Podcast For Your Life

You'll have to listen to find out.

Spam. Yep, it's not just a pretty first name anymore. It's in a can, it's in our emails. Let's taste it and see what all the fuss is about.

Money, potentially the most complicated topic we've ever tried to tackle on PFYL. Have we bitten off more than we can chew? Hard to say. But I'll tell you it's definitely hard to chew on money. Especially coins.

Hats, lids, cans, pots, wearables, tops: all names for the things we put on our heads.

The electricity puns may be endless, but our thoughts on electricity are not. You're welcome?

Don't feel sorry us, but it may be worthwhile to be a little concerned. In our spare time, in our brief little weekly escape from this crumbling world, we talked about doing the dishes. Send help.

Walking: it's the forever mode of transportation

Books: The Crossover. This latest nugget bridges 2 podcasts from the same "for your life" universe. We're honored to have Melissa Collini, host of Chemistry For Your Life, join us this episode for a page-turning episode about books. The plot thickens and the twist is pretty twisty.

Fans. What are they and why hasn't AC replaced them? Probably because they're more than a device that pushes air. So much more...

New Milk! Brand new milks. Now available. If you're having a little deja who, it's because we've talked about milk before. A while ago, we did a sort of overview of milk. This time, we're exclusively talking about the new milks. Lot's of folks don't like to call non-dairy milks milk. In this episode, we state a few reasons why those folks don't have any friends. Out with the old. In with the new. Shmilk, it's what's for brunch.

Flags. What's going on there? This week we dive into this topic with no caution. It's not that controversial right? Where'd flags come from? Why do we still have them around? Why are some of them so terrible? Definitely can't answer that one. Maybe flags had a clear purpose at one point, but what is it now? God help us.

Part 2! We're continuing our talk about gardens with Chauncey Allmond, a friend of Jason's. What are gardens? What isn't a garden? Are there accidental gardens? This is a first for us, but our conversation with Chauncey went longer than expected, if you haven't heard part one, go back and listen to it first, not that it will actually make more sense.

We have a guest again! We're talking about gardens with Chauncey Allmond, a friend of Jason's. What are gardens? What isn't a garden? Are there accidental gardens? This is a first for us, but our conversation with Chauncey went longer than expected, enough for us to have two episodes worth. So why not? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Surprise! This week Jam and Jason talk about surprises. Why do we like them? Are they always good? Why does everything have to be a surprise now? Surprise! You have a terminal illness.

Distance between people. Like what's up with that? Friends, family, significant others? We don't really know but we've certainly experienced it. Is it a good thing? Can it really sustain friendships? Is it more common now that we have many connecting technologies and we don't just write letters?

Well, no spoilers here in the notes. You'll have to listen to hear how we tip-toe through this landmine field of a topic. What's underwear? Why do we still wear it? Is it just an evolutionary loin cloth holdover? We're no anthropologists, but we are life-long underwearers (so far).

Waiting. Waiting for your life. Waiting for your life to happen? To be over? Waiting for your food? Waiting on your wife to finish getting ready so you can go visit your friend Stephanie? Waiting for the right time to throw away your husband's tie-dye turtleneck that you hate? What is it, why do we do it, do we do it well? Do we have to?

So ya like, I guess parades are still a thing people do and they must have really good reasons for continuing to do them? What are parades? How'd they start? Why do we keep doing them? Will we ever be free?

Vacations. Why do we want to get away? Are we just stressing ourselves out in the first place? Go live somewhere else for a little bit and all your problems will be solved. Topic suggested by David in TX.

Journaling. Is it different than writing in a diary? Is it cool? Is it girly? Is it manly? Does it matter?

What's up with shorts? Where'd they come from? Are they the next evolution in legwear? Or do they represent the past? Also are we that lazy that the only word we could come up with was shorts?

They used to light up our dark farmhouses and castles, and now we use them to decorate birthday cakes? Candles have fallen so far.

This week Jam and Jason dig into silence, the very unsung hero. What is silence, is it golden? Do you love it, do you hate it? Is it rarer now than it used to be? Where is it? Can I hold it? Topic suggested by Lauren in Texas. She wanted us to just fill the entire episode with silence and not really speak at all. I think a lot of people wish we'd do that in real life too. So we didn't do that but we liked the topic in general. Sorry Lauren!

This week Jam and Jason talk about handwriting, or "writing with your hand" as they say in Britain. Is handwriting going away? Is it responsible for the independence of the U.S.? What makes bad and good handwriting? Where does cursive play into all this? Why do we even have cursive? How did we get from hieroglyphs to letters? Come ask these questions with us.

