Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 585 of the podcast that thinks you’re interesting!

This week: esrever ni; Questions of the Week – Sneakers respond; step up; A.I. generations; Sim-ilar; stop arting; skip to Liu; identity crisis; Top 5 Songs – Chickens; missed signals; no punchline; no wizards; opening spoilers; humanised; feeble villains; witty deaths; that darn cat; there will be blood; old timers; broomba; surprising competencies; good timing; what the “L”; insulting; the surprise beginning of Simon and Garfunkel; annual general service; holy ghosted; dumb meetings; casual pitch; and, finally, pay up, pal.

Top 5 Songs -Chickens

* The Fireballs – “Chicken Little” – Atco Records single b/w “Three Minutes’ Time”, 1968 – 00:26:57

* Amos Milburn – “Chicken Shack” – Let’s Have a Party, 1957 – 00:30:40

* WITCH – “Like a Chicken” – Introduction, 1973 – 00:35:50

* Charles Mingus – “Eat That Chicken” – Oh Yeah, 1962 – 00:43:25

* Jeffrey Frederick – “Chicken (Live)” – Ooo La La…Les Clams, 2003 – 00:52:27

Bonus song

* Louis Jordan – “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens” – Mercury Records single (biside to “Let the Good Times Roll”, 1946 – 1:00:38

Question of the Week: If you could have a wild animal as a pet, what animal would it be?Sub-question of the Week: Reincarnation is real, but you screwed up and you have to come back as an animal. As which animal would you return?

Thanks for listening.

Department of Corections:This week was a landslide of misspeaks as Dave somehow forgot about the album Mingus Plays Piano – a solo piano album that came out in 1964 on Impulse! Records. The producer of Simon and Garfunkel’s career-defining single of “Sounds of Silence” was Tom Wilson – a name that often slips Dave’s mind – who also produced early Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground and The Mothers of Invention (so a pretty important dude in modern music). Also, the first Simon and Garfunkel album was Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M..