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Ok listen, sometimes you record something so good that Mike has to relieve his role as Just Talent and do a quick edit himself immediately after recording so that’s this. Email your feedback to [email protected].

(Recorded October 16, 2026)

Editing by: Mike

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Josh and Mike haven’t recorded in a few months, and you haven’t heard most of the 2026 recordings, so we’re just going with it. Josh has had an exciting job update and has been problematically adopted by his local librarian. Mike is in his new place–we don’t remember if you knew that or not–and trying to read more while also on a Sopranos binge. Note to self: Don’t start an MMO fresh on unemployment. Also, Mike’s mom (hi!) is really into professional wrestling.

(Recorded September 30, 2026)

Editing by: Isaac (at) thetitlegoeshere.com

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Show Notes:

Music Corner:

Book Corner:

Video Game Corner:

OR: Have you checked the spark plugs?

Josh just wants to note that he closed on a car 48 hours after this was recorded. SECRET SPECIAL GUEST CONTENT ENCLOSED. Mike pops a fourth-story pimple and is off Instagram (again). Most of this episode is attacking Josh's psyche--be gentle emailing feedback to [email protected]. Quarterly/annual theme talk is included, Josh is pursuing "Good Practice" as inspired by Craig Mod, and Mike is once again focused on "Less Trash."

(Recorded January 17, 2026)

Editing by: Isaac (at) thetitlegoeshere.com

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Show Notes: Music: Bloom (Album) by Raynes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pGIZvfsk1Q&list=PLhMQq49dGqfBis1FmiDAh_PqecXpWLCoH Music: Waiting to Die, Harrison Boe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xfuYPMx39w Music: Racing Mt Pleasant https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcyon8CBs1cZYlNhp_bsZFw Music: Silver Deliverer, Aly & AJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30XtTv32lc&list=PLwLdWS_ptmgv5tTlVlzapQ5s3HSWbffac App: Beeper https://www.beeper.com App: Readwise Reader https://readwise.io/read Article: Full Days and the Long Walk, Craig Mod https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/217/

It's the end of 2025 (or writing this, April 2026 - we're catching up, I swear). Josh is suffering from his stress but is trying to turn things around. Mike has a beautiful interactive media experience (no, not the hospital thing this time) in NYC. Big Questions, Thick and Thin Desires, and Monks in the Casino await 2026.

(Recorded December 29, 2025)

Editing by: Isaac (at) thetitlegoeshere.com

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Show Notes:

Tool: YearCompass https://yearcompass.com

Event Space: Wonderville NYC https://www.wonderville.nyc

Event: WordHack (monthly at Wonderville) https://toddwords.com/wordhack/

Article: Joan Westenberg, Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/

Article: Derek Thompson, The Monks in the Casino https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-monks-in-the-casino

Article: David Brooks, The Shock of Faith: It's Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/opinion/faith-god-christianity.html

Book: David Brooks, How to Know a Person https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-know-a-person-the-art-of-seeing-others-deeply-and-being-deeply-seen-david-brooks/19713254

Blog: Tracy Durnell, Big Questions https://tracydurnell.com/questions/

Tool: Readwise Reader https://readwise.io/read

TTRPG: Appendix N https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_N

TTRPG Setting: Ultraviolet Grasslands 2E https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/uvg-2e

Fiction: The Tower of the Elephant, Robert E. Howard https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600831h.html

Description: We don't have a Patreon. Josh returns from a vacation to southern California and returns to work work work. Mike completes wedding season with minor misadventures, and survives an election. Musings on male loneliness, online friendships, and TTRPG corner. Josh knows his audio is garbled, apologizes, and strives to be better.

(Recorded November 15, 2025)

Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com)

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Show Notes: Travel: Elephant Seal Rookery at Piedras Blancas https://elephantseal.org Comedian: Lara Beitz https://www.instagram.com/larabeitz Travel: Joshua Tree Retreat Center / Institute for Mental Physics https://jtrcc.org Book: Michael Crichton, Travels https://bookshop.org/p/books/travels-michael-crichton/6cb926710a882b70 Mike gets published: Red Wheelbarrow Poets, RWB 18 Launch https://redwheelbarrowpoets.org/2025/10/12/photos-from-rwb-18-launch/ Article: Derek Thompson and Adam Mastroianni, Are You Afraid of Talking to Strangers? https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-are-we-so-afraid-of-talking-to Commenter: Prof G – Scott Galloway https://www.profgalloway.com Book: Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man https://bookshop.org/p/books/notes-on-being-a-man-scott-galloway/2947952030f521b0 Book: Andrew Ross Sorkin, 1929 https://bookshop.org/p/books/1929-inside-the-greatest-crash-in-wall-street-history-and-how-it-shattered-a-nation-andrew-ross-sorkin/923106f6e82cd81e Article: Tracy Durnell, Two Modes of Internet Use https://tracydurnell.com/2025/09/28/two-modes-of-internet-use/ Periodical: Pencil Magazine https://pencilmagazine.bigcartel.com Periodical: Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org Book: Becky Chambers, Monk and Robot https://bookshop.org/p/books/monk-and-robot-becky-chambers/21752517

