This Might Be A Podcast
This Might Be A Podcast is a song by song podcast about They Might Be Giants, hosted by Greg Simpson.
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Episodes
Thursday May 07, 2020
Thursday May 07, 2020
My bandmates in The Exquisite Dead Guys, my on again off again TMBG cover band, join me to talk about the hardest TMBG song we ever learned. Matt Monta and Jerome Hemersbach get silly with me to talk about the minutiae of this song that we had to delve into to pull off playing this song. We found the deeply buried demo, a couple live versions, and then we try to figure out why the heck Flans doesn't play guitar on this live. Also - covers and covers!
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Adam Turla of the amazing indie Americana band Murder By Death joins Greg to talk about the classic tune Cowtown off of Lincoln. First we give a nice primer of Murder By Death for those not in the know, then we discuss the song at length including all the demos and some cool live versions, as well as amazing covers. Adam also talks about how the pandemic is affecting artists who make their living off their music.
Saturday Apr 25, 2020
Saturday Apr 25, 2020
We all know TMBG have happy sounding songs about SAD things. But what TMBG songs are straight-up EMO? Tara Trate and Elizabeth Siegel join TMBP for the first time alongside the triumphant return of my wife Cara Kinnally to link TMBG to some of our favorite emo bands including Thursday, Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, Front Bottoms and more. This is a simultaneously fun and SAD one...lol... so emo!
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Greg appeared recently on Sadie Hawkins Pod to talk about Relient K's cover of Doctor Worm. To complete the crossover, here's Jess and Daniel Leary joining Greg on TMBP to talk about the early b-side For Science, a favorite of Daniel's. Strap it in folks, this is a long one with many funny tangents but a big payoff at the end... Let's get those missiles ready to destroy the pod-u-verse!
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Daniel and Jess Leary host a song-by-song Relient K podcast. As you heard way back on our 3rd episode, Relient K has covered Dr. Worm, so the couple asked Greg to come on Sadie Hawkins Pod's episode to talk about the cover and give Relient K fans some insight on the band that wrote the song.
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Professional podcaster and hilarious dude Justin McElroy of My Brother, My Brother and Me - and many other projects - joins Greg to talk about Pet Name, a song just resurrected for live shows this year. We even found a Yahoo Answers post about pet names to get him comfortable, and curated a boatload of great covers for you all.
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
On a very special episode Greg is graced by Open Mike Eagle, art rapper, voice actor, Comedy Central show cohost and notable TMBG fan, to talk about the deep deep cut Weep Day. He helps give a good primer to people unfamiliar with his work, and as we talk about the song we cover some topics from silly to serious, like how this is a hyper samba tune to why the TMBG fanbase skews so white. CHECK ONE TWO CHECK ONE TWO
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
We continue our conversation on the Hotel Detective song series. Listen to episode 74 first, if you haven't already. So once again we join Jon Uleis and Matt Lee and on Part 2 we cover (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future and the nutty commentary track about that song. Ep 74 and 75 were edited by John Walker of the FYIZ podcasts.
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
A special guest stopped by for a short episode on one of their favorite songs. Surprise! Extra episode!
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
I promised my amazing Patreon subscribers friends that when I reached a certain amount of subscriptions I would throw a PARTY via video call for all of us Patrons to shoot the breeze with each other about anything TMBG. On this 2nd party we've got another gaggle of amazing tmbg and tmbp fans - Lisa Solecki, Chris Oliveira, Daniel Leary, and Jordan Morsberger. We get serious for a bit to talk about how COVID-19 is hitting our parts of the country, and roll that right into TMBG memes Daniel has made, and TMBG songs that could best be related to our current state of the world. Serious, but also silly. Tune in!