The Sounds in My Head: Recent Episodes

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Season 23 Episode 10

1. Uh Oh! - Videotrash
2. No Fun - After Louise
3. Crybaby - After Louise
4. Always Sun - Misty Coast
5. Needy - Misty Coast
6. Southwest Suburbs - Miniature Tigers
7. Valley Prayer - Miniature Tigers
8. Man in a Shed - Nick Drake
9. Happiness - Molly Drake
10. I Remember - Molly Drake
11. No Woman (Meter Session) - Whitney
12. So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) - Whitney
13. Is Joy Easy - Mt. Joy

This episode contains a couple of clips from the 2000 documentary about Nick Drake called A Skin Too Few where Paul Weller reminisces about Nick, and his sister, actress Gabrielle Drake, reminisces about Nick and their mother, Molly.

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Season 23 Episode 9

1. Grim - Supernova Boy
2. Doubt Jar - Dream Sitch
3. Deep Seat - Dream Sitch
4. Pictionary - Peel Dream Magazine
5. Lie In the Gutter - Peel Dream Magazine
6. Seek and Destroy - Peel Dream Magazine
7. Slow Loris - Meute
8. Gula - Meute
9. mp3s Can Make You Cry - Alexis Taylor
10. Perfect Kiss - Alexis Taylor & Mike Simonetti
11. All the People (所有人) - Chinese American Bear

This episode contains a clip from comedian Elon Altman, recounting the trouble he got into from ordering Chinese food online.

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Season 22 Episode 7

1. Amsterdam via Rotterdam - Cornershop feat. Eden Gray
2. Poor Girl - Tchotchke
3. Playin' Dumb - Tchotchke
4. The Dream - Still Corners
5. Faded Love - Still Corners
6. Let Me Cry - Moontype
7. Four Hands ii - Moontype
8. Just a Dream - Cool Sounds
9. Pretty Often - Cool Sounds
10. Anniversary - Camp Saint Helene
11. Racing - Camp Saint Helene
12. Quartet Studio Live - Open Reel Ensemble

This episode features a clip of comedian Todd Berry talking about some expert level money-saving tips from his Super Crazy special. It made me LOL, so I wanted to share it. All the current events are too miserable to even find humor in, so I didn’t include anything about that.

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SEASON 22 EPISODE 4

1. A Clean House - Dash Hammerstein
2. Athena - Born Ruffians
3. Can We Go Now - Born Ruffians
4. Aerial Troubles - Stereolab
5. Vermona F Transistor - Stereolab
6. Left Behind - Club 8
7. Sucker - Club 8
8. Closer to You - Club 8
9. Godzilla Rises - Being Dead
10. Big Bovine - Being Dead
11. Sally Go Round the Sun - Elephant Stone
12. Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin - Elephant Stone
13. Anhedonia - Mamalarky

This episode features a clip of Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) addressing the reliable pattern of Trump defense “I haven’t heard about that” → “he’s joking” → “of course.”

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SEASON 22 EPISODE 3

SPECIAL "COMEDY MUSIC" EPISODE!

1. The Check's in the Mail - "Weird Al" Yankovic
2. Foux Du Fafa - Flight of the Conchords
3. Carol Brown - Flight of the Conchords
4. You Don't Have to Be a Prostitute - Flight of the Conchords
5. Pregnant Women are Smug - Garfunkel and Oates
6. 29 / 31 - Garfunkel and Oates
7. In My Country - The Lemon Sisters
8. Natalie's Rap - The Lonely Island feat. Natalie Portman and Chris Parnell
9. The Scrotum Song - Asylum Street Spankers
10. Penis Song (Not the Noel Coward Song) - Monty Python
11. Sit on My Face - Monty Python
12. Keep on Churnin' - Wynonie Harris feat. Todd Rhodes Orchestra
13. I'm My Own Grandpa - The Muppets
14. Train to Morrow - The Country Trio
15. Problematic - Bo Burnham
16. Thank You God - Tim Minchin
17. One More Minute - "Weird Al" Yankovic

This episode features a couple of bonus songs, including “Goth Kid on Vacation” from a recent episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Jack Black, and one written by Louis CK for his show Louie called “The Diarrhea Song” performed by SweetPro and Giselle Bellas. Statler and Waldorf also make an appearance.

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Season 21 Episode 19

SPECIAL "2024 ELECTION" EPISODE!

1. Love Me, I'm a Liberal - Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon
2. Undecided Voters - Kiwi jr.
3. Election Day - Cheekface feat. Sidney Gish
4. Forecast Fascist Future - Of Montreal
5. The American War - Simone White
6. Freedom - Jenny Hval
7. Future - Cut Copy
8. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - Francis Blume
9. Do Your Duty - Bobby Lounge
10. Baby, It's Time to Vote - Mad Tea Party
11. America - ØZWALD

This episode features several clips: Pete Buttigieg on the NYT Ezra Klein Show talking about people’s trust in government. Kamala Harris’ campaign debut ad: Freedom. Bill Maher talking about the young people who founded America and contrasting the US to her enemies who young people today seem to think are preferable. The AI-generated song “Fucking My Couch” by AI Larry Bob.

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Season 21 Episode 18

EXTREMELY SPECIAL "PARENTHOOD" EPISODE!

1. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) - John Lennon
2. Baby's Baby's - Little Fevers
3. Before You Were Born - Bo and the Locomotive
4. The Gentle Preservation of Children's Minds - Irving
5. Море дерев (A Sea of ​​Trees) - SMURNO
6. Daddy - Haley
7. Father & Son - Dappled Cities
8. And Mom and Kid - They Might Be Giants
9. Reading Rainbow Theme Song - The Octopus Project feat. The Flaming Lips
10. Still Fighting It - Ben Folds
11. You Are My Baby - Kimya Dawson
12. Do You Realize?? - Sharon Van Etten
13. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) - Billy Joel
14. White Lilacs - The Womenfolk

This episode features a clip from The Local's podcast Sweden in Focus where Richard Orange talks about the country's generous paternity leave and the effect it has on families. There's also a clip from Bill Maher's not-so-great podcast Club Random where Penn Jillette talks about evolutionary love for one's children. Nick Cave also reads a response he wrote to a fan who was concerned about bringing a child into the world in its current state on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. There are also birthday greetings to September babies from Tiktoker Soupy Garbage Juice (he’s released the full song but I didn’t realize it until too late to include the whole song on the show). And while not mentioned in the episode, I highly recommend Ric Burns' documentary about Ansel Adams.

