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THIS IS BIG GREEN: September 2021
(Includes 6 new recordings by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – September 2021. Features: 1) Put the phone down: Where the hell we’ve been; 2) Joe rehashes the sordid history of Big Green, again; 3) Song: Round Up, by Big Green – live solo version; 4) Song: Hey Caveman, by Big Green – live solo version; 5) A humble non-COVID cough; 6) Song: Do It Every Time, by Big Green – live solo version; 7) Song: Meet Me In The Middle, by Big Green – live solo version; 8) Song: Johnny’s Gun, by Big Green – live solo version; 9) What’s behind Johnny’s Gun, aside from Johnny; 10) Song: Rich Man, by Big Green – live solo version; 11) Coming repulsions … I mean, attractions; 12) Time for us to go.

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THIS IS BIG GREEN: December 2020
(Includes 11 songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – December 2020. Features: 1) Put the phone down: Joe talks about the year that was. Spoiler alert: it sucked; 2) Ned Trek 35: The Romney Christmas Special / Ned Trek Reunion Special; 3) Song: Romney Christmas Special theme, by Big Green; 4) Song: Christmas Business, by Big Green; 5) Song: Plastic Head, by Big Green; 6) Song: Bobby Sweet, by Big Green; 7) Song: Christmas To End, by Big Green; 8) Song: He Does It For Spite, by Big Green; 9) Song: Christmas Green, by Big Green; 10) Song: Horrible People, by Big Green; 11) Song: Neocon Christmas, by Big Green; 12) Song: Make That Christmas Shine, by Big Green; 13) Pagan Christmas, by Big Green; 14) Time for us to go.

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This Is Big Green: December 2020 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: July 2020
(Includes 7 songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – July 2020. Features: 1) Put the phone down: Joe laments the continuing absence of Matt and debunks Big Green’s founding mythology; 2) Song: A Name And A Face, performed by Big Green; 3) Song: She Caught The Katy, performed by Big Green; 4) Song: Bad Boy, performed by Big Green; 5) Song: Slippin’ and Slidin’, performed by Big Green; 6) More disposable back story about the band; 7) Song: Just Five Seconds, by Big Green; 8) Impromptu romp through grandfather’s war; 9) Song: Nutcracker, by Big Green; 10) All about Christmas; 11) Song: Honest Man, by Big Green; 12) Time for us (me) to go.

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This Is Big Green: July 2020 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: December 2019
(Includes 12 songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – December 2019. Features: 1) Put the phone down: A brief intro from that mother Joe; 2) Ned Trek 33: The Nimrod Seven (an encore presentation); 3) Song: If You’re Listening To This, by Big Green; 4) Song: Commander I’m Dead, by Big Green; 5) Song: Doctor In The House, by Big Green; 6) Song: Wait For You, by Big Green; 7) Song: Nimrod, by Big Green; 8) Song: Neocon Captain, by Big Green; 9) Song: Nixon Is Saving Us All, by Big Green; 10) Put the phone down … again; 11) Song: Pagan Christmas, by Big Green; 12) Song: Bobby Sweet, by Big Green; 13) Song: Christmas Spirit, by Big Green; 14) Song: Vital Signs, by Big Green; 15) Exit, all.

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This Is Big Green: December 2019 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: August 2019
(Includes 5 songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – August 2019. Features: 1) Ned Trek 40: Day of the Dopes; 2) Put the phone down: Swimming in lush pools; 3) Fledgling updates; 4) Swapping voices; 5) Peddling conspiracy theories; 6) Turtle eggs that look like the moon; 7) The story of Monte Markham; 8) The show so far; 9) Zappa talk; 10) The racist cartoons of our youth; 11) Song: Pagan Christmas, by Big Green; 12) Song: For Your Majesty’s Amusement, by Big Green; 13) Song: The Bishop, by Big Green; 14) Song: Aw Shoot, by Big Green; 15) Song: Box of Crackers, by Big Green; 16) Buying Greenland; 17) The dairy area; 18) Time to go.

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This Is Big Green: August 2019 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: July 2019
(Includes 6 songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – July 2019. Features: 1) Ned Trek 18: Captain Frickasee (encore presentation); 2) Put the phone down: Where the hell did that Matt guy go; 3) A brief history of Big Green guitarists; 4} Song: How ‘Bout The War (live), by Big Green with Tony “Ace” Butera; 5) Song: Greater Good (live), by Big Green with Jeremy Shaw; 6) Song: Sensory Man (live demo), by Big Green with Jeremy Shaw; 7) Song: I Hate Your Face (live demo), by Big Green with Jeremy Shaw; 8) Song: Merry Christmas, Jane (live demo), by Big Green with Jeremy Shaw; 9) Song: Special Kind of Blood (live demo), by Big Green with Jeremy Shaw; 10) The Middlebury College gig, circa 1993; 11) Time to go.

