The Sounds in My Head

Season 22 Episode 1 Keep Your Light On - Hugo Brijs Youth Fool - Twist Payphone - Twist Arthur Kill - Boyscott Lima - Boyscott Just Like Heaven - Richard Cheese The Greatest - Richard Cheese Kids Go Down (孩子们的时光) - Chinese American Bear Yummy Yummy Yummy (好吃好吃) - Chinese American Bear Rattlesnake - Rubblebucket Morning Glory Blanket - Rubblebucket Anyone Else But You - Rubblebucket This episode features a tightly-edited-but-still-extended clip from a recent episode of Sam Harris' podcast Making Sense where he discusses the global catastrophe of Trump, by way of tariffs, grift, corruption, lunacy, and all the rest.

Season 21 Episode 19 SPECIAL "2024 ELECTION" EPISODE! Love Me, I'm a Liberal - Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon Undecided Voters - Kiwi jr. Election Day - Cheekface feat. Sidney Gish Forecast Fascist Future - Of Montreal The American War - Simone White Freedom - Jenny Hval Future - Cut Copy Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - Francis Blume Do Your Duty - Bobby Lounge Baby, It's Time to Vote - Mad Tea Party America - ØZWALD This episode features several clips: Pete Buttigieg on the NYT Ezra Klein Show talking about people's trust in government. Kamala Harris' campaign debut ad: Freedom. Bill Maher talking about the young people who founded America and contrasting the US to her enemies who young people today seem to think are preferable. The AI-generated song “Fucking My Couch” by AI Larry Bob.

Season 21 Episode 18 EXTREMELY SPECIAL "PARENTHOOD" EPISODE! Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) - John Lennon Baby's Baby's - Little Fevers Before You Were Born - Bo and the Locomotive The Gentle Preservation of Children's Minds - Irving Море дерев (A Sea of ​​Trees) - SMURNO Daddy - Haley Father & Son - Dappled Cities And Mom and Kid - They Might Be Giants Reading Rainbow Theme Song - The Octopus Project feat. The Flaming Lips Still Fighting It - Ben Folds You Are My Baby - Kimya Dawson Do You Realize?? - Sharon Van Etten Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) - Billy Joel White Lilacs - The Womenfolk This episode features a clip from The Local's podcast Sweden in Focus where Richard Orange talks about the country's generous paternity leave and the effect it has on families. There's also a clip from Bill Maher's not-so-great podcast Club Random where Penn Jillette talks about evolutionary love for one's children. Nick Cave also reads a response he wrote to a fan who was concerned about bringing a child into the world in its current state on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. There are also birthday greetings to September babies from Tiktoker Soupy Garbage Juice (he's released the full song but I didn't realize it until too late to include the whole song on the show). And while not mentioned in the episode, I highly recommend Ric Burns' documentary about Ansel Adams.

Season 21 Episode 17 SPECIAL “ALL COVERS” EPISODE! Strange Overtones - Whitney You've Got a Woman - Natalie Bergman & Beck Take Me Home, Country Roads - Lana Del Rey Lovefool - Babeheaven The Boys are Back in Town - The Cardigans Best of My Love - Skeleten Good Vibrations - The Black Angels Sloop John B - Night Beats All I Have to Do Is Dream - The Raveonettes Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Raveonettes A Shot in the Dark - Combustible Edison Such Great Heights - Ronobir Lahiri This episode features a couple of clips from recent VP candidate Tim Walz contrasting his modest lifestyle to other political figures and talking about the Trump agenda vs. his and Kamala Harris'.

Season 21 Episode 16 Exercise Class - Rodney Cromwell Havana Bay - Magon Our Love is Real - Magon Hard Erase - Worn-Tin Joe & Ruth - Worn-Tin Pendulum - Sports Coach Infinity - Sports Coach Dead Stars in your Eyes - The Reds, Pinks & Purples Public Art - The Reds, Pinks & Purples I-90 Bridge - Chastity Belt Clock Keeps Ticking -Bonny Doon This episode features a couple of clips from a really fun episode of Tyler Cowan's podcast Conversations with Tyler. The guest is a favorite of mine, Paul Bloom, a psychologist who specializes in moral psychology, particularly in children. I pulled clips of them discussing at what age a child can truly believe in God, and another where they discuss the relative value of dogs, cats, pigs, and humans. The whole hour is great.

Season 21 Episode 15 The Depth of an Answer - Dumbo Gets Mad Rue du Repos - Bibi Club Le feu - Bibi Club Strangers - Ford Chastain No Way - Ford Chastain Table - Katy Kirby Drop Dead - Katy Kirby Bad Eye Opal - Marina Allen Love Comes Back - Marina Allen Gravel Disco Road - Pasiflorez Farmers Friend - Pasiflorez Deadly Understudy - Smaller Hearts This episode features a clip from Kamala Harris' acceptance speech at the DNC followed by Steven “Destiny” Bonnell on how effectively the Democrats usurped the Republican's historic talking points (cause they have forfeited them in favor of lunacy). Later he describes why it's harder for MAGA to break free from their idiocy than for leftists to do the same.

