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This week Thoryn is calling the shots so that means lots of topics, and lots of uninformed takes from Jason. We discuss the Alec Baldwin incident, film labor strikes, Steve Gorman and the faultiness of memory. Then, new records from Brandi Carlisle, Jason Isbell and just in time for Halloween, the Mark Lanegan and Joe Cardamone collaboration: Dark Mark Vs. Skeleton Joe. Later, we discuss the ability of music to elicit memories, the irredeemability of Vince Neil, headbanger chicks, Shkreli's Wu-Tang record, DUNE and the trainwreck that is Black Widow. 

Also: Thoryn professes his love for Michael Bolton. That alone make this episode worth a listen.

This week: Jason preaches the virtues of a clean ass, we discuss what Italian fashion magazines and metallic hardcore have in common and take another dump on Vince Neil. This just in: Spiritbox is still terrible but someone in the marketing department at Rise Records REALLY wants them to be famous. Finally we have another installment of "Our Favorite Producers." This week's inductee is none other than Brendan O'Brien. We discuss his early career with the Black Crowes and the Red Hot Chili Peppers under the flag of Rick Rubin all the way through his current work with Mastodon, AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen and of course in his role as the primary producer and de facto 6th member of Pearl Jam. 

Fall is in the air and what says Autumn better than blackface Halloween costumes and hunting humans for sport. Then: we talk about the upcoming Baroness all-request tour and look into a story about a river near Glastonbury showing up with monumental traces of drugs after the event.  Later: Cedric Bixler-Zavala of the Mars Volta/ATDI fame made claims that agents of Scientology killed his dogs and we discuss a cool upcoming project from Converge, Chelsea Wolfe and Steven Brodsky. I pity the fool who don't rate this podcast.

This Week: Thoryn tries to quit coffee, Jason has a mental breakdown and we both find out who MGK is (unrelated). Then: Why the Red Hot Chili Peppers were crucial teenage makeout jams and our favorite musicians in acting roles. Finally, we introduce the first installment of our "Florida Stories" series with a few tales about spooky dolls, surviving hurricanes and doing drugs inside a tent in your living room. Chop it up.

This week we talk about waning enthusiasm for the NFL, a Mastodon/Opeth tour and new music from Russian Circles. Also, we debut our new segment highlighting our favorite record producers with an exhaustive look at the career of Terry Date, producer for Deftones, Pantera, Soundgarden and many others. Later, we discuss why Thoryn hates scream vocals, sophomore slumps, great records with terrible cover art and how the parking lot scene was the ruin of the Grateful Dead. Turn on, tune in and drop dead.

This week the boys chat about lateral moves to escape life's riptides and talk new music by Mastodon and Quicksand. Then we talk record anniversaries, subsequent re-releases and Jason recounts the fuckery involved in the rerelease of Ozzy Osbourne classics Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman. Related: Metallica's Black Album turned 30, released a giant collection of other people covering their tunes and Lars Ulrich finds himself on the path to winning Thoryn's forgiveness. Finally... Who asked for a Scott Weiland biopic? Certainly not us. Seriously...stop it with the biopics already.