Best Keith Pille Podcasts (2025)

Despite being Baxtered by tech problems (don’t worry, the laptop setting have been updated to this’ll stop happening), the hombres talk about the Lemonheads and their place on the top shelf of 90s alt-pop. Also: surprising amounts of Tom Petty and yacht rock.By Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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3.25 Under the Blacklight 1:17:04

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Chad and Keith look at some apex 2000s indie rock while a dog barks at his own imagination. The hombres are pretty copacetic about Rilo Kiley but somehow not so much on the Arcade Fire.By Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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Announcing The Kraken Busters: The Comic 5:00

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Short version: I've started making a comics adaptation of the first season of The Kraken Busters; 6 episodes or installments or whatever are done and you can find them at https://www.keithpille.com or just google "Keith Pille" (the comics will be pretty easy to spot once you're on my site). For the longer version, listen to the update!…

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3.24 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 1:12:23

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Chad and Keith circle around this one warily, like apes with a monolithBy Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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3.23 Appetite for Destruction 1:14:43

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DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?!?!? You’re in a dining room in south Minneapolis, baby, listening to a couple of middle aged-dudes try to figure out how music can have a weird power even when it seems mostly aimed at convincing guys like Vince Neil that Axl Rose is a cool badassBy Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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3.22 Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) 1:34:45

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Hey, have you ever heard of the Replacements?By Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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3.21 Warehouse – Songs and Stories 1:18:36

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A spectre is haunting We’ve Been Had — the spectre of Hüsker Dü! Also: Augie the lab comes into his own as third cohostBy Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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Announcing Forgotten Scenes 3:03

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To be honest, this isn't so much an episode as it is an announcement for an entirely new show. But if you like The Kraken Busters, you'll dig this new one!By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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3.20 Doolittle 1:24:07

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The gents dig into one of the foundational albums for modern indie rock, and try to figure out why the Pixies rule so hard. Also: the Old Testament.By Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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Whoops! Missing episodes! 1:30

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I just realized that a wordpress setting had made the first season slowly disappear from the feed. DAMMIT! Should be fixed now. Sorry, confused new listeners!By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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215 Apocrypha, 1987-Style 13:49

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Every word I've said to you for the past 14 episodes has been 1000% true. But just for the sake of argument....Also: the future!By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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214 The Sweet Hereafter 12:31

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You all remember what happened next, right?By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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213 The Brink 16:38

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Juliana Burke tries to stop a misunderstanding about sea monsters from ending the worldBy THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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212 How I Learned to Stop Worrying 28:07

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Matters come to a head in the north Atlantic.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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211 Pirate Radio 15:57

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Two fleets stare at each other across choppy waters. And a crab visits a pleasant fishing village in IcelandBy THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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210 Operation TREBLEHOOK 15:09

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RFK lets the Navy off the leash.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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209 Two Guys Walk Into a Bar 19:45

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The Russians are getting tired of Kennedy's BS.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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3.19 The Wall 1:12:01

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Chad’s the voice of reason, more or less, as Keith has one of his turns. Also: once again, a dog makes his presence known.By Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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208 The Washington View 21:54

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Kennedy prepares to go public with his bullshit, to the disbelief of Colorado's most colorful senator. But first: let's talk about repelling sea monstersBy THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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207 Going Back In 23:14

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Detachment 69 heads into the sea monster exclusion zone to plant some evidence. Also: a digression on ship namesBy THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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206 Setup 16:13

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It turns out that it takes a lot of work to get an international maritime cover-up rolling!By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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205 Cover-up 13:57

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Robert Kennedy asks himself (and his advisors): what if I didn't have to tell the public that there was a sea monster outbreak?By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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204 Decisions 20:51

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They saw a WHAT?!?By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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203 Blood in the Water 18:36

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Delgado and the Fearless Freaks arrive in the waters off Iceland and ponder psychedelic literature, among other thingsBy THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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202 The Fearless Freaks 13:24

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Unsure of what's actually going on in the North Atlantic, Robert Kennedy has only one resource he can turn to for clarity: the shadowy detachment known (currently) as Detachment 69.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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201 A Press Conference in Reykjavik 24:01

