Top 20 Audio 2019: Top 10 Albums, Top 10 Podcasts

Bit of a stretch this year compared to last, in both directions: the albums in the top 5 I listened to a lot more times; the albums in the other half of the top 10 I listened to a lot less. I still averaged out to more muisc listening in 2019 than 2018, as I listened to one album or another this year 494 times, as compared to a record-low 383 times last year. 2019 is still the second-lowest amount of time on record that I have listened to music in a given year, but hey, things are picking up! 10.
Madonna, Rebel Heart (2015) There is no question this is the first year ever that any album made it into my top 10 that I listened to all of three times—but, I guess there's a first time for everything. I actually had six albums I had listened to three times in 2019 from which to choose just one to go into this slot, and the only way I managed to come up with a tie breaker was to consider that this one, by far, is the longest of them: at an hour and 29 minutes in length, that means I spent the most time on this album, by some distance, than on the other five in question. It was sort of a cheat, I know—especially considering this is the dumbest album overall that Madonna has ever released—but I could think of no other objective way to break the tie. It also makes a difference that Madonna put out another new, much better album this year, which naturally increases my rotation of her back catalog, and this also results in Madonna bookending this year's top 10 list. Number of plays in 2019: 3 9.
Sia, Everyday Is Chistmas (2017) I listened to this, the best Christmas pop album to be released in the past decade, the same number of times I did last year. Last year, that was not enough to put it on the year's top 10; this year it was. Even two years after its release, its inclusion remains justified. I really cannot get enough of this album any time it's between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and the song featured in the video here is its best track. I dare you to listen and not find it happy making! Number of plays in 2019: 4 8.
Troye Sivan, Blue Neighbourhood (2015) Troye Sivan, who last year occupied the #3 and #1 positions with his first two albums, now stands at #8 and #7, with the same albums. This kid was the most exciting new musical discovery for me since Sia, and I still feel like I can wrap his music, and particularly his luscious voice, around me like a cozy blanket. Number of plays in 2019: 7 7.
Troye Sivan, Bloom (2019) I was slightly mystified that "My My My" was the only genuine hit from last year's Bloom; it does not showcase Troye Sivan's fantastic voice quite as well as virtually any of the other tracks on the album. That said, not a single one of the tracks would qualify as filler. The whole album is lovely and I continue to lose myself in it at least semi-regularly. Number of plays in 2019: 10 6.
Beyoncé, Homecoming: The Live Album (2019) Now we get into the meat of the albums actually released in 2019! Of which I only purchased six, the entire year. I used to regularly buy upwards of twenty or more, but I just don't have the sustained interest in new music as I once did—hence the state of these annual "top 10 albums" lists (which were "top 20 albums" lists, until I flipped half of them to podcasts in 2014). And in this case, the vast majority of the tracks were not exactly new, being a live album. But, there was something new about it: it coincided with the documentary release of the same name, featuring her critically acclaimed concert performance from the Coachella music festival in 2018. And as concert albums go, this one really is one of the best ever released by anyone. Number of plays in 2019: 10 5.
Sheryl Crow, Threads (2019) It's been a while since Sheryl Crow released an album much worth writing home about. I haven't been especially excited about an album release of hers since Detours (my #3 album of 2008), but I like Threads probably better than any of the other three albums she has released since. Granted, I listened to two of them more times than I did this one, and the other one as many times, but only barely in all cases, which is a poor reflection of those other albums during years I was otherwise spending a lot more time listening to music. Anyway, Threads is a slightly different direction for Sheryl Crow, almost entirely consisting of duets with other musicians she really admires. I really hate that Stevie Nicks's voice is not at all distinguishable on "Prove You Wrong," the opening track, but otherwise I quite like the album overall. It feels a lot more like the classic Sheryl Crow I fell in love with to begin with, than most of her other albums from the past decade. Number of plays in 2019: 22 4.