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This Is Big Green: July 2019 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: February 2019
(Includes 8 new songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – February 2019. Features: 1) Ned Trek 39: Patterns of Horse, featuring 8 new Big Green songs; 2) Song: Find Yourself a Nazi, by Big Green; 3) Song: Oh, V-2, by Big Green; 4) Song: Now More Than Ever, by Big Green; 5) Song: Nazi Lunch, by Big Green 6) Song: The Nicest Nazi, by Big Green; 7) Song: Can’t Do It Without Nazis, by Big Green; 8) Song: Can’t Go Wrong, by Big Green; 9) Song: Soldier of Fourchan, by Big Green; 10) Put the phone down: Popeye cartoons; 11) Remembering Peter Tork; 12} Jonathan Harris on YouTube; 13) Singing about shutting up; 14) Writing the next Ned Trek; 15) Playing with Dave Barber, back in the day; 16) Who’s all dead; 17) Time to go – a strange medley.

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This Is Big Green: February 2019 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: December 2018
(Includes 4 classic songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – December 2018. Features: 1) Ned Trek 38: The Squire of Mara Lagos; 2) Put the phone down: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, rendered by Big Green with help from the Daleks; 3) We’ve got responsibilities, too; 4) Not a scientist talk; 5) That Ned Trek episode: how bad was that? 6) Dueling Sagans; 7) Song: Christmas is Over Here, by Big Green; 8) Chimp talk; 9) Song: Up North, by Big Green; 10) Song: Quantum Christmas, by Big Green; 11) Song: Dark Christmas, by Big Green; 12} Apologies to the world; 13) Matt’s medals; 14) Talking about boyds in the forties; 15) Song: Ornament, by Big Green; 16) Time to go.

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This Is Big Green: December 2018 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: June 2018
(Includes 8 new songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – June 2018. Features: 1) Ned Trek 37: Return to the Carl; 2) Song: Light Thing, by Big Green; 3) Song: Sagan’s Song, by Big Green; 4) Song: Risk Is Your Business, by Big Green; 5) Song: Congratulations, by Big Green; 6) Song: Teller, by Big Green; 7) Song: The Other Side, by Big Green; 8) Song: Fat Captain, by Big Green; 9) Song: Blow The Man Down, by Big Green; 10) Put the phone down: an impromptu rendition of All Saints Come, by Big Green; 11) The songs, explained; 12) Dueling imitations of famous people; 13) Falcon watch update: Monday is Monkey Day; 14) A visit with Bernie Jetson; 15) Thelonius Ingraham and the Hand; 16) Stupit talk: growing down; 17) Time to go.

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This Is Big Green: June 2018 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: February 2018
(Includes 5 new songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – February 2018. Features: 1) Ned Trek 36: Grope in the Fold; 2) Put the phone down: Talk of dramatic courtroom drama; 3) Home of Wedding and big party Kielbasa; 4) Song: Two Lines, by Big Green; 5) Backstage fisticuffs with BJCB; 6) Tim Walsh’s guitar style; 7) Song: Silent as a Stone, by Big Green; 8) Song: It Should’ve Been Me, by Big Green; 9) Song: Don’t Tell Rick, by Big Green; 10) News from the farm; 11) Song: Slipping and Sliding, performed by Big Green; 12) Time to go.

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This Is Big Green: February 2018 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: December 2017
(Includes 5 new songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – December 2017. Features: 1) Ned Trek 35: The Romney Christmas Special / Ned Trek Reunion Special; 2) Song: Romney Christmas Special theme, by Big Green; 3) Song: Christmas Business, by Big Green; 4) Song: Plastic Head, by Big Green; 5) Song: Bobby Sweet, by Big Green; 6) Song: Christmas To End, by Big Green; 7) Song: He Does It For Spite, by Big Green; 8) Put the phone down: No robots for Christmas; 9) Bad Irish accents; 10) People who died in 2017; 11) Tens of Wives (an impromptu ditty); 12) Beaver pond update; 13) The nacho cheese song; 14) Time to go.

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This Is Big Green: December 2017 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: November 2017
(Includes 5 songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – November 2017. Features: 1) Ned Trek 34: Shitty and a Bit of a Stretch; 2) Put the Phone Down: Nixon’s happy days; 3) An accent-rich consideration of Seb Gorka’s racism; 4) Remembering the Rutles; 5) Song: Christmas Green, by Big Green; 6) Song: Jit Jaguar’s Christmas, by Big Green; 7) Song: Horrible People, by Big Green; 8) Song: Christmas Presence, by Big Green; 9) Song: Make that Christmas Shine, by Big Green; 10) inside Matt’s Ned Trek editorial process; 11) What we watched on T.V. in the 60s; 12) Time to go.

