Happy Thanksgiving ... Dave's mea culpa ... how not to get ahold of Dave ... spim ... sharks and sleep ... lizard with a front-side 512K bus ... exploding deep-sea fish ... more spine, less brains ... getting your ugly sleep ... infinite need ... avoiding fear ... having music in your life ... needs, wants, desires ... more than life itself ... a you grows over time ... cracked sense of humor ... living on through ripples ... framing the conversation: faking virtue ... the whole truth ... you can't love everyone, so at least be nice to them ... Buddhists and gossip ... what if the rapture already happened? ... the inflatable sex-toy rapture

A punishment befitting the crime ... new distribution ... do they still say ''mainframe''? ... Cray blinking lights ... the Enigma machine ... so why is it we need to sleep, anyway? ... the needless waste of time it always should have been ... messed up circadian rhythms ... chewing gum and editing podcasts ... (not so) blacked-out pdfs ... metadata in photos ... open-source crime enforcement, or, 10,000 Slashdotters on your ass ... new iPod shuffle clip ... can advertising make you do what you don't already want to do? ... where's the preexisting need for walkmans? ... banana boy ... the shark-on-my-leg need ... an iPod - what do we do with it? ... The Beekeeper's Apprentice ... The Fencing Master ... Patrick O'Brian ... virtue ... topics for next week

abusing Richard ... elementary school presidents ... election glee ... one mean macaca ... eavesdropping spouses ... the importance of voter turn out ... a deal with the devil, I mean, the President ... whispering in the Pres's ear ... Reagan's moral vision ... liberal is a dirty word ... democrat party and the war of words ... obama or osama? ... don't know him? you will. ... snake carp shadow ... colorful Texas language ... Dr Phil's chapped ass ... smooch? ... animated Simon Cowl (sp?) ... running like grown-ups don't ... hits you like a train

Technical difficulties ... voting Bear off the island ... you can't rewind life ... videos on a plane! ... ''Remember when the Internet wasn't wireless?'' ... the lesser of two annoying diet ... strict no-commercial diet ... it's just TV ... not interesting to look behind the curtain ... choosing your source of news ... first 2 newspapers in America ... advocating for the Devil ... does propaganda work ... ''the party of beer'' ... military blogs ... Mormon fundamentalists ... Six Feet Under redux ... microcults ... because polygamy doesn't work ... weedy little punk in a tracksuit ... midnight run with chocolate ... Italy ... a healthy inattention to minor matters ... shoe citizenship test ... Alba, the Zork of Italy ... the Raviolino ... Italy gets food ... naked man arrested for concealed weapon ... gelato ... vitello tonato ... ''meet me in Vegas'' ... hello to our listeners! ... drop us a line, or find us on MySpace

life without Bear ...best mean in Italy ... tools, but not that I know how to use ... my flight from Seattle ... 5-year old on flight from Hell ... a movie not worth watching ... Studio 60 on an ipod ... sleepless armed officers on planes ... the game of scruples vs. true colors ... the stranger: 100 pages, how hard could it be? ... 7 year old sleuths ... no kids on earth ... kids as lawnmowers ... series of unfortunate events ... moving cases of nitro through the jungle

New hardware, new Skype ... what, I'm adopted? [the HP iPod] ... the Scot from Bombay ... live chat help ... lying to tech support ... the decabet ... you'll need to slow down if you want this in the record ... school of cosmetology and court reporting ... Harrison Ford speed ... iPod carcass shipping ... maxing your harddrive ... surgery on iPods ... Paula Poundstone interpretation ... ''Today, our top story...'' ... reporting politics in Ukraine ... waking up for soccer ... best 2 minutes of television I've ever seen ... which of you is gonna die? ... pornographic French catalogs ... real hunting websites

Stephanie, are you there? ... everyone in California ... garage sales ... buttons ... M80s and pools ... Gmail ... Google taking over the world ... zyklon-beta ... who said life is good? ... goodnight, Stephanie

