The Spirit of Christmas

Christmastime has returned to America! Our favorite holiday celebrating the rampant consumerism and fourth-quarterly profits has finally come again and […]

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Athleisure Wear

Humankind is a herd species. We clump together. So within these clumps of people, self-expression becomes important to maintaining our […]

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Morality

Who are we? What do we want and what is our purpose? Discovering humanity begins in childhood. Society has a […]

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Procrastination

Being human is to err. The Master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. To achieve greatness, […]

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Scary Cats

Once again the leaves wallow from the trees. Darkness encroaches. There are shadows of things creeping in the night. Even […]

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Cats

Humankind is the Apex predator on this planet, but we are not alone. Humanity has a best friend, a companion […]

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Sleep

All of Humankind is akin, from the earliest cave-dwellers to the astronauts floating in space stranded by Boeing, we are […]

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Jersey Tomatoes

Agriculture is, of course, how we grow our food, but it is also humanity’s most fundamental connection to the Earth. […]

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Feeding Birds

Evolution forges animals in a chaotic gauntlet of carnage and slaughter. Like a gladiatorial arena, only the strongest and fittest […]

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Monthly Subscriptions

Welcome to the Information Age! If you’re still reading this then you are already behind, because the information is flowing […]

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Scam Calls

Humankind is a collaborative species, and the key to collaboration is communication. From the first spoken language, to the advent […]

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Parking Brakes

The Earth has been dominated by different dynasties throughout the eons.  The Primordial Earth was governed by the amoeba, the […]

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Generational Gap

Humankind may be the ordained alpha of the Earth, but we are not free of the Circle of Life. Our […]

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Wipeout

The human body is a remarkable machine. It can be trained and shaped to extraordinary measures. The body builder grows […]

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Baseball

Summer in America is a magnificent smorgasbord of all things wonderfully Americana. Barbeques take place on our green lawns with […]

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Closing Time

Father time is the master of all life.  Seasons change, the universe descends into chaos, and all life has a […]

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Tech Support

Globalization is the climactic culmination of the evolution of Human Civilization. The modern era of connectivity is possible because we […]

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Deodorant

Humankind is the pinnacle of evolutionary advantage. We have conquered the planet, we have mapped the stars, we have trapped […]

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Hyper Realism

A podcaster sits at a computer to write an episode blurb. He stares out the window. Writing holds little interest […]

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Everything’s an App

In the modern era of high-paced, digital globalization, the only thing that hasn’t been relegated to binary data-points is the […]

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100 Calorie Packs

The era of Globalization has created a utopian society of plenty. Water comes right out of the walls and temperatures […]

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Sirens

A shrill noise in the night invokes an immediate sense of danger. A horn calling out across a valley will […]

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Doomsday Predictions

The end is nigh! The sun has been blighted and the Aztec calendar has ended! All of the eight prophesies […]

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Storage Lockers

Since the dawn of Humankind, we have had a proud tradition of Hunting and Gathering. While some still cling to […]

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Tipping in Advance

The exchange of money for goods and services is the cornerstone of civilization. Goods have value, and money has value; […]

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The News

Humanity has a natural inclination toward gossip. It’s an instinctive need that we’re constantly up to date on what’s happening. […]

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Half-Full Beverages

Water is the element of Life. The origins of life on earth may be enshrouded in mystery, but that it […]

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Leap Day

Since the dawn of Humankind, we have looked to the heavens for answers. The sun has always been our clock, […]

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Pillows

Life on Earth has evolved in a heartless, gladiatorial gauntlet of Survival of the Fittest. The eventual apex Champion of […]

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Sales

This President’s Day, America comes together to celebrate – like every holiday – the things that matter most to our […]

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Flowers

The Plant Kingdom and the Animal Kingdom have always lived in a delicate, symbiotic peace. The animals kindly exhale carbon […]

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The Word ‘Just’

Humanity is a duality.  ‘Humanity’ is defined by us, our species, humans, the animal that rose above all other beasts […]