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This Is Big Green: November 2017 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: September 2017
(Includes 8 new songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – September 2017. Features: 1) Ned Trek 33: The Nimrod Seven; 2) Song: If You’re Listening To This, by Big Green; 3) Song: Commander I’m Dead, by Big Green; 4) Song: Doctor in the House, by Big Green; 5) Song: Wait For You, by Big Green; 6) Song: Nimrod, by Big Green; 7) Song: Neocon Captain, by Big Green; 8) Song: Yo-Ho, by Big Green ; 9) Song: Nixon Is Saving Us All, by Big Green; 10) Put the Phone Down: The cheap hello song; 11) What we did on our Summer vacation; 12) And the racists love you (imagine mechanical Nazi men); 13) Big Green pledge drive; 14) carl Sagan’s homecoming; 15) Gorka in the box; 16) Psycho Batman; 17) Who gets the special bad actor prize; 18) Pay for play Enterprise bridge; 19) Time to go.

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This Is Big Green: September 2017 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: April 2017
(Includes a few warmed over songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – April 2017. Features: 1) Ned Trek 32: All Our Festerdays; 2) Put The Phone Down: The cornbread song; 3) My friend, Mr. Worm; 4) Contemplating the wisdom of Kung Fu; 5) News from the falcon box; 6) The Akita factor; 7) Scat-singing Dalek; 8) Song: Freedom Gained (with Intro), by Big Green ; 9) Song: Neocon Christmas, by Big Green; 10) Song: Jesus Has a Known Mind, by Big Green; 11) Song: Up On The Bridge, by Big Green; 12) Out of here.

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This Is Big Green: April 2017 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: February 2017
(Includes 5 new songs by Big Green.)

Features: 1) Ned Trek 31: It’s A Profitable Life – A Big Green Holiday Special, featuring 5 new Big Green Songs; 2) Song: You Can’t Do Anything, by Big Green; 3) Song: You Asked Me How, by Big Green; 4) Song: Fountainhead, by Big Green; 5) Song: Christmas Without You, by Big Green; 6) Song: Christmas Pearls, by Big Green; 7) Put The Phone Down: Serial apologies for the lateness of the holiday; 8) Lamenting the passing of John Hurt and others; 9) Which Jane Eyre?; 10) Life in the Turkey House; 11) Special kind of exit.

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This Is Big Green: February 2017 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: November 2016
(Includes 7 new songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – November 2016. Features: 1) Ned Trek 30: The Deadly Queers, featuring 7 new Big Green Songs; 2) Song: Tinkerbell Neocon, by Big Green; 3) Song: Fairy Dust, by Big Green; 4) Song: Oklahoma Mo, by Big Green; 5) Song: Space Fandango, by Big Green; 6) Song: Let Me Go, by Big Green; 7) Song: Potato Salad; 8) Song: Spanking Machine, by Big Green; 9) Put The Phone Down: The Daleks react to Election 2016 … with a song; 10) Turning off the TV; 11) Building bridges; 12) Kazooing for Climate Change; 13) The 1.7 percent solution; 14) Time for us to go.

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This Is Big Green: November 2016 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: August 2016
(Includes 3 vintage songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – August 2016. Features: 1) Ned Trek 29: Error of Mercy; 2) Put the phone down: a rendition of Dead Thing, by Peter Lorre; 3) The Daleks arrive, and they’re singing; 4) Election news: avoiding Trumpageddon; 5) The Daleks endorse Trump; 6) The progressive millennium … not; 7) The cave is deep in our memory; 8) A partial rendering of Two Lines, by the George Takei Singers; 9) Song: Sensory Man (at 1:29:33), by Big Green; 10) Song: I Hate Your Face (at 1:34:42), by Big Green; 11) Song: Why Not Call It George? (at 1:38:53), by Big Green; 12) 5th Anniversary Dalek song; 13) Time for us to go.

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This Is Big Green: August 2016 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: May 2016
(Includes 8 new songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – May 2016. Features: 1) Ned Trek 28: Disheveled in the Dark, featuring 8 Big Green songs; 2) Song: Say Can You Fear (at 16:14), by Big Green; 3) Song: Romney and You Know It (at 22:04), by Big Green; 4) Song: Down In The Polls (at 39:12), by Big Green; 5) Song: Herr Mr. Hair (at 49:14), by Big Green; 6) Song: You Made That Bed (at 1:05:25), by Big Green; 7) Song: Demigod (at 1:15:16), by Big Green; Smilie: 8) Song: Hey, GOP (at 1:21:49), by Big Green; 9) Song: Cry for the Children (at 1:26:36), by Big Green; 10) Put the phone down: Trawling through the archives; 11) Falcon watch, Utica; 12) Time for us to go.

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This Is Big Green: May 2016 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: February 2016
(Includes 3 songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – February 2016. Features: 1) Ned Trek 27: Who Mourns for Science; 2) Put the Phone Down: Sometimes a leprechaun; 2) Receive your free stone mug; 4) Dead Justice; 5) Send us your song poems; 6) Matt’s day; 7) Song: Quality Lincoln, by Big Green; 8) Song: Kublai Khan, by Big Green; 9) Entertaining candidates; 10) Song: All I Want, by Big Green (live version); 11) Time for us to go.

