Aug 30, 2017

EPISODE 26 // What is San Diego and what has Jack overheard while living there? We find out, in a special Overheard in San Diego. It becomes Current Event Corner (Skirting the Edges).

Then we talk about nuclear war.

Plugs this week: USA's spy dramedy "Burn Notice" (Hao), Bongard problems (Jack), watching an entire...

Aug 23, 2017

We devote this entire episode to one entry in Jack's terrible-things.txt: the internet as an amoral frontier. Is the internet just a tool? Is it for good? Is it for evil? We fell in love with the internet and the internet broke our hearts. We also talk math.

Plugs this week: vacations with French people...

Aug 16, 2017

EPISODE 24 // We take a trip to Future Earth to revisit our old friends Oxy and Gilgamesh. This is part two of our ongoing mini-tabletop RPG game. In this entry you will hear tales of electrical sound equipment being safely set up, speeches (multiple speeches) delivered to teenagers, and feats of great bravery...

Aug 9, 2017

EPISODE 23 // We devote this entire hour to sandwiches: veggies, spread, meat, and bread. What do these marvelous snack packs have to say about who we are? In What's Up, birds interact with Jack's pajamas.

Plugs this week: time.is (Jack), sprouts (Jack), book clubs (Kate), librarian scientist Melvil Dewey...

Aug 2, 2017

EPISODE 22 // We take a foray into YouTube Live's chat boards (people still say chat boards, right?). We ask people what their age, sex, and location are. We talk about people talking about drugs. We listen to Simpsonwave through an iPhone speaker because Hao forgot to match the mono output with the mono input. All...