Back from vacation, it’s just Anzo and Brave this week. Conversation turns to dosing your high school teacher, the 99% (who don’t regret their psychedelic experience), myco propagation, ceremonial sayings in cultures and society, and symbol literacy. Links: Bill Maher with RAW, David Cross, etc, from ’96: At 12:00 Bill explains acid quality Subversive use […]

The 3rd installment of conversations with G.! Brave has been traveling these past weeks so that partly explains the 3-parter. Plus, anything over an hour with these guys brings certain indigestion, so thank them later for the bite-sized portions. Links: Chinese Pullout Method

Part 2 of 3 episodes featuring guest, G.! What to do if you love your family, but your family loves Fox News? Rant about the pacing in Breaking Bad of course. These are the kinds of segues that either make you love SPRT or make you tear your hair out (I’m bald if that hints […]

This is part 1 of 3 shorter episodes featuring guest, G.! (exclamations are part of all our guests’ names. No exclamation, sorry, no can be guest.). The trio discuss an amalgam of musical topics, focused around prog rock and guitar rock (Anzo and G.!’s specialty). Links: Slate feature on Prog Rock Re: Miles Davis Turning […]

Memes, media, and myths are just some of the things A and B try to talk about with the help of special guest, S! And just when a conceptual breakthrough is in sight –BAM!– interrupted by Jenna Tolls. RUNDOWN: Memes vs Parody (FYI, Richard Dawkins coined the phrase in 1976) When media types begin to […]

A and B are joined by D, giving his perspective on heroes and heroism. Plenty of references to the typical childhood crucifixion fantasies. RUNDOWN: Tony Stein and the Medal of Honor Education Standards Underdog hero beginnings in movie plots (with requisite saving of world) Victim and Hero juxtaposition (vehicles toward individualism and exceptionalism) Motivation for […]

If the sun went out it’d be dark, and other profound truisms. Anzo broaches the topic of the solar deity but is rebuffed by Brave who just wants to talk sh** about the Greek people. Real classy, B, real classy. Anzo sold his house! He’s now homeless…er, “home free.” BTW, Brave, even WITH your fabric […]

Does an artist need to be uncomfortable to kick-start the creative process? Have we finally left behind the romantic idea of the starving artist and entered a new era where middle-class, living-wage artists reign? Where does trauma and tragedy fit into that equation? Anzo regales us with an ode to Jill Engle, the Treasurer of […]

Is there no room anymore for true pyros in contemporary 4th of July celebrations? A and B reminisce about Fourths past. Plus they discuss the “feel” of the holiday and historical precedent in American attitudes towards taxation. Then they go all tangential talking about the ironies of safety and anarchy on the modern highway. And […]