John tells some personal stories on The Omnibus that are relevant for this Wiki. They are listed here in one go because not every episode warrants its own Wiki page:

• Episode 3: John finished a ski race in a different heat than he started (see RL157)
• 5: John was working at a bank (see Employment History)
• 11: John was on an USO tour in Niger (see BW205 in Shows and Events)
• 33: John's family are late breeders (see RL261 in Family)
• 34: The Authenticity Wars in Indie Rock (see RL276, RW98)
• 35: John's time at Gonzaga (see RW90, RW72)
• 36: Vito the cat (see RW89)
• 37: John's dog Barney 1975 (see RW40), dog trouble, John's mom raising Borzois (see RL221), one of them called Gibson (see RL293)
• 38: Hamburger Hamburger Band Bang (see RL177)
• 39: John running strings to turn the lights and TV on and off, between 7th/8th grade (see RL185)
• 41: John's pronunciation of "everybody"
• Episode 42: John playing D&D in Junior High, working in a pizza parlor in his early 20s, being the assistant manager of a bar called The Off Ramp (see RL287)
• 43: John collecting his mom's makeup between age 6-9, John is of Welsh descend and not Scottish as their grandfather told them (see RW63)
• 45: John's dad was a basketball player in High School with many Japanese players who all showed up at his funeral. John's uncle Jack was a professional football player for the Chicago Bears (see Family).
• 52: John got a TV from his mom
• 55: John has two sisters named Susan, Outward Bounds (see Subscriptions are eels in RL160, RW38) renamed to The Voyageurs the year John was there, Fur Rendezvous in Alaska (see RW57)
• 56: John’s parents were interested in cars, they had matching Crysler Convertibles in the 1960s, they would race them and hers was hotter, John’s mom was in a club for foreign sports cars (see RW112), they lived in rural Kitsap County, John’s skin is very resistant to sunburning,
• 58: John’s songwriting process (see CS77), song lyrics, Hamburger Hamburger Bang Bang (see RL177), John’s daughter is imitating foreign languages (see RL177), Sasha Frere-Jones
• 59: Vintage Hawaiian shirts (see RL230), John likes berry pies but no cherry pies (see RW38, RW70), John's brother being an Orchardist (see RW47, RW101)
• 60: Firestone Tweet Storm (see Tweetstorm)
• 61: John got a free plane ticket from Alaskan Airlines when he graduated from High School in 1986 (see RW81), John programming in MS DOS, Alaska Permanent Fund (see HH8)
• 62: Around 2008 John dated a girl who worked for Kevin Sudeith, finding and exporting War Rugs (see RL69). Hitler Watercolor paintings (see RL91)
• 63: John knew Kay Fanning personally. John was called a "reader" meant in a derogatory way, an epithet outside of a club in San Antonio by the band Carissa's Weird.
• Episode 65: John saved all his love letters, John's pilot's license (see RL25)
• 66: John is pro-racoon (see RW16), he doesn't like greasy fingers and will go out of his way to never be served an unpeeled shrimp
• 67: John's mom made $50.000 a year, which put them in upper middle class. They had been poor growing up. Ken talks about being on Jeopardy. John got arrested in the 1980s by an Alaska park ranger (see RL305). One Juggalo cut his ear off in a dare. Money is fake
• 68: John would be available as head of CIA. John doesn't like to take calls
• 70: Paul Allen's helipad yacht (see RW16). John getting free food, coffee and bed-sheets from swag bags (see RW55).
• 71: In Anchorage you could buy black powder at Fred Meyers (see RW84 in Early Days), John was very interested in explosives when he was young
• 73: John dated a young lady who was into crosswords and on Sunday mornings they would do the New York Times crosswords in bed. John working at a news stand (see Employment History). When John was touring, a fan made custom crosswords for them.
• 74: John's dad was WWII supply pilot in South East Asia, John's doesn't like to travel places where he really stands out, e.g. Asia
• 75: John demanding satisfaction at the Northface store (see RL14 on The Big Walk). Ken tells the story about his allegedly fake Barnes & Noble coupon
• 76: John wrote one of his album for a girl he dated, but who was not into his music. John at the Conference of World Affairs in Colorado (see RW91).
• Episode 77: Running of the bulls in Pamplona, visiting the World Trade Center (see OJR,RL259), walking through the Whittier train tunnel, John cutting his own hair (see RW86), John is ringing his bell (see RL41) for the first time on this podcast.
• 79: John is 6’3” (190cm), National Lampoon’s European Vacation movie, John only wanted to enter Paris at the head of a column of tanks. John’s mom disparagingly calling Napoleon for Bonaparte (see RL261), her family settled in Ohio during Napoleon's reign. Liberté, égalité, genderneutralité
• Episode 80: John identifying with the counter-culture of the 1960s when he was young, John selling bombs in school (see RW42, RW84, RL180)
• 81: Two High Schools in Anchorage with mascots Thunderbirds and Eagles, John’s eyebrows are invisible but turning into wizard eyebrows and his sister is offended by that, John was precocious in elementary school and learned all the bones in the body to correct the teacher, they then gave him independent studies and let him read Tale of two Cities (see RW109 and RL186)
• 82: John can’t eat grapefruit because it interfears with his Bipolar medicine (see RL283, RL277), John tested the dating site The League (see RW104)
• 83: John being a bad tour manager for his band, Buenos Aires hotel was full (see RL41), John not flying United (see TYFC), John likes to sweet-talk ladies behind the counter, John's box with little boxes, John saving all his old concert tickets, Computer science is a trade and not a science (see RL155), Bees eating dead bugs off the tour van (see RL150)
• Episode 85: John's uncle Al Rochester brought the world's fair to Seattle in 1962, John's daughter asks a question in the Q&A
• 87: John's great-grandfather (from his mother's side) was a mail carrier and a farmer in Ohio, John has kept a lot of romance letters, some of them scented or on purple stationary, email is too easy to edit, before you had to think hard how to finish that sentence (see SH85)
• 88: John's history with dancing, John's daughter had fake spider bites, John's mom being an early adopter of the idea of UFOs in the 1930s, Time is a flat circle
• Episode 89: Music banter, guitar picks, John’s daughter is forbidden to date a skater (see RD2016), John’s animist culture (see Objects), John’s dad’s Japanese friends, John trying to hitchhike across the Sahara
• 91: John’s mom winning a prize at the Ohio State Fair in 1944 for her insect collection as part of a 4-H
• Episode 93: Sleep (see Sleep), John's pillows turned to owls (see RL26), John walking around his perimeter in a bathrobe with a sword,
• 94: John has a geographic tongue with fissures, the dress looks golden/white to John, John's superpower would be to make people involuntarily defecate (see RW50)
• Episode 95: John is Welsh, not Scottish (see RW63), many other stories, see entry page
• 96: John always wanted to be called Peter
• Episode 97: John loved 4th of July and Halloween (see RW94) when he was young, people in John's family believe in reincarnation (see RL220), John's dad worked for JFK but didn't like Robert, when John said "pshaw" his dead heard "Piss off!" (see AL22618), John was dating a teenage Annette Funicello and was not into Mia Farrow, John buried his homework (see RW42)
• Episode 99: John’s mom’s boyfriend in 1977, John is not a fan of things, John’s first Walkman, plane crashes, woofers and tweeters, John’s grizzled and shop-worn Indie Rocker look
• 100: John was into Austrian art from the end of the 19th century, discussion if depression medication dulls your inspiration (see Depression)
• 101: John's family were lawyers (see Family), John's dream of inheriting from a rich uncle, John is a descendant of George Churchill, Tale of two cities (see RW109), Snuff in High School (see RL168) and at a cocktail party, Billionaires are boring (see RW16)
• 102: John working in a goldmine in Arctic Circle Springs (see RW119 in Employment History), John living near Merrill Field airport (see HH8 and OM65)
• 103: John does not eat potatoes (see RL185), except with gravy (see RL301), John has been to all 50 states (see RW42), John had a GMC RV, Kentucky Colonels (see RL267)
• 104: John’s mom grew up on a farm in Ohio (see RL220 or Parents), she will pronounce pumpkin as ”pun’kin”, John had his Christmas stockings up all year (see RL162), John’s brother Bart (see Family) started to post videos of choral music on Facebook. For different pumpkin-spiced foods see also this episode of the Top 4 podcast.
• Episode 105: Coldplay and Elliott Smith (see RL125), Uber-corporate legal policy (see RL308), John excusing his daughter from school (see RW81, RW82, RL259), John at a religious festival in Gherla (Transylvania), John does not use the Mercator Projection, John was King Neptune, Woofers and Tweeters
• Episode 106: Scrappy Doo (see RW106), John watching cartoons on Saturday mornings as a kid (maybe see RW41, RW106), John's daughter loves Mr Rogers (see RW106 as well), John's brother Bart (Family) was like King Friday, John playing with Train sets (RL284) and GI Joes (see RW41), Reference to "What is a hoe?", John taking Molly Ringwald to the prom (see RL233), someone hiring Beyoncé for their daughter's birthday party (see RW74)
• 107: John's motorcycle trip (see RL300), John being a Rugby player (see RL48), John's dad's coldest winter was a summer in San Francisco (mentioned in RL296), John's ancestors being late breeders, The Beatles, History repeats the old conceits (Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief), Ken knows the position of every letter in his head, encoding a message on a stick, storms on the West Coast 1998/99, Learning somebody else's song (see RW127), bands having teleprompters, The Beatles
• 108: Ken’a Story in Korea, John having a geographic tongue, Ping Pong, How Ken met his wife
• 109: John missed the sexual revolution, John’s family is prepared for the apocalypse (see RW69 and RW78)
• Episode 110: John's sister was a massive Duran Duran fan (see RL184 in Family), Alaska Permanent Fund (see HH8), John's sister buying a Juno-106 synthesizer (see RW114), John's sister buying a Nagel print
• Episode 111: John using a silver ingot as a door stop (see RL273), John keeping a bunch of blown-out jeans (see RL230, RL255, RL69 and Style), Superstitions (see Conspiracy), ad-hominem/strawmen/correlation not equal causation/begs the question (see RW64), John's trip to Fex, Morocco where somebody equated everybody in the group to animals, rooster in John's neighborhood (see RW117, also RL218), wasp inside of John's motorcycle helmet (see RL250, RL158 in Motorcycle), John's dad in the hospital before his death (see John's dad in Parents), John's life hat (see RW101, RW133)
• Episode 112: John's grandfather and grandmother met in WWI, she wrote an autobiography called A Nightingale in the Trenches (see RD2016, FF44), Blimp Warfare, John getting Welsh Rarebit for his birthday and for Christmas (see RL271), John doesn’t like fruit cakes and candid fruit, but Ken does, "It's that whole week between" (reference to John's Christmas album)
• Episode 113: John's, Ken's, Ken's children's and John's daughter's relationship with Santa and Christmas (see partly RL271), John spending Christmas in the Netherlands, The history of Santa Claus, John's dad was working for the Kennedy campaign in 1960
• Episode 114: Computer maths, Deconstructionism/Post-modernism
• 115: Coming through the rye, Hoarfrost in Alaska, Maine is the Alaska of New England, "Yes with an if, no with a but", Letter from Thomas Edison Roderick (see RW132), going to the prom with Aimee Adams or Anne Hathaway
• Episode 116: John's dad had a private train car (see RL25), John in East Berlin when the wall went down (see RL238), Rochester is named after John's ancestor Nathaniel Rochester, "Shucky darn and slop the chickens" (see RL237)
• Episode 117: John's dad loved sports (see Parents), Uncle Jack was a professional Football Player in the 1940s (see Family), Fraternities, Dylan Jennings' dating life, Fantasy Football, people with famous names, The Roderick Stool
• Episode 118: "No more wire hangers ever!" (Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest), John is an anachronism compared to his daughter's peers' parents, John's family being late breeders (see RL261 in Family)
• Episode 119: Tomboy child stars (see RL305), Bugsy Malone (see RL252), Superpowers (see RW50), John's dad's ashes (see RW47), Dumbo (see RL158), Time Travel (see RW5)
• Episode 120: Devil Woman, Convoy, John's favorite songs from his childhood, Hitchhiking with a trucker
• Episode 121: John never visited Iceland because of some twist with a music festival, John never went to Australia, Japan is not a fan of The Long Winters, how the band name came to be, "The 472 laws of Roderickism", the ouroboros of voting
• 122: John on USO tour in Africa (see Shows and Events), Spooky action at a distance
• 123: John at Ken's Christmas party with Sauerbraten, Writing letters to celebrities, John writing to Lynn Johnston (see RL299), Cutting trail (see RL48)
• 124: John's mom not wanting to bake for bake sales (see RL256), Icing somebody (see RL220), John's dad won gold medals in ski racing because he was the only one in his age group over 80, "Run it up the flag pole and see who salutes", John being 6'4" and 250 pounds (see RL93), John's daughter's friend being a skater (see OM89)
• 125: 7-sided lighthouse made of dreams, John's mom bought him a book Joy of Sex, Ken going to sex-ed with his son at Seattle Children's Hospital Puberty and Maturation Class, John's mom hiding Playboy and Playgirl in his encyclopedias, John being expelled from Gonzaga (see RW90), John doing community service in the library instead of going to Anchorage city jail for some trumped-up thing.
