Low Level Rage

Friday nights are ragier than ever on Low Level Rage. Tim's ethical conundrums. Conundra? Tips about tips. Lauren becomes a rage-filled advice columnist for people who shouldn't be seeking advice in the first place. Much trash talk about America's Elite Institutions of Higher Education. Lauren is mad about spackling and bagel tools. Tim is mad about deli counters and pedestrian traffic. And an EXTREMELY SPECIAL UNDERSEA GUEST makes an appearance!

More of Music Night! LLR drinking game rules. Tim and Lauren pass some exams! Twitter feuds and feuds about Twitter. Was 2006 the best year for music? Lauren drones on about post-rock, and Tim does laundry. Tales from women who have braved the post-rock scene. Tales of Tim Rutili. Lauren finally succeeds at getting a World's End Girlfriend song onto the program. And an exciting cat ownership origin story!

Music Night on LLR! Low Level News and an early birthday present. Lauren talks Destroyer, Tim talks Wire, and hot takes abound. Uh, It's a Band. A special GBV bed music competition. Tales of Tim's past, and Lauren sings! Tim's DMB pick of the month. Bedhead, The Mountain Goats, and a little bit of post-rock. Earnestness abounds! If you like music, you should darn well like this show.

Tim and Lauren craft an adventure for listeners to choose, but everyone chooses not to listen to the show instead. So Maggie and Callie made all your choices for you this week, everyone. Good job. The Rubber Band Challenge. More gross phrases. And an adventure in which parents arrive in town, phones die, people get lost, and maybe something bad happens at the end. Just like the tales of our youth!

Tim tries to teach Lauren how to play Magic: The Gathering but everyone keeps getting distracted. Plants, cats, and laptops. Tales from Tim's past as a callow youth. Beer confusion! Sauerkraut! Lauren muddles through the basics of Magic. Low Level Rage is accepting beer sponsorships: take note, beer sponsors! A caller calls with an exciting tale of mistaken identity, and Tim takes karaoke to a whole new level.

The return of the Low Level Rage highlight reel! Some of the best bits of two more eventful months in LLR history. Including ghost talk, job hunts, and the birth of Tim and Lauren's obsession with Jock Jams. Plus a couple weird interviews and some singing!

Low Level Rage returns . . . except Mixlr fails to work for half an hour, so by the time the show starts Tim and Lauren are even more steamed than usual. What to do instead of running away to join the circus? Baseball of the Minor League and punk rock varieties. Tim relates at least two majorly embarrassing stories. Fred almost doesn't not tell a horrifying tale. Hot on-theme Burning Man Talk and weird gross phrases. And karaoke!

The karaoke machine causes Massive Technological Failure, so the first half-hour of the show is not archived. If you missed it, you missed out! Tim and Lauren play the intro to Semi-Charmed Life about eight times and get mad. But they prevail and Maximum Karaoke Jams are achieved! No words can describe it. Greg invents a new form of karaoke, and Callie calls in with another installation of Jock Jams. Plus dancing, and an announcement!

Low Level Rage returns! No one calls and Tim and Lauren see red. Tim took a lawyer test, to the terror of all exam proctors. Various ways to troll rich people. Tim will be Mayor of Chicago, and Lauren wants to trade Beanie Babies on the NYSE. Tim and Lauren have an exciting proposal for John Hodgman relating to the subject of celebrity Dungeons and Dragons. And Tim does a voice. For a really, really long time.

Tim and Lauren rewrite the lyrics to songs with help from the callers. Cats and official LLR enemy Iggy Azalea (including an interruption from an actual cat). Some Canadian stuff. Tim and Lauren defeated by Nick Gilder. An hour spent vastly improving a Billy Joel song by way of the X-Files, plus something really horrible at the end!

Lauren can't get the levels right. Enemies lists. Tim and Lauren try to do rants that the other person would normally do, which goes as well as it sounds like it would. Star Wars, Canadian immigration, and a bunch of swearing about Pokemon. Lauren makes an uncharacteristic number of stupid puns. Mixlr turns out to be garbage, again. Lauren tries to remember all of the fast food jingles, and Tim wants to eat Taco Bell. Maybe next week!

Tim's amazing tribute to Germany's amazing football spills over into amazing sports metaphors. Tim fires his entire household staff, and Lauren plans their expensive vacation in exotic locales. Plus the worst twitterers, reviews of GPS coordinate generators, and Kyrgyzstan, for some reason. A real voyage of discovery!

Kitten repossession and Snipes Scoops. Tim and Lauren demonstrate amazing literariness. Perplexing billboards. Remembrance of jeans past, present, and terrible! Plus dark secrets of library book borrowers, and Tim tries to remember what fish he is talking about.

Fitz talk. Tim does battle with the elements and loses. Some weirdo, possibly an alien, calls up to talk about e-cigs. Speculation about the true nature of chemtrails. More footie madness! Tales of cycling tragedy and acute embarrassment, dead rats and condos. Lauren reviews a variety of parades from around our Cool Nation. And more clown talk!

Summer Fever sets in! Footie, blockbusters, and more of Nature's Wrath. RPG talk in unexpected places and RIP talk of Tony Gwynn. Tim and Lauren start to make their summer checklist! Lots of advice for Emma's dad, who is preparing to go to Burning Man. And Wisconsin clowns!

Low Level Rage returns, now on a new night! Tim and Lauren do some Real Talk about their actual lives, including discussion of robberies, dumpsters, and persistent head colds. The introduction of Nature's Wrath! Gross mosquito bites and hundreds of bees! Much talk of how much summer camp sucks, and some Houseplant Chat. Plus a great call about bear terror!

Lauren interviews Craig the Manatee and many exciting secrets come to light! Tim and Lauren listen to some jock jams to get pumped up, then have their illusions shattered by a gross jock jam. The thrilling debut of Ultimate 20 Questions 2K14 features at least one group of animals and a North American event.

The hot debut of the Low Level Rage highlight reel is here! Catch up on the show's first two months as Tim and Lauren battle tech problems, take some good calls, and start to figure out what the heck this show is all about. This voyage of discovery includes manatees, dream sequences, tire-slashing, and more!

Tim and Lauren almost pass out in the studio. Things get pretty grim before jock jams save the day. Lyrics are read, songs are sung, and Tim keeps getting sidetracked. Plus a call about fridges and the saddest statue in the world. A weird night!

Something weird happens to Tim, again. Dumb famous people are discussed. Tim gets to be annoying, finally. Greg explains some movie, some callers get splashed, and it turns out that Cop Rock is actually terrible. Tim sings, and Lauren decides to go work at a zoo. Good times!