TAGQ (That's A Good Question)
Episodes
49 episodes
West Coast Skies
We start with garage-life banter and accidentally wander into Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Leopold, and why certain landscapes make us feel more alive. We end with a surprisingly practical story about building a tiny contract R&D company that h...
Troll With Bacon and French Horn
We start with a real question hiding inside a joke: what anxiety looks like when you’re good at covering it up. Then we wander through photos, music, engineering, bad gadget design, and the strange ways our parents’ lives quietly steer our care...
Serenity Now
Ben and Laura (his mom) swap stories about church, meditation, dance, and the lost art of a shared Sabbath, tracing how ritual, rest, and community shape attention and belonging. Between memory palaces and eyeglass rants, we look for teachers, ...
Band Together Right Now
We swap stories with Max Tomlinson about starting bands, writing mysteries, and why community keeps both alive. From London’s free shows to San Francisco’s 1977 streets, we map how scenes, jams, and practice shape skill and voice.• Coll...
Teacher Quiz
We first fix a messy audio and move on to a discussion of modes of learning, how mentorship differs from lectures, and how campus culture shapes curiosity. A lost bag redemption story closes the loop with a reminder that service, done well, tea...
Echoes, Glitches, And Keeping Records
We stumble through an echo-filled start and end up asking what deserves to last: the files in our clouds, the paper on our shelves, and the stories we tell about ourselves and our families. Along the way we trade travel mishaps, childhood label...
Basket Breathing
Two brothers chase one thread through many lanes: how meditation, language, craft, and city trees point to a more grounded life. We end with a simple tool for singing and everything else: ask how to enjoy it 10 percent more, and let the body le...
Boring Trees
Ben interviews his brother Adam, also a grad student studying trees. Adam goes into how he's using cellular structure in oaks to reveal climate history. Along the way they talk grad school realities and other student job related stories.<...
Point To Line To Life (Kandinsky's Goat)
We talk with Claire about moving from Minneapolis, how road trips to Taliesin and House on the Rock reshaped her eye, and why Kandinsky’s point-line-plane changed how she sees art, music, and daily life. Art theory turns into simple tools for e...
Buggies and Umphreys McGee
We drive the Driftless after a late night with Umphrey’s McGee and let the road pull old stories loose, from bike crashes and basement slot cars to a wild cat named George and the quiet joy of becoming a grandparent. Along the way, Amish buggie...
Roots Podcasting
Ben and Scott have a wide-ranging conversation that touches on identity, career challenges, communication history, and the value of authenticity in podcasting. Their natural dynamic showcases why they started recording these talks in the first ...
Plexiglass Backgrounds
Father and son navigate childhood memories, family dynamics, and philosophical questions in this meandering conversation that reveals surprising vulnerability and humor.• Discussing how dad actually listened to their entire previous pod...
Forest Swinging
Ben and Scott explore profound life lessons through everyday experiences, from psychedelic insights at the beach to emergency medical situations in the backcountry.• Ben shares the story of an octopus sticker creatively placed on his la...
Corvid Warning
We explore the peculiar phenomenon of Wi-Fi storms, territorial crow attacks, and the age-old battle against household ant invasions in this wide-ranging conversation about nature's intrusions into daily life.• Discussing the concept of...
The Old New Cabin
From AI joke failures to family cabin memories, we traverse the landscape of modern technology while exploring the deeply human experiences that technology can never fully replicate.• AI struggles with humor and poetry despite its impre...
Scuba Climbing
The hosts explore personal growth through physical challenges and reflect on how our true selves emerge in moments of pressure or difficulty. This thoughtful conversation weaves between childhood memories, adventure stories, and philosophical m...
Natural Intelligence is Greener
Father and son share a meandering morning conversation over coffee, covering everything from technology limitations and AI energy consumption to cancel culture and Prince's legacy. Their caffeine-fueled discussion weaves through serious topics ...
Noises To Moises
We explore the revolutionary capabilities of Moises music splitting technology and reflect on how childhood entertainment shapes our adult values and dreams.• neural-net music tools allow musicians to split songs into separate tracks fo...
Corporate Rock
Music and creativity aren't just for professionals, but we've been conditioned to "cringe" at amateur performances due to corporate entertainment propaganda. This father-son conversation explores how buried cultural programming restricts our au...
Segmented Questions
A rambling, free-flowing conversation explores everything from abandoned home projects to plant biology, Wikipedia games to music history, all connected through tangential thought patterns and nostalgic reflections.• Wall of suspended d...
Snoqualmie Falling
This episode reveals unexpected connections between concealed talents, consumer curiosities, and profound artistic insights, all while celebrating the adventures of life. Our conversation shifts from electric drums and budget mushroom powders t...
On The Road
This episode features a lively conversation on the spontaneous joys of a road trip through Oregon, exploring memories from college, agriculture in the Willamette Valley, and oddities of life that spark joy and reflection. Join us as we contempl...
Smoking Pork Sauce
Ever had a guitar that stole the show during a recording session? Let us take you on a humorous journey as we face down technical gremlins, risk legal drama with Paramount Pictures, and introduce our delightful new "music box" guitar to the mix...
