In this episode we talk about how to make New Years resolutions better (by resolving to do absurd things), Pepsi Man speedruns, business jargon sometimes being useful, David Lynch's Dune, the video game Suzerain calling Jay a radical centrist,

Pneumatic tube hot dog

Nov 24th, 2021 1h 8m

Your intrepid hosts return after another long absence! We just hit record on this one and it was a lot of fun. I (Jay) had a weird issue with the recording on my computer, which caused me to lose random bits of audio for up to a minute at a tim

YouTube Episode

Apr 6th, 2021 1h 21m

What the bleep did you just bleeping say about me, you little content creator? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in Adobe Premiere, and I've been involved in numerous secret clips on YouTube Rewind, and I have over 300 million view

Empire: Not Even Once

Feb 22nd, 2021 1h 24m

Actually making good on a promise from a previous episode, Austin and I chat about empire and its consequences. What does it mean when people say America's foreign policy has come home, and what does that have to do with Fight Club? Why are the

Riot and Indoguration

Feb 1st, 2021 1h 19m

The real coup was the friends we made along the way. Austin and I chatted a few days after the inauguration about the Capitol Hill riot on January 6th. As usual, the conversation gets into obscure Twitter disputes and Star Wars.

Hit record and see what happens

Jan 25th, 2021 1h 26m

In this New Year's special of the J+A podcast, Jay is pretty drunk so this episode gets really loose really fast. We talk a lot about language, memes, himbos, Bill Maher, The Simpsons, talk shows, politics, the German title of the Disposessed,

I warned you about stairs

Dec 21st, 2020 1h 33m

Austin and I talk about the conceptual struggle between positivist/rationalist and critical theories, bookended by references to the webcomic Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff. Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff: https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Sweet_B

King Gordus's Twitter Account

Dec 7th, 2020 1h 8m

In this episode, we talk about King Gord(us), the famed inventor of the Gordian Knot and how sweet a gig he had until Alexander came and mucked it all up. Actually, we talk about Twitter, Keynesian economics, the limits of individual action/cho

The Last One Before the Election

Oct 31st, 2020 1h 23m

Austin moved to a dog-free but somehow still loud apartment. I try to take the air out of the overinflated image of Germany's COVID response. Austin shares his experience voting in person and we both complain about the GOP and the Electoral Col

Historical Literacy and Sometimes Getting Mad at Your Dog

Oct 27th, 2020 1h 21m

Jay and I sat down today and reckoned with the serious fact that even in a utopia, you probably get mad sometimes and take it out on the dog in a way that's not fair to the dog or to you. We also talk about Joe Biden's dog, anarchist apartment

Strategy and the Last Jedi

Oct 1st, 2020 1h 52m

There are no intro audio clips this time. If you don't want to listen to the theme music, shame on you (but you can jump to 2:50). Our guest this time is David Adrian. David continues our series of guests more qualified than we are. We had a gr

The Biggest Dump of Your Entire Life

Sep 11th, 2020 1h 20m

Tristan Weber joins as our first guest. We talk space, PhDs, and dealing with pressure while abroad.

Silence Chicken

Aug 25th, 2020 1h 18m

Here's a chill, low-energy episode recorded in the dog days of August. This time we talked about US and German politics, the weird world of Kaiserreich, and how commercialization affects creativity. Kaiserreich alternate history lore: https://

Revenge of the Centrists

Jul 31st, 2020 1h 39m

This time we stayed mostly on theme and the theme is centrists and how insufferable they are. Other topics up for discussion include the Washington Football Team, interwar German politics, and Cowboy Bebop. Also, who's listening from Moscow? We

Baguul and Toyotathon

Jul 9th, 2020 1h 23m

This is what happens when we sit down without a plan and hit record. Here's the Biden ad we talk about side by side with an ad for the F-150: https://twitter.com/Relentlessbored/status/1278952023120109570?s=20

Policing Society Part 2: The System

Jul 1st, 2020 1h 11m

Part 2 of our society on police and society.

Policing Society Part 1: Cops

Jun 22nd, 2020 1h 9m

In this episode, your intrepid hosts discuss the ongoing wave of protests over police brutality and racism. Our conversation lasted over two hours, so we decided to make this the first half of our first two-part episode. More information on is

(Bonus) Harry Potter and the Late Capitalist Society

May 29th, 2020 11m 36s

This one's for real fans only.

Don't Call it Lizardbrain

May 14th, 2020 1h 19m

This time your hosts discuss work-life balance and self help. What do they have to do with 30-50 hogs, the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the Congo Free State? Nothing really, but we talked about it all this episode anyway. 30-50 feral hogs explai

Put Cheese on Your Moussaka (The Bernie Postmortem)

Apr 26th, 2020 1h 14m

Hope you like hearing about leftism because that's what we talked about this time. We start talking about why some people are being so annoying about Bernie's loss and end up talking about space pirates. Also, put cheese on your damn moussaka,

Metaphorical Splash Mountain

Apr 18th, 2020 1h 11m

This time, we talk about what's on everyone's mind. Splash Mountain. Well, that and video games, names, gentrification in Austin, TX and Indianapolis, and of course COVID. But don't worry, it's less fearful hand wringing and more talking about

Alright Tuesday

Mar 18th, 2020 1h 8m

This episode's alright. Your intrepid hosts chatted on Super Tuesday about the Democratic primaries. Also on the docket: why the right can't make art, why Christopher Nolan is going to the gulag, and Austin's dogs weigh in with their thoughts o

Podlusions of Grandeur (Coups and Questions)

Feb 24th, 2020 54m 28s

There has been a coup in our Facebook group chat and we have to tell you about it (up until about 15:30). Also, we talk about WWIII memes and zoomers. Then I ask Jay a series of increasingly dumb questions (kind of) about the Democratic Primary

the boys are... in town

Jan 7th, 2020 1h 1m

New year, new content. This time, your intrepid hosts wade into the decade in review, Star Wars, Tik Tok, and The Dark Forest. There's also a long digression on pies.