Various Breads And Butters

Grocery etiquette, candy status, the bands of Detroit, seemingly never-ending Friday-Sunday chatter, this stuff about computer science...our guest Prof. Jeff Pfaffman works through it all. Thanks as ever to Renan for producing and our intern Michelle Polton-Simon for co-producing. And interning. Credit to G. Clinton for the intro and some guys doing a KISS cover for the outro.

This is our third Bonusode. We can’t even begin to explain it except there's cross-Atlantic remote controlling and juice content.

What do you know about monasteries? Read that like a sneer, like, what do youknow about them? Our guest Prof. Rachel Goshgarian can tell you how to do research there, read up on 13th c. Armenian black magic, and stay in Venice for $30 a night. Not to mention goobers at conferences, Renan’s weird thing about grocery stores, and other stuff we’re forgetting. Thanks to Renan for producing and our entirely new intern Michelle Polton-Simon for co-producing. Credit to the Cocek Brass Band for the music.

It’s our second Bonusode because German documentarians are waxing poetic about limited fowl intelligence and Renan wants in so why not.

Right off, this one has no discussion of blood flow. It’s debunked conspiracy theories instead, Ferrante and Franzen, post-apocalyptic discomfort, literary references real and imagined, famous locals (not including Iron Man), Renan’s favorite podcast, hype cycles and personality tests. In other words, Prof. Jenn Rossmann joins us for our first Supersode. Thanks to Renan for producing. Credit to Jerry’s old band for the music.

We have everything: spider webs, Jenga, villas; proper addresses, King’s College, Buddhism; pottery, poetry, rugs. And a modicum of Fri/Sun deliberation. It’s the 5-Day Forecast with Prof. Owen McLeod. Thanks to Renan for producing. Credit to Mr. Wonder and Mr. Denver for the intro and outro, respectively.

F-shaped reading, pupil tracking, 7th grade math in Brooklyn, how many degrees one person can have, way too much about the nation’s liberal arts colleges, audience favorite Friday/Sunday, and then something about bikes, who can keep track. In other words, it’s our golden episode with Prof. Julia Nicodemus of Engineering Studies. Thanks to Renan for producing. Credit to Utah Philips and Ani DiFranco for the intro and Atmosphere for the outro.

This is a special bonus episode of the show—our first bonusode—in the “One Question” style. We talk to ethics professor (and future full-ep guest) Owen McLeod about Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, morality, and art. We couldn’t actually stick to our “one question” decree, unfolding instead into many an uncanned worm.

It’s the last days of Vietnam, orthodontia, a philosophy of technology, the very laughable two factor authentication, weird mascots, another vote for Friday, and substantial minor league baseball coverage with, of course, our guest Jason Alley, Director of Instructional Technology at Lafayette. Thanks to Renan for producing and credit to Valerie June for the intro. PS: #TeamTwoFactor or #TeamChopper, you decide.

It’s finally shark week on the show so we welcome Kathleen Parrish, Journalism Professor and Director of Content Strategy at Lafayette College, to help us navigate it. Not just sharks, but a question-off, coffee, opera, Bryan Cranston, cigar bar stand-up comedy, another vote for #TeamFriday, and close to nothing about Sandra Bullock. Thanks to Renan for producing and credit to Alabama Shakes for the intro.

With thanks to our guest Prof. Jennifer Talarico and of course producer of the year Renan Dincer. We tackle the flavor of the season, laminated menus, the friday v. sunday competition, class evaluations, overly agreeable students, torrenting, cognitive memory issues, flashbulb memories, and Inside Out.

With thanks to our guest Annette Diorio, VP of Campus Life at Lafayette College, and of course our intrepid producer Renan Dincer. We'd also like to commend Saxelby Arusha and DiPalo Durban for their fine field work.

With thanks to our guest Prof. Nestor Gil and, as always, producer Renan Dincer.

Kris Riddle, Esq. is here for his return guest appearance and, as always, Renan Dincer is on board with his production skills.

We're solving problems. Small talk, ice cream flavors, fund drives, professors' tests, fixing stuff in post, you name it