PEOPLE ARE THE ENEMY

Our guest is Momus! Andy talks with Momus about his album Quietism, Artificial Intelligence, villains, the Minotaur, psychoanalysis, and more. Find all things Momus-related at iMomus.com . Quietism, Momus' latest album, can be streamed and purchased via Bandcamp here . On Rachel's Chart Chat,  Rachel from Des Moines celbrates the Lunar New Year with the snakes of the Hot 100. You can find a Snake...

Andy eulogizes David Lynch, reconnects with an old friend, and wonders why Godzilla and King Kong never teamed up. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines looks at the songs that held the record for most weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The table Rachel references can be found here .

Andy gets a new chair, hugs a stranger, runs into the guy who sold him some of his favorite records, is told he's too accessible, and dubs himself and his fellow podcasting friends the Jackal Family. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines delivers Part 2 of songs by Sondheim on the Pop Charts. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm here .

Andy gives the business to podcasts who didn't provide their listeners with new material over the holiday break, then he talks about connecting with colleagues, being called a "geeky dog dad", and finishes his segment by doing a taste test of a chocolate frosted donut flavored Kit Kat for the first time. On Rachel's Chart Chat, the topic is Part 1 of songs by Sondheim on the Pop Charts. You can fo...

Subscribe to Empathy at the Apocalypse via Spotify here . Subscribe to Empathy at the Apocalypse via Apple Podcasts here . A new podcast collaboration to keep you company. Andy (People are the Enemy) and Josh (Screaming at Clouds) try to make sense of a broken world. New episodes released whenever they are made. First episode available in mid January. (theme song by the Gypsy Moths)

Andy's New Year's resolution is to roll four deep in 2025. Andy congratulates Bingo of halfwayokay on smashing his Cursemas Show marathon live Twitch streaming goal. Andy talks about the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, Jamie Foxx's Netflix "special", What Had Happened Was..., and then plays clips of Americans making fun of Robbie Williams, his Better Man biopic, and England in general. On Ra...

Andy talks about books, movies, music, cleaning the house, fixing broken things, and an upcoming podcast host team-up show you're not going to want to miss. On Rachel's Chart Chat,  Rachel from Des Moines looks at prog rock holiday song selections. You can find a playlist for the prog rock Christmas selections mentioned on this episode here . A user-created Youtube playlist of Jon Anderson's 3 Shi...

Andy plays a clip of a cop reprimanding an 81yo man outside a supermarket in the American south. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines presents a further discussion of the four #1's off Forever Your Girl and other 1989 chart-toppers. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm  here .

Our guest is Bingo, the host of the hilarious show halfwayokay! Andy speaks with Bingo about halfwayokay's evolution, show segments, characters, and plans for a Christmas marathon show. You can find links to halfwayokay's live stream, audio archives, YouTube channel, social media profiles, and merch store  here . 

Andy eats peanut butter baking chips and talks about Target's Santa, new music, and completing the first draft of a new manuscript. Also, David Lynch gives a woman a pep talk over the phone. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines looks at Paula Abdul's smash debut album, Forever Your Girl. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm here .

Andy has dipping sauce buyer's remorse, remembers car bras, and plays clips of people analyzing the Wizard of Oz. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines looks at lower charting Beatles singles. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm here .

Andy pays too much for a falafel wrap, thinks Chappell Roan's album is better than Charli XCX's latest, and plays a couple TikTok clips. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines looks at the fictional band Deathtöngue from Bloom County. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm here .

Andy forgives Morrissey and plays clips of Jeff Goldblum quoting George Bernard Shaw and a professor who sings emo songs in sleeping students' faces. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines looks at the '40s pop culture references in the book Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm  here .

Our guest is the writer Gwen E. Kirby! Andy speaks with Gwen about her hilarious story collection, Shit Cassandra Saw. You can find a link to all things Gwen E. Kirby at her website here . Purchase Shit Cassandra Saw wherever you get your books or via Bookshop.org here . On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines wraps up her discussion on the Rush albums Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures. Y...

Our guest is Jason Lambeth from the band Red Pants! Andy speaks with Jason about his band's new EP, Pale Shadows. You can stream Pale Shadows and all of Red Pants' music on your favorite platform, or listen to and buy Red Pants' tunes in digital and physical formats at their Bandcamp site here . On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines explores Rush's 1981 album, Moving Pictures. You can fin...

Andy talks about buying costumes at Spirit Halloween, Viva Hinds, seeing Todd Rundgren in concert, and the Apprentice biopic. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines explores Rush's 1980 album, Permanent Waves. You can find a playlist for the Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm here .

Geordie Greep breaks into Andy's brain, Vocal Fry Cops gets a live promo, and French erotic monster movie The Beast (1975) is embarrassingly bad. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines reads selections from Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s by Pagan Kennedy. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm here .

Andy's latest novel, Zero Percent Juice, is out! Buy it in paperback and ebook formats, worldwide, via Amazon here . On the show, Andy doesn't understand why companies can never get artificially flavored apple and banana right., then he introduces his new impression: Vocal Fry Cops. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines takes a look at Mothership Connection by Parliament. You can find a p...

Andy believes the free toothbrush the denist gives out is intentionally cheap. Also, we listen to a clip of young Brits defining "dad rock". On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines reads chapter 22 of Dellio & Woods' I Wanne Be Sedated. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm here .

Andy eats candy and talks about street bagels, Cormac McCarthy and movies with no film scores. Then he manages to connect Ingmar Bergman to Philip K. Dick and Richard Linklater. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines covers The Cars' debut album from 1978. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm here .

Andy talks about going viral on TikTok, styptic pencils, 90s rockers acting badly, and Cigarettes After Sex being The National if they were horny. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines concludes her look at Led Zeppelin's US singles. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm here .

Andy drinks a grape soda and talks about AirTags, Teslas, Goodwill's CD pricing, subs, lady curmudgeons, BBQ chips, and smoke from your fingertips. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines delivers part 1 of her look at Led Zeppelin's singles in the US. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm here .

Andy talks about the Oasis reunion, porch pirates, ironing accidents, and comedians he loves and loathes. Also, Andy's pal Thomas calls in. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines delivers part 2 of her compare/contrast between Deep Purple and the Moody Blues. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here . Follow Rachel on Last.fm  here .

Our guest is Devon Torrey Bryant! Andy talks with Devon about his career producing podcasts for Earwolf and Smartless Media and Devon 's project Painkiller the Pigeon's new album, Heaven AM. You can listen to and purchase all of Painkiller the Pigeon's music on Bandcamp here . On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines sees Deep Purple in concert and does a compare/contrast between them and th...

Andy talks about Thurston Moore's memoir, the band Suicide's live performances, flatbread pizza, Nick Swardson's voice, No Country for Old Men, and Twizzlers. Also, we listen to clips of a woman interviewing parents and their young children outside of a movie theater showing the science-fiction horror film Alien in 1979, The Muff's Kim Shattuck talking about her preference of CDs over cassettes, a...