People Are The Enemy

Andy eats peanut butter baking chips and talks about Target's Santa, new music, and completing the first draft of a new manuscript. Also, David Lynch gives a woman a pep talk over the phone. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines looks at Paula Abdul's smash debut album, Forever Your Girl. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy has dipping sauce buyer's remorse, remembers car bras, and plays clips of people analyzing the Wizard of Oz. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines looks at lower charting Beatles singles. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy pays too much for a falafel wrap, thinks Chappell Roan's album is better than Charli XCX's latest, and plays a couple TikTok clips. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines looks at the fictional band Deathtöngue from Bloom County. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy forgives Morrissey and plays clips of Jeff Goldblum quoting George Bernard Shaw and a professor who sings emo songs in sleeping students' faces. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines looks at the '40s pop culture references in the book Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Our guest is the writer Gwen E. Kirby! Andy speaks with Gwen about her hilarious story collection, Shit Cassandra Saw. You can find a link to all things Gwen E. Kirby at her website here. Purchase Shit Cassandra Saw wherever you get your books or via Bookshop.org here. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines wraps up her discussion on the Rush albums Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Our guest is Jason Lambeth from the band Red Pants! Andy speaks with Jason about his band's new EP, Pale Shadows. You can stream Pale Shadows and all of Red Pants' music on your favorite platform, or listen to and buy Red Pants' tunes in digital and physical formats at their Bandcamp site here. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines explores Rush's 1981 album, Moving Pictures. You can find a playlist for the Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy talks about buying costumes at Spirit Halloween, Viva Hinds, seeing Todd Rundgren in concert, and the Apprentice biopic. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines explores Rush's 1980 album, Permanent Waves. You can find a playlist for the Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Geordie Greep breaks into Andy's brain, Vocal Fry Cops gets a live promo, and French erotic monster movie The Beast (1975) is embarrassingly bad. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines reads selections from Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s by Pagan Kennedy. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy's latest novel, Zero Percent Juice, is out! Buy it in paperback and ebook formats, worldwide, via Amazon here. On the show, Andy doesn't understand why companies can never get artificially flavored apple and banana right., then he introduces his new impression: Vocal Fry Cops. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines takes a look at Mothership Connection by Parliament. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy believes the free toothbrush the denist gives out is intentionally cheap. Also, we listen to a clip of young Brits defining "dad rock". On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines reads chapter 22 of Dellio & Woods' I Wanne Be Sedated. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy eats candy and talks about street bagels, Cormac McCarthy and movies with no film scores. Then he manages to connect Ingmar Bergman to Philip K. Dick and Richard Linklater. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines covers The Cars' debut album from 1978. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy talks about going viral on TikTok, styptic pencils, 90s rockers acting badly, and Cigarettes After Sex being The National if they were horny. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines concludes her look at Led Zeppelin's US singles. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy drinks a grape soda and talks about AirTags, Teslas, Goodwill's CD pricing, subs, lady curmudgeons, BBQ chips, and smoke from your fingertips. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines delivers part 1 of her look at Led Zeppelin's singles in the US. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy talks about the Oasis reunion, porch pirates, ironing accidents, and comedians he loves and loathes. Also, Andy's pal Thomas calls in. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines delivers part 2 of her compare/contrast between Deep Purple and the Moody Blues. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Our guest is Devon Torrey Bryant! Andy talks with Devon about his career producing podcasts for Earwolf and Smartless Media and Devon's project Painkiller the Pigeon's new album, Heaven AM. You can listen to and purchase all of Painkiller the Pigeon's music on Bandcamp here. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines sees Deep Purple in concert and does a compare/contrast between them and the also-colorful Moody Blues. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy talks about Thurston Moore's memoir, the band Suicide's live performances, flatbread pizza, Nick Swardson's voice, No Country for Old Men, and Twizzlers. Also, we listen to clips of a woman interviewing parents and their young children outside of a movie theater showing the science-fiction horror film Alien in 1979, The Muff's Kim Shattuck talking about her preference of CDs over cassettes, and Margaret Cho talking about the people whom she saw succeed in showbiz vs those who didn't. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines analyzes the soundtrack to Wet Hot American Summer, in honor of the movie taking place on August 18, 1981. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy has a dream that his dog saved his life, talks about Jack White, his wife getting COVID, having to return NKOTB tickets, and being told by a record store clerk that CDs are an ancient format. Also, we listen to clips of Lux Interior talking about mainstream success and The Cramps being a feminist band and Shep Gold talking about artists whose work ethic supersedes their talent. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines talks about Boston's self-titled debut album from 1976. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy sings "New Slang", shares an idea for a restaurant that only sells broth and talks about the Turkish marksman at the Paris Olympics and the TV show Search Party. Also, we listen to clips of a woman losing her shoes at a T.J. Maxx and comedian John Heffron remembering having to sing a song for a record store clerk in the days before the internet. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines shares 10 things she learned from a new book about the album 90125 by Stephen Lambe. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here. You can find a playlist for Rachel's Chart Chat here.

Andy takes another swing at a motivational speech and plays clips of a man talking about patience and Flavor Flav talking about sponsoring the US women's water polo team. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines takes a look at "Don't You (Forget About Me)" and Simple Minds. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.

Andy gives a motivational speech and eats Oreos before talking with his friend Thomas Ostien about a recent trip he took to Seattle and Thomas' new podcast, Reel Distracted. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines delivers part 2 of '80s Short Covers. You can find an updated playlist for Rachel's segment here. Follow Rachel on Last.fm here.