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Snow

How privileged we have become, to love the snow. The pretty, white blanket has become a plaything to draw angels […]

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Tension

As the long arc of the universe slowly degrades toward entropy, so too is the path of our humanly bodies […]

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Glitter

The passage of time is marked by ritual. Birthdays are counted with tiny candles, Rush week is passed by getting […]

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Presents

Christmastime is upon us. It is the season of giving. We may share with our friends and family a token […]

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Summer

Humanity has very practically divided time into seconds and minutes and hours; but the gods have divided time into seasons. […]

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Costco

The trajectory of human commerce is a beautiful rainbow of collaboration. The unseemly origins of bartering melted away as we […]

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Plastic on Plastic

The long arc of Human history is divided into grandiose epochs that are defined by certain monumental discoveries. Ten-thousand years […]

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Aioli

In the course of its history, humankind has diversified itself into a vast array of unique cultures. One of the […]

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Halloween Weekend

Humanity has shaped the world around us to suit our needs. We have conquered all our discomforts. Our predators are […]

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The Cold

Autumn is here. The thermostat dips lower by the day. Sunlight slips through the bare branches of the trees before […]

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Forced Audience

Theatre has been part of the Human experience since the dawn of creation. Before the first hieroglyph was ever etched, […]

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Apple Pay

One of the most complex systems that humankind has created is Commerce. From our ancient origins of fighting to the […]

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Traffic Court

The Game of Life is a nuanced, open-world role-playing game that everybody gets to play once. While some stats are […]

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The Gondolas of Santorini

Santorini is a beautiful island off the coast of Greece. A collapsed volcano has left a striking, sheer cliff rising […]

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Cruise Food

Cruise Food

Humankind has always taken to the sea.  We are addicted to exploration, to discovery, to peeking over the horizon and […]

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Tour groups

Tour Groups

Humankind is a herd animal. We gather. Like lemmings to a cliff, we follow where the herd goes. We gather […]

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Travel Days

Travel Days

From humanity’s origins in Africa, it took around 100,000 years to spread across the globe. The pace of that journey […]

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Tourists

The Twenty-First Century is a wondrous time to exist. Humanity now enjoys an age where we can safely see the […]

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Bar Snack Utensils

Eons of evolution have culminated in creating the perfect form of life: Humankind. Unfortunately, it didn’t bother cleaning up after […]

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Barbeque Chips

Summertime is a joyous time. The quintessential image of peak happiness is the sun shining from a blue sky on […]

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The Price of Gas

The Price of Gas

Humanity has plunged into the Cyber Age at terminal velocity. Everything must move at the speed of light. High-speed internet, […]

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Zak Chapter 2

Grumble Goat is off this week! So Mat has commandeered the feed to bring you a preview of his fantasy-adventure […]

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Spoiler Alert!

Spoilers

A picture says a thousand words. But those words are silent, and they are in your head, and it’s really […]

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Sauce Gatekeepers

Sauce Gatekeepers

Machines require lubrication. The clockwork motion of gears and levers grinds to a halt without the grease. Proper lubrication is […]

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Ice Water

Ice Water

Humankind matured into a collective during the last Ice Age. The frigid Earth was an inhospitable place for our furless […]

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Blue Apron

Blue Apron

The 21st Century is a fast-paced, bustling cacophony of technologically enhanced productivity.  Computers, cell phones, and Artificial Intelligence have turned […]

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Reusable Bags

Reusable Bags

In the vast, empty blackness of the Universe, there is one frail, tiny pebble bobbing along on the gravitational waves […]

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Zak: the Hew-Man

Veronique is off this week! So Mat has commandeered the feed to bring you a preview of his fantasy-adventure novel, […]

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Exercise

Exercise

The Human Body is the perfect biological machine.  With over a million years of R&D, this high precision work of […]

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Smart Watches

Smart Watches

Humanity is experiencing a Technological Age heretofore unimaginable to the amoebas that began life on Earth. Unfortunately, it is happening […]

