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Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast.

On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.

We review albums and we hash out trends.

In this episode, we review

new albums by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Machine Gun Kelly. My name is Stephen Hayden,

and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. I can't wait to see him in G.I. Jane 2. Ian Cohen.

Ian, how are you? Yeah, I mean, we typically complain, like, during this part of the episode where we just

missed the window of opportunity for some piece of prime banter.

But I think this week I could not be more happy that, like, we're recording on a Thursday,

five days of past.

And, like, we are under no obligation to mention the slap beyond, you know, it taking me this long to

bring up wise alopecia, which is a future Indycast Hall of Famer and my favorite album of 2008.

Wow.

That's a, that's a callback to, is that the only album named Alopecia?

I don't think there's another album that referenced alopecia ever. That's something

for the indie cast interns out there to do a quick fact check on. Yeah, it was fascinating.

See all the takes unfold this week about the slap. I think that it is literally impossible to have a

good take on the slap beyond. That was

like a really crazy thing that happened. But, you know, the people who are trying to connect it to

Donald Trump or the Ukraine, you know, just or saying that, you know, Will Smith could have killed

Chris Rock if Chris Rock was Betty White. That was an actual take. I think it's amazing that this whole thing, it just overshadowed everything else about the Oscars. Like, I think as of now, people still, like if you said Coda, they wouldn't think of the film, they would think, oh, that's the worst Led Zepp album. You know, like, that's what that's most known as. I just had to do a callback to the GI Jane joke because, you know, Chris Rock is this brilliant comedian. Is that going to be his most famous joke now? Like, the, the G.I.J.2 joke, because that's maybe the worst joke he's ever done in his career. Yeah. I mean, I think the Oscars just brings out like the worst than anyone who takes the stage.

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