It’s finally Part 3 of 3 in our reunion episode, and we close out our incredibly long beer-and-scotch-and-soliloquy-addled night with stories of linkrot, homeownership, and car keys. Music: So What by K.Flay
In Part 2 of 3, continuing to plow through both a heap of booze and their overdue backlog of post-hiatus topics, Josh and Jesse cover grilled cheese, canine ardor, bumming cigarettes, Pixar’s “Cars”, Plato’s parable of the cave, and lint trap disasters. Music: Strange Transgressors by Drunk Horse
Back from hiatus, Josh and Jesse have a long backlog of topics to work through. In part one, we put Jesse in a carwash, Josh in charge of Twitter, and 2017 in the dumpster where it belongs. Music: Come In From The Rain by LKN
We’re getting the band back together. Let me tell you a story.
We welcome one-time pinch-hitter co-host Jessamyn West back for a strange format-breaking mash-up episode. Scramble to keep the conversational branches straight in your Mind Tree as we blur the lines between podcast and mixtape, featuring such inadvertently self-referential conversational tracks as threaded comments, date/time confusion, drug experimentation, and editing a podcast into vignettes — as well as marginally less-meta subjects as jury duty, chicken coops, and what the damn deal is wit...
Josh Boykin of Intelligame.us and fellow Outpost cohabitant bikes on over to the Crapshoot basement for a spirited chat about video games and tangentially related topics (including shitheadconomics, Maslow’s hierarchy of problems, government cheese, watermelon beer, and grocery store illuminati). But first, Jesse returns from Peru, Josh returns from Disneyland, and, reunited, we struggle to quaff miniature novelty beer....
We’re thrilled to welcome Brad back to the show for a deep dive on Stardew Valley . On the way, we also touch on Moshow the Cat Rapper, Stovokor , Axl Rose , Bee and Puppycat , Kickstarter entitlement syndrome, Undertale disruption , Josh’s impending spin-off podcast Quarter Quorner , John Campbell, blind-fire delivering psychology services, a series of tweets that Jesse never got over , veterinary rackets, Andre Agassi , getting involved in an ass tattoo, signatures versus Signature signatures,...
Punctuality, nicknames, buying beer, parking lot favors, panhandling strategy, falling off the wagon, carbs, ghee, legalizing weed, MMOs, the metafilter gopher server ( Jesse’s memory was right! ) and the brand-new XOXO Outpost creative space. Our increasingly inevitable video game chat rounds out the episode as expected, touching on Rise of the Tomb Raider , Quake 1 , America’s Army , Firewatch , Beyond: Two Souls , XCOM , and discussing a bit about shooting mechanics, pacing, playtime gates, a...
Topics today include Jesse’s guest spot on the Metafilter Podcast , non-alcoholic beer, meager money management skills, Star Wars Merchandising, the Cereal King, wasting a melody, “padcasts,” show etiquette, Lost, and Skinner boxes. Video games we talk about include Idle Paws and clicker games, Minesweeper, Hexcells, Grayout, Rocket League, The Last of Us, Dishonored, and Beyond: Two Souls.
Another episode recorded next to a loud furnace, this time you can find us hollering about hug dynamics, vocal fry, bad recording technique, the “that’s my new band name” joke, statistically unlikely colocations, Hawaiian vacation, solemnizing weddings, a meta-conversation about podcast topics, thank you for contacting metafilter , Jesse’s surprise award-winning childhood, Dune, Star Wars Machete Order revisited, and, unsurprisingly, Star Trek. Alternate episode titles: 36: Pull the Ripcord 36: ...
Jesse rambles about WebTV and CueCats , and Josh forgets his sister’s birthday, but GJ comes from nowhere to save the show when he’s spontaneously summoned to regale us with stories of undertaking, including how to ignobly bury a horse while the owner isn’t watching. We again manage to hold off shouting about video games until the end of the show; this time running far over the time we tried to allot for a super-deep, spoiler-filled, beer-fueled dive into a major game mechanic and narrative choi...
