Them's The Vagaries: Archive

#34 - Revenge of the Lawn

Sean and Brandon discuss, in detail, Heems’ Nehru Jackets. Specific subjects covered include bad fans not mattering, similarities to Graduation Day and MLK, what Dap’s album may sound like and what could be simultaneously the least and most interesting verse on an album . Our chat is like a shark’s fin: deepish, truish. Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook,...

Feb 10th

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#33 - The Horror at Camp Jellyjam

Sean and Karl reconvene with an all-raps episode, which uses comics criticism to explain why Stupid Hoe is amazing, logic to posit that rapper Lakutus is our podcast in human form and pure inspiration to realise that Rick Ross is essentially the Rap Game Katamari Damacy. Sean also out-rap-geniuses the rap genius people and highlights that a Suga Free/DJ Quik tv show is a NECESSARY. All day in...

Feb 7th

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#32 - The Barking Ghost

Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Right Click and Download here On a recent recon mission to London, Sean sat down with the two most dangerous men in UK blog entertainment, Dom and Tuvshi, to talk Mongolian Stereotypes, KGB assassinations, Blog beef and the attraction of Dead Pooling. This is some of what happened. Dom 2shin Nigel Richards is a Scrabble...

Jan 27th

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#31 - Night of the Living Dummy II

You rejoin a Sean and Brandon Soderberg conversation already in progress with our heroes actually getting around to discussing Brandon’s top five comics of 2011. Featuring how comics are like the Wire’s album of 2011, tuxedo t-shirts and vikings. Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Right Click and Download here Wolverine: The Best There Is was not for...

Jan 14th

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#30 - It Came from Beneath the Sink!

Sean and Brandon Soderberg skype up a storm about the state of comics at the end of 2011 in the first of a two-part TTV comics special. Hint: There’s a lot to be mad about. Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Right Click and Download here No Trivia The New 52 Swamp Thing Number #1 (lol at this dude btw, nice press-release speak man) Wes Craven totally did...

Jan 8th

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#29 - Monster Blood III

Seeing as it’s the end of they year, TTV decided it was best to gather some of the most superior Internets to give their take on a wide range of just what went down in 2011. So this episode features contributions from Depressing Wrestling Ephemera maven Dom Passantino, Bonafide Internets Celebrity Dallas Penn, front-kick experts Vince and Ben from the Filmdrunk Frotcast, Videogames...

Dec 31st

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#28 - The Cuckoo Clock of Doom

Karl and Sean sit down and talk about the songs that caught their ears in 2011. The discussion alternates between delirious shared enthusiasm and bitter, bitter agresssion, like all good end of year discussions should. We hit on a lot of stuff, from awesome black metal to sub-Juno 2 Soundtrack indie, and we did it with more vim than you’re going to find else where. All that and copious raps...

Dec 20th

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#27 - A Night in Terror Tower

Internet aint Internet if there aint two whitey whitersons arguing the toss about authenticity, blogs and other minutia. A little later than you’d probably like here is a joke-heavy episode about music everyone knows about. I know, why don’t we do this all the time? Also Karl advances a theory about the kind of rap alt rock critics like and Sean is uncharacteristically laid-back...

Dec 13th

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#26 - My Hairiest Adventure

Karl and Sean are joined by omniscient Irish music blogger Niall Byrne aka Nialler9 to talk about what you’d expect, ie covering rap, laughing at Glen Danzig, receiving threatening phonecalls from old men and how Van Morrison invented Black Metal PR Technique. Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Right Click and Download here Danzig buying cat food Glen...

Dec 1st

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#25 - Attack of the Mutant

Sean, Karl and Returning Champion Of Rap Information D-KnowNil SecondNameRedacted hit a studio to talk about rap and bullshit. Karl put himself all the way up in the mix for selfish reasons but the jokes and the logic still get through. And yes, The Rick Ross Conspiracy is expanded. RIP Heavy D. Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Right Click and Download here ...

Nov 8th

TTV Mini Episode #1 - Innocents in Transit

Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Right Click and Download here Sean tells a story about something that happened to Germans while he was on a bus once.

Nov 1st

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#24 - Phantom of the Auditorium

Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Right Click and Download here Drainland Harvey Milk Swans Amebix Rudimentary Peni Whitehouse Judgement Night Soundtrack Speak English Or Die metal ireland Karl literally only knew 3 metal band there, is the thing. Children of Bodom DRI The West Memphis Three There totally was a band called Witch...

