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🕑 Added 2024-01-27 17:14:18 +0000 UTC

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Melissa

I'm new to the Patreon but wanted to say that the recc room is my favorite part of the show!

Mada

Here is a wonderful new gem of an EP that came outta Spain last month https://flexidiscos.bandcamp.com/album/supongamos-por-ejemplo

Daniel Q

Love you Tim! Here's a rec - the Pat Metheny Group's self-titled 1978 album.

Aberk18

I got a recc I just listened to: Alison Krauss and Union Station’s instrumental cover of Little Liza Jane. Incredible.

Derek Sipes

I got a couple recc's in response to things mentioned on recent ep's: Captain Matt mentioned never being able to find a song with a similar vibe to Otis Redding's "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" - for that I recommend Rick Nelson's "Garden Party". And you guys mentioned how you enjoy playing Connections, the NYT game. It seems to me that concept was possibly stolen from the great BBC quiz show Only Connect. It's the hardest quiz show I've ever watched - if I get 2 or 3 solutions per show I feel really good about myself. Great host (I crush a little), very anglo-centric, plenty of humor. If BBC isn't available to you I believe there are plenty of older episodes available on YouTube

Zane The Brain

Late to the recc game this time, but since she passed away last week, I've been listening to a bit of Melanie. She's kind of more out there than some of her folk contemporaries, a bit of a space case (who I think later took that path into libertarianism, unfortunately). But the songs are good - I think most people just know her for "Brand New Key" but there are plenty of other great ones - "The Good Book", "Animal Crackers", and "Lay Down, Lay Down" are all standouts

Jane Crocker

I mostly listen to Japanese music nowadays BUT Sleater-Kinney’s new album ‘Little Rope’ is out, and it’s pretty good. Worth a listen or two. :)

ToddUmptious

Have fun in Dublin Tim. Until recently I worked in the National Print Museum for a number of years. Pop in early on a thursday if you find yourself left with some wanderin time. The old letterpress printers/typesetters who used to work the presses are usually in with the machines up and running. Always a treat to see <3 (not to take away from the wonderful history of print and the role it played in Irish history that's also on show at the museum)

ToddUmptious

I recommend that new DKR song

Toby Poole

It really is! Poor Bingo receives a warning from a cop for smelling like champagne.

Dana

Interesting!

Jane Crocker

I recommend On Cinema On Demand

Jeff Jörliden

You and Eric gotta do more stuff with Zach! :)

Brian Houdlette

You didn't recognize Bradley Cooper from the Stella sketches? To me that is what he is most recognizable from

Christopher Laramee

MUSIC RECS! If you dig Rollerskate Skinny check out the Lotus Crown album Chokin' on the Jokes as well. Jimi Shields was in RS early on (he left before the recording of Horsedrawn Wishes and moved to Chicago where he formed Lotus Crown). I'm sure you'll dig as well. Also check out Badfinger's Give It Up, a fuzzed out masterpeice!

Kevin Spilker

Fargo season 4 using a truly haunting version of “Toxic” by Britney Spears was masterful and exceptionally creepy. Somehow I doubt True Detective is going to make Twist and Shout creepy, no matter how hard they try.

Todd Long

Tim, I say this with Peace and Love, you need to push past the first episode of Masters of the Air. I never knew my mother’s father but he was a bombardier in WWII. I have old pics of him in England and see myself. Anyways, this series has brought to life that part of the WWII story that is less of dramatized.

Dana

He knows his business trading!🖤

Jim D.

I am enjoying the book Quantum Criminals by Alex Pappademas. The new album from The Smile called Wall of Eyes is a good listen. The podcast "A life curated' with Nolan Browne is interesting, the episode with Thom Zimny is good for Bruce heads or just visual thinkers. Dean Ween's Sunday Sauce is great this time of year if you are ok w/ eating meat. https://web.archive.org/web/20090504002816/http://chocodog.com:80/chocodog/ween/ween_new/waste_fr.html

Garek McGuinn

been really big on the album all news is good news but the band surprise chef. some really funky/groovy instrumentals to vibe out to

EKB

my recs that exclusively start with PF: Pink Floyd (music), Pink Flamingos (movies), Pale Fire (reading). If you're not into John Waters, Primal Fear will do.

Chalameybe

great story - the eharmony.com line stole the 'sode for me.

Toby Poole

I recommend Bingo (1991) currently available to watch free on YouTube! Likely the finest dog movie ever made!

Tim R.

Zach is a gem. So funny and genuine. Lizzy was incredible, too. So many subtle jokes that I felt went unnoticed at times. She doesn’t miss.

Tim Heidecker

I watched that show twice and cried like a baby both times. -t

Sean Enright

Snooze fest!

Sean Enright

First ep of the WWII show was a real dud! Boring and those actors all seem to be doing impressions of impressions of real post-war actors. Butler is just doing Pitt, who was just doing Brando.

Sean Enright

Ditto anything St. Lucia! Very good live, too.

KatieMoe

I highly recommend Kyle Mooney’s Netflix show ‘S.M.A.S.H.’ - it’s amazing. Using different genres of media to make fun of early 90s Saturday morning kids tv.

Drew Lawrence

I think it sort of flew under the radar during the pandemic, but my rec is Station Eleven on Max (there's a book too but I enjoy the show). Worth the watch and rewatch, and it's a really beautiful take on life after society collapses because of a 99.9% deadly pandemic.

KatieMoe

Oooh give Natasha a big hug from a OHL female fan. I think she is incredible and would love to hear her on show!

MP

I'm from Tin Town (Edmont'i'n, as its pronounced locally)! I moved away 15 years ago. I don't really like it there. Would love to hear your thoughts, Tim.

Liam

I rec the brand new album from a band called Tapir. Randy Newman meets Sparklehorse or something. BEAUTIFUL songwriting. https://open.spotify.com/track/7AHX0F99w4x23uSZihklZ6?si=I4vDVaPxSXuKp06P8a4YBA

Angelo Mike

I just read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which is a ferocious book. I love it. I'm not sure if I love the movie with Richard Burton even more. He's giving it all as this burnt out spy who's boiling with rage and resentment about the terrible things he's had to do as a spy, but has to pull a terrible operation for England in the 60s against the East Germans to get one of them killed.

Shane Cooper

My rec is this 1970s Beatles reunion. https://youtu.be/o7hLoya6b0Q?si=l8wkImgT-GQgINZR

Blake Buesnel

Fallen Leaves (2023, 81 minutes)

Carol

reading rec- everything & anything Jesse Bullington has written: https://jessebullington.com/works/novels/

Mark Mulvaney

Another old Irish band rec, the sublime and overlooked Microdisney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutPje4nAKU

Jim

https://officialofficehours.com/reccenter

Jim

Yes please!

Ana

The wall joke made me join Patreon finally lol 🫠 soy Mexicana

Jeff Shirley

We can’t get enough of you and Zach! Recs: “Smoking Causes Coughing” by Quentin Dupieux (movie) also St. Lucia album “Utopia”

lilula9

I loved Brazil and now I want to find the director's cut! 🤩

🖤Cassie🖤

What’s wild is I was just thinking about Zach because you brought up “sitting on the doc of the bay” on Conan’s podcast Zach had said he remade the song and called it “sitting on a co*k cause I’m gay” and now I’ve never heard the song the same 😂 I have a recc. For a song it’s a cover of abbas “slipping through my fingers”by Declan McKenna he sounds very Beatles like. It’s a beautiful cover.

lilula9

Zach's wholesomeness really adds warmth to the show, very cool you two are friends. Love the backstories. Aaahh I loved Chris O'Dowd's performance on The IT Crowd! Excited to see what you two will get up to. Safe travels to you and tell Mark we miss him. Currently I'm enjoying the free Rifftrax movies on Youtube. Laughed SO much to Rifftrax's "Honor and Glory", a really bad 90's martial arts movie that's just begging for Doug drops and Vic edits. The movie's so good in its badness it doesn't even need riffing.

