Slow Death by Podcast

https://twitter.com/slowdeathcast Music // Intro: Playboy Manbaby - Steve, Television Salesman // Outro: The Chats - Pub Feed

Friend of the pod and New Zealand correspondent Cameron joins us to answer Xavi's New Zealand related questions. Music: Frankie Reyes - Alma, Corazón y Vida

Friend of the show Torin joins us for a very special edition of Garden Time With Torin. Music: Feed Me Jack - Knife Fork

Nic, Mars, and Xavi discuss a balloon incident involving ostrich's near Tucson, AZ. Music (Intro//End): Frankie Reyes - Alma, Corazón y Vida

The boys do some gossiping. Marcel has a list of questions. Then we talk about a new study that really gets to the bottom of the whole microwaving grapes situation. Music: Frankie Reyes - Flor de Azalea // Sleep Party People - Death is the Future // Turnstile - UNDERWATER BOI Paper: Linking plasma formation in grapes to microwave resonances of aqueous dimers (https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/4000)

The team discusses the old fad known as phone booth stuffing. Then, we turn to phantom limbs and a bizarre experiment carried out by an early 20th century neurobiologist by the name of Sir Henry Head. Music: Frankie Reyes - Noche de Ronda // Darkstar - Heartbeat // Chris Farren - Phantom Friend

In many ways, nostalgia is the defining mood of our time. Since the start of the millennium, western culture has been dominated by pastiche and revivalism, remakes, and the fracturing and mixing of already existing stuff. In tandem, there is a feeling that nothing new is being created - that nothing new is truly groundbreaking, movement inducing, or at all reminiscent of the genre defining moments in the latter half of the 20th century. In the words of Simon Reynolds, “Is nostalgia stopping our culture's ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and so we inevitably look back to more momentous and dynamic times?" Well-qualified experts, Marcel, Nic, and Xavi, tackle this question using their high IQs and extensive cultural knowledge. We then discuss the story of the Siberian hell hole. References: Retromania, Simon Reynolds; The Future of Nostalgia, Svetlana Boym; Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher.

Marcel, Nic, and Xavi discuss metalcore singer Tim Lambesis' plot to hire an assassin to murder his wife. We then turn to the worlds longest traffic jam in this inaugural episode of Slow Death by Podcast. Music: Interlude: Magical Mistakes - Lady Lazarus:Via Elysian Fields (Magical Mistakes remix) // End: As I Lay Dying - Confined

Mars and Nic wonder about hair growth products and then discuss technical issues with their mics. Then, Nic free associates for around 5 minutes in this short PREMIER EPSIODE of Slow Death by Podcast!