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This Is Big Green: February 2016 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: December 2015
(Includes 4 new recordings by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – December 2015. Features: 1) Ned Trek 26: A Very Neddy Christmas, loosely based on Dicken’s A Christmas Carol; 2) Song: Christmas Past, by Big Green; 3) Song: McBridy, by Big Green; 4) Song: Romney in Reserve; 5) Song: 40s Guy Christmas; 6) Put the Phone Down: Everything is Peachy Fine (song for George Washington Carver); 7) Corn in my hands; 8. The Beavers’ Christmas Tree; 9) Smiling Jack Washington; 10) Cruz vs Rubio: the relative merits; 11) Secretary of State Keema; 12) We’ll have to cancel Christmas; 13) Talking entirely in quotes; 14) Time for us to go.

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This Is Big Green: December 2015 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: October 2015
(Includes 4 songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – October 2015. Features: 1) Ned Trek 25: Not the Children One, Please!; 2) Song: Johnny Got His Gun, by Big Green; 3) Put the Phone Down: Kissinger drops by; 4) Journey to See the Bottom; 5) Joe’s last communion; 6) Matt and the monkey bread; 7) Reagan’s plants and trees;  8) Song: It Should’ve Been Me, by Big Green; 9) Song: Enter the Mind, by Big Green; 10) Syria, seriously; 11) Song: Why Not Call It George? by Big Green; 12) Time for us to go.

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This Is Big Green: October 2015 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: August 2015
(Includes 7 new songs by Big Green.)

This is Big Green – August 2015. Features: 1) Ned Trek 24: Whom Gods Deploy; featuring six new Big Green songs: 2) Song: Up On The Bridge, by Big Green; 3) Song: I Paint What I See, by Big Green; 4) Song: Naturally, by Big Green; 5) Stephanie’s Song, by Big Green; 6) Song: Baby Bush, by Big Green; 7) Jesus Has a Known Mind, by Big Green;  8) Real Talking Horse, by Big Green; 10) Put the Phone Down: Cheap Limburger blues; 11) Playground in their minds; 12) Charles Nelson Riley remembered; 13) Popeye theme; 14) Happy Anniversary singalong; 15) Looking back a bit; 16) Time to go.

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This Is Big Green: August 2015 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: July 2015
(Includes music by Big Green and … so on.)

This is Big Green – July 2015. Features: 1) Ned Trek 13: The Wrath of Carl (encore presentation); 2) Song: Savin’ Myself for America, by Big Green; 3) Put the Phone Down: Rambling discussion of what to put in our next album; 4) Time to go.

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This Is Big Green: July 2015 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: April 2015
(Includes 2 Big Green songs and more)

This is Big Green – April 2015. Features: 1) Ned Trek 23: Doo-Dah Dancing; 2) Song: Aw, Shoot, by Big Green; 3) Put the Phone Down: Daddy, please don’t; 4) At home with the Hatfields; 5) Oom pah pah; 6) Jolson, the toothless freak; 7) Song: Poor Dick, by Big Green; Smilie: 8) Thoughts of Sagan; 9) Time to go.

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This Is Big Green: April 2015 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: February 2015
(Includes 6 new Big Green songs and more)

This is Big Green – February 2015. Features: 1) Ned Trek 22: Mitt’s Brain; 2) Song: Brain, What is Brain? by Big Green; 3) Whatever Romney Knows, by Big Green; 4) Song: Lost Your Mind, by Big Green; 5) Send in Some Advisors, by Big Green; 6) Nixon Action, by Big Green; 7) Two Lines, by Big Green; 8) Put the Phone Down: Wooden balls; 9) The cold and its consequences; 10) Jeb’s advisors; 11) The songs, explained; 12) Time for us to go.

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This Is Big Green: February 2015 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: December 2014
(Includes 5 new Big Green songs and more)

Our Annual Christmas Special Broadcast, featuring Willard Mittilius Romney, Captain of the Free Enterprise, his talking dressage horse Ned, as well as special guests Henry Kissinger, the Android Nixon, Big Green (a.k.a. poptacular singing sensation Hansen), and some very special holiday music: 1) Gold and Silver, by Big Green; 2) Romney Christmas Time, by Big Green; 3) Christmas Bombing, by Big Green; 4) Winter Lock, by Big Green; 5) I Can’t Lose, by Big Green; 6) Head Cheese Log, by Big Green (from 2000 Years To Christmas)

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This Is Big Green: December 2014 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: November 2014
(Includes 7 new Big Green songs and more)

Features: 1) Ned Trek 21: Old Maple Glory, including seven new Big Green songs, listed as follows; 2) Song: Doc Flapjack, by Big Green; 3) Song: Yorba Linda Mybalinda, by Big Green; 4) Song: Sugar Shack, by Big Green; 5) Song: Motherlode, by Big Green; 6) Song: Hi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi, by Big Green; 7) Song: Super Sugar Christ, by Big Green; 8 ) Song: Nobody Ride, by Big Green; 9) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe discuss the 2014 election, and get the vapors; 10) A visit with Secretary Kissinger, author; 11) There’s a caveman in my soup; 12) Matt looks forward to hunting season (not); 13) Song: Don’t Tell Rick, by Big Green; 14) Joe’s green screen antics; 15) Ignominious exit.

