Podcasts by The Time Has Come: Podcast Adventures
The Time Has Come is a series of long form discussions with near-life-long friends Josh Dobbin and Keith Field. LAUGH! In uproarious and mocking fashion to the tales of their youth and adventures. THRILL! to tales of triumph and failure. Mostly failure. KISS! the next hour and a half or so of your time away as it slips into the infinite void of the past. DANCE! to appease the cruel whims of a wicked leprechaun! The time has come. Listen in.
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Father’s Day 2021: Two Pictures of My Dad from 2021-06-19T18:13:34
Every Father’s Day, I usually share a storytelling event story I did a while back, about my dad. The story I tell there is one part of three, from a thing I wrote, shortly after he died, call...
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Bonus: Solo Jew Fight from 2021-05-27T03:53:28
The podcast WILL ride again… maybe! If it suits Keith’s fancy. In the meanwhile, to tide you over, here’s a bonus bit of content: I recorded an audio-book style version of a story...
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Episode 79: TRUCK ZOO BLOOD WAR 2000!!! from 2020-09-26T21:13:46
Slaughter the fatted calf! Light the celebratory bonfire! Punch a nun full in the face! Keith “America’s Favorite Boy” Field has crafted a purchasable piece of podcast merchandise...
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Episode 78: Tears for a Baked Midget from 2020-09-17T22:48:47
What’s in a name? William Shakespeare seemed to think “not much,” in that a rose by any other name would still be rose-flavored. But he was kind of a dick who wrote a play about a...
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Episode 77: The King is Dead from 2020-09-04T21:48:44
On the nature of expressions of grief or mourning for strangers, both genuine and performative, Josh and Keith have differing opinions, but manage to find some common ground. In this episode, find ...
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Episode 076: HECTOR, NO! from 2020-08-25T22:40
The great poet Robbie Burns once said that the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang-aft-a-gley. Which is a classy Scottish way for saying “get fucked up.” Here’s a l...
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Episode 075: The Final Frontier from 2020-08-14T22:07:06
We are more than the sum total of what we consume and our identity is not predicated on that which we reject. This is a lesson some years in the making for Keith, but it is a trap we all fal...
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Episode 074: Tap…Tap…Is This Thing On? from 2020-08-09T22:31:39
In a world gone mad, two old friends reunite in the world’s sweatiest apartment to record a podcast for your wicked amusements. Keith is back from his sojourn in the spiritually barren...
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Episode 073: What’s a Naughty Boy to Do? from 2016-05-06T23:07:08
There are moments when you are aware of a gestalt reality, but unaware of the specifics of what is at play. One of these moments came when Keith arrived at my door, hailed my dogs with his customar...
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Episode 072: Taste The Rainbow from 2016-04-14T02:07:56
Here’s what I think is important about this episode, in a “One to grow on” kind of way. In a time of instantly mobilized outrage on the left and right, where disagreement equals o...
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Episode 071: What Rough Beast Slouches Towards Metropolis? from 2016-03-30T17:10:05
Easter! A time for rebirth, renewal, and awakening. Spring has sprung and chocolate-y eggs dot the newly green grass. That which once was dormant and seemingly gone from the Earth wakes anew and bl...
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Episode 070: Birthdays and Family Fun from 2016-03-18T16:04:29
There is a certain convention of naming that is often seen in cartoons, wherein the big fat guy who pilots the main vehicle is called “Tiny.”A comedic inversion of the reality by plainl...
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Episode 069: I Found My Thrill On Parmalee Hill from 2016-03-09T02:45:58
An ever-full cornucopia of wondrous delights awaits you in this episode: The Lovecraftian horror of a misspent high school career in self-plagiarism gives way to a glimpse of the Future-As-Keith-Se...
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Episode 068: Sinister Clowns and Syrup from 2016-03-03T16:46:01
“It’s sick out there and getting sicker,” was the catchphrase of radio curmudgeon Bob Grant. An apt summation of this week’s theme: Josh recalls a hospital tale, with all-t...
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Episode 067: Long Live the King from 2016-02-25T15:41:17
Author Stephen King is incredibly important to both Josh and Keith, for similar reasons. This podcast explores the intersection of King’s works with their lives, explores what King means to t...
