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Episode 64: The Party! Party! Party! party

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This week Dave and Steel are joined by Spencer to discuss the latest in Vin Diesel news, their favorite fringe presidential candidates, historical also-rans, and fringe political parties, revive Lost the Plot, share outsider classics from Daniel Johnston, Dan Reeder, The Toadies, They Might Be Giants, Congress-Woman Malinda Jackson Parker, and Leonard Cohen, and hear the calming anti-road book wisdom of the Honku.

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Perpetual Candidates and Favorite Third Parties

Unchained Melodies: Outsider Music

Book Wisdom

This week Spencer enlightened us with “Honkus,” anti road-rage haiku poems by Aaron Naparstek.

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Episode 61: That One Time at Band Camp …

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This week Dave and Steel are joined by Steel’s old friend Liz Feezor. Together the trio discusses the recent political conventions leading up the US presidential elections, ask Liz all about her career in HR, recent misadventures in Colombia, her past life as a member of the University of Oregon marching band, and her ongoing expertise as a style/fashion blogger. We also play great drum music by Wilco, James Brown & Clyde Stubblefield, Beyonce, Radiohead, Fela Kuti, and Van Halen, and Liz shares some book wisdom about the art of writing from Stephen King.

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On Cargo Shorts & the RNC

https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/755506490392403968

On Cargo Shorts Generally

On Khizr Khan

Unchained Melodies: Drum Line Edition

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyX-Mjaq8Hk

Book Wisdom

Liz shared a brief passage from Stephen King’s classic writing memoir On Writing.

Featured image: Liz playing caixa (a Brazilian snare drum) at Trolloween in Seattle in 2011.

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Episode 56: Flip the Switch! Jordan Faux for President in 2020

Jordan Faux for President in 2020

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This week Dave and Steel are very pleased to break some super important political news as Jordan Ford Faux announces his presidential bid for 2020. We discuss The People’s Elbow, his newly formed political party, cover some very important platform positions, hear his take on the most pressing issues of tomorrow, listen to his ideas for appointees to serve in “The Cabinet” (his official White House band), and hear a preview of some of his campaign music (Starship, Kurtis Blow, Neil Diamond, Wilco & Billy Bragg, White Zombie).

Flip the Switch: Jordan Faux for President in 2020!

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Episode 55: Politics, Presidential Style

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This week Dave and Steel are joined by their old buddy Jordan to discuss the biggest news of the day. They cover sportsball (NBA PLAYOFFS! LEICESTER CITY!), as well as the most important questions facing this year’s voters as they seek to decide who should become the next president of the United States, share some aspirational music for several of the leading candidates from Beyonce, Pink Floyd, Bill Frisell, Eminem, Tim McGraw, and Neil Young, and Dave shares some beheading book wisdom from A Dance with Dragons, the fifth book in George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones fantasy epic.

It’s a shorter episode this week, but we’ll release a VERY SPECIAL POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT in the very near future, so hang tight for that. All we’re able to say for now is that it’s going to be shifting some tectonic plates, electorally speaking.