Podcast For Your Life

Journaling. Is it different than writing in a diary? Is it cool? Is it girly? Is it manly? Does it matter?

What's up with shorts? Where'd they come from? Are they the next evolution in legwear? Or do they represent the past? Also are we that lazy that the only word we could come up with was shorts?

They used to light up our dark farmhouses and castles, and now we use them to decorate birthday cakes? Candles have fallen so far.

This week Jam and Jason dig into silence, the very unsung hero. What is silence, is it golden? Do you love it, do you hate it? Is it rarer now than it used to be? Where is it? Can I hold it? Topic suggested by Lauren in Texas. She wanted us to just fill the entire episode with silence and not really speak at all. I think a lot of people wish we'd do that in real life too. So we didn't do that but we liked the topic in general. Sorry Lauren!

This week Jam and Jason talk about handwriting, or "writing with your hand" as they say in Britain. Is handwriting going away? Is it responsible for the independence of the U.S.? What makes bad and good handwriting? Where does cursive play into all this? Why do we even have cursive? How did we get from hieroglyphs to letters? Come ask these questions with us.

This week we're talking about kissing, the most hyped-up, least logical act of affection. Does it need to be logical? Maybe not. But why do we want to put our mouths places? Why do we want to put our mouths on other mouths? Why is there a chocolate named after something that usually involves two mouths, when you pretty much can only use a maximum of one mouth to eat it?

This week we're talking about breakfast, at the same time, we're breaking our fast from food related topics, we haven't done one in quite a while. Also Jam talks about this incredible omelet Jason made for him once. It was life changing.

What's so natural about a disaster? In this episode Jam and Jason try to get to the bottom of these pesky disasters, and swap stories of the limited experiences they've each had with natural disasters.

The three dots that surround us every day. In our books, quotes, movie posters, and the text messages we don't want to reply to. Where'd they come from? Were they always so evil or passive aggressive? How did they go from potentially functional literary device to being the thing that people use whenever they want? We don't know and even if we did I'm not sure we'd be legally allowed to tell you.

YOU KNOW WE'RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY! What's a society and why? Why do we group together into families, tribes, villages, towns, cities, states, countries? Is it just to guard each other from wild animals while we go to the bathroom?

Playgrounds. Or as they used to say it back on the old frontier, playin' in the ground. Back in the old west, all you could do to pass the time was roll around in the dirt and hope tomorrow would come. For many people, tomorrow didn't come. It was a dark time.

#069 Slang What's up my yolo? Don't forget to bae. When it's been a minute, you have to groovy righteous radical grub. Ok?

#068 Trees Trees are really cool and if you don't believe us then listen to this and if you still don't believe us then go climb one and don't ever come back.

#067 Dreams Delve into the horror, weirdness, and frequent mundanity of dreams. Why do we think them? Why don't our brains go to sleep when our bodies do? Why aren't we in control? We don't know and we won't ever know. And there's nothing we can do about it.

#066 Jam and Jason discuss laugh trax/tracks and the impact they have had on our fragile, crumbling world.

 #065 Mail   Well I guess we're trying to figure out mail. The biggest, most tightly-held government secret of all time. Nbd ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

 #064 Emojis   The biggest new language on earth, not that there's much competition except for whatever thing they've got going on in Game of Thrones. There's some kind of fictional language in there right?

 #063 Nostalgia   A VERY special, potentially one-time, LIVE episode. Recorded live in a random Texas conference room with a real studio audience made up of actual human beings. We promise. Let's get nostalgic.

 #062 Instincts   Babies have instincts. Animals have instincts. Are they cool? Do we learn them or have them from the beginning? Well we don't know but we certainly ask those questions in circles for about 15 minutes and it's pure entertainment. 

 #061 Milk   We're back! No one knows what milk is or where it comes from, but that's why we're here, to get to the bottom of this elusive, taboo topic.