Lily Allen, No Shame (2019) I didn't even have any idea this album was out until Ivan messaged me that he was listening to it, and I wrote back, "WHAT." And then I immediately purchased it. Well? After the irresistible hooks of her previous three albums, No Shame is very much a comedown, if not an outright letdown—except, of course, I still listened to it 32 times. Compare that to the 37-47 times I listened to her other albums the first years in which I had them. I guess it's not that huge a difference, except that I already know I will be returning to this album far less frequently, if at all, than I will continue to her other albums. I listened to It's Not Me, It's You an additional 14 times the second year I had it. That won't happen with this album, which is a nice, chill listen, but also kind of makes it feel like Lily Allen just spent her recording sessions baked, wanting this album just to be "mellow." Number of plays in 2019: 32 3.
Lizzo, Cuz I Love You (2019) I didn't even know who Lizzo was until spring 2019, and the release of Cuz I Love You suddenly had half the people I follow on Twitter raving about her. I was finally convinced to get the album—her third, it turns out—when Claudia at work insisted that I should. I did, and then it became the instant soundtrack to my Birth Week, driving to visit family and friends from Shelton to Bellingham, and then for much of the spring this year. I was struck boy the urgent joy of both her vocal performance and her messaging, on nearly every track. This album very short, barely more than half an hour, but it truly kicks ass from start to finish. Number of plays in 2019: 49 2.
Beyoncé, The Lion King: The Gift (2019) Another first: Beyoncé appears on my top 10 albums twice, and not only that, both albums were released the same year! This was her tie-in to The Lion King, in which she played a part. It's the kind of album that could easily be forgettable (Madonna's I'm Breathless, "Music From and Inspired by" the film Dick Tracy, was forgotten rather quickly; people today never talk about how that's actually the album "Vogue" was originally from), but not so with this one. Beyoncé doesn't so much focus on the movie itself, but on integrating musical styles from the African continent. Okay, so some people were rubbed the wrong way by it not featuring any music "from the region that inspired the film." To that, I say: whatever. Yhere's just no pleasing people. Well, this album very much pleases me! More than half of it features other singers joining her on the tracks, and the album on the whole is unlike the other, perhaps the greatest analog being the African influences of Paul Simon's seminal 1986 masterword Graceland. Except, of course, Paul Simon was white. At least Beyoncé isn't just another white person appropriating black or African culture! She remains a talent to be reckoned with, and I actually don't think this album got as much attention as it deserved. Number of plays in 2019: 52 1.
Madonna, Madame X (2019) These are the rules: Madonna puts out a new album, by default it is my #1 album of the year. I am a little surprised that I have listened to it 12 times fewer than I did her previous album, Rebel Heart, in 2015. That's weird! In fact, it's the lowest first-year count for a Madonna album in 14 years—since the 68 times I listened to Confessions on a Dance Floor in 2005. Well, I would still say that album is better than any she has ever released after it, and it's worth noting that I returned to it more cosistently in subsequent years than I have other albums. There are always many factors in play when it comes to how much initial focus I give a given album, anyway, even one by Madonna: how soon thereafter someone else's new album was released; what else was going on in my life; how much I am listening to music just generally; even whether or not I have seen Madonna live in the same year, which always creates a bump in her rotation. And her current Madame X tour, for the first time exclusively in smaller theaters at mini-residencies in far fewer cities (all of them far from Seattle), during a year in which I already spent too much on travels to other destinations, proved just too expensive for me. It's the first tour I am not seeing her live since I first saw her in 2001, and I have seen her live during six tours since. Its a true bummer, because I actually do like this album a lot, in spite of the truly dippy lyrics on the second and third tracks. After those, though, it's the most eclectic and daring work Madonna has done in over two decades. If you like Madonna's music at all, you should give it a listen! Number of plays in 2019: 80
