DanielSwinney

Thanks. I'm actually not too worried about it since I went to the same open mic as just a viewer the other night and the bar is set pretty low. I mean, most of the people weren't getting *laughs* but everyone seemed to be ok with awkward silence, so I shouldn't be "the one guy who wasn't very good."

I actually *am* planning to do my first-ever open mic set in a few weeks at a place within walking distance. Maybe I'll sprint!

But yeah, the caller wasn't an asshole at all. Andrew and the guest host seem to often assume that whatever the caller is asking about is something they actually do, without any evidence.

Yeah, word. I started losing my hair at 18 and I wasn't going to go through college looking like a taller, whiter, skinny Danny Devito.

A sort of jukebox jury on listener submissions might be cool, although not a whole show of them. Maybe a track every week or two.

Producers version of Mount Rapmore?

Broadcasting is a pretttttttttttttttttty common college major.

Haha, I have a friend who used to hook up with strippers who told me almost the exact thing that "Lee" said about not paying them because they think of you as a customer.

DO VIDEO IN 2012! Barring that, since it ends in a few weeks and all, 2013.

I bumped his soundcloud for like an hour after I posted. Lots of awesome shit. Loving the stuff with Eddie B, "Heavy Bars" especially.

Great stuff in here... I definitely want to check out some more of Harry Fraud's work now. One of my favorite tracks of the year was Killa Sin's "The Archer" from the Man with the Iron Fists soundtrack, which features a really loud "SHOTS FIRED!" drop at the end.

I don't really see the rockabilly types as having a Happy Days kind of idealizing of the 50s as much as they seem to like space-echoey spaghetti western rock and Jerry Lee Louis's hair.

This one was pretty puzzling. Wearing a confederate flag: yes, very racist. Listening to rockabilly music: no, have fun. Does rockabilly tend to have white power lyrics?

Jack the Ripper was my favorite song as a kid. Honestly just hip-hop beefs by themselves could be the focus of a long-running podcast. I hope this episode is just Beef, Vol. 1 as far as Shots Fired goes.

Big white dudes get called a horse or a mule though.

I remember during... probably the Halloween CBB?... Jon said something that made me think rafflecast was coming back full time, so I hope I interpreted that correctly and that we are seeing the first fruits of this endeavor.

His name makes me think "open my kegal". Also, I'm with Jeff on Ghostface.

Black Moth Super Rainbow's Cobra Juicy is my favorite album this year. That is all.

When Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" came out and people were talking about it, my first response was, "somebody covered Jill Sobule"?

But then why is the West "the West"? It seems like calling it that is just as much adopting an Eastern world view as calling the East "the East" is adopting a Western world view.

As also both of those things myself, I pretty much agree. I can see a couple of takes on it though: The cynical side: It's a cheat code to sounding "of the times" without having to take a risk with a new production technique that people aren't used to. It ensures that you won't have people scratching their heads and responding to you as if you are some outsider artist, because you safely sound like everyone else. This of course also means you won't be setting any new trends, because you sound like everyone else. The optimistic to the point of being naive and obtuse side: Autotune is the new populist choice to make, because people trying to hook up in clubs or bump something in their cars aren't trying to hear some experimental overture, they just want something they can connect to right away out of familiarity! I'm on the cynical side.

I liked Dam during the interview parts, but I wasn't really feeling his music.

My office is now a(n) historical site, as the Stephen Hawking impression killed me in it.

Oh and "Africanadian" duh.

The right move was made.