barklife

Josh and Jahnna discuss their family life, including their podcast "Bark Life," recorded from their home. They talk about their mail, particularly scare tactics used by companies. They delve into DEI policies, emphasizing the benefits for veterans and white women. Josh shares his home renovation experiences, including laying tile and restoring a window. Jahnna talks about her health issues, including ankylosing spondyloar...

hey, we're back! some ... stuff happened in 2022 and we took an unplanned break. we've got a fair number of updates in this episode, and because of the gap since our last episode we're calling this the start of season 2. 
some brief show notes and credits:

• nümetal sample credit to The Aquabats! "I Fell Asleep on My Arm"
• josh made a reference to Operation Ivy. the song is "Freeze Up"
• intro and...

we’re back! we accidentally took a hiatus, but we are finally back behind the mic. 

if you were following the adventurecast experiment, the audio on the second half (adventurecast: the return journey) was absolutely awful. so here’s the gist of what happened: we enjoyed our day out in cave city, ky, and we both highly recommend visiting dinosaur world if you’re in the area. the domes and dripstones tour of mammoth cave was very inte...

here is part 2 of epic harvey-groft day trip 2022. hopefully audio quality is a bit better than part 1.

some background: way back in december i (jahnna) won a contest at school by knitting my own ugly holiday sweater, and the prize was a day off from school. it’s not been a good year for being able to get a sub and take a day off from school, nor was there anywhere to go until recently. with jefferson county finally making...

we did an experiment this week with the recording—and it was largely successful-ish!

some background: way back in december i (jahnna) won a contest at school by knitting my own ugly holiday sweater, and the prize was a day off from school. it’s not been a good year for being able to get a sub and take a day off from school, nor was there anywhere to go until recently. with jefferson county finally making it to the green for covid le...

greetings from louisville where we are either experiencing a redbud winter (a winter that interrupts spring), or we are seeing a tail end episode of spring of deception (a spring that interrupts winter).

this week’s episode was a bit of a rush job—it was always a bit destined to be because we were waiting for the battlebots tournament to end. however, life also intervened last weekend and this week in the form of a sick otis. 

conten...

right. so i (jahnna) have taken over the show notes. at least for now. 

so this week, josh told me that i oughtn’t envision a more just and equitable world because that’s a big ask, so i started smaller by envisioning a more just and equitable olympics. we discussed the inequities in some money for medals programs (particularly canada’s), and it turned out that josh didn’t know money for medals was a thing at all. maybe you didn’t e...

as the title suggests, our protagonists discuss both dogs and books, and how we, as a culture,  underestimate kids' reading capabilities and emotional capacities. also, Animal Crossing. beware spoilers for I'm Thinking of Ending Things.
links to other things, mostly books, that are mentioned in this episode:

• Carmichael's (our local bookstore)
• Brownsboro Animal Clinic (our vet)
• "snake ex machina"
• A Pecul...

jahnna and josh are back to give you a year-end wrap-up. sort of. we sort of ramble, as always, as the words escaping our mouths struggle to keep up with our brains. in episode 5, we find some things that didn't suck about 2021, as well as desires for 2022 (but not goals, because we don't do new year's resolutions). and this episode has been optimized for podcast listening, in terms of loudness, according to Apple. s...

in episode 4 our protagonists talk smack on a rather obscure text called The Return of the King, and also The Hobbit. and except for josh struggling to form cohesive sentences, you'll also hear about:

• The Heroine with 1001 Faces
• puppets discussing the monomyth
• The Norse myth that inspired "The Lord of the Rings"
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• The Last Cuentista
• The Thirteenth Tale
• Jonathan Stra...

hey! this episode is somewhat belated. it's the holiday season, and josh was out of town for a week in december, so things got weird. the editing may be a little slapdash, sorry and/or get over it. here's some of the things we reference this week:

• Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
  By Michael McCreary
• Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time ...

good news, everyone! the audio quality of episode two is markedly better than in episode one! i'm (josh) learning great stuff about audio editing! no weird gaps! background noise removed!
bad news, everyone! we were both tired and unprepared when recording this episode, so ... it's maybe boring? some of last week's topics get a rehash. but hey, that's life, and we have a through-line now, i suppose.

jahnna and josh talk for a while. wren breathes loudly in the background and occasionally barks. if you don't know us -- heck, even if you do know us -- it may be difficult to follow. we jump around [cue music] topics a bit (a lot). spoiler alert for Avengers: Endgame. find other stuff we post at theharveygrofts.com.
links to some of the things we discuss:

• Books
  • The Man Who Died Twice
  • Poison for Breakfast
  • 1491 & Be...