The Family Archives

Keep off the grass.  And also the GRAS.  The first one you've probably heard of.  The second one is Generally Recognized as Safe.  The vague language should be a tip-off that GRAS doesn't mean that it's been confirmed as good for you.  The dose makes the poison, and that's true for a lot of things that are GRAS, especially cosmetics.  Still, nature is what brought us lead, arsenic, and asbestos, s...

Everyone's dying everywhere.  Or so the media would have you believe.  Rush Limbaugh probably is, but you can't get what he has, so don't worry.  As for the other thing everyone's worried about, as long as you don't go to China your odds of dying are lower than winning the lottery.  So it's like every yearly worldwide panic ever. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio....

Before we begin, we have to get one thing out of the way: go Chiefs.  Anyway.  There's nothing a global mega-corporation loves more than saving money.  If you're a highly skilled, long-time employee in the first world, you cost a lot of money.  Normally that wouldn't be a problem, except there's an entire planet full of people willing to do your job for half the price.  It's not strictly legal, bu...

There's a new box office record in town: the worst wide opening in American theater history.  They say records are made to be broken, but I don't know about this one.  I do know that trying to compete with the Super Bowl is a bad idea.  I also know that when you dine with billionaires, it's okay not to pick up the check. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/liste...

No need for any witnesses to tell you that these clips are most definitely The Best Of. Come try and cure your Seasonal Affective Disorder after all of the cloudiness. Featuring: Elke Scholz, Chris Matthews, Tim Herron See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Depending on where you go, getting a degree ranges from very expensive to ludicrously expensive.  Normally when people spend tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars on something, they make sure they actually need it.  Normally.  For some reason, this is often not the case with a four year degree.  Does anyone really need a degree in art history, save for an actual art historian?  Or whatever?  Sa...

Here in the west, we're lucky in a lot of ways.  We're breathing in less combustion waste than our parents did at our age, for one.  The same can definitely not be said of the eastern hemisphere as a whole.  If you want clean air, focus on where the dirty air is coming from.  And speaking of dirty air, musicians are known for a lot of things, none of which are punctuality.  That's one thing that h...

Some people just can't get enough sun.  Or more accurately, they can't get not enough sun or they get depressed.  Depending on where you live, this can't be avoided.  Minnesota and Ontario are two great examples.  So what do you do?  You cope.  Just try to cope in a healthy way.  Embrace the spirit of winter and become a bear.  Those guys really know how to spend half a year. See omnystudio.com/li...

The classical stages of life for a human are childhood, early adulthood, late adulthood, and old age.  In today's society, it's more like school, divorce, hospital.  It just so happens we cover all three life stages this hour, with an expert on each.  The only thing that could have added to the serendipity is if Ralph's initials were J.N. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See om...

The Grammys has never been something we've cared that much about on the show.  That hasn't changed.  If you need proof, instead of watching the Grammys, Tom and Kathryn watched a movie that, to this day, they are the only ones to have seen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoice...

The keen-eared among you may notice that today's show is a little weird.  That's because we saved you the pleasure of listening to half an hour of technical difficulties.  As luck would have it, not only did we manage to salvage both guests, but Tom called Doug in today to assist in interviewing Chris, which turned into just Doug interviewing Chris.  ESP?  Luck?  Who can say?  What we can say is t...

We live in a culture of celebrity.  One side effect of this is that celebrities tend to be mortal like the rest of us, despite our thoughts to the contrary.  Celebrities also tend to die young.  Some people don't take the news very well when it happens.  Kobe Bryant's death at the age of 41 has a lot of people shocked and a lot of people coping.  Dr. Huber has had to deal with plenty of loss, so h...

The Vikings season may be over but these clips are still gonna play. Featuring: Wilfred Reilly, Dr. Jaquelin Jones, Joey Diaz See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Taboo.  You know, that old board game with the buzzer?  The one that was basically just Password?  Well that's not what today's episode is about, despite the name.  It's now a book containing mostly things that would get us immediately Twitter canceled if we said them on the show in any other context.  That's called a societal problem.  Luckily, Wil doesn't care if you cancel him.  He's immune. Ta...

The show is called Car Selling Secrets, but nobody ever said we can't talk about other kinds of secrets.  Eating disorders, for example, are often kept a secret.  Some secrets are worth keeping; that one isn't.  And speaking of confessions, there are almost as many denominations of Christianity as there are people on earth.  Several of those denominations are represented in this room. See omnystud...

Radio has been around a very long time.  Longer than anyone has been alive.  Smartphones have not.  If you can believe it, the smartphone has only been mainstream for just over a decade.  Nevertheless, it has killed the radio star, and also the video star.  Do we mourn the past, or embrace the future?  Or opt out of both and pretend technology stopped hundreds of years ago?  It's worked well for t...

Ten years ago, the idea that your phone is listening to you and sending your data to ad companies was an easily dismissed paranoid fantasy.  Today, it's a given.  Isn't that always the way?  It's also always the way that if you have pets and travel a lot, you have to make some hard decisions.  Lucky for us, airlines have started to realize that.  Unlucky for us, they're still airlines, so get read...

Hump day is supposed to be happy, because you're halfway done with the work week.  Instead it's stress day, split evenly between general worry and the kind of stress that makes suicide one of the leading causes of death for police officers.  Some things need to be talked about even if you don't like it. Topic- More Cops Died From Suicide Than Were Killed In The Line Of Duty In 2019, Study FindsWeb...

Being a pediatrician is tough.  You've heard the stereotype of the overreacting parent who believes their child is dying because of the tiniest symptom.  Choosing a pediatrician is also tough, probably for similar reasons.  It's a balance between competency and cordiality, and Dr. Jones has found the holy grail - of knowledge. Medical Parenting: How to Navigate Health, Wellness & the Medical Syste...

As award season continues its triumph return to relevancy, so too does talking about the air quality on the coasts.  Legends say that it used to be pretty bad.  It's now a thousand times better, but for some reason nobody seems to notice.  It's like a frog in boiling water, but the opposite. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. L...

Well you can either cheer for these clips or the Packers, easy choice in my opinion. Featuring: Jeff Pfoser, Ryan Singer, Paul Morrissey See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you made millions of dollars but were 90 years old, what would you do?  Soldier on?  Buy an island?  Die?  They're all valid options, depending on the kind of person you are.  Then once you're gone you have to worry about what to do with the body.  Oh wait, no you don't. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about yo...

Most people will never jump into freezing water.  Most people will never participate in a bike race.  Most people will never set fire to their pillow.  The world takes all types.  We've got a few of those types in studio today.  Hopefully you're the type to forge through a foot of snow to go to a comedy show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

You've heard Tom call himself a centrist.  Now hear another Tom call himself a centrist.  This one has proof, because he ran as an independent, and somehow got more than .01% of the vote.  Probably because this was before The Great Fracturing, as we assuming future historians will call what happened to US politics in the past several years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See...

Remember the other day when we said we're living in a material/magickal world?  Turns out it's also virtual.  Or at least, virtual according to our understanding of the concept.  What's the difference between a god and the administrator of a server that contains sentient AI?  To the AI, not much. The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics...