "...and so ya, that's the story of my 5 year journey to repair my broken relationship with my parents and deprogram them from the cult they'd joined that was brainwashing them into believing in alternative medicine, qanon, and the notion that hitler's art wasn't trash. we've genuinely never been closer and i honestly want to cry just thinking about the fact that after all the pain we went through we came out on the other side closer and stronger than ever before. i'm so excited for what's ahead between us and making the most of the time we're lucky enough to spend together"
andrew: "...hell ya."
00:00:00 - andrew’s edible experience
00:01:38 - when the intro is way shorter than you expect
00:04:15 - why would you ever be a filthy, useless, smooth-brained vikings fan?
00:10:25 - skip to this chapter for andrew being a dumbass in public
00:11:05 - Song One: “Girl Can’t Help It” by Journey
00:14:57 - growing up meen-uh-soht-uh
00:20:53 - Song Two: “He Lives In You (Reprise)” by Jason Raize, Tsidii Le Loka, Ensemble - The Lion King
00:26:35 - an allison history lesson
00:33:57 - Song Three: “You Learn” by Alanis Morissette
00:37:43 - people talk in the background of this chapter, direct yr complaints to allison
00:43:39 - Song Four: “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac
00:45:09 - Film: “Pride and Prejudice” by Joe Wright
00:49:45 - Book: “Babel, or the Necessity of Violence” by R.F. Kuang
00:56:13 - off to fantasyland
01:02:51 - Song Five: “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman
01:03:34 - the pop science lab
01:08:58 - Song Six: “8 (circle)” by Bon Iver
01:11:08 - surviving the hellscape and coming out better (as a lady)
01:17:58 - Song Seven: “My My My!” by Troye Sivan
01:19:09 - you can go and love yrself
01:22:39 - “Inbred” by Ethel Cain
01:25:23 - Luxury Item: soap
01:27:18 - You can only save one…

Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
the one where we go back to the cluuuub
00:00:00 - meteorological edging
00:02:07 - francis ford-shadowing coppola
00:03:46 - killing off shia labeouf
00:06:03 - an fka twigs history lesson
00:10:35 - EUSEXUA
00:14:52 - inventing words and operating on yr own terms
00:23:00 - meet the producers
00:26:37 - anger gardner
00:29:57 - Eusexua / Girl Feels Good
00:32:48 - Perfect Stranger
00:35:32 - Drums of Death
00:37:48 - pacing back and forth
00:40:16 - Childlike Things
00:45:30 - Room of Fools / Sticky
00:51:29 - Keep It, Hold It
00:56:17 - 24hr Dog
00:58:22 - when the girl next door tries to be freaky
01:01:20 - stephen a. twigs
01:02:49 - Striptease
01:06:56 - Wanderlust
01:14:11 - the reason allison chose this album: the artist as subject
01:15:46 - ratings
01:18:31 - trevor’s pick for next episode (Carson Lund’s "Eephus")

Friday Mar 14, 2025
Friday Mar 14, 2025
the pizza is deep and so is the sadness...
00:00:00 - keep yr woke away from my beer
00:04:26 - dragoons n’ roses
00:06:06 - take 2 (it’s really allison’s fault)
00:08:45 - the betrayal of the chicago bears by the coward andrew gardner
00:14:47 - Song One: “Route 66” by Depeche Mode
00:19:46 - the youth of the south side
00:23:04 - the land of julie delpy
00:25:02 - Song Two: “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder
00:29:43 - music as a superpower
00:36:42 - Song Three: “Message In a Bottle” by The Police
00:43:52 - seems i’m not alone in being alone
00:50:24 - Song Four: “Feel Good Inc.” by Gorillaz
00:53:26 - finding yr own taste
00:56:34 - Book: “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (5th Anniversary Edition)” by Hanif Abdurraqib
00:59:19 - Film: “The Grand Budapest Hotel” by Wes Anderson
01:06:48 - Song Five: “Satellite” by Guster
01:09:48 - going broke for concerts
01:13:10 - Song Six: “Clocks” by Coldplay
01:17:29 - a dose of the stalg
01:22:42 - Song Seven: “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure
01:26:48 - politics for third graders
01:30:34 - the state of protest music
01:32:51 - Song Eight: “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar
01:44:47 - Luxury Item: a laptop (no wi-fi)
01:46:10 - You can only save one…

