The Hall of Greatness: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the Hall’o’ween o’ Greatness! Because of the season, we’re talking about the best-selling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller. We talk about why the album was so big, so important, and so personal to us. We also go track by track and discuss each of them in depth. Have a listen for … Continue reading "11 – Thriller"
There are three weeks until the most important midterm elections of our lifetimes. What makes midterms so important? Why is there lower turnout in midterm elections? We dive deep into civics and tell you all the reasons why voting is the coolest. For more information on where to vote, go to https://vote.gov/ This week in greatness: … Continue reading "10 – The Midterms 2018"
It was World Guitar Day on Sept 29, so Andy and JB got together to reminisce about their favorite guitars growing up, playing in bands together, dream guitars, and what a person’s guitar says about them. While we recorded this the evening of Sept 29, we waited to publish it for a few weeks because … Continue reading "09 – Happy World Guitar Day!"
We continue our discussion of whether we can make an ethical case for performance enhancement in sports by starting with talking about true enhancement, eugenics (we’re opposed, btw), Andy talks about Star Trek for some reason, and Andy and JB go through the various ethical systems. This week in greatness: Lebron James’s school Freedom of … Continue reading "08 – Drugs Are Bad, Mmmkay? Part II"
We return with a MEGA-sized episode featuring our special guest “Joe” to talk about the use of performance enhancement in sports, specifically baseball. Can we make an ethical case that the increased “greatness” from performance-enhancing drugs is worth it? We’ll try. And because this went so long, we split it into two episodes. Highlights from … Continue reading "07 – Drugs Are Bad, Mmmmkay? Part I"
Summer is over, it’s time to do a post-mortem on summer movies, so spoiler alert– if you didn’t see these in theaters, we do talk minor spoilers. What makes a great “summer” movie? Andy and JB deconstruct two BIG summer blockbusters, Mission Impossible: Fallout and The Meg and why they worked and didn’t work. The long con of going … Continue reading "06 – Shark Cruise"
Normally our Triptych episodes are bite-sized minisodes, but talking about one of the world’s greatest directors, we had to split his films into pre and post 1995 eras AND disqualify two of the greatest films of all time, Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan, so we clocked in at almost an hour. “We’re gonna need a … Continue reading "Triptych V / Hall of Greatness Crossover! – Steven Spielberg"
When it comes to classic rock, if you had to take only four bands to put on Mt. Rushmore, what would they be? But classic rock is too much! There’s a definite divide between pop rock and regular rock. . . and what about folk rock? Andy and JB are joined by “Joe” to discuss … Continue reading "05 – The Mt. Rushmore of Classic Rock"
Time to get our angsty alt piano rock on as we talk about Tori Amos and ask: What is her best work? What is her most representative work? What is her most recognizable work? Do you have a cornflake box with Tori Amos’s face on it from the 90’s? Let us know in the comments!
This is our first episode featuring a special guest, and this time it’s Andy’s daughter “Mary Annette” aka “marryannte”, who is here to talk about some of the video games she loves — Doki Doki Literature Club and Undertale. Trigger Alert: This episode discusses some adult themes including mental health and suicide. It also contains … Continue reading "04 – Doki Doki Literature Club and Undertale AUs"
We can’t possibly talk about music without touching on The Mighty Zepp! What is their best work? What is their most representative work? What is their most recognizable work? Note: No Stairways to Heaven were harmed (or mentioned!) in this podcast.
We continue our discussion from episode I: The Phantom Greatness to continue talking about the essence of greatness and what the purpose of this podcast is. Subjective, objective? Aristotle and the excellence in the mundane. Setting Buddhist goals. Normal distributions, standard deviations, and outliers. “It factors.” Inherent biases. Passion. Note: We recorded this one second, … Continue reading "03 – Greatness, continued"
This minisode we discuss Fleetwood Mac and ask: What is their best work? What is their most representative work? What is their most recognizable work? Stay awhile and listen!
What makes a great live album? Are live albums really “great?” And why are the Counting Crows one of the most divisive live bands ever? The Unplugged phenomenon and what happened to it. We also lay out some of most and least favorite live albums of all time.
A triptych is a series of paintings, photos, etc that show a single scene or idea. Here at The Hall of Greatness, we want to do “minisodes” of the podcast where we answer three basic questions about an artist, filmmaker, actor, musician: What is their best work? What is their most representative work? What is … Continue reading "Triptych I – Toad the Wet Sprocket"
Welcome to our pilot episode. I’m Andy, he’s JB, and we talk about greatness, individualism vs. communal identity and why that means we get so mad about sports and Star Wars. Why do we love arguing about greatness and listing it? We need a better term than “argument” for what we need to do. Our … Continue reading "01 – The Hall of Greatness"