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JC: Yeah. I would say that’s a very good option. One day, we’ll have computers just strapped into our eyes so we can actually apply in bed and just work like that.

MC: Oh, boy.

LG: It all comes full circle.

MC: Maybe a warm gel bath.

LG: All right, Mike, what’s your recommendation this week?

MC: I’m going to recommend a podcast. It’s a music history podcast. It’s called And Introducing, just two words, And Introducing. So I need to take you back 20 years because in 2001, a book came out by the journalist Michael Azerrad. It’s called Our Band Could be Your Life. And there’s a bunch of chapters in this book, and each chapter concentrates on the history of one band from the 1980s and 1990s underground. So there’s chapters on Sonic Youth and The Replacements, Butthole Surfers, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Dinosaur Jr., Fugazi. Basically any big underground rock band in the 1980s is featured in this book.

So this podcast, to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of this very popular, very influential book, is doing one episode about each chapter. So you get one episode about each band that’s in the book. To cap it all off, at the end they’re going to have Michael Azerrad, the author of the book, on the podcast as an interview to cap it.

So, it’s a pretty wild journey. You just get to do these deep dives into these bands. The hosts are really fun. You learn a lot. Even if you’ve read the book, there’s still information to be learned. So that’s my recommendation for anybody who’s read that book and loved it, or anybody who has that book sitting on their shelf and has never fully absorbed it. And Introducing is bringing you inside of it.

LG: Mike, I just want to pause for a moment because I’m stunned. I think I’m stunned silent. Are you recommending a music podcast?

MC: Yes. A nerdy music history podcast.

LG: Oh my gosh. This is so out of character.

MC: It really is. I think maybe it’s time I should just launch my own music history podcast.

LG: I think you should.

MC: It’s what all my friends are doing. It seems like the hip thing to do.

LG: You’d be so good at it. You’d be a great … You could do a podcast about music history podcasts.

MC: Now we’re talking. Now we’re talking. Lauren, please tell us what music history podcasts do you recommend?

LG: As much as I made fun of Gilad earlier, my recommendation this week is actually very Gilad-like. I’m recommending ice cream.

MC: That is very Gilad-esque.

LG: That’s it. Just ice cream. Please, I hope the vegans don’t get upset. There’s vegan ice cream out there too. Yeah. Or the lactose-intolerant out there. I’m very sorry, but I’m recommending ice cream.

MC: Always a strong recommendation, but why now?

LG: I happen to be on the East Coast right now, along with Julian. And it’s very, very warm. I forgot how humid it is here. I feel the moisture just wicking out of me all day long. But I miss it here. I swear, guys.

And also, I’m staying with my brother’s family, and my niece and nephew are here, and they’re kids. They’re teenagers, but they’re kids, and they love ice cream. And so we’ve been going out for ice cream in the evenings, and it’s just really nice. It’s just a nice little slice of summer. I get to spend time with my niece and nephew. We went to this great little farm last night here, and sat outside and had some ice cream. I had vanilla with Heath Bar crunch and hot fudge topping. My niece had a ice cream called Play-Doh. It was bright yellow, and it actually looked like Play-Doh. It was actually nauseating to look at. My nephew … I don’t remember what he had, but then he made fun of my mom, their grandmother, for getting pistachio. He was like, “It’s such an old lady flavor.” I was like, “Be nice.”

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