Boot and Sink

Coming out of a bookstore, Timothy sees a noodle truck called spicy noods, and running the truck is Do you think you can take them owner Harlan Davies. They discuss the future of food trucks for him and the bane of his existence. His other food truck, Bisqued off.

What else is there to do on a lonely Friday night then to taste test homade experimental vodka with Mirana Vale. What could go wrong?

In a town that complains about fog, Marina Vale has appointed herself its greatest defender. Timothy meets Bandit’s Nook’s self-proclaimed Fog Steward to discuss fog harvesting, atmospheric liquor, seventeen varieties of mist, and the mysterious phenomenon known only as The Emperor.

Del listened to my Reagan episode and decided I got exactly one thing wrong: the conclusion. According to Del, Ronald Reagan was absolutely a warlock, Richard Nixon taught him sorcery at Bohemian Grove, Watergate was failed political thaumaturgy, and a photograph of Nixon jumping proves he could levitate.

Watching over the information desk while everyone is at lunch. Timothy Zero decides to ruin an old republican's day, by telling him that Ronald Reagan was into the occult.

A local fighting legend comes back home to Bandit's Nook. With all the stories about him, no one knows what to believe. So Timothy Zero sits down with the man behind the legend and carefully tries to interview him, without making him angry.

On the very day Ray Bradbury imagined in There Will Come Soft Rains, Timothy Zero reflects on how the future quietly became the present. But in Bandit's Nook, even the calendar may be trying to tell us something.

During renovations of the Library basement in Bandit's Nook. Some strange items were found, and of course...cataloged

Finally, I get Del in the studio and ask him questions from you all.

Are they coherent? Not really. But that's Del for you. Enjoy!

You know you've been waiting for it.... Yes! It's another mail bag episode from the great listeners to the podcast! Let's see what weird things you want to talk about this time!

Sometimes a song stops being a song and becomes a home. This week on Boot & Sink, Timothy Zero tells the story behind Run With Us and the secret club that made it their motto.

Every house in Bandit's Nook has one.

An empty drawer.

Not for batteries. Not for junk. Not for anything.

Just... empty.

No one agrees on why the tradition started, but everyone agrees you shouldn't ignore it. Because when people fill every drawer in the house, strange little things begin to disappear. And when they finally make room again...

...the missing things have a way of coming home.

A young library patron asks for books about Freddy Krueger. Twenty minutes later, we're discussing witness testimony, criminal investigations, and the dangers of falling asleep during horror movies.

Some conversations don't go where you expect.

This week's episode, I talk to Walter Grady. A man who created his own broadcasting cable company and his own time capsule from 1987. His basement.

A personal episode about identity, loneliness, belonging, and the small lights that help us find our way home.

In this episode, I finally got to interview Dr. Theodora Blackthorn on her new book, The Monastic Hound: Forbidden Canines of the Medieval World. We discuss some dogs maybe have never existed and some I pray never come into style again.

Alone on a Saturday night. I try a random voice chat website. People are cruel so I get weird on them, and then of course something weird happens.

Del's crustacean infested nightmares come to a head and he desperately needs to get rid of the astral house guests. So they go to the only one who can help. Agnes Wicklow.