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    Jam Mechanics

    Two bands who span the Atlantic, having a chat across the planet. Drafting jams from random challenges, fantastic banter while we’re at it. So just relax and watch our antics; it’s the pan-Atlantic Jam Mechanics

    Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt Johnston from The Narcissist Cookbook and Bug from Bug Hunter. Each week we’ll take on songwriting challenges and present our finished “demo” after a few hour break.

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    Latest Episodes:
    S4E1: The Jam McAdemy Nov 03, 2025
    Show notes

    We are back for season 4 with a brand new theme song, a brand new challenge format, and 2 brand new demos from the Jam Mechanic Boys.

    Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

    If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

    Our Music:

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    and follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, etc!

    Please rate / review and share the show (and our music) with friends!


    -- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

    ----Bug's Song-----

    Title: I Hope You Like It

    Prompt Page: Modern Girl -> Beckton Gasworks -> 1984

    Lyrics:

    You must be pretty bored by now watching me

    just watching tv eating sushi off the cushions of my couch

    so I learned a couple poems and I recite them in the dark

    and if you like them I can learn a couple more this time tomorrow


    cause I'm feelin' pretty guilty for my 1 surveillance agent

    who's assigned to watch me through the 1-way glass

    as much as I don't want this you have clearly drawn the short straw

    and no one deserves a punishment like that


    So I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

    the little puppet shows I put on just for you and only you

    I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

    just for you


    I can't keep novels in the house but I can do dramatic readings

    of the pamphlets that they slip under the door

    I do a pretty good impression of the freedom secretary

    but my minister of peace still needs some work


    If you like it, let me know, flip the lights but if you don't

    I can probably teach myself a dance or two

    We can workshop things together, I wanna practice and get better

    the man inside the mirror, this one's for you


    So I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

    the little puppet shows I put on just for you and only you

    I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

    just for you


    And when the revolution comes and they rip you from my walls

    I hope you never saw it coming when your jurisdiction falls

    I hope the little song and dance that I distracted you with is

    the final tune stuck in your head when the realization hits


    So I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

    the little puppet shows I put on just for you and only you

    I hope you like it, like what I'm doin

    just for you


    ---- Matt's Song -----

    Title: The Thatcher Effect

    Prompt Page: Modern Girl -> Picture Disc -> Optical Illusions

    Lyrics:

    Do you know that you talk in your sleep when I'm driving

    Mumbling moaning mostly incoherent but

    sometimes a phrase just slips out before you bite it off


    I can't quite explain how it feels to be hearing you

    Telling the truth after so many years

    I could write you a letter or better put it in a song


    You swear you're arriving

    It looks like you're walking away

    You blur my surroundings when I focus in on your face

    Your features all scramble and change

    The shadows are pulled centre-stage

    Til I can't even see what I thought I saw yesterday


    Do you know that you kinda look weird when you're smiling

    It's all in your teeth, doesn't quite reach your eyes and

    I bet with a little more practise you could have it down


    The insides are all coming tumbling out

    And the upsides are dwarfed by my towering doubts

    And I can't take my eyes off this horrible mess we have found


    It's not what it looks like

    You say, that my senses are flawed

    Look at this way, you'll see that it's nothing at all

    I've come at it from every angle

    What a brilliant trick you have pulled

    I can't even see what I thought I saw yesterday


    S4E0: SZN 4 Theme Song Oct 20, 2025
    Show notes

    andweareback.


    We are kicking off SZN 4 with a DIFFERENT type of episode. Where Bug and Matt usually get challenged to write a song and go away for 3 hours to write a demo, this episode is a behind-the-scenes look at writing the Season 4 Theme song in semi-realtime!


    Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode (except this one)

    You can go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

    Our Music:

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    and follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, etc!

    Please rate / review and share the show (and our music) with friends!


    S3: Retrospective Jul 14, 2025
    Show notes

    Season 3 is DONE. We look back on our third season and talk about how out of touch with reality our audience truly is. We also learn how close we are with DeepBlueInk AND give each other a fun challenge to close out the season.


    Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.If you'd like downloadable files for this episode (and the demos we showed off), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!Our Music:

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠


    S3E10: F Stands For Finale Jun 23, 2025
    Show notes

    The Jam Mechanics finish up season 3 with two more songs that'll be taking up space in your head. We reveal one final twist about DeepBlueInk's wedding that NO ONE saw coming.

    Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

    Go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

    Us:

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


    -- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE --

    Prompt: "Taking Up Space"

    --Bug's Song--

    Title: The Devil

    Additional Challenge: Chapter 2

    Lyrics:

    I never said I was, I only let you think it

    I blurred the lines because I live my life between them


    I wasn't always like this... wasn't handsome with a heartbeat and a smile

    I was perfect up until the day I died

    I had branches, I had leaves, I had fruits filled up with seeds

    I had roots they left abandoned when they hacked me into pieces

    built a house out of my corpse, I'm in the walls, I'm in the porch

    but when I learn to speak I'll scream in every creak inside your floors

    [Chorus]

    It took some practice but I finally learned to fight

    I could shift and trip my captors when they walked the halls at night

    I could slowly change the layout, jam the doors too tight to budge

    change the angle of the stairs enough to learn the taste of blood

    I wasn't always like this but they chose to chop me down

    but when I began to fight them back they burned me to the ground

    [Chorus]

    So I was soil, then a million writhing bugs

    I was maggots in the graveyard, then the crows that ate them up

    I spent 100 years invading every creature I could reach

    slowly poisoning the town 'till every inch had bits of me

    I drove them mad, I made them sick, moving pieces into place

    slowly moving all my molecules in towards a single shape

    and thus became the demon that you incorrectly name

    I met the one you think I am, many years before you came

    When I told him what I'd done he cut the horns right off his head

    he bolted them to mine and said I'm twisted as it gets

    So I don't know where he is now, that devil that you know

    but I've taken up the title, I'm the one you fuckin don't

    [Chorus]


    ---- Matt's Song -----

    Title: Dead Boy

    Additional Challenge: Click Track!

    on a couch in a room in a house in a city on an island on a planet in a star system

    i was torn out of the nothing and born into a body given eyes given ears and emotional disregulation

    i coulda been anybody anything anywhere but here i am

    on a couch in a room in a house in a city just jerking off and watching the same three shows again


    and why try when you're not here to see how hard this is for me

    i think i'll just let the dead boy take the wheel for a little while

    and i'm fine okay i'm lying but it's cool

    because the dead boys gonna take good care of me


    in a drawer by the bed in a room that i haven't left once for three days now

    in a place in my head where your face cannot get and your memory can be drowned out

    i coulda been anybody anything anywhere but here i am

    and the world doesn't end and the days never turn and the dead boy is cuddled up next to me, honestly well


    who cares if i'm a car crash you're the truck that took me out

    who says you can't feel sorry for yourself forever now

    and i'm fine okay i'm lying but it's cool

    because the dead boy's gonna take good care

    the dead boy's gonna take good care of me


    and sometimes when you hit rock bottom

    all you really need's a bigger drill

    and sometimes when your heart is broken

    all you really need is engine oil

    and sometimes when your friends stop calling

    you'll sigh with relief because it's


    finally just you and him on a couch in a room in a star system

    and he holds your hand and he feeds you, keeps you needing him more than you'll ever need them

    you could been anything, anyone, anywhere but here you are

    in a city, in a house, in a room, on a couch, lying in a dead boy's arms


    S3E9: Escape Room Politics Jun 09, 2025
    Show notes

    Episode 9 is here and Bug and Matt are reminiscing about the places they definitely SHOULD NOT have been on tour right before they hit the road again. Don't be a hater, leave us a good review


    Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

    Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

    If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

    Our Music:

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    and follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, etc!

    Please rate / review and share the show (and our music) with friends!