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Season 21 Episode 17

SPECIAL “ALL COVERS” EPISODE!

1. Strange Overtones - Whitney
2. You've Got a Woman - Natalie Bergman & Beck
3. Take Me Home, Country Roads - Lana Del Rey
4. Lovefool - Babeheaven
5. The Boys are Back in Town - The Cardigans
6. Best of My Love - Skeleten
7. Good Vibrations - The Black Angels
8. Sloop John B - Night Beats
9. All I Have to Do Is Dream - The Raveonettes
10. Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Raveonettes
11. A Shot in the Dark - Combustible Edison
12. Such Great Heights - Ronobir Lahiri

This episode features a couple of clips from recent VP candidate Tim Walz contrasting his modest lifestyle to other political figures and talking about the Trump agenda vs. his and Kamala Harris’.

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Season 21 Episode 16

1. Exercise Class - Rodney Cromwell
2. Havana Bay - Magon
3. Our Love is Real - Magon
4. Hard Erase - Worn-Tin
5. Joe & Ruth - Worn-Tin
6. Pendulum - Sports Coach
7. Infinity - Sports Coach
8. Dead Stars in your Eyes - The Reds, Pinks & Purples
9. Public Art - The Reds, Pinks & Purples
10. I-90 Bridge - Chastity Belt
11. Clock Keeps Ticking -Bonny Doon

This episode features a couple of clips from a really fun episode of Tyler Cowan’s podcast Conversations with Tyler. The guest is a favorite of mine, Paul Bloom, a psychologist who specializes in moral psychology, particularly in children. I pulled clips of them discussing at what age a child can truly believe in God, and another where they discuss the relative value of dogs, cats, pigs, and humans. The whole hour is great.

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Season 21 Episode 15

1. The Depth of an Answer - Dumbo Gets Mad
2. Rue du Repos - Bibi Club
3. Le feu - Bibi Club
4. Strangers - Ford Chastain
5. No Way - Ford Chastain
6. Table - Katy Kirby
7. Drop Dead - Katy Kirby
8. Bad Eye Opal - Marina Allen
9. Love Comes Back - Marina Allen
10. Gravel Disco Road - Pasiflorez
11. Farmers Friend - Pasiflorez
12. Deadly Understudy - Smaller Hearts

This episode features a clip from Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech at the DNC followed by Steven “Destiny” Bonnell on how effectively the Democrats usurped the Republican's historic talking points (cause they have forfeited them in favor of lunacy). Later he describes why it’s harder for MAGA to break free from their idiocy than for leftists to do the same.

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Season 21 Episode 14

1. Blue - Famous Friend
2. The Future is Our Way Out - Brigitte Calls Me Baby
3. Impressively Average - Brigitte Calls Me Baby
4. Borderline - Majak Door
5. Call It What You Want - Majak Door
6. Back of My Mind - Silver Biplanes
7. Silver Wings - Silver Biplanes
8. Go Time - Gitkin
9. Don't You Want Me Baby (Cumbia) - Gitkin
10. Love for the Sake of Dub - Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band
11. Grilled - Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band
12. Porque Te Vas - Molly Lewis
13. Crushed Velvet - Molly Lewis
14. Hi No Tori - Golden Bug and The Limiñanas feat. Vega Voga

This episode features a clip from The New York Times podcast The Interview where host Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviewed US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and he mentioned one of the most-compelling potential promises of a Kamala Harris presidency: Wresting control of the Republican Party back to some kind of normalcy and away from the MAGA clown car of conspiracy theorist know-nothings.

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Season 21 Episode 13

1. Worries - Swiss Portrait
2. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Badbadnotgood feat. Norah Jones
3. Heaven - The National
4. Archive 81 - Bathe Alone
5. 4ever - Bathe Alone
6. Thérèse - LAVANDE
7. Moon Canyon Park - Pearl & The Oysters
8. D'Ya Hear Me! - Pearl & The Oysters
9. Affinity - Loma
10. Turnaround - Loma
11. Lucky Onze - Twen

This episode features two clips from the David Pakman Show. First, from 8 months ago, he lays out a partial list of Joe Biden’s accomplishments, observing that he was the most effective and consequential president of the last 50 years. Then a clip of Joe Biden’s address where he bows out of the presidential race for the good of the country.

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Season 21 Episode 12

1. Wherever You Are - Professional Extra
2. Rosey Dream I - Conflict at Serenity Pools
3. Yeah Totally Yeah - Conflict at Serenity Pools
4. Feelgood by Numbers (Louie Zong Rework) - The Go! Team
5. Everyone's a V.I.P. To Someone (Cornershop Remix) - The Go! Team
6. Sleep on the Left Side - Cornershop
7. Fibers & Graves - Acoqui
8. Trust (feat. Luke Temple) - Acoqui
9. To Be a Millionaire… Was it Likely? - Spacehog
10. On This Side of Town (It's Always 5 in the Morning) - Big Search
11. Hope It Makes You Happy (feat. Taken By Trees) - Big Search
12. Change in the Weather - The Concretes
13. It's Too Late (Demo) - Becca Mancari

This episode features a clip of Bill Hicks' in 1988 talking about how all the good people always get murdered, but mediocre hacks live forever no matter what. I was reminded of this routine over the weekend when Trump was shot at but they just grazed him. This isn't the version I remember listening to, but I couldn't find the version from my memory.

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Season 21 Episode 11

1. Stella the Begonia - Rubblebucket
2. Botanical Garden - Anna Erhard
3. Strange World - La Luz
4. Poppies - La Luz
5. Without You - Rachel Love
6. I Lost Myself - Rachel Love
7. Aribau - Clément Froissart
8. Valencia - Clément Froissart
9. Species - Mammoth Penguins
10. Nothing and Everything - Mammoth Penguins
11. Playing Favorites - Sheer Mag
12. When You Get Back - Sheer Mag
13. Lucy Takes a Picture - Youth Lagoon

This episode features a clip of an essay by John Cleese about The Advantages of Extremism. It’s an old clip from the late 1980s and targeted a British audience but it feels tailor-made for contemporary America.

