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The Ascertainers
Music Musings & Other Drivel
Episodes
76 episodes since 2023
Episode 76: Pizza
Taking a rare break from music (pause for laughter) to bring you a universally popular topic--Pizza. Of course, we get to it and then distract ourselves a time or three. During Errors and Omissions, we get very close to passing out ...
September 06, 2024
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Episode 75: Offensive Commercials
This one is a tad spicy and faster paced. Makes up for when we usually mail it in.Early shot at Noah LylesConvention synopsisJim's playing hurtTodd O shoutoutMark's fashion masteryW...
August 30, 2024
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Episode 74: The Big Salad
We went into this episode with the best intentions of talking about singers with average-to-bad voices that worked perfectly for their band, but then Jim made a life choice at dinner. He ordered a big salad and somehow that decision--and ...
August 23, 2024
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Episode 73: Little River Band
Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee, and nobody doesn't like Little River Band. It had to be said. Join us as we rip on each other for a solid 45 minutes (but in a good way).Your non-political oasisRadio Game enhanceme...
August 16, 2024
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Episode 73
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Episode 72: Misheard Song Lyrics
When you hit rock bottom, you've got nowhere else to go but up! Our daubers were down after last episode, but we rallied and this one is just about as good/bad as the average. Some laughs, some interesting trivia, and (spoiler alert...
August 09, 2024
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Episode 71: Rock.........Bottom?
Due to scheduling issues and a bout with Covid, we had a 3-week hiatus from recording. You might think we'd be rejuvenated and ready to deliver some mind-blowing stuff, but we both agreed that this episode might be one of our most low-key...
August 02, 2024
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Episode 70: Our Third Crack at 1981
Super-guest Steve (Mark's friend, not Jim's brother--who is no slouch) is on for our first ever successful 3rd recording in one session. We really wanted to talk about 1981 music, but what do you know? We talked mostly about cars of...
July 26, 2024
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Episode 69: High School Hijinks
This is part two of our recording session with Mark's HS buddy, Steve. So much natural conversation that we dang near blew through without an introduction and even omitted the Radio Game. You're welcome.Bob Dylan fading<...
July 19, 2024
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Episode 69
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Episode 68: 1981 and Mark's HS Buddy
Today we are joined by Mark's best friend from High School, Steve (not to be confused with Jim's brother Steve). If you judge someone's character by the company they keep, Mark must be a good dude.RIP SaxophonistsNewt...
July 12, 2024
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Episode 67 AC/DC
We dial it down in terms of tone and volume from last episode with Jim's family. Throwing another music one at you --seeing as we are supposed to be a music podcast and all.Public correctionsNewt's and Mark's bacon
July 05, 2024
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Episode 66: Jim's Nuclear Family
I know what you're thinking--are these the people Jim grew up with or was one of them bitten by a radioactive spider. The jury is still out on that one. We celebrate Jim's mom's birthday with some laughs and just the right amount of...
June 28, 2024
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Episode 65: The Gang's All Here
We finally persuade Mark's wife, Dianne, to sit in on an episode. We told her she didn't have to talk or anything--just check it out and she could chime in if she wanted to. Basically, the podcast version of just the tip. Well...
June 10, 2024
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Episode 64: Cars of TV and Movies
If you ever wanted to know how Jim would react to winning the Radio Game--this episode is for you. What started innocently as a second episode of the night turned into some pretty good laughs and a good time overall. Mark really lik...
June 07, 2024
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Episode 63: Introducing The Grab Bag
New concept tonight. We're not pointing any fingers here, but everyone knew Mark and Jim would run out of topics sooner or later. So tonight, we break out the Grab Bag. Might be a worthy concept, but who's kidding who?...
June 04, 2024
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Episode 62: Games Nobody's Good At (Or Shouldn't Be)
As the title indicates, we could use some of YOUR input on music topics. I mean it's not like we talk about any topic for more than 1/4 of any episode (although there is some juicy Molly Hatchet and Jethro Tull stuff in the radio game tod...
May 29, 2024
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Episode 61: Jim's Wife and 70's Cartoons
In the spirit of the new golf season, we had to use a Mulligan on this one. We recorded on our usual night, and it turned out even less good/more bad than usual. We added Jim's wife for support and got a much better result.<...
May 22, 2024
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Episode 60: Golfing Musicians
Hey, we made it to 60--and still aren't very good. What does say about you for listening?Newt's is HOPPINGNew car to MarkSize concernsMovie Reviews: Clerks and Blade Runner 2049Radio G...
May 14, 2024
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Episode 59: Wide World of Sports
We take a slight left turn from almost being a music podcast to talk about the thing everyone in our demographic can relate to in some way--Wide World of Sports.Reunted and it feels so goodInternational listenersWe...
May 08, 2024
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Episode 58: Music Documentaries
May was rough on us schedule-wise. We'll record a fresh episode on the night this one is released. In other words, this episode was recorded a while back and has been aging in the barrel. Careful--we don't know how strong it i...
April 29, 2024
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Episode 57 : Leftover Night
Due to scheduling conflicts with Mark and Jim's super busy social calendars (or something like that), we went to the episode pantry and pulled this one off the shelf. It was this, or canned peaches. Hey German listener.....
April 17, 2024
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Episode 56: Sibling Bands
Ran into super listener Pat K at Newt's (nobody was hurt) and recruited him to come on a future episode. He claims to have listened to every Ascertainers episode. Be like Pat.The Rain the Park and Other ThingsSo...
April 17, 2024
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Episode 55: 1976 Part 2
For all you Viking's fans, this is also known as the Scott Studwell episode. Not because we talk about him or anything--but he did wear #55. I bet he also knows Joey Browner.In this episode, we finish up on 1976 by talking some ...
April 10, 2024
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Episode 54: 1976 Part 1 and Jim's Wife
We're still trying to get our groove back (as if we ever had one). Jim's wife, Kris makes her Ascertainers debut.What would you say you do here?Gramma's BoyIntroducing Mrs JimMancini's shoutout<...
April 04, 2024
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Episode 53: Dangerous Childhood Activities
The sophomore slump hit your boys hard. We enter year two of this adventure by failing on our first two attempts at getting anything worth sharing with you, our loyal listeners--both of you. What we ended up with should be an indica...
March 26, 2024
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Episode 52: Couples Therapy
That couple is Mark and Jim. During the recording with the Think Drink Disney fellas, Jim dissed Mark even more than normal. Thanks to Mark being a podcasting pro and great editor, you probably didn't even know about it, but in this...
March 19, 2024
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