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Naps

Naps

The Human Brain is an incredibly complex biological supercomputer. It has sysadmin privileges over every other organic function in the […]

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Dating App Deceit

We are living in the Digital Age. It is an era of Renaissance and upheaval. The old, analog ways are […]

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Being Handed Things

Being Handed Things

While there are a handful of advantages Humankind can claim over the rest of the beasts of the Earth, it […]

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Toilet Paper

Humanity has evolved well beyond the limitations of our animal origins. Our structures of steel and glass practically scrape the […]

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Elevator Etiquette

Elevator Etiquette

The Meaning of Life is remarkably simple, cherish the people that are close to you. Unfortunately, ‘Close,’ in this instance, […]

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Holidays End

Holidays’ End

As the year draws to an end, the world celebrates. A cornucopia of feasts and festivals replace the dwindling sunlight. […]

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Gift Wrapping

One of the many joyous traditions practiced in this Holiday Season is the exchanging of gifts. Gifts, ultimately, are just […]

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Hanukkah

The holiday season is the crashing climax that reverberates through the end of the year. Every holiday is another rite […]

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Plate Pirates

The Harvest is the most important time of the year. Though most of our farming has been given to the […]

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Unnecessary Touching

Humankind is a herd animal. We function best in groups. Thus, by instinct, we crave human connections. ‘Feeling’ may be […]

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Cyber Monday

The Earth revolves around the sun in a complacent rhythm. At no point in the history of the universe did […]

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Sound Leveling

Humankind’s main advantage is our intelligence. We have conquered the Earth and unlocked the secret Physical Laws of the universe. […]

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Bacon!

Bacon

There is a savage side to the human race. There is a carnal obsession forged inside of us that overwhelms […]

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Trick or Treat

The night is dark and full of terrors. A creaky floorboard in the middle of the night is enough to […]

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Cell Phone Policies

Life on our planet is divided into two Kingdoms: Plants and Animals. Basic, simple, and fundamental. In much the same […]

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The Tin Can

Bonus Content! Grumbles happen in the moment. Once the engines of Grumbling have revved up, it’s hard to maintain a […]

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Vegging Out

The human body is the ultimate machine. Able to perform any number of tasks, move on its own, and think […]

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Mornings

Despite our advanced digital civilization, Humankind are still organic, natural beasts. We must eat and breathe, we must cut our […]

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Line Bunching

Humankind’s domination of the planet has created a population explosion. Unfortunately, the Earth only possesses limited resources. There’s a finite […]

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Box Liquid

The world is a messy place. Earth is a chaotic, teeming, moist stew of life, death, decay, and El Ninos. […]

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Commercials

As humankind developed, our ancestors decided that different grunts could have different meanings. From language’s humble beginnings, it did not […]

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Slow Moving People

Behold! The future is now! Long has humankind dreamed of an age where labor could be performed by automaton. Fields […]

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The Beach

Eons ago, somewhere along our long evolutionary line, a creature had sense enough to get out of the ocean. The […]

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People on Bicycles

Life is driven by rhythm. There are heartbeats, breaths, and circadian rhythms. And so, collectively, society has rhythms. Like an […]

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Minions

The new term for ‘Mainstream Popularity,’ is ‘Going Viral.’ The national attention used to be captured by iconic trends that […]

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Humidity

Humidity

At some point along the evolutionary timeline, some creature had sense enough to get out of the water. A quick […]

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Memorization

If all the world is a stage, then it must be the abandoned studio floor of Whose Line is it […]

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Heels

Guest Grumbler: Christina Germaine Evolution may have created the intelligent mind and sinuous body that is humankind, but humankind has […]

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Strangers Taking Pictures

The Digital Age has led to an explosion of photography. Since we all have our phones in our hand twenty-four […]

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Reruns: Listening

We don’t have a fresh Grumble this week, but it may be time to revisit the topic of ‘Listening.’ It […]