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SEASON 21 EPISODE 10

1. Marry Me - Tele Novella
2. Big Congratulations - Holiday Ghosts
3. Coat of Arms - Holiday Ghosts
4. The Dominoes - Mustard Service
5. Night in Tulum - Mustard Service
6. Nostalgia - Yot Club
7. Human Nature - Yot Club
8. Ghost Beach - Dayaway
9. True Cyan - Dayaway
10. A Picture is All I Have - Saint Saviour (feat. Orlando Weeks)
11. Cellophane - Saint Saviour
12. At the River - Groove Armada
13. Old Cape Cod - Patti Page

This episode features a clip of TikToker Handren Seavey talking about how the track record of college aged kids being right about things is, um, mixed. It’s not their fault, they’re just the dumbest adults. Also commentator Destiny talks about the problem of letting groups like Hamas leverage asymmetric warfare and human shields to gain support from the international community and the risk that giving into that poses for a world order based on international law.

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SEASON 21 EPISODE 9

SPECIAL "I UP AND DONE GOT MARRIED" EPISODE!

1. Marriage - The Bug Club
2. Ban Marriage - The Hidden Cameras
3. Marriage - The Eversons
4. 爱是 (Love Is) - Chinese American Bear
5. Always Forever - Cults
6. Wicked Wedding - DJ Schmolli (Mashup Chris Isaak vs Billy Idol)
7. Sea of Love - Cat Power
8. First Song ❤️ - Mariia with Two I's
9. Maria - Barbagallo & Baptiste W. Hamon
10. Love is Eternity - They Might Be Giants
11. Into My Arms - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
12. Northern Sky - Nick Drake
13. Hand on Your Heart - José González
14. Sparks - Coldplay

This episode features a clip of Jim Gaffigan talking about Weddings from his Obsessed album. The whole routine is hilarious but I only included a bit of it.

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Season 21 Episode 8

SPECIAL "6º OF BUDDY HOLLY" EPISODE!

1. Buddy Holly - Razor Braids
2. Words of Love - Strange Magic
3. Oh Boy! - Strange Magic
4. Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly with Royal Philharmonic
5. True Love Ways - Buddy Holly with Royal Philharmonic
6. Photograph - Jeff Lingle
7. Suzanne - Weezer
8. American Girls - Weezer
9. Pink Moon - Nick Drake and the Sad Beads
10. Free Ride - Liz Phair
11. Road - Bombay Bicycle Club & The Staves
12. Weeping Song - Nell Smith & The Flaming Lips
13. She Don't Use Jelly - Ben Folds Five
14. Cindy - Johnny Cash with Nick Cave
15. Ring of Fire - The Carter Family

This episode features a clip from Saturday Night Live where dinner party guests debate Weezer fandom. It’s the 30th anniversary of the blue album which I intended to mention, but failed to. Also, for the closing I talked over the 8-Bit Misfits awesome version of "Buddy Holly" (Amazon, Spotify, YouTube) but didn't say so.

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Season 21 Episode 7

SPECIAL "SYNTHSTRAMENTAL" … "INSTRUSYNTHAL?" EPISODE!

1. Dream Sequence - Danz CM
2. Temper - Gravité
3. Robotman - Gravité
4. Cosmom Cinematic - Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips
5. Cats - Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips
6. The Big Conference! - Louie Zong
7. Computer Lounge! - Louie Zong
8. Japan Musick - Sweet Juice
9. Ariel Vendor - Sweet Juice
10. Concorde tercera versión - The Holydrug Couple
11. Atlantic 19 de agosto - The Holydrug Couple
12. Lichen Maps - Green-House
13. Far More Other - Green-House
14. Felicia - Kolumbo

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Season 21 Episode 6

1. Best Day Ever - The Derevolutions
2. Prep-School Gangsters - Vampire Weekend
3. Pravda - Vampire Weekend
4. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Demo - San Francisco 2/71) - Paul Simon
5. Duncan - Paul Simon
6. Follow the Ghost - The Eastern Plain
7. Should I Stay or Should I Go? - Nouvelle Vague (feat. Alonya)
8. This Charming Man - Nouvelle Vague (feat. Melanie Pain)
9. Pareidolia - Matt Monsoor
10. I Love My Television - The Rhythm Method
11. Curse - The Rhythm Method
12. Show & Tell - Bored at My Grandmas House

This episode features some edited down clips of Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig on Radio X talking to John Kennedy about the origins of the two songs I played in the episode. The Paul Simon documentary I mentioned is called In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon by Alex Gibney.

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Season 21 Episode 5

1. Eclipse - Jacco Gardner
2. Lorelay - Jennie Lawless
3. Start a New - Bull
4. Red Rooves - Bull
5. Imaginary Conversations - Bull
6. Running Around - STRFKR
7. Together Forever - STRFKR
8. The Main Thing - Ducks Ltd.
9. Heavy Bag - Ducks Ltd.
10. The Sea - Baby Cool
11. Poison - Baby Cool
12. Black Holes, the Stars and You - A. Savage
13. Put It In Reverse - Pina Palau

This episode features a clip from the Blocked and Reported podcast with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal talk about the confusing shake out on who supports which side in the Israeli vs Palestinian/Hamas war. Also, Benjamin of @holylandspeaks opines about the fixation on Palestinian suffering by people who completely ignore Ukrainian or other suffering.

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Season 21 Episode 4

1. You Woo Me - The Courettes
2. Water Underground - Real Estate
3. Somebody New - Real Estate
4. New Moon - Laetitia Sadier
5. Panser L’inacceptable - Laetitia Sadier
6. BUG0BEAT - Cool Sounds
7. Another Way - Cool Sounds
8. Firad - Dina Ögon
9. Tomma lådor - Dina Ögon
10. Hard Erase - Worn-Tin
11. Replace Me - Worn-Tin
12. Northern Boy - Ruby Sue

This episode features a condensed clip from The Big Conversation podcast where Alex O’Connor talks about how religious people try to give take credit for the progress made at dismantling all of the awful stuff their religious traditions got wrong historically. Also, a clip from Christmas Vacation about Ruby Sue.

