Did Dat Dude Describe Destroyer?

If you like podcasts like U Talkin U2 2 Me, and further like the comedy of Branson Reese (you should like both or else you’re so stupid), you must check out this ep of my podcast about the band Destroyer. It’ll make you go “haw haw”

Talking about Streethawk with Riley and Branson was a true treat. We are so funny and Streethawk is a classic album. This ep slays

Riley tells a story in this one about a kid at his school who sang a Sarah McLachlan song to a solo cello accompaniment to the whole class after his breakup. Branson and I took immense psychic damage from this evenbefore learning IT WORKED and made the kid MORE POPULAR

dan don't hurt em

OUT NOW: @bransonreese.bsky.social joins us for talk of xylophones, New Order, massive concussions, getting his ass kicked by a child (twice), and of course, Destroyer’s fourth album Streethawk: A Seduction, their first front-to-back classic. This is top tier podcasting. Tune in or else.

Remember to email your non-music-related questions to destroyerpodcast@gmail.com! We are recording with another guest this Tuesday. I'd say who but then you people would just ask them questions about their work which is not allowed for the same reason music questions aren't allowed (funny)

Our schedule for this goes crazy, and I'm extremely excited to have everyone in my home! It is going to be an unassailable banger if a stream

One of my five favorite albums of all time, like easily. Twenty-five years and I’ve never gotten tired of listening to it.

I offered John a standard interview, thinking there was no way he’d want to do a normal ep with our insane format. Turns out he did! When he learned we’d also be covering New Pornographers records, he said he’d probably have the most fun talking about Mass Romantic. We were like uhhh that’s next sir

Listen to Did Dat Dude Describe Destroyer folks. This episode rips so hard. Mass Romantic is an atom bomb of a record that everyone loves and we got John Collins from the band yapping about it with us. This is such a triumph imo

Duuuuuuuude! DUUUUDE!!!!!

Holy moly!!!

This is the craziest shit imaginable and I am thrilled for my homies @badfuckinpodcasts.com and @tomharrison.bsky.social

Hey I can't believe this fucking happened. Holy shit. There's a part in the episode where we ask what an instrument is and he lifts his computer to fucking point at it on the ground behind him. My god.

We have recorded the Mass Romantic episode. I do not want to spoil what is so special about it but you fuckers are not going to believe this shit

Yo Jon dm me let’s describe Destroyer

In our heads the laptop screen was much bigger and more prominent than it ended up being in the photo

Preparing

Listen to DDDDD or I’ll go insane

Yes! Yes!!!

If you listened to our last episode (or have looked at the timeline of Dan Bejar's music) you know that the next album up is not by Destroyer, but The New Pornographers. This is a problem because Dat Dude will NOT be describing Destroyer. Luckily we foresaw this issue. Behold our new art:

DID YOU KNOW?: It's actually good for me to buy vinyl copies of all the Destroyer albums I don't have already. It's not frivolous spending. It's research.

If your favorite podcasts are not made by "a couple guys," I am afraid I have very little respect for you. This is an art form that can only excel in the hands of weird freaks

If someone asks you whonyoure listening to the answer is give them my full name and then laugh at them for not knowing

Now that's what I call the DDDDD Experience!

I had never heard this album before because I am a fake fan. Turns out it has such treasures within it.Riley proposes in this episode that if you took that first five tracks of Thief and then ended with the title track, you would have one of the best EPs ever made. I cannot disagree. “what a banger”

More and more people are saying Did Date Dude Describe Destroyer is just as good as R U Talking REM Re: Me, and that Tom and Riley are just as talented as Adam Scott. Wow—I would never say that personally, I’m just reporting the facts. How amazing…

My favourite kind of podcast episode is when they're one hour in to the 2hr+ episode and have not yet talked about The Album the episode is about

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This is a real classic piece of podcasting imo

This is the most Front Bottoms that Destroyer ever is

Anime Sickos fans who are not listening to DDDDD are wasting their lives and will be unhappy forever. Luckily there is a free solution…

Episode 3 is out! We cover Thief, Destroyer’s third album and first really good one! How did Dan get so good so fast? How did Destroyer become an indie darling across the continent? Can Riley 3D-print themselves into a new hit podcast where he sends disembodied plastic fingers to people? Find out!

Can confirm I edited this sucker in time and it will be out tomorrow. IMO a truly great piece of podcasting. Had a lovely time building out the context/story of this album, and Riley and I had a wonderful discussion as always. You gotta listen to 5D or you’re a chump and suck ass

This Monday, September 21 (probably) we release our third episode, covering Destroyer’s third album Thief! LP2 was a massive jump up from LP1 and Thief continues the trend, hugely improving over City of Daughters. A shame about the album cover, which looks like if Space Channel 5 sucked ass

i said something that I thought would upset Tom but instead introduced hi mto a new band that he said "oh this is dangerous for me to know about"

Recorded our episode on Destroyer’s third album Thief last night. What can I say but “this podcast is funny.” Will let you know when to expect its release once I am through editing

WOW!! I can’t believe our silly lil show got an endorsement from a Big Podcast like Anime Sickos! This it the kind of recognition that makes it all worth it…

We are recording our next episode (covering Destroyer’s third album, Thief) this Wednesday. If you have any non-music related questions for Tom and Riley, send them to destroyerpodcast@gmail.com right away!!

So this podcast succeeded because it DID get me to listen to newer Destroyer. Because I went “oh jeez We’ll Build them A Golden Bridge is bad, it has to get better right?” And it turns out YES, it turns out when you listen to a few songs from Kaputt you go “okay I see why this is a podcast now” lol

Fellow Americans: are you guilty and ashamed of our evil pedophile king’s treatment of our noble Canadian neighbors? Do your penance by listening to our podcast praising a weirdo Canadian band and all your sin will be washed away: “it’s a DDDDD guarantee!”

OUT NOW: It’s our seventh “Oops! All Goofs!” ep, and the only to come by the name honestly: we had a topic ready to go but got so wrapped up in talking about Kengan Omega, sardines, bike helmets, and Swan Boy that an hour went by before we got to it. Oops! Luckily me and Joe talking is the best shit