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№ 111 Actors: Revisited

For the first time, Brian and Melissa re­visit a topic. And they did it with re­turn­ing guest Megan Hutt, and first-time guest Josh Hutt! Listen as they dis­cuss their fa­vorite ac­tors. How much did Brian and Melissa’s list change? It’s a mega-sized episode af­ter the un­planned sum­mer hia­tus.

Daniel’s Razor: The Daniel Special at Sushi Cafe is al­ways bet­ter than you ex­pect, even tak­ing into ac­count Daniel’s Razor.

(Apologies to Hofstadter’s Law)

Brian

Chik-fil-A Hires Atheists Part-Time in Order to Open on Sundays

Brian
№ 110 Candy Bars

After some gru­el­ing re­search, Melissa and Brian are joined again by Tim Binzel to dis­cuss their fa­vorite candy bars.

Museum of Websites

Museum of Websites: A hand-cu­rated gallery of how fa­mous in­ter­net com­pa­nies have changed over time.

Brian
№ 109 Movies Pre-1960

Teaching Facebook a les­son! The ethics of whistling at work! The moon land­ing! Oh, and our fa­vorite movies re­leased be­fore 1960. Just some of the top­ics Brian and Melissa dis­cuss with Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono, hosts of The Sci-Fi Christian pod­cast.

The Definitive Guide to Children’s Nutrition

Foods we started eat­ing from this ar­ti­cle: sar­dines (still need to find bone-in), sea­weed, chicken liver (the paté recipe is great). Also love:

Make a house­hold rule that you have to take at least 7 bites be­fore deem­ing a food yucky.”

Brian

Matt Koser:

An ap­ple pie with­out the cheese is like a kiss with­out the squeeze.

Brian
№ 108 Animated Shows

Melissa and Brian are joined by their first re­turn­ing guest, Zach Koser, to talk about their fa­vorite an­i­mated TV shows. Yay car­toons!

№ 107 Rapsters

Brian and Melissa re­cently got into rap­ster mu­sic. They each list their ten fa­vorite rap­sters.

It’s a prob­lem if you have more Goodreads friends than books marked read” on Goodreads

Brian

A Celebration of Language

Melissa

Friends” Poem

Melissa
№ 106 Studio C Videos

Melissa and Brian list their fa­vorite videos from the sketch com­edy group Studio C.

Every scene was a post cred­its scene un­til the 1960s

Brian
№ 105 Board Games Addendum 2019

Brian and Melissa wrap up the board game talk by run­ning through the games they played on the cruise and ex­plain­ing why cer­tain games fell off their top 10 lists.

№ 104 Board Games 2018

Special guests Joe and Heather Wiggins join to dis­cuss their fa­vorite board games of all time. That’s forty board games, plus hon­or­able men­tions, crammed into our longest episode yet!

№ 103 Books 2018

Brian and Melissa dis­cuss the books they read in 2018 in this su­per-size episode: the best, the worst, and plenty of stats. Plus feed­back from Megan and Joshua!

№ 102 Movies 2018

Melissa and Brian run through all the movies they saw in 2018. Hear about the best and the worst!

Christmas Letter 2018

Brian, Melissa, Lydia, Amber
№ 100 Ten to One Episodes

Melissa and Brian cel­e­brate them­selves! For the 100th episode they take a look back at all the episodes that came be­fore, cov­er­ing the best and worst of the past two and a half years.

Project name idea: Brianstorm

Brian
№ 98 Christmas Songs

Melissa and Brian share their fa­vorite Christmas songs, just in time for the hol­i­days.

Oh the huge man­a­tee!

Brian

Manatee of man­a­tees, all is man­a­tee.

Brian
№ 96 TV Show Intros

Brian and Melissa list their ten fa­vorite TV show in­tros. Both theme songs and vi­su­als are con­sid­ered.

№ 95 Pregnancy and Post-Partum Advice

Melissa gives words of wis­dom for preg­nancy and post-par­tum moth­ers. Brian shares pres­i­dent trivia and plays Guess That Medication.

№ 90 Guilty Pleasures

Melissa and Brian list the low-qual­ity movies, TV shows, songs, comics, games, web­sites, and foods that they en­joy.

№ 89 Brand Names

Melissa and Brian give the brand name prod­ucts they pre­fer over other brands or generic.

№ 87 Fantasy Football 2018

On the day the Eagles start off the 2018 NFL sea­son, Brian talks up 10 play­ers that ex­cite him for fan­tasy foot­ball.

№ 86 Earworms

Brian and Melissa try to get as many songs stuck in your head as pos­si­ble!

№ 85 Baby Essentials

Melissa lists her es­sen­tials items to own for par­ents. Brian nods along.

If I’m ever on the run in Mexico, I’ll use the alias Jorge Curioso”

Brian