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We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also quite Christine Marie Eberle and Finding God in Ordinary Time. Not to mention St. Ignatius, terrain, choosing life, positivity, storytelling, prayer, Learning to Speak God from Scratch, liturgy, daily meditations, immigration policy, cancer, humor, and irreverence, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most definitely do that.

Quite This Podcast Will Change Your Life we are. We are also quite the Harry Marks, not to mention Covered, old guests, friends and favorites, Steph Post, Jim and Aubrie Cox Warner, Melissa Faliveno, Alice Kaltman, so much podcast, jazz, pencils, and quite a bit about that, as well as the writing process, the endless joys of Nicolas Cage, not the least of which are the National Treasure movies, and the need for a third, Sweet Child O' Mine, Scrivener in 60 Seconds, and much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will certainly do that, thank you.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also quite the Vanessa Blakeslee, not to mention Perfect Conditions, social justice, prior Blakeslee podcast appearances, plus the Mathieu Callier and Kali VanBaale, Florida, forest fires, apocalyptic algae, and Sinkhole: The Movie, growth, ecology, Juventud, reality quantum physics, Train Shots, reality, craft, the Blakeslee's Indiegogo campaign, and do donate to that, the long game, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most certainly do that.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also quite Sarah Ward, not to mention Aesop Lake, being an ally, child welfare, YA Lit, Vermont, rural towns, Green Writers Press, LGBTQ rights, hate crimes, Aesop's Fables, bullying, pride and much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most certainly do that.

We are most definitely rocking a most timely, and dare we say, hard-hitting, albeit humorous, and yes scintillating, episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also quite Greg Olear, Dirty Rubles, Inception, the media, and siloized nature thereof, Donald Trump, and of course, Vladimir Putin, Fathermucker, Lori Hettler, always, activism, Mussolini, a first, The Big Lebowski, and Unforgiven, as well as the big picture, campaign finances, corruption, Access Hollywood, the Russian Mob, and much, much more. So please do imbibe on This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most certainly do that.

We are quite This Podcast Will Change Your Life and quite inspired by it. We are also quite Charita Cole Brown, and Defying The Verdict, not to mention rebuilding one's life, getting help*, Beauty and the Beast, When Words Count Retreat, stigma, and being a stigma fighter, shame, having to do the work, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Anthony Bourdain, defining your truth, Baltimore, and The Wire, being strong, mental illness, and being an African American woman, and religion, and diagnosis, living an optimal life, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most certainly do that.

*And if you do feel like you need help, please reach out to someone you trust and please know that you can always call NAMI at (800) 950-6264 or the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800) 273-8255.

Quite This Podcast Will Change Your Life we are. We are also quite Dwayne Hayes, STAND magazine, what it means to be a man, compassion, anger, #MeToo, listening, forgiveness, style, Men Mad, and service, vulnerablility, Tate Donovan, and when are we not Tate Donovan, A Call To Men, body image and all about promoting STAND's current Kickstarter campaign. So, please do check out the campaign, and most definitely This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most definitely do that.

Oh, we are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. Not to mention the Writer's Bone crew of Daniel Ford and Sean, not Pete, not ever, Touhy, storytelling, creativity, Sid Sanford Lives!, by none other than the aforementioned Daniel Ford, Steph Post, V.C. Andrews, yes, that one, community, podcasting, essays, including "How I Went From A Self-Conscious Writer to A Conscious One," by, wait for it, the aforementioned Sean, not Pete, no idea how that started, Touhy, crime, movies, secret societies, reading, connections, and so much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most certainly do that.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also a quite timely, though sadly, an endlessly timely, discussion on guns, access to them, and violence, not to mention, grief, love, marriage, and the celebration thereof, public health, Gunmetal Blue, timbre, always, former Peterson podcasts, to be found here and here, the 2nd Amendment, as well as all of the other ones, Eden, and getting kicked-out, Wanted: Elevator Man, Antigone, Leland Cheuk, consistently, Tortoise Books, now and forever, Chicago, The Year of Magical Thinking, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, starring former, current, and future guest Joseph G. Peterson, because it is certain to do all of that.

Wow, so Episode One Hundred and Eighty of This Podcast Will Change Your Life we are. Not to mention quite Tabitha Blankenbiller, though not quite Portland, You're the Worst and BoJack Horseman, think pieces please, Facebook algorithms, Eats of Eden, and foodoirs, synergy, body image, essays, Cheryl Strayed, yes that Cheryl Strayed, what happens when a friendship dies, The Rumpus, and Alternating Current Press, being brave, struggle, having a moment, or moments, and saying no, writing about writing and making it sound interesting, and much, much more. So... please do hit Episode One Hundred and Eighty of This Podcast Will Change Your Life, feel free to hit them all frankly, because it, and they, will do just that.

