Unprepared

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about fandoms, Harry Potter spoilers, relative ages, Hogwarts Houses, ghost books, goofy names, a spiky killer tree, very long board games, games that aren't games, cool science, flat earths, long periods of time, groundhogs day-ing. (Recorded on August 28, 2017.) Links Jesse finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and he's going to start The Tale of Beren and Lúthien soon. J. K. Rowling is writing a crime mystery series under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Kevin spent his Labor Day weekend playing Twilight Imperium. Kevin made a pinhole projector for the solar eclipse. Jesse recommends Annie Dillard's essay about the 1979 total solar eclipse. Kevin has done an experiment that proves the earth is not flat. Kevin recommends Anathem and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.

In case you didn't see it on twitter (follow us... if you dare! @unprepped ) we're temporarily slowing down production of episodes. For reasons. Maybe we'll talk about it on a future episode. But not this one. This week we talk about stealing chairs, bad episodes of tv, a poop joke, hurricane activities, wild weather, time travel movies, the all new Whole Foods, Mastodon, a meme, reading every tweet, content aggregators, long reads, using graphs to say what you want, (Recorded on August 28, 2017.) Links Star Trek's Code of Honor is possibly the worst episode of the entire show. Lubbock, TX gets really bad dust storms called haboobs. Netflix has a new time-loop movie that Kevin didn't like. But there's an indie one that he does like. @alexandraerin is a fantastic Twitter writer. The Future of Football is a story that can't be explained, but must be read. Kevin recommends these lectures about detecting bullshit. Jesse met Tim Cook.

Did you know that every year you eat 3 spiders in your sleep? But did you know that fact is most likely made up? But did you know that lots of facts are made up? But did you know that Kevin makes up 86% of the things he says at any given point in time? But did you know that any time he makes up a statistic he set 86%? But did you know that the average velocity of an unladen swallow is in direct proportion to it's wingspan? But did you know Shakespeare invented the word eyeball? But did you know that this bit was stolen from Movies with Mikey? But did you know that we'll never get in trouble for stealing it because we will never reach even a fraction of a percent of the audience of that admittedly minor youtube show? But did you know that worrying about obscurity on the internet is one of the worst things to worry about? But did you know that if you scream into a jar and close it fast enough you can release the scream in the face of your enemies? But did you know having too many enemies can dramatically increase your blood pressure? But did you know petting a cat can lower your blood pressure? Where was I going with this? (Recorded on August 14, 2017.) Links Kevin (still) recommends Master of None. (Jesse still hasn't seen it.) Co-creator of Master of None, Alan Yang, also directed Moonlight for JAY-Z. Kevin enjoyed Ali Wong's standup special Baby Cobra. Kevin did not enjoy Jiro Dreams of Sushi. The creator of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, David Gelb, also made the similarly problemed Chef's Table. Go read some creepypastas at r/nosleep, specifically this one. Chris Straub's Scared Yet is a series of creepypasta reviews. Don't think about the peepee poopoo man. Sarah Jeong wrote the ultimate piece on the Google Memo. XKCD explains free speech. Mikey Neumann's latest is about Pan's Labyrinth. Every Frame a Painting's video on the Coen Brother's is incredible. YourMovieSucksDOTorg is Synecdoche, New Yorking-ing their video series on Synecdoche, New York.

You should know something before listening to this episodes. You should know that you need to watch the first episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Not because it will help you understand what we talk about. (but it will) but because it's the best tv show on tv right now. I mean it's not on TV right now when I'm typing this, but it is currently being produced. And it's a freaking masterpiece. I'm saying it's up there with The Wire, and the first 3 seasons of Arrsted Development. Watch it. Now. (The previous statements are not endorsed by Jesse. But only because he hasn't finished watching the show yet. Which he should get on.) This week Jesse and Kevin talk about sitting on a couch, petting a cat, people named Tundra, heightened reality, Ray Bradbury, That 80s band that's referenced in American Psycho, nuance, fermentables, bugs in all the flour, how to cook oatmeal, how to beat Bobby Flay, tiny Texas towns, diner food, scary trucks in the dark, short orders and the cooks who fulfill them, the job of a sponge, "wine" "country," the best thing about Texas (according to Jesse,) sideways sandwiches, fake chicken. (Recorded on August 14, 2017.) Links Jesse and Kevin watched the pilot of Crazy Ex- Girlfriend together. Jesse camped and watched the Perseid meteor shower.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about sleepy wine, dogs eating things, fart sounds, multi-cam sitcoms, Star Trek, assisted suicide, being trapped in a room, monkey hands, squeeky toys, negative reviews of Game of Thrones, screaming pizza, fast travel in Westeros, swarms, solo storytelling performance, making up stories. (Recorded on August 1, 2017.) Links Jesse watched The Carmichael Show. Travis Kalanick thinks he's Steve Jobs. Kevin and Jesse both enjoyed Hasan Minjah's Homecoming King. Kevin's introduction to comedy was Jeff Foxworthy.

This episode has a dog in it. (Recorded on August 1, 2017.) Links Go get fried chicken or chicken fried steak at Babe's. Juan Likes Rice and Chicken is a Documentary Now episode parodying Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Ask Mr. Biggs is Kevin's favorite podcast. Kevin brought his sister's bachelorette party to an escape room. Gone Home is a fantastic video game.

