This week, Cort reports back on Dead Eyes, the podcast written, produced, and narrated by Connor Ratliff, an actor who was fired from Band of Brothers because Tom Hanks thought he had… dead eyes. What starts as a JABA (just another Brian assignment) for Cort quickly morphs into a full-on binge and one very specific expectation about how the story better end.

From there, things go exactly where they tend to go on this show. We revisit just how consistently wrong we’ve been about basically everything, including our firm stance that Paradise would not go exactly where it went in its season finale. That propels us into a broader conversation about timelines, memory, and whether TV and movie writers are just throwing words like “quantum” around, because no one will question their science.

We also take a brief detour into Memphis vs. everybody, defend the city, question LeBron James’s life choices, and continue laying a pretty strong foundation for a record-setting string of “being-wrongness” (trust me it’s a word, don’t look it up). Along the way, Brian boldly shares an opinion about a TV show. His opinion not being based on a fully informed knowledge, or really any knowledge, of the show feels totally on-brand at this point.

There are also warnings about things you should absolutely not watch, a few recently triggered childhood memories, and as always, all the opinions you have come to count on to get through life.

Cort's assignment: Dead Eyes a podcast by Connor Ratcliff - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-eyes/id1494539046

https://open.spotify.com/show/5dEsgMhmVy7wK8TSUrVnsQ?si=2a3bc189e1884a8e

Brian's next assignment? Not The Cure. But it is a band from our youth.

A brand-new 2026 album from The Black Crowes, A Pound of Feathers. Make sure you listen before our next episode drops if you want to play along: https://open.spotify.com/album/417zi1WN5yAK4u3VOjZh13?si=O3Hc4p2NQwmm0VR3KY8bDw

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🎶 Theme Song: Cyrus Oh Cyrus - The Flying Scrub Jays https://open.spotify.com/track/3S9T5HUS4cwky1922WhF1J?si=6fcad8771f724492

This week, Cort assigned Brian the debut album Sadnecessary by Milky Chance, and what follows is a discussion about:

• The suspicious similarity threaded through half the album’s tracks
• Why both of us had déjà vu listening to songs we swear we’ve heard before by a band we've never heard of
• The fine line between “signature sound” and “they’re just doing the same thing over and over”
• Whether Milky Chance is still milking it

From there, things go exactly where you’d expect: Oscars predictions we absolutely butchered, the ongoing paranoia of being wrong about everything, Memphis vs. Nashville sports drama, a surprising amount of TV talk (Traitors, Jury Duty, Paradise), and a reminder that we are, in fact, not experts on anything. At least not anything we talk about on this show.

Also, Brian gives a correction on a song we unfairly maligned and mentions some hot takes about stuff showing up on his new music radar (Noah Kahan, Death Cab, Modest Mouse, Black Keys, and more).

Cort's next assignment? A podcast. Because we occasionally remember what our show is supposed to be about.

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Brian's last assignment: Sadnecessary by Milky Chance - https://open.spotify.com/album/3AWjk0oVV9YAY9r9boiffN?si=aMq5F6qxQd6IJELLkhsoNQ

🎶 Theme Song: Cyrus Oh Cyrus - The Flying Scrub Jays https://open.spotify.com/track/3S9T5HUS4cwky1922WhF1J?si=6fcad8771f724492

In this episode, Brian and Cort celebrate a near-anniversary of Listeners Like You. Cort reports back on Car Seat Headrest’s Teens of Denial. Some songs hit harder than others but not in the way Cort would have expected.

From there, things go into "unstructured land." They talk about Paradise and its questionable version of Memphis geography, the Scrubs revival, the return of U Talkin’ U2 To Me?, Chelsea’s stressful win over Wrexham, Paralympic curling, Banana Ball, and Back to the Future: The Musical.

Brian gets a new assignment from Cort('s daughter by proxy), and the random podcast generator once again proves it is truly random, but that Meta might be listening.

Listening assignment: Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial https://open.spotify.com/album/3KpYyDP8q8sUBxatHaYEsP?si=JX5lYDfPQgepK5NNpWSqMQ

Theme Song: Cyrus Oh Cyrus - The Flying Scrub Jays https://open.spotify.com/track/3S9T5HUS4cwky1922WhF1J?si=6fcad8771f724492