Season 21 Episode 14 Blue - Famous Friend The Future is Our Way Out - Brigitte Calls Me Baby Impressively Average - Brigitte Calls Me Baby Borderline - Majak Door Call It What You Want - Majak Door Back of My Mind - Silver Biplanes Silver Wings - Silver Biplanes Go Time - Gitkin Don't You Want Me Baby (Cumbia) - Gitkin Love for the Sake of Dub - Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band Grilled - Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band Porque Te Vas - Molly Lewis Crushed Velvet - Molly Lewis Hi No Tori - Golden Bug and The Limiñanas feat. Vega Voga This episode features a clip from The New York Times podcast The Interview where host Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviewed US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and he mentioned one of the most-compelling potential promises of a Kamala Harris presidency: Wresting control of the Republican Party back to some kind of normalcy and away from the MAGA clown car of conspiracy theorist know-nothings.

Season 21 Episode 13 Worries - Swiss Portrait This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Badbadnotgood feat. Norah Jones Heaven - The National Archive 81 - Bathe Alone 4ever - Bathe Alone Thérèse - LAVANDE Moon Canyon Park - Pearl & The Oysters D'Ya Hear Me! - Pearl & The Oysters Affinity - Loma Turnaround - Loma Lucky Onze - Twen This episode features two clips from the David Pakman Show. First, from 8 months ago, he lays out a partial list of Joe Biden's accomplishments, observing that he was the most effective and consequential president of the last 50 years. Then a clip of Joe Biden's address where he bows out of the presidential race for the good of the country.

Season 21 Episode 12 Wherever You Are - Professional Extra Rosey Dream I - Conflict at Serenity Pools Yeah Totally Yeah - Conflict at Serenity Pools Feelgood by Numbers (Louie Zong Rework) - The Go! Team Everyone's a V.I.P. To Someone (Cornershop Remix) - The Go! Team Sleep on the Left Side - Cornershop Fibers & Graves - Acoqui Trust (feat. Luke Temple) - Acoqui To Be a Millionaire… Was it Likely? - Spacehog On This Side of Town (It's Always 5 in the Morning) - Big Search Hope It Makes You Happy (feat. Taken By Trees) - Big Search Change in the Weather - The Concretes It's Too Late (Demo) - Becca Mancari This episode features a clip of Bill Hicks' in 1988 talking about how all the good people always get murdered, but mediocre hacks live forever no matter what. I was reminded of this routine over the weekend when Trump was shot at but they just grazed him. This isn't the version I remember listening to, but I couldn't find the version from my memory.

Season 21 Episode 11 Stella the Begonia - Rubblebucket Botanical Garden - Anna Erhard Strange World - La Luz Poppies - La Luz Without You - Rachel Love I Lost Myself - Rachel Love Aribau - Clément Froissart Valencia - Clément Froissart Species - Mammoth Penguins Nothing and Everything - Mammoth Penguins Playing Favorites - Sheer Mag When You Get Back - Sheer Mag Lucy Takes a Picture - Youth Lagoon This episode features a clip of an essay by John Cleese about The Advantages of Extremism. It's an old clip from the late 1980s and targeted a British audience but it feels tailor-made for contemporary America.

SEASON 21 EPISODE 10 Marry Me - Tele Novella Big Congratulations - Holiday Ghosts Coat of Arms - Holiday Ghosts The Dominoes - Mustard Service Night in Tulum - Mustard Service Nostalgia - Yot Club Human Nature - Yot Club Ghost Beach - Dayaway True Cyan - Dayaway A Picture is All I Have - Saint Saviour (feat. Orlando Weeks) Cellophane - Saint Saviour At the River - Groove Armada Old Cape Cod - Patti Page This episode features a clip of TikToker Handren Seavey talking about how the track record of college aged kids being right about things is, um, mixed. It's not their fault, they're just the dumbest adults. Also commentator Destiny talks about the problem of letting groups like Hamas leverage asymmetric warfare and human shields to gain support from the international community and the risk that giving into that poses for a world order based on international law.

SEASON 21 EPISODE 9 SPECIAL "I UP AND DONE GOT MARRIED" EPISODE! Marriage - The Bug Club Ban Marriage - The Hidden Cameras Marriage - The Eversons 爱是 (Love Is) - Chinese American Bear Always Forever - Cults Wicked Wedding - DJ Schmolli (Mashup Chris Isaak vs Billy Idol) Sea of Love - Cat Power First Song ❤️ - Mariia with Two I's Maria - Barbagallo & Baptiste W. Hamon Love is Eternity - They Might Be Giants Into My Arms - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Northern Sky - Nick Drake Hand on Your Heart - José González Sparks - Coldplay This episode features a clip of Jim Gaffigan talking about Weddings from his Obsessed album. The whole routine is hilarious but I only included a bit of it.

