Hello Friends! Another lunchtime episode is upon us! Kris kicks it solo for a few to tell you about our topic for this lunchtime episode-producers! (0:24) Beefing about rock bio-pics (2:47) Marty reveling in his midwestern roots by impersonating the documentary now spoof “Gentle and Soft” (5:42) What we feel being a producer means (7:30) Producers in Hip-Hop (13:30) How DJ’s moved the art of beat making and scratching forward by working together (16:31) Kris breaks down his love for Phil Spector...
May 28, 2019•52 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast The wait is over! 1996 PART 2 is upon us! Marty, Kris, and the Enchanting Wizard of Rhythm are BACK! We kick it off by hotly debating who has better fried pies (2:24) A breakdown of the 1996 billboard charts (5:32) starting with strict delineation of the Macarena, Thomas’ pick for favorite song (5:59) Marty remembering a huge regional hip hop hit that he didn’t realize was regional until he moved to Texas (7:36) Kris doing parenting right by exposing his daughter to Busta Rhymes at a young age (...
May 21, 2019•2 hr 50 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast The dream of the 90’s is alive…..at Album of the year Podcast! Marty kicks things off by accepting his fate as a big, sweaty polack (0:32) How we spent the Easter Holiday (2:39) We then introduce our special guest (8:02) Thomas, the “Enchanting Wizard of Rhythm”, who blesses us with stories based on his long history with Kris growing up in Belton, Texas (9:03) Marty tells the story of the fateful evening at the Leander Beer market (20:58) Kris breaks down a change to our format, then the three o...
May 14, 2019•2 hr 57 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast We had a blast doing this lunchtime episode, the mystery box! We check in with a quick intro (0:55) explaining what’s inside the “mystery box:, Marty going full “Big Sweaty Polack” mode (2:05). We then break the mystery box open and sift thru the good, the bad, and the ugly (3:24) of a variety of 45 RPM records ranging from the 50’s all the way up to the 80’s. No more time stamps, because that would be cheating! Thanks as always for listening!
May 01, 2019•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast The wait is over…Marty and Kris present the first ANTHOLOGY episode on the great STEVIE WONDER, listen to us as we span his legendary career! We kick it off by doing a brief monologue (1:20) The battle we’re waging against oak and cedar pollen allergies (2:45). Moving on, Kris tells a story about his wedding (10:22), followed by a head-first dive into the formidable and illustrious career of the one and only Stevie Wonder! Marty talks about some of the first things that come to mind when he thin...
Apr 16, 2019•2 hr 7 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Man, do we have a hum-dinger for y’all! Kris and Marty kick it off by revealing Marty’s last name (0:30) Kris talks about his recent trip to Houston (1:37) A fateful trip to Hard Rock Cafe (5:57) Marty getting a chance to do a short DJ set (18:04) Kris helping Marty pick a DJ name (20:42) An introduction of the year we’ve decided to uncover for this episode, 1972 (22:35) Breaking down the charts (25:30) Kris on the sensational aspects of musician/band biopics (30:47) Remembering Dick Dale (38:08...
Apr 02, 2019•2 hr 19 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Come one, come all, to the first minisode of season 2! We start out with a short introduction, followed by some serious "pro audio" (2:01) Introducing our topic (3:05) The Neurological exploits of nostalgia (5:39) Reminiscing on Dick Clark's American Bandstand Grill in the Cincinnati suburb or Kenwood, Ohio (11:50) Kris coming up with an interesting buzzfeed list (17:40) Which member of the krautrock scene we are (18:16) Nostalgia as entertainment (22:16) Kris's experience in music school (23:53...
Mar 23, 2019•58 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast In season 2, episode 2, Kris and Marty are back to talk all things 2002! We kick things off with some talk about record stores, Marty admitting he’s never been to a tower records (1:10) We then switch gears and give a shout out to some friends that started a podcast of their own (1:57) Next, we discuss the flashpoint of popular music and the internet, and how audiences began to fracture because of it (6:03) Kris being ahead of his time suggesting to the members of his first band they should shar...
Mar 05, 2019•3 hr 56 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Hold on to your butts-It’s the Album of the year Podcast SEASON 2 DEBUT! We start off by recapping how we spent our holiday season (1:06) Marty talks of binging pierogis in Tennessee with his family (1:26) Kris’s Norwegian heritage delicacy, Lutefisk, (2:15) Marty visiting the Moog Synthesizer factory in Asheville, NC (5:10). Charging forward, we introduce our special guest, James Rawson! (8:21) James tells us a bit about himself and his music background playing in his band, Timonium, and workin...