We open a wormhole between The Crapshoot and We Have Such Films to Show You , stealing Pastor Yakov to talk about lightsabers , rats, New York and Russia, snowclones , Twitter bots , loanwords, the complicated Tengen / Atari / Nintendo relationship, Russian electromechanical games , the grunge speak hoax , and some also-ran sci-fi shows from our youth. We almost go one whole episode without bringing up an esoteric Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, but then we do....
Josh returns from distant North Albertsons for our basement reunion episode, and we settle gradually into our normal, ridiculous routine. Topics include XOXO 2015 , whether the ears are a part of the face, salt lakes, the gentle difference between flippies and their verbal equivalents, haircuts, emotional labor, effing dogs, appropriate scale within the hellish Disneyverse, A Brief(er) History Of Time, Philip K Dick, and Metal Gear Solid....
Today we weigh the merits of ‘ a Yelp for Drivers’ against ‘ an Omnipresent Police State’ , discuss the mighty Barbed Carpoon, and chat about Pico 8 . With those topics settled, we really tuck in for a deep dive into Josh’s E n n u i g i , the underbelly of Reddit, and where the twain meet. (PS: Luigi calling out for Mario: Luigi’s Mansion , Luigi’s Mansion 2 )...
Jesse and Josh disagree: How good is pretty good? Was Rip Van Winkle metabolizing squirrel food, or was he in magic-stasis? But with these critical issues resolved, we allow ourselves to settle into a nice lengthy real-bro-time conversation about Josh’s new endeavor Out of the Blue , as well as the sometimes-prickly thicket of advertising.
After “Whatcha Gamin’, Bro?”, join us for a romp through our miserable teen years, largely boiling down to bullying and social dynamics, Calvin and Hobbes (see Josh’s new project Calvin and Markov ( more info )), and video games. Games briefly referenced include The Last Of Us , Yo! Noid , Metal Gear Solid , Final Fantasy VII and VIII , You Must Build A Boat , Lifeline , and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix , but mostly we complain about Fallout Shelter again. The wonderful “Whatcha Gamin ...
After game 3 of the 27th Annual Tic Tac Toe World Championships, Josh and Jesse shoot crap about the Skype dynamic, washing machines, free cocaine, road stories, dreams, the various purposes of human communication, and Fallout Shelter . Jesse goes on far too long about the Metal Gear Solid series, and Josh delivers the most complete monologue about quarters you’ll hear this week. We fail to settle the issue of how to pronounce “ Mefite ”. Music is from Josh’s theremin-heavy lo-fi cover of Where ...
Surprise co-host Jessamyn joins Jesse to talk about birthdays, traveling, California, roller derby, audio editing, phone scams, tech support, meetups, weddings, Jessamyn’s most recent wedding ceremony ( metatalk ), Gilligan’s Island, your town being i n a lake , elections, motivations, a NYTimes article and Jessamyn’s Medium post that came from it, and of course access to technology and the digital divide. Music is two too-good-to-pass-up jingles from Jessamyn: 251 Towns and Hey Google My Town’s...
After a post-game interview with Darmok runs over a little into our time slot, join your hosts for a couple Modelos Especial and a chat about suddenly-appearing piles of foam, knee reversal surgery, body dysmorphia and horror, lucid dreaming, blood and skeletons, and, finally, sprint with us through a bunch of loose video game chatter, touching on Twenty , Quake , Unreal Tournament , Plants vs Zombies co-op , Guacamelee! , Lego game series , Sportsfriends , Mount Your Friends , QWOP , Nidhogg , ...
After the thrilling “Freezing Your Assets” episode of Roommates of Catan , join your Crapshoot hosts Josh and Jesse for a special, slightly-more-rapid-fire-than-usual episode that powers through such topics as: Locating Matt Haughey, iPhone upgrades, Hearthstone and collectible card games, Noam Chomsky, Working from home, Monkey Pop , Ludum Dare , India pale ales, resonator.network , Top-level domains, Tony the Pony, Writing for the page vs writing for performance, Inchoatery , Siri, Distance fr...
