Episodes – Hear Me Out

We’re back with a brand new, extra thirsty episode of Hear Me Out.  This episode, we chat about dad bands, theater kids and shoestring water budgets with the amazing Moujan Zolfaghari, from Mission to Zyxx, The Not Too Late Show With Elmo and At Home With Amy Sedaris. Enjoy! Then maybe consider taking a shower! Alden’s […]

We’re back (!)(?)(!)(??) with a very special series of bonus episodes of everyone’s favorite 21st-ranked podcast bearing the name Hear Me Out.  Well, Outies, a few things have changed since our last episode. But one thing has remained the same – we got three crap songs for you, and we love ’em. We sit down (remotely) […]

We’ve got our first music professional on the show today! Our friend Drew Shoals, who is the new drummer for TRAIN. YES. YOU. READ. THAT. RIGHT. He provides some actual depth to the show! Winston’s pick: Jon Secada- Just Another Day Alden’s pick: Sister Hazel- Change You Mind Drew’s pick: Avril Lavigne- Complicated

LIVE EP! We hit the Summerland tour and see who everyone in the music industry refers to as the Big Four: Spacehog, Eve 6, Soul Asylum, and Everclear. It was actually great and fun! Except for Everclear. Note from Tim: Listen to The Chinese Album.

Nicole Drespel (UCB, Broad City, 30 Rock) sits down with us to talk vanilla. Delicious, creamy, boring vanilla. But don’t be fooled, there are some firsts on the show today: Winston actually feels worse about his song by the end, and someone brought in THEIR FAVORITE SONG. Enjoy!   Winston’s pick: Coldplay-Speed of Sound Alden’s pick: Fastball-Out of My Head […]

In the spirit of Billy Joel lyrics, we will be literal in this blurb. Alden and I sit down at a table with Anthony King (Broad City, Playing House) and the three of us talk about bad songs that we like. And it was recorded. Enjoy!   Alden’s pick: The Smashing Pumpkins-Bullet with Butterfly Wings Winston’s pick: Pat Benetar- […]

Get ready for some well-deserved righteous fury! This week, we sit down with the delightful Langan Kingsley (UCB’s Beige, What I Did For Love, and Langan Dice Kingsley: The Dicewoman Cometh) to chat about 3 artists you might want to punch in the face regardless of your political affiliation. We discuss the disturbing difference between […]

We’ve got Molly Lloyd (UCB’s Airwolf and Stone Cold Fox) with us and we get historical, adolescent, and then downright weird. Gather round, young rams! Alden’s Pick: Black Betty- RamJam Winston’s Pick: Somewhere Out There- Our Lady Peace Molly’s Pick: Stay-Shakespeare’s Sister  

It’s season three! Or season two and a half! We’re kind of like Mad Men that way. We’ve got the great Aaron Burdette (UCB’s Stone Cold Fox) to talk to us about trumpets, reincarnation, and the most repetitive song ever. DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK CAUSE WE NEVER LEFT. Winston’s Pick: Galieo – The Indigo Girls […]

We’ve got Kevin DeBacker and Eric Brown (Besties) on the show and we’ve actually got some decent songs on the show this week! But don’t worry, we’ve also got terrible ones. And there are great segues (2014 resolution!) connecting them all. Winston’s Pick: Over My Head (Cable Car) – The Fray Alden’s Pick: Crazy Train – […]

Curtain Up! Light the Lights! We’ve got nothing to hit but the heights! And by heights, we mean lows. Today’s episode is all musical theater songs! And who better to join us than a bona fide musical theater star, Amber Petty (50 Shades! The Musical). Winston’s Pick: Morning Glow – Pippin Alden’s Pick: What You Own […]

Today we talk with Morgan Jarrett (UCB, Broad City) about fat voices, backpacks full of chapstick, pacifism and Crystal meth. Just another day at Hear Me Out. Alden’s Pick: What A Fool Believes – The Doobie Brothers Winston’s Pick: Little Black Backpack – Stroke 9 Morgan’s Pick: Nine in the Afternoon – Panic! At the Disco […]

Hey all! The show starts 2014 (it’s Feb, we know, we know) with John Murray (UCB, 30 Rock) Tales of the Weird! Transparent Dangling Carrots, Mind Erasing via Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and The Strange Dimension Between the Moon and New York City. Thank U 4 listening. Alden’s Pick: The Impression That I Get – The Mighty […]

Hey you! Turn down that Everclear Christmas album and listen to the second part of our Christmas Specialsode! We’ve got Cathryn Mudon (UCB) and Michael Delaney (UCB, The Other Guys) back again to chat about the Christmas songs we are embarrassed we love. If you consider a podcast about bad music  a gift, then Christmas […]

Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells, all seem to say, “Hear me out!” We’ve got Caitlin Bitzegaio (UCBT) returning and first time guest Brett White (Matt and Brett Love Comics) talking about some good/bad Christmas songs. So grab a cup of cheer, start gift wrapping that Old Navy performance fleece, and enjoy! Alden’s Pick: Bing […]

