The Geologic Podcast Episode #942

I've never really believed in the concept of guilty pleasures. You know, this idea that you can enjoy something that you're not supposed to really enjoy and you enjoy it despite not... being really supposed to enjoy it. And then you kind of lean into the fact that you're not supposed to enjoy it. So you do enjoy it.

You know, maybe it's something cheesy or something silly or something that's not meant for your demographic or maybe it's juvenile or maybe it's older, maybe it's younger, maybe it's from a time in the past or who knows what. But there's this idea of like, oh, it's a guilty pleasure. It's a guilty pleasure. Oh yeah. What's your favorite guilty pleasure? I don't think guilty pleasures really exist apart from the ones that can do you damage.

Guilty pleasures are the things that make me feel pleasurable that actually do you some harm. Like actual, maybe physical harm, maybe like significant emotional harm, maybe. You know, eating a stick of butter dipped in brown sugar, that would be a guilty pleasure. You know, not probably the best. dietary thing you want to do, you know, torturing a Nazi. Like, yeah, that would feel really good. Kind of a guilty pleasure, you know, like, like using a, I don't know.

A machete to cut off a Nazi's arm. You know, like, it's like, that's a guilty pleasure. It's a guilty pleasure. You shouldn't really do it. And if you do it and you feel good while doing it, it's understandable, but you probably shouldn't do it. You probably shouldn't do it. It doesn't apply to liking the movie Xanadu. Like, that's not a guilty pleasure. If you like the movie Xanadu, you like the movie Xanadu.

There's nothing wrong. There's so few things in this world that actually provide pleasure that aren't in some secondary way harmful. You might as well enjoy them. You know, we're not talking about some caloric bomb that's going to be like, oh, this tastes so good. I know I shouldn't have this, but I'm going to have it. Or like, you know, some kind of chemical enhancement, let's say, or booze or whatever.

There's a lot of stuff people get pleasure from that's not good for them. You know this when you're doing it. You know this is not good for me, but I'm going to do it because that's a guilty pleasure. But enjoying, you know, wearing an Elmo t-shirt is not a guilty pleasure.

Enjoying hair metal from the 80s is not a guilty pleasure. And one of these things that very early on in my musical appreciation life was the band Duran Duran.

And I've talked about this before, but I really liked the band Duran Duran. And I remember thinking I wasn't supposed to like the band Duran Duran, especially once I was in high school. I liked them, you know, before high school, before I understood what the hierarchy of music was supposed to be about. I enjoyed them because they were on MTV.

And they had these really interesting, visually stimulating videos that had not just the good looking guys of the band doing their thing, but often scantily clad women, you know. that were either hungry or, you know, for some kind of wolf, which I get. I remember being in the car with my mom one time, listening to the outro from Hungry Like the Wolf, you know, and it's kind of going off, and it's the vamp, the end vamp of Hungry Like the Wolf is happening, and there's a woman moaning.

she's moaning you know she's i mean that's how that's that's how how that's how much wolf she wants that's how hungry she she's And my mom, you know, who didn't quite understand what Duran Duran was at the time. We're talking about like 1984, by the way. So just for reference. My mom's like, what is that? Oh my God, it's a synthesizer. It's a synthesizer. Yeah, it's one of these new synthesizers, mom.

And you press the button and it goes, it's not a woman. It's not a woman moaning with some kind of jungle-based pleasure. It's a synth. And to her credit. But she probably knew exactly what it was. She was like, oh, okay. Well, as long as you and I can agree it's a synth and not that we're, you know, driving home from ShopRite listening to a woman moaning over the actions of Simon Lebon. Like, if we can both agree to that, I'm fine with that.

It's definitely a synth. Oh, it's amazing the synthesizer sounds nowadays. But so I like, you know, I like Duran Duran, right? And it's not a guilty pleasure. I just now, especially, you know. Oh, so going back. Yeah, I remember being at camp. I've told this story, but I remember being at camp. And there was this really cool kid named Alex. And Alex, you know, Alex was cool. He was like, you know, I was.

13 and he was 15 or maybe i was 12 and he was 15 16 so he was like you know this adult this cool adult and like he was hip and he had was just like he was respected and and just he you know could kind of do no wrong kind of had that great 80s hair was doing the thing And one day he wore a Duran Duran shirt. There's a sleepaway camp and he wears a Duran Duran shirt. The other 16-year-olds around him, 17-year-olds around him at the time are just like, why are you wearing that?

And he said, because they're fucking awesome. And I was like, oh my God, you're allowed to say that about Duran Duran. Okay, well. Crap, if Alex is going to wear the Duran Duran shirt and feel good about them, I'm going to enjoy them too and have subsequently enjoyed Duran Duran. including all of the offshoots of Duran Duran. And one of the offshoots of Duran Duran that I enjoyed very much was the power station.