• Episode 126: John's and Ken's introduction to Rock music, The history of Progressive Rock
• 127: John doing a little bit of mountaineering when he was young, John forging his geometry homework (see RW42), Denali filling your whole field of vision (see RW107, HH8), The Dead Zone is the 4th month of John's relationships.
• Episode 128: John's mom was a computer programmer (see RW38, RW106), John has a geographic tongue (see OM94), Bush pilots in Alaska (see RL9, RL244), John graduating last in High School (see KPJR1, RL178, RW84, RW90 and RL313), John knowing Yoko Ono's makeup artist, Floyd and Hortense
• Episode 129: John’s thoughts on leaving everything behind, Every day carry (see Keeping a small bag packed), John on USO tour (see Shows and Events), Exclusive dating sites The League (see RW104, OM82)
• Episode 130: John’s history with hopping freight trains, Hobo culture
• 131: Run for office, Kentucky colonel (see RL267, OM103), John's dad wanted to be called spider, John's High School nickname (see RL261), uncles who switched their names from John to Jack (see Family), What to do with $7 million (see RL55)
• Episode 132: Bands named after food, Ken’s anchestors, John’s mom’s farm history in Ohio, John's mom looked like Doris Day (see Parents)
• 133: Juggalos, John’s trip to Hawaii in 2019 (see RL324, RL325, RW140)
• 134: John has played shows in Philadelphia many times
• Episode 135: John's sex life (see Personal Development), about getting married, not being a big media consumer, not being a fan of things (see RL11), John's mom looked like Grace Kelly (see Parents), John's daughter getting her nails done, Ken crashing a car because his wife had a bad haircut
• Episode 136: Supertrain, John at the Seattle garbage dump (see RW80), Ozone Layer (see RW120), John’s mom hates birds, insects and scientists, John worked at a news stand (see Employment History), Having a garbage recycling machine in the kitchen (see RL164)
• Episode 137: John's mom painting John's porch, John's mom being a healthy woman, John walking his daughter to school (see RL305, RL322), Ken's mom looking for tasks for herself, Millennial Girlfriend (see Friends), Elysium (see RW48), Peter Thiel (see RL245), JoCo Cruise 2019 (see RL328)
• Episode 138: Ken's egg cracking skills, John not being good at cooking steak (see RL266), John being the short-order cook at The Off Ramp during the Grunge years (see Employment History), "Hash after the bash", JoCo Cruise 2019 (see RL328), Food Safety (see FS108), Millennial Girlfriend had a lot of diplomas on the wall (see RW113, RL270), penis-shaped skyscraper in Seattle (see RW102, RL275)
• 139: John's trip to Hawaii in 2019 (see RL324, RL325, RW140), comic books (see Comics), Ellen Forney (Seven in '75), living in Kingston as a little kid, knitted toilet roll covers, John's dad had a Crysler LHS in green, John's friend Mike (Squires) is colorblind (see RL293), John was courting a member of the Rock scene who was then married a person called Indigo, John's bell is orange (see Bell), John played Agamemnon in the Oresteia, John is missing a front tooth again, John having a geographic tongue (see OM94, OM128)
• 140: Interstate Highway System, John's trip across the US after High School, Peanut M&Ms (see RW101, RL118, RW131)
• 141: Pronunciation of "The Cloud" with a Scottish accent, John's teacher said encyclopaëdia, John's relative was Paul Allen's librarian, John is friends with the painter Scott Musgrove, John having seen only two dead bodies
• 142: John being measured shorter (see RL93), John at Outward Bounds (see RL160 in Subscriptions are Eels), John not getting a couple of comic books (see RL168), John's imaginary torture chamber (see RL180 in Dreams and Fantasies)
• 143: John on a jet ski during a cruise seeing Pablo Escobar's mansion, Supervillains in the 1980s, gateway drugs
• 144: John being able to fall down dramatically in his 20s (see RL326), John learned skiing in Washington before he moved to Alaska (see RD2016), John's dad worked for JFK (see OM97), John's sister was a nationally ranked downhill skier (see RW73), transitioned to snowboarding before it became professionalized, John went to a Metallica concert with Tommy Moe (see RL326, RD2016), John's 2019 trip to Whistler (see RL326), ski shop was not allowed to adjust John's old ski bindings (see RL311)
• 146: Petticoat Junction (see RL183), Strip Clubs in Alaska, John being in the cocaine side of Rock, John and his daughter at Twin Peaks
• 147: John has met Ted Danson at the Bored To Death wrap party, Sarah Silverman, PC Culture, Punching up/Punching down, John being gay-adjacent in the 1990s
• Episode 148: "How big is a moose?", John's encounter with a porcupine, "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
• 149: John's first email was hotrod at capitolhill.net, John's sister is born on January 13th, John is born on Friday September 13th
• Episode 151: John's experiences with hotel in general and for his band in particular (see BW205), getting into a room at the Anchorage Sheraton and ordering room service (see RL267), unpacking in hotel room (see OM93, John was the newspaper boy in the play The Hot I Baltimore in the late 1970s
• 152: Seeing a guy with a dancing bear in a café in Stara Zagora in Bulgaria, John knew a girl with a hybrid wolf puppy that grew to be double her size
• Episode 153: John and Susan getting different number of Christmas presents, Ken's children being picky eaters, Food safety talk (see FS108), John tweeting at Doritos and receiving huge package, Firestone and Hilton tweetstorm (see Tweetstorm)
• Episode 155: Being the smartest kid in school, John's first bands The Truly Awful Band and Chautauqua (see RL313), Speaking multiple languages
• Episode 156: Love for stationary, Ken and John's mom being left-handed people, getting stickers in school, John being called a Boomer (Generations)
• Episode 157: Ken and John as Tintin and Captain Haddock, Spooky Action at a Distance, the Reindeer in Anchorage
• Episode 158: Ken's and John's relationship with music, The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night (see RL118, RL342)
• 159: John wants to rule the world, John's neighbor working with sewers giving him items he dug up, John's friendly beef with Colin Meloy
• 161: John's mom being left-handed, John loves to write cursive, John has 5 typewriters including one that writes cursive (see RL160, RW106)
• 162: John's 3rd grade teacher giving them imaginary money (see RW7, RW52, RW84), walking across Romania during plum season and gathering plums, John's daughter fighting over maraschino cherries, John bringing Hodgman a jar of maraschino cherries the first time he visited his house.
• 163: John got a little sea turtle dish for his keys (see RL188), #Aloha (see Hawaii), John's best friend from High School was from Tonga.
• 164: Ken lives near Aurora Ave, John wet the bed until he was 8 years old, John's sister practicing woo woo new age philosophies, "You should blow a Didgeridoo at your Root Chakra!" (crude sexual insult), John dropping out of college for a year in 1989, John living in his mom's garage.
• 165: John doesn’t want his photos on SnapChat to disappear (see RW52), The Internet was invitation only, but John was not invited, John showing his daughter Star Wars (see RL332), John has never seen the prequels, The Who vs The Rolling Stones
• 166: John was a nerd in Grade School and preferred talking to adults, John reading Time Magazine, John being a founding artist on the JoCo Cruise, John at Comic-Con with Adam Savage, John spending time with George R. R. Martin, Comics
• 167: Ken can read IPA pronunciations in realtime, John sitting on Santa's lap at Frederick & Nelson in 1975
• 169: John's family being Welsh, John reading books about sleep (see RL279), John's relative was Paul Allen's librarian (see OM141), John dated a girl who spoke Enochian when she was super-mad, John talking with his doctors about his prostate and his dad talking about it with his friends all the time, John only goes on Facebook to look at the Futurelings or Gary's Van
• 170: John wanting a McDonalds Cheeseburger in Park Slope but being stopped by the self-checkout machine, John in Arad (Romania) in 1999, John wanting to go to Australia (see RL187)
• Episode 171: Happy Hours during John's drinking years, John's mom's Ohio prejudices (see RL261), John's and Ken's families being Southerners, John's mom's coworkers
• 172: Behold a pale horse (see RL250), Flyer culture (see RW152), John's relationship with his guidance counsellor (see Personal Development, RL17, RL243), Universal Life Church, John officiated 15-18 weddings
• 173: John is a map and globe collector, John reading National Geographic, John traveled a lot in the pre-phone days, John having atlases for every year since the mid-1980s, one time a dog took John's atlas into the pig's die, John and Ken can draw a map with the US states from memory, John hated doing proves in geometry class, Computer-programming is an art, not a science!
