Thoughts (loosely) inspired by three Paul Tremblay horror novels: Horror Movie, The Cabin at the End of the World, and A Head Full of Ghosts.

Special Guests: Joe "the Zombie" Biden, Donald "Apocalypto" Trump, Foghat, Bernard Herrman, John Carpenter, Evil Dead, Hector Berlioz, Joey, Rachel, and Randy Meeks.

Thoughts (loosely) inspired by Halle Butler's novel The New Me.

Special Guests: The Who, Moira and David, Larry and Susie, Norm, and Radiohead.

Thoughts (loosely) inspired by Halle Butler's novel Banal Nightmare.

Special Guests: Ween, OK Go, Morrissey, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Suzanne Vega, Bill Bryson, and The Kids in the Hall.

The top three reasons to read Shakespeare, dramatically presented in five acts.

Special Guests: Bill Bryson, Bill and Ted, James Shapiro, Ron Popeil, The Beatles, George and Jerry, Gretchen Wieners, Miles Davis, an articulate homeless man, Stunna Girl, Rollie, Drew, Paapa Essiedu, Tim Minchin, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Rory Kinnear, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, and King Charles.

A review of Shakespeare's most notable lines, plays and genres-- in the form of a quiz. Good luck!

An introduction to Shakespeare's art and how it connects to his life and times. 

Thoughts (loosely) based on A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare:1599 by James Shapiro, Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson, The Elizabethan World Picture by E.M.W. Tillyard and countless years of teaching Shakespeare to high school students.

Special Guests: Tim the Enchanter, Cole Porter, and, of course, the Bard himself.

Thoughts (loosely) based on John Wyndham's post apocalyptic sci-fi novel The Day of the Triffids.

Featuring an Auditory Apocalypse Quiz.

Special Guests: Skeeter Davis, Vic and his telepathic dog, Tool, Kent Brockman, The Presidents of the United States of America . . . plus a host of others  (which cannot be revealed because-- duh-- there's a quiz).

Thoughts (loosely) based on Rob Russell's book "The Adventures of JoJo the Small Town Hound: Volume 1, Leesburg, Virginia and the Curious Case of the Dog Money."

Special Guests: Rob Russell, Method Man, and George Costanza.

Thoughts (loosely) based on Nelson DeMille's Cold War spy novel The Charm School; Dean R. Koontz's 90s tech thriller Dark Rivers of the Heart; Jonathan Blitzer's stellar book on the border situation-- Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis-- and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's horror novel Mexican Gothic.

Special Guests: Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, Dave Chapelle, John Cougar, Phil Connors, Bob Dylan, The Scorpions, Kansas, Sting, Long Duk Dong, General Ripper, General Turgidson, President Merkin Muffley, John Mulaney, Donald Trump, Marco Guttierez, Ivan Drago, and Tommy DeVito.

What an excellent day for an earworm exorcism. 

An obsessive, comprehensive, and digressive deep dive into how these insidious auditory creatures worm their way into our brains, wrap around our cerebral cortex, and make us susceptible to suggestions of the catchiest kind. 

A montage-- a veritable shitload-- of the sounds that capture our consciousness (and the theory and philosophy of how and why they do this).

But be warned: your brain might not survive unscathed . . . this many earworms have NEVER been assembled in one place before.

Special Guests: Too many to count.

Three fantastic podcast episodes inspired this project.

"The Case of the Missing Hit" (Reply All)

"Whomst Amongst Us Let the Dogs out" (99% Invisible)

"Louie Louie: The Strange Journey of the Dirtiest Song Never Written" (Lost Notes)