Revolting

Transcendental Romanticism. We may come off as a little gruff and prone to fits of melancholy and wild perturbation, but really, we’re just sensitive, romantic even. Our nostalgia is a romance for the past, a desperate clinging to things we never fell out of love with, like zines, skateboards, obscure music, artists, etc. Today we […]

In the Shadow of the Valley. Middle-age is a real problem, mainly because it comes with most of the challenges of old age, deteriorating body, addled mind, divorce, asteroids, and existential crisis, but you’ve still got to have a job and pretend you care about stuff. Sadly, also, you lose friends and mentors, and today […]

It Only Hurts When I Exist. Oh, we’ve all had our share of boo-boos, but a few stand out, and today we’re gonna tell our best injury and mishap stories and try to figure out which pain was the most painful pain of them all, besides of course the soul pain inherent in everyday human […]

The Sunk Time Fallacy. People have a funny way of plowing their energy into bad ideas, and once they’ve made that initial investment, they keep going just to prove to themselves that the original idea wasn’t a bad one. We do this with jobs, relationships, and religions. The fear of change is one factor. Ego […]

The Day in Front of Us. Whether you’re rich or poor, sick or well, lazy or really, really lazy, you have to figure out what to do with your day. That seems like the fundamental conundrum facing humanity, and sure, the less money or health you have maybe the more of those choices get made […]

Good Dope, Bad Dope. Whether you’re a street junky or not, you spend a lot of your day looking for the next little bump of dopamine. Whole oligarchies have grown up around the business of selling you small doses of your own brain chemicals. You hate that, but keep scrolling, because ultimately we’re all addicted […]

Putting Baby in the Corner. You’re a grown ass person with decades of life experience and refined tastes, and yet, somewhere in your mental closet you’ve got an array of awkward nostalgic loves for people, places and things that no longer fit your view of yourself as a person, like when you smoked weed and […]

Something. Something. Male Friendships. Discuss. The common consensus is that the male population of Earth is experiencing an epidemic of loneliness, which leads to climbing rates of depression and suicide. We both have lots of friends, including being friends with each other, so today we’re going to explain how to be friends with other men, […]

Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. We express a lot of opinions on this show, and opinions are like smart phones. Everyone has one and they all destroy your brain. Even if we’re right that Foo Fighters make terrible music, how do we hold real and genuine space in our […]

Two-Hundred of Anything is Probably Too Many. In our wildest dreams, which include bank robberies, alien abductions and making out with our third grade teacher, we never imagined recording 200 podcasts. Is that a failure of imagination, hope or executive function? Hard to say. But to celebrate we’re going to spend a whole hour answering […]

A Little Love and a Little Encouragement. Adulthood is a scam. You think, “Oh, I can vote and drink a beer,” but those minor luxuries come with a lifetime of work and the sorts of responsibilities and challenging relationships that wear a body down. We all have coping mechanisms. We’re not all soft little kittens. […]

Vacation, All I Ever Wanted. Humans need downtime, time when they don’t need to respond to emails or perform labors or be responsible for stuff generally, time away from the great grinding wheel of late stage capitalism, the non-stop kabuki theater of politics, and the soul-muting effect of the daily ritual. Americans don’t get or […]

The Law of the Conservation of Irritation. In the appendix to Einstein’s paradigm-shifting 1905 treatise on special relativity, he mentions this little known law that states: Your level of irritation may vary within a given range, described by an infinite sine wave, but basically it always stays the same. Even if nothing much is going […]

Remote Control. This episode of Revolting is completely dedicated to a show-by-show analysis of the late ‘80s MTV game show Remote Control with Ken Ober and Kari Wuhrer. Just kidding. What it’s actually about is the time we all spend, while not at work or getting paid, thinking about work, and how sitting and thinking […]

The Looking Glass Self. In 1902 Charles Horton Cooley came up with this idea that our sense of self is formed in this sort of ricocheting set of judgments. Basically, you aren’t who YOU think you are, and you aren’t who other people think you are; you’re who you think other people think you are. […]

A Partial List of Things We’re Against. There’s a subtle difference between being anti-establishment and anti-authority, but we’re both. Also, anti-boredom. Anti-fascist. Yes. Obviously.  We’re against greed and avarice, whatever that is. We’re against eggplant and zucchini, unless they’re fried. We’re against work and wage slavery, human trafficking, racism, sexism, size-ism, transphobia, homophobia and Strava. […]

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer. Humans are social animals. We only make sense to ourselves in a larger context, and we spend the years of our lives trying to surround ourselves with good or interesting people, sometimes both. But the world is large and diffuse. The best people are scattered to the wind, like […]

The View from the Top of the Creative High Dive. Even if you’ve been doing your thing for a good long time, you have these moments where you wonder if you can pull it off again. Like you start a story or a painting with a bright and crystal clear idea, and in the back […]

