Flower Seize the Hour

In this episode, hosts Tim, Greg, and Noah discuss the seasons, Greg's time sniping sharks in the ocean, and get a visit from longtime friend of the show, Bobby Blotzer, former drummer of Ratt, current drummer and frontman for Robert Blotzer Presents...the Universe.   

In this episode, Tim, Ryan, Greg, Noah, and Matt continue their journey through the Smashing Pumpkins catalogue by continuing to discuss Ratt, in particular, Greg's attempt to get Tim's money back from Ratt lead singer Stephen Pearcy through an in person, mano-a-mano confrontation at the M3 Rock Festival in Maryland.  Also, German film director Uwe Boll stops by to fundraise for his newest political satire, Rampage 3.  

In this episode, the hosts discuss Tim's continued on-line disputes with the various members of Ratt, with a possibly reconciliation with Bobby Blotzer, and, eventually, discuss the Smashing Pumpkins' album Adore.  The reasonableness of sleeping on the street, after a night of drinking, is also debated and it is lastly revealed that Billy Corgan is actually just a different version of Dave Mustaine.  Or Billy is Tom Cochrane.  Or something like that.  

It's been a year of Flower Seize the Hour...technically...and the hosts, and live-listener Matt Smith, celebrate a year of togetherness.  The hosts partake in an epic What Are You Wearing, look back on the highlights of 2015, in particular, Tim's bout with Shingles, and discuss the year in Billy news and some recent listener mail from the Sucockubus and others. 

Enter Stubbs' dungeon.  Stubbs hosts this episode of Flower Seize the Hour and indulges his new, manly, late-in-life obsession with DnD/Role-play games.  He guides Tim, Greg, Noah, and Dan through a game of his own making, Shredrz, where . . . ((sigh) I can't believe I'm typing this) . . . where "characters are most often musicians and battle for the soul of humanity."  Ugh.  The normally rock n' jock hosts are each assigned a Smashing Pumpkins band member to role play as and the team battles through evils like Steve Albini, Ratt (Juan Croucier's Ratt), and Matt Smith's childhood teacher, Ms. Fitzpatrick.

In this very special Thanksgiving episode of Flower Seize the Hour, hosts Tim, Ryan, Greg, and Noah are joined by special guest Dan Kovler to discuss the rhyme and verse of William Corgan, the Poet.  The hosts cover Billy's poetry book, Blinking with Fists, some fan poetry posted on Smashing Pumpkins websites, and share some of their own intimate, Billy-inspired verse.  Any time remaining is devoted to the second side of Siamese Dream.  Oh, and Krull and Emo Phillips.  

In this episode, hosts Tim, Ryan, Greg, Matt, and Noah discuss the first side of Siamese Dream, Cherub Rock through Soma.  It features popular recurring segments "What Are You Wearing?" and "What Have You Been Up to?" and the hosts role-play a meeting between Billy Corgan and Ryan Stubbs.

In this episode, hosts Tim, Ryan, Greg, Matt, and Noah discuss Pisces Iscariot.  Ryan shows up late to the recording, but just in time to present his always contrarian opinions and controversial political views.  Meanwhile, the hosts discover Noah's talent for instantaneously recognizing any 80s hair metal cover song, and he shares a very personal story about Winger's rendition of Purple Haze.  And Greg saw a movie about dinosaurs.

Disclaimer:  Ryan is not, in fact, Ryan in this episode, but instead is being expertly impersonated by another, handsomer individual, who does not express the actual views and opinions of Ryan.

In this episode, hosts Tim, Ryan, Greg, Matt, and Noah do the OC bracket challenge, that is, the Ocean/Corgan bracket challenge where the six best Billy Ocean songs go up against the six best Billy Corgan songs to determine the best Billy.  Billy Ocean and Michael Douglas guest star.  

In this episode of Flower Seize the Hour, a podcast occasionally and tenuously devoted to discussing the Smashing Pumpkins, hosts Tim, Stubbs, Greg, and Matt address the Smashing Pumpkins' first record, Gish.  This is episode one, and is called episode one despite being actually recorded after episodes three, four, five, and six.  To explain, the original episode one contained some technical, but mostly substantive, flaws, and this, therefore, is a replacement. And if the listener still finds this replacement episode one unsatisfying, then the listener can only imagine how bad the original sounded.  In any event, in this episode one the hosts are joined by Noah, an international rock n’ roll expert, and later on by guest Edward G. Bauer, a local jazz aficionado.  If the listener sticks around long enough, he or she will be treated to the sweet sounds of scat and be-bop juxtaposed to the sounds of early 90’s alternative rock.  Oh, and some Scientology hot stove.