So, now my Top 10 Podcasts of the year has only the slightest difference from last year, 9 of them being on last year's list and only one of them new. But, who cares! We're going to run through them anyway. I mean, who the hell is bothering to read this to even run the risk of getting bored by it? Probably no one. Okay maybe five people. 10. The Big Picture, hosted by Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins, and sometimes others from The Ringer I seem to go back and forth as to whether I'll place a non-comedy podcast about movies in my top 10, but this is a new one from The Ringer network in the past year—the only new podcast on my top 10, edging out Savage Lovecast for at least this go-round—and I enjoy it very much. Sean and Amanda have pretty different tastes and sensibilities and yet they manage very engaging and genial conversations not just about movies in general, but about the most notable releases of the moment. I am always interested in what they have to say, even more than Chris Ryan and Any Greenwald on The Watch, and I like that podcast nearly as much. 9. Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, hosted by Peter Sagal I figure I should keep most of the podcasts I have slated as a permanent part of a particular morning of the week's weekly podcast for when I get ready in the bathroom, and the perennial Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, which also keeps me abreast of a lot of news I might not hear about otherwise (even if Paula Poundstone inferred to me on Twitter that I should not regard them as a reliable news source), kicks off my week every Sunday morning. Seriously, I never listen to anything else on Sunday mornings. I can't postpone this show that first aired on Saturday; the breaking news on it might get stale! Also I love almost all the panelists (but especially Paula Poundstone). 8. Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone,, hosted by Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber Speak of the devil! It's Paula Poundstone again. Nobody Listens to Paula Poudstone makes my top 10 podcasts for the second year in a row. Given Paula's penchant for distraction—a big part of what makes this podcast entertaining—I am honestly kind of surprised it is still going strong. I wonder how long she'll keep at it? For a few more years at least, I hope. 7. The Complete Guide to Everything, hosted by Tom Reynolds and Tim Daniels I've been listening to this one so many years, it has honestly largely become a sort of "consolation prize listen," something I put on when nothing better is available. I stopped reserving a morning of the week for them, and typically listen to them later in the day sometime over the week after an episode's release, at work. That said, I still never miss an episode. It might take me nearly a week to get to it, but I've always got it done before their next episode has dropped. And I could never really describe it in a way that makes it sound like vital listening: they just take turns picking a random topic each week and telling the other one about it. You kind of have to have been listening to them a long time already to get it, as this is a couple of longtime friends with a particular rapport with each other, which is just fun to be a part of. 6. Threedom,, hosted by Scott Aukerman, Lauren Lapkus and Paul F. Tompkins I love this podcast so much, and it has had two seasons so far, that I'll sign up for a free trial of Sticher Premium just so I can listen to them without ads the first time they air—and then, several months later, when they release them again outside their paywall and run them with ads, I happily listen to all of the episodes a second time, and they are just as entertaining as they were the first go-round. I will say they were slightly more entertaining in their first season, last year, than this year overall, but only slightly. I like to save this podcast for my Friday morning treat, and it's a bummer that they don't record all year and only do it for a few months at a time. Paul F. Tompkins, Scott Aukerman, and Lauren Lapkus have a singular chemistry as three very funny friends, and that's essentially all the podcast is about. Although they do a "feature" where they play a game of some kind at the end of every episode, they otherwise spend each hour just talking about whatever. I always wind up laughing with them. 5. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, hosted by Conan O'Brien and "Team Coco" This one crashed onto the podcast scene with a bang last year, and of all the podcasts I listen to, it has by far the tightest and the slickest production value. That alone doesn't make it "the best," but I still think it's the best new podcast to come along in several years. Also, Conan O'Brien is hilarious, and he is great with his assistant Sona on the show. The fact that he gets guests of consistently astonishing caliber is almost secondary. I really can't recommend this one highly enough, particularly for anyone who listens to comedy podcasts. 4. Do You Need a Ride?, hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Chris Fairbanks The top four really never changes, does it? Here we go again: I discovered Do You need a Ride? before I started listening to My Favorite Murder, both of which are co-hosted by Twitter comedy master Karen Kilgariff. She co-hosts this one with Chris Fairbanks, who is clearly as much a joy to be around as he is. In the beginning the shows were just recordings in their car as they gave comedian friends rides to and from the airport. This eventually proved too harrowing, not to mention nearly impossible with recent changes at LAX, and for a while they would sometimes just take friends in rides around town in the car. They still do, sometimes. But more often than not, they just ride around town with each other—well, and with Steven, who runs the recording equipment in the back seat—and even then, they are every bit as entertaining. 