The time has finally come to officially end this. In hindsight: this was the only place this could go. On my 37th birthday I sat down with the woman I've wanted to record with since I started this project almost 7 years ago and we wrap it up with a long, downright silly version of "This Is Your Life In A Playlist with The One And Only Esther". If you listened from the beginning, if you contributed to the playlist, if you contributed to my partreon, if you don't know how you got here, if you're just listening to this episode out of curiosity if I mentioned you: Thanks for being part of this. It's been...

Lou Barett is back and we're reviewing a classic book on how to be the most masculine motherfucker in the room: The Way Of The Superior Man by David Daeda. 

Igor is back! We're finally caugt up after this! How long will that last? Only time will tell.

If you came here from Instagram: LOL. If you're an old time listener: I think we're up to date after this. 

It's dating app episode. This is probably better advice for women than men. Apparently all I need to do is smile more and cynical personality won't be as detrimental.

We're catching up. This episode is almost as old as long as Rachel has lived in Japan. We talk Will Smith's Slap, life as an expat in Japan, and what the pandemic took from us. 

I'm back with a whole bunch of episodes I've been sitting on for too long for them to be relevant. Even this episode was recorded in a time when women had a percieved consitutional right to murder any living thing in their body. 

I actually recorded this episode a month ago but then got sick not once not twice but three times (once was Covid) and lost all the podcast asset files so excuse me. But it's here. It's done. I found the backup project and the episode - like me - is live.