When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? by Billie Eilish. Cameron's old and Nathan's old. Click here to join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/5vpqXaS) Learnin' Links: I Wanna Meet That Dad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21UP0frYg-E) XXXTentation, Eilish's deceased rapper friend (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXTentacion) Jiggy? (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jiggy) Lena Dunham steps in it but apologizes well (https://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/09/lena-dunham-odell-beckham-jr-gia...
Jun 11, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by My Chemical Romance. Cameron doesn't want to talk about Sha Na Na, Nathan confuses subs and dubs, and MCR sings its mediocre swan song. Click here to join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/5vpqXaS) Learnin' Links: Rush trys to metaphor (https://genius.com/Rush-the-trees-lyrics) Hollow point bullets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-point_bullet) The scorpion and the frog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog) Borrowed ...
Jun 04, 2019•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. Cameron plays the banjo, Nathan makes a brave confession, and Girard Way isn't a vampire after all. Click here to join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/5vpqXaS) Learnin' Links: Redditors nerding out about iv to I cadences (minor four chord to major one) (https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/6xdf9t/why_is_the_minor_iv_chord_so_freaking_beautiful/) Polyphonic Spree, for the uninitiated (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHJo_klmPcA) Gerard Way's not ...
May 28, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance. Cameron theory-splains, Nathan interlocutes, and Girard Way was a racecar driver. Click here to join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/5vpqXaS) Learnin' Links: Jerry Was a Racecar Driver (https://youtu.be/LBQ2305fLeA) Hot Cheetos and Takis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YLy4j8EZIk) Deceptive cadence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence#Deceptive_cadence) Perfect pitch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch) Thalar Thalar Bills Ya'...
May 21, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love by My Chemical Romance. Nathan finds extreme meaning, Cameron detects a ping on the emometer, and MCR did it Sinatra's way. Click here to join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/5vpqXaS) Learnin' Links: I Will Survive, sung by a space alien (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybXrrTX3LuI) Bach's Bourrée in E Minor, the Für Elise of classical guitar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIW0BrrA5LE) Spike Vs. Stake: is Nathan's pendantry earned? (https://w...
May 14, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Season 9 Bracket: Listener Suggestions! Nathan has reverse-ASMR, Cameron remembers how awful Red Hot Chili Peppers are, and bees fart. Click here to join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/5vpqXaS) Learnin' Links: Bible stuff (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A9-14&version=NIV) MCR doesn't want you to call them emo (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/my-chemical-romances-gerard-way-taps-another-nail-into-emo-coffin-101867/) Glottal stop (https://en.wikipedia.org/...
Apr 23, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Blue by Third Eye Blind. Cameron Googles Goo Goo Dolls, Nathan busts a thought, and boy make girl feel good. Click here to join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/5vpqXaS) Learnin' Links: Strange Family is canceled (https://nylon.com/nathan-pyle-anti-abortion) Hulk and Black Widow just can't (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUosv677ucA) Someone explain rape to Cee-Lo Green (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/02/cee-lo-green-it-isnt-if-the-victim-is-unconscious) Ally Cookies (https://medium...
Apr 16, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Crash by David Matthews Band. Cameron talks about his shithead elementary school best friend who happened to be a DMB fan, Nathan, to Cameron's utter horror, says the phrase "a slightly warmer fleshlight" and Dave Matthews gives nice hugs to strangers. Click here to join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/5vpqXaS) Learnin' Links: The saxophone family (https://www.selmer.fr/media/info/family_saxophone.pdf) Our racist national anthem (https://www.theroot.com/star-spangled-bigotry-the-hidden-racist-h...
Apr 09, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Now That's What I Call Music! 5 . Cameron wants to have some salty, sweaty, savory kisses, Nathan waddles up to the counter in cargo shorts and a fleece vest, and the global Now That's What I Call Music! corporation makes some barfy choices about flaccid rock. Click here to join our Discord! Learnin' Links: And Now We Call It Gravy Noted creep Les Moonves had Janet Jackson blacklisted Punch Up The Jam's episode about Absolutely (Story of a Girl) Pathos and bathos Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowel...
Apr 02, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast 1UP by T-Pain. Cameron has four mimosas prior to recording, Nathan learns to take care of himself, and T-Pain performs Grammylingus. Click here to join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/5vpqXaS) Learnin' Links: New Elton John Biopic (https://ultimateclassicrock.com/elton-john-rocketman-movie-facts/) Chance the Rapper and T-Pain's song Finish Line (https://open.spotify.com/track/2AgnbuzvnfPvq1sAYNB4pj) A critique of Urban Dictionary (https://medium.com/@natalieisonline/keeping-it-one-hundred-b4615...
Mar 26, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Fearless Fred Fury by Insane Clown Posse. Cameron listens to Insane Clown Bossy, Nathan emails brain@hotmail.com, and ICP are—best case scenario—equal-opportunity murderers. Click here to join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/5vpqXaS) Learnin' Links: * Bury Your Gays, AKA Kill Your Gays (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuryYourGays) * Women in Refrigerators (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Refrigerators) * Dayenu—"It Would Have Been Enough" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayen...
