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Do Not Schedule
Hosted by Josh and Mike · ENGLISH
Josh and Mike talk about stuff
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The Divorce Episode
Yesterday01:19:05Tap to summarizeOR: Have you checked the spark plugs? Josh just wants to note that he closed on a car 48 hours after this was recorded. SECRET SPECIAL GUEST CONTENT ENCLOSED. Mike pops a fourth-story pimple and is off Instagram (again). Most of this episode is attacking Josh's psyche--be gentle emailing feedback to DoNotSchedulePod@gmail.com. Quarterly/annual theme talk is included, Josh is pursuing "Good Practice" as inspired by Craig Mod, and Mike is once again focused on "Less Trash." (Recorded January 17, 2026) Editing by: Isaac (at) thetitlegoeshere.com Feedback? Email us (MikeJosh): DoNotSchedulePod (at) gmail.com Show Notes: Music: Bloom (Album) by Raynes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pGIZvfsk1Q&list=PLhMQq49dGqfBis1FmiDAh_PqecXpWLCoH Music: Waiting to Die, Harrison Boe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xfuYPMx39w Music: Racing Mt Pleasant https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcyon8CBs1cZYlNhp_bsZFw Music: Silver Deliverer, Aly & AJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30XtTv32lc&list=PLwLdWS_ptmgv5tTlVlzapQ5s3HSWbffac App: Beeper https://www.beeper.com App: Readwise Reader https://readwise.io/read Article: Full Days and the Long Walk, Craig Mod https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/217/
Transcribe →My Capacity is Infinite
Apr 801:10:15Tap to summarizeIt's the end of 2025 (or writing this, April 2026 - we're catching up, I swear). Josh is suffering from his stress but is trying to turn things around. Mike has a beautiful interactive media experience (no, not the hospital thing this time) in NYC. Big Questions, Thick and Thin Desires, and Monks in the Casino await 2026. (Recorded December 29, 2025) Editing by: Isaac (at) thetitlegoeshere.com Feedback? Email us: DoNotSchedulePod (at) gmail.com Show Notes: Tool: YearCompass https://yearcompass.com Event Space: Wonderville NYC https://www.wonderville.nyc Event: WordHack (monthly at Wonderville) https://toddwords.com/wordhack/ Article: Joan Westenberg, Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/ Article: Derek Thompson, The Monks in the Casino https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-monks-in-the-casino Article: David Brooks, The Shock of Faith: It's Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/opinion/faith-god-christianity.html Book: David Brooks, How to Know a Person https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-know-a-person-the-art-of-seeing-others-deeply-and-being-deeply-seen-david-brooks/19713254 Blog: Tracy Durnell, Big Questions https://tracydurnell.com/questions/ Tool: Readwise Reader https://readwise.io/read TTRPG: Appendix N https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_N TTRPG Setting: Ultraviolet Grasslands 2E https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/uvg-2e Fiction: The Tower of the Elephant, Robert E. Howard https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600831h.html
Transcribe →Nine out of Ten
Mar 2201:29:45Tap to summarizeDescription: We don't have a Patreon. Josh returns from a vacation to southern California and returns to work work work. Mike completes wedding season with minor misadventures, and survives an election. Musings on male loneliness, online friendships, and TTRPG corner. Josh knows his audio is garbled, apologizes, and strives to be better. (Recorded November 15, 2025) Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com) Feedback? Email us (~~Mike~~ Josh): DoNotSchedulePod (at) gmail.com Show Notes: Travel: Elephant Seal Rookery at Piedras Blancas https://elephantseal.org Comedian: Lara Beitz https://www.instagram.com/larabeitz Travel: Joshua Tree Retreat Center / Institute for Mental Physics https://jtrcc.org Book: Michael Crichton, Travels https://bookshop.org/p/books/travels-michael-crichton/6cb926710a882b70 Mike gets published: Red Wheelbarrow Poets, RWB 18 Launch https://redwheelbarrowpoets.org/2025/10/12/photos-from-rwb-18-launch/ Article: Derek Thompson and Adam Mastroianni, Are You Afraid of Talking to Strangers? https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-are-we-so-afraid-of-talking-to