This Might Be A Podcast

I promised my amazing Patreon subscribers 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 2nd party we've got another gaggle of amazing tmbg and tmbp fans - Lisa Solecki, Chris Oliveira, Daniel Leary, and Jordan Morsberger. We get serious for a bit to talk about...

A year in the making, pt 2 of our TMBG art examination is finally here! I rounded up four awesome artists to discuss the TMBG art of the year 1990 - FLOOD, the ISTANBUL EP and its accompanying music video. On pt 2 we have: Shannon Graham, who has done stuff used by TMBG (a painting of Flans' cat The Governor, for one); Seymour Schmitt, fresh-faced artist and doll maker; Lauren Walton, my art teach...

The human TMBG encyclopedia and archivist Jon Uleis with cool dude pod newbie Matt Lee tagteam Greg with TMBG knowledge and opinions to talk at great length about ALL the Hotel Detective tracks, of which there are four. On this first installment we talk about the original Flans-penned (She Was A) Hotel Detective off of TMBG's debut album, and the parenthesis-free, Linnell-penned She Was A Hotel De...

As the other half of the Giants Confirmed crossover, Trevor and Matt join Greg to talk about the Factory Showroom b-side, written for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie soundtrack, and things get... nutty. Featuring an appearance by Greg's baby, and a special twist ending!

Giants Confirmed is an album-by-album They Might Be Giants podcast. Listen as Greg guests on their Factory Showroom episode, talking to hosts Matt Rebeiro and Trevor Ikrath about EVERY song on that album. This is a companion episode to the coming-in-twelve-hours episode of TMBP for Sensurround, a b-side to Factory Showroom, and a song on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie soundtrack. Crossover...

Greg is joined by Gur Samuel - who you heard on the Mink Car Debate Patreon episode - and he's now finally getting his first weekly song episode. Gur picked an interesting one, a short song that was collected onto Album Raises New And Troubling Questions. For such a brief tune, Gur and Greg get into the depths of this strange little ditty, not to mention going on some entertaining tangents.

Greg was asked to be on the parenting podcast Parents Just Don't Understand when host Kurt Schiller found out about TMBP, figuring I knew a lot about TMBG's kids albums. I told him I did know them well, and also I'm an elementary music teacher! So we were off to the races and had a great evening talking about our childhood music, what our own kids are listening to, and what we think is good for ki...

Last Saturday, Greg and friends converged on Bloomington, IN, in the southern half of the state and home to Indiana University, to record our third live episode at The Bishop Bar. With a roundtable made up of TMBP newcomer and regional comedian extraordinaire Jon Hancuff alongside TMBP veterans Cari Hearn, Dana Williamson and Scott Currie, listen to Greg attempt to wrangle the rowdy crew as we dis...

On December 3rd, 2019, without warning, TMBG released a new song called Social Media on their Particle Men YouTube channel. Obviously it's about social media as a platform for opinions, so returning friends of the podcast Cari Hearn and Mari Morton join Greg to get meta and talk about the response to this song... on social media! We read YouTube comments, Facebook comments from the Misc T group, a...

I'm beyond excited to finally present to you all Part 2 of this series of Misc Trans episodes, where a group of trans folks talk about TMBG song lyrics they have personal connections to regarding gender identity themes. Our guest host is Avren Keating, who leads a roundtable discussion with returning guest Mari Morton, and first time guests Seymour Schmitt and Martha Riding. We discuss everything...

I've been sitting on this one for awhile and I'm so excited I can finally unleash it on the TMBG fan community! Drummer of TMBG from 1993-1996, Brian Doherty played on John Henry, Factory Showroom, Severe Tire Damage and two EPs. He's here to talk about Bells Are Ringing, the final song on his final album with the band. We also talk about his full time with the band, and our shared current profess...

I promised my amazing Patreon friends that when I reached a certain amount of subscription money I would throw a PARTY via video call for all of us Patrons to shoot the breeze with each other about anything TMBG. Turns out I'll be throwing a party a month for the next few months because there are too many awesome people! On this first party episode, I play party host and am joined by Jon Uleis, Da...

