Chris Derickson and Tom Polacek

Third Song In

Society EN ↓ 128 episodes

Two old friends from the 80s meet to tell stories and discuss pop culture, then and now. Enjoy as they spend time with musicians and authors, artists and friends, and sometimes all of the above.

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Chris Derickson and Tom Polacek

Episodes

Build-a-Playlist Part 2, with Special Guest 12.02.2024 1:00:58

Chris and Tom welcome author and business executive, (and old friend), Andy Armstrong. Together they construct playlists of “feel good” songs for the episode. Andy’s list: Solsbury Hill, from Peter Gabriel (1977) SAD (Clap Your Hands), from SAD/Scatterbrain, (2018), by Young Rising Sons Fred Astaire, from Off to the Races (2018), by Jukebox the Ghost Summer Highland Falls, from Turnstiles (1976),...

The Beer Curve, Part 2 27.01.2024 58:52

New season, new playlist. Tom and Chris return again to discussing drinking and getting drunk in the 80s. Tom recommends the 1981 film, Arthur, starring Dudley Moore, and the memoir Dry (2003), written by Augusten Burroughs. Chris recommends the Jayhawks song “The Liquor Store Came First” from 1986, and the film Rough Night (2017), starring Scarlett Johansson. Look for our playlist, Third Song in...

Walking to Naugles 28.10.2023 59:18

Pilot episode of pop culture analysis from a pair of middle-aged former roommates and lifelong "professional appreciators."