Now the power, I don't know if it's the power station or just power station. I think it's just power station. Power station was a Duran Duran offshoot. Right. You had two members of Duran Duran, the bass player and the guitarist. So John Taylor and Andy Taylor, oddly enough, not brothers.

The two of them, they left Duran Duran, not, they didn't leave, leave, but they just took a, they took a hiatus, a hiatus from Duran Duran and they formed with a drummer, Tony Thompson, who was the drummer for the band Chic. you know, Freak Out, that band. Phenomenal drummer, phenomenal drummer.

The three of them started recording a bunch of songs just to kind of do some fun stuff. They were just recording things and they thought, oh, we'll get a different singer to sing every song and that'll be this cool little amalgam. And I think they were called Big Brother originally or Brother? Big Brother? brother something like that and then Robert Palmer comes into the studio and sings Bang A Gong

Because they were doing a cover of Bang & Gong. Robert Palmer, who had a decent career on his own, solo career leading up to that point. Robert Palmer was cool because every album he did kind of sounded different. He did like a Caribbean thing. Then he did like a soul thing. Then he did like... all meters tunes and then he did like kind of a synthy pop thing so like every album of Robert Palmer's was like different he joins up with the boys here in the in the

Big Brother at the time, to record this one song. And apparently it goes so well, they're like, crap, you should just sing all the songs. So he ended up singing all the songs. They renamed the band Power Station after the recording studio that they were in in New York City. And they released this album. And some...

like it hot and it's a great record it's a killer great 80s you know pseudo funky rock and roll kind of thing with Robert Palmer now boys and girls you may be unaware but probably the reason I'd say 70% of the reason that I wear suits, at least from a gestational... standpoint is because of Robert Palmer I loved Robert Palmer being in this band with heavy guitars Tony Thompson destroying the drum set back there and him singing kind of these like

these like rock tunes, but in a suit. I thought that was the coolest thing. At the same time, there's Miami Vice, which is happening, which has Don Johnson and the other guy, and Don Johnson doesn't wear suits, but the other guy wears suits. Tubbs. The character's named Tubbs and he wears suits and I like his suits. So between the suited guy on Miami Vice and Robert Palmer wearing suits while singing heavy rock, I thought this is just, you cannot be cooler.

The weird bifurcative nature of like wearing a suit, singing rock and roll. It's really, really cool. So I started wearing suits and ties and I liked that. And that's why I still to this very day like suits and ties. because of Power Station and Robert Palmer. Robert Palmer subsequently goes and has a real solo career after... After the power station, so he's got his old Simply Irresistible and all that addicted to love. Full career, sort of...

It blooms out of the remnants of the power station, which only had one album officially with that foursome. They only like played live like one time on Saturday Night Live, I think. Those original four cats. They never toured. They never did anything. It's a great record. No.

And the reason I'm telling you this is because recently I was at a used CD store in Princeton, a very famous, it's called the Princeton Record Exchange. And I was going through their used CDs and it's an absolute nirvana of a kind of place. It's a beautiful...

place if you like to buy physical media the princeton record exchange oh my god it's just great you walk in it's just walls and walls of albums and cds and even cassettes and all kinds of stuff old stuff new stuff and they have this unimaginably huge used c thing which like you can buy a disc for a buck or two or three like super cheap it's great so I'm going through and I find this double album this double collection of

Robert Palmer. It's like the best addicted addictions. It's called, yeah, addictions. The best of Robert Palmer volume one, addictions, the best of Robert Palmer volume two. And they're like both of those volume one and volume two are a buck 99 each. So for four bucks.

I get this thing and I got a bunch of Robert Palmer novels but I think let me just get this so I get these two and I get them and I'm listening to them it's great so for four bucks I get a double album Robert Palmer's greatest hits full career spanning collection of stuff including some like it hot which I'm surprised it was on there because it's like it's not a solo thing but they include it I guess they got the rights in this so they

you know, they put it and they put it on his best of, and it's awesome. So you've got all the regular Robert Palmer from the MTV. You've got the pre-MTV Robert Palmer, including the song Looking for Clues, which is one of my favorite songs, by the way. Favorite, favorite songs. Looking for clues. And there's like seven different versions of it. Great video. Silly, beautiful octave, doubled vocal. Just killer.

So I'm listening to this best of Robert Palmer. It's in the car that I bought at the Princeton Record Exchange because I'm a fan. And Something Like It Hot comes on. And for some reason... For some reason, it pops into my brain that I remember that Duran Duran did Some Like It Hot, which kind of makes sense because, you know, he's the bass player and the guitarist.

