Keeping Records

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Home to Mama Jan 21, 2022

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Caleb and Shelby are back with their first video episode, which also just so happens to be a Listener Submission episode. Caleb questions the quality of his video, but decides he doesn't care because he looks great on camera. Meanwhile, Shelby's shadows? Sort of going wherever they want. Before diving into your picks, Caleb and Shelby analyze:

Caleb's crazy week with the Pope in Tucson
Girlies who can have free clout because they're *the* girlies
3rd string NFL tight ends they are both attracted to

And Listeners...your submissions for this week are equally alarming and beautiful, welcome bark lil freaks:

Your Record Additions

"Thrussy" used in jest (Portmanteau)
Earnest a cappella music (Audio)
The Pope shaming people (Experience)
Denver int. airport conspiracy theories (Chronicles)
Yelp restaurant reviews (Literature)
Getting surprise mail from a friend (Experience)
"Uppercut" by Lou Roy (2022 Song) (Listen on Apple Music or Spotify)

Your Deletions

“Thrussy” used sincerely (Portmanteau)
Caleb being a bully to Shelby (Perception)
Finding out via Instagram story that your crush is in a new relationship (Experience)
Sleeping in AirPods and waking up with sore ears (Affliction)
Baby memorabilia that weirdly sexualizes the kid (Trend)

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Gender Crimes (with River Butcher) Dec 03, 2021

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Caleb is back from Missouri. Shelby is still in Ohio. There seems to be some question of whether Caleb is someone who enjoys biking but rest assured that he is into it.

Comedian River Butcher is on the podcast today, and he's got the '90s on his mind. Well, the '90s and a song by Softee that absolutely GOES. River's Golden Record has the sound, look, and feel of a pre-2K world, because the aliens deserve it. And frankly? You do, too.

River's Artifacts

"Cutout" by Softee (audio)
The sound of a video cassette rewinder
River's 90s Spotify playlist, "Morning Ride To The Elms In My Mom's Red Nissan." (audio)
The feeling of going to the mall on a Saturday in 1995 (multisensory experience)
90s Taco Bell interiors (human design aesthetic)

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Get tickets to River's show at Sketchfest in San Francisco on January 14.

Get tickets to River's shows at The Crocodile in Seattle Jan 21 and 22.

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Weekly Dog Council (with Jo Firestone) Nov 19, 2021

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Caleb and Shelby cope with being apart by contemplating their sexual chemistry.

Comedian Jo Firestone is on the podcast this week, as is her dog companion Loaf. Jo loves Loaf, and we love Loaf. We love specific brands of tomato sauce, we love Greek women yelling at us to get our lives together, we love munching on ice, and we love the sound macaroni makes when it's getting stirred together. Wait...do we? Regardless, we do not love rats nor the sounds they make when tickled.

Jo's Artifacts

Rao's tomato sauce (food)
Olympia Dukakis yelling "Your life is going down the toilet!!" in Moonstruck (audio-visual)
Macaroni stirring noise (audio)
Ice nuggets from Sonic (food and multisensory experience)
When Dog wants to come near you (multisensory experience)

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The Politician and The Ski Instructor Nov 12, 2021

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Shelby is in the studio. Caleb is in his and Shelby's old home. The novel coronavirus is in Caleb. (Ok, was in Caleb, he is feeling better, thank you.)

It's a Listener Submission episode, and Listeners...your submissions this time were just...all over the place. You made Caleb and Shelby think about some weird and terrifying stuff that they definitely didn't want to think about, including but not limited to:

The unknown depths of the ocean
Where do eels come from?
How frogs swallow (*police cadet writing this makes throwing up noise*)

Caleb poses a unique question: If you had to go into space for five years, what one streaming service would you bring? What one genre of music? What four friends? Shelby has some difficulty answering.

Your Record Additions

When pets’ tongues stick out a little while they nap
The morning after going out getting shitty breakfast and coffee

Your Deletions

Flip Flops
WWE
Action Sequences in Movies
Social Media posts starting with “Sometimes” and “Rant Over”

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To Rustle is Human (with Daniel Chua and Alex Rehding) Nov 05, 2021

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Caleb has moved out. Shelby is also moving out. Distance has come between them, but their love for one another bridges that great divide.

Here to observe our hosts' attempt at coping with separation anxiety are Chair Professor Daniel Chua (University of Hong Kong) and Fanny Peabody Professor Alex Rehding (Harvard University), co-authors of the book Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music From Earth (Princeton University Press).

A discussion between four academic equals unfolds, focusing on how the Golden Records can teach us to differently hear and analyze music. Throughout the lecture, the esteemed professors make a Golden Record together with just as much food on it as there is music.

For all of our listeners with terminal degrees in their respective fields, this one is for you.

Daniel's Artifacts

John Cage, 4'33"(audio-visual)
Video of whale almost swallowing human (audio-visual)
Durian (food)

Alex’s Artifacts

Trio, "Da Da Da" (audio)
Blowfish (animal and food)
Rice pudding (food)

Original Voyager Artifact

Greetings from the U.N./Whale Greetings (audio)

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The Power of That (with Greta Titelman) Oct 29, 2021

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Caleb is off on a long-haul fishing boat, being forced by the crew to bite the head off of a live herring as a hazing ritual. That means Shelby is going to need some assistance this week.

