Ten to One

Judd Baroff returns to discuss the Eucharist, real presence, transubstantiation, how to pronounce Zwingli, and more! The video of this episode is available on YouTube.

Brian reviews the book Transubstantiation by Dr. Brett Salkeld

Brian and Melissa present, for the second time, their current favorite books.

Brian starts a new series discussing Charlotte Mason with other homeschool dads. Dcn. Seraphim Richard Rohlin appears to discuss how he found CM, what makes a good hagiography, which books in your curriculum should be replaced with medieval bestiaries, and more!

Jake Justen joins the show to discuss the sequel to the best bad book ever written!

Brian and Melissa stroll down memory lane as they list their favorite episodes from the last 100 they've released.

Melissa shares her thoughts on the first book and film in the Harry Potter series.

Brian and Melissa share their favorite films that they watched for the first time in 2025.

Brian and Melissa share their favorite new reads of 2025.

Harry Potter, Star Trek, Avatar: The Last Airbender, LOST, and much more pop culture gets tied in to Star Wars in Melissa's first episode sans Brian. She is joined by her friend Johanna Wilson!

Brian and Melissa wrap up 2025 and begin 2026 with their customary goals, resolutions, attitudes, justifications, and recriminations!

Matt Anderson, who has long been into professional wrestling, rejoins the show to talk to Brian, who has long not been into professional wrestling. What makes this spectacle unique? What makes a good wrestler? And did Brian do any research at all for this list?

Special guest Judd Baroff appears for this discussion of sola scriptura, the Eucharist, Baptists, Catholicism, the non-existence of Protestantism, and more! This episode is available on YouTube.

Brian goes solo for this theology episode about sola scriptura and what it says about the Bible and the Church.

Brian shares his current views on AI. The episode title is technically correct.

Brian and Melissa preview a few upcoming episodes.

For the second time, Brian and Melissa list their favorite shows watchable on the television. Have their lists changed since 2020?

Brian and Melissa cast their minds back to the far reaches of 2024 and share with you their favorite new-to-them films.

Brian and Melissa share their favorite reads and re-reads of 2024.

Brian and his brother Matt start a discussion on election and foreknowledge as presented in two epistles of Sts. Paul and Peter. This episode is available on YouTube, a first for the show.

Melissa shares some thoughts she has ruminated on since last summer.

The old year is dead, long live the new year! We briefly discuss 2024 and share plans for 2025.

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 literary 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.