By the Rules

Tell us what you think! It's America's 250th birthday today while we are recording. We decided that we needed to share our rules for the 4th of July and see what people think about them. Let us know if you have any big rules we missed.

Tell us what you think! The US and the rest of North America are hosting the World Cup while we record this. We though we might have enough rules for soccer to fill up an episode and it turns out we did. Let us know if you have any rules we need to consider.

Tell us what you think! I wanted to get this off my chest for a while so we finally did a podcast about it. There are way too many ways for people with goofy ideas to connect with each other right now. We needed to lay down a few rules about what is and isn't the truth about some conspiracy theories.  Let us know if we missed any big ones. Post production fact check....Steve was right.  The b...

Tell us what you think! One of us just got back from Denver and one of us lists Denver as their favorite city. You will have to listen to find out who is who. We have a couple rules for how to negotiate the city and drop some ideas of where to go and what to see. Let us know if we missed anything.

Tell us what you think! A lot has changed since the 80s with video games and we have seen it all...arcades to game consoles to online gaming.  We discuss a few rules we have experienced along the way.  Let us know if you agree or have some rules of your own.

Tell us what you think! We decided to talk about how home and car entertainment has changed over our live. We have a few rules about how that should work. Some of the things we have seen have been around the block a few times now. Let us know if you think we missed anything.

Tell us what you think! It's graduation season now. We figured we better share our rules for graduation and make sure everyone knows what to do. We have a couple of good ideas buried in here somewhere and someone has a potty mouth. Let us know if you have any rules we missed.

Tell us what you think! We needed to talk about books at some point in time and that time is now! Both of us like to read so we figured we should start sharing our rules for books with all of you. Let us know if you have a classic book that we should read or if we missed any major rules.

Tell us what you think! We decided to share our rules for toys. There are some good tidbits in here. You need to help weigh in on the controversy around the difference between toys and games, if there is one. We are on opposite sides here so feel free to choose which one you are on. Let us know if we missed any big toy rules.

Tell us what you think! Ok, we have rules for sandwiches. There are a few controversial ideas in here. One might involve Miracle Whip or mayonnaise. Let us know what your favorite sandwich is. Let us know if we missed a big rule.

Tell us what you think! We are starting a grass roots movement to revive the Supper Club. We figured we better share the rules for those if any of you are taking the plunge and starting one. It's critical that we hit these marks if we want the revival to work. Let us know if we missed any rules!

Tell us what you think! We got to attend the first Alumni Day at the University of Iowa. It could be because we are famous podcasters. Or, it may be because we were both graduates from the University. My guess is it's the second part. We decided to share our rules for hanging out in Iowa City. Let us know if we missed a spot we should have mentioned.

Tell us what you think! We made it to episode 100!! We actually did have a listener party. We are sorry if you didn't make it but we all had a great time. We talked about our new rules for podcasting and a few other things. Let us know if there are rules we need to address.

Tell us what you think! This is our list double digit episode so we decided to break some of the rules and talk about what we were doing in 1999 and what the number 99 means to us. We did come up with one rule late in the podcast so tune in for that. We also tried to respond to some of our feedback from last week. Let us know if we filled the the gaps.

Tell us what you think! It's taken us a long time to get to this topic but the time is finally here. We share our rules for what it takes to be a fan of the Iowa Hawkeyes and the rules you should follow. There are some good things in here! Let us know what you think we missed.

Tell us what you think! We are rapidly approaching the Easter season and we figured we better know if we need to pass on any rules to all of you. Turns out, we have a couple things that needed a rule. Let us know what we missed. 

Tell us what you think! We are about to head out on our spring break. We go back in time to talk about what spring break meant when we were kids (hint: not a lot) and what it looked like in our college years. Let us know if you have any hot spring break locations.

Tell us what you think! We are in the middle of a few weeks of travel so we wanted to refresh our rules on that topic. We also had to make a few new rules that we wish we wouldn't have to talk about, but here we are. Let us know if you have any hot spots we need to hit in Charleston SC or if we missed any rules.

Tell us what you think! Yes, there are a lot of rules to govern the simple task of making your dishes clean. We have a couple that might contradict each other. You can decide who is right and who is wrong. Let us know what you think. Also let us know if you know where the term "elbow grease" came from.

Tell us what you think! We needed to revisit our rules for driving due to some bad behaviors we witnessed this week. We had a few more we needed to add as well. Let us know if you have more things we need to add.

Tell us what you think! We both like a good dive bar. We needed to dive into (get it... dive) into what our rules are for a good dive bar. Turns out that we almost have exactly the same thoughts this time. I hope our bar owner friends are listening.  As usual, let us know if you think we missed something big.

Tell us what you think! Well, the winter games are here and we figured we better share our rules for those before someone does something crazy and tries to become an athlete. Let us know if you have any rules you think we should add.

Tell us what you think! One of us spent 6 hours car shopping today so that inspired us to talk about more rules for cars. (no, I didn't buy anything) We have seen a lot of car features come and go in our lives. There are some rules that need to be applied about that. Let us know what you think we missed.

Tell us what you think! It's cold here in Iowa. Really cold. We decided that we needed to share our rules for how to handle it when the air seems like it's trying to kill you. Let us know if you have something we missed. Stay warm out there!

Tell us what you think! One of us is in the car market. We figured we better figure out what our rules for car shopping are. Turns out there are some. This might end up being another shows worth of material. Let us know what we need to add.