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Merry Christmas, dear listener! This festive morning, the Gruesome Twosome are sitting in for Rex Banter to deliver this year's Holiday Hit Parade, counting down the best holiday tunes of all time as chosen by you! Pour yourself a delicious hot cup of cocoa and unwrap this holiday gift that keeps on giving!

Visit our official blog (CLICK) and tell us what you thought of this latest episode, send us an email (CLICK) with your favorite holiday songs, and follow us on Threads (CLICK) for more!

Happy Holidays!

The show that talks about stuff on purpose is discussing Structurally Sound, the fourth and final album from Australian/American indie rock band Smoke Bellow! If you'd like to check out the album for yourself, CLICK HERE to visit their Bandcamp page!

CLICK HERE to visit the official TRAPPO blog and tell us what you think about Smoke Bellow's music. If you'd like to send us an email, CLICK HERE to make that happen. We're also on Threads, so CLICK HERE to follow us on Threads, and then we'll be pals on Threads. There's a weekly TRAPPO newsletter that you can't afford to miss! It's called The TRAPPO Town Gazette, and new editions drop every Wednesday! CLICK HERE to subscribe for free!

It's that time of year, dear listener. Time once again for the annual TRAPPO Music Awards poll! CLICK HERE to vote in twenty multiple choice categories! You get to decide what amazing artists TRAPPO celebrates during the 2024 TRAPPO Music Awards! The poll will remain open until December 27, so get voting!

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Our Essential Albums season premiere went into overtime! We just didn't have enough time to share all of our essential album picks with you, dear listener, necessitating the creation of this extended addendum for your listening pleasure. So what are our final essential picks? 1998's self-titled debut album from desert rockers Queens of the Stone Age and 1987's Never Let Me Down From David Bowie. Hear us talk about these two beloved albums for a long time by listening to this exciting new episode at your leisure.

What are your essential albums? Tell us all about it! CLICK HERE to visit the official TRAPPO blog and tell us in a comment, or CLICK HERE to send us those thoughts in an email, which we would certainly appreciate. We're also on Threads, so CLICK HERE to follow us there, and we'll probably follow you back. We also have a Substack, so CLICK HERE to subscribe (for free) to The TRAPPO Town Gazette, and you'll have new editions in your inbox every Wednesday.

Next week we'll kick off our spooky season celebration with a very special episode of TRAPPO's Old Music Showcase! Thanks for listening!

Happy Halloween! This week, the show that talks about stuff on purpose is taking a closer look at the recent trilogy of Halloween films directed by David Gordon Green that definitively conclude the Michael Myers/Laurie Strode saga once and for all! Again! We're going in-depth on 2018's Halloween, 2021's Halloween Kills, and 2022's Halloween Ends! Does this trilogy of shockers end on a high note? Do they deliver on the terror quotient? Do they find a place in the illustrious TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on? Tune in to find out!

Join the conversation! Leave a comment on the official TRAPPO blog telling us what you think of the trilogy! If you're feeling more verbose, you can always send us a spooky email! And don't forget to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for the complete TRAPPO experience! Thanks for listening!

It's spooky season, and so we've decided to record a lengthy chat on the recent Hellraiser reboot for Hulu this week on the show that talks about stuff on purpose! And I do mean lengthy. This week's episode isn't quite our longest yet, but it's very close, so fair warning. We get into a very in-depth and varied discussion that covers all the relevant bases regarding the movie and the franchise in general, so if you haven't seen the movie yet and don't want to be spoiled, you might want to skip listening to this episode for now. But for everybody else, get comfortable and join us as we explore the further reaches of experience together...

Join the conversation! Leave a comment on our blog and tell us what you think of the Hellraiser reboot, and while you're at it don't forget to leave some suggestions for future topics. If you're feeling more verbose, a haunted email is always appreciated. And don't forget to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for the complete TRAPPO experience. 

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It's the 14th installment of the show that talks about you on purpose! And in this delightful episode we discuss a wide range of topics including the upcoming Willy Wonka prequel directed by the guy behind the recent Paddington movies and The Mighty Boosh, our process behind preparing to record an episode of TRAPPO, the different film adaptations of Frank Herbert's Dune and that adorable pug that just keeps popping up in David Lynch's film, the state of modern science fiction cinema, feedback on Angel Olsen's Whole New Mess, our ceaseless adoration of punk legends The Stooges, controversial opinions on direct-to-video sequels to mediocre theatrical horror movies,  and so much more! Put it in your ears and enjoy the ride!

