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#140: I Know What to Do in a Tree

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As a main topic, your hosts talk about "Dangerous Things We Did as Unattended Kids."

#139: Everything's a Competition

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As a main topic, your hosts talk about those movies. You know the ones. The ones you discovered when you were supposed to be asleep and you weren't allowed to watch anyway? Yeah, those.

#138: Their Terrible Butts

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Welcome to the highly specialized and deeply opinionated world of cast iron skillets.

#137: The Fifth Flavor of Entertainment

August 20th, 2020 · 95 minutes

It's that time of year again, so it is necessary to review some COVID era Vacation Results.

#136: The Left Side of the Diving Board

August 6th, 2020 · 80 minutes

Modern Mac window management, haircut updates, plus a new segment we're calling "Secret Brit."

#135: Clutch Foot

July 23rd, 2020 · 77 minutes

For a main topic, your hosts interrogate some additional axes for choosing media—especially the axis of available attention.

#134: Romeo Delta

July 8th, 2020 · 82 minutes

Things kick off with an announcement on a new way you can help support the program. Also: can you choose to be tricked by your own clocks? What if every clock is different? What even is time?

#133: Shave Daddy

June 24th, 2020 · 81 minutes

Someone has tampered with Merlin's bell, and John is looking forward to his "vacation."

#132: Bigger in Three Dimensions Than I’ve Ever Been

June 10th, 2020 · 86 minutes

In America, you are not allowed to hit back.

#131: The Past is a Grotesque Animal

May 28th, 2020 · 119 minutes

For a main topic, John wants to talk about regrets, lost loves, and things that could have been different.