Season 5

Episode 36:

“Wheels Up In 5!”

Lights On by Annika Harris, Revisionist History & The Nazi Olympics

a conversation wth Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 #149

Episode 35:

Lonesome Brothers

the band, the songbook, the history, the songs, & Drunk Stuntmen

an interview with Scott Hall

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 #148

Episode 34:

“Bartleby, the Sailor”

Melville, Coetzee, Camus, Stuyvesant High

a conversation with David Partikian

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 #147

Episode 33:

“The Hugos”

Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Stars Wars Hotel, Flow, 2025 Nominees

Sarah Elkins and Julia Tenney

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 #146

Episode 32:

ENCORE EP: “Not for Toddlers”

music, horticulture, art, maine

a conversation with Jennifer Kimball

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 #repeat

Episode 31:

“I’ve learned to live with a lot of things.”

Darkman, Dark City, D&D, Star Trek, Information Security

Jim & Lionel

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 #145

Episode 30:

“The Utica Train Station”

Severance, Signal, Stargate, GenX memes

Severance Theory with Julia Tenney

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 #144

Episode 29:

“Updating your immune system”

bird flu, influenza, mRNA vaccines, measles in TX, music,

a conversation with Dr. Bill Hanage

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 #143

Episode 28:

“Ask Your Grocer”

Dopesick, Brian Aldiss, Arcane

Jim and Lionel

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 #142

Episode 27:

ENCORE EPISODE: “Not Everything Ends with the Iron Maiden.”

Our conversation from two years ago

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 #repeat

Episode 26:

“African Royalty Games”

Card Games, movie reviews

a conversation with Nyadenya Inyagwa

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 #141

Episode 25:

“We’re in the transportation business”

The Grateful Dead

a conversation with Dr. Christopher K. Coffman

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 #140

Episode 24:

ENCORE EPISODE: “I have a Passim tattoo.”

Folk Music, World Music, Music Club

a conversation with Abby Altman

Thursday, February 20, 2025 #repeat

Episode 23:

“I feel old and foolish now”

Hundreds of Beavers, A Complete Unknown, Putin’s People, Jesse Welles

Jim & Lionel

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 #139

Episode 22:

“I almost stayed in that world”

comedy, music, & songwriting

a conversation with Don White

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 #138

Episode 21:

“He got his start wiping windows.”

Yeltsin, Oligarchs, Clinton, IMF, Corruption

a conversation with Matthew Roazen pt 2

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 #137

Episode 20:

“The Wild Wild East”

Russia, Moscow in the 1990s

a conversation with Matthew Roazen

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 #136

Episode 19:

“Everything is due to accident”

The Soul of Money, After Yang, Rogue Heroes, and the fall of USSR

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 #135

Episode 18:

“Misa No Kinda Wizard!”

Luigi Mangione, Eat The Rich, Dune, LOTR

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 #134

Episode 17:

“This is just doing biz.”

John Hawkwood, Robert Hughes, Terraforming as fantasy, Siberiad

a conversation with Jim & Lionel

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 #133

Episode 16:

“The Lassiter”

Mercenaries in the Dark Ages, Prague Diaries, Firefly, Stanislaw Lem

A conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 #132

Episode 15:

“Meditation is a human thing.” ENCORE EPISODE

Meditation, Buddhism

A conversation with Catherine Pilfrey, Matthew Bellows, and Jim Rosen.

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 #repeat

Episode 14:

Outskirters

The Steerswoman series and The City and The City

a conversation with Julia Tenney & Sarah Elkins

Wednesday, November 27, 2024 #131

Episode 13:

“We all come from different realities”

songwriting, the political divide, disagreeing

a conversation with Montgomery Delaney

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 #130

Episode 12:

“Every second drill is a laundry room fire.”

Encore episode from season one

A conversation with David Partikian about the maritime life

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 #129

Episode 11:

“Unusual in unusual ways”

the movie Vice, The Americans, Slow Horses, Azimov

a conversation with Jim and Lionel

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 #128

Episode 10:

“It's all fun and games until Cthulhu shows up.”

A Night In The Lonesome October, Lovecraft, Thanksgiving

a conversation with Julia Tenney & Sarah Elkins

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 #127

Episode 9:

“Who’s gonna ---- the singer?”

music, comedy, politics, creativity

a conversation with Eric Schwartz

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 #126

Episode 8:

“A face for radio.”

Video podcasting, Biking, Life Hacks, movies

a conversation with Jim and Lionel

Monday, October 14, 2024 #125

Episode 7:

“We have a surprise guest.”

a conversation with Chris Chandler

Friday, October 11, 2024 #124

Episode 6:

Unreconciled

The Catholic Church, survivors, justice, abuse of power

a conversation with Mark Basquill

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 #123

Episode 5:

“Ducky”

Music production, The Figgs, Slide, The Major Labels, Bleu, etc.

a conversation with Bleu, Shaun Wolf Wortis, and Mike Gent

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 #122

Episode 4:

“Back when we had no undo button”

music, Virgin Islands, music production

a conversation with writer/producer Jeff Tareila

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 #121

Episode 3:

“I come from a long line of orphans.”