Season 21 Episode 8 SPECIAL "6º OF BUDDY HOLLY" EPISODE! Buddy Holly - Razor Braids Words of Love - Strange Magic Oh Boy! - Strange Magic Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly with Royal Philharmonic True Love Ways - Buddy Holly with Royal Philharmonic Photograph - Jeff Lingle Suzanne - Weezer American Girls - Weezer Pink Moon - Nick Drake and the Sad Beads Free Ride - Liz Phair Road - Bombay Bicycle Club & The Staves Weeping Song - Nell Smith & The Flaming Lips She Don't Use Jelly - Ben Folds Five Cindy - Johnny Cash with Nick Cave Ring of Fire - The Carter Family This episode features a clip from Saturday Night Live where dinner party guests debate Weezer fandom. It's the 30th anniversary of the blue album which I intended to mention, but failed to. Also, for the closing I talked over the 8-Bit Misfits awesome version of "Buddy Holly" (Amazon, Spotify, YouTube) but didn't say so.

Season 21 Episode 7 SPECIAL "SYNTHSTRAMENTAL" … "INSTRUSYNTHAL?" EPISODE! Dream Sequence - Danz CM Temper - Gravité Robotman - Gravité Cosmom Cinematic - Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips Cats - Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips The Big Conference! - Louie Zong Computer Lounge! - Louie Zong Japan Musick - Sweet Juice Ariel Vendor - Sweet Juice Concorde tercera versión - The Holydrug Couple Atlantic 19 de agosto - The Holydrug Couple Lichen Maps - Green-House Far More Other - Green-House Felicia - Kolumbo

Season 21 Episode 6 Best Day Ever - The Derevolutions Prep-School Gangsters - Vampire Weekend Pravda - Vampire Weekend Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Demo - San Francisco 2/71) - Paul Simon Duncan - Paul Simon Follow the Ghost - The Eastern Plain Should I Stay or Should I Go? - Nouvelle Vague (feat. Alonya) This Charming Man - Nouvelle Vague (feat. Melanie Pain) Pareidolia - Matt Monsoor I Love My Television - The Rhythm Method Curse - The Rhythm Method Show & Tell - Bored at My Grandmas House This episode features some edited down clips of Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig on Radio X talking to John Kennedy about the origins of the two songs I played in the episode. The Paul Simon documentary I mentioned is called In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon by Alex Gibney.

Season 21 Episode 5 Eclipse - Jacco Gardner Lorelay - Jennie Lawless Start a New - Bull Red Rooves - Bull Imaginary Conversations - Bull Running Around - STRFKR Together Forever - STRFKR The Main Thing - Ducks Ltd. Heavy Bag - Ducks Ltd. The Sea - Baby Cool Poison - Baby Cool Black Holes, the Stars and You - A. Savage Put It In Reverse - Pina Palau This episode features a clip from the Blocked and Reported podcast with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal talk about the confusing shake out on who supports which side in the Israeli vs Palestinian/Hamas war. Also, Benjamin of @holylandspeaks opines about the fixation on Palestinian suffering by people who completely ignore Ukrainian or other suffering.

Season 21 Episode 4 You Woo Me - The Courettes Water Underground - Real Estate Somebody New - Real Estate New Moon - Laetitia Sadier Panser L'inacceptable - Laetitia Sadier BUG0BEAT - Cool Sounds Another Way - Cool Sounds Firad - Dina Ögon Tomma lådor - Dina Ögon Hard Erase - Worn-Tin Replace Me - Worn-Tin Northern Boy - Ruby Sue This episode features a condensed clip from The Big Conversation podcast where Alex O'Connor talks about how religious people try to give take credit for the progress made at dismantling all of the awful stuff their religious traditions got wrong historically. Also, a clip from Christmas Vacation about Ruby Sue.

Season 21 Episode 3 Pixel - Yot Club Ma Tau Wai Road (with Salah Pupul) - Bolis Pupul Completely Half - Bolis Pupul Every Week - Soft Covers Point of View - Soft Covers Three Cheers! - The Umbrellas Echoes - The Umbrellas Granny Smith - Lost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Aloha Golden Meadow - Maree Noire - Lost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie Whole Heart (2023) - People Museum Saturn Rings - People Museum Risk - Lace This episode features a somewhat heavily truncated clip of the ceremony marking Sweden's official membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaking about the importance of a unified Europe in light of global instability caused by Russian aggression and it's invasion of Ukraine.

Season 21 Episode 2 SPECIAL "WHAT'S OLD IS NEW" EPISODE! Fortress - Vitesse X Modus Operandi - Barry Steel Mosaics - Almost Twins Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love If It Was on the Pink Album - They Might Be Giants reimagined by Luke Hennisch Do Your Thing - Actual Magic Big Love - Camera Obscura We Have All the Time in the World - Britta Phillips Many Women - T.hanks and Chinless Wonder Oh, Company - T.hanks and Chinless Wonder Your Life - iSaintJames Still - iSaintJames Isle Eyes (RUMTUM Remix) - Monster Rally They Never Mean What They Say - Voxtrot Pure Imagination - ØZWALD

Season 21 Episode 1 Murder on the Dance Floor (triple j Like a Version) - Royel Otis Through the Eyes of a Woman - Lucky Lo Alla Tankar På En Gång - Lucky Lo Phone - Anna St. Louis Rest - Anna St. Louis No More Birthdays - Sophie May Primitive Man - The Vaccines Heartbreak Kid - The Vaccines Popular 2 - Cheekface Life in a Bag - Cheekface III - Stevie Zita Tea for the Tillerman (Arr. for Guitar) - Dario Solaire Handbags and Gladrags - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra This episode features a clip from comedian Sam Morril's 2022 Netflix special Same Time Tomorrow where he talks about the addictive nature of TikTok, and also a PSA from comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding on the uncanny similarities between Trump supporters and “leftist” “Free Palestine” activists—neither care or know what is true or false or what words mean, it's all just about how they feel.

