A Participation Trophy for Your Trouble. It’s award season, because it’s never not award season when people who already make a lot of money and are crazy famous also want to be told they’re doing a real good job. As the greatest podcast that ever was, in this universe or any of the others, we […]

Never Put the Shovel Away. Robot made a huge mistake last week. He put one of his snow shovels away in the shed. That caused it to snow this week. OK. OK. Maybe it didn’t cause it to snow, but you know how you’re not superstitious, except that you sort of suspect that if you […]

Nature, Nurture, Geography, Chemistry, Luck. We are all bags of DNA and chemicals, raised in petri dishes, by decaying life forms in urban and suburban and ex-urban locales, saddled with genetic predispositions and vulnerable to the capricious whims of luck, both good and bad. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how babies get made. Music […]

This or That, and No Other. This week we’re just gonna play a fun little game that threatens to expose our weird preferences and wrong-headed ideas about what’s good and what is slightly less good. We hope it makes you shout at your internet radio, quit listening and go outdoors. Music pick of the week: […]

What It Is About the Thing. We have a pretty specific set of stuff we really like to participate in, and if you’ve listened for the last 219 hours, then you’re crystal clear on what those things are. To be clear, other stuff might be good too. The list of stuff isn’t meant to be […]

It’s Raining Bowling Balls. Life, like the weather, is pretty unpredictable. And sometimes, no matter how ready you are, the feces strikes the fan. In those moments, what are you gonna do? No. Literally, what are you gonna do? Music pick of the week: Robot – The Olympians – In Search of a Revival Stevil […]

The Shape of Self-Destructiveness to Come. To say that we are our own worst enemies is to discount the ignorant hatred roiling the world at the present moment, BUT we can only control what we can control, so instead of doom scrolling today we’re thinking about the reflexive, negative thought patterns that deny us the […]

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 […]