The Bubonic Plague

a conversation with Jim & Lionel

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 #120

Episode 2:

“Bang on, killer virus!”

TikTok Algorithm, The Printing Press, and Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

A conversation with Lionel & Jim

Thursday, September 5, 2024 #119

Episode 1:

“There was a flag on the field”

Science Fiction, vs. Fantasy, and Vanishing Point Perspective Drawing

a conversation with Jim and Lionel

Friday, August 30, 2024 #118

Episode 52:

“It’s more fascinating to say ‘riveting.’”

Ennio Morricone, AI, & political assassination attempts

a conversation with Jim & Lionel

Friday, August 30, 2024 #117

Episode 51:

“We Yuck Your Yum”

The Watchmen, The Empire Bike Trail, Gattaca

A conversation with Jim and Lionel

Friday, August 23, 2024 #116

Episode 50:

“Not for Toddlers”

music, horticulture, art, maine

a conversation with Jennifer Kimball

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 #115

Episode 49:

“Hopefully, we will all go forward”

various TV, Movies, Books, & Music

a conversation with Lionel and Jim

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 #114

Episode 48:

“Ernesto Piñata”

board games & music

a further conversation with Jason Schneider

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 #113

Episode 47:

“The creepiest part of Sesame Street.”

clowning around and making games

a conversation with Jason Schneider

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 #112

Episode 46:

“It’s stuck in the mud.” (ENCORE EPISODE)

data centers, big industrial development trends

A conversation with Damien Cassin

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 #repeat

Episode 45:

“The flavor of a typeface”

typography, graphic design

a conversation with Jim Hood

Wednesday, July 3, 2024 #111

Episode 44:

“Why do we have 2 screens?”

film making, leadership, Oppenheimer

a conversation with Andrew Silver

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 #110

Episode 43:

“The mind is a terrible thing.”

Alchemy by Rory Sutherland

a conversation with Ben Soto

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 #109

Episode 42:

“The last invention a human will make”

AI & Education

a conversation with Balazs Szelenyi

Wednesday, June 12, 2024 #108

Episode 41:

“You’re gonna love it here.”

music, forgiveness

a conversation with Peter Mulvey

Wednesday, May 29, 2024 #107

Episode 40:

“Somewhere beyond Antares”

topic: The Monk and The Philosopher

a conversation with Ben Soto

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 #106

Episode 39:

“Go go go go go, the end.”

The Rise & Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland.

a conversation with Jim & Lionel

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 #105

Episode 38:

“Swindon”

a conversation with Jim and Lionel

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 #104

Episode 37:

“The Letraset Revival Society”

Our 100th Episode

a conversation with Julia Tenney

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 #103

Episode 36:

“Start accepting it.”

a conversation with Jim & Lionel

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 #102

Episode 35:

“Words as Worlds”

a conversation with Bing Broderick of justBook-ish

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 #101

Episode 34:

The Three Body Problem

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 #100

Episode 33:

ENCORE EPISODE: “Trust begets trust, action inspires action.”

a conversation with Dar Williams

Wednesday, April 3, 2024 #repeat

Episode 32:

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 #99

Episode 31:

“Wanting to go back and change things”

a conversation with Julia Tenney

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 #98

Episode 30:

“The king of the bad guys”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 #97

Episode 29:

“Erratica”

a conversation with Jim & Lionel

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 #96

Episode 28:

“Homunculi, homunculus”

a discussion of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with Sarah Elkins

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 #95

Episode 27:

“The Mind Bind”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Monday, February 19, 2024 #94

Episode 26:

“It’s not a feature, it’s a bug.”

with Jim & Lionel

Tuesday, February 13, 2024 #93

Episode 25:

The Unforgettable Logan Foster

A conversation with author Shawn Peters

Monday, February 5, 2024 #92

Episode 24:

“Detractions and Errata”

with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 #91

Episode 23:

“Roadkill on the road to the future”

with Lionel & Jim

Tuesday, January 23, 2024 #90

Episode 22:

“Barnabas Lives!”

with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 #89

Episode 21:

“Peter Cooper Village is Rivendell”

with Lionel & Jim

Tuesday, January 9, 2024 #88

Episode 20:

“The Modern I Ching Oracle”

a conversation with Catherine Pilfrey

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 #87

Episode 19:

“This is the march of progress.”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 #86

Episode 18:

“I want it to seem mysterious, even to me.”

