On today’s show, we’re building the show from the ground, or should I say the baseplate, up, brick by brick by delightful molded plastic brick… That’s right, today, we’re talking all things LEGO. Why have we chosen LEGO for today’s show? Do you really need to ask that? Do you ever need a reason to engage with LEGO in any form? Was there ever a time in your life when LEGO wasn’t the coolest… something in the world? Exaaaactly. LEGO is and has been, for all of our lives at least, one of the coolest things that the modern human mind has ever invented, and it just keeps getting cooler and cooler. Literally billions of lives have been touched by this incredible creation that is so much more than just a toy. LEGO bricks are an ubiquitous part of human culture, and really need no introduction. So grab your favorite mini-fig, a couple of brick separators, and a set of plans for a wildly inventive MOC, and let’s build!

Rebrickable - this site mainly sells instructions for MOCs

Tips&Bricks

TD BRICKS

The most complex set ever - Sagrada Familia 12,060 pieces

Wapi Bricks - this guy specializes in buying and selling LEGO

Tiago Catarino - logo set reviews

JK Brickworks - fantastic page that just does all kinds of cool original MOCs

Building Kyiv - All Proceeds Donated to UNICEF and other charities. Seamlessly fits into the world of small LEGO Architecture Skyline series models

Rapid Fire Spring Shooter - a LEGO belt-fed piston that works like a dream

CADA an after-market LEGO clone

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On today’s show, as summer is set to start, we’re taking a look at summer music, and more specifically, the institution that is ‘The Summer Music Festival.’ From Woodstock to Coachella, the Summer Music Festival has been a glorious celebration of song, of youth culture, of excess, of hooliganism, and of wildness itself. There’s always a little danger lurking around the corner with summer music festivals, be it rain and electrocution at Woodstock Original-Recipe; coked-up Hell’s Angels at Altamont; mud clod-slinging frat boys at Lollapalooza; or disaffected and pissed-off young white men just looking to ‘break something’ at Woodstock ‘99. In recent years, though, summer festivals have taken on a wholly different feel, for better or, as Justin would have you believe, much, much worse. So with all that in mind, we’ll dive into a little of our personal Summer Music Festival histories, and then we’ll take up the then-vs-now debate and decide once and for all what the essential Summer Music Festival experience is, or at least, should be.

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On today’s show, we’re diving deep into two films inspired by one of the most groundbreaking and beloved comedy films of all time: This Is Spinal Tap, the first-of-a-genre masterpiece directed by Rob Reiner and starring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. The movie spawned imitators aplenty in the mockumentary space and paved the way for such pop cultural icons as The Office, Parks & Recreation, and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, among many, many others. In 2025, pop superstar Charli XCX released The Moment, a direct modern successor of This Is Spinal Tap, and it’s hilarious. So with that as a starting point, we’re going to review the film alongside another mockumentary that we’ve been eyeing: Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee. Though it plays as a feature, it was actually the final two episodes of the first season of Documentary Now!, a fantastic mockumentary series created by Fred Armisen and Bill Hader of Saturday Night Live fame.

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On today’s show, we’re looking back on two records by two artists that had a big, big influence on both of early musical inspiration. The artists: Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, aka The Indigo Girls. The records: Nomads ⬪ Indians ⬪ Saints and Rites of Passage. We’re diving deep on both of these magnificent albums to get into everything we love about the songwriting, the guitar playing, the vocal harmonizing, and the deep, deep meaning behind so many of the lyrics. It’s gonna be a good one, so get on the bus, y’all!

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On today’s show, we’re taking a close look at the brand-new version of Saturday Night Live that dropped recently on NBC and Peacock: Saturday Night Live UK! We’ll give our takes and opinions on the new show, how it stacks up against SNL Original Recipe, and we’ll assess the current state of the original show as well.

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On today’s show, we’re welcoming our buddy Mark for a return visit to spool out our collective Most Anticipated Movies of 2026 list. So many movies!!

Every Movie We Discussed on the Show:

• Tow
• Power Ballad
• Digger
• The Christophers
• Jack of Spades
• The Dog Stars
• Ladies First
• I Love Boosters
• Back Rooms
• Tuner
• The Adventures of Cliff Booth
• Wild Horse Nine
• Coyote vs. Acme
• Her Private Hell
• Over Your Dead Body
• The Invite
• Whalefall
• The Weight
• Disclosure Day
• The Odyssey
• Dune Pt. 3
• The Death of Robin Hood
• The Dutchman
• The Social Reckoning
• The End of Oak Street
• Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
• Hokum
• Roommates
• Mile End Kicks
• Pressure
• The Brink of War
• The Wizard of the Kremlin
• Gale Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
• Paper Tiger
• How to Rob a Bank
• Panic Carefully
• Ghost Writer
• Bucking Faster
• Wildwood

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On today’s show, we’re welcoming an in-studio guest for a walk down memory lane as our dear mother Beth Harper joins us to reminisce about a certain night a couple of decades ago when the two of us put on a dinner party for the ages, with a little help, er, no, A LOT of help from a certain southern gentleman and service industry magician from Matt’s culinary past, Montgomery Sinks.

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Today on the show we’re inaugurating a new recurring episode format: the Junk Drawer. It’s our way of clearing out the many random topic ideas and interesting tidbits that we’ve collected in recent weeks and months that haven’t fit into anything we’ve already discussed and don’t quite warrant a full show topic on their own.

Angine de Poitrine on KEXP

Anderson Paak Live

Around the World in 1900 Colorized

Eiffel Tower Construction in Color

Exploring the Eiffel Tower - 3D Animation

How Long Can the Eiffel Tower Survive?

Paris 3D City Timelapse

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