Welcome back, everyone! Anyone else feeling the Week 4 woes, or is it just us? On the plus side, the weather as of late has been exceptionally decent, so it’s been making this influx of classwork relatively bearable.
Anyways, this episode features two very special guests: Candice “Dice” Nguyen and Ashley Knapp. Both Dice and Ashley are great friends of ours, and that friendship and vibe radiates through the entire episode.
We cover a lot in 25 minutes. We talk about everything, from wearing sweatpants during professional job interviews to what it means to be friends. We are letting you know right now, this episode is filled with a lot of “chaotic good” energy, so buckle up, because it’s going to be fun!
Thanks again for all of your continued support, and we’ll see you all next week!
Much Love,
Liz and Brandon
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Hope you’re having a solid week three. If you are anything like us, you are putting all of your work and stress to the side for a few weeks. Is it the best decision? Probably not. Will it end up coming back and haunting us around week 6? Most likely. That’s okay. It’s a future us problem.
In this episode, our good friend Gab Dondici “sits down” with us. Our conversation ranges from how we met—throwing back green tea shots in front of our academic advisor—to applying for jobs post-college despite feeling “not good enough.”
This episode is very niche in the sense that we talk about many different things revolving around the communication department, but have no fear! We still talk about the importance of mental health and the struggles of striving to be perfect, so we are still very on-brand.
This episode as a whole was probably one of our very favorite ones to record, so we are so excited for you to hear!
Gary and I finish our Netflix conversation from last episode, starting with the film “The Boys in The Band” and Andrew Rannells, a large part of the movie and an alum of the HBO show “Girls.”
We also touch on the inconsistently-reviewed Spike Lee movie “Da 5 Bloods.” Gary liked it, but we both agreed that it was too long and that the main character, a Black Trump supporter played by Delroy Lindo, could have been a little more fleshed out as a character.
Next, we talked about “Mank,” a movie (with inconsistent reviews) that we were both very much looking forward to at the time. Gary talked about how much he was looking forward to “Minari,” the Steven Yeun-led A24 film. From there, we talked about how great and understated Steven Yeun is, as well as some of the movies he’s done recently that aren’t talked about as much, like the Korean film “Burning.”
A big issue that we touched on regarding delayed movies is Marvel and its Phase 4 slate of TV shows and films. Marvel is a huge stickler about the chronology of when movies come out; each film usually has something to do with the ones before and after it, so we were a bit surprised when Marvel started shuffling around the order in which everything was being released.
We also discussed “Dune,” “Black Widow,” “No Time To Die,” “Doctor Strange 2,” “Deep Water,” Wes Anderson’s new film “The French Dispatch” and Edgar Wright’s new movie “The Last Night in Soho.” We discuss how the reason that these movies keep getting pushed is because of the failure of Christopher Nolan’s movie “Tenet.” Quickly, we finish by touching on how there is a new Star Wars trilogy coming out every other year starting in 2023.
Thank you guys for tuning in. My episodes (Reel 2 Reel with Jack Davis) are available almost anywhere you can stream music, like Spotify and Apple. If you find somewhere you can’t stream it, let me know.
I’m still working on socials for my podcast, but in the meantime, the Spotify link is on my Instagram @jackldavis14. Stay cool, everyone. I’ll see you next week.
Welcome back! It feels like it’s been forever since we finished up the second season, but it’s only been three weeks. Some people use their spring break to go out and have fun. Others use it to catch up on reading. What did we do? We spent our spring break (if you could call it that—it was more like a free trial) editing podcasts. The things we do for you all.
In this premiere episode, Liz and Brandon went to a psychic in Rittenhouse and had their palms read. Although recording was not allowed during the session, we were very sure to take detailed mental notes. The experience was quite interesting to say the least, and we both got something out of it. Some of us, mainly Brandon, left more shook than others.
Besides us telling you about our experience with the palm reader, we also stick to our brand and go off on side tangents about roommate dilemmas and our lack of faith in relationships. It would not be an episode of “Ain’t That Something” without a proper venting session, anyways!
This is our premier episode to our farewell season, as Brandon is graduating. It’s okay, though; we have a theme of “full send” this season, and our show is filled with very special guests and activities, so stay tuned!
Much love and thank you for the continued support.
