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Episode 348: Edgy Pants
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11/22/23 • 54 min
Season's Eatings! This very food-centric episode kicks off with a listener request. While he's perhaps best known to Christmas nerds for his work in White Christmas, we totally ignore that while discussing Danny Kaye's "Eat Eat Eat" and instead try to discern how light-hearted this holiday patter song actually is. We follow up this deceptively complex piece with a song so utterly devoid of deeper meaning that Carrie Underwood literally titled it "Stretchy Pants".
The ranking music in this episode is "8 Days of Latkes" by Ben Schwartz. Thank you to Myles for requesting "Eat Eat Eat"!
Episode 356: Lots In Translation
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03/13/24 • 51 min
By request, we're tackling two holiday songs that expand the number of languages and dialects represented in our list. "Jingle Bells" as performed by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones featuring Alash marks the first appearance of Tuvan, and also, of Tuvan throat-singing! And, I don't know, maybe like the thirtieth post-modern banjo performance? And while we've had a good amount of French under our belts and in our ears already, "23 Décembre" by Beau Dommage is our first in the Québécois working-class dialect of Joual. Er, probably? Listen, we got really sidetracked in the middle of this one.
The ranking music in this episode is "Fa La La" by Bündock.
Thank you to merikus for these requests!
Episode 365: Atoning for Our Ska Sins
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07/31/24 • 58 min
It's been almost a year, and the time has come. In August of 2023, Ian was incorrect about something. More incorrect than we usually are about things on this podcast. And so, we attempt to set things right by giving ska its due. Our ska education starts with Al and the Vibrators' "Merry Christmas", followed by Toots and the Maytals' "Christmas Feeling Ska".
The ranking music in this episode is "Polka Face" by Weird Al Yankovic. (For the record, Ian chose this.)
08/14/24 • 57 min
Savor with us, won't you, the delectable second year of August Got Run Over By a Reindeer? The second year is the brief stage of a made-up tradition in which we could, if we had better judgment, back out: haha, that sure was a funny joke we made last year, an annual month of Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer related songs! By the third year, we'll be in too deep; listener expectations will force us to continue. And yet, dear listeners, we have not opted to take this last exit. We stay the course. We persist. We drive on, like so many sleighs over so many grandmothers, down this lonesome highway once again.
The songs in this episode are, bafflingly, "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" by Elmo & Patsy and "Grandma's Homemade Christmas Card" by Merle Haggard. It will make sense when you listen, I promise.
The ranking music in this episode, and all August Got Run Over By a Reindeer (AGROBAR) episodes, is “Everything Sucks” by Reel Big Fish.
Episode 352: Upstanding Podcast Citizens
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01/17/24 • 49 min
It's podcasts all the way down! By listener request, we're discussing "Don't Wait For Me Beneath the Mistletoe" by The Allusionettes. The band -- comprised of Jenny Owen Youngs, Martin Austwick, and podcast host Helen Zaltzman -- was formed for an episode of The Allusionist podcast about creating a 2020-appropriate holiday hit. We pair that with another Jenny Owen Youngs holiday tune, "Maybe Next Year", which definitely came out in 2019 and not 2020! We got this wrong and there was absolutely no way we could have fact checked it while recording! Jam had a headache and Ian was trapped under a cat!! Please, we're sorry, we're upstanding podcast citizens!!!
The ranking music in this episode is "Fuck Was I" by Jenny Owen Youngs.
Thank you to Matthew for requesting "Don't Wait For Me Beneath the Mistletoe"!
Episode 346: A Country-Twanged Clusterfuck
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10/25/23 • 55 min
Halloween approaches, and as is tradition, we're covering two Christmas tunes with a Halloween-y kick! The first is "Hell of a Holiday" by the Pistol Annies, which offers a mish-mash of Halloween and (select) winter holiday flavors, as well as some intriguing questions about what spells their respective cleric domains would have. Then it's "Flappie", a dark Christmas tune beloved in the Netherlands, hauntingly performed in English by Todd Rundgren. Oath of Miranda Lambert paladins would not approve. The intro music in this episode is the theme from "Goosebumps", composed by Jack Lenz. The ranking music is "It's Halloween (A Christmas Song)" by Randy Brooks.
Episode 358: I Have a Little Weed Day
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04/10/24 • 47 min
Our annual 4/20 episode is back, and this year? Good songs only!!! You may be surprised to hear that we were still able to find two good weed-themed winter holiday songs, but indeed: "High on Hanukkah" by Micah E. Wood (featuring Ari Pluznik and Seth Kibel) is an enjoyable ode to holiday paranoia, and "Kushmas" by Smino is... well, surely it's about something, but that's sort of beside the point.
The ranking music in this episode is "Sleigh", also by Smino (featuring Monte Booker and Masego)!
Episode 362: Santa Daddy
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06/05/24 • 54 min
Ok, yes, we may be burning this title when there are certainly multiple renditions of "Santa Baby" called "Santa Daddy" that we didn't touch in this episode. We're just going to have to call that one "Daddy Christmas" or something. No, rather than casting actual Santa as a metaphorical daddy, this Father's Day episode features songs about actual fathers and not-actual Santa Clauses: "Santa Claus Looks Like My Daddy" by Danny Kaye and "Daddy's Beer" by Dave Gunning.
Thank you to Myles for requesting "Santa Claus Looks Like My Daddy"!
The ranking music in this episode is "Santa Claus is a Black Man" by Akim and Teddy Vann.
Episode 350: Lawrence the Network Technician
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12/20/23 • 67 min
It's finally here: our 2023 milestone episode! When looking for a candidate for all-time greatest Christmas songs, Jam attempted to laser-focus their pick to Ian's taste. When looking for the worst of the worst, the song Ian selected has more of scattershot strategy.
The ranking music in this episode is "Christmas Unicorn" by Sufjan Stevens.
As mentioned in this episode, we were recently quoted in an article about Christmas music! You can read it here: How Simon Cowell and John Lewis killed the British Christmas song
Episode 354: A Special Kind of Horny
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02/14/24 • 54 min
It's Valentine's Day, one of the horniest holidays on the calendar, and we're celebrating with two songs from the 1950s that illustrate an uncomfortable truth: people have always been nasty little freaks about Christmas. In the case of "Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney" by Ella Fitzgerald, it's entirely listener interpreation that takes this song from silly to risqué. In "Trim Your Tree" by Jimmy Butler, however -- maybe you wouldn't call the lyrics explicit, but they are definitely intentional.
The ranking music in this episode is "Molasses Molasses (It's Icky Sticky Goo)" by Ella Fitzgerald!
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How many episodes does HARKpodcast have?
HARKpodcast currently has 375 episodes available.
What topics does HARKpodcast cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts, Comedy and Music.
What is the most popular episode on HARKpodcast?
The episode title 'Episode 340: Our Podcast Got Run Over By Some Ska-Punk' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on HARKpodcast?
The average episode length on HARKpodcast is 44 minutes.
How often are episodes of HARKpodcast released?
Episodes of HARKpodcast are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of HARKpodcast?
The first episode of HARKpodcast was released on Jan 8, 2015.
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