Now also at the time when Power Station happened, the other half of Duran Duran, the singer and the keyboard player, made their own band called Arcadia. I guess the drummer was in that as well. So Simon Lebon and Nick Rhodes. and Roger Taylor, whatever the drummer is. I think they did their own little offshoot band called Arcadia.

And they had a election day was their sort of hit with that, right? So yeah, two bands in the one band, whatever. But in the back of my mind, after listening to Some Like It Hot, I seem to remember that Duran Duran had done a version of Some Like It Hot.

I don't know why I remember this, but I'm just like, it must have been some tour. Maybe it was that tour after the Power Station came out, after the Arcadia album came out, that maybe they were on tour and they were playing some of the Arcadia songs and some of the Power Station songs. And I'm like, I want to hear Simon.

sing some like it hot like this I wonder if that exists like there must be a bootleg of it or something or somewhere or whatever so I start the google machine I fire it up and wouldn't you know it wouldn't you know it I find This concert from 1987 at the Beacon Theater in New York. It's Duran Duran. It's after the guitarist has left. Yeah, Nick, sorry, John Taylor leaves the band. Warren Cucurulo, who was with Frank Zappa.

and missing persons he joins the band kind of preliminarily the drummer left as well steve ferrone steve ferrone from and that ends up playing um he was with the average white band He also ends up playing eventually with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. He's playing drums for this tour. So it's a 1987 show. And it's not just a bootleg. It's like a released album. It's called Duran Duran Live at the Beacon, 1987.

And on that set list, not only is there all the Duran Duran hits that you could enjoy, especially the ones from the album Notorious, which they're touring for at that point, which had just come out, which is a funky, cool record. One of my favorite Duran Duran records, by the way, because it's just so different, funky, horn section. Not only are they playing the Notorious songs, but they play an Arcadia song and they play some Like It Hot.

And there it is. And I find this version of them playing Some Like It Hot with Simon Lebon singing the Robert Palmer vocal. Awesome. Now, further back in my mind... Or I suddenly realized that the reason I knew that this version existed is because I thought, wait a minute. This is 1987 at the Beacon Theater in New York City in August. I think my sister was at that show. Now, my sister...

Sandy, I don't talk about her much, but I got my sister. She's four years older. She's a Duran Duran fan. We used to freak out over Duran Duran together. We were at that point where a certain, for about 18 months, our musical... tastes were the same. We both enjoyed what was on MTV. So it was like, you know, Duran Duran and wham.

And Talking Heads. And, you know, there was like this little crossover point where you both enjoy the same music. The most of which was, you know, Duran Duran based. So I'm thinking like, wait a minute. My sister was at this show.

She was at that Beacon Theater show because it was just one show. I went to setlist.com and I'm trying to see how many shows did Duran Duran do at the Beacon Theater in 1987. They just did the one show. It was the last show of the tour that they were doing that year. So I text my sister and I say, hey.

Are you aware that there's a recording, an officially released recording available on Spotify and iTunes and anywhere else that you buy your fine music of the show from the Beacon Theater that you were at? In 1987 with Duran Duran. And she texts back. She's like, I had no idea. Holy crap. Oh my God. Well, get this. She freaks out because it's like, okay, amazing.

How important was that show to her? How much did she enjoy that show that she went to that I remember her distinctly going to? And she came back and she said, oh my God, they played Power Station songs and Arcadia songs. And that's why it was in the back of my head. And that's how my brain works. I remember stuff from 38 years later.

38 years later, boys and girls, I remember like, oh yeah, there's a version of Simon Le Bon singing something like it hot somewhere. Because my sister saw them 38 years ago. I tell my sister this thing exists. She texts back. She's like, oh my God. Then she sends me a picture. She sends me a picture of a piece of paper with her handwriting on it of a list of Duran Duran songs.

And can you guess what that is? Yeah, it's the set list that she wrote out from that very show in 1987, which she has had in her purse slash wallet since that show. She's been carrying around, which is a very harab thing to do. This is a very harab thing to do. Do something for frickin' four decades. Quietly. Unbeknownst to most.

It's a very Harabian kind of action. She has had the exact Duran Duran set list from the very show that I managed to find online because I want her to hear Simon Le Bon singing a version of Some Like It Hot that she told me he did. Four decades ago. She has it in her wallet and has had it ever since. She pulls it out. She sends me a picture. I'm just like, holy crap. She goes, how did I not know this recording exists? And I'm like, yeah.

Go get it. Because not only does it exist, it's great. The band is on fire. And what's cool is there's a couple little vocal glitches in it. Like Simon Struggles, they're singing View to a Kill, one of my favorite James Bond songs.

And his voice, there's a couple high notes that he kind of misses. Not in a horrible way, but it's a little scratchy. It's like a little, just a little, you know, with a view to a... kill he's like a little scratchy which means like it's not a redubbed re-recorded thing this is all off the board them playing live and it sounds freaking awesome so here we are almost

40 years later, my sister and I reliving this little moment. I think it's one of the few sort of full-on concerts she ever went to. I know she went to see George Michael. I think she also has that set list somewhere, probably. But how cyclically insane all those things had to be for them to line up for me to be like, oh.

