Intestines, Mints, Vengeance and Curtis Mayfield | Ep 17

Two married hosts riff from holiday movie night to cult-film carnage and back to the velvet soul of Curtis Mayfield, stitching jokes, nostalgia, and real music talk into a warm, chaotic hour. We test why jazz hits live, why spectacle sometimes wins, and why a tender doo-wop melody still floors us.• show format built around a 50s “waiting in line” conceit• corrections corner on names, titles, and royal forms of address• Beatles wordplay and soundtrack albums as genre mixers• jazz talk on Oscar Peterson with Lester Young, swing vs bebop for focus• Die Hard with a Vengeance rewatch and buddy-action chemistry• family board games, telestrations anarchy, and house rules• SimCity 2000 MIDI nostalgia and why simple scores stick• New Year resolutions on consistency, workflow, and food waste• main feature: Ricky O cult-gore tour with subtitles and influence on games• song segment: the Impressions’ I’m So Proud, arranging with xylophone• cover versions, dream pairings, and why the original’s restraint winsSend us Fan Mail📺 Watch this episode on our YouTube Channel! This is also where you can watch our covers of the songs we discuss. 👉 youtube.com/@TheAudienceWontLikeIt