Mike and Dave are 40 something musicians who have come together to talk about how music and the arts have driven their lives and families. Mike, a Queens New York native with a ”regular job” as a Tradesman, is married with 2 children and cats. Dave, a Brooklyn Born Queens occupant with a ”regular job” in Radiology, a wife, son, and a dog. They have known each other for the better part of 20 years but only peripherally. Recently they have found common interests and a kinship for art, music, gaming, and family life.
Long story short: Two guys complain about music and their families.
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Mike and Dave are 40 something musicians who have come together to talk about how music and the arts have driven their lives and families. Mike, a Queens New York native with a ”regular job” as a Tradesman, is married with 2 children and cats. Dave, a Brooklyn Born Queens occupant with a ”regular job” in Radiology, a wife, son, and a dog. They have known each other for the better part of 20 years but only peripherally. Recently they have found common interests and a kinship for art, music, gaming, and family life.
Long story short: Two guys complain about music and their families.
Sometimes you have to be the bad guy, mostly because you can be though. Being the villian isn't always a choice, but when it is, thats's the chance to let your light shine!
I'm not a good person playlist
You wanted us to check out these songs. We listened and responded for better or for worse. Thank you for an amazing 2025 and hopefully many more to come.
Listener's choice playlist
Happy Holidays everyone!!! we look at some of the absolute worst Christmas songs ever recorded. These are real stinkers! Just like Mike's onion breath.
Christmas 2025 playlist
Inspired by the Faith No More song of the same title, we look at songs of the same type. we talk a lot of smack an discover some really good stuff.
Surprise! You're Dead Playlist
Have you ever sang your soul out at a concert? That one song where you can't help but give it your all. we take a look at songs that provide absolutely no mercy at all.
No Mercy For My Throat playlist
The undeniable power of a great singing voice. instantly recognizable, completely original, and forever etched into our sonic memory. We look at singers that you can instantly recognize.
You Better Watch Your Mouth playlist
Look at these scruffy looking nerfherders! Wait, Are those the droids we are looking for? Nah. Move along, move along! part 2 of our Star Wars themed lists.
Move along, move along playlist
Trying to get into the cantina in Mos Isley? Looking for a ship that can make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs? Just wave a hand and tell them what's what.
these are not the Droids you're looking for playlist
Remember the plastic masks with the tiny eye slits and a coin slot to breathe through? we look at some great Halloween and horror songs.
Halloween 2025 playlist
How do you remember Ozzy Osbourne? The Prince of Darkness? Or is it the bumbling dad on the reality show "The Osbournes"? Founding father of hard rock and heavy metal., we look at his unmistakable legacy, for better or for worse.
Remembering Ozzy Playlist
There has to be something wrong with us! making a garbage 90's reference into a playlist, like some sort of out of touch, middle aged... No, this actually makes sense.
What's up, Man? playlist
working late at night is a completely different world and experience. Time doesn't function the way you expect it to, there are long gaps where you think so much time has passed and the hands on the clock are stuck in place. The kind of women you meet at 3am are not the kind of women you want to admit to having met, and the music hits differently before sunrise.
Working the Night Shift playlist
whose idea was this? oh, that's right. Mike and Canadian Mark had the genius idea to make us listen to AOR. don't know what AOR is, come and listen to find out.
AOR BS playlist
Why? How? When? These are some of the stupidest questions we will answer this week. do you believe in aliens? do you think they've been in contact with us? what's with all the butt stuff?
Storm Area 51 playlist
How many times are we gonna do 80's lists? apparently at least 3 so far. The decade gave us so many great songs that it bears rehashing and exploring again and again and again.
80's part 3.... we think? playlist
Is there something in the air? Something in the water? What is it about Florida that makes people lose their minds? Bath salts, the gators, the sun, who knows what causes it.
Florida man playlist
Singles are one thing, but there is something about a complete album that is pure magic. Sean Jumps in for Mike to go into why LPs with their side A and Side B are just a better way to experience music
What happens when you outshine the original? When you cover a song, and put your own spin on it, do you ever imagine it overshadowing what came before it? Sean jumps in for Mike on this very special episode.
Covers that are better than the original playlist
Mike and Dave are 40 something musicians who have come together to talk about how music and the arts have driven their lives and families. Mike, a Queens New York native with a ”regular job” as a Tradesman, is married with 2 children and cats. Dave, a Brooklyn Born Queens occupant with a ”regular job” in Radiology, a wife, son, and a dog. They have known each other for the better part of 20 years but only peripherally. Recently they have found common interests and a kinship for art, music, gaming, and family life.
Long story short: Two guys complain about music and their families.