Music Corner: Music: Raynes, Goldfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQs7Yhpcqqs Music: Desolation Horse, Everyone Was Incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDZOGRHyIOM Music: The Mountain Goats, The Sunset Tree https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/the-sunset-tree Music: The Mountain Goats, Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/through-this-fire-across-from-peter-balkan

TTRPG Corner: TTRPG System: Lancer https://massifpress.com/lancer TTRPG System: Monsterhearts https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/monsterhearts YouTube: Mystic Arts, Multiple GMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejw6N-nMr4I

Josh is overwhelmed. Is that new? It might not be new. Mike is halfway through wedding season, with three more to go. Both of the guys are into football (is that better than AI talk? Probably not.). TTRPG corner is back, with Josh struggling what to do with the aftermath of his Pinkerton Elton John.

Note: We're looking for listener comments and questions ahead of our New Year's recording. Send them all to Mike's home address. If you don't have that, I guess use [email protected].

(Recorded October 11, 2025)

Editing by: Isaac (at) thetitlegoeshere.com

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Show Notes: TTRPG: Lancer

Mike is recording from his parents' house (with a special guest!) as wedding season looms ahead. He shares some of the shared history between him and Josh, and the internet community that first brought them (and listener Phil) together. At poetry night, Mike has a cathartic, emotional experience. Josh is drowning in copies of The Economist and dreams of an easier life schedule which has yet to come. He also attends a local charity event and has a chance encounter with a local celebrity of the legacy news media. Also, Infrastructure Week Part???

(Recorded September 6, 2025)

Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com/)

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Show Notes: Podcast: The Town YouTube: Mystic Arts, Make Exploration into a Game to Hook Players D&D Tool: Kobold Plus Fight Club D&D Tool: AdventureLookup.com Periodical: Delayed Gratification Periodical: Pencil Magazine Periodical: The Paris Review Short Story: The Visit, featured in The Paris Review Music Corner: Cataldo, Holding onto Fate Music Corner: Harrison Boe, Teenage FBI

Description: Season 3 is here - strap in for meta podcast talk and Mike and Josh arguing about AI (they're both wrong and we're banning the topic in future episodes, I swear). We've embedded chapter markers so you can skip through (I think, I don't actually know how that works). Mike is juggling projects and has musings on productivity culture. Josh is building community through Drop-In D&D and DMing for the first time.

(Recorded August 16, 2025)

Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com/)

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Show Notes: Article: Cult of Hard Mode, JA Westenberg Article: Bag of words, have mercy on us, Experimental History

TTRPG Corner TTRPG Dungeon: Delian Tomb, Matt Colville (via GM Binder) TTRPG Rules: Izirion's Enchiridion of the West Marches TTRPG Book: So You Want to be a Game Master, Justin Alexander TTRPG Setting and System: Ultraviolet Grasslands 2E TTRPG Book: One Shot Wonders TTRPG Book: The Monsters Know What They're Doing, Keith Ammann TTRPG Book: Flee Mortals, MCDM Fiction Book: Roadside Picnic, Strugatsky Brothers Fiction Books: Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer TTRPG Book: The Lazy Dungeon Master, Sly Flourish TTRPG System: Daggerheart YouTube Channel: Mystic Arts

The Season 2 finale of your favorite not a show is here! Just a heads up on this one - spoilers for The Rehearsal Season 2 are ahead. It's not all work talk! It's mostly work talk. Mike moves to a four-story walkup with 30,000 residents. Josh is wrapped up in his own personal public works department and is preparing to travel 2000 miles in less than two days. Congratulations to Listener Kevin on getting Mike's resin printer and Wyrmwood gaming table. Also Mike, you still owe me $5 for my winning the Field Notes bet. It's August 2025. I'm going to start charging interest soon.

(Recorded June 19, 2025)

Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com/)

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Show Notes: Blog: The Blissful Zen of a Good Side Project, Josh Collinsworth Article: Don't Expect Art to Save Us, Current Affairs App: Freedom.To YouTube: I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here's What I Learned, Ali Abdaal

Description:

Unscripted. Delayed. Riddled with errors. Do Not Schedule: The 13th biggest podcast in personal journals. Yes, we know it's Yemeni, not Yemenese. Josh has been crowned champion of arbitrary trivia night, despite almost failing his college philosophy course. Mike is focused on his impending move and is distracting himself by questioning Josh's very acceptable productivity systems. There's a customary amount of work and AI talk.

(Recorded May 17, 2025)

Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com/)

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Show Notes: Blog: Tracey Durnell's Big Questions Article: My Brain Finally Broke, The New Yorker Book: Art of Gathering, Priya Parker Article: Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?, The New Yorker Wikipedia: Medallion Fund and Renaissance Technology App: Freedom.To