Grumble Goat

Dec 09 2024 150 ep. 17 mins 22

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Welcome to Grumble Goat:
A comedic grumbling of mundane trivialities.

Mat Labotka and Veronique Hurley grumble through life's little pet peeves.
Do you hate gum? Have you ever thought about it? You probably hate gum without even realizing it. Follow Mat's absurd infuriation down the rabbit-hole into frustration, while Veronique's bouyant optimism keeps us afloat...
of the Grumble Goat.

Learn more about your hosts:
matlabotka.com & veroniquehurley.com

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Athleisure Wear

Dec 09 2024 17 mins

Humankind is a herd species. We clump together. So within these clumps of people, self-expression becomes important to maintaining our individuality. Fashion – what we wear – has always been central to how we express who we are. But the modern era of Social Media has moved our core self-identities online. We now can pick and choose who can glimpse our self-expression t

Morality

Nov 18 2024 21 mins

Who are we? What do we want and what is our purpose? Discovering humanity begins in childhood. Society has a plethora of fairy tales and legends that show humankind’s greatest ambitions. We teach our children all of our most idealistic aspirations. We can glean from these myths a vision of heroes that protect the innocent, fight for peace, put an end to suffering and war. Ye

Procrastination

Nov 04 2024 19 mins

Being human is to err. The Master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. To achieve greatness, one must work through endless suffering in order mold oneself into a vessel for perfection. The Gurus have toiled through a lifetime of sacrifice and agony to become something grander than merely mortal. But even they have been guilty of putting off laundry day. Laziness

Scary Cats

Oct 28 2024 18 mins

Once again the leaves wallow from the trees. Darkness encroaches. There are shadows of things creeping in the night. Even in your own home, you are not safe from the monsters prowling in the dim recesses. There are many frightening mascots for the haunting, harvest season. There are bats, there are spiders, there are owls, there are many ghouls in the baren trees and scurrying thr

Cats

Sep 30 2024 19 mins

Humankind is the Apex predator on this planet, but we are not alone. Humanity has a best friend, a companion species in the Animal Kingdom. We have developed a symbiotic relationship with a loyal, faithful, and joyful partner in this entropic, mortal coil. Over generations and millennia we have come together in our homes and in our families, building a bond that supersedes fundame

Sleep

Sep 16 2024 18 mins

All of Humankind is akin, from the earliest cave-dwellers to the astronauts floating in space stranded by Boeing, we are all united in the ethereal, unconscious nether of sleep. No matter the microprocessor speed of our daily lives, we all are bound to the mortal coil of comatose slumber. While we now live in a world of scientific knowledge, our ancestral superstitions linger in o

Jersey Tomatoes

Sep 02 2024 18 mins

Agriculture is, of course, how we grow our food, but it is also humanity’s most fundamental connection to the Earth. The bountiful nutrients and minerals of Earth’s rich soils are unlocked by vegetation’s burrowing roots. And the different sediments of Earth’s many environments produce specific thriving flavors native to certain places: the grapes of Bordea

Feeding Birds

Aug 26 2024 18 mins

Evolution forges animals in a chaotic gauntlet of carnage and slaughter. Like a gladiatorial arena, only the strongest and fittest can survive the tumult. Eons of desperate hunting, killing, and fighting between species has born out to create the single-elimination food web that governs all living things. Until Humankind. The human has outclassed all other species so thoroughly th

Monthly Subscriptions

Aug 19 2024 17 mins

Welcome to the Information Age! If you’re still reading this then you are already behind, because the information is flowing faster than it can be consumed. It is impossible to stay current in the flowing rapids of content being streamed through the intertubes of the Now! And just like a river’s current, money churns mercilessly through the hydroelectric dams of econom

Scam Calls

Aug 12 2024 19 mins

Humankind is a collaborative species, and the key to collaboration is communication. From the first spoken language, to the advent of the Ricola horn, to flag waving semaphore, straight on to the Walkie Talkie, communication has improved incalculably. Until the telephone. From the first phone call, it seemed a promising development, but the second call was a misleading confusion a