Beyond Cracked. Even the most unserious athlete occasionally overdoes it. If you’re like us, then sometimes you even overdo overdoing it. Maybe you’ve been there, dead in the saddle, dehydrated, cramped, contemplating your imminent death, praying for it even. And then you drink a full gas coke and feel much better. Music pick of the […]

Everything Louder Than Everything Else. Everything and everyone is competing for your attention. What most people don’t realize is that they’re ALSO competing for their own attention. What are we losing? How are we fighting back? Or are we all just blithely accepting that our minds are no longer our own? Music pick of the […]

Despite Our Best Intentions. A well-adjusted human being likely thrives due to a set of positive daily habits that support their physical, mental and emotional wellness. Most of us have a good idea what those habits are. Most of us find reasons, almost every day, not to do them. Music pick of the week: Robot […]

The Nine Ball Chronicles. Society is organized around the idea that people’s brains work a certain way, even though we all know some extremely large percentage of people have brains that different ways work sometimes. It’s like your dungeon master only likes clerics and doesn’t care at all about bards or druids. I mean c’mon! […]

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 […]

The Customer Isn’t Always Bright. Expectations are the enemy of happiness, which is why the Amazonification of customer service has ruined a lot of people. They want everything now. They want a refund on it before it’s been shipped. They want a tracking number and a thank you note and a discount. But we’re all […]

White Whales and Sinking Ships. All of life is a struggle between our best intentions and the predations of time. Will we land our great white whale before the veil falls and we return to dust? Or are we still able to heft the big harpoon and land the whale, filling our holds with oil […]

Bill and Ted’s Hot Tub Time Machine. In 1968, when Dr. Spock invented the internet, it was just a cool way for people to share information with each other. Then the same people who brought you credit cards and telemarketing turned it into a predatory beast that wanted the last four of your social, every […]

New Year’s Icebreakers for the Dull or Demented. From a party perspective New Year’s is really amateur hour, hordes of emotionally chaotic humans getting sloppy and rubbing up against each other, celebrating an arbitrary milestone with Jell-o shots and plastic thimbles of champagne. This week we’re gonna help you bone up on your conversational chops […]

The Warm Breeze Off Jugalo Island. We live 3000 miles apart, but we’re neighbors on Jugalo Island, a special place where two fifty-something jabronis can have a podcast where they offer uninformed opinions, share dubious battle stories and generally pretend to know what’s going on in the world. This week you’ll get the warm breeze […]

Bad Reasons to Talk About Batman. Batman is clearly the best superhero because he doesn’t have any superpowers and because he isn’t even sure whether he’s a good guy or a bad guy. Also, because he wears his underwear on the outside. Recent events have highlighted that humanity has a real soft spot for vigilante […]

Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again. We’re just a couple of cracked eggs, and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men apparently need to be involved in our rehabilitation, which has to thread the needle between opiate addiction, night sweats and the fear of sneezing. Music pick of the week: Robot – Dissolves […]

The Last Will and Testament of Stevil Kinevil. By the time people are hearing this, I’ll either be in the great beyond where all the guitars are air guitars and all the cocktails come with umbrellas, OR I’ll just be crawling out of an opioid nightmare on the other side of knee surgery. And so, […]

Trying Very Hard Not to Try Very Hard. After 153 hours of jibber-jabber, I think we’ve established that nothing matters, and that quite possibly we’re all dead already anyway. That means we’re all free to do what we want, which for most us means, not very much. And yet, it’s still so hard to pull […]

The Epistemological Challenges of 21st Century Consciousness. One of the problems of being alive right now is that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to know what’s true, to even know what you know. There’s AI, deep fakes, fake news, memes, rumors, conspiracy theories, stuff we see in dreams, numerology, astrology and psychic surgery. How in the […]

Looking for a Good Cult to Join. Humans will believe just about anything. You wonder how people join UFO-worshipping, death cults, but is any of that so far from the stuff everyday people are completely sure about as they walk around the planet, eating food and reproducing? Music pick of the week: Robot – Billy […]

The Apocalypse Being Nigh. This episode has been gifted to humanity one day before the US election that may or may not (but probably will) trigger the end of our species in the universe. We can imagine a few of you are feeling some considerable stress, so today we’re going to talk about how to […]

Arbitrary Moments of Joy, Pain and Indifference. There are milestones in life that you see coming, and there are others that just happen to you. There are some you think are going to move your forward, like a marriage or a new job, but maybe they don’t pan out quite as expected. You shouldn’t expect […]

Natural Born Killers. There are aliens among us, people endowed with extraordinary abilities and no fucks to give. They don’t need expensive equipment. They don’t need a very tight shirt. They don’t need you to see them do the things they do. They’re just built different. Music pick of the week: Robot – Buildings – […]

