It's true, Motherhood is like calculus. I wrote about it last year at joshrolph.com and this year, I thought I would read it with a few comments intermingled.

The show ends with a brief snapshot of my mother going through the "infinitesimal" details of mothering me and my siblings in a 1983 tape recording we sent to my out-of-state grandparents. 

Two years ago after the death of my grandfather, I found a box full of tape cassettes that I've been turning into mp3s. I stumbled upon the 1983 tape from my family two days ago.

There is so much more I could say to make this a true tribute to my wife, my mother, my two living grandmothers, my sisters and sisters-in-law, and really, to every mother I've ever known. What they do amazes me.

I don't know what happened with this episode. It is a filler episode, like most of my episodes. Issues discussed on this episode:

* What does it mean to be anti anti-podcast?

* More than you need to know on ranking and reviewing the show on iTunes

* That if you comment privately about the show I will read it for all the world to hear

* Time efficiency and book writing

It was either this episode or doing something else I try not to do at night, which I fully disclose.

Also - an exclusive review of the Apple Watch.

Even more intimate, subtle, wonderful, exquisite, [pause] and *personal* (to borrow words from Apple's marketing machine), is an exclusive reading of not just one, but two blog posts. The second post is about the calculator watch.

Rate and review in iTunes. If you love this show, give it a one star review and write the funniest review you can possibly write.

Learn how to fall asleep with a simple method I created in high school. The written-out version can be found at this convenient link that I went to the trouble of making: rol.ph/28.

I also talk about Daylight Saving Time. That's SAVING, not SAVINGSSSS.

I speak in a mangled British accent for far-too long. My favorite British accent impression is one that is constantly changing. I do a fair job here. I say that after not listening to validate that I did a fair job. And by fair, I mean not that great.

There have been a few iTunes reviews in February. Apparently I get iTunes reviews when I don't publish new episodes.

This is an episode I am really not proud of. I can't in good faith recommend it to your listening ears. Again, that's without having listened to see how it sounds. 

More on the shortest episode, the one star reviewer episode, Cub Scouts, Jared Adamson, the point of this show, and I touch on the question everyone is asking, "what is a podcast?"

Well, listen here. This is the perfect episode to listen to when you are in a rush, and I’m talking the kind of rush where you don’t have time to listen to any podcast episode on earth.

I imagine people listening to this episode when they want to hear an entire podcast episode but simply don’t have the time.

I imagine a busy hedge fund manager running out the door of her luxury penthouse suite with a half-eaten goat cheese crostini in one hand and phone in the other. Just as she opens the door she briefly experiences an altered personality shift from her usual determined, go-getter self, becoming for a flash darkly despondent, when she exclaims to herself, “I forgot to listen to the Josh Podcast podcast Show, the Anti-Podcast podcast on God and man during my workout!”

As if fate was calling, she feels her phone vibrate and notices there is a new episode of her favorite show that uses the word “podcast” four times. She also rejoices that this is the “shortest podcast episode in the world” and will therefore be able to squeeze in an entire episode listen before she even leaves her front porch, even if she is sprinting out the door.

And none of you, no, not one, will ever be able to say that I didn’t look out for you and seek to satisfy YOUR needs. This show is all about YOU. Even though it’s called the “Josh Podcast podcast Show,” it’s all. about. you.

No description needed for this episode.

* A listener gave the first one star review of this podcast.

* Goals make me feel good

* Listen to a dramatic reading of an interpretation of vague or obscure Facebook posts.

Go to iTunes or Stitcher to give more one star reviews.

Email questions/comments to josh [at] flowit.co.

* Give the Josh Podcast podcast Show 1 star on iTunes!

* If podcasts were more like conference calls

* Birthdays ending in 9

* Episode 11

Important topics discussed in this episode:

And much, much more!

Oh, and:

Music by The Shore.

Special mentions: Maury, Murray, Mary, my wife, my neighbor, my job, and Cuba.