The glaring lack of Jar Jar mentions can only mean that Episode VII's big twist is that Senator Binks is the new emperor. Perhaps we'll get a teaser trailer that cuts to black and we hear a menacing, "Meesa thinks me feels the hate flow through yousa."

I got a Jack Johnson meets Dire Straits meets White Pepper vibe. I'm digging it.

Agreed. I didn't know anything about Drive-By Truckers other than they existed, but I thought both episodes were interesting and engaging and planted enough of a curiosity seed in me that I'm actually seeking out their music now. So it was an all-around win for me: good podcast and a good advertisement for the DBT and…

Check out the Go Bayside episodes with Howard and the one with Jimmy Pardo. Saved by the Bell commentary is (unsurprisingly) fertile ground for comedy.

I'm with you. It wasn't until he said his favorite movie was Up that I sort of softened on him a bit. But until that point, I was actively uncomfortable with everything he was saying. Fortunately April was willing to call him out a bunch.

I think I'd like to punch this movie in the face.

Yep, I find St. Anger to be unlistenable. Every so often I'll give it another shot, but I rarely make it beyond 3 tracks before quitting.

Yeah, that's probably where my disconnect with the disappointment in the Black Album is. I don't think I'd consider myself a thrash guy. I'm a guy who happens to like thrash among other genres, so it didn't sting me to have a thrash band make this album. It was more "This band that made this music that I happen to…

That's fair, although before it was released St. Anger was touted as a return to their classic sound. But perhaps that was more the media than directly them.

I'm sort of on the same page. I get that this is the album that marked the shift away from 8 minute thrash opuses, but in terms of song quality, the Black Album is awesome, at least in my opinion. Is it on par with Master of Puppets? No. But that doesn't make this bad. I think if this album had an unknown band's…

The "You gotta laugh" is what clinched this for me. Hilarious.

Agreed. I thoroughly enjoyed last week's episode.

I think the AV Club posted last week that they were dropping this podcast for now.

Maybe I'll give it a go. Clearly he's thought about things, so I'm curious enough to check some songs out. But all I really took away from that interview was, "We lived in Union Square at the same time. Neat."

The catch-phrase off at the end of that episode was amazing. Traci Reardon's "If you lost a tooth in the past 10 years, you're probably a kid" was awesome.

Ok, I wasn't sure if it was just because I wasn't familiar with the band's music that out of context I found him to be a bit pretentious or if he was just coming across as pretentious. That whole interview felt very College Philosophy Major Gets an Hour to Talk. The manic depressive part was interesting, but it was…

I remember almost nothing about The Drew Carey Show, but I vividly remember this.

I love the live version of that solo on Pulse.

I was sort of mixed on the CM Punk episode. I felt like Marc spent so much time dwelling on "wrestling is fake" that we basically got a highlights reel from Punk once we started to delve into his history. I don't know anything about wrestling or Punk and those highlights seemed really interesting so I was hoping for…

Yo Kanye, I'm really happy for you and your "Bound 2" video, but David Hasselhoff's "Hooked on a Feeling" has one of the best videos of all time. I think you owe him some royalties.