Trentus Magnus Punches Reality

In this week's ball-jamming episode, Magnus begins something. Something new. Something exciting. Something musical! Yes indeed, beginning this week is Musical Magnus, an irregular feature of Trentus Magnus Punches Reality that will appear on the show whenever your wise leader feels like making one. To inaugurate the beginning of the launch of the Musical Magnus start-up premiere, Tom Panarese from the Pop Culture Affidavit and In-Country podcasts was persuaded (by a crowbar, a blow torch and a set of jumper cables) into joining in! And what is this adventure's album, you ask? Why, it's none other than R.E.M.'s 1991 effort 'Out of Time'. Yes, R.E.M.'s major label breakthrough into mainstream commercial success! Did Magnus and Panarese love and cherish this album? Or did they loathe and mock it? A better question to ask would be why they'd spend nearly three hours talking about an album if they despised it. Points are raised, songs are analyzed, music is critiqued, tangents are followed to their meandering conc