Enter: comedian Grace Kuhlenschmidt. The guest host we need. The guest host we deserve.

Together, Shelby and Grace welcome comedian, actress, and writer Greta Titelman to the pod to unpack what is easily the most ambitious record to date—a full-length compilation drawing from every discipline, plus one thing that only makes sense in writing if your podcast player supports text formatting. And yes, they are going to get through The. Entire. Record.

Greta's Artifacts

Grape lady falls! (audio-visual)
Being on mushrooms on the beach, genuinely experiencing the miracle of life (multi-sensory experience)
Manolo Blahnik shoes (clothing)
Pad Thai (food)
Rihanna, Talk That Talk (audio)
Being a teenager and making out in your car to emo music (multi-sensory experience)
Cashmere (clothing fiber)
Kettle Brand Dill Pickle Potato Chips (food)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (audio-visual)
Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Madonna's 2003 VMA performance (audio-visual)
Ryan Gosling (human being)
Saying THAT in a fight (social interaction)

Follow Greta on Instagram and Twitter, and listen to her new Headgum podcast Senior Superlatives with Greta Titelmanon Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Nobody’s Eating Grandma (with Ryan Ken) Oct 22, 2021

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Hello, all of our special friends! And welcome to the show!! We're so happy to see each and every one of you, come on into our tree fort! We're launching Golden Records into outer space so that aliens far away can know ALL about the human race long after we've all turned to ash!!

Today we're making a record with someone we care about so much, writer and actor Ryan Ken! Take a look at their record!! It's got a singer, an actor, hot bods, and great food!

Ryan's Artifacts

Whitney Houston singing the American National Anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl (audio-visual)
Viola Davis's award speeches (audio-visual)
Thirst traps with inspirational captions (human behavior)
Regional food chain rivalries (human behavior)
People forgetting they’re on mute on Zoom calls (human behavior)

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I'm Done With Art That Challenges Me (with Alison Leiby) Oct 15, 2021

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Fresh off of their weekend of debauchery in New York City (read: being kept up by neighbors and flooded in their hotel), Caleb and Shelby have a date with comedian, writer, and producer Alison Leiby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The President Show) to plan out her Golden Record. Alison wants to show the aliens our best media, and for them to be orally fixated and in comfortable footwear the whole time.

Alison's Artifacts

Diet Coke and popcorn (food and beverage)
Party Down, S02E05, "Steve Guttenberg's Birthday" (audio-visual)
Yacht rock (music genre)
When dogs and cats cross their front paws (animal behavior)
Birkenstocks (human apparel)
Sharing the perception of an awkward moment with a stranger in a large store (multi-sensory experience)

Listen to Alison and cohost Halle Kiefer on their podcast Ruined

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The Higher the Heel, the Closer to God Oct 08, 2021

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It has been a week of fending off requests from incredibly rich and famous celebrities, Nobel Prize laureates, the greatest writers, mathematicians, and physicists of our age, emails coming in four times an hour—"Please, please allow this unbelievably brilliant environmental scientist to personally curate a Golden Record to send into outer space!" "Caleb and Shelby, this former President of the United States needs to guest on the show this week, it's incredibly important." "You guys, we will give you a quarter of a million dollars if you allow this star of a classic '90s sitcom to talk about The Culture™️ with you in order to reinvigorate his career."

We said no to all of them. And we did it for you, the listener.

Caleb and Shelby sit down for another episode of just the two of them. They sing a little, they preach a little, the cry a little, they bark a little. They talk their evolving living situations, some of their own Golden Record picks and Delete-Its, and some of YOUR Golden Record picks and Delete-Its.

Artifacts Discussed

Cheez-It
Christmas
The feeling of finding a four leaf clover
The music of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark
Dogs with Frito feet
Shrek 2
Auntie Anne’s in the airport
Fergie singing the American National Anthem
Mariah Carey singing "All I Want for Christmas is you" live
Ranch dressing
Dollar General brand mac and cheese
Couture fashion (not Juicy Couture)
The feeling of being so happy to see your friends that you cry
Getting stoned and drinking coffee

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Tony Bennett’s Make-A-Wish (with Colin Rourke) Oct 01, 2021

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chicago > city of chicago > apartments/housing for rent — North Center spacious 4 bed 2 bath, 4 min walk to Irving Park Brown Line. Lots of natural light. New appliances, in-unit laundry. Guarantors accepted, for immediate move-in. Contact comedian and prince Colin Rourke for more info. Link to video walkthrough.

Colin's Artifacts

Rat Race (2001) (audio-visual)
Sully Sullenberger (animated character)
The smell of Banana Boat sunscreen (smell)
The University of Michigan Senior Musical Theater Department's "Senior Entrance" (audio-visual)
Blooper reels of any television show (audio-visual)

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