Regarding...Series

The investigation is underway. The detective may be compromised. And we're already questioning the evidence.
Welcome back to Regarding…Outside, where Chaz, Wolfie, and Mikey continue their investigation into David Bowie's 1995 musical murder mystery. This week, the gang tackles the album's third track, “The Hearts Filthy Lesson,” and discovers that understanding the music might be considerably easier than understanding the story.
But first, Professor Mikey has homework.
A spirited Discord discussion about the nature of art sends the boys back into Nathan Adler's diaries, where cows, Monet paintings, and the Venice Biennale raise some uncomfortable questions about who gets to decide what qualifies as art.
Then there's Leon Blank. Could those seemingly random dates from the album's opening track actually be an attempt to establish an alibi? A motion is made, seconded, and unanimously approved to revisit the evidence.
Eventually, the investigation reaches “The Hearts Filthy Lesson,” a menacing collision of industrial rock, acoustic piano, electronic percussion, and unmistakable Bowie vocals.
And suddenly, the questions get considerably darker.
Who exactly is Ramona A. Stone? What is her connection to the murder of Baby Grace? And why does Detective Nathan Adler sound less like an impartial investigator and more like someone who might be personally involved?
Along the way, the gang considers whether a detective can become so immersed in a criminal underworld that the line between investigator and participant disappears entirely.
There's also room for a few digressions, including Bowie's extraordinary versatility, Tony Visconti, and the fearless artistic experimentation that defined this period of his career.
THIS WEEK'S MUSIC:
“The Hearts Filthy Lesson” — David Bowie
Plus a return visit to “Leon Takes Us Outside,” because apparently we're allowed to go backward in this investigation.
FINAL VERDICT:
The music is compelling. The evidence is circumstantial. The detective is suspicious.
And we're only three tracks into the album.
We listen so you don't have to.
Although at this point, reading the case file might be advisable. You can watch the eff'ed up video for this song here.
The Show
In this season of Regarding…, the panel tackles KISS’s Music From The Elder one song at a time—testing whether its epic ambition holds up under scrutiny. Alongside the analysis, Scott D. Monroe’s original screenplay tries to turn the album’s abstract mythology into an actual story.
Ambition meets accountability.

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It's 1999. Art is murder. Murder is art. And David Bowie has some explaining to do.
Welcome to Season Six of the Regarding…Series, where Chaz Charles and Greg "Wolfie" Wolfe welcome new co-host Mikey Pastore for a journey into one of the strangest, most ambitious, and most thoroughly bewildering works in David Bowie's catalog: 1995's 1. Outside — The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper-cycle.
And this time, it's personal.
After all, it was Bowie's extraordinary declaration that Lou Reed's Lulu was a masterpiece that helped launch this entire podcasting enterprise. Five seasons later, the gang has finally come around to examining one of Bowie's own great artistic provocations.
What follows is less an album review than an orientation session for a world in which the year is 1999, a young girl has been murdered and transformed into an art installation, and a detective from the Art Crimes division is trying to make sense of it all.
Sound like a good time?
Mikey arrives armed with an original CD and its accompanying Nathan Adler diary. Chaz brings the historical context, the big questions, and a deeply inappropriate Ricky Gervais musical interlude. Wolfie brings skepticism, curiosity, and the occasional need to Google something.
Together, they begin unraveling Bowie's nonlinear narrative, his reunion with Brian Eno, the industrial-rock influences of the mid-1990s, and the unsettling question at the center of the entire project:
When does art stop being art and become murder?
Along the way:
Bowie, Laurie Anderson, and the Lulu comment that started it all
The strange inhabitants of Oxford Town, New Jersey
Detective Nathan Adler, Leon Blank, Ramona A. Stone, and the mysterious Baby Grace
The CD booklet as required reading for a musical murder mystery
The internet in its infancy and Bowie's invitation to explore a story without a conventional beginning, middle, or end
A debate over what constitutes the album's actual opening track
Three podcasters attempting to establish a coherent methodology for studying a deliberately incoherent work
And somewhere in all of this, the gang actually starts listening to the record.
THIS WEEK'S MUSIC:
"Leon Takes Us Outside" and "Outside" — David Bowie
FINAL VERDICT:
Five seasons spent trying to understand what artists were thinking.
Now we're investigating a murder committed in the name of art.
And we've only just stepped outside.
We listen so you don't have to. Although this time, you might want to read along. So visit the archived interactive Outside website here.
The Show
In this season of Regarding…, the panel tackles KISS’s Music From The Elder one song at a time—testing whether its epic ambition holds up under scrutiny. Alongside the analysis, Scott D. Monroe’s original screenplay tries to turn the album’s abstract mythology into an actual story.
Ambition meets accountability.