• 174: Eating cold Spaghetti-O out of a can, John didn't know a microwave until he was 10, John trip to Chicago less than a week ago
• 175: The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan's vaudeville show going accross America in a GMC RV, John having a revelation in the moonlight and getting sober (see KPJR2), John's cousin Sella insulting his piano (see RL294)
• Episode 176: John will pronounce the Moog synthesizer incorrectly around lay people (see RL237), Jesuits (John went to Gonzaga), John became a silver bug when he was 12 years old, John's mom being 85 years old gets away with murder and will get right into a kid's face
• 177: John having beginner's luck as a pool player in Romania, John's daughter being impossible to photograph and her "selfie" from 1st grade, money is fake
• 178: A couch blocking the culvert when John was 7 years old
• 179: Golden hat of Berlin and Schifferstadt, John was in Berlin when the wall went down in 1989 (see RL238), John having a forged Eurail pass, Ken's wife living in East Berlin in 1990 in a former Stasi listening post, John at a nudist beach at the Danube in Vienna
• Episode 180: John's first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, Autumn de Wilde taking only 5 photos of Elliott Smith (see RL58), John's dad having a camera fixation (see RW61, RL242), Ken was the Yearbook editor in High School, John aspired to be the editor for the High School newspaper the Zefir (see RW84, RL180), John's girlfriend Kelly Kiefer (see Friends), Ken's mom working at Snapp-y-Photo
• Episode 181: John buying lottery tickets when the jackpot is $300 million, John's dad's attitude to money, John emailing with Ivan Stang of the Church of the Subgenius, homesteading, John drawing his mom's raffle ticket in Elementary School, John's mom's atttidue to bake sales in school, John's band friend speculating on the stock market
• 183: Food Safety podcast (see FS108), discussion about double-pane windows (see here), John's tweets were exactly 140 characters (see NT11), John's French teacher had a worse pronunciation than her students, The Pacific Northwest dialect is the most pure form of English (see RL154)
• 184: John's relative was Paul Allen's librarian (see OM141, OM169), Pizza and Pipes (see RW45), John's great aunt was killed by a street car in 1912 in Rainier Beach, John's dad was an actor at the Cirque Theater in the 1950s in Settle (see RL154)
• Episode 186: Generations, People accusing John of being a Baby Boomer, John in the Civil Air Patrol (see RL48, RL187), John being able to identify all aircraft, Run for office, John wanting to be the sheriff of Twisp (see RL28), Who would win in a fight: John or Jim Hopper from Stranger Things (see this thread)?, John's dad fighting in World War II (see Parents), John being a pyromaniac as a child (see RL29, RL135), building pipe bombs (see Early Days, RW84), John having a whole shelf of books written by his friends or dedicated to him by his friends
• Episode 187: John doesn't order the same food in restaurants, Pad Thai for the table, John's first Thai food, Bagels and Croissants, John having a geographic tongue (see OM128), John's 1990s lady friend studied Chinese, John's dad growing up in Seattle in the 1930s (see Parents), Bipolar medicine
• Episode 188: Faygo soft drink (see RL49), Seattle chicken schism between two restaurants, Interstate Highway System, John's first band Chautauqua in 1991 (see RL313, OM155), John going to jail 5 times for vandalism, the girl with the ironic Juggalo tattoo (see RL24, RL43, RL318), John moderating a panel at Bumbershoot with a Juggalo and a Bronie (see RL123, RW78)
• 189: Walking through Hungary without a watch (see CS28), Merlin ordering toilet paper online (see RL47), John at a Bryan Ferry concert (see RL351), Scott McCaughey has been mixed into The Long Winters album while just sitting on a chair
• 190: John's mom wouldn't buy wonder bread for him to take to school (see RW2)
• 191: John being invited to Iceland but screwing up his invitation (see OM121), John's Welsh ancestor in 1780 was called John son of Roderick / Rhydderch, John going to a family reunion in Malad City Idaho with 2000 Rodericks, John's friend and violinist Eyvind Kang is half Korean/Icelandic (see RW44)
• 192: The giant Styrofoam head of Ken, John as King Neptune, John having been in 5+2 parades (Arctic Circle Alaska 4th of July Parade, Seafair Parade as a music commissioner, Chinatown International District Parade, Gay Pride Parade and Seafair Parade in 2015 when he ran for office, Chinatown Parade and Seafair Parade in 2017 when he was King Neptune), John's daughter's view on parades
• 193: John's babysitter Alice looked like the babysitter from The Brady Bunch (see RL256, RL344), John's dad had his first banana split at Lake City Theater, John lost some friends to avalanches
• Episode 194: John has used oblique strategies himself, creating his own modified set
• 197: The Long Winters have only cancelled one show in the Lion's Lair in Denver (see RW118), John's booking agent was Mike Hickey (spelling?), The band name Long Winters is from a T-shirt they saw in Japan, trademark dispute with Laura Ingalls Wilder's estate (see RL231) who wanted to launch a Broadway play called The Long Winter, 6-layer Safeway cake, John's mom getting him a bad cake for his birthday in 2019
• 198: John's first time passing across the English channel in 1989 was on a hovercraft, he met two Gaeli-attired girls who offered him to take the Pepsi challenge, John's walk across Europe, Comparing the first and second half of the 21st century (see RW128)
• 199: The Long Winters song Nora is about Allen, John's friend (Peter) went into the apple cider business (see RL260), John picked apples in Yakima at (his brother Bart's) orchard (see RW101)
• 201: John has met Rob Zombie at a Slayer show
• 202: John once slept in a haunted house in Vermont (see RL10), John has ridden on top of a train, John likes to watch tanks cooking off, John doesn't like to be spooked or scared, John can't watch movies where a child gets harmed
• 203: John didn't kiss Laurie Basler (see RL45, RL156, RL305)
• Episode 204: John's mom was the only divorced single woman in the neighborhood and was discriminated against when John was 4 years old, it was the only divorce in John's family. John's mom didn't like Alaska
• 205: John's mom viewing Sammy Davis Junior and related artists as gangsters (see RL311), John's great uncle married the heiress of the Buster Brown shoe fortune (see RW47) and lived in Connecticut on the water, John's dad felt like the zion of a wealthy and fallen family of former aristocrats, John assuming he is welcome in every room he enters, typewriter repair shops (see RL361)
• Episode 206: John's Yamaha 75 guitar with custom William Morris patterns from a calendar from 1991, John's new house having its own ravine with a lot of invasive species, John's daughter burning herself at nettles in his backyard
• 208: John's mom at 85 years old has 4 years of stores in her basement bunker, John dreaming about owning a castle in Scotland (see RL274)
• 209: In his 20s John lived near Seattle Cornish College of the Arts and dated several ballerinas, John's friend the ballet dancer who would swim through lake Washington (see RL183 in Friends), John having never seen a musical and being very disappointed by Phantom of the Opera, John interviewing Megan Phelps Roper in a bookstore about her book Unfollow
• 210: John's dad was a labor activist and worked as an arbitrator in the State of Washington for the waterfront, the longshoremen's union and the stevedors (see RL136), John's uncle C. Calvert Knudsen (Uncle Cal, see RW70, see obituary here), John teaching his daughter how to make coffee
• 211: John used to work at a bank (see Employment History), John's food regimen, "preproperate" is the sin of eating too early, John's mom going to every church in Seattle (see OM137, RW135), John only eating plain hamburger or grilled cheese sandwiches as a kid (related, see RL136), John getting introduced to Turkey Cheese Lettuce Majonnaise sandwiches at an event party at a women's garden club at 10 years old
• Episode 212: Ken and John's previously owned cars
• 214: John has renamed his Amazon Echo to Computer instead of Alexa, John's first computer
• 216: John's first job at the Catch 22 Music Video station on UHF 22 in Anchorage with Richard Hadley as his boss (see Employment History, RL238), working on his senior prom night (see RL240), Anchorage local broadcasts called Anchorage Visions
• Episode 217: John's history of Christmas trees and his Christmas traditions with his mom and his sister (see RL92), Jewish Christmas at Shanghai Garden, John saving Shakespeare for when he might be in prison, John playing the harmonica, Ken having a Christmas pickle in Korea when he was a child, John's mom returning all solicitations from charities back to sender
• 218: John was only 7 years old when his mom showed him how to use a push lawnmower, John's new house has a very large bramble, John's daughter's best friend is his neighbor Dough's daughter and they founded a pretend Leafbuster company
• 219: John looking at his phone when waiting at a traffic light, bush planes in Alaska that are being held together by bailing wire, John flying from Soldotna, John doesn't like to go to the doctor, Run for office, self-driving cars, light rail
• 220: John has always been a coin guy, John having a Scrooge McDuck based relationship to money, wanting to bathe in it, John's sister would always spend all her money while John would save it when he was a kid, John was in Bulgaria in the late 1990s (see Walk Accross Europe), John used to have a safety deposit box to keep his weird coins, John's new house has a creek (see Mid-century modern)
• 223: John doesn't cross off things from lists because he cannot make lists of inconsequential things, John enjoys crossword puzzles and is mad at Ken because he is better at them, Ken and John once did an escape room, the thrill of thrifting, John dating a professional thrifter Meagan (see RL9, RL263, RL323), John playing the in-flight quiz on Delta airlines (see TYFC)
• 224: John's dad's mom's family put on airs of having been descended from the landed gentry of the South, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was Thomas Page (Thomas Lee?), a colonial governor of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson's roommate, he was pardoned by President Grant for his rebellion against the Union and was not allowed to ever take up arms against the nation again, Stephanie Drury is married to David Drury from the band Tennis Prod and is a world-famous card counter
• Episode 225: John working for Ralph Nader in Washington D.C. in 1990, John did the pep talks in his High School, John using drugs (see Drugs)
• Episode 226: John's girlfriend's coworkers calling him peepaw, Millennium Girlfriend, John's baseball hat with the text "entrepreneur" and "précisément", John being in war with Firestone, Keep Moving and get out of the way (KMAGOOTW)
• Episode 229: You don't want your locksmith to be a coke addict, Building trail, Ken growing up in Korea, neighborhood stick-fights, John taking his friend Dr. Mary to a Cotillion dance in High School and her dad cleaning a shotgun in front of him
• 230: John building a soap box car, John's dad would go to candy shops, John likes a tootsie roll, John prefers Betty to Veronica (in Betty and Veronica the comic) and Tootsie to Blondie (in Blondie the comic)
• Episode 231: Payola, John touring New York City advertising agencies, Ken hired to do a Domino's pizza ad, John's High School girlfriend Kelly, Ken's son suggesting the topic in exchange for Pokemon cards, the guy in John's High School who made a broadsword, skiing signifies prowess and wealth
• 232: Ken's mom worked at the King Tut exhibition in Seattle in 1978
• 234: John has been on the first JoCo Cruise and many cruises since, Ken will have his JoCo Cruise premier in 2020, John's birthday is September 13th 1968
• Episode 235: John was a peacenik in the 1990s, John's sister's boyfriend at the time Damian was a soldier during the Panama Invasion
• 237: John has messed up his body when he was at the age between 19 and 26, in his dreams John is seeing himself as being 9 years old, John's dad and his friends used to endlessly talk about their prostates, John didn't smoke marijuana until he was 17
• Episode 239: John is a strong introvert, John's dad was an extrovert and his mom is a pretty strong introvert, John's walk from Amsterdam to Istanbul (see Walk Across Europe), John's inner voices, John's day having a 28 hour cycle, John is a Bender from Futurama, John was planning to go to Japan in 2020, John not wanting to go to Asia because he would be unable to be invisible, John at Stockholm Central station, John's Welsh cousins are all short at 5'4", John wants to die alone, talking about virtual avatars, John has started to seek out people who are nice to them after having sought the opposite before
• Episode 240: John's mom loves methodist hymns, but has adapted a lot of other things into her own religion like reincarnation, John having been an alcoholic
• 241: John's doctor is measuring him shorter now than in the past, John having back problems, John is more Neanderthal than most other people and his mom had done a test about this once
• 242: John's dad sometimes said Scoocum, Henry Broderick, a founding member of Seattle was the last white person in Seattle who was fluid in Chinook Jargon, he and John's great aunt (by the last name of Rochester) once had a famous romance
• 243: A girl asking John on the playground in elementary school if he wants "to go with" her friend (see RL232), John was raised in Shoreline, Washington, John's elementary school class was entirely white kids, Comic books (see Comics), John having Penny Stock on Instrument Systems (now Griffon Corp), newspapers, John's dad was a radical socialist for a long time and was on the wrong side of the Vietnam War, defending the troops.
