Repeater

The hilarious and sharp-witted Sarah Pappalardo (co-founder, co-editor of Reductress) joins us on this LIVE episode of the show to talk about St. Vincent’s song “Cruel.” If you’re not familiar with Sarah or Reductress, she’s basically in charge of the funniest website on the internet, or as they like to say, “the first and only satirical women’s magazine.” Since 2013, they’be been bringing the fire and making everyone laugh while doing it. We talk about how Sarah got into both comedy and music, what life was like for her as a Chicago-to-NYC transplant, and we hear an incredible story about her falling into a canal. We also fawn over how much Annie Clark rules and hear about some of Sarah ambitions for Reductress now that they’ve conquered the internet.

Maris Kreizman (Slaughterhouse 90210) brought her favorite sad song with her: Concrete Blonde – Joey.
Joey has been one of Maris’ favorites for years, and even sang it from a porch for the world to hear! We talk about how Maris found herself connecting to sad songs about complicated relationships and thinking she related to them on some level. We talk about aspirational sadness and the cathartic power that sad music has.
The conversation continues to books, learning experiences through fiction, and songs especially when you’re singing along to a song before you even know what you’re singing about. We’re suspicious of people that don’t engage with art and talk about Dan Brown, the Eagles of commercial thrillers.
Spoiler — Evan is not Rhianna, but Evan sings Rhianna!
Maris reads a lot of books and highly recommends — Lorrie Moore Anagrams, Self Help, Birds of America, Bark. Evans “Just buy it!” recommendation is Ted Chiang – Story of Your Life

The incredibly funny Jo Firestone joins us to talk about King Floyd’s classic soul song “Groove Me.”

We hope you have your popcorn ready cause Jo has hers! We talk about the song for a little bit and then we we’re off to the races with tangents galore. We cover everything from Abba’s greatest hits to high school reunions in this episode! Not enough? How about a Seth Rogen impersonation? Want to learn about Paladins? Strange regional foods? Your cool older brother? YOU WILL LEARN IT ALL. Plus, we pivot to become a very legitimate medical podcast and you discover a lot more about your favorite hosts.