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056: Layers of Attention
We talk about our podcast as a family artifact, home tech challenges, class reunions, digitizing MiLo’s old film projects, our celebrity doppelgänger…
8 hours ago
055: Process vs. Product
We talk about mountains, trains, snow, the Donner Party, medical “diseases of opulence,” 80s teen movies, categories of 80s parents, finding jobs dur…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
054: The Constant and the Variant (redux)
MiLo shares an update on his grandbabies and uses that to riff on the constant versus the variant (nature versus nurture). We linger on parenthood fo…
4 weeks ago
053: Supposedly Smart People
We talk about audiophiles, stereos of our youth, early portable music devices, white gentrification, artistic idiosyncrasies, writing, the pap smear …
1 month ago
052: In the Kali Yuga
We talk about the challenge of focusing on normal life, Trump’s fundamental laziness and capriciousness, art after tragedies like 9/11, the diminishi…
1 month, 1 week ago
051: Tragedy of the Commons
We talk about daylight savings, the war with Iran, ancient civilizations in North America, Lucy (aka “the missing link”), Charles Darwin’s bone colle…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
050: Learning the Hard Way
We talk about MiLo’s new grandson, parenting, germaphobia, catastrophizing, panic attacks, our love language, learning the hard way, idiosyncrasies o…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
049: The Golden Rule
Shawn gets a little salty about Trump’s SOTU address (which he avoided), while MiLo compares Trump to Liberace. After indulging that digression for a…
2 months ago
048: Consequences
Happy birthday to MiLo! Shawn is recovering from a cold, so we talk about that and about losing your voice, then about (the royal formerly known as) …
2 months, 1 week ago
047: An Optimized Life
MiLo (“Abu”) welcomes a new grandson, and we talk about pregnancy and birth. Then we talk about discrimination and personal blind spots, “cooperative…
2 months, 2 weeks ago