Season 20 Episode 21 (The Finale!) Starman - Luna Cigarette Burns Forever - Cut Worms Friends of Mine - Vincent Delerm Dreidels of Fire - Ben Lee Give Them a Token - Adam Green Castles and Tassels - Adam Green Just to Make Me Feel Good - Adam Green & Binki Shapiro Discover Who I Am - Blossom Dearie 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Blossom Dearie Instinct That I Wanna Know - Jade Imagine Back and Forth - Jade Imagine Always / Never - STRFKR Waffles - Cayucas Cold Front - Ruby Haunt Flood - Ruby Haunt Hurt So Bad - Girl Ray This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where he talks about the grim history of human civilization and why there is endless war in Israel. My friend group is almost entirely liberals who've been hoodwinked by anti-Zionist Jews (think of them like “Jews for Jesus”) who hide behind a banner of “peace” while promoting right-wing Islamic extremist terrorists.

Season 20 Episode 20 SPECIAL 2023 CHRISTMAS MUSIC EPISODE! Christmas Lullaby - Shane MacGowan & The Popes Who's That Walking on my Rooftop? - Freedom Fry Baby, It's Cold Outside - Built for the Sea My Favorite Things - Natalia Clavier 2000 Miles - Pure Bathing Culture Christmas Song - Joy Zipper Every Day is Christmas - Alec Duffy and Sufjan Stevens It's Been Christmas Here - Blondfire O Little Town of Bethlehem - Amason Santa Claus Is Smoking Reefer - Squirrel Nut Zippers Christmas Wrapping - Save Ferris Christmas Piglet - The Presidents of the USA O Holy Night - Diego de Galdeano Ave Maria - Réka Ioescu Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - The Flaming Lips African Christmas - Tatopani Mofrica - MoZuluArt feat. Ambassade String Quartet Snow - Dean & Britta This episode features a clip from Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) where Casey Liss and John Siracusa discuss movies and music that they watch or listen to every year around Christmastime. From an episode last year. I'd been saving it to pull a clip from, with the intention of putting on a song from John Denver and the Muppets, but the episode was too long and I couldn't make it work.

Season 20 Episode 19 Country Folk - Gently Tender Leap of Love - John Moods Take It Home - John Moods (feat. Sean Nicholas Savage) Dust - Allah-Las Right on Time - Allah-Las Charger - Devendra Banhart May - Devendra Banhart Saturn - Films on Song Cure - Films on Song On the Tip of My Tongue - The Umbrella Puzzles Golden Sun - Video Age Away from the Castle - Video Age Baseball Bat - French Cassettes This episode features a clip from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, guest-hosted by Ronny Chieng where he discusses the dilemma of Americans taking the new weight loss drugs on Thanksgiving with correspondent Michael Kosta.

SPECIAL “ALL WOMEN” EPISODE! There She Goes - Hazel English Fast Lane - Genevva Crazy Horse - Genevva Instinct That I Wanna Know - Jade Imagine Back and Forth - Jade Imagine Principia - En Attendant Ana The Cut Off - En Attendant Ana The Drinking Song - Nellie Mckay Make a Wish - Nellie Mckay Le Temple Volant - Crumb & Melody's Echo Chamber Apathy - White Poppy Happy - White Poppy Til We Run Out of Air - Hatchie This episode features a clip of Julia Steinberg's testimony in front of Congress on November 9, where she talks about the rise of antisemitism on college campuses and its modern roots in the conflict theory of the oppressor vs. oppressed.

Season 20 Episode 17 Kitty Kitty - Alpheus K2 - Melenas Bang - Melenas Can't Do Anything - Husbands Used to Surf - Husbands Hard-Hearted Way - Tele Novella Funeral - Tele Novella Stumbling Still - Nation of Language I Will Never Learn - Nation of Language Is It My Fault? - Sufjan Stevens So You are Tired - Sufjan Stevens Bushwick Cowboy - Vansire This episode features a clip of Israeli historian, political scientist, and tour guide Oren, from his YouTube channel travelingisreal.com. He has a lot of videos about Israel offering a pro-Israeli, but also highly informed and even-handed perspective. I think he's fantastic and recommend his content.

