Many of us have had close calls, uncomfortable brushes, lucky breaks and cancelled reservations with the reaper. Here are a few of those stories. Featuring: Thea Storz, Elizabeth Steinvorth, Tim Foljahn, Rian Fossett, Derek Gardner, Adam MarnieBy Thatcher Keats

A smattering of recounted recollections of time spent with the Butthole Surfers in some various capacities. Featuring Pat Riley, Michael Lavine, Pat Blashill, Colleen Cude-Taylor, and Reuben Radding.By Thatcher Keats

Anecdotes about and criteria for cults. Featuring Chris Potts, Sharon Mashihi, Mike Hudson, Alexis Greene, Greg Zucculo, Brad Phillips, Nyquist.By Thatcher Keats

Trigger Warning: Blue Jokes Galore! Featuring Matt, Maureen, The Red Scare, Serena. Sarah Hutto, Daniel Arnold, Rachel Fleit, Noah Reibel, Derek Garner, Susanna Sonnenberg, Tommy Munroe, Joe Munroe, and Tim Foljahn.By Thatcher Keats

This episode goes back to the source point of the show: lists of things read by people. More engrossing than a Marvel movie. Featuring lists from Lisa Sloat, Derek Gardner, Julia Cafritz, Sharon Mashihi, Warren Sloat, Irene Tremblay, Miriam Atkin, Kate Brehm, Jenna, and Cali Dewitt.By Thatcher Keats

In this freestyle episode we have an assortment of people talking about us humans on the inside and out. Featuring Honor Titus, Cali DeWitt, Adam Marnie, Liz Lee, Sunita Prassad, Alesandro Riccarelli, The Bread and Puppet Theater, The School of Making Thinking, Victor, Ben, The Magic Stranger, Dave Sewelson, Dados, and The Cathedral of All Saints.…

Folks telling stories about others and about interactions with others. Often things you did not know. So you can think of this as an episode of confidences, or Confidence Games. This episode features stories from or about Joe Frank, Laura Esterman, Lisa Sloat, Sarah Sloat, Dusty, Larry Clark, Billy Mann, Shantal, Eno, JAPW, Al Maysles, The Fab Four…

Folks share tales of intoxicated hijinks, inebriated hard luck, drunken high adventure, tragedy while tripping, and stoner train wrecks. Featuring: Sharon Mashihi, Rian Fossett, (a supermodel), (an animator), (a media maker from Jersey), (an Ichabod Crane graduate), The Choir of Men and Boys.By Thatcher Keats

Folks follow up their lover lists with how these relationships dissembled: sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. Featuring: Mike Houston, Karley Sciortino, Dusty Grella, Kay Kasparhauser, Tim Foljahn, Sharon Mashihi, and Sarah Sloat.By Thatcher Keats

This episode we plunge deeper into the cavernous black books of the citizenry and their thumbnail descriptions of playmates. Featuring: The Chef with the Infectious Laugh, the Swinging Falsetto Opera Contractor from Dirty Jerzy, the Super-Stylish Fish-Witch, the Local Journalist, the Ceremonial Magic Artist, the Roommate, Iraqi Lady Zelig, The Beln…

Folks look at their romantic patterns with these thumbnail descriptions of lovers past and present. Featuring: The Titan of Mope-Core, The Rural Radio Love Queen, A 90's Rock Star, The Mayflower WASP Writer, Canadian Radio Revolutionary, and the Texan Ten.By Thatcher Keats

Slang from a few sections of the street corner society. Students and millennials, Jamaicans and Civil War soldiers, Twitter and jazz, and a bunch of slang collected by a British academic. This episode features Lia Wortendyke, June Walker, Thalia, Luisa Del Prete, Olga Axelrod, Mandy Babirad, Dave Sewelson, Tyler Thacker, Roi Cuydulkin, (Jason Edwar…