a conversation with Hewitt Huntwork part 2

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 #85

Episode 17:

“Your Pretty Head”

a conversation with Hewitt Huntwork Part 1

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 #84

Episode 16:

“It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.”

a conversation with Dave Herlihy

Wednesday, November 22, 2023 #83

Episode 15:

“Books, unbanned.”

a conversation with Leigh Hurwitz

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 #82

Episode 14:

“You need empty spaces.”

a conversation with Karaugh Brown

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 #81

Episode 13:

“Now, THAT’s Ambient!”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 #80

Episode 12:

“The one global religion is money.”

a conversation with Lionel and Jim

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 #79

Episode 11:

“What’s a futtock shroud?”

a conversation with Robert Blake Whitehill

Monday, October 16, 2023 #78

Episode 10:

“The fact that I felt uncomfortable made me interested.”

a conversation with James O’Brien

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 #77

Episode 9:

“but, um...”

a conversation with Jim & Lionel

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 #76

Episode 8:

The dreaded Grawlix.

a conversation with Nick Bruel, author and illustrator of the Bad Kitty books.

Friday, September 22, 2023 #75

Episode 7:

“Accessibility benefits everyone.”

a conversation between Lionel & Jim

Monday, September 18, 2023 #74

Episode 6:

“Eff your replicant mindset.”

a conversation between Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 #73

Episode 5:

Happy Birthday, Lionel

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, September 6, 2023 #72

Episode 4:

The Parasocial Book Club

a conversation with Ben Burnes and Sarah Elkins

Wednesday, August 30, 2023 #71

Episode 3:

“The empress who should have been, but wasn’t.”

a conversation with Greg Olear

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 #70

Episode 2:

Encore Episode “Hakkar The Soul Flayer”

a conversation with Dr. William Hanage 11.18.22

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 #repeat

Episode 1:

“One door closes and the floodgates open elsewhere.”

a conversation with Ellis Paul

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 #69

Episode 28:

“The phenomenon was always there.”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, August 2, 2023 #68

Episode 27:

“Utopia Revisited” revisited

a conversation with Kurt Uenala

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 #67

Episode 26:

“Hey, Eng!”

a conversation with James Meyer

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 #66

Episode 25:

“Low frequency treatments”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 #65

Episode 24:

“One of the weirdest movies I have ever seen”

a conversation with Jim & Lionel

Wednesday, June 21, 2023 #64

Episode 23:

“It’s like a giant trashcan where you dump your data and get it back out.”

a conversation with Keith Smith

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 #63

Episode 22:

“Badvertising”

a conversation with Lionel and Jim

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 #62

Episode 21:

“He started with shoes.”

Lionel and Jim talk about Andy Warhol and SCOTUS

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 #61

Episode 20:

“Leave your preconceived notions of what this is at home.”

a conversation with Matt Smith

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 #60

Episode 19:

“I have a Passim tattoo.”

a conversation with Abby Altman

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 #59

Episode 18:

“Just keep turning the knob.”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Thursday, May 11, 2023 #58

Episode 17:

“I grew up a lot, real quick.”

Ellen Roth joins our team

Thursday, April 27, 2023 #57

Episode 16:

“Midnight in the Threshing Room” Encore episode

Phil Broikos tells us about A Day In Music

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 #repeat

Episode 15:

“The race to be first to the cliff”

The Slithery Dee, Part 3, Lionel & Jim

Friday, April 14, 2023 #56

Episode 14:

“It’s the beautiful that saves me.”

a conversation with David Wilcox

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 #55

Episode 13:

“The interesting part is when it breaks down.”

The Slithery Dee, Part 2, Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 #54

Episode 12:

“The Slithery-Dee comes for thee”

a conversation about AI and planetary destruction with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 #53

Episode 11:

“Music has given me everything.”

a conversation with jazz pianist, John Chin

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 #52

Episode 10:

“We‘re returning you back to humanity.”

a conversation with Sarah Elkins and Ben Burnes

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 #51

Episode 9:

“What are we doing here?”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, March 8, 2023 #50

Episode 8:

“We don’t sell drill bits, we sell holes.”

a conversation with Chuck Robinson

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 #49

Episode 7:

“He played a friggin’ parabolic antenna.”

a conversation with Kurt and Jim from Iceland

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 #48

Episode 6:

The Milkman

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 #47

Episode 5:

“Not Everything Ends with the Iron Maiden.”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, February 8, 2023 #46

Episode 4:

“It’s stuck in the mud.”

A conversation with Damien Cassin

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 #45

Episode 3:

“Caller on line one”

Lionel, Jim, and ‘Tim’

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 #44

Episode 2:

“Meditation is a human thing.”

A conversation with Catherine Pilfrey, Matthew Bellows, and Jim Rosen.