(Recorded on July 10, 2017.) Links Kevin participated in this year's Meh- rathon. MC Frontalot has a song about 80085. Jesse sometimes feels a thing that's a combination of sonder and the fog of war. Jesse didn't like Baby Driver. Kevin wants Jesse to watch Ratatoing, some kind of nightmare parody of Ratatouille. We talk a lot about the Transformers media franchise. Lindsay Ellis has smart things to say about the Transformers movies on her YouTube channel. Every Frame a Painting has a great video essay on "Bayhem". Kevin was disappointed with the rebooted Ninja Turtles movies. Some shots from The Island are copied in Transformers.

(Recorded on July 10, 2017.) Links Jesse explains what he doesn't like so far about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Kevin reads some funny tweets about Dudley dying. Kevin plays Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, a fun video game about Tolkien stuff. Jesse finally finished watching 30 Rock for the third time and is going to start watching The Carmichael Show on Kevin's recommendation. Jesse's wrong; The Office is not leaving Netflix. HBO is working on Game of Thrones spin- offs. The Hunt For Gollum and Born of Hope are two fan made films about Aragorn. The new Spider-Man movie inspired this great video from moviebob. The First Baptist Dallas church worshiped Donald Trump on the Fourth of July. Kevin made Alton Brown's best hamburger ever to celebrate America. Jesse explains the 2017 Tour de France. Or you could read the A.V. Club explain it.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about safes, documents, computers, Half-Life 3 confirmed, reinventing the bus, terrible startups, GOOP, Qwikster, grocery stores, where we buy clothes, underwear wearing out, stinky shorts. (Recorded on June 19, 2017.) Links Valve's The Orange Box has some good games. Valve and Zappos both have a flat corporate structure. Lyft invents a city bus for rich people. An Uber board member resigned after sexist comments. Planet of the Apps had a very gross ad on Twitter. Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop brand is stupid. Amazon bought Whole Foods.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about beach houses, granite countertops, floating, old superheroes, our sponsors, couch talk, brunch, tacos vs breakfast tacos, post brunch naps, racist mascots on mustard, talking to strangers, Irish names, The Gospel According to Jesse, languages that aren't English, languages that are English, sounds in your mouth, bad accents, the Gettysburg Address. (Recorded on June 19, 2017.) Links The Fall by Gorillaz was recorded entirely on an iPad. Cast is a website that can record, edit, and host podcasts for you. Sarah Michelle Gellar tweeted a funny thing about Wonder Woman. Jesse recommends the pabellon arepa at the Four Brothers food truck. Kevin recommends Biderman's Deli. There's actually a lot of Romance languages.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about important books, holidays in June, Buck Mulligan, new holidays, moon shoes, MILF Island, the assassination of JFK, a potato stool sculpture, pants that get hot in the summer, empty cities, two Six Flagses, butter sculpture, day trippin', kolaches, confederate monuments, communicating through Crazy Ex-Girlfriend songs, shaving Jesse's legs, losing library books, losing cats, tearing tyvek, the volume of a sphere, keychain cards, the beach. (Recorded on June 19, 2017.) Links Ulysses is arguably the most important, or best, novel in the English language. Jesse learns about Juneteenth. Rhode Island state holiday, Victory Day, celebrates killing millions of Japanese people. Jesse and Kevin invent Moon Day to celebrate the Apollo 11 moon landing. Jesse gets very upset about Dallas, TX. Big Tex is a large robot demon cowboy. Pegasus is not a phoenix. Kevin has lots of fun with a new app. Kevin describes a recent textmergency. Kevin got a new wallet made out of Tyvek.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about pictures of Kevin's face, the length of Jesse's hair, mullets, braids, middle school hair, haul videos, beards, shaving, grey hairs, commentary on commentary, walking in the rain, weird register jockey stories, real margaritas, graduation, bighead, and orb. (Recorded on May 22, 2017.) Links Kevin recorded a commentary for Jesse's other show, Project Unicorn. Jesse used to get badly sunburned while volunteering for Soulfest. Academic dress is complicated and fun. Sheriff David Clark is wearing a bunch of garbage on his chest.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about Orb. You can follow us on Twitter @unprepped. We don't have a facebook. (Recorded on May 22, 2017.) Links Groups of people are very bad at remembering things properly. Jesse got into playing Cookie Clicker and Adventure Capitalist. Orb We discuss the weirdness of David Lynch. Kevin still watches Survivor. There are lots of words for the centigrade scale.

Kevin is on vacation right now, so he hasn't had time to listen to this episode. That means Jesse could have put literally anything in the file for this episode. Let's hope he didn't. (Recorded on May 15, 2017.) Links John Hodgman wrote some great books on Complete World Knowledge. He also has a stand-up special that Jesse liked, but Kevin didn't. Sandwiches are famously difficult to define. Porn is also hard to define, like these videos of people smushing bread. Jesse enjoyed some pie, Kevin enjoyed some blintzes, and someone on the internet got mad about grilled cheese. Jesse has had very bad experiences with productions of The Vagina Monologues and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Kevin and Jesse share some experiences with daddy longlegs. Let John Oliver teach you about the injustice of food waste. Watch Movies with Mikey's new video on The Emperor's New Groove.

