Podcast For Your Life
by Jam and Jason
Two non-experts share personal stories and unsolicited but much-needed analyses of life, topic by topic, in 15 minutes or less.Thoughts from our life, for yours. By Jam and Jason.Every week-ish, we share thoughts, on a broad topic, for no longer than 15 minutes. We try to stay away from the trendy, and away from topics we could be considered experts on. Essentially the only promises we make are that every episode will include thoughts, and be shorter than 15 minutes.
Episodes
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Endings for your life
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Spam for your life
Spam. Yep, it's not just a pretty first name anymore. It's in a can, it's in our emails. Let's taste it and see what all the fuss is about. Say hey to Podcast For Your Life on Instagram or at [email protected] Check out our website here: podforyourlife.transistor.fm Thanks for listening!
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Money for your life
Money, potentially the most complicated topic we've ever tried to tackle on PFYL. Have we bitten off more than we can chew? Hard to say. But I'll tell you it's definitely hard to chew on money. Especially coins. Say hey to Podcast For Your Life on Instagram or at [email protected]…
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Hats for your life
Head coverings. What are they? Are they functional or stylish? Jam shares some thoughts about the reverse cap style. Jason recalls an old memory with his peewee baseball team that blows Jam's mind. We tip our hats at our listeners.
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Electricity for your life
Jason and Jam talk about how awesome electricity is for your life and Jam shares about that one time he dropped a handful of AA batteries into a glass of water. Yikes?
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Doing the dishes for your life
Don't feel sorry us, but it may be worthwhile to be a little concerned. In our spare time, in our brief little weekly escape from this crumbling world, we talked about doing the dishes. Send help. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Instagram or email...
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Delivery for your life
This episode is a special delivery — just for you! Fast and free shipping. No service fees or delivery charges included. Listen to this episode within two hours for maximum freshness. Enjoy! You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Instagram or email...
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Walking for your life
As humans we've tried to find ways to get there faster, but we still have to walk. Animals too. We can't drive our cars into our kitchens. Which leads us to the existential question: would you walk 500 miles and then walk 500 more? You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life…
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Books for your life (with Melissa)
#092 Books: The Crossover. This latest nugget bridges 2 podcasts from the same "for your life" universe. We're honored to have Melissa Collini, host of Chemistry For Your Life, join us this episode for a page-turning episode about books. The plot thickens and the twist is pretty twisty. You can...
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Fans for your life
#091 Fans. What are they and why hasn't AC replaced them? Probably because they're more than a device that pushes air. So much more. We dive into some of the top theories about where fans came from, dating back to Ancient Egypt. Nope, not Ancient Aliens. Pharaoh, Pharaoh, oh baby, let my people…
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New Milks for your life
#090 New Milk! Brand new milks. Now available. If you're having a little deja who, it's because we've talked about milk before. A while ago, we did a sort of overview of milk. This time, we're exclusively talking about the new milks. Lot's of folks don't like to call non-dairy milks milk. In this...
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Flags for your life
#089 Flags. What's going on there? This week we dive into this topic with no caution. It's not that controversial right? Where'd flags come from? Why do we still have them around? Why are some of them so terrible? Definitely can't answer that one. Maybe flags had a clear purpose at one point, but...
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Gardens for your life (with Chauncey, part 2)
#088 Part 2! We're continuing our talk about gardens with Chauncey Allmond, a friend of Jason's. What are gardens? What isn't a garden? Are there accidental gardens? This is a first for us, but our conversation with Chauncey went longer than expected, if you haven't heard part 1, go back and…
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Gardens for your life (with Chauncey, part 1)
#087 We have a guest again! We're talking about gardens with Chauncey Allmond, a friend of Jason's. What are gardens? What isn't a garden? Are there accidental gardens? This is a first for us, but our conversation with Chauncey went longer than expected, enough for us to have two episodes worth.…
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Surprises for your life
#086 Surprise! This week Jam and Jason talk about surprises. Why do we like them? Are they always good? Why does everything have to be a surprise now? Surprise! You have a terminal illness. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Instagram or email...
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Long-distance relationships for your life
#085 Distance between people. Like what's up with that? Friends, family, significant others? We don't really know but we've certainly experienced it. Is it a good thing? Can it really sustain friendships? Is it more common now that we have many connecting technologies and we don't just write...
