C'mon, this box of donuts isn't gonna eat itself!

• Intro: Take Your Mama, Scissor Sisters, Polydor Records (2004)
• Poem: Love Is Not All, Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Music: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Wham!, Columbia (1984)

Some days you drive the commute, and some days the commute drives you.

• Intro: Take Your Mama, Scissor Sisters, Polydor Records (2004)
• Poem: I Am Panting, Anna Swir
• Music: Tee Time, Vulfpeck, Vulf Records (2017)

This morning's traffic jam brought to you by A 4-Way Stop That Should Be a Roundabout!

• Intro: Take Your Mama, Scissor Sisters, Polydor Records (2004)
• Poem: You Ask Why I Make My Home in the Mountain Forest, Li Po
• Music: Small Change, DON WEST, Mandatory Music (2024)

Had trouble scraping this morning. You can be my right eye!

• Intro: Take Your Mama, Scissor Sisters, Polydor Records (2004)
• Poem: Yes, That's When, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
• Music: Survivor, Destiny's Child, Columbia (2001)

Don't let the snow worry you. I learned how to drive in Iowa.

• Intro: Take Your Mama, Scissor Sisters, Polydor Records (2004)
• Poem: As if from the End Times, John Burnside
• Music: Believe, Cher, Warner Records (1998)

Birds! I hear birds this morning!

• Intro: Run-Around, Blues Traveler, A&M (1994)
• Poem: The Jewel, James Wright
• Music: Hey Mr. D.J., Zhané, Motown (1994)

You know, I spilled a yogurt smoothie in here two days ago. Can't smell anything, can you?

• Intro: Run-Around, Blues Traveler, A&M (1994)
• Poem: Rites of Passage, Audre Lorde
• Music: Alberto Balsalm, Will Van Horn, Crystal Beach (2018)

Sometimes it's nice to drive in companionable silence.

• Intro: Run-Around, Blues Traveler, A&M (1994)
• Poem: Ode to Friendship, Noor Hindi
• Music: To Be, Shubh Saran, Shubh Saran (2024)

Get in, losers, we're going commuting!

• Intro: Run-Around, Blues Traveler, A&M (1994)
• Poem: It Is March, Victoria Chang
• Music: Salvation, The Cranberries, Island Records (1996)

Mondays are always better together. With coffee.

• Intro: Run-Around, Blues Traveler, A&M (1994)
• Poem: A Poem Is a Place, Isabelle Correa
• Music: Everything, Gotts Street Park;Rosie Lowe, Blue Flowers Music (2020)