This week Kevin rambles incoherently over Jesse's other podcast. He's still not sure why this exists. (Recorded on May 15, 2017.) Kevin provides his commentary on Project Unicorn episode 5: Human Soulmate.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about burritos, great values in fast food, things that aren't pranks, things that are pranks, sitting in water, pointy bras, the OJ Simpson hidden camera show, farting on faces, how to pronounce Cedric, reverse mysteries, dueling Sherlocks, parenting advice, reading books above your age level, adaptations of Narnia, book reports, eggs Benedict Arnold, hypnotic zit powers, homestarrunner dot net (it's dot com), flash animation, things with really long names. (Recorded on May 15, 2017.) Links Cracked has a great video about why YouTube prank videos are bad. Don't abuse your children on YouTube or they'll get taken from you. Madonna had a slack-liner on her Super Bowl 46 half time show. Strike a Pose is a documentary about Madonna's backup dancers. The live performance of Madonna's Express Yourself is still incredible to this day. Sufjan Stevens released a Carrie & Lowell concert film. College Humor had an internet famous prank war. Jesse has some thoughts about Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Columbo uses the lack of mystery to great effect. Sherlock uses excess mystery to mediocre effect. Kevin lives in fear of Spider Robinson eventually dying. Jesse and Kevin would read The Chronicles of Narnia to their children. Arrested Development is coming back for season five. Kevin loves Invader Zim. YouTube is filled with things that look bad/old but are still funny. Learn all about broats.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about not knowing the original song that a parody is parodying, a music video that made Kevin cry, music first people vs lyrics first people, mixtapes and albums, hip hop on kids tv, fire scares, drinking in dorm rooms, fake pulp novel covers, pilgrims, weird meat, eating bugs, different ways to watch tv, late fees at the library, podcast sponsorships, DRM free audiobooks, toasters, our one year anniversary. (Recorded on May 2, 2017.) Links Jesse did a bad job with time management this week and didn't give himself lots of time to edit and release this episode, so . . . you can find the links yourself.

This week Jesse and Kevin Talk about farts. (Recorded on May 2, 2017.) Links Kevin and Jesse drink, and complain, about Austin Eastcider's blood orange cider. Too sweet. Lots of fart talk in the opening of the show. Kevin got a new Twitter avatar from Gordon McAlpin. Jesse made, and promptly abandoned a Mastodon account. Kevin has been learning Python the hard way. Git codin'! Twine is a tool Kevin used to make a short game. Kevin enjoyed the splendor of America's health care system because of his partner's herniated disc. Be like Jesse and cry while reading this article about bullet wounds. House Hunters is fake. But Tiny House is very real. Continental is a documentary about the Continental, a gay bath house in New York. The worst bike crash Jesse has ever seen was at Red Hook Crit Brooklyn 2016.

Does anybody read these? This week Jesse and Kevin talk about magicians, movies, podcasts, animation, movies about other movies, movie posters, video art, centering your shots, real fake shots, going to space, new social networks, toots, open source software. (Recorded on April 17, 2017.) Links Apollo Robbins is a famous pick- pocket, but Kevin doesn't think he's very good. Neuro-linguistic programming is a pseudo-science used by the seduction community. Poe's Law explains why some people can't tell The Onion is satire. Kevin explains the plot of Death Proof. John Wick: Chapter 2 is no John Wick. People sure did get excited about the S-Town podcast. The Thief and the Cobbler has had a famously long production history. Room 237 is a documentary about The Shining's conspiracy theories. This poster for 2001: A Space Odyssey does a bad job selling the movie. Mark Lewis's Galveston exhibit at the Austin Contemporary made Jesse very frustrated. Our buddy Neil runs Film School Rejects and now One Perfect Shot. The long take from Panic Room is a little too perfect. Kendrick Lamar's video for Humble is filled with amazing techniques. Birdman was not the first film to be presented as one long take. Chris Pratt basically plays a red-piller in Passengers. Mastodon (no not that kind) is a cool new social network protocol that is (mostly) free of Nazis. Check out Sarah Jeong's Motherboard article about it. App.net was a failed Twitter replacement. According to a study, people rate women's coding higher when they don't know that they're women.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about which side to butter your bread, activities for over active children, fads of the 90s, chewing on walls, the Alien quadrilogy, really dense fog, not good board games, flying, Lexus, the true meaning of Easter, farmer's markets, banana clones, wine seeds, a lot of ham, doing nothing, new offices, tiny holes in Jesse's throat, xenomorphs, things sticking to other things, reacting to magic tricks, clear plastics cups. (Recorded on April 17, 2017.) Links Dr Seuss's The Butter Battle Book sparks quite the controversy. Watch Mind of a Chef explore a French butter factory. Jesse's fads include: Wearing JNCO jeans. Playing with yo-yos. Playing Pokémon GO. Playing pogs. Collecting Beanie Babies. Prometheus was bad and Alien: Covenant probably will be too. There's a board game about the Alien franchise. Jesse played Joking Hazard, a bad game. Jesse got to watch people play an HTC Vive, which was weird. Double Fine is making a neat VR charades game. Bananas have a complicated history. Jesse got strep throat. Or maybe mono. Apparently it's hard to tell the difference. There's a musical about people touching a car for a long time called Hands on a Hardbody. David Blaine is bad at magic. Magicians try to stump Penn and Teller in Penn & Teller: Fool Us.

We missed last week. Did you miss us? Blame the frailty of the human body, as Jesse came down with strep throat. And while listening to a man fail to talk for a few hours would be fun for some, we don't think it would be up to the admittedly low bar we already have set. This week Jesse and Kevin talk about handwriting analysis, leaving a mess, drinking a whole moka pot, awkward introductions in movies, how to be bad at a thing you like, losing a bet and being forced to watch Twilight, oscar winner Suicide Squad, oscar nominee Norbit, the best character in the Marvel cinematic universe, sneaking pocket knives past the TSA, Jesse's stand up special, not Joan Rivers, drinking water before bed, things in bedside drawers, using up pens, and Governor Gary Johnson. Links Kevin has been working on writing about Charles Whitman. Graphology is a pseudoscience. Jesse is making a lot of coffee in his moka pot. Kevin makes Jesse watch a scene from Birdemic: Shock and Terror. What are chord progressions? One of Steve Bannon's houses had a murder-tub filled with acid.