This week we're talking about kissing, the most hyped-up, least logical act of affection. Does it need to be logical? Maybe not. But why do we want to put our mouths places? Why do we want to put our mouths on other mouths? Why is there a chocolate named after something that usually involves two mouths, when you pretty much can only use a maximum of one mouth to eat it?

This week we're talking about breakfast, at the same time, we're breaking our fast from food related topics, we haven't done one in quite a while. Also Jam talks about this incredible omelet Jason made for him once. It was life changing.

What's so natural about a disaster? In this episode Jam and Jason try to get to the bottom of these pesky disasters, and swap stories of the limited experiences they've each had with natural disasters.

The three dots that surround us every day. In our books, quotes, movie posters, and the text messages we don't want to reply to. Where'd they come from? Were they always so evil or passive aggressive? How did they go from potentially functional literary device to being the thing that people use whenever they want? We don't know and even if we did I'm not sure we'd be legally allowed to tell you.

YOU KNOW WE'RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY! What's a society and why? Why do we group together into families, tribes, villages, towns, cities, states, countries? Is it just to guard each other from wild animals while we go to the bathroom?

Playgrounds. Or as they used to say it back on the old frontier, playin' in the ground. Back in the old west, all you could do to pass the time was roll around in the dirt and hope tomorrow would come. For many people, tomorrow didn't come. It was a dark time.

#069 Slang What's up my yolo? Don't forget to bae. When it's been a minute, you have to groovy righteous radical grub. Ok?

#068 Trees Trees are really cool and if you don't believe us then listen to this and if you still don't believe us then go climb one and don't ever come back.

#067 Dreams Delve into the horror, weirdness, and frequent mundanity of dreams. Why do we think them? Why don't our brains go to sleep when our bodies do? Why aren't we in control? We don't know and we won't ever know. And there's nothing we can do about it.

#066 Jam and Jason discuss laugh trax/tracks and the impact they have had on our fragile, crumbling world.

 #065 Mail   Well I guess we're trying to figure out mail. The biggest, most tightly-held government secret of all time. Nbd ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 

 #064 Emojis   The biggest new language on earth, not that there's much competition except for whatever thing they've got going on in Game of Thrones. There's some kind of fictional language in there right?

 #063 Nostalgia   A VERY special, potentially one-time, LIVE episode. Recorded live in a random Texas conference room with a real studio audience made up of actual human beings. We promise. Let's get nostalgic.

 #062 Instincts   Babies have instincts. Animals have instincts. Are they cool? Do we learn them or have them from the beginning? Well we don't know but we certainly ask those questions in circles for about 15 minutes and it's pure entertainment. 

 #061 Milk   We're back! No one knows what milk is or where it comes from, but that's why we're here, to get to the bottom of this elusive, taboo topic.

 #060 Goodbyes   Goodbyes, badbyes, let's talk about it. Let's shed a few tears.   

 #059 Pets   Ok listen, this is as political as we will EVER get on this podcast so deal with it. Also sorry we were gone it's not Jason's fault. 

 #058 Toys This is one of the more fun topics we've explored on the podcast. Fun as in we remember how much fun toys were growing up and how much we wish we could go back in time and play with LEGOs again for hours. Jason is thinking about working with HR to institute "toy time" at work but he seems to be hitting mental roadblocks. Possible petition to follow. Stay tuned and listen to this episode in the meantime.

#057 Pet Names   Hey Darlin', be a sweetheart and tell your baby that Honey and I are comin' to see Puddin'.

#056 Calendars  What are Calendars and why? How the heck did we arrive at such a system with so many imperfections? We don't know really and refused to do research, so here are some wild guesses.

#055 Alarms How do you wake up? How have people woken up for centuries, millennia? Is it possible to be free from the technologic confines of our modern-day wake-up norms? Let's find out, with our special guest Brittany.

#054 Crying Let's have a good cry. With Special Guest Tim Pyatt.

#053 Relaxation As humans, it is beneficial to our continued survival to set aside time to "relax," or as some humans say now "netflix and chill." For centuries, humans have spent time relaxing so that they can recuperate and get back to killing animals and eating them. It's clearly an advantageous evolutionary adaptation. Or so we thought.

#052 Accents G'day. What accent did you read that in?

#051 Diets That's right. We're bringing back the Atkins diet. It's making a serious 2019 comeback.

#050 Celebrations What is a celebration and why? How does one celebrate? Why is the word so close to the word celibate?