Listeners Like You

About Listeners Like You

Brian Faughnan & Cort Winsett get together biweekly and start talking with each other (and with you the listener) about what they’ve been listening to lately. But they’ve got opinions on so. many. things. And not necessarily the opinions you’d always expect from two middle-aged white guys. Unasked for. Unnecessary. Unstoppable?

Publisher

Listeners Like You

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

17 Apr 2023

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

97 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Episode 93: Wetter than a drowning fish

   This week, Brian reports back on Twisted Teens’ Florida Water Blues, an album that raises several important questions. Is three albums in one year too many? Why does New Orleans produce so few rock bands? And has modern music quietly adopted a requirement that every album contain at least one reference to the cunning linguist? We don’t know, but we know where we got our episode’s title. From there, we discover that MTV still exists and, even more improbably, still hands out Video Music Awards. Music videos, Casey Kasem, Rick Dees, VH1 and the long-lost thrill of waiting for a “world premiere” send us into full nostalgia mode. Naturally, that somehow leads to Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery, CBS, CNN, HBO, John Oliver, streaming price increases, and the increasingly expensive privilege of subscribing to services that may be actively getting worse. Then Cort unveils his first game: Dead, Alive, or Still Fucking Touring. Men Without Hats, Jesus Jones, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Echo & the Bunnymen, Squeeze, Soul Asylum, Crowded House, Fine Young Cannibals, Violent Femmes, The Church, Live and A Flock of Seagulls all go on trial, and the results are interesting … to Cort at least. We also check back in on The Traitors and Survivor, contemplate some fun changes that up the money ante of some of our favorite reality shows, and eventually Brian sends Cort off with a brand-new assignment. Finally? Ketogasm. Cort’s last assignment to Brian: Twisted Teens – Florida Water Blueshttps://open.spotify.com/search/Twisted%20Teens%20Florida%20Water%20Blues Brian’s next assignment to Cort: West Side Cowboy – It Goes Onhttps://open.spotify.com/search/West%20Side%20Cowboy%20It%20Goes%20On 🎶 Theme Song: "Cyrus Oh Cyrus" by The Flying Scrub Jayshttps://open.spotify.com/track/3S9T5HUS4cwky1922WhF1J?si=6fcad8771f724492 Also check out The Flying Scrub Jays’ newer album A Ship of Seasonshttps://open.spotify.com/album/5S53Tfm6WmpYLreFegqbXj?si=cYwfT9dLQ66hs0SuQwc0Ew 📧 listenerslikeyou2023@gmail.com📱 @listenerslikeyoupod

2. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Episode 92: Wilco, Etc.

   This week, Cort reports back on Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, an album Brian has been trying to force into his life for years and which has, according to Brian, been one of the most acclaimed records of the century for even longer. We get into Jeff Tweedy, the strange history of an album its own record label didn’t want, alternate mixes, violins (!!!), and Cort’s decision to conduct a highly scientific experiment by rearranging the songs on the album by play count. From there, the “etc.” kicks in. We talk about Clue in both movie and stage form, talk Tim Curry, and Brian lauds Coyote vs. Acme, the movie that nearly disappeared into tax-write-off hell. We also find ourselves, somewhat unexpectedly, fully defending Supergirl. In the rest of the non-listening portion of our listening podcast, The Traitors: New Blood proves that celebrities are not the only people capable of behaving irrationally, South Park finds another way to say, “Hey! No! Bad dog!”, and Oreo appears to be going through some kind of corporate identity crisis. There may also be a wardrobe malfunction. Cort eventually gives Brian an assignment, and our random podcast generator suggests something involving Wolverine. Oh, happy day. Brian’s last assignment to Cort: Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrothttps://open.spotify.com/album/0rPtXOMN42nsLDiShvGamv Cort’s next assignment to Brian: Twisted Teens – Florida Water Blueshttps://open.spotify.com/search/Twisted%20Teens%20Florida%20Water%20Blues 🎶 Theme Song: “Cyrus Oh Cyrus” by The Flying Scrub Jayshttps://open.spotify.com/track/3S9T5HUS4cwky1922WhF1J?si=6fcad8771f724492 Also check out The Flying Scrub Jays’ newer album A Ship of Seasonshttps://open.spotify.com/album/5S53Tfm6WmpYLreFegqbXj?si=cYwfT9dLQ66hs0SuQwc0Ew 📧 listenerslikeyou2023@gmail.com📱 @listenerslikeyoupod

3. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Episode 91: Arkansas Hozier. First Attempt.

   This week, Brian reports back on Sawyer Hill’s new album Everybody’s Home, Nobody’s Happy, which gives us religion, Arkansas, a voice that appears to have been issued to a much larger human being, and the new musical concept: “Arkansas Hozier.” We try to decide exactly what kind of music Sawyer Hill is making. We may give it short shrift, but it’s enthusiastic short shrift, if that can be a thing. Then Ben Folds Five gives us a rare chance to listen to a band’s historical evolution musically. Thirty years after their debut, Shelved First Attempt finally lets us compare the album they recorded and abandoned with the Ben Folds Five that actually came out. We get into alternate versions of “Philosophy,” “Julianne,” “Underground” and the rest. What exactly does good production mean? Knowing what not to clean up? In the non-listening portion of our listening podcast, Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields gives us an excuse to talk about Chappell Roan, Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Nicks, Alanis Morissette and the continuing value of a proper music festival, which technically is listening related! Phoebe Bridgers finds the shortest possible route to Cort’s heart. We also discover Hungry!, check back in on Seveneves, and spend some time remembering Dolly Parton and considering whether Sabrina Carpenter has a future assignment she doesn’t yet know about. Finally, Brian decides that 25 years is long enough for Cort to keep dodging one of Brian’s favorite bands. Ever. Seriously. As always, we close with the episode’s random podcast suggestion, where someone attempts to convince us that baseball produces joy. Cort’s last assignment to Brian: Sawyer Hill – Everybody’s Home, Nobody’s Happyhttps://open.spotify.com/search/Sawyer%20Hill%20Everybody%27s%20Home%20Nobody%27s%20Happy Brian’s next assignment to Cort: Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrothttps://open.spotify.com/album/0rPtXOMN42nsLDiShvGamv 🎶 Theme Song: "Cyrus Oh Cyrus" by The Flying Scrub Jayshttps://open.spotify.com/track/3S9T5HUS4cwky1922WhF1J?si=6fcad8771f724492 Also check out The Flying Scrub Jays’ newer album A Ship of Seasonshttps://open.spotify.com/album/5S53Tfm6WmpYLreFegqbXj?si=cYwfT9dLQ66hs0SuQwc0Ew 📧 listenerslikeyou2023@gmail.com📱 @listenerslikeyoupod

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Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

57

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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