Episode 74: Love (of audiobooks) is not the answer.

Episode 74: Love (of audiobooks) is not the answer.

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January 23, 2026 · 1h 4m · Episode 79

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Cort reviews Dove Ellis's debut album Blizzard while discussing various cultural topics and personal anecdotes.

Cort returns with a review of Dove Ellis's Blizzard, a debut album that came out of nowhere. Dove gained notoriety opening for Geese, and Blizzard may have (briefly) consumed Brian's world. The consensus favorite song is “love is,” which sparks the important question: great song… or perfect song? From there, we do a quick and dirty psychological profile of Dove through his rise to fame, a lecture from Cort on the value of introverts, and authenticity and the “is this a gimmick?” debate. Without much warning there's a hard pivot into Brian’s New Year trip to Spain, complete with a tale of the Catalan log that allegedly poops presents, Caga Tió. Did Caga Tió inspire an American Christmas legend? We also hit the Counting Crows documentary, the Golden Globes (including the rage-baiting podcasts award category), a little Traitors/Amazing Race reality-TV tangent, and a brief Stranger Things Season 5 postmortem. Everything old is new again when Cort assigns Brian something a little more musical to listen to for next Ep. What could it be? And finally, the random podcast generator tries to ruin everyone’s day. 🎶 Theme Song: Cyrus Oh Cyrus — The Flying Scrub…

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Host: Cort

Guest: Brian

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Books & works: Blizzard, love is, Counting Crows documentary, Stranger Things Season 5

Places: Spain, Catalan

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