• 244: Ken being on the NYT Bestseller List by selling around 50.000 copies of his books, some of the Long Winters albums are edging at 50.000 sales, John's favorite Upstate New York Party Rock anthem is I'll Drink To You by Duke Jupiter (he learned about it via a friend who came to Anchorage from Buffalo in 1982), John contributing a song to a protest album about the 2016 election (see 30 days 30 songs)
• Episode 245: Making valentines for school, John never giving his valentine to his favorite girl, buying a box of chocolate for his favorite girl that his dad then ate, John's uncle Jack, aunt Julia Lee, C. Calvert Knudsen, John going from Morocco to Algier, Neighborhood stick fights
• Episode 246: Ken jumping out of an airplane in Snohomish (see here), John having had a student pilot's license, John's dad being a pilot and having his own bush plane, John playing the Doe Bay music festival on Orcas Island (see RW155), industrial progress in the first half of the 20th century vs social progress in the second half (see RW128)
• Episode 247: Spooky action at a distance, John's sign is a male virgo because his birthday is in September of 1968, John's nudist story with his cousin once removed, Shower down to get an A!, walking past a nudist beach at the Danube in Vienna, John swimming naked with his friend in the Caribbean, pretending to hold up the narrow gauge children's train in Woodland Park Zoo, John being at Gonzaga and went streaking, John's mom was a waitress in the 1950s and hates Schreiners because they pinch waitresses, John running naked through freshly plowed fields in the Palouse farming area in South Eastern Washington, John rolling in the snow naked at -10 degrees after having been in the hot tub, John saying he was not a never-nude (see also RW111), John jumping into the ocean at the end of a dock naked after having been in the sauna
• Episode 250: John's dad's death and funeral in 2008 (see Parents), Gary's Van meetup in Seattle, Western States Hurricanes album
• 251: John once played Agamemnon in a production of the Oresteia, Guest appearance on Too Beautiful To Live
• 252: John letting a single guy shout the complete set list at a show in Chicago
• Episode 253: Aloha, you can't find the turtle, but the turtle has to find you, John's mom and dad's first anchestor in America came from the same place, things that John is afraid of, guest appearance by Aimee Mann reading the poem The Berg (A Dream) by Herman Melville
• 254: John's dad owned a boat, John's mom said a boat is a hole in the sea to throw money into, John owned a GMC RV
• 255: John has a Ben Beres etching because he played his art gallery opening, Millennial Girlfriend bought two of them as well, John bought another one recently that was done while being on mushrooms, Evelyn Nesbit looks like John's ex-girlfriend Meagan
• Episode 257: John having personalized letter heads from the Chateau Marmont, How the idea to The Omnibus was conceived, John almost always calling down to the front desk after checking into his room, John being alergic to feather pillows, Crystal City Hilton tweetstorm, receiving an item via eBay that was lesser than advertized (it had an X on the tag, meaning it was second grade), Ken's mom showing his art teacher his Star Wars drawings, John getting only a 2/4 at the essay writing test at Gonzaga because he didn't follow the instructions, John only got two A in High School in Newspaper, Elementary School grades up to 7th grade were E, S, N, and U, John was in Bulgaria (see The Big Walk) when they devalued their currency
• 258: John's daughter having his birthday party over video chat
• Episode 259: John is a loner and an introvert who prefers aloneness over company, John doesn't consume media, John's relationship with his daughter is his only indispensible relationship, John's dad used to say: "Have a banana!", John not playing his songs live the same as they are on the album
• Episode 260: John being at Ken's German-themed Christmas party, John working as a short-order cook in the 1990s together with a girl from a Punk Band called Mach Turtle, John eats 5 out of 7 meals in restaurants, John's mom cooking them big dinner when they were kids, the time when fast food was a treat, John's parents in the 1960s had steak, pork chop or roast chicken for every meal, Ken taking Home Economics, Ken being on a game show
• Episode 262: Frontier Northwest, John in West Berlin, Gold mining, John working in Circle Hot Springs, Chilkoot trail, Dawson City, Skagway, gold mining druges
• Episode 263: John being cool and composed in dangerous situations, Buying a truck in New Hampshire and bringing his daughter, GMC RV
• 264: John's daughter is the only child in his whole family, meaning she will inherit everything at one point
• 265: John flew directly over the North Pole in the early 1980s with Belgian airline Sabena, John not able to purchase a ticket at the airport to Butte, Montana, why do billionaires not have airships?, Ken has been to Norway, Barrow Alaska has changed its name to Utqiagvik
• 267: John having a dream involving Colin Meloy, John handling his anxiety, John's mom looking like Jocelyn Bell Burnell when she was her age, John's great uncle (Truman) was in the Merchant Marines in Guam in World War II (see RL236)
• 269: John's best friend from High School Kevin's father was a doctor who dealt with chronic pain, John meeting fans with disabilities
• 270: John and Ken's attitude to clothing and fashion, John enjoying old clothes, John trying to socialize with mods because they dress well, John's thrifting technique
• 271: Ken's son Dylan was wearing the correct outfit for each TV show he was watching when he was 3 years old, John used to fall asleep in the bathtub and his mom once took a picture of him that his sister showed to all his friends, John's daughter changes her outfit 14 times a day, John's mom being a pacifist, John turning everything into a toy gun, John was the only one of his friends with a train set
• 272: Ken was never tempted to join the military despite his proximity when he was in Korea as a kid, Ken constantly fighting his own contrarianism, John's USO tour, John running for city council, the band Carissa's Weird mocking John's band for reading a book
• 273: John and his daughter both are eating very quickly, John having been adjacent to raw food people, John being the only person who doesn't wear headphones outside
• 274: John being a member of the queer culture when he moved to Seattle in the early 1990s
• 275: John's friend does Alaskan art about wolves and the Northern Lights
• 276: John taking all the lightbulbs with him when leaving an apartment where the landlord said: "God made the rat!", John's dad had a sun-bath in his house, John doesn't like overhead lights but prefers cool lamps, all of Ken's lights require a different lightbulb
• Episode 277: John having a very good memory, but starting to lose some of it when he started taking his medicine and because he turned 50, John loves Marilu Henner for her performance in Johnny Dangerously which affected him profoundly for the rest of his life, John has a very good autobiographical memory and is a good storyteller, Ken's brother Nathan is 2 years younger, the men in John's family all knew Shakespeare
• 279: John's uncle Al was a Seattle ambassador and had the idea for the World's Fair in 1962, John is of Welsh descent
• 280: John and Ken's relationship with the forest, John contracting a company in Milwaukee to manufacture pink ceramic bathroom tiles for his 1955 bathroom, Ken wanting to reprint 1980s-90s concert T-shirts, John's girlfriend in the vintage clothing market, Paul Allen's media collection, John's dad being a Civil Defence officer in the 1950s, John's mom was born in 1934 in Ohio
• Episode 281: John had a student's pilot's license, John feeling safer on planes after learning more about them, John's good friend with tremendous flight anxiety, John enjoys flying, Ken being introduced to flying very early on, John taking his daughter to the San Juan Islands on a floatplane, John's claustrophobia, John would fly 50-60 times a year during the height of his touring days with The Long Winters, John getting his first panic attack on a long haul to Frankfurt, Ken's dad telling him at 8 years old that "If something happens on a commercial flight it is pretty much over", Alaskan people being blasé about flying, John landing in Ketchikan in a 707 under a crazy blizzard, John's dad having been in a plane crash in Prince Rupert, John's uncle Jack jumping out of a plane that caught fire in 1948, John trying to buy Camel cigarettes in Morocco and getting Winstons, John's mom being forced to eat a tablespoon of blackstrap molasses, John's mom blending a magic baby formula for him, when Ken grew up breakfast needed to be warm, Ken having been in the Guiness World Records, John playing Christopher Robin in House at Pooh Corner in the Shoreline Community College production of 1978, Ken almost drowning in a swimming pool the year he started college
• 282: Ken watching infomercials late at night in college, Ken growing up in Shoreline Washington, Korea and Midway Island, John starting research on the bone fone, John being against headphones most of the time, John having a red cube 8-track player, John didn't know about the Nesquick bunny, John doesn't like potatoes, John learning how to chop food properly while working as a short order cook in the early 1990s, touring with your own chef, John's first album was an 8-track compilation called Studio 54 with Disco hits
• 283: John went to the Gonzaga Jesuit school
• 284: John's dad having a partial denture, John having a long-lasting small infection at the bottom of his root canal, John having gotten several teeth knocked out
• 285: Both John and Ken were in the DIG program in school, Ken went to Stephen Decatur Elementary School in Shoreline Washington, reading Parade Magazine, Marilyn vos Savant looks like John's mom, in 1984 John was reading Miss Manners, Merilyn vos Savant, Dave Barry, Dear Abby and Ask Ann Landers, Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior was like The Bible to John, Ken has a younger brother and a younger sister within 5 years of him, John being called out as a future governor of Alaska when he was 10 years old, John graduating last in class, during 3rd grade was the last time John put some work into school before he realized that grades don't matter and all adults were liars, John's best friend Kevin's dad had an Osborn Portable computer, One boy does the work of one boy…
• 286: John's Twitter non-relationship with Jane Wiedlin
• 287: Ken's recent trip to Utah, John's bandmates making him stop on tour to look at The Thing museum in Arizona, John running for City Council, Ken used to work in software businesses that are advertized on billboards betwen Salt Lake City and Provo in Utah, John's daughter's mother came home with a T-shirt from her company saying: "We are good in the SoC!", the comedian Nick Thune (friend of Ken and John) throwing the first pitch at a Mariners game although Ken is more famous, John reading the magazine Wings of Gold, during the adbuster years in the mid-to-late-1990s John had a group who would alter billboards in war against the Ackerley family, Ken walking by a gold course and removing the "L" from the sign saying "Public Meeting"
• 288: John watching 1970s movies with his daughter, Ken's son receiving the Pokémon cards that he had been promised in exchange for episode 231, Chez Roderick-Robison
• 289: John not watching crime shows like Law & Order, John being extremely depressed after the second Long Winters album and spending 8 months laying in bed and his mom suggesting him to watch Law & Order, John was also writing his book about his walk across Europe that never got published, John's commentary on the police, Jade Gordon's artwork
• 290: the vibrant balooning community in Anchorage when John was young, Ken being a Mormon missinary for 2 years in La Mancha, Spain
• 291: John was doing freight-hopping in 1987, recycling-situation in Seattle, John living in Kingston when he was little, Supertrain, John living in Inis Arden when he was little, John being the one who manages the recycling in his house, John's friend Ben Beres who makes etchings as an artist is an Omnibus listener
• Episode 293: John only likes one brand of frozen pizza (DiGiorno), John likes Dr. Pepper, Ken likes Diet Dr. Pepper, John's great-grandfather in 1932 in Van Wert, Ohio would buy a single Dr Pepper whenever he came to town and savor it on the corner of 1st and Main for an hour, John buying the cheapest airline tickes for decades but now he is on the Delta program thanks to Hodgman and Coulton, John wouldn't buy generic raspberry jam, but he drinks whatever coffee is available, John's friends in Alaska during his college days were loyalists to Schmidt beer, John doesn't eat cereal because it is kid's food and when he was little he would eat Cocoa Pebbles, only 0.5% of people don't like potatoes, when he was young John would read Consumer Reports cover to cover, John only eating cheese with a tooth pick because it tastes so much better
• 294: John only learning late in life that his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather John Page was in the 1st-3rd US congress as the governor of Virginia, finding your duck
• 295: John having a jacket with the word Ecotopia embroidered on the back that he had made at an university bookstore in the early 1990s, John knowing governor Jay Inslee, John reinforcing his squeaky chair (see RL321)
• Episode 297: The Anchorage zoo having a blue-ish black bear, Ken's recent road trip to Glacier National Park in Idaho/Montana, John and Ken's brother not being a tourist and not going to see the cool thing that all the tourists look at, John thinking about buying an SUV, John doesn't like the Consumer Reports app, John once met Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in the lobby of the Chateau Marmont, John asking for listeners in Istanbul on a recent Road Work (see RW190), Ken moving into a new neighborhood in Utah in 2002 and his wife getting pitched on scrapbooking by a neighbor, Ken's sister sold Cutco knives, John going to a MLM sales party because his best friend in elementary school Aaron's mom was supplementing her income by selling candleholders, John bought one with his piggy bank as a gift for his mom and they still have it, both Ken and John were were tight-fisted 9-year olds (did not want to spend their money)
• 298: John crossing his "7", John wanting a decommissioned aircraft carrier
• 299: John getting his daughter bulk-loads of Star Wars action figures, not able to find a Shmi Skywalker, John making guns out of everything as a kid, John's mom being an early 1970s progressive and refusing to buy him guns, owls appearing in John's life, John liking the songs She is so Heavy by The Beatles, the late 1989s The Cure and My Bloody Valentine, all the shoegaze-stuff, Judd Apatow retweeting John's tweet the day before the episode was recorded (2020-07-21)
• 300: John and Ken attending the 2020 JoCo Cruise just when the pandemic started, Ken going on a cruise to Antarctica, John being able to stare at a spot on the wall for hours, 7-sided lighthouse made of dreams
• 302: John joined Ken when he recorded the Jeopardy! GOAT tournament, John lost his virginity when he was 20
• 303: Ken being a judge on the Alexa Prize competition, John being member of the Seattle Music Commission, visiting the Magic Castle, John's therapist, Ken and his dad typing in computer programs from magazines, John's first PC was an IBM 64K, John in 9th grade typing erotica on his IBM PC
• 304: John having lived in more of a camp environment than Ken, trash culture, John having a non-ironic mustache
