Jul 26, 2017

EPISODE 21 // The animals in San Diego are committing suicide and by gosh if we aren't going to say something about that. Work pants are making ampersands, and there might not be enough ramps. We pick a Terrible Thing and devote the back half of the episode to it: <<CHILD LABOR>>.

Plugs this week: SEF.org (a...

Jul 19, 2017

EPISODE 20

This episode is our return to form. We dedicate this entire hour to KOREAN FOOD, a small but nonetheless important part of this podcast's premise we've long ignored. A handful of Korean restaurants are reviewed and then assigned white cabbage leaves. In Mail Corner we pore over news of Beatrice and corners....

Jul 12, 2017

EPISODE 19

In this episode we abandon the traditional format of the show to play a mini-tabletop RPG called MECHANICAL ORYX (by one Grant Howitt), winner of the 2017 200-Word RPG Challenge. Join Oxy (Kate) and Gilgamesh (Jack; no relation to the actual Gilgamesh) and Omniscient Impartial Narrator (Hao) as they journey...

Jul 5, 2017

In this action-packed episode we take a trip down memory lane in Update Corner, where we revisit hashtag dad couplets and Fermi's paradox. Then we spent the rest of the hour tackling the heady controversial world of FAKE NEWS. What is fake news? Where does it come from? Does it necessarily involve babies? These are but...