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Ep. #1098: Zoh Amba

Zoh Amba is here to discuss their astonishing new album Eyes Full, making their podcast debut and a recent hang with folk bitch trio, how they got into guitar, songwriting, and rock music, recurring lyrics about God, eyes, searching, and observational behaviour, why “Southern Soil” is such a key song for them in their Tennessee trajectory, the story behind their collaboration with Jim White and Guy Picciotto on Jim’s recent album Inner Day, Jim’s joyful presence and great sense of fun, learning more about their Eyes Full collaborators or “musical babies” as they call them, getting an email from Iggy Pop requesting their presence in his band, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1086: The Sadies & Billy Ray

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Post date April 16, 2026

Mike Belitsky and Travis Good from the Sadies and Dave ‘Billy Ray’ Koster are here to discuss Live at 6 O’Clock by Gord Downie, The Sadies, and the Conquering Sun, Billy’s long and all-encompassing tenure in the working lives of Downie and the Tragically Hip as a technical director and confidante, how the Sadies and Downie connected and why he was so fond of playing with them, a look back at Downie’s first solo album Coke Machine Glow and him asking Travis to play on it, Downie’s deep love for artists like Fucked Up and Daniel Romano, insights about this collaboration and what the late Gord Downie and Dallas Good may have felt about it, when Downie planned to run the stage light show himself, poignant reasons for picking songs about ghosts and sadness for this live record primarily consisting of songs by other artists, further insights into how the Tragically Hip viewed Downie’s work outside of the band, Downie’s penchant for incorporating conversations and experiences he shared with Billy into his lyrics, the story behind “Introduce Yerself,” whether we may hear more unreleased music by Downie and the potential for Sadie to make a new album, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #948: Margaret Cho

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Margaret Cho is here to discuss her album Lucky Gift, her February 16 Live and LIVID! tour date at Just For Laughs Vancouver, her experience with the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and our increasingly hot planet, the socio-political state of the USA, its impact on her stand-up tour, and whether or not total losers can be beaten if they keep winning, her parents’ love of music and comedy concerns, Korea’s collective comedians, inspirations like Sandra Bernhard and Billy Bragg, how Tim Heidecker may have perfected the comedy/music tour, writing songs in tribute to Robin Williams and Nex Benedict, whether she’ll do a full music-oriented tour, and much more.

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