• 305: John having had a military ID as a kid, Ken's mom worked at the Credit Union and the elementary school at the base in Korea, John coming to school infatigues in 9th grade, John's black market experience: food stamps for alcohol/cigarettes, East Germany Ostmark, Cuba's second currency for Western tourists, John being in Bulgaria when they changed the Levy, Money is fake
• Episode 306: Ken being modest about his intelligence, Ken getting bumped up to reading class in 3rd grade while he was in Kindergarten, Ken's son Dylan wants to become a dentist of a fisherman to make a lot of money without having to work that hard, John being exposed to high expectations while growing up, John's performance in school not correlating with his test scores, John wearing his hair long to cover his scars, John's attempt on contact lenses, Ken writing a report on the Lechwe antelope, John playing a show in Mensa's founding place in the UK, John's character alignment Chaotic Good
• 307: John being a 4:4 voter, John's run for office, John never taking the same way twice, John and his mom talking about elections or which routes they took, Ken has 3 siblings, all of them Democrats, Ken's parents are Republicans, John was a 2-times Nader voter, John moderating a mayoral debate in Seattle between Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan at the 2009 Reverb Music Festival
• 308: John wearing a Puka-shell necklace, John's family getting a new kitten
• 309: John's dad saying: "Have a banana!", John planting fir-tree starters at his house, Ken moving a douglas fir away from his house, John's cat Louis being buried under a rhododentron, John being a shrub gardener, not a flower gardener, Ken recommending herb gardening, John being a sensitive taster
• Episode 310: The right-shift of the political left in America, Surfacing long-standing systemic problems, everybody is a victim, The muted Generation X coming of age without a memory of the former radical left, The beginning of the Cold War, Conservatism and commodity fetishization in post-war Germany, The mid-1960s as a pivotal era of change, The global protests around 1968, Andreas Baader being part of an uprising student rebellion, Ulrika Meinhof meeting Andreas Baader, sympathies for the villains, The different world views of the right and the left when it comes to a revolution, How the original ideas got pulled right, The end of the Baader Meinhof Gang, Into the present day, John's comment on Facebook about people taking issue
• Episode 311: John's reading habits having drifted away from reading fiction, All the great shows, John's run for office, being on the Letterman show doesn't help record sales, Lt. Governor of Utah Gary Herbert having green/yellow campaign signs and running against Mike Weinholtz who was Ken's former boss
• Episode 312: Ken being invited to a campfire at John's private beach in Normandy Park, John's sister being a fake vegetarian who will eat chicken with a bow, drone warfare, social media not having an idea behind it, Canadian animation studio using North Korean artists and having a 85% reject rate, Snapchat not leaving any archive behind, Little House On The Prairie, John's daughter being into Star Wars
• 314: John winning a side of beef in a raffle in 6th grade and his mom having to buy a freezer for it, Ken's freezer accident, vapor locking your car
• Episode 315: John being a cross-country runner in High School, John destroying his knee at a concert, Ben Gibbard running ultra-marathon, John's walk accross Europe, John hiking up the Chilkoot trail, Ken being up a ski trail in Montana in summer 2020
• Episode 316: John's mid-century modern house, John being at Ken's GOAT turnament with his friend Jesse, hand-blown Japanese fishing floats
• 317: Past John / Future John, John's arrest records from the Boulder Colorady County Jail having gone up in smoke, using blank baptismal certificates to get a fake ID. John's birthday being a couple days ago (September 13th), the movie The Great Raid where they spend 5 minutes showing someone going up the stairs
• 318: The rise and fall of New York City, Blue Penis Man (action figure)
• 319: John's former piano having ivory keys, John trying to teach his daughter how to whistle, John begin raised on Big Band music, John playing Agamemnon in the Oresteia in college, Ken's daughter being into black lipstick, John enjoying the style of the movie Amadeus, John's daughter dressing up as Mary Shelley for a historic Halloween at her school, John hating potatoes
• 320: Ken having no desire to be a survivalist, being on the grid, not off the grid, subscriptions are eels, John in his 20s while still being a drug user goin a year without ID and permanent domicile, which was not great
• 321: John's 2nd grade teacher Mrs. Langford, John getting credit in AP History despite getting an F, John graduating last from High School, John regularly meeting with his High School principal when he was in town, John's mom being member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and trying to get John to join the Sons of the American Revolution
• 322: John not being an explorer, Ken and his parents moving back from Korea, John wanting to live at the edge of town, John being in battle with both his neighbors because they went over the property line
• 323: John working at the news stand when Lady Diana died and when OK Computer (album by Radiohead) came out, 1997 is the year that didn't exist, John reading Jane's Military Handbook, 3-2-1 Contact TV show, John having never been to his High School computer lab, many of John's High School friends not being online at all, John's walk across Europe, bands that nobody knows, John MC:ing a live airband concert during his Junior year in High School
• 325: John having missed flights for always boarding airplanes last, John's anxiety dream of being in a sniper crossfire, Walk across Europe with no clock, being acompanied by someone in Hungary who was pushing for time, Alaska having multiple time zones when John grew up
• 327: Ken and John taking a 6-week break from recording, Huge Army bases in Anchorage, Ken growing up around an Airforce base in Korea, John firing a Howitzer during his timer in the Civil Air Patrol, John waiting for a call from the government or the CIA offering him a job, John recently went skiing in Alaska, The Seattle CHOP, John tweeting about #chems, Ken being nominated for a Grammy
• 328: John thinking there was a Sasquatch around Mountlake Terrace in the 1970s, The book The Long Walk by Sławomir Rawicz, The road up to John's old house being spooky
• 329: John's mom listening to every one of his CDs and critiquing them, John visiting Greenwich, John trying to buy a Spanx sports bra as a Christmas present
• 330: John being in the process of remastering The Long Winters albums for vinyl, Ken being nominated for a Grammy
• 331: Ken not wanting to give any of his large amount of LEGO to John, but his son Dylan would do it, Ken having a Saturn 5 rocket LEGO set, John building a LEGO bridge from the couch to the La-Z-Boy, John being bipolar, John accidentally giving his friend's LEGO figures to the Goodwill, Ken's kids only crying over people and not over things
• 332: John's picture of Earth taken from the moon, Merlin making The Long Winters website
• 333: Ken recording Jeopardy! shows as guest host, John constantly reliving past situations, Ken watching the 5-hour cut of the movie Until The End Of The World with the U2 soundtrack, John meeting his early super-traumatic girlfriend Kate in the movie theater every day to make out whilte that movie was playing, John as King Neptune, hot air balloons being a common thing in Anchorage in the past, the song Cinnamon by The Long Winters being about the Baader-Meinhof gang
• 334: John being sensitive to scents, John's mom giving him a bottle of Vital hair product that he still has today, John's love for encyclopedias, John's showing beavers to his Millennial Girlfriend
• 335: John being on the Rugby team at Gonzaga University, John's uncle being a football star for Yale in the 1940s, John's cats Tippy and Flaky, John's relationship with crows, John trying to become a Kentucky Colonel
• 336: John being assigned to read Moby Dick and Tale of Two Cities in 6th grade, John being on a Moby Dick reading club with Maria Semple, Maria Semple having a Zoom group about The Beatles
• 337: John having been a flirty toddler, John wanting to talk to the other boys when he was a kid, but they didn't want to talk, John's grandpa being bipolar affecting John's mom a lot
• 338: John being in New York when the Mets won the World Series in 1986, John happening to be in places during national holidays, John being in Berlin when the wall came down, John being in Berkeley for the Oakland Firestorm of 1991, visiting the city of Selma Alabama and using the Find A Grave app to help people find graves, John's middle name being Morgan
• 339: John getting radicalized at 15 years old by the Reagan administration
• 340: The Long Winters being a band name that originated from a T-shirt in Japan, going up early during Daylight Savings Time, trying to buy Camel cigarettes in Fez Morocco, John still having his 1968 Encyclopedia Britannica
• 341: John's mom having been a computer programmer
• 342: John meeting a goldpanner who lived in his van in a parking lot during the winter, John seeing Spitfire planes while walking across England, John overhearing interesting conversations all the time, John's dad's first car was a Ford Model A, John was born on Friday 13th
• 343: John watching baseball with his dad at Kingdome while not understanding the rules of the game at all, John being in the Rugby team at Gonzaga University
• Episode 344: John being on tour while he was in Harvy Danger and going to guitar stores, John's friend collecting old buckle-back farmer's Levi's in charity stores and selling them for $40.000 to Japanese collectors, John finding a genuine Louis Vuitton bag in a thrift store for $6 and gifting it to a young lady, Bring a Trailer, John's walk across Europe was originally thought to be from Vancouver to Tijuana, John having an article in the newspaper of Hof (probably Frankenpost) about him while he stayed there during his walk
• Episode 346: John's first email being from the Internet café capitolhill.net, Ken being online since 1992, John seeing Titanic in a preview showing, John not liking superhero comics as a kid, John getting 2 comic books as a gift at Tony's birthday party in 1975, John only seeing the 3rd Star Wars prequel, John loving Lord of the Rings and having read it already in 7th grade, Ken getting into Marvel superhero comics in High School
• Episode 349: John getting an Oculus VR helmet for Christmas, IntelliVision vs Atari 2600 vs playing in an Arcade, Ken having 20/10 eyesight, John's first experience with LSD in an A-Frame in Girdwood Alaska
• 350: Ken having many suits from his TV appearances
• 351: Playing the "You are…" or "There is you!" games, names for weed stores, John playing music to his plants for a High School science project, John's daughter being into Star Wars, John talking to his coffee maker, John teaching his daughter the art of the burn for her to counter the bully at her school, calling things "that was my college nickname" or "that was my x cover album"
• 352: John's shipping container in the desert, John moving playground equipment into the gym hall on the last day of High School, Ken doesn't like surprise parties, John not being a prankster because he is a bad planner, John not throwing up easily, John being on a bong party in Ithaca New York where they were drinking booze on the second floor, John bringing itching powder onthe school bus in 3rd grade, John's dad taking him to magic shops in the 1970s, John only having seen 1 Broadway show: Phantom of the Opera with Millennial Girlfriend, John's daughter being into Star Wars
• 353: John spending a weekend with Dick Cavett
• 354: Ken remoddeling his house, John haning drywall in Gillette Wyoming, John building a couple of music studios, taking over the garage across from Cal Anderson Park, restoring John's mom's house
• 355: John's girlfriend who moved to Ecuador in the middle of their relationship, Ken's trip to Antarctica via Argentina, John having been to Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay
• 356: John's booking agent for Europe being from Hasselt Belgium
• 357: John writing Commander Thinks Aloud in an hour, John's songwriting process, Ken's upcoming book Travel Guide to the afterlife being 5 years in the making, John carrying a spiral-bound notebook for years, Ken's son getting a Subaru for college, Ken's son working in food delivery, John having a lyrics ideas note, Ken meeting Jeff Bezos, finding out how Kurt Cobain worte his lyrics, How many piano tuners are living in New York, John's great-uncle Al playing a roll in the Seattle World's Fair, Boy Boy Burger Anchorage being John and his dad's hamburger joint
• 359: John's mom surprising him with a Hostess Cupcake or a Ding Dong in his lunchbox, John's parents in the 1960s eating either Steak or Pork Chop every day, rarely chicken or fish, John voting and working for Ralph Nader, John working for the Public Interest Research Group and for the National Environmental Law Center, John's dad loved strawberry ice cream, John's dad having a heart attack in the 1970s, Ken's grandpa having a heart attack, John working as a clerk at a Stock Brokerage in his early 20s, his college making fat-free brownies, John trying to eat a giant steak in Ketchum Idaho when on drugs
• 361: The lead singer of the band Unwound smoking a whole cigarette on stage, John living next to a daycare, John's daughter wanting a story
• 363: John's friend being a colonel in public health, John learning French in High School and Spanish in college
• 364: John forgetting his computer at his house, Ken's suit on Jeopardy
• 366: John's daughter's first flight at 3.5 years old, Ken painting a mural on his daughter's wall, the view from Ken's house
• 367: John keeping a gram of silver during his walk accross Europe as hard currency and using it in Romania, Ken still wearing his High School graduation watch, John losing his Spyderco knife on the beach in Marseilles (see RW16), Ken having a pet Totoro as his fake lucky charm on Jeopardy, John playing tennis next to his daughter's swim team, John living on 11th between Pike and Pine, Swizzle sticks with elk turds, Lucky Wishbone burger restaurant in Anchorage
• 368: The smell of a mimeograph that John used in elementary school evoking childhood
• 370: John reading Moby Dick, John preferring a bar of soap over liquid soap and a jar of mayonnaise over a tube
• 371: John's dad's best friend Jack Tanner representing tribal leader Robert Satiacum (see RW59)
• 372: Half of John's High School colleagues not being on social media, John almost being in the movie Mad Love with Drew Barrymore (supposedly he is in a pan shot as Drew is walking down a ramp), John in the movie Thin Skin, John in Lennon or McCartney
• 374: John's run for office
• 375: John wanting to do travel-logs, John meeting Elizabeth Gilbert the author of Eat Pray Love several times and she put him firmly in his place, John saving a rooster from a snake cage because he was too big (see RL218), John bringing home garter snakes when he was young and one escaping in the house where his mom never found it again, John's sister having set up camp with John and telling him what to eat and drink, John wanting to be a 22-year old embassy clerk in Dakar Senegal, people on John's walk through Europe thinking he was on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, John's mom's mom preferred her meat boiled, John's mom's mom died very early after John's mom was born.