Oh, we are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also quite Vincent Chu, not to mention Like a Champion, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cologne, cities everywhere, 7.13 Books and the Leland Cheuk, drawing sneakers, for real, screenwriting and discipline, Twitter as inspiration, Seinfeld, camcorders, which was once a thing, space, no distractions, throughlines, yes, even those, and much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life because it will most certainly do that.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also quite Giano Cromley, West Town, handsomeness and the Leesa Cross-Smith, What We Build Upon the Ruins, and Something, Something, amputations, and lawn mowers, as well as Shape of Water, spoiler alert, conflict and empathy, masculinity as viewed through suffering and loss, Loop Tavern, and Mickey's Malt Liquor, The Last Good Halloween, Tortoise Books, and on and on. So most definitely do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most certainly do that.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also quite Paul Cohen, not to mention The Glamshack, Colorado, so many sailing metaphors, changing lives, always, and unprompted, writing as creation, not therapy, James Salter, recent guest Lori Hettler, Giano Cromley, finding rapture, ambition, relationship as obsession, and intoxication, the 19th Century Sioux Indian Wars as lens and (not) cultural appriopriation, staying the course, Leland Cheuk and 7.13 Books, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, it will most certainly do that.

So This Podcast Will Change Your Life we are. We are also quite thrillingly Bill Mares, not to mention The Full Vermonty: Vermont in the Age of Trump, Colony Collapse Disorder, Chicago, Jeff Danziger, Green Writers Press, Making Beer From Homebrew to the House of Fermentology, as well as the House of Fermentology itself, living a satisfying life, interviews with old friend, and guest of the podcast, David Masciotra at Salon, Real Vermonters Don't Milk Goats, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will certainly do that.

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We are so very special 175th episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also old friend Lori Hettler, kick-ass lover of all things book, and awesome TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog goddess, not to mention small presses, book reviews, Joshua Mohr, the internet, Goodreads, Jason Pettus and CCLaP, reading, fandom, blogging, Ginnetta Correli, and massive lit goodness of all kinds. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, it will most certainly do that, as it most definitely has ours.

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Oh, we are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. But that's not all, because we are also the Bob Hartley, not to mention North and Central, race, segregation, poverty, Tortoise Books, Jerry Brennan, and editing, noir, Gloria Mindock and Following Tommy, Bacon's Rebellion, Zenith, Chicago, harm reduction, crime, a lot of crime, universal healthcare, Austin, young men, violence, and unemployment, Shawn Shifflet, and much, much more. So, do hit This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will certainly do that.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life, and while we are also a little crowd banter early on - which please do ignore - we are also quite the Nicholas Barron, not to mention the Coalition for the Advancement of Street Art, intimacy, silence, song writing, Jeffrey Osborne, language, all the different colors, busking, the 1st Amendment, success, fame, segregation, hypocrisy, violence, anti-intellectualism, art as affliction, the creative life, pain, artist dads and dead dads, Leonard Cohen, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most certainly do that, yo.

Wow, we are so awesomely This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also the Jennifer Steele, YOUMedia, poetry, publishing, the Revolving Door Arts Foundation - and Press and Reading Series, not to mention fundraising for said foundation, Chance The Rapper, Louder Than a Bomb, teenagers, Postpartum Depression, ChiTeen Lit Fest, Gwendolyn Brooks, Submittable, Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, and much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, it will most definitely do that.

We are indeed quite This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also so Glen Binger, not to mention New Jersey, Only Human, Stories By The Sea, Zines, the ocean, and growing-up salty, as well as seaside, mindfulness, Mickey Hess, conecting Bud Smith, positivity, Bing Bang Co., waves, DIY Paradise, and much, much more. So please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life as it will most definitely do that.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life and so fantastically excited to be Elaine Soloway, not to mention The Division Street Princess, Green Nails and Other Acts of Rebellion, CreateSpace, and self-publishing, Chicago, swimming, audacity, and raising children who are audacious, Transparent, and said children, Jill and Faith Soloway, social media, She's Not the Type, the glorious Judith Light, Michaela Watkins, and Kathryn Hahn, normalization, Amy Guth, lives well lived, The Americans and Rectify, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it well very much do that indeed.