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Season 21 Episode 3

1. Pixel - Yot Club
2. Ma Tau Wai Road (with Salah Pupul) - Bolis Pupul
3. Completely Half - Bolis Pupul
4. Every Week - Soft Covers
5. Point of View - Soft Covers
6. Three Cheers! - The Umbrellas
7. Echoes - The Umbrellas
8. Granny Smith - Lost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
9. Aloha Golden Meadow - Maree Noire - Lost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
10. City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
11. Whole Heart (2023) - People Museum
12. Saturn Rings - People Museum
13. Risk - Lace

This episode features a somewhat heavily truncated clip of the ceremony marking Sweden’s official membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaking about the importance of a unified Europe in light of global instability caused by Russian aggression and it’s invasion of Ukraine.

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SPECIAL “ALL WOMEN” EPISODE!

1. There She Goes - Hazel English
2. Fast Lane - Genevva
3. Crazy Horse - Genevva
4. Instinct That I Wanna Know - Jade Imagine
5. Back and Forth - Jade Imagine
6. Principia - En Attendant Ana
7. The Cut Off - En Attendant Ana
8. The Drinking Song - Nellie Mckay
9. Make a Wish - Nellie Mckay
10. Le Temple Volant - Crumb & Melody's Echo Chamber
11. Apathy - White Poppy
12. Happy - White Poppy
13. Til We Run Out of Air - Hatchie

This episode features a clip of Julia Steinberg's testimony in front of Congress on November 9, where she talks about the rise of antisemitism on college campuses and its modern roots in the conflict theory of the oppressor vs. oppressed.

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Season 20 Episode 13

1. Rather Blue - Jacuzzi Boys
2. Keep It in Line - Broncho
3. Get in My Car - Broncho
4. Hard Times (All Around) - The Nude Party
5. Ride On - The Nude Party
6. Satellite of Love - Dean & Britta
7. You Were Right About One Thing - Locate S,1
8. Blue Meaniez - Locate S,1
9. Heart of Scorpio - Alice Boman feat. Cornelia Murr
10. Better Days - Zach Keim
11. Alice - Zach Keim
12. Twenty Seven - CjayQ

This episode features a clip of a YouTuber andewr reflecting on HBO’s How To with John Wilson, one of the best things I’ve ever seen. If like me, you missed hearing about it, it just wrapped on the 3rd and final season. There’s six 25 minute long episodes per season, and they are nothing like anything you’ve ever seen on TV before. Part personal video essay, part comedy, part poignant vignettes of everyday people. It’s the most NYC thing ever and it’s truly something special. Don’t miss it!

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Season 20 Episode 12

1. Take a Rest - Cobra Man
2. Yards / Gardens - Kate Bollinger
3. Lady in the Darkest Hour - Kate Bollinger
4. The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973 - Hamish Hawk
5. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (Live for Hidden Door) - Hamish Hawk
6. Take On Me (But It's Raining) - Alfie Beelzebub's AI Paul McCartney
7. Creep - aionefuture's AI Frank Sinatra and Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox
8. Naturally - Bonny Doon
9. You Can't Stay the Same - Bonny Doon feat. Waxahatchee
10. Wolf - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
11. Different Today - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
12. Spitting Off the Edge of the World (Lush Version) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
13. Nintendo 64 - Aaron Joseph Russo

This episode features a clip from The Urbanist Agenda podcast where Jason and Adam talk about how annoying it is that cars vs bikes has become a culture war issue in Europe, as traditional conservative parties have tried to court right-wing party voters only to lose votes to them. A trend witnessed in Sweden as well.

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Season 20 Episode 11

1. I Wanna Love Him So Bad - Fascinations Grand Chorus
2. The Little Hand - The Ballet
3. I Don't Feel Like Dancing - The Ballet
4. Aux larmes (To tears) - Clément Froissart
5. Un jour à minuit (One day at midnight) - Clément Froissart
6. Gnossienne No. 5 (French 79 Rework of Erik Satie) - French 79
7. Gnossienne No. 1 (Kid Francescoli Rework of Erik Satie) - Kid Francescoli
8. In Gardens Under Evergreen - Pure Bathing Culture
9. Treasure Pleasure Wonder Gem - Pure Bathing Culture
10. ILYSM - Wild Pink

This episode features a clip of Kumail Nanjiani on ABC’s Good Morning America (of all places) talking about his Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales. He produced it with his wife and stars in the series. I missed it when it came out late last year, but watched it recently knowing nothing about the history, and thought it was fascinating and just a really great series. So I highly recommend checking it out, and the less you know about it beforehand, the better.

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Season 20 Episode 10

1. Life Waits for Nothing - Phantom Youth
2. Don't Fade Away - Beach Fossils
3. Tough Love - Beach Fossils
4. I Wish - Dayaway
5. A Brief Dream of Sun - Dayaway
6. Milanesa al Pan - Juan Wauters feat. Zoe Gotusso
7. Modus Operandi - Juan Wauters feat. Frankie Cosmos
8. Big Black Void - TV Girl
9. All the Way Through - TV Girl
10. Shame - TV Girl
11. What the Echoes Say - Jeanines
12. Tilt in Your Eye - Jeanines
13. Riding Into the Sunset in a Busted Car - Free Cake for Every Creature
14. In Your Car - Free Cake for Every Creature
15. Trepanation Party - Voxtrot

This episode features an edited-down “41 Lessons from My 41 Years” list presented by Nate B. Jones on TikTok. It was too long to include the whole thing, but I really don’t disagree with any of his list. This kinda thing easily veers too far into trite, but there can be a lot of truth in well-composed bumper stickers, and I think Nate hits them all well.

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Season 20 Episode 9

1. Good Friday - Ham Sandwich
2. Newfound Oxygen - Steady Holiday
3. The Balance - Steady Holiday
4. Coma Culture - Coma Culture
5. Bad Habits - Coma Culture
6. Virtual Dancer - Group Rhoda
7. Din För Evigt - Kanot
8. Bottenmannen - Kanot
9. Dee Dee - Nimrawd
10. Quicksilver (single version) - Nimrawd
11. Aquamarine - Hand Habits

This episode features a clip of a CNN Town Hall where former NJ governor and Trump lackey Chris Christie recounts how Trump gave him COVID, which very nearly killed him, then lied about it, naturally.