• 376: John picking up his sister from her trip to Florida yesterday, John's brother (Bart) having an orchard, John and Ken becoming Kentucky Colonel, John having a King Neptune outfit (see King Neptune)
• 378: Ken could jump rope only by himself Rocky Balboa style, Ken playing defense in soccer for having to run less, John’s dad playing with marbles when he was young, Ken briefly playing with spinning tops, John’s phase in the 1970s where he was into kite fighting, playing Tetherball, John bing intriegued by the Hopscotch game, John never being invited to play Cat’s Cradle and never overcoming his own fear, John being unsure about playground protocols after COVID, John being at an outdoor swimming pool
• 380: John being a Jane Wiedlin guy while Ken is a Belinda Carlisle guy (from The Go-Go’s), movies WarGames, Children of a Lesser God, Amadeus, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Clue (John would loop the scene with Jane Wiedlin just before she got shot), Bill & Ted being one of Ken’s most watched VHS movies, Joan of Arc bein John’s
• 381: Alaskan Metal band 36 Crazy Fists (John says Three Fist Punch), John as the anchorman for the UFOs, John winning a side of beef in 6th grade by recognizing his mom’s handwriting
• 382: Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage, John inheriting an Oosik from his dad
• 383: John falsifying baptism certificates in Alaska, John never throwing away anything, John visiting Washington DC with his daughter (see RW81, RW82, RL259), John having his original birth certificate, John upgrading to an iPhone X and wanting his button back, Ken still having an iPhone with a real button (iPhone 6s?)
• 384: John becoming aware of tortoise shell glasses from a cigarette ad in a magazine (see RW119), John setting gasoline in the bucket of a back hoe on fire while his dad was dating a woman in Lake Otis (see RL354), John’s dad being friends with Senator Henry ”Scoop” Jackson, John having recorded announcements for the Seattle Airport
• Episode 385: Going camping in the wilderness outside Anchorage, John going car camping with his family this coming weekend, John being called ”Sparky” because he will get a fire going every time they stop on a trail for more than 20 minutes, John being a pyromaniac, John having been an avid Cub Scout which didn’t really translate into him being a Boy Scout, John getting his Totin’ Chip (he says Chippentoad) to carry a knife or a hatchet revoked when he threw his hatchet at a tree, Ken’s neighbors next door having two boys who love Boy Scouting, John’s best friend from High School having been an Eagle Scout, Mormon Scout culture, John’s daughter meeting a group of 6 Girl Scouts at the Four Seasons hotel Downtown when she was 3-4 years old, John’s sister having been a Brownie but never moved up into Girl Scouts, John in the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Corps, John at Outward Bound (see RL160), John meeting 3 Boars in Amsterdam and no Dutch could understand them, Filson changing into a fashion statement
• Episode 386: In Alaska you were either an ice skater or a skier and John having been a skier, John having a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader poster in his closet door, John having spent a lot of time at the ice rink watching hockey games, John’s High School rap group White Fresh Crüe (see RL196), John in his 20s living in a house where he was the only white guy and he was beatboxing but was disinvited from freestyling, The Zamboni being more interesting than hockey for both Ken and John, John at a Seattle Thunderbirds game at the Climate Pledge Arena where the Zamboni pulled out a stage with the Spin Doctors, John’s friend Kevin lived on Duke Drive in Anchorage, John living at the corner of Princeton Way and Stanford Drive in Anchorage where he didn’t have waterfront property but his neighbors did, John’s neighbors down the road in Anchorage (Cusak family) having built a mobile hockey rink on Lake Otis with their own private Zamboni, ”We sow the seed, nature grows the seed, then we eat the seed” (from The Young Ones), John’s company being called Beats Working Music, John’s assistant hiring herself like Dick Cheney (see RL94), both John and Ken preferring Fahrenheit over Celcius, John being friends with Denis Johnson author of the book Jesus’ Son that had a huge impact on him, John fighting fire ants
• 387: John reading bedtime stories, John making TinTin voices while reading TinTin, John’s daughter wanting comic books read to her, John knowing Adam Mansbach the author of the book Go the Fuck to Sleep from hosting a panel at Bumbershoot
• 388: Ken having visited Antarctica, John and Ken being on the JoCo Cruise together in 2020, the Pacific Northwest people now been less connected to the ocean than before, 7-sided lighthouse made of dreams, Ken used to go to the Heceda Head Lighthouse at the Oregon coast
• 389: John flying a C-130 while in the Civic Air Patrol, John trying to write a book and giving all characters fake names, John’s mom having a kooky UFO religion since the 1950s
• 390: John wearing a Puka Shell necklace in the mid-1990s, John talking to a guy on a train in Italy in the 1980s who had a three-part interwoven gold ring and getting a similar one in silver, John being against stealing, Ken’s wearing a replica of his Mickey Mouse watch from High School after losing the original at a screening of Courage Under Fire in the theater in Linwood that is now a Coales, John having a coffee table book about the British Crown Jewels, both Ken and John not liking having things like jewely on their body, this episode was recorded in the week after 2021-06-12
• Episode 391: John having been the Indie Rock Santa of Seattle for decades, a gay couple getting married after meeting on his lap, John’s uncle C. Calvert Knudsen, John’s daughter having multiple names (see RL405), John’s dad’s name was a Jr. but he never used it, John being friends with Richard Winfield Garnett III in High School, John being called John Morgan by his family members when he was young, all Johns in John’s family would turn to Jack when they were older except John who just lost his Morgan, John putting his name as John Ignatius Roderick into the phone book (see RL299), John’s daughter getting her name from the nurse who delivered her
• 392: Ken’s son now being big into Baseball instead of Pokémon, Ken throwing the first pitch at a Mariners game, Ken having always scored Baseball games he visited, John buying a Dutch Football sweater in the Netherlands because he was cold, John bringing his daughter to the Baseball game where Ken threw the first pitch
• 394: Thrifting, Ken’s son having had a sneaker phase, Ken not having any brand affinity, John’s mom buying him Nike-knock-offs called Stadia (see RL320), Ken’s brother’s CD collection being very specific
• 395: Ken’s dad’s family coming from Lubock Texas, Ken’s dad being born in Richland Hills near the Albuquerque Isotopes Baseball team
• 396: John talking to Sir Mixalot, John’s bandmate losing $300.000 by playing the stocks
• 398: John being on a road trip with his family halfway across the country through 21 states, John having been to all 50 states and to 9 of the 13 provinces in Canada, John’s mom having been to 49 states except Maine, John’s daughter having been to 32 states at the age of 10.5, Kethleen Edwards offering John a tour through all the Maritime Provinces in Canada but John not being able to make it because of a show in Europe and regretting it today, the name of The Western State Hurricanes having a lot of angles because there are no Hurricanes in the Pacific Northwest, Ken’s wife being afraid of spiral staircases, John’s house key being from an American flag / bald eagle blank
• 399: John having a road trip across the country with his family, John's first 7-month trip to Europe in the 1980s when he was a college student, John's mom sowing 300 under a patch on his backpack, John bringing a Letters Patent from Senator Ted Stevens to Europe in case he got arrested, Ken reading the audio book of Alex Trebek, Ken and John being Kentucky Colonels
• 401: Ken being 5'10.5" tall (180cm) which is the perfect medium size, Ken's sister and her husband being tiny people who have tiny children, John being on a Poker game via Zoom, John growing late, growing a foot between 10th and 11th grade, John always being able to see the end of the crowd, tall musicians in Seattle, John's grandfather teaching grenade throwing in World War I, John wanting a regiment of 10-14 year olds, giving orders to billionaires who have too little imagination, Meeting the Alaska Railroad Executive Committee with his dad, John waiting for a woman on the platform going to Triest, Europe not having king-sized beds but with footboards
• 402: John watching Harry Potter with his daughter, wanting to dress like Sirius Black, Ken never wearing jewelry except his wedding ring, John wearing a puka shell necklace with shark teeth from the 1970s, John's sister liking big rings with comically large stones, Ken and John being Generation X, Ken is a Belinda Carlisle guy and John is a Jane Wiedlin guy, Ken playing with He-man figures and John with Stretch Armstrong
• 403: John on his road trip staying in Paducah Kentucky, Southern Illinois being the bottom of America, Ken just coming back from Carbondale Illinois right across the river from Paducah, Maisy Glotz being John's dad's name for any woman like Jane Doe, John's daughter's favorite holiday being Halloween even above her birthday because it combines costumes and candy
• 404: John only having 5 forks
• 406: D&D alignments, John learning in his 30s that he was introvert from playwright Kirsten Cosmos (?), John getting his Totin' Chip reinstated
• 407: John's favorite sushi being tuna and mackerel, while Ken's and John's sushi companion's favorites are salmon and shrimp, John not wanting to go to supermarkets that have an olive bar, Ken's favorite olive being the one filled with anchovies, John's Chinese friend in Gonzaga who lived in a blanket fort under her desk named Gu, John being in love with her roommate, John's graffiti artist name being Eggs in the early 1990s, John's first phone book entry being J. Morgan Roderick, John's Punk Rock name being Peter Out, John publishing some zine articles
• Episode 408: John's IBM PC with 64k, John's and Ken's first Internet access in the 1990s, Ken sending an email to his dad in Singapore in 1992, The Long Winters message board, John walking across Europe, Internet cafés, John going online in a department store in Germany, Ken reading Usenet about TV shows
• 409: John and Ken enjoy going to baseball games, Ken visiting Hokaido on his vacation to Japan, Ken’s son being super into baseball.
