The Crapshoot

Aug 03 2018 45 ep. 81 mins 415
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Josh and Jesse, seasoned BSers in PDX, drink beer and shoot the crap with whoever they can lure into Josh's basement.

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Episode 45: Reunion Pt. 3 – Solamente Plasticos

Aug 03 2018 38 mins  
It’s finally Part 3 of 3 in our reunion episode, and we close out our incredibly long beer-and-scotch-and-soliloquy-addled night with stories of linkrot, homeownership, and car keys. Music: So What by K.Flay

Episode 44: Reunion Pt. 2 – You’re Definitely In A Plato’s Fetish Situation

Jul 14 2018 38 mins  
In Part 2 of 3, continuing to plow through both a heap of booze and their overdue backlog of post-hiatus topics, Josh and Jesse cover grilled cheese, canine ardor, bumming cigarettes, Pixar’s “Cars”, Plato’s parable of the cave, and lint trap disasters. Music: Strange Transgressors by Drunk Horse

Episode 43: Reunion Pt. 1 – Remember When We Had Weeks

May 08 2018 39 mins  
Back from hiatus, Josh and Jesse have a long backlog of topics to work through. In part one, we put Jesse in a carwash, Josh in charge of Twitter, and 2017 in the dumpster where it belongs. Music: Come In From The Rain by LKN

Episode 42: Season 2 Teaser

Nov 22 2017 10 mins  
We’re getting the band back together. Let me tell you a story.  

Episode 41: Branches in my Mind Tree

Jul 18 2016 41 mins  
We welcome one-time pinch-hitter co-host Jessamyn West back for a strange format-breaking mash-up episode. Scramble to keep the conversational branches straight in your Mind Tree as we blur the lines between podcast and mixtape, featuring such inadvertently self-referential conversational tracks as threaded comments, date/time confusion, drug experimentation, and editing a podcast

Episode 40: Release the Dongle, Josh Boykin

May 20 2016 77 mins  
Josh Boykin of Intelligame.us and fellow Outpost cohabitant bikes on over to the Crapshoot basement for a spirited chat about video games and tangentially related topics (including shitheadconomics, Maslow’s hierarchy of problems, government cheese, watermelon beer, and grocery store illuminati). But first, Jesse returns from Peru, Josh returns from Disneyland, and, reunited,

Episode 39: The Cold November Rain On Stardew Valley

Mar 17 2016 118 mins  
We’re thrilled to welcome Brad back to the show for a deep dive on Stardew Valley. On the way, we also touch on Moshow the Cat Rapper, Stovokor, Axl Rose, Bee and Puppycat, Kickstarter entitlement syndrome, Undertale disruption, Josh’s impending spin-off podcast Quarter Quorner, John Campbell, blind-fire delivering psychology services, a series of tweets that Jesse neve

Episode 38: Johnathan Korn Is My Father

Feb 23 2016 94 mins  
Punctuality, nicknames, buying beer, parking lot favors, panhandling strategy, falling off the wagon, carbs, ghee, legalizing weed, MMOs, the metafilter gopher server (Jesse’s memory was right!) and the brand-new XOXO Outpost creative space. Our increasingly inevitable video game chat rounds out the episode as expected, touching on Rise of the Tomb Raider, Quake 1, America

Episode 37: Crapshoot NA (Ride the Dragon, Fuck the Wagon)

Jan 21 2016 83 mins  
Topics today include Jesse’s guest spot on the Metafilter Podcast, non-alcoholic beer, meager money management skills, Star Wars Merchandising, the Cereal King, wasting a melody, “padcasts,” show etiquette, Lost, and Skinner boxes. Video games we talk about include Idle Paws and clicker games, Minesweeper, Hexcells, Grayout, Rocket League, The Last of Us, Dishonored, and Beyo

Episode 36: Kind of a Mandelbrot Western

Dec 27 2015 86 mins  
Another episode recorded next to a loud furnace, this time you can find us hollering about hug dynamics, vocal fry, bad recording technique, the “that’s my new band name” joke, statistically unlikely colocations, Hawaiian vacation, solemnizing weddings, a meta-conversation about podcast topics, thank you for contacting metafilter, Jesse’s surprise award-winning childhood, D