Passages

This week, we hold a very serious intervention for Jason. We're extremely worried about him. Also, we become armchair rocket scientists, talk some March Madness, and discuss people's final words. And, our passage for this week from James Clear: “It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle,...

This week, a special guest joins the guys! Drew and Andrew bring us a remote correspondent segement on PD Fight Club, Kinley celebrates Women's History Month, we say goodbye to Chuck Norris, and we get to the bottom of a murder case. Also this week, a bad preacher, and our passage from Donald Winnicott: "It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be...

This week, the Passages Remote Correspondent isn't so remote! The guys talk about the Burger CEO Wars, Andy's new book "I Want to Go to Heaven", March Madness brackets, and Jason and Andrew talk about Peru. And, our passage from Robert Frost: “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

The guys have a special guest, hear from Passages' "Remote" Correspondent, put Chick-fil-A's mobile thru line on notice, and talk about social media addiction. And, of course, our passage from Billie Jean King: "Pressure is privilege."

Now in 4K, the guys learn about scurvy, take a civics test and discuss the State of the Union, and explore the idea of predestination. And, this week's passage from Galileo Galilei: "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

Joel has it out for Patrick, NASA is sending cellphones to the ISS, an Olympic update, and Tim Allen reads the Bible. And, of course, our passage from Robert Duvall: "Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things that a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good. That honor, courage, and virtues mean everything. That power and money, money and power, mean no...

The guys read some fan mail, conduct a live interview for a remote correspondent, talk about baseball, and Jason relives some childhood horrors. And, our passage from Paulo Coelho: "Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."

The guys welcome a special guest, Jason has a list, an Elon Musk prediction, and Taylor drops some knowledge on the kids (seriously, if you're under 20, you need to hear this!). And, of course, our passage from Mary Shelley: "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native...

The guys are gifted with cookies, talk about weird public bathrooms, things that are now missing from schools, monkeys at the rodeo, and the AI apocalypse. And of course, our passage for this week from Christa McAuliffe, "I touch the future. I teach."

In this episode, the guys navigate a wide range of topics, from a medical miracle, to the most popular hymns, to a serious discussion on the future of democracy, while Jason attempts to satisfy a fan request with a series of winter-themed jokes... Attempts. We're sorry Shiela. And, this week's "quotation" from John Adams: "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself".

The Passages crew celebrates their 100th episode with friends! There's live music, a guest Gen Z vocabulary segment, and a walk down memory lane. Plus, this week's special passage to mark the occasion from A.A. Milne: "We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun."Also, check out this episode on Youtube for extra fun!

Back from the holidays, the fellers discuss parachuting mishaps, brain mismatches, and big moments. Plus, this week’s passage by Robin Sharma: “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”

The guys talk about a missing satellite, debate the best and worst Christmas movies, a bad preacher, and this week's passage from Charles Dickens: "No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused."

More fan mail! Also, a discussion about the 411 Boys winning the state championship and awkward Christmas songs. And, this week's passage by Ludwig Wittgenstein: "If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."

A special announcement and more fan mail! Also, an update on driverless cars, a list of Christmas gifts for men, the Zamora temple, tales of Michael James, and our passage for this week by William Ernest Henley: “Invictus.”

Happy Thanksgiving! The boys talk about cars of the future, things you shouldn't bring up at Thanksgiving dinner, a Yay Sports! segment, and things falling out of the sky. And, this week's passage from Muhammad Ali: "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

A beauty pageant contestant chooses death metal for her talent, AI apocalypse, turkey talk ahead of Thanksgiving, balding remedies, Trump calls a reporter piggy, a guest caller, and more! Plus this week’s passage by HL Mencken: “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it.”

A new sandwich at Chick-fil-A, updates on 3I / ATLAS, duck hazards on roller coasters, miracle myrrh, and a Say What involving charges of heresy. Plus this week’s passage by Leo Tolstoy: “All really great things are happening in slow and inconspicuous ways.”

The art of toilet papering someone’s yard, coaches getting fired in college football, AI Apocalypse, and the three Christs of Ypsilanti. A Vols fan mistakenly calls into the show and this week’s passage by Bob Ross.

The boys talk daylight saving time, escaped monkeys, southernisms, and trash Halloween candy. Also, another bad preacher and this week’s passage by 13th century Persian poet, Rumi: “What you seek is seeking you.”

Airline etiquette, jewel heists, the greatest deal in sports history and a bad preacher. Also this week’s passage by Marianne Williamson: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you...

Drew’s new novel, Out of the Thicket, launches, Drew and Jason discuss the nature of the comet 3I/ATLAS, more fan mail, bad preachers, and a Say What segment. Also, this week’s passage by Marc Brackett: "Be the learner, not the knower... and listen to understand, not to build your own argument."

Fall has arrived, the value of a good name, firefighters versus high school baseball teams, and a bigun on a plane. Plus, a new segment: “Say what?“ And our passage by Seneca: “ The things you run from are inside you.“

Jane Goodall in memoriam, chitchat at the grocery store, a school teacher’s prank “stinks,” new restaurants in Leeds, and a bad preacher. Also, this week’s passage by Hippocrates: “Everyone wants to heal until the medicine shows up in the form of discipline.“

Jason gives everybody an English grammar test to settle a score. Plus, old wives' tales, Jason's odyssey out West, a Gen-Alpha glossary, and another end-time prediction is cast into the dustbin of history. Also, this week's passage by Wendell Berry: "The Peace of Wild Things."