No New Episode This Week............

Sorry. Schedules just clashed for everyone yesterday. We'll be back strong next week.

Truth is I (Sandman) am moving away from Austin at the end of the month, and so next week's episode will be the last Speaker Madness ever with me. Hopefully Reggie and Quinton will keep doing the show when I'm gone, and I'm tryin' my hardest to push them that direction, but that's still kinda up in the air and really all up to Quinton, since Reggie basically lives in the studio anyway. I don't think he's seen the sun in 7 months.

If you wanna see the show go on with those two, leave your comments here, send me an e-mail (sandman@04life.net) and they will see it. Let 'em know. Don't be quiet now and then bitch and moan to me later about how much you liked the show. "Get proactive"- Alicia Keys



P.S. - LOL @ "Just Being Quinton" winning the poll. Hilarious. Thanks.

Episode 8- The Monkey is Black

What's up everybody. Quinton didn't feel it was necessary to show up to record Episode 8 last night, so Sandman and Reggie felt it was VERY necessary to expose some completely true facts about Quinton that ya'll might not know. Like, for instance, he is a serial rapist. Fun facts. Other topics include toothless crackers, Big Lez's big titties, and the landslide that was the "Does Three Six Mafia Suck" poll.

Quinton's a girl.

Speaker Madness- Episode 8
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Playlist:

Jazmine Sullivan- My Foolish Heart
Killah Priest- From Then to Now
The Rolling Stones- Monkey Man
Jazmine Sullivan- Prototype
Muhsinah- Only and Always
Idiot Pilot- Day in the Life of a Poolshark
Muhsinah- Construction
Johnny "Guitar" Watson- Gangster of Love

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Thanks for listening.

New poll question to the right ------------>

The Team

I fully realize this could bring our listener count from 12 all the way down to 2, but here's some photos of the Speaker Madness team, all taken during the taping of Episode 7. Enjoy.

Quinton

(Not a funny face, this is what he really looks like)

Reggie

(The trophy)

Sean

Sandman




Other Random Shots




(We do not lie)



(Speaker Madness Mascot)



(I know it's a cheapshot to take a picture of someone at the wrong time to make them look retarded, but I couldn't pass it up)




(Sean's shoes)

Episode 7- Reggie slaps people

Sorry this is a day late, computer issues once again.

In this episode, the Speaker Madness players debate such lofty topics as whether or not Forrest Gump was "full retard", evil gynecologists, and Lauryn Hill's illegitimate gremlin child. Also, Reggie uses the word "slap" 217 times, and Quinton and Sean get stumped on the simplest Hip Hop question ever. Dumbasses.

Enjoy.

Speaker Madness- Episode 7
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Playlist:

Erykah Badu- The Healer
Bloc Party- Flux
R.L. Burnside- Bad Luck City
Gogol Bordello- Start Wearing Purple
Sublime- Ebin
Portishead- Only You
Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue
Sam Cooke- A Change Gonna Come

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NEW POLL:

This week's poll is simple. Do you think Three Six Mafia sucks? Poll to the right of the screen -------------->

Speaker Madness Tested, Listener Approved..................

The winner of the poll question "which beverage makes you look MOST like an alcoholic" was, by a huge landslide, 211 Steel Reserve. It wasn't even close. 27 people voted, 19 for Steel Reserve. Obviously those 19 people come from broken homes, and you all have my sympathies. Let's all give a hand for 211!!



In the interest of fairness, I should let ya'll know that there's been some controversy surrounding this poll. Several people have noted the fact that I didn't include Boone's Farm, which I think everyone knows has won the Hobo's Choice Award 20 years in a row. This is true, and if I woulda made that one a choice maybe it would have surpassed even Steel Reserve. But the sad truth is the three poll choices came directly from things we've been drunk on recording Speaker Madness, and we haven't been broke enough to grab some Boone's Farm yet. Maybe soon.

Thanks for voting. Gift baskets are in the mail.

Episode 6 - Keytar Solo!

In this special Halloween episode of the podcast, we're joined by Quinton's friend Sean, who helped make this one of the best episodes ever. Topics of discussion include crotch vests, why George Washington and Thomas Edison are shitty party guests, and our newest most favorite person in the world..........Japanese Spiderman. WOW!!!

