At the end of summer, and with Obama's summer reading list as an influence, Johnny and Adam discuss what they read this past summer. From Adam reading Cemetery Dance and Three Cups of Tea to Johnny's Biography of the Elephant Man and World War Z ... all genres are covered.

You'll also notice the intense wind we encountered during the taping. This is no doubt due to our Audio guy (Raoul) leaving early to stand in line for tickets to Julie & Julia. I went through and transcribed the show on the following page.

Cazart!

From a pier in the West Village, Adam drops a dime on our potential super-Secret-Squirrel project. Sort of. It's cryptic.

In this pathetic episode, I share my theory that hospitals should have a 3 person name spelling committee. The committee would have the power to overrule phonetically incorrect spelling/idiotic of a newborn's name. This would put an end to the horrible "creative spelling" that has infected America like the monkeypox. No more Lisa spelled Lyssaa. Your name is still just Lisa.



Penn Jillette really did name his kid Moxie CrimeFighter. And I'll apologize for Adam slagging readers named Crystal. Sorry, love. He started it.

I'm calm like a bomb...

In this episode of 3 Chords & the Truth, Adam and Johnny discuss Adam's idea to build giant mirrors on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, Plaxico Burress's prison consultant, being arrested for stupid, and how Johnny would decorate his prison cell.

As you'll no doubt notice, this particular day was rather windy. And because the entire budget for 3 Chords & the Truth is spent on Johnny's candy addiction, we don't have money for better equipment. And while we aren't ones to panhandle on the internet, if you happen to be a multi-millionaire and want to throw some cash our way for a new high-def camera and lavalier mics, we'd be appreciative. We could also use some new televisions, a car, a pool table, and some hooker money.

As we've discussed earlier, America is becoming dumber by the day. Johnny and Echo yell about this and find themselves inexplicably caught up in the death of Nell Carter.

This was the last episode we taped from the Highline, though we recommend you check out the site for further information on New York's newest park.

In this week's episode, Johnny feels he was the victim of a hate crime, and defends himself by slighting followers of Wicca, fans of Aladdin, and several members of the Liberace fan club.

When we shoot these things, we're so in the zone that we never notice things happening around us. In this episode, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová from Once walked directly behind us with their photographer. Both of us are fans of their music and the film, and their silent walk behind us provoked the same reaction in us as if the reanimated corpse of Charlton Heston were to walk past former commenter Dave on the street.

As with many of you reprobates, Shark Week means a lot to Echowood and myself. It's a borderline holiday. Like the first 4 days of March Madness for me or when Clay Aiken plays the Wamu Theater for Echo.

From the Meat Packing District, we ramble on about Shark Week and a few other items. You're not going to believe this, but somehow during a shark discussion, I jumped off on a monkey tangent. What are the odds?



Come on Discovey Channel, can we please have Monkey Week? I'll give that idea for a small finders fee and an executive producer credit. Seems like a fair deal, corporate suits.

As promised, a little clip of the Tony Danza masterpiece Going Ape!

This week's episode of 3 Chords & the Truth has been delayed for a number of reasons. For starters, it seems Baierman didn't like what was in his contract and he's refused to allow us to release the next episode until we reinstate his "hooker per diem". Also, Johnny has been to every haberdashery in the city looking for a new cap, and hasn't found one he likes better than his Greek Fisherman's hat. And me, well, my penile reduction surgery went well, but it still burns when I pee.

Hopefully we'll have a new one up soon. In the meantime and for purposes of nostalgia - I've attached a few old clips from my college radio show in which me and my co-host "Krig" reminisce about the guy who use to read our news, "Crash" Christian. Enjoy.

The Night Life (Part I)
The Night Life (Part II)
The Night Life (Part III)

Subtitle: The Wrath Of God

Howdy Folks. Echo and Johnny let me do this intro. How kind!

