Revolting

Forgiveness and Hope Are the Primary Elements of Time Travel. We can’t change the past without forgiveness. We can’t change the future without hope. We can’t send you to back in time to kill Hitler, or other people like Hitler, but maybe we can all change our relationships to the parts of the timeline we […]

Being a Part of the Scene, Apart from the Scene. The older you get, the more of your friends skip the show, because they’re tired, their back hurts, and frankly they just can’t stand in one place for very long. As a result, you find yourself standing in a crowd of seemingly random people, united […]

Run-Ins with Authority, Part II. Apparently, we’ve had enough problems with the man that it takes more than one episode to get through it all. If you’ve spent a lifetime being told to sit still, we suspect you have some stories yourself. You’re just one of those people, like us, who struggles to do what […]

Run-Ins with Authority. We were young and surly and had a really hard time sitting still. You know who hates that? The man. Sometimes it was a man in a uniform with a gun on his hip. Sometimes it was our Algebra teacher. Sometimes it was our very tired and overworked parents. You get the […]

We Are Just Bad VHS Copies of Our Younger Selves. The cells in your body regenerate every 7-10 years, although some actually stay the same. You’re not a literal clone of yourself, but from an experiential point of view, you’re a different person now than you were 10 years ago and 10 before that, like […]

FOBI and JOMO. Fear of being included. Joy of missing out. Oh, we love hijinks and shenanigans both. We love our friends and enjoy knocking things out of their hands. But gosh it’s also really nice to be left alone with our thoughts and our tired, tired bodies. Sorry, can’t hang out today. We’re busy […]

Multipart Definitions and Dual Diagnoses. Our simple human brains want everything to be simple. Effects have clear cut causes. Injuries happen to specific parts of the body. Unfortunately, the world isn’t like this. It’s all complex interactions spitting out murky consequences. Whatever is wrong with you though, you should probably be taking Vitamin D. Music […]

Never Not Bleeding for the Cause. Robot’s wife said, “Oh my god, why are you always bleeding?” Suffice it to say, some of us are less careful than we ought to be. Also, the world is pointy and sharp. At this stage, we’re often not even sure why we’re bleeding, but we never stop. It’s […]

Slow Walk to Music. You know something big is afoot when the main characters in a movie or TV show start slow motion walking to music. Of course, there are times in your own life that deserve this treatment. Or even better, a walk on song, like baseball players get, 10 seconds of Metallic to […]

Two Legs Bad, Four Legs Good. We can be reasonably certain that no cat ever crashed the economy. If you took a random Israeli dog and a random Palestinian dog, they’d probably be buddies. Russia/Ukraine? Same. Furry buddies don’t say hurtful things, because they don’t talk. They should OBVIOUSLY be running the world instead of […]

Hugs Are Better Than Drugs, But Drugs Are Also Pretty Good. Don’t do meth, you’ll lose all your teeth. Don’t do coke, you’ll lose your whole bank account. Don’t do Molly, you’ll sleep with your cousin. But, beer, weed, ibuprofen, caffeine, all in moderation, are probably fine, right? Music pick of the week: Robot – […]

Mona Lisa Wasn’t Wearing Pants, That’s What She Was Smiling About. Go in any art museum and you’ll find paintings, drawings, sculptures and photos of people in various states of undress, sometimes even doing the most unnatural but also very natural things to each other. For millennia we’ve been into boobs and butts and even […]

Go Ahead and Call It a Comeback. 2025 is the year we both return from physical setback to reestablish ourselves as defiantly mediocre athletes. This time it’s different, but also probably exactly the same. You can roll back the odometer, but the tires are bald and engine block is cracked. It’s never a good sign […]

Like a Piano Down a Flight of Stairs. We all want to age gracefully…physically, mentally and emotionally…but the likelihood is we’ll be just as annoying as our parents every step of the stupid way. The world is moving so fast, all the time, that the older you get the farther you fall behind. How do […]

Will the Rhombus Be Unbroken. If you follow the current laws of science through to their logical conclusions, then it’s hard to escape the idea that we are living predestined lives, where everything we do follows inescapably from the last thing we did. That’s a pretty tough pill to swallow though, so we invented the […]

The Wisdom of Your Future Self. If you knew now what you will know then, this whole story would be so, so different, so how could you possibly consult with future you to produce a present that you’ll be happy with later? The answer is probably simpler and also more difficult than you think. Music […]

That One Friend. You Know the One. Look, we’ve all got that one friend who is basically lovable, but their behavior leaves a lot to be desired. At some point, you’ve got to sit them down and have an honest talk about their attitudes, outbursts and party fouls. It’s a loving discussion; one aimed at […]

The Most Important Person in the World. Self-love, not that kind, but also not not that kind, is critical to living a contented, fulfilling life. But many of us struggle to like the person in the mirror. How come? And how do we fix that? Asking for a friend, who is us. Music pick of […]

In Which We Consider Bicycles. Even when you make a cycling podcast that’s not about bikes, occasionally bikes comes up. Not as often maybe as burritos or how bad Foo Fighters are, but they do come up. Today we’ll talk about bikes in exactly the way we talk about bikes when we’re not recording a […]

Metamodern Sounds in DIY Podcasting. What are we even doing here? The only reason you’re hearing words right now is that you’ve become too lazy to read. Remember when you subscribed to magazines? Remember when you read blogs? Now you just want to zone our and listen to two bozos having a conversation. It’s a […]

The World Is Flatter Than You Might Think. In the vast info-verse we spend most of our days trudging around in, every voice is equal, which means the grifter and ignoramus are just as loud as the expert and visionary. Good people doing good things are easily drowned out by bad people doing bad things. […]

Saloons, Saloonery, and Saloonacy. Humans love a bar. They love to drink. They love to talk. They love to shoot pool, and some of them even love to get thrown out. Today we’re mulling the universal appeal of the public room and discussing some good guidelines for behavior therein. Music pick of the week: Robot […]

Never Ever Pay the Artist. Your eyeballs have been under assault since you were born. Other people really are desperate for you to see what they want you to see. You’d think you’d place a higher value on the things can come into your field of vision, but you don’t. Everywhere there is art and […]

Learning to Fiddle While Rome Burns. When Ronald Reagan became president in 1980, we thought the world was going to end in a nuclear winter. When George W Bush, who couldn’t pronounce the word ‘nuclear,’ took over in 2000, we figured the whole planet would be consumed by the War on Terror. In 2016, we […]

Superstition as a Brain Eating Virus. People believe all sorts of crazy things. The world is flat. Gluten is a huge problem. There’s a mystical being who knows everything and controls our lives, but we can’t see them or possibly know what they want. Once you open your mind to ideas that are magical, mystical […]