Our very special Monday guest is Ryan Essmaker, the mind behind The Great Disconnect, sorry, The Great Connect Four, sorry, The Great Discontent, a blog about depressed and unhappy creative people. Ryan also works at Crush + Lovely, where he probably makes wine.

When Ryan isn't canoeing around the streets of lower Manhattan dressed as a viking, he can be found in a top secret location creating S's and searching for his next fix of bourbon.

Today's episode is not sponsored by The Mild Inconvenience (because it doesn't exist ... yet).

On Today's special live edition of the show I welcome fellow Cincinnatian Chris Glass. When Chris isn't busy making various goods from fire and wine, you might find his beard performing magic or attempting to find the perfectly fitting bathrobe.

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In his spare time Chris is a high security designineer for The President and the gatekeeper to Aaron Draplin. Chris is tall, carries a camera so that he doesn't have to talk to you, and enjoys farming.

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Today's episode is not sponsored by seasons or billboards.

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A special thanks to Aaron Dowd for helping with the audio (albeit, I provided him terrible quality audio)

If you've ever wondered how weird and crazy this show could get, then you'll love today's episode with Austin treasure hunter Dave Rupert. Dave is best known for having the first successful animatronic beard transplant and for creating nearly lifelike portraits purely from CSS code.  

When Dave isn't practicing foreign accents, he can be found writing code while wearing gloves at Paravel in Austin BBQ TX and hosting his own talkshow about things and other things and maybe bacon.

Today's episode is not sponsored by the film "Arsenio Hall and Eddie Murphy Present Coming Back To The Future In America".

On today's very special Friday edition we have the man of the sea Jay Fanelli. You might know Jay for his work making gold encrusted t-shirts with United Pixel Workers, making design things at Full Stop Intercreative Things and doing voice-over work for trampolines and broccoli.  

When Jay isn't weaving and sowing, he spends his time in the City of Pitts collecting drumsticks and donating used clothing to people in countries that need used clothing while following his true passion in life, the open sea and studying to be a sea captain.

Today's episodes is not sponsored by T-shirts or Flat Design.

There's no need to introduce our guest today because I don't feel like it. Regardless, he's Gergory Storey, a beardless Eskimo who came to America on the back of a whale looking for gold in California but became best known for wearing Jeffery Zeldman's blue beanie on the first Thursday and third Monday of every other month.

Greg is also known for eating steak, wearing snowshoes, building igloo's, collecting iPads, avoiding the wrath of Jesus and being the only officially sanctioned AARP MENSA member under the age of 75. Did I mention he's from Alaska? He's from Alaska aka The Australia Of The North.

Today's episodes is not sponsored by MENSA, the AARP or diabetes.

Today's guest is Kyle Steed, best known for his work with the photo iPhone application program Over where he makes hand-drawn typewriters. Kyle is also known for his illustrations of cereal and pizza. Kyle is a tall man with a hat who enjoys juggling on his unicycle and watching Tom Cruise films.

Today's episodes is not sponsored by Frito's or John Deere.

Josh Long is best known for the fictional story about his time as an executioner (of ideas) and his ability to teleport &mdash allowing him do tackel an inhuman number of side projects.

In his spare time Josh creates bonsai trees, spends hours marveling at the majesty of horses, is a master treehouse architecture or something and also mentors future hobos. As a southern gentleman Josh is required to say "y'all" at least 15 times a day and lives under a weeping willow.

Today's episodes is not sponsored by chitlins or grits.

On today's show thing I welcome the lady Krystyn Heide, better known as Nicki Clyne's best friend or as SquareGirl™ on Twitter. Krystyn is a Designer at SquareSpace, just recently ended a long term affair with Papyrus. In her free time she designs websites for spas and lesbian coffeehouses.

While Krystyn might only (approximately) 2,300 followers on Twitter, she does follow just 136 people therefore making her more important. She found all of my questions stupid. Today's episode is not sponsored by SquareSpace.

Today's Pixel Recess has guest Yaron Schoen also known as Ron Stone. Ron is best known for creating Twitter and killing people with design while serving in the Israeli Army. Yaron currently works at home, naked, while wearing just a yarmulke. He also probably makes an app and website and eats McDonald's while watching reruns of Murder She Wrote.

Noah Stokes, perhaps better known by his birth name Mother Futon, is the founder and partner at Bold, where he creates "vintage" websites made out of balsa wood or something. Sadly Noah had no involvement in LOST, but does live in California (almost near Hollywood) and has long hair like a 80s metal god.