I donated all the books I’d collected in my young life to friends who wanted them and then the rest to the local library. It was coincident with my first job as an adult, which was at Borders in their last days. After working there, I pretty much only buy books in quality paper or cloth editions. Tearing the covers…

I like Harmontown, but I loved The Indoor Kids. I miss Emily Vance Gordon in my ears. She’d probably hate that I used her full middle name, which was probably let slip in a podcast on accident, but we’re getting all inside baseball here, so...

Until this game came out, I thought “pinkerton” was just old-timey slang for the feds.

I feel like this is an excellent comment that could be used to start a potentially funny SNL sketch.

I feel like referring to Benioff and Weiss as “D&D” was either a devious tactic to get me to look them up and discover that their first names are David and Daniel or an overwrought attempt at a Dungeons & Dragons reference.

I agree with you pretty much entirely, especially that he loves the one he’s with. I just don’t think he’s particularly informed and is always learning from his guests, which I find mostly enjoyable to listen to. I kind of like Jordan Peterson, I have to admit, but I’m not sure the things that make people like…

It has to go somewhere.  Shit can neither be created nor destroyed. We are all made of shitdust. It’s science!

I will never be able to disassociate random capitalization midsentence from Trump tweets now.  Sad!

I guess it depends on how we’re defining supplements. I’m guessing you’re not including things like ergocalciferol, and I know you’re not talking banana bags.  Was the amphetamine accidentally included?  That seems like not a cost-effective way to sell snake oil, if not.  As long as they’re not harmful, the placebo…

I agree that supplements are bullshit, but there’s definitely an encroachment of them into evidence-based medicine.  I work with doctors, and many MDs prescribe them.  There’s also the widespread acceptance of chiropractic, which is insane to me.

“Fucking” is only offensive if you were born before 1980.

I’ve just been listening for so long that for me he’s practically the Howard Stern of this generation. I’ve just turned 35, so Stern was of my generation, too, and I’ve forgiven them both their foibles and just tune out for a bit when they’ve gotten to be too much. It is super interesting that he’s still entertaining…

Weirder still, I’m a Joe Rogan Experience and a Comedy Bang! Bang! listener (and they’re my second and first most-listened-to podcasts, respectively), but I think I’m just a podcast fanatic. Stitcher says I have 1747 listening hours in the past 321 days, when I switched from the Apple app, probably 321 days ago. I get…

He entertains a lot of bullshit, granted, but I think the straight-up open-mindedness makes up for the legitimate conspiracy theory mindset. I also don’t really think he qualifies for the latter while he has the former. Legit conspiracy theorists invest actual belief in things for which they have no evidence.  Rogan…

Yeah, I know what you mean. We have a handful of regular commenters who seem to only want to castigate people for not being progressive enough in a forum where most everyone basically agrees with the broad strokes of what they’re saying, but they seem indefatigable in their uncharitable interpretations of every…

CancerAIDS was funny to sentence someone to because it’s absurd on multiple levels, both the concept and the fact that the crime was firsties.. I know you know this, and I hesitate to ruin the joke by explaining it, but I just wanted to clarify for people who might try to call them fully equivalent instead of…

I like Samantha Bee, but Xample2 needs to find a new way to express their disagreement with people. “Kill yourself” is practically their catchphrase.

The reason people say that misandry isn’t “real” is because MRA types have used the term to create a false us versus them relationship to women based on their own traumatic experiences. It’s not a denial of the fact that some people have the same antipathy toward men that your comments tend to demonstrate. To be…

Ah, I was thinking I might have been reading too much into it.  Between brontosaurian and velocirapstar, maybe it’s dinosaurs they really hate.

Well, to be a consiracy theory, you’d have to be more than one person, but I can tell you that it’s not the obvious reference that’s particularly suspicious. It’s the two words it starts with.