Commenter: Prof G – Scott Galloway https://www.profgalloway.com Book: Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man https://bookshop.org/p/books/notes-on-being-a-man-scott-galloway/2947952030f521b0 Book: Andrew Ross Sorkin, 1929 https://bookshop.org/p/books/1929-inside-the-greatest-crash-in-wall-street-history-and-how-it-shattered-a-nation-andrew-ross-sorkin/923106f6e82cd81e Article: Tracy Durnell, Two Modes of Internet Use https://tracydurnell.com/2025/09/28/two-modes-of-internet-use/ Periodical: Pencil Magazine https://pencilmagazine.bigcartel.com Periodical: Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org Book: Becky Chambers, Monk and Robot https://bookshop.org/p/books/monk-and-robot-becky-chambers/21752517 Music Corner: Music: Raynes, Goldfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQs7Yhpcqqs Music: Desolation Horse, Everyone Was Incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDZOGRHyIOM Music: The Mountain Goats, The Sunset Tree https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/the-sunset-tree Music: The Mountain Goats, Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/through-this-fire-across-from-peter-balkan TTRPG Corner: TTRPG System: Lancer https://massifpress.com/lancer TTRPG System: Monsterhearts https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/monsterhearts YouTube: Mystic Arts, Multiple GMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejw6N-nMr4I
Transcribe →A Flavor of Burnout
Dec 1401:02:10Tap to summarizeJosh is overwhelmed. Is that new? It might not be new. Mike is halfway through wedding season, with three more to go. Both of the guys are into football (is that better than AI talk? Probably not.). TTRPG corner is back, with Josh struggling what to do with the aftermath of his Pinkerton Elton John. Note: We're looking for listener comments and questions ahead of our New Year's recording. Send them all to Mike's home address. If you don't have that, I guess use DoNotSchedulePod@gmail.com. (Recorded October 11, 2025) Editing by: Isaac (at) thetitlegoeshere.com Feedback? Email us (Mike): DoNotSchedulePod (at) gmail.com Show Notes: TTRPG: Lancer
Transcribe →Wood and Lies
Nov 2601:18:39Tap to summarizeMike is recording from his parents' house (with a special guest!) as wedding season looms ahead. He shares some of the shared history between him and Josh, and the internet community that first brought them (and listener Phil) together. At poetry night, Mike has a cathartic, emotional experience. Josh is drowning in copies of The Economist and dreams of an easier life schedule which has yet to come. He also attends a local charity event and has a chance encounter with a local celebrity of the legacy news media. Also, Infrastructure Week Part??? (Recorded September 6, 2025) Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com/) Feedback? Email us (Mike): DoNotSchedulePod (at) gmail.com Show Notes: Podcast: The Town YouTube: Mystic Arts, Make Exploration into a Game to Hook Players D&D Tool: Kobold Plus Fight Club D&D Tool: AdventureLookup.com Periodical: Delayed Gratification Periodical: Pencil Magazine Periodical: The Paris Review Short Story: The Visit, featured in The Paris Review Music Corner: Cataldo, Holding onto Fate Music Corner: Harrison Boe, Teenage FBI
Transcribe →Two Dudes That Don't Really Know What They're Talking About
Oct 1101:22:44Tap to summarizeDescription: Season 3 is here - strap in for meta podcast talk and Mike and Josh arguing about AI (they're both wrong and we're banning the topic in future episodes, I swear). We've embedded chapter markers so you can skip through (I think, I don't actually know how that works). Mike is juggling projects and has musings on productivity culture. Josh is building community through Drop-In D&D and DMing for the first time. (Recorded August 16, 2025) Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com/) Feedback? Email us (Mike): DoNotSchedulePod (at) gmail.com Show Notes: Article: Cult of Hard Mode, JA Westenberg Article: Bag of words, have mercy on us, Experimental History TTRPG Corner TTRPG Dungeon: Delian Tomb, Matt Colville (via GM Binder) TTRPG Rules: Izirion's Enchiridion of the West Marches TTRPG Book: So You Want to be a Game Master, Justin Alexander TTRPG Setting and System: Ultraviolet Grasslands 2E TTRPG Book: One Shot Wonders TTRPG Book: The Monsters Know What They're Doing, Keith Ammann TTRPG Book: Flee Mortals, MCDM Fiction Book: Roadside Picnic, Strugatsky Brothers Fiction Books: Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer TTRPG Book: The Lazy Dungeon Master, Sly Flourish TTRPG System: Daggerheart YouTube Channel: Mystic Arts
