Is it Punk?

The Rams won the Super Bowl, but everyone is still asking, “who won the Super Bowl of Emo???” And dont worry, we finally have an answer. EP 55 drops tomorrow and you’ll get to see Ian get progressively more and more drunk since this was a Friday night record session while we figure out what is truly the best emo record of all time.

Big shout out to Joey from Kirby Grip on the first ep, Jonny Wanzer for the second ep, and my buddy Emmett for helping out with the finale.

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The Bad Boy of Burlington Jonny Wanzer is back on the pod this week  being a real old head emo gate keeper, and we love it. He even tells Connor one of his favorite emo bands of all time sucks. Lets fucking go!

In this ep we continue our breakdown of the top 32 emo records of all time (As selected by Connor and Ian) and we break out the bottom half of the top 16. If you like emo music and dorks who talk too much, this shit is for you. 

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Outro Song: Old North End Anthem by Donny Wanzer

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SEASON 2 IS HERE! Exciting right? We set this up like 2 episodes ago where Ian and I came up with the 32 best records to represent Emo best to us, then we randomly seeded them into a 32 team bracket and the tournament began. We have spent the last 2 weeks listening to these damn records so now its time to talk about what's good and what sucks. To break any ties we brought in our first returning guest, Joey from Kirby Grip!

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Outro Song: Green Sky by Kirby Grip

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One full ass year into the pod, how wacky is that? So to celebrate we picked an all time big philosophical question, is Minecraft punk? While recording Ian forgot to make a really salient point that he texted me right after we recorded so check him out being not dumb below.

"I forgot to mention the philosophical beauty of Minecraft because I was in dumb guy character, but the whole game is a metaphor for life and existentialism. How life is inherently meaningless, but thrown into a game with no meaning, people find activities and meanings or construct their own." Sounds like dude has been watching the HORSE the band Earth Tour DVD again amiright or amiright?

Outro Song: Oblivions Peak by Knocked Loose

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Is Slackers (2002) a good movie? If you asked me 3 days ago I would have said yea, now…maybe not. But how punk is it? Idk but Ian took a piss mid pod so tune in to hear his weak stream.

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We back on our fucking bullshit fam. Back to the 2 hour + episodes like we should have always been. Honestly, a podcast is only good if its like 3+ hours so we are on our way back to glory. Anyway, Ian and I both love emo and wanted to talk about it so here we are. We are going to once and for all answer the question, what is the best emo band of all time as of right now according to two idiots who barely know anything. Prior to this ep we made a list of like 70 bands and you'll hear us get down to a tight 32. We are gonna spend the next couple weeks pretty much exclusively listening to these bands and pt. 2 will be us getting down to the top 16. See you then dorks.

Intro Song: Remember The Sea of Tranquility by Jeromes Dream (live)

Outro Song: Untitled 7 by iwrotehikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook

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We had planned originally to put this one on youtube and so theres a couple visual things on this one but then we decided not to. These things happen, and they are forgivable. But the music put out by MC Lars and his nerdcord contemporaries is not as forgivable.

Intro Song: Burning in the Undertow by One Last Wish

Outro Song: Cut Self Not by Faraquet

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THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! We finally got our shit together so we could record together again. The holidays and Ian being hit by a car really messed things up, but we are back. And this week we are going over our AOTY lists. And like right after recording (and also mid record) we both realized we forgot a lot of stuff. But hey...bad brains what can ya do? So enjoy and hopefully you'll find some new bands to check out?

Intro Song: World at War by Dead Heat

Outro Song: Peace of Mind by Jail Socks

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Are gamers punk? Is it punk to game? Is it more punk to play games on a PC or a console? Is nintendo more punk than sega? Who knows. This week I (Connor) kinda talk about that stuff but really I just talked about Call of Duty. Probably one of the worst things to happen to the human race. I honestly feel like that is a fair argument you can make. I don't even like COD that much but I havn't been able to stop playing it for like a decade. Could that be my addictive personality at work??? Who knows! Anyways, enjoy this solo ep as Ian's dumb broken knee and the holidays fuck us up once again.

Intro Song: Makes No Sense by Praise

Outro Song: Million Times by Fiddlehead

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life happens and ian went this one alone. all music episode, no jokes, just ian ranting about punk christmas music. he discusses early christmas punk songs, defends incels, and deep dives into a from first to last christmas song.