    -- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

    Prompt: "In a Scoring/Sporting Position"

    ----Bug's Song-----

    Title: The Upperhand

    Additional Challenge: Safe Space for Hate

    Lyrics:

    I am barking at the mailman

    though you tell me there's no hope

    Butupperhandr barked at milkmen

    when's the last time you saw one of those


    I am barking at the squirrels outside

    and no one thinks it works

    but my father barked at sabretooths

    and wiped them from the Earth


    We can solve it like our fathers, open hands balled into fists

    if we solve it like our fathers we'll just end up in the mess we're in


    Throwing punches when you're cornered, we understand

    but you're punching when you have the upperhand


    I am barking out at everything

    I like the way it sounds

    cause my father barked at everything

    and I want to make him proud


    We can solve it like our fathers, walk 10 paces, turn and shoot

    If we solve it like our fathers, then our kids will solve it this way too


    Throwing punches when you're cornered, we understand

    but you're punching when you have the upperhand


    The whole world loves an underdog but you can't break the rules

    and start beating us with baseball bats when your team starts to lose

    the screaming in the stands might sound like cheering from this far

    and all your kids are watching and can't tell the two apart

    and all your kids are watching when you tell them who you are


    Throwing punches when you're cornered, we understand

    but you're punching when you have the upperhand


    ---- Matt's Song -----

    Title: Curdled Milkteeth

    Additional Challenge: Something where it ought not to be

    Lyrics:

    i was driving through the highlands at a quarter to 5 in the morning in the middle of june

    i was listening to a record that i used rely on to get by and thinking about you

    stop the car at intersections, check my heart

    spin the wheel in your direction


    cause somewhere out in the dark

    you're burning and all i need to do is to follow the heat

    if i never come up for air i won't ever need to breathe

    i won't need to breathe

    curdled milkteeth


    now i don't know this road from any other

    i'm hungry and tired and i'm a hundred exits deep

    and the valley walls are so high

    that i must have missed the sunrise

    if there ever was a sunrise


    I don't know when it happened, but sometime in the past I got too tall to sneak through the rye

    I suddenly recall how i used to rely on you to catch me before I hit the overhang

    Kill the engine, try to soothe my racing heart

    Turn my head in your direction


    S3E8: I'm Thinkin' Ohio May 26, 2025
    Show notes

    I've been told I'm bad at foreshadowing. Episode 8 has a bookstore. We meet John Demo. You've been warned.

    Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by The Narcissist Cookbook Bug Hunter where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

    Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    If you'd like to download the demos, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Prompt: "An Opportunity Not Yet Past

    ----Bug's Song-----

    Title: What Happened To John

    Challenge: TRUE CRIME

    It's not productive to compare all our troubles

    playin "who's got it worse' to one-up one another

    Its half a dozen of one, and its six of the other

    you don't want to win this game

    But the unspoken rule's now the talk of the town

    the difficult truth no one dare say aloud

    we all know who and we all know how

    but no one wants to say

    cause Marty lost his job last month

    and Tom's wife ain't been home too much

    we all have troubles but I'll tell you what

    It's a shame what happened to John

    Mrs. Carter, well I haven't seen you out of your apartment in a couple of days

    she says my husband is halfway into handcuffs with no more hope of changing his ways

    I'm pinching pennies, never spending any 'cause I'll have to bail him out or bury him soon

    but when I go to church he isn't worth my focus as I bow my head and sit in the pews

    I'm praying for another and I'm hopin He'll respond

    its a shame what happened to John

    And Connor's cough keeps getting worse

    and Olli's luck has all reversed

    we all have troubles that could be much worse

    It's a shame what happened to John

    We don't report it to the papers or go to the police

    there's an unacknowledged understanding passing in the streets

    the entire city's sick but have learned to be discreet

    that's all that can be done

    There were never conversations or plans of how to act

    we didn't draft a non-disclosure or attempt to make a pact

    there was a problem, we solved it, there's no more going back

    the problem's finally gone

    And Miley's finally out of bed

    and Faith feels safe to walk again

    we don't have trouble when we all pretend

    It's a shame what happened to John

    ---- Matt's Song -----

    Title: The First of the Everkings To Die

    Challenge: Foreshadowing!