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Episode 066: Where Walks the Spotted Eel from 2016-02-10T22:45:44
Myths, legends, folklore. Where do they come from, and from what circumstances do they arise? Figures who exist in equal parts fantasy and history have been shared dreams of humanity since civiliza...
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Episode 065: A Boy Called Grandma from 2016-01-28T17:57:08
Riddle us this, Podcast-consumer. In what other show, across all manner of media, might you find a single broadcast that encompasses such topics as shoplifting, abusive relationships, Chewbacca, sn...
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Episode 064: Bread (Meat) And Circuses from 2016-01-20T21:37:49
Take a tour of the messy playroom that serves as the headquarters and studio of The Time Has Come Podcast Enterprises. In this episode, learn the sinister plans of meteor-based wooing that Keith ha...
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Episode 063: Patterns. Patterns for Living. from 2016-01-13T15:50:48
Many things take place this episode. Birthday parties for dogs, the role and bane of nostalgia, THE SIMPSONS and their filthy place in the world of internet vis a vis “RULE 34,” impromp...
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Episode 062: Baby Gorilla Requests Billy Joel from 2016-01-06T17:40:03
We’re back from Christmas break to ring in the new year. And we’re taking requests. But not taking too kindly to them, really. This episode: Star Wars, and the ponderous nature of speak...
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Episode 061: Animals Part 2…Sorta from 2015-12-16T14:44:03
It’s Garbage Day! A time for celebration, and a time for remembrance. Learn all about Little Boy Keith Field and his adventures in the time before the DumpSTAIR. (Spoilers: It ends in tears, ...
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Episode 060: You Filthy Animals! from 2015-12-09T06:26:39
Nature red in tooth and claw; the savage and the untamed beasts of the wild… and our desire to make them pets. These are only some of the things talked about in this episode. Learn the stunni...
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Episode 059: We’re Baaaaack from 2015-12-02T02:45:18
You can’t keep a good podcast down. Or this one, for that matter. Josh and Keith shake off the dust and, like the Blues Brothers before them, get the band back together. Also, much like those...
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BONUS CONTENT: Josh Live in Hartford- Accidents of Fate from 2014-09-19T13:57:57
The Mark Twain House storytelling event “The MOuTH” invited Josh back to an evening themed around the idea of accidents. A story about being an accidental American and not a particularl...
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Episode 058: Christmas Greetings From Skynet from 2013-12-26T01:52:50
The Time Has Come rides again! Like a forgotten Christmas present, fallen behind the tree and only discovered after the inevitable holiday drear of bagging up torn wrapping paper and suffering thro...
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Episode 057: A Drive to Idlewild from 2013-10-12T12:48:53
There exists a new America. A different America. An America not quite real, not quite yet, but that lies in waiting, if you are brave and bold enough to walk toward it. An America in potential. Ke...
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Episode 056: How to Save a Life from 2013-09-08T16:49:12
In which Josh and Keith catch up over the few podcast-less weeks. Keith declares a death-feud on Josh for his dismissal of the talents of John C. Riley. Learn about the best restaurant encounter EV...
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Episode 055: Photographic Memories from 2013-08-17T20:26:31
The press of a finger, the flash of a light, and we have conquered Time itself; frozen it in its never-ending motion and transformed it from a fluid verb into a concrete noun: a photograph. Josh an...
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Episode 054: Fame and Fortune. And Pens. from 2013-08-10T19:01:25
What makes Keith Field tick, you ask? Then you ask the wrong question. The proper question is what makes Keith Field TAP. And the answer is a pen. A special kind of pen. A TAPPY PEN. Learn its drea...
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Episode 053: Brand Loyal from 2013-07-27T16:21:36
Begin year two! The grand and (probably ultimately tragic) saga of TRUCK ZOO continues on apace, and is filled with backstabbing, betrayal and internecine warfare among its ruling cabal. Which is, ...
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Episode 052: Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary! from 2013-07-11T07:28:45
The Time Has Come is a year old! Much like a baby, we’re often cranky and the the contents of our pants are questionable. In this celebratory milestone episode: TRUCK ZOO keeps rolling. (Now ...
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Episode 051: Superman? More Like Pooperman. from 2013-07-03T02:47:03
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a joyless a-hole who is going to crash into your building, seemingly unaware or unconcerned with your safety, or the countless...