Uhh, Richard? ... next week we do it to Dave ... Richard in Boston ... the Summer Shack ... crab shacks and lobster pounds ... eels ... Jasper White ... Gator's first sermon ... ''That was friggin' awesome!'' ... Mr. Rogers ... the Powerpoint sermon ... Howl's Moving Castle ... spiders and coal ... the Exploratorium and the Blue Angels ... charging your kids ... the Last Spot On Earth ... switching faces ... dropping milk ... nicknames ... fun with high-speed cameras ... the sales-girls ... dates with Trek geeks ... private tour of a destroyer ... Cryptonomicon ... rough-housing on weapons of death ... The Dalai Lama's Defense Weekly ... a picture of loud ... fighter jet buzzing Dave ... podcast feedback ... Cthulhu podcast (again) ... Jon Stewart ... vote for the greater of two evils ... next week

Forgetting the podcast ... bike vs. truck ... pedestrian vs. truck (graphic) ... Yog-Sothoth.com, the Cthulhu podcast ... ''your nursey knowledge says to start digging'' ... first week of classes ... going to the baseball game ... holding things sacred ... cell phones and golf games ... giggly girls and baseball ... the butch cow ... the pitcher charges second ... ''I know that now!'' ... hitting the umpire with the bat ... iTunes 7 ... Microsoft is responsible for everything ... iPod syncing ... Bam-Bam ... Ask an Irish Ninja ... Beer Cannon Montage ... Clinton v. Wallace ... liking to talk ... BART and extroverts ... econ majors at play ... complaining about darkness ... white nights ... the bionic arm

Dave's cryptic typing ... Trek moments ... sick as hell anemia ... the under-toad ... ''price check on aisle 7'' ... pre-screened video ... on-demand world ... not listening to music ... 4th grade booger jokes ... frogs and humor ... ''Did you raise the dead?'' ... ''Just turn the page'' ... ''Come here, Fifi'' ... cow tools ... Japanese tongue twister sadism ... notes from last show ... polytheistic pledge ... people who have never seen a book ... Big Night and Babette's Feast ... dueling steaks ... half a year of Four Guys

The surprise guest ... the ground rules ... princess meetings ... don't tell Mom ... father injuries ... softball ... the finger ... the father-daugher dance ... Harold and Maude ... Cat Stevens ... Dave and films ... the mushrooms redux ... unhappy comedians ... getting between Dave and his movie ... here's to Phil ... comedy multipliers ... you're sayin' that isn't me? ... tobacco ... the Tiki ... laquered blowfish ... tossing your cookies in Peru ... why to carry Pringles ... all compassion (not) ... the Nixon eggplant ... one downside to attending movie premieres ... looking women in the eye ... that's ah-SWEEP-ay ... porn star deaths ... Bear's internet connection dies ... Netflicking TV series ... movie recommendations ... tangoing out the door ... pomegranates ... setting the bar

Wake parties ... open casket wakes ... that's my father in that jar ... Mike's screaming telephone ... succinct Mike ... ''Yeah, it is'' ... deemphasizing ''da bomb'' ... internal alarm clock ... sleeping on stuffed animals ... freaky elephants ... results of the birthday contest ... (s)curviest pirate contest answer ... one glass of OJ a day ... zen pirates ... ''that was totally worth it'' ... basketball-style drug cartels ... 3-way football ... feline woman ... ''friendly'' golden retrievers ... Irish setters and snakes ... frighteningly smart cats ... ''it's on my paw, it's on my paw'' ... ''signed'' messages ... negotiating with terrorists

Skulking in the bathroom ... the Skillet ... the toad tunnel ... stop signs as ornamentation ... living in Sacramento ... Murder Burger ... political leanings of Catholics ... Jesuit/Unitarian cage match ... zebra crossings ... wandering electricity ... The Afterlife ... religions that practice fraternity hazing ... religion of the one who's not there ... Godbody ... feast of agape ... bad-apple Popes ... the four biggest follies in history ... God's Chinese son ... Philadelphia baggage ... Republican and Catholic blood types ... 50 things They don't want you to know ... defending your life ... say you love God ... the water service

Not recording ... kids old enough to beat you at checkers ... Dada boy? ... Democratic strategy ... the same strategy but without the rockets ... lending Lebanon our racketeering expertise ... ''Burger Time'' (ad) ... M*A*S*H ... eternal damnation ... prosecuting minors for Hell ... nobody expects the rapture ... everlasting life, in one way or another ... the babelfish paradox ... ''Millions'' ... (quick break) ... same-sex marriage ... Jesuits ... Herman's what? ... strategies to understand the Bible ... measures of uncertainty ... 15th century French serfs ... not natural ... Britney Spears' marriage ... Sodom and Gomorrah ... what gender are angels?

