This one is a biggie and worth the wait: Josh and Jesse spend a massive double-dose of a podcast talking with comics artist Matthew Bogart , about among other things his comics work including the wonderful in-progress story Oh, it’s the end of the world . But also: the comics narrative process! The importance of linework and the value (and difficulty) of doing more with less! Whether or not children taunted Matt with yogurt-based insults on the playground! Things that 9-volt batteries are like! ...
Apr 08, 2014•2 hr 39 min
On right after everybody’s favorite serial space western radio program, this Crapshoot sees Josh and Jesse chattering alone together about things like: how to not be a bummer when someone at the supermarket asks you how your day is; how to not be a dickhole at a rock show if you’re in one of the bands; how Christopher Walken talks; the ins and outs of sleeping in your car; and, probably, beer.
Mar 13, 2014•1 hr 19 min
Jesse’s actual factual flesh-and-blood this-is-not-Josh-making-a-joke-about-moms mom comes by for a very special episode of The Crapshoot. We talk about all kinds of things: Lakeport, CA; Jesse being such a handsome boy; Josh’s whole thing with the mom jokes; how depending on how you look at it the whole world is basically fucked; and book stores. And more! Music this time out: three thin parodies Josh recorded while snowed in in Portland.
Feb 11, 2014•1 hr 25 min
This time out on the Crapshoot (on right after Judith’s brother’s show, What’s That Song ), Josh and Jesse drink their tonics and gins and discuss: apologies! Car name demographics! Jesse’s mom being a penisologist! Segways! Josh’s obsession with the word butts! Etc! In the process we cautiously recommend to each other the avant-garde de/reconstructive Wizard People, Dear Reader , Son of Strelka, Son of God , and Alex Trebek Has Gone Completely Insane . Jesse also volunteers Josh to sing songs a...
Feb 01, 2014•1 hr 31 min
We sit down with Portland nerd Chris Barker and talk about old Mac hardware, the conceptual framework of New Years resolutions, and the fact that Josh has a beard. And we finally discuss Sugar Bush Squirrel .
Jan 16, 2014•1 hr 31 min
Right after the Fun 4 Kidz Podcast Gaming Hour (that Sammy Sparkles always makes me smile), it’s the triumphant 2014 return of The Crapshoot. Josh and Jess enjoy a few Spaten Optimators and talk job stuff (Jesse’s end-of-year retail madness and Josh’s terrible old out-going market research call center job), the danger of promising to meet a deadline in public, Josh’s pathological affection for clothes he didn’t originally like, xmas cards, Axl Rose, Jesse being a bad person, Sugar Bush Squirrel ...
Jan 08, 2014•1 hr 32 min
Back after a short holiday delay, Josh and Jesse drink some Occidental Lucubrator and talk about timbre (“tamber!”), the language of mathematics, the taxonomy of first kisses, how much Guns ‘n Roses suck, how thoroughly time flies, etc.
Dec 09, 2013•1 hr 24 min
Right after Let’s Talk Turkey sports radio with Bill Williams, we’ve got an at least semi-rowdy Crapshoot this week, snagging touring San Francisco rock fella Conan Neutron for a bunch of beery basement chatter about music, podcasts, failing effectively, being stuck in traffic, fucking with Karl Rove, wacky morning DJs, guest lists, and loads more. Also the computer keeps crashing. One has to presume this is the result of Conan’s animal magnetism. We talk about, along with everything else, Conan...
Nov 30, 2013•1 hr 33 min
This week (right after the 80s sitcom nostalgiacast Whatcha Walken About, Willis ), Josh and Jesse sit down sans guest to talk about, among other things: “hipster” as an aesthetic category vs. hipster as an insult, Cold Smoke Scotch Ale from Missoula, Montana, creative freedom and creative paralysis, Josh’s Ferengi Express game project, contemporary free-to-play games as an evolution of 80s arcade coin-guzzler mechanics, Deep Space Nine, the high cost of high warp, the danger of concretizing uni...
Nov 21, 2013•1 hr 22 min
Hot on the tail of The Breaking Styrofoam Hour, this week’s Crapshoot is a special king-sized edition because we just couldn’t stop talking to XOXO conference founder Andy “waxy” Baio , possibly because he got us drunk on some really bad booze. Clever play. We pick Andy’s brain about all kinds of stuff (it helps that he’s done all kinds of stuff, not least including helping build Kickstarter , creating the interactive fiction community/toolset PlayFic , building the now-sadly-shuttered Upcoming....
Nov 14, 2013•1 hr 48 min
On right after math quiz podcast One In A Million , this is our Jesses From Ukiah special, with our guest this time being Jesse Brennan , a now-Portlander from the same California hometown as co-host Jesse Holden. We dig into sketchy yardsale recording setups, improvised art, the merits of reaching vs. grasping creatively, Brennan’s Frope, It’s Not Saturday project, dealing with internet comments, computers as consumption vs. creation devices, the torture of remembering that you forgot an idea, ...
Nov 08, 2013•1 hr 10 min
On right after One, Two, Three, Foooore! Golf For Beginners , it’s our fourth episode of The Crapshoot, with Josh and Jesse kibitzing about a whole cornucopia of topics: being bad at multitasking, delusions of grandeur, accidental Vincent Price impressions, how cats are stupider than people, accidentally racist pre-tweens, pop culture spoilers vs. directors’ cuts, making eggs inside toast holes, corner pocket cup holders, stealing fortune cookies, etc. Music this time is a couple more short song...
Oct 31, 2013•1 hr 6 min
This time on The Crapshoot (airing right after the debut/finale episode of the Words That Rhyme With Orange podcast), we sit down with an actual Canadian , visiting Ottowan musician Brad Turcotte, who has for years now been making catchy-as-hell music under the moniker Brad Sucks . We managed to snag Brad for some beers and BSing on his very first visit to Portland, in town for the second ever XOXO conference; we ply him for thoughts on his musical career, his coding projects from back in the da...
Oct 24, 2013•1 hr 14 min
In our sophomore outing (on right after Kent’s Catcast), it’s just your two cohosts, drinking beer and tackling a bunch of life’s tough questions, like: do kids know what a CRT is? What will 30th century anthropologists make of podcasts about Hellraiser? How do you do a mixtape right? What’s the deal with indie video games? And, hey, could a person standing on the moon throw a baseball into the sun? And a lot more. Remember Myst? We do. We talk about that a bit. Bumper music this time is a few o...
Oct 17, 2013•1 hr 8 min
In our debut episode of The Crapshoot, we sit down and bullshit for an hour with local comedian, writer, and world champion palindromist Mark Saltveit about sentences that go backwards AND forwards, his new football philosophy book The Tao of Chip Kelly , what a big screwup Upton Sinclair was, and how none of us seem to know how to pronounce words correctly. We also workshop a joke, make some questionable “eagle” puns, hear Mark’s palindroming origin story, and develop the first thumbnail sketch...
Oct 08, 2013•1 hr 7 min
