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Episode 33: St. Paul: A New Formalist Close Reading

Okay, so we don’t do a true new formalist close reading, but Mike Miller of Endless Mike and the Beagle Club stops by for an intimate conversation about his wonderful new record St. Paul.

During our time together, I give that record what might be the most painfully awkward record review in history.  We also talk about why everyone should read Margaret Atwood, why the Learn and Play Puppy is the gateway to terror, how The Beagle Club is on their way to the World Series, and it is revealed why between now and March 4, 2016 I am the most important person in the world!

You really, really should buy St. Paul from the A-F Records web-store. You can follow all things Beagle Club from their Facebook page.  And while you’re at it, isn’t it time you joined the Beagle Club Club?

Swearing is pretty much a mandatory condition of being on the podcast at this point.

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Episode 19: Seriously, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

For this podcast we are lucky to have Endless Mike of Endless Mike and the Beagle Club; The One and Only Matt Miller (who is also in The Beagle Club); and Derek Zanetti of The Homeless Gospel Choir to discuss what it means to share one’s personal life through songwriting.   We also discuss Jimmy Stewart’s hometown, a place where emotions are seemingly not allowed, and Derek provides us with perhaps the greatest moment in the history of the podcast.

Endless Mike has a great song called “Out of Respect”  that we talk about throughout the podcast. You can find out more about Endless Mike and the Beagle Club here, and you can see Matt Miller’s newest movie “Hang With Me” here.  Derek is an old vet of the podcast.  He was here previously to talk about his band The Homeless Gospel Choir in Episode 11, and he was here to promote his book Existentialism: The Musical in Episode 15.

As always, there is swearing.

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