Four Guys Walk Into a Bar

171. I Believe That's Pig

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:34:00 GMT

Making it under the line ... a ten-minute show? No ... Skype on an iTouch ... JUST like Switzerland ... "I believe that's pig" ... the worst? Chicken ... seasons ... biking with children ... screw drives ... caramelized onions ... internet wine arrives ... the red savings button on the wall ... health care just happening ... NPR communicating effectively ... Obama v. Fox ... weekly pick: Superbad ... weekly pick: twitter feed, [poop]mydadsays ... weekly pick: iomega portable hard drive + Time Machine

170. Frogpaste Tube

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:13:00 GMT

Usually one more window ... validating your paranoia ... my house podcasting ... windows 7 shudder ... hiding in the closet ... killing your progeny ... a little bit to mock people ... consider our driving habits ... oops, dead ... confirm that in a nonce ... 14.5 minutes later ... not a bad way to die ... screaming in the back of the taxi ... amazing medicine ... caffeine drip ... this is the plan? ... frogpaste tube ... a mouth with 4 legs ... 90% of the free food ... food backing ... is that your car over there? ... I saw one and then I knew ... so I could teach it to my daughter ... the power of logic nomenclature ... thinking: it's not for everyone ... Hoosiers ... Bull Durham ... weekly pick: The Capital Steps ... mystery meat ... pairing wine with camel ... camelpaste tube ... camelducken ... weekly pick: Michael Sandel, "Justice" ... weekly pick: Midshipman Hornblower ... game of wink frog trying to pull a house ... me-shaped impression in the snow ... I made an angel on you

169. Suite!

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:12:00 GMT

richard has a mac ... bear has no food ... cheap suite in manhattan, but he has coffee ... mini-me richard ... soviet style coffee carafe ... close encounters of the 3rd kind has held up OK ... some like it hot ... where is marilyn monroe? ... background music ... we're eligible for the nobel peace prize! ... taking the missiles out of eastern Europe ... realpolitik with Russia ... nuclear reduction? suppose it's going on ... Dave got up early to exercise with Cuddles ... weekly pick: "40 Year Old Virgin" ... weekly pick: "Dan in Real Life" ... weekly pick: Iain Banks' "Against a Dark Background" and "Youth of Weapons" ... his book "Player of Games" was also good, his characters are often flawed ... START talks slowly going on ... weekly pick: hotwire.com, good way of picking hotel rooms - rooms, coffee and a bed

168. Oh, this is so bad.

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:28:00 GMT

no video ... no telepathy ... no bear ... no redeeming value to house of flying daggers ... no philip jose farmer ... no german film ...no tin drum by gunther gaas ... ok, das boot was good ... no hiroshima mon amor ... yes deuce bigolo ... yes full monty ... yes gods must be crazy pick ... yes chore o matic - valuing chores ... weekly pick - 3M command poster strips ... claim jumper chocolate cake - slice that serves an army ... full monty - big ass rock ... my name is Earl

167. "They're in the attic!"

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:40:00 GMT

puppy started ... new wireless Microsoft satan machine ... where-i-stans ... run a wire ... still 99.9% full hard drive ... mac idiosyncratic stuff ... Dell arm twisting ... mac vs. what? ... kibbutz in China ... nothing bad has happened yet ... ding dong mac immunityâs dead ... some special enmity ... among the mortified ... celebrated the anniversary ... brb ... switching between podcasts ... weekly pick: Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs ... weekly pick: Ponyo ... weekly pick: "Very Hard Choices," Spider Robinson ... losing your place tying your shoes ... empty bladder movie ... anti-pick: original Around the World in 80 Days ... they're in the attic .. simulcast MST3k ... so why tell us ... high volume of tomatoes ... that's not free ... corral your ivy

166. Godzilla without Makeup

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:33:00 GMT

Potential for awkwardness ... no, yes, totally doesn't work like that ... peg leg, peg leg ... sharing monty python ... Brazil lite ... practicing an apology ... supernatural good looks ... I wish I were Carey Grant ... old Carey Grant fine ... Dorothy Parker ... pearls before swine ... or vice versa ... liked Ayn Rand ... is Nixon British? ... play Godzilla without makeup ... face-brand actors ... Meryl Streep as The Wrestler ... the President called him a jerk ... denial of service is wrong ... Astroturf grass roots ... enemies quoting you for amusement ... the last day ... thanks a pantload ... weekly pick: Cerebus the Aardvark ... hawk consommÃ ... the whole pig ... 0-ten is out ... ... weekly pick: the Vietnam humanitarian ... weekly pick: C.S. Forrester, "The Good Shepherd" ... and if you don't like the Beatles ... weekly pick: rockband, beatles

165. Pizza Nirvana

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:28:00 GMT

New version of skype death ... iPhone to iTouch ... iPhone tether ... there's unlimited data and then there's unlimited data ... clam bake! ... dinner for 500? No problem -- hey, where are the serving spoons? ... burned roof of mouth on best pizza in the world ... mystic pizza ... weekly pick: "The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters," Gordon Dahlquist ... weekly pick: "The Art of Eating," Edward Behr ... weekly pick: flightcaster.com

164. Summer Vacation

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:41:00 GMT

And then there were 4 ... lightning strike damaging computer components ... Richard's working on the weekend ... there's causation behind every correlation, no matter how remote ... chocolate covered bacon ... dave's road trip ... lava beds and caves ... timber contests ... crater lake ... isolated ecosystem ... weeks without internet ... illegal wireless poaching ... Lincoln Continental roadtrip ... just pop out the brakelight ... electrical converter for the car ... roasting coffee and smoking chickens for a 50th ... not offending a vegetarian ... weekly pick: John Colton's Code Monkey song ... weekly pick: gapminder.org ... weekly pick: www.informationisbeautiful.net

163. Jetlag starvation

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 20:37:00 GMT

jetlag starvation â neither family, religious, or camp â weekly pick: Star Trek movie â weekly pick: Dead Like Me

162. Vodcast

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:12:00 GMT

Recording in video (NOT!) ... Bear, Dave, and Mike ... sweat lodge ... lord of the flies in capture the flag ... Dave marshalling the tweens vs the teens ... agent modelling ... you can't handle the truth ... neutral experience with wasps ... oh the beemanity (http://tinyurl.com/beemanity) ... weekly pick: book "And Tango Makes Three" ... hide it in the non-fiction reference section ... Dar Williams ... bye Dave ... 60% chance of rain and hail ... he knows how to make mobile pizza ovens ... no pistachos on pizzas ... a well balanced pizza ... $14 hamburger restaurant ... 40% of the restaurant's costs are food? ... grass fed chicken ... weekly pick: handbrake, Mac software for ripping dvds to disk/ipods ... weekly pick: "Charcuterie" by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn - how to make pancetta ... it's good not to be kosher ... pink salt is nicely dangerous

161. Can't keep a good muse down

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:43:00 GMT

up early in California ... up late with 7 lbs ... it's dave, not the pancake lady ... monty python flux ... more structured than phisbin ... wait, you haven't watched monty python and the holy grail? ... great dalmuti ... frog and the peach ... dave avoiding a cripping injury in capture the flag ... can't keep a good muse down ... to group sing the impossible dream ... thinking of finding the 'and bubbles' lady ... welcome to the IOU state ... buying alcohol in Ohio and pot in CA ... vice taxing to get out of budget deficits ... state employee furloughs ... not making hard enough choices ... weekly pick: pandora on the iphone ... weekly pick: iphone BART train predictor app ... weekly pick: monty python flux ... weekly pick from last year: catch phrase hot potato game

160. Cookery

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Cell phone contact ... being absent ... robotics camp ... Watercourse Way ... Prius mapping ... ``Turn around'' ... the cookery demonstration ... it's not waterproof?!? ... What did you do to the tomatoes? ... culinary Ohio ... farms in Ohio ... torturing grapevines ... weekly pick: George Taber, the Judgment of Paris ... weekly pick: gdgt.com ... weekly pick: Monkey, Folk Novel of China ... weekly pick II: The Language of Bees

159. Nimble Presidents

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:05:00 GMT

Can we hear Dave now? ... Jon and Kate minus one ... a new reality show: the news ... Richard's back ... or not ... unscripted television ... running on county fair food ... better than bacon? Are you mad ... get out of the car of I'll tase me ... their ship of state should be unfettered ... you want to look in my BAG? ... do it again, do it again ... put them in a room with Lloyd ... gas mask training ... low grade current stories ... lighting the lightbulb in your hand ... Ripley's Believe it, OR NOT ... president ninja ... no-fly zone ... PETA: releasing flies into the wild ... what animal is too small ... releasing bacteria into the wild ... giant hypocrites ... antithetical to our way of life ... mortality reminders ... tragedy at the beach ... resignation of Palin ... enough rope to end the Republican Party ... picking on Palin ... strategy or just human life? ... not a very good strategist ... weekly pick: sendables.jibjab.comâhes_barack_obama ... weekly pick: Robo Rally ... go ahead and admit to a felony ... Tom said lackadaisically ... weekly pick: hypogeum at Malta ... weekly pick: The Coldest Winter, David Halberstam

158. We've Got BOTH Kinds

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

It's not you, it's me ... Dave's all-nighters ... lying down in poppies ... Iranian voters ... winning fake elections ... last day of school week ... the Kindle DX ... Mike's daughter's texts ... iPhone etiquette ... snoring during conference calls ... Ohio wines ... dry wine people ... Gateway wines ... Pinot Noir ... tracking the center of the country ... strangemaps.wordpress.comâ389-americas-mean-streak ... the gold bar again ... weekly pick: cellartracker.com / cor.kz ... weekly pick: Weeds ... weekly pick: Target ... the Ponzi economy ... growing food my steak eats

157. Multiple Datagasms

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:46:00 GMT

Bee-sting allergies ... you mean I SHOULD listen to the voices? ... public service message: OOTS ... weekly pick: hat trick of pain killers ... detectable back pain ... excruciating, crucifying pain ... mud boots ... clay armor ... you can rot in hell ... recording expertise ... 20th reunion ... surviving vs. not surviving ... a bullet dodged ... a bunch of do-overs ... what are your intentions with my wife ... anti do-over ... bigger kindle ... reformatting pdf's ... the beauty of European paper sizes ... oh, and what's on TV ... the wonders of two screens ... http://www.necdisplay.com/Products/Product/?product=34f0e2d4-795b-4c4c-964d-da99e85a39fa ... hitting your peripheral vision ... weekly pick: passiveaggressivenotes.com ... weekly pick: gapminder.org ... positively geektastic ... multiple datagasms ... weekly pick: http://visualizeit.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/visualization-in-sports/

156. Trepanation for Dummies

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:08:00 GMT

Technical adjustments ... KMN, KMN ... stringing brain cells together ... oh, so I get to choose ... first concert post children ... medicine pantry ... compound fracture of the liver ... removing coin size piece of your skull ... turducken/trepanner combo ... night guy ... a lillet hangover ... just not plumberâs crack ... TV on the Radio ... deceptive Tom Stoppard ... the Hunger ... it was deliberate? ... weekly pick: howtosayin.com ... ``standing on a steet corner in Mumbai with an iPhone in my hand'' ... how would you squander $1,000? ... walkman? ... normally Iâd be dead by now ... hexagonal bottle storage ... fondle an macbook air ... weekly pick: the gumption memorandum ... weekly pick: horrell.ca/file_download/7 ... weekly pick: Studs Terkel's Hard Times

155. Ripple Face

Sat, 23 May 2009 03:19:00 GMT

Regularity ... one-hand Harold Lloyd ... safety last ... the man's completely insane ... boxee vs. roku ... get me out of here chewy ... convenience nukes ... really fast hand driers ... Pride and Prejudice, Bride and Prejudice and Pride, and Prejudice and Zombies ... Captain Jack ... weekly pick: http://www.vimeo.com/3519159 robert parker's [w]itch ... weekly pick: video of why my spouse is amazing at news.cnnbcvideo.com ... Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, especially TANSTAAFL ... Patrick O'Brian exacting use of words

154. Spock Goes Mind-Flayer

Thu, 14 May 2009 23:23:00 GMT

Dave's connection issues ... Mike's 20-year college reunion ... going to off-year reunions ... who are they now ... restaurant prison breaks ... it's PG-13, Dave ... spoilers: Dave's kryptonite ... Kids In Mind: the half-empty part of the glass ... Netflix envelopes of doom ... I am Spartacus ... Firefly in XKCD ... XKCD's obscurity ... Spock and Heroes ... the cow in a can ... weekly pick: garagistewine.com, offbeat internet wine merchant ... weekly pick: Faultline, by Barry Eisler; The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan ... weekly pick: Star Trek ... stacking jello blocks ... Dexter ... Go ... playing chess in the park

153. "Sweet Jesus, Sue, WHY?"

Sat, 9 May 2009 05:31:00 GMT

Richard, just un-mute ... diasporadic podcast of opportunity ... philandering skype ... let's hear it for H1N1 ... ninja cat ... small pork industry ... they'd done a dry rub ... you heard him pigs, f*** off ... bacon in the rain ... every picnic should be preceded by a hike ... bacon explosion v. 2 ... whole more or less the sum of the parts ... making me hungry ... Sweet Sue chicken in a can ... foodnetworkhumor.comâa-whole-chicken-in-a-can-yummo ... curb teen pregnancy photos ... weekly pick: Chuck ... the iocaine effect ... chopstick switch-hitter ... I, too, am not right handed ... the world's most condescending server ... they're side dishes ... weekly pick: Beer Wars ... weekly pick: Bottle Shock / The Judgment of Paris

152. Ride 'Em Like You Stole 'Em

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:48:00 GMT

Dave and Chuck Norris ... Facebook Somali pirates ... pirates and kings ... taxes and piracy ... Daily Show and piracy ... cooler than beep ... not the armored suit zion ... ride 'em like you stole 'em ... cut it until it dies ... barcode hijinks ... urban iditarod ... cement cuddlers ... and wanted to date me ... facebook: the end of ``what happens on the road...'' ... there was this jello ... how did he know that was me ... how about a miller lite then ... weekly pick: the lychee martini ... lillet ... weekly pick: Pandora pay service ... weekly pick: ``The Windup Bird Chronicle,'' Haruki Murakami ... weekly pick: Zion national park

151. Ethiopian Ninjas

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:58:00 GMT

Richard in NYC ... Dave being blocked by Skype? Naah, just asleep ... Richard's Easter in NYC ... dyeing eggs ... the Mini-Me Egg ... weird, wacky eggs ... making Ukrainian eggs -- from hard-boiled eggs ... Ukrainian lobotomies ... Dave and Ukrainian eggs ... Ethopian ninjas ... Predators ... reluctant Predator pilots ... recruiting a separate geek squad ... dy(e)ing rabbits ... possum recipe ... garbage-fed possum ... why pigs don't play dead ... ramps as harbingers of spring ... twitscoop ... the hive mind vs. traditional media ... weekly pick: twitchhiker.wordpress.com ... weekly picks: TheMime, common_squirrel on Twitter ... weekly pick: City of Ember ... Mike's first 30-year reunion

150. Everything's Better with Bacon... or Nutella

Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:06:00 GMT

Preemptively lost mike ... rights are left ... stuff warmed over, again? ... listener request ... brussels sprouts with Montreal steak seasoning ... fighting over the leftovers ... everything's better with bacon or nutella ... like a cabbage, but slimy ... to the bone ... brussels sprout confetti ... and on trucks ... and secretly gifted ... recipe for amber-something ... punk-in ... parsley cigarette ... [mangaleeza?] pig ... adorable massive pigs ... real good ... http://www.marriedtothesea.com/071108/tastes-of-the-swine.gif ... parts that are delicious ... gigantor the imperious ... make the crazy man go away ... Zathura ... we're meat ... I can see why they made this guy their leader ... yes, a sign ... weekly pick: Heavy Metal ... weekly pick: Castle in the Sky ... superpoop.com ... normally I'd be dead by now ... well, you know ... weekly pick: twitter ... follow my toots

149. Zombie Water Buffalo

Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:16:00 GMT

Hung over around the edges ... a whisky pot luck ... we've got the 23 year old ... I feel like stuff warmed over ... the perfect cure for a podcast ... the Kentucky whisky run ... more edible, less magic ... this is not a highway ... weekly pick: Christian the lion video ... unwanted circus animals ... we're fragile ... lions vs. water buffalo vs. crocodile ... zombie water buffalo ... weekly pick: academicearth.org ... importance of lecture vs. whole course ... dead pixel in google earth ... sheep pixels ... pole position ... weekly pick: "Mistress of the Art of Death," Ariana Franklin ... weekly pick: Voyage of the Dawn Treader ... marketing Christianity ... wiping out the zombie competition ... Jesus is not a vampire ... random acts of kindness to quit smoking ... meeting the someone from the Internet ... weekly pick: Pappy van Winkle 20 Year bourbon ... Pappy van Winkle nouveau ... creamy, tasty, shifting, delicious ... always mirror sensitive data to an outside system

148. Ceci n'est pas une show

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:49:00 GMT

Why there's no show this week ... the dog zapper ... the origins of ``lifestrawed'' ... ok, really, no show this week!!

147. Lifestrawed!

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:10:00 GMT

Working in notepad ... loading s l o w l y ... vestigial formatting ... little peanut mind ... hitting undo ... WYSIAYG ... cross between a bureaucracy and a juggernaut ... jug-ocracy ... cloud computing for idiots ... hook up your twitter feeds ... that doesn't involve my social life, Professor ... tinyURL crashes ... www.tinyurl.com/peanuts-sincity ... weekly pick: Important Things, Demetri Martin ... weekly pick: momix ... Tonga Room, Fairmount Hotel ... endangered tiki kitsch ... pencil preferences ... weekly pick: Pentel sharp kerry mechanical pencil ... the mont blanc we're-still-better-than-you line ... judicious use of the mute button ... muting in the dark ... all pens are mine ... filling up the empty spaces with pens ... the kind of clients you don't need ... roller-bowling-ball pen ... desk size mousetrap ... OOTS & ERFworld at www.giantitp.com ... NSFW ... World Trade Federation!! ... Mike's going to lifestraw us again ... weekly pick: www.positivityratio.com/single.php ... grandma clean

146. Montreal tonsil sauce

Sat, 7 Mar 2009 17:14:00 GMT

Logan's Run nakedness ... City of Ember ... amber habanero drinks ... nothing new in Eragon ... don't drink beer at a basketball game ... if it happens, they know who did it ... Mr. President you're not allowed to play ... we know you don't like beer ... earned a martini ... little house on the prairie ... bruce lee nun chuck ping pong ... weekly pick: amazing ping pong video ... rock paper scissors lizard Spock ... weekly pick: the Watchman, the book ... the Joker doesn't plan? ... quite a performance ... pear-Riesling yogurt ... skypuku ... ignore the spinning beachball ... smell of burning meat ... weekly pick: Rye whiskey ... anti-pick: RÄ1 ... weekly pick: crumbled bacon ... anything without bacon tastes better with bacon ... weekly pick: roasted vegetables ... blazing vegetables ...Montreal tonsil sauce

145. Shovel-ready

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:50:00 GMT

Shovel-ready ... fired! ... too much email at the wrong times ... email productivity tips ... downtime's bad ... Disneyland strategies ... streaming Netflix ... Dave being seduced by BluRay ... the remote ... smart electronics ... giving a talk upside down ... weekly pick: SaiSuke ... Kindle 2 as Hitchhiker's Guide ... e-readers and PDFs ... weekly pick: Google street view ... weekly pick: The Queen ... weekly pick: Youtube seadragon tech demo ( www.youtube.comâwatch ) ... Seadragon iPhone app

144. Trixie and the beef cheeks

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:28:00 GMT

No charity left â breast cancer in you 20âs â no bacon! â block of could-believe-itâs-butter â live meat pancakes â one-choco-chip pancake â cantaloupe breakfast â raspberry pancakes â producing dinner without assistance â rolling eyes and back talk â funky salami â Mr. Wine â trixie and beef cheeks â one hardcore chickflick a year â weekly pick: Slumdog Millionaire â weekly pick: savory wholegrain breakfasts â pureed houseplant â oatmeal with poisonnut butter â kanji for breakfast? â Inez is unimpressed â Richardâs most shameful moment â anti-pick: Damage â weekly pick: Little House on the Prairie â weekly pick: LogMeIn.com

143. Jenny Jenny

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:30:00 GMT

Karate practice in the background ... the neutronium board ... weekly pick: O Brother, Where Art Thou? ... where's Mike? ... Latitude: Google Stalker ... can Mike come out to play? ... not drinking, drinking only to excess, and getting drunk only once a year, but being three years behind ... recipe for a drunken Dave: Zombie and B-52 ... weekly pick: the Rock o' Matics ... you call this a mudslide? ... how to make a mudslide ... hacking the drink computer ... hangin' at the pub ... 867-5309 ... soothing the bartender burn ... bar charades ... why it'd be so cool if everyone knew sign language ... email from the President ... weekly pick: www.jossip.comâoccasions-for-barack-to-use-his-bad-boy-voice-20090206 ... Barack, bipartisanship, and the stimulus package ... American solutions

142. Bring out the Poet

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:35:00 GMT

tubing the half-pipe â magic carpets â turn the wii 90 degrees â hitting the ball is harder â inches of ice â call up the poet! â new Attorney General â no Bush pardons â never hold office again â legal bills of attainder â gerrymandering for fun and profit â 6th grade GT classmates â take the plunge: facebook â like youâre not Daveâs friends â online games are the gateway drug â friend or not â 13 to join it â evils of high school amplified â facebook rule â crab claw drumsticks â youâre all right â weekly pick: iShoot â weekly pick: keepvid.com ... best celery â Iâm never going to know what happens ... weekly pick: wii karoke

141. Presidential Tweets

Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:50:00 GMT

Good morning all ... thank you, AT&T ... 4 a.m. voicemails ... Richardless ... Dave's mom's celebration of life ... golden coronas ... why the memorial was so long after her death? now I get it ... enough food that there wasn't cheese ... Dave's family's equivalent of a wake ... The Optimist's Creed ... Obama-ness ... Presidential tweets ... can't tell ya, can't tell ya ... the Plaxo virus ... the invisible splinter ... ``We are downtrodden!'' ... weekly pick: Flixster for iPhone ... Slumdog Millionaire ... Obama's executive orders ... unwinding standard operating procedures ... toasting the inauguration with Scotch ... lip-syncing at the inauguration ... swearing him in AGAIN ... Fox News: Leaping to the fore ... ADD Theater ... license plate NCC-1701 ... weekly pick: Rock Band for the Wii ... non-age-appropriate lyrics ... weekly pick: whitehouse.gov

140. Spitfreeze

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:40:00 GMT

Better stronger faster internet service ... lying about bandwidth ... memorial services ... didn't make it above zero ... snow cocktails ... a cocktail out of anything that doesn't move ... vodka infused vodka ... where are my gloves ... he thinks its cold ... world's largest sports fan ... layering for 25 degree football ... football from the crows nest ... thermo tourism ... air turned to fluid ... brain started superconducting ... a deer friend ... spit freeze before it hits the sidewalk ... ice would dramatically warm up the spit ... hit with both engines together ... well-placed faith in humanity ... a forest of porta-potties ... couldn't watch the rest of W's speech ... a sad spectacle ... we'll just feel better about it ... Road to Rushmore ... you sure you want this job, man? ... weekly pick: boxee.tv ... no, THIS is surround sound ... weekly pick: 4D theater ... weekly pick: mario cart wii ... weekly pick: adobe photoshop

139. Bring Your Own Catheter

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:11:00 GMT

Gathering the troops ... weekly pick: sleep ... the book was - twang ... the only thing they disagree on is foreign ... bring your own catheter ... party in our own state ... the golden ticket effect ... 7.2% unemployed plus 1 ... why can't a criminal behave honorably ... only a presumptive slimeball ... Burress' mausoleum resume ... wise man 'Tapow ... I did not mean Thieves Guild ... Bearâs 9th wedding anniversary ... ceramic elements in speakers ... apple TV ... terabyte harddrive at home depot ... chef: go nuts ... gin infused salmon ... rabbit wrapped in bacon â and stuffed in a duck ... Tintin wrapped in bacon ... that is sarong ... now you're in trouble because I'm full ... 4 hour later when we rolled out of the place ... cab the 2 blocks to our car ... weekly pick: Jackie Chan Movies ... falling up a wall ... weekly pick: Heroes ... TV episodes a la carte ... wireless solution sucks ... didn't they learn with Betamax ... weekly pick: Flight Explorer ... weekly pick: Fring

138. Shoveling Beignets

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:46:00 GMT

So needing a vacation from a vacation ... introduced to In-and-Out burger ... failed: unknown error ... a disgusting American food ... fast food for slow foodies ... flu, again ... never been so happy to have pneumonia ... 780 in a cab ... ready to strangle kittens ... beignet? ... new years at 9:30 ... the ball drop on You Tube ... extra man-I'm-getting-older day ... anti-resolution ... get round to it day ... relationship with a gym ... weekly pick: wii fit ... shoveling beignet ... Ohio: #1 in porn downloads ... weekly pick: Pandora for the iPhone ... Pandora needs money, badly ... weekly pick: netflix + tivo ... evil cable companies ... weekly pick bait-and-switch ... 81 degree doctor's office ... weekly pick: Don't Make Me Laugh ... weekly pick: Balderdash and Balderdash II ... doing pushups on a postage stamp ... the yurt

137. He Put All His Points Into DEX

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:21:00 GMT

Choosing pi ... arbitrary units ... 2 half family-room-floors ... furlongs per fortnight ... the "hey-you" ... the Lingua-Franca ... an open source language ... and Tonga ... you're the one doing the writing ... teeter-totter ... now we can crush them ... super absorbent! ... psychic sense of misspellings ... video of the week: shoes thrown at Bush ... dude is nimble ... he put all his points into Dex ... volapuk expert ... weekly pick: "Spook Country," William Gibson ... my kid the ninja ... somebody else's problem field ... you handled like a Sherman tank ... sandy squirrel with bicep tail ... weekly pick: Luxardo maraschino cherries ... tuna-pork chili ... they go in â Dave ... to sneeze: stare at the light ... weekly picklette: chocolate covered oreo ... move-a-thon ... you wouldn't buy our crappy cars, so we're taking our money anyway ... weekly pick: move.rmi.org/features/oilmap.html ... second to last barrel of oil

136. Begging Questions and Taking Names

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:35:00 GMT

A spate of birthdays ... babies for tax deductions ... the amazing race birthday party ... best reality show: news ... clear sound, for now ... kickin' ass and taking names ... nonplussed ... table that idea ... begging the question ... the question is wanton ... cleave ... decimate this table ... thank goodness it's only 1-in-ten ... food not so good, but the drinks! ... cheeky cocktails ... weekly pick: pinefarnia designed Simple Tech external hard drive ... weekly pick: evernote ... slicker than owl snot ... more nebulous than cloud computing ... ``The Mysterious Benedict Society,'' Trenton Lee Stewart ... the Thai iced coffee martini ... loving Thai iced tea

135. Broken Pipe

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:37:00 GMT

Job where you don't know if it is Saturday ... wife grinding molars ... all info through one pipe ... how I hate Comcast? Let me count the ways ... you're the problem, buddy ... editing: a hoot and a half ... lemming cast ... weekly pick: David Harrower, ``Blackbird'' ... Daily Show on terrorist attacks ... mother fishers ... pirates: rich comedic material ... classy pirates say ``arrrr'' ... punching above their weight ... not enough sea water in your engine ... jurisdiction on the high seas ... the polite thing to say is ``privateer'' ... due process rights on pirates ... my daughter the pirate ... escaping the Communists and pirates ... a remarkable place on the hierarchy of needs: need parking ... a body with no soul ... Glen Goyne: peatless single malt ... I AM from Thailand ... weekly pick: webkinz ... antipick: skype ... pick: California Academy of Science ... evil gifts for the traveler

134. Meaty thud

Wed, 3 Dec 2008 06:15:00 GMT

Problems with mute buttons ... the neighborhood deadbeat dads ... artsy potatoes ... bacon covered turkey ... more bacon! ... pomegranate seed elevators ... astringent persimmons ... dream dinners ... the naked chef ... a time when people can't cook rice and beans ... consumerism run rampant ... not so funny money ... shopping without the kids ... foody fight ... buy nothing day ... waterboarding without the questions ... beering sensing part of the tongue ... dirty pretty things ... weekly pick: a water heater ... years spent in that pool ... a meaty thud ... death cold ... an uninterrupted supply of air ... third goal: stop making up goals ... weekly pick: Jackson's Wine and Spirits ... liquor store as candy store ... bottles have individual names ... weekly pick: Bob's 88 ... Brady Bunch moment ... weekly pick: ``Variable Star,'' Spider Robinson

133. Undog the Sea Ketches

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:18:00 GMT

Listening to Dave's feedback ... ignore the image in the corner ... but I KNOW that voice ... I've dealt with voices in my head before ... I won't be a downer for the whole show ... pirates vs. ninjas ... but then what do you do with the ninjas? ... semi-submersibles ... let's go diving ... undog the sea ketches!! ... gov't selling smuggling cigarettes ... here, hide this ... get it into the cat litter in two ways ... same size & shape as a cat bladder ... incredibly dry cookies ... I'd better wake up or I'll die ... clearing the palette â with Math ... but Doc, how do I smell? ... supersonic food ... confusion about bisophenol A ... a wine pretty much guaranteed to give me a headache ... it's not a bug, it's a feature ... okra-cola ... string in 2 inch lengths ... weekly pick: Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails ... golden age of cocktails ... I tried 48 of them last week ... weekly pick: New Yorker fiction podcast and The Moth ... outsourcing your personal life ... weekly pick: youtube monty python channel ... weekly pick: videosurf.com ... videoserf? ... weekly pick: Arizona Ice Tea ... .5 inch syrup and seltzer water = personal soft drink

132. Wall of Meat

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:54:00 GMT

Luke, I am your Daddy ... buyology ... lowering the booms ... could we apply? ... inspiring new football rules ... dirtiest team on the field ... robbing the trees of their gold ... the origin of the Tenderloin ... walking through the gonads of the city ... prostitutes? You just know ... the Raiders? Not so much ... Raiders' top scorer ... fly arms akimbo ... he tripped over me ... win by the weight of the player ... wall of meat ... hot tub helmet ... the mean of the offense line was Ed ... Indian insensitivities ... the greatest spirit ... Indian tribal thing: not so cool ... Dei-o-centricity ... Disney version of Indian tribes ... picking on Dave's "insensitivity" ... heterodeiscouts ... abhorrentscouts ... weekly pick: Bellota ham ... weekly pick: google.com/flutrends/ ... weekly pick: time to breathe ... stream of weekly pick: Dr. Who ... Hot Fuzz ... Sean of the Dead

131. "Do NOT screw this UP!"

Sun, 9 Nov 2008 06:29:00 GMT

Who's Don anyway? ... electoral college students ... "Obama resigns" phishing spam ... institutional bigotry ... the bittersweet taste: Prop 8 ... Judeo-Christian yuckiness ... 2000 years of prejudice ... why can't I own a Canadian ... just prejudice ... shift of younger voters ... attitudes don't die, people do ... do NOT screw this up ... George W. Bush Treatment Plant ... GWB sewage production plant? ... too little, too soon ... weekly pick: someecards.com, free e-cards with attitude ... cash monster ... weekly pick: Back to the Future ... weekly pick: One Laptop Per Child ... $500 laptop ... weekly pick: cool political maps: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/ ... do you want to know who your neighbor gave money to? ... Republican vintners ... myfairelection.com ... faust 2.0

130. The Halloween Durian

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 04:10:00 GMT

First colds of the season ... viruses for people ... fun and durian ... myself as a presidential candidate ... dress of Amex gold cards ... Halloween martini ... dressed as mother ... sumo costume ... UPS man ... candy witch ... silent candy trade ... let them eat 'till they throw up ... weekly pick: google transit for smart phones ... company in the liver transplant ward ... weekly pick: internetwines.com ... weekly picks: the Daily Show and the Colbert Report ... Joe the Cellist ... weekly pick: Alsace Lorraine if I want to

129. The Venus Cartrap

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 04:09:00 GMT

Mike is here ... slop over from Virginia ... ya can't hide her forever ... Palin's makeup artist ... more than a governor's salary ... gotta work the Kevlar in there ... conspicuous consumption ... let's dredge that up again ... paying for the label ... 3 cars gone ... waking up in a bathtub of ice with a carburetor gone ... there are 2 so they get beat up less ... hard to see through the deadpan ... venus cartrap ... get the inflatable fire hydrant ... dirty blanking parking thief ... tit-for-tat with insane people ... just doing my job ... self righteous fraudery ... weekly pick: Apple time capsule ... weekly pick: Lilith Saintcrow, "Working for the Devil" ... weekly pick: 30 Rock ... weekly pick: mute button

128. Harmonizing with Psychopaths

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:16:00 GMT

Two mutes ... Joe the Plumber hasn't paid his taxes ... harmonizing with psychopaths ... more money on negative ads in history ... never a tourist in your own town ... back-dating George Washington ... 2/3 of Michigan smokes ... almost walked out of Roger and me ... I swear to god I'm not making this up ... let it pass ... you're a smoker or you're not ... Bear's new profession: cocktail chef ... making your vice into a profession ... making the back label the front label ... having a military helps ... a vegan cougar ... losing $12,000,000 before you're 18 ... walking around on a pair of parentheses ... cheap knee surgery ... sawdust sandwich ... weekly pick: 125 proof Booker's bourbon ... weekly pick: $10/mo t-mobile at home ... weekly pick: Samoa ice cream ... anti-pick: cocoanut other than Samoa ... weekly pick: cocoanut lemongrass soup with prawns ... uhh, Richard?

127. That One '08

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:26:00 GMT

Hitting the record button just in time ... not calling for your opponent to be beheaded ... courageous to put himself in the cross-hairs ... good riddance to our white supremacist audience ... not a sympathetic defendant ... guh-bye ... unethical if not illegal ... East Coast freak ... rubbing two brain cells together ... not pushing "family values" ... if you mess this up for me, little man ... international Talk Like Sarah Palin Day ... just 'cause we're stupid, doesn't mean we're STUPID ... buyout a percentage of home mortgages ... ironic cries of warning ... got to pick someone you trust ... middle class = 98% of the population ... some opportunity for fraud ... stagnation in the credit markets ... jump you suckers ... large enough to eat my neighbors ... weekly pick: ptnoticias.com/pumpkinway ... weekly pick: bookingbuddy.com ... kids fly cheap ... enthusiastic Chinese flight attendants ... working with people who frustrate and annoy you ... weekly pick: "That One '08" ... weekly pick: picklejar's evil league of evil application ... why do you always have to be the good guy?

126. Nucular? You Betcha!

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:40:00 GMT

down by two ... running out of candles to burn ... need to get this done ... first boys and girls party ... kids running wild on youtube ... weekly pick: "Flight of the Conchords" ... youtube channel called Fred ... cha-lee the unicorn ... weekly pick: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ... better fight scene than Princess Bride ... weekly pick: everymomentnow.com ... click on the map ... three-way toggle ... ânucularâ: you betcha ... want someone who is aspiring to more ... even mediocre people need representation ... tele-town-hall-meeting ...

125. Cook it or lose it

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:28:00 GMT

Can't hear the trees for the forest ... ice cream go all melty with technical difficulties ... beetlejuice not for the tweener crowd ... galaxy quest ... star wars and jar jar binks ... deer (plural) in the headlights ... first presidential debate ... what would you do to save $700 billion? ... what are we getting for $700 billion? ... we should pay for fellow homeowners' stupid decisions ... go stand on the x ... main street vs. wall street is just glib ... bailout is to avoid financial paralysis? ... best if we could target support for the suspect mortgages only ... Ike pops by Bear ... use it or lose it potluck ... slow food on the farm ... weekly pick: crossloop.com ... weekly pick: the pawpaw ... MLK revisited ... weekly pick: The Guinea Pig Song and The Llama Song ... weekly anti-pick: X30 polyurethane ... quickrete? ... McDonald's beef

124. Short Selling Sabotage

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:23:00 GMT

Loudest phone call ever â selling garages â rain hounds â crossing a firehose â destruction projects â realtor newsletter â glad I didnât jump out of the market â short selling sabotage â socially redeeming gambling â 12 people empanelled to pick the better lawyer â showing independent thought â pity the judge â one mph over â weekly pick: Bridge to Terabithia â romance crossovers â weekly pick: Deanna Raybourn, âSilent in the Graveâ â scathing comparison â weekly pick: the39Clues.com

123. The Hungry Bigot

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:59:00 GMT

Audio equivalent of Kramer ... yeah, I guess so ... you can't have sympathy without education ... speakerphone with person nailed to tree ... incensed by insensitivity ... to be treated as a waiter ... a restraint for only waiters ... dehumanizing waitrons ... the Hungry Bigot ... Stop -- Go Back ... Creole Kitchen ... these are my people ... so does a twinkie ... each country's fried dough ... and you call yourself a doughnut ... the slug-neigh ... welcome to McDonald's ... this is much better than the dough and oil separately ... owning land in Scotland ... you guys just don't know how to drink ... not in blue packages ... a really small blackhole ... time traveler's party ... original Bond martini ... really smooth, but damn ... writing as Ian Flemming ... weekly pick: pork sung sandwich ... nomadic Dave, wandering between hotels ... the Governor's Suite ... weekly pick: Westin Pasadena Hotel ... weekly pick: Google apps for Blackberry ... weekly pick: OmniFocus ... the pawpaw festival

122. Tasty, tasty murder

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:35:00 GMT

One stooge too many ... hurricanes are all a bunch of hooey ... the carnival mutiny ... grab the cutlasses ... the only extant copy ... well you haven't played Arab-Israeli War ... the fire to build a tennis partner ... 73% of statistics are fabricated ... at least I got chicken ... jury room games ... friends for life in MA ... cheek kissing in the mid-West ... I love you in Finnish ... weekly pick: strangemaps.wordpress.com ... college admission scatter plots ... google street view ... and put on a shirt, okay? ... weekly pick: http://sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm ... too much Latin is a bad thing ... cannibalism map of good eating ... map reflects the map maker ... weekly pick: jibjab.com ... charlie goes to candy mountain ... sweets and joy -- and joyness ... weekly pick: the innocence project

121. Only men do that

Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:36:00 GMT

A hang up ... aberrant mermaid behavior ... tivo knows your party affiliation ... not a strong heartbeat away from being president ... the experienced commander of the Alaskan national guard ... kill minus nine ... the symbolic politics category ... only men do that ... I was excited about election in January ... choosing between two people ... padding maverick credentials ... letting the think quietly die ... I really want trains ... nobody makes money on passenger trains ... weekly pick: Walter Jon Williams, ``Dread Empire Falls'' ... weekly pick: LooseStitch ... weekly pick: Shazam ... weekly pick: five-axis mills ... the dread hexapod

120. The giant death-belch

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:26:00 GMT

Plane shifts ... awaiting developments ... ``We're not there yet'' ... soccer season ... little tiny kids playing soccer ... landing a 747 on a soccer field ... funeral in L.A. ... how to live as if you might die today ... how to eat a peach ... the best coffee in the world ... you've got two pounds of what?? ... weekly pick: backyard soccer ... weekly pick: Breaking Bad ... Buffy the Vampire Slayer ... TV vs. film ... HDTV for the Olympics ... moms and golf ... ``Look, kid...'' ... what happened to the guy who drove the white Bronco? ... Kopi Luwak ... the Jacu bird ... weekly pick: cucumber vodka ... how ice forms ... argon ... CO2 sequestration ... Lake Kivu (note: he really meant Lake Nyos; Lake Kivu is the bigger one) ... the giant death-belch ... weekly pick: Dow High-Load 40

119. When I'm 95

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:30:00 GMT

The dreaded Skype upgrade ... Richard's grandfather is turning 95 ... huckleberries ... when I'm 95 ... talk to somebody who was involved in World War II ... The Battle of Leyte Gulf ... flying the Hump ... the Scotty moment ... Lord Mountbatten's plane ... ``Who's flying??'' ... weekly pick: parasailing ... the jet ski with your name on it ... Russia and Georgia ... Talisker 10 ... weekly pick: the Glencairn Glass -- cobhthaighceltique.com ... champagne coupes ... weekly pick: The Audacity of Hope

118. "China is PEOPLE!"

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:25:00 GMT

The killer app of Tivo ... freakin' Chinese alphabetization ... let go of your expectations ... taking off on a normal ... asteroid screen burn in ... that's what staying up late is for ... did you get it? ... this is going to hurt â a lot ... I don't know how to tell you this ... gently escorted with reasonable force ... Labrador-pitbull-MikeTyson hybrids ... local politicians hang on by their fingernails ... oh, that was totally worth it ... Spitzer's VP ... too sexy for his party ... ratholes in 4-space ... weekly pick: Olympics Opening Ceremony ... stuck the landing ... China is PEOPLE ... I want 2,000 like this by money ... setting the bar pretty high ... China's been around the block ... his parent is a broad ... demonstrating his mortality ... hey Mr. Normal ... ``Elderly Man River'' ... nobody can't forget Peggy Lee ... Bear might be confused with a class act ... after several bottles of Robitussin ... weekly pick: Hilton for Pres Video ... weekly pick (minor): iPhone lighter app ... weekly pick (major): google reader ... breaking away from the grind of recreation ... weekly pick: Gail Carson Levine, ``Fairest'' ... scary facebook photo ... facebook slap on the butt ... hooo kay ... don't make me look contemplative at you

Doing the Time Warp

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:50:00 GMT

Hey folks! Do you feel like you've been doing the Time Warp the past few weeks? We sure do. (If you don't know what we're talking about, you really, really need to go see the Rocky Horror Picture Show... but not right now. Go see it at a theater. At midnight. And tell everyone there that you've never seen it before. Trust us.)

Anyway, our summer schedules are all over the place. Some of us have family camp obligations, others have trips, and so on. So our Four Guys... has often been and we've had difficulties getting the files moved around and uploaded in a timely manner ... you've been getting our weekly recorded show... less than weekly.

We're sorry.

Not just because we kind of sort of promised all of you a somewhat regular product. ("Regular" in the "every week" sense -- clearly not in any other sense!) but we value it ourselves.

We Shall stabilize our schedule, rest assured.

The upshot is, the newly posted episode ("The bacon atom") is actually last week's episode... and there won't be an episode this week, because neither of the Guys who can record episodes is available. The overall frequency of episodes won't suffer, because we posted two last week ("The Habanero Infusion" and "Hunny"). Of course, we posted those because we were behind a little, but... well, like we said. Summer Happens. Craziness.

Anyway. The erratic schedule has been detected and will be handled. Enjoy the new one... and if you'd like... relive one from the archives.

Until next episode.... "Stay cool".

â The Four Guys

117. The bacon atom

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 19:07:00 GMT

Korean soup slurping ... but not in Ohio ... a new center of the universe ... the problem is: house guests ... I'm sorry, I don't have a microphone ... biologically, they are kittens ... all right, fine, play with the tail ... Weekly Pick: Dr. Horrible's singalong blog ... where is my writer now? ... 4 hours by myself ... vocal Joss Wheden fan club ... Weekly Pick: Letters from Iwo Jima ... a pool of Ludlum ... cliffhanger-resolution-cliffhanger-resolution ... PG-13 had more stuffed in ... jazz and ribs festival ... 14 pitmasters ... Weekly Pick: bacon infused bourbon ... tragic what happened to the bacon ... little bacon atoms ... the five of us will vote and replace barium with bacon ... mmm ... bacon, lettuce, tomato, and avocado ... Paula Deen is trying to kill us ... deep fried butterballs ... doughnut burger ... you want balls with that? ... Weekly Pick: Barbara Cleverly, Folly du Jour ... Weekly Anti-Pick: the dangers of good coffee

116. "Hunny!"

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:09:00 GMT

``Hunny!'' -- mike not on ... the command voice ... ectomorphs ... gotta do something with 3 clones ... planting a few shills ... Oklahoma as Mendocino ... if I only had a Dave ... 364 days off ... artisanal honey ... the farm of gooood ... Bear likes hunny ... snake marinade ... yeah, that ... Slow Food Nation ... flat out competing at minigolf ... 7 year old threats ... Weekly Pick: Alexander Smith, ``No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency'' ... Weekly Pick: catchphrase ... Weekly Pick: the Dark Knight ... Weekly Pick: Ben & Jerry's ``Half-Baked'' ... egg-recipe stir in central Ohio

115. "The Habanero Infusion"

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:10:00 GMT

Four Guys at once ... a stomach ailment ... ``colon'' is punctuation ... the old soldier's having problems ... the habanero infusion: a novel ... do you need a licence for that? ... that's funny, I can't move my face ... to form a greater evil ... a strong drink, diluted with vodka ... cigarette butts? ... duck infused vodka ... at 9:00 a.m.? a little bracing ... mashed potato infused vermouth ... diabolical references ... lavender ... my wife's duck fat ... duck gifts ... foul is a historical misspelling ... producers of goosh ... tasty, tasty murder ... gotta motivate the others ... Christmas means carnage ... surprising empathy for robots that don't talk ... Weekly Pick: www.weffriddles.com ... to hit a ball pitched by you ... outfielder splits atom ... dave paper ... Weekly Pick: www.skreened.com ... high human-rights content ... Weekly Pick: foldershare ... Weekly Pick: Much Ado About Nothing ... kissing for pay ... Bonus Pick: salt salish: smoked fine saltworks ... tupperware container of BBQ on the beach ... smoked coke

114. Infusions of grandeur

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:09:00 GMT

Richard is AWOL ... Dave is on Fire Island ... cats and kittens ... kids who turn off at 9:30 ... mosquito fogging ... constant change at the beach ... the doo-dah parade ... being proud of your country ... last week's show ... barista jam ... infused vodka ... Slow Food Nation ... coffee-infused honey ... weekly pick: Nicky's Clam Bar in Bayshore ... weekly pick: Intelligentsia, Stumptown, Counter Culture, Terroir ... weekly pick: infusionsofgrandeur.net ... weekly pick: Firefox 3 keyword bookmarks thing ... sailing is neat

113. Three guys walk in the woods

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:08:00 GMT

If three guys take a walk in the woods and no one is there to record the show notes, does anything get written?

112. Proposal at swordpoint

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:35:00 GMT

Bi-annual piano recital ... Parents' health ... Grillmaster festival (any guy will do it) ... Barista jam and art ... pulled pork ... summer camp at Kennolyn ... Fencing ... Proposal on the tip of a sword ... Bear fencing Iain ... Archery (at school?) ... Prince Caspian and Susan as an archer ... Archery in high school ... Being flayed by the archery teacher ... We had a water polo team in high school, didn't you? ... Our house won't burn. Sink or fall over, not burn ... Media coverage and wildfires in California ... Weekly pick: Omega Paw self-cleaning litter box ... Weekly pick: iPod game ``gravity swarm'' (asteroids game) ... Weekly pick: oSkope.com

111. The Tunisian Olive Debacle

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:22:00 GMT

I'll have a decaf no-whip soy grande duo centrino ... dropped calls and the weather ... hilly Ohio ... eww: gross generalizations ... boyscouts being sucked into the sky ... maybe we should put the top up? ... storm of 500 years ... the ultimate slow food ... the Tunesian Olive Debacle ... brushing my teeth with bravado ... if I can get Richard to eat one of those, I'm KING ... zombie lurch ... when do we want it? brains ... slow children at play ... zombie tag ... dalek tag ... octag ... lions and hyenas ... now they're going to pay ... we went to a _ farm ... weekly pick: kungfu panda ... weekly pick: model rockets ... porta-potty-shot ... weekly pick: blackphoenixalchemylab.com ... weekly pick: wii-fit ... viral marketing making popcorn ... get out the red hot probes

110. These are my people

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 04:31:00 GMT

Hey, we have Bear! ... Bathroom remodel finale ... Ice bath ... Bearâs mom mugs Dave ... Make cupcakes not war ... Slow food cooking conference (and food) ... Goat: my favorite vegetable ... drupa and dusseldorf ... Longest bar in the world ... Printing people are my people ... Wink ... Showroom dummy assault (Mannequin Attack) ... Weekly pick: ultimate Frisbee ... Get down, Mr. President ... British Bulldog ... Tenacious D ... Weekly pick: Green Chartreuse after dinner liqueur ... Weekly pick: liquor and open bars ... Iron Man, the movie

109. Mustn't... black....

Sat, 31 May 2008 20:52:00 GMT

This time I hear people ... post hoc or Hudson hoc? ... graduate level tutorial on ratholes ... same sex engagements ... Mike's back ... saying sooth ... and a free meal ... how about if you bring items 2-11 ... brat-weilers ... poor goat with no shoulders ... Norman on the grill ... meat like an apple ... the definition of slow food ... Miiiiike ... Speed Racer â not Citizen Kane ... altitude + alcohol ... mustn't black ... whichever Newton's laws applied ... or the ground will choose for me ... other than that, it is a good theory ... my brush with unconsciousness ... nothing there but cement and steel ... weekly pick: Christopher Moore, ``You Suck'' ... weekly pick: David McCullough, 1776 ... weekly pick: 911 implementation ... weekly pick: The Deep Six ... Man in the Iron Mask ... I've got a goat that requires my attention

108. Attics, aphids, and addicts

Mon, 19 May 2008 05:51:00 GMT

Squirrel in the attic ... Raccoons in the attic ... Ladybug vs. aphid ... Monarchs vs. viceroys ... Daveâs birthday ... Skipping a restaurant bill ... Moving the needle on humanity ... Virtue of mercy ... OK, I give up. A bowl of what? ... Hooked on hookas ... Weekly pick: Dafont.com ... Weekly pick: detachable spigot at the sink ... Weekly pick: Yogurt Shack â frogurt and toppings for 40 cents an oz ... Weekly pick: Xobni

107. The Etymology of "Boo-yah"

Sat, 10 May 2008 22:31:00 GMT

On time (almost) for a change ... my wife: almost as good as pancake lady ... the etymology of booyah ... Phoenicians from Phoenix? ... never put Tu and Tu together ... brain whispered: wherever possible make puns ... Chinese Scotch redux ... boutique Scotch - and then some ... the older I get, the better I was ... a book like this podcast, but with half the audience ... hey, it's hollow ... earthquake season, wabbit season ... don't interrogate the broccoli ... the trifecta oven - an instrument of the devil ... tuned to water ... speed cooking slow food ... 8 minute pancakes on the table ... pancake batter like cheese whiz ... resurrected angelic french toast ... quart of bacon fat ... double fried bacon ... coffee sauce? ... other people's saliva as a survival tool ... the French don't say ``dunno'' ... weekly pick: Weber Smokey Mountain smoker ... pre-emptively stimulating the economy ... a rocketship to barbecue heaven ... Mr. Initiative Man ... weekly pick: ``The battle of the labyrinth,'' Rick Reardon ... weekly pick: The Golden Compass ... eating with a restaurant reviewer ... complimenting the mediocre ... weekly pick: cluster of teeny picks

106. Bugs Meany: The Untold Story

Sat, 3 May 2008 20:18:00 GMT

Chatting offline ... waiting for Richard ... dropping Dave ... Tom Lehrer ... waiting for the phone to ring ... saving it for the show ... Sith happens ... Benicio del Toro as Gollum ... do you have Netflix ... Harry Potter ... what DO you do? ... Snapes on a Plane ... days of the week as first names ... reading about wine ... stagnant movies ... movie run times ... book crack ... Bugs Meany ... the Encyclopedia Brown series ... the Nancy Drew movie ... David Lynch ... Red Rock West ... Twin Peaks ... Robert Ludlum's plots ... Lost's plot arc ... weekly pick: the trivection oven ... instrument of the Devil ... weekly pick: WSJ wine notes column -- online.wsj.comâwine_notes.html ... weekly pick: Sumatra coffee

105. Lambpedes and llama steaks

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:59:00 GMT

Slowing Mike down in post processing ... presspot to myself ... sleep eaters ... idiopathic: beats the carp out of me ... spycraft in Syria ... http://www.4law.co.il/syr07.html ... shocked, shocked I am about the nuclear program ... postcards from Gitmo ... Dave's vacations ... impressively well-educated roosters ... lambpede ... optimism doesn't start cars ... appendix of parking â no joy ... this would be a whole lot easier if you knew who I am ... RFID insecurity ... snow on the water ... Sierra mist ... The Hobbit in two parts ... ``and back again'' ... weekly pick: Tin Tam Slam (with Arnott's biscuits) ... it can get ugly ... weekly pick: pasta made with bronze dies (Rustichella d'Abruzzo, Mamarella) ... Alton Brown's cooking science explanations ... weekly pick: The Killers ... weekly pick: ``The Turkish Gambit,'' Boris Akunin

104. The Peter Principle in IMAX 3D

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Not in a crowded theater ... do they call themselves fish folk? ... most unique grammar queries ... respect the food, or else ... 7-11 microwave burrito ... you are a bigger man than I am, Bear ... an evil wife ... cyber criminals as barbary pirates ... phisher pholk ... psystar maker of mac fakes ... we like pirates ... give-up-your-weapons-we're-coming-in ... it was all a phising scheme ... the movie of the Peter Principle sucked ... starcrossed lovers: pirate and ninja ... mispronouncing bon mot ... non-native speaker tolerance ... a mike-centric pick ... scotch freak ... weekly pick: bruichladdich rocks scotch ... weekly pick: Dr. Who ... flying Dalleks ... weekly pick: ``Never Let Me Go,'' Kazuo Ishiguro ... weekly picks: Futurama, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mating ... a roynish episode ... happy 2 years

103. Not street enough

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:12:00 GMT

A dense-mute ... recording traps ... you mean I'm a skype node?? ... virally hosed ... skype 2.0 (with irony) ... female puppy boxer shorts ... bull-nose tile problems ... these are biscotti, not tile ... I don't know how to tell you this, but I have really bad news ... back to your regularly scheduled rathole ... weekly pick: facebook ... will go slightly out of my way to step on crunchy leaf ... will wheaton blog/podcast ... alt.wesleycrusher.die-die-die ... you knew about that - sorry, man ... we, too, are sorry that you are late ... the tongue as a weapon ... I can't say as I blame it ... I must be God ... quick, back to tile ... they deal more in customer service ... lardo ... spring oil change ... swig it while you're at the game ... and I carry a knife for this purpose ... tabling, begs the question ... for them, I have a mallet ... to boldly split ... you, snooty?? ... how can have spelled 2 words wrong ... this used to be first nature ... YRUU ... weekly pick: James McMurtry, ``Can't make it here any more'' ... weekly pick: www.schwartzphoto.com ... weekly pick: www.sxc.hu

102. Haben SIE das notig

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:06:00 GMT

dramatic squirrel t-shirt ... weekly pick: torsopants.com ... impeach Van Buren ... I got a bad feeling about this one, chieferoni ... a gift for playing the jerk ... the value of intellectual property ... rent-a-tank â $1000 per sec ... our governor can kick your governorâs ass ... clint-eastwood-old ... the new Paris ... ich bin zuruck ... the olympics of printing ... Dusseldorf, Egypt ... zamboni convention ... the branack device ... Haben Sie Das Notig ... treehouse construction ... mother nature bats last ... weekly pick: Mouse Guard, David Petersen (www.mousegard.net) ... weekly pick: wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1

101. That Buddhism is a menace, man!

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:46:00 GMT

Ain't technology grand ... ''Ca y u h ar me n w?'' ... sane sleep schedules ... accept the things you can't control, or vice-versa ... languages ... counting to ten in Japanese ... David Sedaris ... Bill Cosby, Fat Albert, and Weird Harold ... ''You PICK your brains up and PUT them back in your head!'' ... comic genius ... generations and comic genius ... marketing the Muppets to a new generation ... Sid Caesar's Writers ... Mel Brooks -- ''There is no God!'' ... Faith Hill -- ''WHAT?'' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyZRiEJnIag) ... weekly pick: Strictly Ballroom ... Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip ... weekly pick: Name That Film Flickr group photo pool ... the new dentist's iPod ... ''That Buddhism is a menace, man!'' ... but I'm not done with the movie!! ... weekly pick: LegoLand, Gilroy Gardens, and amusement parks for the 3-to-10-year-old crowd ... healthy eating at Gilroy Gardens ... the cheeseburger pizza

100. Hu-Hu grub M-and-Ms

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:22:00 GMT

Our centennial episode! ... Dave's new dentist ... undercover operations run amok ... bayonets ... the pin-mounted Mauser ... shout-outs to absent comrades ... Knock knock and meta-knock knock jokes ... inventing ''lacteflection'' ... Sniglets ... bathroom reading ... Schott's Miscellany ... how ninjas random are? ... naked podcasting ... Two Truths and a Lie ... Hu-Hu grub M-and-Ms ... n-tuple negatives ... wo meiyo mayo ... clearly, I cannot take the cup closest to me ... weekly pick: Stuff White People Like ... stereotypes and humor ... weekly pick: The Responsibility Project ... causation and the law ... weekly pick: Podcasts for Running ... weekly pick: laser tag (Shadowlands) ... paintball -- and PAINball ... Interview with Bobo

99. Keeping Lefty down

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:33:00 GMT

Approaching 100th episode ... a less than welcomed logic puzzle ... unstopped logic puzzle ... home departure ... Marcella's a mother - yay! ... listener contest: name the child ... march madness vasectomy special ... cricket hunting season ... baggin' the limit ... anti-deer claymore ... empirically accurate generalizations ... generalizing about an individual ... dithering and panty bunching ... countering sexism with the kids ... Holes, the movie and the book ... weekly pick: ''Goodnight Moon,'' Clement Hurd ... weekly pick: wii ... tie goes to the rightie ... 32 ounce big gulp espresso ... that's not coffee, it's a stock ... weekly pick: french press ... weekly pick: pandora.com

98. CAN I HAVE YOUR EARPLUGS?

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 19:18:00 GMT

Dave's breathing ... requiem for Gary Gygax ... hello to Iain ... Marcella's family's woes ... tow trucks falling into the water ... disintegrating wind turbines ... C-130 ... going to Nevada ... watching the military blow things up ... refueling in flight ... flying backward ... blizzard warning ... Stanford gymnastics meet ... how to kill yourself with gymnastics ... photography and lighting in gymnastics ... the Fridge ... the judgment of Solomon ... weekly pick: Adium ... weekly pick: Slow Food ... weekly pick: Dungeons and Dragons ... an explosion in Times Square -- a coincidence? ... McCain and Kerry meeting ... Is Hillary out of it? ... the intrade financial markets ... gambling on terror

97. Smackdown UK

Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:19:00 GMT

Birth of Athena ... surgical holes ... benefits to humanity ... the real source of the ''military-industrial complex'' ... people watching at the Arnold Classic ... the pal 8000 ... human relations to XP ... a computer with a neck (to throttle) ... the last straw ... i-etchasketches ... UK smackdown ... not exactly exalting British cuisine ... Scotland is subset of Britain ... it's OBE ... the woman could not cook water ... Dave, the dessert chef ... is an oil fire the one you're not supposed to put water on? ... oil on fire on tour ... weaponized cooking oil ... veteran bomb makers ... weekly pick: Her Majesty ... Redneck vs. Bee: http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1845064 ... weekly pick: snooth.com, which works on the i-phone ... web 2.0 for wine ... direct shipping of wine ... weekly pick: bookmooch.com ... book reserve at library ... it's a quarter, let it go ... up with which I will not put ... taking Godbody off the shelves ... weekly pick: blog.pmarca.com ... guest weekly pick: BopIt Extreme 2 ... watching a shuttle launch ... standing under the big-ass rocket ... hot rain again? ... not ready for manned space flight ... it'll only cook New Yorkers ... solar panels aren't cheap ... wind overtaking coal ... don't move hydrogen ... weekly pick: An Undomestic Goddess

96. And bubbles!

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:53:00 GMT

Hello to Marcella ... goodbye to everyone ... ramblin' Dave ... the baby step function ... Marcella is ``any day'' ... weekly pick: Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan ... coming in through the bay area ... uncoordinated convulsions ... it left me very ambulatory ... very concrete ... finding a rental car on the beach ... duct tape odometer ... with clean feet and an empty stomach ... frocks ... weekly pick: dramatic squirrel ... anti pick: Obama's ``just words'' ... my whole life shaped my whole life ... head fake to Lewinsky ... weekly pick: control room ... aggravated assault bomber ... one small step for A man ... rhymes with Pol Pot ... car chicken nugget holders ... deep fried biscuits ... Thai pub food ... spam, spam, spam, eggs, and spam ... weekly pick: www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq ... weekly pick: iRoast 2 ... weekly pick: homemade chai tea ... weekly pick: living in a state where your primary vote counts ... weekly pick: magic carpet ski-lift technology ... and BUBBLES!

95. Quiet as a second language

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:26:00 GMT

Oh wait, I need to talk with people ... Quiet as a second language ... Gung how fat choy vs Gong chi fat chai ... Language learning for tots ... Muzzy learning from the BBC ... Would work woodwork ... Do we have this on dvd? ... Netflix watch it now streaming video ... Wireless router resetting ... 9 hour car drive ... soda springs snow park ... weekly pick: Chinese chess ... haha you said piece movements ... weekly pick: Stephen R. Donaldson series, esp. The Real Story, The Man Who Fought Alone, Mirror of her Dreams ... weekly pick: John Wood âLeaving Microsoft to Change the Worldâ?

94. Spitting wooden nickels

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:54:00 GMT

Discouraging viewers with sinus discussion ... topical singulair ... standing on head and spitting wooden nickels ... if you're not part of the solution ... just don't do it in a public restroom ... floppy disk? what's that? ... building a better icon ... wildfire: set it and forget it ... figuring out ski houses ... non-Soviet crank flashlight ... burglar-scaring flashlight ... ginning up a go board ... designing the SR-71 ... galaxy class transports ... huge fricken airplanes ... the real reason airplanes fly ... weekly pick: hand-crank flashlight ... weekly pick: America's Best Essays ... weekly pick: K.P. Bath, "Secret of Castle Cant" ... weekly pick: Col-pop ... snow showers in Rochester

93. SOS

Sat, 2 Feb 2008 19:29:00 GMT

Can you hear me now? ... Mike is back, his wife is away ... climbing on Mom's head ... powerbook batteries ... the upside-the-head iPhone app ... turning 40 ... Old Man's Haven ... scrambled eggs ... cooking potatoes for an hour and a half ... scotch ... the Lagavulin ... making circuit boards ... this is NOT UL listed ... the secret Morse message that we don't want Dad to hear ... learning Morse code ... the question mark with an umlaut ... rescuing Bear's cousin ... SOS... and M ... weekly pick: An Inconvenient Truth ... weekly pick: Simple French Food, by Richard Olney ... weekly pick: From Good to Great, by Jim Collins

92. The Backstroke of the West

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:25:00 GMT

The mute button says ``no'' ... the kind of function not to get backward ... accessing a Skype widget ... Uncle Steve has a lot of good ideas, but ... in the realm of marketing sanity ... no late fee, except that it stops ... for 50 cents we'll sms you the plot summary ... an 11 dollar can of pringles ... English to Chinese to English ... the Backstroke of the West ... ``He is in my behind'' ... helicopters tied to the ground ... ``Iâm your mother, Luke'' ... OK Go dancealike contest ... the difficulty of choreography ... Ringo Starr looking good at 67 ... death is a big handicap ... visiting Lenin ... Ho Chi Minh in Grant's tomb ... the power of 6+ hours of sleep ... dreams in cache ... naked falling dreams -- next topic ... three natural fears ... weekly pick: the intrade prediction markets ... guaranteed to win, if you have infinite resources ... weekly pick: really excellent eggs ... weekly pick: feltron.com ... weekly pick: weeds ... the weetotaler

91. Iceberg dead ahead!

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:08:00 GMT

Overcoming technical difficulties ... White House nyah-nyahs ... Mitt Romney's not in your five? ... instant runoff voting and the Green Party ... upgrades to Studio G ... lack of insulation ... winter heating bills ... a lava lamp for Christmas ... impressive computer meltdowns ... backup habits ... ``Iceberg, dead ahead!'' ... Winning the Game ... Remembering Douglas Adams ... Weekly pick: Ancho chile base recipe ... Weekly pick: The Riches, Weeds ... new Apple technology announcements

90. Bagel-cut diamond

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:09:00 GMT

More than 15 seconds of consciousness ... doesn't bring Bear to mind ... Mary Louise Alcott played who? ... tangent theater 3000 ... approaching our 100th show ... Mike's new job â what the h*** was I thinking? ... one word for you: delegation ... way, way too much of a good thing ... a nice cool refreshing drink out of a fire hose ... contratudolances ... bagel cut diamond ... the wonder bread cut ... cerulean and ... chattaqua ... fuschia shock ... things that take up more of your time than you thought: owning a dog ... Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer ... that's why parents survive the first year ... the Chinese orphanage method ... couch potato greyhounds ... glassbooth survey ... 95% affinity with Dave ... Mike, embarrassed by his pick ... every outcome there is disastrous ... Turkey would have a tur-duck-hen ... putting the ''turd'' in ''tur-duck-hen'' ... no ''being realistic'' about it ... it's all Dartmouth's fault ... maybe not everyone from Dartmouth is evil ... unfounded optimism ... all those norths ... Weekly Pick: glassbooth.org ... Weekly Pick: freerice.com ... Weekly Pick: Vernon Vinge, ''There is a Deepness in the Sky'' ... Weekly Pick: tankless water heater ... getting the heat out of the grey water

89. Chernobyl and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:17:00 GMT

Technically fine ... Behrzagahd ... firing on three cylinders ... a car with 11 cylinders ... 1001 horse carriage ... [Richard drops off] ... homage to the god of technical difficulties ... cognitive dissonance over cars ... a stable of cars ... a non-dog vehicle ... dogs appreciate fine Corinthian leather ... series of disposable Yugos ... Chernobyl mushrooms ... tons of reactive mass ... half-life of concrete ... you can't drop the hoover dam from the sky ... train-full of rotting, irradiated meat ... don't eat cow thyroids ... kiddofspeed.com ... people who take their motorcycle maintenance seriously ... Mutter museum ... Monopoly: going pro ... greatest exemplar since sliced bread ... Huckabee has the best sense of humor ... no, I am a divider ... but I'm not such a friggin idiot to think ... why the caucuses are wrong ... the difference between primaries and caucuses ... corporations should not be persons ... Weekly pick: 17 kings and 42 elephants ... atmospheric vortex engine ... I can't find anything wrong with it ... google.org ... tornado as sail ... Weekly pick: black bean soup ... Weekly pick: grilled cheese and Campbell's tomato soup ... the butter-soakability maximum of bread ... Weekly pick: Robert Harris, Imperium: A novel of ancient Rome

88. Gift exchange Illuminati

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:07:00 GMT

Pod-safe music ... gift exchanges ... gift exchange illuminati ... amish straw hat on ebay ... thumb on the scales of justice ... no podcast next week ... air bazooka ... greyhound prey drive ... test cat ... youâre going in a box, buddy ... things that run away should be chased ... booze hound ... grayhound fear of grayhound ... weekly pick âdexterâ? ... task: come up with good country music ideas ... opera can be good, too ... (trembling in) fear of ceiling fans ... opera: love it or hate it ... kite flying tournament ... Mad about Puccini (un bel di, for instance) ... odyssey of the mind ... sculpt a twist tie ... to pass is not an option ... turn a rock into a flower ... letters from sirius

87. My lousy kids

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:55:00 GMT

Starting Dave-less ... furnace needs its coffee ... one-setting drier ... don't lick the keyboard ... don't screw up, don't screw up ... the physiological symptom of nervousness ... going to the dentist 5 times without novocaine ... 10:44 a.m. in the morning ... now ... one third geeked is good ... what else you got? ... is this going to be on the final? ... are you getting all this down? ... completely incapable of being lousy ... louse quarantine ... nitpicking ... cane toads--don't release them in your house ... rent-a-chimp ... why skinheads wear clip-on ties ... jumping on the idea with all six feet ... people who have never seen a book ... so I take his knife away ... my car? now I'm going to keel you ... it's a women's prison, so I'm not going to be lingering ... race you ... half-way kennel ... you have to test 'em with racing cats ... 1000 foot leashes ... Weekly pick: fostering dogs ... Weekly pick: Spamalot ... Weekly pick: hot chocolate and a chocolate filled croissant ... Weekly pick: facebook ... my heart beats, I take a breath

86. Soaking the beans

Sun, 9 Dec 2007 05:02:00 GMT

Technical difficulties ... the rest of my brain was saying ``coffee please'' ... rebuilt the house around the TV wiring ... shooting turds right out to the bay ... from horrified to fascinated ... Weekly Half-Pick: see-snake (http://www.ridgid.com/seesnakemicro/) ... medication to suppress the gag reflex ... wow, the Internet is cool ... hi Dave ... Weekly Kid Pick: Chuzzle ... chud - worst conceived horror movies ever ... msg 3k ... past picks in review ... a new tell? ... an heir to millions, but he wears it well ... you should watch more Batman movies ... yet another sign of the decline of Western Civilization ... a tawdry bisexual bachelorette show ... MTV has limits, but they're different limits ... more channels than we have content ... snack or offspring? ... Weekly Pick: anything you need out of anything ... Weekly Pick: soakin' the beans ... when beans are outlawed, only outlaws will have beans ... Weekly Pick: Alison Kraus, Union Station ... twangy Iris Dement ... the ultimate country song ... Weekly Pick: misheard lyrics / mondegreens ... 'scuse me while I kiss this guy

85. Cool and unusual punishment

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 23:07:00 GMT

a bare glimmer of Dave ... pregnant nazi nun google ads ... spam on the decline? ... tenuous pre-existing business relationship ... denigrating net neutrality ... graphing terrorist facebook ... brutal fraud on poor families ... only part of the brain that finds sitcoms funny ... trying hard for the ``evil'' title ... axe handle kumbayah moment ... volunteering for jury duty ... cool and unusual punishment ... mercy = justice without emotion ... changing your mind on capital punishment ... pity rather than anger ... so dumb, you didn't think you were doing wrong ... turbo 9000 cattle prod ... testing a taser on yourself ... Weekly Pick: Naguib Mahfouz, ``Midaq Alley'' ... Weekly Pick: kiva.org (developing world micro loans) ... looking like a jackass in retrospect ... Weekly Pick: premium denim ... Weekly Pick: movie: Control Room

84. Squishaphobia

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:54:00 GMT

sleeping on the sofa ... a river and a sailboat ... squishaphobia ... opening to the bay ... gripes about Boston ... AA flashlight ... tons-a-rock-aphobia ... my ear pricks up at German ... seen a hundred mummies, youâve seen them all ... a thousand beers for the afterlife ... a walking wallet ... okay, find your own parking spot ... this car is going out of service ... the poverty is amazing ... gift for me ... arrangement no. 6 ... you ate my cookies ... baksheesh is not a bribe ... tourist police ... terrorists: youâre taking food out of the mouth of my kids ... with this special app you can make phone calls, with your cell phone ... free market parenting ... weekly pick: rattatouille ... weekly pick: yooks.com and bluefly.com ... weekly pick: retreveo.com ... weekly pick: ipod nano

83. More piercings than I have stretch marks

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:28:00 GMT

Not a loose phone ... [uh, sorry] ... 4 months without netflix ... chapter 10 ... shark boy and lava girl is 3 out of 10 ... if only I had an iPhone ... a film we like, and the kids will watch ... netflix won't sneer ... a supply of disaffected film students ... will work if I can make snide comments ... they have more piercings than I have stretch marks ... the litmus test: Cain Toads ... at work, don't quote ``Sponge Bob, the Movie'' ... ... now you're doing it on purpose ... I was hoping it would be up to Spy Kids 3 ... Indiana Jones on the beach, immortal ... I saw it twice, just to be sure (it was the worst movie ever) ... exciting MA student theses ... I'm going to write about X ... I'd like to thank D---head and D---head ... this is bad, go back ... non-idiomatic French ... shooting ducks in a barrel ... plagiarizing PowerPoint ... oh, I'm sorry, you ARE toast ... is there something you want to tell me ... the guy on the conference sounded like Boris ... what does ``soiled'' mean? ... Duel: Spielberg's precursor to Jaws ... Weekly pick: NPR on your iPhone ... Weekly pick: blackberry ... Weekly pick: instant run-off voting ... coin toss at the polls ... Weekly pick: domestic flat rate Christmas gifts to Africa ... Weekly pick: David Bach, ``Smart Couples Finish Rich''

82. Three-sleeve gown

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:17:00 GMT

Clean up music ... 4.3 secords of law suit ... you're a lawyer, you can do anything ... sleepy clean up music ... the one he didn't write ... woodwork or pine box ... if I look as good as sting does now â at any age ... the gray story ... and that SOB keeps doing it ... skip this nine tenths stage ... we paid someone to shrink our house ... studio G2 ... analog to digital conversion ... refrigerator is ''colder than in bed'' ... staying up ''way stupid late'' ... ''is that in even legal late'' ... zombies have to be organic ... whereas we Catholics are used to that gory stuff ... take back the night approach ... put the hurt on that girl ... passage del terror ... scaring the carp out of trick-or-treaters ... drive by pumpkin victim ... ''adult'' Halloween ... trick-or-treat as community building ... nature's hammer ... the three-sleeve gown ... drafty by design ... the lead codpiece ... girls party games ... let's play jarts â you be goalie ... knots and circle tag ... hive war ... weekly pick: grandparents.com ... frictionless iPhone ... semi pick: rubber InCase iPhone sleeve ... weekly pick: iTunesU ... weekly pick: Orson Scott Card, Empire ... leave me alone with however many monkeys

81. Mike saves the day

Sun, 4 Nov 2007 05:54:00 GMT

Intravenous coffee ... back on the juice ... stealing alertness from later in the day ... giving blood ... just microwave you at the same time ... when starting a fire is not socially acceptable ... mistaken phone robots ... there's no human you can yell at ... a token amount of $50,000 ... overly-labeled city ... upgrading to Leopard ... is that a bug or a feature? ... the time machine button ... 45 terabyte home drives ... file bloat ... rant about Outlook's failure to search ... I guess we don't have a rule against that ... no sftp!!! ... whole disk encryption ... hard drive as brick ... 16 hours of guessing passwords ... weekly pick: truecrypt ... ftpbad.com ... weekly pick: .mac ... weekly pick: mystery science theater 3000 ... weekly pick: select a candidate quiz, http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460

80. Mount Everest erupts again!

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:02:00 GMT

Finding Marcella ... cheering the Sox ... Leonardo's sleep habits ... vodka sleep ... 4 things that set my teeth on edge in one night ... ``alright, who doesn't need to go to the potty?'' ... the plot of an Elvis movie ... Seth, the HSM on ice sound guy ... going over to Sethâs side ... heâs pitching like Al Gore ... Mt. Everest erupts again! ... shutuptimmccarver.com ... thinking outside of the batter's box ... Dealey plaza - about ... grassy knoll a sidewalk away ... what if Kennedy hadn't been shot ... is that a question, me and two kids want to go to ice cream ... has the world just started making better ice cream? ... FD&C Cactus Flower #4 ... seas of people at the sour kraut festival ... the glaciers missed this area ... the payoff is a parking space ... rightful death suit ... the weight of two people makes a difference ... flying in OLD plains ... sister podcast: heroic cthulu ... silently strange ... Marcella is expecting -- a child ... issues with Disney ... just-kill-me-now stomach flu ... legs waking you up ... talking about risk ... itâs your type C graph, Skeeter ... picking apart medical study methodologies ... we're not going to get women pregnant to study ... data handed to you on a stainless steel platter ... I can read your chart upside down and see that ... finishing the doctorâs sentences ... weekly pick: favorite ad: kfog ... weekly pick: ``N, the way of the ninja'' ... weekly pick: favorite ad: turn it up ... weekly pick: Meet the Robinsons

79. They made me edit this

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:58:00 GMT

Dave and Richard learn to record a podcast on the fly.

78. Beef or Feesh?

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:46:00 GMT

Muting ... disease vectors ... ;pngis and oy whuck ... texting follies ... mornings and senses ... waking Dave ... waking Flint from the dead ... water alarm clock ... mattress spikes ... turning a mini-maglite into a laser ... new TV/old console ... curses of stumblevideo ... Richard appears ... forcibly turn off the droud ... "Pronoun Trouble" ... Pax Americana ... bugs bunny for the next generation ... Banned 11 cartoons ... Parisian restaurants ... vodka soup with cigarette butts? ... "BEEF OR FEESH" ... do we leave a tip? ... French Laundry experiences ... the bread guy ... swingline operator ... weekly pick: Tyson the skateboarding dog video ... weekly pick: Google Earth and YouTube (in Featured Content: YouTube) ... weekly pick: Grand Central (single phone number) ... weekly pick: French butter ... Trader Joe's plugras butter

77. The infield fly rule

Sat, 6 Oct 2007 21:58:00 GMT

Connection problem ... Vista blows ... time shift ... the ``other language'' part of your brain ... dui bu qi, pardon, scusi, or something ... small head guy ... excuse me sir, you're standing on the foot of my wolverine ... excuse me sir, your donut is demonic ... my ignorance (of baseball) pains me ... it never even touched the stadium ... bus are ev-ree-where ... canadian soldiers ... the infield fly rule ... game called on account of plague ... $4.50 for a dollar of water ... stumble video: youtube on crack ... how to pick any padlock with a soda can ... can't control what the players are saying on the field ... hard to make comedy of Achmed ... youtube build in to iphone ... weekly pick: potterpuppetpals.com ... weekly pick: jott (phone to email) ... jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz ... weekly pick: video.stumbleupon.com

76. Daveless and feckless and short, oh my!

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:42:00 GMT

Oh. Mute. Right. ... the Giant Swing and the thrill of death ... the little death ... a smash hit in France ... the age-inappropriate part ... The Man Who Would Be King ... Daveless ... audio voyeurs ... Red Sox and Reds ... teaching the children to lift ... waiting ... affadavits from the children ... students having copyrights to their own work ... ``All right, children, turn to chapter 11'' ... suicide squeeze ... veryfunnyads.com

75. Gross and dirty

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:12:00 GMT

Octogenarians, beware! ... the headphone buffer ... Shure noise cancelling headphones ... like the first time you got in an isolation tank ... blow up an immense number of things ... riding in a Russian MiG ... vomit comets ... the ''gross'' tag ... tales from Switzerland ... well-dressed beggars ... 6 francs for a tiny cup of coffee ... trying to find local cuisine ... German potato miracle workers ... 160 dollars a day in Geneva ... a traditional Christmas in India ... 19 lanes of traffic on a 2-lane road ... ''dirty'' ... but you get a bottle or water with admission ... but my wife's name is Petunia ... I'm no Sherlock Holmes ... Holmes: ''you know I only said that once'' ... At work, I made it through tribal council ... skype video interview ... office hours over instant messaging ... savant - not burned at the stake ... I tried 3 languages and it never worked ... oh, my god, my German is gone ... defaulting into French ... I'm speaking ''Foreign,'' come ON ... do you speak gibber? ... take pity on me and speak English ... weekly pick: Avenue Montaigne ... painting in the nude ... the first blogger ... the French sex movie conundrum ... stumble.com redux ... eBay bought the cool web properties ... weekly pick: Skype phone ... a lot of free Internet access in my neighborhood ... precise cell phone location ... concerns over lack of transparency, accountability ... weekly pick: Corey Doctorow, ''Scroogled'' ... weekly pick: Columbia spf shirts ... salumbra - tailored spf shirts

74. System D

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:55:00 GMT

press 4 for inane political commentary ... welcome back, Dave ... just like in 2001 ... losing your temper ... rage-aholics ... taking a swing at a judge ... schoolyard bully â the gateway drug ... cat punting ... at least, thatâs whatâs in the police report ... you know that guy too? ... hang up and call back ... 1.5 places that are not the Via Borghese ... my broken Italian, which is my Spanish ... come around to the back window ... systeme D ... pain trainer ... years of hurtling ... Bearâs postcards from Switzerland ... pandaâs thumbs ... you are a boob, sir ... fixing the QWERTY keyboard ... A1 paper will cover Antarctica ... at some point you may hear an extremely loud bang ... twice as thick ... weekly pick: Jasper Fforde, âFirst Among Sequalsâ?
Mary Russell mysteries "The Game" ... weekly pick: Karen Schwabach, âA Pickpocketâs Taleâ? ... weekly pick: garden with native ecosystems ... birds eat butterflies ... weekly pick: Electric Light Orchestra ... netbooks ... book filtering ... weekly pick: James Randi, âFlim Flamâ?

73. Large Expense Loves Company

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:41:00 GMT

fiasco cast... sleep caster... terrorists use that skype phone... guilty knowledge... sharing a cell... chef tasting at Komi... Picasso at the Bellagio... the French Laundry... sheâs into food like Iâm into breathing... x-raying the podcast... not able to sit down for weeks... podcast by iPhone... selling like cakes... large expense loves company... terabyte ipods... what flavor lollipop do you like... living room of the future... why do these people dress like crap... weekly pick: goombah - âI bet you would likeâ? tech for music... Bear, stop backing up... skip it without prejudice... google knows your inner psyche... datamining possibilities... if they know too much... 3 ads I have liked... only the good ones make it here... weekly pick: 4 GB iPhone... weekly pick: Parallels on the Mac... weekly pick: Brotherhood 2.0

72. Eyeballs-out is much worse

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 01:27:00 GMT

Camping in the back yard ... anti-California weather ... pile bodies ... tiny Castle Wolfenstein Nazis ... don't date yourself ... Senators with ethics problems ... the bad side of humanity ... [fixing problems at work] ... white clouds in the neighborhood ... stealing mill stones ... 7,000,000 pounds per square inch ... concrete on glass ... taking apart the building ... we send Mike packing ... how sharp is Occam's razor ... real quotes form Albert Einstein ... jack-o-lantern chair ... star ship enterprise personal jet ... eyeballs-out is much worse ... suicide on the installment plan ... hey, what's that behind you ... when I put these in, I'm going to come kick your a** ... circuit breaker behind your head ... ''well, the good news is...'' ... draining a backyard pool in 1 second ... there go the piano lessons ... weekly pick: audacity + funformobile.com ... mike's gems ... weekly pick: thorium.blogspot.com ... weekly pick: Adam Gopnik, ''Paris to the Moon'' ... weekly pick: Dar Williams ... the only difference is that there is no cat ... with outrageous French accent, of course

71. Spry?!?

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:45:00 GMT

the gathering ... computer: new to you ... survivor at work ... the thinning of the nerd ... quietly strange ... skype as burglar alarm ... bottom of the well, holding the rope ... bear moves to an upper room ... anti-pick: skype phone ... just the right weight for hefting across the room ... sleeping in the tub ... not a new time zone ... michigan is *not* all east of Chicago ... dateline? ... at the time it was the West ... goodbye to our listeners from Wyoming ... boats on the Interstate ... picking up a sofa in a...boat ... Richard gets profiled ... plate: âno tagsâ? ... every room of the house vandalized ... the two Americas ... visiting Yellowstone ... spry?? ... Carlsbad caverns ... Blue Corn CafÃ, Santa Fe ... weekly pick: Ethiopian food ... weekly pick: google map waypoints ... weekly pick: tori amos, little earthquakes ... weekly pick: iMovie HD on the Mac

70. Revenge is a dish best served with shrimps

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:19:00 GMT

Coming back from France ... revenge: a dish best served with shrimps ... wine pairings ... art, architecture, and archaeology ... future archaeology ... April in P-p-p-Paris ... subjects that start with an a ... cave art ... the short-lived tiger-butt period in art ... dungheaps compared to the glory of Rome ... spam ... fried bologna sandwiches ... getting a paper back in ... the third reviewer says you're a moron ... co-authored books ... ''Fine by me!'' ... bicycle thieves ... rewiring Aunt Victoria's house ... gay, gay, gay ... The Car ... BAM! ... ''You just got my bicep!'' ... weekly pick: dialahuman.com ... weekly pick: Grace Kelly by MIKA ... weekly pick: actual physical books ... the bookaholic business ... choosing books and museums ... weighty books ... making e-books work

69. That really tightens my liver

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:34:00 GMT

''Got Dave?'' ... 3 minutes loss (maybe!) ... the question is mute? ... that really tightens my liver ... off by about 3 inches ... rathole alert ... goat rodeo ... herding big cats ... hemming and hee hawing ... knee drops ... let gravity have its way with them ... clean the room or I'll sheep you ... a bit more taciturn than I am ... there's a skit here ... there is nothing like a Dave ... gunnin' for the Daves ... similar but totally different ... 4 guys walk into a rathole ... screw up and it's turtlewax ... creative answering machine messages ... it better be good ... $800 phone bill ... I don't have an xbox ... anti-pick: froot loops / kamp ground ... got to pay transnasally ... we ran out of dolphins ... well it looked like a dolphin ... weekly pick: flosser ... dremel floss-o-matic ... absurd warning labels/pictures ... weekly pick: Lois Lowry: Gathering Blue ... weekly pick: Suite Frances ... weekly pick: gameday / gameday audio ($14.95)

68. Is joke

Sat, 4 Aug 2007 18:30:00 GMT

Turning up the Mike ... rapid recording disclaimer ... luggage nightmares ... sorry, I lost my bag ... again ... stealing luggage off the carousel ... the Lincoln ... car with no sun shield ... 12 mpg highway ... blinking headlights ... ''today my trip ends here'' ... spf 50 ... looks 12 but sure knows his stuff ... just so we get this out of the way, I'm 34 years old ... is joke ... if you're looking for someone famous ... topdown/bottomup pastoring ... co-ministry team - venture capitalist and Buddhist ... velcome to family camp ... weekly pick: classic cars ... weekly pick: Logitech harmony universal remote ... weekly pick: Yale Book of Quotations ... English with English subtitles

67. It's Academic

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 06:50:00 GMT

sleep enfreude? ... my job is your semi-vacation ... ''You are going to get this binder'' ... marvelous notion: sabbatical ... work whatever 80 hours you want ... coming in with pencil and paper in hand ... meetings with alcohol waiting ... nu-uh, shut up ... political science fiction ... books from college are good ... cheese shop sketch ... Richardâs abysmal editing experience ... having them under a barrel ... editing errata ... click on this link and Iâll reward you ... my job is to read books about stuff I really, really like ... Dayton isnât that bad ... hotel conference room look the same around the world ... the short answerâs âyesâ? ... the long answerâs âyesâ? ... buying Lincoln, NE ... suicide doors ... 2.5 tons of Detroit steel ... window crank: âwhatâs that for?â? ... exploring tuschensraum ... bright shiny objects ... weekly pick: picnik.com ... weekly pick: not Mary Roberts Rhinehart ... weekly pick: triathalon ... weekly pick: if my nose was running money ... weekly pick: Robert Talbott 1998 Case Pinot Noir ... drive through beer

66. Tuschraum

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:50:00 GMT

the chipmunks ... triathalon ... taking a cell phone for a swim ... baked alaska ... 400 yard swim not as easy as it used to be ... dave's stream of existance ... cyrillic numbers ... lenin's decree against the number 8 ... the movie Z ... sorry, Roger; you a tiger now ... including Richard ... tin man triathalon ... we bring our spare tire with us everywhere ... Bob's feat ... dave's family camp ... tsuchraum ... natural quarry, er, or not ... a drinking club with a running problem ... the Game Importer ... game called mafia ... dave's weekly pick: hash house harriers ... Bear's mom's health ... Mike's dad's health ... jello on a string ... hanging an LCD TV over a stairway ... the super ladder ... Richard ate a turducken ... it's a good story, but why should she get a billion dollars for that series? ... the author Mary Roberts Rinehart ... weekly pick: http://monty.python.videowall.sytes.org ... weekly pick: people at the walnut creek kaiser ICU unit ... weekly pick: michael museem's book The Leadership Moment ... scotch is really pretty good ... chinese restaurant's own scotch label ... scotch is whiskey made in scotland ... vodka's made from anything ... infused vodka on tap ... the drink to kingdom come.

65. The Pancake Lady

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:06:00 GMT

pancake lady podcast ... military family camp ... fancy pancakes ...pancake babies ... growth hormones .... surprising animals ... weekly pick: bagel french toast ... french toast making prowess ... renewed apologies ... weekly pick: www.slideshare.net ... bare-chested t-shirts ... camelbacks for the whole family ... hiking on platforms ... distracting the kids ... vistas in Acadia ... thunderhole restrooms ... fukuya restaurant

64. Shorts to the Stick

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:13:00 GMT

All new technical difficulties ... Marcella's fair city ... shorts to the 'stick ... the theme park in Gilroy ... garlic is never dull ... the Monterey Aquarium ... sea otter stories ... barn owls ... converting things to numbers ... the Lincoln ... ''Is it a safety issue?'' ... Bear's mom's health ... the nurse and the apple juice ... weekly pick: Trader Joe's brownie mix ... weekly pick: girl scout skit night ... weekly pick: trulia.com

63.5 Not quite the same

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:14:00 GMT

mike...stephen...bear...

63. Meat patty with two breads

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:43:00 GMT

problems connecting ... welcome Marcella ... "palmetto bugs" the size of dump trucks ... moving to Ohio ... Japanese states in the US ... highest point in every state ... 50 cent words ... gators at the mall ... and in the pool ... possibility of age discrimination ... Bear protests age jokes? ... meat patty with 2 breads ... and then we all started speaking Russian ... it will do a Chernobyl in your mouth ... mother of all cheeses ... weekly pick: Yosemite ... one or two of the natural wonders of the world ... weekly pick: the Burgandy Room ... weekly pick: zerofootprint.net ... smokin' the planet ... cigar the size of a sewer ... HOV: 300 or more ... weekly pick: the Everglades ... weekly pick: googlenope ... skype: better than being there

62. The secret path

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:35:00 GMT

how hard could vista be to get to work with skype ... Father Gator ... hike tradition ... trip recovery ... they're "camping" ... eggs taste great right out of the pan ... joshua tree ... what is a joshua tree ... just a pile of rocks ... secret path to get to the top of the rock ... driving in caernarvon ... climbing vampire's neck ... climbing mt. snowdon (wales) ... Swiss military ... buzzed by an A10 ... where do you keep YOUR tanks? ... weekly pick marriedtothesea.com ... weekly pick netflix for obscure movies ... who needs to go to the movies? ... 300 ... friday night film series ... not another horse movie! ... star wars for kids? ... weekly pick 12 year old McClellan (or something like that) scotch ... mt. sanjack and interesting rock types ... sanjack rental car ... eeinie meenie minee moe redux ...

61. We don' need no steenking clean tag!

Mon, 4 Jun 2007 07:29:00 GMT

Live from Palm Springs, CA

60.5. Time off for bad behavior

Thu, 31 May 2007 20:31:00 GMT

No show this week! Dave explains.

60. Route 66

Sun, 20 May 2007 20:36:00 GMT

Vacationing in Detroit...Russians in Meyers...road trip...''It's a farm, man''...visiting Aunt Bobbie...''Fap. I say, Fap.''...the Big Texan and the 72-ounce steak...steak-eating women...The Salmon Mousse...the Big Burrito...big, big burgers...the diplomatic incident...lightning...fast-food walkie-talkies...weekly picks: Best of Boston bars -- Doyle's, James' Gate, Neptune Oyster House...weekly pick: WebEx...weekly pick: camelback full of ice...Mom's surgery...hi, Marcella

59. Live from Studio G

Sat, 12 May 2007 16:37:00 GMT

Spring gumming us up ... the hyper-allergenic cat ... Studio G(arage) ... teasing the Empire ... splitting the pie ... house feeding frenzy ... biting a dead horse ... what gender is your brain? ... splitting 50 pounds ... hiring a game theorist ... ''assume no friction'' ... don't piss off the Dean ... who pays the buyer's broker? ... one step up from car salesmen ... well, I won't say there aren't any honest realtors ... weekly pick: baby laughing on YouTube ... weekly pick: carrot juice ... weekly pick: ted.com ... weekly pick: skybus -- wait, scratch that! weekly pick: PDFpen

58. Two guys and Bear's mom

Sun, 6 May 2007 16:43:00 GMT

Recorded live and in person -- no show notes. Contains updates on Dave's friend and Bear's mom, some shout-outs to listeners, and sundry tomfoolery.

57. The ''It blows'' episode

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:04:00 GMT

More on moron ... early weekly pick: homestarrunner.com ... teaching with no voice ... trainedmonkey.com ... ''So how are you?'' -- wrong answer ... optimistic news for Bear's mom ... mna-ma-na, it's not a tumor ... medical malpractice ... moving on ... moving on ... moving on ... backdating your Jobs ... the ''It Blows'' episode ... old friends' divorce ... leftover rubber hoses ... except that people are not perfect ... maybe the drummer was right ... miscommunications in jr high ... advertising your buttheadedness ... Immortal Beloved ... weekly pick: Macallan 18-year Scotch ... weekly pick: Three conversations

56. He's all If and no Then

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT

pacific ocean isn't calm...balboa...Alaska's bigger than Texas...Boeing management in Chicago...sonic cruiser...tasmanian devil...Rach 3 and Shine...oh that guy? he's all if and no then...drunk with power...corporate culture to be nice...uncomfortable in their own skin...reviewing your peers...getting better at interviewing...carnot cycle...weekly pick google earth...angels falls...weekly pick: southerland falls (end of the milford track in new zealand...weekly pick: dead sea

55. ''I can Google you''

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:33:00 GMT

Iain's hum ... Finding a house ... ''I can Google you'' ... ''cotton diapers too complicated??'' ... graduation from, um, diapers? ... grading with a green pen ... plagiarism ... stuff you never say to a Dean ... this is your grade on plagiarism ... Operation Just 'Cuz ... the downside of the experiment ... literary attainments and moral worth ... the beriberi donut ... weekly pick: The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan ... childhood muscular disorders ... weekly pick: epinomics ... weekly pick: Bill Cosby ... weekly pick: Dance Dance Immolation ... Twister with land mines ... extra weekly pick: Peace Art Project Cambodia

54. Accurate to 5 microns

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:27:00 GMT

Answering google searches personally...Dumb alarm clock features...Bombers need to know daylight savings time...Afghan legislature keeping people on their toes...You mean pi isn't 3?...So bolts in bolt holes...Hard to make threads...Accurate to five microns...Home schooled in a machine shop...Google sketcher...AMD - Intel competitions...Putting on a wet bathing suit...Weekly non-pick: plazes.com...Social networking: location...E911 inside the house...GPS forehead...Hayfever = sick...Richard's sad...Weekly pick: books by Sandra Boynton...Weekly pick: draw your own google map...'Google' on my caller-ID?...Google post-katrina maps...Iraqi license plates...Backpack UAVs...Weekly pick: OK Go videos...Weekly pick: shoo fly pie

53. A better mousetrap

fourguysmail@gmail.com — Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:53:00 GMT

Don't touch the art...building a better mousetrap...dogshare...6 million dollar arm...REI sale...insuring the dead...addictive country road...listening to it with grandpa...the shut up game...that's not how you make a tree...no, this is how you parent...Weekly pick: bugatti veryon (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x157l2_bugatti-veyron-at-top-speed)...weekly pick: phone/IM at same time...weekly pick: wine bottle opener...dave and his dst-challenged ipod

52. ''It makes your butt LOOK fat!''

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:27:00 GMT

Mike's grand entrance ... ''Sure it's terminal cancer, but at least you know'' ... Bear's knee, again ... wives are forever ... things no man would every say ... ''It makes your butt LOOK fat'' ... eatin' cheetos and watchin' Oprah ... walking in a circle ... John Thorne, a terrific food writer ... salivating for potatoes ... who cares how much money you have, if you don't eat well? ... Paris apartments ... don't get me anything for my birthday ... haven't made it out of the hole ... recycled PAPER toilet paper ... ''that hippie crap'' ... Renova and world peace ... our own landfill ... composting paper ... the evil worm ... boiling the phone ... Dirty Dancing ... a four-letter word for box ... assembling train tracks ... grown-up train sets ... cross-section of the human head ... mornin', Dave ... a hard drive can sound like THAT? ... leather-lunged little devils ... weekly pick: alarm clock that lets you sleep (apparently, for Dave) ... weekly pick: gotvoice.com ... weekly pick: Simple Cooking newsletter (John Thorne)

51. Greylight savings time

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:12:00 GMT

Dave's new microphone ... the red button ... 2 thumbs up for Flushed Away ... things funnier with a British accent ... the token American ... 5 Children and It ... what idiot invented daylight savings time? ... snow should know its place: the slopes ... graylight savings time ... poison nuts ... peanut hair gel ... turtles don't make good lightbulbs ... bee cruelty ... open the hives: Run! Run! ... real black-fly cones ... racing buses ... man tricks dog ... third fastest land animal ... fish: not dead yet! ... sidewalk fish ... can you learn to play far far away? ... Weekly Pick: Pete Stark, agnostic ... Weekly Pick: gorilla pod ... Weekly Pick: TurboTax ... Weekly Pick: TVBgone

50. When image counts...

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:06:00 GMT

Bear moving to Ohio ... the value of the housing dollar ... the financial side of retirement ... 4-percent rule: yikes ... and then there's college ... vacationing with your retired child ... 10 seconds to read death notices ... education increases longevity ... ''it's a pretty low-stress occuGAAAK'' ... it's all about how big your pointer is ... a really big kid with a whole lot of money ... if credit cards become illegal, only criminals will have them ... father-daughter love stories ... Annie ... ''Baby, mix me a drink'' ... kids making 'kung pao' chicken ... being the really, really old guys at the college reunion ... etch-a-sketch hair ... ''When image counts, get a nozzle ad'' ... Weekly pick: linked in ... Moby Dick, the gargantuan mail file ... Weekly pick: Steak a l'Ours ... Weekly pick: Texas Hold 'em with kids ... Weekly pick: Netflix and MovieLens ... the cat's queue

49. Sophisticated technology

Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:16:00 GMT

Technical difficulties (mostly omitted) ... Mr. Potty Mouth ... Guys and Dolls ... the helicopter ... hooking up with a babysitter ... as long as he's not wearing a hockey mask ... Bear is not your babysitter ... ain't technology grand ... Dave's drive failure ... the most sophisticated piece of technology ... eenie, meenie ... tigers in Africa ... the snows of Kilimanjaro ... portable Google data centers in the wilderness ... I'm mad as heck ... Katrina and the Waves ... being killed by irony ... the REAL inconvenient truth ... a hundred and thirteen degrees in the shade ... weekly pick: Airport Express ... clarification -- the child is not locked into the room ... weekly pick: Team of Rivals ... weekly pick: Nikon 105mm vibration-reduction lens ... down a rathole -- artificial intelligence ... weekly pick: Paul Harvey, The Rest of the Story

48. Why IS Dave nice to people?

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:16:00 GMT

Richard's gone ... Richard's (lame) excuse...Iain's early...4 year old reading the bible...mary and martha story...nothing good in the bible?...churches as repositories of interpretation...jesus as iconoclast...what does 'begat' mean, daddy?...why IS Dave nice to people...the other Golden Rule...turn the other WHAT?...being 'first strike'... helpful worrying about Christian indoctrination...random Religious browning motion...Weekly pick: Fly the Road...Weekly pick: top gear video...Weekly pick: build a better bird feeder...Weekly pick: the Algebraist

47. Knock knock. Brains!

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:58:00 GMT

Inadvertent crank calls ... ''Mary! The defibrillator!'' ... Odysseus and the dog ... The Odyssey is so cool ... O Brother, Where Art Thou? ... Ilium, by Dan Simmons ... The Places In Between ... the norm of hospitality among Muslims ... prejudice against zombies in Afghanistan ... Knock knock. Brains! ... the Old Rock Candy Mountain ... why would you help out a random traveler? ... travelers and vagabonds ... giving money to beggars ... the ins and outs of charity ... Sherlock Holmes and cocaine ... Porco Rosso ... weekly pick: lifestraw.com ... weekly pick: The Philadelphia Story ... weekly pick: Extreme Kids ... weekly pick: A Series of Unfortunate Events ... The Dixie Chicks and the Simpsons

46. The Self-Immolating Podcast

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:39:00 GMT

Technical difficulties ... the all-in-one podcasting solution? ... an end to global warming ... nutty, homicidal astronauts ... Anna Nicole Smith = Cinderella? ... false fathers who won't take a DNA test ... this generation's tawdry Marilyn Monroe ... indefatigable Weird Al ... the HMS Rather Alert ... self-immolating Barbie ... lacdeflection ... return of sniglets ... the Sparticus queue ... ''No, I'm Sparticus'' ... Sparticus Pepsi ad ... Jarts ... weekly pick: Free to Be You and Me ... weekly pick: Trashmail Firefox extension ... weekly pick: Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

45. We have a winner!

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:41:00 GMT

Welcome, Iain ... Google does cameras?? ... specialists who can't do anything ... how to do a Powerpoint presentation ... Tufte Powerpoint screed ... never, never do this ... powerpoint in a foreign language ... drunken translators ... delayed punchlines ... the unanticipated Chinese man ... anonymous wrong numbers ... the pod hotel ... ''We got a winner!'' ... kids planting hoax devices ... 2 things about Boston ... unmarked packages ... Weekly pick: Apples to Apples ... Weekly pick: Foldershare ... Weekly pick: Goodnight Gorilla ... Weekly non-pick: Horton Hears a Who video ... Weekly pick: Spin State ... Weekly pick: Nuclear Weapons FAQ ... Weekly pick: The Big Picture: states as countries ... leaving butt prints in the sands of time

44. I am not a mountain lion

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:10:00 GMT

Waking up a random Chinese man, and echoing at him ... Mike, failing to behave himself ... finding Richard ... being tortured by a sadistic Marine ... taking kids to Pan's Labyrinth? ... violence, but not gratuitous violence ... Luis Bunuel ... The Obscure Object of Desire ... shrimps and revenge ... revenche is a dish best served after dessert ... being corrected in French and Chinese ... prepare to receive my transmission ... how to negotiate with the Japanese: don't even try to bow ... ''Come alone. I am not a mountain lion'' ... cat fud ... AARP member vs. mountain lion ... irritating lethal animals ... the underwater knife ... how many rounds of surprise does the mountain lion get? ... playing ''got your trachea'' ... zebra stripes ... confused squirrels ... the Mongolian Death Worm ... weekly pick: the St. Louis Arch ... weekly pick: balldroppings.com ... weekly pick: reversible door-locking mechanisms ... weekly pick: George R. R. Martin's ''A Game of Thrones'' ... sucking books down in a single night ... Gravity's Rainbow ... Ulysses ... ''Don't be a fool, Jones!''

43. Snizzle

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:59:00 GMT

Talking to the Skype Lady ... where's Dave? ... safety color coding ... left-handed life-spans ... somebody get a rope ... Don Rickles: ''I thought you were dead'' ... Asimov's exhaustive autobiography ... Steven King's potted plant ... being ridden by the Muse ... scoring the game ... freezing fruit ... snizzle ... fuzzy little monkeys ... ''can't... talk... pain... in...'' ... squirrel and bird torture device ... the right tool ... ziggurat living room ... half-terrarium-trapped squirrels ... darwin awards: morally bankrupt ... got killed butchering a rare creature ... weekly pick: Pan's Labyrinth ... weekly pick: location-based reminders ... weekly pick: aqua doodle ... weekly pick: storm skirt

42. Hello, Mr. Baggins

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:09:00 GMT

Can you hear me now? ... yes, we have frost ... hot chocolate on way to the BART train ... MX missiles on the oldest subway in the world? ... V for Vendetta ... ''Hello, Mr. Baggins'' ... daring to commit cinema ... NASCAR ... I've driven in Rome, pal ... artwork on the road ... driving as blood sport ... car body language ... the person who yells ''LEFT'' ... haben sie das notig? ... the stinking pit in the Dune series ... she has no Ruth ... drinking under an assumed name ... wanting an iPhone so badly ... iPod software issues ... weekly pick: the people's mario ... weekly pick: getting things done / 43folders.com ... weekly pick: the sparrow ... weekly pick: activeallowance.com ... ''God exists, so there!''

41. The ''golf'' episode

Sat, 6 Jan 2007 17:41:00 GMT

Dave's miss ... ''not the wed one'' ... perky Richard ... the Dixie Flatline bag-box thingy ... dissecting the frog ... one-man Mark Twain show ... I wish it were 60 degrees -- inside the cabin ... Velcro'd wiener dogs ... cartoonesque quantities of black flies ... head-dipping, snickering flies ... warming up cabins ... orgasmic dill sauce ... taking one for the team ... can you give me a hint and just beat the sh** out of me? ... turn off the light, or I won't leave ... get what? ... resentment-inducing long-johns ... the One Red Paperclip guy ... the million-dollar website ... click this button a million times and my girlfriend will, err ... audacity of the thing ... being good at lying ... 'scuze me, I dropped my headset ... smooch? ... right into the pond ... golfing with Uncle Tim ... pre-called mulligans ... miss it 5 times and shotgun a beer ... the club fling ... rodent-like sprinklers ... dodging golfballs ... weekly pick: mortgage-paying credit cards ... weekly pick: trio of hot sauces -- Molten Golden, Goin' Bananas, Weed Killer ... weekly pick: firefly the TV series ... nuthin' into nuthin', carry the nuthin' ... ''Is it Christmas?''

40. A very Ponzi Christmas

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:30:00 GMT

Waking Mike ... Richard's sixth round of presents ... rules for gift exchanges ... a very Ponzi Christmas ... Santa's Magic Key ... shots for Santa ... appropriate presents ... computer lessons for septuagenarians ... the Nancy Drew computer game ... kids watching Carrie: 6 feet backwards ... international babysitting blackballs ... my aunt, the wolf ... Robinette Hood panto ... The Zombie War ... weekly pick: my life as a CIA spy and lack of humint ... weekly pick: the online public library ... weekly pick: Groundhog Day ... Buddhists LOVE this movie ... weekly pick: a trio of zooming stuff ... it is the very model of a modern solar system ... a short history of nearly everything

39. Christmas traditions

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:08:00 GMT

Are you the tech guy? ... being a Linux user ... Youtube parodies of Mac ads ... Santa v. Jesus ... ''Give me that in a box, fat boy'' ... ready for Christmas ... Banana Boy's birthday ... first baby of the year ... trivial is vitriol ... what are the odds of sharing birthdays? ... why is my phone beeping? ... do you hear what I hear? ... Christmas morning ... piety through forgetfulness ... Christmas through the day ... no presents until the adults have eaten ... the constantly-growing Christmas Crumb ... traditional Christmas latkes, eclairs, French toast ... stealing Stollen and poaching eggs ... ''Would you rather be in dog-slobber land or knitting land?'' ... ''Those are the names of my fingers, duh!'' ... weekly pick: www.toothpastefordinner.com ... the Pan-flute flowchart ... Zamfir, master of the Pan flute! ... sudo makemeasandwich ... linear adventure of deaths ... weekly pick: Saturday drink night ... weekly pick: Dar Williams, The Christians and the Pagans ... weekly pick: Bamboosa shirts, comfortable and soft ... Platewire.com, road rage website ... www.YouParkLikeAnAss----.com ... www.SweetJesusIHateBillOReilly.com ... bumper sticker inkjet printer for the car ... family Christmas

38. The safeword is raspberry

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:17:00 GMT

Podcasting in the afternoon ... ''Wait, Wait'' contest ... interplanetary waves? ... as big as her mother ... suggestive Tarzan dolls ... last moments of a golden retriever ... the cat came back ... cat revenge ... Hammy goes ''plop'' ... death by lasagna ... a real cool cat ... cats that don't learn ... dogs that actually catch squirrels ... the safe word is banana ... climb down off a duck: the elephant-duck koan ... way to go, ex-lax ... weekly pick: StumbleUpon plug in ... Goombah ... mine my music preferences - please! ... privacy statement: you have no privacy ... pandora - no, not her ... weekly pick: don't say wax fruit â ''wax fruit?'' â damn! ... weekly pick: Good Omens ... Satan switched at birth ... weekly pick: mud slide, the drink ... the nation's fine alcohol laws

37. The Ronco turducken maker

Sat, 9 Dec 2006 20:20:00 GMT

Roll call ... and the winner is: Dave ... musical accompaniment ... our Christmas edition ... flu epidemics ... violent crackerjack reactions ... poisoning Richard redux ... neighboring peanut factory ... Carver off, pal! ... what's weather? ... dinner with daughters ... drinking out of your cereal bowl ... practice dinners ... toothpick tricks ... Ronco turducken maker ... mutant chickens ... weekly picks: Crazy Machines (digression: autism and TV), flylady.com (and the multi-generational packrat), cryptic crosswords (used at Abu Ghraib!), winter drinks

36. Frankencast

Mon, 4 Dec 2006 03:45:00 GMT

Intro: Explaining our technical difficulties ... it is COLD ... my hand just froze ... I told you not to cheat ... scorpions vs. cockroaches ... analog to digital conversion ... the castration converter ... 4-voice answering machine ... not having to fight for the covers ... karate boy? ... the second pressing ... donât acknowledge self-inflicted screaming ... speaking of flames and smoke ... not really a Bond movie ... jumping the shark ... ... but lord it wasn't good ... that's a 'tell'?? ... what are you, an actor? ... are you tall or short? make up your mind! ... mountains have the white hat ... pouring hot water on the ice on the driveway ... Bugs Bunny for the first time ... Charlie Brown in a Mac ad ... weekly picks: Edward Tufte poster, Dyson vacuum, imdb.com

35. Getting your ugly sleep

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:40:00 GMT

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

34. Your call has been forwarded

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:11:00 GMT

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

33. Snake Carp Shadow

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:06:00 GMT

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

32. The Devil's advocate

Sat, 4 Nov 2006 19:48:00 GMT

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

31. Having Scruples is bad?

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:49:00 GMT

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

30. If Sex Sells, the French will be Rich

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:44:00 GMT

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

29. Separated by a common state

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:45:00 GMT

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

28. The Dalai Lama's Defense Weekly

Mon, 9 Oct 2006 06:10:00 GMT

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

27. Bike vs. truck

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:14:00 GMT

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

26. Did you raise the dead?

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:08:00 GMT

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

25. Three guys and a gal

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:17:00 GMT

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

24. That was totally worth it

Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:07:00 GMT

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

23. Nobody expects, II: Dave's back

Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:18:00 GMT

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

22. Nobody expects the Rapture

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:03:00 GMT

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?

21. Pigeons and puzzles

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:55:00 GMT

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

20. The broad middle

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:03:00 GMT

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

19. The bird takes a lead

Sat, 5 Aug 2006 20:48:00 GMT

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

18. Two plus two equals four

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:33:00 GMT

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

17. Don't lick the taxi

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:50:00 GMT

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

16. Tonight you sleep with the people!

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:13:00 GMT

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 piÃata ... 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

15. Post-vacation roundup

Sat, 8 Jul 2006 16:51:00 GMT

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??

This podcast left almost blank

Sat, 1 Jul 2006 07:28:00 GMT

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.

Summer Schedule

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:54:00 GMT

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.

14. Banana!

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:14:00 GMT

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

13. Fearing fear itself

fourguysmail@gmail.com — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:59:00 GMT

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

12. iPods on a plane

fourguysmail@gmail.com — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:30:00 GMT

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!

11. Ask your daughter...

fourguysmail@gmail.com — Mon, 5 Jun 2006 01:39:00 GMT

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

10. Speaking of glass teats...

fourguysmail@gmail.com — Sat, 27 May 2006 19:52:00 GMT

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

9. You're gonna get eaten

fourguysmail@gmail.com — Sat, 20 May 2006 18:48:00 GMT

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

8. Flash clowns

fourguysmail@gmail.com — Tue, 16 May 2006 06:26:00 GMT

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?

7. Palimpsests, pedagogs, pedants -- oh my!

fourguysmail@gmail.com — Sat, 6 May 2006 19:45:00 GMT

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!

6. That and a Nobel will get you parking in Berkeley

fourguysmail@gmail.com — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:33:00 GMT

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

5. Excuse me, sir, your donut is demonic

fourguysmail@gmail.com — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:23:00 GMT

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

4. How big is your guinea pig?

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 02:28:00 GMT

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?

3. Color me confused

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:21:00 GMT

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

2. Laugh at my boner, will they?

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:18:00 GMT

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

1. The one we forgot to record

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:13:00 GMT

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