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Learnin' Links:

• Les Ballets Africains
• Lilting Irish music

Listen along to Voyage here!

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Cameron criticizes Nathan for audio good practices, Nathan tries to avoid mom-shaming, and ABBA wants to build a disco song.

Learnin' Links:

• MacGuffin
• Interlocutor
• Men by Scene on Radio

Listen along to The Visitors here!

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Learnin' Links:

• Panpipes
• Omnibus Project’s episode on dancing mania
• Bad Dad, Soccer Dad
• Feet of clay
• Hit Parade’s episode on the Bee Gees
• “What Is Love” is not a C+C Music Factory song. Nathan (a moron) regrets the error.
• Men by Scene on Radio

Listen along to S(o)uper Trouper here!

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Cameron eats his tea, Nathan complains about dingos punching kangaroos, and and ABBA teaches Genius.com commenters about how the wind casts shadows.

Learnin' Links:

• Omnibus' episode on disco demolition
• Mnemosyne
• Harvest by Neil Young
• In case you forgot about Schlager

Listen along to Voulez-Vous here!

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Nathan does eagle stuff, Cameron eats a nice bow of eagle noodles, and ABBA really makes us think with questions like "what if eagles?" 

Learnin' Links:

• Schlager
• Fucking Jumping the shark
• Ostinato
• Maps—wait!

Listen along to ABBA: The Album here!

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Nathan invents the academic discipline of Mexicorientalism, Cameron gets Famous for His Drippins™, and ABBA teaches us how sexy geometry can be. 

Learnin' Links:

• It's legally complicated, but spousal rape was either legal or punished less severely than other forms of rape in the US until 1993ish
• Roger Ebert famously said that video games cannot be art—but tempered his position a while later
• James Bond, rapist—not just old-school Bond either; this is from 2012
• Perhaps it's worth citing Edward Said's foundational book Orientalism, because we sure seem to reference it a lot

Listen along to Arrival here!

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Nathan makes a bold declaration about trees, Cameron makes a courageous confession about what kind of man he is, and ABBA warms our hearts in the tropical loveland of Sweden.

Learnin' Links:

• Zwarte Piet
• Let me google that for you
• Apparently the Dutch were so involved in the slave trade that there was a region called the “Dutch Slave Coast”. Yikes. 

Listen along to ABBA here!

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This MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY, THRILL as Nathan and Cameron choose completely arbitrary moments where they think ABBA is being self-aware, and then THROW DOWN.

Learnin' Links:

• Did an MJ impersonator sing on the last Michael Jackson album?
• The Battle of Waterloo
• Cowper’s gland
• David Livingstone
• King Léopold II’s brutal colonial rule in the Congo
• “Whitey on the Moon”
• Bechdel test
• Please Mr Kenendy from Inside Llewyn Davis
• Nathan’s favorite song by Television

Listen along to Waterloo here!

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Nathan sags himself right off a cliff, Becca gets herself into an Ikea Situation, and Cameron begins his transformation into Barry Sacks (the king of the bari sax).

Learnin' Links:

• Abba in Hebrew (and other Semitic languages)
• “Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.”
• Speaking of angel cats…

Listen along to Ring Ring here!

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Say it with us, in a real real spoooOOOOoooky voice: "I WANNA PLAY A GAME." That's right! It's time to choose the artist we investigate after Garf, and what better way than with a horrifying, flesh-rending, gruesome carnival of carnage? Just call Nathan "Jigsaw," baby, cuz it's about to get all Saw up in here. 

Learnin' Links:

• Wu Tang Clan Name Generator
• Yacht rock
• Meat Loaf's impressive filmography
• R. Kelly's legal troubles
• Roman Polanski is a piece of human garbage from a toilet
• Queen of the Damned

Bracket visuals:

• The starting bracket positions
• The ending bracket positions

The game we're playing to choose the post-Garf artist is a bracket-style tournament. We're releasing the first one of these brackets to everyone, but in the future they'l just be for supporters—along with other cool, funny, smart, nice bonus episodes! 

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