It’s time for episode 103 of Protonic Reversal! For the second week in a row, we’ve got in-studio guests: the fantastic Milwaukee band WORK. Conan and Josh encourage much nerdy discussion, along the lines of:

-Numerous and endless band name puns

-Australian GPS voices

-Colin Hay

-Sideshows and local Oakland references

-Marsupials

-Guitar rippers like Devo and St. Vincent

-Not having any idea how the band will deal with being in two different cities

-Emolument

-“If we don’t rule, Jeff just starts punching us until we start ruling”

-“Chisel: Because the Jam broke up”

-Mean and vicious pop

-Keeping the record contiguous

-The album tracks on Thriller

-Trying to use the least time to record their comp song

-Joe Lally

-“How come we don’t have Thursday Thursdays?”

-Tangin’ the hump

-Joe’s superpower: Temporarily Benjamin Franklin

-Domain names

-Electric Abacus: “Pretty proggy, very formulaic and repetitive”

-Hassling a song until the most irritating bass line possible brings it together

-Working it out during smoke and/or shit breaks

-Evaluating Paul McCartney’s collaborations

-Quitting the Moody Blues in 1968

-Confusing Michael Jackson videos

-The various mixes of Raw Power

-The Bob James-esque solo records of Max Rebo

-Running into George Lucas at Starbucks

-Obsolete format chat

-What to expect from the new WORK record

-Eating Popeye’s and watching Popeye

-All of us admitting we don’t know enough about Milwaukee’s excellent hip hop scene

-Playing at Bounce right after the wedding ceremony

-Chicken-greasing the lens

-Hating stuff that sounds like stuff

-Audiences love psychedelic freak-outs sometimes

-Tracking the size of a city via pedal steel players

-“PEDAL STEEL. THEREMIN. KAZOO. FUCK YOU.

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-Mittster Mittster

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-Blingee

-Strictly fancy

-Josh is revealed to be a character played by Michael Winslow

-Method Snacking

-amiatbandpractice.com

-Lots of T. Rex discussion

-Heading out on a cuddly note

-Smash that F5, keep it refreshed