Out of Touch: A Hall and Oates Podcast

It's our first song off the album Along the Red Ledge! This week's rabbit hole takes us on a journey through The Ronettes and Phil Spector, the founding fathers, Jason Momoa's water, Nimsdai Purja's mountaineering adventures, and MK's most embarrassing Instagram DM. We also need someone to help us get some shirts made so we can represent the Hall and Oates pod and our love of these gents when we attend the Beachlife Festival in Redondo Beach!

We are loving these songs on X-Static! This song is a total bop there is roller skating in the video so we are clearly obsessed. Hear about MK going to see The Weeknd and Magic Mike in Vegas, as well as a million other random things that have very little to do with the song yet somehow work as part of the convo. Is this our new motto? Possibly.

Talking to Chris (Johnny) Lackey is always a delight! We talk HP Lovecraft, Star Trek, epic kisses, DCI Banks, and a million other topics (as always) while digging into Kiss On My List. Join us for a fun and informative hour of geeking out!

Chris Lackey is the co-host of two shows - The Legendary HPLovecraft Literary Podcast and Rachel Watches Star Trek. Originally from Illinois, now lives in Yorkshire England, Via Los Angeles.

AND he is a baby angel sent straight from heaven!

This week Naomi is in Cape Cod and MK just returned from Outside Lands in SF. During the discussion of our first song from the War Babies album, I'm Watching You (A Mutant Romance), we cover many topics. Dr. Teeth and the Muppets band, Pokemon, Bowie, and a delightful little treat Naomi used to make when we were kids. Ever wonder what it means to call someone a Gingerbread eater? Us too, so if you know please let us know.

This week we discuss Rich Girl with our local Rich GUY Douglas Russell! If you've ever wondered about the debutant scene in St. Louis and beyond, this episode is for you!

Like a narrator in a Jane Austen novel, Doug Russell grew up the "poor cousin" in a family whose social influence and wealth have spanned three continents, 9 decades, three contested wills, and has affected the St. Louis debutante season, the development of Kodachrome color photography, the commercialization of Root Beer, Communism in Laos, the emergence of Vietnamese war babies, the making of Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon, the Home Shopping Network, and four closed sessions Congressional Hearings. The Prodigal Son of a Prodigal Son of a Prodigal Son, Doug's path has bounced him from the American Mississippi delta, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Bangkok, Thailand, Los Angeles, and Austin, TX, but his heart was always in San Francisco, CA, where he now works as a Harm Reduction Peer Counselor for the Post Overdose Response Team with SFDPH, and promulgates joy as Sister Celine Dionysus in the San Francisco order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. His special skills include writing the perfect thank you notes, knowing which fork to use, pouring the ideal Sazerac, the filmographies of Buster Keaton and Douglas Siri, and negotiating threesomes and cocaine. He thanks Agatha Christie novels, methamphetamines, disassociation, and Vipassana meditation for getting him to where he is today.

This week we look at the song Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid, and meander around many topics including: drummer Mickey Curry, Moxie Roller Skates, My Favorite Murder, Justin Baldoni, Irma Yep, and Earl's closet! It's quite a conversation and we both leave knowing a few things we didn't know beforehand.

Cocktails this week were Trader Joe's wine and delicious Ohza Mimosas - thanks Joe Jonas!

LJ Johnson is a Bay Area-based rabble-rouser and community mental health worker. As a professional homosexual charged with corrupting the youth into lives of gay hedonism, they are contractually obligated to espouse correct opinions on all things pop culture.

They are also a committed social services provider with over eleven years of direct service experience working with psychosocially complex communities including people experiencing severe and persistent mental illness, LGBTQIA+ youth, people experiencing homelessness, and people who use injection drugs.

We discuss polyamory, Highlander, growing up in the church dating Christian rock musicians, and MK's book about Jesus as an alien. Our conversation about jealousy was enlightening, LJ is truly gifted at not only their job but being a brilliant overachiever in every way!

Can one song encapsulate both the joy and pain of ignorant bliss? The answer is YES! Somehow this song is both a delightful poem about a sunny day sipping wine without a care in the world, and a simplification of a mind so priviledged it cannot think of anyone but itself. Are we talking about the Roe vs. Wade decision? Of course we are! But that's not all - Naomi is at the Ashland Shakespeare Festival, and MK saw Shawn Mendes again, and there is also discussion of monkey minds, punk bands from the 90's, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

This week is all about wine! The song Intravino is the perfect soundtrack for a deep discussion with our high school friend and wine aficionado, Jeremy Campbell. We dive into Daryl and John's love of wine, the amazing video for the song, and the intricacies of different varietals...all while drinking wine ourselves. This episode is unofficially brought to you by Naomi's favorite, Navarro vineyards, and MK's can of Babe sparkling red!

We both tried to find the best PRIDE anthem by Hall and Oates and this is where we landed. A classic 90's video, good hair, generic lyrics that are inclusive...this song ticks many boxes.

Is it possible we didn't really know this song (and many others) in the 90's when we were listening to The Cure and De La Soul? Yes, yes it is. But it's fun to discover and enjoy them all now as more than just Hall and Oates songs in the supermarket aisles.

Happy Pride, everyone!