Brian

Quichenight's cover of I Wanna Pick You Up -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw4NiYHTXVA

Luke

Somehow they really managed to make a show about WW2 bombers into a snoozefest

bloodsimple

Another awesome ep Tim! Loved seeing Zach hang. Really hope we get to see you guys do that silly project. I'm recommending my friends music. Alex Salcido on Bandcamp or Spotify. He's an incredible songwriter I think you'd really dig Tim.

Dan Papa

Great funny show with King Z. My current recc is the film Godland on Criterion Channel (which is also a big recc). Also the film Little Murders from 1971. Vic please make more videos!

Jason Luckey

I gotta podcast rec for the group (probably already know about it, but I’m new): Disgraceland (https://www.disgracelandpod.com) Also, this is a sibling podcast: Badlands https://(www.disgracelandpod.com/badlands) Jake Brennan is great.

Steven Meltzer

Will Tim be a vampire? Stay tuned! Excited for the Chris O’Dowd connection, everything he has done has been phenomenal.

Bob L.

such a fun show this week! recc from me would be the wonderful 2011 indie pop album 'one last show of hearts' by shade (therealshade.bandcamp.com, apple music, etc)... the group is basically toronto res jane gowan and various friends coming and going, and a few bars of their beautiful song 'does it matter' was in portlandia's 'dmv fantasies' sketch.. have a great weekend everyone.. xo

Tim Heidecker

i don't make my schedules. my schedules make me.

Max

Tom Schiller’s Nothing Lasts Forever—Brazil for NYC in the style of a 30s MGM film. Never officially released, but rips of TV airings float around. All of Schiller’s SNL shorts are really great, too.

Richard Farrands

Here’s my reccs from this week: The Zone of Interest (wtf), Maron’s chat with Paul Giamatti, and Terry Gilliam’s directors cut of Brazil!

Michelle L. Stone

Started listening to David Cross’s new podcast, Senses Working Overtime. Such a delight! Also been rewatching Star Trek: Voyager 👌

Ashley Oh

You talking about Zach this way makes me teary eyed, it's so sweet. Friends. ♥️ --Love you guys!!

Padraig Glennon

Holy shit Tim!!! Great show this week, So funny and cool. Everyone was on POINT!, Brilliant stuff. You Also blew my mind with the ✨✨ROLLERSKATE SKINNY✨✨ Recommendation. Being that I'm from ole Ireland, it was pretty nice to hear this classic tune blasting away. I was rockin' 🤟😆 too, I always had this on playlists back in da day. Thank you for the fantastic show(Yourself🤠, VB🎶, Lizzy💖, Zach🌞 & Matt🕶). 🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩+🍺🍺 Peace ✌

William Riley

My rec is “Strange Tapes Strange Show” on YouTube. If you’re a fan of Everything is Terrible or Found Footage, it’s in that world without being derivative. Well edited and funny. https://youtube.com/@StrangeTapesVHS?si=l8BUQUotEWrDgJe0 Here’s a good sample of the kind of thing you’re in for: https://youtu.be/EjjPeoxXSo8?si=KQa5RM3K1C9BfTE7

garret

Movie/Doc Rec: "Inside The Labyrinth", a wonderful little making-of for Jim Henson's Labyrinth (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeNFu-QJb2g

Max Goranson

Hey man kinda heavy but I gotta rec Zone of Interest. One of the best moviez ive seen.

Ben Silver

Zone of Interest is very good

Rick Paton

Yesss!!

rainbowdark

rainbow music rec is infinite bisous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJoli8qRfUs ✌️& ❤️ dark show rec is Too Old To Die Young. immaculate visuals. incredible soundtrack by my fave Cliff Martinez. crazy it just got one season. so good. definitely not for the faint of heart.

Johnnee

Zach was so funny, I hope he returns on the show.