This one marks the last of 3 we recorded around Madison Square Park back at the June. (The last of the green shirts and JW's hat.) Here we turn to a really fun topic, Religious News.

Topic 1: Guns in Church.

Topic 2: The Creation Museum. Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark?

Topic 3: Church & Science. Or Paul's Bones.

Sorry about the bus noise. Thankfully they just hush me. If they let me back on, I promise to speak up.

With the rash of recent celebrity deaths, we had to get this one up quickly before it became inaccurate. Heading back to my apartment, I test Johnny on his knowledge of famous people and whether or not they're alive. In true Johnny fashion, he supplies little anecdotes and quips about each star mentioned.

What's notable about this episode, aside from my cat meowing about :54 in, is this is the first episode in which we feature a guitar. (Amazing that we've gone 12 episodes without breaking one out.) So sit back, relax, and see if you know whether these people are dead ... or not. And for those interested, here's Rip Torn's mugshot.

Well, I don't really know what to tell you about this installation of 3 Chords & the Truth. Have you ever sat around with your pals and wondered aloud what in the hell is going on with a sex change? So have we. With the camera rolling.

Chastity/Chaz/Chuck/Chester Bono (Just covering my bases there, not sure what the proper nomenclature is) has already switched teams 20 years ago. Now she is changing sports. And genitalia. I don't get it. We discuss this news in an inappropriate and stupid manner.

By the way, I am submitting a trademark application for the phrase "junk swap." I coined that. Like Pat Riley and "three-peat." All uses of the phrase "junk swap" on t-shirts, bumper stickers, trucker hats or keychains will be putting coin in my pocket.



Thanks again to Baierman for coming out and helping with the madness. Want my t-shirt? Click here.

For our tenth episode, we invite Baierman to the dais to discuss recent celebrity deaths and enlighten us as to how Farrah Fawcett really died.

Hard to say just how we rode this one off the rails so badly. Come to think of it, I'm not sure how we went 9 episodes without talking about autoerotic asphyxiation.

David Carradine's death has puzzled us. We needed to get our questions out in the open. What the blazes was going on? Belt around the neck? Come on, grasshopper, what were you thinking?

Also covered; acupuncture, sword swallowing, horses becoming glue, Woody Allen, sadomasochism, Adam's mom (those subjects were not related), lighting your own farts and Adam's bloody cat. All in 10 minutes. You're welcome.

You also get to hear me yell the sentence "Hot steaming deuce every time I came home!"



3 Chords & the Truth, solving the world's mysteries one at a time.

Often, when Johnny and I record an episode of 3 Chords & the Truth, we'll let the camera roll a bit in the beginning in order to allow us to get our footing. I went back through these little snippets and found a few gems that I thought would make a good outtakes montage. Sadly, this may be more entertaining than the actual show. Enjoy.

Cazart! It's the sequel of the 3 Chords & the Truth mailbag. We (again) took some our faithful readers' questions and tried to craft them into a coherent video podcast.

Well, we tried. We were at the base of the Trump International Hotel and Tower.

Part of this turned into J-Dub Show & Tell. Think of it as a relevant Oprah's Favorite Things. Maybe that could be a running segment.

Our apologies in advance to Hawaii, North Carolina, fans of Two and a Half Men and Will and Grace, Susan Boyle, Alf, KITT, fans of the Biblical Songs of Solomon, those that suffer from "exhaustion" and Donald Trump. Okay, not Trump. You hear me Don? We're not sorry.



You can access all the previous episodes of this nonsense on our YouTube page.

Who will be the first to decipher the cryptic phrase I drop at the end? That one was for my Dad.

We promised you and we promised ourselves. We'd try to keep these video podcasts to under 5 minutes. But get us talking about ourselves, or monkey actors, and we're bound to run over the 10 minute mark. I will say this: with the help of the questions you, the readers, asked in our forum, this episode was really fun to make. So, without further ado, I give you episode 7 - in two parts.