Matt and I dip back into music and Top 100 lists for this podcast, in which we talk about the most quintessentially ’80s songs. Find out what Toto’s “Africa” and Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long” have in common, why Matt loves The Outfield’s “Your Love” so much, learn about the magic of hair metal, and… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 14: Private Karaoke
We went back to the Disney well for this podcast, which is unparalleled in terms of background research and time spent in formulation. The result is a list of the top 100 Disney quotes, as curated by the good folks at the B&B B&B. We don’t run through all of them – you’re literate! go… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 13: Marky Mark and the Heteronormative Bunch
In another podcast that occurred much more recently than Episode 11! Our intro music doesn’t work as we talk about the musical we’ve “written!” (We didn’t write a musical.) We embrace irony at the podcast. Today, we channel our deep and abiding affection for Hamilton by talking about who is at the top of our depth… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 12: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Makes Your Life-story in a Musical
In this podcast! More books are on the docket: more Robertson Davies, and a Booker Prize-winning novel; Matt finally talks about a favorite author, and Tim reaches back into his early high school days to talk about a sequel that’s even better than the first in the acclaimed series. Don’t be scared if you don’t… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 11: In Which Matt’s Predictive Powers Exert Themselves
In this episode – our tenth! – Matt and I talk about a pair of our favorite books. Matt talks about how Anil’s Ghost literally changed the trajectory of his life, making some stops along the way for discussions of epistemology; I make it my life’s podcast’s work to bend the allusions in A Prayer… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 10: Isn’t It Pretty to Think So?
It’s uploaded! Another podcast here, in which Matt and I imagine backyard football versions of seven-a-side, two-way NFL players. In this brave new world, who’s running the triple option? Who’s actually going to have a pro-style offense with a quarterback who can play linebacker too? Are we still upset about actual NFL drafts from five… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 9: Phil Loadholt Throwing Marcus Mariota
Matt and I, in this newest podcast, take on a topic which we are intimately familiar with and which we have spent virtually no time on in these podcasts: books. In what we hope will become a recurring subject, we talk about some books that we’ve read recently and talk about what interested us in… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 8: Author Cheese Wheel
Matt and I return to the wide world of sports in our latest podcast. We share the highlights of an NBA fantasy draft. Find out why, in this universe, there is hope for the Charlotte Hornets, no hope for the Sacramento Kings, and why neither one of us drafted Kobe Bryant. If you want to… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 7: Why the Sacramento Kings Will Be Terrible Forever, and Other Results of an NBA Fantasy Draft
Back to the Disney Renaissance, and for an accidentally long podcast. We talk about how Josh is this close to being Lord Greystoke, Tim’s need to make everything he loves relate to Absalom, Absalom!, and most importantly, we join the rest of the Internet in asking if a hot dog is a sandwich. Come on… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 6: Autopsy-Turvy (Disney Renaissance, Part 2)
Baumann and Burch welcomes its first guest of the podcast. Tim’s former ex-roommate Josh comes onto the podcast to talk with us about the Disney Renaissance. Listen for what Greek myth would adapt nicely to Disney animation, deciding if Aladdin has more in common with Game of Thrones or the First Persian Gulf War, and… Read More Baumann and Burch Podcast #5 – Edward’s Angels (Disney Renaissance, Part 1)
Seeing Things Secondhand 