Released: October 15. 2010

Does knowing we’ll all be gone eventually sometimes make you feel like everything is meaningless? I don’t mean to bum anyone out, but if I can’t figure out an answer to “why bother?” how can there be a second episode? (Spoiler alert: There will be a second episode.)

intro

Theme includes sample of Run for You by Buke & Gass. Check them out! Intro background music is a song by Múm.

schizo medly

of writing by Ivan Brunetti. Performed by Mike Wood.

ivan brunetti

He’s an award-winning cartoonist. If they gave awards for nihilism, he’d have a shelf-full of those too.

trap

A mouse’s dilemma. Performed by Larry Butler.

i don’t want to mow the lawn

(abridged) By Andy Breckman. Get it on iTunes.

plane crash follies

A woman muses on the way down. Performed by Eileen Hsi.

ryan time!

Ryan Ridley, writer on Community and Rick and Morty, and Dan talk about the meaning of life with a little help from the Omniscient Voice of the Universe. No big deal.

outro

Dan Kaufman wraps it all up with a pretty bow.

happiness

By Carl Sandburg, performed by Larry Butler.

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Illustration by Ivan Brunetti

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