The Third Men Podcast

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The Third Men Podcast episodes

May 23, 2018 Episode 71 – Trash Tongue Television vol. 3: Late Night
Don't touch that dial, the Third Men Podcast is back with an all-new installment of Trash Tongue Television! In this ongoing series, we explore Jack White's television appearances over the years, and in part three we're casting the spotlight on late night talk shows! Jack's no stranger to late night TV, with tastemakers like Conan O'Brien significantly helping catapult the White Stripes to fame at the turn of the millennium. But Conan camaraderie is only one piece of the puzzle, appearances on the couches of David Letterman, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon helped keep Jack's music in the homes of millions of Americans over the last 15+ years. We turn our attention to these three hosts and cover it all, including conversation and performances from The White Stripes, The Dead Weather, collaborations and solo material from the Late Show, the Tonight Show and more! Plus: we're joined by third man of the week Ben Karns who helps us answer YOUR listener questions! Lots of fun, a few too many monologues and saucy-yet-accessible banter await you tonight on the Third Men podcast!

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1 hr 55 min
May 09, 2018 Episode 70 – Five on the Live: Guest Stars
It’s five on the live, and we’ll be taking time to review our favorite Jack White live cuts featuring guest performers! In this all-new installment of our continuing series, your humble co-hosts have picked through decades of concerts both large and small to find our five favorite performances from Jack White with (or as) a special guest musician! Fortunately for us there's a lot of shows to choose from, with guests ranging from rock legends, to key influences, to contemporaries and beyond. Of course the grandaddy of them all occurred in 2015 when the Lazaretto touring band were joined on stage by the last member of Led Zeppelin Jack had still yet to play with: Mr. Robert Plant. That tour united many a musician in song, including Q Tip for an electric performance at Madison Square Garden, as well as both Beck and Sean Ono Lennon! From there we journey to Lake Wobegon for the one and only live performance by both Jack White and Margo Price, before heading back to Third Man in Nashville to witness an incredible moment on stage with Pearl Jam. All this, plus the return of Third People Kali Durga and Yvette Wilkins to hear a first-hand account of the Boarding House reach tour kick-off at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit!
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1 hr 48 min
April 25, 2018 Episode 69 – Boarding House Reach: Analysis & Review vol.3
Why listen to a podcast? Easy! Because it's the Third Men podcast back with the epic conclusion to our Boarding House Reach release coverage! I know, it feels like we've been over and over and over this topic, but we've got some really awesome last tidbits on this very exciting time to be a Jack White fan that we know you're all going to enjoy! First up we're joined by not one, not two but THREE different sets of "third people" this week to discuss Jack's first set of BHR pre-tour live shows! Kali Durga and Yvette Wilkins are here to talk the Nashville Blue Room, Tom Valente joins us to talk the Mayan in Los Angeles, and finally Arielle Kaminski talks us through her first-ever Jack White concert at the Warsaw in Brooklyn! Next we bring you some album reception, along with our own personal reviews of the new record and followed by some final thoughts from Jack on the BHR release. Lastly we're honored to welcome a very special guest, Emmy Award-winning artist Dean Haspiel, who shares with us his own review of the record! There's lots to get to and we hope you all enjoy!
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2 hr 28 min
April 11, 2018 Episode 68 – Boarding House Reach: Analysis & Review vol.2
Who’s with us?! We hope you will be, because the Third Men podcast is back with part two of our three-part Boarding House Reach coverage, and this week we go track by track into the nitty gritty of this wild new Jack White LP! We dive deep into each track with an in-depth compilation of interviews, tastemaker reviews and detailed analysis to paint the most complete picture possible of how each song on this album came to be. From the anthemic “Corporation” and “Connected by Love”, to the hip-hop infused “Ice Station Zebra” to the many beautiful variations of the funk-groove powerhouse “Get In The Mind Shaft” – we cover it all in our longest episode to date! But don’t just take it from us, this week we present a very special Third People segment where we asked YOU the listener to give us your own personal review of the record – and your feedback proved to be a fascinating look at just how varied the reactions to this record can be. So sit back, relax, buy up some empty lots and copy yourself some God, because this episode is a doozy — and see you back here next time for the epic conclusion! Joe Blow said we podcast like Caravaggio, but we said “hold a minute now Caravaggio likely didn’t podcast, Joe.”
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2 hr 36 min
March 28, 2018 Episode 67 – Boarding House Reach: Analysis & Review vol.1
Hello. Welcome to The Third Men podcast. Brought to you by...Boarding House Reach! Get connected with us as we celebrate the end of the great Jack Drought and begin our analysis and review of the all-new Jack White album, Boarding House Reach. Is it wild? Yes. Is it crazy? Yes. Is it divisive? Yes. (NO!) Is it a dramatic departure from the albums that have come before? You better believe it. This week we take an extended deep dive into just how this record came to be, from inception to execution to release and beyond - it's a Jack White journey like you've never heard before! Using up-to-the-minute interviews and reviews from the current promotional cycle, we here at the Third Men podcast are bringing you the most in-depth coverage possible of this very very exciting time to be a Third-Fan - and we're only just getting started! All this, plus a special visit from Los Angeles artists Erin Gallagher and Tom Valente who help us detail TMR recording artist Margo Price's triumphant return to the LA stage! If you haven't listened to an episode of the podcast yet, this is a great time to hop onboard - and remember to join us back here in two weeks for part two. Who's with me?
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2 hr 5 min
March 14, 2018 Episode 66 – Launching the Dead Weather