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This Is Big Green: November 2014 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: October 2014
(Includes 2 Big Green songs and more)

Features: 1) Ned Trek 20: The Shamesters of Quadzillion; 2) Song: The Bishop, by Big Green (from our album International House); 3) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe argue over technical diffulties (and are interrupted by technical difficulties); 4) A visit with Secretary Kissinger, author; 5) Matt’s encounter with Bagg; 6) Song: North Camp Pasture, by Big Green (from our album Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick; 7) Kissinger joins us for a song; 8.) Exit, stage wrong.

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This Is Big Green: October 2014 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: August 2014
(Includes 6 new Big Green songs and more)

This is Big Green – August 2014. Features: 1) Ned Trek 19: Careact, featuring six new Big Green songs, listed as follows; 2) Song: Die-de-die (Spiro’s song), by Big Green; 3) Song: Sick Poor Jerk in a Herd, by Big Green; 4) Song: Well, Well, Well, by Big Green; 5) Song: Romneycare, by Big Green; 6) Song: Some Health Care, by Big Green; 7) Song: Medicare, by Big Green; 8) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe read from Recording Magazine, May 1990; 9) Suing Sonny Tufts; 10) Matt’s boid report; 11) News of tunnels and more; 12) Joe’s diploma; 13) General collapse of show

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This Is Big Green: August 2014 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: JULY 2014
(Includes 1 Big Green song and more)

This is Big Green – July 2014. Sadly, we’re still working on the next podcast, so as a stop-gap we’re posting this lame-ass repeat, which features: 1) An encore presentation (a.k.a repeat) of Ned Trek X: A Plea for Arms, from May (or June) 2013; 2) Song: Quality Lincoln; 3) Sheepish exit

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This Is Big Green: July 2014 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: MAY 2014
(Includes 2 Big Green songs and more)

This is Big Green – May 2014. 1) Ned Trek XVIII: Captain Frickasee; 2) Put the Phone Down: A lame song to greet the May; 3) Joe Percy’s convocation report; 4) Matt’s falcon tales; 5) Talk of Planet of the Dinosaurs and other trivia; 6) Song: Brotherly Love, performed live by Big Green; 7) Pondering the plot of the Big Valley; 8) Song: Going to Andromeda, by Big Green; 9) Matt plays with bungees; 10) Song: Good Old Boys Roundup, by Big Green (demo version); 11) Time for us to go

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This Is Big Green: May 2014 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: MARCH 2014
(Includes 6 Big Green songs and more)

This is Big Green – March 2014. 1) Ned Trek XVII: The Free Enterprise Syndrome, including six new Big Green songs; 2) Put the Phone Down: A capella song to greet April; 3) Faces of fools; 4) Obama’s speech to European youth (now with more irony); 5) Song: Special Kind of Blood, by Big Green; 6) Joe’s first (and second) bass; 7) Big Green’s live performance days: some tall tales; 8) Time for us to go

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This Is Big Green: March 2014 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: FEBRUARY 2014
(Includes 2 Big Green songs and more)

This is Big Green – February 2014. 1) Ned Trek XVI: A Mock Time; 2) Put the Phone Down: Changing our name to Oliver Remote Control; 3) Why Andy Williams never did a special with us; 4) Matt’s Andromeda period: 100x worse than Neil Sadaka; 5) Remembering Pete Seeger; 6) Song: Paradise, by Big Green; 7) Song: Kublai Khan, by Big Green; 8. Matt’s plans for Super Bowl Sunday; 9) Time for us to go

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This Is Big Green: February 2014 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: DECEMBER 2013
(Includes 6 new Big Green songs and more)

This is Big Green – December 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek XV: Santorum’s Christmas Planet, including six new Big Green holiday songs (see blog for list); 2) Song: Merry Christmas, Jane, Part II, by Big Green; 3) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe discuss the holiday phenomenon; 4) Remembering Tim Walsh; 5) Song: Wind Cries Mary, featuring Tim Walsh; 6) Song: Colors in the Darkness, by Tim Walsh; 7)Song: Nothing to Hide, by Tim Walsh; 8) Playing at Utica College in 1979; 9) Krampus, out!

