Every so often you see a show that’s so good that it reminds you that oh yeah, you have 45 minutes of audio of the two of you talking about a classic album of the 90s

The boys (who are back in town) contemplate the majesty of Spoon

After a little while away, the boys are back in town. And they’re ready to ponder the koan of Nada Surf

Buoyed by some beers that turned out to be malt liquor, the boys get beastie

Despite being Baxtered by tech problems (don’t worry, the laptop setting have been updated to this’ll stop happening), the hombres talk about the Lemonheads and their place on the top shelf of 90s alt-pop. Also: surprising amounts of Tom Petty and yacht rock.

Chad and Keith look at some apex 2000s indie rock while a dog barks at his own imagination. The hombres are pretty copacetic about Rilo Kiley but somehow not so much on the Arcade Fire.

Chad and Keith circle around this one warily, like apes with a monolith

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?!?!? You’re in a dining room in south Minneapolis, baby, listening to a couple of middle aged-dudes try to figure out how music can have a weird power even when it seems mostly aimed at convincing guys like Vince Neil that Axl Rose is a cool badass

Hey, have you ever heard of the Replacements?

A spectre is haunting We’ve Been Had — the spectre of Hüsker Dü! Also: Augie the lab comes into his own as third cohost