Mar 19, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Repentless by Slayer. Nathan has contagious grumps, Cameron gets negged by middle aged women, and where is Ipanema anyway? Click here to join our Discord! (https://discord.gg/5vpqXaS) Learnin' Links: Furry Juggalo Alliance (https://twitter.com/deotasdevil/status/1015814490372403200?lang=en) Scion A/V existed, for some reason (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scion_Audio/Visual) The actual words to The Girl from Ipanema (http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-girl-from-ipanema-lyrics-antonio-carlos-jobim.ht...
Mar 12, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast World Painted Blood by Slayer. Cameron is a manic pixie dream boy, Nathan wants to talk about snuff, baby! and Slayer denies to this. Click here to join our Discord! Learnin' Links: Sherwin Williams "Cover the Earth" Tremolo picking on a single string Snuff films Casey Newton's article about the lives of Facebook moderators The 2008 revised version of Risk Unit 731 The Rape of Nanking (AKA the Nanjing Massacre) Strange Planet comic His Dark Materials TV show on BBC Listen along to World Painted ...
Mar 05, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Christ Illusion by Slayer. Nathan fancies the fanciest of animals, Cameron is the genius now, dawg, and Slayer writes foul couplets about the beautiful act of sodomy. Click here to join our Discord! Learnin' Links: There’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s … which may be nasty after all More about Johnny Greenwood's guitars, including their killswitches The klezmer song sampled is "A Wild Night in Odessa" by the Klezmorim Listen along to Christ Illusion here! You can support us in several ways : Kic...
Feb 26, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast God Hates Us All by Slayer. Cameron (in addition to everyone else) loves wizards, Nathan thinks all bibles look like nails, and Slayer makes their left hands go wiggly-wiggly. Click here to join our Discord! Learnin' Links: Blank verse Philippe Petit , the French guy who walked a high-wire between the Twin Towers Rush Limbaugh was a junkie , even while saying "And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent ...
Feb 19, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Diabolus in Musica by Slayer. Nathan is all out of turbs, Cameron mandates a license to use a six-syllable word, and Slayer writes a musical Starbucks cup. Click here to join our Discord! Learnin' Links: Discord invite The Tritone , the real Diabolus in Musica Turbo, the album by Judas Priest Baudelaire , not Rimbaud, you idiot, Nathan! Scrum (Agile) The Point , an absolutely bonkers movie Nickelback's hypothetical album of Slayer covers Listen along to Diabolus in Musica here! You can support u...
Feb 12, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Divine Intervention by Slayer. Cameron absorbingly noshes a part of you, Nathan starts a band called Bashful Little Rodent, and Slayer isn't about to yuck any cannibalistic yums. Click here to join our Discord! Learnin' Links: Khmer Rouge Killing Fields "Superpredators" comments made by Hillary Clinton in the 90s Poe's Law Progressive and reactive politics Related: The GOP's Southern Strategy Dittohead , the term The Star Wars character "Elan Sleazebaggano" The Fucktape Letters The super racist ...
Feb 04, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Seasons in the Abyss by Slayer. Nathan finds himself with a case of Schrödinger's Affect, Cameron plays Dungeon Master in a game of Lotion 'n' Loofahs, and Slayer s'ports the troops. Learnin' Links: Ed Gein Book bound in human skin in the Boston Athenaeum "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades" Tyler, the Creator "I'm so mad I’m gonna bust a nut!" Donald Trump's racist comments about the Central Park Five Listen along to Seasons in the Abyss here! You can support us in several ways : Kick us ...
Jan 28, 2019•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast South of Heaven by Slayer. Cameron indulges in S-scatological humor, Nathan’s pockets are drippin’, and Slayer finally decides that Nazis are bad, m’kay? Learnin' Links: NRP bought some of Jim Bakker’s slop Just some of Jim Bakker’s crimes “Eschatological” The Silent Scream movie Thorazine , it turns out, is a psychoactive medication used to treat schizophrenia (and other disorders) John Vanderslice’s “Song for David Berman” includes the line “massacres are disguised as battles all the time” Lis...
Jan 22, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Reign in Blood by Slayer. Cameron is not necessarily on the side of Josef Mengele, Nathan experiences pain in his human module, and Slayer is cosplaying satanic lore. Learnin' Links: The Cruelty Is the Point Sufjan Stevens’ song about John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Pascal’s Wager The murder of Elyse Pahler , whose parents alleged that Slayer lyrics inspired the murder The murder of Junko Furata , which is what Nathan was trying to think of Gospel church supposedly headbanging to Slayer 🙄 Mandela effect H...
