Heat Stroke episodes:

• July 01, 2021#36: "What Part Do You Twist?"

  Venice Beach isn't Venice and is mostly not beach

  'People' people, water people, and sand people

  "The most difficult part of this podcast is not insulting you every 10 seconds."

  Venice Beach's tent problem

  "I'm a very complex person."

  Homeless people, keep your shit together

  Farting Etiquette

  Ketchup or catsup?

  Pigtails and a shotgun

  Modern houses suck

  A 2x4 is not 2 inches by 4 inches

  "Why are we talking about wood?"

  "Maybe if you gave her a shotgun, she would be your friend."

  The Boonies

  Why are the Homeless so clueless?

  Do rural people have better potty etiquette?

  No Pooping in the street

  $3K bicycles at Costco

  Buying a bigger house to store all your Costco stuff

  People love to buy stuff

  Loosing track of your breasts

  Christopher's de-hording escapade

  Horders' cars are just as bad as the house

  Buy a bike from your local bike shop

  "That extra inch makes all the difference."

  Sun Cyclery

  Recumbent bikes (the fast bikes)

  Recumbents banded from racing

  Arguing the definition of a bicycle

  Not all Olympic "sports" are equal

  Aero spokes

  "The spoke nipple."

  "What part do you twist?"

  Brass Monkey

  Grey Matter Bicycle

  Sam Kelsall - Iowa bike ride

  Bike building school

  James's house as a Venice Beach vibe

  And some girls in bikinis

  We were terrible podcasters

  ...more

  

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• June 29, 2021#35: James Buys a Basball Cap

  James buys a baseball cap

  Christopher doesn't know how to run

  Heels were invented for battle

  Christopher's Amish hat story

  Southbend Lathes

  The scourge of Rockler

  Micron

  Software bloat - What Intel giveth, Mircosoft taketh away

  News Stand (Mac newsreader)

  Macintosh 8100

  Don't say SIRI!

  Amazon Alexa Football ad triggers Alexa, or does it?

  Fashion is all about attitude

  "I don't jaw people"

  James looks like a mean Chihuahua when he smiles

  Homeless are Robin Hood?

  Soylent Green

  Liberals want to fix homelessness, as long as it doesn't effect their real estate value

  Shrinkage

  There's a lot of talk about Tech leaving San Francisco, but they really aren't

  Tempe - flash cube city

  Does James live downtown?

  New York is a real city

  Neil deGrasse Tyson repeats what James just said

  Dreamy Draw alien correction

  Aliens, because I want to believe

  Are we smart enough?

  ...more

  

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• June 22, 2021#34: It's Probably UFOs

  James runs

  Christopher works out

  Lance Armstrong vs Jan Ullrich / fast vs slow

  James wasn t naked

  Speaking of UFOs

  Christopher, the paperboy, sees three UFOs

  It's just a meteor (it's not just a meteor)

  SR-71 Blackbird

  "Long fingers that glow"

  Air Force pilots confirm UFOs

  "It's probably UFOs"

  How does a compass work?

  NASA copper cable

  Just things in the air

  We aren't interesting enough for the aliens to actually talk to us

  It's a book, sir!

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV show

  Oort Cloud

  "Coming out party for the aliens"

  Christopher has seen the aliens in Area 51

  The aliens did not crash in Dreamy Draw

  Are we thinking of Roswell?

  James doesn't like this whole Mother's Day vs Father's Day thing

  All holidays are just sort of the same now and silly

  When is the cutoff time for for holiday well wishing?

