Season 21 Episode 19

SPECIAL "2024 ELECTION" EPISODE!

1. Love Me, I'm a Liberal - Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon
2. Undecided Voters - Kiwi jr.
3. Election Day - Cheekface feat. Sidney Gish
4. Forecast Fascist Future - Of Montreal
5. The American War - Simone White
6. Freedom - Jenny Hval
7. Future - Cut Copy
8. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - Francis Blume
9. Do Your Duty - Bobby Lounge
10. Baby, It's Time to Vote - Mad Tea Party
11. America - ØZWALD

This episode features several clips: Pete Buttigieg on the NYT Ezra Klein Show talking about people’s trust in government. Kamala Harris’ campaign debut ad: Freedom. Bill Maher talking about the young people who founded America and contrasting the US to her enemies who young people today seem to think are preferable. The AI-generated song “Fucking My Couch” by AI Larry Bob.

Season 21 Episode 18

EXTREMELY SPECIAL "PARENTHOOD" EPISODE!

1. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) - John Lennon
2. Baby's Baby's - Little Fevers
3. Before You Were Born - Bo and the Locomotive
4. The Gentle Preservation of Children's Minds - Irving
5. Море дерев (A Sea of ​​Trees) - SMURNO
6. Daddy - Haley
7. Father & Son - Dappled Cities
8. And Mom and Kid - They Might Be Giants
9. Reading Rainbow Theme Song - The Octopus Project feat. The Flaming Lips
10. Still Fighting It - Ben Folds
11. You Are My Baby - Kimya Dawson
12. Do You Realize?? - Sharon Van Etten
13. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) - Billy Joel
14. White Lilacs - The Womenfolk

This episode features a clip from The Local's podcast Sweden in Focus where Richard Orange talks about the country's generous paternity leave and the effect it has on families. There's also a clip from Bill Maher's not-so-great podcast Club Random where Penn Jillette talks about evolutionary love for one's children. Nick Cave also reads a response he wrote to a fan who was concerned about bringing a child into the world in its current state on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. There are also birthday greetings to September babies from Tiktoker Soupy Garbage Juice (he’s released the full song but I didn’t realize it until too late to include the whole song on the show). And while not mentioned in the episode, I highly recommend Ric Burns' documentary about Ansel Adams.

Season 21 Episode 17

SPECIAL “ALL COVERS” EPISODE!

1. Strange Overtones - Whitney
2. You've Got a Woman - Natalie Bergman & Beck
3. Take Me Home, Country Roads - Lana Del Rey
4. Lovefool - Babeheaven
5. The Boys are Back in Town - The Cardigans
6. Best of My Love - Skeleten
7. Good Vibrations - The Black Angels
8. Sloop John B - Night Beats
9. All I Have to Do Is Dream - The Raveonettes
10. Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Raveonettes
11. A Shot in the Dark - Combustible Edison
12. Such Great Heights - Ronobir Lahiri

This episode features a couple of clips from recent VP candidate Tim Walz contrasting his modest lifestyle to other political figures and talking about the Trump agenda vs. his and Kamala Harris’.

Season 21 Episode 16

1. Exercise Class - Rodney Cromwell
2. Havana Bay - Magon
3. Our Love is Real - Magon
4. Hard Erase - Worn-Tin
5. Joe & Ruth - Worn-Tin
6. Pendulum - Sports Coach
7. Infinity - Sports Coach
8. Dead Stars in your Eyes - The Reds, Pinks & Purples
9. Public Art - The Reds, Pinks & Purples
10. I-90 Bridge - Chastity Belt
11. Clock Keeps Ticking -Bonny Doon

This episode features a couple of clips from a really fun episode of Tyler Cowan’s podcast Conversations with Tyler. The guest is a favorite of mine, Paul Bloom, a psychologist who specializes in moral psychology, particularly in children. I pulled clips of them discussing at what age a child can truly believe in God, and another where they discuss the relative value of dogs, cats, pigs, and humans. The whole hour is great.

Season 21 Episode 15

1. The Depth of an Answer - Dumbo Gets Mad
2. Rue du Repos - Bibi Club
3. Le feu - Bibi Club
4. Strangers - Ford Chastain
5. No Way - Ford Chastain
6. Table - Katy Kirby
7. Drop Dead - Katy Kirby
8. Bad Eye Opal - Marina Allen
9. Love Comes Back - Marina Allen
10. Gravel Disco Road - Pasiflorez
11. Farmers Friend - Pasiflorez
12. Deadly Understudy - Smaller Hearts

This episode features a clip from Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech at the DNC followed by Steven “Destiny” Bonnell on how effectively the Democrats usurped the Republican's historic talking points (cause they have forfeited them in favor of lunacy). Later he describes why it’s harder for MAGA to break free from their idiocy than for leftists to do the same.