We’ve got Will Hines (UCBT) in what may be his last podcast appearance before moving to L.A. This is the closest we’ll ever get to a scoop, folks. We talk about the tamest songs around, compare great artists to terrible bands, you know, the usual. Enjoy! Alden’s Pick: Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville – Don’t Know […]

We’re back! We’ve got the lovely Mike Trapp (CollegeHumor) who explains losing two years of your teenage life to Korea and how it can shape your music listening. Join us as we listen to a song meant for the WB, a song meant for middle aged women, and a song meant for MEATLOAF AND HIS […]

Welcome back! Like a Mariah Carey ex, we knew you could never stay away for too long. You’ll understand that when you listen to the show. We’ve got the great Charlie Todd (Improv Everywhere, UCB) to talk a wimpy song, a clingy song, and song that will make you want to go HIGHER. We think […]

Greeting humans! Grab your pan flute and tabard, pile into a VW bus and join in our revels. Welcome to our special fantasy episode of Hear Me Out! We got three great observations (songs) for you and the wonderful Michael Delaney (The Other Guys, UCB, A prince of the universe) to help us down the […]

We’re back! After a brief but eventful hiatus including trips abroad and marriage proposals (well, one of each), we are diving back into the bottom of the music barrel to find that we’re not even close to the end of these beautiful, ridiculous dregs. This week we are joined by the incredible Laura Willcox, who […]

In perhaps our most aggressively dumb episode yet, we discuss songs in love with underwear, cars, songs, dumps, trucks, you know, a lot of things! This week we’re joined by Chart Throb columnist and UCB comedian Brian Glidewell to discuss whether or not our musical pleasures should be considered guilty, even when they are vapid, […]

In episode 27 we discuss some of music’s greatest legends – The Beatles. Elvis. Beethoven. Gershwin. Not because we brought those songs in, no no. But one of our songs references all those people! And we DO have rock luminaries Wheatus, Enya, and Fleetwood Mac’s keyboardist. This week we are joined by the amazing Cathryn […]

It’s a Swedish Invasion on today’s episode! We’ve got the fantastic Emily Altman (Inside Amy Schumer) to help us “get thai-ed” as we navigate three songs that definitely bring International Flava. Also, NICKELBACK makes its debut on the show. NICKELBACK. Alden’s Pick: Listen to Your Heart-Roxette Winston’s Pick: One Night in Bangkok-Murray Head Emily’s Pick: […]

Back to our regular format! Back to bad songs! We’ve got Jim Santangeli (UCB) with us this episode and we go together like rice and peas, like cheese and buns. We talk about songs with balls, dear memories with family members, the 90s, and weird cream factories. So, just another episode, really. Winston’s Pick: 4 […]

Hey gang, its a specialsode! Intrepid field reporter Winston investigates a concert that represents the ethos of this podcast: Guster, Ben Folds Five (actually still legit) and Barenaked Ladies LIVE.  You’ll hear from past guests of the show who are in attendance, make some new friends and also learn that when Winston drinks several Bud […]

Hello! Summer rolls on, and the bad songs do too! We’ve got the stupendous Lauren Adams (UCB, commercials galore, Letterman) with us this week. We go into the room marked “Keep Out”, decide that “Kashmir” is a good song, and generally do what we want to. It’s we who run the podcast. Winston’s Pick: Mmm […]

Our very first guest, Josh Patten (SNL), returns to the show! Welcome to our new wine focused podcast, Cellar Temperature! Just kidding we’re still just talking about bad songs.  We have one song that made even the person it was written for fall asleep, a song written by a marketing department and backed by Sly […]

Welcome back after the Fourth! We hope you re-discovered your patriotism and love of Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to Be An American”. Pull on your jnco jeans or elastic band black chinos, your spiffy polo shirt or your pot leaf necklace and prepare for a wild ride. We’re joined by the amazing Chelsea Clarke (UCB’s The […]

Mmmmhello! We’re changing things up a bit for this episode and focusing on one band: HANSON. Alden is fresh from a two day Hanson concert and has brought fellow attendees Nate Dern (UCB theater), Miranda Erokan, and Emily Kunkel to rehash the event and share some squeaky clean tunes. Alden’s Pick-Kiss Me When You Come […]

Podcast licky boom boom down! We’re back with the amazing Michael Kayne (UCB’s What I Did For Love) and we’re talking about self-love, Charlotte hornet starter jackets and confusing Do Not Disturb and Dungeons and Dragons. It’s pretty cool, but not as cool as Jaheem Jones. Winston’s pick: The Divinyls – I Touch Myself Alden’s […]

This one goes out to all the ladies. Light a candle, pour a decanter of Train Wine, and sit back and enjoy as Megan Neuringer (Best Week Ever) joins us. We get goosebumps listening to Bryan Adams and Sting, then get the heebie jeebies from Alden’s pick, then get goosebumps again thanks to Ms. Demi […]