The Three Body Problems. Never mind the sci-fi novel or the mini-series they made from it. Today we’re talking about the design problems with the human body, which are as obvious as the nose on your knee. Also, we can’t do anything about them, even though they’ll probably cause us to go extinct sooner rather […]

Anthony Bourdain’s Nightmares. In the night, when the hungers come, the mind capers at the culinary possibilities lurking in pantries and refrigerators. Weekend mornings, when we’re maybe not our best, we’ve contrived dishes that will never find a home at your local Applebees. Then there’s the stuff we’ve eaten on dares. Music pick of the […]

The Eventual Thoughtlessness of the Homogenized Mind. Either by algorithm, lowest-cost architecture, or the crushing weight of American cultural hegemony, we are all being rinsed clean of original thought, encouraged to communicate in memes and enjoy things like “boneless” wings. Music pick of the week: Robot – Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans Stevil –Lady […]

The Revolting Biopic Starring Danny Devito and Pauly Shore. The Revolting biopic is a comedy and a cautionary tale, a bildungsroman and a French period drama. Sure, it’s got panache and style. The costumes are outstanding, but what are the lessons we’re meant to learn from it and why does the plot seem so incoherent? […]

For a Brief, Shimmering Moment We Were Gods. We may look like only slightly abnormal human beings, but oh, you should have seen us back in the day, or rather, on that one day, when we were really good at something, so good that we remember it and base some not insignificant amount of our […]

The Motivation is the Message. Marshall McLuhan, who was Canadian and had a great name, thought the “medium was the message,” but it was the ‘60s, and apparently he also thought a mustache was a solid move. Anyway, since then media has exploded into a million little messages, and it seems more clear than ever […]

Coup d’etat! Coup d’etat! It was 1984 and Repo Man was in the theaters, a couple of them anyway. The suburban United States suddenly became aware of a little LA band called The Circle Jerks. Forty years later, some large part of the US custom bike building community converges unironically on Portland, and a whole […]

How Heavy is Your Record Collection? You can measure it a couple ways. Raw weight. Number of Slayer albums. Quality vs. quantity. This is all really just an excuse to talk more about music and how we consume it and to express even more of our questionable opinions. Music pick of the week: Robot – […]

The Fine Print in the Social Contract. Just cause we’re introverted malcontents doesn’t mean we’re not on our second-best behavior when we’re out in public. Out there in the streets it’s a collaboration. Teamwork makes the dream transpire in a more agreeable fashion. So how do we get more people to understand there’s no ‘them’ […]

Excuse Me, Can I X-ray your Xylophone. We’ve both been back to places we might have come from to revisit our roots, and all the while you think you’re finding a deeper part of yourself, the connections are breaking down in time. Maybe you realize you’re just a random collection of genetically encoded dust, or […]

Caring Carers Who Care. We can all agree that it’s much better to not care than to care, but sometimes you have to, and more specifically, sometimes you have to take care of something or someone you didn’t expect to. This can be mentally and emotionally draining. Why is it so hard to care for […]

As Punk as Kettlebells and Scented Candles. When you’re just a pimply-faced teen trying to establish yourself as an iconoclast and quite possibly a voice of your generation, things are pretty simple. You pull on your bondage pants and your Chuck Taylors and show the world who’s boss. Then you get old as shit and […]

The Struggle is Surreal. We want everything to be easy, but if everything comes easy, it doesn’t have a lot of value. So we need some struggle but still hate struggling. Is this why human people are so stupid? Music pick of the week: Robot –  Vanishing Life – Surveillance Stevil – Poison Idea – […]

Pivotal Moments in Dirt Bag Development. In a deterministic universe, there are no surprises. From the moment we emerged from our mothers’ wombs we were meant to be the dirt bags and derelicts we have become. But there were warning signs, critical junctures at which we might have followed different, more stable and lucrative paths, […]

Our Current Tally of Major Awards. So far we have zero Webby, iHeartRadio or People’s Choice podcast awards, the same total as George Clooney. Also no Pulitzers or Nobels, but usually those get awarded years after your major accomplishments, so we’re not sweating it. This week’s topic is figuring out how to go on with […]

For Our Next Trick, We’ll Need a Volunteer. We always say we’re doing the only things we know how to do, but that’s a cop out. We could be carpet salesmen or tree surgeons. We could be the Sigfried and Roy of a casino in a minor media market. We could be satanic priests or […]

The Best Defense Is to Be Extremely Offensive. We’re living in the age of outrage, and to be fair, there’s plenty of outrageous stuff happening. At the same time, it’s worth asking what the value of being offended really is. Is it a way to drive change, or just a way to drive people more […]

Lightning in a Bottle, Thunder in a Can. We’re taking a break from the deep, philosophical explorations this show is known for to reengage with our monkey brains. It’s another lightning round of questions that don’t really deserve answers, though those are exactly the questions this podcast was designed for. Music pick of the week: […]

