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Available Episodes (140)
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:...
Problems with mute buttons ... the neighborhood deadbeat dads ... artsy potatoes ... bacon covered turkey ... more bacon! ... pomegranate seed elevators ... astringent persimmons ......
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 ......
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 ......
Who's Don anyway? ... electoral college students ... "Obama resigns" phishing spam ... institutional bigotry ... the bittersweet taste: Prop 8 ... Judeo-Christian yuckiness ... 2000...
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 ......
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...
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...
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...
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" ......
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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
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...
``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 ...
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? ......
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
If three guys take a walk in the woods and no one is there to record the show notes, does anything get written?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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:...
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...
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 ......
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Approaching 100th episode ... a less than welcomed logic puzzle ... unstopped logic puzzle ... home departure ... Marcella's a mother - yay! ... listener contest: name the child ......
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...
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 ......
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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
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...
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
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 ......
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...
a bare glimmer of Dave ... pregnant nazi nun google ads ... spam on the decline? ... tenuous pre-existing business relationship ... denigrating net neutrality ... graphing terrorist...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?''...
Dave and Richard learn to record a podcast on the fly.
Muting ... disease vectors ... ;pngis and oy whuck ... texting follies
... mornings and senses ... waking Dave ... waking Flint from the dead
... water alarm clock ... mattress spikes...
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...
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...
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 ......
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
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...
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
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 ...
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...
''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...
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...
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...
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 ......
pancake lady podcast ... military family camp ... fancy pancakes ...pancake babies ... growth hormones .... surprising animals ... weekly pick: bagel french toast ... french toast making...
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...
mike...stephen...bear...
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...
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...
Live from Palm Springs, CA
No show this week! Dave explains.
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...
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...
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.
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 ......
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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
Technical difficulties ... the all-in-one podcasting solution? ... an end to global warming ... nutty, homicidal astronauts ... Anna Nicole Smith = Cinderella? ... false fathers who...
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...
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?...
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...
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''...
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...
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...
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...
Podcasting in the afternoon ... ''Wait, Wait'' contest ... interplanetary waves? ... as big as her mother ... suggestive Tarzan dolls ... last moments of a golden retriever ... the
Roll call ... and the winner is: Dave ... musical accompaniment ... our Christmas edition ... flu epidemics ... violent crackerjack reactions ... poisoning Richard redux ... neighboring...
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...
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,...
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?...
abusing Richard ... elementary school presidents ... election glee ... one mean macaca ... eavesdropping spouses ... the importance of voter turn out ... a deal with the devil, I
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
The surprise guest ... the ground rules ... princess meetings ... don't tell Mom ... father injuries ... softball ... the finger ... the father-daugher dance ... Harold and Maude ......
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...
Skulking in the bathroom ... the Skillet ... the toad tunnel ... stop signs as ornamentation ... living in Sacramento ... Murder Burger ... political leanings of Catholics ... Jesuit/Unitarian...
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...
Phone follies ... anonymity and mushrooms ... passenger pigeons ... Soviet airplanes ... my other Saturn saved my life ... car crash ads ... feminine commercials ... bias in the media...
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...
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...
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...
Vacations ... what happens in Vegas ... corruption ... dueling semiautomatics ... traveling with children ... don't lick the taxi ... the five-year-old terrorist ... self-checkin...
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...
Gizmo ... Skype 2.0, with irony ... bargaining ... abacuses ... visiting Peru ... guinea tribbles ... close encounters of the rodent kind ... the ping thing ... paintball ... Cayman,...
Just a quick hello, to let you know that we haven't forgotten you -- we're just on vacation. Well, some of us are, anyway.
With July comes sun, sand, beaches... and lack of internet access. We'll be spread far and wide during July and much of August, so we're moving to a biweekly schedule, and we may bring...
Intermission music ... Houston, we have a problem ... air-water ... Manhattan farts ... mug-me wires ... Wonderfalls redux ... the commentary reel ... a community of one ... Hiroshima...
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...
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...
Turning into Bob Dylan ... cherry picking ... fresh lobsta ... camping ... ask your daughter... defeating the Curse ... Franklin W. Dixon ... Ghost World ... Bollywood ... snakes on...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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!!
Are we on the air? ... tech support ... new heights of frugality ... boners ... Ringworld and Foundation ... cigarettes and typewriters ... rabbit baseball ... mu ... Darthing, or,
Just as we're finishing up what would have been a polished first episode, The Curse makes its first appearance....
