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People used to get online famous by saying like, “Uhh yeah, I love making my HOT BEAN JUICE every single morning!!!” But now you have to say like, the Monopoly Man fucked my ass

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

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

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.

Reader, you do want to see Sean do this

This was the post that Tom Harrison DMed me about and said "turn this into a genius night piece or else"

This was a really great one! A real solid cross-section of the delights available in any given Genius Night: a deep dive on the Ringo Starr All-Starr band, an explainer of Kingdom Hearts lore, new Halloween bands, and my beloved wife explaining the horrors of modern ambient advertising.

Sara's piece absolutely rips. She posted The Thesis Of It ages ago and I said oh my god Sara can you please go on Genius Night and do a whole bit on this, I have to see it. Well I saw it and I was so right to have asked this. Skip to 59:02 (or watch the whole thing)!

what a good looking bunch!!!!

Some photos of our lovely performers ( @dansheehan.bsky.social , @saramchenry.bsky.social , @blenderbluid.bsky.social) courtesy of @avenon.bsky.social. We didn't get photos of Lazarus, Sam, or Sean (sorry)

Our next show will be a ONCE IN A LIFETIME crossover event with @nohomework.website and @animesickos.bsky.social!! Your two favorite "some fucking guys yapping" podcasts together at last. Come to Beermiscuous (2818 N Lincoln in Chicago) on Saturday November 21st or else!!

Our October show ruled thoroughly. Check it out via "nearly two hours of unedited video" here!

Join us and @animesickos.bsky.social for a very special @geniusnight.bsky.social hosted by @beermiscuous.bsky.social. 11/21, 7 PM, 2812 N. Lincoln Ave. It promises to be the funniest night of your entire life or your money back. Ask Charles about the money thing he's in charge of that

Whatever you do, whatever happens, you must, if possible, attend Genius Night.

chicago-heads must attend

I have heard Sara’s piece a few drafts ago and it rips. Come out to this tonight and hear my obnoxiously loud laughter at her pieces and these others!!!

I will be communing with geniuses tonight, we're going to imagine a new way for horses to look

its tonight ya freakin animals. If you're in Chicago get your ass out here! lots of funny people and I cooked up a fun presentation for ya!!

Chicago! You gotta come to this tonight! Star-studded lineup plus I'm there too. This is my first time using a slideshow element in my piece!!

One time when my nephew was a toddler, he was playing with toy cars and loudly shouted "that bitch broke my asshole!" And I said "excuse me?" And he said "that BITCH broke my ASSHOLE" and I said "one more time?" Anyway, that bridge broke his axle

Yo my live show “Genius Night” is tonight. We’ve been doing it for a year! These are insanely silly and creative shows that have been bangers without fail. And so will this one be. If you’re in Chicago come out and join us!!

Every “PHP vulnerability explained for normies” article is like “every port socket from 62-114 is really exposed. So, take that as you will!” Like ah thanks man. I get it now

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

Are you guys all stupid. It’s ph D

When I saw the film “Obsession,” I thought, it’s OK, but why can I not personally kill the character “Nikki” with a gun? Luckily the noble “video game industry” is here to save the day

I'd hate to create characters only for them to get added to capitalist horrors like Fortnite or Roblox. Every day I understand Bill Watterson more

People say Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder is an overrated tourist trap because the pizza is bad. But they don’t realize real Chicagoans only go there for the ground-up ovens

You have to come to Genius Night! This gif is the title image of my piece. Doesn't everything feel like this now? Yes. It does. Come get mad with us. GENIUS NIGHT

Struggling to engage with the concept of “father and son Republican operatives Timmy and Tommy Teepell.” Come on man can even one thing be like 5% less stupid

everybody knows that, moron

there is a kind of collective suicidal exhaustion in the 70+ crowd as though the unspoken wish is to beat the end of civilization by being entombed alive with their family and possessions to all die together, the friction of living finally at an end, suburban pharoahood culminated

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)

In a week I will have defeated Covid and will be reading a hilarious piece at this show. If you’re in Chicago you better get your ass over to Cafe Mustache next Thursday!! Okay??

something that occurred to me is, everyone knows it’s possible to become a musician with work and practice. but you can’t work on and practice music while staring slackjawed at your phone. the real promise of generative AI is the ability to ‘make’ ‘art’ without reducing your slackjawed scroll time

I was an online writing tutor for Pearson. I’d get an essay for an assignment I had no information about and had to give feedback in all the prescribed boxes (how is the argument. How is the wording, etc). I think I did two essays and just never logged into my account again

When you read a good comic, you chuckle. When you read a great comic, you laugh out loud. When you read Swan Boy, you have to lie down

Folks this is in “one week.” If you are in Chicago and are not getting married or dying on October 22, you are required to go. It’s the law!

The whole idea of therapist is basically if your dad yelled you pay them forever

Be a snob folks

Anime Sickos Podcast is among the ten best podcasts ever made and few are brave enough to say it

Hello Chicago Geniuses: We return to Cafe Mustache with another great comedy show that will make you a genius on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22!! Be there or I will absolutely go nuts

a society that can't figure out what to do with the Muppets is a society that does not have much longer

There is, apparently, an endless audience for low effort podcasts where celebrities ramble aimlessly at each other. My question is: why isn’t there one hosted by Rizzo the Rat

I was going nuts trying to find Superconductor's Hit Songs for Girls after John Collins spoke so highly of it on our latest episode. Then he sent me the link. To a YouTube video with 394 views. Folks we have to bump those numbers up. This album is a ripper

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

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

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.