Sorry to get back on topic

The smoke from the California wildfires made the air quality here in the San Francisco Bay Area worse than ever, with the Air Quality Index measuring in the mid-300’s at one point. Normal levels are somewhere around 10 – 40.

If you’re seeing this on our website, here’s a before & after from Instagram that’s pretty unreal:

Smog on IG before/after

While many people slap a case on their phones, Josh likes to use a ‘sleeve.’ This doesn’t provide protection against drops while you’re using the phone of course, but it does help prevent scratches when you’re putting the phone down on rough surfaces. Here’s the $9 sleeve that he’s been using (bonus for other vegan folks, it’s faux leather!) [on amazon]

Josh and his wife Vanessa went to Disneyland recently, and Josh couldn’t help but think about his favorite amusement park, Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH. Space Mountain at Disneyland brought up memories of another far crappier indoor roller coaster at Cedar Point called Disaster Transport.

Here’s a video about that ride, and the channel has a lot of interesting stuff about old defunct rides too:

Disaster Transport Wikipedia

This episode was edited by Rob. You can forward any complaints to him.

Rob is obsessed with coffee, and Josh buys a shitty Halloween costume.

0 minutes – 15 minutes: some updates about the podcast website and social media stuff.

15m – 44m: Coffee talk.

44m – 50m: Halloween, shitty costumes, and abusing Apple’s generous refund policy.

50m – 58m: Apple is starting to over-promise and under-deliver.

58m – End: Rob introduces a podcast challenge, you know, for “content.”

More details and links:

We’ve got our website up and running! The HOPEFULLY easy-to-remember domain is joshandrob.com. We also set up a bunch of social channels like a public group on Telegram, and a Twitter handle: @sorrytopic.

Check out another “hangout” podcast: Getting Caught Up with a couple of more interesting people, Mike and Jeff.

The Beers:

Josh: mysterious beer sitting in the fridge for months

Rob: 21st Amendment IPA

The Coffee:

Rob has been getting really into coffee lately. He refers to The Coffee Podcast and about finding some online guides for making snobby coffee at home. Intelligentsia has a lot.

Josh on the other hand appreciates fancy coffee but is very lazy about it at home. He’s been using a Keureg some days, and other times he gets hours-old leftovers from his Airpot. One of those pump action things you’ll see at conferences and big meetings.

The Challenge:

To spice things up, Rob suggests a simple challenge to try something new for a week or two. We’ll report back with the results!

Challenge for Josh: wake up and make fresh coffee one morning this week. Here’s the French press guide. He also needs to write a bio for the website.

We came in to this expecting Josh to recount his trip to Barcelona, but ended up on many tangents. This is how we decided our podcast name! You’ll hear about it. Links: The Japanese subway videos The In-Flight videos I was surprised Josh found some Vegan places in Barcelona, a city I love for its […]

On this very first episode, Josh happens to be visiting New York City and catches up with Rob over some takeout and beer. They generally talk about how making new friends as an adult is like dating. Who knows what the rest of this show is about. We don’t listen to these! #nofilter I think […]

We came in to this expecting Josh to recount his trip to Barcelona, but ended up on many tangents. This is how we decided our podcast name! You’ll hear about it.

Links:

The Japanese subway videos

The In-Flight videos

I was surprised Josh found some Vegan places in Barcelona, a city I love for its seafood. Here’s a cool resource if you travel Vegan.

Josh’s eponymous podcast about Meeting Famous People

Rob’s old, now defunct podcast with lots of ambient recordings of the subway in cities he visits: Letters Podcast