The Shakes

Joy and Jeremy discuss being a creative professional as illustrated by a newspaper cartoon. Or is it cartooned by a newspaper illustration?

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Happy New Year, friends!Joy and Jeremy start the new year by trying to figure out what 2015 has in store for The Shakes.One thing we'd love to have happen is the return of phone calls. You can call (816) 852-0668 24 hours a day, seven days a week to leave voicemail with whatever's on your mind. Or, look for tweets from @theshakes to find out when you can call in live and talk to Jeremy, Joy and Pat.

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Alternate Title: Clear out Your Jelly and You'll Be Just FineThis is the last episode of 2014. It was not supposed to be.We had two terrific episodes lined up with David Rees and John Roderick, but Jeremy messed up and didn't record their audio. So, here we are, closing with what was meant to be next week's show.In this episode: Black Mirror, Christmas specials, Pat and Jeremy's rising estrogen levels and the most inscrutable DVR of recent memory.

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Here's the episode we were supposed to release for your Thanksgiving road trip listening pleasure. But the hotel wifi on Jeremy's Thanksgiving road trip made it impossible to publish. So, here's your Thanksgiving dessert a week late.In this episode: Self-aware jazz, John Muller, cognacs, Pat's weird toaster grandpa, film school in the Midwest, making out with Tiffani Amber Thiessen and the return of cannibalism, just in time for the holidays.

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Pat invites Wolf & Wilhelmine's founder and director of strategy, Heidi Hackemer, in for a chat about reinventing the way her shop works by living out of a Ford F-150.

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We return from licking our World Series wounds by having A1 Corporate Shill Chris O'Connor come to the studio.We crack open one the first 1,000 bottles of Rieger Whiskey and talk about entrepreneurialism. Except for Joy. She's pregnant.

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It's a mixed bag of discussion. Because, you see, our cable's out and we've already been to the rec center this week.In this episode: Rob Lowe's DirecTV spots, ChoreMonster at the Disney Accelerator, Walking Dead season 5 discussion and crackheads.ERRATA: Contrary to Pat's statement, ChoreMonster did not sell to Disney. Rather, some sort of partnership is in the works.

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Now, more than ever, the time has come to have the definitive discussion of the Kansas City Royals.But, don't worry. It's not all baseball, apple pie, Grandma's slacks and Chevrolet. The discussion somehow goes to a "little person" that Jeremy once cast in a commercial that allegedly has an alternate career in niche adult cinema.But, baseball!

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Pat brings up the topic of "Lollipop Moments," seemingly innocuous actions that one does for others with little thought that ultimately have a lasting impact on that other's life.But Joy has questions. And Jeremy just leans his head into the billowy, cloud-like Auralex and lets the discussion unfold.

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The gang breaks in the recording studio with a brainstorming session.If the world will end in five days, what will you do? Hint: If you're smart, you'll stay away from Pat.

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