Episodes
Podcasting is an essential service, will we have CES, or any large gatherings, predicting what happens next, seeing the cracks in society. MP3
Published 04/26/20
Production in the time of social distancing, how people behave outside, checking your PO box, taxes in the time of pandemic, living through history. MP3
Published 03/22/20
Tom finished Crash Landing on You, interruptions while watching TV, outside voice, social norms. MP3
Published 02/16/20
Roger and Tom are in person! Using a navigation app. Home Depot hot dogs. Taco stands. Is sliced up fruit a risk? Fish for food. Fowl-smelling things. Food inspections. MP3
Published 01/18/20
Are we stuck with the Hero’s Journey? Maybe, maybe, not. Where reality shows fit with documentaries and “based on a true story” fiction. MP3
Published 12/01/19
Grocery shopping, how tastes change, there’s not monolithic good taste, what makes us like things. Link
Published 11/03/19
We look back at some East Meets West history, how to boil water, gas company issues, insurance issues, cost of living, quality if life. MP3
Published 09/15/19
The effect of heat, zoos, snow parks in the summer, crowds grew because of the internet, effects of travel. MP3
Published 07/28/19
Our report card issues, student loans, Roger wants to home school for college, health care schemes, health care woes. MP3
Published 07/02/19
Tom and Roger talk Godzilla. Did they like it? SPOILERS AHEAD MP3
Published 06/02/19
Is he REALLY your uncle? Roger sees Avengers, SPOILERS Ahoy! MP3
Published 04/28/19
We talk about holidays and ethnic groups and the creation of cultural identity. MP3
Published 03/17/19
Where Roger and Tom talk about ripping off the bandage of a horse-sized duck. MP3
Published 01/23/19
Why fighting is good, but longevity makes a marriage harder. The effects of nostalgia. MP3
Published 11/16/18
Roger’s cranberry juice, best before dates, omnivores, evolution of food. MP3
Published 10/21/18
Tom lets Arguecon lapse, is the internet still fun? Changing cultural norms, plus road design. MP3
Published 09/16/18
Corn in your car and your mouth, immigration, argumentation, the tilapia conspiracy. MP3
Published 07/22/18
Roger describes his many dealings with the city, including tearing up his street. Link
Published 06/18/18
How to be a man, or any kind of person, what skills do we need? Link
Published 04/30/18
Why kids make us think of the future, the spread of humanity, rebooting your body, do we want clones? MP3
Published 03/28/18
How retirement is changing, movement of people in history, mutability of history, argument vs. debate. MP3
Published 02/18/18
We talk about what has actually been accomplished by the US government in the first year. MP3
Published 01/21/18
Can you avoid the news? How’s the President doing? Economic confidence. Retirement. MP3
Published 12/01/17
Politics, from Catalonia to New Zealand and China and beyond. Also housing. MP3
Published 10/26/17
Tom tries to explain white people to Roger. MP3
Published 09/27/17