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Motown, Madness, and the Jule Buk Protection Detail 🎄🐐

Deck the halls and grab the Funk! This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're getting into the holiday groove with the soulful sounds of The 1973 Motown Christmas Album. Prepare for classic holiday tunes infused with that irresistible Motown beat—the perfect background for our annual descent into holiday madness and Night 2 of our Advent Spooktaacular.

To keep spirits high (and coordination low), we're mixing up a festive cocktail from the essential Booze & Vinyl Christmas book! We'll find out which concoction best complements The Jackson 5 singing about the smallest christmas tree.

But the main event? Our highly sensitive, high-stakes assignment: Protecting the Swedish Jule Buk (Yule Goat)! We discuss our security strategies, the goat's questionable structural integrity, and who is on midnight watch duty to prevent its annual, mysterious demise. It's a mission fraught with peril and confusing Scandinavian tradition.

However, amidst the chaos and cheap cocktails, Joe brings us back down to earth for a genuinely serious, heartfelt moment, sending his best wishes and love to everyone who is missing a family member during the holiday season. It’s a moment of genuine warmth before we dive back into debating whether a Supremes cover of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" is the greatest thing ever recorded.

Join us for an episode that is 70% Motown joy and Jule Buk jokes, and 30% deep-fried emotion. Happy Holidays!

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The Private Life of Perry (A Boozy Christmas Special) 🎄🍹

Grab your coziest sweater and prepare for a Christmas that's less "Silent Night" and more "Silent Panic"! This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're opening up our 5 weeks of WNP Holiday Advent Spooktacular with the smoothest holiday crooner of all time: Perry Como and his essential holiday album, A Perry Como Christmas.

While the music is pure, unadulterated comfort, Andrew is here to shatter the illusion by guiding us through a highly speculative deep dive into the secretive and slightly unhinged private life of Mr. Perry Como (the one Andrew has invented, anyway). Was he really that laid back? Did he ever wear anything but a cardigan? We investigate the shocking truths behind the man who perfected the low-key Christmas vibe.

To keep things festive (and forget the dark theories), Andrew is serving up a special holiday cocktail from the Booze & Vinyl: Christmas book: the incredibly named "Trouble Will Be Bubble." Join us for a drink, some surprisingly contentious holiday album debate, and find out just how much "trouble" this bubbling beverage causes.

It’s the perfect blend of holiday cheer, suspicious biography, and potentially reckless mixing. Join us for a fun, boozy evening!

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The End of the Innocence (and the Beginning of Our Shame)

This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're getting philosophical—or at least, as philosophical as we can get while debating 80s rock ballads. We’re featuring Don Henley’s The End of the Innocence, an album that makes you question your life choices while simultaneously enjoying a massive saxophone solo.

Inspired by the title track, Andrew—our resident moral compass and grammar policeman—has brought in the absolute least-fun game imaginable: The Innocence Quiz! This quiz promises to expose every questionable choice, every regrettable moment, and every embarrassing gap in our knowledge base.

The stakes are high: Can our entire panel pass this purity test and prove they haven't been corrupted by the ravages of time and podcasting? More importantly, can Chris even spell innocence correctly before the first commercial break? (The entire episode may hinge on his ability to find the 'C's and 'E's.)

Tune in for an episode full of self-reflection, aggressive denial, and the horrifying truth that none of us are as pure as Don Henley wants us to be.

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This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're bringing the heat! James Brown is on the turntable, and we're spinning his smokin' album, Hot, as the soundtrack for our annual (and entirely seasonally confused) Thanksgiving Spooktacular! Forget gravy and stuffing—we're serving up sweet agony.

We're testing the panel's mettle with a truly punishing Classic Rock Knowledge Quiz. The quiz starts with easy-listening hits (Queen basics) but quickly escalates into deep-cut, obscure territory (hello, yacht rock trivia and questionable 70s B-sides). The goal is simple: answer correctly, or face the heat!

The prize for failure? A spoonful of creamy vanilla ice cream... topped with a generous dash of hot sauce. Here’s the catch: the more rock history questions our hosts miss, the hotter the sauce gets! We're escalating the pain in four brutal levels:

• Level 1 (Mild Regret): Think simple Tabasco or mild cayenne pepper. Easy, but embarrassing.
• Level 3 (Serious Sweat): We jump to ghost pepper blends. Tears may be shed.
• Level 5 (Total Disaster): The Last Dab—sauces featuring Apollo Peppers. Clinically certified regret.

Find out whose mouth is literally on fire by the end of the episode. Tune in to hear the Godfather of Soul provide the perfect backing track to a symphony of coughing, crying, and desperate pleas for cold dairy products.

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This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're boarding the jazz-rock express with Chicago Transit Authority and the absolute banger, "Questions 67 and 68." We tried to analyze the complex time signatures, but honestly, we just got confused.

So, we pivoted to the real pressing issue: Catch Phrases!

