E10: “Can We Talk About Appliances For A Second Here?”

A wide-ranging conversation about our current thinking and inclinations.

In this episode we discuss music as an accessory, trying to undo 40 years worth of bad habits, getting back into reading, the various shades of left wing, musicals, and, of course, a brief interlude about how great appliances are.

Topics included:

The changing media landscape, things that auto-sort the culture, Kirsty MacColl, music nerdery, Judge John Hodgman Episode 320: Might As Well Judge, music as an accessory, Morrissey, the put-on of Sophistication, Flann O’Brien (Brian O’Nolan, or Myles na gCopaleen), some of his columns that Austin spoke of, having a Friends-stroke, Austin’s Non-Profit, undoing 40 years worth of bad habits, even more book mine stories, getting back to reading, Get Up On This podcast, reading comics, Challengers of The Unknown, Spider-Man, people looking to be assholish, the problems with neighbors, Virginia Rapee & Roscoe Arbuckle, Lizzie, My Favorite Year, Floyd Collins, Little Shop of Horrors & the alternate ending.