Greatest Living American Songwriters

The Complete Guide to Everything

Tim Daniels and Tom Reynolds

Tim Daniels, Facts, Comedy, Knowledge, Tv & Film, Funny, Humor, Learning, Tom Reynolds, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The eggheads over at The New York Times put together a list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters in order to get people to get mad on the internet and it worked! This week we're going through the list and lamenting the lack of Billy Joel and Weird Al on it.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Complete Guide to Everything, a podcast about everything.
0:09.4	I'm one of your host, Tom.
0:10.5	And I'm Tim.
0:11.9	Tim, how are you doing this week?
0:13.5	I'm hyped up.
0:14.7	I'm rearing to go.
0:16.4	I'm chomping at the bit to talk about the topic at hand.
0:20.3	Then, hey. But we don't have to do that. Without further, I got the bit to talk about the topic at hand. Then, hey.
0:21.7	But we don't have to do that.
0:22.7	Without further, I got nothing else to talk about.
0:25.1	Yeah, we got nothing.
0:26.2	Yeah.
0:28.4	Hmm.
0:29.9	The weather's fine.
0:31.4	Yeah, the weather's like unremarkable.
0:35.6	Not nice, not bad.
0:37.4	Yeah. Neither of us is sick. Yeah. Yeah, I nice, not bad. Yeah.
0:37.8	Neither of us is sick.
0:39.7	Yeah.
0:40.4	Yeah, I guess that's it.
0:41.7	I mean, what else are we talking about?
0:43.2	Do you ever sit back and realize, like, your life is probably a lot more boring than, like, the median person?
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