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On today’s show, we’re building the show from the ground, or should I say the baseplate, up, brick by brick by delightful molded plastic brick… That’s right, today, we’re talking all things LEGO . Why have we chosen LEGO for today’s show? Do you really need to ask that? Do you ever need a reason to engage with LEGO in any form? Was there ever a time in your life when LEGO wasn’t the coolest… somet...

On today’s show, as summer is set to start, we’re taking a look at summer music, and more specifically, the institution that is ‘The Summer Music Festival.’ From Woodstock to Coachella, the Summer Music Festival has been a glorious celebration of song, of youth culture, of excess, of hooliganism, and of wildness itself. There’s always a little danger lurking around the corner with summer music fes...

On today’s show, we’re diving deep into two films inspired by one of the most groundbreaking and beloved comedy films of all time: This Is Spinal Tap, the first-of-a-genre masterpiece directed by Rob Reiner and starring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. The movie spawned imitators aplenty in the mockumentary space and paved the way for such pop cultural icons as The Office , Par...

On today’s show, we’re looking back on two records by two artists that had a big, big influence on both of early musical inspiration. The artists: Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, aka The Indigo Girls. The records: Nomads ⬪ Indians ⬪ Saints and Rites of Passage . We’re diving deep on both of these magnificent albums to get into everything we love about the songwriting, the guitar playing, the vocal harm...

On today’s show, we’re taking a close look at the brand-new version of Saturday Night Live that dropped recently on NBC and Peacock: Saturday Night Live UK! We’ll give our takes and opinions on the new show, how it stacks up against SNL Original Recipe, and we’ll assess the current state of the original show as well. Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our o...

On today’s show, we’re welcoming our buddy Mark for a return visit to spool out our collective Most Anticipated Movies of 2026 list. So many movies!!  Every Movie We Discussed on the Show: Tow Power Ballad Digger The Christophers Jack of Spades The Dog Stars Ladies First I Love Boosters Back Rooms Tuner The Adventures of Cliff Booth Wild Horse Nine Coyote vs. Acme Her Private Hell Over Your Dead B...

On today’s show, we’re welcoming an in-studio guest for a walk down memory lane as our dear mother Beth Harper joins us to reminisce about a certain night a couple of decades ago when the two of us put on a dinner party for the ages, with a little help, er, no, A LOT of help from a certain southern gentleman and service industry magician from Matt’s culinary past, Montgomery Sinks. Please subscrib...

Today on the show we’re inaugurating a new recurring episode format: the Junk Drawer. It’s our way of clearing out the many random topic ideas and interesting tidbits that we’ve collected in recent weeks and months that haven’t fit into anything we’ve already discussed and don’t quite warrant a full show topic on their own. Angine de Poitrine on KEXP Anderson Paak Live Around the World in 1900 Col...

On today’s show, we’re going back to the Old West for a deep dive into the world of Red Dead Redemption 2, one of the all-time great video games. The game resides at the top of many critics’ Best Games Ever lists, and has spawned literally millions of hours of related content, from live streams, play-alongs, analysis videos, and tutorials, to a whole world of machinima, where creators use recorded...

On today’s show, we’re talking all things performance art with a discussion of Yoko Ono, the artist, as well as many other figures and findings from the world of performance art. Amongst our topics: Marina Abramovic, Lady GaGa, Jay-Z, Shia LaBeouf, Didi the Devil, and Joseph Beuys. Yoko Ono, Cut Piece 1964 and the performance video Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting Ono’s piece that John Lennon loved Y...

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On today’s show, we’re joined in-studio by special guest Sean Ahern for a deep dive into the seminal 90s hip-hop track “N.Y. State of Mind” by the one and only Nas, aka Nasty Nas, aka the King of Queensbridge, and one of the great rap lyricists of all time. We’ll discuss the track in depth and take a look at his career as well as some of his hip-hop contemporaries in the history of New York rap an...

On today’s show, we’re finally finishing the entirety of our Oscars coverage with our reactions to the big night, all of the winners and losers, and more importantly, the winners and losers in our own in-house competition.  Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our other podcast, Beyond the Slipstream (it's about pro cycling, just fyi...) Follow Justin&ap...

On today’s show, we’re thrilled to be joined for the entire show by Mark Schaffer, a friend and fellow cinephile, who is sitting in for our first annual Oscars Prediction Show. We’ll be picking our Will Wins and Should Wins in all of the major categories and most of the minor ones in advance of the big show on Sunday, March 15.   Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel Follow us on Instagram Subsc...

On today’s show, we’re dipping into the grab back to talk about a few miscellaneous items that are currently populating our headspaces, mainly TV, movies and some Oscars talk.  Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our other podcast, Beyond the Slipstream (it's about pro cycling, just fyi...) Follow Justin's gaming life in Instagram

On today’s show, we’re discussing Week 2 of the 2026 Winter Olympic games, mainly the two Gold Medal hockey games, plus a few other items sprinkled in. And then we’re digging into the career of the late, great American actor Robert Duvall, who died on February 15. Nazgul the Dog NYT Article About John Irving's Olympian Grand-children "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning." Plea...

On today’s show, we’re breaking down lots of the action from the first ten days of the Winter Olympics in Milano and Cortina Italy.  Valentine's Energy on the Soccer Pitch Colin Jost's Bobsled Run Great Downhill Crashes Pinheiro Braaten, First South American Winter Medalist Federica Brignon's National championships crash John Fahey - On the Sunny Side of the Ocean and Spanish Two-St...

On today’s show, we’re continuing our conversation about Mountaineering movies, coming on the heels of Netflix’s recent spectacle of spectacular, Skyscraper Live , starring the unstoppable Alex Honnold. Honnold will feature in this conversation as well as another notable Alex as we dig into more films from this compelling subgenre. Arctic Ascent Greenland with Alex Honnold Tour of Alex Honnold&apo...

On today’s show, we’re discussing Skyscraper Live , the new Netflix docu-spectacle about Alex Honnold’s attempt to climb a skyscraper, and coupling that conversation with Part 1 of a 3-part deep dive into the world of climbing and mountaineering movies. Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our other podcast, Beyond the Slipstream (it's about pro cycling,...

On today’s show, we’re talking 2026 Oscar Nominations, with our hot takes on the nominees in all of the big categories.  Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our other podcast, Beyond the Slipstream (it's about pro cycling, just fyi...) Follow Justin's gaming life in Instagram

For the final show of our first year(!) we’re digging into the Grab Bag to talk about several things that have been banging around the Harperama offices in recent weeks, including a spirited conversation about the encroaching influence of AI on artistry, a recap of the recent Golden Globes awards, a chat about the fonts used in movies, and a bit about films with a colon in their title. Please subs...

On today’s show, we’re taking a look at the final season of FX’s award-winning hit show The Bear, which concluded in 2025. And then we’ll use that as a jump-off to share some of our own favorite stories from our own restaurant lives. Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our other podcast, Beyond the Slipstream (it's about pro cycling, just fyi...) Follow...

On today’s show, we’re spooling out our Top 10 lists for 2025. For Justin, it’s his Top 10 TV Shows of 2025, and for Matt, his Top 10 Movies.  Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our other podcast, Beyond the Slipstream (it's about pro cycling, just fyi...) Follow Justin's gaming life in Instagram

On today’s show, it’s Part 2 of our Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair review. Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our other podcast, Beyond the Slipstream (it's about pro cycling, just fyi...) Follow Justin's gaming life in Instagram