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BONUS CONTENT: Father’s Day At the Mark Twain House from 2013-06-19T00:02:35
Father’s Day, June 16, 2013, I got a chance to speak at a story-telling event at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, put on by NPR’s Chion Wolf and featuring Colin McEnroe, of ...
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Episode 050: Say It Ain’t So, Joe from 2013-06-14T01:16:36
“A hero ain’t nothing but a sandwich.” At least so says the title of a 1973 book about heroin in the ghetto. In this episode, there are no heroes to be found in sandwich shops. On...
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Episode 049: Mysteries of the Unknown! from 2013-06-05T23:25:06
Ancient and powerful secrets, hidden from view by Secret Chiefs; wheels which spin within wheels: mysterious cabals of Illuminated Seers, creatures or entities from beyond space or time. Psychic ph...
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Episode 048: For the Love of Crap from 2013-05-22T15:18:22
There’s some pleasures that are guilty and some you don’t even bother apologizing for. Josh and Keith explore the world of crap they know is crap, but have loved through the ages. ALSO ...
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Episode 047: Babycakes and the 600 Pound Crush from 2013-05-14T18:46:44
Spring! When a young man’s fancy turns to love. Only it usually isn’t really love, but the fairy-gold version of it: The crush. The everywhere-ache of heart and gut that leaves one brea...
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Episode 046: The Games People Play from 2013-05-09T18:38:56
“Shall we play a game?” intoned the robotic 1980s computer-generated JOSHUA computer voice to a zitty young and innocent Matthew Broderick who had yet to be seduced by the horse-faced S...
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Episode 045: Robots and Spacemen from 2013-05-02T17:05:42
“I like to read books about ROBOTS and SPACEMEN!” is something an enthusiastic young boy might exclaim. Keith would most likely hit that child. This episode is all about sci-fi heresie...
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Episode 044: Man Vs. Nature from 2013-04-24T21:19:23
The epic struggle and eternal conflict. Will and intention versus the implacable and unstoppable press of the world and life in its non-human forms. In this episode: Josh is humbled by a mountain t...
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Podcast 043: Roommate. Room Hate. from 2013-04-18T14:29:30
Laverne and Shirley, Kip and Henry, Lenny and Squiggy. They all lied to us from the TV screen. Roommate situations don’t always create true and lasting bonds of camaraderie and friendship to ...
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Episode 042: Thumbs Up For Ebert from 2013-04-09T17:36:01
The world is more interesting and a better place for having had Roger Ebert, his voice and identity in it and a little less wonderful for losing the same. This episode, Josh and Keith look back at ...
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Episode 041: Ha ha! Joke’s On You! from 2013-04-04T16:35:08
April, T.S. Elliot wrote, is the cruelest month. Fitting then that this, our April Fool’s themed show, is the cruelest podcast. Learn of the kind of grim April Showers that Keith once visite...
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Episode 040: Changing Seasons- A Look Back from 2013-03-27T16:25:26
The Time Has Come turns 40…episodes long. Winter gives way to spring and Josh and Keith look back at a season’s full of episodes and explore the topics of the last few months for storie...
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Episode 039: Pope Cake! A Celebration of Birthdays from 2013-03-19T19:01:06
A special The Time Has Come podcast, taped live before a studio audience. If one define’s “studio” as “Josh’s dining room.” Super-fans and super-friends Rich Joh...
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Episode 038: Let’s All Go to the Lobby To Get Ourselves a Treat from 2013-03-12T17:58:18
Keith has close encounters of the dork kind at a gaming shop and is three times rejected by the nerdiest of all nerds. Exploding nazi balloons. The strange and terrible saga of the most wretched h...
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Episode 037: Boffer Swords and Broken Dreams from 2013-03-05T19:36:35
A panorama of love-filled magic for your ears and heart: Learn the three magic words crazy Grandma Field once scrawled across an official paper that changed the world of media as we know it. Discov...
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BONUS CONTENT: Josh Live in Hartford from 2013-03-02T18:31:08
Special Bonus: Josh appeared as a featured storyteller at a Connecticut version of THE MOTH RADIO HOUR (kinda; it was an NPR event, but the actual MOTH people turned out to be dicks. So they insert...