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Food Commentary

Food is life. Food is the very foundation of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Humans need food multiple times every single […]

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Nonsense Photographs

In our fleeting mortality, humans have long dreamed of capturing a moment in time. The long, arduous evolution from cave-paintings […]

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Happy Endings

Civilization is nothing more than a collection of stories. The encyclopedia is the running catalogue of tales that make up […]

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Birthdays

After names, the most fundamental identity we have is age. Any news article, wanted poster, or Bumble match lists that […]

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Reruns: Gift Giving

Back by popular demand! Veronique wants to share her favorite episode this week! In honor of Guest Grumbler, Spencer’s birthday, […]

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Garbage by the Door

Since the advent of cave-painting, humankind has developed a taste for a well-kept home. From the chimney sweep to Marie […]

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Mascara

From the ancient days of humankind, we have captured the beauty of the world in the form of painting. From […]

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Reruns: 10,000 Steps

Back by popular demand! Veronique wants to share her favorite episode this week! Winner of the G.O.A.T. Award for Best […]

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Honking

No animal has mastered the use of sound like Humankind has. We invented language. We invented music. We didn’t invent […]

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Hating Taxes

There are few things as universally reviled in this world as the repugnant idea of taxes. The image of the […]

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School Lunch

Guest grumbler: Mike Figs! Humanity currently holds the deed to the Earth. The dinosaurs once held this privilege, which they […]

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G.O.A.T. Awards!

Welcome to the first annual G.O.A.T. Awards! Awards season is upon us, and just like the Hollywood elite, the content […]

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Grumbles

Humankind is set apart from the rest of the Kingdom of Animals.  For instance, our thumbs are backward.  But the […]

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The Apocalypse

The end is nigh.  The Fourth Horseman, Conquest, has just reared his head in Russia, joining his brothers Pestilence, Famine, […]

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Calling Women Girl

Since time immemorial, humanity has looked to its elders for sage wisdom. Crows feet carry more respect than an Ivy […]

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Roommates

A home is a sacred concept. A healthy mind requires a safe haven that we can call our own. The […]

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Valentines Day

The digital age has changed the way humankind interacts with the world. The sun is a convenient light source, but […]

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Being Away

Being Away

There is, in humankind, an innate desire for exploration. We long to see what’s just over the horizon. We turn […]

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Dibs – Chicago Style

Ownership is something that humankind takes very seriously. For real estate we have deeds. For vehicles we have titles. For […]

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Streaming Algorithms

Of the many types of conflict humanity faces, the supreme first-world conflict of the modern age is Man vs. Boredom. […]

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Fast Food Menus

In ages past, on a cold and drizzly night, weary travelers might have boarded their horses and themselves at a […]

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New Year’s Eve

Humanity has always longed to peek into the future. Soothsayers and shamans have long bilked the laymen with promises of […]

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Reruns: Christmas Music

Back by popular demand! Veronique wants to share her favorite episode this week! From last Winter: The Winter Solstice approacheth. […]

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Mispronouncing Names

Mispronouncing Names

Evolution has blessed humankind with innumerable cheat-codes for domination over nature. Not least of which is the power of complex […]

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Fench Fries

French Fries

Guest grumbler: Gaby Labotka Any cuisinier would tell you that the most crucial aspect of any dish is proper pairing. […]

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Blowing Up

Blowing Things Up

Guest Grumbler: Kevin Paley In the post pandemic world we are experiencing worker shortages, soaring gas prices, and supply chain […]

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Avocado Toast

Guest Grumbler: Darius Anthony Robinson Society relies on ritual. Like putting a pine tree in our homes at the start […]

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Thanksgiving

Thanks Giving

There is much in our world to be grateful for. Air travel, edible underwear, or online quizzes to tell us […]

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Pumpkin Spice

Reruns: Pumpkin Spice

Back by popular demand! Veronique wants to share her favorite episode this week! From last Autumn: All Hallow’s Eve is […]

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Being Sick

It is the age of technology. Civilians have the ability to joyride into space. Warfare has evolved into isolated strikes […]