If you hadn't noticed, Steel Reserve has been winning the alcohol poll by a landslide, and even though there's technically still 3 days left until the poll is closed, we decided to go ahead and pre-emptively celebrate............by all gettin' drunk on Steel Reserve. Really drunk. Like, Quinton layin' on the floor sayin' "I just need to rest for a minute" drunk. I mean, we're always drunk during these podcasts, but I still seriously considered naming this the "drunk episode" just to emphasize the special level of drunkeness that took place. Oh, it was a scene, man.

Enjoy!

Speaker Madness- Episode 6
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Playlist:

Z-ro- H.A.T.E.
Mac Lethal- Pound That Beer
Amy Winehouse- Addicted
Hyper Crush- The Arcade
Dead Kennedys- Riot
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Koopsta Knicca- Robbers
The Dickies- Booby Trap
Rockwell- Somebody's Watching Me
Little Shop of Horrors- Feed Me

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Thanks for listening, as usual. LEAVE COMMENTS.

The most important ballot you'll ever cast..........

Polling booth on the right of the page ----------------->

Very important debate for these difficult times in America, which beverage makes you look the most like an alcoholic in public? This has very little to do with any problems the 3 members of the Speaker Madness podcast may or may not have, I assure you. Weigh the options carefully, do a taste test if you must.

Peace (*glug*)
Sandman

Episode 5- The Panda Pussy Pow-wow

On today's episode of Speaker Madness, our good friend Tanner from Port Arthur stopped through and talked with us about a wide range of subjects, from panda vagina to turtle blowjobs, and many other topics that I'm 99% sure are admissible in a court of law. But it's all good because a) he got us drunk with a bottle of strawberry-kiwi MD 20/20, and b) he contributed some good songs to the podcast. It's a good one.

Bonus!!- Quinton (very literally) gets pissed off at the poll results and has a nervous breakdown.

They play so lovely won't you agree?

SPEAKER MADNESS- Episode 5
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Playlist:

Sublime- Get Ready
Missions of Burma- That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate
The Party Andersons- Cocaine
Dead Prez- Police State
Tupac- Who Do U Believe In?
Twista- Stories feat. Fiend
LA Carnival- Blind Man
The Mooney Suzuki- Alive & Amplified


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Thanks for listening.

Episode 4- Balls Deep

Better late than never. Here's last week's episode, only, you know..............this week. Episode 4. Anyway, you know the drill. Good music. Dumb talk. We actually had somewhat of an audience in the studio for this one, so uhhh.........if you hear us ask them questions periodically, we're not THAT drunk. We were drunk, don't get me wrong, but not imaginary-audience-drunk. This episode brought to you by Steel Reserve, waterhose water, and cheatin' ass polls.

Speaker Madness- Episode 4
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Playlist:

Me'shell N'degeocello- Sloganeer
The Slip- Even Rats
Chicago- 25 or 6 to 4
Lucky Jaxon- Old School Love
Sean Price- Peep My Words
Under the Influence of Giants- Can't Stand
Glen Haansard- Too Many People
Dred Skott- You Can't Bury Me
The Streets- Pranging Out
Marc Broussard- Everybody Dies

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Thanks for listening, as usual. Back on schedule. Comment if ya feel like it. Tell us if you like the new layout here, I know it's very............red. I think we all know red = strong and sexual in, you know, those eastern cultures. Somewhere. I think it works. And DON'T FORGET to vote in the poll on the side. Rock the shit outta that vote.

Shoot up or shut up...........

........is a line from a Dead Milkmen song called "Junkie". Cuz that's what we're gonna talk about for a minute.

So everyone is a youtube junkie. Everyone. But you gotta understand there are categories, subgenres of addiction. Not everyone is shootin' heroin, ya feel me, some people go down the K-hole. It's the same with youtube, there's a lot of heavy hands in the alley. Some people are "drunk interview" junkies, always chasing the dragon of Iggy and James Brown. Some people get their fix with offensive bugs bunny cartoons from WWII. Others are "after school fight" junkies, and hey, I don't judge them. Sure, they're the $5 monkey-nut rock smokers of the analogy, but at least they're not the paint sniffers, a.k.a. "baby laugh" junkies.

Me? I'm a junkie for a lot of things on youtube. Japanese punk videos, cheesy trailers from 70's movies that will never have a DVD release date, Charlie Rose episodes, indecipherable Russian animation that just seems anti-american but who knows. I got a lot on my plate. Or heated spoon.