Join the conversation! Leave a comment on the official TRAPPO blog telling us what you think of the show, and while you're at it leave some topics for future episodes! If you're feeling more verbose, a snazzy email is always appreciated. And don't forget to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for the complete experience. 

One final note before we part: A Danzig poll was promised before the end of September in this episode, and that never happened. The long-awaited poll will go live on the blog on Tuesday, October 25th. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to season two of the show that talks about stuff on purpose! TRAPPO is back with our next round of essential albums, but we're not just doing the same old boring thing we did to kick off our first season. That would be a waste of time. Instead of doing five albums each, we're each bringing TEN albums to the table in this ridiculously overstuffed LIGHTNING ROUND conversation! We may have gone a little overboard, but we managed to keep things in check this time around, we promise. It's only one episode, and it's under an hour to boot! You can't argue with results like that! So sit back and enjoy yourself. After all, you're back in TRAPPO's warm embrace...

Join the conversation! Visit the official TRAPPO blog and leave a comment on the post of your choosing! Tell us what you think of this latest episode, and while you're there don't forget to share topics for potential future installments of the show. If you're feeling more verbose, a delightful email is always appreciated, and you can also follow us on Twitter and Instagram for the complete TRAPPO experience. Season two is just beginning, and it's going to be amazing, we can tell. There's just something in the air, like electricity. TRAPPO is back!

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On this very special episode of Good, Great or Garbage, Dustin & Ky take a closer look at nearly two dozen recent releases, some suggested by listeners, and others suggested by one another, in this rapid fire new music extravaganza! It's a veritable cornucopia of exciting new musical delights for your discerning palates! But that's not the best part, dear listeners. Your intrepid hosts deadlocked on six of these records, meaning they couldn't come to a unanimous decision as to whether or not these releases belonged in the illustrious TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on. So that means it's up to you to cast the deciding votes! Just follow this link to the official poll and decide the fates of the six albums that didn't make the cut! The poll will remain open for the next two weeks and will close on October 7, which is plenty of time for you to listen to all the nominated works and make an informed decision. Links to all the nominated albums are on the blog, so get to work!

This also marks the end of our first complete season, and that's a pretty big deal for us! We never thought we'd make it this far, and we certainly wouldn't have without your support, dear listeners! Thank you so much for all of your insightful comments and emails, which have really given us incentive to keep making the show that talks about stuff on purpose! And we need you to keep it up, so head on over to the official TRAPPO blog and leave us some more comments! Tell us what you think about the first season now that it's in the can, and leave us plenty of suggestions for future topics while you're there! And if you're feeling a bit more verbose, we always appreciate a friendly email! We're also on Instagram and Twitter for all you die-hard fans who just can't get enough TRAPPO !

Thanks for listening, thanks for voting, and we'll see you for season two on October 7th!

TRAPPO's Mail Bag has returned for its unlucky 13th installment! And to celebrate this momentous occasion, we're keeping things light with a shorter episode. I know that's not terribly exciting for you, dear listener, but we weren't exactly keeping track of the numbers here. And let's be honest, is the 13th installment of anything really that big a deal? Anyway, this time around we're talking about legendary avant-garde jazz musician Miles Davis, deranged indie rock band Starcrawler, the possibility of a potential TRAPPO's Book Club, a deep dive into Chrystabell's transcendent Midnight Star (again), the blog is visited by infernal royalty, and some other stuff, I guess. Happy 13th mail bag!

Join the conversation! Visit the official TRAPPO blog and leave a comment! Tell us what you think about the show and suggest topics for future episodes. And if you're feeling more verbose, feel free to send an email! And don't forget to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for the complete TRAPPO experience. 

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Good, Great or Garbage is back, dear listener! This time out, we're taking a closer look at 2022's debut album by British indie rockers Wet Leg and 2021's Detritus, an instrumental record from supremely talented violinist Sarah Neufeld. Do either of these albums make the cut? Are they TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on material? Tune in to find out!

Join the conversation! Visit the official TRAPPO blog and leave a comment! Tell us what you think of our latest episode and don't forget to suggest topics for future episodes. If you're feeling more verbose, you can always send us a lovely email, which we always appreciate. And you can also follow us on Instagram and Twitter for the complete TRAPPO experience.

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