Wednesday Night Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Take This Job and Shove It! (The Blue-Collar Blues)  Grab your timesheets and prepare to watch them burn! This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we are punching out early and raising a glass to the working class as we spin Johnny Paycheck’s legendary 1977 outlaw-country anthem, Take This Job and Shove It . While Johnny sang about a worker finally giving his boss what for, his m...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Isaak, Cabernet, and the Great "Aunt" Infestation 🍷🐜 Prepare for a moody, reverb-drenched journey into the heart of travel-induced madness! This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, Jill brings Chris Isaak’s 1993 album, San Francisco Days , to the table. While the album is full of smooth, lonely-boy rock and pining lyrics, it serves as the ultimate trigger for Ji...

Send us Fan Mail 24 Carrots and the Great Vegetable Subterfuge! 🥕🎸 Lock your doors and hide your hummus, because this week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we are peeling back the orange veil of deception. We kick things off with Al Stewart’s 1980 album, 24 Carrots , a title that suggests high-carat luxury but serves as the ultimate trigger for Chris and his long-simmering resentment toward the r...

Send us Fan Mail Vehicle to Victory: The Scientific Search for America's Top State 🏀🇺🇸 Buckle up, listeners, because the friendly strangers in the black sedan are taking over! This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we celebrate our annual March Madness tradition with a twist that will probably get us banned from at least thirty-eight state capitals. We’re using the brass-heavy, high-octan...

Send us Fan Mail Having My Baby (And Having Second Thoughts) 🤰😱 Shield your ears and hide your face in your hands! This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, Andrew has committed a musical hate crime by bringing Paul Anka’s 1974 hit, "(You’re) Having My Baby," to the turntable. Commonly cited as the "Worst Song of All Time" by people with working ears, we dive deep into the ly...

Send us Fan Mail Nancy’s Boots, Chris’s Hiking Obsession, and a Very Awkward Museum Trip 👢🥨 Buckle up (or lace up), because things are getting weird. This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we are broadcasting "live" (depending on who’s asking and what the security guards saw) from the NYC Museum of Sex . We thought it would be a classy, provocative backdrop. We were wrong. The inspi...

Send us Fan Mail Loveless Melodies & Joe’s Bloody Nose Trilogy 🩸🎸 Happy Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re head-over-heels or just head-in-your-hands, we’ve got the perfect soundtrack for your existential dread. This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we’re spinning the feedback-drenched masterpiece My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless . Join us as we dive into: Shoegaze 101: We attempt to explain...

Send us Fan Mail Hail Satin, Food Fighters, and Culinary Crimes of Our Youth 🕺🍔 Dust off your sequins and prepare to boogie (ironically)! This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we are worshiping at the altar of the Dee Gees—the disco-lovin' alter egos of the Foo Fighters—as we spin their glitzy 2021 masterpiece, Hail Satin . It’s high-energy, high-falsetto, and higher-than-average risk f...

Send us Fan Mail If You Like Getting Stuck in Puerto Rico... (The Great Airspace Escape) 🍹✈️ Pack your bags and prepare to stay exactly where you are! This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we are spinning Rupert Holmes’ 1979 masterpiece, Partners in Crime . It’s an album famous for the ultimate song about cheating on your spouse through a newspaper ad, but tonight, the crime is our travel iti...

Send us Fan Mail Gold Flakes, Ol' Blue Eyes, and a Hoboken Horror Story 🎄🤢 Is it getting boozy in here, or is that just the legendary baritone of Frank Sinatra ? On this final night of our Christmas Season Spooktacular , we are basking in the timeless, ring-a-ding-ding glow of A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra . It’s the ultimate soundtrack for people who want to feel like they own a pen...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year! Unforgettable Melodies, Festive Fizz, and Chris’s English Influencer Era 🎄🤳 Is it getting cozy in here, or is that just the velvet pipes of Nat King Cole ? This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we are basking in the timeless glow of The Christmas Song album . It’s the ultimate soundtrack for people who want to feel sophisticated while wearing reindeer ears an...

Send us Fan Mail Little Saint Nick, Liquid Cheer, and Craig’s Santa Scandal 🎄🏄‍♂️ Surfs up... at the North Pole? This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we’re dreaming of a sandy Christmas as we spin the sun-drenched harmonies of The 1964 Beach Boys Christmas Album . It’s the only record that makes you want to hang ten and hang stockings at the same time. To help us navigate the high seas of h...