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Grim Grumbling Ghosts

The days are growing shorter. The darkness encroaches as the weather grows chill. The veil to the nether seems more […]

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Nuclear Power

Nuclear Power

Earth is more than a rock. Gaia, or Mother Nature, has gifted us with bountiful energy. The ocean currents rage […]

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Malls

Civilizations develop around commerce. Communities begin with trade and bartering; but a city, a capital, a metropolis hatches from a […]

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Awkward Commercials

Awkward Commercials

Guest Grumbler: Emeka Nwafor Trading goods and services is a natural part of life. Crows and cats pay for food […]

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Dog Poop

Rainy Day Dog Poop

In our long history, humans have created many companions: Tamagotchi, Roomba, Zune, Shake Weight… but no artificial companion will ever […]

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Unwaxed Bowling Lanes

Since time immemorial, humankind has celebrated the athlete. There is a primal sense of combat in sport which allows us […]

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Motorcycles

Motorcycles

Guest grumbler: Molly Densmore The dawn of civilization – the moment humanity ascended above all other animals as the one […]

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Online Recipes

Life relies on certain elemental replenishments. There is Oxygen – tasteless, odorless, monotonous air. There is water – which we’ve […]

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Iced Cappuccino

Guest grumbler: Mary Elise Jones One of the most primal and eternal conflicts in the universe is the everlasting battle […]

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Bicycle Laws

The automobile has revolutionized human civilization in countless ways: drive-ins, drive-throughs, drive-ways, parking garages, walk-signals, etc. Cars far outnumber humans […]

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Toe Rings

Guest grumbler: Patricia McCarthy Through the long eons of life on this planet, evolution has sculpted the most efficient, perfect […]

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Measuring Things

Guest Grumbler: Corey Thompson Previous to the internet age, information sharing across the globe was logistically improbably. Ergo, as civilizations […]

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Subway Hate

The billions of cells that make up our bodies all require oxygen. Evolution has provided a streamlined solution to this […]

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Lengthy Podcasts

The internet has reversed the erstwhile stream of entertainment. Content used to flow down to the masses from elite studios; […]

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Organic Food

The universe is a vast, empty vacuum of nothingness, dotted here and there with noxious gasses and dead rocks. Earth, […]

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High Fructose Corn Syrup

Our lives are often based on routine. Easily, we slip into the schedule of work and sleep. But enrichment comes […]

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Gate Crowding

Humankind loves a crowd. We are a social animal. The ‘gatherer’ in ‘Hunter/Gatherer’ may often be mistaken for gathering of […]

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Individualized Plans

The modern world that we’ve created is driven by algorithms. Every human is numbered at birth, every car has a […]

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Umbrellas

In the vast expanse of the universe, Life is seemingly unique to Earth. When we discover new planets, the very […]

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Paper Towels

As the universe erodes into entropy, humankind instinctively tantrums against nature’s inevitable transition into chaos. We like order. Whether it’s […]

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Absolutes

Guest Grumbler: Michael Giansiracusa “Never has the world been more divided. Every single person is always at peak rage. The […]

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Overhead Lighting

Guest grumbler: Hannah Karpenko In mankind’s eternal quest to bring light into the darkness, we have unlocked maddening varieties of […]

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Twelve Hour Clocks

Guest Grumbler: Allyson Boate Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has stared toward the heavens, calculating the movement of the […]

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Oscar Films

In a world – still reeling from the echoes of accusations of a rigged election – a shady entity of […]

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National Day Calendar

Humankind was not meant to toil away in a daily grind.  We are a social animal, and while work is […]

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Garnishes

Guest Grumbler: Kris Ortiz Water, while necessary for life to exist, is boring; but a bright splash of yellow and […]

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Hair

Guest Grumbler: Kim Gant Our hair is precious. It’s our personality. It’s our identity. Every single day we fix our […]

