Valentine’s Day Mailbag With Amanda Dobbins, Plus an Interview With Joyce Manor’s Barry Johnson
Bandsplain
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4.4 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 155 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's with this band anyway? |
| 0:07.0 | I don't get it, can you please explain? |
| 0:12.0 | Wait, like bands played? |
| 0:16.0 | Never heard this band in my life. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, you haven't? I love that. Really? Why? |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah, I love this song. Oh, I don't know that one. |
| 0:27.6 | Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain. |
| 0:30.6 | I really hate this band! |
| 0:32.6 | Whatever, I'm their biggest fan. |
| 0:34.6 | Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain, Band Splane, VanSplaine, VanSplaine, VanSplaine. |
| 0:45.3 | Hello and welcome to BandSplane. |
| 0:47.4 | I am your host, Yossi Salick. |
| 0:48.9 | This is usually a show where I invite an expert guest on to help me explain a cult band |
| 0:52.8 | or iconic artist, but today's show is a little bit different, you guys. |
| 0:55.9 | Today's show is a Valentine's Day mailbag. |
| 0:59.1 | And me and my special guest, Amanda K. Dobbins, will be solving your life's problems. |
| 1:05.1 | But before we get into it, I just wanted to also let you guys know, please stick around after the mailbag because I did a gorgeous little interview with the great Barry Johnson of Joyce Manor, and you're going to want to listen to it. All right. Amanda, welcome to the program. Thank you for having me back. I love calling it a program. It has a nice NPR quality too. Yeah, right? I like to feel like a real cherry glazer moment. Amanda, are you excited? |
| 1:30.1 | I feel like we're going to bring both sides of the aisle to this Valentine's Day mail bag. |
| 1:35.6 | You obviously good at relationships, happily married, mother to two, me doing something a little different with my life. |
| 1:43.5 | Also, you guys, I'm really off my game today because this is the first, I think, ever Bandsplain in which I'm not wearing hoop earrings, and I feel nude. So naked. You look great. Thank you. I didn't notice. So now that you pointed out, you know. It's weird. I mean, it's okay. I don't wear earrings very often. You ever, really. Well, I got some clip-ons, yeah. So we may be from different sides of the aisle, but this is currently the only Valentine's Day plan that I have of any shape or form. Whoa. So I think that's wise because Valentine's Day is a whole, it's a situation. And I'm thrilled, honestly, there's no better way to spend it. The thing is, like, I'm not going to have a prefix menu. Okay. Yeah, of course. Like, leave me alone. |
| 2:22.7 | I'll read the first. I guess the first one is, there's two, but they're kind of asked the same |
| 2:27.3 | question. Okay. So the question is, favorite love songs for the beginning, peak, and end of a |
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