GO BONELESS
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Chaz and the assembled Order of Mildly Concerned Scholars (Wolfy, Scott D. Monroe, Corey Morrissette, Laura Morrissette, and special guest Seb Hunter) gather one last time beneath the shadow of the Rose Citadel.
Not to begin another adventure.
To discover whether the one they've been living was worth the journey.
Because this week isn't really about the finale of Music from The Elder.
It's about what happens after the last page is written.
What unfolds is less a season finale than a long walk home. Scott finally closes the screenplay that has quietly become the beating heart of the season, Seb Hunter lends his voice to the mysterious Elder, and the Fellowship gathers for one final reckoning as heroes are tested, sacrifices are made, old beliefs collapse, and the story KISS never quite finished is finally allowed to find an ending of its own.
Then something unexpected happens.
The conversation slowly leaves the Rose Citadel behind.
The panel reflects on the songs that surprised them, the screenplay that grew into something far larger than anyone anticipated, the friendships forged over eleven episodes, and the strange realization that somewhere along the way...
...they stopped trying to fix The Elder.
They simply learned how to live inside it.
Along the way there are callbacks, laughter, future podcast plans, heartfelt thank-yous, a passing of the torch toward Regarding Slang, and—because no Boneless season is permitted to end with complete dignity—a spirited detour into the culinary significance of Flamin' Hot Boneless Wings.
Featuring:
Scott D. Monroe bringing his screenplay to its long-awaited conclusion
Seb Hunter returning as the voice of the Elder
Final reflections from Chaz, Wolfy, Corey, Laura, and the Fellowship
Looking back on one of the most unexpectedly ambitious seasons in the history of the Regarding...Series
Boneless Wings receiving the finale they probably always deserved
FINAL VERDICT:
What began as an attempt to give an infamous album a fair hearing...
became proof that unfinished stories sometimes don't need to be rewritten.
They simply need people willing to believe there's another chapter waiting to be found. And someone who knows where the car is parked...
The Show
In this season of Regarding…, the panel tackles KISS’s Music From The Elder one song at a time—testing whether its epic ambition holds up under scrutiny. Alongside the analysis, Scott D. Monroe’s original screenplay tries to turn the album’s abstract mythology into an actual story.
Ambition meets accountability.

GO BONELESS
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The Fellowship assembles one last time before the final curtain.
Not for a quiet conversation.
For war.
This week on Regarding Music from The Elder, Chaz, Wolfy, Scott D. Monroe, Corey Morrissette, Laura Morrissette, Sean McGinity, Debbie and Michael Pastore, Dan and Pang Papathopoulos—and even virtual appearances from Heath McCoy and Kevin Brown—return for the largest panel in the series as Scott unveils the penultimate chapter of his screenplay.
What follows is the most ambitious chapter yet.
Corey awakens blind after destroying the mysterious orbs, only to discover he has begun seeing the world in an entirely new way. The Cat discovers that loyalty has consequences. Terminus Village reveals its tragic past through Sypha's memories. Allies fall. Hidden powers awaken. Philosophies collide. And Mr. Blackwell returns more terrifying—and more unstable—than ever before.
Meanwhile, the panel compares cover versions, discusses the band's late-career what-ifs, and marvels at how an album once dismissed as an infamous misfire has somehow become the foundation for an unexpectedly compelling fantasy epic.

Along the way:
The largest cast ever assembled for a Regarding season 5 episode
Corey loses his sight... and gains a different vision
The Cat's shocking fate
Sypha's heartbreaking return to her childhood village
The Fox's final stand—and the ideas that die with him
Mr. Blackwell arrives like a force of nature
A screenplay racing toward its final confrontation
This Week's Song:
I — KISS

FINAL VERDICT:
Every great adventure reaches the point where escape is no longer the objective.
The only way out...
...is through.
The Show
In this season of Regarding…, the panel tackles KISS’s Music From The Elder one song at a time—testing whether its epic ambition holds up under scrutiny. Alongside the analysis, Scott D. Monroe’s original screenplay tries to turn the album’s abstract mythology into an actual story.
Ambition meets accountability.

GO BONELESS
Certified boneless in the state of Ohio by the Boneless Podcasting Network. Go Boneless. Boneless Makes a Better Podcast.
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Chaz and the assembled Order of Mildly Concerned Scholars (Wolfy, Scott, Corey, and returning guests Heath McCoy, Laura Morrissette, Debbie Pastore, Michael Pastore, and Dan & Pang Pappathopoulos) arrive at Terminus Island expecting a rescue mission.
Instead...
...they're invited to dinner.
Because this week isn't really about "Escape from the Island."
It's about what happens when the hero finally reaches the villain... only to discover the villain has already set the table.
What unfolds is less another chapter of Scott's ever-expanding Elder screenplay and more a psychological chess match disguised as a fantasy adventure. Corey and his companions battle a crystal-powered war wagon, survive an underground labyrinth, and descend into a cavern so impossibly vast it feels like the album itself has finally become a location.
Meanwhile, Mr. Blackwell isn't waiting on a throne.
He's waiting with a goblet.
And manners.
There are flashbacks revealing the terrible truth behind Mrs. Blackwell's death.
There are creatures pouring from fractures in reality.
There is a warhorse with a change of heart.
There is a fox serving bitter wine mixed with crow's blood because, at this point, subtlety has officially left the island.
And hovering over everything is the growing realization that Blackwell no longer sees himself as the villain.
He sees himself as the only adult left in the room.
There is action.
There is tragedy.
There is a battle wagon that somehow feels perfectly reasonable by Episode 10.
And somewhere beneath Terminus Island, Corey begins asking the most dangerous question of the entire season:
What if saving Mr. Blackwell... is no longer possible?

Featuring:
Heath McCoy embracing his inner Macho Man for a rap performance nobody saw coming
Laura Morrissette, Debbie Pastore, Michael Pastore, and Dan Papathopoulos returning as the Fellowship pushes toward the finale
A battle wagon armed with purple lasers, flaming wrecking balls, and one very angry cat
A dinner invitation that somehow feels more threatening than the battle
Mr. Blackwell proving that the most dangerous villains are often the most polite
THIS WEEK'S SONG:
"Escape from the Island" — KISS

FINAL VERDICT:
Sometimes the hardest part isn't escaping the island...
It's escaping the story waiting for you when you get there.
The Show
In this season of Regarding…, the panel tackles KISS’s Music From The Elder one song at a time—testing whether its epic ambition holds up under scrutiny. Alongside the analysis, Scott D. Monroe’s original screenplay tries to turn the album’s abstract mythology into an actual story.
Ambition meets accountability.

GO BONELESS
Certified boneless in the state of Ohio by the Boneless Podcasting Network. Go Boneless. Boneless Makes a Better Podcast.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.