This week we get into oversized crackers, overwhelming geocaching, and overcooked 2001 metalcore before sitting down to fan ourselves in all this heat and remember what it was like to be young and super into hooded sweatshirts, thrash ballads, and magneto scarabs... kinda like Akron's only sons SPLINTER.

Our final episode before a brief vacation sees us thinking about our waning years of live performances and our waxing years of cheez-it appreciation before diving into the rich universe of california punk and hardcore via the surf 'n sun sounds of Mis'sionnne Vai-jo's own BORDERLINE.

This week talk about hardcore (gaming) and hardcore (manga collecting) hardcore (reality TV) before celebrating the legacy of the late (hardcore) Steve Albini by examining one of the few ZENI GEVA records he had absolutely nothing to do with.

Over the last few months we've brought you the flavors of England, Canada, Ancient Greece, Arrakis, Philadelphia... but there's truly no place like home. So steep yourself a cup of chamomile tea, put on your favorite sweater, snuggle up with the quilt grandma made you, and queue up the void-genital destroying apocalypse grind of Albany NY's CONNIPTION.

This week we taste spicy creams as we ponder the eroding furnace of time and it's early onset effects for those who choose the punk way. We challenge the permanence of recorded interviews and taste the honeyed prog of an aging spaceman. Finally we stare head-on into the burning passion of 4 Buffalonians who truly practice what they preached... why? NO REASON.

This week we get unexpectedly dialed up about Xena Warrior Princess before dialing it down to soberly discuss the late-period youth crew antics of the only band we've ever encountered to feature a prominent BMX theme - Hunterdon County's beloved and clean living sons RAD.

Unfortunately we all survived our hiatus trials and we're here to bring you some Eclipse chat a full week after everyone else has moved on. Don't move on, man... the eclipse won't be back for ages. Stay with it. Stay with it. Anyway here's Philadelphia murder machines STARKWEATHER.

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Welcome to Weeksperts, our attempt to become experts in a week via a weak spurt of research. In this episode, we analyze and master the readily available world of Hot Wheels collecting.

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We love international culture so this week we briefly think about dutch working class music before setting sail for a country we can't sail to - America's own CANADA. There we eat jars of vegan grease while searching for yet another Colo-band, THE SWARM.

This week we IRL check out some hockey and VIRTUAL check out some Sunami. Emboldened by mosh, we openly choose to flaunt the will of god, defying the current dangers of long flimsy suspension bridges to take the Pulaski Skyway right into the guts of NJ. Does the skyway actually take you to Brunswick? What do I look, like Rand McNally? Anyway here's SCARLET LETTER.