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
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
I promised my amazing Patreon subscriber 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 3rd party we've got Becca Ganey of Boston and two international Patreon subscribers, Coleman Hegarty of Ireland and Maciej Taubert of Poland. TMBP 'round the world, baby! Listen in to the VIPs as we talk about the success of TMBG at preserving a fanbase through generations and how they have attained one of the broadest age range of any rock bands' fanbase.
Wednesday May 27, 2020
Wednesday May 27, 2020
Kurt and Denise Schiller of the Parents Just Don't Understand podcast come on the show to complete our crossover and they picked one of the greatest TMBG kids songs, I Am A Paleontologist. Many props are given to Danny Weinkauf throughout the episode as we dissect what makes this a perfect kids song, and we find a lot of charming covers including one by Greg's 1st graders from earlier this spring.
Saturday May 23, 2020
Saturday May 23, 2020
Greg talks with Lesley Gouger, Dyana Claytor, Tara Trate and Acey Jane about their TMBG tattoos and the stories behind them. Also, Hanson comes up a lot for some reason and Greg contemplates the design of his upcoming full face tattoo.
Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
First time, long- waiting guest Harley Rowan joins Greg to talk about the sleeper hit Flans song This Microphone. Lots of great conversation and a live on- air cover make for a fun episode.
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Adam Rivera joins Greg to talk about the amazing Glean song Unpronounceable, and also to promote a big TMBG tribute Kickstarter project he is putting together. Much love to all our cover artists in the community! Listen to us get glitchy and talk about complicated studio trickery.
Thursday May 14, 2020
Thursday May 14, 2020
Greg breaks quarantine and flies to Germany (jk because this podcast makes a lot of money haha) to talk to Noah Daniel about the deep cut Whole Lot of Glean. We talk about the uniqueness of this song as a promoptional song NOT on the album Glean, we do an improve guitar jam live on air, and Noah covers the song.
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!