Just Be Cousins

This previously posted show (#37: Bagadonuss) is the most meta podcast ever. Going back centuries. This was the lost episode, good one for the can to use later (like we are right now). We talk about the missing week (post meta). The blurb mentioned that this was not a good week for JBC (tres meta (both Spanish and French ‘tres’). Pre-Yeti (marvel at the where we came from). All in all, after 81 one episodes, reposting is not just allowed, it’s obligatory. Meta obligatory.

You’re an animal. And so are we. We are AN animal. Not two. Well, two, because Fun-Time Shags is with us in the studio. We talk about animals, especially made-up ones, like narwhals, which are real, except for Slugasus, the winged narwhal that dripped all over Lydian mythology back in, what was it, like, 1200 BCE or somethin?

Part 2 again! We did a 2-parter for music, which we love, so here’s a 2-parter of the other thing we love– ourselves. Part one was 79: Rod Stewart Can’t Attend My Funeral, where we read from Joe’s notes. Part 2 is where we read from my tweets. Egregious and self-indulgent. Oh you don’t even know. https://twitter.com/JustBeCousins

No prep random episode made more/less random by reading from Joe’s notebook of brain droppings. Idris Elba, Batman, flatulence, Filthy Mitts, Filthy Mitts II: Dirty Mitts, Filthy Mitts III: Fast Food, and Filthy Mitts IV: Inside Joe’s Brain Droppings (direct by David Lynch).

Music episode part deux. Wrong Island Ice Tea-fueled commentary on, again, mumble rap, plus other anecdotes including sharp analysis of music’s pseudo-punk neo-anarchical reactions to political zeitgeist, a blast-from-the-past ad, and commiseration for those who, burdened by the heavy taint of existence, nevertheless find a way to giggle at the word “taint.”

Music episode. Again. Full disclosure: we go long. First we talk about… crap I can’t remember. It was so long ago! But then we talk about music we like, the difference between Jam Bands and Soloists and Jazz. Yep, two middle-age white guys talking about jam bands and soloists and jazz. But then we up the ante and talk about mumble rap. Yep. That.

In this episode, oh the irony, Joe and Jason come to their Yetis without anything prepared and manage nevertheless to fill an hour dissecting comedy. Dissecting humor. Which is not at all funny. Ironically. And therefore hilarious. And absurd? If your lucky…. (inside joke).

Sports and the sporting life, Joe and Jason sporting wooden thoughts about what it means to be violent men beating opponents and other loved ones to a bloody pulp. The World Cup! Space Balls! The Ragnar Relay! My family tree! Football! Futball! Gooooooooooooooo(etc)al!

May the 74th be with you. Of July. Jason is a genius. Mostly in this non-meta episode the Inebriated Duo ™ talk about something Joe was going to say at the beginning of the show but couldn’t remember. If nothing else, this is prototypical JBC. (Prototypical is an SAT word. Learn it.)

Another meta episode. Meta-meta. Quasi-meta? This time we were going do a show about our future shows, but we ended up talking about previous shows, mostly. That’s so meta. Also we talked about Kate Middleton’s thighs. You know, her name has the letters M, E, T, and A in it. Whoa. Dude.