Do you know this recording exists? No. Oh, does it? Yes. Okay, well, here's the set. And here's what's interesting, too. The set that she has, you know, written, it's different than the album order.

So they obviously, it leaves a couple songs off. They get a couple other covers. They need like something else and something else. And it's a different order than what's on the album. So the album is kind of constructed, in that way it's constructed to be more of an experience, I guess. But the sound of it is just phenomenal. It's on, like I said, it's on Spotify. It's on Spotify. It's on Apple Music. It's on iTunes.

And I think it's just great. Simon's voice, apart from a couple little glitches here and there because it's the end of the tour and who cares. He is on fire. The band is just killer. The songs are great. The notorious tunes are specifically really nice. They've got a trumpet.

player and a sax player which is playing along with them and it's just killer and if you're at all remotely a Duran Duran fan and aren't aware this thing exists go check it out because it's you know it's good enough to keep in your wallet for 40 years This is the 942nd show of a series of a not new podcasting series featuring the religious moron of the week. Interesting.

Fauna. Rupert McClanahan's indestructible bastards. Geo's mom. I almost understand this. Mortimer. I'm old. Horoscopes. Ask George. Not the Bible. No. Plus, so much more. Yeah? Yeah. Well, like two things more. And now, the host of the Geologic Podcast. Me. And to that point of the very Harabian thing, very Harab-like, Harab-esque, Harab-esque, Harabian thing of doing something for four decades.

you know, having something for years and years and years and years and years. I finally, finally, after close to 30 years, maybe more like 27. 27 years, 28 years or so. I changed the TV stand in my living room. Right? So I had a roommate.

I moved in here in 93, had a roommate for three years. He moved out, moved to Savannah. And then I was like here for another year. And then about a year or two, once I was living alone, I did a whole redoing of my living room. And when I redid the living room, I like rotated it. 180 degrees because the TV used to face west. Now it faces east. And I'm like, let me just move the whole thing around. And I got this nice Ikea. Yes, Ikea.

since everything in my house is Ikea. I got an Ikea, you know, it's not a TV stand, but it's like a thing that you put your media center, right? It was modern. It was cool looking. It was like the late 90s, so it's reflective of that late 90s kind of thing. Sort of a yellowy birch kind of fake wood and black. You know, very popular at the time. That kind of yellowy, orangey wood.

and black that was like that was the thing and you know luckily much of ikea is somewhat timeless so when you go and buy something there it does last a certain long time you know when you get a hamper Box or a nerdic, you know shelf. It's pretty timeless. It doesn't scream 2005 or 1998 That's kind of the point

So I got this thing and I had it. And it worked fine. It worked great. It worked well. You know, you had the TV on top. You had the speakers on the sides. You had like a, it was like a lower shelf as well that had all of my photos, pictures and boxed sets.

and the eventually held the wi-fi router even though the wi-fi router was not a thing when i first bought it wouldn't be for another 10 plus years which is bananas and the cable box and all that stuff was on there and it was uh and it got to the point where you know you don't see how messy it is because it's just the clutter the clutter much like

The Predator has this kind of sheen on it that makes it invisible in the jungle, at least in the jungle of your living room. And eventually you just don't see all the sort of clutter until you see it. And then it's like, oh my God, this is a disaster.

So for whatever reason, maybe like four months ago, five months ago, I hit this, you know, the predator blood was visible to me and I thought, oh my God, like what is going on? I finally could figure out where the mirrors were in the jungle and the mirror. in the jungle for me were like all of the wires and cables and and CD containers and CDs and adapters and candles and candle holders and all this stuff just like living on this Ikea unit that's been there for three decades.

holding the TV and then I couldn't not see it. I'm just like, I gotta get rid of it. I just gotta go. It's a mess. It's a mess. And it wasn't a mess, but for me it was a mess. It just became this thing that every night I would sit there and I would see it and I couldn't enjoy the thing I was watching because the rest of it is like some kind of fungus just like growing.

And I could see where the speaker cable was hanging behind the open section of the little Ikea dealie. It was like, okay, this has got to go. So I did a little bit of snooping, a little bit of shopping, ended up ordering a thing. And I got this lovely mid-century, you know, faux mid-century modern TV stand kind of cabinet deal. And it came and I thought, oh, this would be great.

I'll, you know, I'll move it since the, my TV is the new kind of TV that like weighs like four pounds and it's, you know, a hundred inches across or whatever insane size it is. The thing that was unfathomable to us as children to have a screen the size of. like a multiplex and not weigh 7,000 pounds. It's going to be easy. I'll move the TV. I'll move the speakers. I'll put the new thing in. I'll put the Wi-Fi.