Phone follies ... anonymity and mushrooms ... passenger pigeons ... Soviet airplanes ... my other Saturn saved my life ... car crash ads ... feminine commercials ... bias in the media ... military reporting ... deaths per region ... back to pigeons ... books received ... the power of the Internet ... Tower of Hanoi ... Perplex City ... misspent youth ... having the same birthday

The neutron bomb ... 'bachelorhood' ... Cane Toads ... the greatest movie ever made ... Mother, Jugs and Speed ... querida Laura ... calling Woz ... calling 911 ... the DH is a ninja ... Ask a Ninja ... switching to Linux ... Illuminati, the Game ... Order of the Stick ... everyone is our age ... the Chuck Norris Bridge ... Ballad of the Whiskey Robber ... the air conditioner ... the broad middle ... if you stab one of your classmates, you don't get invited to the reunion ... the mushrooms ... the power of forgiveness

Last week redux ... the Exploratorium experiment ... Tantini weenie [Dave's correction: that's ''Tartini''] ... the Bakelite handset ... Dave and David ... the echo effect ... the tactile dome ... Mike at camp ... tweaking Capture the Flag ... changing the rules in sports ... 35 breasts in Caesar's Palace ... the bird takes a lead

Calling Richard ... looking for Bear and Dave ... interviewing the pancake lady ... what happens in Vegas gives you tendonitis ... don't drink and bet ... beginner's luck ... you're not Dave! ... taxis in Vegas ... our sports-car days ... apologies to Mike and Richard ... Spartans ... Loretta and Lowell ... Victor the Cleaner ... Transporter ... Tori Spelling redux ... "you did the clown" ... taking care of the cats ... do you know the way to San Jose? ... playing with tigers ... the grim French ... I'd miss you ... the Last Resort Inn

Vacations ... what happens in Vegas ... corruption ... dueling semiautomatics ... traveling with children ... don't lick the taxi ... the five-year-old terrorist ... self-checkin and checkout ... Peruvian protests ... smuggling cotton ... getting out of Russia ... the NSA and long distance ... finding Richard ... the Israeli situation

Where's my platypus? ... goodbye Mike, hello Dave ... the hamstring ... breaking tradition ... hello, Meredith ... capture the flag ... say you have to go potty, then pull a 180 ... adult piñata ... shark v. octopus ... spare teeth ... maybe it was the mackerel! ... tonight you sleep with the people ... Truth or Dare for children ... Maglites and self-defense ... the bank robbery ... water balloons ... small town news ... nice people ... the tarantula spot

Gizmo ... Skype 2.0, with irony ... bargaining ... abacuses ... visiting Peru ... guinea tribbles ... close encounters of the rodent kind ... the ping thing ... paintball ... Cayman, the anti-Peru ... scuba diving ... the dog and the coffee table ... mega-hopscotch ... Wonderfalls ... why Mel Brooks is a comic genius ... Irish is ethnic??

Just a quick hello, to let you know that we haven't forgotten you -- we're just on vacation. Well, some of us are, anyway.

With July comes sun, sand, beaches... and lack of internet access.  We'll be spread far and wide during July and much of August, so we're moving to a biweekly schedule, and we may bring in a guest now and then to liven things up.  Stay tuned!  We're not gone, we're just off at the beach sipping colorful drinks with little umbrellas.

Intermission music ... Houston, we have a problem ... air-water ... Manhattan farts ... mug-me wires ... Wonderfalls redux ... the commentary reel ... a community of one ... Hiroshima Mon Amour ... BlueRayMax ... Banana! ... our listeners have good taste ... I'm so embarrassed. Is this live? ... Kali ... plugging books, sometimes with a gun ... maybe it IS art ... taboos ... hairy man-boobs ... back to art

Chopsticks ... Dave's Quality Meats and Pete's Brass Rail and Car Wash ... bee season ... what ISN'T maple syrup good for? ... wedgets ... Aram's bad day ... kicking people when they're up ... High School Musical ... how kids develop ... wasabi is not guacamole ... Minis on Top and Mount Washington ... golden retrievers ... why people want children ... Halloween ... fearing fear itself ... snipers ... cheerleader on cheerleader action ... living in fear

Potential guests ... waking Dave ... no last names! ... Reservoir Dogs ... iPods on a plane ... Wonderfalls ... you're Mr. Pink ... dark guest ... Kobe beef burgers ... fun with phones ... hello, Dad? ... where do you keep the towels? ... frying your motherboard ... hey, there's a fire ... nutmeg ... car crash ... the power of prayer ... badgers and bears ... that skinny pink thing isn't worth this ... gotcha!

Turning into Bob Dylan ... cherry picking ... fresh lobsta ... camping ... ask your daughter... defeating the Curse ... Franklin W. Dixon ... Ghost World ... Bollywood ... snakes on a plane ... George of Paris ... eating New York ... Spartan spaghetti

Meeting in Second Life ... why not to use Chinese condoms ... why not to get a Chinese massage ... ha ha ha America ... not studying Japanese ... movie roundup ... Santa Monica wedding II ... speaking of glass teats ... Factory 798 ... solving the gas crisis ... the results of the contest ... the Martha Stewart of the nun world

Explaining the contest ... the Kobayashi Maru question ... farewell to our Hopi listeners ... you're gonna get eaten ... still explaining the contest ... "A family walks into a talent agency..." ... mao tai: the secret to fluency in Chinese (and Japanese) ... speaking and not speaking German ... words the Germans need to change ... English grammar and dark alleys ... Santa Monica wedding

Waiting for Mr. Rick ... how to get out of a lecture, fast ... experiments on humans ... how to leave your job, spectacularly ... flash clowns ... cement cuddlers ... now that's a baseball town! ... Sweet Jesus! ... aliens ... Duchamp, ready-mades, Ansel Adams, and art ... Tin Drum? Hated it ... Damn! Is he that good?

The disappearance of the Curse? ... this MP3 may be shorter than it appears ... who's Missah Brevis? ... watch the Incredibles!! ... the Sky High saga ... shades of the Lone Ranger ... listener contest!! ... plagiarism and book farms ... Franklin W. Dixon ... Nancy's got a gun ... secret sheep encoding ... palimpsests, pedagogs, pedants - oh my!

Technical issues ... bunnies in the backyard ... Herb Caen and Jon Carroll ... Unitarian Jihad ... mocking Mike ... the French-kissing cat ... mice ... finding ponies in piles of poop ... Nobel prizewinners and parking ... scamming the scammers ... customs ... films for kids ... book farms

Greetings to our listeners (we have LISTENERS??) ... "excuse me, sir, your donut is demonic" ... Acne jeans ... are you lactating? Bite the wax tadpole ... the durian ... the skunk and the rat ... Mike's mic ... pet demises ... the "explicit" tag ... Cyrano de Bergerac ... turning marshmallows to golf clubs ... using chocolate ... presentations ... podcast therapy

Tax day ... the price of privacy and laziness ... "that is top secret" ... used cars ... "Who cupped me?" ... horse racing ... Amtrak ... visiting Dave's sister ... peeing on a waffle iron ... sleeping animals ... "you can't focus" ... the world's most talkative cat ... the gub-gub ... how big is your guinea pig?

Additive vs. subtractive colors ... "Why aren't all the colors in the rainbow?" ... "I've only had two drinks, I swear" ... "I'm an officer of the court, I can't do that" ... RED!! ... unscrupulous uses of the internet ... the Curse chooses Skype as its next victim ... "sometimes ya gotta put that dog down" ... the passion of the Superman

Are we on the air? ... tech support ... new heights of frugality ... boners ... Ringworld and Foundation ... cigarettes and typewriters ... rabbit baseball ... mu ... Darthing, or, the Curse returns ... "No!" ... snow sculptures ... simultaneous action plays ... perspectives on pickpocketing ... big balls ... bluetooth and nano ... tasing

Just as we're finishing up what would have been a polished first episode, The Curse makes its first appearance....