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Season 20 Episode 8

1. Hot Blue Summer - Dayaway
2. Shooting Star - Sylvie
3. Further Down the Road (Maston Remix) - Sylvie
4. Waiting for the Band - Nicky Hopkins
5. You Have Something Special - Joanna Sternberg
6. This Is Not Who I Want To Be - Joanna Sternberg
7. I Never Get Lonesome - Arthur Russell
8. Iowa Dream - Arthur Russell
9. Wan Ka Helaa - Dur-Dur Band Int.
10. Riyo - Dur-Dur Band Int.
11. Love Missive - Courrier Sud
12. Fool Moon - Courrier Sud
13. Trapdoor - Los Bitchos

This episode features a clip from a recent episode of Sam Harris’ podcast Making Sense, where he talks about the incomprehensible waste of collective attention the human race has wasted on about the least important human to ever be born. I didn’t include much of it, when he gets into a media analysis and so on, but I’m 100% with him on all of it.

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Season 20 Episode 7: Special “Music from Soundtracks” Episode!

Asteroid City

1. Last Train to San Fernando - Johnny Duncan

2. Freight Train - Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group

Poker Face

1. Charlie's Theme - Pellea

2. Six Foot Down - Gene Ski

3. Blues Run the Game - Jackson C. Frank

John Denver: Country Boy

1. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver

The Worst Person in the World

1. Waters of March - Art Garfunkel

One More Time

1. Yours to Keep (acoustic version) - Myie

Rogue Agent

1. Just Like Heaven - Hannah Peel

Cold Feet

1. Just Like Honey - Hannah Peel

Fleishman is in Trouble

1. Wise Up - Aimee Mann

Little America

1. Come On Home - The Lijadu Sisters

Lord of War

1. Mama Africa - Young Bakuba Band

Masters of Sex

1. You Don’t Know Me - Lizzy Caplan

This episode features a clip from NPR’s Fresh Air where film critic Justin Chang reviews Asteroid City, and also a brief clip where Taffy Nivert talks about the origin of Take Me Home, Country Roads from John Denver: Country Boy.

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Season 20 Episode 6

1. High - Royal Headache
2. Go Through You - Rhett Miller
3. Fascination - Rhett Miller
4. St. Ignatius - Old 97's
5. Rescue Song - Mr. Little Jeans
6. The Suburbs - Mr. Little Jeans
7. Pavillion - Combustible Edison
8. The Best is Yet to Come - Combustible Edison
9. Island Spell - Molly Lewis
10. Oceanic Feeling - Molly Lewis
11. Miracle Fruit - Molly Lewis
12. Dolphinese - Molly Lewis
13. Walk Through the Valley - Kay Johnson

This episode features a clip from CBS Sunday Morning where Lee Cowan interviews Molly Lewis about what it's like to be a musician who whistles.

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Season 20 Episode 5

1. Getting to Know (All the Ways We're Wrong for Each Other) - The Go! Team
2. Pre-Code Hollywood - Jonathan Bree
3. Miss You - Jonathan Bree
4. Anything - Frankie Rose
5. Sixteen Ways - Frankie Rose
6. Casino - JW Francis
7. Swooning - JW Francis
8. Working Boy in New York City - Belle & Sebastian
9. I Don't Know What You See in Me - Belle & Sebastian
10. Late Developers - Belle & Sebastian
11. Eulogy for You and Me - Tanya Davis
12. Please Bless - Tanya Davis
13. 再见 (Goodbye) - Chinese American Bear

This episode features a clip from an interview with Henry Catalini Smith on The Local's Sweden in Focus podcast. He is a immigrant from the UK leading the effort to unionize Spotify. Sweden is one of the most heavily unionized countries in the world, but the large tech sector is a strange outlier and he is hoping to change that.

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Season 20 Episode 4 - SPECIAL “MUSIC IN FRENCH!” EPISODE!

1. Soulevant - Cléa Vincent
2. Contact - Jarvis Cocker
3. Le cannibale - Juniore
4. Je me suis fait tout petit - Juniore
5. B1 - Ce soir - Kumisolo
6. Kabuki femme fatale - Kumisolo
7. La Femme aux Faux Cils - We are Enfant Terrible
8. La poudre aux yeux - Lisa LeBlanc
9. Tite gêne - Lisa LeBlanc
10. Apprenti - Dumas
11. Fille Sauvage - Richard Anthony
12. Bohemian Rhapsody - French - Freedom Fry
13. Les idées roses - Louïse Papier
14. Sur le pavé - Holden

This episode features a clip from Jim Gaffigan’s album Quality Time about eating French Cheese, as well as a very old Louis CK bit about being approached in NYC by a French guy who needs directions. Light, but relatively topical fare for this episode. heh.

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Season 20 Episode 3

1. Organic Tea - Jacob King
2. We, Us the Pharaohs - Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard
3. I Had It All - Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard
4. Always on the Telephone - The Ladybug Transistor
5. Stranger - Tiny Microphone feat. Gary Olson
6. Mine Forever - Lord Huron
7. At Sea - Lord Huron
8. Blameless - Zach Schimpf
9. Mind Like a Sitting Duck - Zach Schimpf
10. Time Bomb - Jacklen Ro
11. Side by Side - Jacklen Ro
12. More Than Chemical - Homephone

This episode features a brief clip from FOX’s The Family Guy which made me LOL, and a TikTok by @philjamesson about his incredibly successful social media empire.

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Season 20 Episode 2

1. Apologizing - Celler Dwellers
2. Or Else - Marina Allen
3. Superreality - Marina Allen
4. If You Love Her - Tokyo Tea Room
5. Feel Your Heart - Tokyo Tea Room
6. Poor Devil - Fruit Junior
7. Saddle Up -Fruit Junior
8. The Promise (feat. Jelani Aryeh) - Samia
9. As You Are - Samia
10. Edge of the Edge - Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
11. Everything’s Been Leading To This - Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
12. Sleeper Agent - Smaller Hearts
13. Vento a Favor - Sessa

This episode features a clip from the new podcast The Urbanist Agenda from Jason of the great Not Just Bikes. His co-host for the inaugural episode was Adam Something who shows off his pitch-perfect Slavoj Žižek impression as they talk about living in human-friendly cities.

