Moving on Sideways: Recent Episodes
Brian
My typical babbling plus a cartoonish ridiculous fictional story with musical interludes
I wrap up the Jordan interview, briefly discuss my time in the Boy Scouts, touch on a podcast I’ve discovered called “Sounds like a Cult,” and I do a Dune 2 review.
I wrap up talking about my Williamsburg trip and play the first segment of my conversation with Jordan about depression.
As mentioned in Part 1, I’m going to Williamsburg by myself for a vacation for a week this Spring Break. Will that be fun for me or will I get lonesome by my lonesome? Only a relatively short amount of time will tell!
I finish reading aloud the text conversation with Steve and then I go over some recent events which led to my former best friend blocking me and why I don’t mind the fact that he blocked me, because of some extremely discomforting comments that he has made to me throughout the years.
I talk about my fiction writing process and things going on with that whole thing nowadays, and I state the name of my episodic short story.
I recently booked a week long vacation to Williamsburg, Virginia, for Spring Break this year, just like last year. The thing is though, this time I will be by myself instead of with Alex and the girls. So, will that be fun for me or will it be negative because I’ll be alone? I have things that I could do to stave off negative feelings, but will it be enough? Only time will tell!
I briefly have a Biden enthusiast guest on to try to explain why people should want to re-elect Biden, I discuss why people don’t feel like Biden has done anything good, and I talk about why people don’t like Kamala Harris.
I talk about how it’s normal for people to sometimes stretch the truth, and at the end of the episode I tell a bunch of cartoonish lies that I find funny.
I compare the illusion of possible future depression over a recent life change to what I thought might become possible future depression over a loss of a job 9 years ago.
I briefly go over what the already recorded episode for the next several episodes are going to be about, and I introduce the concept of a decaseason.
I read aloud an epic text conversation I had with Steve in January of 2024. I do a different voice for Steve’s parts.
This episode is about Thanksgiving of 2021 and 2023 and also about changes in my life circa Christmas time of 2023.
I discuss 2 trips to Williamsburg and whether or not I’ll be traveling in the future with past beloved travel companions.
Who won? Cat, North, or Salamander? Tune in to find out! And make sure to buy all the products that out advertisers have for sale! All of them! With every fiber of your being, this is what you must do!
Over the course of a month and a half, I debate with myself about what I want to do, now that I no longer have the cat who was in my family since 2007.
I describe how opposite depression feels for me compared to how it’s portrayed in Hollywood, and ugh, I also revisit the boring played out subject of me possibly getting spied on by past coworkers, yawn.
I almost discuss other scenes from the Dead Poet’s Society, but I get distracted by my own thoughts.
My hopefully final take on previous coworkers who spied on me and 3 crazy times in my past when some girl thought she was in a relationship with me, but I was unaware of this.
The Moving on Sideways Official Stance About the South China Sea, my first Country song, the take a look at my girlfriend song, and a One Fish 2 Fishes Rap.
I had another revelation, and that is that I have no romantic interest in Amanda. More importantly, I discovered that I tend to want to do whatever is most comfortable, to the point of even lying to myself so I can easily settle for things.
I couldn’t leave for a family beach trip because of car troubles, so I took Amtrak to the beach.
We here at Moving on Sideways do humbly beg the apology of our listeners for releasing an episode that is not of the proper time length. This is, of course, the last episode that was released.
In the April of 2023 episode of Moving on Sideways, our hero discusses how the month of April has treated him so far.
Let’s not spend any money to aid Ukraine and give them 10% of the tanks and shit we already have.
In February of 2022, without me even asking for this information, Amanda told me that she was considering moving southeast of where she lives, and she named a bunch of places. In this episode, I try to recollect what those places were.
I finally talk to Steve about the Tommy conversation and we wonder what bullying Steve actually did to Tommy, because neither of us can think of anything at all.
Recorded in early February 2022, much of this recording is Amanda and me debating if it’s better to live in a condo or apartment OR to have a house and try to also have land
Amanda is the guest. This was recorded on 2/4/22. I consider listening to this episode to be an adventure.
Steve is on for 12 minutes then I comment on the last couple episodes for the rest of this episode.
The Taliban officially just took over Afghanistan. I begin my discussion of the US involvement in Afghanistan over the last 20 years.
I talk about the subject of my first episode ever, my 4 Ashburn moves, and miraculously all the material is new.
Jumping around, I talk about why I ended Season 1 when I did, my experiences donating plasma, and I justifiably complain about some complete zilch I met on a dating site.
I check in once a month to talk about how the US and the world is fighting the coronavirus, starting with December of 2020 and ending in May of 2021.
This is a continuation of the last episode. I continue recalling my Eurail trip in northwest Europe in June of 2007.
I describe falling down on a scooter ride, something that happened only minutes before I recorded this episode, I list 2 more reasons why I haven’t been back to The Netherlands in over 7 years, and I describe the first few days of my first Eurail trip in Europe in 2007.
I explain some theories I have about why I haven’t been back to The Netherlands in over 7 years after going there 4 times in less than 6 and a half years.
I define satiated, tell the story of when I learned this word, and talk about things I’m satiated of.
Unofficially against my wishes, I feel somewhat stuck with Anchor as a podcast service and stuck where I live in South Manassas.
Brian talks about how it’s expected for people to want to live in a single family house and he offers an alternative aspiration, to live in a condo or apartment, and the benefits of doing so.
Brian records a segment on Saturday, November 21st, and then keeps adding segments periodically through
Keith is a guest again. We talk politics and about our pranking history from our adolescence.
My friend of a quarter century Keith talks about his relatively recent (aka 10 years ago) moves around Minnesota. We also talk politics of the last 20 years.
An uncharacteristically short episode, Steve and I talk politics and about bridging the divide in the US while Steve waits for family Covid news.
1, 13. I talk about my pathetic overpowering fear of rejection of some things which contrasts with my bravado foolish nonfear of rejection of things that maybe I should be afraid of.
I have Steve back on as a guest and we talk about the coronavirus and people arguing (often on Thanksgiving).
1, 11. I relay my experience with the coronavirus partially because of my annoyance with the vast amount of misinformation about the coronavirus.
1, 9. Reading of historic fiction about the saint, Thomas A Beckett. (The book is Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.)
This episode describes what the podcast is, a disorganized discussion about people’s moving experiences and living situations that made them want to move. Also in this episode I scratch the surface of what I consider a nomadic time period of my life.