Stop Me If I've Heard This

This week marks the start of our fifth year of this podcast. They say one definition of crazy is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Well, call us crazy because we've definitely heard some of these stories before and we're not stopping. Still having a laugh, still taking a shallow dive into various deep topics and a deep dive into some shallow topics. Today we talk about the...

What has been behind Art's piano for the last fifteen years? The first half of this episode is light and silly. And then we felt the need to talk about the Ukrainian elephant in the room. Each of us copes with horrible news like the Russian invasion in our own way. Here are some good suggestions for keeping your stress level manageable.

How has the internet changed language? Texting? Emoticons? Will we ever go back to full sentences and words? IDK. Susan and Art challenge each other to guess the meaning of and the decade of origin of some common slang terms used my the computer generation. 

Susan and Art catch up after a week off. Art's trip to L.A. on Spirit Airlines, dealing with a coyote in his backyard, and Olympics, Super Bowl thoughts, and other random stuff.

We're back in the same room and no zoom. Good audio, good stories. As we age, learning new things is good for the brain so Susan and Art challenge each other to try something new and uncomfortable. Learn something, experiment with something, try something. Plus, some weird news about a "Catch Covid" show in Lynnwood and other odd news.

Once again were fortunate enough to have the funny and wise Milt Abel, a real gem of a human being and top shelf comedian who's back in Portland after a few years in California. We swap industry stories and play a game of match the comedian with the funny line.

As we approach the two year anniversary of the pandemic, it feels like we've been stretched to the breaking point for so long we're finally about to snap. How long will we have to continue to isolate? Will we still have any kind of social life when it's over? In this episode we talk about quarantine fatigue (again), funny news stories, and Art is hoping for more streaming channels because he's see...

They're calling it the "Great Resignation". Across the country, workers are deciding not to go back to work after the pandemic. Many are still working remotely but many others have taken this last two years as a chance to reset, rethink the "living to work" model and do what they want to do with their precious lives. And employers are faced with actually having to treat their workers fairly or los...