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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 – […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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