Welcome and step into our Dreamworld, listeners! Trip the light fantastic with us as we explore dreamscapes with actual music professional Brian Faas (UCB’s The Law Firm, The Fuse Network).  We encounter water-skiing cowboys, half-hobbit, half-Truman Capote androids, and an “exhausted” Mariah Carey in a bandana bikini.  It’s a terrifying journey into madness and GLITTER. […]

We’re back! And this time, with FEELINGS! We plumb the depths in this episode. Fortunately, we have the fantastic Ashley Ward (Big Black Car, Baby Wants Candy) by our side to explore pledging Kappa Sig, scary subway rants, and the horrible monster known as the Frankensong. Plus, you’ll find out what role Michael McDonald would […]

Fill up your Nalgenes and slip on your Tevas, because Episode 15 is here, lounging in the amphitheater with cargo pockets full of reefer and a Jansport packed with frolf putters. This week we chat with the hilarious Ryan Karels about Hollywood bands, anti-feminists, and riding an underground music wave right into a frat house. Alden […]

Get ready for the manliest, most adrenaline-feuled, coked out episode of Hear Me Out yet. No, wait, come back! This week we sit down with the wonderful Lydia Hensler to discuss 80s dude flicks, casual misogyny, the Irish’s way with words, and noted R&B crooner Peabo Bryson. Winston picks his manliest song of the show, […]

The episode is almost here! Can you feel it? Here it comes…can you feel it? CAN YOU FEEL IT? Guys, this is the weirdest and most DRAMATIC show we’ve had. Rules are broken, triumphs happen, and a woman holds onto a tree while the wind is blowing. DRAMATIC. We have the wonderful John Flynn (Oh […]

This week’s episode is like red, but not quite. Lively debate abounds as we talk with the creator of Phil Phriday himself, UCB writer/performer Mike Scollins. We discuss band gimmicks, thin metaphors and angry letters addressed to the Lyte Funky Ones. Alden tries to disparage his own song and fails, Winston tries to defend his […]

Hey gang, we’re back with another episode! This one “feels like butter”. You might want to listen to this one on your four wheeler, white horse, or faith/gasoline powered car.  We’ve got the terrific Morgan Jarrett (UCB) on the show as we listen to “party” music, New Found Glory covers, and songs that are a […]

Spring has sprung, and it’s time to get SAD. We have the wonderful Caitlin Bitzegaio (Stuff You Should Know, UCB) with us to help us plumb the depths of some sad, dark songs. At least they’re sad by our standards. We cover the reciting the monologues of the Marquis de Sade, discuss how choruses are […]

A new episode is up! Welcome to our shame shower. We discuss the symptoms of “Night Fever” (hint: it’s the same symptoms as cocaine use), get angry about historical inaccuracies regarding Superman’s cape, and give a shoutout to everyone’s favorite band, Pushmonkey. We clutch at the air, mope around, and break through walls like the […]

Hey gang! A new episode is up. Dru Johnston returns! We keep saying this episode is “juicy” and by gum, it is juicy. Our collective history in college a cappella groups is juicy, Seal’s love of the renaissance is juicy, COLLEGE FEELINGS are juicy, Greek myths and Eagle Eye Cherry are juicy. Juicy. Winston’s pick-Seal-Kiss […]

Keep your finger over the “breakdown” button, a new episode is up! In maybe our most spiritual episode yet, we have the delightful Silvija Ozols (UCB’s Stepfathers, Stone Cold Fox) helping us deal with bad songs about gender, the homeless and spiritual awakenings. Wait, what? The Mumford family, Chaka Khan, Whitney and Popeye all help […]

Run to your Volvo or your friend’s bathroom during a dinner party, Episode 6 is here! We’ve got the fantastic Brandon Scott Jones (UCB, Very Mary Kate) with us this week. It’s an episode full of fantasy and whimsy: magical boy bands, the hit film K-Pax, Godzilla smashing pumpkins, and that good ole booty. Winston’s […]

Episode 5 has arrived! And terrible first names are just the beginning. This week we hang out with the hilarious and lovely stand-up, storyteller, blogger and performer Halle Kiefer for a frank discussion about elevator pop, drug-addled performance art, and which rockstars claim to know what about the location of certain female body parts. Winston’s […]

Episode Four of the show is here. There was a good man named Paul Revere. This week we sit down with the brilliant UCB performer/teacher Will Hines (Stepfathers, Very Mary Kate) to talk about what happens when stupidity runs amok, genius goes unchecked, and girls stop by for the summer. For the summer. It’s an […]

Episode Three is up, and it’s got all that sunshine that was stolen from you in 1999. This week we have the hilarious writer (The Chris Gethard Show) and UCB Performer Dru Johnston, who gives us a taste of his trademark love for 80s and 90s jams, his morning Phil Collins routine and his high […]

Our inaugural episode drops today! Let it caress your cochlea! This episode we explore our dreams, lost loves and tantric sex with the incredible Josh Patten — UCB performer, writer for Saturday Night Live, and unapologetic sucker for Cheb Mami’s ululations. Alden’s Pick: Heart – These Dreams Winston’s Pick: Alanis Morissette – Unsent Josh’s Pick: […]