Boot and Sink

Sometimes a song stops being a song and becomes a home. This week on Boot & Sink, Timothy Zero tells the story behind Run With Us and the secret club that made it their motto.

Every house in Bandit's Nook has one. An empty drawer. Not for batteries. Not for junk. Not for anything. Just... empty. No one agrees on why the tradition started, but everyone agrees you shouldn't ignore it. Because when people fill every drawer in the house, strange little things begin to disappear. And when they finally make room again... ...the missing things have a way of coming home.

A young library patron asks for books about Freddy Krueger. Twenty minutes later, we're discussing witness testimony, criminal investigations, and the dangers of falling asleep during horror movies. Some conversations don't go where you expect.

This week's episode, I talk to Walter Grady. A man who created his own broadcasting cable company and his own time capsule from 1987. His basement.

I went to a wedding. Or at least I thought I did. The vows became increasingly strange. The guests seemed to know things they shouldn't. A deer inspected the wedding cake. People spoke to empty chairs. By midnight, reality itself appeared to have been part of the guest list. Then I discovered the truth. "The Wedding" is an episode about experimental theater, ritual, performance, and the unsettling...

A personal episode about identity, loneliness, belonging, and the small lights that help us find our way home.

In this episode, I finally got to interview Dr. Theodora Blackthorn on her new book, The Monastic Hound: Forbidden Canines of the Medieval World. We discuss some dogs maybe have never existed and some I pray never come into style again.

Alone on a Saturday night. I try a random voice chat website. People are cruel so I get weird on them, and then of course something weird happens.

Del's crustacean infested nightmares come to a head and he desperately needs to get rid of the astral house guests. So they go to the only one who can help. Agnes Wicklow.

Del won't leave his place because of a monster storm coming, so I recorded this riffing excercise that I do at work when I have nothing to do.

In this episode, I talk about how sometimes people let you down. How in a town as weird as Bandit's Nook. People don't want to talk. And I get a new sposnor, as well as an update on Del.

Finally after missed phone calls, and getting time in Harlan's busy schedule, I get to set down in his restaurant and talk to the man, the cook, the fighter.

Episode 4 of Season 2. I had a odd run in with a kid looking for something at the library. And it was something I was looking for too at his age. Ectoplasm, and why wasn't it in the dictionary.

Season 2, episode 3. Del returns home! And he has many stories to tell, hallucinatory fish, trapped in the bowels of the denver airport and interdimensional crustaceans.

Here's a quick episode about Manic pixie dream girls and why I thought they would save me from myself. And also, I get a new local sponsor!

Season 2 episode 1. In this episode of Boot & Sink, Timothy Zero recounts something he’s never fully been able to explain… or forget. When he was young, a voice came through the speakers of his family’s church. Not a sermon. Not interference. Something else. Special thanks to Kristen O'Neal and Kaitlin Bruder. @thinplacesradio

Episode 30: Showdown at Mega Ultra The signal is back. The air feels heavier. And something… something is watching from above. Del Rigsby is off the grid. The Man in the Yellow Hat is closer than ever. And the truth behind Mega Ultra isn’t just strange… it’s waiting. This is where it all comes to a head. Secrets unravel. Signals collide. And not everyone makes it out unchanged.

The mayor wanted a website. I said yes. Now there’s hosting plans, domain names, mysterious plugins… and a laptop that has completely lost the will to live. If you’ve ever tried to build a website and immediately regretted it, this episode is for you.

Growing up with intrusive thoughts and catastrophic fears, I spent decades thinking something was wrong with me, untill I finally learned it had a name: OCD.

An episode within an episode. We delve into the history of the Hall of mirrors sculptor, Ione Calder as well as listen to the last ever interview with her, done by Danielle Kessler.

Something dropped into my lap today. Something that I couldn't ignore. Something crazy, something niche... something that inspired me to write some fan fiction. Don't Judge me!

An archive box reveals the original plans for the Looking Glass Mall, along with a warning from its architect: mirrors are not passive. Some building don't just hold people. They remember them.

This episode is a deep dive into the local hub of commerce for Bandit's Nook. The Looking Glass Mall and the mysterious carousel, and the Hall of reflections.

More mail goodness from all you out there! Let's dive in and see what's going on. And also something that happened at work.

More letters from listeners and from the townsfolk. With special guests by my cats, Detective and Yang Yang.