10 Questions We Always Ask

Rebecca and guest host Paxton Ramsdell talk with John Kerkering about interning at The Onion, keeping up with the DuPonts, dancing the 6:30, making homemade board games, writing ridiculous postcards to children and picking the perfect funeral song.

Rebecca and Joel talk to Gabe Rottman about Canadianism, pop culture artifacts one passes on to their progeny, first class jerks on the Amtrak Acela, JJ Abrams (again), hypothetical eating contests, the ACLU-niverse, net neutrality, Generation Catalano and the basic components of eukaryotic cells. 

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Rebecca and Joel and Producer Robert sit down without a guest to catch up on what's been happening since Joel left for paternity leave and Rebecca left to be an author's assistant. They grade the guest hosts that filled in for Joel, make pop culture recommendations, talk about state symbols, rate new desserts that taste like other desserts and complain about their doppelgangers.

Rebecca and Producer Robert are joined by guest-host (and former guest-guest) Sam Brannen to talk with Baris Ornarli about Turkey (the country), turkey (the bird), sailing (and naming your sailboat), personal strengths (that are also personal weaknesses), cacti (vs octopi vs spatuli), skippering a duck tour (but only on your birthday) and the fact that cats and human babies are both mammals (and should therefor be held in the same manner).

Rebecca and Producer Robert are joined by guest-host (and former guest-guest) Paxton Ramsdell to talk with WAMU reporter and former DCist.com Editor-in-Chief Martin Austermuhle about the antics of Marion Barry, the gentle voices of NPR, hashtag problems and solutions, Argentinian beef, favorite podcasts and the beautifully re-branded neighborhoods of Washington, DC. Co-host Joel is out on paternity leave. 

Joel and Rebecca talk to Cakelove owner Warren Brown about cake in a jar, dips that can be made tableside, picking up litter, desserts that taste like other desserts, legal briefs, kitchen sink meals and speaking in the hushed tones of a golf announcer. 

Joel and Rebecca visit the excellent DC restaurant Ris to talk to chef extraordinaire (and Iron Chef America alum!) Ris Lacoste about fine dining, visiting a familiar place at an unfamiliar time, the perfect chicken pot pie, cooking for Julia Child and Oprah, spicy chicken fingers, corner stores, eating Totino's Pizza Rolls from a gas station, hot air balloons and the alter careers of our alter egos. 

Rebecca and Joel talk with fellow podcaster Alex Vidales (of The Pilot Waves Podcast) about drunken impersonators, how to sustain a local art scene, making out with a racist, using the shower as a mental fortress of solitude, art vs commerce, the luxuriousness of free time and the Hebrew Hammer's war on Christmas.

Joel and Rebecca talk with Jay Austin of Boneyard Studios about the tiny house movement, filler junk, traveling across the country on a scooter, huntering and gathering, Mormons at the dry cleaners, traveling to Mars, living on a deserted island and finding out the maximum extent to which one can reasonably live a minimalist lifestyle. 

Joel and Rebecca talk with Avi Glandon about social tragedies caused by terrible middle names, retroactive embarrassment, drunken encounters on airplanes, the ideal reality show for one's particular skill set, growing up Jewish in Alabama, the beer mile and mail order neckties and bras. Plus: Joel becomes the first person to actually refer to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as "TMNT" and Rebecca tells a horrible lie in order to eat suckling pig in Portugal.