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In this bizarre episode, Greg & Stephen discuss Michael Ondaatje's terrific new novel Warlight. But only after a fierce debate about William Shatner's status as a cultural icon (and his musical chops). After Warlight, everything goes off the rails - midgets, little people, P Diddy, Mark Wahlberg, college admissions scandal...nothing is sacred!

No books today! Live from the Staples Center, Greg and Stephen discuss bucket lists, Greg's trip to Vietnam and Adam's House Cat. Hunga dunga!

Everybody is Greg in this episode. Greg and Stephen discuss dong, Stephen rants about donuts and the guys talk about Bangkok 8 by John Burdett.

Greg mourns Stephen's absence, does some housekeeping and listens to Warren Zevon.

Abandoning their [mostly kept] vow to avoid politics, and lacking a book to discuss, Greg & Stephen dive right into the deep and treacherous waters of the blackface controversy raging in Virginia. Greg feels guilty about falling for clickbait, the guys briefly discuss gene editing...and Stephen has no idea what music he listened to this week.

Stephen's weakest rant yet (vacuum cleaners, really?) precedes a discussion of the excellent French Exit by Patrick deWitt and a lively discussion about the music of The Cramps and Icelandic Christmas traditions (seriously!).

In this return after a 4 month hiatus, Greg & Stephen discuss A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (and The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing), Greg's top 5 albums of 2018, Joe Rogan and DMT and Greg's awful facial hair situation.

In this episode, Greg & Stephen discuss Virgin Soul, Judy Juanita's semi-autobiographical novel about reaching adulthood as part of the Blank Panther Party movement and navigating college and life as a black woman. And a Soupy Sales song leads Greg to a 70s band called Paris.

In this episode Greg & Stephen discuss Jennifer Egan's fantastic book A Visit From The Goon Squad, Greg gets strangely and disjointedly existential and comes up with some terrible ideas for preppers.

Greg & Stephen are back after a vacation break to discuss American Pastoral by Philip Roth, whether white dudes with dreadlocks are guilty of cultural appropriation and just general catching up.

In this episode Greg & Stephen talk about Hernan Diaz's fantastic In The Distance, a great Charley Crockett show and the World Cup. Condolences, Sweden!

In this episode Greg and Stephen discuss Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, their failure to feature women authors on the podcast and their inexplicable but much appreciated popularity in Scandinavia.

In this episode, Greg & Stephen talk about Kobo Abe's The Woman In The Dunes, Melanie Trump's jacket choices and Stephen's trip to Berlin.

Ep 18 - In this episode, Greg and Stephen discuss Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the true story of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Also, Stephen bullies Greg quite a bit in this episode.

In this episode, Greg & Stephen go off the rails. Without a book to discuss, there is nothing to prevent endless perversion and fantasizing.

This week, Greg and Stephen discuss Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, what Greg is listening to (because no one cares what Stephen is listening to) and, finally, they go on their first political rant. Great fun was had by all.

This week Greg & Stephen talk about Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys (another great read), Buddhism, meditation and the fact that sometimes a tuba's just a tuba!

In this episode Greg & Stephen talk about Pan by Knut Hamsun, Childish Gambino, Jason Isbell and Shostakovich. Great book, highly recommended.

Someone please break the tie for what book we will read for Episode 15! In this episode, Greg & Stephen talk about Yann Martel's High Mountains of Portugal, Neil Young, the Nazi assholes at Facebook, Stephen's Dean Martin dream and endowment for the arts.

This sweeping episode covers several books and is NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Even if you're a hooker! We talk about Thelonious Monk, Sherman Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, George Orwell's 1984, Louise Penny and taints...there is a lot of taint talk in this episode.