Bang A Gong
An Arts podcast
Bang A Gong
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In which we explore over-hyped apps; stupid stories; authors great, small, and quite frankly misanthropic; cat-like grammar; and more! to bring you the ultimate guide to actually learning a foreign language so that you can travel to countries w
Brad and Mike report back on their progress through Rolling Stone's 100 Maverick Movies List. Lots of love for the '70s in this episode, as we cover Badlands, The Searchers, The Manchurian Candidate, Don't Look Away, 2001: A Space Odyssey, M,
Better late than never, 2020 is over and our year in review is finally published. Don't blame your (least?) favorite podcast personalities, blame the sound editor who sat on it for two weeks. Home baked challah, home brewed New England IPA, T
As we turn the page — happily, desperately, spitefully — on 2020, Bang a Gong pauses for a moment to take stock on the past year's developments ... at Bang a Gong. That's right, listeners: we'll leave it to others to recap the global pandemic,
What's new about a 20-year-old Rolling Stone list of "Maverick Directors"? Well, the list compiled each of 100 directors’ most radically different movie. So every movie on the list is different from anything before it, and different from anyth
One week. 81 packed pages. A Briefing on Microsoft. They said it couldn't be done ... but they hadn't met Brad.Join us as we recount this odyssey through The Economist. Dig deep into six continents (maybe next time, Antarctica). Navigate t
We head deep into the heart of Scandinavia to stream some pretty badass television. Along the way we listen to the beautiful melodies of Norwegian Black Metal, explore the global impact of Danish politics, encounter Thor reincarnated, meet sto
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha. Man of La Mancha. Lost in La Mancha. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. This week Brad sets out on a dubious quest — tracking the World's Favorite Crazy Old Man through four centuries of adventure
In which we discuss equilibrium. Between 40-somethings and 0-somethings. On slacklines, Ninja lines, and paddleboards. And maybe digress just a tad to pay fair tribute to the awesomeness of Eddie Van Halen.
Bang a Gong comes back rocking from hiatus to talk about MTV: that is, Music Television, as we remember it from its heyday in the 1980s. Brad kicks it off by dishing on the hundreds of hours of vintage VHS recordings gifted to Gen Xers through
A feather helmet, a credit card, a hand axe, a painting on silk "admonishing" Empress Jia. If that sounds like a scavenger hunt, it's because it is — and you can't beat the British Museum for scavenging. Join us as Brad dishes on A History of
Classic campfire cooking works. Hot dogs on sticks are tasty, easy, and the kids love 'em. But a few very easy steps open up a whole world of savory ribs, mouth watering BBQ, campfire nachos supreme, Turkish coffee, perfect French toast . . .
The least handy guy I know refinishes a kitchen table that's suffered a decade and half of abuse from children. After all that hard work, kick back, relax, and sample some TV that's so good it's worth the subtitles. The foreign language TV rev
Explore the legendary radio sessions of John Peel. While drinking coffee. Coffee you roasted at home. Because why would you pay $5 and drive to a god awful chain for bitter dreck when you can have fresh roasted better stuff right at home for
In today's episode, Mike combines the best of Judaism and Christianity into pork belly-infused, toasted, braided, eggy bread and Brad goes suburban farmer on us and chases chickens around his backyard.
Enough books, TV, and movies to entertain and enlighten for months, all from one spy author who's been at it for 60 years. But where to start and where to go from there? After that, a deeply profound discussion of the finest packaged nuts ava
Explore the colorful insults of the greatest [non-American] orator of all time, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Then explore every inch of your surrounding area on foot as fast as you can. Cicero's Philippics and Runkeeper Mapping make this week diffe
Dig back for some updates to your playlist and fall asleep without fail every night. In the pilot episode of Bang a Gong, your hosts highlight Two Things that made this week different — and better — from the last.
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