You know what ages really well? April Fools jokes. So we did one. There's no new episode on Friday. But there is on Saturday! April Fools! I guess. This week Jesse and Kevin talk about weird ways to open cans, compostable knives, drumming too hard, dudes afraid of singing songs written for women, tiny trains, people who love tiny trains, eating bugs, Future Train, mummy myths, fun Bill Murray Facts, made up movies and their crossovers, recasting movies with muppets, rifftrax, being threatened in public, slaps, drinking the blood of younger people, complicated tables, eating cereal, #brands. Links How Far I'll Go is Moana's "I want" song. There's a lot of different scales for model trains. Apparently they're eating a lot of bugs in Snowpiercer. (There's a lot of bugs in the world.) Mummies were not actually burned as fuel. Supertrain is coming. Have a small bag packed. The Muppets would improve literally any movie. The Incomparable did a great episode about The Good Place. RiffTrax is doing a live show about The Five Doctors. Dave Chappelle's new Netflix specials are very transphobic. Two good specials that you should watch are Mike Birbiglia's Thank God for Jokes and Ali Wong's Baby Cobra. Flamme Rouge is a board game about bike racing.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about writing, guns, and fast food. I never remember to tell you that you can follow us on twitter @unprepped We still don't have a facebook. Links Reddit's /WritingPrompts. writing-prompt-s dot tumblr dot com Kevin explains how Shakespeare was originally published. La Ronde is an interestingly structured French play. Factorials make numbers get very big. Kevin is interested in the University of Texas Tower Shooting as a playwriting topic. 'Campus Carry' took effect in Texas universities on the 50 year anniversary of the UT Tower shooting, protested delightfully by Cocks Not Glocks. Chris Rock advocates for bullet control.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about witches in Riverdale, Ace representation, man-threading, overly-masculine spaces, the netflix-everything else exchange rate, troubleshooting tiny computers, getting naked for ESD safety, googling the answer, terminal commands, destroying your personal life through cooking, bbq, buying rich people things, cheap glassware, garage sale, first edition DVDs, CHS horror movies, funny cactuses, bad Adam Sandler movies, representation on TV, and badass presidents. Links The CW has better shows than Jesse expected, including Riverdale. Kevin and Jesse very much dislike the Nazi haircut and the fuckboy haircut. Kevin has been tinkering with the Raspberry Pi. Kevin is learning Python the hard way. Kevin wants replicators and Jesse wants transporters. Jesse particularly enjoyed the Chef's Table episode about Nancy Silverton. Jesse's friend has a podcast about cassette music. Jesse finished and loved The Good Place. Alan Sepinwall has a great interview with Mike Schur about The Good Place. Television shows that represent the under-represented: Speechless Breaking Bad Switched at Birth The West Wing Selected favorite sitcom moments: Parks and Rec's "Stop. Pooping." Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's "Outside Bones" Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's "Bunny and Kitty" Community's "Peanut Bar Rap" Community's "Regionals" Community's "Sexy Santa"

This week Jesse and Kevin and talk about beer noise, tasty beverages, walking near rivers, silly sombreros, relative distances in Texas, gigantic gas stations with great bathrooms, three wolf moon t-shirts, Star Trek preschools, suit shopping, big and tall nook part 2, phones getting bigger, more trains, party buses, a variety of strippers with a variety of genders, space monkeys, Beyoncé getting robbed in the grammys, vinyl people, "I want" songs, EGOTs, Earth 2, trees are hands, eating human flesh in video games, MMORPGS, drugs. Links Jesse went to The Alamo, but missed the basement. Amazon's AWS went down and the internet was broken for a while. Susan J. Fowler's blog post kicked off a very bad couple of weeks for Uber. Boston Dynamics has a new nightmare robot. Kevin likes Janelle Monáe for her afrofuturism. (Watch this) The music of Coheed and Cambria tells a complex concept story. Ookla the Mok has a concept album about Gorilla City. Kevin really likes the Moana soundtrack. Kevin tries to explain the complicated family tree of The Flash. Jesse's favorite cartoon, Samurai Jack, returned for season 5 after a ten year hiatus. Kevin enjoys Touch the Skyrim. We used to play a lot of Eve Online and RuneScape.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about naps, waking up early, ice cream, the passage of time, reading games, chambers with secrets in them, vampires, getting back into bed, finding the time to write, reading all the books, 33 Minutes, watching the oscars through twitter, how to make coffee, macaroni soup, and the best way to cook pasta. Links Chris Rock has a great bit on jobs versus careers. Kevin is excited to play the new Torment RPG. Paul Dean's article about Stardew Valley makes Kevin want to write more. Notable Twitter accounts: @GuyInYourMFA @dystopianya @alexandraerin @GlennF @SwiftOnSecurity @KermitTheFrog Kevin's biggest writing influences were David Ives, David Mamet, and Aaron Sorkin. Kevin thinks Jesse would enjoy The Expanse and the Battlestar Galactica board game. But Jesse's not so sure. Moka pots make great coffee. Bannock bread is an easy quick bread. The cold water pasta method is some bullshit. (Sorry Kevin and Alton).

