2021

Week 27 – The Vanishing of Harry Pace, McCartney and Rubin, the Aeropress (again), three “perfect” recipes, and avoiding a flood in Zion!
Week 26 – Greening without legislating, rewriting the end of the Beatles, Van Gogh’s bookmark, Soul In The Summer, and empathy for Olivia Rodrigo
Week 23 – Apple employees balk at returning to the office, how we ran out of everything, California trees in a native language, the Hungry Caterpillar didn’t vomit, and an insane Jeep
Week 21 – The Linda Lindas, a Very Murakami interview, Mariah Carey’s secret album, Rutherford Falls, and “Sledgehammer”
Week 20 – TikTok artists, don’t call it a dado stack, the couple that wheels together, finding trails, and finding camp spots.
Week 19 – Covid confusion, dunking on the Eagles, mysterious Soviet mystery solved at last, Narcos and necromancy, and a pop star and Pikachu!
Week 18 – Family against the machine apocalypse, dowsing, UFOs, The Bad Batch, and Sam Pilgrim.
Week 17 – Five Things This Week: 2021, week16: Falcon and The Winter Soldier, a ska album, a coffee guy, a backpack, and a fleabag.
Week 16 – Excitement over… productivity software? Re-recorded Taylor, Canadians cooking, Dungeons, Dragons, and hysteria, and a puppy picture.

2019

Week 29 – Notre-Dame almost completely collapsed, laughing at Florida Man, escaping a Cuban prison, where are the Bob Ross paintings, and Pringles in the fridge.
Week 28 – Discovering (and obsessing) over a colony of seahorses, the picture that launched the Impressionist movement, from felon to king of the roadside BBQ, what happened to New Coke, and Janelle Monae.
Week 26 – The disappearance of Chinese star Fan Bingbing, coma dreams, bodies at the bottom of the Great Blue Hole, a brief history of the ball pit, and Wisconsin and Foxconn’s rocky relationship.
Week 12 – Journey to the Disappointment Islands, walled off rooms in San Francisco, the misunderstood Dodge Neon, the lost Forrest Gump sequel, and illegal cremations.
Week 10 – Pulling up a Soviet sub, reading about the Revolutionary war, coddling the American Mind, and the Umbrella Academy.
Week 8 – Escaping the Carr Fire, what is or isn’t in the basement, calling the safecracker, searching for meteorites, and making snow in your backyard.

2018

Week 48 – On the American home garage, who is Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan on tour, Pumpkin Pie and the ultimate turkey.
Week 46 – Jumping out of a plane to fight fires, why is the latest fire so bad, who is terrifying the new tenants of an old house, when Nirvana unplugged, and macaroni and cheese.
Week 45 – Haunted houses, haunted literature, an interstellar grave, Jerry Seinfeld, and word birthdays.
Week 42 – The first aerial dogfight, Totem Recall, the not-lost racecar, MORE “The Good Place”, and father and daughter and mountain.
Week 40 – Psychedelics, remote missile strikes, long stands in the Deep Dark, haunting Americana, and The Good Place (yes, again!)
Week 36 – Michael Moore, dinosaur extinction, mountains on fire, nerve agent assassination, and Pantsuit Sasquatch!
Week 34 – Seeing/not seeing ghosts, a girl and her missile range, one big-ass plane, Weezer blessing the rains, and Chuck
Week 33 – A rocket test pilot, a rocket (and electric car) builder, a west coast aural roadtrip, deserts, a decent President and amazing human being, and farewell Aretha.
Week 32 – That casual, purloined masterpiece on the wall, superfund toxic lake… and tourist destination, Ginkgo trees that survived the A-bomb, standing in long lines, and a brief history of punk rock.
Week 31 – Raising (or not) the Titanic, 25 things about Cher, why cats purr, this little conspiracy called #QAnon, and 1 duck, 76 ducklings
Week 27 – Camping edition with sleeping pads, straps, fancy camping coffee, and a cool canteen
Week 25 – Islands that never were, crazy-fast mountain climbing, NYC is so passé, the pit of many limbs, eradicating a worm, and – bonus! – surviving a rattlesnake bite
Week 24 – This week, a big deal about the river beach in my old neighborhood, David Sedaris greatest hits, Number Stations primer, Black Thought goes on and on and on…, new Neko Case, new WORDS!, new old giant steam engine, and the architecture behind the famous MPR Racoon
Week 21 – Gibson versus Fender, Tokyo subway secrets, camping site finder, Solo, and Minecraft – yes, Minecraft.
Week 20 – Featuring Kanye and his whiteness, worklife in a tube, singing about prawns, Who was young Stanford, and a Celine Dion ballad!
Week 18 – Burbank’s plums, Champion Trees, understanding negative spending, ode to a crappy burrito, and Glen Hansard & Eddie Vedder break my heart.
Week 17 – Mikey defends Jedi, finding Ansel Adams, making sense of Ford killing cars, Hulu Live lives, and a little movie called Avengers: Infinity War
Week 16 – Reading container ships, oh, about those containers…, Crazy Ex, Warehome (not like werewolf), and an adorable kitty
Week 15 – Shipwrecks, bikeless kids, black ice, Missing NOLA, and a Pop Culture podcast
Week 14 – Amelia Earhart, one of my favorite stories about a video store, “The Breakfast Club”, Ugly Delicious, and a lot of seagull poop.
Week 13 – Nearly lost stone fruit, Portrait of the artist as side hustle, the unknown goalie/accountant, an interview with Uncle Joe, and a lunch theft.
Week 12 – My network hero, outsized historical generosity, and car nerdery: the Bullitt Mustang, a Ferrari mechanic, and the new Merc inline 6.
Week 11 – Gadget addition: supreme iPad keyboard, retractable cable, backup battery, a notebook to write words in, and a bag to put it all in.
Week 10 – Chuckie back in Oakland, TV to drool by, flightless birds out of your nightmares, southern-fried soul music, and pursuit of the perfect cup of coffee.
Week 9 – Rocket boats, a forgotten slave, New Music Fridays, BANANA!, and a Hamilton polka.
Week 8 – SpaceX video, treasure in the west, and coping with my cold.
Week 7 – Mystery death at sea, Black Panther sounds, best record stores, statistics matter, and Happy Death Day.
Week 6 – Black Panther power, The Good Place, Trump as an example, the Berlin Wall, and Quincy Jones.
Week 5 – Groundhog Day, politics, forgotten dead, cheerleader music, and a special acre in the Grand Tetons.
Week 4 – Snooping on wild beasties, mason jars, and cheerful Nirvana.
Week 3 – Swedish folk singers, caffeine at BYU, DNA showing the truth, and Havana.
Week 2 – Wolves, an expensive bird, Lidar, Chai Tea, and really old pictures.