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Bostonian Tom Dunford returns to the show and Greg's parents come along for the ride to talk about Wicked Little Critta off Mink Car. Lots of discussion about accents and slang, we figure out a bit about these sports figures, and talk about how many directions the song goes in a mere 2 minutes.

Bob Nanna of Braid and Hey Mercedes returns to the show to talk about Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes from TMBG's self-titled debut. We talk about robots trying to swing, the key changes and chromatic twists of this tune, and even collaborate on a cover of the track.

Adam Rivera returns to the show for a bonus episode to remind you all of his big TMBG project They Pay Tribute Vol 2. The Kickstarter pledge window ends next week! He also shares some ahow stories we didn't get to on his Unpronouncable episode.

Micah Galizia calls in from Ontario to talk about the amazing Lincoln-era b-side It's Not A birthday, a song with many versions and live incarnations. We discuss every step in this song's history and also also find a hearty selection of great covers. This episode was edited by John Walker.

Greg was invited on the Tuning Fork podcast, a show where they discuss albums that the indie tastemaking site Pitchfork has given extreme high or low scores to. Greg demanded justive for Travistan, the first solo record by Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrison, which was given a cruel 0.0 score. Hear him and hosts Dave and Matt defend this solid slice of indie rock. Subscribe to Tuning Fork...

On our first episode about a Here Come the ABCs song, Cyrus Farivar comes by to talk about how kids demand to listen to the same songs over and over and how this tune makes the cut. We also get into the history of the guitar the Flying V.

It's a covers only episode! You'll remember that last July in Chicago, Spencer Parks, Rachel Jones, Bob Nanna, Marcus Nuccio and I did a LIVE episode on Birdhouse in Your Soul. Covers sections don't work well in front of a crowd, but I figured it would be a shame to not curate and talk about a selection of Birdhouse covers since there is such a wealth to choose from! So Spencer and Rachel join me...

Gareth Lyons from Dublin, Ireland makes his first appearance on the show and boy does he get his money's worth, with an episode on I'm Impressed that clocks in as the second longest episode of the show to date. Be prepared for some political discussion that this song inspires, as well as chit chat about other great bands before the extensive dissection of the song and a fantastic smattering of cov...

Punk Till I Die is another show on the Punknews.org network, hosted by Greg's friends Tom Crandle and Neil McDougall. "Long time PunkNews producer and contributor Greg Simpson joins to chat about what he's been up to recently, especially his facebook tournaments of bands. With music by Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Social Unrest, Dead Kennedys, D.I. and Articles of Faith." It's a fun and spirited disc...

First time guest Bry Moroz visits the show to talk about the Apollo 18 banger Which Describes How You're Feeling. They discuss the demo version, crazy old drum machines, non-stop lyrics and general Linnell awesomeness.

I promised my amazing Patreon subscriber friends that when I reached a certain amount of subscriptions I would throw a PARTY via video call for all of us Patrons to shoot the breeze with each other about anything TMBG. On this 3rd party we've got Becca Ganey of Boston and two international Patreon subscribers, Coleman Hegarty of Ireland and Maciej Taubert of Poland. TMBP 'round the world, baby! Li...

Kurt and Denise Schiller of the Parents Just Don't Understand podcast come on the show to complete our crossover and they picked one of the greatest TMBG kids songs, I Am A Paleontologist. Many props are given to Danny Weinkauf throughout the episode as we dissect what makes this a perfect kids song, and we find a lot of charming covers including one by Greg's 1st graders from earlier this spring.

Greg talks with Lesley Gouger, Dyana Claytor, Tara Trate and Acey Jane about their TMBG tattoos and the stories behind them. Also, Hanson comes up a lot for some reason and Greg contemplates the design of his upcoming full face tattoo.

First time, long- waiting guest Harley Rowan joins Greg to talk about the sleeper hit Flans song This Microphone. Lots of great conversation and a live on- air cover make for a fun episode.

Adam Rivera joins Greg to talk about the amazing Glean song Unpronounceable, and also to promote a big TMBG tribute Kickstarter project he is putting together. Much love to all our cover artists in the community! Listen to us get glitchy and talk about complicated studio trickery.

Greg breaks quarantine and flies to Germany (jk because this podcast makes a lot of money haha) to talk to Noah Daniel about the deep cut Whole Lot of Glean. We talk about the uniqueness of this song as a promoptional song NOT on the album Glean, we do an improve guitar jam live on air, and Noah covers the song.

My bandmates in The Exquisite Dead Guys, my on again off again TMBG cover band, join me to talk about the hardest TMBG song we ever learned. Matt Monta and Jerome Hemersbach get silly with me to talk about the minutiae of this song that we had to delve into to pull off playing this song. We found the deeply buried demo, a couple live versions, and then we try to figure out why the heck Flans doesn...

Adam Turla of the amazing indie Americana band Murder By Death joins Greg to talk about the classic tune Cowtown off of Lincoln. First we give a nice primer of Murder By Death for those not in the know, then we discuss the song at length including all the demos and some cool live versions, as well as amazing covers. Adam also talks about how the pandemic is affecting artists who make their living...

We all know TMBG have happy sounding songs about SAD things. But what TMBG songs are straight-up EMO? Tara Trate and Elizabeth Siegel join TMBP for the first time alongside the triumphant return of my wife Cara Kinnally to link TMBG to some of our favorite emo bands including Thursday, Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, Front Bottoms and more. This is a simultaneously fun and SAD one...lol... so emo!

Greg appeared recently on Sadie Hawkins Pod to talk about Relient K's cover of Doctor Worm. To complete the crossover, here's Jess and Daniel Leary joining Greg on TMBP to talk about the early b-side For Science, a favorite of Daniel's. Strap it in folks, this is a long one with many funny tangents but a big payoff at the end... Let's get those missiles ready to destroy the pod-u-verse!

Daniel and Jess Leary host a song-by-song Relient K podcast. As you heard way back on our 3rd episode, Relient K has covered Dr. Worm, so the couple asked Greg to come on Sadie Hawkins Pod's episode to talk about the cover and give Relient K fans some insight on the band that wrote the song.

Professional podcaster and hilarious dude Justin McElroy of My Brother, My Brother and Me - and many other projects - joins Greg to talk about Pet Name, a song just resurrected for live shows this year. We even found a Yahoo Answers post about pet names to get him comfortable, and curated a boatload of great covers for you all.

On a very special episode Greg is graced by Open Mike Eagle, art rapper, voice actor, Comedy Central show cohost and notable TMBG fan, to talk about the deep deep cut Weep Day. He helps give a good primer to people unfamiliar with his work, and as we talk about the song we cover some topics from silly to serious, like how this is a hyper samba tune to why the TMBG fanbase skews so white. CHECK ONE...

A special guest stopped by for a short episode on one of their favorite songs. Surprise! Extra episode!

We continue our conversation on the Hotel Detective song series. Listen to episode 74 first, if you haven't already. So once again we join Jon Uleis and Matt Lee and on Part 2 we cover (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future and the nutty commentary track about that song. Ep 74 and 75 were edited by John Walker of the FYIZ podcasts.