Jonathan Leonard returns for his third episode, Memo to Human Resources off of The Spine. Greg and Jonathan get deep into the depressing lyrics, talk about what may have inspired the style of the song, and find a whole bunch of cool covers. Also, the intro and outro have a special Valentines treats for you all, so enjoy!

I present to you the new King of Episodes, as Darrell Till and I dethrone the James K Polk episode as the longest weekly song episode thus far. We get deep into the weeds with music theory nerdery, figuring out the true key of the song. There are covers a plenty, as a second recording session was necessary after the TMBS Flood Tribute was released. Dig in!

Dan Hickey played drums with They Might Be Giants from 1997-2003, recording on 4 full lengths - Severe Tire Damage, parts of Long Tall Weekend, Mink Car and No! He also played on EPs like the Working Undercover for the Man EP, which had the song Rest Awhile. Dan picked that song to talk about, and we get insider info on the recording of the song, how he came up with his drum parts, and his thought...

This one has been a long time coming. Last spring, Greg called up another one of his idols, John Darnielle of the veteran indie folk rock act the Mountain Goats, to talk about Apartment 4, a song he grew to love when he became a dad. Due to technical difficulties the episode hit some snags, but now it's finally here, with a twist at the end. This is also a good primer for people unfamiliar with th...

Acey Jane Nikkel joins Greg to talk about a song with a personal connection to her, All Time What off of I Like Fun. We discuss Flans' great power pop awakening and how far it has taken the band. Also, low low low saxophones for the win.

On the 3rd episode of the week, Greg called up Ekelemchi Okemgbo, the guy who put together this 76-song Flood Tribute compilation, to tell us how he went about this massive undertaking. We also pick a selection of tracks that impressed us or took us by surprise.

Hutch Harris, solo artist formerly of The Thermals, returns to the show to talk about another of his favorite TMBG songs, Mammal off Apollo 18. We get into the nitty gritty of the science and what all these dang subspecies words mean, talk about what makes it so addictive and deceptively complicated, and Hutch and Greg both contribute covers.

On an epic episode, Greg calls NYC to talk to Jon Uleis, Peter Gritsch, Abi Bash, Mike Buffington and Dave Idmarx, who all went to the Pawling and Bowery Ballroom shows that kicked off the 30th anniversary Flood tour last weekend. We talk at great length about all the cool stuff they did at these shows, and include a lot of sound clips from the shows recorded by Peter and Mike. Enjoy!!

On only our second Glean song episode, Greg and radio host Michael Neimeyer discuss Answer. They go long with analysis of not only the song, but debate the transistion from classic Giants to modern Giants, their favorite modern albums, and Greg debuts his own wacky cover of Answer.

Holy cow, I'm excited to share this one with you! Adam Goren aka Atom and His Package was a solo synth punk legend from Philly who toured the world from the mid 90s to the early aughts, and he has returned to the show (he appeared in the See The Constellation episode last spring) to talk about John Linnell's State Songs tracks 4-6, South Carolina, Idaho and Montana. This one came out so great. Enj...

TMBG bassist extrondinaire Danny Weinkauf returns to the show to talk about the newest Red Pants Band single, Superstar. We look into the career of the Danny's friend, former bandmate and song guest vocalist Britta Phillips, including her young role as the singing voice of the 80s cartoon Jem. Greg and Danny also discuss the upcoming Flood tour and TMBG's recording plans for the upcoming record!

My Patreon subscribers have voted and approved that I can throw this baby in the main feed - this was the very first special Patreon exclusive episode, with (now many-time guest) Spencer Parks and myself talking about the first three tracks on John Linnell's 1999 solo album State Songs (Illinois, Songs of The Fifty States, West Virginia), an album which has just been released for the first time on...

Musician Jon Cunningham, known by his stage name Corn Mo, talks with Greg about the TMBG song that he sings lead vocals on, No Cops, from the 2015 Dial-a-Song cycle and later appearing on My Murdered Remains. Corn Mo gives insider info on the song recording and video shoot, and we also give a primer to those uninitiated in his eclectic musical career.