Lunchtime Minisode #1 - Mixtapes

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It’s time to knock ‘em out the box with the first Lunchtime Minisode! Kris starts things off for a change (0:22) Then Kris and Marty talk a little bit about our first minisode, “Mixtapes” (0:48). After that brief intro, we jump right in to our first minisode with a brief recap of seeing the Breeders the night before (5:32) Introducing the topic of the first minisode (9:37), Kris making his first mixtape while still in preschool (11:33) Recording songs off of the radio (19:58) Marty’s foray into indirectly pioneering mashups (20:21) Varying degrees of quality in blank tapes (22:55) Kris making a mixtape for his high school sweetheart after they broke up (33:26) Mixtapes’ cache in hip hop culture (38:40) Autumn De Wilde’s amazing Elliott Smith photo book (49:40) and Nick Hornby’s troublesome mixtape rules from the novel High Fidelity (56:20). Then, we close it out with a recap on our feelings on said mixtape rules espoused by the character Rob Gordon in the aforementioned novel. (1:03:00). Check out out first minisode ASAP!!