8/30/2023
Up In This Brain! Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jason
5/12/2024
Alternate Title #1: Cicada Junk
Alternate Title #2: A Day of Maximum Cicadas
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4/12/2024
I was so busy this week that I forgot to mention the eclipse! Oh, well.
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2/12/2024
Alternate title: More corgi time
I put the trombone in the closet for now.
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1/30/2024
Alternate title: Now you know that I've not lived up
From the desk in the home office, let's talk about getting the government involved, grade 4 concert band music, old photos and television.
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1/14/2024
Alternate title: The Old Redneck Call
I head to the gas station and take you with me. Pardon the messiness of me putting the phone in my coat pocket at the gas pump. It was worth it since I got the very rare "old redneck call" recorded for you to enjoy!
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1/4/2024
Alternate title: Unnecessary Gaps
Welcome to the 675th episode of the Up In This Brain podcast which is also the first episode of me making some "tweaks" to the podcast. It's still me rambling on but there are new intro and outro sounds and new cover art! It's like putting lipstick on a pig!
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8/4/2023
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Surprise! We didn't go two weeks this time. I talk less, though, so maybe that will make up for it a bit.
In this episode:
- The return of the Dougspatch!
- Taco Bell!
- Zoila the Roomba!
7/26/2023
Special programming note - looks like I am moving this podcast from weekly to bi-weekly. Weekly is just a tad much, eh?
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6/15/2023
It's time for a break from making the podcast for a few weeks. I'll be out doing summer stuff, I guess! Recharging the brain! Looking for dumb stories to share!
The next episode should come out sometime the week of July 10th. Until then, stay groovy and what not, eh?
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3/2/2023
I'm not sure how to even begin to describe this rambling episode so I won't.
2/24/2023
Apologies for the sniffles. It was a rainy, chilly day and allergies are yuk.
This one is only on Posthaven at https://upinthisbrain.posthaven.com/
The blog is still at https://www.upinthisbrain.com/
The corgi had a surprise for me.
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Armpit, that is. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upinthisbrainpodcast/message
Welcome to episode 638! It's also the first episode of 2023. I take you on a drive to Taco Bell and talk about politics, emails, fast food and windshield wipers. Exciting!
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Just checking the outside of the house before the big BOMB CYCLONE gets here. Buy the bread! Buy the milk! Buy the beef jerky! Save yourselves!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upinthisbrainpodcast/message
Talking about the Twitter and the usual junk. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upinthisbrainpodcast/message
A Saturday morning short clip brought to you by DayQuil. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upinthisbrainpodcast/message
No extra caffeine was consumed before I recorded this.
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Is it a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Does anyone really know what time it is?I had an idea of something I wanted to talk about and just hit record. Boom!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upinthisbrainpodcast/message
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Here's a "special" episode for Thanksgiving (US) as I drive to the dump and then the help center and ponder if I should destroy some family history or leave it in the attic to rot. Happy holidays, where applicable!
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I’m back and I don’t cough during this one, I think!
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Spray your device with Lysol after listening to this.
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The week was going great and then I decided to get the COVID booster.
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I got some bolt cutters!
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I take a drive to Taco Bell and end up eating at the baseball field, not the basketball field.
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Here’s the first episode in the new “format” which will be recording enough clips in my phone until I think there are enough clips for an episode and then slapping it out there.
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About 14 minutes of mumbo jumbo about podcasting before I drift off into more relatable topics.
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Here's a bit about Up In This Brain! and me, Jason, your host. I recorded this with the Blue Snowball mic plugged into the laptop on 10/4/2022. It's mostly a test episode as I still set this thing up.
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Recorded 9/6/2022 - Posted 9/9/2022: Happy Birthday to me! This one is a bit different from previous birthday podcasts - more talk, less music. You get what you pay for, I guess. Please eat cake in my honor today.
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8/25/2022: In this one, I talk about lunch, community band, websites, hand-holding elves, not eating near a microphone (gross), trombone dirt, the fair and probably more that I don't remember.
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8/23/2022 - Let's rip off @aliencg.
Stolen without apology from https://inyourearholes.com/
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8/12/2022 - It's a nice day to bring you a short update from the swing of podcasting.
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8/1/2022 - I finally make it to the new Armpit Whataburger and of course, I leave my wallet at home.
Notable moments so you can skip ahead:
- 00:00 Stolen podcast theme song
- 06:02 Pulling into the Whataburger
- 12:41 Family news
- 17:22 Cathode ray tube
- 24:15 The nostalgia loop
- 28:45 I try to open the menu on my phone
- 31:22 I discover I have no wallet and have to call my wife for help
- 37:17 I get to order
- 41:18 Armpit Weather Roundup
- 47:22 Robert Smith did not age well (Editor's note: He's 63.)