Welcome back to another episode of “You, Me, Buscemi!” Thanks for tuning in. We hope you enjoyed our last episode where we talked about “The Big Lebowski.” We discussed the possibility that perhaps the film is really one for the girls.
This week, we’ll be watching the film “Ghost World” starring Scarlett Johanson, Thora Birch and—of course—Steve Buscemi. “Ghost World” follows two girls navigating new relationships and the responsibilities of adulthood in the wake of their high school graduation.
Thankfully, Buscemi was in more than 15 minutes of this film, which has not been the case in previous episodes. We both had pretty mixed opinions about the film, but it was clear that Buscemi carried the performance. The film was fun and esoteric; it just required a lot of patience to understand the characters. For our “Game Time” segment this week, we speculated what a romantic evening planned by Buscemi’s character, Seymour, would look like. Both answers were very colorful and perhaps a tad too detailed, but that’s the fun of “You, Me, Buscemi!”
Thank you again for listening, we really hope you enjoyed the episode. You can listen on Spotify and Apple Music, or really anywhere you listen to podcasts. Be sure to follow us on Twitter and Instagram @youmebuscemi!
Mark and Jair are back, and both are excited to come to you with their opinions and information on sports.
In the NBA, Mark and Jair discussed the Western Conference and the status of the Lakers and other teams. The Brooklyn Nets recently signed LaMarcus Aldridge to go along with Blake Griffin. Are they currently the best team in the Eastern Conference? The Clippers added Rajon Rondo to the team? How much better are they? Where do the Sixers rank right now with other NBA teams?
The NFL Draft is coming up. Who will the Jets take second overall? How will the San Francisco 49ers fare this season?
MLB has begun their season. How are the Mets and the Phillies ranking in the NL East? What do both teams need to do in order to make it to the next step?
Hello and welcome to our very first episode of “You, Me, Buscemi!” We open our deep-dive of the great works of Steve Buscemi with “The Wedding Singer.” Turns out, it’s a film Buscemi is barely in, but we had plenty to say regardless.
We looked at the movie poster and cast our predictions plot-wise while talking about the 80s and how the decade seemed to invent color. We made our guesses as to who Steve Buscemi’s character would be and where it would take him. We assumed his performance would be reminiscent of various “drunk uncle” types (think Bobby Moinihan’s “Saturday Night Live”Weekend Update character).
Pausing in the middle briefly to actually watch the film—which we encourage our listeners to do alongside us—we picked up where we left off and analyzed our guesses. There were things we weren’t too far off on, just as there were things we couldn’t have been more wrong about. The general consensus was that Buscemi did all we wanted him to and more, leaving us with a lovely surprise by the end of the film.
At the risk of spoiling everything we talk about, we’ll leave it at that. We hope you enjoy the episode! Join us again next episode as we watch another great Buscemi film. Will it be “The Great Lebowski?” “Boss Baby?” Tune in to find out and make sure to follow our Instagram, @youmebuscemi, for all things Steve.
This week I continued my conversation with Foxhedge, an indie rock band populated with some of my favorite people from my home state of New Jersey.
We start this segment continuing the conversation we finished the last episode with, about performing and, more specifically, messing up while doing it. Whether it’s actors performing onstage or bands, odds are the people won’t know. Foxhedge said most people don’t really come after performers for messing up anymore, solely because of the courage it takes to get onstage. Because they have the courage to mess up. There is also an unspoken art in acknowledging to the audience that you messed up but seamlessly moving past it and not caring.
This led us into a rather lengthy tangent about Tyler, The Creator. Both the band and I were at Gov Ball, where we saw Tyler perform. We noted how fairly often during that performance, especially for his older songs, Tyler was forgetting a lot of his lines. But as they said, because he didn’t give a s**t, the audience didn’t either. He just played it off like a pro and joked about it. The band said there’s also a shared responsibility between the performer and the audience, where as long as you give them the energy, they will reciprocate. All the technicals beyond that don’t really matter.
We talked about Gov Ball a little bit, but mostly about Tyler as a musician and businessman. We talked about how Tyler has total confidence in himself and his abilities, regardless of screwing up, and the audience is so there for that. We talked about how Gov Ball was the first time he performed any music from IGOR, his newest album as of 2021. He did a “greatest hits” kind of performance at Gov Ball, doing all of the music from IGOR but also touching on almost all of his previous albums.