SEASON 20 EPISODE 16: OCTOBER 23RD, 2023SPECIAL "HALLOWEEN" EPISODE! Business Class War Paint - Chemtrails Halloween Theme - Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band Stranger Things Theme - Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band Haunted Sea - The Budos Band Come See the Creature - Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion! Screams of the Rat Men - Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion! Ghost Cowboys (2022) - Louie Zong Cha Cha Challoween - L'exotighost Paradise - The Vacant Lots Evacuation - The Vacant Lots Halloween Song - DQE Candy - Frankie Rose and The Outs Halloween In November - Steady Holiday Hey Pretty (Drive-By 2001 Mix) - Poe feat. Mark Z. Danielewski Halloween - Matt Pond PA This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill talks about conflict theory and how we got to the point where liberal people think the morally right position is to side with gruesome terrorists. It's not halloween related, but I for one sure do find it scary!

Season 20 Episode 15 Annihilation Party - Silver Firs Up - Girl Ray Hold Tight - Girl Ray Alison - Strawberry Runners Look Like This - Strawberry Runners King of Wands - Housewife らりらりらん (Rari Rariran) - Never Young Beach 帰ろう (rentrer chez soi) - Never Young Beach You're So?! - The Hannah Barberas Happy Winter - The Hannah Barberas Darling We've Got Time - Copeland James Girl Supreme - Σtella This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, where panelist Sarah Isgur of ABC News and other things (I'd never heard of her, but apparently, she's a conservative of some sort?) makes some good points about the unexpected effects of the increase of small donors in the political sphere.

Season 20 Episode 14 Different Now - Courtney Barnett Life's a Joke - Islands Headlines - Islands I'll Never Make It - Cut Worms Too Bad - Cut Worms Act I - Worn-Tin Une autre vie - Evelyne Brochu Paris -Evelyne Brochu I Want You - Carter Vail Honey I'm Afraid - Bluhm I Just Keep on Feeling Fine - Bluhm Trust Me - Barnaby Keen This episode features a clip from Strike Force Five, the podcast featuring Stephen Colbert, Seth Myers, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon, which they created to raise money for their staffs during the ongoing strike. I really enjoy their dynamic and it's so fun that they all clearly like each other as compared to the olden days when there was so much animus between the late-night hosts. I pulled a clip of Steven Colbert telling the story of how he met his wife.

Season 20 Episode 13 Rather Blue - Jacuzzi Boys Keep It in Line - Broncho Get in My Car - Broncho Hard Times (All Around) - The Nude Party Ride On - The Nude Party Satellite of Love - Dean & Britta You Were Right About One Thing - Locate S,1 Blue Meaniez - Locate S,1 Heart of Scorpio - Alice Boman feat. Cornelia Murr Better Days - Zach Keim Alice - Zach Keim Twenty Seven - CjayQ This episode features a clip of a YouTuber andewr reflecting on HBO's How To with John Wilson, one of the best things I've ever seen. If like me, you missed hearing about it, it just wrapped on the 3rd and final season. There's six 25 minute long episodes per season, and they are nothing like anything you've ever seen on TV before. Part personal video essay, part comedy, part poignant vignettes of everyday people. It's the most NYC thing ever and it's truly something special. Don't miss it!

Season 20 Episode 12 Take a Rest - Cobra Man Yards / Gardens - Kate Bollinger Lady in the Darkest Hour - Kate Bollinger The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973 - Hamish Hawk Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (Live for Hidden Door) - Hamish Hawk Take On Me (But It's Raining) - Alfie Beelzebub's AI Paul McCartney Creep - aionefuture's AI Frank Sinatra and Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox Naturally - Bonny Doon You Can't Stay the Same - Bonny Doon feat. Waxahatchee Wolf - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Different Today - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Spitting Off the Edge of the World (Lush Version) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Nintendo 64 - Aaron Joseph Russo This episode features a clip from The Urbanist Agenda podcast where Jason and Adam talk about how annoying it is that cars vs bikes has become a culture war issue in Europe, as traditional conservative parties have tried to court right-wing party voters only to lose votes to them. A trend witnessed in Sweden as well.

Season 20 Episode 11 I Wanna Love Him So Bad - Fascinations Grand Chorus The Little Hand - The Ballet I Don't Feel Like Dancing - The Ballet Aux larmes (To tears) - Clément Froissart Un jour à minuit (One day at midnight) - Clément Froissart Gnossienne No. 5 (French 79 Rework of Erik Satie) - French 79 Gnossienne No. 1 (Kid Francescoli Rework of Erik Satie) - Kid Francescoli In Gardens Under Evergreen - Pure Bathing Culture Treasure Pleasure Wonder Gem - Pure Bathing Culture ILYSM - Wild Pink This episode features a clip of Kumail Nanjiani on ABC's Good Morning America (of all places) talking about his Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales. He produced it with his wife and stars in the series. I missed it when it came out late last year, but watched it recently knowing nothing about the history, and thought it was fascinating and just a really great series. So I highly recommend checking it out, and the less you know about it beforehand, the better.

