College pal, Carrie Sandvick and I discuss dorm life, scrabble & scattergories, kd lang, rugby, Seattle tech bros & their lap dances, career changes, nursing, my daughter's birth story + a deep dive into the thought provoking, hilarious, quote worthy movie 6 Degrees of Separation.

Mari Talkin and I first discuss Game of Thrones with spoilers, so if you want to skip that, go to 35 min. After that we chat about tough love teachers, boarding schools, preppers, the Mormon leader's LGBTQ fail, & Tara Westover's bananas memoir, Educated.

In episode 2 of Circle Back (the spin-off of Out of Curiosity with kt mather), Jenn Fiorini and I get back to chatting. We take a deep dive into the FANTASTIC tv show PEN15. Seriously, you gotta watch this show, I haven't laughed this hard in years!

Brooks Ryan (former JV midfielder & musical cowriter) and I chat about making and breaking rules, tech bros, youtube comments, my mistakes as a soccer coach, plus a deep dive into FOUR awesome climbing films: Free Solo, The Dawn Wall, Meru, and Lunag Ri.

Author and publisher, Jill Santopolo and I discuss work / work balance, emotional autobiography, discovering new authors, being an hotel heiress, plus a deep dive into the life & social contributions of the Notorious RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

My neighbor, Guthrie and I talk about the nearly incomprehensible movie Synecdoche, NY. It's an episode of questions--how do you make sense of a narrative, of this narrative, do you like any of these characters, does this movie make you think about death?

Kate Sjostrom and I discuss writing & teaching, Bard Institute for writing & thinking, a gay bar called The Glass Coffin, books as sacred objects, and we ask, Is f*ck a comma? Plus a deep dive into Rebecca Makkai's riveting novel, The Great Believers.

Nicole Valentine & I discuss her debut novel, A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity, trees with doorknobs, grief, the wage gap, Sally Ride, writing when not writing, & Tom Skerrit's call sign in Top Gun. Plus a meandering dive into Contact and Arrival.

Roy Dean and I talk Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Andrew Yang & unemployed dudes, what’s awesome & offensive about the creation myths in the Bible, and that time I have Roy his high school letters back. Plus a deep dive into Sex at Dawn & Tribe.

[FIXED] Rachel Grigorian & I talk permaculture, prairie chicken & raccoon, commodifying carbon sequestration, getting tricked by woodchucks & hosed by skunks, copper bullets, trade school v college, & a deep dive into Woodswoman, Wilding, & Twain's Feast.