s the world waits for a new Jack White album with a drastically different sound, The Third Men Podcast looks back at the last drastic departure for Jack White: The Dead Weather. Following the towering success of both the long-established White Stripes and the hit-making "super"-group The Raconteurs, the last thing anyone expected Jack White to do was to launch a third group in which he would take a back seat to a front woman whose charism could easily match his own. It's the kind of left turn that gave us the Dead Weather, the psychedelic goth-rock that divided fans and baffled listeners nearly a decade before "Boarding House Reach". In this episode we take a look at how Jack rolled this new group out, and the steps a growing (and learning) Third Man Records took as a newly-christened storefront and self-supporting record label, to a stumbled LP release and premature concert dates! Also in this episode we're joined by Third Man of the week, musician, singer and songwriter Connor Flynn, aka Black Jack Davey, who discusses his latest release "Meet Black Jack Davey"! Will there be enough water when this podcast comes in? Yes, yes there will.
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1 hr 58 min
February 28, 2018 Episode 65 – The Big Two
The British Invasion strikes Detroit! This week we discuss the musical influence and connectivity between Jack White and the two biggest bands of modern rock'n'roll: The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. While the delta blues singers of the 30's and the garage punkers of the 80's may have had a more direct influence of his sound and aesthetic, there's no doubt that Jack is the torch-bearer for the acts that defined the genre. The "old guard" was quick to embrace The White stripes as a continuation of a legacy that kicked into high gear when Britain's own John, Paul, George and Ringo touched down in New York City one chilly February morning in 1964, igniting a mania that lives on to this day. We explore the many connections between Jack and these two acts, and have enlisted some help in the process! That's right, this week is our very first PODCAST CROSSOVER as we sit down for an extended chat with the "Take it Away" podcast's Ryan Brady to talk Jack White, The Beatles, and just how many Denny Laine puns we can make in 50 minutes. So get some satisfaction and all the love you'll need this week with us -- we hope you will enjoy the show!
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2 hr
February 14, 2018 Episode 64 – Mick Collins: Extended Interview
The Third Men Podcast is proud to present an all-new exclusive extended interview with a Rock'n'Roll legend, the one and only Mick Collins! Jack White fans know Mick for many things, but first and foremost as a founding member of one of the most influential rock bands to ever tear up a stage, The Gories. Every major movement stands on the shoulders of the giants who came before, and the Detroit rock revival that catapulted Jack White to stardom was a culmination of decades of visionary artistry from acts like The Stooges, MC5 and the high energy, blues/punk-infused sound that Mick Collins, Dan Kroha and Peggy O'Neill created. It's a tough act to follow, but follow it Mick did with the foundation of a new art project that would evolve into White Stripes contemporaries The Dirtbombs. With such members as TMR co-founder Ben Blackwell, Raconteur Patrick Keeler and former White Stripes producer Jim Diamond, this new band's connections to the Third Man Records universe run deep, and the group stands amongst the most prominent and successful acts to emerge from the era. Mick's other groups are no slouch either, from The Voltaire Brothers to The Screws to Blacktop and beyond, he continues to weave one of richest tapestries in modern music. And then he called-in to our show! We here at the Third Men podcast would like to thank Mick for joining us – it was a pleasure interviewing him and one of the most spontaneous, lively and fun interviews we've ever had the pleasure of conducting! If for nothing else, stay for the bowling tips!
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1 hr 31 min
January 31, 2018 Episode 63 – The Dirtbombs
It's an ooey-gooey-podcast-ka-blooey this week as we celebrate the lifeblood of Detroit Rock'n'Roll: the indomitable DIRTBOMBS! In the mid-nineties the music scene echoing out from the Cass Corridor was truly kicking into high gear. Groups like Bantam Rooster, Rocket 455, The Go and, of course, The White Stripes began to take shape, standing on the shoulders of legendary groups such as The Stooges and The Gories. When Gorie virtuoso Mick Collins started his next musical project in the primordial rock soup of 1996 Detroit, something special was bound to happen, and happen it did. Enter: The Dirtbombs - a revolving cast of quintessential voices in the rock revival and home base for such Third Man staples as Ben Blackwell, Jim Diamond, Patrick Keeler, E Wolf and many, many more. This week we cover the band's inception and discography, and are joined by Dirtbomb super-fan Kate McCoy for an unforgettable interview that ends with a surprise TOO INSANE to type here. You're just going to have to listen to find out. Trust us, do NOT miss the end of this episode!
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1 hr 38 min
January 17, 2018 Episode 62 – De Stijl: Album Analysis & Review pt2
We got a letter this morning, what do you reckon it read? It said hurry hurry and listen to the Third Men Podcast! This week our all-new album analysis and review of the White Stripes sophomore LP release, De Stijl, comes to its epic conclusion! In the spring of 2000 Jack and Meg White had a handful of singles, a debut LP, some local rock and roll stardom and a couple of day jobs under their belts on the chilly streets of Detroit – but all of that was about to change. The married duo that had baffled so many with their color schemes and brother/sister mythology found their real-life relationship at an end, and their musical path at a crossroads. This is the environment that would bring out one of the most colorful, hard-edged blues/pop records to grace the new millennium, and the last big step in the direction of the kind of fame there would be no turning back from for the White Stripes. In part two of our two-part coverage, we explore from Death Letter and beyond, going through track-by-track and uncovering some hidden meaning in this rock and roll manifesto. Plus, Third Man Wayne Kaminski stops by to fill everyone in on the brand new Beatles podcast Yesterday & Today Podcast that we're launching next month! So pull up your triple tremolo and let us explain ya the rest of De Stijl!
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1 hr 49 min

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