Lisa interviews Steve Alten, author of The Meg.

Steve pulls rank as a whistling prodigy; Lisa was a terrible 2 month teenage goth.

Lisa’s marriage gets an arrogant, sexy Han Solo boost; Steve wonders if Slayer wrote an ABBA song.

Lisa and Steve JOINT-ly app-ROACH HASH-ing out some unbe-WEED-able pot puns. Sorry.

Sparring with a mind as great as his own, Steven argues that with great naming power must come great naming ability; Lisa called her goldfish [...]

A Toronto yarn store is but a facade for vegan militarism; Lisa Schwartzman investigates! With additional reporting from Steven Shehori and a dude from work.

Lisa encourages Steven to go solo in this week’s episode, prompting him to yap about a couple of crazy brushes with fame.

In this uber-special edition of the podcast, Steven recounts to a live audience the time when, as a neurotic 11-year-old Jewish kid, his parents accidentally [...]

Steve has bigger things to worry about than aliens taking our stuff; Lisa does not.