The Contenders, Vol. 11: Jason Mantzoukas

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🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Actor, comedian and music superfan Jason Mantzoukas joins us to update our running list of the year's best songs, with lots of crate-digging curiosities. With host Robin Hilton and NPR Music's Lars Gotrich.

Featured artists and songs:
1. Dancer: "Bluetooth Hell," from '10 Songs I Hate About You'
2. The Superwomen: "Lowlands," from 'Someone Like Me'
3. Oluko Imo: "Glory of Om," from 'Glory of Om'
4. Mekit Dolan Muqam Group: "Jula Muqam" from 'Bayawan'
5. The Short Dark Strangers & The Shady M************: "We're Not Animals," from The Short Dark Strangers & The Shady M************
6. Morgul Blade: "Heavy Metal Wraiths," from 'Heavy Metal Wraiths'

Also Noted:
- Mary Lattimore * Walt McClements: "Nest of Earrings," from 'Rain on the Road'
- Somesurprises: "Be Reasonable," from 'Perseids'
- Mohammad Syfkhan: "Do You Have a Lover or Not?" from 'I Am Kurdish'

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0:18.0	The history behind words causing a lot of debate.
0:22.1	That's on the Ted radio hour from NPR.
0:24.5	A quick note before the show this podcast contains explicit language.
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0:33.2	All right.
0:34.0	I am also recording.
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0:38.9	like a bunch of engineers in a room.
0:48.0	It's the first 30 plus years that are the hardest for me doing this. And then you kind of start to figure things out.
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0:56.0	started really young my first job at a member station was in 1988.
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1:10.0	Was it your college radio station?
1:12.0	Was it a public radio station? Was a public radio station?
1:13.0	Yeah, yeah, it was the NPR station, not the student station.
1:17.0	I was the general manager and the jazz director at my college radio station.
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1:24.0	You know we had Julia Holter on.
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