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Season 20 Episode 1

1. Rebels Without Applause - Morrissey
2. Always on My Mind - Roller Derby
3. Friday I'm in Love - Roller Derby
4. Afterworld - Phantom Youth
5. Dear October - Phantom Youth
6. Places - Holy Now
7. Silk - Holy Now
8. Nerves - Freeds
9. Fuzzy - Freeds
10. If I Could Ride a Bike - Chevy & Park Bird
11. Never My Love - The Association and The Courettes

This episode features a clip from Marc Maron’s latest HBO comedy special, From Bleak to Dark, where he outlines a strategy to win over Christians by rebranding abortion clinics as “angel factories”. It may be a joke, but I think the plan could be just crazy enough to work. Mental note: From now on, always refer to Planned Parenthood and their ilk as angel factories.

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SEASON 19 FINALE!

1. Be True - RL
2. Cherry Blossom - Rubblebucket
3. Earth Worship - Rubblebucket
4. Empty Head - Frankie Cosmos
5. Aftershook - Frankie Cosmos
6. Strangers - Dana Gavanski
7. Sacatela - La Femme
8. No pasa nada - La Femme
9. Dyslexic Poetry - Petite League
10. Pantone Karaoke - Petite League
11. Belinda Says - Alvvays
12. Very Online Guy - Alvvays
13. San Francisco - Bonny Doon

This episode features a clip from the podcast The War On Cars where guest, prominent sex columnist Dan Savage, talks about how terrible cars are, and how livable streets activists can win people over to our side. It was a fun interview, and while I’ve always enjoyed his media appearances, but prior to this interview I never knew he was a kindred spirit with regard to this topic.

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SPECIAL "CHRISTMAS MUSIC 2022" EPISODE!

1. Kemonomichi no Uta (alt ver.) - Shugo Tokumaru & John John Festival
2. Ode to Just Like Christmas - Twitchels
3. Just Like Christmas - Housewife
4. When the River Meets the Sea - Daniel Zott
5. Love to Keep Me Warm - Laufey & Dodie
6. Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers - Ballboy
7. He's the One - Ali Sperry and Kristin Weber
8. Santa Claus - Brenda Lee
9. Linus n' Lucy - Ginger Root
10. Never Had Christmas - Rope Store
11. Vegetarian Christmas - Feet
12. Christmas Everyday - The Frights
13. Christmas (All Over the World Tonight) - Freedom Fry
14. Christmas in Clifton House - Evripidis and his Tragedies
15. Xmas Break - April June
16. This Year for Christmas - Sjowgren
17. Christmas Time is Here - The Shacks

This episode features a bulletin from Sveriges Radio’s daily English language news podcast about how shop workers in Sweden’s largest trade union think Christmas music poses a health and safety risk. MY APOLOGIES if this episode is triggering for any listeners.

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1. Look Away, Look Away - The Go! Team feat. The Star Feminine Band
2. Saturdays - Broken Bells
3. We're Not In Orbit Yet… - Broken Bells
4. Smash the Machine - The Babe Rainbow
5. Mediterranean - The Babe Rainbow
6. Fast Cars - Danz CM
7. Love Is Perfect Kindness - Busman's Holiday
8. Hey Margarita - Busman's Holiday
9. Charlie - Sam Valdez
10. Your Party - Crush EP
11. Disintegration - The Vacant Lots
12. Red Desert - The Vacant Lots
13. It Won't Be Cinematic - Sleep Party People

This episode features a clip from a terrific interview with Yuval Noah Harari on by Sean Illing on his Vox podcast The Grey Area. After Ezra Klein went to the NYT Vox slowly auditioned other people to fill the gap, renaming The Ezra Klein Show first to The Conversation with different hosts, of which Sean was by far and away the best, and they eventually gave him the feed and renamed it The Grey Area. I just never unsubscribed. Ezra is awesome, but I like the NYT incarnation of his show less than the old version, and I think The Grey Area is usually more interesting than EKS these days.

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1. Stars Are Blind (Follow Me) - Chris Laufman & Wise Blood
2. Sunshine Time - Coast Modern
3. Electric Fence - Ruby
4. Bedtime - Ruby
5. Steal My Sunshine - The Goon Sax
6. Sintaluta - The Garrys
7. Bury Me With My Money - The Garrys
8. Change - Kelley Stoltz
9. My Wildest Dream - Kelley Stoltz
10. Did You Give the World Some Love Today, Babe? - The PJ's

This episode features an extended series of clips stitched together from a recent episode of Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast where Sam talks to subject matter expert Timothy Snyder about Russia’s war on Ukraine and he systematically knocks down bad take after bad take from the "do your own research" wing of the Twitterverse.

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1. Hot Tub Time Machine - Freedom Fry
2. Real Love - Down Time
3. Just Because - Down Time
4. Destiny - Jonathan Bree & Princess Chelsea
5. You Are the Man - Jonathan Bree
6. Love Is More - Princess Chelsea
7. Forever Is a Charm - Princess Chelsea
8. Part Time Punk - Cool Sounds
9. Like That - Cool Sounds
10. Goatmilk - GOAT
11. Blow the Horns - GOAT
12. Chow - Sun Era

This episode features a clip from Coleman Hughes’ podcast Conversations with Coleman where music critic and historian Ted Gioia talks about where musical innovation comes from and the pattern of things from the fringe becoming mainstream.

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1. Hot Tub Time Machine - Freedom Fry
2. Real Love - Down Time
3. Just Because - Down Time
4. Destiny - Jonathan Bree & Princess Chelsea
5. You Are the Man - Jonathan Bree
6. Love Is More - Princess Chelsea
7. Forever Is a Charm - Princess Chelsea
8. Part Time Punk - Cool Sounds
9. Like That - Cool Sounds
10. Goatmilk - GOAT
11. Blow the Horns - GOAT
12. Chow - Sun Era

This episode features a clip from Coleman Hughes’ podcast Conversations with Coleman where music critic and historian Ted Gioia talks about where musical innovation comes from and the pattern of things from the fringe becoming mainstream.

