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!
Podcasts
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”.
We join Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono on The Sci-Fi Christian podcast to discuss Lord of Chaos, book six in the Wheel of Time series.
Once again, Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono from The Sci-Fi Christian podcast stop by, this time with book recommendations.