Linking to the show notes instead of directly to the show because for some reason Tumblr doesn't show a thumbnail for Mixcloud, just a weird white void. Which might be a propos, but just looks like arse. Anyway. This difficult sophomore edition stars The Black Brothers, Death From Above 1979, Ween, Dan Deacon, and...you know, the people listed above. BUT EVEN MORE THAN THAT.

Number 303 in a 12411-part series. This latest mega-podcast/group therapy session involves discussions of: Rox being replaced by AI? Madman being a Hostess snack villain? Rob's refusal to play Foghat? ALL OF THIS AND MORE.

Republicans are garbage.

I've seen this movie.

my latest for New Scientist

Lots more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Okay, I promise I'm not just recycling content for the hell of it. However, I figured out how to morph the Sonic Emporium into its full radio form, including me talking. For better or worse. Enjoy. (Content FYI: Some explicit lyrics that may or may not be discernible amidst all the noise.) https://www.mixcloud.com/Widgett/widges-sonic-emporium-menagerie-lawnmower-repair-1/

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

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Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

Quoting two Redditors:

“Conservatives attack empathetic people all the time. They invent new slurs just for empathy every 15 years, like “politically correct”, or “bleeding heart”, or “woke”, etc.Restricted or nonexistent empathy is a prerequisite for conservative ideology.”

“The entire conservative ethos, everything they say and do, is completely consistent when your starting point is: no empathy.The bad part is that a lack of fundamental empathy is a somewhat innate quality, established in your first few years.  It’s very hard to acquire later in life.  So a lot of conservatives are beyond redemption.“

The 11th installment of the Sonic Emporium, featuring Brian Eno, Sparks, The Supremes, Jemma Freeman & the Cosmic Something, and more.

Hey Marvel Snap players…SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND

This go-round stars Joe Bataan, Baxter Dury, Senim Silla, Noel Coward and more.

Rescue Beaver will save us all.

I've been sucked into another game's gravity well.

Crowley appreciates being called elegant but has suggested that "saunters" would be a more accurate verb.