On today’s show, as summer is set to start, we’re taking a look at summer music, and more specifically, the institution that is ‘The Summer Music Festival.’ From Woodstock to Coachella, the Summer Music Festival has been a glorious celebration of song, of youth culture, of excess, of hooliganism, and of wildness itself. There’s always a little danger lurking around the corner with summer music festivals, be it rain and electrocution at Woodstock Original-Recipe; coked-up Hell’s Angels at Altamont; mud clod-slinging frat boys at Lollapalooza; or disaffected and pissed-off young white men just looking to ‘break something’ at Woodstock ‘99. In recent years, though, summer festivals have taken on a wholly different feel, for better or, as Justin would have you believe, much, much worse. So with all that in mind, we’ll dive into a little of our personal Summer Music Festival histories, and then we’ll take up the then-vs-now debate and decide once and for all what the essential Summer Music Festival experience is, or at least, should be.

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On today’s show, we’re diving deep into two films inspired by one of the most groundbreaking and beloved comedy films of all time: This Is Spinal Tap, the first-of-a-genre masterpiece directed by Rob Reiner and starring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. The movie spawned imitators aplenty in the mockumentary space and paved the way for such pop cultural icons as The Office, Parks & Recreation, and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, among many, many others. In 2025, pop superstar Charli XCX released The Moment, a direct modern successor of This Is Spinal Tap, and it’s hilarious. So with that as a starting point, we’re going to review the film alongside another mockumentary that we’ve been eyeing: Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee. Though it plays as a feature, it was actually the final two episodes of the first season of Documentary Now!, a fantastic mockumentary series created by Fred Armisen and Bill Hader of Saturday Night Live fame. 

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On today’s show, we’re looking back on two records by two artists that had a big, big influence on both of early musical inspiration. The artists: Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, aka The Indigo Girls. The records: Nomads ⬪ Indians ⬪ Saints and Rites of Passage. We’re diving deep on both of these magnificent albums to get into everything we love about the songwriting, the guitar playing, the vocal harmonizing, and the deep, deep meaning behind so many of the lyrics. It’s gonna be a good one, so get on the bus, y’all!

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On today’s show, we’re taking a close look at the brand-new version of Saturday Night Live that dropped recently on NBC and Peacock: Saturday Night Live UK! We’ll give our takes and opinions on the new show, how it stacks up against SNL Original Recipe, and we’ll assess the current state of the original show as well.

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On today’s show, we’re welcoming our buddy Mark for a return visit to spool out our collective Most Anticipated Movies of 2026 list. So many movies!! 

Every Movie We Discussed on the Show:

• Tow
• Power Ballad
• Digger
• The Christophers
• Jack of Spades
• The Dog Stars
• Ladies First
• I Love Boosters
• Back Rooms
• Tuner
• The Adventures of Cliff Booth
• Wild Horse Nine
• Coyote vs. Acme
• Her Private Hell
• Over Your Dead Body
• The Invite
• Whalefall
• The Weight
• Disclosure Day
• The Odyssey
• Dune Pt. 3
• The Death of Robin Hood
• The Dutchman
• The Social Reckoning
• The End of Oak Street
• Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
• Hokum
• Roommates
• Mile End Kicks
• Pressure
• The Brink of War
• The Wizard of the Kremlin
• Gale Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
• Paper Tiger
• How to Rob a Bank
• Panic Carefully
• Ghost Writer
• Bucking Faster
• Wildwood

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On today’s show, we’re welcoming an in-studio guest for a walk down memory lane as our dear mother Beth Harper joins us to reminisce about a certain night a couple of decades ago when the two of us put on a dinner party for the ages, with a little help, er, no, A LOT of help from a certain southern gentleman and service industry magician from Matt’s culinary past, Montgomery Sinks.

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Today on the show we’re inaugurating a new recurring episode format: the Junk Drawer. It’s our way of clearing out the many random topic ideas and interesting tidbits that we’ve collected in recent weeks and months that haven’t fit into anything we’ve already discussed and don’t quite warrant a full show topic on their own.

Angine de Poitrine on KEXP

Anderson Paak Live

Around the World in 1900 Colorized

Eiffel Tower Construction in Color

Exploring the Eiffel Tower - 3D Animation

How Long Can the Eiffel Tower Survive?

Paris 3D City Timelapse

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On today’s show, we’re going back to the Old West for a deep dive into the world of Red Dead Redemption 2, one of the all-time great video games. The game resides at the top of many critics’ Best Games Ever lists, and has spawned literally millions of hours of related content, from live streams, play-alongs, analysis videos, and tutorials, to a whole world of machinima, where creators use recorded footage of gameplay to make new cinematic features. So grab your six-shooter and sharpen your spurs: we’re headin’ to St. Denis, partner!

Cinematic Edit

Justin's Epilogue #1

Justin's Epilogue #2

I Stalked an RDR2 NPC for 14 Days (And Lost My Mind)

Agent 1899: St Denis Gang Wars. The Complete First Series. Red Dead Redemption 2 - from the Red Dead Realism YouTube Channel

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On today’s show, we’re talking all things performance art with a discussion of Yoko Ono, the artist, as well as many other figures and findings from the world of performance art. Amongst our topics: Marina Abramovic, Lady GaGa, Jay-Z, Shia LaBeouf, Didi the Devil, and Joseph Beuys.

Yoko Ono, Cut Piece 1964 and the performance video

Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting Ono’s piece that John Lennon loved

Yoko receiving the Grammy for Double Fantasy

Jay-Z Picasso Baby

Eurosport’s piece on Didi the Devil

Shia LaBeouf’s Take Me Anywhere documentary

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