3. My Favorite Murder, hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark Did I mention My Favorite Murder? I'm not even big on true crime, even in the slightest! What I am big on is this podcast's humor, from co-hosts Georgia Hardstark and, of course, Karen Kilgariff. I've been listening since episode #16 in 2016! I saw their first-ever live show at the L.A. Podcast festival later that same year! I do have a slight sense that they may slip in the ratings slightly in the coming years, just because how huge they have gotten has changed their sensibilities slightly, no matter how nobly they have attempted to resist that happening. Still, I devour every episode as they come, and they just read to each other about a murderous (or occasionally, just basically fucked up in one way or another) story they've picked each week. 2. WTF with Marc Maron, hosted by Marc Maron The first podcast I ever listened to, to this day one of my two favorites. I love how reliably episodes come every Monday and Thursday, and without exception, those are my morning podcast listens on those days. Marc Maron's podcast can really make me laugh, and sometimes even make me cry (he just recently had to put down one of his now-iconic cats). This show has everything I could possibly want from a podcast, and it always has. It was the perfect one for me to start with, really. 1. Doug Loves Movies, hosted by Doug Benson Move over, pretty much everyone else! Now it's true, if it's a Monday or Thursday morning and a new Doug Loves Movies has dropped, I still make WTF with Marc Maron the priority. But! Doug Benson still gets the edge since he takes precedence virtually any other day. These episodes come randomly because they are based on when he can get gigs booked around the country (or, often, at the UCB Theater in Los Angeles). It can still be said that this podcast delights me with more consistency than any other. I would also more readily recommend it to others, especially if you have dual interests in movies and comedy. Doug Loves Movies can't be beat. [posted 9:36 am]

Top 20 Audio 2018: Top 10 Albums, Top 10 Podcasts

. . . And I thought last year my average number of listens per album in my top ten of the year was lower than usual! Last year, even my 10th-most heard album had been listened to 16 times; to get at least that number this year we have to get to #10. So goes the trajectory of my aging process, I suppose: As time goes on, as massive a presence as music was in my life in years past, I just keep listening to music less and less, and listening to podcasts more and more. This would be why I cut what had previously been an annual list of Top 20 Albums in half and made it Top 10 in 2014, and that year introduced my Top 10 Podcasts. This way my year-end audio list still totals twenty items. So any anyway, let's get to it: 10.
Sia, We Are Born (2010) I ripped this album from a CD checked out of the Seattle Public Library last year, and I like it a lot, but at only seven listens in 2017 it did not crack the top 10. Another six listens in 2018, and here we are. I just discovered this music video from the album for the first time yesterday, and it pretty well illustrates why Sia might just be my favorite pop star of the 2010s. This was how she started the decade! Number of plays in 2018: 6 9.
Tori Amos, Native Invader (2017) First repeat holdover from 2017! I heard this album 18 times last year, and it's had more staying power than any straightforward studio album she's put out in years. It's a nice match for both Tori Amos's and my own sensibilities, mellowing with age. Number of plays in 2018: 7 8.
Sia, Some People Have Real Problems (2008) Here is where my exploration further and further back into Sia's career hit a wall. This album isn't bad, but it falls far short of all albums she released thereafter; the song featured here, "Buttons," is tacked onto the end of the album's track sequencing and kind of stands apart and above all the others. I don't listen to this album a lot and likely never will, and after this one I feel no need to check out any of her three Australian albums released before this. Number of plays in 2018: 7 7.
The Cranberries, Something Else (2017) Bittersweet, to say the least: this album was originally released in April 2017, and then lead singer Dolores O'Riordan died nine months later, basically of alcoholism. The Cranberries had not released a particularly good album since Bury the Hatchet in 1999, which was followed by a studio album of average quality in 2001 and then a totally forgettable one 11 years later, in 2012. This acoustic collection is pretty well done, though, and was a nice reminder of what they still had in them. Now it's only a reminder of what once was. Number of plays in 2018: 7 6.
Cher, Dancing Queen (2018) There may never have been a more symbiotic marriage of pop sensibilities than those of ABBA and Cher -- Dancing Queen, a collection of ten ABBA covers, is easily Cher's best release since Believe in 1998. Clearly inspired by her relatively small part in this year's sequel I studiously avoided, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, this album is the one thing related to those movies I have any continued interest in. This music is dazzling, and beyond fun to hear Cher's distinctive voice singing it. Number of plays in 2018: 19 5.
