Literate Ape co-editors Don Hall and David Himmel hold court, interview interesting people and talk about the perspectives of the week.
Hall is packing. Himmel is SubStacking. The ApeSac opens up stories of dead bodies.
In this pod, Hall is moving back to Kansas, Himmel thinks the term ‘dive' is an insult to bars, and both wax on about the fashions of their youth.
It's the week after Independence Day and the Apes have much to discuss.
Hall tries a different mic set up (not great) and Himmel is feeling apathetically patriotic.
Himmel has a highly unusual approach to public urination. Of course, the Apes get into the details.
Himmel's on a family trip so Hall brought in a ringer: Chicago's Finn Birach.
Hall is, once again, FUNemployed. Himmel discovers the family Guiness Book of Records connection. It's tough being a man these days. Plus an ApeSac that has some teeth.
Woof! Lessons of Himmel's 47th turns into a therapy session with the least qualified therapist on record plus an ApeSac who doesn't think the Apes are funny!
The chimps get busy talking Elliot Page, a horse in the suburbs, the elites at Delta Airlines, and how to be individual in a world run by algorithms.
This one is packed full of controversy and gauranteed to both enrage and titillate you!
The Chimps in Charge discuss magical thinking, hot chicks farting, violent political rhetoric, and their first cars.
The Apes crack each other up, discuss anger management, and whether Lena Dunham should have two memories out before she turns 40.
Tommy Mills asks an ApeSac that brings out the worst in both chimps and Rory Zacher is a non-verbal guest.
Plenty going on but with Hall's Steve Austin Memory Hole, the Apes go in deep on Charlie's Angels, the Love Boat, water beds, you name it…
John Beardmore has some work to making signs after this one.
The Chimps have things to say today. You may not be interested but we sure are!
Himmel is back in Chicago from Vegas and ApeCast buddy Brandon Bruce throws down an epic challenge for the ApeSac.
Himmel comes back from the Middle East and the ApeSac questions which things in the world that everyone seems to love do the Apes despise?
The chimps get into a variety of weeds—from Trump to Epstein to ICE and the insanity of low esteem boys in America—it's a mess, man!
WOW! That Super Bowl was something, huh? Also, a dive into AI and Bell Biv Devoe!
It's Don's 60th birthday tomorrow and he has his annual lessons.
In an extra contentious podcast, the boys wrestle with Bari Weiss's management of CBS News and test their patience with each other regarding child rearing.
The Apes have much on their minds. Most of it vaccuous and stupid but—hey—that's why you listen!
We're back after Himmel's bout with death flu! In the ApeSac today is an intrepid romantic foolishly seeking advice from the Literate Apes. What could go wrong?
Wrapping up the year, the chimps discuss a range of topics including great Christmas movies, the news, and Vegas on a budget.
We missed an episode and don't even bother to explain it.
Yes. The Apes are joined by Jacob Himmel who has nothing terribly interesting to say and an ApeSac that suddenly makes the Apes look less forward to the holidays.
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Should children have toy weapons? Is Socialism a necessary component of an American economy? Did Milli Vanilli lie? We answer these questions and more!
Mamdani, ICE, Eddie Murphy, Nancy Pelosi, and an ApeSac that ass David how he can teach people to be funny.
David cut his finger off and Don looks forward to make-up sex. Just another day in the life. Also, a whole bunch of squawk about ICE in Chicago.
The Chimps' week was not exciting but the issues of the world were. Also, an ApeSac for the ages that draws conversation of dreams and belief in alien life in the universe.
Ah! Recording the ApeCast on a morning when A) David has the boys and B) Jacob will not relent.
The Apes have been having a week! COVID, Bari Weiss, Donald Trump, and in the ApeSac, a question about the comedy festival in Saudi Arabia! Also, Hall goes too far with his recommendations.
The Apes discuss great weeks, the news of the day, and introduce the Apesac, the call in/write in segment where you can ask us questions or spark your own debate!
It's a new season and a new segment—The Stuff of Our Lives—as well as an opportunity to get the best therapy in your life for FREE! Email your sound files or questions to don@literateape.com and the Apes will answer them!
It's 400 episodes and the idiot savant monkeys reflect on all sixty-six months of it.
Don has had some odd dates of late and has a brand new experiment to avoid his type. There may be hope and it is breakfast, not dinner.
David saw a guy with a purse at a rock show. Don read some articles and a 75-page thesis paper. Oh, the rabbitholes these chimps go down…
David wants to know who he is via an online personality test so Don joins. But how they are now versus when they were at 25 and according to their ex-wife's is very different.
The Chimps have nothing to talk about so, of course, they find something to talk about…
Himmel is wondering if those people, who used to be in his life, ever think about him. Hall has a weird God Complex theory of his own.
Yup. The controversy about Sydney Sweeney's genes/jeans has reached the ApeCast. Hang on!
Part three of the triptych of episodes about death, this one is a conversation of Hall's recent essay Immortality Is a Dirty Lie (But You Gotta Believe It Anyway).
Continuing the topic of last week, the Chimps unpack Hall's plan to go out on his own terms.
Don has now officially given his father the ultimate Father's Day gift—hospice.
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Himmel is on vacation so Hall brings in guest Ape Brandon Bruce to talk art, politics, and the intersection of both.
The news—from Trump sending troops to LA to Brian Wilson's death—is on the minds of our Apes with Mics.
Himmel saw a guy and did a thing and is wondering if he, like so many others, has a racism problem.
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