Khaki rock is back baby, and we’re here for it! Andrew McMahon graces our screens with some sensible slacks, no shoes, and multiple microphones. There’s not much to the video, a few dudes being dudes, hanging out in Canda on a day off from touring. They seem both exhausted and energized by the camera lenses pointed at them, and they deliver a totally fun performance and some oh-so-relatable yard game shots.
Since the video itself isn’t too involved, we really dive heavily into our own about hating the newspaper, journalism students quoting Wikipedia on a college essay, Tom giving a 15-minute speech on crop circles, taking piano lessons, and some tour stories that heavily relate to the lyrics of this amazing song.
BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!
Links:
I Woke Up In a Car Music Video
Intensity In Ten Cities by Chiodos
Songs of the week:
Runaway Horses by The Killers
A Damned Shame by Gold Bloom
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We both watched a 1h 46m minute just to deliver this episode, and we couldn’t be any more apologetic to how it turned out. This meandering conversation touches on the song and music video at times after taking breaks from nonsensical deep dives into the Denver airport, watching movies on cable television, and collect calls from jail.
We’re not super proud of it, but we had a lot of fun recording it! So we hope you enjoy the episode and just give us a break for ONCE! We didn’t listen to Cobra Starship growing up but we knew you wanted us to talk about the video, so we did our best. Love you.
BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!
Links:
Interview with Bert Poncet of Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!
Songs of the week:
I Wanna Bite Your Face by Eve 6
Playing Dead by Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!
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In a genre not often associated with very technical artists, quite a few drummers have stood out from the pack as absolute masters of their instrument. This week we draft our favorite songs that feature insane drumming, and we impose a “no duplicate drummer” rule in order to encourage talking about drummers not named Travis Barker.
BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!
Links:
The Drum Draft Mixtape on Apple Music
The Drum Draft Mixtape on Spotify
Jason McGerr’s Grapevine Fire Shuffle
Songs of the week:
Marigold by Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!
I Guess I Just Feel Like by John Mayer
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After realizing that The Academy Is… is not Rookie of the Year, the guys take a moment to reflect and speculate on the perception and reception of The Academy Is… as a band, and we discuss the rise of belt culture and too tight tees. Pat has a WILD story about being flown to Seattle to be on a film set, and Tom asks a girl out on the set of Transformers 3. Then we went off on bad haircuts the day before a wedding, ruining a soundcheck, there’s a quick therapy session, almost we forgot to talk about The Academy Is... if we’re being honest.
BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!
Links:
The Academy Is… Trivia Game Show Episode
A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me” by Fall Out Boy Episode
Songs of the week:
Last Train Home by John Mayer
Weekend by Upstate
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