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This Is Big Green: December 2013 Show page

THIS IS BIG GREEN: NOVEMBER 2013
(Includes 3 Big Green songs and more)

This is Big Green – November 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek XIV: The Wrath of Carl; 2) Song: Volcano Man, by Big Green; 3) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe talk about the start of hunting season and its random killing; 4) Electon 2013: The Gleason effect; 5) Big Green’s live days: Matt on horse, Joe on cow; 6) Song: Little Pig Flies, by Big Green; 7)A visit with Anita Bryant; 8) Random Extra Song: Good Old Boys Roundup; 9) End time

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This Is Big Green: November 2013 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: OCTOBER 2013
(Includes 6 or 7 new Big Green songs and more)

This is Big Green – October 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek XIII: Specter’s Stepchildren, featuring five (or six) new Big Green songs, including (a) Ashcroft’s song, (b) Nixon’s song, (c) Ned’s song (Get me outa here), (d) Romney’s song, (e) Doc’s intro, (f) Doc’s song (Bye-bye freedom), (g) Pearl’s song; 2) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe discuss news of the day and engage in other pointless jabbering; 3) About the spokesperson for Armstrong; 4) Dad: A brief history; 5) Space probe news; 6) Time for us to go

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This Is Big Green: October 2013 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: AUGUST 2013
(Includes 2 archival Big Green songs and more)

This is Big Green – August 2013. Yet another special two-hour Big Green podcast, featuring: 1) Ned Trek XII: The Manassery; 2) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe look back on two years of podcast not-so-goodness; 3) Woodpecker nest report; 4) Brubaker: A brief history; 5) Googling Cavanaugh; 6) Song: Plenty of Time, Plenty of Blood, by Big Green; 7) NSA spying scandal; 8) Song: Ask For Leave, by Big Green; 9) Exit, already

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This Is Big Green: August 2013 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: JULY 2013
(Includes 2 archival Big Green songs and more)

This is Big Green – July Jubilee 2013. A special two-hour Big Green podcast, featuring 1) Ned Trek XI: The Space Libbies – Beaming Down to Ayn; 2) Put the Phone Down: Matt and Joe consider problems with the sun, damage at Spring Farm, and other issues; 3) Remembrance of things past (not Proust); 4) Song: Nothing But Time, by Big Green; 5) Big Green considers evident racism, among other things; 6) Live impromptu performance: All I Want, by Big Green; 7) Ideas for promoting Big Green’s new album, Cowboy Scat, in outer space; 8. Song: In Your Dreams, demo version, by Big Green; 9) Exit.

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This Is Big Green: July 2013 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: JUNE 2013
(Includes selections from Cowboy Scat)

This is Big Green – June 2013. Big Green presents a special two-hour marathon review of their new album, Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick, featuring critical commentary by Captain Willard Mittilius Romney, Mr. Ned, Richard Perle, Carl Sagan, the robot Richard Nixon, Dr. Tom Coburn, and others. Watch them pull this album apart, stick by stick. Just don’t tell Rick, for pity’s sake.

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This Is Big Green: June 2013 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: MAY 2013
(Includes 3 Big Green songs)

This is Big Green – May 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek X: A Plea For Arms; 2) Put the phone down: Matt and Joe rip the news straight out of the October 1941 Country Gentleman; 3) Song: Surprise Party, by Big Green; 4) Talk of Joe’s Korg Poly 800; 5) Scandalrama; 6) Song: Don’t Tell Rick, by Big Green; 7) Matt’s encounter with a cute kller chicken; 8) DEC talk and movies with exclamation points in the title; 9) Song: Dinos, by Big Green; 10) Once around the pole and out

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This Is Big Green: May 2013 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: APRIL BREAKOUT 2013
(Includes 3 Big Green songs)

This is Big Green – April Breakout 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek IX: The Ultimate Emergency Manager; 2) Put the phone down: Matt and Joe bring up the news like a cheap hotdog; 3) The rejected theme song; 4) Song: You’re Edward Teller, by Big Green; 5) How we used to record: the ugly truth; 6) Song: Do it every time (demo version), by Big Green; 7) On John King and other great journalists; Remembering Margaret Thatcher, for real; 9) Song: Jit Jaguar, by Big Green; 10) Richie Havens and his thumb; 11) Ending with the immortal

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This Is Big Green: April 2013 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: MARCH FIENDRAISER 2013
(Includes 3 Big Green songs)

This is Big Green – March Fiendraiser 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek VIII: The Corn of Ozark Five; 2) Put the phone down: Matt and Joe shake the tin cup for freedom; 3) Happy birthday, universe; 4) Departures and arrivals: Chavez, Achebe, Pearle, and others; 5) Song: Quality Lincoln (lame live version), by Big Green; 6) Song: Come Back Home (demo version), by Big Green; 7) More bogus fundraising; 8) Song: Round Up (demo version), by Big Green; 9) Conversations at the seed store; 10) Song: The Milkman Lives, by Big Green; 11) Over and …over

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This Is Big Green: March 2013 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: ASTEROID FLYOVER 2013
(Includes 3 Big Green songs)

