Enjoy it While it Lasts

I was raised Christian, believed deeply, and spent years trying to reconcile faith with logic, morality, and lived experience. In this episode, I walk through how church, doctrine, history, and unanswered questions slowly shifted my beliefs—from certainty to skepticism, and eventually to agnosticism. This isn’t an attack on religion, but an honest account of questioning, letting go of certainty, and choosing curiosity, humility, and compassion over absolute answers.

This weeks Newsish start's with nature - from activity along the Ring of Fire, to a new mold in Chernobyl that may be repairing human's damage. We cover the shooting in Australia and the hero that emerged, discuss the murder of Rob Reiner including the president's response, and break down the Diddy doc and 50 Cent's petty aftermath.

Reading has been a constant in my life and an important form of entertainment as well a shaping force on who I am. I walk you through my life through what I read and what that's meant for me. I tell you why certain things clicked for me, and how each stage of reading has been different. I tell you about the struggle to focus as an adult, and how hard it can be to find the time to read, and tell you how I have used audiobooks to hold on to an important aspect of my life. I'm not trying to tell you what or how to read, I'm telling how reading has been important to me, and how I have tried to hold on to it.

This is bonus content featuring my kids talking through Attack on Titan Season 2. We recap what happens, they react to the biggest reveals, and speculate on what it all means - from the Beast Titan's introduction, the Armored and Colossal Titan's Identities, to Ymir, Historia, and the question of where Titans come from. 

Fair warning, the audio quality isn't my best. It's a bit muddy, but I've cleaned it up as much as I could. The episode is just over 20 minutes, and it's worth a listen if you want to hear an 8 and 9 year old unpack the complexities of Attack on Titan

Jesse, known as Pinky to his friends, opens up about the moments that shaped his life. He lost his father at sixteen, and grew to question God afterwards. He became a father at a young age and tried to live up to his own expectations. Jesse is open about how the pressure of a failing relationship and the fear of losing his son led him to an incident of self harm. We talk about what led up to the incident, how it changed the course of his life, and also what he's done to grow from it. His is a story of loss, regret, family loyalty, and rebuilding a life

I walk you through a science lesson with the first set of news stories, renewable energy, AI medicines, and a discovery DEEP underground. Of course I look at the entertainment business news of Warner Brothers Entertainment being bought. I talk about drones contraband into prisons, rise in "silent walking", return of third places (new term to me), goose patrol, and then I go local with a couple stories from Dallas to Waco. Enjoy

In this Tuesday Chill, I check in with listeners and revisit two defining parts of my childhood. First, I talk about the “trampoline era” of my life—everything from neighborhood chaos to close calls to the way imagination lived on that tarp. Then I shift to the 4th-grade classroom that helped awaken my love for writing and shaped the way I learned. I end the episode with a personal update: how this season of consistent creating has been feeling, what’s coming for the rest of December, and a peek into January

Christmas is a lot. The lights, the movies, the gifts, the pressure, the events, the hosting, the traditions, the Elf on the Shelf judging us silently from a bookshelf he didn’t even ask for. In this Deep Dive, I get into what the season really feels like—the joy, the heaviness, the financial drain, the memories, and the small moments that keep pulling us through. This is about how the holidays make you feel overwhelmed, excited, broke, grateful, tired, and somehow hopeful all at the same time.

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Volcanoes are going off, Japan is heating park benches with solar power, Temu and Shein are getting sued, New York wants casinos, and Texas polices restrooms. Herman and Tricia are back with Newsish, they try to keep track of Cardi B's relationship chaos, Lily Allen's album about her cheating famous husband drop, NASA asking the public for help, and scientist send messages through dreams. Oh and the Cowboys might not be horrible. The end gets a little wild: a drunk racoon, a decapitated bison, an old lady attacked by Geese, ICE kidnappings in Waco, Waco's Winter Wonderland, and Tricia celebrates Wienerschnitzel finally opening near her!

Jericho sits down with me to share the story of his life — growing up without a father, witnessing violence in his home, chasing attention as a teenager, falling into drugs, and eventually ending up in prison. What follows is a raw and honest look at the choices he made, the people he hurt, and the moment everything changed for him.

He talks about the shock of seeing his mother abused as a child, the years he spent drifting toward the wrong crowd, the arrest that happened in front of his son, and the ways prison both broke him and saved him. We also talk about joy, privacy, fatherhood, and the complicated relationships that shape who we become.