Will the Rhombus Be Unbroken. If you follow the current laws of science through to their logical conclusions, then it’s hard to escape the idea that we are living predestined lives, where everything we do follows inescapably from the last thing we did. That’s a pretty tough pill to swallow though, so we invented the […]

The Wisdom of Your Future Self. If you knew now what you will know then, this whole story would be so, so different, so how could you possibly consult with future you to produce a present that you’ll be happy with later? The answer is probably simpler and also more difficult than you think. Music […]

That One Friend. You Know the One. Look, we’ve all got that one friend who is basically lovable, but their behavior leaves a lot to be desired. At some point, you’ve got to sit them down and have an honest talk about their attitudes, outbursts and party fouls. It’s a loving discussion; one aimed at […]

The Most Important Person in the World. Self-love, not that kind, but also not not that kind, is critical to living a contented, fulfilling life. But many of us struggle to like the person in the mirror. How come? And how do we fix that? Asking for a friend, who is us. Music pick of […]

In Which We Consider Bicycles. Even when you make a cycling podcast that’s not about bikes, occasionally bikes comes up. Not as often maybe as burritos or how bad Foo Fighters are, but they do come up. Today we’ll talk about bikes in exactly the way we talk about bikes when we’re not recording a […]

Metamodern Sounds in DIY Podcasting. What are we even doing here? The only reason you’re hearing words right now is that you’ve become too lazy to read. Remember when you subscribed to magazines? Remember when you read blogs? Now you just want to zone our and listen to two bozos having a conversation. It’s a […]

The World Is Flatter Than You Might Think. In the vast info-verse we spend most of our days trudging around in, every voice is equal, which means the grifter and ignoramus are just as loud as the expert and visionary. Good people doing good things are easily drowned out by bad people doing bad things. […]

Saloons, Saloonery, and Saloonacy. Humans love a bar. They love to drink. They love to talk. They love to shoot pool, and some of them even love to get thrown out. Today we’re mulling the universal appeal of the public room and discussing some good guidelines for behavior therein. Music pick of the week: Robot […]

Never Ever Pay the Artist. Your eyeballs have been under assault since you were born. Other people really are desperate for you to see what they want you to see. You’d think you’d place a higher value on the things can come into your field of vision, but you don’t. Everywhere there is art and […]

Learning to Fiddle While Rome Burns. When Ronald Reagan became president in 1980, we thought the world was going to end in a nuclear winter. When George W Bush, who couldn’t pronounce the word ‘nuclear,’ took over in 2000, we figured the whole planet would be consumed by the War on Terror. In 2016, we […]