Sep 27, 2017

EPISODE 30 // In this episode we convene another Book Club! This week: Kate presents Shel Silverstein's THE MISSING PIECE (1976), a children's picture book. Just how do we translate a picture book to the podcast medium? You will have to listen to find out. We then listen to Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" (1969), which...

Sep 20, 2017

We take care of the mail this week. The mail was wet and we air them out. THEN we pick terrible thing #29 from Jack's list of terrible things and it's... nationalism. Along the way we talk about flags and the pledge of allegiance. Also we say nice things about America.

Plugs this week: concertinas (Hao), rubber plugs...

Sep 13, 2017

EPISODE 28 // We are proud to present the first installment of our "Sadness Spacewalk" trilogy, wherein one of us dives into an especially meaningful episode of television. In this hour Jack presents "THE INNER LIGHT" (1992), a high-watermark episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" exploring the nature of memory...

Sep 6, 2017

EPISODE 27 // We devote an entire hour to things that make us happy, starting with Rebecca Sugar's song "Here Comes a Thought" from "Steven Universe." Some Wonderful Whims are chosen as we take a look back at the things we listed for ONE HUNDRED HAPPY THINGS (episode 5). Hao briefly defends the consumption of...