Rancho Thatchmo

Many of us have had close calls, uncomfortable brushes, lucky breaks and cancelled reservations with the reaper. Here are a few of those stories. 

Featuring: Thea Storz, Elizabeth Steinvorth, Tim Foljahn, Rian Fossett, Derek Gardner, Adam Marnie

A fish story, inanities, Monk's TTDs, Shopping in NYC, Chris Ryan on conversational intimacy, Smitty on a secret society, and the mind of a child. Featuring: Armando Nin, Arjun Srivatsa, Reuben Radding, Tina Richenbach, Chris Ryan, Smitty, Rian Fossett.

Some 1st person accounts of the Grateful Dead experience and a couple lovely house documents from the Dead organization. Featuring: Dick Munroe, Demi Vera, Dan Colen, Tito Rodriguez, Dusty Grella, Serena Southam, Jordan and Ryan Naideau.

A smattering of recounted recollections of time spent with the Butthole Surfers in some various capacities. Featuring Pat Riley, Michael Lavine, Pat Blashill, Colleen Cude-Taylor, and Reuben Radding.

Anecdotes about and criteria for cults. Featuring Chris Potts, Sharon Mashihi, Mike Hudson, Alexis Greene, Greg Zucculo, Brad Phillips, Nyquist.

Trigger Warning: Blue Jokes Galore!

Featuring Matt, Maureen, The Red Scare, Serena. Sarah Hutto, Daniel Arnold, Rachel Fleit, Noah Reibel, Derek Garner, Susanna Sonnenberg, Tommy Munroe, Joe Munroe, and Tim Foljahn.

This episode goes back to the source point of the show: lists of things read by people. More engrossing than a Marvel movie. Featuring lists from Lisa Sloat, Derek Gardner, Julia Cafritz, Sharon Mashihi, Warren Sloat, Irene Tremblay, Miriam Atkin, Kate Brehm, Jenna,  and Cali Dewitt.

In this freestyle episode we have an assortment of people talking about us humans on the inside and out. Featuring Honor Titus, Cali DeWitt, Adam Marnie, Liz Lee, Sunita Prassad, Alesandro Riccarelli, The Bread and Puppet Theater, The School of Making Thinking, Victor, Ben, The Magic Stranger, Dave Sewelson, Dados, and The Cathedral of All Saints.

Folks telling stories about others and about interactions with others. Often things you did not know. So you can think of this as an episode of confidences, or Confidence Games.

This episode features stories from or about Joe Frank, Laura Esterman, Lisa Sloat, Sarah Sloat, Dusty, Larry Clark, Billy Mann, Shantal, Eno, JAPW, Al Maysles, The Fab Four, Harvey Weinstein, and Nate Larson.

Folks share tales of intoxicated hijinks, inebriated hard luck, drunken high adventure, tragedy while tripping,  and stoner train wrecks. Featuring: Sharon Mashihi, Rian Fossett,  (a supermodel), (an animator), (a media maker from Jersey), (an Ichabod Crane graduate), The Choir of Men and Boys.