Episode 14. Double Agent

It's a regular Schatz-Show this week as Chaz takes a back seat to Schatz and his bandmates from Second Contact - vocalist Janine "The Owl" Schwarz and guitarist and synth-master Doctor Matt Halper! A story as endearing as Rush's itself, three friends who've been playing music together for over 40 years! SC40 - it's a thing!! Three crazy kids from Jersey who found their love of Rush together starting with Xanadu and never looking back - these geeks and freaks still rehearse in the same damn basement they started in 40 years ago! This was the first time we had two occupants in The Containment Unit, each with a Rash as bad as the others! Our first co-ed treatment! Insane love of all things Rush. The conversation goes deep on friendship, the meaning of life, the reason for the season and the smootchie for your bootchie - it's a Cheetos-print Snuggie of a Rush Rash!We check in with the best damn laundry instructions ever from our sponsor ⁠Danforth & Pape, we recap Schatz's Effin evening with Geddy Effin Lee, and spend a lot of time appreciating the musical prowess of our favorite Canadians.The wheel gives us Rush's goofiest song ever - Double Agent off 1993's Counterparts. Grab your smack, a copy of The Naked Lunch, and get ready to get freaky, paranoid and your ya-ya's out as we dive into song facts from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RushVault.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, name drop ⁠⁠Rush Is A Band Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and re-discover a hidden gem in the Rush catalog. How will the voting go? When you're with hardcore musicians and Rush fans...you never know!Yep - we blah, blah, blah'ed and had a more epic than our last epic music-nerd fest of another epic on top of epic, fekn awesome episode of Rush Rash.The Scratch List - Scratch Yer Itch - LIVE!UK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Moving Pictures Scotland⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Leoni Jane Kennedy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠North AmericaUSA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YYNOT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Second Contact⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Solar Federation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rush Archives⁠⁠Canada⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠New World Men⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠2112⁠⁠⁠⁠Rush news, general nonsensical disorderly conduct, lack of regard for correctness or truth, and reckless endangerment of your whole-brain. This is the only podcast dedicated to increasing opioid release in your anterior insula, your anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and your posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), in addition to the basal ganglia and the thalamus...and all that that implies. Some thick North Jersey accents and they give you some royalty-free sound effects and movie clips too - what more do you need to indulge your urge to scratch?!  Join us - you know where to scratch - blah, blah...RushRash.SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDSScratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute Bands in the world! Yeah!⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here: ⁠Schatz's Scratch List⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠(And say it 5 times fast!)GO BONELESSCertified boneless in the state of Ohio by the Boneless Podcasting Network. Go Boneless. Boneless Makes a Better Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.