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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.
Bells are ringing in the pages of Malibu Comics! The franchise's first-ever ape-proximation of our human-style wedding ceremony is happening, and Jack and Geoff are crashing their way in. But that's not all: there's also an X-cellent adventure with everyone's favourite ape bumblers, and more surprise appearances from across the Malibu Apes universe than you can ring a matrimonial bell at!
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.
June is Men's Mental Health Awareness Month and no two men are more qualified to talk about than a therapy-obsessed Jew and an emotionally constipated Gen Xer. This discussion also includes some talk of grandfathers who fought in WWII.
Himmel turns the page into thepost-forty-five chapter and he, and a few others, have thoughts.
Hall is in his semi-traditional rant about Art for Art's Sake. Himmel pushes back as he usually does.
Don has, after four years of sleeping on his couch from a previous marriage, become the owner of a… gasp… bed!
When the gentlemen of the ApeCast have nothing to talk about, they talk about their divorces. Duh.
Do we need all the food, distractions, and attention we desire. Probably fucking not.
Don shares about his tendency to utter awkward stuff without repent. David has his moments of foot in mouth, as well. Jake has pinkeye and all three agree that the Blue Origin space flight was a buncha shit. Typical day at the office.
Ah, the dulcit sounds of two white guys complaining. Isn't this what you signed up for? Is your need to hear it ethical? Are you consuming this podcast while wiping with tree bark and calling friends on a coupla cans with string?
Both Apes a single, divorced, and figuring out the world of the spouseless. So, of course, they talk about it.
Hall wrote something. Himmel dreamed something. It is established that no one can protest Kermit the Frog, Himmel is more Millenial than Gen X, and Hall would fuck a wax figure. Consider that your fucking trigger warning.
Yes. Hall loves Survivor. Insufferably, he drags Himmel through the least appealing fan crush conversation in the history of the seminal reality series.
The world, as we know it, has changed since Reopening the Wormhole disappeared. In the multi-year absence of America's Favorite Podcast, society has begun to crumble; systems have collapsed, governments have disintegrated, and the world order feels like a distant memory. Is it too late for humanity to be saved? Is the return of RTW too little, too late? We can only hope that it's not, as we release the next in our Tongo Wheel experience: the classic TNG episode Captain's Holiday! Recorded all the way back in 2023 (oh how young and naive we once were), this episode sees the Ferenginator Kregg joining the RTW hosts to talk about Picard Indiana Jonesing his way through adventure, love, and irascible Ferengi shenanigans. Can this delayed release atone for RTW's prolonged absence, or will it remain one last gasp of hope for a dying race? Time will tell… Be on the lookout for a Pissedcard Smackdown, and an epic rap by Jack. And rejoice for the beautiful, easy banter of a bygone era. VASH THE STAMPEDE!!! To hear your email read on a future episode, mail us at: reopeningthewormhole@gmail.com Check out Jack on Jack's Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek: Discovery, Short Treks, Picard, and Lower Decks Podcast at jacksdiscovery.libsyn.com or on Apple Podcasts. Listen to 2 albums' worth of RTW music on any of your favorite streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, and so much more! Also, hear Jack and friend of the show Geoff Clarke talk about all things Planet of the Apes on The Apecast at theapecast.libsyn.com or on your favorite podcatcher. Hear Sam and friend of the show Brian Rudloff talk about Marvel Star Wars comics on Marvel Star Wars Explorers at marvelstarwarsexplorers.com or on Stitcher or Apple Podcasts. Hear Jack & Richard Dunham discuss the classic 80s anime film Akira one minute on a time on Akira Minute at akiraminute.com or on your favorite podcatcher. Check out Kev's bracket-centric podcast The Great Bracket Racket on any of your favorite pod catchers, where you can hear all the RTW folx talking about various things, like Eminem! Lastly, check out Sam & Cam Siemer talking about early 90s Star Wars novellas on Young Jedi Knights Club at youngjediknights.club or on your favorite pod catcher.
Joined by someone genuinely Irish with deep knowledge of the holiday, the chimps talk with Caitie Beardmore Cataldo about the cultural legacy of St. Patrick's Day.
Himmel has his period then watches a horrible trolling. Hal, as usual, has a theory about the root of the problem.
Hall has a question he asks when interviewing job applicants so he grills packrat Himmel about the items he considers most irreplaceable.
Himmel ‘byrnes' Hall; a struggle session to advice the (losing) Democrats; and Hall gets high off of a can of tea.
Himmel is concerned about a request for funds for a family looking to adopt a Hungarian. Hall uses the inside of a coffee can for a microphone. All is right in the world!
Hall has a theory about the 47th president. Himmel can't pronounce the name of a 70's band correctly. Hijinx ensue.
Happy 59th Birthday, Don! Today, he shares the things he learned this past year.
Don wrote a thing. David wrote a different thuing. The chimps stroke each other in praise of the things they wrote.
Don has a policy concerning his ass. David disputes the policy.
The Chimps decide to see what the AI of the moment has to say about them. It ain't pretty…
Himmel has decided that he is the hero of his neighborhood because he managed to get his internet fixed after the gauntlet of attempts to thwart his need for Wifi.
Himmel is exposed as the Divorced Dad who takes his kids to McDonalds on Christmas Eve plus the Chimps predict the headlines for next year!
It's that time when everyone from the office gets together at a bar and, like a dark truth serum, the booze makes the whole room regret ever showing up: the Office Holiday Party.
Tony Spaghetti has Himmel thinking that maybe America is ready for a violent revolution. The chimps discuss.
Is AI here to replace writers? We ask ChatGPT and the answer is absolutely.
Himmel inadvertantly showed his six-year-old porn and had to explain it.
Don is on a tear about the linguistic games of… well, everybody, everywhere. So the chimps break it down masterfully.
David wrote a thing about the country, anxiety, hubris, and why there will never be a woman president. So, instead of read it, the Monkeys yap about it.