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Episode 036: Howdy, Neighbor! from 2013-02-27T17:11:24
Josh and Keith talk about the history of moving; what is is to shift from house to house growing up and the attendant excitement, fear, wonder– and, all too often, horror that new spaces brin...
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Episode 034: To Talk of Other Things. Also Field Trips. from 2013-02-19T16:11:27
You’ve heard our opening theme song. “The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of other things– of shoes and ships and sealing wax; of cabbages and kings!” Well, thatR...
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Episode 033: A Winter’s Tale of Snow and Popes from 2013-02-13T15:26:57
In a world blanketed by snow and confusion, the Pope abandons his post, leaving doubt and an uncertain future on the horizon. One man rises up to claim what has always been his destiny: Your new Po...
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Episode 032: Talkin’Bout Funnybooks from 2013-02-06T13:48:30
Like Paul McCartney and Wings once sung: “Magneto said “Now The Time Has Come To gather our forces and run!!!” Oh no . . . . . . This can’t be so . . . . . .” But it i...
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Episode 031:Sports: Everybody’s All American from 2013-01-30T14:28:26
The thrill of sport; for the love of the game. Or not. Josh and Keith exchange war stories of being on the outs from organized sporting and the disastrous attempts to get in. Learn how a strike-out...
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Episode 030: That’s Me In The Spotlight, Losin’My Religion from 2013-01-23T15:14:37
They say you’re never supposed to talk about religion or politics. Well, “they” can go pound sand and/or tell it to Sweeney. Because we talk religion this episode. Tales of how ou...
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Episode 029: All Your Internet Are Belong to Us from 2013-01-15T22:31:33
The internet. The web. The information SUPAH-highway. It, like the Force that Ben Kenobi once spoke of, surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together. Join Keith and Josh as they tal...
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Episode 028: Back In the Saddle Again from 2013-01-11T21:23
Aaaand we’re back! Sick and hacking up phlegm, but back. The semi-triumphant return of The Time Has Come: Podcast Adventures With Josh Dobbin and Keith Field is not without some bumps: Josh f...
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Episode 027: 2012- The Year in Review from 2012-12-18T19:05:27
a note from Josh Dobbin: Keith and I debated whether we should put up an episode or not this week. I was of the opinion at first that a kind of “moment of silence” would be appropriate ...
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Episode 026: Vehicular Homicide from 2012-12-11T16:32:52
Americans have a love affair with their cars. The idea of identity and masculinity being expressed through and by a vehicle is one that holds sway in our culture. Not so for Josh and Keith. ESPECIA...
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Episode 025: For the Love of Toys from 2012-12-04T13:30:32
It’s that wonderful season we all find so pleasin’… the Toys ‘R Us tiiiime of year…. Christmas is only a few weeks away, so Josh and Keith deconstruct the idea of toys...
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Episode 024: Sick Out There and Getting Sicker from 2012-11-27T14:36:51
In which Josh and Keith discuss ailments and maladies. But, you know, in a fun way. The talk (eventually) gets to various and sundry injuries, illnesses and hospitalizations of the past, but not be...
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Episode 023: We Will Control the Horizontal from 2012-11-20T14:29:01
“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish ...
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Episode 022: We Are the Champions, My Friend from 2012-11-13T14:27:26
Life sometimes hands you moments of victory when it all comes together. Fleeting ones, perhaps. But moments, nonetheless. At least, this is Josh’s hypothesis. Keith disagrees somewhat. In thi...
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Episode 021: Here Come the Holidays from 2012-11-06T04:01:13
Halloween’s done and Thanksgiving’s soon upon us. Then the mad rush to Christmanuhkaawnza-New-Year. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Except that it really, really isnR...
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Episode 020: Star Wars, Nothing But Staaaar Wars from 2012-10-31T14:08:41
Hot on the heels of Disney announcing the purchase of the STAR WARS franchise from wicked and chinless George Lucas, Josh and Keith sit down to talk about something from a long time ago, in a galax...
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Episode 019: Sock It To Me With Some Probing Questions from 2012-10-24T13:46:03
Philip K. Dick once said, “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” If he was right, then we have met some people who had very appropriate responses to reality....
