Pretending to Amuse

Jason has been sick, again. Steve talks about fasting. Jason tells the story of the birthday party, and how he made some fellow parents extremely uncomfortable. Jason says goodbye to a familiar voice.

Jason and Steve share puke stories. Jason want to know if a particular phrase has ever been said honestly. Steve wonders how to determind the value of a hand me down gift. Jason finally gets on the Rick and Morty bandwagon.

Jason tells us how everyone is ruining his favorite season. We talk about the NFL and Kapernick. Steve shares the story of how he was kicked out of a Facebook group, and Jason loves a Facebook group for where he lives.

Jason tells the story of how he celebrated his wife’s birthday. Including a retro band, retro video games, retro conversation and Jason even recently rekindled a retro friendship.

In this episode we find out we are sexist, really really sexist.

We did a live show on our other podcast, Rough Cut: Detroit! We are releasing the episode on both feeds because it was such a cool time. We went to the Detroit 48 Hour Film Project and sat down with the producers of the event, … Continue readingPTA 112 – The 48

Steve reminds Jason of a seven year old bet. We debate the career merits of a handful of legendary Detroit athletes. Jason wonders what basic skills are required to be a functioning adult. Steve gets a lesson in how motorcycles work. Jason makes a staggering … Continue readingPTA 111 – The Janitation Hall of Fame

This wasn’t supposed to be an episode. You see, to ‘warm up’ into the show we like to sit and have a conversation with everything hot and rolling until we feel we are in a good groove to start the show. Most of these conversations … Continue readingPTA 110 – The Reminisce-rs

And we’re back! After a month off from the show, we sit down and talk about what we have been doing lately. What we have done is watch a bunch of movies! Jason tells about a summer vacation, and visiting some iconic TV locations. We … Continue readingPTA 109 – The Movie Watchers

We talk about the cancellation of one of our favorite shows and then dig into a streaming original show. We talk about the massive affect a new show producer has had on a major streaming service.