And the little, you know, the cable stuff into a doored closet. Is that what it's called? When a closet has a door, it's a doored. The little side thing that has a little door in it so it won't be visible. I'll bundle all the cables. This will be great. I'll do this in like half an hour. I'll be done.

take care of it you know i'll wipe down the back i'll dust oh my god i'll take care of the dust that's gonna be behind this thing that's been sitting there for 30 years half hour i'll be done easy easy well three and a half hours later Holy crap. It's like, you know, that stuff that you don't see and then you eventually see, you realize like, oh, there's like a, there is just tons of just stuff. Tons.

of stuff i just kept pulling out from this corner and this couldn't just put and then to wipe it down and then to move and remove it and say well three and a half hours later i was done Every cable was wrapped upon itself, hidden beautifully, either behind the thing or in the little doors. The Wi-Fi router, the Beatles boxed sets that never quite fit under the other one, now they fit in there.

the Beatles complete recording book that also didn't quite fit kind of had to live on its side now it fits inside the thing behind the door that's shut so you can't see it unless you want to see it And you can see under the thing. You can see behind it. I even lowered the, there was a painting that was behind the TV that was at a certain height. I lowered the painting so that it's like nice lower thing. The whole thing is about.

eight inches lower than it was which just makes it feel more intimate and lovely and oh my god it's fantastic it's fantastic as if i as if i wasn't excited enough to sit and watch you know apple tv Or Netflix. Now to come and just be like, oh, oh, it's just the pristine, clean lines. And the invisible cabling. Oh, nothing gets me more, more. sanctified than unvisible cabling. Oh man, is it nice. Simple pleasures, boys and girls. Simple pleasures.

It's time for the Geologic Podcast's community calendar. All the local goings on of what's locally going on. With this month's calendar, here's George. Here's the Geologic Podcast's community calendar for November and December of 2025. On Saturday, November 15th, the Auto Parts Appreciation Society of Dingman's Ferry will be having a rusty brake pad demonstration and potluck hors d'oeuvre gathering. Featured speakers to include Rusty McCormick,

Gabe Sparky Spark Plug Heffelfinger, Robert and Sheila AutoZone, and one of the two surviving pep boys, most likely Jack. Emailing for reservations is recommended. On Sunday, November 16th, the Fibonacci Theater and Quesadilla Factory will host its annual Hitchcock Festival, celebrating the softcore adult films of David Hitchcock, the great third cousin twice removed of famed director El

Alfred Hitchcock, his distant relative. Films featured will include The 69 Steps, 10-Inch Rope, Dial A for Ass, Vertigulp, The Man Who Came Too Much, strangers in a train, the boy finishes, to catch a communicable disease, the trouble with Harry, and that's spelled H-A-I-R-Y, little man in a lifeboat, and of course, Rear window. Shows are at 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and run all weekend. Tickets available at the box office.

On Tuesday, November 8th, be sure to bring your scuba gear and Velcro enclosed wallet to Palmerton County and the Palmerton Days Music Festival and Dunk Tank Outlet. as the area's premier Mighty Mighty Boss Tones tribute band, the Bitey Bitey Tossmoans, will perform their mix of ska-flavored party music tinged with a sad tinge of desperation tinge.

This group of musicians from Schwenkswil in Montgomery County, PA consists of various members of current and past bands in the Schwenkswil scene. The Bitey Bitey Tossmoans is set to fill the void that has been left by the departure of the mighty, mighty boss tones from the music world.

While there is only one Mighty Mighty Boss Tones, this group of diehard fans from Bumturd PA will come as close as you can get to the live show energy that the Tones fans are used to without having Dickie Joe and Johnny Vegas on stage. Tickets available at palmertoncountyconcert.biz Friday, November 21st, sees the Smelly Bag Sale at Bond Vagabond, Percassee's premier used clothing boutique. All smelly bags are 30% off, unless it's a really smelly bag.

then you can probably just take it. Come for the smelly bags, stay for the frayed scarves. Bond, vagabond, where looking layered is looking cared for. Monday, November 24th is Bingo Night at the Sacred Lodge of the Screaming Torso. Non-members are welcome to attend so long as they bring both a hot dish to share and their own bingo cards.

Cash prizes of up to $65 will be awarded to all persons completing and subsequently yelling bingo with a Laplander accent. The Sacred Lodge of the Screaming Torso is a non-denominational excuse to drink beer. On Saturday, November 29th, Bucks County's Rotting Corn Days begin with a free concert featuring Dad Bod, the area's premier all-father tribute to Rod Stewart. Sing along with Jake, Fred, and if Todd can get a sitter...