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about magic shell, chocolate syrup, buying a cow, multi-day recipes, weeknight spaghetti, memorizing recipes, fantasy spots but for movies, games you don't play, making numbers bigger, white dudes screaming, skipping the first Harry Potter book, growing up with wizards, Star Wars tattoos, answers in your heart, defining genres, wizards with guns, hollywood accounting, how to make a bad movie, Jesse's bed, cats destroying couches, couch talk. You can follow us on twitter @unprepped. We don't have a facebook. Links Kevin made an egg cream. Watch a documentary about corn. Coffee milk is a weird Rhode Island specialty. Kevin introduces Jesse to the wonders of herb oil. Jesse is playing Stagehand. Kevin is playing idle games like Cookie Clicker. Jesse is watching The Good Place which is very funny. Jesse also read the first Harry Potter book. J.R.R. Tolkien defines the fantasy genre in the essay "On Fairy- Stories". Kevin likes the fantasy book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. The Dresden Files is an urban fantasy series. Fan edits that we've seen: Jobilt's The Hobbit The Phantom Edit Harmy's Despecialized Steven Soderbergh's black and white Raiders of the Lost Ark Project Greenlight was a good show that made not good movies. Upstream Color sticks in your mind like a toothpick. Kevin thinks Synecdoche, New York is the best movie ever. [Because it is. -Ed] Kevin bought a fidget cube.

We don't usually do content warnings, but you should probably know this episode briefly discusses suicide. If you’re thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. call 1-800-273-8255 or visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to- someone-now/ or if you're outside the US try http://www.suicide.org /international-suicide-hotlines.html This week Jesse and Kevin talk about unedited footage of a bear, Totino's pizza rolls, super tidy closets, birds, cats, what happens when you leave birds with cats, three buck chuck, technically gin, soda siphons, cheeseburger pizza, PAX, meeting celebrities, standing in lines, getting tattoos, the wrong questions to ask at con panels, saying positive things about Michael Bay, jodhpurs or chaps, puffy tacos sneezing, prancing on the beach, babies, getting more tattoos, farts, and confusing the TSA. Links Unedited Footage of a Bear. We talked about a lot of different SNL skits. Totino's Super Bowl Commercial 2015 Totino's Super Bowl Commercial 2016 Totino's Super Bowl Commercial 2017 High School Theatre Show Crucible Cast Party David Ortiz on Weekend Update Kevin got to attend the Movies with Mikey live panel at PAX South. You can see all the games Kevin played at PAX on his Instagram. Kevin met Kris Straub. David Rees gave a talk at XOXO 2016 about making money as a creative person. Jonathan Coulton talked about the same thing on Planet Money. Don't forget! Kevin performed live on stage with Jonathan Coulton. Kevin played Captain Sonar at PAX South. Louis CK explains why farts are funny.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about PAX South hype, backpacks full of board games, sets and supersets of games, weapons for LARPing, weapons for not LARPing, PARKOUR! getting stabbed with a stick, topical questions, wasting time on your phone, calling your representative, being stuck in an airport, capsule hotels, legs for days, protest performance art, standards and practices on surgery shows, and Lupine Urology. Jesse doesn't know this, but once Kevin wrote a poem called Nipples. Kevin forgot about it until he was writing these notes. You can follow us on twitter @unprepped. We don't have a facebook. Links Kevin packed all of these games into his backpack for PAX. Mint Tin Mini Apocalypse Looney Pyramids Tak Love Letter iota Win, Lose, or Banana Sushi Go! Hanabi One Night Ultimate Werewolf Fiasco Zombie Dice Hive Pocket Pairs Deadfall Shadow of the Elder Gods Province Light Speed Android: Netrunner Kevin got to attend the Movies with Mikey live panel. Kevin has been playing lots of Tap Titans 2 on his phone while avoiding Politics Twitter. Zoe Quinn is writing a book about her Gamergate experience. Brianna Wu is running for Congress. Swing Left and 5 Calls are interesting technology solutions to new progressive political activism. Jesse attended the Women's March in Austin, TX. Greenpeace activists hung a giant "RESIST" banner above the White House. Shia Labeouf set up a performative art piece live stream to protest Trump's presidency. And then he screamed at someone a lot. Jesse's most popular tweet ever (a protest sign referencing Sarah Joeng's fantastic article) had a typo in it. Kevin follows @genderless_nipples on Instagram.

So it's come to this. We broke our one rule. We prepared for an episode. We've had 32 episodes of unprepared audio piped right into your ears and now we've let you down. We've threatened it before, but this time we followed through. We're sorry. This week Jesse and Kevin talk about the animated sitcom spectrum, tightly packed humor, cartoon violence, things Jesse doesn't know about The Simpsons, Seth McFarland, hired goons, evil pig guys, Joomps Wobbin, what high school libraries look like, Dawson Casting, everything in the 90s was ugly, clerical errors in the afterlife, and New York accents. Links Jesse and Kevin watched some television together. First was The Simpsons S04E17 "Last Exit to Springfield", following on Alan Sepinwall's orders. Kristen Schaal is a horse. Look at her dance, look at her go, well look at her dance like a horse. We also watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer S01E01 "Welcome to the Hellmouth". But not before we talked a bit about Hannibal season 3. Jesse gets very upset about how _The OA _ended. Jesse is planning on watching The Good Place next. My Cousin Vinny is a perfect movie. Max Temkin made a Deep Space Nine episode guide. Jesse's favorite episode of 30 Rock is S06E08 "Leap Day".

