Round four in Patrick and Andrea's festive tournament features cynics and grinches finding the holiday spirit in some unlikely places. The films up this time are: The Nine Lives of Christmas (2014, Hallmark)Holiday in the Wild (2019, Netflix)Ho

Let It Stream Episode 3: Small Towns

Dec 25th, 2020 39m 59s

Round three in Patrick and Andrea's festive tournament features a holiday visit to the small towns of St. Martinville, Snow Falls, Idyllwild and Nelson Creek: Christmas on the Bayou (2013, Lifetime)The Christmas Inheritance (2017, Netflix)Naugh

Let It Stream Episode 2: Time Travel

Dec 18th, 2020 36m 8s

Round two in Patrick and Andrea's festive tournament to pick a winner among 16 straight-to-TV holiday romance movies. The theme this time: time travel: 12 Dates of Christmas (2011, ABC Family)The Spirit of Christmas (2015, Lifetime)Correcting C

Let It Stream Episode 1: Royalty

Dec 8th, 2020 34m 33s

Patrick and Andrea are pitting 16 holiday romance films against each other in a festive tournament to determine which straight-to-TV release reigns supreme. First up, four films about royalty: "A Christmas Prince," "The Princess Switch," "Chris

Nope Country Episode 8: What Makes an Artist Real Country?

Oct 7th, 2018 22m 6s

With help from our listeners, and with questionable success, we try to answer the most bedeviling question in country music: What makes an artist real country?Artists discussed in this episode include: Kenny Chesney, Dolly Parton, Keith Urban,

Nope Country Episode 7: The Country Authenticity Index

Sep 17th, 2018 31m 54s

We rank 20 Nashville stars according to their country-ness, and with help from a listener survey, we introduce some metrics to the age-old question of who is real country.

Nope Country Episode 6: Urban Cowboy

Aug 27th, 2018 26m 26s

After enduring the 1980 film "Urban Cowboy," Andrea and Patrick try to understand the strange power it had over the nation upon its release, how it made country cool and remade Nashville in ways that endure today. Also, why you should skip the

Nope Country Episode 5: Dwight Yoakam

Aug 14th, 2018 29m 30s

Andrea and Patrick discuss a recent Dwight Yoakam show and Don McLeese's biography, "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere," on the way to discussing Dwight's signature brand of weirdness; his country sexpot persona; and why you had better run if you s

Nope Country Episode 4: This Machine Kills Fascists

Sep 5th, 2017 35m 13s

Andrea and Patrick take a quick tour through the hot country charts; we talk Sam Hunt, Kane Brown and the future of country; and we ask, in the wake of Charlottesville, who in Nashville is speaking up about racism?

Nope Country Episode 3: Mr. Haggard Goes to Washington

Jun 21st, 2017 39m 14s

Most of Nashville is treading lightly around politics in the Trump era, but it wasn't always this way. We discuss how country first embraced the GOP, riffing on J. Lester Feder's work on Nixon and Nashville. Then we consider political messaging

Nope Country Episode 2: Pass the Biscuits, Toby

May 23rd, 2017 25m 36s

On the weekend of Toby Keith’s all-male Riyadh revue, we consider country music as propaganda from the Depression to 9/11, against enemies without and within. Discussion includes an essay by Andrew Boulton, Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A.

Nope Country Episode 1: Rednecks and Bluebloods

May 12th, 2017 33m 8s

Our first episode tackles the most ubiquitous of bro country narratives: the country boy who woos a sophisticated lady away from the city with his down-home charm. Discussion includes an essay by Jocelyn R. Neal, Billy Currington's "Good Direct

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