We are endlessly This Podcast Will Change Your Life, and lovingly Christopher Bowen, but also just unabashedly, and completely, hyping This Handbook WIll Change Your Life 002 - DEBT, which is quite Pre-Order, but coming soon, not to mention We Were Giants, changing lives, managing, Hunger, Sunnyoutside, Ashley Inguanta, and interviews, When I Return To You, I will Be Unfed, Sam Snoek-Brown, This Handbook WIll Change Your Life 002 - DEBT, which we are so hyping, and may have mentioned previously, Burning River Press, culinary school, Sundress Publications, and The CookBook, and much, much more. So please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most certainly do that. 

 
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Quite pleased we are to be This Podcast Will Change Your Life and the Lee L. Krecklow. Not to mention The Expanse Between, elevator pitches, Stay-At-Home Dadness, basements, screenwriting, validation, Aubrie Cox, obsessiveness, artists and insecurities and needy little things, stagnancy, small victories, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, it will most certainly do that.

So This Podcast Will Change Your Life we are. Not to mention the Mike McClelland, Gay Zoo Day, Sue Grafton, Serena Williams, The Celluloid Closet, Elizabeth Moss, writing Gay stories, and not doing so at all, Hillary Clinton, racism and misogyny, Claire Danes, The Greg Louganis Story, and so much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most certainly do just that.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also so Garret Schuelke. Not to mention Edgar Rice Burroughs, Whup Jamboree, Alpena, gaming, The Hideout, poetry, lit scenes, Barry Graham, ANAMAKEE, Patton Oswalt, Zine, Lavinia Ludlow, class, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, it will most certainly do that.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also quite Michael Wayne Hampton. Not to mention Bad Kids from Good Schools, isolation, Black Mirror, Appalachia, isolation, nature, though not really, pitchers and bassists, named Hampton, of course, biohacking, cold baths, anxiety, Roller Girls Love Bobby Knight, loneliness, Hubert Selby Jr., Tiny Letter, Romance for Delinquents, major depressive disorder, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it is sure to do just that.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also quite Lori Jakiela, which rocks, not to mention Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work and the Writing Life, memoir, Studs Terkel, adoption, truth, poetry, Walter Cronkite, Trafford, PA, work, and the working class, family, flight attendants, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe, and much, much more. All of which is certain to change your life, if you let it, like right now, there you go, good.

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We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also the Sequoia Nagamatsu, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, dancing plagues, Japanese folklore, giving our bodies a voice, fabulist fiction, forest activism, The Greatest American Hero, the Meiji Era, tricksters, realism, community, and other communities, Real World, and so much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most certainly do that.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also quite Shaindel (which we cannot pronounce) Beers, not to mention The Childen's War and A Brief History of Time, social class, Harry Potter, trolling, the National Book Award, Steve Bannon, Star Wars, poetry, Jewbillies, sexual violence, pastoral versus buccolic, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, as it will most certainly do just that.

Could we be more This Podcast Will Change Your Life? No we cannot. How about more Seth Berg? Impossible we're sure. Inexplicable even. Regardless we are quite This Podcast Will Change Your Life, not to mention the Seth Berg, Aviary, comas, joy, Timothy Geiger, authenticity, curiosity, Daddy Cool, Bradford Wolfenden II, Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory, Artistically Declined Press, beauty, muskrats, linguistics, poetry, positivity and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because it will most definitely do that.

Quite This Podcast Will Change Your Life we are. And quite Joshua Mohr too. Not to mention Sirens, Picasso, Jimi Hendrix, honoring your imagination, relapse, Fight Song, recovery, revising out loud, memoir, boxing, Some Things That Meant the World to Me, Slaughterhouse-Five, reading, heart surgery, curiosity and much, much more. Quite more in fact. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, it just might, will, change your life.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life, and so very Kara Vernor. We are also Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song, Santa Cruz, and the Saturn Cafe, Split Lip Press, Jim Carroll, Magnum P.I., and Don Johnson, Low-residency MFA programs, flash fiction, the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake, and much, much more. So, please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life and the Kara Vernor, because we are certain that it is certain to change your life.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. And quite W. Todd Kaneko. Not to mention Black Sabbath, The Dead Wrestler Elegies, N.W.A., punk, Kayfabe, racism, community, Appetite for Destruction, Bruiser Brody, Flash Gordon, Freaks and Geeks, The One and Only and much, much more. So please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because we're pretty certain it will change your life, of course.

