Episodes

Monday Apr 07, 2025
242: Rambling About Tom
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Monday Apr 07, 2025
I honestly could describe this as a re-blogging, or re-broadcasting, of someone else's podcast.
Except for the occasional clip in compilation shows, I've never done this before. My friend Tom (The Ramble Redhead) died this month. Cancer took him quickly, and it was a shock to those who knew him and loved him. Wanting to hear his voice again and knowing his podcast was no longer available online, I went to my personal archives.
Past Ramble Redhead shows included interviews with Taylor from Pod Is My Copilot, Christina from Greetings From Nowhere, Toppie from The Smellcast, Margaret Cho, and more -- including me. The majority of this Inappropriate Conversations podcast is sharing Tom's interview with me from September 2015.
Those of us who knew Tom will never forget the redhead from Indiana who loved us all.
Different Drummer: Thomas Kiel

Monday Feb 17, 2025
241: Rolling Into Lent
Monday Feb 17, 2025
Monday Feb 17, 2025
The apparently upcoming demise of a former employer has led me to thoughts about topics I've sidestepped in the past on Inappropriate Conversations, keeping work and personal life separate. Perhaps it makes no sense to protect an organization that no longer exists, and I don't think the stories I could tell are really that embarrassing. I consider them to be more revealing about the gap between what a group says it values compared to the culture it actually creates.
If that's an Inappropriate Conversations show update, then the update for Walk The Earth is about a plan for daily "devotional" podcasts during Lent, starting on "Fat Tuesday" and ending on the Monday after Easter.
Lent Roll.
The inspiration for such short 2- or 3-minute shows came from the Different Drummer this week, someone I don't even know by name.
Different Drummer: (j)ula of soundwavesoffwax

Thursday Jul 11, 2024
239: Film Years
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
The next podcast I post will be a new short-form considering movies by year. I'm not replacing Inappropriate Conversations or Walk The Earth, just adding something new. The starting point will be Film Year 2009.
Different Drummer: Charles Tashiro
Note: the first half of this episode raises questions about the consequences of a recent Supreme Court decision, and I don't know the answer for how this will impact governing in the United States. By my reckoning, things certainly could get very ugly. Consequences are not bound by our lack of accountability.

Thursday Oct 15, 2020
TalkBack 42: Made For TV Program Direction
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
When Inappropriate Conversations #42 was released in January 2011, I named it "The Morning After for Classic Made-For-TV Movies" and that title still works based on the flow of the show. I wanted this TalkBack episode to also note a relatively recent Facebook venture, a public group called Made For TV Program Direction. The idea is to accumulate what will be a long list of citations, nostalgic memories of past television program -- some seemingly forgotten. Feel free to join in if this podcast memory strikes some other memories.
http://www.inappropriateconversations.org/e/42-the-morning-after-for-classic-made-for-tv-movies/

Monday Jul 06, 2020
229: Some Assembly Required, chapter 7
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Some Assembly Required (A NeoSurrealist Forsaking a Habit for Lent)
Chapter 7
Mad Scientist
Editorial Board meeting: March 24, 1994
Coming Up Next
How Am I Supposed To Live Without?
"They'll Know We Are Christians"
The Least Of These
"Are we not, in fact, blaming the Godless for their very Godlessness?"
Different Drummer: Art Eddy

Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
TalkBack 150 - part 6: Opening the Scriptures
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
When Inappropriate Conversations #150 was first posted in September 2014, the best solution I had for liner notes was simply a list of all the quoted texts, which alone was quite extensive. Now, wrapping up this look-back to that long podcast, I'll use the last of these 6 parts with a link to the original post. It has the full set of scriptures and the name of the Different Drummer, and that segment closes out the episode.
#IC #150

Sunday Jan 06, 2019
TalkBack 150 - part 1: Opening the Scriptures
Sunday Jan 06, 2019
Sunday Jan 06, 2019
After spending the holidays sharing TalkBack podcasts related to Christmas, I want to start the new year with a series of TalkBack posts on the longest Inappropriate Conversations podcast released so far. It will take a 3+ hour episode into 6 parts. The original #IC #150 was intentionally long, making the point of quoting scripture at length and in context while trying, as stated right up from, to free Christ from the closet of Christian homophobia.
Also, in the introduction I try to answer the question: exactly how big is a billion?