Zen and Not Zen - BroTime Edition

 Welcome back to ZNZ!  Today we chat about why I don't like The Beatles.  Now before we get ourselves worked up, I do understand the impact The Beatles made in the music industry and the culture of their time, but it's just not for me.  We tap dance through a few other "universally loved" bands that we may or may not be a fan of, but we did discover something special through our...

F@(K Yeah!  Today we are talking about swear words.  We both swear a fair amount and have heard the stereotypes throughout the years, but fuck that!  A properly placed swear word can really drive a point home, or make a joke funnier or just be used as filler words.  We do use "like" and "um" way too much.  We venture around our uses of which words and why as well as which words...

This week on Zen and Not Zen, we talk about the illusive work life balance.  This seems to be a topic that a lot of us are searching for and all have our own version of.  We tangent all over the place with this topic.  So much so, that we talk about attempting to make a yarn chart to see how we arrive to some of the tangents we land on, but that would probably look like a serial killers map.  We s...

This weeks tangent is a viewer request from our buddy Brandon Youngblood, and hits home with both Robin and I.  Today we are talking about how we manage our friendships with people who do and don't have kids.  This can get a little tricky as we introduce little ones into the world.  I had kids when I was young and Robin is currently childless, so we each have our own perspectives on this.  But...

Aliens man!!  In this weeks tangent, we talk about aliens.  And oddly enough, I think this is the most we've ever stayed on topic...or at least topic adjacent?  We hit up most of the stereotypical alien things, but with our Zen and Not Zen twist on it.  We talk crop circles, abductions and even mating with aliens.  Robin shares his strong distaste for M. Night. Shyamalan and I talk about some...

Today on Zen and Not Zen, we talk about Regional Slang.  Robin is from the PNW, but I'm from the South.  So naturally, we speak a little differently, but that doesn't stop our chemistry!  In traditional fashion, we start off topic with cancel culture.  Hell, we may do an entire episode on this one day.  But for now, we are talking about German Vampires, how to not get caught doing dumb kid...

Welcome back to Zen and Not Zen.  This week we are tackling a subject that we have attempted to record before, but haven't felt right about it until now.  Today, we light heartedly talk about our Life After Drinking.  But of course, we start totally off topic, by Robin respectfully questioning the stones and crystals that I have on the table during our talk.  We weave in and out of tangents, a...

Back at it again!  This time talking about cereal....but we take our time getting there.  We start off on one of the more mature notes of our podcast career, Robin "triple fine’d" me, when he realized the error of his comment.  From there we tangent to the Guinness Book of World Records or all places and talk about the guy with the crazy long finger nails.  Robin continues to brandish hi...

Welcome back!  Today's tangent is Sports!(?) (the ! is for Robin and the ? is for me.)  We kinda stay on topic today, even if we are talking about a bachelor party where Curling is the main attraction rather than some other devious act.  We cover my vast(?) experience with sports.  Oddly enough, I played a lot of sports growing up, they just didn't stick around.  Maybe some of the discipli...

In todays tangent, we talk about the myths surrounding marijuana and its usage.  Both of us being avid users of marijuana, we have heard a lot of these myths, but haven't had a chance to dive into them as adults, so here we go.  We start, off topic as usual, with a story about the differences between you, thee and thou.  Riveting, I know.  From there Robin relates his love of poetry to a combi...

In todays episode, we are fulfilling a listeners request and chatting about cell phones.  With both of us being born in the 80's and having our influential years in the 90's, we saw, and lived through, the evolution of cell phones.  But we digress into the unconventional size of money and go a bit in depth on Bob Ross, which I ended up learning a bit about.  And we wrap it up with Robin ma...

In todays tangent we talk about cartoons!  Cartoons helped to raise us and, to be honest, I'm letting them help to raise my kids as well.  Where's the harm in that?  Well, we start off todays tangent by acknowledging that I have had a distaste for holidays in the past, but that I'm trying this year.  So, I made up a word, or so I thought, to help me to accept the holidays.  And that wo...

Todays tangent is a fun one for us, Genericized Tademarks.  Kleenex, velcro, ping pong, these are the things we call by specific brand names, but they generic names like facial tissue, hook and loop fastener and table tennis.  But we start with a new thing today, check ins; in which Robin shares his growing obsession with finding the perfect ice cream sandwich.  From there we digress to milk prefe...

Ah, the good old "Thank You" wave.  Not to be confused with the "Oh Shit" wave.  Is this a dying bit of politeness, or something we're not noticing any longer?  We dive into this subject and find out that Robin not only takes issue with those that do not offer the thank you wave, but also with machines that don't say thank you.  From there we move on to yelling at defen...

Today we talk about wasting time and quickly realize that we may be wasting your time.  But the concept of wasted time is going to be very different for everyone since we are the ones who decide what the definition of productive and wasted time is!  We talk about how the Dutch spend their time, apparently they have found a good balance, and I talk about the time the Mayor of Seattle came to fire m...

In todays show we start with the infamous drug talk.  At what age did you get the talk, who gave it to you and the D.A.R.E. program.  From there we make our way to head shops and how I apparently use outdated terms e.g. head shop, and weave our way through exciting subjects like Ask Jeeves, peeing in cups, more drug stories and hospitals on acid.  We have a lot of experience with both drugs and ta...

In this episode we’re talking about the skills we wished we were taught growing up and who should be responsible for passing that info down. From there we tangent to the false history we were taught, social anxiety and the importance of holding a proper conversation. Somehow we establish that Robin is the Swiss Army Knife of human beings and cover the Jurassic park movie series. See if you can fol...

In this episode we're talking about why many of us have stopped listening to albums from front to back.  From there we tangent to working at music stores and all the discs; mini discs, laser discs, records & compact discs.  We also find our way to skits on Hip Hop albums, the Crayola big box and digital music platforms.     ~Enjoy the journey ~  IG - ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@adamriehlhealing⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FB...