Wow, are we so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. And so Melissa Faliveno. Not to mention the Driftless Area, Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast, Brooklyn, roller derby, Isthmus, relative editorial power, trolls, cultural investigations, Ann Heppermann and much, much more, all of which is quite sure to change your life.

We are quite This Podcast Will Change Your Life and most excitedly Rick Kogan. We are also the Chicago Tribune, Mike Royko, children, and dancing in the rain with children, the Billy Goat Tavern, Bouch, Kiddieland, Jim Beam, Studs Terkel, and The Good War, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Susan Messing and so much more. We are also certain that This Podcast Will Change Your Life is, well, certain to change your life, so please do hit, now, thank you.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also so Wendy C. Ortiz - again - not to mention Bruja, Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, truth, performance art, Jill Solloway, weird animals, Dreamoirs, narrative, memories and so much more. So please do This Podcast Will Change Your Life, and post-haste at that, because it is certain, as advertised, to change your life.

So This Podcast Will Change Your Life we are. We are also quite Quist, as well as Harbors, race, class, Kali VanBaale, Election Day, Dark Phoenix, rage, Dave Chappelle, Thailand, privilege, the Constitution, AWP 2017 - and all that is to come, Past Ten and much, more more. So please do hit it, it will most certainly change your life.

We are so absolutely This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also the Steve Lafler, Mean Cat, Dog Boy, Ramones, graphic novels, Buzzard, Love and Rockets, Phoebe Gloeckner, They Might Be Giants, Oaxaca, 40 Hour Man, comix, Lucky Man, The Grateful Dead, Naked Lunch, the movie and much, much more. So please do podcast, it will most certainly change your life.

We are most definitely This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also Dock Street Press, Seinfeld, outdoor people, David Cone, and late night steaks, Raymond Carver, The Story Project podcasts, Sarah Lippmann, Be Cool, Glen Chamberlain, balance, Peyote, the act of being hirsute, the West, the Cubs, Hillary and much, much more. So do please do podcast, it will most certainly change your life.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. And quite Cory Martin. We are also Love Sick, The O.C., MS, memoir, novelizations, living in limboland, Write Out Publishing, finding love, Neurologists, the new normal, self-publishing and much, much more. So, please do hit it, it will most certainly change your life.

We are quite Aras. And so very This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also The Fugue, Cicero, The Good Men Project, marriage, Tortoise Books, coping mechanisms, refugees, trauma, meditation, forming an identity, Finding the Moon in Sugar, good pictures at pop-up book fairs - see below, Episode Ten guest Robert Duffer, conflict and much, much more. So, please do podcast, it will most certainly change your life.

We are so podcast. And so Kaltman. We are also surfing, the 2016 Presidential election, and how couldn't we be, Staggerwing, Alice Munro, Long Island, social work, middle-age, and middle-age things, relationship stuff, running and much, much more, including an unplanned guest appearance from the quite fab visual artist Rob Funderburk. So, please do hit it, it is sure to change your life.

We are so podcast. And so much Kuntz. We are also Seattle, I'm Not Supposed To Be Here and Neither Are You, Kim Chinquee, Nordstrom, On Writing by Stephen King and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, models and mentors, writing as a job, and being a writer, work ethic, and the lack thereof, running, John Gardner, the ever-present Bud Smith, happy endings and much, much more. So do hit it, it just might change your life.

We are so podcast. And so Ntshanga. We are also The Reactive, Cape Town, East London, and not the other one, community, rules, breaking them and otherwise, being off-balance, Stephen King, Jesus' Son, Revival Food Hall, Trainspotting, The Basketball Diaries, Two Dollar Radio, impulses, dread, thrillers the SIlver Surfer and much, much more. So do hit it, it just might change your life.

We are so podcast. We are also so Chris Tarry, and not Chris L. Terry. We are also ego, Roy Kesey, Canada, music, being a stay-at-home dad, and being fucking tired, How To Carry Bigfoot Home, podcasts, Breadloaf, wondering if you are as good as you were and the final edition of AWP 2016 podcasts. All of which is certain to change your life. 

We are so semi-plausible and so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also Leland Cheuk, not to mention The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, the Chinese Exclusion Act, fathers and sons and estrangement and maple donuts, identity, Halt and Catch Fire, cancer and bone marrow donation, the Bay Area, Letters from Dinosaurs, immigrants, going too far and much, much more. So do hit it, it will most certainly change your life.

