Podcasts

If you could only read 10 books for the rest of your life, which would you choose? Brian and Melissa give the de­fin­i­tive an­swers.

Brian read 14 books. Matt read 14 books. Ben read 14 books. They rank those books.

Due to pop­u­lar de­mand (both hosts) we con­sume an­other box of choco­lates on air. Is this the worst pod­cast idea we’ve had? How is this a se­ries? Why has­n’t [company name with­held] spon­sored this pod­cast? Ponder these ques­tions and more and you lis­ten to half an hour of chew­ing sounds. Happy Halloween!

For this fall sea­son, Melissa pre­sents ten Bible sto­ries that could have been adapted for The Twilight Zone.

Brian makes a case for fewer ser­mon ap­pli­ca­tions (and fewer morals at the end of the story).

Brian and Melissa talk through Ambleside Online, a free Charlotte Mason cur­ricu­lum, and what a nor­mal home­school day is like for the Kosers.

Brian re­veals se­cret goals he wanted to achieve by age 35.

Brian puts on the pierc­ing spec­ta­cles of lit­eray crit­i­cism and re­veals the true mean­ing of P. D. Eastman’s mas­ter­piece ‘Go, Dog. Go!’

Brian and Melissa com­pare their fa­vorite films they saw for the first time last year, 2023.

Brian and Melissa share their fa­vorite reads and re-reads of 2023.

Not quite New Year’s res­o­lu­tions, but Brian and Melissa dis­cuss plans for the new year, the year of our Lord 2024.

Brian and Melissa wel­come back Ben De Bono and Matt Anderson to dis­cuss some of our fa­vorite Christmas films.

Melissa shares ideas on how we can be less lonely, iso­lated, and frag­mented.

Brian is re­joined by his brother Matt for a dis­cus­sion of bap­tism: credo or paedo? What does bap­tism do? What con­sti­tutes a valid bap­tism? No ques­tions are an­swered, but a rous­ing time was, again, had.

Brian at­tempts to ex­plain Charlotte Mason’s 20 prin­ci­ples that un­der­gird her phi­los­o­phy of ed­u­ca­tion.

Brian and Melissa ex­plain why they home­school

Brian and his brother Matt dis­cuss three Christian the­o­log­i­cal views of hell: in­fer­nal­ism, an­ni­hi­la­tion­ism, and uni­ver­sal­ism.

Brian and Melissa dis­cuss the pre­sent ca­pa­bil­i­ties and fu­ture pos­si­bil­i­ties of ChatGPT and its ar­ti­fi­cial “intelligence” brethren, and how alarmists may be wrong with their pre­dic­tions but right with their warn­ings.

For the first time in recorded his­tory, Aristotle’s Poetics and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel Sourcery are re­viewed in a sin­gle pod­cast episode.

For the first time, Brian and Melissa re­veal their fa­vorite Hollywood-style video movies!

Brian’s quick thoughts on the novel Mrs. Dalloway.

Brian’s fuller thoughts of the fourth Discworld novel, Mort.

Brian tries re­view­ing a book. It went okay maybe? All spoil­ers for a 98-year-old book.

You know what trans­lates well to a pod­cast? Eating. Eating lit­tle pieces of choco­late from a box of choco­lates from Melissa’s brother Michael. Thanks Michael!

Another year of books! Brian and Melissa share their top tens and bot­tom ones from 2022.

Melissa and Brian dis­cuss their fa­vorite first-time-view­ing films of 2022. Brian is now pre­ten­tious and calls them films in­stead of movies. Melissa has an un­be­liev­able list; num­ber 2 will shock you!

Start the year with Brian and Melissa! They re­view 2022 and set some new goals for 2023!

Our friends Ben and Matt have a book club, with which Brian has been read­ing along. Together they rank the 12 books they’ve read over the past cou­ple years.

Melissa’s ten best tips for potty train­ing your lit­tle tyke. Recorded on Maundy Thursday, but not posted un­til Easter be­cause of a kid­ney stone at­tack! Pray Melissa passes it soon.

Only one-third of the way through 2022 be­fore we talk movies we saw in 2021! That’s okay, we talked about most of these in November af­ter we did our scary movie list. You can prob­a­bly skip this one, to be hon­est. Unless you want to hear Brian’s the­ory on how No Country for Old Men is a hope­ful movie.

Brian and spe­cial guest Colten Jernigan share their love of New Zealand com­edy mu­si­cal duo Flight of the Conchords by lis­ten­ing to their ten fa­vorite songs.

We did­n’t read 100, but we did read some books in 2021. Here are our fa­vorites and least fa­vorites.

This year, Melissa and Brian are go­ing to watch or re­watch 100 films, lead­ing up to a top 10 films of all time list in 2023.

Start the year with Brian and Melissa. They re­view 2021 and set some new goals for 2022!

Brian and Melissa watched all the Muppet movies in 2021. What is the best Muppet movie, and more im­por­tantly, which is the worst?

What is a Christmas carol? Melissa finds out, and so will you when Brian at­tacks sa­cred cows and splits the hairs of Christmas.

Brian and Melissa and al­most-reg­u­lars-at-this-point Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono rank the Halloween movies the Kosers watched in October.

Brian and Melissa and guest Clint dis­cuss the movie Dune, from the per­spec­tive of a book reader and a non-book reader.

Melissa and Brian make a list live! I mean, you’re lis­ten­ing to a record­ing, but we recorded it live. We did­n’t make the list ahead of time, is what I’m say­ing. No, it was on pur­pose, not a lack of plan­ning. Jeez. It’s scary movies we’re go­ing to watch in October.

We’re mov­ing! The au­dio qual­ity is ter­ri­ble, so if you want to skip this one: we’re mov­ing to Huntsville, Alabama at the end of June. For the fresh start, ad­ven­ture, chal­lenge, more mod­er­ate cli­mate, more out­door ac­tiv­i­ties, etc. We’re su­per busy now but will prob­a­bly be pod­cast­ing again in August.

Brian in­tro­duces a new se­ries: Stuff I Learned on Wikipedia. Which ar­ti­cle re­lated to books is the most in­ter­est­ing? Is the an­swer, “None of them”?

Melissa and Brian share their fa­vorite Dr. Seuss books. How many of Seuss’s Sinful Six made it onto their lists?!

Our Wheel of Time se­ries keeps spin­ning as we cover Book 7 with Ben and Matt on The Sci-Fi Christian pod­cast.

Listen in while Melissa and Brian de­cide which of their chil­dren’s books they can dis­card. Don’t tell Lydia, Amber, or Penny.

For the first time, Brian and Melissa suss out their fa­vorite books of all time.

Brian and Melissa share their fa­vorite love songs. Their lists are set and never change.

Brian and Melissa cob­ble to­gether a top 10 list of movies they saw in 2020. Let’s just say book year did­n’t leave much time for watch­ing good movies.

Brian and Melissa put a bow on Book Year by shar­ing their fa­vorite books that were new reads in 2020.

Melissa and Brian re­turn for a new year with their an­nual new goals!

We con­tinue the Wheel of Time se­ries with Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono on The Sci-Fi Christian pod­cast, dis­cussing “The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time”, aka “The Big White Book”.