Send us Fan Mail Motown, Madness, and the Jule Buk Protection Detail 🎄🐐 Deck the halls and grab the Funk! This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're getting into the holiday groove with the soulful sounds of The 1973 Motown Christmas Album . Prepare for classic holiday tunes infused with that irresistible Motown beat—the perfect background for our annual descent into holiday madness an...

Send us Fan Mail The Private Life of Perry (A Boozy Christmas Special) 🎄🍹 Grab your coziest sweater and prepare for a Christmas that's less "Silent Night" and more "Silent Panic"! This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're opening up our 5 weeks of WNP Holiday Advent Spooktacular with the smoothest holiday crooner of all time: Perry Como and his essential holid...

Send us Fan Mail The End of the Innocence (and the Beginning of Our Shame) This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're getting philosophical—or at least, as philosophical as we can get while debating 80s rock ballads. We’re featuring Don Henley’s The End of the Innocence , an album that makes you question your life choices while simultaneously enjoying a massive saxophone solo. Inspired b...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're bringing the heat! James Brown is on the turntable, and we're spinning his smokin' album, Hot , as the soundtrack for our annual (and entirely seasonally confused) Thanksgiving Spooktacular! Forget gravy and stuffing—we're serving up sweet agony. We're testing the panel's mettle with a truly punishing Cl...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're boarding the jazz-rock express with Chicago Transit Authority and the absolute banger, "Questions 67 and 68." We tried to analyze the complex time signatures, but honestly, we just got confused. So, we pivoted to the real pressing issue: Catch Phrases! Inspired by the song's query-heavy title, Craig leads us throu...

Send us Fan Mail Show Note: Celebrity Skin, Morbid Games, and the Threat of Egging 🎃🍬 Welcome to The Wednesday Night Podcast Halloween Spooktacular! This week, we're trading our jazz fusion for grunge rock royalty as we put Hole's Celebrity Skin on the turntable. Join us as Courtney Love provides the perfect soundtrack for existential dread and sugar-fueled chaos. But the fun doesn&apo...

Send us Fan Mail A Ticket To Ride (Straight to Chaos) 🎶🎟️ This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're taking a deep dive into The Beatles' Rubber Soul , stopping specifically at the certified banger, "Ticket to Ride." Naturally, the profound songwriting lasts less than two minutes before the conversation derails completely into the bureaucratic nightmare of... literal tick...

Send us Fan Mail Aja-nizing Debate: The Royal Scam vs. The Royal Headache 🎷💸 This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're diving into the slick, cynical, and impossibly complex world of Steely Dan with their masterpiece, The Royal Scam ! We'll break down the jazz-rock fusion, the obscure characters, and the meticulously layered production. However, one member of the panel—who shall...

Send us Fan Mail Smell the Glove, But Maybe Not the Cover! 🧤🤘 Welcome back to The Wednesday Night Podcast, where tonight we delve into the one topic guaranteed to get us flagged: Offensive Album Covers ! We kick off the controversy with the undisputed champion of visual awkwardness, Spinal Tap's Smell the Glove . We dissect the artistic choice (and the ensuing retailer backlash) that made t...

Send us Fan Mail When the Levee Breaks... Into a Story Chris Shouldn't Be Telling 🎤🎸 This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're diving deep into the glorious, exaggerated, and frequently misunderstood genre known as Cock Rock , all through the lens of one of its finest achievements: Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy . From the layered majesty of "The Song Remains the Sam...

Send us Fan Mail Live from another Museum with Georgia on Our Minds This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're continue our roadtrip broadcasting from yet another   truly unusual museum that you absolutely won't want to miss. Prepare for strange artifacts, questionable exhibits, and probably some echo-y audio. To set the mood for our road trip, we're spinning Ray Charles'...

Send us Fan Mail River Runs Through It (and Through Craig's Childhood Home!) 🚣‍♂️🏰 This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're taking a leisurely (or perhaps not-so-leisurely) cruise down memory lane with The Little River Band's Greatest Hits . Get ready for some smooth rock harmonies, classic 70s/80s vibes, and maybe a sudden urge to wear a denim vest. But the real journey be...

Send us Fan Mail Synchronicity, Jung, and Your Creepily Coincidental Life! 🤯 This week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we're putting on our trench coats and pondering the universe's mysterious winks as we feature The Police's iconic album, Synchronicity . Get ready for some classic new wave, post-punk grooves, thought-provoking lyrics, and a deep dive into the inexplicable connecti...