Cruel songs for the cruelest month

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Is April, as T.S. Eliot put it, the cruelest month? We reflect on the question with a mix that's both cringe-inducing and hilarious, from the cruelest takedowns to the most insidious earworms.

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0:20.9	before the show this podcast contains explicit language.
0:24.0	A thing that people like to do is take, you know how people will turn on YouTube and leave
0:29.8	on ambient noise to fall asleep to? There are people who will put like gunshot
0:34.7	sounds randomly in the middle of this. So it's like people will be listening to
0:39.2	these ambient sounds and then all of a sudden gunshots fire off from their computer and they rise in a panic.
0:45.5	That hasn't happened to me because I've I listened to those ambient.
0:49.2	So beware, beware.
0:51.2	So cool.
0:51.8	Watch out.
0:52.4	April is the cruelist month. So beware, beware. Beware. Watch out.
0:53.0	April is the cruelest month.
0:55.0	Breeding lilacs out of the dead land,
0:59.0	mixing memory and desire,
1:02.0	stirring dull roots with spring. I don't think that you can get a bigger more intense
1:06.0	I don't think that you can get a bigger more intense
1:11.0	endorphine rush than the one you get when you hear T.S.
1:15.4	Elliot read the wasteland. I mean talk about a dopamine hit.
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