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born Soundtrack (2018) Could this seamless collection of classic-rock and pop tracks, all written just for this movie by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, be the best movie soundtrack since Moulin Rouge! in 2001? I think it might be. I'm not a huge fan of all the dialogue tracks featuring audio clips from the film between each actual song, but I had an easy remedy for that: I simply created an iTunes playlist that includes only the songs. Who knew such disparate music styles could work so well next to each other? Number of plays in 2018: 22 4.
Tom Betty and the Heartbreakers, Greatest Hits (1993) I never owned any other Tom Petty album before, but he had many singles I really liked, so it finally occurred to me to get his Greatest Hits collection from the library -- it features several tracks I have always loved, including "Don't Come Around Here No More," "Runnin' Down a Dream," and my all-time favorite Tom Petty track, "Mary Jane's Last Dance." I got into this album even more than I expected to, given how old the songs on it actually are. The second half of the album is truly great. Number of plays in 2018: 25 3.
Troye Sivan, Blue Neighbourhood (2015) Sia may have been my Great Pop Discovery in 2016; this year it was Troye Sivan (who, as you will soon see, is also #1 on this list). After getting his great new album released this year, I sought out his one previous album. I did not listen to this one quite as many times due to it having coparatively fewer pop hooks, but it could still easily be argued that this is the better album of the two. There's something about his cozy voice that I just love. Number of plays in 2018: 32 2.
Justin Timberlake, Man of the Woods (2018) Honestly, this is a pretty huge step down from Justin Timberlake's previous The 20/20 Experience albums -- but also, truly misguided "reinvention" notwithstanding, still not bad. This was purchased in February and was thereafter the only 2018 new release I got clear until September, and that fact is likely the only thing that propped it up so high to #2 on this year's list: for seven months, it was the only new music I had to listen to. Number of plays in 2018: 36 1.
Troye Sivan, Bloom (2018) Now this is the star of 2018 -- the young, cute, talented and unapologetically effeminiate, gay Troye Sivan. I didn't even know who he was until a Twitter friend told me his new album was great -- the same person, in fact, who introduced me to Sia two years ago! Maybe this Wayne guy will just be my source for great new music from now on? Anyway, Bloom is very nearly pop perfection, virtually every track irresistible. Number of plays in 2018: 47 . . . Then again, these days I spend far more time listening to podcasts than I do to music. So, now my Top 10 Podcasts of the year! 10. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, hosted by Conan O'Brien and "Team Coco" This podcast is so new there have only been six episodes to date, and already it's one of my new favorites -- the first of three to make its debut on this year's list (the three bumped from last year including Dumb People Town, Little Gold Men and Homophilia, all of which I still subscribe to and only the latter two do I still listen to regularly). The conceit is simple: each week a celebrity guest comes on and they talk about whether they think they could become actual friends with Conan O'Brien. No one ever takes it too seriously, the conversations -- thus far, anyway -- are always entertaining, and O'Brien's producer and assistant who become sort of de facto cohosts are fun as well. Much of the time they are all just cracking each other up, and that's what I like about it. 9. Savage Lovecast, hosted by Dan Savage Savage Lovecast has been on this list every year since I started it, although it keeps moving its way systematically to the back. I always want to include this one, though, just because of how vital I regard it to be. If you want your mind to be opened to the myriad possibilities of human relationships -- romantic, sexual or otherwise -- just keep this podcast in your regular rotation. It doesn't hurt that, even though twenty years ago he was kind of a dick, Dan Savage is now an all around great guy. 8. Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, hosted by Peter Sagal I seem to have fallen into fairly reliable weekly patterns with my podcasts, and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me comes out on Saturdays, which means it is my morning podcast as I shower and get ready for the day on Sundays. You might think its longtime formula of comic takes on the week's news would become worn, but so far I have yet to tire of it. 7. Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone,, hosted by Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber I worry a little about whether this fun and silly podcast might not last, considering Live from the Poundstone Institute both started and ended in 2017 -- I find myself wondering if Paula's self-profesed OCD might keep her from being satisfied with any version of a podcast she hosts. To be fair, fun as last year's version was, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone is an improvement, with greater structure yielding better humor more consistently. (You might correctly guess that I am a big fan of Paula Poundstone, who is of course a big part of the draw when she often guests on the panel for Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.) 