This time, we read stuff NOT for TBC, listened to music, watched TV and movies, and played video games! After a failed guest episode, we had to fill the schedule so we decided to do another recap of the non-TBC books, music, and video games we've enjoyed so far this year like we did at the end of last year.

If this is your first time listening to this show, maybe choose another episode because today we're talking about our personal media consumption so far in 2024, so you'll (mostly) hear about things we actually liked for once.

Musings and derailments in this episode include: our love for the Hendrick's seasonal collection and the Polar Summer Seasonal 2024 flavor line-up; can sexy clowns enter into the Clown Registry? the best and only use for AI; heavy metal doctors; sneaking Andrew Tate into trad metal playlists on YouTube; and Skibidi Toilet Trees.

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Books (3:35):

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

• Grave Goods & A Murderous Procession from The Mistress of the Art of Death series by Ariana Franklin

• What My Bones Know by Samantha Foo

• Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinneman

• Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe

• The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin

• The Deep by Daveed Diggs, Rivers Solomon, and William Hutson

• Egg: A Dozen Ovatures by Lizzie Stark

• Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha

• A Fool and His Money by Anne Wroe

• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

• The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud

Music (48:40):

• Heavy Music:

  • Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

  • Vitriol - Suffer And Become

  • Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

  • Wormed - Omegon

  • Entheos - "All for Nothing"

  • Gaerea

  • Vulvodynia

  • Wormhole

  • Smothered Sun

  • Pathogenic

  • Cognitive

  • Ice Giant

  • Leylines

  • Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose

  • Savage Oath - Divine Battle

  • Writhen Hilt - Ancient Sword Cult

  • RHÛN - Conveyance in Death

  • Hulder - Verses in Oath

  • Houle - Ciel Cendre et Mis​è​re Noire

  • Myth Carver - "Crimson Terrain" & "King of the Pyre"

  • Triumpher - Storming the Walls

  • Demon Chrome - Hung, Drawn, and Quartered

  • The Watcher - Your Turn to Die

• Electronic, Pop, & Other:

  • Emil Rottmayer

  • oDDling

  • Hotel Pools

  • A.L.I.S.O.N.

  • Jim Kirkwood

  • Maggie Rogers

  • Sabrina Carpenter

  • Obscurest Vinyl - "I Glued My Balls To My Butthole Again" & "You Look Like You Could Use a Fuckin' Lamp"

  • Vivid Bloom - Out of Focus

  • Glass Beams - Mahal

Movies/TV (1:29:40):

• House of the Dragon, Delicious in Dungeon, Fallout, The Boys, Great Pottery Throwdown, The Acolyte, Fargo, Blue Eye Samurai, Dune Part Two, Mad Max: Furiosa, Late Night with the Devil

Video Games (1:59:50):

• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, Gobsmacked