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!)

It's been a while, but we're back at a live recording in which we reminisce a bit about a few things, most especially about travel to Ireland that included fish and chips (an original theme of this podcast endeavor) and whiskey. We sample Irish whiskeys and talk about our impressions and experiences of food, drink, and people.

A 10-questions episode in which one of us will say, "I have very little experience with elephants," and the other will state unironically, "I haven't read any of the Jesus books, but I have seen some Batman movies." This and much more intellectual ground is covered.

We made good on our promise to welcome back special guests, Anna and Karyn, as contributors to a family year-end review. Again, there are more feelings than usual, but also great recollections of the year and recommendations of stuff to read, paths to walk, things to watch, people to visit, and much much more. Stick around until the end for bonus shoutouts and embarrassingly unedited content. Happy 2024!