Feb 19, 2019•3 hr•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Hold on to your Santa Hats, people, Marty and Kris are back with another lunch( dinner) time episode! We kick things off with some extra holiday cheer added to our intro (0:00) and get right down to business with another themed beverage (2:11) Shout out to some listeners (4:45) Kris gives Marty a gift (6:03) Tales from Christmases of Marty and Kris’ past (12:05) Our earliest memories of Christmas music (21:30) Kris’ thoughts on Irving Berlin and how Christmas music evolved (21:45) The most succe...
Dec 18, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast For our 5th episode, Marty and Kris are tackling a very pivotal year in music and popular culture-1979! We kick things off with some Whataburger evangelism (0:45) followed by some esoteric fast food talk (3:40) X-Men romantic character arcs (8:18) Marty and Kris recap what they did over the Thanksgiving holiday (10:10) Kris taking his daughter to a playground built in the 1950’s (10:56) Marty’s encounter with the Record Store Day reissue of the Gravediggaz 1994 classic “6 Feet Deep” (15:40) Kris...
Dec 04, 2018•3 hr 44 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Hey Team-Get’cha cornbread ready, Marty and Kris are back with a Thanksgiving-themed minisode! We kick it off by taking an opportunity to frame the episode for those out there that might not be familiar with the lunchtime format (2:45) then get straight into it-Kris introduces the minisode theme (6:43) Shout out to our listener(s) in Bosnia (10:14), and a brief breakdown of what a “Turkey” really is within the context of the episode (11:52). Next, we finally put the Spin Doctors conversation to ...
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Hold on to your hats, fam… we got another banger for ya! Marty kicks things off by doing his best classical radio station DJ impersonation (0:44) Breaking down the setlist from the Breeders ACL night show at Scoot Inn (5:50) naming inspiration for Kris’s first band (7:57) The last time Marty saw GWAR live (14:03) Kris’s weird side project band, The Martian Armpit Orchestra, and their big last.fm hit “Mars is Made of Chocolate Fudge” (18:25), Marty reading the Bob Pollard/Guided by Voices biograp...
Nov 06, 2018•3 hr 7 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast It’s time to knock ‘em out the box with the first Lunchtime Minisode! Kris starts things off for a change (0:22) Then Kris and Marty talk a little bit about our first minisode, “Mixtapes” (0:48). After that brief intro, we jump right in to our first minisode with a brief recap of seeing the Breeders the night before (5:32) Introducing the topic of the first minisode (9:37), Kris making his first mixtape while still in preschool (11:33) Recording songs off of the radio (19:58) Marty’s foray into ...
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Marty and Kris are back with another heater! Episode 3 is all about 2013. We start with tackling Marty’s birthday weekend exploits (0:50) Kris gives Marty a birthday gift (4:40) Marty visiting the Cranbrook art museum in Detroit and checking out the Punk Graphics exposition (11:10) Breaking down the year of 2013 in music and what was happening on the billboard charts (22:46) Marty reveling in how much he hates Florida-Georgia Line (30:51) and Kris’s old band getting inexplicably booked for hip h...
Oct 09, 2018•3 hr 54 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast For episode 2, Marty and Kris make the cosmic shift almost 30 years past 1963-to 1990. I start out by recommending to Kris some obscure Korean psychedelic pop from the 50’s (1:02), corrections corner from episode 1 (8:43), Marty getting dressed down in the middle of Kmart by his older sister for trying to buy De La Soul is Dead on cassette (11:55), Kris making Marty an offer for an OG K-NACK psycho baby sticker (16:00), The somewhat-known Austin rumor that record execs used to call Daniel Johnst...
Sep 27, 2018•3 hr 52 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast It's the inaugural episode of the Album of the Year podcast, and for 1963, Marty and Kris have swung for the fences with two classic albums! Starting off with a quick update (0:00) and moving on to introductions (4:25), Marty and Kris then delve into the premise and genesis of the podcast itself (13:41) Why we started at 1963 (17:59), Marty Spending his allowance money on Kriss Kross "Totally Krossed Out" (39:00), Kris's dad playing in a Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass knockoff band (50:13), a...
Sep 11, 2018•2 hr 14 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast 
