Keeping Records

Latest Episodes:

It's Not For You (with Beth Stelling) Feb 26, 2021

Show notes

Comedian and podcaster Beth Stelling ordered some sandwiches...like...an hour ago. They're still not here yet but she's going to go ahead and get started telling Caleb and Shelby her plans for her Golden Record: people falling over and hurting themselves but like not reaaaally hurting themselves, her niece meeting a woodland creature, Ted Danson absolutely nailing it on—oh shit, someone's knocking, brb

Beth's Artifacts

Falling compilations (audio-visual)
Niece meeting a bunny for the first time (audio-visual)
Mr. Mayor (audio-visual)
Photo of Beth and her mom in Hawaii after her mom retired from teaching (image)
6th grade home videos or her and her friends making music videos (audio-visual)

Original Voyager Artifact

Mountain Climber (Gaston Rébuffat)(image)

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Earth is Flat, Paul is Dead (with Mae Martin) Feb 19, 2021

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Comedian, writer, and actor Mae Martin (Feel Good) submits their Golden Record artifacts to Caleb and Shelby. They also discuss nude hide and seek, causing chaos in amusement parks, and bad psychic mediums.

Mae's Artifacts

The feeling of being about to be discovered in hide and seek (multisensory experience)
Blake Lively in The Town saying "How do you know Dougie?" (multisensory experience)
Hocus Pocus (audio-visual)
The Beatles (audio)

Original Voyager Artifact

President Jimmy Carter's letter to the aliens (document)

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We Are Mops (with Sydnee Washington) Feb 12, 2021

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Comedian and podcaster Sydnee Washington (Hobby Hunter, Syd Can Cook) is prepared to show the aliens what they need to know about humans: the power of Rhianna, Earth's laziness, what we're willing to do for horniness, and Queen Latifah.

Sydnee's Artifacts

Fenty Makeup (tool)
Swiffer mop (tool)
Strap-on (tool)
Set It Off (audio-visual)

"Do You Think...?" Listener Picks

Mary Kate Olsen's Zoom Divorce (audio-visual)
Nicki Minaj calling out Miley Cyrus at the VMAs (audio-visual)
sensation of an icy hot patch (multisensory experience)

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Night is for the Freaks (with Samantha Irby) Feb 05, 2021

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Comedian and writer Samantha Irby (Wow, No Thank You; Meaty; Shrill) creates a Golden Record full of artifacts that she hopes the aliens will find life-changing. She also expresses her thoughts on what she would do with Henry Cavill in inappropriate public settings.

Sam's Artifacts

Gone Girl, the book not the movie (literature)
A live Tori Amos bootleg cassette (audio)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (audio-visual)
Dlisted.com comment section from 2008 - (web archive)
The burn of an excessively carbonated gas station fountain soda (multisensory experience)

Original Voyager Artifact

Navajo Night Chant (audio)

"Do You Think...?" Listener Picks

Lenny Kravitz accidental dick exposure (audio-visual)
Plain rice with butter (food)
"Like a G6" by Far East Movement (audio)

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Fugue Chicken State (with Zoe Lister-Jones) Jan 29, 2021

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Actor, writer, director and producer Zoe Lister-Jones (How it Ends, The Craft: Legacy, Life in Pieces)creates a Golden Record to educate aliens on human sexuality, food, and reckoning. Also about the power of diffuse lighting.

Zoe's Artifacts

Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville (audio)
Chicken (food)
Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You(audio-visual)
Mask Fashion (human ephemera)
Jennifer Lopez's lighting package (human ephemera)

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Riot Mentality (with Caitie Delaney) Jan 22, 2021

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Writer and generally amazing human Caitie Delaney (Rick and Morty) creates a Golden Record of various elements of Earth pop culture.

Caitie's Artifacts

Livestreams of Disney Adults (audio-visual)
French Montana, "Pop That" (audio)
Richard Linklater's Before Sunset Trilogy (audio-visual)
Paparazzi Photos (image)

Original Voyager Artifact

Demonstration of Eating, Licking and Drinking (image)

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Vibing Out Mankind (with Steve Hernandez) Jan 15, 2021

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Comedian and podcaster Steve Hernandez fills his Golden Record with vibes. It's not just the items, it's the feelings.

Steve's Artifacts

Eating chips and dip with family on holidays (multisensory experience)
Receiving enjoyable anal sex for the first time (multisensory experience)
When the Holy Spirit drops during "Pour Out My Heart" (multisensory experience)
First time being permitted to feel a breast (multisensory experience)

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Beer for the Children (with Jake and Amir) Jan 08, 2021

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Jake and Amir, AKA Caleb and Shelby's Headgum bosses, check in on how the Golden Record project is coming. Inadvertently they are tricked into compiling their own list of artifacts to send to outer space.

Jake's Artifacts