If You're Listening

Heather could only make it through 37 seconds of the full-length; can Ramsey make it through the single? This week, for some reason, we tackle Limp Bizkit’s seminal 1999 hit, “Nookie.” This week: An earnest attempt to understand this song’s in as much depth as it will allow! Ramsey remembers something important seconds too late! And Heather becomes obsessed with the “cookie” of it all. All this and so much MORE! Don't want to end the fun? Check out our Spotify playlists for more music choices from Ramsey and Heather. Wanna get a shout-out on a future episode? Give us a rating on iTunes! It helps us, and it helps you feel good about yourself!

You asked for it; we talked through it! This week we listen to the enormously popular 2006 album from My Chemical Romance, “The Black Parade!” This week: Heather compiles and delivers TON of research! Liza! Liza! Liza! And Heather learns who Wanda Maximoff is, gets immediately frustrated, and shuts down the conversation! All this and so much MORE! Don't want to end the fun? Check out our Spotify playlists for more music choices from Ramsey and Heather. Wanna get a shout-out on a future episode? Give us a rating on iTunes! It helps us, and it helps you feel good about yourself!

This week the incredibly hilarious Paul Rust and Michael Cassady, known together as Don’t Stop Or We’ll Die, are here to spin some Elfman soundtrack treats and some Belafonte calypso beats as we listen to the 1988 original motion picture soundtrack for Beetlejuice! This week: Paul reveals his unique quarantine hobby! Michael sits down behind the keys! And we definitively name the three most popular Simpsons characters (and yes one of them is Otto)! All this and so much MORE! Don't want to end the fun? Check out our Spotify playlists for more music choices from Ramsey and Heather. Wanna get a shout-out on a future episode? Give us a rating on iTunes! It helps us, and it helps you feel good about yourself!

This year’s annual Every Time I Die Christmas show was impossible, so instead, they released a pair of new songs, their first new music since 2016. Today we listen to 2020's “A Colossal Wreck” and try to decide once and for all: is this a Christmas song? This week: The band goes from scary to hometown heroes as we learn they’re from Buffalo! A discussion of poetry forms! And a surprising amount of kombucha discussion! All this and so much MORE! Don't want to end the fun? Check out our Spotify playlists for more music choices from Ramsey and Heather. Wanna get a shout-out on a future episode? Give us a rating on iTunes! It helps us, and it helps you feel good about yourself!

This week we consider the last of the pre-pandemic times as return to Spanish Love Songs and listen to their prescient, 2020 album, “Brave Faces Everyone.” This week: A very special episode: faith, democracy crumbles, mental health and 9/11! Brief Ted Lasso spoilers (Sorry! It’s brief and doesn’t really ruin anything!) Heather coins the phrase “Ride or Bye!” All this and so much MORE! Don't want to end the fun? Check out our Spotify playlists for more music choices from Ramsey and Heather. Wanna get a shout-out on a future episode? Give us a rating on iTunes! It helps us, and it helps you feel good about yourself!

We are joined this week by journalist Luke O’Neil, author of Welcome to Hell World and the book Lockdown in Hell World to discuss Elliott Smith’s 1997 album Either/Or! This week: Elliott Smith goes head-to-head against Celine Dion! Tales of running into musicians at bars! And Biden’s gonna bring back Muse! All this and so much MORE! Don't want to end the fun? Check out our Spotify playlists for more music choices from Ramsey and Heather. Wanna get a shout-out on a future episode? Give us a rating on iTunes! It helps us, and it helps you feel good about yourself!

Last week we gave you our most played songs: this week, we each give our choice for the best new song of 2020! This week: We revisit our segment “Heather Guesses What Superheroes Are Avengers!” Heather gives some fascinating historical backstory on her pick! And a classic peak behind the curtain! All this and so much MORE! Don't want to end the fun? Check out our Spotify playlists for more music choices from Ramsey and Heather. Wanna get a shout-out on a future episode? Give us a rating on iTunes! It helps us, and it helps you feel good about yourself!

Remember all the way back 26 days ago when everybody was posting screenshots of their Spotify accounts? Well, here’s the audio version of that! This week, Ramsey and Heather go through their top 5 songs of the year and compare their very disparate listening habits! This week: What page a day calendar is going to inspire Ramsey’s catchphrases in 2021? How to learn Portuguese through music! Heather’s Machine Gun Kelly fandom (not standom) explored! All this and so much MORE! Don't want to end the fun? Check out our Spotify playlists for more music choices from Ramsey and Heather. Wanna get a shout-out on a future episode? Give us a rating on iTunes! It helps us, and it helps you feel good about yourself!

This week, comedy writer and podcaster extraordinaire Jordan Morris (Bubble, JJGo) shows up to ska up our lives with Less Than Jake’s 1996 album, “Losing Streak!” This week: The tumultuous world of amusement park relationships! How does it feel to age out of music festivals? And songs about guys the band knows! All this and so much MORE! Don't want to end the fun? Check out our Spotify playlists for more music choices from Ramsey and Heather. Wanna get a shout-out on a future episode? Give us a rating on iTunes! It helps us, and it helps you feel good about yourself!