E14: Palestine, 10cc, & UFOs
Welcome back! In this riveting episode, Garr and Éric discuss folk songs and what they're about. Next up on the docket is all about the situation in Israel and Palestine: the Hamas attack, Netanyahu, the persecution of the Palestinians, and West Bank settlements. Is Gaza a gulag? Is disagreeing with Israel anti-Semitism? After that we talk about progressive rock, artists that didn't 'wow' us, and songs that took multiple listens to love. Uriah Heep, Traffic, Kansas—the gang's all here! After a brief stopover on celebrities—Taylor Swift, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman (did you know Garr has a huge jackman?)—we get bogged down into an interesting but confusing discussion of 10cc. If you can dig it though, the reward is a discussion of UFOs, ghosts, the Loch Ness monster, and other supernatural sightings. D. B. Cooper? You'll need to hear this episode to believe it!
- Hosts: Garr, Éric
Timestamps
0:00 Intro0:32 Fun with folk songs
2:49 Palestine
8:58 Prog rock & songs we didn't like at first
11:22 Taylor Swift, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman
13:08 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and Erdős–Bacon numbers
15:55 "Rubber Bullets"
16:31 Talking 10cc
19:39 Talking PA/Philadelphia
20:40 Talking 10cc
25:51 UFOs!
26:48 Bigfoot, Loch Ness monster
27:57 Alien sighting
32:04 Giving life meaning
33:42 Trying to be an artist (Yoko Ono, Styx)
37:33 Back to UFOs
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Join Garr Montalbano, co-host Éric Fontenot, and occasional friends as they "shoot the shindig" about whatever comes to their wild minds — life, love, music, and substance. From the frivolous to the serious, you're in for a ride, man. Hey! Your refrigerator's running… to catch the shindig.