Todd. Show starts at 8 p.m. Rotting corn days run through the 15th of December and will have the easiest corn maze you could ever want to walk through while arguing with your children. The first hundred kids get to take home their very own withered stock. On Friday, December 5th, Kim's drive-in and patisserie starts showing the film I Was a Teenage Teenager.

which stars Pat Boone's cousin Bob Boone as Freddy, a teenager who drinks a magic potion that mystically and instantly ages him by 18 months, making him a slightly older teenager. Also showing is Pie Crust Nation. a documentary about the so-called real Betty Crocker, who was not only instrumental in creating what became a multi-billion dollar cooking empire, but who, due to unnecessary recipe experimentation, eventually died of a massive yeast infection.

That's the double feature at Kim's Drive-In and Patisserie. Wednesday, December 10th sees the lighting of the South Chipman's Christmas Donut. This marks the 84th consecutive year that the people of South Chipman will hold their traditional donut lighting ceremony at the corner of Gates and Sprinkle, right across from the abandoned Woolworths. Mayor Hugh Barnacle will sing both versions of Ave Maria, and parents are encouraged to provide ear protection for all children under the age of 34.

On Friday, December 12th, it's the start of Plattertuck PA's Creepy Doll Festival. Feel your taint shrink for five straight days as you gaze into the empty, soulless eyes of over a thousand creepy dolls. This year's festival features a selection of Croatian creepy dolls from the 1800s that genuinely redefine what creepy doll means. All encephalatic children under three feet tall admitted free.

And please remember that only the Covenmaster can retain the Omni Lord's overbearance through the visage of the Craven One's Destroyer gaze. Free parking for hearses and 19th century ambulances. And finally, Remember that Sunday, December 21st is Recycling Day for all board games and live-action role-playing costumes. Be sure to gather all your LARP wear and Parker Brothers sundries for collection.

Monopoly money, those games of life little plastic pens that represent individuals, and mousetrap instructions must be bundled separately. plastic broadswords, epees, cutlasses, rapiers, shimitars, katanas, two-handed claymores, foils, medieval spathes, baselards, stilettos, trench knives, push daggers.

Kirpan, Peshkabs, Kanjali, Bichua, Dirks, Sinkedas, and Switchblades each go into their own individually labeled and appropriate receptacles. This has been the Geologic Podcast's Community Calendar. all the local goings on for what's locally going on.

First question. Hey, Gio. In a previous episode, you mentioned that rather than disliking whole genres of music, you're more put off by disingenuous, uninterested performances, particularly when artists do flashy tricks that impress laypeople but are actually kind of easy.

So, as a musical layperson who wouldn't know, how can I tell if I'm being hoodwinked? Can you share a few examples of easy but flashy tricks? I'm mostly just hoping that some of the artists I love aren't secretly pulling the wool over my ears. Funitude, J, not the S-G-U-J. Well, J, not the S-G-U-J. That's a wonderful question. And let me pre-caveat or pre-caveat.

Just saying like, hey, do what you're going to do. If you're a musician and you're going to musicify, you know what, whatever you want to do, ultimately it's fine. These are just particular little personal peeves of mine that sort of reflect that what the person is doing is not that big of a deal and it seems kind of cheap and whatever. The most cheap and annoying thing that I think musicians do, especially musicians that...

Well, no, in general, performance musicians, it doesn't matter what genre. One of the cheapest things and easiest things to engender an audience response, as it were, is to take a musical phrase and repeat it over and over. getting faster, getting louder, but you don't even have to do that.

If you have a drummer, let's say, playing a drum solo, who may be doing the most intricate polyrhythmic impossible, you know, limb independence kind of thing going on, playing seven against 13 whilst, you know, five and... like this crazy stuff that's incredibly challenging and difficult and impossible to do that same drummer if they stop for a second the crazy polymetric shenanigans that they're doing and they just go

and repeat that, you know, crash, snare, snare, crash. People will go, woo! Woo! I understand he's playing a thing. Same with a guitarist or keyboard player or a trumpet player. Frank Zappa famously called this the volcano. Whenever you take, you have some kind of phrase and you finish the phrase and you get real high. you know, musically, not necessarily chemically, but you get real high in the phrase and you repeat the final phrase over and over and over. So it's like...

That's cheap. And it's kind of just like, it always gets a response. It always, always gets a response. And it's just, you know, it's unnecessary. That's a, what is it? Danny Sapko, the famous bass player, YouTube person calls it the dipstick lick. He has this lick that goes, which like you do that on bass. It sounds way harder.

than it is and it's like it's like okay that's fine like once you know what it is it's a bit bad um that's annoying holding the final chord of a song for way longer than it needs to be held That's also just kind of annoying. You know, and I'm guilty of this, you know, milking for applause.

