Podcasts
Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave; The Podcast
With a loose focus on design, and a heavy dose of absurdity, we discuss a variety of topics that we hope you will find relevant to your own life. Or, at least you might find them entertaining. Please enjoy.1
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With your consent, of course. ↩︎
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Ice Cream Trucks And Disappointment
Ned and Meg talk about a local Minneapolis hero with a special kind of vehicle that makes existential deliveries. We expound on art cars, lame covid-19 responses, and not being a shit. Wash your hands. Help your neighbors. Wear a mask!
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Short, Deesplaining Flowers
In this short, Meg over-explains flowers to Ned and Damon. We discuss Graveolens and Geraniums and the differences between them, which the British have detailed at length.
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Why Broomsticks Are Not Crack Pipes
Ned and Meg discuss some of what we think are the self-evident causes of the Salem witch trials, as well as some very unlikely causes, which we ridicule. We also crap all over authors who half-ass their work because it’s paltry, pathetic, and they should know their parents are disappointed in them. Wash your hands and wear your mask!
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Short, Phooey Pantone Bullshit
In this short, we vent about Pantone’s hilariously terrible website and criticize the supposed utility of color matching technology. Wash your hands and wear your mask!
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I Don't Knowwww
Ned and Meg discuss the FCBM website, our domain name collection/addiction, unscrupulous and repugnant real estate developers, ADHD, escalating dares, and defiance. Take a mental walk with us. Wash your hands!
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Short, Video Games As Expression
Ned spends a few minutes talking about the concept of video games as an artistic medium.
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Making Bread With Chet
Ned and Meg and Damon discuss making things to eat. Quarantine gave us a lot of time to make food from scratch and boy were we ever foolish for not doing this sooner. We discuss different delicacies and delectable dishes. Hey it’s June! Wash your hands!
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Short, TRISH
Ned and Meg talk about the Translational Research Institute for Space Health! The first week of June we will participate in a series of webinars on behavioral health and performance in space! Wash your hands! Wear a mask!
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Quarantine Show And Tell With Wind
Ned and Meg visit with their friend Wind (aka Ria) over the internet while we all isolate, alone, together. We discuss how high fences make good and possibly dead neighbors. We ponder rock sizes. We get a very special virtual tour of Wind’s childhood bedroom. Enjoy! Wash your hands!
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Short, Design Rant
Ned and Meg do a snack-sized Thursday podcast about Applied Arts and Design. It’s a rant really, and who doesn’t love those, especially right now. Enjoy. Wash your hands!
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Words with Random, The Long One
Ned and Meg are back with more random word games, and this episode is twice as long, and 17 times as funny! Ned made a list of 96 words (overachiever) and used them as prompts for Meg to expound on. This episode has already led to several spinoff projects and spawned a new species of absurdism. Enjoy! Wash your hands!
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Short, Words with Random, the Short One
Ned and Me are spilling over onto Thursdays because Monday just can’t contain us. We submit for your approval our 30 minute word association game! Thanks for indulging us, and wash your hands!
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How to Do a Thing, Maybe
Ned and Meg talk about their book, which you might have a chance to see soon thanks to Chris! We also chat about project stuff, explosions, growing stuff, space radiation, DIY haircuts, and where Meg's tooth is headed.
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Short, Meaningful Play
Ned spends a few minutes talking about the idea of meaningful play in the context of video game design.
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Untitled 2
Ned and Meg meander around in quarantine and complain about some stuff. We discuss self-hosting podcasts, TP weirdness, forced heroism, cats and dogs and art, owning music, and go wash your hands!
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Strange Intervals of Time
Meg and Ned discuss the unusual ways in which we mark the passage of time, as well as the intervals that result. We've been thinking on this one for a long time and the Weird Now seemed like a good time to talk about it. Join us on a temporal trip without leaving your house! Go wash your hands!
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Death's Door and Other Idioms
In this episode, Ned and Meg discuss fun idioms and violent verses in the English Language (plus one in French)!
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Our Favorite Foods, Volume 1
Ned and Meg discuss all the things we love to eat. We spend some time on ice cream, discuss mac and cheese purists, and then tackle PB and J, the Pizza universe, tacos, seafood, and the nacho-ice-cream-death-spiral. Bon appetit! Wash your hands!
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Your Brain is a Construction Zone
Ned and Meg have a late night chat in the midst of a pandemic about our brains’ abilities to do amazing new things. Neuroplasticity -- believe the hype!
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The Joy of Melancholy
We discuss the joy of depression, or rather, Melancholia, which kinda sorta used to be depression, but maybe now isn’t, and for sure was the name of a movie Meg likes. Anyway! Also in the mix are rites of passage, Hannah Gadsby, planetariums, pancakes, saunas, and life saving bathrooms.
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Untitled 1
Ned and Meg have a very quiet podcast very early in the morning about all kinds of weird business, like how much I hate squash and wind scorpions, plus commentary on water balloons and betrayal.
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No Nazis In The Sound Of Music
Until Meg reached the age of 37 she didn’t realize there was a second half to the Sound of Music and that it featured Nazis. We discuss this misconception, lies, and warped memories from childhood, plus we get nostalgic about movies with Ned and Damon and Meg.
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How To Do A Thing So No One Asks You To Do It Again
Meg and Ned discuss how to do things in such a way that it ensures no one will make the mistake of asking you to do it again. Enjoy some examples from our personal experience. Role play along with us. Weaponize your apologies and diversify your skills. A master class from Ned in passive aggression - don’t miss it!
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Two Bottles of Corona
Ned and Meg discuss their Friday the 13th COVID-19 pandemic adventures in San Diego, CA. This is the uplifting, funner, prettier, sister episode to our factually informative, nerdy, practical coronavirus episode (posted today also, titled Holy Corony!). Enjoy and hang in there, everybody. And wash your hands!
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Holy Corony!
This is a bonus episode-slash-public health info bulletin! We talk about what Coronaviruses are, what *this* particular [COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2/novel coronavirus pneumonia/2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease] virus is all about, why it’s a problem for everyone on the planet (i.e. a pandemic), and how to deal with it. It’s worth mentioning that toilet paper will not save you even though you couldn’t get any for love or money. At the time of posting (March 13, 2020), all schools are closed until April 3, and public gatherings of 250+ people are banned in San Diego, CA. Grocery stores are a Hobbesian nightmare and have been raided for anything shelf-stable. That includes toilet paper, which we reiterate, will not save you. Now go wash your hands.