Bafflegabs
@bafflegabs.bsky.social
Senior Producer at Smartless Media, formerly Earwolf. Staying Alive/ClueLess/Bad Dates/Just Jack & Will/HDTGM/Get Played/Comedy Bang Bang/Video Archives/Unspooled.
Character-wise, I’m kind of borderline shy/wild. I like to surf & turf, in that order.
Character-wise, I’m kind of borderline shy/wild. I like to surf & turf, in that order.
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Bafflegabs
@bafflegabs.bsky.social
· Nov 21
My new album Blame It On My Zodiac is available now exclusively on my Bandcamp!! You can stream it or buy it there, but go check it out, won’t you? I gave it every micron of energy I had and I’m very proud of it. Out everywhere else next Friday!
painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com/album/blame-...
painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com/album/blame-...
I spent the day writing a shiny dark new wave song about supernatural film noir. It’s like what else *can* you do, really?
January 4, 2026 at 3:49 AM
I spent the day writing a shiny dark new wave song about supernatural film noir. It’s like what else *can* you do, really?
Like, I know the whole thing is illegal and stupid, but what on earth is even the tenuous justification for kidnapping dude’s WIFE also lmao this is insane
January 3, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Like, I know the whole thing is illegal and stupid, but what on earth is even the tenuous justification for kidnapping dude’s WIFE also lmao this is insane
In retrospect I guess we probably should’ve PokémonGONE to the polls 😞
January 3, 2026 at 5:21 PM
In retrospect I guess we probably should’ve PokémonGONE to the polls 😞
Food is just a mustard delivery system. You can’t live on mustard alone so you have to add other stuff to it.
January 3, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Food is just a mustard delivery system. You can’t live on mustard alone so you have to add other stuff to it.
Naturally, I had a friend in grade school who said his dad had brought back a special Nintendo and special games from Japan, and he WISHES he could bring them to school to show me but his dad says he’s not allowed to, unfortunately. Wonder what kids casually lie to each other about these days?
January 2, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Naturally, I had a friend in grade school who said his dad had brought back a special Nintendo and special games from Japan, and he WISHES he could bring them to school to show me but his dad says he’s not allowed to, unfortunately. Wonder what kids casually lie to each other about these days?
We watched Megalopolis last year on NYE, so last night we watched Megadoc as a kind of bookend, mostly we were hoping it might shed some light on what that movie was or even wanted from its audience…that’d be a big nope on that score lol! Fascinating to watch a man light $100mil on fire tho. 2026!
January 1, 2026 at 6:44 PM
We watched Megalopolis last year on NYE, so last night we watched Megadoc as a kind of bookend, mostly we were hoping it might shed some light on what that movie was or even wanted from its audience…that’d be a big nope on that score lol! Fascinating to watch a man light $100mil on fire tho. 2026!
When are we doing actual Christmas and New Year’s though, the version where you feel good
January 1, 2026 at 7:19 AM
When are we doing actual Christmas and New Year’s though, the version where you feel good
Every purchased copy of my record ships with a lyric booklet, a big poster, and even a mix disc of songs I was listening to a lot or even directly referencing on this album! How great is XTC’s Didn’t Hurt A Bit?! Demented to leave it off Nonsuch. Thanks for buying, Ed!!
artists.landr.com/PTPZodiac
artists.landr.com/PTPZodiac
January 1, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Every purchased copy of my record ships with a lyric booklet, a big poster, and even a mix disc of songs I was listening to a lot or even directly referencing on this album! How great is XTC’s Didn’t Hurt A Bit?! Demented to leave it off Nonsuch. Thanks for buying, Ed!!
artists.landr.com/PTPZodiac
artists.landr.com/PTPZodiac
A lot of people appear to have Minnesota’s name lodged in their fucking mouth right now, and they should work on getting it out of there.
December 31, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A lot of people appear to have Minnesota’s name lodged in their fucking mouth right now, and they should work on getting it out of there.
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Y'all, this record rips.