    i met a man travelling from the north passing through my part of town

    he wore a tattered overcoat, flapping open in the warm north wind, still carrying his service rifle

    hitched underneath his arm

    though the barrel was rusted and the stock had near completely decomposed

    i didn't say a word, no point asking these guys anything

    they've got enough on their plates from having nothing on their plates

    but i offered him some food i had either going spare or going bad

    and he thanked me with a nod and he kept on walking south

    they're always walking south

    don't know what they hope to find down there

    four other northman came passing through my part of town

    stacks of skin and castoff bones in those coats like rotten pelts

    I gave them what I had, but this time one of them stuck around

    Said the situations worsening faster than the snow can melt

    He asked me what I did down here, I said I was a writer

    At the very least I try to, but - he looked away he didn't care

    He sat down right there in my garden, sunflowers in winter

    And he told me what to tell you, and he left

    they're always walking south

    don't know what they hope to find down there

    He says it's going to happen soon, sooner than you think

    You'll see the symbols early but you won't know they mean

    And the daydreams that you've come rest your head upon at night

    Are like the permafrost, the first one of the Everkings to die

    But there's time, he says, there are chances easy missed

    There are lessons needing learned before the class has chance to sit

    And if you really pay attention, really take the whole thing

    You might just see where this is heading before the ending begins

    they're always walking south

    don't know what they hope to find down there


    S3E7: Li'l Louie May 12, 2025
    Show notes

    Episode 7 of Jam Mechanics is a JAM. Bug talks nicknames and new addictions, and Matt quizzes Bug on his favorite subject.

    Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

    Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

    If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

    Our Music:

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    and follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, etc!

    Please rate / review and share the show (and our music) with friends!


    -- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

    Prompt: "Buyer's Remorse"

    ----Bug's Song-----

    Title: Board Games

    Additional Challenge: Giving yourself a nickname

    Lyrics:

    I should've never done it

    I should've saved my budget

    I can't believe I even tried when I'm the only one that

    has the resolve and focus

    to stick with what we've chosen

    But as the night drags on I'm learning that this quest is hopeless


    This is never what this evening was about

    I have to keep it bottled everytime I wanna shout


    Stop talking during board games!

    Don't ask whose turn it is, its your, babe!

    You would know that if you hadn't asked how Hannah's Graduation went

    there were prolly speeches half as long as this distraction is


    Stop talking during board games!

    Do you know how long this took to coordinate?

    3 couples in their thirties on a table-flipping thursday

    now all of them are yawning by the middle of the 1st game


    I've popped out all the pieces

    spent 3+ hours reading

    no, they don't call me the Rulebook Ruler for no reason

    Sometimes this job is brutal

    but I just do it, you know

    I took all day to learn the lore and that was just for Uno


    I wanna game but you hit me with reverse

    now everytime you talk I wanna table-flippin' curse!


    Stop talking during board games!

    Don't ask whose turn it is, its your, babe!

    You would know that if you hadn't brought up Molly's border-collie

    now they're all looking at puppy pics

    instead of killing zombies


    Stop talking during board games!

    now I think that I understand divorce rates

    I was totally on board for in sickness and in health

    guess I should have seen this coming from your 20 minute vows


    But the worst part of this is, despite my perfect planned tactics

    when we tally up you always win


    All your talking during board games

    to disrupt my strategy was your aim

    thought I was married to a monster but it turns out you're a master

    I can't describe this feeling but I think that its attraction?


    All your talking during board games

    and pretending you were always really bored made

    me put down my defenses and fill my head with doubts

    but babe that's really clever I'm so table-flippin' proud



    ---- Matt's Song -----

    Title: JAM

    Additional Challenge: Must be a JAM song

    Lyrics:

    I dunno, Matt didn't send me any. Just listen to it!


    S3E6: That's Petty Theft! Apr 28, 2025
    Show notes

    On the 6th episode of season 3, Matt and Bug talk Hydras and Heists with two new songs to jam to on your Monday morning


    Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

    Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

    If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

    Our Music:

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    -- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

    Prompt: "Love Song to a Body Part"

    ----Bug's Song-----

    Title: The Hydra

    Additional Challenge: Rule of 3

    Lyrics:

    I admit I was pissed when you chopped off my head

    and Hercules, you looked pleased (or rather relieved?) that I was dead

    but from the stump of my neck I grew two more

    (I swear this has never happened before)

    but I'm back and better off than I was then

    (and now they're singing)


    Do you think the Hydra knew that THAT would happen?

    Or was he surprised as everyone of us?

    Decapitate me once, shame on you, that ain't enough

    Do you think the Hydra knew he'd get back up?