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Underwear for your life
#084 Well, no spoilers here in the notes. You'll have to listen to hear how we tip-toe through this landmine field of a topic. What's underwear? Why do we still wear it? Is it just an evolutionary loin cloth holdover? We're no anthropologists, but we are life-long underwearers (so far). You can...
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Waiting for your life
#083 Waiting. Waiting for your life. Waiting for your life to happen? To be over? Waiting for your food? Waiting on your wife to finish getting ready so you can go visit your friend Stephanie? Waiting for the right time to throw away your husband's tie-dye turtleneck that you hate? What is it…
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Parades for your life
#082 So ya like, I guess parades are still a thing people do and they must have really good reasons for continuing to do them? What are parades? How'd they start? Why do we keep doing them? Will we ever be free? You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Instagram,...
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Vacations for your life
#081 Vacations. Why do we want to get away? Are we just stressing ourselves out in the first place? Go live somewhere else for a little bit and all your problems will be solved. Topic suggested by David in TX. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Instagram…
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Journaling for your life
#080 Journaling. Is it different than writing in a diary? Is it cool? Is it girly? Is it manly? Does it matter? Topic suggested by Jason. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] Or Check out our…
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Shorts for your life
#079 Shorts What's up with shorts? Where'd they come from? Are they the next evolution in legwear? Or do they represent the past? Also are we that lazy that the only word we could come up with was shorts? Topic suggested by Justin in Lubbock. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For...
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Candles for your life
#078 Candles They used to light up our dark farmhouses and castles, and now we use them to decorate birthday cakes? Candles have fallen so far. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] Or Check out our...
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Silence for your life
#077 Silence This week Jam and Jason dig into silence, the very unsung hero. What is silence, is it golden? Do you love it, do you hate it? Is it rarer now than it used to be? Where is it? Can I hold it? Topic suggested by Lauren in Texas. She wanted us to just fill the entire episode with…
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Handwriting for your life
#076 Handwriting This week Jam and Jason talk about handwriting, or "writing with your hand" as they say in Britain. Is handwriting going away? Is it responsible for the independence of the U.S.? What makes bad and good handwriting? Where does cursive play into all this? Why do we even have...
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Kissing for your life
#075 Kissing This week we're talking about kissing, the most hyped-up, least logical act of affection. Does it need to be logical? Maybe not. But why do we want to put our mouths places? Why do we want to put our mouths on other mouths? Why is there a chocolate named after something that usually...
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Breakfast for your life
#074 Breakfast This week we're talking about breakfast, at the same time, we're breaking our fast from food related topics, we haven't done one in quite a while. Also Jam talks about this incredible omelet Jason made for him once. It was life changing. What is breakfast? What breakfast foods do…
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Natural Disasters for your life
#073 Natural Disasters What's so natural about a disaster? In this episode Jam and Jason try to get to the bottom of these pesky disasters, and swap stories of the limited experiences they've each had with natural disasters. Topic suggested by John in TX. You can suggest a topic for us to cover…
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Ellipses for your life
#072 Ellipses The three dots that surround us every day. In our books, quotes, movie posters, and the text messages we don't want to reply to. Where'd they come from? Were they always so evil or passive aggressive? How did they go from potentially functional literary device to being the thing…
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Society for your life
#071 Society YOU KNOW WE'RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY! What's a society and why? Why do we group together into families, tribes, villages, towns, cities, states, countries? Is it just to guard each other from wild animals while we go to the bathroom? Topic suggested by George Costanza from Seinfeld.…
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Playgrounds for your life
#070 Playgrounds Playgrounds. Or as they used to say it back on the old frontier, playin' in the ground. Back in the old west, all you could do to pass the time was roll around in the dirt and hope tomorrow would come. For many people, tomorrow didn't come. It was a dark time. Topic suggested by...
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Slang for your life
#069 Slang What's up my yolo? Don't forget to bae. When it's been a minute, you have to groovy righteous radical grub. Ok? Topic suggested by John in Texas. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] Or...
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Trees for your life
#068 Trees Trees are really cool and if you don't believe us then listen to this and if you still don't believe us then go climb one and don't ever come back. Topic suggested by Garrett in Texas. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or...
