109: Ghost World
It’s a listener-driven Q&A show this week and it starts with Jared breaking down the overuse of the designation “Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE).” So-called NVE is everywhere these days and some of the people pushing the phrase are conspicuously right wing. Old friend of the show Katherine Dee weighed in on the topic, and you’ll never guess what her take is.
The hosts weigh in on everything from coffee, to Matt Drudge, to metal, to the NBA finals, to cycling, to Hasan Piker and more.
Also, Mike believes in ghosts. He’s serious about it.
Mike's album recommendation: Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon, 2025
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Getting to this late (saved this episode for a workout I kept putting off lol) but as far as contemporary black metal: - Panopticon (local guy, also runs an excellent brewery) - Bosse-De-Nage - Dødheimsgard - Oranssi Pazuzu - White Ward Also there’s not actually much black metal on there, but Fenriz from Darkthrone has a Patreon show where he just goes through his record collection and plays whatever he wants - last episode I listened to had thrash metal, prog rock, and a sixties pop song. Worth the $3 a month for the Norwegian accented dad jokes alone, IMO
Thanks so much for your answer on NVE. I get it now. Makes total sense. And ain’t nothing wrong with NPR! 🤓
Man. FYI
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Contemporary Black Metal rec: Yellow Eyes. Based in upstate New York, they put out a great album on the soon to be defunct Gilead record label. They're gonna open for Agalloch in August at BK Steel. I actually liked the new Darkthrone album too, but online opinions are mixed. My current favorite Black Metal inspired band is Thy Catafalque, but they're more avant garde overall. The local metal scene in NYC (okay, BK, Queens and NJ + CT) is really robust and welcoming. I'll shut up now...
Gonna just throw out a recommendation for Zelenaya if you're local to NYC. Not entirely black metal but who's into purity?
Omg. I came to twitter late, like a year before Elon bought it and I quit it over 2 years ago, but... For some reason I kept getting Tracey forced onto my timeline and I hated him so much within a week that he started beefing with me (and clowning on me because I had like 12 followers), and I blocked him a week later. I hate his high school ass hand stroking chin avatar so fucking much. Fuck that guy!!!
Ok, voice memo sent Jared
Jared's summary of the San Diego stuff was superb. On Reform UK I think it's important to see this as 2 related problems- I think the main thing is to not do what the Dems have done in the US and assume that attacking Reform + not being reform = Reform defeat. There's no evidence that that has ever worked as a strategy. Instead, there needs to be an alternative story that's more attractive than what Reform are putting forward. Here in Scotland Reform were trounced by the SNP who have always (for all their faults) been successful with "become independent and things will get better" and the Greens are starting to be successful with "tax the millionaires and fund nice things for the people and things will get better".
Low hanging fruit: Katherine BofA Deez
I used Dee's Nutz as my display name on riverside last night actually lol
Also if people are shopping around to ditch Spotify, I recommend Qobuz. Lossless and pays better per stream than a lot of the others. Plus it's recommendations aren't the same slop everyone gets through spotify.
I need to switch over but there are some smaller bands that aren't on there... do you use multiple services to bridge that gap?
Lies. Mike recommended Liturgy because suggesting and playing Zeal & Ardor would've been too powerful.
This is why I solicited recommendations!