Why a Podcast About R.E.M. Is a Must-Listen
Scott Aukerman and Adam Scott’s newly launched <em>R U Talkin’ R.E.M. Re: Me? </em>is as hilarious, passionate, and tangent-filled as their other work in the medium.
The premise of Scott Aukerman and Adam Scott’s new podcast could never be described as topical. It’s hard to imagine why the mere announcement of an ongoing series in which a comedian and an actor go through the discography of the rock band R.E.M. (the “Everybody Hurts” one, the one that broke up in 2011) caused such a stir in the comedy world. To describe it, R U Talkin’sounds like an absurd bit of niche normcore satire, two white celebrities in their 40s discussing a musical act that peaked sometime in the mid-1990s. It is that; it’s also, somehow, so much more.
