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New friend Lydia Snow makes her first appearance to talk about her young journalism career and communicating with TMBG management leading to writing an excellent BOOK review, then we get to the song to break it all down, and hear the only cover yet in existence. 

Greg Behan appears on the show after long last to talk about the Lincoln banger "Where Your Eyes Don't Go." Fellow Gregs always deliver, and boy howdy do we get into it with this classic, breaking down every element of its greatness, playing tons of great live clips spanning decades, and curating the best covers out there... plus a cover from each Greg!

Old friend of the show Dana Williamson returns to the show to talk BOOK and specifically the bangin' opener Synopsis for Latecomers. We get into the weeds with music theory elements of the songs so you all know the genius of JL, and try to decode the frightening scenario of the lyrics. We also play a couple of custom covers from the crew for you all to enjoy.

Join me, poet and podcaster Avren Keating and photographers Eve Gasse and Ian Hutchings to discuss Brian Karlsson's photography and Paul Sahre's typography in the book of BOOK.

New friend of the show and speed-listening champion Ben Byrd is here to lawyer all of our asses about TMBG's cover of Yeh Yeh from Mink Car. The song has a long winding history before it even made it to the Giants, so step on into that jury box and get ready for our opening statements on this lengthy trial of the century.

Old friend of the show Mari Morton makes their triumphant return to talk about Book and its second single I Broke My Own Rule. We talk much music theory, Linnell's kitchen rules, mental health, and play three custom covers.

It's been two friggin years since the Crane live episode in Bloomington, IN. Since we don't do covers sections at a live episode, it's high time we shine a spotlight on the best and most interesting Crane covers on the web. Roundtable guests Cari Hearn and Jon Hancuff return to help me. Enjoy!!

Speed-listener Chris Conaton joins us for the first time to talk about one of the weirdest songs on BOOK, If Day for Winnipeg. We go over the history of If Day during WWII, talk about relvant sonic comparisons from elementary music boomwhackers to gamalan music, and demonstrate what how a ring modulator plugin effect works.

Australian friend Belinda Van Helden is on the show to talk about the classic TMBG kid's song Four of Two. But is it a kids song? Find out about the song's life before the album No! and learn all about the location of famously-stopped clocks.

Lydia Sekscenski visits the show to talk about Icky off of Nanobots. Who's that Icky guy? We try to get to know him in our discussion of the lyrics, the intriguing chord progression, and an instrument rarely used throughout TMBG's canon. Greg contributes a cover that's... loud.

Garrett Secret joins us to talk about a tune deep in Glean's tracklist, Aaa. We get our hands dirty trying to make sense of the chord progression, talk percussion, and find a surprisning amount of covers.

Ariana Harris makes her debut on the show to talk about the Flood classic Whistling In The Dark. We discuss the disputed meaning of the title phrase, marching bass drums, and live recordings from all eras of the band.

I Lost Thursday was the first single released from BOOK, well ahead of the album. Patrick Crowling makes his first appearance on the show to talk about this funky pandemic-born track, and we get two custom covers, one from Patrick himself.

I Can't Remember the Dream was the third single released from BOOK and the first one to receive the music video treatment. Here to talk about it is the director himself, Alex Italics! He shares stories about every single TMBG video he's directed before we break down the song musically and lyrically, discuss the recent alternate version, and check out an awesome custom cover and a crazy mashup, bot...

It's our first BOOK episode! Chris Oliveira returns to the show to talk about a song deep in BOOK's tracklist, Part of You Wants to Believe Me. We try to parse just what's going on in the word, debate instrument tones, and listen to some awesome custom covers.

Bryce Hurst is here to talk about this Join Us deep cut. Learn about the complexities of this seemingly simple song, hear its Quiet Storm version and Bryce's rad cover.

Rock n roll friend Clover Nahabedian is on the show to talk about the classic I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die from the self-titled debut. We reminisce about back when we could go on tour, then dig deep into the song's demo, multiple live versions and a slew of eclectic covers.

Olivia Felo is here to talk about Science is Real off of Here Comes Science. She tells us about her scientist grandmother and brings in some comparative clips to delve into the psychedelic aspects of the music. Also... some vaccine talk.

Guest-hosted by Avren Keating, we have a wonderful crew of folks here to talk about some favorite TMBG songs through their trans lens on part three of this series. Brianna Jones, Cathy Young, Becca Ganey and Avren chat about Bangs, The World's Address, Insult to the Fact Checkers, Finished With Lies and more!

Former TMBG drummer Dan Hickey returns to the show to talk about Dan Vs. Cog, a song they did for the Brave New World television mini series. Dan took on MIT's Cog robot in a drum battle and lived, and he's here to tell us about that harrowing adventure.

Cartoon writer Mike Yank visits the show to talk about the My Murdered Remains track The Neck Rolls Aren't Working. We breakdown this rocker and try to figure out what's going on with the stressed out narrator, and we unearth some cool covers and hear one from Mike and his wife!

Merry Christmas from TMBP! Joe of OK Glass joins us to talk about this unreleased fan favorite from deep in the Giants' secret vault. We talk about the many different possible influences on this weird sad Christmas number, managing to keep spirits both holly and jolly!

Old friends and former guests Steve Clark and Dan Brooks team up to talk about the Apollo 18 classic Turn Around. While we don't shatter any episode length records this time around, we do dig in heavily to the twisted lyrics of this tune and what makes it so great.

New friend Sarah Smith is on the show today to talk about Last Wave from I Like Fun as well as Last Wave (Alternate Version), which was collected on My Murdered Remains. We talk about the odd origin story of this song and Steven Tyler's humongous mouth, and we get treated to two amazing covers, one by our guest herself!

A member of the single-digits episode club, Missy Tate, makes her triumphant return to the show with a two-fer: First Kiss, appearing on Severe Tire Damage, and Another First Kiss, appearing on Mink Car. Which one is better? We're gonna figure it out!