We return at last from a hiatus with episode 7, our first long-distance episode. Tune in to hear us tackle the nuances of loneliness: platonic and romantic, suburban and feral, incel and spinster, podcaster and listener.

This episode’s bumpers feature a homemade mix of the following samples:

S1E14 SpongeBob Squarepants

All I Remember by Brian Eno

Fire and Light by Actress

Night Crawling by John Cale

Waiting for the Big One by Junior Varsity Kim

Sweat, Tears or the Sea by Laurel Halo

Timestamps

0:00 introduction and tales of personal loneliness

9:30 are we actually lonelier than we’ve ever been?

20:04 parsing states of loneliness

26:59 federally mandated chapstick application break

28:33 spinsters and incels

42:56 ecological loneliness

50:24  ...