Inspired by the song's query-heavy title, Craig leads us through a hysterically funny deep-dive into the history, present, and terrifying future of verbal shortcuts. We dissect the anatomy of phrases that defined generations (Looking at you, "I pity the fool!"). We ask: why do some last ("That's what she said") while others fade into painful, dated obscurity (We won't mention any, but they involve puppet sidekicks)?

Finally, Craig unveils his highly anticipated (and deeply problematic) list of future catch phrases for the year 2045, which are 90% confusing AI references and 10% surprisingly effective ways to insult a sourdough starter.

Tune in to find out which host gets called out for using a phrase that went extinct in 2003, and whether we can successfully implant a new, completely nonsensical catchphrase into the global lexicon!

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Show Note: Celebrity Skin, Morbid Games, and the Threat of Egging 🎃🍬

Welcome to The Wednesday Night Podcast Halloween Spooktacular! This week, we're trading our jazz fusion for grunge rock royalty as we put Hole's Celebrity Skin on the turntable. Join us as Courtney Love provides the perfect soundtrack for existential dread and sugar-fueled chaos.

But the fun doesn't stop there. To really get into the spirit of the season, we break out the card game "When Did They Die?"—a surprisingly morbid romp where we test the boundaries of historical knowledge and general politeness. Prepare for some very inappropriate guessing and a shocking amount of conversation about historical figures' final moments.

Finally, we tackle the true horror of Halloween: Terrible Candy. We rate the absolute worst holiday sugar sins (we're looking at you, Circus Peanuts) to scientifically determine if Chris's house deserves to be egged this year based on his projected trick-or-treat offerings.

Tune in if you dare! It’s an episode that is one part rock-and-roll dissection, one part competitive morbidity, and two parts absolute terror over waxy, fruit-flavored confectionery.

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A Ticket To Ride (Straight to Chaos) 🎶🎟️

This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're taking a deep dive into The Beatles' Rubber Soul, stopping specifically at the certified banger, "Ticket to Ride."

Naturally, the profound songwriting lasts less than two minutes before the conversation derails completely into the bureaucratic nightmare of... literal tickets. Plane tickets, train tickets, lost bus passes, you name it.

This vehicular vortex is all just a runway for Jill's incredible, multi-day saga of attempting to get tickets—and then use those tickets—to the Royal Henley Regatta! Find out how a simple day of viewing athletic gentlemen in straw hats turned into an international incident involving misplaced suit coats, pinning cats, and a very helpful camp counselor.

Tune in for sophisticated musical analysis violently interrupted by proof that the most stressful part of any travel experience is, in fact, the tiny piece of paper that gets you there.

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Aja-nizing Debate: The Royal Scam vs. The Royal Headache 🎷💸

This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're diving into the slick, cynical, and impossibly complex world of Steely Dan with their masterpiece, The Royal Scam!

We'll break down the jazz-rock fusion, the obscure characters, and the meticulously layered production. However, one member of the panel—who shall remain nameless (it's definitely not Andrew)—is physically pained by the mere mention of Donald Fagen’s voice, leading to our most heated debate yet: Is Steely Dan genius or musical malpractice?

Then, in a segment you won't want to miss, we accidentally stumble upon the one, bizarre, secret trick that will make Joe willingly hand over all of his money. It involves a specific type of vintage Clothing, a mention of personal tragedy, and an invitation to ride in a van full of puppies. Listen closely—this is financial advice you won't get anywhere else!

Tune in for sophisticated music analysis violently interrupted by personal grievances and ill-advised investment strategies!

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Smell the Glove, But Maybe Not the Cover! 🧤🤘

Welcome back to The Wednesday Night Podcast, where tonight we delve into the one topic guaranteed to get us flagged: Offensive Album Covers!

We kick off the controversy with the undisputed champion of visual awkwardness, Spinal Tap's Smell the Glove. We dissect the artistic choice (and the ensuing retailer backlash) that made this album a parody masterpiece.

But the real peril begins when Andrew takes the helm, armed with a carefully curated gallery of truly regrettable album art. He quizzes the crew—and you, the listener—on their Level of Offensiveness. Is it merely questionable? Deeply uncomfortable? Or the kind of art that makes you feel complicit just for looking at it? Prepare to question your morals, your taste, and the sanity of 1970s record executives.

Tune in for an episode that might require parental supervision and a generous pour of bleach for your eyeballs.

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When the Levee Breaks... Into a Story Chris Shouldn't Be Telling 🎤🎸

This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're diving deep into the glorious, exaggerated, and frequently misunderstood genre known as Cock Rock, all through the lens of one of its finest achievements: Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy.

From the layered majesty of "The Song Remains the Same" to the pure swagger of "D'yer Mak'er," we explore the album that cemented Zeppelin's place as demigods of excess.

Naturally, the conversation swerves quickly into chaos when the topic of lyrical innuendo leads to Chris sharing a highly inappropriate story that probably should have stayed locked away in a rusty chest. Will the rest of the crew survive the sheer awkwardness? Will we get sued? Tune in to find out!

It's an episode that is equal parts iconic rock history, surprising musical insight, and truly regrettable personal sharing.

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