  9pm is the normal cutoff time

  Folding the newspapers

  Christopher's newspaper delivery empire

  Bitten by a dog and struck by lightning

  Give me my two dollars

  ...more

  

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• June 15, 2021#33: Bacon Inflation

  Christopher wakes up pissed off

  Rubbing alcohol in the shoes

  Teslas are great for sex

  James hides his Teslas at his secret house

  If I already have a car, I'm not riding the bus

  Christopher doesn't rob a bank

  Checks are weird

  Christopher went to the bank for money

  Getting a passport sucks

  Meat guy accosts Catherine in Costco for wearing a mask

  Anti-mask bully are "Spineless little slugs"

  Avoid the nuts

  Podcasting from James's office

  Men at Work https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s

  Christopher goes into a store to buy shoes and hears music

  Terrible coffee

  James and Christopher argue over each other's political leanings

  Bacon up 13%

  Two Buck Chuck

  Ted Lasso

  Only Babylonian warriors get to wear nail polish

  Housing crisis

  Reality Winner

  Falcon and the Snowman

  Spies Like Us

  Don't go on a road trip with James

  Pee and Pizza

  TripTiks

  ...more

  

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• June 01, 2021#32: Old Man Yells at Venmo

  Video taping comics

  Cheapskates asking for money back

  Old man yells at Venmo

  Mr. Late

  Shakespeare comic - Gavin Blume

  Not that Ferman

  Christopher is sensitive

  Christopher totally doesn't look like a cop

  Christopher's Twitter problem

  Twitter takes out Ellie Kemper, and then forgets her

  Who pulls Twitter's levers?

  Twitter to add weather

  Facebook sucks

  Fighting a war that we don't know we're fighting

  Civil War 2.0?

  Pontiac Fiero

  Christopher's mailman hates him

  Amazon's backdoor into your network (sidewalk)

  Amazon is steeling your bandwidth

  Amazon is creepy and shitty

  The death wish cyclist

  ...more

  

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• May 26, 2021#31: Donuts and Dating

  Spaghetti coffee

  Don't drink out of a jar

  James finally has a product in Costco

  Phoenix is not in France

  Glass gloop

  James doesn't eat donuts (James is eating a donut)

  Old Fashion donut

  A ring of butter

  Christopher has enough guns for everyone

  "Boozeline"

  Liberating grandad's beer

  No vaccine, no date

  Bartender dating app

  Vaccinated?

  Masks stopped the flu

  AOL dating

  Video dating

  Alfonzo

  Vibe (charisma) is more important than looks

  Antiquated flirting

  A Scamming Mind

  Christopher's dating advice

  Christopher blows up graduations

  NFL bad

  Old, rich, and white - a trifecta of diversity

  Fake diplomas

  Christopher's fake graduation

  Baseball is cute

  IQ tests

  Star Wars needs to upgrade to Zoom

  The shrinking work space

  ...more

  

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• May 11, 2021#30: So Boring I Forgot About It

  Oat Milk in Christopher's coffee

  Types of milks

  Christopher farms wildflowers and cotton

  Luxury cotton nests

  Recycling fibers

  James's dog hates him

  The Christophers go camping

  Eating mudbugs

  Lobster riots

  Ettouffee

  Bad parents are sucky travel mates

  Andy Warhol sucks

  "Experimental" art is just bad art

  Most influencer American artist of the 20th century?

  John Williams

  James's favorite 20th century PAINTERS are Pollock and O'Keeffe

  Christopher loves art museums

  Edward Hopper

  Norman Rockwell

  The Chinese century?

  Andy Warhol is a failed pop artist

  Thomas Kinkade is the real pop artist

  Art Curators are... just terrible

  American Gothic

  Andrew Wyeth

  Van Gough - greatest painter of all time

  Everyone, rich or poor, drinks the same Coke

  Most important 20th century American artist: James - Kubrik & Robert Johnson

  Most important 20th century American artist: Christopher - John Ford, Danny Elfman

  Comedians are artists too

  John Gruber can't pronounce stuff

  Pontiac Fiero

  ...more

  

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• May 04, 2021#29: Quaker Oats Boxes Filled with AOL CDs

  The Clap

  Christopher's terrible Star Wars jokes (puns)

  James respects BonJovi, but doesn't like them

  1bigliar

  TikTok isn't down! Angry black woman still angry and still black

  Bill Gates gets divorced, why at this age?

