Revolting

Sometimes 2+2=5. The basic premise of today’s show is the basic premise of the show, by which we mean that we’ve been hearing from people who find whatever it is we’re doing here helpful. They’re inspired or encouraged or they learn something about themselves as we talk about ourselves and our challenges. It’s weird. Neither […]

Baby, It’s Cold Outside. We’re deep in winter’s cold embrace, and since humans have broken the climate this winter has served up a heaping helping of Arctic chill. How do you deal? How do you keep going? What do you look forward to? Music pick of the week: Robot – Trigger Cut – ROGO Stevil – […]

I Got My Ascot in My Dickie. You would never know it from looking at either one of us, but we care what we wear, and since humans are supposed to wear clothes most of the time, today we’re talking about fashion, which some denigrate as a vapid form of self-expression, but mostly by people […]

Better Luck Next Time, the Year in Review. Oh, 2023 you surprised us. Good one! Triumphs, tragedies. We laughed. We cried. We figured we’d better at all of this by now. Today we’re gonna talk about what happened, how we felt about it, and what we’ve got our eye on for 2024. Also, gotta be […]

Resolving Not to Resolve, But Secretly Resolving. Oh, we’re all too cool for New Years’ resolutions. They’re so stupid. But actually, we spend all of our time trying to turn over new leaves, trying to pick the lock of everyday happiness, and we’re CONSTANTLY resolving to be different or better in some way. So it’s […]

The Over/Under on the Under/Over. Today we’re gonna play a fun little game of overrated/underrated with an array of people, bands, ideas and foods. This should help you adjust your attitudes to the reality we live in, or at the very least give you reasons to send us angry emails, which we enjoy thoroughly. Music […]

Sympathy for the Devil. Human people are terrible, and we’re no exception. It’s hard to understand how you’re supposed to love your fellow person when they are constantly doing dumb shit and spouting terrible ideas. Again, we are not an exception to this rule. But today we’re going to talk about how to be better […]

If It Wasn’t for Bad Habits, We Wouldn’t Have Any Habits at All. The defining characteristic of the human species is its imperfection. Plagued with self-reflective consciousness, humans are prone to eat themselves alive with bad thoughts, bad decisions and bad behavior. This week we’re talking about our vices, bad habits, and what we’re doing […]

The Universe is 68% Dark Energy. Once daylight has been saved and the sun sets half an hour before it rises, it can be really hard to stay motivated and moving in the right direction, but there are secret pockets of energy in the universe that will carry you through to that blessed day when […]

Euphoric Recall. Many of us of a certain age cling to the idea that things used to be better than they were. For example, we wax nostalgic about seeing Repo Man for the first time in Trisha Thomas’s living room in 1985 but forget that Ronald Reagan was busy ruining the world at the time. […]

Some Call Collect. What is it about the human psyche that compels it to collect objects and ephemera, to gather too much of a good thing? Toys, trading cards, bikes, bike parts, skateboards, records, tattoos…today we’re talking about the things we’ve collected and why we we’re driven to do so. Music pick of the week: […]

Gatekeepers at the Gates of Hell. We have occasionally been accused of gatekeeping, which isn’t awesome. That’s not who we want to be. So today we’re going to figure out what gatekeeping is, what it maybe isn’t, and revise all of our previous shitty comments about everything. Music pick of the week: Robot –  Sun […]

The $64 Ka-Billion Dollar Pyramid. If you follow us on social media, you’ll know that, for our 100th episode we besought 100 listener questions, so now we’re gonna answer ‘em, except that we didn’t get 100. It turns out Revolting listeners are just as apathetic as we are, and so we only have 18 questions. […]

Failing to Succeed. This week we’re talking about things that we’re not very good at, like podcasting, but still really enjoy. Basically, we’re taking failure back from all the people who are doing it wrong, and if anything, 99 episodes of this podcast are a testament to the possible successes of continuing to fail. Music […]

Live, Laugh, Love, It’s the End Times! This week we’re talking about apocalyptic thinking. Are these really the end times? Or does it always just feel like the end times when you’re a human being burdened with reflective consciousness? And if it is the end times, what is the appropriate response? Music pick of the […]

Nattering Nabobs of Negativism. This week we’re going negative. We’ve been asked to discuss our least favorite music of all time. And where to start!?!?! I mean, just think about it. All over the world musicians, both talented and not, are in studios committing all manner of shear garbage to the permanent musical record. Music […]

It Puts the Lotion in the Basket. Life is not so bad. Pretty good really. We put the lotion in the basket and get on it with it mostly. But each of us daydreams about psychopaths not wearing our skin, about something different, something better. Today we talk about our dreams of escaping to something bigger […]

The Magnum P.I. Opus. Today’s show is about the urge to produce something big, a single work or collection, that expresses everything you’re about, your magnum opus. Will Revolting be the most consequential thing we’ve done with our lives? Gosh we hope not. Robot  – Jawbreaker – Bivouac Stevil – Thrasher – Blazing Wheels and […]

The Greatest Shows on Earth. One of the ways you can tell if you’re not living your life right is if you have stopped going to see live performances of music. Today we’re going to talk about some of the best shows we’ve ever seen and also heard. Robot  – Ikara Colt – B-Sides (2010) […]

Solo Breakaways. We’ve both been on trips this last week, and while we met up with and even stayed with friends while we were away, the travel part was all solo, the decisions were all up to us, and the results were, as they always are, kinda mixed. Today we’re talking about solo adventuring. Music […]

One Bike, Two Bike, Red Bike, OK, That’s Enough Bikes. So this is a weird one, because we’re recording it BEFORE the MADE bike show, which we are both attending, but it is coming out directly after. We have a complicated relationship with time, usually forgetting when we did things or when we’re supposed to […]

Some Regerts. In Alcoholics Anonymous they say, “We shall not regret the past, nor seek to shut the door on it.” Why they need to use such fancy words is not clear, and the point is that all of our mistakes and troubles have brought us to this moment, a moment when we’re seeking to […]

Do You Have to Breathe So Loud? This week is about roommates. Good ones. Bad ones. The collaborative chaos of cohabitation, and maybe, the joys of living alone, either as the last person on Earth or the first on Mars. Music pick of the week – Robot  – Son Volt – Trace Stevil –  Monster […]

Where the F*%$ is Waldo? Most of us are home bodies who also crave adventure. We hate leaving home a lot of days, but if you’ve got plane tickets, we’ve got backpacks. Today we’re telling stories from travels both domestic and international, the things we’ve seen, the mistakes we’ve made, and the times we probably […]

We were having a real hard time coming up with a topic this week, because Robot’s dog died on Sunday, and it’s all he can think about. Django was among the best boys ever. He was quick with a joke. He smelled awful, and if you knew him, you loved him. He’s a real loss for the universe. So we’re going to talk about that, because it’s what we’re going to talk about.