But one addiction sits apart from the rest, if only because it's kind of a holy grail and requires a lot more hard work to find than the others. You can't just type this one into the search tab. I'm talkin' about low quality youtube videos of live performances, so unintentionally full of white noise and muffled bass that it actually makes the song and performance kinda hypnotic. Case in point......this 1984 Tipper Irie performance on some TV show. That bass tone rumble is not in the original track, trust me. There's a bonus here though. The clip also highlights what me and my brother Lowkey like to call the "one person on stage effect". It's a formula destined to make everyone in the room uncomfortable. You just can't look cool on stage by yourself, no matter what genre of music you make, save maybe singer/songwriter or some other stool-and-water setup that allows you to use your massive ego as a hypeman.





This video brings up another interesting idea too, though. Maybe..........and this a big ass maybe...........the distortion on the low sound quality on Jamaican/British TV during these live reggae performances influenced the whole scene to start producing genuinely bassed-the-fuck-out tracks like the Sleng Teng riddim, probably best used by Tenor Saw with "Pumpkin Belly". I know this totally irrelevant 80's dancehall muscle flex will impress exactly one person, hopefully a sexy thick ethiopian rasta queen with dreadlocks thicker than my calf that smell like super silver haze weed and can make you see the future of babylon's fall if you hold 'em just right.

Anyway.............

I'm also a junkie for horrible youtube covers by white kids with guitars. This one is not horrible. But still very white. It takes a special kinda mayonaisse-and-cheddar talent to make James Mercer and The Shins even whiter than they already are, but I think a combination of ingrown blonde roots and 15 centuries of anglo-protestant history somehow bred a chick who can sing "Young Pilgrims" with a country twinge and make it worth hearing twice.




How about........something great just for the fuck of it? Ok. You got it, friends (sorry, watched too many McCain speeches these last months).

Bobbie Smith- Walk On Into My Heart (click)


And last but not least..............a rare and rarely heard 1980 audio interview from the man who influenced every rock critic in the last 30 years who ever wrote a review even Tom Robbins couldn't understand, much less the band who made the goddamn album..............yeah, it's Lester Bangs. Think Philip Seymour Hoffman in Almost Famous. That guy. This is his real voice. Here he talks about the evils of the music industry, why the Rolling Stones should retire (remember, this is 1980) and the newfound "hipness" of New Wave/Punk.

Part 1

Part 2



Speaker Madness Blog Question of the Day:

What kind of "Youtube junkie" are you?

In the Meantime............

Sorry again for the non-existence of episode 4 last week, it will be posted this week instead. In the meantime to hold you over, here's somethin' else, a random mix of songs I been listening to lately............

Sandman- In The Meantime Mix

*shrugs*

Shit happens. Blame it on Reggie, that's what I usually do.

Technical difficulties............

Ok, got all your messages, episode 4 WILL be posted tonight, we're just having some issues with the file. The good news is people actually care if Speaker Madness doesn't show up on time. Awesome. Check back in one hour and it should be up. Sorry for the delays. Refunds for everyone.

Peace and a stay-flo crease
Sandman

Episode 3 - Mushrooms, Steroids, and Dumpster Babies

It's Episode Three and we're still on the air! Not that anyone would take us off, but every other real radio show I listen to has some evil/stiff boss and the FCC on their back, so I figured we need that too. Especially for this episode, since we did somethin' revolutionary...........we got drunk BEFORE the show, instead of during it like usual. It was a big risk, I know, but we're all about pushing envelopes here at whatever this show is called.

Besides the liquor, (or because of it) listen as Quintoshi, Reggie, and Sandman discuss such high-brow topics as Boo-Berry cereal and how to place a fake personals ad. Musically this is the best show yet, I think. Brand spankin' new stuff from TV on the Radio and D'angelo. Check it out.........

Speaker Madness Podcast- Episode 3
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Playlist:

Smoosh- It's Cold (Q)
TV on the Radio- Love Dog (S)
D'angelo- Really Love (unreleased new!!) (R)
The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 1 (Q)
Santogold- Lights Out (S)
Solange- I Told You So (R)
Bad Brains- Pay to Cum (S)
At the Drive-in- Arc Arsenal (Q)
Theophilus London- Sand Castles (R)
The Hush Sound- Sweet Tangerine (Q)
Eric Roberson- Find a Way (S)
Dred Skott feat. SouthBound- Paul Revere '08 (R)

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NOTE: A little shit-talking was done during the show in regards to who had the best choice of music on this episode. So a poll has been put up for you, the listening audience, to clear it all up. It's on the right-hand side of your screen now. And as you can see on the playlist, all the songs have been tagged with Q's, R's, and S's so you can easily see who chose what. Vote with your heart. I trust you.

