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The show that talks about YOU on purpose is back for the first time in 2024! We're opening up TRAPPO's Mail Bag once again to address your feedback, dear listener! This time around, we're discussing the state of American comic books, what it feels like to be Jack "The King" Kirby", Dustin finds his self-confidence, TV presenter Jeremy Wade makes an appearance, the Impossible Cutlass Supreme rears its ugly head, demons are summoned, there's a little slime, reader playlists are shared, Gotham City is in danger, and a whole bunch of other stuff also happens. It's a whole lot of fun.

If you'd like to be a part of this ongoing enthusiastic conversation, we'd love to have you aboard. It's so easy to do! All you need to do is click THIS LINK to visit our official blog and leave a comment. Tell us what's on your mind. What did you think of our latest episode? Do you have anything you'd like to recommend to us? Maybe you just need to get something off your chest. TRAPPO is here for you. Just click THIS LINK and tell us what's happening in your neck of the woods. You could also share your complex and fascinating thoughts in an email if you're so inclined. Just click THIS LINK to send us one of those fancy emails, and we'll be your friends for your life.

TRAPPO is also all over that social media thing. Do you do social media? If so, you need to follow TRAPPO, because that's where all the cool stuff is going down. Follow TRAPPO on Instagram (CLICK), BlueSky (CLICK) and Threads (CLICK), and that's it. We're not on whatever cesspool of human filth the former Twitter has become, and we don't do the TiKToks or whatever else. So if you want to follow TRAPPO, you know what to do. If not, then you also know what to do.

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Happy 2024, dear listener! In this first new episode of the new year, we're taking a closer look at Holy Waters, the latest full-length album from the UK's Jacob Allen, A.K.A. dream-soul maven Puma Blue. Check it out at your leisure, CLICK HERE to listen to Holy Waters, then follow THIS LINK to our blog and vote in the NMS poll! You get to decide whether or not Holy Waters is inducted into the TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on! So make an informed decision! The poll will remain open until our next episode goes live!

While you're hanging out on our official blog (CLICK HERE) voting in that sweet poll, scroll down just a little bit and leave a comment sharing your thoughts on Holy Waters, and if you've got any recommendations for future episodes you can go ahead and share those as well. We'd love to hear your thoughts. If those thoughts need a bit more breathing room than a blog comment can offer, feel free to send us an email (CLICK HERE), which we always greatly appreciate.

We're also all over that social media thing the kids seem to like so much. Follow TRAPPO on Instagram (CLICK), BlueSky (CLICK) and Threads (CLICK) for the complete TRAPPO experience, whatever that is.

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It's the last episode of TRAPPO for the year, so we figured we might as well go big! After over two years of listeners asking us to cover Frank Zappa, we're finally building our very own Frank Zappa Can(n)on! Now you can listen along and vehemently disagree with each and every one of our choices!

Join the conversation! I'm sure we're big stupid idiots who didn't highlight any of Zappa's best music, so go ahead and let us know! Visit the official TRAPPO blog (CLICK HERE) and let us know how what we may have missed in a sternly worded comment! While you're there, go ahead and suggest topics for future episodes that we may not get to for several years! We also have an email address if you feel like sending us a really long diatribe regarding how we're not really Frank Zappa fans. Go ahead and CLICK HERE to do that.

Are you on social media? Because TRAPPO sure is! And TRAPPO wants to be friends with you! Just follow us on Instagram (CLICK), BlueSky (CLICK) and Threads (CLICK) for the complete TRAPPO experience!

Happy holidays and thanks for listening!

This week on the show that talks about stuff on purpose, we're discussing the 2022 indie Cryptid thriller All Eyes, a film by The Brothers Greenlee. It's the story of a disgraced podcaster who seeks redemption by traveling to Oklahoma to help a beleaguered farmer trap and kill a local legendary monster... and this monster is positively covered in eyeballs. Hence the film's name. Now you understand, eh?

Do you have anything to tell us regarding All Eyes, the Brothers Greenlee, or even the state of Oklahoma? What about the musical Oklahoma!? Maybe you just want to tell us something about the latest cool album you listened to, or you want to share a delicious family recipe. You can do that. We'd love to hear from you. Just go to our official blog (CLICK HERE) and leave us a comment. Leave us several comments. Comment as often as you please. We also have an email address if you'd prefer to share your thoughts more privately. Just CLICK HERE to do that.

We're all over social media. That's for sure. We don't understand it, and to be completely honest we find it terrifying, but we're still out there, plugging away on Instagram (CLICK), BlueSky (CLICK) and Threads (CLICK), so if you're looking for the complete TRAPPO experience, whatever that is, follow us all over those social media platforms. Because we'll probably follow you back.

That's it for now, but thanks for listening!

