This week, the guys open up about the lows and woes of being a creator in the public eye. Doordashing. Hotdog stand adventures. Writing memoirs. Bookfairs.

Happy Halloween! This week, Adam and John talk about their favorite childhood tricks and pranks and share some insights and talk shop about writing and the creative process. They also contemplate the necessity of Machiavellian literature, making up new words and phrases as a pastime, and the artistic medium of podcasts in general.

This week, Adam and John recant the precious memories of work-families and the fun and games they shared together which made them forget they were working. Sex robots. AI musicians. Purposeful depression???

This week, Adam plans a hiking trip to Dracula's castle, contemplates the monsters in his own novels, and imagines Barack Obama doing regular black people stuff. John is getting his groove back with fairy's in Neverland and spending all his royalties from Pete & Gwendoline Grew Up!

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This week, Adam takes a stroll down Memory Lane on his way to Canada. A real friend takes off his shirt and walks out of Applebee's with you. John is fully housed once again, re-opens the Pelipan Portal and recants the growth he experienced while on his quest for stability. Bliss is in the journey!

This week, John's dear friend Rob K Peach shares his origins in, and love of hip hop and the culture which embodies it. The guys reflect upon the process of growth which the genre has experienced over the past 50 years; how we as a culture have grown in terms of our perceptions of race, gender, and sexuality; and Adam chimes in about the latest Brooks & Dunn album!

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Who taught Grok's Mecha Hitler how to fix the worlds problems? What is Adam's new podcast adventure, "Old Water" all about? Has John fallen head over heals in "Like?" Join the guys this week for a good old fashioned Oddville hang and find out!

This week, Adam and John welcomed Debra Bryant, RScP and member of the Everyday Center for Spiritual Living, to share her personal journey into spirituality after moving to Santa Fe in 1987. Debra shares the five step treatment plan of her spiritual practice, The Science of Mind, (not Scientology ...) as well as a little bit about the author of her tradition, Ernest Holmes. Debra also breaks down her thoughts on Shame v Guilt; Spirituality v Religion; The Power of Forgiveness v The Power of Regret; and how the EGO has a tendency to Edge God Out.

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