This we Jesse and Kevin eat fortune cookies live on air. Links TV (The Book) claims to decide the one hundred best television shows ever. Kevin got Alan Sepinwall to answer his question about The Simpsons. We discuss some shows and movies that I'm just going to list: Hannibal Fargo The Coen brothers filmography From Dusk till Dawn: The Series Sherlock Misery Speechless The OA We listened to the fantastic Bullseye End of Year 2016 Comedy Special and some other comedy worth enjoying: Feminazi Cunt by Bobbie Oliver Dead & Gone by Sean White Cinco by Jim Gaffigan The Special Special Special by Maria Bamford The Crowd Work Tour by Todd Barry Kevin discusses his teaching philosophies and references Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. And we think CAR BOYS is a dumb and funny thing on the internet.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about indicator lights, fancy speakers, breaking electronics, Jesse's electric kink, blooprs in Jurrasic Park, cool things to do at PAX South, Boy Scout campfire skits, classic game consoles, Zelda games, being bad at CS:GO, going to the barber, awkward conversations, over tipping, really fancy bathrooms, hearty stew, ordering the same thing every time, and ranch dressing. You can follow us on twitter @unprepped We don't have a facebook. Links The Mythbuster's build team has a new show on Netflix. The Boston Museum of Science has the largest Van de Graaff generators in the world. Kevin is attending PAX South for his birthday. Happy birthday! We play Win, Lose, or Banana live on air. We talk about Nintendo's cool new console. Kevin likes to play Overwatch. ASMR is weird. Jesse had no idea what he was talking about regarding Mexican or Spanish chorizo.

This week Jesse and Kevin Talk about new years resolutions, starting another podcast, shopping malls as text, quick pickles, cheeseburger pizza, too many french fries, bike racing, Vince Vaughn (AKA Bland McGenderson,) unicyclists, how to be good at hacky sack, disc golf, other white guy pursuits, angering ground wasps, building computers, and eyebrow maintenance. You can follow us on twitter @unprepped, we don't have a facebook. Links There's a podcast about Animorphs. Kevin likes Alton Brown's cookbooks. Apparently its a Southern thing to eat greens and black eyed peas for New Year's Day. Wendy's wrecked someone on Twitter. Blood doping is using your blood in a way it doesn't want to be used. Disgraced cyclist, Lance Armstrong, owns a bike shop in Austin. Years ago, Jesse read Born to Run and got way too into being barefoot. Kevin wants to build a Raspberry Pi. Firewatch is an amazing game that Kevin needs to play. "It's time for some game theory." is the new universal New Yorker cartoon caption. Be careful not to accidentally tweet links to porn. Be careful not to manthread.

It's Tuesday. We know. Blame Kevin. He forgot to upload this episode. Jesse sent it to him, but Kevin just forgot. So it's Tuesday. But there's an episode, and it's called Murder Hugging! That's intriguing isn't it? Don't you want to know what that's all about? This week Jesse and Kevin talk about mocap princesses, tiny plant people, cinco de quatro, young James Earl Jones, ethical nuance, satan showing up in Star Trek The Animated Series, the weirdest episode of Doctor Who, Queen, murder hugging, standardized testing, news year resolutions, The Brothers Karamazov and other Russian fiction, and burbon. Links We have a spoiler-rich discussion of Rogue One. We somehow talk about the probable crazy walls of the Arrested Development writers room. If you like cats and rap, check out Meow The Jewels. Kevin has written fan fiction about Highlander, The Tomorrow People, and Ghost. You can read it here. Most fan fiction is bad because most everything is bad. Watch the horribly violent and incredibly romantic final scene of Hannibal. The term "Mary Sue" came from the fan fiction community. Kevin is looking forward to reading All the Birds in the Sky. Jesse wants to read God Laughs & Plays, but the library lost it. Postsingular is a good book involving language-free communication.

It's the last episode of Unprepared of 2016! We made it! And by we I mean Jesse and Kevin. You and I know both know that measures of time are pretty arbitrary, and the whole "2016" meme doesn;t actually mean anythign will get better in th new year. But you have to start somewhere. Happy end of 2016 everybody. This week Jesse and Kevin talk about Star Wars. Links Jesse disagrees with, but enjoyed the The Dark Knight episode of Movies with Mikey. Ryan North is the amazing person behind Dinosaur Comics, Adventure Time comics, Squirrel Girl, Project Wonderful, and getting stuck in a hole with his dog. Kevin was involved in an "international incident" because of the Machine of Death Kickstarter. The only thing that Jesse has kickstarted was season one of Put This On. This story about a failed Kickstarter drone is wild. "Coffee Joulies" were a dumb kickstarter that used magic metals to do absolutely nothing to your coffee. Todd VanDerWerff wrote a good Rogue One review with a "confusing" headline. Kevin is going to make Alton Brown's hot cocoa mix and has made his eggnog before. Kevin enjoys drinking batch-pasteurized milk. We discuss a variety of survival shows. Apparently millennials don't buy fabric softener. Listerine invented bad breath to sell mouth wash.