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1. It's Probably Me - ViVii
2. Ivory Coast - Pure Bathing Culture
3. Nightswimming - Pure Bathing Culture
4. After All - Jeanines
5. Luminous - Seoul Magic Club
6. Love all the Population - Gently Tender
7. Home Anymore - Gently Tender
8. Chain - Workhorse
9. No Photographs - Workhorse
10. County Lines - Whitney
11. Terminal - Whitney
12. Jesus was a Cross Maker - Cass Elliot

This episode features a clip from Channel 4 News' report on the truck bombing of Russia’s bridge connecting illegally annexed Crimea in Ukraine to the Russian mainland. The latest in a long series of colossal embarrassments for Putin. 

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1. It's Probably Me - ViVii
2. Ivory Coast - Pure Bathing Culture
3. Nightswimming - Pure Bathing Culture
4. After All - Jeanines
5. Luminous - Seoul Magic Club
6. Love all the Population - Gently Tender
7. Home Anymore - Gently Tender
8. Chain - Workhorse
9. No Photographs - Workhorse
10. County Lines - Whitney
11. Terminal - Whitney
12. Jesus was a Cross Maker - Cass Elliot

This episode features a clip from Channel 4 News' report on the truck bombing of Russia’s bridge connecting illegally annexed Crimea in Ukraine to the Russian mainland. The latest in a long series of colossal embarrassments for Putin. 

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1. Not a Go - Foamboy
2. Better - Foamboy
3. Peach Smoothie - Foamboy
4. Garth - Husbands
5. Must Be a Cop - Husbands
6. Night Nurse - Dean & Britta
7. Easy Does It - Marlon Williams
8. My Boy - Marlon Williams
9. Up the Junction - Squeeze
10. The Dance - Air Waves
11. Black Metal - Air Waves feat. Frankie Cosmos and Merce Lemon
12. Mind on Fire - The Mary Onettes

This episode features a clip from The Michael Shermer Show where Michael talks to British satirist and commentator Andrew Doyle about the adoption by progressives of trans activist’s world-view, and how folly and unprogressive he predicts history will judge that to be. Call me a “TERF”, but I tend to agree, and I hope saying so doesn’t mean I lose a bunch of friends. Also, I’m personally more concerned with the elimination of sex-separated spaces for women and girls, as well as social contagion among teenage girls leading to irreversible medical interventions for them, than I am about gay boys, but ya know, yeah them too.

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1. Extra Mile - Alexandria
2. The Sound of Music - Kiwi jr.
3. Unspeakable Things - Kiwi jr.
4. Hello Sunshine - Foreign Air
5. Why Don't You Feel the Way I Do? - Foreign Air
6. Je n'veux pas rester sage - Requin Chagrin
7. Crush - Requin Chagrin feat. Anaïs Demoustier
8. Highschool Steady - Eli Smart
9. No Destination - Eli Smart
10. All My Blood - Ham Sandwich
11. Small Talk - Greta Morgan

This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill predicts how the traditionally unifying event of an alien invasion would go down in present-day America.

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1. Summer's End - Dayaway
2. Don't Hang up on Me - Tchotchke
3. Dizzy - Tchotchke
4. Pixie Gf - Powerplant
5. So Far Away - Down Time
6. Marie Kondo - Breakup Haircut
7. Why Can't I Be Cool Enough to Move to Berlin? - Breakup Haircut
8. Election Day - Cheekface feat. Sidney Gish
9. You Always Want to Bomb the Middle East - Cheekface
10. The Tunnel - Cones
11. Summer Is Gone - Kid Francescoli

This episode features a clip from Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast where he explains why Donald Trump is a worse person than Osama bin Laden. His description here mirrors much of my own take and was a big part of why I felt so compelled to escape from post-Trump America.

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1. Somedays - VHS Sports
2. Love Bus - Chinese American Bear
3. Love Is - Chinese American Bear
4. Whiskey & Water - Voxtrot
5. Kindergarten - Voxtrot
6. Wouldn’t It Be Nice - She & Him
7. Melt Away - She & Him
8. True to Ourselves - Freedom Fry
9. As Far Away as Possible - Shout Out Louds
10. Sky and I (Heaven) - Shout Out Louds
11. Our Trash - Evripidis and His Tragedies

This episode features a clip from a recent Al Franken Podcast wherein he interviews journalist and Russia expert Julia Ioffe who explains why negotiating with Putin about Ukraine is ill-advised.

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SPECIAL "CLASSIC EXOTICA MUSIC" EPISODE!

1. Vertigogo (Opening Theme) - Combustible Edison
2. Misirlou - Martin Denny
3. Coronation - Martin Denny
4. La Pampa Y La Puna - Martin Denny
5. Poinciana - Arthur Lyman
6. Anna - Arthur Lyman
7. Quiet Village - Les Baxter
8. Jungalero - Les Baxter
9. Disappeared (2021 Mix) - Haruomi Hosono and Miharu Koshi
10. Miniskirt - Combustible Edison feat. Juan García Esquivel
11. 20th Century - Combustible Edison
12. Carnival of Souls - Combustible Edison

This episode features a clip of Coleman Hughes from his podcast Conversations with Coleman where in his discussion with Jonathan Haidt he discusses the pros and cons of the social fragmentation allowed by the internet. Seems like most people I know focus only on the benefits or the downsides, but to me it seems worth observing both.

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SPECIAL "NEW FRONTIERS IN EXOTICA MUSIC" EPISODE!

1. The Key Club, 1976 - Kolumbo
2. Manna - Ìxtahuele feat. Kadhja Bonet and Orange Crate Art
3. Exotique Mecanique - L'exotighost
4. Mai Tai Break - L'exotighost
5. Quiet Village - The Manakooras
6. Maple Leaf - The Hilo Hi-Flyers
7. Mountain King - The Hilo Hi-Flyers
8. Bora! - Mocky
9. In Cucina - Vanishing Twin
10. Dusty - Monster Rally
11. La Carrera Gourmet - Louie Zong
12. El Bosque - Louie Zong
13. Mysterious Planet - The Natural Yogurt Band

This episode features a clip from The Local’s Sweden In Focus podcast where they interviewed Carlos Velasco from Honduras about what led him to a life in Sweden. The thing I’ve been most surprised by living in Sweden is how few of my fellow ex-pats came here not for work or love, but for the same kinds of reasons I did: that by the numbers it’s among the best places in the world you can live. Carlos knows what’s up!

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SPECIAL "LET'S HEAR FROM THE LADIES" EPISODE!