  Windows 95 was fine

  Apple wasn't great at this point

  Internet Explorer 96% browser share

  Chrome is as bad Internet Explorer ever was

  Brave is fine, but eh.

  Married, divorced, re-married, divorced, and finally re-married

  James hasn't used AOL... this century

  AOL dialup still works?

  Quaker Oats box filled with AOL CDs

  Christopher is a proto-hoarder

  Clutter-pocalypse

  Garages are for cars

  Rumpus room

  Yahoo and AOL get sold for peanuts

  Jeep baby stroller

  Harley-Davidson trucks

  Yahoo and AOL are not poster children for capitalism

  Poor old Sears

  Amazon screws the little guy

  CEOs never fail

  Company Boards are dumb

  Moral hazards and capitalism

  Christopher's auction problem

  Farmers' Almanac

  Stealing the Sears Catalog to look at the women in their sexy underwear

  My parents' weren't getting the Victoria Secret catalog

  James has weird hangups

  Winners get divorced?

  Divorcees are quitters

  Divorce rates by profession

  Reasons for getting divorced

  Men control the marriage in the beginning, but women slowly take over

  Smart people don't get divorced

  Post-show

  Porn is gross

  Do "adult bookstores" still exist

  From porn to Disney

  Bill's porn stash

  Bill invented the internet for porn

  Christopher struggles with saying "penis enhancer"

  ...more

  

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• April 14, 2021#28: Christopher Dances Around the Maypole

  Is 13 America's number?

  If you're going to be THAT boring, just stay home

  What did you think? Get vaccinated?

  Christopher doesn't go the the hospital, except for when he does

  Doctors are full of shit

  Our expert opinion on the uselessness of doctors

  Christopher is waiting to go to the doctor until he is 60

  Too many vaccines

  Christopher doesn't think people are stupid

  There are no stupid decisions, only stupid people

  Texas woman convicted of a felony for not returning a VHS tape

  Renting from the front of the store

  The Super League disaster (Soccer)

  (America (the best)) Football isn't socialist

  What kind of sport ends in a tie?

  The Phoenix Wranglers (with cheerleaders)

  Good players got wrangled

  How many types of (real) Football did we have?

  Christopher: SportsMan

  Live sports aren't boring in person

  Christopher: "Remember when David Ortiz broke Ted Williams record?" - James: blank stare

  Why is the potato gendered?

  The Mr. in Mr. Potato Head is actually funny and important

  The story of Christopher's Lemon Pig

  Scouts is better without the "Boy"

  BSA created a lot of the early safety procedures for working with kids

  Christopher dances around the Maypole

  Christopher loves (modern) Germans

  ...more

  

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• April 07, 2021#27: Interview with Malinda Hurd - Meditation

  The mugs

  Christopher goes to church for the first time in a year

  Sharing the chalice

  You don't get sick from the chalice?

  Vaccination poll (just James)

  Judge was a bad child

  Christopher fixes his attendance record

  Men like women with "presence"

  James doesn't like kilts

  Leam Neason can wear a kilt, James can't

  Christopher's puffy shirt

  No one likes the Arizona Renaissance Festival (but James)

  Malinda had a didgeridoo

  Christopher picks up the drawl

  Malinda is Scottish

  If you have the money, you can do anything (none of us have any)

  Malinda wants to RV the country

  James warns of the murderous Maine mosquitos

  Mosquitoes are attracted to people who wear blue and eat bananas

  Christopher plays the flute

  The Native America flute is the best

  Malinda tries to meditate while Christoper's chicken lays an egg

  Malinda's meditation removes the mental noise

  "The homogeny of pink"

  Malinda's non profit

  Malinda does mediation with schools "Tools for Teens"

  Reflexology - Meditation - Yin Yoga

  Meditation trains the mind

  Music as meditation

  Sufism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism

  Teen's disconnectedness has led the sadness

  Breakdown of manners

  Faith tied to manners?

  Is Yoga chaos?

  James has the best doodles

  Malinda's Sound bowls

  Malinda's meditation

  ...more

  

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