Sunday Mar 02, 2025
Sunday Mar 02, 2025
ever wonder how trevor's voice got so droll and sensual??? ;)
00:00:00 - just the two of us
00:03:12 - what we doing?
00:06:18 - why would anyone choose to be a lions fan?
00:08:28 - born down in a dead man’s town (Detroit)
00:12:48 - Song One: “If I Had a Boat” by Lyle Lovett
00:17:23 - the songs our parents give us
00:21:47 - Song Two: “Thunder Road” by Bruce Springsteen
00:28:07 - Song Three: “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan
00:33:20 - high school musical
00:35:37 - more talk about Springsteen
00:43:02 - Song Four: “Wide Awake” by Parquet Courts
00:50:22 - Book: “after the quake” by Haruki Murakami
00:56:04 - Film: “Chunking Express” by Wong Kar-wai
01:02:52 - Song Five: “Wicked Little Town - Hedwig Version” by Stephen Trask
01:08:55 - Song Six: “You! Me! Dancing!” by Los Campesinos!
01:14:26 - Song Seven: “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor
01:19:42 - Song Eight: “Grew Up at Midnight” by The Maccabees
01:25:24 - Luxury Item: A dirt bike
01:32:52 - You can only save one…

Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
if you're white, skip this one
00:00:00 - the new pop girlies and the test of time
00:08:20 - a Noname history lesson
00:11:20 - the whiter the chocolate
00:12:38 - a Noname history lesson (part 2)
00:16:51 - Telefone
00:20:18 - a poet and you know it
00:22:03 - a living room performance
00:23:48 - the new age of musical communities
00:28:17 - already timeless
00:30:25 - Nogame
00:33:19 - Bye Bye Baby
00:45:47 - the reason andrew chose this album: the art vs. the artist even when the artist has a point
01:00:23 - ratings (andrew gets unnecessarily confrontational)
01:03:24 - the 10 criteria and why there shouldn’t be any
01:04:17 - allison’s pick for next episode (FKA twigs - EUSEXUA)

Monday Feb 17, 2025
Monday Feb 17, 2025
am i buggin' you? don't mean to bug ya...
andrew is just getting over a cold so he's sorry for the occasional sniffle
00:00:00 - snowstorms, plane crashes, and the dismantling of government
00:02:31 - reminiscing on our trip to joshua tree
00:06:28 - a U2 history lesson
00:15:12 - The Joshua Tree
00:19:25 - THEE U2 album
00:22:31 - the brian eno effect
00:25:06 - a lyrical invitation
00:37:57 - Bullet the Blue Sky
00:45:07 - Running to Stand Still
00:50:06 - the second single that never was
00:52:22 - depressingly relevant
00:56:38 - One Tree Hill
01:07:44 - the two bonos (sweetest thing)
01:11:14 - Exit
01:16:56 - bono's characters
01:19:57 - edge's hats
01:21:07 - the "lull"
01:22:47 - With or Without You
01:28:21 - the reason trevor picked this album: catharsis and family
01:39:41 - ratings
01:40:53 - what happened next: the grammys, rattle and hum, and dreaming it all up again
01:44:36 - andrew's suggestion for next episode (Noname - Telefone)

Monday Feb 03, 2025
Monday Feb 03, 2025
do you want to see the west with usssssssss?
00:00 - first day of school
05:41 - our alt-pop southern goth princess
08:15 - Carpet Bed
19:48 - Golden Age
40:46 - not another tortured artist
46:58 - Inbred
1:00:36 - Preacher's Daughter
01:25:39 - trevor's treatise on the deromanticization of america through the eyes of hayden anhedönia
01:32:49 - talking about the grammy's and how nobody should care about them
01:35:52 - Perverts
02:02:14 - how this show is gonna work (we don't fully know yet)
02:05:29 - trevor's suggestion for the next episode