1. Out of My Way (I'm Not Getting on the Night Bus) - Breakup Haircut
2. Creator - Ora the Molecule
3. Die to Be a Butterfly - Ora the Molecule
4. Who Put You Up To This? - Sunflower Bean
5. Baby Don't Cry - Sunflower Bean
6. Obvious to You - Le Pain
7. Is That How You Want Me to Feel? - Le Pain
8. Indigo Highway - Dana Gavanski
9. Letting Go - Dana Gavanski
10. Burning Castle - Renata Zeiguer
11. Alone With Someone Else - Renata Zeiguer
12. Eraser - Sea Lemon

This episode features a clip from The Ezra Klein Show where Ezra is setting up the context for his interview with legal expert Dahlia Lithwick about just how extremist and anti-democratic the SCOTUS is at the moment. As well as a clip from NYT’s The Daily where Sabrina Tavernise interviews abortion-rights lawyer Nancy Stearns about whether or not her stronger, pre-Roe legal case could have changed the course of history for women’s rights.

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1. Hang on Sloopy - Golden
2. Dayaway - Dayaway
3. Cool Water - Dayaway
4. Cant Celebrate - Yot Club
5. U Dont Kno Me - Yot Club
6. Strange - Yot Club
7. Partner Look - Partner Look
8. Endless Plains - Partner Look
9. Bombay - Sleep Good
10. New World - Sleep Good
11. Detox - Bored at My Grandmas House

This episode features a montage of clips assembled to sound like one thought by Ezra Klein from a recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show where he talks about “The End of ‘The Everything Bubble’” with Financial Times journalist Rana Foroohar. She was fine, but I thought the questions Ezra asked throughout the course of the interview told the story better than she did.

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SPECIAL “MOSTLY OLDER STUFF RECENTLY” EPISODE!

1. L'appuntamento - Ornella Vanoni
2. Un Bel Posto (I Know a Place) - Gigliola Cinquetti
3. Vuoi - Gigliola Cinquetti
4. Eureka - Jens Lekman
5. Black Cab - Jens Lekman
6. A Postcard to Nina - Jens Lekman
7. The Linden Trees are Still in Blossom - Jens Lekman
8. Jiggle Jiggle - Louis Theroux + Duke & Jones
9. Confetti - The Lemonheads
10. Hannah & Gabi - The Lemonheads
11. A Chicken with its Head Cut Off - The Magnetic Fields
12. 100,000 Fireflies - The Magnetic Fields
13. Andrew in Drag - The Magnetic Fields
14. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Jerry Lee Lewis

This episode features a clip of Todd Barry talking about a visit to Sweden and apartment hunting in NYC. The clip is old, but I saw him perform here recently and as one of very few Americans in the room, I think I was probably the only one to thoroughly understand the nuances of every joke.

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1. Shoes - Layzi
2. That's Okay - Jeanines
3. Any Day Now - Jeanines
4. Told My Baby - Holiday Ghosts
5. Glue - Holiday Ghosts
6. Surfer's Slide - The Surfrajettes
7. Heart of Glass - The Surfrajettes
8. Morning Song - The Babe Rainbow
9. Zeitgeist - The Babe Rainbow
10. There's Nothing That I Can Do for You - Pete Dello and Friends
11. Do I Still Figure In Your Life - Pete Dello and Friends
12. Solid Gold - Red Sleeping Beauty feat. Amelia Fletcher
13. Hold Me / Know Me - Holy Now

This episode features a clip from The Kids in the Hall Brain Candy, in anticipation of the new TKITH series on Amazon Prime! Also a funny sketch from The Harris Alterman about the debut of a truly free speech social media platform.

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Special "all covers" episode!

1. Crimson and Clover - A. G. Cook
2. This Must Be the Place - Dad Sports
3. Different Drum - Le Pain
4. Nightswimming - Piney Gir
5. Near Wild Heaven - Quivers
6. Welcome to the Jungle - The Skullitones
7. Oops!... I Did it Again - Rubblebucket
8. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - Øzwald
9. If You Leave - Angel Olsen
10. Bitter Sweet Symphony - Deco
11. New Slang - Porridge Radio
12. Perfect Day - Karen O & Danger Mouse
13. Like a Rolling Stone - Phosphorescent

This episode features a clip from The David Pakman Show where he talks about the moral panics around book censorship on the right. Wait, are they for or against book bans? It can be hard to keep track.

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1. Aujourd'hui, demain - Requin Chagrin
2. Şinanay - Kit Sebastian
3. French Disko - Kit Sebastian
4. Ta Fardah - PAINT
5. Land Man (Album Version) - PAINT
6. Mounadji "76" - Guts / Mackjoss
7. Bicycles - Pale Spectres
8. D(r)iving - Pale Spectres
9. Lucy - The Hannah Barberas
10. Harper Valley PTA - The Hannah Barberas
11. Fruit Flies Like a Banana - Tampopo
12. Ketchup - Tampopo
13. Spark Again - Louïse Papier

This episode features a clip from The Ezra Klein Show where Ezra talks to the Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko about how the west views Ukraine, how Ukraine views the west, and how Russia views them both. It was a great hour-long conversation. My two-minute clip is heavily edited, so go listen to the whole thing! 

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1. Party - Sipper
2. Freedom - Jenny Hval
3. Classic Objects - Jenny Hval
4. Sunday - Sea Lemon
5. Fortune Teller - Sea Lemon
6. House Show - VHS Sports
7. Flowers - VHS Sports
8. Everything Is Simple - Widowspeak
9. Salt - Widowspeak
10. Lights Out - Traffik Island
11. Babylon Blues - Traffik Island
12. Gothenburg English - Alyssa Gengos
13. O Kanan Dume - Alyssa Gengos
14. Aline - Jarvis Cocker

This episode features a clip from Dan Olson’s epic 2+ hour rant/takedown of the grifts known as crypto and NFTs and all their associated cruft, Line Goes Up. I have friends who’ve earned literally hundreds of thousands of dollars leveraging the NFT shell game to great effect. But they did so with no delusions of grandeur, just wanting to take part in the early stages of an obvious MLM scheme. So I guess good on them for getting in early and milking the cash cow. But I still find the whole thing distasteful. Ha.