“Robbed Orgasm” – Kindred Spirits (e9) ፨

Kindred Spirits – e9

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We’re back! In this episode—recorded on the 24th of October 2025—John Anthony and I spake of things such as:

• The Perils of Audience Capture – a phenomenon I try to avoid (along with platform capture—or any capture, really)
• “How to Make Podcasts That Aren’t Extremely Boring” – advice from SXSW that JA and I thoroughly, enthusiastically, vehemently reject
• The virtues of friction and mess (as distinct from the cold, clinical, frictionless and stupefying ease offered by The Machine)
• “You can tell it’s good because you have a slight authenticity hangover”
• Trickster-teaching instinct
• Cultivating an awareness of one’s own allergies
• “Prior Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance” (or does it?)
• What to do when a person you have long admired releases a brilliant essay series of the same title as the book you have been writing (as I wrote of recently)
• Collective unconsciousness
• The three things you need to be able to dream
• Sly, detached, curious, and amused (regarding “goals”)
• Directionality over destination
• I sneak a little Plotkin into the mix
• The FAKE AD returns!!
• It’s “both-both-and-and-either-or-AND-neither-nor”
• A twist-and-pop-and-slosh!
• I sample one of the best whiskies I have ever tasted—The 18yo Allardice by Glendronach
• The Incredible Power of Korean Pear Juice
• Plus all the Bad Advice™ you’ve come to love from us

This episode—as all episodes—was an absolute delight to record. We hope you enjoy it too, dear kindred spirit. 🧡