This week on TRAPPO, we're doing another one of those New Music Showcase thingies that people seem to tolerate so well. Have you heard Hollow World, the debut album from Finnish psych/doom outfit Orbiter? No? Then you need to get on that! Check out our latest New Music Showcase and we'll tell you all about it, dear listener!

We've got a poll! I know it's very exciting! You get to choose whether or not Hollow World from Orbiter is inducted into the illustrious TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on! Just click THIS LINK to visit our official blog and vote! Do you love this stuff and want to see it immortalized in our amazing can(n)on, that we're going to use to blast all the cool stuff into outer space for aliens to obsess over until the end of time? Then vote YES! If not... just don't vote. Or vote NO, if you really want to pour more negativity into the world.

While you're there (on our blog), leave us a comment, please. We want to know you thoughts on Hollow World. You can also tell us all about the cool new music you're listening to. We'd love to hear all about that. Just CLICK HERE to do that. We're also all over social media. Instagram (CLICK), BlueSky (CLICK) and Threads (CLICK). Check us out all over the interwebs. Because if you're online, you can be best friends with TRAPPO. And you definitely want to be best friends with TRAPPO.

We've also got our TRAPPO Music Awards poll up (CLICK HERE TO VOTE) until December 27th. Twenty-one eclectic categories waiting for your voting prowess. Who's going to win? Vote, then find out in January when the 2023 TRAPPO Music Awards are broadcast all over the net!

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The show that talks about you on purpose is back! This time around, we're discussing listener responses from our month-long Good, Great or Garbage experiment back in February. Why has it taken us so long to respond to your comments from February? Put simply, the raw audio from this recording was lost for quite a while, and it's just taken us a bit of time to get back around to this. Sorry about the delay, dear listeners. It will happen again.

We're also talking about the Chuck Norris action classic Invasion USA, for some reason. Also video games! We don't really play a lot of video games, but somebody asked us about video games, so we talk about them. People play Stardew Valley! And Metal Gear Solid! There are a few recipes shared, as well. That's pretty exciting. Then things get weird. You'll need to listen to find out how far off the rails the conversation gets.

Join the conversation! Follow THIS LINK to the official TRAPPO blog and leave us some comments! Share some of your own recipes with us! Tell us about your own transcendent sexual experiences if that's something you're into. Or just tell us what you've been listening to recently. CLICK HERE to do that. You could also send us an email if you were so inclined. CLICK RIGHT HERE to do that. Send us some emails and we'll be your best friends forever.

We're also all over that pointless social media thing the kids seem to like to much. We're on Instagram (CLICK), BlueSky (CLICK CLICK) and even Threads (CLICK CLICK CLICK), so follow us on social media for the complete TRAPPO Experience!

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What better way to celebrate Black Friday than by taking a little road trip to Death Folk Country? It's not just a recent solo album from Windhand frontwoman Dorthia Cottrell... it's also a state of mind. It's also the newest edition of TRAPPO's New Music Showcase! So listen to your 63rd favorite podcast discuss these cool tunes for a little while this weekend, when you're not bludgeoning other consumers in a mad dash to buy a cheap TV at Walmart or whatever it is you people do when you're not listening to TRAPPO.

If you'd like to listen to Death Folk Country for yourself, which we highly suggest you do, just CLICK RIGHT HERE and satisfy your sinister curiosity.

Since this is a New Music Showcase, you know that means we've got a new poll over on our official blog for you to check out. It's just part of the whole format. You should be used to it by now. So just click THIS LINK to visit our blog and vote in our poll! Do you want Death Folk Country in the TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on? Then vote, dammit! Vote like you've never voted before! If you don't want Death Folk Country in the Can(n)on... then I guess you could also vote if you were so inclined. I would suggest against it, but whatever. Just vote. Vote! VOTE!!!

And join the conversation while you're over there on the blog (CLICK HERE). Leave a comment. Tell us what you think of Death Folk Country. Tell us what you think of Windhand. Tell us what you did on Black Friday. Or anything else, really. Just share your thoughts. We want to know your thoughts. We've also got an email address you could use if you wanted to share even MORE of your thoughts. Just CLICK HERE to send us an email if you have a lot of cool stuff you'd like to share with us.

Do you like social media? Of course you don't. But you use it anyway. TRAPPO is on social media. We're on Instagram, BlueSky, and Threads. Because Threads is a thing. We're all over that social media stuff, so follow us wherever you follow other people and brands and animals and sex workers and whatever else for the complete TRAPPO experience. You'd be a lot cooler if you did.

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This week on the show that talks about stuff on purpose, we're taking a closer look at a pair of recent-ish releases: Dance You Monster To My Soft Song! from avant-garde metal artist Victory Over The Sun and DK.01 from electro-pop veterans Das Koolies. It's a full throttle musical thrill ride here on TRAPPO, so strap in and get ready to have your minds blown!