    The first dozen times were the hardest but now I believe

    before this battle started I was hopelessly naive

    but now this one's a fighter, and this one's a biter

    and that one's determined, and this one knows German

    and one knows Karate, we call that one "choppy"

    but don't talk to this one 'till he's had his coffee

    we're offering all of these skills

    you can chop off our heads but you can never kill

    we'll just get bigger and better and stronger together

    I've tethered the best parts of me so now whether


    You think the Hydra knew that THAT would happen

    or if he's surprised as everyone of us

    Decapitate me twice, shame on you, it's still not nice

    Do you think the Hydra knew he'd get back up?


    Now Hercules is screaming: "this is not how this one goes"

    but you've mixed up mythology for history, my foe

    cause history is what happened, mythology is imagined

    now I'm rewriting this myself to be the hero of this battle

    Hercules, your turn to leave

    your trial subscription to life is complete

    I've got many mouths to feed so I'll start with non-believers


    cuz I think I always knew that this would happen

    That I'd surprise the world with what I've got

    Decapitate me thrice, I can do this all damn night

    I think I always knew I'd get back up


    I think I always knew I'd get back up



    ---- Matt's Song -----

    Title: Central Occipital Nervousness

    Additional Challenge: Must be a CON song

    Lyrics:

    i know you

    i know you're my oldest friend

    before we learned how to talk

    there we were, lying there

    hand in hand


    i know you're trying to help

    i know you're trying but

    there ain't no helping me

    i know you're trying but

    sometimes the trying just

    causes more pain that it needs


    i know this

    We've done this a million times

    It was our first party trick

    Everyone

    Come watch me

    Flip my shit

    This baby can turn on a dime


    i know you're trying to help

    i know you're trying but

    there ain't no helping me

    i know you're trying but

    sometimes the trying just

    causes more pain that it needs

    And the worst part is that I agree

    This world is frightening thing

    But I'm going outside

    To see what I'll find

    And you can come with if you like


    S3E5: Is That A Knife?? Apr 14, 2025
    Show notes

    Episode 5 means we're finally warming up and getting good at this podcast thing. Bug and Matt talk about big brains and unexpected knives, and deliver 2 brand-new cool songs


    Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

    Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

    If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

    Our Music:

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    and follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠, etc!

    Please rate / review and share the show (and our music) with friends!


    -- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

    Prompt: "Warming Up"

    ----Bug's Song-----

    Title: Waiting for the Snow to Melt

    Additional Challenge: cooooool

    Lyrics:

    You were the first one that I thought of

    when the forecast called for snow

    you said you'd race me to the bottom

    and you took off down the slopes

    You were the coolest on the mountain

    making sure everyone knows it

    taking shortcuts off the trail

    while we just wondered "where'd he go"


    You said the loser has to buy a beer

    when we're back down at the lodge

    and you knew I didn't drink

    you also knew you never lost

    I'd find you grinning, waiting for me

    but I didn't mind the cost

    it was worth it for the stories

    when you got a little sloshed


    now the mountains warming up as well

    and we're just waiting for the snow to melt


    cut to the crispest day of winter

    you could see it in your grin

    weaving past all the beginners

    skiing faster than the wind

    when I beat you to the bottom

    that's when the fear kicked in

    I MAY not know a lot but know

    you'd never let me win


    now we're just waiting for the snow to melt


    We're just waiting for the snow to melt to find something we lost

    someone taken by the mountain in a grave made out of frost

    And when we find your body I will send word to your mom

    she's the only one still holding on to hope after this long


    yeah we're just waiting for the snow to melt


    You had the kind of wild spirit everyone else tries to fake

    you lived a life devoid of fear only an avalanche could take

    now when our friends start drinking I'm the first to raise a toast

    cause you're the first one that I think of when the forecast calls for snow


    Now I'm just waiting for the snow to melt

    to get a break and thing of something else


    ---- Matt's Song -----

    Title: Warming Up

    Additional Challenge: Must be SHARP

    Lyrics:

