Sanesplaining

Guest: James Guttman. Margaret's protest march. Red Sovine Returns. Professional wrestling behind the scenes. The Fermi Paradox. Trump messes up wrestling. Excellent interview with James Guttman, editor of We Want Insanity (wewantinsanity.com).

Guest: Erin Elizabeth Smith. The Ray J. Johnson Theory. Madam the Puppet. Alex Jones ain't investigating this. Erin reads poems. Robots.

Poet Steve Henn is our guest. Colin Quinn is going to get me. Listener questions. Margie does Bernie. Paul Ryan keeps down-voting us. Buy Steve's album! Cloned Trumps! Our phones drive us crazy!

Bruce Hornsby is the only anti-anxiety medication I need. Margaret's weird dream. I keep clicking a pen. Nate's FFS. Body image. The horror of camel crickets. Nate talks to erasers. Weird fears and more!

Our guest this week is poet Rebecca Schumejda. We talk poetry, Pushcart Prizes, The '80s and '90s, Swatch Watches and more. Rebecca reads a few poems.

Guest: James Brubaker. We talk the best and worst of 2016, music, movies, horror and all sorts of nerdy things. Follow us on Twitter @Sanesplaining. And subscribe!

Special guest is poet John Dorsey. We talk self-harming thoughts, the small press in the '90s and whether or not you can woo a significant other with poetry. Jeff Foxworthy stops by.

It's our Christmas show with Dr. Chase Dimock! We deconstruct Conway Twitty and Red Sovine. A queer reading of Rudolph. We discover Santa controls the means of production. One Christmas I didn't get a dancing stick.

We take privacy very seriously at this show. With that in mind, there are a few odd edits in this episode that were made to protect the privacy of our guest. Also, there are some weird edits that are there just because I thought they were funny. You'll figure out how the show works soon enough.

A Christmas poem I wrote. George Bailey's Blues Mania starts like this: You want to travel Anywhere will do You want to build the biggest buildings and best bridges Most of all you want out of Bedford Falls and away from that goddamn Building and Loan You might fall in love Maybe with Mary Maybe with Violet Maybe with both After it wears off you are numbed like everything is in black and white and wading through snow Day after day it's just you and fucking Uncle Billy It gets so boring you've just got to ruin everything. Or at least “Uncle Billy” does Of course then depression sinks in It's a bad one So bad the delusions begin You decide to jump off a bridge about 8 feet above the water Serious? A cry for help? Does it matter? The next thing you know you're talking to people who ain't there and you see the town for what it really is A bunch of mean drunks and strip malls But like all the October decorations and that stupid Starbucks' cup it won't stop there The whole damn thing starts again Your new obsession is bells No one is sure if “Uncle Billy” ever even existed.