Like, everyone's guilty of it. But, you know, there's this thing of, like... We're holding the last chord, holding it, holding it, holding it, holding it, holding the last chord, holding it, holding it. Also, the, like, seven... endings.

that's a that's a thing that has happened in the last 20 years or so where songs end and then there's a final hit and then another final hit and then the final hit and then the final hit and then like the drummer has to do a final little thing so like the song ends and the drummer's got to go like a final little fiddley bit that little fiddley bit at the end after holding the last chord that to me is really annoying it's just like really annoying

And I do it myself, but it's just when you hear it over and over and over. That's why I like King Crimson. When King Crimson would end songs and they'd have a final held chord, which wasn't very often, but if they did hold the final chord, if it's like... What they would do is they would just stop playing and not re-hit. Because often you're holding the last chord and then you re-hit it to finish it. So it's bop, bop.

Right? You do that bop, that final bop. You re-hit the chord. The full band, all four, seven, 15 members that are in there, whatever, you all re-hit the final chord that you're holding. Bam! Bam! What King Crimson would do... which was so cool and just weird and somehow coordinated, they wouldn't hit the final chord. They wouldn't re-hit it. They would just stop the sound. So they would go...

It's amazing to see done and so effective because it could be the most cacophonous held crazy minor fifth chord, flat five kind of chord, tritone dissonant craziness. And they just stop it. And it's so cool. They don't re-hit it. I always like that. So doing that kind of a thing, you know, milking it for encores, that's always annoying. Having the audience sing way too much of the song.

That's another like thing that's just annoying and kind of lazy. You know, like you come to a show and, you know.

I kind of want to hear the band do the number. I don't really want to hear the people next to me do the number. Like, it's bad enough they're going to be singing along as it is. But then when you do entire... choruses and entire like it's great to have a sing-along it's great to have a you know a back and forth or some kind of a audience involvement it's great but like when you have audiences doing entire verses and choruses that to me is like Um...

tricking the audience to standing up is another annoying thing like everybody get up everybody get up everybody get up that's kind of like it's a little it's a little frustrating and annoying because like to me to me you should earn The standing ovation. Like the people getting, like they should be so moved. But I get sometimes you have to do it to encourage. I get it. But I remember going to a show somewhere here in Bethlehem one time. And, you know, it was like a seated.

show it was like you're sitting it's like a long festival kind of show and this guy comes out and he's like everybody up he hasn't played a note yet like he hasn't played a note yet everybody up everybody up you're just like yeah no i'm not gonna

No, I'm not going to stand. I'm just, that's cheap. I'm not going to stand. If you're good, I'll stand. I'll totally get up. I'll dance even. I'll jump around like a maniac if you're good. But, like, you got to be good. You know, and it's also, it was one of these settings, too, where, like, I didn't know who the band was.

knew who the band was really they did have their regulars but for the most part it was a festival setting where most of the audience isn't going to know all the bands and that's the way it works and so like when a stranger comes up to you and he's like stand up get up yeah yeah sorry not gonna

Not going to happen. So listen for a repeated musical phrase that happens over and over to some kind of audience response. That's like, you know, easy but flashy. To use your words, that's definitely easy but flashy and kind of cheap. But again, look, it's impossible to entertain people. So I understand you do whatever you have to do. And, you know, I mean, the most egregious example.

is like, you know, Carl Palmer, let's say, right? He's a drummer who's a fantastic drummer. He's got a great history and you have to respect what he's done. But he's literally been playing the same drum solo for 50 years. And part of the drum solo that he does is he has two gongs behind.

him and he hits the gongs and takes off his shirt I think he stopped taking off his shirt maybe like five years ago which is finally good because like he's 80 so it's fine but it's just like it's just complete audience milking and that's yeah google google carl palmer drum solo and see how it's varied since 1971 versus 2025 it hasn't varied

And I like the guy. He's a good guy. He's a good, you know, he's a solid human. He's a nice guy. He's had a heck of a lot of experiences, but it's like, dude, just... Just like you can stop with the gongs. Like, what are you doing? So that kind of stuff. Thanks for the question, Jay, not S-G-U-J. Ask George.

Here's a tasty moronic treat coming to us from John Hennis. Thank you, John. Check out this byline. Catholic priest admits sending racist messages in neo-Nazi chat. Well done, sir. Well done. This takes place in Cardiff, in Wales. St. John Lloyd Catholic Church's father, Mark Rowles, was arrested by counter-terror police for extreme right-wing activity on social media. A Catholic priest who admitted discussing bombing... Ooh.

Father Mark Rowles, aged 57, went by the name Skinhead Lad 1488 in a chat room called Aryan Reich Killers to write offensive messages about Muslims. You know, if you're going to pick a name. It's good. It's good to describe, you know, have a good descriptive screen names. People know exactly who they're dealing with. Skinhead Lad 1488.

