The Egalitarian Fun Hour!

Salutations listeners!  Welcome back to the Egalitarian Fun Hour!  This episode, with our special guest, Matthew Lanus, back on the show, we collectively review our Lollapalooza experience from last weekend.  It was a glorious Chicago weekend - it started off beautifully, and ended with a climactic bang.  Listen in to hear our thoughts on the bands we heard and saw! Also, below, check out some photos and video that Matt and my father recorded during the weekend, as well as some live review coverage of Matthew. Tennis: Smith Westerns: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.: Cage the Elephant: The Lanus Family:

Above, you'll find a special episode of our podcast - a preview to the Lollapalooza music festival being held this weekend in Chicago's Grant Park.  Seeing as I am home in the suburbs of Chicago, I invited my brother, Matt, to join the show while we performed some technical magic and Skyped Shannon in from Los Angeles while simultaneously recording her audio - pretty complicated stuff.  Anyway, in this show, we discuss those bands that we're most looking forward to, some noticeable changes to this year's festival, some Lanus family Lolla stories, and Matt gives us some important festival-going tips and tricks.  Enjoy the show! Below is this episode's playlist.  This show features only music from artists that will perform at Lolla this year. Muse - "United States of Eurasia/Collateral Damage" from The Resistance Tennis - "Baltimore" from Cape Dory Cults - "Walk at Night" from Cults Smith Westerns - "Imagine, pt. 3" from Dye it Blonde Black Lips - "Modern Art" from Arabia Mountain Beirut - "The Penalty" from The Flying Club Cup Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - "The Fisherman" from It's a Corporate World Local Natives - "Airplanes" from Gorilla Manor Cage the Elephant - "Always Something" from Thank You Happy Birthday KiD KuDi - "Soundtrack 2 My Life" from Man on the Moon: The End of Day

Greetings!  Welcome back to the podcast!  Above, you'll find the fourth installment of the podcast in which we talk about comedy, stand-up comics, their various permutations, and both Shannon and my reactions to them.  I might classify this episode as our most (technically) successful yet, and as a result, I'm already very proud of it.  Please have a listen and tell us what you think! Below is the playlist for this episode: The Guess Who - "Laughing" Louis C.K. - "Suck a Bag of Dicks" Woody Allen - "The Science Fiction Film" Steve Martin - "Hostages" Mitch Hedberg - Clip from a late night show St. Vincent - "Laughing with a Mouth of Blood" Also, in the show, we mentioned the HBO special Talking Funny.  Below, have a look at a short clip from the special (via HBO.com): Clip - We're Pros

(1:41pm 7.19.2011 -- Edited to remove the distorted final segment) Welcome back!  Above, you can stream the third installment of The Egalitarian Fun Hour!  This week it's just Shannon and me back in the chapel in Compton where we discuss various topics such as FYF Fest, the final Harry Potter Film, and the dreaded Carmageddon, among other things.  Enjoy! The playlist for today's episode: Vetiver - "Hard to Break" from The Errant Charm Gary Numan - "Cars" from The Pleasure Principle Francis and the Lights - "My Goals" from Striking Tune-Yards - "Gangsta" from Whokill An explanation of the sound quality after the jump. As seems to now be usual, we ran into a few technical glitches while recording.  Upon editing the show last night, I realized that at a certain point in time (around the 14 minute mark) both of our microphones severely malfunctioned such that the audio was significantly distorted - it was truly unlistenable.  This remained true for my mic throughout the rest of the show, but fortunately Shannon's mic resolved itself, and so I cut out her unlistenable bit and the rest of the show takes place using only her microphone with my voice bleeding through.  I bumped up the levels of my voice where I could to make volume levels more comparable.  This hiccup was really unfortunate because I really enjoyed the conversation that we had, but we hope that the interesting parts shine through some of the technical glitches.

Welcome back! Above, you can find our second official podcast where we invited our friends Rufino and JD onto the show with us to talk about a number of things, including the PLACE Corps Send-off Celebration, the nature of a good board game, and trivia night at the Cock n' Bull, as well as featuring a number of songs, especially one by Drew DeFour, JD's brother. We recorded this show yesterday - a very warm day in Los Angeles - and so decided to record in the dining room area of the house instead of in the chapel, as we did for Episode 1.  Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to us, the dining room area turned out to be much more echo-y than the chapel, and that feature certainly becomes noticeable on the recording.  Bear with our experimentation while we find out what works and what does not work, as the show is still enjoyable to listen to. And here's the playlist from this episode: Magic Kids - "Superball" from Memphis Drew DeFour - "The Tower" from The Troubador Cults - "Bumper" from S/T Matt & Kim - "Block After Block" - from Sidewalks

Welcome to our podcast/blog!  Above, you'll find the first episode that we recorded last night.  In it, we introduce ourselves and our motives behind broadcasting within this kind of medium, we take part in a short discussion of the desire and search for authenticity, and we share with you a few songs we quite enjoy lately.  Take note that this is our first episode, and as we made mention in the recording, we are still experimenting with the medium, seeing what works and what we can improve upon.  In this episode in particular, forgive some of the sound issues - particularly instances where I'm slightly distorted and where Shannon might be a little too soft.  Regardless, please listen and let us know what you think with a comment below.  If you really like what you hear, you can subscribe to the RSS feed of our podcast.  Enjoy!