Season 21 Episode 14

1. Blue - Famous Friend
2. The Future is Our Way Out - Brigitte Calls Me Baby
3. Impressively Average - Brigitte Calls Me Baby
4. Borderline - Majak Door
5. Call It What You Want - Majak Door
6. Back of My Mind - Silver Biplanes
7. Silver Wings - Silver Biplanes
8. Go Time - Gitkin
9. Don't You Want Me Baby (Cumbia) - Gitkin
10. Love for the Sake of Dub - Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band
11. Grilled - Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band
12. Porque Te Vas - Molly Lewis
13. Crushed Velvet - Molly Lewis
14. Hi No Tori - Golden Bug and The Limiñanas feat. Vega Voga

This episode features a clip from The New York Times podcast The Interview where host Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviewed US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and he mentioned one of the most-compelling potential promises of a Kamala Harris presidency: Wresting control of the Republican Party back to some kind of normalcy and away from the MAGA clown car of conspiracy theorist know-nothings.

Season 21 Episode 13

1. Worries - Swiss Portrait
2. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Badbadnotgood feat. Norah Jones
3. Heaven - The National
4. Archive 81 - Bathe Alone
5. 4ever - Bathe Alone
6. Thérèse - LAVANDE
7. Moon Canyon Park - Pearl & The Oysters
8. D'Ya Hear Me! - Pearl & The Oysters
9. Affinity - Loma
10. Turnaround - Loma
11. Lucky Onze - Twen

This episode features two clips from the David Pakman Show. First, from 8 months ago, he lays out a partial list of Joe Biden’s accomplishments, observing that he was the most effective and consequential president of the last 50 years. Then a clip of Joe Biden’s address where he bows out of the presidential race for the good of the country.

Season 21 Episode 12

1. Wherever You Are - Professional Extra
2. Rosey Dream I - Conflict at Serenity Pools
3. Yeah Totally Yeah - Conflict at Serenity Pools
4. Feelgood by Numbers (Louie Zong Rework) - The Go! Team
5. Everyone's a V.I.P. To Someone (Cornershop Remix) - The Go! Team
6. Sleep on the Left Side - Cornershop
7. Fibers & Graves - Acoqui
8. Trust (feat. Luke Temple) - Acoqui
9. To Be a Millionaire… Was it Likely? - Spacehog
10. On This Side of Town (It's Always 5 in the Morning) - Big Search
11. Hope It Makes You Happy (feat. Taken By Trees) - Big Search
12. Change in the Weather - The Concretes
13. It's Too Late (Demo) - Becca Mancari

This episode features a clip of Bill Hicks' in 1988 talking about how all the good people always get murdered, but mediocre hacks live forever no matter what. I was reminded of this routine over the weekend when Trump was shot at but they just grazed him. This isn't the version I remember listening to, but I couldn't find the version from my memory.

Season 21 Episode 11

1. Stella the Begonia - Rubblebucket
2. Botanical Garden - Anna Erhard
3. Strange World - La Luz
4. Poppies - La Luz
5. Without You - Rachel Love
6. I Lost Myself - Rachel Love
7. Aribau - Clément Froissart
8. Valencia - Clément Froissart
9. Species - Mammoth Penguins
10. Nothing and Everything - Mammoth Penguins
11. Playing Favorites - Sheer Mag
12. When You Get Back - Sheer Mag
13. Lucy Takes a Picture - Youth Lagoon

This episode features a clip of an essay by John Cleese about The Advantages of Extremism. It’s an old clip from the late 1980s and targeted a British audience but it feels tailor-made for contemporary America.

SEASON 21 EPISODE 10

1. Marry Me - Tele Novella
2. Big Congratulations - Holiday Ghosts
3. Coat of Arms - Holiday Ghosts
4. The Dominoes - Mustard Service
5. Night in Tulum - Mustard Service
6. Nostalgia - Yot Club
7. Human Nature - Yot Club
8. Ghost Beach - Dayaway
9. True Cyan - Dayaway
10. A Picture is All I Have - Saint Saviour (feat. Orlando Weeks)
11. Cellophane - Saint Saviour
12. At the River - Groove Armada
13. Old Cape Cod - Patti Page

This episode features a clip of TikToker Handren Seavey talking about how the track record of college aged kids being right about things is, um, mixed. It’s not their fault, they’re just the dumbest adults. Also commentator Destiny talks about the problem of letting groups like Hamas leverage asymmetric warfare and human shields to gain support from the international community and the risk that giving into that poses for a world order based on international law.