Best Friends Dissimilar Interests

In this week's episode Matt watches an anime that means a lot to Tiberi, Maquia: When The Promised Flower Blooms. Will Matt come to terms with his immortality? Listen to find out!

In this week's episode Matt leads Tiberi through a deep dive into the first five years of heavy metal as a genre of music. Will Tiberi ever listen to that pig? Or will he degenerate into a PRIMITIVE MAN? Listen to find out!

Listen the the playlist for yourself:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/511S5RUmb90zf00nFKpSZP

In this week's episode Tiberi had Matt watch the 2010 Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island. Will Matt unravel the noir mystery that is his past? Listen to find out!

In this week's episode Tiberi watched a documentary about one of Matt's favorite bands, GWAR. Will Tiberi bow down to his extraterrestrial overlords, or will he be crushed in the pit and nailed to the stage? Listen to find out!

For this week's episode Matt watched Tiberi's favorite Studio Ghibli film, Princess Mononoke. Will Matt go to war to save the tree spirits? Listen to find out!

In this week's episode Matt introduces Tiberi to black metal with Panopticon's Kentucky. Will Tiberi lay down his soul to the gods rock and roll? Listen to find out!

In this week's episode Tiberi introduces Matt to the 2007 horror anime Mononoke. Will Matt learn the shape, truth, and reason of Mononoke? Will they ever stop talking about Tom Hanks? Listen to find out!

This week Matt had Tiberi watch Harlan County, USA. This documentary follows a labor strike at Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine in Harlan county, Kentucky. Will Tiberi become a union man, or will he become a scab? Listen to find out!

This week, Tiberi calls in the horns to show Matt the upbeat sounds of ska punk band, Less Than Jake.

Is Less Than Jake better than expected? Or will Matt strike down the "MOAR HORNZ" crowd?

Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NKCMrkpM0jCrPxMYbXWbB

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sStL3ezLDVQ&ab_channel=ThePunkHistorian.

https://www.byarcadia.org/post/the-history-of-ska-and-its-association-with-subcultures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0lCho19hMU&t=763s&ab_channel=TaylorGuitars

This week Tiberi read a couple of stories from Burning Bright, a collection of short stories by Ron Rash. Matt and Tiberi discuss "The Woman Who Believed in Jaguars" and "The Corpse Bird," two thematically dense and character driven stories. Will Tiberi become a literary snob who thinks Hemingway was a hack? Does the corpse bird come for us all? Listen to find out!