The Ride To Redacted

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while considering the human capacity for manipulation, from humble bragging to scripted politeness to outright fraud, the better for them to appreciate the good old honest vibe. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Fuzzy dice: this from a Wikipedia […]

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while considering times that they, or others, have been weighed, measured, and found wanting — or not. Show notes: Steve has calculated that, including the word “grade,” there are 33 5-letter words in English that contain the letters a, d, […]

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while exploring ways in which we might translate our feelings for others, the transformation of souls, the importance of touching grass, and of course, the beatific transmogrification of Saint Grubbins. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Here’s a photo […]

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while they speculate on how there might be some crying in baseball, contemplate bullying and its behavioral opposite, and admire the pileup of dirty snow en route. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: A nice article from the University […]

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B as Mal educates Steve on how to wrangle a troll, the new Internet etiquette, and the perils of late-night doomscrolling. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: As Wikipedia will remind you, “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 […]

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while contemplating the road not taken, the road that might still be taken, and lessons learned, back and forth. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Apparently, the phrase “vampire skills” is at least somewhat commonly used to refer to […]

What are these just ahead?  Oh my goodness, they might be — no, they ARE…  Strap in for the highlights, lovingly culled from Episodes 11 through 20, of The Ride to Redacted. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: In keeping with the highlighting nature of this release (as with the previous highlights release), these […]

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while educating Steve about musical genres and talking about malingering at the piano and elsewhere. Strap in for  … The Ride To Redacted! To leave a comment, click here Show notes: The various names of the rock band Steve was in […]

Listeners, the recording of our ride from Point A to Point B on December 21, 2025, was unusually productive.  On that ride, your hosts were even more conversationally lively than usual, if you can believe that.  As a result, that ride has produced not one but four segments, to be released in three episodes. This […]

Listeners, the recording of our ride from Point A to Point B on December 21, 2025, was unusually productive.  On that ride, your hosts were even more conversationally lively than usual, if you can believe that.  As a result, that ride has produced not one but four segments, to be released in three episodes. This […]

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while ruminating on fame: what we look for in, and from, celebrity.  Also, they share a few words on listening, extrapolative thinking, and purism in art, taxidermy-adjacent and otherwise. Show notes: If you would know more about the Frisbee — […]

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while searching for their brand in, of all things, a crumpled ball of tinfoil.  Never mind uncrumpling; strap in for  … The Ride To Redacted! To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Listeners, be excited, be very, very excited: TRTR […]

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while exploring the makings of the macabre. Whether it involves rug burns or full burns, when the haunting happens, are you happy or harried — or a bit of both? To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Your co-hosts Steve […]

On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while mulling over the siren song of “They Don’t Want You To Know,” the merits of finding a trust/mistrust balance, and the art of the con. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Tina Majorino, who played the character Deb […]

On this ride, Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while discussing the boomerang benefits of compassion, inciting their listeners to replace their pique with empathy.  Don’t go postal! To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Hyperloggia does not appear to be a word (outside of this episode).  However, logorrhea IS a […]

In this episode, your hosts Steve (a jaded New Yorker) and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while Mal and things seen en route make the case for opening oneself up to life’s stupid, little, and quite possibly wonderful, offerings.  Strap in for … The Ride to Redacted — Season 2. To leave […]

In this episode, Steve and Mal hurtle with guest rider Phoenix from Point A to Point B (the end of a long pier), while contemplating death doulas, subversive sherpas and a gay giraffe.  Strap in for … The Ride To Redacted Prime. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Concerning Edward Gorey: you could do […]

In this episode, Steve and Mal ruminate about threats and a panoply of possible human responses.  Whether it’s a bear or too many emails you’re facing down, isn’t it nice to know you have options? To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Fight, flight, freeze or fawn: a nice article (of many articles) on these […]

This release presents you with highlights that have been lovingly culled from Episodes 1 through 10. Strap in for … the highlights so far of The Ride To Redacted. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: In keeping with the highlighting nature of this release, these notes will be brief and to the point.  Some […]

In this episode, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while mulling over the dance between slog and art, as well as the possible origins of the bagpipe. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: With regard to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, per Wikipedia: “Abraham Harold Maslow (… April 1, […]

On this ride, Steve and Mal consider executive dysfunction and the fundamental problems of life and death.  No biggie. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Shout-out to Charles Yu’s “How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe.”  Per Wikipedia: “The novel revolves around a search for a father and the father-son relationship. It […]

On this ride, Steve and Mal contemplate the anxiety of emotional support dogs, the tension available during customs inspections, and the benefits of creating stupid art and trying to make others happy. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: This is also the episode in which Steve learns that Panic! at the Disco was a […]

On this ride, Steve and Mal consider professional wrestling careers real and imaginary before examining the universal experience of feeling like The Other — source of pain, Gothic literature, and wonder. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Rosalyn Drexler, Steve’s mother’s old friend, has not just been a professional wrestler but also an […]

On this ride, Steve and Mal contemplate how unfortunate patterns of behavior — including, but not limited to, the compulsive buying of novelty items — can be recalibrated.  To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Speaking of desire paths, a bit of Googling reveals that Broadway in Manhattan was originally a Lenape desire path […]

or Pocket Casts On this ride, Mal and Steve visit the idea of the zeitgeist or, as they prefer to think of it, the Time Ghost.  All while making listeners feel loved and held — hopefully. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: That quote from Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations (Maxwell Staniforth translation, […]

or Pocket Casts On this ride, Steve and Mal explore the human capacity for cluelessness and occasionally (whoa) perfection. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: As Ep. 4 makes clear, the following movies are so good that, as the youth of today might put it, they f*** severely: Listeners, watch this space… …for […]

or Pocket Casts On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal ponder lifetime dreams, time pressure and good (or bad) driving habits. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: As to road rage, one of many articles can be found at https://www.webmd.com/women/features/root-cause-of-road-rage.  Also, the priest with a crossbow road rage killing appears to have […]

or Pocket Casts On this ride, your hosts Steve and Mal explore the limits to nerdism, the darker regions of Larping and the occasionally occurring social behavior known as listening. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Nerdlimits™™™ are (obviously) the limits that most, if not necessarily all, people have beyond which their personal […]

or Pocket Casts On this particular ride, your hosts Steve and Mal explore whether motion is even possible. To leave a comment, click here Show notes: Later episodes in this podcast are not as nerdily quasi-mathematical as this one. This recording, it turns out, is but a glimpse of the insight and merriment to come. […]