Problem Solvers...ish

So, the campaign season that is Monkey House 2016 is in high gear. Unfortunately, so is the Facebook vitriol that keeps showing up in your feed! These people are your friends, right? Or, at least they were back in April, before everybody lost all sense of political proportion. Facebook vitriol — To Mute or Not… The post Problem Solvers…ish #17: Political Cows and Facebook Vitriol appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

You don't know anything about sports. You'll watch a game if you must, but you really want to sneak off somewhere NOT populated by bellowing spectators. Is that someone in the kitchen playing a board game? The post Problem Solvers…ish #16: Game Day Awkwardness appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

Some problems strike at the very essence of living! Eating healthy takes time, money, and planning. Eating crap is quick and easy. That garbage is jumping into your mouth before the bag is half open! I wonder how our stalwart problem solvers…ish will help our struggling listener find his or her way to culinary bliss and balance? Eating Healthy — Binge as I say, not as I spew. Here’s the problem: we all know that we should be eating more fruits and vegetables.… The post Problem Solvers…ish #15: Eating Healthy (Healthily? Healthfully?) Is Hard! appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

Part 2 of our series, “The Shattered Shield” examines the way institutionalized racism subtly, sometimes subconsciously, guides official action leading to dire consequences. Today is Sunday, September 11, 2016. I’m your host, Jason Velazquez, and I do thank you for tuning in to Episode 35 of the Top Left Corner. This installment of the show features a tragic continuation of a conversation that I had with Tracey Benson, who was first a guest on this show in April of 2015 in advance of his MCLA appearance with Veronica Benavides.… The post Top Left Corner #34: The Prejudice We Deny, the Racism that Kills appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

Not content to completely and utterly solve one listener’s problem in a mere 20-30 minutes, this week Seth and Lex have declared a Lightning Round, where they will tackle numerous problems from numerous listeners in the course of numerous minutes and hey numerous doesn’t even sound like a word any more. Is numerous humorous? As long as it’s not numerous tumerous! Faster Than A Bleeding Spullet How is it that Lex and Seth can solve so many problems, so swiftly, so incompletely, so preposterously?… The post Problem Solvers…ish #14: Lightning Round of Troubles! appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

“Hamilton” is the hottest musical in the country right now, and it has been that way for months. Proving that they are not only first class problem solvers, but also first-world problem solvers, Lex and Seth tackle the very serious and tragic issue of not being able to get Hamilton tickets. The official word on… The post Problem Solvers…ish #13: Hamilton Tickets…or lack thereof. appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

We have been TRYING to contact you by e-mail…but OH WAIT! You’re so swamped that you’re still working your way through your unread messages circa late Winter/early Spring. We feel ya. Stuff builds up FAST! It’s called inbox overload. What can we do to keep up? Let’s ask Seth and Lex!   Ugly e-mail buildup?… The post Problem Solvers…ish #12: Inbox Overload appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

The word is Witzelsucht. It’s not a grubbin’ German pasta. And it’s not funny. Well, actually it is kind of funny. When it happens to someone else. But maybe not someone you have to live with. Unless you like an endless supply of puns—good, bad, and nonsensical. But then again, you’re here again, right? So maybe you’re just a little teched, too…   Just when you they’re going to blame it on Witzelsucht… Suffering from a rare joke-inducing brain affliction…yada, yada, yada…Doctors say just nothing to be done but grin and bear it…But no.… The post Problem Solvers…ish #11: Witzelsucht—What Makes PSI So Darn Punny. appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

THAT’S RIGHT, mumsy and dadsy! I’ve waited too long to come out. This is ME! The REAL ME! And if you’ve got a problem with that, well you can just cram your homophobia where the sun don’t shine! So THERE! Oh…and can I borrow the car tonight? And maybe twenty bucks? Please? NSFW: Seth & Lex ponder the possible comeuppance triggered by come-outance… Hoo-boy! Just a few words, right? How hard can it be? But your hands are clammy and your breath is shallow and you feel this fucked up out-of-body sensation that would be cool at any other time.… The post Problem Solvers…ish #10 — Come Out and Be Your Gay Self! After College, Maybe… appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

CAN our heroes rescue a poor, lost student from the complex pitfalls (and pratfalls) of and American literature classic like George Orwell’s Animal Farm? Can Lex and Seth illuminate the obscurities of illusion (Or was it allusion? Or maybe e-lusion?) constructed to make life murder for a hapless adolescent? In a pig’s eye, I say, but you can dream if you want! NSFW: Seth & Lex plumb the literary depths of a AmLit classic… Today’s problem came in via e-mail from a completely unknown source!… The post Problem Solvers…ish #9 — Allusions down on the Animal Farm appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