6. The Complete Guide to Everything, hosted by Tom Reynolds and Tim Daniels Who would have thought I would stick with a podcast about two straight guys, best friends who pick a random topic they often know frustratingly little about each week? This is a steady holdover from the several recommendations Gabriel made when I asked him after I first started listening to podcasts, and to this day I would know nothing about it without having had that conversation back in 2013. Tim and Tom just have great chemistry together, and after all this time, listening to their banter is like listening to old friends. 5. Threedom,, hosted by Scott Aukerman, Lauren Lapkus and Paul F. Tompkins And then, with new podcasts come new friends! How did I find out about this podcast earlier this year? I can't remember. A promotional tweet about it must have been retweeted by one of the comedians I already followed on Twitter. Their entire 20-episode sequence of this podcast was first offered for free and without ads via the Howl app earlier this year, and is now being run through again, this time with ads, on Apple Podcasts. I find this podcast so thoroughly delightful that I am happily listening to them all a second time -- and each episode is little more than just these three friends, all good friends after extensive experience working together as improvisers in various contexts, making each other laugh and amusing each other. The so-called "feature," where each episode one of them suggests a game of some sort, is almost added as an afterthought, to give almost a semblance of structure. Every part of it adds to the charm, and the more any of them laughs uncontrollably at the proceedings (this happening mostly with Paul F. Tompkins), the more it makes me laugh as well. Honestly right now no podcast I listen to regularly makes me laugh more than this one does. 4. Do You Need a Ride?, hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Chris Fairbanks Ah, my introduction to Karen Kilgariff, the Queen of Twitter as far as I'm concerned! Here she just records podcasts passing the time taking car rides with her friend and fellow comic Chris Fairbanks -- and often they have a guest, to whom they are literally giving a ride somewhere. You may be discerning a bit of a theme here, where I have taken a liking to podcasts that are basically just funny people shooting the shit with each other. Hey, so long as there is chemistry, charisma, and reliably humor and laughter, how can you go wrong? 3. My Favorite Murder, hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark My Favorite Murder is now a bona fide phenomenon -- I might have made it to their first-ever live show at the L.A. Podcast Festival in 2016, the year they started this podcast, but now when they tour they sell out in minutes. It's nuts! And, honestly, I am starting to detect elements of the podcast potentially getting too huge for its own good. So far, though, Karen and Georgia still seem pretty grounded, all things considered, and I remain a loyal fan. Again, though, the appeal to me is in the interaction of these two funny friends, much more than in the true crime stories they talk about -- although I certainly have an appreciation for anyone having such dark and twisted interests. 2. WTF with Marc Maron, hosted by Marc Maron The top two really don't change -- #2 being the signaling beacon for all popular podcasts that followed, and the first one I ever listened to with any regularity, WTF with Marc Maron. Before Rolling Stone published a blurb about this sometime around 2013, I didn't even know who Marc Maron was. Now I am intimiately familiar with him, his life, his conversational interviewing style, his comedy, and his acting work on the Netflix original show GLOW. I've been listening to podcasts for so many years now that he was in his forties when I started -- and I was in my thirties! And with two new episdes reliably released every week, once on Mondays and once on Thursdays, every once in a while a guest isn't that fascinating to listen to (for me, that often tends to be, say, an aging guitarist), most of the time the conversations are pretty absorbing no matter what the background. And Maron has been at it so long now that he regularly gets pretty famous actors on -- but I'm still partial to listening to him "talk shop" with fellow comedians. 1. Doug Loves Movies, hosted by Doug Benson Number one now and forever, I love Doug Benson, who loves movies! He is a comedian as well, just as famous for his love of weed as he is for his love of movies, but it's the latter that sparks my interest, of course. I love comedy and I love movies, and this podcast perfectly combines the two, with a panel of comedian guests playing movie trivia games. It's not always as funny as I want it to be, but it usually is, and of course that largely depends on who the guests are. This one also does not have any set release schedule, so there can be a burst of several in one week or a break of a week or two. That just makes it all the more of a delight when a new episode appears in my podcast feed. I keep this podcast at #1 because it remains highest on my priority list: even if there is also a new WTF, if there is a new episode of Doug Loves Movies, that's always what I listen to first. [posted 7:26 am]