This is Big Green – Asteroid Flyover – Feb. 2013. Features: 1) Ned Trek VII: The Last Moon of Frutoonius; 2) Put the phone down: Talk of asteroids and meteors; 3) Song: Asteroid, by Big Green; 4) The poetry of automatic closed-captioning; 5) Song: Say You Will (demo version), by Big Green; 6) News from Spring Farm: the Beaver colony; 7) Song: Beautiful Grid, by Big Green; 8) Talk of sequester; 9) Shotgun exit

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This Is Big Green: February 2013 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: HANGOVER EDITION 2013
(Includes 3 Big Green songs)

This is Big Green – Hangover Edition 2013. Features: 1) Song: Volcano Man, by Big Green; 2) Ned Trek VI: The further adventures of Romney’s talking horse; 3) Song: Johnny’s Gun (demo version), by Big Green; 4) Put the phone down: Our sucky science fiction future, and other topics; 5) Song: Oh, Larry, by Big Green; 6) Turn it down, the radio; 7) Talk of language; 8) Ignominious implosion

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This Is Big Green: January 2013 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: HOLIDAZE 2012
(Includes 3 previously unreleased Big Green songs)

This is Big Green – Holidaze 2012. Features: 1) Ned Trek V, starring Mr. Ned, Romney’s Dancing Horse; 2) Skit: Charlie in the Box and the first semi-automatic Christmas; 3) Put the phone down: Holidays and the recently departed remembered; 4) Song: Merry Christmas, Children, by Big Green; 5) Song: Father Christmas, by Big Green; 6) Song: Martha’s Christmas, by Big Green; 7) Song: Christmas Spirit, by Big Green; 8) Matt’s encounter with an invasive species; 9) Song: Head Cheese Log, by Big Green; 10) We collapse in festive exhaustion

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This Is Big Green: December 2012 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: THANKSGAFFING 2012
(Includes 2 previously unreleased Big Green songs)

This is Big Green – Thanksgaffing 2012. Features: 1) Song: My Bed, by Big Green; 2) Mr. Ned, Romney’s Dancing Horse, Episode 4; 3) Put the phone down: Election post-mortem with Matt; 4) Excoriating, John McCain; 5) Song: Box of Crackers, by Big Green; 6) Matt lectures at Gander Mountain, looks ahead to hunting season; 7) Remembering George McGovern; 8) Song: It should’ve been me, by Rick Perry and the Dapper Dudes; 9) Time for us to go Download:

This Is Big Green: November 2012 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: OCTOBERCAST 2012
(Includes 2 previously unreleased Big Green songs)

This is Big Green – Octobercast 2012. Features: 1) Mr. Ned, Romney’s Dancing Horse, Episode 3; 2) Put the phone down: Matt gives his account of playing spaceman with Dr. Waleed Abdalati; 3) Remembering Andy Williams, Barry Commoner, and Sen. Arlen Spector; 4) More madness assorted; 5) Song: Paradise, by Big Green; 6) Song: Kublai Khan, by Big Green; 7) Graceless exit

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This Is Big Green: October 2012 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: SEPTEMBER 2012 NARROWCAST
(Includes 2 more songs by cousin Rick Perry)

This is Big Green – September 2012 Narrowcast. Features: 1) Song: One Small Step (in remembrance of Neil Armstrong); 2) Romney’s Dancing Horse, Episode 2; 3) Put the phone down: Matt’s trunk rooster incident; 4) Song: Flying Up Ricky, by Cousin Rick; 5) Random observations on random things; 7) Song: North Camp Pasture, by Cousin Rick; 8) Shotgun exit.

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This Is Big Green: September 2012 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: FIRST ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
(Includes 2 more songs by cousin Rick Perry)

This is Big Green – First Anniversary Special. Features: 1) Mr. Ned, the Dancing Horse; 2) Put the phone down: Who’s dead this month; 3) Talk of Hansen and strip mining; 4) Song: She Caught The Katy, recorded by Big Green in 1986; 5) Song: Fed Up, by Cousin Rick; 6) Pondering the plot of Kung Fu; 7) Comments on fracking by Jack Ossont, Coalition to Protect New York State; 8) Song: Lone Star, by Cousin Rick; 9) Opening a surprise package from Dave Thompson; 10) Closing ceremonies.

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This Is Big Green: August 2012 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: THE JULY NOT-SO-SPECIAL
(Includes 2 more songs by cousin Rick Perry)

This is Big Green – the July not-so-special. Features: 1) Song: Pagan Christmas; 2) A public service announcement from Crossroads GPS; 3) Matt’s news from the field and a brief anectdote about vultures; 4) Talk of folksong commies; 5) Song: Awesome Hair, by Cousin Rick; 6) Dead celebrities, part three; 7) The Captain Pike chair; 8) Song: Cracker in Paradise, by Cousin Rick; 9) Impromptu songs and outback parodies; 10) The merciful end.