Every time I release something it all grows just a little bit, it’s very gratifying. Blame It On My Zodiac is already my best-selling, most-streamed record & it’s only been out a month, with two more EPs to come! Very grateful to everyone who’s listened!! artists.landr.com/PTPZodiac
Painkiller The Pigeon - Blame It On My Zodiac
Listen to Blame It On My Zodiac by Painkiller The Pigeon.
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December 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Y'all, this record rips.
I am spending my holiday break relaxing (this is a lie, I’m sitting in the same desk chair as usual but working on my next record instead of podcasts, which IS a kind of vacation. Next record is turning out very synthy, very drum-heavy, we are listening to Stereolab, Madonna, Yo La).
December 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I am spending my holiday break relaxing (this is a lie, I’m sitting in the same desk chair as usual but working on my next record instead of podcasts, which IS a kind of vacation. Next record is turning out very synthy, very drum-heavy, we are listening to Stereolab, Madonna, Yo La).
Ooh, Wake Me Up Dead Man was very good!! We’ve been watching so much Marple, Wimsey, Morse, Campion, Holmes, this is a solid mystery that credits its genre, the cast is great, might be my favorite Benoit Blanc lewk too. Somewhere on par with the first, definitely superior to Glass Onion!
December 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Ooh, Wake Me Up Dead Man was very good!! We’ve been watching so much Marple, Wimsey, Morse, Campion, Holmes, this is a solid mystery that credits its genre, the cast is great, might be my favorite Benoit Blanc lewk too. Somewhere on par with the first, definitely superior to Glass Onion!
Finally saw it, and it’s not that MI: The Final Reckoning is bad exactly, it’s just painfully obvious that Fallout can only be topped on a set piece by set piece basis, there’s no competing with its overall relentless economy. And three hours? Dawg?
December 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Finally saw it, and it’s not that MI: The Final Reckoning is bad exactly, it’s just painfully obvious that Fallout can only be topped on a set piece by set piece basis, there’s no competing with its overall relentless economy. And three hours? Dawg?
RIP Brigitte Bardot, one of history’s most photogenic racists.
December 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
RIP Brigitte Bardot, one of history’s most photogenic racists.
Christmas presents to self, UA Dream 65 Amp pedal (yum), Hologram Chroma Console multi-effects processor (multi-yum). I made the first song for the next record about 60% better in a few hours with these just now.
December 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Christmas presents to self, UA Dream 65 Amp pedal (yum), Hologram Chroma Console multi-effects processor (multi-yum). I made the first song for the next record about 60% better in a few hours with these just now.
I feel like, sort of wherever you stand politically, the president tweeting “Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” is pretty fucking bonkers.
December 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I feel like, sort of wherever you stand politically, the president tweeting “Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” is pretty fucking bonkers.
I am “plays the opening riff to Cherub Rock whenever holding any new guitar” years old
December 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I am “plays the opening riff to Cherub Rock whenever holding any new guitar” years old
A non-negotiable Christmas tradition.
🎅🏻 🎅🏻 🎅🏻
🎅🏻 🎅🏻 🎅🏻
Here for those interested is the answer to my most frequently asked question of 2025 (and every other year till I die). I'll keep trying for a new set. MERRY BLOODY CHRISTMAS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mwj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mwj...
🎄 Christmas Special 2025 – No More Jockeys with Alex Horne, Tim Key + Mark Watson
YouTube video by No More Jockeys
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December 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A non-negotiable Christmas tradition.
🎅🏻 🎅🏻 🎅🏻
🎅🏻 🎅🏻 🎅🏻
A note that I do have a sparkly instrumental Christmas album of deluxe muzak for your holiday background needs! I have a whole second batch of these too, some very fun new ones, I’ll put out a definitive version on all streaming spots next year! painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com/album/cheerw...
Cheerwolf EP, by Painkiller The Pigeon
13 track album
painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A note that I do have a sparkly instrumental Christmas album of deluxe muzak for your holiday background needs! I have a whole second batch of these too, some very fun new ones, I’ll put out a definitive version on all streaming spots next year! painkillerthepigeon.bandcamp.com/album/cheerw...
