Episode 25 includes Don and David discussing the recent controversy surrounding the Simpsons character Apu, the brilliance of Norman Lear, the cuisine of the alcoholic, and the fact that David is Ferris Bueller and Don is the guy who joyrides in Cameron’s dad’s car.

And, as always, six things for you to do as you endure the fucking non-Spring Spring of Chicago to avoid slitting your wrists.

David brings up the big question: does today’s film and television circle jerk with nostalgia (Fuller House, Stranger Things, the new Roseanne) inhibit the impulse to create new ideas? Be warned: lots of nostalgia is present in the episode including Planet of the Apes, Will & Grace, and The Avengers. We also discover David’s unreasoning hatred for Joseph Gordon Levitt.

And, as always, the boys provide six tasks for you to fulfill your Eagle Scout badge requirements because you can’t start a fire for shit…

Today Don and David discuss whether to put his new baby online for all manner of predators to view, the fact that David cooks like a Hipster Foodie, and each detail three movies that inspire them.

Plus six things to do so that your inert body won’t develop bedsores from just laying there for seven days.

Episode 22 is full of completely useless revelations from David’s first six days of fatherhood including the concept of baby brain, drain babies, drinking breast milk, lactation specialists, and the idea of raising a serial killer.

Plus six things to do instead of reading the news cycle of the WWE nightmare that is our national political circus.

On our 21st episode, we talk about waiting for the baby to come (he did), the Desert Island books we’d bring if stranded on a sand bar, and the idea of how writing looks is sometimes as important as how it sounds.

Plus six things to do, watch, read, or listen to while you waste away at your shitty job that utilizes exactly 4% of your intellect.

In this episode, David and Don breakdown ways to be better at marriage (thus hoping to avoid Don’s multiple divorces) and result with the concept of leaving a legacy once one croaks. Also some stuff about the fact that David will soon be a parent.

AND…six things for you to do because you need their advice so that you don’t die alone in your apartment only to be found years later with the television still on as you rot.

This episode features two special guests - A.J. Miller and Lindsey Williams. The four sit in Uncharted Books in Logan Square, Chicago and hold court about babies, Facebook/Twitter trolls, arming teachers, being fun-employed, and games A.J. plays during and after sex.

Also six things from Don and David plus a seventh from A.J.

In this episode, the guys cover a whole host of topics: the idiot who flushed her emotional support animal, Faceborg algorithms, the new DNAInfo Block Party, shaving shapes into your face, CB radios… Christ, it’s like they both had a few too many calories and became ADHD kids on holiday!

Plus Six Things To Do.

In this episodes the co-editors of Literate Ape talk about racist sports mascots, cultural appropriation, tattoos, and the bizarre misrepresentation of emotional support animals.

Plus, we join David at Great Lakes Tattoo on his virgin voyage and six things for you to do with your otherwise dismal and pointless week.

On this, the first live episode of the ApeCast at GMan Tavern, Don, David and guests Mike Vinopal and Brian Sweeney talk about working as a television extra, the fact that Mike dated Don's wife before they got married, Jerry Lewis's The Day the Clown Cried, and each person's favorite film of 2017. Also, we are treated with a song by Mike.

Plus, as always, six things for you to do this week...

In this episode, Don and David talk about an odd request from the publishing world of Literate Ape from a Neo-Nazi, the Aziz Ansar and Grace issue, and the eating of Tide Pods.

Plus six things you should do this week.

This episode has Don and David discussing whether Oprah should run for president, the question of how to motivate altruism through self interest (or at least make those in need be as cute and charming as dogs), and the dilemma of loving music and film created by abusers and assholes.

And, as always, a few things they think you should do with your week.

David and Don talk about the freelance life which includes the HBO Harry Potter Marathon, how Kim Jong Un is the Draco Malfoy of current international relations, when to use toxic masculinity and how J.K. Rowling has created a Universe which we should all want to live in.

Plus six things for you to do this week.

In this final episode of 2017, the boys talk about David's NYE anniversary of losing his cherry, the chaotic, crap year we all just endured, and New Year's Resolutions.

Plus, six things to do as we enter into 2018.

Merry Christmas! In this episode, Don and David discuss their individual holiday traditions and then decide who they are within the narratives of A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life.

And, as always, six assignments for the committed ages out there...

On this episode, David and Don (self proclaimed "bloviating fuckheads") get into it about the RunPee app, the overturning of Net Neutrality, and the use of Rage as a tool rather being a Tool used by rage.

AND…six assignments for discerning gorillas...

In this episode, Don and David discuss divorces, David being sued by his kid 16 years from now, all the Al Franken stuff, and a focus group that gave Don food poisoning.

Plus six more assignments for the week.

On this episode, David and Don discuss the normalization of Neo_Nazis by the New York Times, the inclusive spelling of 'folx,' maybe waiting on die process for sexual harassers for a while and the fact that Dennis DeYoung is a complete asshole.