Phil and Jake are joined by The Distillers drummer (and friend of the pod) Andy Granelli to add a few measures to the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking snare drums, the ill-fated ancient city-state of Carthage, and puns.

Andy can be found on Twitter (@AndyGranelli) and Instagram (AndyGranelli). Also check out his side project, hardcore supergroup Seized Up.

If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, let us know by sending an email to list@everydamnthing.net (or get at us on Twitter and Instagram).

SHOW NOTES:

You can listen to Andy's historical skin-pounding in his former bands Darker My Love, The Nerve Agents, Fast Asleep and Model American.
This week’s TV recommendation is How to With John Wilson (on HBO).
We were delighted to discover that the “trap” in trap set (aka drum kit) is short for “contraption”!
Phil mentions The Little Drummer Boy but he meant to say the boy from The Tin Drum.
One of our favorite movies is Drumline, an underrated sports film about HBCU marching bands.
The slaughter of Native Americans by colonists that Andy talks about appears to have happened in 1610 at the Jamestown colony.
Here’s a video about Andy’s fave, the Ludwig Black Beauty nickel over brass snare drum.
Did Carthage invent purple dye? No! Tyrian purple (aka Royal purple or Imperial purple) is a dye extracted from the murex shellfish & first produced in the Phoenician city of Tyre (modern-day Lebanon). These guys were like kissin’ cousins of the Carthaginians, whose origins traced to the Phoenicians but they had their own Punic culture, etc.
Much of our knowledge about Carthage comes from Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History series on the Punic Wars.
The documentary Jake watched about the Punic Wars is called Carthage: The Roman Holocaust. A quick look at the YouTube comments reveals that the topic of alleged Carthaginian child sacrifice is still hotly debated.
In the episode, Jake claims that the destruction of Carthage was the only time a city was totally destroyed in war. This isn’t quite true. In fact, in the same year that they annihilated Carthage, the Romans also did it to the Greek city of Corinth. But the case of Carthage is distinct in the scale and finality of the erasure of the city, its people and its culture.
Here’s a funny short video to convince you that puns are great.
Here’s a 30-minute Three Stooges slapstick montage to show you why they’d be just fine without puns.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
the music industry * history of drums * types of drums * Oreos * man-buns * ninjas * the tabor * “Tonight Tonight” by Smashing Pumpkins * Gene Krupa * drum machines and the future of drumming * onions * “Midnight Train to Georgia” by Gladys Knight and the Pips * “Back that Azz Up” by Juvenile * dilapidated shacks * the Punic Wars * salting the earth * Hannibal * ancient seafaring technology * Atlantis * the Jersey Shore * Antoni Gaudi

Below is the List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the most up-to-date list, go here):

Dolly Parton - person
Clement Street in San Francisco - location
Prince - person
It’s-It - food
Cher - person
Donald Duck - fictional character
Hank Williams - person
air - substance
Watchmen - comic book
onions - food
“Midnight Train to Georgia” - music
sex - idea
Boxer (dog breed) - animal
ducks - animal
firefighters - people
Shakira - person
The Three Stooges - comedy act
Christmas trees - seasonal decoration
Puns - idea
Trading Places - 1983 film
intro to “Back That Azz Up” - music
The Truman Show - movie
dilapidated shacks - structures
shirtless men wearing elaborate angel wings, gold lamé shorts & furry cha-cha heels - idea
plants - life form
handkerchiefs - accessory
nail clippers - tool
rye bread - food
snare drums - instrument
saxophone in rock - music
cubed ice - subst...

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27. Snare Drums, Carthage, Puns (w/ Andy Granelli)