Retroactive Swearing
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMaxwell Black and Silvano D'Agostino explore the intricacies of their lives at Harvard College and how they relate back to the outside world. Following the motto "we're always recording", they talk about whatever may come to their minds—sometimes that turns out to be vaguely interesting and maybe even slightly amusing. This podcast contains educational content.
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Episodes
S02E05: Hashtag Sponsor the Pod (with Bardi)
February 02, 2018 21:12 - 24 minutes - 45.8 MBThe shoutout episode. I Wish This Could Go Out Uncensored Who Should’ve Won? What is Bruno Mar? No, That’s Fahrrell It’s Gotta Be Rat-Tat-Tat as Opposed to Skrrr-Pop Just Gonna Shout Him Out on the Pod, Too The Most Expensive “That Was Easy Button” That Man Fucking Produced My Adolescence Shoutout I Also Hope Irony Transfers I’m Plugging Everyone Today, Baby Infowoke Hashtag Sponsor the Pod LA is Full of the Trashiest, Scummiest People—Me Included Intellectual Gang Is Wiscons...
S02E04: Peppa Pig Poop David Lynch
January 10, 2018 09:40 - 26 minutes - 48 MB(We apologize for this episode’s delay. Life is complicated and editing is hard. Also, it was very windy on the sixteenth floor that day of recording…) * So, I Got Notes Now * Maybe That’s How They All Got The Same Macklemore Hair * You Could Just Have an Anime Girlfriend * We’re All About Sex-Positive Feminism, But Eventually We’re Going to Have to Move On * Dick in the Mail * Do You Think That We Should Respect Robot Marriage? * The Upcoming Twenties * The Kids and The YouTubes * What I L...
S02E03: Rapid Expansion of the Darkness
November 17, 2017 17:13 - 26 minutes - 30.2 MBThe onyx episode. Do You Wanna Talk About Email? We Need to Limit the Size of the Observable Universe The Maxwell Black University He Had No Knowledge of Words IKEA Naming Convention I Want a Bunch of Little Silvs The Padawan of the Silvs Eventually You Would Reach Final Silv I Wouldn’t Even Fuck My Clones This is a Little Bit Like Apple and Microsoft A Literal Army of Associates The Act of Killing On Killing More of a Camp Than a Campus Spread the Darkness Onyx You Just Don...
S02E02: Outrageous People Across All Nations Unite
November 10, 2017 17:13 - 39 minutes - 45.3 MBOur funniest episode yet. We can't wait to see what you do with it. Close Your Eyes, Take Your Eyelashes, and Pull Looking in the Mirror and Trying to Make Yourself Smile in a Natural Way Albert Einstein! You Also Were Advocating for Sharia Law in High School? Down Syndrome in Iceland There Was a Time When People Would Dress Like Billboards Signaling Theory Behavioral Sink They Do Bitcoin “Shit On Me” I Used to Whistle a Little Bit in Wisconsin The Winston Churchill of the Holoca...
S02E01: You're a Horse That Ate Poison
November 03, 2017 16:13 - 39 minutes - 45.8 MBMax and Silvano are back with everyone's favorite educational podcast! The World Is Not Even the Same J.J. Abrams Gave a TED Talk Five Minute Histories Someone Who Has Conversed in the Circles of Lads Could You Maybe Please? If You Join the Sesh, You Gotta Stay Committed The Romantic Comedy We’re All Watching Tomorrow Night When The Worm Bites Its Own Tail Do You Flip the Flipped Upside-Down? What If Our Twitter UIs Are Really Different, Man? It Wasn’t About Slay Queen The Univer...
S01E05: That Space Baby…? That's You!
November 02, 2015 05:44 - 27 minutes - 38.3 MBIn the space episode of Retroactive Swearing, Max gives a science lecture, after Silvano elaborates on his life philosophy. So, no surprises in this one.
S01E04: People Think I'm Being Serious
October 25, 2015 23:00 - 31 minutes - 42.4 MBIn this dark (which is what the cool people now say) episode, it’s Max’s turn to reveal his lifehack. We then talk about the Holocaust, and nations and nationalism and borders, only to return to Hitler many a time, leading the conversation to drugs and status symbols here and in Asia.
S01E03: You Put Two Fingers In Your Mouth And You Go WHOAAAA
October 18, 2015 23:30 - 37 minutes - 52 MBMax is really tired. Silvano teaches you how to get things done and decides to try Soylent (I ordered—my body is thanking me!). And airplanes, doode—they’re crazy. @zebrascream @silvano_d @retroswear Links: Reality Theater Co United World Colleges Melancholia Sacks Case Study: Man Who Mistook Wife for a Hat Getting Things Done Subscribe in iTunes
S01E02: Ey, Yo, I'm Brick Brother
October 11, 2015 23:00 - 24 minutes - 34.2 MBIn our most arts-y-political episode yet, we talk about currencies and complexity in art. Max learns some math after he decides to be more bullshitt-y. Oh, and free business idea: Get famous. Sell your excrements.
S01E01: We're Always Recording
October 05, 2015 01:14 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBIn this first iteration of Retroactive Swearing Max and Silvano talk about the play (or film?) Max wants to make, creation vs. thinking in general, religion (because we want to upset everyone right away), where intellectual curiosity comes from, curiosity for curiosity’s sake, philosophy and the impact it has had on our lives as well as sleep, the beauty of the night, and the end of science, politics, and all the great ideologies.