Jesus is a Punk Rocker

In this episode Joe and Matt, explore how Bruce Springsteen's "Badlands" and The Neighborhood Kids' "Preacher Man" meet the current moment by expressing our collective righteous anger but leading us to hope.

As we celebrate Halloween and dread the upcoming election in the US, we thought it would be a good time to discuss ghosts and immigration and the way they both appear in Dropkick Murphy's "The Hardest Mile." And then we listen to a celebration of immigrants with Shad's "Fam Jam (Fe Sum Immigrins)."

Returning after a months-long hiatus, Joe and Matt bring two songs about joy: Dear Silas' "I Ain't Stressing Today" and "Rec & Play" by I'm from Barcelona.

The world's messed up and so are we. So we talk about two songs that reflect that lament: Social Distortions' "I Was Wrong" and Kendrick Lamar's "Mother I Sobe.r"

We explore the redemption themes of Joy Oladokun's "Somebody Like Me" and Johnny Cash's "Like a Solider."