Podcast Episodes

016: Fascism, Signalgate, Populism, Comedy

Shawn vents about his attempts to listen to Trump voters during a week when ICE started snatching people off the street for thought crimes. Then we m…

1 year, 1 month ago

015: Cancel culture, our scouting days, and revenge of the dumb a******s

We wonder, is there a formula for deciding whether a famous person should be canceled? Shawn posits there is, sort of. Collectively we seem to weigh …

1 year, 1 month ago

014: Psychedelics, Beliefs, Delusions, Divine Providence, and the Long Arc of the Universe

We wander through various questions: Can psychedelics change us to change the world, or do they just ‘intensify’ our fundamental character? How do se…

1 year, 1 month ago

013: Electric Cars, Octopuses, and Aliens

We ponder the virtues of EVs and the weird, seemingly coordinated, right-wing backlash. Then octopuses for some reason (octopi?), which are from oute…

1 year, 1 month ago

012: Tech Utopias / Dystopias and this Reactionary Moment

What’s up with the reactionary moment we’re in? Is it reasonable to talk about “blue-on-blue” conflict or sectarian violence, or is that catastrophiz…

1 year, 2 months ago

011: Through the years

Recorded on MiLo’s birthday, we talk about what has changed over the decades and what, perhaps oddly, has not.

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1969, the year…

1 year, 2 months ago

010: In the flooded zone

A decade of Trump has had us parsing the difference between shock and surprise (as in, we’re constantly shocked, but never surprised). We talk about …

1 year, 2 months ago

009: Dry heat, dog stories, midlife ambitions, billionaire babies

We remember our dogs and their eating habits, like the time Shawn’s dog Larry wolfed down a family-size box of Frosted Flakes. We reflect on what it …

1 year, 3 months ago

008: Cars we drove. The church we once belonged to. Post-apocalypse talents.

We reunite for our first episode of 2025 and remember our first cars, cars we drove too hard and too recklessly. Kids, please don’t drive like we did…

1 year, 3 months ago

007: A Few of Our Favorite Things

We share some things we especially enjoyed in 2024—music, shows, books, and more. There are many more things we could have mentioned, but we digress …

1 year, 4 months ago