Just Jibber Jabber. Sometimes you have a whole podcast planned, but then you get talking with your friend, and you keep talking, and one thing leads to another, and you blaze right through the ad break, and you still haven’t gotten to the topic you had planned to discuss and then it dawns on you […]

Don’t Be Late for Arm Wrestling Practice. Sometimes you want to stay home all the time, and that’s ok, except that you end up missing things like arm wrestling practice, a rock show, a great ride or an amazing dumpster fire. You gotta live life with no regerts, except sometimes regerts are unavoidable. Music pick […]

Landing on a Brand New Planet. You think your life is headed one way and then suddenly you’re doing something completely different. Maybe someone tells you something that leads to an epiphany, or you read a book that shifts your perspective, or someone introduces you to an activity that lights you up like a casino […]

Tilting at Windmills. In 1605, the first edition of Don Quixote hit the shelves, or whatever humans were using to keep their books off the floor then. In it, the aforementioned knight saddles up and hits the dirt road in an attempt to bring back some measure of civic values and romance to his daily […]

Is This Good? This week we’re doing something different and hopefully upsetting. We’re going to talk about whether things that everybody seems to like are actually good or just products of a mass hysteria, the sort of feeling that leads to the Salem Witch Trials or the spread of casual fascism. Music pick of the […]

New Year, Old You.  2025 was bullshit. I think we can all agree. It’s 2026 now, and it’s time to throw the old body over a railing and beat it like musty rug, maybe run it through the washing machine on the heavy-duty cycle in hot water with a half cup of bleach. You don’t […]

Be the Best Impostor You Can Be. In a world where everyone’s fakin’ it to make it, ain’t nobody the real deal, which means the only natural response is to become the best impostor you possibly can. Fool everyone. Fool yourself. Ride your bike. Shut up. Music pick of the week: Robot – The New […]

Separating the Art from the Artist. Occasionally you encounter a piece of art, a book, a song, a painting, maybe even a performance, that moves you to the point that it alters the way you see the world, but then you find out the artist responsible is a terrible human, and it leaves you wondering […]

Transcendental Romanticism. We may come off as a little gruff and prone to fits of melancholy and wild perturbation, but really, we’re just sensitive, romantic even. Our nostalgia is a romance for the past, a desperate clinging to things we never fell out of love with, like zines, skateboards, obscure music, artists, etc. Today we […]

In the Shadow of the Valley. Middle-age is a real problem, mainly because it comes with most of the challenges of old age, deteriorating body, addled mind, divorce, asteroids, and existential crisis, but you’ve still got to have a job and pretend you care about stuff. Sadly, also, you lose friends and mentors, and today […]