S01E12: Stream It Now

Music is a powerful and perhaps the most powerful medium in the world. It has the near universality of mathematics and the heart and soul of each and every culture that participates in it. Today on it will probably be ok, a genius, a buffoon, and a storyteller get out of our way so that our intrepid hosts can share the songs that mean something to them.

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Minitopics.

Nick tells us about the best ice cream he's ever eaten.
Nkenge dislikes that "new construction" smell.
Gabe plugs "You Are Not So Smart," the podcast, not the lifestyle-choice.

Recorded Sept. 20, 2020

All referenced recordings are copyright their respective artists and labels. And there are better recordings that these anyway.

• Pop Will Eat Itself - Moral Majority & Mad Bastards - YouTube — From the band's 1990 album 'Cure For Sanity', the opening tracks 01 The Incredible P.W.E.I. Vs. The Moral Majority 02 Dance Of The Mad Bastards
• BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS ( Complete Original Video ) - YouTube — John Flansburgh and John Linnell are They Might Be Giants
• 189 - The Vaccine - You Are Not So Smart - Omny.fm — In this giant episode, experts on vaccines, epidemiology, psychology, and science communication explain how we created so much confusion about COVID-19, and how we can avoid doing it again when a vaccine is ready for widespread, public distribution.
• Homemade Cereal Milk Ice Cream - Lovely Little Kitchen — If you are like me and have never been to New York to visit her famous Milk Bar Bakery, you might not know that Cereal Milk Ice Cream is a thing!  And what a beautiful thing it is!
• Election Week Cold Open - SNL - YouTube — It's almost four years later, RBG just passed tonight and this is the moment I keep thinking about. "I'm not giving up and neither should you." Amen.
• The Famous Polka - TMBW: The They Might Be Giants Knowledge Base — When played at a 1992 show in Milwaukee, WI, the venue's stage collapsed after about 75 people started dancing on it. Right before the song, Flans told the audience, "We would like to ask you for this one brief moment to disregard the fire laws. Feel free to just... come on up, and help us out with the Famous... Polka."
• Shows/1992-10-05 - TMBW: The They Might Be Giants Knowledge Base — Flans said something along the lines of 'we didn't mean for anyone to come up on stage!' and he let everyone know that the show was continuing in a few minutes. The rest of the band eventually came out and after they started to play for a little while, the lights dimmed back down.
• Bob Marley Trench Town Rock - YouTube — One good thing about music, when it hits you fell no pain
• Don't Call it a Comeback - YouTube — Mama Said Knock You Out
• The Hold Steady- "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" - YouTube — The Hold Steady Your Little Hoodrat Friend French Kiss Records
• Music on The O.C. - Wikipedia — The use of music on FOX drama The O.C. gained much acclaim.
• Sigur Rós at Abbey Road Recording Ara Batur - YouTube — Sigur Rós on the last stretch of recording hop into Abbey Road studios to record to record Ara Batur with a 67-piece orchestra and the boys choir from the Harry Potter soundtracks.