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Episode 017: All You Can Eat from 2012-10-16T04:29:25
Food, glorious food! Well… maybe not so glorious. Josh and Keith talk fast food memories and foodstuffs in general: Tales of six-armed Grimace, The Burger King’s trippy pantheon of insa...
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Episode 016: All the World’s A Stage from 2012-10-09T15:25:43
Oh, for a muse of fire that would ascend the brightest heavens of invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Or, failing princes, Josh and Keith. I...
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Episode 015: Lost in the Early 90s from 2012-10-02T14:47:53
Lots of stuff going on: Keith’s preparation for entrance into Pandaria, a shadowy encounter with Naugatuck Sid and then a really open and honest talk about our shared history and finding our ...
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Episode 014: Halloween and a Boy Named Joao from 2012-09-25T13:37:37
It is time again for boys and girls to don masks under the cover of darkness and make demands for goods with threats of force to their neighbors in a spree of mini-home invasions. Halloween! The be...
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Episode 013: I’m In a New York State of Mind from 2012-09-18T13:14:40
“If I can…make it there…I’ll make it (boom, boom) anywhere; it’s up to you, New York! New York!” But they didn’t quite make it there. Learn about Josh and ...
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Episode 012: Breakin’the Law! Breakin’the Law! from 2012-09-11T11:58:17
The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The Shadow knows! But eff the Shadow. Josh and Keith did not know and wanted juuuust a little bite of that fruit at some point, to determin...
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Episode 011: Take This Job and Shove It from 2012-09-04T14:05:19
In honor of Labor Day, Josh and Keith talk about work and job stories. You will make a run for the border when Keith explains what secret ingredient once flavored the tacos of Taco Bell, back in t...
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Episode 010: FIGHT! FIGHT (Part 2 of 2) from 2012-08-30T12:01:06
The stunning conclusion to FIGHT! FIGHT! That’s two episodes in one week. Lucky you. In this episode: Keith’s super-villainous plots against his hapless little brother, Josh “figh...
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Episode 009: FIGHT! FIGHT! (Part 1 of 2) from 2012-08-28T14:33
Swinging fists of fury! No quarter asked and none given! Episode 009 is the first of a special two-parter all about ass kicking. Or, as it turns out, having one’s ass kicked. Learn about Keit...
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Episode 008: A Game of Questions from 2012-08-21T14:33:41
“Whose side are you on?” “That would be telling. We want…information. Information. Information.” Find out whose side Keith and Josh are on, as they prof...
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Episode 007: Vacation! All I Ever Wanted! from 2012-08-14T12:54:36
Lights! Adventure! Excitement! Adult Babies! Family-destroying traumatic fights and misery! The stuff vacation memories are made of. Join Josh and Keith as they recount vacations past: Josh’s...
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Episode 006: The Scariest Podcast. Horror and Nasty from 2012-08-07T12:51:44
Wanna see something really scary? Well, you’re out of luck, as this is an audio podcast, after all. But if you want to hear some scary stuff– haunted toys and inexplicable acts of clair...
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Episode 005: Cruel, Cruel Summer from 2012-07-31T04:19:47
Summer spectacular! Summer movies! Summer jobs! Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime. In this episode, Keith tells a tale of summer employment that will physically hurt you with laught...
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Episode 004: There is No Grown Up Anywhere from 2012-07-24T16:05:55
In which Josh and Keith recount their struggles against The Man(tm) and Josh reveals his grand unifying theory of all human interaction. Along the way, they dissect and discuss early 90s fau...
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Episode 003: Drive By Ketchup Attacks and Adventure from 2012-07-17T11:45:16
in which Josh recounts the fashion vagaries of jew-camp and how he resolved to be a pirate, lives through a terrible 80s movie with no redeeming slow-clap, Keith recounts his time as both hero and ...
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Episode 002: Caught in a Bad Romance from 2012-07-10T11:43:48
In which Keith looks for love in all the wrong places– including a crappy barbecue joint and a graveyard– and Josh reveals himself as a serial coward. This episode is full of tales of l...
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Episode 001: Secret Origins and Archvillains from 2012-06-29T04:59:26
Listen to Episode 001: Secret Origins and Archvillains What happens when life-long friends get together to talk about stuff and things? Evidently, podcasts. We are Josh Dobbin and Keith Field and w...
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