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A.I. Morality

It is the dawn of a new existential era for humankind.  Technology heretofore existed to assist human tasks.  Machines now […]

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What Can I Bring

Guest grumbler: Bill Janisse Humankind is a social animal. From gathering around a fire to grandiose ballroom cotillions, socializing is […]

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Phantom Drip

French press, pour-over, cold-brew, or nitro-draught?  The search for the perfect cup of coffee is the modern day alchemy.  But […]

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Jeans in Bed

Guest Grumbler: Rocio Mendez Nightclothes come in a multitude of genres. As a child, pajamas are a comfy cosplay of […]

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Pronouncing February

There is no question on the linguistic abuses of the English language. The labyrinthian guidelines and the chaotic use of […]

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Football Rules

America’s most ostentatious contribution to the art of sport; the gridiron of goliaths in our modern day coliseums that fight […]

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Gift Giving

Guest grumbler: Spencer Hadel Generosity sometimes seems like a dwindling trait. The fast-paced, cynical world we inhabit would scoff off […]

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Butter Knives

A properly set table requires a daunting amount of silverware. Each tool in its proper place has a specific function […]

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Double Parking

There was a plague in this city before the Corona Virus. A biblical-sized plague with an infection rate of one-hundred […]

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iPad Registers

Traditionally, transactions at stores and restaurants involve nothing more than communicating with a store representative. That employee then handles all […]

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Sport Utility Vehicles

Picture the American dream of the open road, the rugged outdoorsman traverses the high-desert of the wild west. The dawning […]

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Peanut Butter Desserts

Guest Grumbler: Danae Ervin Peanut butter is a classic staple of American food stuffs. It is, to most of us, […]

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Resolutions

As with the blind optimism of an impromptu, liquor-fueled, Las Vegas wedding, New Years Eve is a time to blurt […]

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Blaming 2020

Like sand through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives… typically. But the days of 2020 were a […]

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Sponges

Guest Grumbler: Jonathan Zapata Some people argue that the modern consumer is too detached from food production, but what about […]

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Ketchup

Humanity, in its diversity, has created a vast menu of limitless cuisine. The intricacies of delicacies are as numerous and […]

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Christmas Music

The Winter Solstice approacheth. While the days grow shorter, we begin preparations for a long winter with everybody’s favorite, age-old, […]

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Door Handles

Doors have always captivated the human imagination. Portals to undiscovered locations, thresholds that block nefarious faeries, secret hideouts with secret […]

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Grumble Blocking

Casual passing of judgement is fundamental to the human experience. Communication is not unique to Mankind; dolphins and bees, for […]

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Pumpkin Spice

Pumpkin Spice Lattes

All Hallow’s Eve is upon us. The darkness creeps in earlier and earlier. The trees have shed their leaves, leaving […]

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Underwear

Guest Grumbler: Virginia Rupert Some might wear their hearts on their sleeve, but all of us cover our unmentionable bits […]

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Cigarette Filters

Cigarettes are cool..? All of our 70’s era heroes smoked. You what’s not cool? Safety gear. James Bond drinks martinis […]

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Coconut Milk

No longer are we beholden to the cow for milk. We have weened ourselves from the udder addiction and replaced […]

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Neti Pots

Guest Grumbler: Logan Kovach The Human Body is a magnificent vessel of biotic efficiency. What an incredible vehicle to experience […]

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Online Quizzes

Social Media has been hijacked by a fantasy world of online quizzes. Replacing the Astrological Charts of yore, these personality […]

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Voice Command

Communicating with the machines is a task we leave to the highly specialized ‘programmer’ class. These ‘programmers’ are the modern […]

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Checking Out

The great American journey was built on consumerism. Shopping Malls, Strip Malls, Outlet Malls, and Wholesale Big Box stores are […]

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Listening

Ding! You have three new messages. Distractions are omnipresent in today’s society. Ding, you have a new notification. It’s difficult […]

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Trucks

America, from sea to shining sea, is crisscrossed with beautiful open roads. Somehow these alluring stretches of highway have become […]

