Matt and Pete talk about The Decemberists' best-selling, grammy award nominated, crowd-pleaser of an Album, "The King is Dead". This week they are joined this week by AJ Ward, perhaps better known as folk-rock artist Sleeping Cranes, who has the misfortune of having to defend this more casual Decemberists album against two Decemby fanboys who are butt-hurt that there aren't more songs about pirates on the record.