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.

SEASON 21 EPISODE 9

SPECIAL "I UP AND DONE GOT MARRIED" EPISODE!

1. Marriage - The Bug Club
2. Ban Marriage - The Hidden Cameras
3. Marriage - The Eversons
4. 爱是 (Love Is) - Chinese American Bear
5. Always Forever - Cults
6. Wicked Wedding - DJ Schmolli (Mashup Chris Isaak vs Billy Idol)
7. Sea of Love - Cat Power
8. First Song ❤️ - Mariia with Two I's
9. Maria - Barbagallo & Baptiste W. Hamon
10. Love is Eternity - They Might Be Giants
11. Into My Arms - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
12. Northern Sky - Nick Drake
13. Hand on Your Heart - José González
14. Sparks - Coldplay

This episode features a clip of Jim Gaffigan talking about Weddings from his Obsessed album. The whole routine is hilarious but I only included a bit of it.

Season 21 Episode 8

SPECIAL "6º OF BUDDY HOLLY" EPISODE!

1. Buddy Holly - Razor Braids
2. Words of Love - Strange Magic
3. Oh Boy! - Strange Magic
4. Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly with Royal Philharmonic
5. True Love Ways - Buddy Holly with Royal Philharmonic
6. Photograph - Jeff Lingle
7. Suzanne - Weezer
8. American Girls - Weezer
9. Pink Moon - Nick Drake and the Sad Beads
10. Free Ride - Liz Phair
11. Road - Bombay Bicycle Club & The Staves
12. Weeping Song - Nell Smith & The Flaming Lips
13. She Don't Use Jelly - Ben Folds Five
14. Cindy - Johnny Cash with Nick Cave
15. Ring of Fire - The Carter Family

This episode features a clip from Saturday Night Live where dinner party guests debate Weezer fandom. It’s the 30th anniversary of the blue album which I intended to mention, but failed to. Also, for the closing I talked over the 8-Bit Misfits awesome version of "Buddy Holly" (Amazon, Spotify, YouTube) but didn't say so.

Season 21 Episode 7

SPECIAL "SYNTHSTRAMENTAL" … "INSTRUSYNTHAL?" EPISODE!

1. Dream Sequence - Danz CM
2. Temper - Gravité
3. Robotman - Gravité
4. Cosmom Cinematic - Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips
5. Cats - Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips
6. The Big Conference! - Louie Zong
7. Computer Lounge! - Louie Zong
8. Japan Musick - Sweet Juice
9. Ariel Vendor - Sweet Juice
10. Concorde tercera versión - The Holydrug Couple
11. Atlantic 19 de agosto - The Holydrug Couple
12. Lichen Maps - Green-House
13. Far More Other - Green-House
14. Felicia - Kolumbo

Season 21 Episode 6

1. Best Day Ever - The Derevolutions
2. Prep-School Gangsters - Vampire Weekend
3. Pravda - Vampire Weekend
4. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Demo - San Francisco 2/71) - Paul Simon
5. Duncan - Paul Simon
6. Follow the Ghost - The Eastern Plain
7. Should I Stay or Should I Go? - Nouvelle Vague (feat. Alonya)
8. This Charming Man - Nouvelle Vague (feat. Melanie Pain)
9. Pareidolia - Matt Monsoor
10. I Love My Television - The Rhythm Method
11. Curse - The Rhythm Method
12. Show & Tell - Bored at My Grandmas House

This episode features some edited down clips of Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig on Radio X talking to John Kennedy about the origins of the two songs I played in the episode. The Paul Simon documentary I mentioned is called In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon by Alex Gibney.

Season 21 Episode 5

1. Eclipse - Jacco Gardner
2. Lorelay - Jennie Lawless
3. Start a New - Bull
4. Red Rooves - Bull
5. Imaginary Conversations - Bull
6. Running Around - STRFKR
7. Together Forever - STRFKR
8. The Main Thing - Ducks Ltd.
9. Heavy Bag - Ducks Ltd.
10. The Sea - Baby Cool
11. Poison - Baby Cool
12. Black Holes, the Stars and You - A. Savage
13. Put It In Reverse - Pina Palau

This episode features a clip from the Blocked and Reported podcast with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal talk about the confusing shake out on who supports which side in the Israeli vs Palestinian/Hamas war. Also, Benjamin of @holylandspeaks opines about the fixation on Palestinian suffering by people who completely ignore Ukrainian or other suffering.

Season 21 Episode 4

1. You Woo Me - The Courettes
2. Water Underground - Real Estate
3. Somebody New - Real Estate
4. New Moon - Laetitia Sadier
5. Panser L’inacceptable - Laetitia Sadier
6. BUG0BEAT - Cool Sounds
7. Another Way - Cool Sounds
8. Firad - Dina Ögon
9. Tomma lådor - Dina Ögon
10. Hard Erase - Worn-Tin
11. Replace Me - Worn-Tin
12. Northern Boy - Ruby Sue

This episode features a condensed clip from The Big Conversation podcast where Alex O’Connor talks about how religious people try to give take credit for the progress made at dismantling all of the awful stuff their religious traditions got wrong historically. Also, a clip from Christmas Vacation about Ruby Sue.