We, being the hosts of TRAPPO, would very much like you to join the conversation. What conversation? Why, the conversation occurring right this very moment on the official TRAPPO blog (CLICK HERE to visit)! Just click that link (or THIS ONE) and leave a comment. Leave twelve comments. Tell us a whole bunch of things. Did you ever see a ghost? Have you ever seen two ghosts engaging in any obscene sexual acts? We want to know all about that in particular. Or anything else, really. See any good movies recently? Tune into any cool music? Maybe you saw a grasshopper? We want to know. If you're reading this text and have something to tell us, use THIS LINK to visit our official blog and spill your guts. We'd sure appreciate it.

We'd also greatly appreciate it if you shared your unfettered thoughts in a long-winded email (CLICK HERE to do just that), so feel free to send us an email. Or seven thousand emails. Nothing in between. No half-measures from our dear listeners. So send us some emails. We'll be your friends forever if you do.

We've also got the whole social media thing covered, if that's more your speed. TRAPPO's on BlueSky, Instagram and Threads, so be sure to visit us there for the complete TRAPPO experience, whatever that means. Social media may be a flaming cesspool of wretchedness and terror, but at least it's a way to waste the hours on our way to the cold, cold grave!

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It's time, at long last, for another episode of the show that talks about you on purpose! That's right, dear listener... the Mail Bag is filled to the brim with your feedback, and now we're going to dump all that feedback into the floor and pick through all the dross to find a few comments that might actually be worth our time. Only kidding, dear listener. We don't pick favorites with your feedback. We even read the lame comments. Not that there are any. Never from such fine listeners as yourselves.

This time, we're addressing the state of modern cinema (not a lofty topic in the least), the slow death of the local shopping mall, nostalgia for smoking in shopping malls as they slowly die, the greatness of 1985's hilarious consumerist satire The Stuff, and some other things. We can't give it al away right here in the description. That would be foolish. So listen to the show, please!

And if you're still reading this, then perhaps you'd like to join this conversation, meaning the conversation you've heard in this episode. Don't worry about having to talk about smoking in malls or shoegaze music, however. You can share your opinions on just about anything. We just like hearing from you. As long as you're not a bigot. If you're a bigot, then just go jump into a wood chipper. Otherwise, just visit our official blog (CLICK HERE) and leave a comment on the post of your choosing. You can go back to our very first post and leave a comment. We don't mind. Just leave us a comment. Tell us what's on your mind.

You could also send us an email if you're feeling more verbose (CLICK HERE), which we always greatly appreciate. We're also on social media! TRAPPO is all over that social media thing. If you're in the mood, you can follow us on Instagram (CLICK), BlueSky (CLICK) and Threads (CLICK). We want to be best friends with you. Yes, YOU. If you're reading this, we want to be your best friends. So follow us on social media.

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Spooky season is over, dear listener. For now, the show that talks about stuff on purpose is moving on from one format (KTRP) that nobody listens to, in order to focus on another format that nobody listens to. That's right! It's time for another New Music Showcase! Please try to contain your excitement, friends.

This week, we're looking at Kara Jackson's debut album, Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love? Kara Jackson, the immensely talented National Youth Poet Laureate from Oak Park Illinois, has given us all a gift with this album, dear listener. And you owe it to yourself to check it out. Let the beauty and melancholy of Kara Jackson's music change your life. You also owe it to yourself to listen to our New Music Showcase which discusses the beauty and melancholy of Kara Jackson's music.

You can listen to Kara Jackson's music HERE.

Now it's time for a poll! It's the whole point of the New Music Showcase! Follow THIS LINK to visit our blog and vote in the poll. Just scroll down a bit and vote YES or NO. Do you want Kara Jackson's music in the TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on? Then vote YES. If you don't have a soul, then vote NO. It's really that simple. The poll will remain open until our next episode goes live.

But while you're on our blog, just scroll down a little further after you reach the poll and leave a comment. Tell us what you think about Kara Jackson's music, our latest New Music Showcase, or really anything else. You could always tell us what you'd like to hear us discuss in a future episode. We appreciate your feedback.

You could also send us an email if you're feeling frisky. Our address is [email protected]. Send us some emails. Yes, I said some emails, as in more than one. Send us ALL the emails. Every last one of them. Send us pictures of your old Halloween decorations, or maybe just some pictures of socks. They don't have to be your socks. We're not picky.

Do you like social media? Because TRAPPO is all over that. We're on Instagram, we're on BlueSky, and we're on Threads. What is Threads? We don't know, but we're there, doing something. So if you want the complete TRAPPO experience, whatever the hell that is, you know what to do. And if you're not on BlueSky and would like an invite, we might have a few codes left, so you could get in touch with us and we might hook you up. Because we're cool, generous dudes.

Listen to Kara Jackson's music. Vote in the poll. Join the conversation. Friends forever. Thanks for listening!