    you're just warming up to me now

    i know that i can be a little too much sometimes

    alright maybe most of the time

    I know that I'd struggle to love someone like me but


    You can see it

    You can see it

    You can feel the swing and sway

    All my crazy, random flailing

    Looks like dancing when you do it with me

    Can't you feel it

    Can't you feel it


    I'm just warming up to this now

    Not so long ago I would sooner die than be known

    But you are gentle and slow

    And the further this goes i swear to god it's almost like


    I can see it

    I can see it

    Strap me to the spinning lathe

    Take your tools to all my failings

    Decorate the floor as you cut them away

    I can see it

    I can see it


    But now I'm realising I could see it all this time

    Oh why do I only like myself when I'm reflected in your eyes


    I can see it

    For the first time

    How I outsourced all my smiling to you

    How I gave in

    Gave up learning

    Let you carry me cause you offered to

    How'd I miss this

    How'd I miss this

    How'd I miss this


    How I'll miss this

    How I'll miss this


    S3E4: Min/Max Your Wiping Mar 31, 2025
    Show notes

    Don't blame me for this title. This was Matt. Episode four of our once-respected podcast finds Bug and Matt diving deep into Hallmark Channel Movies and talking about their feelings


    Jam Mechanics is a podcast hosted by Matt (The Narcissist Cookbook) and Bug (Bug Hunter) where we are challenged to write a song demo from scratch every episode.

    Huge thanks to ⁠⁠⁠DeepBlueInk ⁠⁠⁠ for our artwork and squeezing us into his busy schedule!

    If you'd like to download the demos we showed off, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠you can go to our ⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to pay-what-you-want to support us!

    Our Music:

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Narcissist Cookbook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bug Hunter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and our brand-new discord is here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    and follow us on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠, etc!

    Please rate / review and share the show (and our music) with friends!


    -- SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE BELOW --

    Prompt: "Just a Feeling"

    ----Bug's Song-----

    Title: Liberal Kitty

    Additional Challenge: 200bpm

    Lyrics:

    He's just a feline looking well groomed

    He makes a beeline for me when he sees I have food

    And you can see why kitty is the king of the house

    you'll never hear him coming when he's ready to pounce


    His heroes are awesome: Bagheera, Mufasa

    He doesn't care for Aslan as we raised him as agnostic

    If you put on the Aristocats he does get quite upset

    cause this righteous little kitty really hates the 1%


    He's a Liberal Kitty

    That's the Liberal Kitty

    He shimmy, shimmy, shimmies to the left,

    and has the right to meow

    He voted for Kamala but it didn't count

    cause he's a liberal kitty, and just a literal cat


    He's just a feline sharing his views

    He doesn't see why people care which bathroom you use

    and it seems like you shouldn't need 2 jobs to survive

    sellling toe bean pictures on the web to get by


    He donates to causes, his toe beans are awesome

    Between Bernie and AOC his favorite's a toss-up

    He thinks we'll have a woman running things eventually

    and he really thinks that catnip should be moved to schedule 3


    He's a liberal Kitty

    That's the Liberal Kitty

    He shimmy, shimmy, shimmies to the left,

    and has the right to meow

    He voted for Kamala but it didn't count

    cause he's a liberal kitty, and just a literal cat


    He is my liberal kitty

    he's from a deep blue city

    his toe beans are so pretty

    He is my liberal kitty


    He is my liberal kitty

    he's from a deep blue city

    his toe beans: itty bitty

    He is my liberal kitty

    ---- Matt's Song -----

    Title: Aurora Teagarden: Reunited and it feels so Deadly

    Additional Challenge: Must be titled after a Hallmark Movie

    Lyrics:

    i gotta wonder what you're doing here

    i gotta little too comfortable i think

    i guess we gotta little used to not

    running in running in running in each other

    now we've had a bit of time to stew

    to really soften us up and soak it all in

    i thought i had a lot to say to you

    but open my mouth and bite off the tip of my tongue


    REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO DEADLY

    REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO DEADLY


    NANANANANA


    what a pity that you brought a gun

    i really thought for a moment you were happy to see me now

    what a shame that i came prepared

    with a kev with a kev with a kevlar vest

    and then you ask me if i liked the taste

    of my freshly brewed polonium tea

    not as much as i like the sound

    of the boom of the bomb that has gone off right under your seat


    REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO DEADLY

    REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO DEADLY


    Hate is really just a feeling that we share

    I squeeze your hand just to check you are still there

    And I feel like squeeze back in the dark


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