Auspicious Portent

On this week’s extra special episode, Jon and Megs are joined by Nezo and extra special guest Maxwell, from the Dating and the Big D podcast. Topics include bad dates and other stuff.

photo by Shervin Lainez

This week’s featured song is “Arcade Rambler” by The Budos Band

Social Justice Warrior

On this week’s episode of Secretly Timid, Megan, Jon, and Big Ang discuss Galentine’s Day, Big Ang’s interaction with a personal trainer, Jon being called a “cuck,” and Megan has a difficult altercation at work. Later topics shift to the allegations against Ryan Adams and a New Yorker who breaks a shop window to attack a mannequin dressed as President Barack Obama.

photo credit : Sean Mathis

This week’s featured song is, “I Love My Boy” by acclaimed Texas singer-songwriter Matthew Logan Vasquez. His soon-to-be-released new record, LIGHT’N UP, arrives via Dine Alone Records on Friday, February 22.

MATTHEW LOGAN VASQUEZ ON TOUR 2019

MAY

7 – Oklahoma City, OK – Tower Studio

8 – Davenport, IA – Raccoon Motel

9 – Minneapolis, MN – Icehouse

10 – Chicago, IL – Schubas

11 – Indianapolis, IN – HIFI

13 – Toronto, ON – The Monarch

15 – Boston, MA – Middle East16 – Brooklyn, NY – Rough Trade

17 – Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle

18 – Washington, DC – DC9

20 – Charleston, SC – The Royal American

21 – Decatur, GA – Eddie’s Attic

22 – Nashville, TN – High Watt

24 – Dallas, TX – Kessler Theater

25 – Houston, TX – Heights Theater 

JUNE

20 – Costa Mesa, CA – The Wayfarer

21 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar

22 – Los Angeles, CA – Moroccan

25 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst

26 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill

28 – Seattle, WA – The Sunset29 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios

 JULY

1 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge

2 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall5 – Austin, TX – Scoot Inn 

ADDITIONAL DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED

Just Take Out A Loan

On this week’s episode, Jon and Megan talk about their week’s and discuss the temporary end of the shutdown, Democratic hopefuls, and Wilbur Ross.

This week’s featured song of the week is “All Over Now’ by The Cranberries, from the band’s upcoming final album, In the End,which will be released April 26th.

“I can’t think of a more fitting way to commemorate the first anniversary of Dolores’ passing and to celebrate her life than to announce to the world the release of her final album with the band.” 
- 
Eileen O’Riordan, Dolores O’Riordan’s mother

Thanks, Giving

Oh this week’s special episode of Secretly Timid, Jon talks about masculine toilets, Megs talks about Devos getting sued, and Otieno explores masculinity and apologies.

Some links:

S3 E7: Himpathy

 

This week’s featured song is, “Fall Back” by Duckwrth

Two Thirds Women Speakers

This week on a very special and Jonless episode of Secretly Timid, we replace our co-host with Juliet, a queer woman, and see if anyone notices.  We talk about expectations in dating, give our takes on the blue ripple/wave, racist computer programs, and our slowly evolving historical institutions.
This week’s featured song is “Numb” by Go Dark

Beef Jerky People

 

This week on a very special episode of Secretly Timid (with special guest Juicebox Dad aka Ruttiger Smoot), we’re back and everything is still pretty awful.  Jon talks about local awful, Otieno talks about men being awful, and Megan reminds us that dogs are subject to sexism too.

This week’s featured song is, “Life’s a Rave” by Ned Dylan.

Mint Julep

This week on a very special episode of Secretly Timid, after a brief detour into the mechanics of self inflicted stab wounds, we offer our take on the only piece of news that anyone is talking about right now.  Yeah, sorry about that ya’ll :/

photo credit : Red Williamson

This week’s featured song is “(I’ve Still Got) Sand In My Shoes” by Calvin Johnson

Death Roll

On this week’s very special episode of Secretly Timid, Chris and Megan talk trivia, lack of commitment to Sparkle Motion, history of gore on the internet, serial killer culture and alligators vs. joggers.

This week’s featured song is Never Surrender Forever by Juiceboxxx.

Tour Dates:

FRI 31 AUG – Los Angeles, CA @ Hi Hat

SUN 02 SEP -Tucson, AZ @ HOCO Fest

THU 20 SEP – Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews

FRI 21 SEP – Lincoln, NE @ Lincoln Calling: Bodega’s Alley

SAT 22 SEP – Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club

SUN 23 SEP – Madison, WI @ Mickey’s

MON 24 SEP – Chicago @ Empty Bottle

THU 27 SEP – Berlin, DE @ Internet Explorer

FRI 28 SEP – Flensburg, DE @ Volksbad

SAT 29 SEP – Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang

SUN 30 SEP – Neremburg, DE @ Kulturezentrum K4

TUE 02 OCT – Amsterdam, NL @ Q-factory

THU 04 OCT – Brighton, UK @ Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar

FRI 05 OCT – Bristol, UK @ Hy-brasil

SAT 06 OCT – London, UK @ Shacklewell Arms

Digging For Peanuts

This week on a very special episode of Secretly Timid, we remain Sarahless but she sent us a comforting care package.  This comes in handy when Megan discusses how the government doesn’t care about your student loan debit and Otieno suggests there’s a concerted attempt to overwhelm the progressive US electorate with garbage data.  But hey, vote Blue ya’ll.  Seriously.  For now.

This week’s Hot Topics include:

Hypernormalization Excerpt:
The Christian Nationalist Blitz
Life Expectancy and Health Care Expenditure Over Time

https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/998309880183377926

Preview YouTube video HyperNormalisation 2016

Photo Credit: Emilio Mesa https://www.instagram.com/_ee_emm/

This week’s featured song is “Wait for You” by Somogyi.
Please consider donating to her GoFundMe campaign to record her debut album. Support local music.