Thousands* of you wrote to us asking for Election Day guidance. Sadly, we don’t have time to evaluate every candidate in every race. Instead, we commissioned the handy YLNT Voter’s Guide you’ll find below. We recommend you print it onto waterproof paper, fold it into a tiny square, and hide it in your mouth as you enter the voting booth. Of course, this simple checklist can’t cover every scenario. But we did try to make our guidelines as broadly applicable as possible: VO...
Oct 28, 2008•37 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast FIRST: Nose harmony, quarters, who’s Capote now?, “He plays you better than you play you,” layers of latex, latchkey ontologies, start shooting your stock scenes now, one water ski or two? AND THEN: Out-browed, back when it was called Mr. Owl, shared entendres, the recurring mint, each table represents a different decade, a full sparkly thong, Assumption never gets enough of the churning butter jokes, reverse garage sales. Photo: Jorge Luis Borges Coin by TheAlieness GiselaGiar...
Oct 16, 2008•46 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast You’ve just hopped on the #17 Express and must quickly decide where to sit. In the back of the bus, four teenagers have staked their claim to a dozen seats. An old woman sits next to an open, delicately balanced bag of cat food. Up front, fumes rise from a guy who’s picking his teeth with what might be a knife. So where do you sit? If you’ve got your trusty YLNT SeatFinder , decisions like this are a snap. Also: Changin’ gears, basic stranger strategy, Adam eats alone, th...
Oct 09, 2008•29 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Now* accepting applications for the Class of 2016! Sample from our wide range of available courses, including Sociology 102: Shaving, Chemistry 206: Principles of Muskmaking, and Techniques in Silent Disdain. Independent study credit (read: drinking alone) is also available. Listen to the episode for lots of exciting announcements regarding our Guest Lecturer series. Remember: early applicants get the good nicknames! Also: Why stereotype when you can monotype? The robot/cameltoe axis, Birth of a...
Sep 30, 2008•30 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast The parenting of negligence, things you didn’t know about gas stations, ancient aphorisms, tethered to a key, you go in and stay there until you have wisdom, They’ve Got It!, blue sky pie in the sky, Adam tries a little culture jam, Sunday morning habits, hot spring best practices, paddle balls, Erotic Rosary II, your first time at Uggo’s. Photo: twocentsworth, Dubai Skyline No. 2 (Detail)...
Sep 16, 2008•29 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Sandwich smiles into the mouthpiece, teenage telemarketing salad days, LonelyWear’s autumn line, the secret of our success (at Macy’s), ham symphony, Karl gets fired from the Geek Squad, acquaintance on final approach, face school. Important questions raised by this episode: There were no important questions raised by this episode. Photo: Photocapy, Canned Ham (Detail)...
Sep 09, 2008•41 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast We’re back from summer break full of something and something. Expect weekly episodes until it’s time for fall break. Or early September break. Break! Pilaf games, the myth of women and computers, retroplagiarism can happened to you, young butlers in high demand, 20s sex ed film, prespooling and the origins of the Industrial Revolution.
Sep 02, 2008•23 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Down and out in Улаанбаатар (sorry, Mongolia!), remembrance of fights past, rampant on a field of Wheat Chex, stickin’ with the quadrupeds, Adam’s almost assaulted, don’t flog Detroit’s dead horse, the MySpace Generation has nothing to lose, guac attack. Photo: John Carter, Slow Train (Detail)...
Jul 29, 2008•35 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Sit back, relax, mix yourself an Aunt Nancy but don’t cross the swords. We’re coloncasting over at bandaid1995.com. ¿Esto debería estar en el recipiente de correo? Body (Not) Movin’.
Jul 18, 2008•27 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Unhealthy ligatures, a course of Prednisone, “I’m not following you!”, obscure chess moves, smoking for the cure, misused orifices, we pass as nosies, Karl Van Hœt.
Jul 08, 2008•33 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded live at the Dark Room Theater in San Francisco. Don’t miss lots of great photos from the event. Desperate for funds, we explore opening a restaurant. Along the way, Sandwich cries in the bathroom, Merlin sings a song, and Scott gets some information wrong. But, in the end, we think we’ve got a pretty lucrative restaurant franchise on our hands. The first Baby on a Dog will open in Butte, MT, in 2012. Bring the family on Wednesdays for Awkward Discussion of Politics Across Ge...
Jul 02, 2008•40 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Parental interference and other awkwardtunities, pie vs invisibilty, how Adam will die, Tuesdays with Tom Waits, Wisdom Experience guaranteed, another factory closes (bagpipe soundtrack).
Jun 23, 2008•35 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast How do your socks feel about it?, a new kind of retail experience, Sandwich knows his Douglas Firs, Farewell to Tight (actually The Sun Also Tights), white shoes, Los Altos Rancho Vista Wi’z, dippin’ dots, our favorite indie bands.
Jun 12, 2008•41 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast So sorry!, the oxygen lobby, doin’ the Skokie, Wallet-on-Chain is not a town in England, Sean Connery is Japanese, What’s your latte name?, pre-disposable feminine hygiene, @ EffingBoring gets the carnation.
Jun 02, 2008•38 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Doing the fishstick, Sacks-Minnelli Disease, on the logical possibility of a cool fannypack, who’s your frelative?, “A Touch of Asperger’s”, social pressure at work (show your support for Dennis), what’s your standing O face?.
May 21, 2008•45 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Sheriff’s got a posse, Clarence the barber (and his balls), the benenemafits of a Fleet-based regimen, the grapefruit and bacon diet, Neti pots and other 100% legitimate remedies.
May 12, 2008•32 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Jamón y jabón, computerized career counseling, nicaragua@nicaragua.nicaragua, Sandwich does the Boogie Oogie, skating to college, Checkin’ Out!, Angus Young-brand smelling salts.
May 06, 2008•44 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast On Being Boring, crazy meat, Merlin knows how to build a team, Lonely Spacecamp, Clooney trumps Hill but both beat you, Encounters with Celebrity, nickel bags of chocolate, a fowl deposition, the Tony Danza Story.
Apr 29, 2008•47 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast "Oh my God: you GUYS!"; Scott sports vomit; Merlin raises a Predator; Scott has a hair theory about ladies who sing; Merlin calls for a National Day of Goatee Reconsideration; Adam moves into the nascent pubic wig vertical; The Boys crave new custom uniforms; Rocket Scientists come up with stuff; Carnation goes to @ Remiel .
Apr 21, 2008•45 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Sign up for SNARE!, Ol’ Grandpa Mann’s Phlegmatic/Bucolic Humour Balancing Apparatus, the magical beards of junior high, receiving pleasure for money, The Nerdiest Photographs in the World.
Apr 14, 2008•31 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Merlin looks for cashews, Allan Holdsworth saves a kitten, Scott licks shiny faces, “arrested developments” in Adam’s pants, Elvis gives away trailers like they were moon pies, Scott plugs into the baptismal, and @ Moltz wins our first carnation.
Apr 09, 2008•42 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Cosby takes the Queen to a dunk tank, office resources sparingly allocated, sponsors intimidated. Assorted loofah-related incidents.
Apr 04, 2008•27 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast 