Season 20 Episode 10 Life Waits for Nothing - Phantom Youth Don't Fade Away - Beach Fossils Tough Love - Beach Fossils I Wish - Dayaway A Brief Dream of Sun - Dayaway Milanesa al Pan - Juan Wauters feat. Zoe Gotusso Modus Operandi - Juan Wauters feat. Frankie Cosmos Big Black Void - TV Girl All the Way Through - TV Girl Shame - TV Girl What the Echoes Say - Jeanines Tilt in Your Eye - Jeanines Riding Into the Sunset in a Busted Car - Free Cake for Every Creature In Your Car - Free Cake for Every Creature Trepanation Party - Voxtrot This episode features an edited-down “41 Lessons from My 41 Years” list presented by Nate B. Jones on TikTok. It was too long to include the whole thing, but I really don't disagree with any of his list. This kinda thing easily veers too far into trite, but there can be a lot of truth in well-composed bumper stickers, and I think Nate hits them all well.

Season 20 Episode 9 Good Friday - Ham Sandwich Newfound Oxygen - Steady Holiday The Balance - Steady Holiday Coma Culture - Coma Culture Bad Habits - Coma Culture Virtual Dancer - Group Rhoda Din För Evigt - Kanot Bottenmannen - Kanot Dee Dee - Nimrawd Quicksilver (single version) - Nimrawd Aquamarine - Hand Habits This episode features a clip of a CNN Town Hall where former NJ governor and Trump lackey Chris Christie recounts how Trump gave him COVID, which very nearly killed him, then lied about it, naturally.

Season 20 Episode 8 Hot Blue Summer - Dayaway Shooting Star - Sylvie Further Down the Road (Maston Remix) - Sylvie Waiting for the Band - Nicky Hopkins You Have Something Special - Joanna Sternberg This Is Not Who I Want To Be - Joanna Sternberg I Never Get Lonesome - Arthur Russell Iowa Dream - Arthur Russell Wan Ka Helaa - Dur-Dur Band Int. Riyo - Dur-Dur Band Int. Love Missive - Courrier Sud Fool Moon - Courrier Sud Trapdoor - Los Bitchos This episode features a clip from a recent episode of Sam Harris' podcast Making Sense, where he talks about the incomprehensible waste of collective attention the human race has wasted on about the least important human to ever be born. I didn't include much of it, when he gets into a media analysis and so on, but I'm 100% with him on all of it.

Season 20 Episode 7: Special “Music from Soundtracks” Episode!   Asteroid City 1. Last Train to San Fernando - Johnny Duncan 2. Freight Train - Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group Poker Face 3. Charlie's Theme - Pellea 4. Six Foot Down - Gene Ski 5. Blues Run the Game - Jackson C. Frank John Denver: Country Boy 6. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver The Worst Person in the World 7. Waters of March - Art Garfunkel One More Time 8. Yours to Keep (acoustic version) - Myie Rogue Agent 9. Just Like Heaven - Hannah Peel Cold Feet 10. Just Like Honey - Hannah Peel Fleishman is in Trouble 11. Wise Up - Aimee Mann Little America 12. Come On Home - The Lijadu Sisters Lord of War 13. Mama Africa - Young Bakuba Band Masters of Sex 14. You Don't Know Me - Lizzy Caplan   This episode features a clip from NPR's Fresh Air where film critic Justin Chang reviews Asteroid City, and also a brief clip where Taffy Nivert talks about the origin of Take Me Home, Country Roads from John Denver: Country Boy.

Season 20 Episode 6 High - Royal Headache Go Through You - Rhett Miller Fascination - Rhett Miller St. Ignatius - Old 97's Rescue Song - Mr. Little Jeans The Suburbs - Mr. Little Jeans Pavillion - Combustible Edison The Best is Yet to Come - Combustible Edison Island Spell - Molly Lewis Oceanic Feeling - Molly Lewis Miracle Fruit - Molly Lewis Dolphinese - Molly Lewis Walk Through the Valley - Kay Johnson This episode features a clip from CBS Sunday Morning where Lee Cowan interviews Molly Lewis about what it's like to be a musician who whistles.

Season 20 Episode 5 Getting to Know (All the Ways We're Wrong for Each Other) - The Go! Team Pre-Code Hollywood - Jonathan Bree Miss You - Jonathan Bree Anything - Frankie Rose Sixteen Ways - Frankie Rose Casino - JW Francis Swooning - JW Francis Working Boy in New York City - Belle & Sebastian I Don't Know What You See in Me - Belle & Sebastian Late Developers - Belle & Sebastian Eulogy for You and Me - Tanya Davis Please Bless - Tanya Davis 再见 (Goodbye) - Chinese American Bear This episode features a clip from an interview with Henry Catalini Smith on The Local's Sweden in Focus podcast. He is a immigrant from the UK leading the effort to unionize Spotify. Sweden is one of the most heavily unionized countries in the world, but the large tech sector is a strange outlier and he is hoping to change that.