Transcribe →Careers Are a Jungle Gym
Aug 2101:12:20Tap to summarizeThe Season 2 finale of your favorite not a show is here! Just a heads up on this one - spoilers for The Rehearsal Season 2 are ahead. It's not all work talk! It's mostly work talk. Mike moves to a four-story walkup with 30,000 residents. Josh is wrapped up in his own personal public works department and is preparing to travel 2000 miles in less than two days. Congratulations to Listener Kevin on getting Mike's resin printer and Wyrmwood gaming table. Also Mike, you still owe me $5 for my winning the Field Notes bet. It's August 2025. I'm going to start charging interest soon. (Recorded June 19, 2025) Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com/) Feedback? Email us with feedback, criticisms, or not a show topics: DoNotSchedulePod (at) gmail.com Show Notes: Blog: The Blissful Zen of a Good Side Project, Josh Collinsworth Article: Don't Expect Art to Save Us, Current Affairs App: Freedom.To YouTube: I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here's What I Learned, Ali Abdaal
Transcribe →It's Called Gaslamping
Aug 1701:11:08Tap to summarizeDescription: Unscripted. Delayed. Riddled with errors. Do Not Schedule: The 13th biggest podcast in personal journals. Yes, we know it's Yemeni, not Yemenese. Josh has been crowned champion of arbitrary trivia night, despite almost failing his college philosophy course. Mike is focused on his impending move and is distracting himself by questioning Josh's very acceptable productivity systems. There's a customary amount of work and AI talk. (Recorded May 17, 2025) Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com/) Feedback? Email us (Mike): DoNotSchedulePod (at) gmail.com Show Notes: Blog: Tracey Durnell's Big Questions Article: My Brain Finally Broke, The New Yorker Book: Art of Gathering, Priya Parker Article: Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?, The New Yorker Wikipedia: Medallion Fund and Renaissance Technology App: Freedom.To
Transcribe →A Basket of Trade-Offs
Jun 901:09:22Tap to summarizeDescription: Mike contemplates chain smoking his way to the end of the world. Josh discovers OK Go and continues his magazine adventure. Oh, and there's a lot of AI talk in this one - like a lot - along with the usual questioning of various communication media. The guys read some listener emails and may or may not doxx non-listener X. (Recorded May 2, 2025) Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com/) Feedback? Email us (Mike): DoNotSchedulePod (at) gmail.com Show Notes: YouTube: How Hoover Dam Works YouTube: Linotype | How One Machine Shaped History | The Real OG of Mass Communication AI Site: Suno AI Music Generation Article: AI models can learn to conceal information from their users, The Economist Article: In Praise of Print, Ed Simon Magazine: Delayed Gratification YouTube: Here It Goes Again, OK Go YouTube: Love, OK Go
Transcribe →I'm Talent
May 11, 202501:14:47Tap to summarizeMike wants his not a podcast to have more general appeal; unfortunately, that may push the limits of his professional recording skills. Josh returns from speaking in Philadelphia and, gets promoted, and promptly loses his (current) job. Mike recaps his poetry festival experience and the community he's found. Other topics include Craig Mod's talk with Tim Ferriss, Mike's One-Year Anniversary with [GIRL] and family gatherings, Potato Pancake Day, and Mike's dead typewriter. (Recorded April 18, 2025) Editing by: Isaac (at) [thetitlegoeshere.com](https://thetitlegoeshere.com/) Feedback? Email us (Mike): DoNotSchedulePod (at) gmail.com Show Notes: Podcast: Craig Mod #802, The Tim Ferriss Show Podcast: Craig Mod Returns #803, The Tim Ferriss Show Book: Things Become Other Things, Craig Mod Article: The Great Cousin Decline, The Atlantic Instagram: Dai Miyazaki, 3x Grammy Award Winning Guitarist Travel: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Instagram: Rashad Wright, Poet Laureate Book: The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker
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