Mental Platypus
Mental Platypus
Mental Platypus
Mental Platypus is an arts and culture show hosted by Jason Keil and Jared Duran. It features discussions on film, literature, music, TV, and much more. Plus, interviews, reviews, and any number of segments we might come up with.
MP72 - Barbenheimer Plus
Jason couldn't rent YOU HURT MY FEELINGS, so we're discussing our Barbenheimer takes instead. Enjoy! Jason recommends: "Bad Idea Right?" (single by Olivia Rodrigo) Jared recommends: THE BALLAD OF DARREN (album by Blur) Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Letterboxd! ⁠⁠Jason⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Jared⁠⁠
Aug 13, 2023
1 hr 2 min
MP71 - Getting Tweedy With It - Love is the King
This is it, the final episode in our miniseries on the extra-WILCO-lar career of Jeff Tweedy. We're discussing the quite excellent solo album, LOVE IS THE KING. Jason recommends: FIRST TAKE (album by Roberta Flack) Jared recommends: IN TREATMENT (TV Series) Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Letterboxd! ⁠Jason⁠ | ⁠Jared⁠
Jul 30, 2023
1 hr 16 min
MP70 - Getting Tweedy With It - Warmer
It's the penultimate episode of our miniseries on Jeff Tweedy! We've gotten warm, now it's time to get WARMER! Jason recommends: WHAM! (Netflix documentary on the band of the same name) Jared recommends: PAST LIVES (film, written/directed by Celine Song) Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Letterboxd! Jason | Jared
Jul 16, 2023
1 hr 11 min
MP69 - Getting Tweedy With It - Warm
We are in the home stretch of our ongoing series discussing Jeff Tweedy's extra-WILCO-lar activities. This time, we're discussing the seasonally appropriate/seasonal understatement, 2018's WARM. Follow us on Letterboxd! Jason: https://letterboxd.com/rulerboy/ Jared: https://letterboxd.com/LtdEngagement/
Jul 2, 2023
1 hr 3 min
MP68 - Getting Tweedy With It - Together At Last
We're diving back into the Tweedy-verse with 2017's acoustic album, TOGETHER AT LAST - which Jason didn't listen to, because he thought we were covering WARM, but he was very much wrong, that's the next episode. Jared really likes this album a lot, hopes Tweedy continues the series, and thinks you should go check it out. Also discussed: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, Paul Simon, and more. Jason recommends SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE and ER Season 3 Jared recommends the new Jenny Lewis album, JOY'ALL ("Puppy and a Truck" - song of the summer!) Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Letterboxd Jason: https://letterboxd.com/rulerboy/ Jared: https://letterboxd.com/LtdEngagement/
Jun 18, 2023
1 hr 14 min
MP67 - We're Not NPR
It's summer, so it's time for a little break from our regularly scheduled programming. This week, instead of getting Tweedy with it, it's a pop culture goulash. Jason and Jared talk ER, Weeds, vintage Conan (O'Brien, not the barbarian), the new Sparks album, and more. Both hosts highly recommend Sparks' THE GIRL IS CRYING IN HER LATTE Jason recommends THE FOOL (album by Adanowsky) Jared recommends the Doughboys episode "Domino's 3 Loaded Tots" Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Letterboxd Jason: https://letterboxd.com/rulerboy/ Jared: https://letterboxd.com/LtdEngagement/
Jun 4, 2023
1 hr 18 min
MP66 - Getting Tweedy With It - Sukierae
Take 3!!! After some misfires that shall never see the light of day, Jason and Jared talk Finns, Tweedy's, nepotism, and more. That's right, we're talking the 2014 Jeff and Spencer Tweedy album (aka, Tweedy), SUKIERAE. Recommendations: Jason: POKER FACE (TV series, Peacock) Jared: "The Narcissist" (Single from Blur's forthcoming album, THE BALLAD OF DARREN) Find us on Lettrbxd: Jared: LtdEngagement Jason: rulerboy
May 21, 2023
1 hr 36 min
MP65 - Getting Tweedy With It - The Sun Came Out
This is it - we've reached the last of the Jeff Tweedy side-projects (the remaining albums in this series are all Tweedy solo/solo-ish), and it's the best one! THE SUN CAME OUT is the result of what happens when New Zealand pop music icon Neil Finn (Crowded House/Split Enz) gathers together 20 musicians at his studio in Auckland to record an album over 20 days, and what a result! Plus, Jared gives his hot take on THIS IS 40, and we introduce a possible podcast goldmine, John Lith-now: The John Lithgow Career Retrospective. Recommendations: Jared - THE ASK (a novel by Sam Lipsyte) Jason - Haley Heynderickx, Y La Bamba, and Begonia (here's the link to Jason's column in Phoenix Magazine that Jared didn't read) No social media, so it'd be great if you help the show by rating, reviewing, and recommending - cheers!
May 7, 2023
1 hr 36 min
MP64 - Getting Tweedy With It - Another Fine Day
AKA, the Tuna Fish Sandwich/Wrap episode. On this episode, Jason and Jared discuss Jeff Tweedy's final (as of April 2023) contribution to the Golden Smog discography, 2006's ANOTHER FINE DAY. Jason recommends: THE WAY BACK (film, 2020) Jared recommends: SHOWING UP (film) We've got no social media presence so, if you like the show, please rate it, review it, and recommend it to friends. Thanks!
Apr 23, 2023
1 hr 37 min
MP63 - Getting Tweedy With It - Born Again in the USA
Continuing our exploration of Jeff Tweedy's extraWILCOlar activities, Jason and Jared discuss Loose Fur's second offering, BORN AGAIN IN THE USA, and this time they're doing it with their podcast brother from another mother, Chris Ayers (co-host with our own Jason Keil and Barbara VanDenburgh of The Life of the Mind - the podcast about the Coen Brothers). Come for the Tweedy love, stay for the Canadian arts and James Gray digressions. Recommendations: Chris Ayers - THE CREATIVE ACT: A WAY OF BEING by Rick Rubin (book) Jason Keil - THE BIG DOOR PRIZE (Apple TV+) Jared Duran - CONTINUE AS A GUEST by The New Pornographers and ALL THE EYE CAN SEE by Joe Henry (albums) Little Somethings Press has an upcoming launch even at Changing Hands in Tempe (Jared is contributor/reader at the event) Event info here: https://www.changinghands.com/event/april2023/little-something-press Get a copy here: https://little-somethings-press.square.site/s/shop Be sure to check out THE LIFE OF THE MINE - THE PODCAST ABOUT THE COEN BROTHERS wherever you get your podcasts!
Apr 10, 2023
1 hr 31 min
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