Listeners Like You

Episode 56 – Jazz with No Soul

In this episode of Listeners Like You, Cort assigned homework. Brian turns in a meh review, and somehow Gracie Lawrence walks away with a Tony nomination anyway.

Cort made Brian listen to Family Business by Lawrence. In Cort's opinion it's a funky, soulful, horn-infused joyride of an album featuring the Tony-nominated powerhouse Gracie Lawrence (yes, that Gracie, now starring in The Sex Lives of College Girls on MAX and in Just in Time with Jonathan Groff on Broadway). Cort’s a fan. Brian … titled the episode Jazz with No Soul. So, you do the math.

We also salute the phoenix-like rise of Wrexham’s football club (three promotions in three years), lament the ever-worsening indignities of modern air travel, and channel our inner doomsday preppers by predicting what goods might vanish first if Trump’s tariffs tighten the supply chain. (Cort is hoarding soup. Brian ... probably jazz CDs.) Are cat food lines in our future?

🎧 Give Cort's assignment to Brian, Family Business, a listen here: Lawrence – Family Business

🎵 Theme music: “Cyrus Oh Cyrus” by The Flying Scrub Jays from Love Beneath the Moonlight
Check them out here: Love Beneath the Moonlight – The Flying Scrub Jays

 

Episode 55: The One with William (fka Deep Music)

Brian and Cort have a guest, which of course means our listeners should quadruple.  Come listen to us discuss Peach Pit's album Magpie and compare it to one of their earlier works, You and Your Friends.  On a personal note, Brian had a lot of fun recording with Cort's son, who reminds Brian a lot of what Cort was like back when he was young and fun.  On a sad note, this episode may have led directly to Cort's son taking out a restraining order on Cort.  

Magpie by Peach Pit - https://open.spotify.com/album/1LNCdy3xZoibzDh0WllxHY?si=pHBby4tJTdCLXGQPpys-zQ

"Cyrus Oh Cyrus" - The Flying Scrub Jays - https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BD2HJ21S?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_VrTdsVhZSdQbGxiCG13xFkYMk&trackAsin=B0BD3HYRSL

Episode 54: Episode 50 Revisited (feat. F*cktopus)

The boys are at it again. Cort talks the new Hamilton Leithauser album, This Side of the Island. Bon Iver had a new album drop. So did Mumford and Sons. Brian decides it’s time to jettison a “popular” segment and leaves listeners with some sage advice. Also there is so much new TV and there’s a new game to be played.

This Side of the Island - Hamilton Leithauser - https://open.spotify.com/album/06d60TFUm7t91QHcVKq65T?si=iL4Ii2vSQvGc5ojrhTgm3A

"Cyrus Oh Cyrus" - The Flying Scrub Jays - https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BD2HJ21S?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_VrTdsVhZSdQbGxiCG13xFkYMk&trackAsin=B0BD3HYRSL

Episode 53: the frequency waves will hurt the brains

We get a little straight-up saucy in this one.  Brian talks about Finneas' 2024 album, For Cryin' Out Lout. There are rule-changes afoot in Traitors US and UK, and Brian doesn't like it!  Speaking of rule changes, did I mention we're saucy? Our rules are out the window for a little segment we like to call: So You're Thinking of Leaving the US?  There's more.  You know we're just two guys sharing our opinions about the things we've heard, and rumor has it we may have missed some music things back in 2020.  You got funny.  You got some angry.  You'll get some new information too! Or hey, it's new information to us anyway.  

For Cryin' Out Loud - Finneas - https://open.spotify.com/album/7swV2ssDdlKc89h1DxUNh7?si=GKtoOn2uQLeA0jmeToJ11g

"Cyrus Oh Cyrus" - The Flying Scrub Jays - https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BD2HJ21S?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_VrTdsVhZSdQbGxiCG13xFkYMk&trackAsin=B0BD3HYRSL

Episode 52: On a scale of 1 to 100. It's like a 2 out of 3.

The guys discuss their somewhat differing opinions of Michigander's 2025 self-titled album. They discuss which talents such as singing ability should really be considered when determining the winners of acting superlatives in races such as the Oscars. Their ever-increasingly popular segment, So You're Thinking About Leaving the United States, meanders over to Liechtenstein, a doubly landlocked microstate in Central Europe. There's also a discussion about Brian's experience with chemistry.  

"Cyrus Oh Cyrus" - The Flying Scrub Jays - https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BD2HJ21S?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_VrTdsVhZSdQbGxiCG13xFkYMk&trackAsin=B0BD3HYRSL

Michigander by Michigander - https://open.spotify.com/album/40hEeqidvpcsJrUqYN4jTL?si=FqYh892dRgahhQ0tap7kHA 

 

Episode 51: You're bluegrass curious. I think grass should be green.

There is a definite difference in musical taste when it comes to musical tastes.  Brian reviews Steep Canyon Rangers' 2023 album Morning Shift.  The guys dream of escaping to Norway.  There is a discussion about the touring version of the Broadway show Hamilton that just recently passed through Memphis. And Brian even reviews a book (although he was silent on the suspected non-audio aspect of the book), The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi.  Come on aboard; I promise you, it won't hurt the horse.

Morning Shift - Steep Canyon Rangers - https://open.spotify.com/album/5AK94KLNpCTGCWf0r23UQn?si=zJWqhh6mRfOGv6QsJ3Yl5g

"Cyrus Oh Cyrus" - The Flying Scrub Jays - https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BD2HJ21S?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_VrTdsVhZSdQbGxiCG13xFkYMk&trackAsin=B0BD3HYRSL

 

Bonus Episode: The Lumineers! Automatic! For the people?

Surprise surprise.  The guys have thrown together a little bonus episode to celebrate the release of The Lumineers new album, Automatic. Join them as they spend twice as much time discussing the album as it takes to listen to it. Laugh along at Cort's wildly incorrect interpretations of the songs.  It's fun.  As always, there is some hilarity doing some ensuing.  

The Lumineers - Automatic - https://open.spotify.com/album/5WMQEzS5EBCPU5IYKSY7BM?si=tL6ZLeQrSleXyzIqZYeFLA

 

Episode 50: The One with Trish (Must watch a Better Man)

Brian and Cort welcome guest Trisha Rich.  They discuss Bob Dylan's The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, a little revisiting of the play Girl from the North Country, and Bob Dylan biopic A Complete unknown, which of course leads to a broader, longer conversation about this year's Oscar nominations and Trish's annual endeavor to watch all Oscar nominated films prior to the actual awards ceremony.  Trish and Cort dissect the listening/viewing habits of a long distance runner and running in general. 

"Cyrus Oh Cyrus" - The Flying Scrub Jays - https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BD2HJ21S?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_VrTdsVhZSdQbGxiCG13xFkYMk&trackAsin=B0BD3HYRSL

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan - https://open.spotify.com/album/0o1uFxZ1VTviqvNaYkTJek?si=JTkmc0L7TgCdTXGh6dgi0Q