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I guess we're doing it like this. *shrug*

Another mini-series from Wes and I. Not as deep as the heartbreak saga but I'm hoping you all can relate to what we've been talking about. Being overwhelmed is something crazy big and until recently, I didn't know it had a name just like other anxieties, it seems easier to tackle them when you give them a name and talk about it, releasing that energy into the world.

Anyway, enjoy, and hopefully you appreciate what we're talking about. If not, skip ahead and check out the Spin...

We're bringing it back to the feels!

This short conversation was really the warm up of episode #18 but it was too good not to air... and, sorry, because of this there isn't a spin of the week.

Anyway, Wes lets us in on a lot of stuff going on in his life and how overwhelming it all is for him and we unpack that a bit. It's a pretty great conversation and we hope you enjoy it... who knows, we might just have another mini-series on being overwhelmed.

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We just couldn't stay away from our favorite topic... heartbreak. Back when Wes and I put that series together we had no idea how it'd end up. In our eyes, it turned out great. So great, that I don't wanna stop but I will, after this episode... Top 5 heartbreak songs! We each picked 5 songs that we consider heartbreaking and go back and forth about what they mean to us and what the lyrics could represent.

But, before we get to the heartbreak songs Wes and I talk about live shows, because, well, they're back!! It's something we...

Welcome back to another exciting episode of Punch Drunk Vinyl! HA!

This week, Wes and I attempt an deep discussion on materialism but really just don't get very far, you'll see.... Our Spins this week are Mogwai's As The love Continues and Mdou Moctar's Afrikue Bictime. Both of these albums are a little out there for most listeners and we hope you give them a shot.

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Welcome back to our attempt at a three part series on heartbreak.

This week, we try picking up where we left off after our last episode. However, that episode was recorded six months ago and as you can imagine, a lot has changed since then. So, with that said, this episode is a bit different, like, it feels a bit forced at first because I'm attempting to bring the mood back to where you, as the listeners last heard us which is honestly a bit dark when, in reality, I'm an entirely different person than I was...

Welcome to part two of our three part series on heartbreak.

If you haven't yet, listen to part one, or, you know, don't... you do you.

This was recorded in March of 2021. In this episode we continue our conversation about heartbreak, mostly because I was in a place where I needed to and partly because we both wanted to talk about it considering we hadn't really talked since that last recording. We both also wanted to talk about our spins of the week too.. which we actually get to this time.

Another episode...

This is part one of a three part series on heartbreak.

This first part was recorded in February of 2021 after I experienced a rough breakup. I chose to break the news to Wes during a recording session, hoping to spawn a conversation about heartbreak and also with the hopes of helping myself process what I was going through. We spent a lot of time talking about it, so much that we didn't have time to do our spins of the week, those will be in part two. I promise.

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We're back after a bit of a break and yes, we've missed these things too!!

This weeks episode covers so many topics that I really have no idea how to describe it except that it's a classic Punch Drunk Vinyl back and forth between Wes and I, but, like with the feeling that we just needed to catch up on a lot of things.

Our spins this week are A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships by The 1975 and Show Me How You Disappear by Ian Sweet.

This weeks episode is the product of some strange times. Both Wes and I have been riding some of the most wild emotional roller-coasters of our lives in the past few months. Our rides aren't over by any means, as they're totally individual experiences, however, in this episode we share some insight on how we've dealt with those rides and shared the things we've learned along the way.

Our spins this week are Sketchy by Tune-Yards and Collapsed In Sunbeams by Arlo Parks. These records are fabulous and we hope you enjoy our take on them.

This week Mac and I jump into an impromptu 'Best Of" albums around fitness. We had an idea that our Spin of The Week would be about what we love running to and then decided to just to do an all out Top-5 style episode around some of our favorite albums to listen to while working out. We go all over the place with this one and it really shows just how varied our music tastes are.

We hope you find a connection to one of the 10 albums we talk about today. Or, maybe these artists are...

This week, we have our first guest!! Bracen, Wes' 11 year old son joins us to talk about his first vinyl purchase and to crack jokes at his dad for like 40 minutes, it's probably gonna go down as one our of best episodes of all time. The kid's hilarious and extremely sharp. In all honestly, he really wanted to hang out with us while we recorded an episode and we thought it would be super fun to have him on the show as our first guest.

We only have one spin of the week and it's Invisible People...

