The boys are back in the same town. Jacob and Mike meet up to record a live episode of the show from a friend of the show's apartment. Our thanks to Terin for playing host and one man audience to us for the hour.

Podchasm's format is getting squished and the people of New York City could be too. Mike visits his wonderfully pedantic audiologist. Do you recall when The Man would weaponize frequencies to disperse loitering teens.

Links:

• How worried should New Yorkers be about falling window A/C units?
• Tinnitus | Mayo Clinic
• Tinnitus frequency matching
• Jacob's brand of hearing protection: ACS
• Westone brand
• The Mosquito sound | Wikipedia
• Coming Soon:
  • Dune (2020)
  • Avatar II (2021)
  • His Dark Materials (2019)
  • The Lord of the Rings (TV Series)
  • The Silmarillion | Wikipedia
  • Artemis Fowl (2020)

Mike takes us behind the scenes of a musical performance on Conan. This leads to a discussion of the poor preservation of late night TV. The guys see drastically different concerts and discuss glow-ups from their local music scenes.

Links:

• Mike's appearance on Conan with Julia Nunes
• The Whip Cracker teaches Conan how to do it
• Julia Michaels Live
• Pedro The Lion Live
• Fred Grzybowski, The World's Best Extreme Pogo Artist

Netflix has content. Hollywood doesn't scare our kids enough anymore. We do talk about Avengers. We'd warn you of spoilers, but know you've surely been spoiled by now.

Links:

• Spiderman and Elsa

Two pop-punk kids reminisce about seminal groups, both hard and soft. Times have changed since the year of Farley's death and Dude Ranch, surely for the benefit of Pete Davidson if not for the fans of Tom DeLonge.

If you don't get the grade you deserve, but instead get a better one, Is that okay? There's a lesson in objectivity vs subjectivity here and what might happen when you feign wisdom. Don't forget to tell yourself that you're the boss every once in a while, even if it's only when you're feeling it.

Links:

• Nardwuar
• Chad's Journey | SNL
• Serial Episode 06: The Case Against Adnan Syed
• Disney's 10 year release schedule

NPR messed up big time. Game Of Thrones is hard to watch. Jacob brought back Fall Out Boy. The guys promise this is only an Alien podcast for one more week.

Links:

• NPR presses the wrong button
• Bantha Fodder look-book
• Nick Quah's thread on his parody account going too far
• Fall Out Boy on Wikipedia
• The Cure To Growing Older, Jacob's 2012 essay about the band
• We Liked You Better Fat: Confessions of A Pariah, Patrick Stump's essay
• Mike's piece on Hop Along
• Mike on the latest Old Best Friend album
• Almost, an album by Old Best Friend
• The Hard Times
• Game Of Thrones BluRay box set.
• Alien Shorts on YouTube
• Jacob's notes on the Alien Shorts
• Introduction to David 8 on YouTube
• Meet Walter on YouTube

Was Fermi right? If Aliens are out there, should we have been visited already? If we were, what would that look like?

Your hosts speed through some movies they can't totally agree on, then chat about—you guessed it—podcasts. Jacob has a busy podcasting schedule including a new show. Luminary has launched and there's a lot to discuss. What do you call an audio program behind a paywall?

Links:

• The Fermi Paradox explained
• District 9
• Titanic
• Hateful Eight
• Dune
• Annihilation
• Alien Day (4/26)
• Bantha Fodder episode 31
• Breaking Ground
• Luminary Bad
• Luminary Worse
• Create Vinyl with Bandcamp

Jake bought some compact discs and comic books he'll never read. The Alien 40th Anniversary shorts have begun premiering. Mike has a bum knee and a haircut.

The guys lament the "end" of their favorite podcast and the greater threat of locking down "podcasts" behind a paywalled platform. Ads are fine and often actually good.

Links:

• Coldplay on Discogs
• Watch Alien: Containment
• Watch Alien: Specimen
• List of Alien 40th Anniversary Shorts
• Alien 40th Anniversary Shorts Project
• Jacob's Alien Universe Chronology list on Letterboxd
• Lyle The Intern on David Letterman
• MBMBaM reading Extreme Restraints ad
• MBMBaM's Extreme Restraints jingle

Jacob's eating habits are brought to bare once again as conversation devolves into Walmart-based crime. Mike shares tour stories and tips.

They both have missed show regrets and there is a Beatles tangent. Gigs are just harder to get to these days.

It's early and Skype's thumb emoji is not the sort of aggression Jake wanted to wake up to today.

In anticipation of the 40th anniversary of the series, they finally talk about the Alien prequel films. Spoilers abound. Skip ahead to about 43 minutes if you don't want to hear about the genealogy of the Xenomorph.

There is follow up on our security episodes with tips on how to find and remove your digital footprints and stop others from tracking your down and how to apply new appendages to your Apple device. Pro tip: Just delete your Facebook.

Finally, Mike begins watching Patriot and gives Jacob hair care advice.

Links:

• Shaw / Giger reference in Alien: Covenent
• List of films in the Alien universe on Letterboxd
• List of Star Wars-related films on Letterboxd
• Alien 40th anniversary short films
• Facebook stored millions of passwords in plain text
• Remove your information from people search sites like MyLife, Intelius, and Spokeo
• Please watch PATRIOT on Amazon Prime Video
• The "No Poo" method

Its inching closer and closer to Spring and that means getting more intimate with the music we crave. Talk of these springtime records brings on an impromptu discussion of digital music storage and Jake's archival obsession.

Links:

• Swinsain
• Plex
• Winamp
• Apple Music is a nightmare and I'm done with it by Jim Dalrymple
• The Best External Optical Drives | Wirecutter
• Replacing tracks while keeping existing metadata (like playcounts)
• MusicBrainz & Picard - ID3 database and bulk tagging
• Kid3 - ID3 editor
• Advent loudspeakers
• Soylent
• Bantha Fodder (the other show)