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Dreams for your life
#067 Dreams Delve into the horror, weirdness, and frequent mundanity of dreams. Why do we think them? Why don't our brains go to sleep when our bodies do? Why aren't we in control? We don't know and we won't ever know. And there's nothing we can do about it. You can suggest a topic for us to…
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Laugh Trax for your life
#066 Laugh Trax Jam and Jason discuss laugh trax/tracks and the impact they have had on our fragile, crumbling world. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] We also have a pretty rudimentary, free...
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Mail for your life
#065 Mail Well I guess we're trying to figure out mail. The biggest, most tightly-held government secret of all time. Nbd ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] We also have a pretty rudimentary...
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Emojis for your life
#064 Emojis The biggest new language on earth, not that there's much competition except for whatever thing they've got going on in Game of Thrones. There's some kind of fictional language in there right? You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta, Facebook, Twitter,...
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Nostalgia for your life (LIVE episode)
#063 Nostalgia A VERY special, potentially one-time, LIVE episode. Recorded live in a random Texas conference room with a real studio audience made up of actual human beings. We promise. Let's get nostalgic. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta, Facebook,...
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Instincts for your life
#062 Instincts Babies have instincts. Animals have instincts. Are they cool? Do we learn them or have them from the beginning? Well we don't know but we certainly ask those questions in circles for about 15 minutes and it's pure entertainment. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast…
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Milk for your life
#061 Milk We're back! No one knows what milk is or where it comes from, but that's why we're here, to get to the bottom of this elusive, taboo topic. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] We also have a...
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Goodbyes for your life (with Emily)
#060 Goodbyes Goodbyes, badbyes, let's talk about it. Let's shed a few tears. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] We also have a pretty rudimentary website now. Mainly so that it can be a hub for links...
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Pets for your life
#059 Pets Ok listen, this is as political as we will EVER get on this podcast so deal with it. Also sorry we were gone it's not Jason's fault. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] We also have a pretty...
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Toys for your life
#058 Toys This is one of the more fun topics we've explored on the podcast. Fun as in we remember how much fun toys were growing up and how much we wish we could go back in time and play with LEGOs again for hours. Jason is thinking about working with HR to institute "toy time" at work but he…
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Pet Names for your life
#057 Pet Names Hey Darlin', be a sweetheart and tell your baby that Honey and I are comin' to see Puddin'. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] We also have a pretty rudimentary website now. Mainly so...
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Calendars for your life
#056 Calendars What are Calendars and why? How the heck did we arrive at such a system with so many imperfections? We don't know really and refused to do research, so here are some wild guesses. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta, Facebook, Twitter, or email...
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Alarms for your life (with Brittany)
#055 Alarms How do you wake up? How have people woken up for centuries, millennia? Is it possible to be free from the technologic confines of our modern-day wake-up norms? Let's find out, with our special guest Brittany. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta,...
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Crying for your life (with Tim)
#054 Crying Let's have a good cry. With Special Guest Tim Pyatt. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] We also have a pretty rudimentary website now. Mainly so that it can be a hub for links to different...
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Relaxation for your life
#053 Relaxation As humans, it is beneficial to our continued survival to set aside time to "relax," or as some humans say now "netflix and chill." For centuries, humans have spent time relaxing so that they can recuperate and get back to killing animals and eating them. It's clearly an…
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Accents for your life
#052 Accents G'day. What accent did you read that in? You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] We also have a pretty rudimentary website now. Mainly so that it can be a hub for links to different podcast...
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Diets for your life
#051 Diets That's right. We're bringing back the Atkins diet. It's making a serious 2019 comeback. You can suggest a topic for us to cover on Podcast For Your Life on Insta, Facebook, Twitter, or email [email protected] We also have a pretty rudimentary website now. Mainly so that it…
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About this show
Two non-experts share personal stories and unsolicited but much-needed analyses of life, topic by topic, in 15 minutes or less.Thoughts from our life, for yours. By Jam and Jason.Every week-ish, we share thoughts, on a broad topic, for no longer than 15 minutes. We try to stay away from the trendy, and away from topics we could be considered experts on. Essentially the only promises we make are that every episode will include thoughts, and be shorter than 15 minutes.
Hosted by
Jam and Jason