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This Is Big Green: July 2012 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: JUNE THINGY 2012
(Includes 2 more songs by cousin Rick Perry)

This is Big Green, June Thingy 2012. Features: 1) Song: The President’s Brain is Missing; 2) A message from the State of Michigan; 3) Matt rolls into town, discusses transit of Venus; 4) Mitt-igating circumstances – four-deferments Romney; 5) Song: Aw, Shoot, by Cousin Rick; 6) (Paul) Ryan’s express; 7) Song: What’ll You Do Now (He’ll Be There), by Cousin Rick; 8) Drone nation: the war on a tactic; 9) The end.

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This Is Big Green: June 2012 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: MAYFEST 2012
(Includes 2 more songs by cousin Rick Perry)

This is Big Green, the Mayfest edition. Features: 1) Song: Baby Be Bad (from the album International House); 2) No sponsors this month: an explanation; 3) Big Green apologizes …again; 4) Movies and television: an introduction; 5) Dissing Germany (apology forthcoming); 6) Some tasty jazz; 7) Song: Poor Dick, by Cousin Rick; 8) Matt reviews Thoreau; 9) Thumbnail history of Big Green (from the ape stage); 10) Song: Sing, Rick Perry, by Cousin Rick; 11) Bye for now

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This Is Big Green: May 2012 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: APRIL SHIPWRECK
(Includes 2 more songs by cousin Rick Perry)

Big Green, the April Edition. Features: 1) a progress report on the Gulf Oil spill from BP; 2) Song: Holiday (Live version featuring Jeremy Shaw); 3) Big Green apologizes for dissing the dead; 4) Matt’s dreams: a thumbnail analysis; 5) Conspiracy theories; 6) Song: Come Back Mean, by cousin Rick; 7) Joe recalls Chuck Kruger and trailer-dwelling band leaders; 8) Cheesy grits with Mitt Romney; 9) Song: Saving myself for America, by Cousin Rick; 10) Spock’s flashing space helmet and other phenomena of the sixties; 11) Merciful ending

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This Is Big Green: April 2012 Show

THIS IS BIG GREEN: MARCH INTO OBLIVION
(Includes another 2 new songs by cousin Rick Perry)

This Is Big Green, March 2012 Episode, featuring 1) Cousin Rick Perry sings a lamentful 70’s song called Rick The Searchable Name; 2) Joe and Matt discuss the passing of Davey Jones and other weighty matters; 3) Cousin Rick sings Really Rick 4) More pointless banter; 5) Santorum, sung by Cousin Perry’s nerdy band of consultants; 6) The end.

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This Is Big Green: March 2012 Show

ANNUAL FEBRUARY SHOW 2012
(Includes another 2 new songs by cousin Rick)
Big Green celebrates the second month of the year with another pair of songs from cousin Rick Perry, a live Big Green number, our first corporate underwriting promos, and other assorted gibberish. Be dere. Features: 1) messages from our corporate underwriters; 2) Song: Merry Christmas, Jane (Live version featuring Jeremy Shaw); 3) Big Green bids farewell to Dick Tufeld, voice of the Lost In Space robot; 4) Politics today; 5) Song: The Devil Romney, by cousin Rick; 6) The Santorum phenomenon; 7) Fracking follies; 8) Matt’s presentation to the carnivore doctors; 9) Song: Endorsing Newt, by cousin Rick.

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This Is Big Green: February 2012 Show

NEW YEAR, NEW SHOW 2012

(Includes 2 new songs by cousin Rick)

A pointless new year’s romp through the land of Big Green, featuring 2 new songs by cousin Rick Perry and mucho more. Features: 1) Unofficial comments from Gingrich campaign; 2) Song: Special Kind of Blood; 3) World’s shortest poetry hour; 4) Story of Big Green film, Destination: Space; 5) Old Christmas songs explored; 6) Song: Falling Behind (Rick Perry); 7) Hydrofracking meets Lost in Space; 8) Song: Limping Home (Rick Perry); 9) Rant: Afghanistan; 10) Song: Red, Gold, and Green.

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This Is Big Green: January 2012 Show

THE VAUNTED CHRISTMAS PODCAST
(Includes five new and previously unreleased songs)

Big Green’s Matt Perry and Joe Perry celebrate the holiday with a podcast of epic proportions – nearly 2.5 hours of music, madness, and merriment most mental. Features: 1) Song: Merry Christmas, Jane (Pt. 2) [at 1:40]; 2) Matt’s gift list for the candidates; 3) An impromptu performance by Rick Perry [at 36:20]; 4) Matt’s conversation with the Gingrich campaign (for real). 5) Christmas miracles explained; 6) Song: Dark Christmas [at 1:10:30]; 7) Hunting. 8. Song: Christmas Sport [at 1:24:35]; 9) Song: Puzzle [at 1:33:00]; 10) Song: JitJaguar [at 1:51:47]; 11) Political rant; 12) Song: Evening Crab Nebula [at 2:14:29].

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This Is Big Green: Christmas Podcast

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