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026: Big In Japan
Shawn has returned from Japan, and so of course we talk about Japanese toilets. Also trains, synesthesia, fighting with our dads, “happy-clappy” chur…
9 months ago
025: Apple Design, MAGA Schadenfreude, Democratic Socialism
Shawn is bound for Japan for a few weeks, so we’ll reconvene in August.
We talk about the state of Apple design under Jony Ive versus Steve Jobs. Then…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
024: Fishing Stories, Personal Hygiene, Wheelie Luggage
From Shawn: Pardon the background noise under my audio. I’m traveling and had to improvise a recording setup at my location.
Shawn is in the mountains…
10 months ago
023: Guns, Political Will, Motivated Reasoning
TW: Mention of suicide. Dial 988 if you need help.
MiLo is toughing out a premature Tucson heat wave, so we start with some commiseration about Arizon…
10 months, 1 week ago
022: Gen X Parents, Stranger Danger, Crime & Punishment
We are constantly exposed awful things happening in faraway places, which we compartmentalize in order to function. It can’t be good for the psyche, …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
021: Shuffling Feet
We listen to “Shuffling Feet,” a song we wrote together back in 1990, and talk about how it came to be:
SoundCloud link
I’m riding the magnet train wit…
11 months, 1 week ago
020: The Creative Journey
We remember starving artist days and grinding at various day jobs. We talk about feeling blocked, getting unblocked and moments of effortless flow. W…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
019: Oligarchs vs Corporatists, Authoritarians vs the Law, Skynet
We discuss how weird it is that authoritarians choose to operate under a veneer of legality instead of just abandoning laws. We talk about Skynet and…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
018: TSA Stories, life in kakistocracy, chemtrails redux
It’s wild how sometimes it just takes a single person to screw things up for all of us—like the shoe bomber 24 years ago whose singular act is the re…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
017: Conspiracy Theories and other Delusions
What’s the deal with chemtrails? Flat earth? Where did Q go? Does Q-Anon still exist? We eventually get to these questions, but first we spend some t…
1 year, 1 month ago