NSFW: Seth and Lex waste the time of a listener who contacted us to ask how to more time to make valuable use of his life… Today’s problem came in via e-mail from a completely unknown source! What a shame that he knows how to get a hole of us—he may want his money back. Oh, wait! We don’t charge for our ishy advice! Do you remember those halcyon days when you had lots of time to just fritter away? But you didn’t have any money to go do cool stuff?… The post Problem Solvers…ish #8 — The Time/Money, Work/Life (im-)balance appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

NSFW: Your kids have a lot to gain by working the Santa Claus angle—and the tooth fairy, and the Easter Bunny, and…FLOZZ? Today’s caller presents Seth and Lex with a real doozie of a problem—a crisis of faith, you might say. Can a family be atheist and still incorporate a little childhood mythology into the mix? So many questions…How does Santa Claus get his reindeer to fly? Does the Easter Bunny buy all that candy at the drug store? And where do leprechauns go after St.… The post Problem Solvers…ish #7 — Santa Claus and other Slippery Deities appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

NSFW: Your Twitter fan base is puny—have you thought about becoming famous? You put your best pithy quotes and clever memes out there in the Twittosphere, but where’s the love? Seth and Lex will lay out your personal path to Social stardom. Does size matter? It does when you’re talking about your sphere of social media influence. Face it, who’s going to give you the time of day if you have a measly 50 followers on your @ccount? Anybody? You need to take action.… The post Problem Solvers…ish #6 — Becoming Kind of a Big Deal on Twitter appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

NSFW: Naughty, Bawdy, and oh Lawdy! Nobody asked to see that! Guys, unless the object of your affection specifically asks for naughty pics, texting those graphic graphics of your privates is NOT cool! Our caller relates a sad, but familiar, tale of hooking up with a fellow, digitally, who seems at first blush (or maybe before first blush) rather nice. But then even before she gets to meet him for a cup of coffee, ZING! Into her chat window pops a dick pic.… The post Problem Solvers…ish #5 — Naughty Bytes and Netiquette: think before you click that pic of your… appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

Neighbor Relations: A messy minefield after a scooper war…   Your neighbors’ dog is a poop factory. Your neighbors don’t care. How do ask your neighbors to clean up after their dog without stepping in it? We mean an inter-apartment landmine of hostility, of course. The issue seems pretty cut and dried to you (or maybe not so dried…yeesh!)—not your dog, not your poop. Why should you have to put up with it the nasty sight and smell, right? Shit-fer-brains neighbors might be surprisingly confused about their civic responsibility as far as Fifi’s fecal habits go.… The post Problem Solvers…ish #4 — Don’t put up with poop from your neighbors! appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

Cerebral Electoralosis: Stupidity Exacerbated by Prolonged Exposure to Election Coverage     Has the coming election turned YOUR friends, family, and co-workers into morons? Hoo-BOY is this a tough problem! You can just about hear the droplets of sweat trickle down the ashen faces of our trustee solutioneers as they grapple with one of the BIG conversational No-Nos—politics. But we knew it couldn’t be avoided. Someone was bound to call up begging for help with the common problem of being surrounded by idiots durning a heated (and unnaturally long…) election season.… The post Problem Solvers…ish #3 — Election Woes: Living in an Idiocracy? appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

The Dreaded Wedding Invitation     Nothing like a June Wedding! Unless you had other plans for those 30 days… Okay, so of course we know that there are some Blessed Events you really DO want to go to. But you and the nuptiates knew you’d be there long before the gilt-scripted envelope showed up. We’re talking about those invites that make you say, whahhhh? You’re not that close to the bride OR groom, you’re like, 2,500 miles away, and you KNOW you’re going to be forced to endure some freaky ceremony that offends your faith or lack thereof.… The post Problem Solvers…ish #2 — Dearly Invited…Wedding RSVPuhleeze. appeared first on The Greylock Glass.

Welcome! And say hello to Problem Solvers…ish, the latest addition to the Greylock Glass’ offerings. It’s also the first show we’ve launched strictly for your entertainment and amusement. It’s comedy meets the advice column!     Every week Seth Brown and Lex Friedman tackle a listener submitted problem. It could be any kind of issue—family, career, love, religion, political. Doesn’t matter! Seth and Lex are equally unqualified to address ANY of your troubles. BUT, that doesn’t mean they won’t try. And it doesn’t mean they might not solve your problem by accident!… The post Problem Solvers…ish #1 — Racism appeared first on The Greylock Glass.