Every time I tried to put a compressor on this, Audacity chopped off the first few minutes of Kelby's track. So this is uncompressed. I don't know what compression is, but I know it's important to a podcast. And this one doesn't have it. Sometimes life throws you little curveballs. You gotta roll with the punches, you know? It reminds me of when mercury retrograde hits and nothing works right, and you go, "ah, damn mercury retrograde." But it isn't that right now...implying that sometimes things malfunction without the say-so of the stars. Chilling thought.

From memory, we talked about George Washington bleeding to death, getting it out the mud, scary-ass geishas with no eyebrows and black teeth, soothing Buddhist temple toilets, rooms darker than the darkness of night, the quality of soup in a lacquered bowl, and how imperfection and rambling can be a great way to write a book. In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki really taught us a few things, and Kelby and I relate those things to you, the listener, in full uncompressed glory.