On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about crab discos, mangroves, elephant eating habits, the rattlesnake boom, hanging Mike Pence, backdoor Baptists, the Supreme Court death panel, mandatory vasectomies, Foxy Biden, shoes for diabetics, app-based driver’s licenses, Vishnu, and then some.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about cat names, paying off all student loans, using your face to climb up walls, a mystery present of mystery spiders, biocrust, wet-bulb temperatures, birds with heatstroke, the future of Covid-19, active postmortem retinas, windowless cars, futbol flatulation, and then some.
Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California, 40th president of the United States and one bad actor once said, “Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.” Although I can’t say much for his arc, Reagan did give us a hell of a close. There were unrelenting TV specials, memorial books, magazines and DVDs;…
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about grilled cheese sandwiches, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, a downcast, straight-faced man brightened only by the yellow $34.99 price tag on his cheek, rejuvenating aging rodents, the Hurricane Gun, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens, blank-check companies, meme stocks, California’s two largest reservoirs, nontoxic plywood glue, bats imitating hornets, Republican first-degree murderers, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the lone star tick, the Lake Mead Mafia, portable desalination, visiting asteroids, India’s heat wave, Tulsa’s concentration camps, our sorry excuse for a Supreme Court, the “jack-in-the-box” flaw, releasing California condors, Democratic primary train wrecks, MLB collusion, odd and even numbers, and so on.
In the 2020s, Chimpanzee culture is alive and well. We’ve moved beyond the ape-ish shrieks of Trump into the deviant forms of House Freedom Caucus Lancelot Link aggression. But as Frans de Waal says, “Dominant males are always paranoid.” That paranoia was easy to spot back in the 1990s. That’s when I created my first political hit piece. It’s banner featured Orange County Congressman Bob Dornan’s head Photoshopped onto the…
The first time I saw the Carl Diedrich Memorial Van was in 1978. It was parked outside Diedrich’s 10-foot-by-25-foot coffee import shop at the back end of a strip mall near the corner of Irvine Boulevard and 17th Street in Costa Mesa, California. In fact, the VW van is how I found Diedrich’s. It was a landmark. If you spotted it, you had found the best coffee beans in the…
