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Learnin' Links:

• NYT opinion stimulus
• Trump abandons the Kurds in Syria
• Toots and the Maytals West Jamaica
• Black people get super powers on the 21st of December

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Learnin' Links:

• All Star but it's Country Roads
• All Star but it's Seinfeld
• All Star but it's Bad Guy
• All Star but it's Stealing Christmas
• 'Zat You Santa Claus? original
• All Star but it's Bring Me To Life
• All Star but it's Zelda
• John McCutcheon's Christmas in the Trenches song
• All Star but it's I'm Holding Out for a Hero
• All Star but it's Beethoven's 9th
• All Star but every word is "somebody"
• All Star but every note is C
• All Star in the style of bachhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey5GItze-BY

Listen along to The Gift of Rock here!

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Now that Smash Mouth is—mercifully—over and done with, it's time to choose who to do next! We do a bracket of listener suggestions.

Help us choose between our two finalists at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DNKBCWM

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Listener suggestions discussed:

• Alice Cooper, suggested by Phibes1972
• Alphaville, suggested by Peter Steinle
• Counting Crows, suggested by Xan Peters
• Dark Lotus, suggested by Robert Seale
• Fiona Apple, suggested by Robert Seale
• J. Cole, suggested by Adam Jones
• King Diamond, suggested by Phibes1972
• Korn, suggested by Matt Parr
• Living Colour, suggested by Elijah
• Phish, suggested by Elijah
• Salt-n-Pepa, suggested by Elijah
• Slayer, suggested by Elijah
• The Residents, suggested by both Mathieu Roy and Eben
• Weezer, suggested by Adam Jones
• Weird Al, suggested by Adam Jones

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Cameron demands to be eaten and put in a bag (in that order), Nathan is gleekin' from both ends, and Smash Mouth? You might know them from "All Star" that is in Shrek.

Announcement: next week, we'll be running a bracket of listener suggestions to choose our next artist. Drop us a line at email@boxset.website or tweet at @totbspodcast to suggest an artist!

Learnin' Links:

• Krampus
• Smash Mouth's cookbook
• Hawk Nelson
• Yeats' poem "The Second Coming"
• Gleeking
• Steve Harwell "Brokeback" photo

Listen along to Magic here!

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Nathan tries to see if there’s a little less nothing in this album, Cameron likes his dumb and bad style, and Smash Mouth gets into some real LiveJournal territory.

Learnin' Links:

• Zoom, a bad movie
• Just one of many examples of Tim Allen being a shithead
• Steve Harwell losing his shit, courtesy of Matt Parr

Listen along to Summer Girl here!

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Cameron wants to get Tim-Tam blasted, Nathan has some titular fun, and Smash Mouth are the true heroes of the 9/11 years. 

Learnin' Links:

• Retrofuturism
• “Beg the question” vs. "Raise the question”
• Scientist renounces alpha/beta view of wolves
• Pickleback

Listen along to Get the Picture here!

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Nathan snoozes outside the box set, Cameron wonders if he's activating sleep agents, and Smash Mouth jazzes so hard—er, so smooth.

Learnin' Links:

• PCH
• Columbia Record Club
• Soul patch
• Bloatee

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Smash Mouth releases an album that's really -ive, Cameron is blinded by the whiteness, and Nathan proves Smash Mouth culture still exists using the power of STATISTICS.

Learnin' Links:

• UFO pronunciation
• Ed Sheeran on Game of Thrones
• Applejacks racist commercials
• UB40's version of "Red Red Wine"

Listen along to Astrolounge here!

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Nathan doesn’t even have fun being grumpy, Cameron is willing to “give it to him,” and Smash Mouth has a small break in their lives of unending privilege.

Learnin' Links:

• Countable noun
• There are twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia
• Rat Race concert scene

Listen along to Fush Yu Mang here!

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