Aaron and Ira return to the podcast studio for a new batch of episodes after a 6-month hiatus from recording. The thread they choose to pull from the previous episode, and the whole first season, is comedy. Comedy may actually be one of the key threads running through their friendship, which was cemented in part over Aaron’s concept for a still-as-yet-unrealized, obscurely comic short film. What makes something funny, anyway? Who gets to be funny? Should Aaron try stand-up? Is US Senate Minority Leader Micth McConnel really who he says he is? Things get more personal in a discussion of Aaron’s liberal use of accents, and how that might have figured into his expatriation. In the end, Aaron and Ira once again acknowledge that they are not drive-time DJs in the 1980s Minneapolis/St. Paul commercial radio market, and never will be. The ghost of Leonard Cohen closes things out with a surprisingly suggestive take on “I Have a Little Dreidel.”
Music:
“Open Up Your Heart” by Roger Miller (a song which features the show’s namesake lyric). arranged and recorded especially for JIALIO by 80 Foots, Chicago’s only End Times Vocal Trio.
“Open Up Your Heart” by Buddy Killen + Roger Miller
Arranged and recorded by: 80 Foots (https://www.facebook.com/80FPM)
Aaron and Ira return to the podcast studio for a new batch of episodes after a 6-month hiatus from recording. The thread they choose to pull from the previous episode, and the whole first season, is comedy. Comedy may actually be one of the key threads running through their friendship, which was cemented in part over Aaron’s concept for a still-as-yet-unrealized, obscurely comic short film. What makes something funny, anyway? Who gets to be funny? Should Aaron try stand-up? Is US Senate Minority Leader Micth McConnel really who he says he is? Things get more personal in a discussion of Aaron’s liberal use of accents, and how that might have figured into his expatriation. In the end, Aaron and Ira once again acknowledge that they are not drive-time DJs in the 1980s Minneapolis/St. Paul commercial radio market, and never will be. The ghost of Leonard Cohen closes things out with a surprisingly suggestive take on “I Have a Little Dreidel.”
Music:
“Open Up Your Heart” by Roger Miller (a song which features the show’s namesake lyric). arranged and recorded especially for JIALIO by 80 Foots, Chicago’s only End Times Vocal Trio.
“Open Up Your Heart” by Buddy Killen + Roger Miller
Arranged and recorded by: 80 Foots (https://www.facebook.com/80FPM)