You should see the recipe subreddits on Aryan Reich killers. It's great. Father Rowles admitted three counts of sending menacing or offensive messages using the Telegram app. He will serve 150 hours of community service, pay 200 pounds in costs, and be bound by a criminal behavior order for three years. The Catholic Church in Wales will be carrying out its own review.

meaning they'll probably move him somewhere to Jersey and give him a promotion. Rawls was arrested during an investigation by counter-terrorist police, counter-terror police in extreme right-wing activity using social media apps. Rawls wrote offensive messages about Muslims, including a message where he said, bomb mosques. In one expletive-filled message, which included an extreme racial slur, he wrote, they should all be strung up or shot.

Either or, their choice. The court was told he described himself in an online profiled as a 16-year-old skinhead neo-Nazi and a loner. Okay. All right, yeah. Rob Simpkins, prosecuting, said the messages were hostility based on religion and race. He wrote some other stuff during police interviews. This is where it gets interesting. Rawls told officers he was not racist and that he joined the online groups because he was lonely and had a sexual fetish for role play.

Because, you know, that's what you want to do. If you've got some dark fetishes, which, hey, who doesn't? You want to make that stuff happen by going onto the Aryan Reich killers message board. That's the way to do it. There's no other way to satisfy your dark sexual fetish fantasies using your computer. That's the only way. um it's

His defendant said clearly this is a disturbing case, though his life in the Catholic Church, he has never been the subject of complaint or disciplinary action. He has no previous convictions. Oh, that's good. Great. A spokesperson for the Catholic Church in Wales said Rowles had not been active in ministry since...

the allegations were revealed, all the way up to, but not since. Father Mark Rowles for going over there onto the Aryan Reich killers and getting his rocks off by pretending to be a 16-year-old skinhead. is the geologic podcasts. Hit me!

We can find a story that makes me smile and I tell you all about it. You know, I've said this before. We do not deserve dogs. Humans do not deserve dogs. Here's the headline. Hero dog walks hours in the cold to find two-year-old girl lost in the woods in an incredible rescue. Yay! A dog is being hailed as a hero after rescuing a two-year-old girl in New Hampshire who got lost in the woods in danger. Thank you.

created an opening. Oh no. Temperatures, which were already in the 40s, were expected to reach the 20s overnight. Police called for backup and over 90 volunteers ultimately showed up. That's nice. Good news also.

to help search for the child in the heavily wooded area near the home. Everybody dropped what they were doing and came over extremely quickly knowing the temperature was dropping. Sergeant Christopher McKee of New Hampshire Fish and Game sent in a statement to the Post. One of the volunteers who arrived to help was Jeremy Corson. And with him was his seven-year-old German shepherd, Freya.

Jeremy, who drove 40 miles from Concord to assist, has been volunteering with the New England Canine Search and Rescue for 13 years, and Freya is trained as a search and rescue dog. Jeremy explained that he and Freya headed into the woods as soon as they arrived at the child's home. Time is of the essence with the two-year-old because both they're young and because the more time that passes, the more they can travel. Freya began picking up scent about eight o'clock, nearly five.

hours after the little girl went missing she's nose down which is an indicator of tracking she's got a scent on the ground the woods were so thick you couldn't see much more than a couple feet in front of you at any particular moment he said that he called the child's name and wouldn't you know what she responded she was really

a rough piece of woods. I could definitely tell she was cold and scared. He carried the toddler through the woods and back home where he said her family was thrilled. Everybody was absolutely ecstatic. Of course they were. Mom was very happy, very emotional and broke down. While the girl said she was ready for a bath and bedtime when she was reunited with her family, she was taken to a local hospital for a full body check.

Jeremy, meanwhile, said he's extremely proud of Freya and called her abilities incredible. Indeed, he additionally said that she was given a new ball and lots of extra pets. and hugs after the rescue. Freya finds the two-year-old missing for five hours pretty much quickly and instantly because Freya is awesome.

And I'm afraid that's all the time we have for this week's episode. Before we go, let me tell you that the site for tickets for the Christmas Sweaters show that's happening on December 18th. Right here in Bethlehem, PA at the Ice House, the Christmas Sweaters. That's the duo that I have with Alex Raddus, where we've written purposely bad Christmas songs. We're having our third annual concert. That's right. It's the Christmas Sweaters holiday extravaganza. Now with...

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holiday festival show. We've got some new tunes as well as the classics that we've written over the last couple of years. And also, don't forget that you can get our live album from last year called The Christmas Sweaters Live in Bethlehem, as well as George Hrab's Stocking Stuffer. That's over there on the band camp because it's that time of year. It's that holiday time of year. But tickets are available. Go get them. They're going to sell out really quick. And yeah.

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