Part two of a furthur dive into the use and abuse of language. We look at the proprietary shorthands used by odd corners of society: Mohicans, Persians, Lawyers, the NOI, the Intelligence community, pick-up artists, Wiki's understanding of the occult, head shrinkers, and archaic terms for the whump and thump. Featuring Brock Schriber, Sharon Mashih…

Part one of a cursory dive into language use and abuse. Bits about the variations and the wiggle room in verbal expression. Visual language, swear words invented for Hollywood, word based free association, gibberish, prosodic poetry, an endangered language, verboten words, last words, and laughing. Featuring Preston Douglass, Pat Riley, Matt Shalzi…

People share lists about words and work and self-help and sex and their souls. Featuring Julia Nightingale, Sharon Mashihi, Derekk Garner, Peter Chinman, Reuben Radding, Sarah Sloat, Amanda Daisy Lees, Kay Kasperhauser, (Atlanta Floor), Johnny Hoppe, Josephine Decker, Johnathan Wood Vincent, Christopher Funkhauser, Mike Houston, Suko Presseau, Brad…

A quick devotional to James Joyce's smash hit novel Ulysses plus a smidge of him himself.By Thatcher Keats

Spring on the ranch has a lot going on! Featuring: Tina Reichenbach, Kay Kasparhauser, Rian Fossett, Sharon Mashihi, Francesca Lo Russo, Johnathan Wood Vincent, Malik Vitthal, Johanna Lewis, The Derivatives Wrestler/Lawyer, The Cathedral of All SaintsBy Thatcher Keats

Featuring: Warren Sloat, Brad Truax, Laleh, Rachel Gevlin, Ron Cohen, Tina Richenbach, Noah Harrell, Rian Fossett, Tuomas Korpijaakko, Robert Beavers, Luisa DelPrete, Arjun Ram Shrivasa , Dave Sewelson, Steven TishlerBy Thatcher Keats

People reading excerpts from books. Featuring: Nicky Lesser, Kay Kasparhauser, Rian Fossett, Deena Vohlmer, Daniel Arnold, Sarah Sloat, Sacha Yanow, Tina Satter, Robin Sosnow, Sharon Mashihi, Greg Zucculo, Synn Stern, Lila Lee, Joan As Policewoman, Quincy Long, and Warren Sloat.By Thatcher Keats

Featuring: Adam Marnie, Nancy Loeber, Sharon Mashihi, Bianca Giaever, T.E., Amanda Daisy Lees, Tina Reichenbach, Arjun Ram Shrivatsa, Dylan Chavles, K.S.By Thatcher Keats

Featuring: Bianca Giaever, Sharon Mashihi, Jamie and Pacca Fletcher, Sara Apple Malaki, Davey Walker, Olivia Rosenberg, Danielle Reuther, June Walker, Casey Flax, Gray McGee, Greg Zucculo, Sarah Boysen, Lulu Sylbert, Sandy Bell.By Thatcher Keats

Pretty words and guides about art. Featuring: Maude, Kay Kasparhauser, Sharon Mashihi, Millie Kapp, Leah Sophia Dworkin, Harrison Atkins, Dusty Grella, William Powhida, Andrei Roiter, Derrick Gardrvits.By Thatcher Keats

This season opener episode features photographers quoting other photographers, talking favorites, making suggestions, kissing and telling, Lit Critting, lifting up their skirts and singing photo songs. Featured: Michael Lavine, Jean-Marie Guyaux, Jason Nocito, Ted Baron, Tina Reichenbach, Jill Greenberg, Thea Storz, Ryan McGinley, Raquel Nave and t…

I want to get high but I never know why. Contributors: JG Thirlwell, Jan Munroe, Greg Zucullo, Kaitlin Prest, Keyana Gibbons, Sharon Mashihi, Demi Vera, Raquel Nave', Larry Clark, Josh Elrod, Scott Phillips.By Thatcher Keats

Some contemporary and historical conspiracy theory and analysis. Contributors: Derekk Gardner, Jamie Fletcher, Tyler Thacker, Matt Bua, Dave Sewelson, Christopher Griffith, Jessica Baldanza, Elizabeth Ammerman, Warren Sloat, (No One).By Thatcher Keats

