S23,E02: 03/09/26 (JANGLY WOMEN! Club 8, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, North Highlands, The Sundays, Camera Obscura, The Innocence Mission, The Indians)

SPECIAL EARLY-90'S-STYLE JANGLY GUITARS WITH WOMEN SINGERS EPISODE! Season 23 Episode 2 Be Mad, Get Ill, Be Still - Club 8 Nothing - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians Mesopotamia - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians Salty - North Highlands Quitter - North Highlands Love - The Sundays Here's Where the Story Ends - The Sundays Suspended from Class - Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country - Camera Obscura Bright as Yellow - The Innocence Mission Go - The Innocence Mission Look Up to the Sky (Edit) - The Indians Also on this episode: a clip from the podcast Blocked & Reported with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal, where Katie did as good a job as I've heard breaking down what's going on with Iran through the vantage point of a beauty influencer. In the clip, she talks about the Iranian diaspora who fled their country.

Season 23 Episode 1 Not Broken Video - Tōth Tamat - Nusantara Beat Kalangkang - Nusantara Beat Sixteen Candles - Rita Chao 往日的舊夢 - Gonna Be Alright - Rita Chao Skin of Our Teeth - Tristen Let Go - Tristen Dis-moi dis-moi dis-moi - Lou-Adriane Cassidy Cours, Cora, cours - Lou-Adriane Cassidy Subaru Nights - Insecure Men Teenage Toy - Insecure Men Cleaning Bricks - Insecure Men Alien - Insecure Men L'Ultima Corsa - Melting Resonance and Tati Falco This episode features a clip of Destiny talking about how annoying it is to debate marginal tax rates with conservatives. And also one of Paul Krugman talking about how crypto is just a cult from the Hasan Minhaj Doesn't Know podcast. 

SEASON 22 FINALE! Season 22 Episode 11: December 15th, 2025 Again and Again - Reverend Baron Flies - Cheekface Content Baby - Cheekface Exorcise - Charlie Hilton Illusion of a Door - Charlie Hilton In Another Life - Nation of Language Inept Apollo - Nation of Language Crown - Billie Marten Swing - Billie Marten My Old Ways - Tame Impala Dracula - Tame Impala Think-It-Yourself Kit - Chinless Wonder Cradle the Pain - Morgan Nagler This episode features a couple of things that made me laugh recently. First, a quick one-liner from Joanna Coles on the Daily Beast podcast Inside Trump's Head, plus a story from comedian Mohanad Elshieky as heard on a recent episode of This American Life about a mysterious experience he had riding in an Uber.

SPECIAL "CHRISTMAS MUSIC 2025" EPISODE! Season 22 Episode 10 Christmas Everywhere - Fran Alexandre All Love Must Die - Marissa Nadler The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - The Hidden Cameras A Folksy Christmas Song - Remington Super 60 Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call - Bleachers Merry Christmas from North California - Pelts I Just Wanna Hold Your Hand (On Christmas Day) - The Yearning When the River Meets the Sea - Daniel Zott My Evergreen - Freedom Fry Snow - Dean & Britta Blue Moon - Holly Macve My Favorite Things - Sy Mann What Child Is This - Sy Mann Deck the Halls - The Trapp Family Singers The Little Drummer Boy - The Trapp Family Singers Just Like Christmas - Gabrielle Aplin This episode features a clip from Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast where he addresses the Christmas tradition of Santa Claus in the context of his stated position that you should never lie.

Season 22 Episode 9 If I Could See You Now - Holy Hive Jumpy - ANIMA! Rest In Peace - ANIMA! Best Friend - Freedom Fry A Farewell - Freedom Fry Fuselage - Tom Lark Busy Living - Tom Lark Aua Atu Rā - Marlon Williams Kōrero Māori - Marlon Williams Open - World Brain Minute papillon - World Brain You Can Call Me Al - Dwayne Gretzky This episode features a clip from an interview Sam Harris gave to "how is this guy still a public figure?" Vice co-founder Shane Smith about how society should treat the current crop of billionaires.

SEASON 22 EPISODE 8: OCTOBER 20TH, 2025 The Creeps - Still Corners Black Box - Automatic mq9 - Automatic Eidolon - Hibou Aix - Hibou In the Garden - Beauty Queen & Henry Nowhere Tied to You - Beauty Queen Danger in Fives - Wombo Common Things - Wombo Hi! - Los Bitchos La Bomba - Los Bitchos Red - Jesse Welles This episode features a clip from Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast where he talks about Trump's outrageous golf cheating. Something I've never paid any attention to, and found utterly unsurprising and kind of funny in that it's among the least consequential of the literally thousands of terrible things about this most-offensive public figure.

Season 22 Episode 7 Amsterdam via Rotterdam - Cornershop feat. Eden Gray Poor Girl - Tchotchke Playin' Dumb - Tchotchke The Dream - Still Corners Faded Love - Still Corners Let Me Cry - Moontype Four Hands ii - Moontype Just a Dream - Cool Sounds Pretty Often - Cool Sounds Anniversary - Camp Saint Helene Racing - Camp Saint Helene Quartet Studio Live - Open Reel Ensemble This episode features a clip of comedian Todd Berry talking about some expert level money-saving tips from his Super Crazy special. It made me LOL, so I wanted to share it. All the current events are too miserable to even find humor in, so I didn't include anything about that.

AUGUST 11TH, 2025 SPECIAL "HASTILY ASSEMBLED NOSTALIGIA" EPISODE! Philosophy - Ben Folds Five All You Wanna Do Is Dance - Billy Joel Everybody Has a Dream (Cold Spring Harbor Sessions) - Billy Joel December Theme (December Song) - Billy Joel The Prime of Your Life (unreleased demo) - Billy Joel The Longest Time - Billy Joel Travelin' Prayer (Columbia Records Signing Day - June 26, 1973) - Billy Joel What Deaner was Talkin' About - Ween Freedom of '76 - Ween Brazil - Geoff Muldaur I Can't Put My Finger On It - The Housemartins The Weekend Starts Here - Fatboy Slim One of Each - Frankie Cosmos Pressed Flower - Frankie Cosmos One! Grey! Hair! - Frankie Cosmos Thank You - Babe Rainbow In a Sentimental Mood - Billy Joel This episode features considerably more talking than usual. Sorry! Also, “The Stranger Promotional Montage” from the Billy Joel: And So It Goes documentary on HBO.

SEASON 22 EPISODE 5: JULY 7TH, 2025 Chlorine - Dayaway Heaven on Earth - Pressyes Blue Crystal Water - Pressyes Stranglers - Miynt Low-key - Miynt Bones and All - Love Spells I Can't Let You Go in This Life - Love Spells Sleeping - Foxwarren Say It - Foxwarren Speed Freak - Youth Lagoon Lucy Takes a Picture - Youth Lagoon Look Up - The New Runes This episode features a remembrance of legendary journalist and one of my personal favorites, Bill Moyers, who passed away at 91 earlier this month, by David Bianculli on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Publication of this episode was delayed by a couple of weeks due to a mishap. Better late than never!

SEASON 22 EPISODE 4 A Clean House - Dash Hammerstein Athena - Born Ruffians Can We Go Now - Born Ruffians Aerial Troubles - Stereolab Vermona F Transistor - Stereolab Left Behind - Club 8 Sucker - Club 8 Closer to You - Club 8 Godzilla Rises - Being Dead Big Bovine - Being Dead Sally Go Round the Sun - Elephant Stone Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin - Elephant Stone Anhedonia - Mamalarky This episode features a clip of Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) addressing the reliable pattern of Trump defense “I haven’t heard about that” → “he’s joking” → “of course.”