Alana and I touched on going into performances or albums with expectations can alter your initial perception of the work. I likened my first experience with IGOR to my first (couple) times seeing Tarantino’s latest movie. I watched the trailer every day for a month before it came out, and when I finally saw it, it just was not what I was expecting. Same with IGOR. It’s radically different from anything Tyler has done before, something the artist tries to achieve with every album.
On that, Alana talked about how she didn’t like Cherry Bomb at first but later fell in love with it. We talked more about how every album of his takes on new growth and a sort of new phase as well. Seamus noted how it was the first album to ever reach number one where the artist was the sole producer on the album. It held that top spot for a while. We also touched on how, aside from his music, Tyler is a fantastic businessman. We shifted into a brief tangent about how Tyler and Kanye are both businessmen as much as musicians and work hard to curate their brand.
We talked about how the shock factor of his early work initially got him banned from certain countries; the early stuff freaked people out but also earned him a lot of his fanbase. We discussed how he gets more fans with every new album because of how he augments his sound each time. He had altered egos and storylines for almost every album and that greatly informed and enhanced public consumption. We talked about “Life of Pablo” a little as well.
Now onto the band. We discussed a select few of their songs, some of which were about anxiety, others those (at first glance) happy-sounding songs with melancholic undertones. Alana talks about how one of their biggest songs, “Sunset Avenue,” came out of her hating dating in high school and love songs, so she set out to write an anti-love song. It’s essentially about unreciprocated love, and one person is telling the other to focus on other things like the beautiful neighborhood in which they live (Sunset Avenue) or at the least just not to focus on them. We got into the meanings of some of their other songs and how they craft their low-budget music videos.
We finished off talking about collaboration and the similarities and differences between collaborating in songwriting/composition versus writing for film. Collaborating on songs seems to be easier than two people trying to write one script, especially when it’s a band that has been practicing together for years, as Foxhedge has. One of them mentioned how they’re at a point where someone will start testing some sound out and the other can tell them what they really want it to sound like. They talked about how the sounds of some songs they’ll work on might evolve even up to the time that they’re recording in the studio.
I finished off asking them about their musical influences, and they said they couldn’t articulate any in specific but that, if their songs were dissected, you could probably find more than a few similarities. Each band member listens to A) a lot of music and B) many different types of music, so no doubt that informs their diverse library of songs.
Thank you guys for tuning in. My episodes are available almost anywhere you can stream music, like Spotify and Apple. If you find somewhere you can’t stream it, let me know.
I’m still working on socials for my podcast, but in the meantime, the Spotify link is on my Instagram @jackldavis14. Podcasts can also be accessed on the triangle website under the podcasts section (https://www.thetriangle.org/podcasts/). Stay cool, everyone. I’ll see you next week.
I’ll also include the Spotify link for Foxhedge below (check out their newest album, FOZHENGE!) :
This week, Mark and Jair both wonder where J.J. Watt will land. In the NBA, the Brooklyn Nets are getting higher in the Eastern Conference as they are catching up to the Philadelphia 76ers. The Utah Jazz are on a roll as they are first in the Western Conference.In MLB, Mark and Jair gave their predictions for their respective teams, as spring training is underway and games are to be played this weekend.
Stay tuned for more episodes of Mark and Jair Explain Sports. Both Mark and Jair will come up with several different sports topics to discuss during their podcast. Be sure to follow them on Instagram @exsportsdrexel. Also follow their personal accounts @budd98, @jair.bd, @jairbrooksdavis.
Troy vs Abed? Cake vs Pie? iPhone vs Android? In today’s episode, we provide you guys with the answers to these very essential questions with our very special guest Professor, Dr. Alex Jenkins!
In this episode, however, we get to know Alex Jenkins: the father, gamer and life-long Dragon. We get a glimpse of his #COVIDLife as a professor and a parent, which includes rocking a luscious beard that we wish you all could see. Huge kudos to Jenkins for being the best dad to his two kids during these times, while Brandon and I are here barely able to take care of ourselves.
Also, this man loves games, so we put him to the test. Judge Jenkins makes an appearance at the end of the episode while Brandon and I go through a series of “serious” 30-second debates—a nice change from our usual depressive banter (but don’t worry, it’ll be back).
As always, thank you homies for your constant support. This was such a fun episode to record and we hope y’all keep coming back for more!