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In May of 1987, a government minister in a minor country (sorry, Iceland, still love you) schedules a press conference and ruffles feathers in Washington.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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3.18 The Modern Lovers 1:16:29

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Chad and Keith try to grapple with the legendary punk-precursor album while Canis Caesar Augustus tries to steal the showBy Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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21 Announcing Kraken Busters Season 2 3:16

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January of 2023 we're journeying back (or forward, I guess) to 1987!By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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3.17 The Center Won’t Hold 1:26:38

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The idiots dig into an album that reported from the front lines on 2019. Also, somehow: W.B. Yeats and Bilbo BagginsBy Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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3.16 Teenage Head 1:26:42

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The idiots get their blooze on with the Flamin’ Groovies as a giant puppy attacks their sound equipment and then farts up a storm. Also: Randy Newman, and a surprising truth about the Dead Kennedys and the B-52sBy Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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3.15 Life’s Rich Pageant 1:30:05

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Either a philanderer ties a murderer’s shoes or some unnamed party collects a philanderer’s tie and a murderer’s shoes. You decide!By Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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3.14 Exodus 1:23:49

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Bum software can’t stop the idiots from looking at an album and an artist that are so much greater than the dorm residents of the 1990s believedBy Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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3.13 The Great Destroyer 1:28:57

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The gents talk about a great, if heavy, album that emanated from the depths of Lake SuperiorBy Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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3.12 Singles Going Steady 1:05:53

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Deep focus on the album/compilation that served as “Meet the* Buzzcocks?” Seminar on punk history and theory? Meditation on the word “the” in band names? Why not all of the above?By Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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20 Apocrypha, 2021 10:32

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Every word I've said to you was 1000% true. But for the sake of argument...By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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19 Endgame, 1951-52 16:39

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Dewey defeats monstersBy THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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3.11a Achtung Baby, part 2 39:02

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The parts of the discussion that were just too hard core for our server to allow you to hear themBy Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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3.11 Achtung Baby 1:02:34

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Journey into the heart of, well, something. NOTE: the episode got truncated by the server, so the last third or so of the conversation appear in a second episodeBy Chad Cook and Keith Pille

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18 The Clouds Part, 1950-51 13:52

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Victory is within reach, despite a setback in Long Beach. Also: enter Richard Nixon.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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17 The Fall of Black Jack Kraken, 1950 23:07

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The war in the Pacific reaches a major turning point.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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16 Renewed Vigor, 1949 14:29

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By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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15 Operation Mousetrap, 1949 21:15

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The Trumble Group and Kay Hendry's office hatch a simple plan for blowing up monsters. But will it blow up enough of them? And will it blow them up hard enough?By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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14 Dewey, 1949 21:23

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As the nation reels from the combined disasters surrounding San Francisco, a new president takes office and sees both gloom and points of light within it. Also, Woody Guthrie writes a song.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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13 Unthinkable, 1948 24:02

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Once the sea creatures are in possession of San Francisco Bay, what do they want with it? CONTENT WARNING: THIS EPISODE INCLUDES AN ACT OF EXTREME SELF-HARM.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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12 San Francisco, 1948 20:31

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Harry Truman hoped for a decisive encounter with the sea creatures before the election. Then he got one.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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11 The Incumbent, 1948 19:34

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Is losing a war to sea monsters a good reelection campaign strategy? Also: enter Ernest Hemingway.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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10 Secession, 1947 20:26

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Dominoes continue to fall throughout the Pacific after it becomes the sea monsters' private lake. Also, the Navy reorganizes some deck chairs and tries out some new accessories.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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09 The Breakdown, 1947 22:13

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After the confluence of disasters in February 1947, the American presence throughout the Pacific withers away, with catastrophic results. Can wealthy aviator Howard Hughes help?By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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08 The Second Battle of Pearl Harbor, 1947 (part 2) 22:13

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After laying waste to the handful of ships and boats on hand to defend Pearl Harbor, the Kelp Man and a mass of sea creatures move deeper into the base.By THE KRAKEN BUSTERS