It's December 23rd. Also known as Christmas Adam (The day before Christmas Eve,) Kevin's Parent's Anniversary, Kevin's Partner's Birthday and Festivus (all true.) Look, what we're trying to say is there's a lot going on right now and Kevin may have had too much eggnog last night. But here's a podcast where Jesse and Kevin talk about Sexy Cowboys. Also It's Jesse's birthday on the 26th, so do something special that day too. Links Ride Austin is a non-profit ride share service. Trump's Education Secretary Pick is into child labor. Kevin never wears real shoes because he's a Birkenstock loyalist. Kevin teaches Jesse all about Creative Commons licenses. Stephen King licenses some of his work for one dollar. Kevin may be expanding his podcast empire. We have a spoiler-rich discussion of Westworld. We both miss Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Kevin liked Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs movie.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about Hobbits kissing, good and bad covers of songs from Hamilton, how to make tea if you're a snob, unpopular opinions about the Yeti ramblers, finding beer on a college campus, weird foods, weird infused vodkas, Kevin's weird collections, cool Christmas presents, and rabid puppies. Links The Hamilton Mixtape is out. Kevin likes Queen Latifah and Jesse hates Jimmy Fallon. Jesse really likes Childish Gambino's new album "Awaken, My Love!". His show Atlanta is also great. Kevin uses a Zojirushi kettle and Jesse likes their travel mugs. Jesse accidentally bought a very bad tea kettle. Kevin does Penny Arcade pin trading. Kevin discusses various sorting algorithms. Cards Against Humanity dug a tremendous hole in the earth. Kevin introduces Jesse to the works of Chuck Tingle.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about exploiting workers, protecting your privacy, weird copyright situations, movies and tv shows that are objectively bad, and some that are obviously good. Jesse updated how he does the links, so Kevin has even less work to do in describing the episode for these notes. Did you know Jesse edits each episode? And writes the Links section you always find below these notes? All Kevin does is upload the episodes, writes these short blurbs and manages the hosting. And I guess they both keep showing up to talk to each other. So that's where they share the load some. Also Jesse and Kevin both write things in the third person when writing about the episodes. I guess it gives everything a sense of being a part of something larger. Like if they had an unpaid intern who did all the grunt work, and Jesse and Kevin just show up. But no. It's just Jesse and Kevin, doing everything. Links Kevin blocks ads with EFF's Privacy Badger. Jesse blocks ads with Ghostery and 1Blocker. The DECK and Project Wonderful are cool ad platforms. Mozilla makes a dumb ad supported browser called Brave. Sarah Jeong gave a great talk about ad blocking at the XOXO Festival. The Toast was a cool website that Hillary Clinton wrote for once. You should not do creative work "for exposure". Jesse is divorced, but his wedding photographers were incredible. Stan Lee doesn't own the copyright for his Marvel characters. Kevin has opinions on copyright that might make Jesse's sister mad. A monkey took a selfie and the copyright got complicated. wikiHow artwork is terrifying and makes for a fun game. Cookin Good was a bizarre cooking show on Austin's public access. The Room and Birdemic: Shock and Terror are good bad movies. Kevin thinks Dude, Where's My Car? is a good movie. (It's not.) Trekkies made fun Star Trek fans. The Middle-Earth canon is complicated. Movies with Mikey made Kevin and Jesse cry about Serenity. Sci-fi universes get weird when authors die. Kevin is currently reading Fluency by Jennifer Foehner Wells and March by John Lewis. Jesse thinks Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are too attractive to be in space. Jesse finished watching Battlestar Galactica, Luke Cage, and The Crown; is now rewatching Parks and Rec. Parks and Rec "grew the beard" when Rob Lowe and Adam Scott showed up. Unprepared officially recognizes Taiwan as a sovereign entity. Kevin lays out the timeline of the Star Trek TV shows. Bryan Fuller is no longer involved in the Star Trek: Discovery.

It's true, Jesse forgot to turn on his microphone when we recorded this episode. And then Kevin wrote a really funny, and very long shownote about it. (It may not have been that funny, but it was long.) Then the page crashed and it was lost. We give up. Here's 3 hours and 14 minutes of Kevin talking while you can kind of hear Jesse in the background. ¯(ツ)/¯

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about some stuff. I'll be honest, It's Black Friday as I post this and I haven't had time to listen to this and write the show notes. I was gorging myself on turkey and mashed potatoes. Let's look at the links below, maybe that will give us a hint. So there's something about apples. I don't even remember talking about the book Ishmae, but I gues we did. And figs have wasps in them? That's terrifying. Bake Off is a good show, you should probably watch that. Links Vox explains apples. Wikipedia: Ishmael Figs have wasps in them. Wikipedia: Bake Off

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about the sexual version of Bayhem, enjoying flawed TV shows, the size of Michael Shannon's head, free association of movie titles, Jesse's cat, how Kevin almost died from cleaning a litterbox, pretending to be a starship captain, using technology to drive people out of your bed and eating too much food Links Wikipedia: Westworld Wikipedia: Lost Todd VanDerWerff on Westworld Wikipedia: Battlestar Galactica Javier Grillo-Marxuach on Lost YouTube: Lost S02E01 Intro Wikipedia: Take Shelter Wikipedia: Gimme Shelter YouTube: Don't Breathe trailer October's Massive DNS DDOS Attack Artemis game

On November 8 2016 Donal Trump was elected president of the United States. On November 5 2016 Jesse and Kevin talked about a lot of things. This is what they said about the election days before it happened. We pulled this out of the larger conversation we had and are posting it as it's own episode. We'll have more content about goofy things later, but we wanted to put this out now. Stay safe and take care of each other. Links League of Women Voters "Poll: Nearly half of voters think Trump will detonate a nuke" Wikipedia: The Transall Saga Wikipedia: DMZ YouTube: HOLY SHIT (You've Got To Vote) Wikipedia: March