Stapling Bananas to the Wall. This one is partially inspired by a question from listener Oliver Beckers and partially by the deaths of Rick Froberg, Gary Flloyd and Steve Albini, and partially by the #MeToo movement and partially by the complicated business of consuming art in the information age. This week we’re talking about what […]

Emerging Patterns from the Swirling Chaos.  Ain’t it just the case that you reach these points in your life where you think you have some things figured out, you can see the way forward, and you feel hopeful and optimistic, but as sure as the sign rises in the East, chaos comes to scatter your […]

When the Wedding Band Stretches Out. This is a show about Steve Albini, who is probably really dead, despite both of us hoping the news of his passing was some elaborate prank he was pulling. When people think about the pure ideals of punk rock, they usually think of Ian MacKaye first, but they should […]

Karma Is a Failure of Both Pattern Recognition and Ligaments. We musta said and done some pretty not cool stuff to deserve the level of negative physical consequences doled out by daily life lately. Today we’ll talk about the possibility that there actually is justice in the universe, or whether we’re just ignoring the normal […]

If Dungeons and Dragons Was Real, Metal Would Make a Lot More Sense. Listen, not everything has to be so literal. You don’t have to talk about your heart to express your love for another human being. Maybe that’s why Candace left you. You’re boring and predictable. Today, we’re talking about ways to open your […]

The Women Without Whom We Would Not Be Us. Roughly half the people on the planet are women, and a very high percentage of them are smarter, funnier, more beautiful, wiser, and more emotionally stable than a high percentage of the other half of the people, all of this notwithstanding the people who are neither […]

The Internet Stole My Mind and My Wallet. Sometimes you marvel at how much easier things are, because you can email your grandmother and pay your debts online, but then you realize you don’t seem to have any more time in your day and your attention span has been smashed into a million pieces, leaving […]

Pep Talks from Chronic Depressives. When you’ve been through some hard times, you learn things that might be useful to other people. At the very least, you come to understand the value of a sympathetic ear. There’s a real case to be made that chronic depressives are much better at pep talks than shiny happy […]

My Body Is a Temple, Abandoned by the Gods. All things fall apart. Order tends toward chaos. The entire universe gets colder and colder by the picosecond. And our bodies, strong and capable for a shining moment, eventually let us down. Today we’re talking about how cadaver parts and stubbornness keep us on the right […]

Don’t Wear Sandals to a Bar Fight. Life is full of rules, both useful and made to be broken. There are bike rules. There are rock show rules. There are a million reasons to follow them and just one to punch them in the face. Today we talk about the rules. Music pick of the […]

The Real House Husbands of Whatever Zip Code This Is. Both of us are home bodies and at one time or another have been home makers. Today we’re talking about what it means to have and make a home, and how that lets us create great works of art and philosophy and impress other people […]

The Re-Arrangement of the Deck Chairs on the Titanic. There comes a time in everyone’s life when they realize they’re on the wrong path. Maybe you’ve let Leo DiCaprio make periodic-specific nudies of you, only to let him drown after the boat hits an iceberg. Wake up calls like that can be valuable. Music pick […]

Other Things We’re Not Good At. We try to stay humble. We’re not great at podcasting, mountain biking, skateboarding or orthopedic surgery, but actually, there’s a ton of other stuff we’re also not very good at. Sometimes it’s helpful to remind yourself what you’re really best at is mediocrity. Music pick of the week: Robot […]

Coffee and Sugar, Cigarettes and Weed. Everyone loves drugs, even the people who say they’re against drugs, and we love them too, even if only pretty specific ones. Today we’re talking about our relationship with vice and the dumbest things we’ve done to get high or get away with getting high. Music pick of the […]

The Joys of Being Single. It takes a special kind of bike rider to ride a single-speed, the kind of rider who really only likes to pedal going uphill, the kind who appreciates making everything harder for themselves. But simplicity has a certain charm to it, and anyone who’s married maybe knows what we’re talking […]

The Year Punk Rock Went Broke. I don’t know what happened, but it was probably Green Day’s fault. Everyone went from making fun of us for listening to weird music to elbowing us out of the way, so they could buy Red Hot Chili Pepper’s t-shirts at Target. We went from saying this music should […]

The Unbearable Lightness of the Corrosion of Conformity. Life has this odd tension between wanting to fit in, go along and get along, be a good teammate or co-worker or whatever, and then at the same time, fully inhabiting your own identity (whatever that is) in order to stand out and remind yourself that you’re […]

The No Good, Very Bad Words. Every week we rewrite our content warning because we’re required somehow to warn people that we use profanity and sometimes talk about the immense size of horse penises. At the same time, folks are bumbling about their everyday lives using terrible words that we find more offensive than all […]

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 […]