Season 20 Episode 4 - SPECIAL “MUSIC IN FRENCH!” EPISODE! Soulevant - Cléa Vincent Contact - Jarvis Cocker Le cannibale - Juniore Je me suis fait tout petit - Juniore B1 - Ce soir - Kumisolo Kabuki femme fatale - Kumisolo La Femme aux Faux Cils - We are Enfant Terrible La poudre aux yeux - Lisa LeBlanc Tite gêne - Lisa LeBlanc Apprenti - Dumas Fille Sauvage - Richard Anthony Bohemian Rhapsody - French - Freedom Fry Les idées roses - Louïse Papier Sur le pavé - Holden This episode features a clip from Jim Gaffigan's album Quality Time about eating French Cheese, as well as a very old Louis CK bit about being approached in NYC by a French guy who needs directions. Light, but relatively topical fare for this episode. heh.

Season 20 Episode 3 Organic Tea - Jacob King We, Us the Pharaohs - Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard I Had It All - Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard Always on the Telephone - The Ladybug Transistor Stranger - Tiny Microphone feat. Gary Olson Mine Forever - Lord Huron At Sea - Lord Huron Blameless - Zach Schimpf Mind Like a Sitting Duck - Zach Schimpf Time Bomb - Jacklen Ro Side by Side - Jacklen Ro More Than Chemical - Homephone This episode features a brief clip from FOX's The Family Guy which made me LOL, and a TikTok by @philjamesson about his incredibly successful social media empire.

Season 20 Episode 2 Apologizing - Celler Dwellers Or Else - Marina Allen Superreality - Marina Allen If You Love Her - Tokyo Tea Room Feel Your Heart - Tokyo Tea Room Poor Devil - Fruit Junior Saddle Up -Fruit Junior The Promise (feat. Jelani Aryeh) - Samia As You Are - Samia Edge of the Edge - Panda Bear & Sonic Boom Everything's Been Leading To This - Panda Bear & Sonic Boom Sleeper Agent - Smaller Hearts Vento a Favor - Sessa This episode features a clip from the new podcast The Urbanist Agenda from Jason of the great Not Just Bikes. His co-host for the inaugural episode was Adam Something who shows off his pitch-perfect Slavoj Žižek impression as they talk about living in human-friendly cities.

Season 20 Episode 1 Rebels Without Applause - Morrissey Always on My Mind - Roller Derby Friday I'm in Love - Roller Derby Afterworld - Phantom Youth Dear October - Phantom Youth Places - Holy Now Silk - Holy Now Nerves - Freeds Fuzzy - Freeds If I Could Ride a Bike - Chevy & Park Bird Never My Love - The Association and The Courettes This episode features a clip from Marc Maron's latest HBO comedy special, From Bleak to Dark, where he outlines a strategy to win over Christians by rebranding abortion clinics as “angel factories”. It may be a joke, but I think the plan could be just crazy enough to work. Mental note: From now on, always refer to Planned Parenthood and their ilk as angel factories.

SEASON 19 FINALE! Be True - RL Cherry Blossom - Rubblebucket Earth Worship - Rubblebucket Empty Head - Frankie Cosmos Aftershook - Frankie Cosmos Strangers - Dana Gavanski Sacatela - La Femme No pasa nada - La Femme Dyslexic Poetry - Petite League Pantone Karaoke - Petite League Belinda Says - Alvvays Very Online Guy - Alvvays San Francisco - Bonny Doon This episode features a clip from the podcast The War On Cars where guest, prominent sex columnist Dan Savage, talks about how terrible cars are, and how livable streets activists can win people over to our side. It was a fun interview, and while I've always enjoyed his media appearances, but prior to this interview I never knew he was a kindred spirit with regard to this topic.

SPECIAL "CHRISTMAS MUSIC 2022" EPISODE! Kemonomichi no Uta (alt ver.) - Shugo Tokumaru & John John Festival Ode to Just Like Christmas - Twitchels Just Like Christmas - Housewife When the River Meets the Sea - Daniel Zott Love to Keep Me Warm - Laufey & Dodie Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers - Ballboy He's the One - Ali Sperry and Kristin Weber Santa Claus - Brenda Lee Linus n' Lucy - Ginger Root Never Had Christmas - Rope Store Vegetarian Christmas - Feet Christmas Everyday - The Frights Christmas (All Over the World Tonight) - Freedom Fry Christmas in Clifton House - Evripidis and his Tragedies Xmas Break - April June This Year for Christmas - Sjowgren Christmas Time is Here - The Shacks This episode features a bulletin from Sveriges Radio's daily English language news podcast about how shop workers in Sweden's largest trade union think Christmas music poses a health and safety risk. MY APOLOGIES if this episode is triggering for any listeners.

Look Away, Look Away - The Go! Team feat. The Star Feminine Band Saturdays - Broken Bells We're Not In Orbit Yet… - Broken Bells Smash the Machine - The Babe Rainbow Mediterranean - The Babe Rainbow Fast Cars - Danz CM Love Is Perfect Kindness - Busman's Holiday Hey Margarita - Busman's Holiday Charlie - Sam Valdez Your Party - Crush EP Disintegration - The Vacant Lots Red Desert - The Vacant Lots It Won't Be Cinematic - Sleep Party People This episode features a clip from a terrific interview with Yuval Noah Harari on by Sean Illing on his Vox podcast The Grey Area. After Ezra Klein went to the NYT Vox slowly auditioned other people to fill the gap, renaming The Ezra Klein Show first to The Conversation with different hosts, of which Sean was by far and away the best, and they eventually gave him the feed and renamed it The Grey Area. I just never unsubscribed. Ezra is awesome, but I like the NYT incarnation of his show less than the old version, and I think The Grey Area is usually more interesting than EKS these days.

Stars Are Blind (Follow Me) - Chris Laufman & Wise Blood Sunshine Time - Coast Modern Electric Fence - Ruby Bedtime - Ruby Steal My Sunshine - The Goon Sax Sintaluta - The Garrys Bury Me With My Money - The Garrys Change - Kelley Stoltz My Wildest Dream - Kelley Stoltz Did You Give the World Some Love Today, Babe? - The PJ's This episode features an extended series of clips stitched together from a recent episode of Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast where Sam talks to subject matter expert Timothy Snyder about Russia's war on Ukraine and he systematically knocks down bad take after bad take from the "do your own research" wing of the Twitterverse.

Hot Tub Time Machine - Freedom Fry Real Love - Down Time Just Because - Down Time Destiny - Jonathan Bree & Princess Chelsea You Are the Man - Jonathan Bree Love Is More - Princess Chelsea Forever Is a Charm - Princess Chelsea Part Time Punk - Cool Sounds Like That - Cool Sounds Goatmilk - GOAT Blow the Horns - GOAT Chow - Sun Era This episode features a clip from Coleman Hughes' podcast Conversations with Coleman where music critic and historian Ted Gioia talks about where musical innovation comes from and the pattern of things from the fringe becoming mainstream.

It's Probably Me - ViVii Ivory Coast - Pure Bathing Culture Nightswimming - Pure Bathing Culture After All - Jeanines Luminous - Seoul Magic Club Love all the Population - Gently Tender Home Anymore - Gently Tender Chain - Workhorse No Photographs - Workhorse County Lines - Whitney Terminal - Whitney Jesus was a Cross Maker - Cass Elliot This episode features a clip from Channel 4 News' report on the truck bombing of Russia's bridge connecting illegally annexed Crimea in Ukraine to the Russian mainland. The latest in a long series of colossal embarrassments for Putin. 

Not a Go - Foamboy Better - Foamboy Peach Smoothie - Foamboy Garth - Husbands Must Be a Cop - Husbands Night Nurse - Dean & Britta Easy Does It - Marlon Williams My Boy - Marlon Williams Up the Junction - Squeeze The Dance - Air Waves Black Metal - Air Waves feat. Frankie Cosmos and Merce Lemon Mind on Fire - The Mary Onettes This episode features a clip from The Michael Shermer Show where Michael talks to British satirist and commentator Andrew Doyle about the adoption by progressive of trans activist's world-view, and how folly and unprogressive he predicts history will judge that to be. Call me a “TERF”, but I tend to agree, and I hope saying so doesn't mean I lose a bunch of friends. Also, I'm personally more concerned with the elimination of sex-separated spaces for women and girls, as well as social contagion among teenage girls leading to irreversible medical interventions for them, than I am about gay boys, but ya know, yeah them too.

Extra Mile - Alexandria The Sound of Music - Kiwi jr. Unspeakable Things - Kiwi jr. Hello Sunshine - Foreign Air Why Don't You Feel the Way I Do? - Foreign Air Je n'veux pas rester sage - Requin Chagrin Crush - Requin Chagrin feat. Anaïs Demoustier Highschool Steady - Eli Smart No Destination - Eli Smart All My Blood - Ham Sandwich Small Talk - Greta Morgan This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill predicts how the traditionally unifying event of an alien invasion would go down in present-day America.

Summer's End - Dayaway Don't Hang up on Me - Tchotchke Dizzy - Tchotchke Pixie Gf - Powerplant So Far Away - Down Time Marie Kondo - Breakup Haircut Why Can't I Be Cool Enough to Move to Berlin? - Breakup Haircut Election Day - Cheekface feat. Sidney Gish You Always Want to Bomb the Middle East - Cheekface The Tunnel - Cones Summer Is Gone - Kid Francescoli This episode features a clip from Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast where he explains why Donald Trump is a worse person than Osama bin Laden. His description here mirrors much of my own take and was a big part of why I felt so compelled to escape from post-Trump America.

Somedays - VHS Sports Love Bus - Chinese American Bear Love Is - Chinese American Bear Whiskey & Water - Voxtrot Kindergarten - Voxtrot Wouldn't It Be Nice - She & Him Melt Away - She & Him True to Ourselves - Freedom Fry As Far Away as Possible - Shout Out Louds Sky and I (Heaven) - Shout Out Louds Our Trash - Evripidis and His Tragedies This episode features a clip from a recent Al Franken Podcast wherein he interviews journalist and Russia expert Julia Ioffe who explains why negotiating with Putin about Ukraine is ill-advised.