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Kitchen Gadgets

The kitchen is the heart of the home. Family traditions have been passed down through casseroles and cookies. Somehow, though, […]

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Sports Draft

Sports, America’s favorite pastime. Gone are the days when backyard, sandlotters become local heroes. Now, millionaires get traded across the […]

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DNA Testing

The 21-Century gives mankind many opportunities to trade privacy for a hit of dopamine. A photo goes to Instagram and […]

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Masks

This episode has been archived and is only available to our Patreon subscribers! Guest Grumbler: Dr. Lori Labotka, Ph.D. A […]

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Web Hate

Opinions used to be a personal position on a topic that one could use to socialize. Now, social media has […]

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Bathroom Odors

In humankind’s eternal quest to alleviate ourselves, we have isolated the most embarrassing of our animal baseness to one room. […]

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Alarm Clocks

Waking up is an activity that everyone performs every day. In lieu of a rooster, most people use a device. […]

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Haircuts

We are living in an age of hyper communication. Through social media, any plebian can clearly communicate their thoughts to […]

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Paranoid

It’s time for the ‘rona episode. Twenty-four hour news cycles move faster than a virus, so ‘facts’ come faster and […]

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Series

As attention spans narrow, it’s ironic that stories are lengthening. The classic, stand-alone film era has been purged and replaced […]

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Almost Automated Bathrooms

Modern public facilities are marvels of 90’s motion-sensor technology. It seems every toilet and faucet are equipped with a confusing […]

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Tofu

In a global world, where every taste and flavor on the planet is available at you local grocer’s, it’s almost […]

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Self Driving

Math, navigation, privacy, finding a mate; these are some of the responsibilities we’ve given up to the machine. Driving, on […]

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Diet Coke

The produce section of the supermarket slowly dwindles as consumers buy more processed, fat-free, gluten-free, artificially-sweetened, instant, consequence free “food.” […]

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Phone-Tasking

In the high-paced information-age we live in, phone calls are the rare moments that we can be by ourselves and […]

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I.P.A.s

India Pale Ale: a godsend for thirsty British sailors; a cliched standard for craft beer. Gone are the days of […]

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Spatial Unawareness

Space, the final frustration. In the days before the legally mandated six-foot personal space, mankind was plagued by social ineptitude. […]

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Paper Straws

Paper beats rock, but water destroys paper. Paper straws work better as paper-mache than beverage delivery. Is there no better […]

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Wire Hangers

Wire clothes hangers – inexpensive alternative or closet catastrophe? At first glance, the space-saving simplicity may seem convenient, but these […]

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Children’s Food

The Venn Diagram of kid’s food to junk food is just one circle. Counting-calories, dressing-on-the-side, anti-oxidant super-foods are boring fads […]

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10,000 Steps

Historically, wrist watches have benefited mankind by counting the day in units of time. But now, in this digital era, […]

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Cash Only

In a bygone era, the world used physical tokens to transfer money. Precious metals and woven-cotton might be handed to […]

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Bags

Modern consumerism demands that everything be put in a bag. Two bags where possible. Let’s travel through time to discover […]

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Scents

Basic-human-scent is not an option. Soap, shampoo, deodorant, and detergent all have unique scents. What are we, as humans, supposed […]

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Gluten

Beware the scourge of gluten! Headaches used to be caused by gnomes living in your brain, well now the plebeians […]

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Grumble Goat on Avocados

Avocados

Capitalistic norms follow the precedent of ‘supply and demand.’ Until avocados. The economy trips over itself on the issue of […]

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Escalators

Mini elevators or helpful stairs? How can society know the difference? Mat and Veronique get to the bottom (or top) […]

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Gum

The inaugural episode of Grumble Goat, where we discuss one of the ugliest habits plaguing our society today. Join Mat […]

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Grumble Goat: The Trailer

In a world with much to Grumble about, two heroes emerge. Meet Mat, the darkly sarcastic comedian with an acute […]

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