This is the podcast you’re going to want to listen to only once, those albums you get at the record store and you’re like whoa, and then you never listen to them again. These songs are like strange dreams that you tell your friends, and make Gabe think of the strangeness of life and the strangeness of fiction, about who we are, and we’re going, and why we’re going there, which may be partially because Gabe is about to move to Eugene, OR to work as a wildland fire-fighter, which he really thought he would never do a second time, while Malcolm once went to a laser light show which was terrible, but he’s glad he went the one time to get it over with, although most of Gabe’s stories of things he is glad he only did once are not for virgin ears and so if you want to hear his humiliating tales write to mail@mutablesound.com. At some point in the hour Gabe has a breakdown concerning the fact that he and Malcolm in fact listen to many of these one-time albums over and over again, and Malcolm cannot believe that Gabe is actually afraid that Van Dyke Parks could perhaps listen to this podcast and come away with the belief that we do not hold him in the highest esteem, which would be false. This week for Book You! we read I Was a Teeny-Bopper for the CIA, by Ted Mark. Listen to the podcast from start to finish, and you’ll hear Gabe use the word “periphery” once too often.
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