This week we go straight to our Spin of the Week portion of the show. Wes is obsessed with Spirit World Field Guide by Aesop Rock and he's damn right to be obsessed with the dope lyrics and killer beats of this album. Me, however, I'm still stuck on my favorite sad bastard album of 2020, Brian Fallons Local Honey, yeah, I know I tried talking about it on episode #7 but this time, I got Wes to listen to it and that meant I got to talk about it again!

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In this weeks episode we attempt to talk about seasonal depression, which we both take very seriously but in classic PDV fashion, we take fourteen different turns into random tangets that bring us back to depression and how it affects us... in short, we get there, slowly.

Our spins this week are Miles Davis - Witches Brew B-Sides for Wes and Richard Edwards - I am El Escondido (The Soft Ache & The Moon Demo Recordings). If you listen long enough to hear these spins, you'll definitely relate and hopefully take something away from these records.

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In this episode we talk about our feelings during the global coronavirus pandemic commonly known as "COVID" and explore our individual experiences.

This was recorded in November of 2020, about a week after the Presidential election and honestly, this covid inspired sad bastard type of stuff is a common theme for us, so, we'll probably revisit it again. Our goal is for you to feel like part of the conversation between two normal dudes who get together on the regular to have a drink and talk about music and how they feel about whatever.

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We all know that the world we live in is pretty screwed up... In this episode we give our take on a fairly recent event in the United States... We talk about Twisted Tea and the wide spread video of a racist getting slammed in the face with a Twisted Tea can in a convenient store. If you haven't seen the video, google it, it's a sad yet beautiful story about a jerk who gets a deserving hit to the face.

Then, our Spin of the Week, where this time we actually listened to each others respective...

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Recorded on November 3rd, 2020... in this episode we get back to where we left off after episode #4, you know, the episode where we got a little too lit and had to edit out our drunken arguments, yeah that one! We dial it back in and talk to each other about what happened that day and how silly we both felt afterward. We also discuss our love for mental health therapy and how that's helped us through anxiety and things like panic attacks and fear. Of course, being that this...

We all know that the world we live in is pretty screwed up... In this episode we give our take on a couple of recent events in the United States. First, We talk about Twisted Tea and the wide spread video of a racist getting slammed in the face with a Twisted Tea can in a convenient store. If you haven't seen the video, google it, it's a sad yet beautiful story about a jerk who gets a deserving hit to the face. After that, we talk about the U.S. Capitol riots and give our opinion on how terribly...

We strongly recommend that you drink along to this episode.

This episode is where we realize we shouldn't get wasted and record. I'm not gonna lie, we almost scrapped the whole thing but with the wonders of editing we came though with something worth listening to.

Just like episodes one and two, this conversation starts with "what're you drinking today?". Wes drinks Four Loko and I fumble through describing what "Bottled in Bond"* means for my Henry McKenna Bourbon. We flow into a conversation about expressing ourselves through our hobbies, like art, and how we...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming so that Rylan and Wes can talk about their favorite albums of 2020, both personally and in relation to the weird year we've all experienced. Although intended as a "year in review", the boys really just do what they do best and bullshit about whatever comes to mind... Realistically, it's the perfect episode for 2020, at first it doesn't quite make sense but then gets you thinking "what the fuck am I doing?"

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming so that Rylan and Wes can talk about their favorite albums of 2020, both personally and in relation to the weird year we've all experienced. Although intended as a "year in review", the boys really just do what they do best and bullshit about whatever comes to mind... Realistically, it's the perfect episode for 2020, at first it doesn't quite make sense but then gets you thinking "what the fuck am I doing?" You're welcome. As always, feel free to follow Rylan on IG @ Punchdrunkrylan and DM him about whatever you want. complaints, compliments, pickles. It's...

"If you need to know the answer to something, don't trust us, google is existing, in your pocket, today."

Recorded October 10th, 2020.

In this weeks episode we go off the rails a little bit and hey, we think you'll like it. We discuss books, our favorite record store in Spokane, mental health and our extreme disgust for misogyny and the patriarchy... most of which are recurring themes, except books, we really didn't need to talk about books. Anyway, we also take a wild stab at when Niel Young's Harvest Moon was released (guess what, we...

A taste of whats to come... In this episode we talk about why we like listening to vinyl records and how they make us feel. We also talk about what we like to drink and make some very solid plans for later episodes and trust me, we deliver!

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