Oct 31st

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Them's The Vagaries Halloween Mix

Since it’s the time of the year when evil is in the air, Sean put together some raps that sound spooky for you to listen to this weekend. This is the first half of our tribute to halloween. The second is the episode, dropping tomorrow, where we discuss metal, distortion, horror movies and other shit with Jamie from Drainland. The Mix Is Here Here’s the tracklist: 1. Bubba...

Oct 28th

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#23 - Return of the Mummy

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks This episode is a full on wall of jokes, you’d expect nothing less when the topics are steampunk, Sonic Youth, Stressmatic as rap’s ultimate dosser and the elaborate Robotic Ricky Ross conspiracy. Also good sound quality, bar some bar-cleaning-up sounds, and an impromptu bossanova...

Oct 19th

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#22 - Ghost Beach

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Sean and Karl tour Dublin, blighted on all sides by construction workers, rain, tourists and people Sean went to school with showing up. Amongst this disruption they manage to discuss metal murders, the greatest documentary about a rap battle ever made, James Blake being the master of bland...

Oct 13th

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#21 - Go Eat Worms!

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Sean and Karl take to a more expensive-seeming park to talk Dubstep, Half Man Half Biscuit, El-p counting to 16 and how making fun of members of Black Flag is always the funniest thing to do but doesn’t make you many friends. Definitely the episode where the least fucks were given, much...

Oct 6th

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#20 - The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks The long-awaited 20th episode. Sorry for the delay, it’s explained in the episode in the sort of meandering monologue from Sean that seems to becoming a fixture. We also explain the Distillers, various rap beefs, KMD being good, Yung Berg being pillow-soft and Tim Dog doing the dog in the...

Sep 27th

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#19 - Deep Trouble

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Sean and Karl recorded this week’s episode in an empty pub, not even the wind was going to stop them feeding the streets. Sean holds forth on new Das Racist and Mister Motherfucking Exquire records. Sean and Karl come to a disappointing and surprising (because it happened) consensus about the...

Sep 14th

#18 - Monster Blood II

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks In their first week as a member of the Palavr podcasting network(we didn’t sell out, we bought in), Karl and Sean talking about ICP, rape allegations in Black Metal, Messy Marv’s house, TI’s bus, Waka-Flocka-horror movies and why Karl hates metal because he’s afraid of...

Sep 6th

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#17 - Why I'm Afraid of Bees

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Sean and Karl sit down to talk Danny Brown, Odd Future’s Live Show, Kendrick Lamar, The Carter IV and pseudo-Earl, Irish rap hypebeast Lecs Luther. We sort all of this out, to an extent. Regrettably, Karl also spends some time defending the game. Tell your friends and comment! Drop Earl ...

Aug 30th

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#16 - One Day at HorrorLand

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Karl and Sean discuss Watch The Throne, other rap that is better than it, fake E-40, Anime conventions and a whole host of other things while sitting in the grounds of Trinity college. Two new segments are introduced: SMDH and Sorry. Comment and subscribe! Young L Clams Casino Planet...

Aug 17th

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#15 - You Can't Scare Me!

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Karl and Sean go guestless in this episode which is mainly about: the ATP festival Sean recently attended, why Watch The Throne should have had an Amelia Fletcher feature and which Irish music figurehead should have a building or thing named after them. The sound quality is improved roughly 75% from...

Aug 11th

#14 - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

Right Click and downloa here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks Donal, Ireland’s premier rap fan and confusing twitter personality, joins the Vagarians to talk about fucking rappin’ ass rap music. It’s mostly just jokes though. Also a man asking for money disturbs the show, giving Sean a rare chance to see even less sympathetic than usual. Also...

Aug 9th

#13 - Piano Lessons Can Be Murder

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks This week the Vagarians talk to journalist and editor Dean Van Nguyen in Ireland’s windiest park. They cover music criticism, weird race shit and Romeo doing that song with Christina Milian. Stay tuned for the end when Sean, for once, actually admits everything he said in the preceding 20...

Jul 27th

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#12 - Be Careful What You Wish For...

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks This week Karl and Sean talk to Darragh McCausland. Darragh’s been a blogger of note for a while, writing amazing stuff for his blog, Asleep on the Compost Heap. Darragh also recently appeared on the Irish version of Come Dine With Me. Darragh being mortified by motorboating a woman on Come...