An inaugural episode for our new recording venue, this episode finds us talking for quite some time about genetic algorithms and Josh’s Genetic Football project, and also Josh’s role transition at Metafilter . Along the way, we touch on genetic cars , a (theoretical (we hope)) Metafilter Markov Commenter Bot, site culture, My Pet Monster , Battle Action He-Man , and some pro tips for performing wedding ceremonies. Music this go-around is a couple passages lifted from “ Drunk Again ” off Josh’s c...
After the Scat Hour, join our intrepid hosts to learn (??) about lent, creative obligations, boxes of moldy skulls and spines, Josh’s twitter D & D character and D & D memories in general, naming podcast networks, whether Jesse has read Dune, and fractional staves. We’re delighted to be joined again for this episode by the inestimable Eran Haas, and the episode features three slightly older MeFi Music songs from Josh: Nathan Fillion’s Theme , Old Man , and Wicker Man ....
Skip Worthington returns to attempt another Dungeons & Dragons Adventure , this time with a first-time adventurer. Afterward, it’s part 2 of our Crapshoot double episode, aka Episode 22B, aka Hellbanned from Podcasting, wherein we discuss halloween, compare Universal Studios to Enchanted Forest , talk beer, and solicit input on Jesse’s soon-to-be-announced-if-all-goes-well podcast network. Music is two genre-shifters from Josh: Margaritahell and Subterranean Homesick Dylan...
Airing this time after Dungeons & Dragons Adventures , The Crapshoot returns for our 2015 debut. In part 1, Josh and Jesse reconvene to talk about audience feedback, The Harvey Girls , geologist humor, the Xs do it Y joke format, Paul Ford and Tilde.club (here by the way are links to Paul Ford’s The Age of Mechanical Reproduction and its incredible Postscript ), but also; not reading Metafilter threads, the glories of the hellban, backfiring twitter campaigns, clickhole , Poe’s law , Kevin S...
The long-overdue, field-recorded episode from XOXO Fest 2014, episode 21 finds Josh and Jesse mostly in drunken snippets as we are subsumed into @xoxo , along the way joined variously by Matthew Bogart ( @matthewbogart ), Brad Sucks ( @bradsucks ), Phil Nelson ( @philnelson ), and Monk Funkster ( @jimmythehorn ) in situ....
What’s the score? Join Raaaaaaad Radley and co-host Chomp Wigglestein for another jaunt through A) a literal park, and possibly B) pandimensional space, for their celebrated long-running podcast Discourse on the Disc Course. Afterward, slip back into a more familiar dimension as Josh and Jesse chat about Beverly Crusher, Space Ghost, Gary Larson, and Bill (Hicks-)Keane. Finally, as an afterthought-slash-coup-de-grâce we blithely solve every remaining mystery in the universe including how sewers ...
“Instead of calling this Episode 19: Whatever We Said At The Beginning , we can call it Doritos Loaded Presents . They can’t stop us from putting that on there. You seem really uncomfortable.”
Airing this time after the subtle and sublime “That’s Beer In Your Eye” podcast, The Crapshoot returns with the same malarkey you’ve surely come to love and forgive us for, with Josh and Jesse spitballing about possibly-corporate-sponsored viral videos, video games and the growing renaissance of games that don’t revolve around point-and-kill mechanics or even around “fun” as a primary goal, necessarily, and about the upcoming XOXO 2014 conference which you, the listener, should confront us at, i...
After a bit of a delay, The Crapshoot is back (right after the fake podcast The Fake Podcast) with special guest and friend Eran Haas, also the regular In The Cut cohost. Conversational topics include (but are not limited to (and in no particular order)): – the champagne of beers – return on investment w/r/t free beer – cardigans – burrito ingredients – bourbon – just beer, like, generally – neuroses – teddy bears – stepping on cracks in the sidewalk – a Sisyphean undertaking in television calib...
Coming up on the tail of The Frugal Floutist, it’s episode 16 of The Crapshoot! This time, we talk about: having a cold, the aesthetics and classism of beer cans vs bottles, how to design bad t-shirts, binaural recordings, erudition, beer rhythm aka beer something, getting hung up on the idea of doing a thing instead of just doing it, crapchutes, and Jesse’s excellent rhino joke. Crowd participation question: what do you call the moon of a moon? Music this time out: the long-awaited, breath-bate...
