Expert of Nothing

From deep fried Twinkies to Rochester garbage plates, America is the melting pot of just about anything you can melt in a pot, toss in some hot oil, then smother with some sort of overpowering combo sauce. Instead of assaulting your arteries, we offer the chance to clog your ears with all the best food that will probably kill you. Your gourmonds this month are Matthew Casella, Dorian Gray, Matt Lake, Michael Ridgaway, Ian Salyers, and Allyson Washington.

The truth is never in any of our episodes, but there's always plenty of long winded conspiracies, half-truths, and heavy speculation, so it's no wonder we did this episode all about the X-Files! Our guests featured this episode are Erin Fox, Eric Glaeser, Shawn Jones, Meg Mercieca, Mike Smith, and Michael Ziccardi!

Cryptozoology, psychic phenomena, lights in the sky, how COACH lasted 9 seasons... There are some things that can't be explained. So we're here to explain them! Special thanks to our Experts Brad Bukowsky, Justin Getka, Kristina Green, Seth Adam Kallick, Mark Miller, Michael Ridgaway!

Happy October! We've had a tradition each year of picking the scariest topics each October to celebrate Halloween, so this month we're going to post weekly and drag those episodes from the grave! We start off with our first ever theme episode from back in 2012, launching our second season. We explore horrors both real and imagined, including the bar tabs at the end of the night! Shawn Jones, Seth Kallick, Chris LaMartina, Mike Moran, Allyson Washington, Erique Watson, Michael Ziccardi, and Doctor Dalek!

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, kids of all ages (not suitable for all ages)! This time around we discuss the vacation destinations peppered all over this great land of ours, amusement parks! Strap in, don't look at the carnies, and enjoy the ride! Your carnival barkers this time around are Brad Bukowsky, Chris Hudson, Lars Periwinkle, Bryan Preston, Michael Ridgaway, and Mattie Rogers-Kroiz.

Late on another Sunday night we reflected way back to Saturday morning. Not a recent one, hung over and hating the world, but to the ones from our childhood full of magic and merchandising! Sit down in front of your set, break out some cereal, and listen to our guests Brad Bukowsky, Craig Colletta, Jesse Cumor, Erin Fox, Chaz Kedelsa, Bryan Preston!

It's high time we got around to one of the biggest sources of creativity as well as such a huge part of the Baltimore economy. That's right, we're going to learn as much as we can remember about drugs! DARE to listen to this month's experts: Kathy Carson, Matthew Casella, Chris Hudson, Chaz Kedezla, Rosalind Paris, and Michael Ziccardi.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Even if it was only one of the above, you probably had to read that book back in high school. This time around we revisit through rose and or beer tinted glasses the high school experience. Get ready for some Varsity bullshit from Keith Becraft, Erin Fox, Eric Glaeser, Andy McIntyre, Rosalind Paris, and John Stonebraker.

Welcome... to Expert Park! We've been fascinated with them since we were children, but science continues to present more information changing what we thought we knew. Tricerotops didn't exist? They had feathers? It's so much to keep track of, so we've brought the best minds in the field except Ross from Friends or Sam Neill. Our paleontologists this time are Chris Allen, Matthew Casella, Rosalind Paris, Michael Ridgaway, Kate Smith-Morse, and Heiko Spieker.

America is the greatest nation in the world, and just up North is the greatest step-nation in the world! They provide some of our best entertainers and athletes, and MORE! Want to know more about our chilly companions? Join us and our guests Brad Bukowsky, Cole Grinnell, Mark Miller, Mike Smith, Heiko Spieker, and Aaron Travis!

You don't have to go to Hogwarts for seven years to become a wizard anymore! Thanks to podcasting technology, we have packaged everything you need to know into about an hour and a half! The sorting hat selected as House Expert this time Brad Bukowsky, Erin Fox, Caitlin Rife, Danielle Robinette, Meghan Taylor, and Lori Travis.

It's been around for most of our lives. Some of us grew up never knowing a day without it, while others learned it as it grew and became incorporated into every corner of our lives. Now we step back and learn all about the past, present, and future of the internet! Our guests featured this episode are Eric Glaeser, Dorian Gray, Chris Hudson, Chaz Kedezla, Mike Peloquin, and Heiko Spieker!

For our unofficial fifth anniversary show, we finally present one of most requested topics, that yellow family on Evergreen Terrace that represents so much of the traditional American family, the Simpsons! With nearly three decades on the air, and a solid decade of awesomeness, there's plenty to cover. Our all-star lineup of Experts is Rex Anderson, Brad Bukowsky, Kathy Carson, Cole Grinell, Bryan Preston, and Michael Ridgaway.

When you wish upon a star, nothing usually happens. They are gaseous entities that expel light and energy, but not wishes. But this isn't a space episode! This is our journey through the Magic Kingdoms of the many fine creations of the Walt Disney company! Content warning: as told through the eyes of our jaded and possibly drunk experts, so not for the little ones. Let them keep their childhood a few more years. Our guests featured this episode are Matthew Casella, Sarah Gorman, Jim Meyer, Molly Regan, Vangie Ridgaway, and Meghan Moran!

The gum you like is finally back in style. The owls are not what they seem. The coffee is damn fine. Our regular home at the WindUp Space was designed to look like the Black Logde, so how could we resist doing an episode to celebrate the return of Twin Peaks? We couldn't! We almost lost the tape, but Diane made a backup copy. Join our guests Chaz Kedelsa, Rosalind Paris, Aaron Travis, and for the first time on stage co-host Patrick Storck plays the game.

History is always changing, and with it our understanding of it! As documented on the cult favorite series from the 1990s, Quantum Leap still holds a special place in our hearts, and now also in your ears! Learn more details about the adventures of Dr. Sam Beckett and Admiral Al Calavicci, in what could arguably be considered fan fiction! Our guests featured this episode are Greg Brown, Kathy Carson, Josh Drinkwater, Joel Murphy, Rosalind Paris, and Michael Ziccardi!

Some might argue this show is pretty much all role playing, with folks taking on characters as "experts" and trying to use charisma and intelligence to take down their enemies. In fact we got six folks to do pretty much exactly that. Discussing the broad range of role playing games past and present, as well as the culture of gaming, are Brad Bukowski, Dorian Gray, Jim Meyer, Bryan Preston, Mike Ridgaway, Tommy Sinbazo.

An evening celebrating our national pastime, BS'ing! Also, baseball. This classic episode from our archive, complete with some of our original rules (including switch hitters and less concern about "juicing"). Special thanks to our Experts Martin Freise, Shawn Jones, Shaun Kane, Jacob Mishkin, Bryan Preston, and Heiko Spieker!

Our Experts had to learn everything from somewhere. Possibly the internet. But since many of them spent so much on college, why not say that's where? Sure. And now we go back to that special time of information and experimentation. Join us and our guests Kathy Carson, Gregg Glitteratti, Mike Moran, Rosalind Paris, Andrew Smrz, and Lori Travis!

From our archives! An especially dark but funny episode about some of the scarier humans to walk this earth. Might go without saying, but content warning, we talk about some very grim things, and make what light we can. Special thanks to Sarah Gorman, John DeCampos, Shawn Jones, Michael Ziccardi, Kathy Carson, Joe Lavoie, Anna Kent, and Dave Manoogian!