Summer's over!

Let's recap the last 5 weeks; Conventions, Taylor Swifting, Gangnam Style, Quick-Picks all nestled into a mixtape celebrating our favorite hits from sunny 2012.

Lose the sunglasses, kid. It ain't sunny no-more. 

Quick Hits / Slow Jams.

Your Weekly NSFW Pop Culture Podcast From the soon-to-be unveiled METAVORE.com, recorded for the SECOND time this week with Benedict and Ian in the same country/room.

In Our QUICK HITS Section:

- The Evolution of Snoop-- From Dogg to Lion

- Golden Boy Michael Phelps and His Green Past

And In Our SLOW JAM Section:

- We Explore Danny Boyle's Olympic Opening Ceremony

- We Speak to Ex-Eagle Scout Shepherd Laughlin Apropo His Renouncing His BSA Membership.

QUICK PICKS:

- We pick our favorite pop-culture gems for the week.

Quick Hits / Slow Jams. 

Your Weekly NSFW Pop Culture Podcast From the soon-to-be unveiled METAVORE.com, recorded for the first time this week with Benedict and Ian in the same country/room.

In Our QUICK HITS Section:

01:14 - Penn State leaves a void in the college football landscape

09:44 - Nas releases the greates album of the 90's

And In Our SLOW JAM Section:

21:20 - Professor Paul F. Campos of U.C. Boulder Law on the shootings in Aurora and his article on Salon.com

34:02 - Violence in the movies

QUICK PICKS:

46:42 - We pick our favorite pop-culture gems for the week.

Quick Hits / Slow Jams 

Your Weekly NSFW Pop Culture Podcast From the soon-to-be unveiled METAVORE.com

In our special Bastille-Day Edition QUICK HITS section:

- Frank Ocean Goes Against The Tide 

- The Future of Education is Something Like Phoenix Online

- Daniel Tosh's Imfamous Rape Joke Sounds Familiar.

And in our SLOW JAM section:

- Now Katy Perry is just somebody that we used to know.

This week Ian takes a Quick-Trip to McCarren Park to speak with SAJA-Nominated Journalist Maria Abi-Habib, Afghanistan Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. She speaks about Afghani Culture, being embeded with the Marines and riding planes with competitive choir groups.

Quick Hits / Slow Jams 
Your Weekly NSFW Pop Culture Podcast From the soon-to-be unvield METAVORE.COM

In our special Canada Day Edition QUICK HITS section:

- Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen loose the cute and throw off the gloves.

- Anderson Cooper is gay. No shit.

- Aaron Sorkin tries his hand with a behind-the-scenes Cable News Rom/Com with disastrous results.

And in our SLOW JAM section:

- With some help from Sam Sommers we try to figure out if Lena Dunham handed herself the problematic Nora Ephron torch.

Quick Hits / Slow Jams 
Your Weekly NSFW Pop Culture Podcast From METAVORE.

In our very first Quick Trip Edition-- Benedict, Russell and Nick take a road trip from Oxford to Birmingham to witness the very last performace of Jay-Z and Kanye's "Watch The Throne" Tour. 

Along the way they remember concerts past, ponder the future, talk house music, interview a handfull of subjects to the throne (some willing, some unsure), and go home in a daze-- Slow Jamming everthing they just witnessed.

Once back in Birmingham, the boys put their heads together and Quick Pick their pop-culture favorites of the week.

In this special Father's-Day Edition of Quick Hits / Slow Jams, Gwyneth finds a word more gag-inducing than GOOP, Seacrest brings the Tiny Screen to the Small Screen and JETPACKS. That is all. (--with a little more). Then in our SLOW JAM section we ask our fathers about the music their youth-- on and off the dance floor.

In this week's Diamond Jubilee Edition of Quick Hits / Slow Jams from Metavore, we discuss what all the noise in Montréal is about. We examine our feelings towards HBO's "GIRLS". And we cover our ears for the EuroVision 2012 Song Contest. Lastly we tune-in, turn-on and freak-out in this weeks Slow Jam about Timewave Zero and the impending singularity.