In this episode we hash out some some important survival strategies that you may actually find rewarding while living under a sky that rains planes down on you all day long. We also rack up another state on our desperate race to 50... can you believe how non-trivial it is to find 50 hardcore bands? But someone finally convinced us to skip the Slipknot episode and do MODERN LIFE IS WAR instead. Amazing!

This week we appreciate the sporting life with the lively arts of slapping, lamppost tossing, one-handed chili methods and the geolocation thereof before driving a pin directly into the capital of Utah in our fantasy travel map and then completely unrelatedly thinking about the pre-jazz post-hardcore stylings of hot ICEBURNS in your area.

This week we visit your cousin and check out his situation before a reading of names in honor of all the WWII guys who came home to weird cousins and stuff. This episode officially marks the beginning of our formal struggle to complete the USA map magnets on our RV by covering a band from every state we haven't hit yet. This month, Reno NV's THIS COMPUTER KILLS.

It hasn't been Halloween for months but your blood will run cold when the episode unexpectedly jump scares into spooky chat although now that I have spoiled this for you, you'll be all tense waiting for scares and won't have any fun. Aww man I really pooched it dude I'm sorry. Let's hit the gym and talk about Seattle's HIMSA instead.

The thin veneer of democracy peels away like delicately shredded layers of slow roasted chicken as we contemplate such 2020 topics as working from home and self improvement before doing the hard and honest work of listening to an incredibly serious record from deepest darkest Indiana ca. 1994, a rare fossil from our library that some prior intern has labeled ONCE AGAIN.

AUDIO PROBLEMS - One of us (no spoilers) has a very thumpy boomy mic today. It's luxurious and imported. Try to persevere over these bassy audio apparitions as we talk about subscription model appliances and wack-a-noodling the innocent bystander 6 feet behind you before setting sail across the Atlantic again to scrutinize the violent tendencies of the german doctors in BATTLE ROYALE.

This week we decide that the holidays must persevere despite the failings of local cinema and un-local food / foot crossovers. Some people experience charity by inviting in an unsavory relative or setting a plate for a houseless neighbor... for us it's listening to a fast hardcore band. So open your hearts and your wallets for the sake of Massachusetts hardcore all-stars SLEEPER CELL.

This week we open up a late christmas gift strictly 4 locals only then go all nights-after-dark on food reviewing before getting up to our necks in the Akron scene with often mentioned / never covered DON AUSTIN. Hey Don, do any of youse know the Waitresses? I am a huge fan!

It's the holiday season, so hoop-de-doo and dickory dock. This week we pay a visit to grandma's to ask her what people used to eat on Christmas in the 1400's then we devour all of the varied creams and special fishes in the house in preparation for god's favorite rust belt curators of every type of breakdown, Erie PA's xDISCIPLEx.

Drones, Dunes, Departures, Drinks... it's just a rollercoaster of a news cycle this week as we used the holidays as an excuse to briefly dissolve our only source of revenue and curl up in a miserable cave slowly building up uric acid in our bodies as the winter passes us by. Today's record is by a band adjacent to several legends, NYC's own HELL NO.