Episode 6 - Lolla review

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.

Episode 5 - Brother Matt gives us a Lolla preview

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.

1. Muse - "United States of Eurasia/Collateral Damage" from The Resistance
2. Tennis - "Baltimore" from Cape Dory
3. Cults - "Walk at Night" from Cults
4. Smith Westerns - "Imagine, pt. 3" from Dye it Blonde
5. Black Lips - "Modern Art" from Arabia Mountain
6. Beirut - "The Penalty" from The Flying Club Cup
7. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - "The Fisherman" from It's a Corporate World
8. Local Natives - "Airplanes" from Gorilla Manor
9. Cage the Elephant - "Always Something" from Thank You Happy Birthday
10. KiD KuDi - "Soundtrack 2 My Life" from Man on the Moon: The End of Day

Find us on iTunes!

Success! This just in: you can now find our podcast on iTunes! Find it at this link.  This way, you'll be able to download our wonderful conversations and take them anywhere that pleases you!  So you should do that.

Norm MacDonald, the Moth Expert

With our last podcast about comedy in mind, I also wanted to share with all of our listeners/readers a fantastic piece by one of my favorite comedians, Norm MacDonald.  Below, watch Norm telling a wonderfully amusing joke on Conan's Tonight Show.

Episode 4 - A Comedic Discussion

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"

Episode 3 - A study in malfunctions and perseverance

(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.

Episode 2 - With special guests Rufino deSantos and JD DeFour

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:

1. Magic Kids - "Superball" from Memphis
2. Drew DeFour - "The Tower" from The Troubador
3. Cults - "Bumper" from S/T
4. Matt & Kim - "Block After Block" - from Sidewalks

a list of works in progress

1. biographies of hosts and guests (warning: these may be factually inaccurate)
2. an episode guide
3. works of fiction (that aren't biographies)
3.14 an art collective

more to come

Kevin Brown's Guide to Avoiding Injury

Subtitle: Fun half-naked diagrams to exercise to this summer!

An Explanation of Infrequency

Good morning all!  We apologize for the infrequency of our podcast so far - there have been a few hiccups along the way.  First of all, while I was pleased with the overall content of our first podcast, as I mentioned upon posting the audio, I wasn't entirely pleased with the actual audio quality, specifically the volume levels of the recording.

Regardless, Shannon and I were all geared up for recording a second podcast this past weekend, seeing as our goal was to post at least one podcast per week.  However, we encountered a couple issues.  First of all, we weren't exactly sure what we should be talking about - should each show have a theme?  Should we simply talk about our day and hope something interesting comes of it?  Should it be entirely or moderately scripted or pre-rehearsed, if at all?  We were discussing these things for a while as we were sitting down, and when we came to a common understanding and wanted to test the mics for functionality, we realized that my mic was working and Shannon's mic was not.  This was a problem, and I immediately realized that this was issue that caused the volume problems of our first recording.

You see, Macs come with this great software to record audio called Garage Band, which is a really awesome venue to create a podcast, if you so choose.  However, there is this one hangup such that traditionally, you can only record audio through a single USB microphone - any other additional microphones plugged into a different USB port will fail to pick up audio.  There exists a roundabout way to solve this dilemma if you would like to record audio from two distinct mics (as we are), and I thought I succeeded at following through with this method, but I realized that I failed to complete the last step of the process, thus no microphone for Shannon in our first podcast, and thus low volume levels for Shannon.  The good news is that I have now gotten the kinks out of our audio problems, and the next step is to actually figure out what kind of content we want to include in our podcast.

So, with that being said, we plan to have a new show recorded and up on this site within the coming week.  But in the meantime, to keep our (abundance of) listeners satiated, I found a really old video of what must be one of my great-grandfathers or something.  It must have been recorded in the '20s or something seeing as its really grainy.  If you look really closely, though, I feel like there is some significant resemblance between the subject on the video and myself.  Here, have a look for yourself!

Introductions, authenticity, music, and more!

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!

Masterfully Masterfade

Here is Andrew Bird's "Masterfade", but with a special twist. The twist comes close to the 1:30 mark in the song. Enjoy.