Phil and Jake are joined by The Distillers drummer (and friend of the pod) Andy Granelli to add a few measures to the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking snare drums, the ill-fated ancient city-state of Carthage, and puns.
Andy can be found on Twitter (@AndyGranelli) and Instagram (AndyGranelli). Also check out his side project, hardcore supergroup Seized Up.
If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, let us know by sending an email to [email protected] (or get at us on Twitter and Instagram).
SHOW NOTES:
You can listen to Andy's historical skin-pounding in his former bands
Darker My Love,
The Nerve Agents,
Fast Asleep and
Model American.This week’s TV recommendation is
How to With John Wilson (on HBO).We were delighted to discover that the “trap” in trap set (aka
drum kit) is short for “contraption”!Phil mentions
The Little Drummer Boy but he meant to say the boy from
The Tin Drum.One of our favorite movies is
Drumline, an underrated sports film about HBCU marching bands.The slaughter of Native Americans by colonists that Andy talks about
appears to have happened in 1610 at the Jamestown colony.
Here’s a video about Andy’s fave, the
Ludwig Black Beauty nickel over brass snare drum.Did Carthage invent purple dye? No! Tyrian purple (aka Royal purple or Imperial purple) is a dye extracted from the murex shellfish & first produced in the Phoenician city of Tyre (modern-day Lebanon). These guys were like kissin’ cousins of the Carthaginians, whose origins traced to the
Phoenicians but they had their own
Punic culture, etc.Much of our knowledge about Carthage comes from
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History series on the Punic Wars. The documentary Jake watched about the Punic Wars is called
Carthage: The Roman Holocaust. A quick look at the YouTube comments reveals that the topic of alleged Carthaginian child sacrifice is still hotly debated.In the episode, Jake claims that the destruction of Carthage was the only time a city was totally destroyed in war. This isn’t quite true. In fact, in the same year that they annihilated Carthage, the Romans also
did it to the Greek city of Corinth. But the case of Carthage is distinct in the scale and finality of the erasure of the city, its people and its culture.Here’s a
funny short video to convince you that puns are great.Here’s a
30-minute Three Stooges slapstick montage to show you why they’d be just fine without puns.
ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
the music industry * history of drums * types of drums * Oreos * man-buns * ninjas * the tabor * “Tonight Tonight” by Smashing Pumpkins * Gene Krupa * drum machines and the future of drumming * onions * “Midnight Train to Georgia” by Gladys Knight and the Pips * “Back that Azz Up” by Juvenile * dilapidated shacks * the Punic Wars * salting the earth * Hannibal * ancient seafaring technology * Atlantis * the Jersey Shore * Antoni Gaudi
Below is the List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the most up-to-date list, go here):
Dolly Parton - personClement Street in San Francisco - locationPrince - personIt’s-It - foodCher - personDonald Duck - fictional characterHank Williams - personair - substanceWatchmen - comic bookonions - food“Midnight Train to Georgia” - musicsex - ideaBoxer (dog breed) - animalducks - animalfirefighters - peopleShakira - personThe Three Stooges - comedy actChristmas trees - seasonal decorationPuns - ideaTrading Places - 1983 filmintro to “Back That Azz Up” - musicThe Truman Show - moviedilapidated shacks - structuresshirtless men wearing elaborate angel wings, gold lamé shorts & furry cha-cha heels - ideaplants - life formhandkerchiefs - accessorynail clippers - toolrye bread - foodsnare drums - instrumentsaxophone in rock - musiccubed ice - subst...