Some psychoanalysis with a little self help and some DSM thrown in! Contributors: Pen LaFarge, Warren Sloat, Dave Sewelson, Anna Khachiyan, Dasha Nekrasova, Casey Flax, (Jason Edward), Marc Alain, Kay Kasperhauser, Wendy Levin, Lulu Sylbert, Julia Nightingale, Jen Fisher, Shane Pizzutello, Alison Peery, Max Taub, Brad Phillips, (_)…

A couple of things about making stuff. Contributors: Alexandra Tatarsky, Demi Vera, Olivia Rosenberg, Deenah Vollmer, Sharon Mashihi, John Cleater, Jennifer Doyle, Cali Dewitt, William Powhida, Rachel Perry Welty, David Gordon, Shannon Lucy, Cooper Vasquez.By Thatcher Keats

A self portrait told in the negative told through other peoples songs, poems, stories and warnings about the host. Contributors: Dave Sewelson, Tom Roe, Lee Keitz, Sharon Mashihi, Larry Clark, Synn Stern, Abby Walker, Sarah Sloat, Shephanie Boyce, Scott Phillips, (Teresa Caruso), Karen Crumley, Jen Fisher, Laurie Collyer, and Adam Marnie.…

A general stew of the weighty issues we are all contending with in mid-quar. Contributors: Arjun Ram Shrivatsa, Dave Sewelson, Elizabeth Ammerman, Rachel Martin, Debbie Pastor, Laurie Henzel, (Dana), Julia Nightingale, Danny Arnold, Warren Sloat, Dick Monroe, Erica Castle, Derekk Gardner, Luisa Opalesky, Jason Tallon, Amanda Daisy Lees.…

Artful, absurd, pervy and pent up phone messages from the days of yore. Contributors: Larry Clark, Chuck Alberts, Johnny Hoppe, Karen Crumley, Sharon Mashihi, Vicki Deger, Kate Stafford, Jean Paul Grund, Steve Fitch, (Teresa Caruso), Synn Stern, Jerry Brady, Steve Nyquist, (The Manchild), Steven Keats, Karen Schiff, Josh Elrod.…

Kids stumble through songs. Adults make their case in and out of tune. Groups sing as an expression of joy in this episode. Contributors: The Manchild, Watts guy, School of Making Thinking, Sharon Mashihi, Alexandra Tatarsky, Sophie Traub, Josephine Decker, Olivia Rosenberg, Sunita Prassad, Bread and Puppet, Ron Cohen, Shirley Jackson, Brian Dolphi…

Folks ponder the how, where and why of this thing. Contributors: (Jason Edward), Arjun Ram Shrivatsa, Hannah Buonaguro, Mandy Babirad, Amanda Daisy Lees, Derrek Gardner, Maggie Tully, Jason Tallon, The Cathedral of All Saints, Josh Elrod, Sharon Mashihi.By Thatcher Keats

This episode explores the ways quarantine is affecting our minds through journals, self discovery notes, poetic introspection, a dispatch and a divorce sermon. Contributors: Joe Kirshner, Sharon Mashihi, Mary Reilly, Leah Dworkin, Jen Fisher, Jason Tallon.By Thatcher Keats

This inaugural episode of Rancho Thatchmo explores how we are spending our time in quarantine. People share about screen time, kid time, what we eat, what we drink, a bucket list and Covid conspiracies. This spoken word podcast happens at the juncture of field recording and oral history. Hosted by Thatcher Keats. Contributors: (Monte Capoletti), Te…

Rancho Thatchmo collects stories, poems and lists from a wide and diverse group of people to paint little portraits on weekly themes. This is where the Lomax Smithsonian recordings meet Giorno's Dial-A-Poem. Hosted and contexturalized by Thatcher Keats. Contributors: Jamie Fletcher, Arjun Ram Shrivatsa, (Claude Zachary), Olivia Zoe Rosenberg, Dan C…