Low Level Rage

Friday nights are ragier than ever on Low Level Rage. Tim's ethical conundrums. Conundra? Tips about tips. Lauren becomes a rage-filled advice columnist for people who shouldn't be seeking advice in the first place. Much trash talk about America's Elite Institutions of Higher Education. Lauren is mad about spackling and bagel tools. Tim is mad about deli counters and pedestrian traffic. And an EXTREMELY SPECIAL UNDERSEA GUEST makes an appearance!

More of Music Night! LLR drinking game rules. Tim and Lauren pass some exams! Twitter feuds and feuds about Twitter. Was 2006 the best year for music? Lauren drones on about post-rock, and Tim does laundry. Tales from women who have braved the post-rock scene. Tales of Tim Rutili. Lauren finally succeeds at getting a World's End Girlfriend song onto the program. And an exciting cat ownership origin story!

Music Night on LLR! Low Level News and an early birthday present. Lauren talks Destroyer, Tim talks Wire, and hot takes abound. Uh, It's a Band. A special GBV bed music competition. Tales of Tim's past, and Lauren sings! Tim's DMB pick of the month. Bedhead, The Mountain Goats, and a little bit of post-rock. Earnestness abounds! If you like music, you should darn well like this show.

Tim and Lauren craft an adventure for listeners to choose, but everyone chooses not to listen to the show instead. So Maggie and Callie made all your choices for you this week, everyone. Good job. The Rubber Band Challenge. More gross phrases. And an adventure in which parents arrive in town, phones die, people get lost, and maybe something bad happens at the end. Just like the tales of our youth!

Tim tries to teach Lauren how to play Magic: The Gathering but everyone keeps getting distracted. Plants, cats, and laptops. Tales from Tim's past as a callow youth. Beer confusion! Sauerkraut! Lauren muddles through the basics of Magic. Low Level Rage is accepting beer sponsorships: take note, beer sponsors! A caller calls with an exciting tale of mistaken identity, and Tim takes karaoke to a whole new level.

The return of the Low Level Rage highlight reel! Some of the best bits of two more eventful months in LLR history. Including ghost talk, job hunts, and the birth of Tim and Lauren's obsession with Jock Jams. Plus a couple weird interviews and some singing!

Low Level Rage returns . . . except Mixlr fails to work for half an hour, so by the time the show starts Tim and Lauren are even more steamed than usual. What to do instead of running away to join the circus? Baseball of the Minor League and punk rock varieties. Tim relates at least two majorly embarrassing stories. Fred almost doesn't not tell a horrifying tale. Hot on-theme Burning Man Talk and weird gross phrases. And karaoke!

The karaoke machine causes Massive Technological Failure, so the first half-hour of the show is not archived. If you missed it, you missed out! Tim and Lauren play the intro to Semi-Charmed Life about eight times and get mad. But they prevail and Maximum Karaoke Jams are achieved! No words can describe it. Greg invents a new form of karaoke, and Callie calls in with another installation of Jock Jams. Plus dancing, and an announcement!

Low Level Rage returns! No one calls and Tim and Lauren see red. Tim took a lawyer test, to the terror of all exam proctors. Various ways to troll rich people. Tim will be Mayor of Chicago, and Lauren wants to trade Beanie Babies on the NYSE. Tim and Lauren have an exciting proposal for John Hodgman relating to the subject of celebrity Dungeons and Dragons. And Tim does a voice. For a really, really long time.

Tim and Lauren rewrite the lyrics to songs with help from the callers. Cats and official LLR enemy Iggy Azalea (including an interruption from an actual cat). Some Canadian stuff. Tim and Lauren defeated by Nick Gilder. An hour spent vastly improving a Billy Joel song by way of the X-Files, plus something really horrible at the end!