Jan 15, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hell Awaits by Slayer. Cameron develops his hole control, Nathan dares to ask if hatred is a form of appreciation, and Slayer is just cave-manning it. Learnin' Links: Metal Archives (AKA Encyclopedia Metallum) Metal Archives article on Slayer The episode of Metal Evolution about Extreme Metal The lyrics generator Cameron used Listen along to Hell Awaits here! You can support us in several ways : Kick us a few bux on Patreon! By becoming a supporting member, you'll gain access to special bonus ep...
Jan 07, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Garth Brooks & the magic of Christmas: Songs from Call Me Claus by Garth Brooks Surprise, mothertruckers! Wicked cowboys never die! That's right, Garth Brooks has returned for another heartwarming exercise in perfunctory Christmas mirth. Watch those reindeer paws, because we're about to bump-n-hump deep into the black magic of Christmas. Learnin' Links: Attention : We were not aware that “Zat You, Santa Claus?” is a real song, done much better by Louis Armstrong The Allmusic review for this ...
Dec 17, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Haunting the Chapel/Live Undead by Slayer. Nathan takes a broad view of the Slayer œuvre, Cameron launches a spinoff called Ape Talk , and Slayer really should've been named "Demonic Doug." Learnin' Links: Satanist display in Illinois The cover of Haunting the Chapel , and Live Undead "Dulce et Decorum Est" , by Wilfred Owen Tritone Poetic foot Shared by Jordan Gilbert: 10 Genres of Metal in 3 Minutes Shared by Jordan Gilbert: Evolution of Metal (1970-2010) The first character with "LOVE" and "H...
Dec 10, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Show No Mercy by Slayer. Nathan applies a thin coat of Satan paint, Cameron proves that Slayer is folk music, and Slayer writes some limericks. Learnin' Links: Rammstein's singer performing on fire The term “person of color” Satanism ( Church of Satan , Satanic Temple —very different things) The album cover Euler and the bridges of Königsberg Miriam Jones’ article about murder ballads D’n’D Alignment Achewood metal band lyrics Listen along to Show No Mercy here! You can support us in several way...
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Help us choose an artist after Smash Mouth! Now that Smash Mouth is—mercifully—over and done with, it's time to choose who to do next! We do a bracket of listener suggestions. Help us choose between our two finalists at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DNKBCWM You can support us in several ways : Kick us a few bux on Patreon! By becoming a supporting member, you'll gain access to special bonus episodes, including a new weekly mini-show, What's in the Box Weekly ! Buy T-shirts, sweatshirts, and mor...
Nov 26, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Magic by Smash Mouth. Cameron demands to be eaten and put in a bag (in that order), Nathan is gleekin' from both ends, and Smash Mouth? You might know them from "All Star" that is in Shrek. Announcement : next week, we'll be running a bracket of listener suggestions to choose our next artist. Drop us a line at email@boxset.website or tweet at @totbspodcast to suggest an artist! Learnin' Links: Krampus Smash Mouth's cookbook Hawk Nelson Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" Gleeking Steve Harwell "Brok...
Nov 19, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summer Girl by Smash Mouth. Nathan tries to see if there’s a little less nothing in this album, Cameron likes his dumb and bad style, and Smash Mouth gets into some real LiveJournal territory. Learnin' Links: Zoom , a bad movie Just one of many examples of Tim Allen being a shithead Steve Harwell losing his shit, courtesy of Matt Parr Listen along to Summer Girl here! You can support us in several ways : Kick us a few bux on Patreon! By becoming a supporting member, you'll gain access to special...
Nov 12, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get the Picture? by Smash Mouth. Cameron wants to get Tim-Tam blasted, Nathan has some titular fun, and Smash Mouth are the true heroes of the 9/11 years. Learnin' Links: Retrofuturism “Beg the question” vs. "Raise the question” Scientist renounces alpha/beta view of wolves Pickleback Listen along to Get the Picture here! You can support us in several ways : Kick us a few bux on Patreon! By becoming a supporting member, you'll gain access to special bonus episodes, including a new weekly mini-sh...
Nov 05, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Smash Mouth by Smash Mouth. Nathan snoozes outside the box set, Cameron wonders if he's activating sleep agents, and Smash Mouth jazzes so hard—er, so smooth. Learnin' Links: PCH Columbia Record Club Soul patch Bloatee Listen along to Smash Mouth here, if you must. You can support us in several ways : Kick us a few bux on Patreon! By becoming a supporting member, you'll gain access to special bonus episodes, including a new weekly mini-show, What's in the Box Weekly ! Buy T-shirts, sweatshirts, ...
Oct 29, 2018•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Astrolounge by Smash Mouth. Smash Mouth releases an album that's really -ive, Cameron is blinded by the whiteness, and Nathan proves Smash Mouth culture still exists using the power of STATISTICS . Learnin' Links: UFO pronunciation Ed Sheeran on Game of Thrones Applejacks racist commercials UB40's version of "Red Red Wine" Listen along to Astrolounge here! You can support us in several ways : Kick us a few bux on Patreon! By becoming a supporting member, you'll gain access to special bonus episo...
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