During one of the 50ish hours when we had a chance over a Christmas holiday gathering, we revisited this annual recap tradition with all family members, including Sam's podcast debut and quick cameos from Gus and Nina. Rather than being one more thing-to-do in the midst of the visit, this was just a great part of the holiday gathering. Categories include notable reads, sights, sounds, places, practices, quotes, and wildcards. You'll just have to listen to hear our answers, but there's educational content including the meaning of "epistolary", proper hydration techniques, names of monthly full moons, music recommendations, features of desert treks, and much more.

Representing Gen X and Gen Z, Adam and Reed consider the nature of jobs, careers, and working. We compare how we each have gotten jobs, how we experience our work, and what we aspire to in our futures.

After a long pause we're back with a new 10-questions episode. We don't think we've asked any of these questions of each other in the past, but we also know that we can't really remember. At least the answers are different -- and surprising.

A 10-questions episode after a long pause in our mouthsounds production cycle. It was simply nice to touch base and talk about things that matter--and a lot of things that don't. A longer recording but we had a lot of unimportant things (spleens, hair in food, PhDs, etc.) to catch up on.

It's now a tradition: Reed and Adam welcome special guests Anna and Karyn to review the year's notable, memorable, and otherwise "best" events, occurrences, and revelations. It's better than writing a Christmas card and more fun to talk to one another about our collective experiences in 2024.

After recording this, we all talked about how much was left out or could have better described, but it's also noteworthy that a lot of what we got to highlight pulled out memories from the past 12 months, as well as a few surprising reflections and recollections.

Happy New Year! More regular programming to follow in 2025.

Reed's in town, so that prompted this typical 10-questions structured episode in which we surprise one another with curious prompts about life's great mysteries. What kind of fish would you be? What Muppet would you travel with? Revealing truths about family members, aspirations, mantras, and so much more that the world was without until we'd recorded this. Enjoy.

The 4 c's, one might say. Or just a random assortment of what life dishes up to put into a review episode. Originally we conceptualized a review of our day-to-day worklives, and then we'd realized that a review of cribbage would be interesting, and then we thought that probably we'd be drinking coffee while recording, and then there was this impromptu story about Reed's flat tire. That's all to say that we had a chance to talk about both the things we'd planned for and all the random tidbits and we had a very nice conversation and it's exactly what we needed. You might enjoy it as well.

Apparently and accidentally it's a tradition now: Our third review of musical selections in as many years. We mostly use this as an excuse to share some tracks and stories of how we relate to them, but also some cutting edge new recommendations from one album that is only days old, as well as one that's 5 decades old. And a lot in between.

This also made for a playlist for the road trip for Reed's move back to Oregon, and in the process we got to reconsider some of our characterizations of these songs. Jensen McRae isn't really light or upbeat and Ray LaMontagne isn't bluegrass at all; though you might forgive us for trying to use those descriptions here. We also tried to count along with Dave Brubeck. You'll understand once you listen to the podcast. You can listen along to full tracks here.

We explicitly promote Mouthsounds as a podcast in which we do not speak of feelings. But we do reviews and we do ask each other questions, and in this case we decided to bend our own rules for this Very Special Episode so that we could essentially do a review of emotions. Reed and Adam each ask the other about 5 different feelings and objective, non-emotive analysis ensues. And maybe we do talk about our feelings, kind of. We'll never do this again, even though this might become one of our favorite episodes if we ignore the embarrassment, anxiety, jubilance, etc. that might be interpreted by the listener. Incidental music, movie, and other recommendations are included.

A return to our 10-questions format after some time away. Brand new questions not heard on any other podcast, along with the same solid answers and life advice you've come to expect about important and wide-ranging topics. Reed contributes outstanding life advice to his parents in the same episode that we contemplate Sasquatch. (And, as this is being dropped, happy birthday to Reed!)