• 410: John riding the ferry from Edmonds to Kingston for the first time at 3 days old because they lived on Kingston and his dad commuted to the city every day, John always leaving the car on the ferry and going to the top of the deck, John’s parents keeping a car in Winslow, one in Edmonds, and one in Downtown Seattle in a garage.
• 411: John knowing Sir Mixalot, John’s mom having 15 clocks that all play the Westminster chime, Ken regretting his new grandfather clock because he should have bought a vintage one, pianos at the store Downtown costing $40.000 while you can find pianos on Craigslist for free, John’s family buying bicycle bells and John’s being charmed and lasting 4 minutes, Ken having a mushroom farm in the basement.
• Episode 412: John being a recovering alcoholic.
• 413: John being on a motorcycle trip the week before(see RL441), John visiting an all-women MMA fight in San Francisco, John having watched boxing, but having no connection to it.
• 414: Capitalism and monopolies
• 415: Comic pages of newspapers, John and his daughter reading any kind of comic, she reads even superheroes, Ken giving out comics at Halloween, John’s best friend from High School living on Drake Dr in Anchorage, street names in Anchorage.
• 416: John hitchhiking in Vermont and leaving an insane asylum and being spooked by the graveyard.
• 417: Conjuring an orb, John playing D&D in 7th grade, John walking home in the snow 2,5 miles after school.
• 418: John’s mom’s fudge being the best, John and Ken both loving Deep Dish Pizza, John driving through Death Valley and having his brakes burn and seeing UFO, John being on a recent motorcycle trip(see RL441), John being sober since 1994 but not going to AA meetings.
• Episode 419: John’s family living in Kingston in 1970, having tea parties with a neighbor girl called Bonnie, black and white photos of John with his toy Tonka Dump Truck, their house sitting on a bluff on the water overlooking the Kingston ferry terminal to the left halfway upp the bluff, the house now having a blue aluminium roof (maybe 10939 NE West Kingston Rd?)
• Episode 420: Neither John and Ken are drinking alcohol, John’s cousin owning the Knudsen Erath vinery in Oregon, John stopped drinking in 1994.
• 421: John cutting the name Kurt Cobain out of all of his friend’s Rolling Stone magazines when he was crashing on the floor during his drug days.
• 423: John’s daughter developing a grace ending with: ”This is the way!” from The Mandalorian, John’s uncle Junius during Thanksgiving dinner giving an entire lecture, John having had an office Downtown (see Packages), John having a Keurig coffee maker.
• Episode 424: John touring Germany doing comedy German, in the early days of ride sharing in North Beach San Francisco a stretch Hummer showed up, John’s parents both being into cars and being Chrysler people with matching 1964 Plymouth convertibles, but her’s was hotter and faster and had red upholstry, John being able to tell apart all cars and models until the mid-2000s, John’s house being tomato-red, John recently buying a Ford Expedition truck, John never having been in fancy or fast cars, Ken’s Chevy Volt getting t-boned by his son’s friend, John’s dad driving 1980s Audi Diesels, John convincing his mom to buy a Peugeot 604, John working at the Hypercolor warehouse (see OM42).
• 425: John having a geographical tongue, John’s sister Tinder-dating a technician of the MV Tillikum, the oldest ferry in Puget Sound, John seeing lots of Beluga Whales at Beluga Point in Anchorage.
• 427: John and his daughter watching videos of old steel mills
• 428: John teaching his daughter to ride a bike (see RW181).
• 430: Locksmiths that are also crackheads, paying for flight upgrades, Ken not wanting to spend money on things that are not worth it, John’s daughter insisting on Annie’s Mac & Cheese because Kraft is not good enough
• Episode 431: John’s reading habit growing up, John getting reading lists and books from his friend’s mom who was a lit college professor, John’s Moby Dick book club, John reading Gravity’s Rainbow on 4 different pages at the same time, John not knowing Sitcom references after 1982, John being asked by a girl at a party to read some poetry to her in 1987, John asking for Flashman Books in Exeter while he was on tour, John’s friend having review copies of books, Ken reading Morrissey’s memoires.
• 432: Ken’s art collection, John growing up in Alaska, Alaskan art
• 433: John inventing machines in his head, Rube Goldberg machines, John building a machine to mix Lipton Iced Tea, John’s family having had a ball bearing clock that would drop a bearing ball every minute, John’s drug addict roommate designing an exoskelleton suit to allow him to go to work and get paid while sleeping inside the suit, John not having bought something online until the 2010s, his first orders being a Sitar box from India that never arrived and a chair from Canada that arrived broken, John’s girlfriend in 2006 getting Air Jordans at the thrift store and selling them with a huge margin, Millennial Girlfriend not wanting John to scratch his back i a door frame because it made him look like a bear.
• 434: John being a Russian Lit minor (see RL17), Ken having a small herb garden, John’s raving being taken over by the King County Conservation District
• Episode 436: What does and doesn’t pass on Jeopardy!, Ken watching a lot of movies, how his dogs react to movies on screen, Watching several movies in a row feeling wrong.
• 437: John being in a music video of the song Don’t Lead With Your Heart by Stag playing a Valentine heart, John being a member of alternative culture, Ken being in New York on Valentine’s Day having to promote his Jeopardy! match against Watson while wanting to go out in time with his wife, giving valentines in school, John in 5th grade looking for the valentine from the girl he liked hoping for something special but it wasn’t, John no longer sending emails at 2am
• 438: Ken in Moscow in 1992 buying a nesting doll with Gorbachev, John’s daughter’s favorite DC character being Harley Quinn, Marvel vs DC, Ken finding a first appearance of Harley Quinn comic in his garage, John finding a $20 bill in his journals from 1989, John wanting to sell things on eBay, John having concert posters that are worth money, John trading in a guitar that would now be worth $15.000, John having old fast food chain drinking glasses in active rotation, John not having a completionist urge
• 439: John collecting pennies in the 1970s, having the blue Lincoln Memorial Penny Collection Book to collect pennies from every year, John losing his wallet in his ravine, it being found by the conservation workers a month later, John’s daughter’s mother not being careful about COVID anymore despit having been exposed to it
• 440: John’s brother having chickens, Ken showering every day, John taking medicine, having a vintage pillbox, Betty Rubbel is John’s Jane Wiedlin, Ken being more into Belinda Carlisle, John’s Millennial Girlfriend introducing him to Elysium, John’s friend in college taking pills from his father’s pharmacy and randomizing them in a pickle jar so everyone could take 3, John’s dad megadosed Vitamin C, John’s dad joined EST
• 441: John crying at The Truman Show after the first 3 minutes, Going to mind-altering concerts by Crash Worship and others, John going to dinner at The Magic Castle, John secretly watching Letterman as a kid, John seeing Adele at Key Arena
• 442: Ken watching TV on Armed Forces TV in Korea, John watching game shows at his babysitter’s house, only having 3 TV programs, John trying to avoid soap operas, John at Outward Bounds, John’s mom’s boyfriend Norm in the 1970s who smoked a pipe and had 4 kids living in the U-district in Seattle
• 443: John was King Neptune #68 (see Seafair), John takes 4 baths a week, likes cast iron bathtubs, John at the Fish Inn in Northern Idaho (see RL115) talking to a Catholic Priest, drinking Red Beer, talking about having 3 BM’s a day, John performing foot surgery on himself in 1989 after he stepped on a pull tab of a Pop can when walking barefoot in Morocco, John not liking gore and horror movies
• 444: Ken likes Diet Dr.Pepper, John’s grandfather used to drink a Dr.Pepper at the street corner in Van Wert Ohio, John testing European Root Beer and it being nothing like the American one, Pop vs Soda
• Episode 445: Formative natural disasters, earthquakes, The Exxon Valdez disaster, John being on top of the World Trade Center 11 days before 9/11, Being on a site shortly before a disaster occurs, John finding a sidewalk elevator to the Seattle Underground Tour, John thinking about living in Portugal, Mega tsunamis, trying to retire cheaply in Europe.
• 447: John and Ken’s recording schedule and show prep, Ken being pro-zoo and living next to a zoo, John going to the Madrid zoo and it being horrible, Ken’s parents twice putting a look-alike Parakeet in Ken’s cage when the bird died, John’s daughter’s imaginary friends Lala and Unga Kinga, John having 3 squirrells in his backyard, John playing Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh in a local production when he was 10 years old, trying to use a fake British accent
• 448: Ken and John’s childhood rooms, Ken sharing a room with his brother and sleeping in the top bunk, John having ski posters and an ironic St. Pauli girl, John in 1979 backstage at the Sullivan Arena taking a poster of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and hiding it at the inside door of this closet, John’s dad flying John to college, John’s sister having Duran Duran posters, the poster in John's High School with the guy with a funel as his head and lemon juice coming out his nose.
• 449: Ken and John both not having very distinct eyebrows, John teaching his daughter eyebrow language, John's friend Christine Cherbonnier in New York being Yoko Ono's makeup artist.
• 450: Ken and John both never having ridden a camel, John's music video where he is dressed as Santa, singing for a camel (The Week Between).
• 451: John’s daughter getting new glasses, John’s mom having worked as a computer programmer, John still having his first generation IBM PC and his first Mac Classic II in a box somewhere, John learning French in High School between 1980-84
• 452: Ken’s home cinema, John’s dad kissing goodbye a picture of Rita Hayworth when getting into his plane during World War II
• 453: John’s daughter getting a Fitbit, John not having succeeded in High School in any measurable way
• Episode 455: tbd
• 456: John being permanently banned from the JoCo Cruise, John and Ken having done two live shows on the cruise in the past (only episode 253), Ken visiting Antarctica, John imagining what would happen every time being on a plane or a boat while Ken does the opposite, John working in the Kell’s Irish Pub (Kells Irish Restaurant & Bar) in Pike Place Market in the 1990s that was run by Orangemen.
• 457: John and a friend being on Denali far away from everything, having to snowshoe 10 miles, John’s keyboard player Chris once asking to leave the van in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, Ken having been in Antarctica, John’s walk across Europe, John recently having been on the 4-state point (Four Corners Monument), but it was closed
• 458: John and David Rees looking for Reggae albumes during the JoCo Cruise, John’s dad buying crappy electronics, Ken’s dad having a Casio CC3000 (actually Citizen) and an Atari ST with a MIDI port, The Commander Thinks Aloud being made with cheap keyboards
• 459: John’s dad having been a pilot in World War II, Ken’s dad being born on 1949-08-19 and having been the right age for Vietnam, John’s older siblings (from his dad’s first marriage) being boomers, John’s brother David being born in 1949 and going to Canada to avoid getting drafted for Vietnam, growing a beard like Phineas Freak
• Episode 461: Wondering which generation was going to overturn Roe vs Wade (the document had leaked one week before the episode was released, but it was recorded weeks in advance and couldn’t have referred to that), John’s uncle Jack going to Yale with George HW Bush and being tapped for Skull and Bones, the Berlin wall having been down longer than it was up in 2009, John being stopped at the Romania-Austria border in a shakedown, claiming that Nürnberg is the center of Bavaria, eating a ”big ham hock thing” that is a Schweinshaxe, 30% of Berlin having been destroyed in World War II, Americans in the South, John being in Berlin in summer of 1989 when the wall came down, John eating Kartoffel on the Berlin Fernsehturm, seeing the movie Wings of Desire at Potsdamer Platz, different kinds of Schnitzels, John thinking Ken talked about the current Potsdamer Platz, but he was talking about the historical one, seeing the Bourne Supremacy in Alexanderplatz, LEGO Miniland, Eisenbahn Wunderland, Ken pronouncing ”Jochen” better than John does
• 462: John writing papers about how genocides can still happen in 1995 America
• 463: Ken visiting Hawaii after President’s Day, Ken seeing Batman on opening day, John going to the movie theater in an outdoor mall in Renton, reading the zine The Snippet that contained album reviews, John loved reading reviews, John being given an iPad as a touring gift from Keane
• 464: The cooks at Beth’s Café on Aurora Ave in Seattle smoking while preparing omlette, probably getting ash into the meal, John having wanted to go to Africa for writing about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, John’s child speak vocabulary, Ken having ridden an elephant, John only having riden one horse which was a Clydesdale, Ken trying to get rid of his hot tub, John having taken a chainsaw to his hot tub at his old house, Ken’s wife Mindy wanting a donkey, Ken living in Greenwood
• 465: John having been a ski racer at the time the Super G was introduced, John liking to watch Curling, having a difficult time knowing where you can watch the 2022 Winter Olympics, John once losing a ski and doing a yard-sale, Ken having been at the Olympics in Seoul in 1988, John having had the possibility to go to the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary because he was in Spokane at the time, but he never went, John’s dad ski-racing in his 80s and being successful within his very small age bracket
• 467: John’s daughter having imaginary friends Lala and Unga Kinga, John having been handcuffed 7 times and been in court once, John being claustrophobic, John’s recent phase of anxiety attacks
• 468: Ken’s parents being boomers, his mom being born in 1952 was engaged at the age of 20 and was 21/22 years old when Ken was born, John’s dad being of the Greatest Generation and being a Johnny Carson type, John’s mom smoking marijuana at a Bee Gees concert, making marijuana brownies with their mom in the mid-1980s when John’s sister Susan was in her marijuana phase, John’s older siblings being boomers, John’s dad getting sober in the 1960s, John’s dad buying a waterbed in the late 1970s
• 469: John’s daughter loving early 1980s Garfield comics, John’s dad telling him Shaggy Dog stories
• 470: Joh’s dad having an arcade machine franchise in 1973, John having had an IntelliVision, John going to the Tastee-Freez where they had arcade machines, John having been to the first arcade in Anchorage during the first week, John’s daughter thinking that boys are wasting their time if they play video games
• 471: Whistling Pete fireworks, John blowing things up, John building model rockets
• 472: John’s great-grandmother winning a medal for performing as a singer at the Chicago World’s Fair 1893, Ken visiting the World’s Fair ground in New York
• 473: John being unable to watch movies in which children get hurt, John being given a stick by locals in Romania to defend against wild dogs, John being in Chile 2006/07
• Episode 475: John ||walking across Europe, sending missives to the UW Daily (University of Washington) over the summer where they got published, John graduating in Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) in 2015, John still trying to convert his travel notes into a book with an 850 page manuscript, John having journaled all his travels, going to Outward Bound at age 13, hopping freight trains at age 17, Ken having notebooks from this youth that he has never looked at, John sitting in bars and writing in spiral-bound notebooks when he was drinking heavily in his early 20s, finding a picture of the Traveling Wilburys with their age (see RW97), both Ken and John having their crushes on The Go-Go’s, John’s dad having been an amateur photographer, John’s mom writing letters with her grandmother for 40 years, John having taken a motorcycle trip last year and getting a hard cover photo book from Gregor, John having done a colonoscopy without anesthesia
• 476: John going down to the Palouse and running around naked in a plowed field as fast as he could while on drugs (see OM247)
• 477: Ken visiting New York during Spring Break, seeing musicals, Ken being musical-averse, John only having been to one Broadway show: Phantom of the Opera, while he was dating a gal who grew up going to Broadway musicals, John having been King Neptune (see Seafair), John’s friend at Amazon getting advance copies of books
• 479: John not being a media completionist while Ken is, Ken’s movie list, John not being a musical person
• 480: John never learning Spanish, but having learned French, John writing a song for musician Denver Dalley of the band Desaparecidos called From the Ground that appeared on his album Intramural - This Is A Landslide
• 481: John getting addicted to smoking cigars while in Cuba and then quitting smoking when he came home and realized what Cuban cigars cost in America, John doing his assignments last minute
• 482: Ken having been in New York in April of 2022, John having lived in New York in the summer of 2001
• 483: John taking his daughter to the Bay City Rollergirls on Aurora Bvd, John’s first bicycle having been a Schwinn Stingray wiht a white banana seat that he got at a small bike shop right next to Top Gun Seafood Restaurant in the International District where he used to eat Chinese food, John being taken to an illegal off-book women’s mixed martial arts Ultimate Fighting contest in East Bay in San Franisco by a girl he was dating, John going to the roller rink on Saturdays when he was a kid where he had his first Graveyard drink, John buying inline skates at a garage sale at REI in the early 1990s and taking to them right away because they were like skiing except you can’t do hockey stopping which lead to a big crash, John being contemptuous of Pro Wrestling back when he was a 9th-grader who carried a briefcase, John seeing a Pro Wrestling match in Minneapolis on Thanksgiving when he was 18
• Episode 484: tbd
• 485: Ken’s son Dylan having COVID, John’s daughter’s mother having COVID in Ohio, John planning to go to Pennsylvania next week, John getting into the Rock scene late because he was not sober, John being the only child in the production of The House at Pooh Corner (see OM281) at the Shoreline Community College in 1978 playing Christopher Robin
• 486: Ken and John both having COVID, Ken not having been to 8 of the US states, incl Nebraska and South Dakota
• 488: John’s daughter saying a prayer, Ken never having done Yoga, John’s daughter’s pediatritian saying that kids want routine, Timothy Leary at a rally with G. Gordon Liddy and John asking Liddy if he had ever smoked pot (see RL305)
• 489: Explaining the PO-Box trick in the outro how to get packages delivered that don’t normally allow a PO-Box
• Episode 491: Having taken a 2-months break from recording episodes, Ken backpacking in Peru on the Inca Trail with some friends, having a family reunion in Oregon, Ken getting COVID when he was in Peru, 2 years and 3 months after the start of the pandemic, John watching the movie 9 to 5, recommending the fashion, John’s partner being on a clinical trial, John’s dad selling his mother’s house making her feel like she was no longer needed and falling from perfect health to death in just 10 days, John having been accupunctured, John discussing putting LSD into water a lot with his friend and weed dealer Treetop who was 6’10” (208 cm), John’s partner being born in Lummi Island, John taking Lamictal for his Bipolar, but doctors don’t know how and why it works
• 494: Ken buying a beach house in the Northwest, now that his kids are teens, John’s daughter still wanting him to buy a tree house, John’s daughter naming things in his ravine, this episode was recorded when Twee just came out (?)
• 495: Ken’s family just coming back from Belgium, Ken taking the Eurostar to London, John’s having English Breakfast in the quarter of The Shard, mixing all the components together, Ken’s daughter having a ballpoint pen from The Old Operating Theatre Museum that looked like a hypodermic needle, John visiting his alcoholic grandfather’s grave in a mass grave in Ohio
• 497: John getting two tickets to Wrestlemania in Minneapolis from Richard Hadley on his first Thanksgiving away from home (see RL226), John not having been into Wrestling or Marvel Comics in the 1980s, but he was into Richie Rich and Casper the Ghost instead, Ken having been to Antarctica
• 498: John one time getting $8 from his mom to buy clothes at thrift stores, John’s dad buying cheap HiFi equipment, John’s dad’s Canon camera
• 499: John giving a whole heap of garbage bags to the garbage man for only $30, but the garbage man didn’t want beer from John, The Long Winters having played twice at the Belgium/Holland border in Hoogenbrecht (?), John’s relative having been the postmaster of Point Roberts
• 500: John creating a Coinbase Wallet, asking the listeners to donate, All the great shows, John having never bought Bitcoin, but having thought about it often.
• 501: John’s babysitter Alice whom he had up to 4th grade was chain smoking Moores and watching daytime soaps, John playing The Last Waltz in Port Chester New York, John being a pyromaniac
• 502: John defacing billboards with a group of friends (see RL353), John’s graffiti tag name being ”eggs”
• 504: John being called John-John or John Morgan by his family when he was a kid, and being reminded of that at a recent family reunion, John being crazy about Laura in High School who was a year older but went to a Junior College in California for a year before she went to Yale, ending up in John’s college year
• 505: John taking NAC vitamins for his Bipolar, Ken almost drowning in a swimming pool in Singapore (see OM281)
• 507: John showing his daughter classic Westerns, John holding up trains at Woodland Park after being inspired by Knott’s Berry Farm (see OM247)
• 508: John being very sick during the recording, having to cut out a lot of coughs, Ken having been to Antarctica via Chile
• 511: The pope coming to Anchorage in March of 1982, John having a Ford F-250 with a Chevy 350 engine and a canopy in his late 20s
• 517: John’s niece Elizabeth Roderick writing YA-novels, John being influenced by the first eponymous record by The Pretenders and Chrissie Hynde, talking about books John and Ken read in High School, John’s mom having a boyfriend called Norm in the 1970s who smoked pipe and had 4 kids: His oldest daughter Terry lived in a windowless room in the basement and had her walls covered with romance novels, talking about Emanuelle movies, John graduating in 2015, accidentally with a minior in Russian Lit, the only TV show John ever rewatched was 30 Rock, which he rewatched twice, and he is now rewatching Game of Thrones and is really enjoying it, Ken’s mom being an elementary school librarian
• 518: John’s USO tour, neither John nor Ken would volunteer to colonize Mars
• 519: John going through his uncle’s papers after his funeral, John’s uncle having had newspaper clippings from the 1964 earthquake on the wall
• 522: Ken’s new vacation cabin / beach house on the San Juan islands (see OM494), Ken and John’s houses
• 523: John’s mom going to all the churches that she found on a page in the phone book, John having had a laminated card with phone numbers, looking through the Sears catalog, John reading the Encyclopedia Britanica as a kid, John’s first entry in the phone book being John Ignacius Riley, John calling phone operators as a kid to call his dad in Alaska, but also to ask them random questions, John having been called by military recruiters, Ken getting rid of his landline very early on, there being another person in Salt Lake City with the name Ken Jennings who often got calls or mail that were directed for Ken, John looking for his old friend Metat Abdul Jawad from Jordan who was his room mate for a year and whom he can’t find on the Internet at all
• 524: John being told not to run at Wolf Haven in Tacoma, Ken’s dogs, John hiding cigarettes above the doors