We are so Messing. And quite podcast. We are also coffee and cigarettes, leaf blowers (which just might provide some background for around two minutes at the sixteen minute mark), sketch, the Harold, specificity, sexual harassment, improv - long form and otherwise, Philip Roth, The Real Live Brady Bunch, success, triggers, Charna Halpern, Messing With a Friend, Del Close, energy and much, much more. So, do check it out, it will most certainly change your life.

We are so podcast. We are also dead fathers, 9/11, Auggie's Revenge, adjuncts, Saul Bellow, smart kids, Jim Morrison's grave, Flowers in the Attic, and Flowers for Algernon, ultimate frisbee, Fight for Your Long Day and much, much more. So do hit it, it will certainly change your life.

We are so podcast. We are also so Zoe Zolbrod, shame, and slut shaming, Henry Roth, healthy sexuality, therapy, Currency, ACEs, David Olimpio, navel gazing, Rebecca Makai, The Telling and so much more. So do check it out, it is quite certain to change your life.

We are so very podcast. And quite Spitznagel. We are also The Second City, Old Records Never Die, Steven Colbert, Isabella Rossellini, Fast Forward, dead fathers, Vanity Fair, juicy testicles, Questlove, relationships, Elizabeth Crane, Men's Health, Ike Reilly and much, much more. So do hit, because it will so change your life.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also quite podcast, not to mention the Christine Maul Rice, Swarm Theory, My Little Pony, Columbia College, linked stories, small towns, Hypertext Magazine, Hannah Montana, community, Chris Farley and much, much more. So do hit it, it will most certainly change your life.

We are so This Podcast Will Change Your Life. We are also the Gabino Iglesias, not to mention Zero Saints, La Frontera, undocumented immigrants, reading Spanish, code-switching, Elvish, Junto Diaz, Gutmouth, Bizarro fiction, literary citizenship, Klingon, pulp, Barrio Noir and so much more. So do hit it, it will most certainly change your life.

We are so very podcast, and quite Kali VanBaale, Mathieu Cailler and Vanessa Blakeslee. We are also small presses, The Good Divide, growing as a writer, not boring oneself, Juventud, YA novels, awards and sales and marketing, Loss Angeles, the Vermont College of Fine Arts and much, much more. We are also certain to change your life, here, now, so please do hit it. Nice. Thank you.

We really are Alan Heathcock podcast and we are really excited about that. We are also Volt, the greatness that is The Heathcock, and greatness, Smoke, craft, validation, Oprah and The Secret, grief, Dirty Works, Saturday Night Fever, weirdness and much, much more. So, do hit it, because it will most definitely change your life.

So totally podcast we are. And yes, AWP-centric too. We are also Anthony Michael Morena, the Voyager space probes, and the Voyager record, not to mention The Voyager Record A Transmission, New York City, Israel, Carl Sagan, Contact, Star Trek, lyrical essays, mixtapes, and much more. So please do hit it, it will certainly change your life.

We are so podcast. And quite Olimpio. We are also once again AWP-centric for the next little while anyway, after conducting a whole slew of kick-ass interviews at this year's AWP conference in Los Angeles. But first, the David Olimpio, This Is Not A Confession and a lively conversation on a variety of topics including, but not limited to structure, atonement, not, polyamory, rules, Michael Phelps, child sexual abuse and much more. So please do hit it, it just might, will, change your life.

So totally podcast. And so Aubrie Cox and Jim Warner of Citizen Lit fame too. Not to mention Haiku - and hybridity, Jon Lovits - and love, Beach Slang, The Hold Steady, Ross Gay, Frogpond, Dave Eggers, community, connection, conversation, and so much more. So, do hit it, it just might change your life.

It's true, so podcast we are. And quite Vaughan. We are also healing, productivity, collaboration, Rift, both downtown New York City and upstate New York, Michael Seidlinger, doing the work, Kathy Fish, music, Microtones, Bud Smith, artists and much, much more. So please do check it out, it just might, will, change your life.

We are so incredibly podcast. Not to mention the Brian Alan Ellis, the Bud Smith, The Golden Girls, House of Vlad, Unknown Press, Tables Without Chairs #1, origin stories, music, bad art, Henry Rollins, collaboration, Rift, what you do when you no longer do the thing you've been doing and much, much more. We are also some glitchy volume for the first several  minutes of the podcast, but we address that, promise.

We are quite Chaney and so very podcast. Not to mention The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, nerd culture - black and otherwise, Star Wars, default whiteness, new media which is not so new anymore, Battlestar Galactica, pop culture, The Learned Fangirl and much more. So do hit it, it just might change your life.