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about Gilmore Girls and other woman centric tv shows, Black Mirror and other British TV shows, terrible things that happen in the Animorphs, book suggestions, the best way to store media, DRM, and Jesse's crazy dream library. Links Wikipedia Gilmore Girls YouTube: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life trailer Wikipedia: Bunheads Wikipedia: Puritans Wikipedia: Pilgrims Wikipedia: Black Mirror Wikipedia: Fawlty Towers Wikipedia: Animorphs Wikipedia: The Dispossessed Wikipedia: Mad Max: Fury Road Wikipedia: Spotlight Wikipedia: The Big Short The Atlantic: Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? Meteor v Meteoroid v Meteorite

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about video games, first person shooter games, 4x games, RTS games, Role Playing games, Walking Simulators, iOS games, match 3 games, endless runner games, spending money on free-to-play games, Squirrel Girl (not a game) and movies about arcade games. Follow us on Twitter @unprepped We don't have a facebook Links Wikipedia: Let's Play YouTube: Monster Factory YouTube: Lo-Fi Let's Play Wikipedia: Civilization VI Wikipedia: Age of Empires II Wikipedia: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Wikipedia: Fallout (series) Wikipedia: Borderlands (series) Wikipedia: Firewatch Wikipedia: Thirty Flights of Loving Wikipedia: Her Story Wikipedia: Gone Home App Store: You Must Build A Boat App Store: AdVenture Capitalist! App Store: Marvel Puzzle Quest Wikipedia: Squirrel Girl (comics) Wikipedia: Hippo (comics) App Store: Canabalt App Store: Temple Run App Store: IMPOSSIBLE ROAD App Store: Crossy Road Wikipedia: The King of Kong Wikipedia: Man vs Snake Wikipedia: Nibbler App Store: Alto's Adventure what if?: Machine Gun Jetpack App Store: Jetpack Joyride App Store: Super Hexagon App Store: Duet Wikipedia: Hearthstone

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about the history of racism in Texas, places we'd like to travel, stuff that happens in the back of the bus, getting toenails and other body parts removed, and the Spider-man musical. Links Wikipedia: History of slavery in Texas Vimeo: Jesse's Tonail Removal [GRAPHIC] Mayo Clinic: Pilonidal cyst Wikipedia: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about politics (briefly,) Alex Jones, movie pickles, sneaking snacks into movies, how much Jesse loves bread, and body positivity. Links Wikipedia: Alex Jones YouTube: You Can Eat Bread Weight Watchers ad with Oprah Wikipedia: Body mass index Wikipedia: Easy Rider film

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about bands you've never heard of in genres you've never heard of, trying out music, and the pros and cons of live performance. Links Wikipedia: Music genre, Filk Wikipedia: Filk band, Ookla the Mok YouTube: Spot the Cat by Ookla the Mok YouTube: Yoda by Weird Al YouTube: Goth Girls by MC Frontalot YouTube: Much Chubbier by MC Frontalot YouTube: The Longest Time by Billy Joel YouTube: Craigslist by "Weird Al" Yankovic YouTube: CNR by "Weird Al" Yankovic Wikipedia: List of superhuman features and abilities in fiction. Wikipedia: rapper, Jay Z Wikipedia: rapper, Kanye West Wikipedia: The Grey Album by Danger Mouse Vimeo: 99 Problems by Jay Z Wikipedia: rapper, Kendrick Lamar Wikipedia: rapper, Chance the Rapper YouTube: The Karate Kid: Daniel is the Real Bully YouTube: Stop Making Sense concert film by Talking Heads Vimeo: Jo Calderone at the 2011 MTV VMAs Wikipedia: metal band, August Burns Red Wikipedia: metal band, The Crimson Armada Wikipedia: punk band, The Descendents Wikipedia: metal band, The Human Abstract YouTube: Christmas Unicorn performed live by Sufjan Stevens Wikipedia: new wave band, Oingo Boingo Wikipedia: composer, Danny Elfman Wikipedia: Forbidden Zone YouTube: Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about good numbers or bad numbers, dangerous microwaves, TV shows Jesse won't watch and stories about our cats. This episode is much closer to our normal length. You're welcome? You can follow us on twitter @unprepped We don't have a facebook. Links The powers of 2. How microwave ovens work. Jim Gaffigan's Hot Pockets bit. Wild Cards anthology Battlestar Galactica re-imagined TV series The "walk and talk". Anne of Green Gables 1985 film. Rated R movie about cats, Felidae

This is another long one, coming in an just under 2 hours. Deal with it. This week Jesse and Kevin talk about more TV, why Kevin doesn't like Breaking Bad, Kevin's master's thesis, Jesse's recent bike crash, and other painful stories. Links Arrested Development The Simpsons 30 Rock Seinfeld The Mary Tyler Moore Show How I Met Your Mother Breaking Bad Breaking Bad episode, "Fly" Breaking Bad episode, "Ozymandias" Shakespeare's Hamlet Joan of Arc Fight Club Road House Penn & Teller's nail gun trick Testicular torsion

This one's a doozy. I hope you like listening to Jesse and Kevin talk (You listen to this podcast don't you?) because this episode is almost 2 and a half hours long. Which happens when we sit down to record and end up with over 5 hours of audio. We just cant stop talking. That might also explain why the latest episode is a few days late. This week we talk about, making cider, other podcasts we like, buying clothes and some other stuff. Look the episode is over 2 hours long, I can't list everything. Links A bushel. The Big Apple orchard in MA. Primitive Technology Youtube Channel. Pyromania Ask Mr. Biggs podcast. You Look Nice Today podcast. Bad Philosophy podcast. The Worst Idea of all Time podcast. MAS*H series finale. Chocolate with Nuts Spongebob Squarepants episode.

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about listening to music, summer camp crushes, books with dragons, bad songs for weddings, and stand-up comedians.]]>