Thanks for listening.

Sandman

As in, more than one.............

For those who liked the Janelle Monae song Reggie played in the first episode, she just released the official music video for the song.................

Episode 2 - Fred Sanford and the Holocaust

Doing big thangs for episode 2. Brand spankin' new Devin the Dude, lots of Michael Jackson but no Michael Jackson, and Quinton redeems himself with a hilarious rap song (you heard me. Rap.) about punchin' pregnant women in the stomach. Which is always fun. As usual heavy amounts of alcohol were involved in the making of this podcast, which basically means Quintoshi was funny and me and Reggie almost boxed over who had better songs to play. Good times had by all. Check it out!!


Speaker Madness Podcast- Episode 2
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Playlist:

Devin the Dude- Yo Mind
Quincy Jones- Theme from Sanford & Son
Ben Gibbard- Thriller (live cover)
Gun Club- She's like Heroin to Me
Alice Smith- Dream
Field Mob- My Main Roni
Weerd Science- Worm Food
Kelis feat. Andre 3000- Millionaire
Rockapella- Smooth Criminal
Morphine- Souvenir


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Thanks for listening. Keep the great feedback comin'.

Other dope things that come on thursdays...........

New Speaker Madness'seses will be posted on thursdays only because we record them on wednesday nights, pure random chance, but I just realized that thursday was already a pretty dope day for dopeness in general. Especially if you live in Austin. Here's some other things that drop every thursday that make life better........

- The Austin Chronicle
- New episodes of the best show on TV- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Terror Thursdays at the Alamo Drafthouse
- New Dan Savage sex advice columns
- Thursday night college football
- The sun and the moon
- New episodes of Fox's new show "Hole in the Wall", which is most definitely a sign of both the apocolypse AND the decline of western civilization, and therefore fun to watch just for historical purposes


Add on as needed. It's a good day.

1st day = 175 downloads

Wow.

I don't even know how much is a good number for a podcast download in one day, but that just sounds like a lot, or maybe I'm just easily amused. I'm sure there's plenty of popular and established podcasts that get thousands of downloads a day, but either way 175 people is still a lot more people than I expected to want to listen to us get drunk in a studio and make hand-banana references for an hour.

Seriously, thanks for all the messages, e-mails, phone calls, the response has been great. We didn't really know what to expect, but now we know where this thing can go and who it can reach, so keep checkin' back and it will only get better from now on. Literally, it can only get better. So new episodes every thursday like clockwork. Next week, we'll learn how to score dope in prison. I mean.........how not to score dope.........so you won't go to prison. Here's a cookie.

Sandman


P.S.- We all got a shitload of e-mails and myspace messages and all that kinda stuff, but no comments on the blog? Post 'em up here!! Don't be ashamed of these new feelings you're having, they're completely natural.

Episode One!!!

Sandman (SouthBound), Reggie Coby (Dred Skott), and Quintoshi (Sketcher's at Barton Creek Mall) bring you SPEAKER MADNESS, the brand new weekly podcast where two broke local rappers and one drunk shoe salesman throw songs at eachother like pipe bombs. You never know what you'll hear, but one things for sure........you'll hear it. Can't promise anything more than that. Except that we'll be drunk on every episode, we can promise that, too.

Music will run all genres and styles, from southern rap to detroit soul to D.C. 80's punk to stoner rock. Even without the microphones on, we'd be sittin' in the studio all night listening to this stuff and arguing about it anyway, so hopefully you will benefit from our wasted time. Without further ado, we give you..............

Speaker Madness Podcast- Episode 1
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Playlist:

Janelle Monae- Many Moons
Eliza Doolittle- Washing My Hands in the Rain
Mew- Zookeeper's Boy
Andre 3000- Banana Zoo
DJ Krush feat. The Roots- Mieso
Pretty Girls Make Graves- All Medicated Geniuses
Goodie Mob- Decisions, Decisions
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- 10x10
Roy Hargrove feat. D'angelo- I'll Stay
The Coasters- Along Came Jones

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Feedback is very welcome and appreciated, send song requests and naked pictures to Sandman@04life.net

Thanks for listening!