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Episode publication activity over the past year

Episodes

IJBC S3, Ep 15a

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

smdh

IJBC S3, Ep 15: Are these idiots still talking?

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Yup. We are almost at the end of our journey, a nearly page by page breakdown of Infinite Jest. Today we about Barry Loach, The made by allusions to o...

IJBC S3, Ep 14

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Does anyone know?

IJBC S3, Ep 12- You Ain't Gonna Learn What You Don't Wanna Know

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We talk some Accomplice!, some Bob Weir, Himself's filmography, frogs, and more!!Thank you, Bobstar. For everything.Photo Credit Jay Blakesberg C...

IJBS S3, Ep 11 ACCOMPLICE!

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Another holiday tradition

Cosgrove Watt was a pro, but he was not very good. (sic)

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are almost at the end of our journey through Infinite Jest

IJBC S3, Ep 9 In the mind of DW Gately

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lets spend a couple hours in the trauma wing

Harold James and Michael Matthew have a spat

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are up to page 911. Also some Mulholland drive talk

IJBC S3, Ep7 Meaning from angle of incidence redux

17 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Department of redundancy department

Dilaudid-colored Sky

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We get to page 891!!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYClQ2BCo_k

IJBC S3, Ep 5 Ablutions, eh?

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is happening? Who's there? Are you on drugs?

Full of the sound and fury...

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A small break from working through the book to talk about some big picture stuff. Which probably doesn't matter?

IJBC S3, E3- Wait

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Don Gately lays on the bed and thinks or dreams and about things. And regrets

Infinite Jest Book Club, S3, Ep 2 A Garden Variety Wraith

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Infinite Jest, Wallace, endnotes

IJBS Season 3, Episode 1- Mama Ewell at a speculum party

02 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

And other assorted tall tales

IJBC S2, Ep 4 Kevin cries for all of us

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This will be the last episode of season 2. Season 3 is coming soon!

Infinite Jest Book Club, S2, Ep. 13 Hey Hal?

22 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Novocain for the soul, Infinite Jest Book Club, Season 2, Episode 12

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's Mario hour!

IJBC Season 2, episode 11 The Vapors

13 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Still clucking

IJBC S2, Ep. 10 The way we construct meaning from reality

15 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yup. We're still doing this

IJBC S2, Ep 9 That man with the rubber fist is a homosexual?

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We get in the weeds a little bit as we discuss Infinite Jest from page 706

Ever felt like PT Krause, but looked like PT Krause?

07 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin and I are joined by Tim Eastwood to talk about dicks, mostly. But also, the big picture

IJBC S2, Ep 7 Different types of sight

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

'You just never quite occurred out there, kid.' Say less Can't

IJBC S2, Ep. 6 The Founder let you guys on the ground....

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shit is getting deep

Season 2, Episode 5 Tragedy narrowly averted

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hal almost lost and Steeply's Dad likes M*A*S*H

SHOT IN SOBRIETY

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Orin's afterglow includes a wheelchair and a bald spot, Gately recognizes JvD as Madame Psychosis, and the student engineer learns to ski....

S2, Ep 3, So it goes

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An APP version of the IJBC.

Infinite Jest Book Club S2, Ep 2

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we continue our reread of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, we discuss Lenz and Green, Avril and JW, Arslanian, and more!!

Diddle check?

19 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We continue on with a shorter episode. Thanks for joining and/or sticking with us. 'Out, Out ___' https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/5308...

...taken ill shortly after coming home from work...

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss Infinite Jest, specifically the Antitois', 60's/80's Bob, weed, Canadians, drugs, and not drugs. And mattresses and puke.

'...silent and dim and the same temperature he is.'

24 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Another show, the penultimate of Season 1. Thank you everyone. I'm going to try to utilize this space more. And write my thoughts less. 'The ...

Not quite strictly sober

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're back. We're talking. I'm not sure that we've figured out, but we keep trying to make heads, tails, and sides of Infinite Jest, a...

Reinventing government and history

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Another episode of a conversation discussing Infinite Jest. Thanks for your questions and comments!

You can't get drunk, and you can't get sober

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Boston AA is unlike AA anywhere else? Our re-read of Infinite Jest continues. Thanks for your continued support

Quick question, Mike- Is the map the territory?

18 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eschaton, Marathe and Steepley and way more!

Word is Wayne has exactly one gear

28 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wanted to spend an hour and a half discussing an end note? No, me either. We did it anyway.

'Separatism and Return'

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk a lot about Orin, balls, family, and more!

Cattle ranching east of Atlantic City

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After a brief layoff we are back at it. We talk some Ennet House, some drugs, some recovery, and some nonsense

Not an episode

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Just a check in to let you know we didn’t quit! 4/20, bicycle day, etc

Your angle of incidence to the sun

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We are now at a point in the book beyond where most books stop being books. Today we talk a little bit about the Brothers Incandenza, wheelchair surve...

All good parties have a line for the bathroom

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss Infinite Jest today, spending some time with Joelle and the locker room boys, among others.

When does routine become ritual?

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We move fearlessly on discussing Infinite Jest. Thanks for listening!

Who's there?

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We kinda went off the board with this one, starting with a quick recap of our reading from episode 5, specifically w/r/t the 1960 garage scene. After ...

Potential may be worse than none, Jim.

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Keep coming back, don't quit before the miracle happens, etc

Stop her! She stole my heart!

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On we forge

Hatred of the work is just part of the work

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this meeting we focus on Marathe and Steeply in the desert and the ETA boys engaged in locker room highjinx. Thanks for the feedback, and for liste...

To sleep, perchance to dream?

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the third meeting of our book club group's discussion of Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace. In this episode we tackle things from Gately ...

Are they addicted to the process, the secrecy, or the drug?

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you one, both, or all for tuning in. This audio is pulled from a Zoom call, and I hope that the quality is acceptable at best. As we learn more ...

Infinite Jest Book Club (Trailer)

16 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas