The Ride To Redacted

In this podcast, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while searching for a theme -- a meta quest if ever there was one.

Episode 24: The Saint Grubbins Day Episode

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while exploring ways in which we might translate our feelings for others, the transformation of souls, the importance of touching grass, and of course, the beatific transmogrification of Saint Grubbins. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Here’s a photo […]

03-12
38:46

Episode 23: The Informal Pick-up Game Episode

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while they speculate on how there might be some crying in baseball, contemplate bullying and its behavioral opposite, and admire the pileup of dirty snow en route. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: A nice article from the University […]

03-05
36:16

Episode 22: Boundaries For Trolls

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B as Mal educates Steve on how to wrangle a troll, the new Internet etiquette, and the perils of late-night doomscrolling. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: As Wikipedia will remind you, “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 […]

02-05
26:35

Episode 21: Vampire Skills and/or What Have You Learned From Me?

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while contemplating the road not taken, the road that might still be taken, and lessons learned, back and forth. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Apparently, the phrase “vampire skills” is at least somewhat commonly used to refer to […]

01-29
28:42

TRTR Highlights, Point Two: Eps 11 – 20

What are these just ahead?  Oh my goodness, they might be — no, they ARE…  Strap in for the highlights, lovingly culled from Episodes 11 through 20, of The Ride to Redacted. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: In keeping with the highlighting nature of this release (as with the previous highlights release), these […]

01-22
07:39

Episode 20: Fakin’ It

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while educating Steve about musical genres and talking about malingering at the piano and elsewhere. Strap in for  … The Ride To Redacted! To leave a comment, click here Show notes: The various names of the rock band Steve was in […]

01-08
17:52

Episode 19: A Guide To Ethical Homewrecking, The New Year’s Episode, Part 2

Listeners, the recording of our ride from Point A to Point B on December 21, 2025, was unusually productive.  On that ride, your hosts were even more conversationally lively than usual, if you can believe that.  As a result, that ride has produced not one but four segments, to be released in three episodes. This […]

01-01
09:36

Episode 19: A Mutt In A Past Life, The New Year’s Episode, Part 1

Listeners, the recording of our ride from Point A to Point B on December 21, 2025, was unusually productive.  On that ride, your hosts were even more conversationally lively than usual, if you can believe that.  As a result, that ride has produced not one but four segments, to be released in three episodes. This […]

01-01
08:27

Episode 18: I Know Why The Lyrebird Sings

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while ruminating on fame: what we look for in, and from, celebrity.  Also, they share a few words on listening, extrapolative thinking, and purism in art, taxidermy-adjacent and otherwise. Show notes: If you would know more about the Frisbee — […]

12-19
36:49

Episode 17: Appreciate The Crumple

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while searching for their brand in, of all things, a crumpled ball of tinfoil.  Never mind uncrumpling; strap in for  … The Ride To Redacted! To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Listeners, be excited, be very, very excited: TRTR […]

12-04
37:06

Episode 16: The Halloween Episode: The Horrible (Non-erotic) Sweet Spot of Scary

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while exploring the makings of the macabre. Whether it involves rug burns or full burns, when the haunting happens, are you happy or harried — or a bit of both? To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Your co-hosts Steve […]

10-30
29:02

Episode 15: You’re Never Going To Be Deprogrammed If You’re In An Echo Chamber

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while mulling over the siren song of “They Don’t Want You To Know,” the merits of finding a trust/mistrust balance, and the art of the con. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Tina Majorino, who played the character Deb […]

10-09
17:08

Episode 14: Cutting Slack

On this ride, Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while discussing the boomerang benefits of compassion, inciting their listeners to replace their pique with empathy.  Don’t go postal! To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Hyperloggia does not appear to be a word (outside of this episode).  However, logorrhea IS a […]

09-25
28:58

Episode 13: Accept The Gift, Already

In this episode, your hosts Steve (a jaded New Yorker) and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while Mal and things seen en route make the case for opening oneself up to life’s stupid, little, and quite possibly wonderful, offerings.  Strap in for … The Ride to Redacted — Season 2. To leave […]

09-18
29:45

Episode 12: The Ride To Redacted Prime: Darkness, Beauty, Parking

In this episode, Steve and Mal hurtle with guest rider Phoenix from Point A to Point B (the end of a long pier), while contemplating death doulas, subversive sherpas and a gay giraffe.  Strap in for … The Ride To Redacted Prime. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Concerning Edward Gorey: you could do […]

08-21
23:15

Episode 11: Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn

In this episode, Steve and Mal ruminate about threats and a panoply of possible human responses.  Whether it’s a bear or too many emails you’re facing down, isn’t it nice to know you have options? To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Fight, flight, freeze or fawn: a nice article (of many articles) on these […]

07-25
27:28

TRTR Highlights So Far (Eps 1 – 10)

This release presents you with highlights that have been lovingly culled from Episodes 1 through 10. Strap in for … the highlights so far of The Ride To Redacted. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: In keeping with the highlighting nature of this release, these notes will be brief and to the point.  Some […]

07-17
11:21

Episode 10: The Terpsichorean Episode: When Tedium Is The Medium

In this episode, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while mulling over the dance between slog and art, as well as the possible origins of the bagpipe. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: With regard to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, per Wikipedia: “Abraham Harold Maslow (… April 1, […]

07-02
35:29

Episode 9: How To Live In A Universe

On this ride, Steve and Mal consider executive dysfunction and the fundamental problems of life and death.  No biggie. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Shout-out to Charles Yu’s “How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe.”  Per Wikipedia: “The novel revolves around a search for a father and the father-son relationship. It […]

05-22
35:03

Episode 8: Coping Through It, Yo

On this ride, Steve and Mal contemplate the anxiety of emotional support dogs, the tension available during customs inspections, and the benefits of creating stupid art and trying to make others happy. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: This is also the episode in which Steve learns that Panic! at the Disco was a […]

05-15
31:52

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