Jul 20th

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#11 - The Haunted Mask

Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. Please follow us on Facebook, thanks This week Sean and Karl discuss the year in music so far in great depth. Many reccomendations and commendations follow. Also discussed is heaviness as a concept, the best ginger rappers and lots of E-40. A truly thorough, hour-long look at music in ‘11 so far. Karl doesn’t know what...

Jul 5th

#10 - The Ghost Next Door

For our tenth episode, we invited Orla, former fan-favorited guest from Sean’s old podcast, for an extremely affable conversation that somehow managed to be the most offensive shit we’ve ever recorded. We talk about The Sawdoctors, The Books, Battle’s backstage antics and about Ireland’s favorite wingnut musician. Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes...

Jun 28th

#9 - Welcome to Camp Nightmare

Sean and Karl are joined by Megan, of being Megan fame, to discuss Kilkenny, sounding like the arctic monkeys, dj skills, Daphne and Celeste and racist comedy. Also featuring an ad for tomorrow’s fantastic popical island all day event in whelans, be there! Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. FACEBOOK PAGE, LIKE THIS ISH! Megan on...

Jun 24th

#8 - The Girl Who Cried Monster

In this week’s episode Sean and Karl drop the elbow on Suga Free’s hair, Gerry Ryan’s personal brand and the best episodes of Cribs. Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. FACEBOOK PAGE, LIKE THIS ISH! Black 47 Floggin Molly n2gether Botchamania Quik and Free are the fucking Goatmen Quik describes free Dos Equis ...

Jun 14th

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#7 - Night of the Living Dummy

Sean and Karl talk about music festivals, pissers, Sean’s Da, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mitchgonenorth, The monster video and old Punx. Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. FACEBOOK PAGE, LIKE THIS ISH! Come To Daddy Cover SugarCube by Bo Ka Mango or whatever The actual Battles set discussed. it’s not sideways. It’s just post-The Right Way Up ...

Jun 11th

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#6 - Let's Get Invisible!

In this late episode we talk about Old rockers almost exclusively. Gasp in horror at Karl not knowing Crazy Horse facts. Frown at Sean’s assement of Stephen Fry as some mark-ass bullshit. Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. FACEBOOK PAGE, LIKE THIS ISH! Man Gave name to all the animals Dylan’s Trashologist Isis from Desire: THE best Dylan song....

Jun 3rd

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#5 - The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

This week we talk about Young L getting cheated,Macho Man dying, Kreayshawn being good and how would make a shit teacher. Tell your friends, friends. Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. FACEBOOK PAGE, LIKE THIS ISH! erk the jerk Macho Man’s Rap album Quik went to jail for assaulting his sister Dollas and Sense Quik’s TV sampling woes Bun...

May 25th

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Them's The Vagaries #4 - Say Cheese and Die!

This week we tackle interview technique, wrestling, De La Soul Is Dead being 20, issues of authenticity and why Karl’s band didn’t soundcheck properly. Right Click and download here Subscribe on Itunes here. FACEBOOK PAGE, LIKE THIS ISH! It’s still Real to me Ron Swanson That Mick Foley article. Bizarrely,Sean wasn’t making that Chris Benoit shit up ...

May 18th

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Them's The Vagaries #3 - Monster Blood

This week His Royal Badness is debated, reviewing of Goblin is dissected and the worth of mixtape djs is bought into serious question. Most of this is used as an excuse for jokes and making funny noises. Remember if you don’t hear our drops, this is not a true exclusive. Facebook Page is here, LIKE THIS ISH PLEASE Download the audio on mp3 here. Expect the ability to subscribe in...

May 10th

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Them's The Vagaries #2 : Stay Out Of The Basement

This week we talk about Daft Punk Covers, Rap Covers, Obama’s roast and a lot about the Masons. If you’re in the Masons, please, don’t get in touch. Trinity Daft Punk Odd Jazz White People, fuck you Good News, there is mason rap

May 3rd

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Them's The Vagaries #1 : Welcome To The Dead House

Two people of no consequence discuss, with jokes, music and pop culture. This is the first episode so all the awkwardness you’d expect kicks in. Sean and Karl talk about finding Earl Sweatshirt, the genius of Nardwaur and how Sean feels about Led Zepplin. Note: Sean got the Rosenburgs mixed up. He does this all the time. Earl Sweatshirt is found Hodgy and Domo’s song Tang Golf ...

Apr 23rd