Problematicast

Episode notes right from the Patreon posting:

"The Alchemical Wedding; Part 1: Blackening

In the second episode of the Brubaker Brothers' The Variance Engine series, 1 Year as a Woman, I go into detail on some of the experiences of the first few weeks/months of my hormone replacement therapy. Some of the stuff is heavy, there is talk about mental health issues and suicidal ideation, drug use, and swears. During the latter portion of the episode I do the best I can to retell the experiences of a lucid dream that I had in a library rife with deeper symbolism that becomes critical in some of the future portions of the story. 

With the gravity of the story and with respect to the process, I have split this part of the series up into multiple episodes. Hopefully although shorter than the last episode, it is as impactful to the overall story moving forwards. 

Thanks to all the patrons who have jumped up to this tier to hear my story. I honestly can't express just how important creating this has been to me, and to see that people actually want to hear it makes it even more humbling. 

Email us your thoughts/prayers: [email protected] (use the subject "VE")

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The Variance Engine: 1 Year as a Woman,

Since our untimely death and recent rebirth in this age of uncertainty, I decided to destroy the old model of how I was going to distribute one of the side projects of the Brubaker Brothers. We had initially had it as an incentive on our patreon, and possibly improperly charged for it on a separate tier. After some reconsideration and a little bit of time to ponder the idea, we are going to release the backlog of episodes of it here and the additional episodes that are in the works as I type this.  I am going to provide the original episode notes verbatim, as some of them were written in the moment of creation and are probably more relevant than what I would say about them in retrospect. 

"This is the pilot episode of the Brubaker Brothers' "The Variance Engine", a new podcast series focused around existential philosophy, epistemology, and diversity. The opening series is entitled "1 Year as a Woman", and is based around Jason's experiences before and during his transition from male to female, and the detransition that subsequently followed. It's raw and real, rather taboo (still), and told in the first person. The first episode, "The Elephant in the Room", is the progression of Jason's story from youth, through puberty and young adulthood, and into his early 30's where the process takes a seemingly logical route. 

This project has been a few years in the making, and finally on Jason's birthday, we can finally launch with an iteration that is suitable for sharing. 

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We are probably still in need of your thoughts/prayers: [email protected]

This one was the first time our buddy Kyle joined us beyond the paywall. We all had such a good time, and I'm glad we can share this with you now. 

New content coming soon. Watch your feeds!

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Jeremy

Thanks for all your support during this project, but we decided to breathe dirt.

In lieu of flowers, try to be nice to each other for a change.

The Brubaker Brothers:

Jeremy and Jason

"We're trying..."

Hey Guys, It's Christmas week so we've been crazy busy. We decided to release the second premium to the free feed, so as always... if you like what you're hearing, we do more over at patreon.com/problematicast.

This one originally went up September 7th, 2019.

Enjoy the episode we've been afraid to listen to since we posted it.

Jeremy and Jason Brubaker

In this week's episode, we take a satirical approach to the concept of "punching down" in comedy, which has been something of debate for comics for quite some time now. Sometimes the difference between acceptable and offensive is as simple as the difference of one letter... There is a whole lot of other conversation in this almost 50 minute shit show, but its only really funny because of how not funny it is. 

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In today's episode we start out reading some potential Darwin Awards contestants, and then jump head first into the problems of human kind based on suffering as our only true attachment to our external universe. It gets fairly cynical as always, but there are always little glimmers of light even towards the bottom. As always we find a way to bring it back around to the beginning with a little more insight into the reason we started the conversation in the first place...IT CRAVES GAS!

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