Joss Humberstone

Still need to give Big Beacon a listen! I've just finished reading the Poor Things book from which the movie is adapted. It's by Scottish writer Alasdair Grey - it's funny and eccentric - pretty cool.

Bret Saunders

Music recs: anything from the superb Japan-based noise downer rock project Les Rallizes Denudes - they just released a lot of back catalog material on Bandcamp. Also, for Vic and Doug, the zany new “Return to Archive” album from Matmos - electronics cross-pollinated with samples from the Folkways Records label…

Chad

Rec: The new album from Torres came out yesterday. It’s great! As all her albums are. And she’s on tour now. Highly recommend listening to and seeing her. I think she’d be a great guest for OHL too. Doesn’t look like the current tour dates mesh with the OHL schedule, though.

Chas Bowie

I’ve got to re-rec Zach’s two book recs. Demon Cooperhead and Stolen Focus are two of the best books I’ve read in years!!

Peter Fishbeast

Great guest, great content 👍🏻

Stu Walker

Music recc: Office Dog - Spiel song-by-song overview from the songwriter here: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/office-dogs-kane-strang-tells-us-about-every-song-on-their-debut-lp-spiel-stream-it/

Matt Henderson

Tim on what we do in the shadows would be amazing!

colindpratt

Rec: you guys have mentioned creepy Papa John Phillips on the show a couple times over the years, but the other Papa Denny Doherty has a great album i think you’d like. it’s called Watcha Gonna Do https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lLQhUYfQGByVUWBXKbjDSnT8g3CsoF9vs&si=k5_jVTNKHGYPS5sU

Pee Pat

Great show! Where's the rec center? I am.dumb can't find it

Old James

Music recs: Michael Nau - Accompany, Decisive Pink - Ticket to Fame ✌❤🎵

Mary Newman

Recc's, older bands: Laid Back, mostly known for White Horse but have a more cool songs and The Style Council. Thanks for the post, it's a fun read.

Valery Brennan

Oh my god Shadows?!?!?! I will lose my mind.

William Riley

MAGA sure did ruin red caps with white lettering.

Douglas Fleming

My recommendation is the podcast ‘Things Fell Apart’ by Jon Ronson. A new series recently came out so I have been listening to it. It has similar themes to some of Adam Curtis’s work (they are both friends I think). He basically goes through some key culture war issues such as abortion, transgender rights, pizzagate etc, and talks about how seemingly innocuous events years ago set off a chain reaction getting us to where we are today with them.

Phil Braun

Why do you always make your schedule so that it is the most stressful around the Oscar Special??

Brian Rooney

I recommend the song "I Can't Help Myself" by Orange Juice. Their album You Can't Hide Your Love Forever is excellent.

Ben

Zach was on 🔥. He’s always good in interviews, but he had a lot more energy than usual and was full of zingers.

Jasper St Germain

Zach was great! I'd like to recommend the albums "Dream Themes" by Pipe-Eye and "Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-between" by Man Man. Also, the book "Running the Light" by Sam Tallent. It's a fun read!

brainblob

safe travels T

future canon

Great ep with Zach, loved the advice for the young man in a jam. My recommendation: Chris Wilcha's 2000 documentary THE TARGET SHOOTS FIRST, which is free on YouTube or archive.org – great watch!

Cole J. Batty

I too have driven a car into a ditch in the middle of the night in rural NC

Caleb

Great to hear Zach wants to be a regular! Meeks Cutoff! Kelly Reichardt’s Western.

Ellie Hajdu

Mornin! Love these Saturday morning letters. Im enjoying the Barbra Streisand audio book very much. She reads it and she goes off on tangents that are not in the book… like randomly telling 20 minute stories about what she ate the night before… excellent. Have a great week!

MIREST

If you've never seen the Norwegian action dark comedy thriller HEADHUNTERS (2011), it's always one of my go to recs. Just insane crazy fun!

KD

Part of me really misses comedian Z but if I were him and had such successes, I'd be existing in a similar fashion as him lol. Thanks for getting him on the show!