It’s a Jersey Mike’s-flavored Christmas miracle!
New Christmas Womptacular! Marisa Wompler, Charlotte Listler, and Scott Aukerman get together to celebrate the season. But will the ghost of Gutterballs Past send a holiday shiver down Marisa’s spine?
Available exclusively at @cbbworld.bsky.social - subscribe for a year and get two months free!
Available exclusively at @cbbworld.bsky.social - subscribe for a year and get two months free!
December 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It’s a Jersey Mike’s-flavored Christmas miracle!
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Hey Now
You're a Boxcar
Full of Children
Solve Crimes
You're a Boxcar
Full of Children
Solve Crimes
December 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hey Now
You're a Boxcar
Full of Children
Solve Crimes
You're a Boxcar
Full of Children
Solve Crimes
Oh hell yes, back on The Boys Pro Version once again, this time not to promote a hot bar-related head injury, but instead to promote my new record Blame It On My Zodiac!! Get it or stream it here: artists.landr.com/PTPZodiac
I need to count but I think this might be my 55th episode of HH!
I need to count but I think this might be my 55th episode of HH!
Wow, I gotta say @bafflegabs.bsky.social, this guerrilla podcast marketing scheme might just be crazy enough to work…
Watch: www.patreon.com/posts/145948...
Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/145948...
Watch: www.patreon.com/posts/145948...
Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/145948...
December 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Oh hell yes, back on The Boys Pro Version once again, this time not to promote a hot bar-related head injury, but instead to promote my new record Blame It On My Zodiac!! Get it or stream it here: artists.landr.com/PTPZodiac
I need to count but I think this might be my 55th episode of HH!
I need to count but I think this might be my 55th episode of HH!
I propose Dunevengers: Doomssiah as the catchy portmanteau.
Warner Bros is reportedly planning to stick with keeping ‘DUNE 3’ on the same release date as ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’
Both films release on December 18, 2026
(Source: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...)
Both films release on December 18, 2026
(Source: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...)
December 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I propose Dunevengers: Doomssiah as the catchy portmanteau.
Out here fighting this fight every day, until I’m able to reach the alternate universe where “Shangri-La” was a #1, the realm in which I belong.
Look, the Beatles were HUGE for me as a kid, and I still love them as much as, if not more than, the next #BeatlesGuy. But I’m BEGGING someone to put this kind of energy into the KINKS, for the love of god
December 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Out here fighting this fight every day, until I’m able to reach the alternate universe where “Shangri-La” was a #1, the realm in which I belong.
So, just in terms of you’re not crazy, a tip in the released Epstein Files names Nigel Oakes as a child abuser who “runs in the same circles as Trump” and in fact Nigel Oakes owned Cambridge Analytica which stole FB data to benefit the Trump campaign & Russian intelligence. One needn’t be Columbo!
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Nigel Oakes
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Nigel John Oakes (born July 1962) is a British businessman, and the founder and CEO of Behavioural Dynamics Institute and SCL Group (formerly Strategic Communication Laboratories), the parent company of Cambridge Analytica and her sister AggregatelQ; the companies became known to a wider audience as a result of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving the misuse of data. From the early 1990s, Oakes' companies, operating under succession of names, were involved in influencing elections in developing countries with Oakes leaving Indonesia in 2000 amidst a controversy over his work for the Indonesian government. Oakes first became known as the boyfriend of Lady Helen Windsor in the 1980s."]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yzckusuzh2ugt734i37shqmy/bafkreihwbgvnhsl5znqopijmfki6jqkndbpkpusn2xzznsj7cms6wz5xz4@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
So, just in terms of you’re not crazy, a tip in the released Epstein Files names Nigel Oakes as a child abuser who “runs in the same circles as Trump” and in fact Nigel Oakes owned Cambridge Analytica which stole FB data to benefit the Trump campaign & Russian intelligence. One needn’t be Columbo!