Wednesday, January 11, 2023 #43

Episode 1:

“This whole Ptolemaic thing, it’s not working.”

Another conversation with Professor Donald Smith

Tuesday, January 10, 2023 #42

Episode 14:

“Johnny Gottadoo”

A look back at 2022 with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, January 4, 2023 #41

Episode 13:

“It’s hard to wrap your brain around it.”

A conversation with Professor Donald Smith

Tuesday, December 27, 2022 #40

Episode 12:

“When you believe in things that you don’t understand...”

Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, December 21, 2022 #39

Episode 11:

“The Bob Ross of music production”

a conversation with Ben Burnes

Friday, December 9, 2022 #38

Episode 10:

“It’s all upside down.”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Thursday, December 1, 2022 #37

Episode 9:

“Down the hall, there’s a black chapel.”

A conversation with Kurt Uenala

Friday, November 25, 2022 #36

Episode 8:

“Hakkar the Soulflayer”

a conversation with Dr. William Hanage

Friday, November 18, 2022 #35

Episode 7:

“You know what, Goldfinger?”

a conversation with Vance Gilbert

Friday, November 11, 2022 #34

Episode 6:

“The Secret Aardvark”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Monday, November 7, 2022 #33

Episode 5:

“One Emmy short of a coat rack”

A conversation with writer & director, John Infantino

Thursday, October 27, 2022 #32

Episode 4:

“Nobody’s In Control”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 #31

Episode 3:

“Goats on Wings”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Saturday, October 1, 2022 #30

Episode 2:

“It’s your favorite dish!”

a conversation with Dan Cantor

Friday, September 16, 2022 #29

Episode 1:

The Will of Landru

Lionel and Jim

Friday, September 9, 2022 #28

Episode 27:

“Imperfect people being uncomfortable”

a conversation with Lionel and Jim

Friday, July 29, 2022 #27

Episode 26:

“It’s only time travel”

a conversation with Sarah Elkins

Thursday, July 21, 2022 #26

Episode 25:

“Anything you can pick up and bring to life”

A conversation with Amy Robinson

Monday, July 11, 2022 #25

Episode 24:

“We fill in the blanks”

Lionel & Jim

Friday, July 1, 2022 #24

Episode 23:

“The radical notion that women are people”

A conversation with Julia Tenney

Friday, June 24, 2022 #23

Episode 22:

“The Naked Man & the Grill”

Lionel & Jim

Saturday, June 18, 2022 #22

Episode 21:

“Trust begets trust, action inspires action.”

a conversation with Dar Williams

Saturday, June 11, 2022 #21

Episode 20:

“Midnight in the Threshing Room”

Phil Broikos tells us about A Day In Music

Friday, June 3, 2022 #20

Episode 19:

“The whole huperchild problem”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Sunday, May 29, 2022 #19

Episode 18:

“But that’s how I always pronounced it!”

A conversation with voice over artist, Walter Dixon

Friday, May 20, 2022 #18

Episode 17:

“There’s something in space & it’s flipping us off.”

A conversation with Julia Tenney

Friday, May 13, 2022 #17

Episode 16:

“Everything will always never be the same again”

a conversation with Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 #16

Episode 15:

“She who must not be named”

A conversation with Lionel & Jim

Thursday, April 21, 2022 #15

Episode 14:

“Every second drill is a laundry room fire.”

A conversation with David Partikian about the maritime life

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 #14

Episode 13:

“The Book of Mom”

Lionel & Jim

Monday, March 28, 2022 #13

Episode 12:

“That which does not kill us, really really hurts."

Jim & Lionel

Monday, March 21, 2022 #12

Episode 11:

“The Art of Telling Truth with Lies”

A conversation with Chris Chandler

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 #11

Episode 10:

“Only an inch on a map of the world.”

A conversation with Bob Loy

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 #10

Episode 9:

“A penny for your email”

Lionel & Jim

Thursday, February 17, 2022 #9

Episode 8:

“It’s like wearing your cockring to meet the pope. Actually, it’s worse.”

Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 #8

Episode 7:

“In My Cult”

Lionel & Jim

Thursday, January 20, 2022 #7

Episode 6:

“Why haven’t you already drilled a hole in my head?”

Lionel & Jim

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 #6

Episode 5:

“I could go on...”

Lionel & Jim

Tuesday, January 4, 2022 #5

Episode 4:

“Don’t recommend anything to Lionel.”

Lionel & Jim

Tuesday, December 28, 2021 #4

Episode 3:

“More wives and no beer?”

Topic: American Nations by Colin Woodard

Lionel & Jim

Tuesday, December 14, 2021 #3

Episode 2:

The lost episode

Lionel & Jim

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 #2

Episode 1:

“It’s Pump Six.”

Topic: Hitler’s American Gamble by Brendan Simms

Lionel & Jim

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 #1