- 50:10 I get the food
- 51:23 I review the food
- 57:22 Mel Tillis for Whataburger
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7/23/2022 - Today was a milestone day here in Armpit. Also, I guess I've gone back to the old, old format - at least for now. Shhhhhh.
From the vault of the snaejneerg podcast, I present a message from the Prophet himself about the power of moving your things, maybe tomorrow, maybe next week, maybe in a month? Who knows.
This classic episode was posted originally on May 10, 2016.
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7/12/2022 - Vacation is over and I walked my two miles yesterday but decided to take today off from walking. So, you get an in the car cast featuring another trip to a drive-thru and my potpourri of thoughts on all sorts of subjects including but not limited to Miami Vice, hair color and shag carpet.
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6/29/2022 - The name of the candy bar I couldn't think of that I had just eaten was Reese's FastBreak. Nice.
A classic episode, one of my favorites, finally restored to the feed!
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From July 25, 2018:
I spent most of my Monday at the hospital (and yesterday and today, of course, and this will go on for a few more days - NOTE - It went on for 21 days!) waiting while my father was in surgery. To pass the time, I listened to Tom Snyder interviewing Harlan Ellison over the years on old Tomorrow Show clips posted on YouTube.
I watched one a few weeks ago after Harlan Ellison died and I was just blown away. There is so much good stuff that he says, great stuff in fact, that I think people need to hear.
Of course, only a very few people listen to my podcast but I decided for the benefit of those folks that it was important enough to go interview by interview and write out the starting and ending times of certain clips so I could go back at my earliest convenience and edit them into one nice, consumable audio file.
It's probably in the top 5 of the most important episodes of the podcast I've done in 388 episodes. Maybe it's even in the top 2.
I keep returning to this quote. It opens the podcast. I've been feeling guilty about not writing ever since I heard it.
"It's a very simple philosophy. Anybody who can be deterred from writing should have been. People who want to write really want to write and they WILL write." - Harlan Ellison
I have not been writing. It's not that I don't love writing. Maybe it's that I am distracted by life lately and maybe I shouldn't be letting life distract me. Maybe it's laziness. Maybe it's lack of focus. Maybe it's all of the above.
Whatever it is, the wheels are turning in my head and my fingers are moving across the keyboard again. I'm writing and it feels good.
Now, if I could just harness one percent of Harlan Ellison's confidence and conviction:
"Are you loyal to the United States of America or are you loyal to your writing? Forget it, jack. The country could sink into the ocean for all I care. I only care about the integrity of the work. That's really all I give a damn about and I'll kill to keep those words that way. I spent twenty years of my life doing what I do and I think I do it very well indeed and I'll be damned if I'm going to let people mess with it. That's my religion. That is precisely where I am." - Harlan Ellison
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6/15/2022 - I'm still goofing around with ideas here. I want to get back to being more of a personal podcast and less of a "reacting to the horrible news that surrounds us all" podcast. So today we have general updates on my life here in Armpit.
I have not restored all of the 2022 archives here yet. I said I was going to do it just a few minutes ago but I thought I would spend time getting this out instead.
This is episode 611 for those of you keeping score at home. I am posting this on Friday, June 10th, 2022.
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This episode represents a new podcasting beginning for Up In This Brain (I hope). The podcast consultant chickens came to me in the yard this evening (please see the cover art/picture accompanying this episode) and had some ideas I want to look into which might help take this thing in a more interesting direction. We shall see. I am not sure I trust chickens but I am giving them a chance since I am all out of ideas myself. Seinfeld only lasted nine seasons and guess what season it is here on the podcast? Season 10! Yikes!
As Jerry famously told George in season nine, "When you hit that high note, you say goodnight and walk off."
I bet you wish I was as smart as Jerry.
That brings me to a podcasting question - why do we need archives? Podcasts like mine have a very short shelf life. If I was asked to go back through the archives and pick the episodes out that stand on their own regardless of when they were recorded, I might have ten that I could pull out and share with you out of over 600. The rest of the episodes are probably pretty time specific and lost their relevancy about two weeks after they were posted.
So, as of this moment in time, no archives - I'm going for the complete reboot. How many episodes at a time will stay on the feed? The chickens haven't told me yet.
5/17/2022
I talk about recent events in the news and get run inside by the noise of my neighbor's mother's weed eater.
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3/25/2022
It's time to jump into the taxi with two of Armpit's finest drivers. In today's episode, they stop to pee. They eat mac 'n cheese. They pick up Skullhead. All of this and more on today's exciting episode of the Up In This Brain podcast!
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CLARA ALERT! CLARA ALERT! CLARA ALERT! CLARA ALERT! CLARA ALERT!
3/18/2022
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3/8/2022
Enjoy a special drive around Armpit with the Armpit Taxi Company.
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1/30/2022
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Ending music: The Wind by Komiku
The book I am reading: The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder
A webcam in Ukraine:
1/8/2022
In this episode, I talk about why I've decided to take a break from the podcast for at least a couple of weeks.
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