Grumble Goat
Welcome to Grumble Goat:
A comedic grumbling of mundane trivialities.
Mat Labotka and Veronique Hurley grumble through life's little pet peeves.
Do you hate gum? Have you ever thought about it? You probably hate gum without even realizing it. Follow Mat's absurd infuriation down the rabbit-hole into frustration, while Veronique's bouyant optimism keeps us afloat...
of the Grumble Goat.
Learn more about your hosts:
matlabotka.com & veroniquehurley.com
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 176
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
The Cold
Autumn is here. The thermostat dips lower by the day. Sunlight slips through the bare branches of the trees before the work day ends. The wind whips the heat from our flannels and caps. The cold…
00:16:13 |
Mon 23 Oct 2023
Forced Audience
Theatre has been part of the Human experience since the dawn of creation. Before the first hieroglyph was ever etched, elders spread their culture and histories through chants and masques around th…
00:18:28 |
Mon 16 Oct 2023
Apple Pay
One of the most complex systems that humankind has created is Commerce. From our ancient origins of fighting to the death over the coolest stick, trading became the generally preferred method of ow…
00:17:19 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
Traffic Court
The Game of Life is a nuanced, open-world role-playing game that everybody gets to play once. While some stats are randomized, there is a lot of freedom to customize your character. There are also…
00:18:27 |
Mon 02 Oct 2023
The Gondolas of Santorini
Santorini is a beautiful island off the coast of Greece. A collapsed volcano has left a striking, sheer cliff rising above the sea. This magnificent wonder befuddles its visitors with awe. The is…
00:17:11 |
Mon 18 Sep 2023
Cruise Food
Humankind has always taken to the sea. We are addicted to exploration, to discovery, to peeking over the horizon and searching for something new. Traditionally, that voyage is fraught with uncerta…
00:15:29 |
Mon 11 Sep 2023
Tour Groups
Humankind is a herd animal. We gather. Like lemmings to a cliff, we follow where the herd goes. We gather in cities, we gather in stadiums, and we gather outside the Apple store before a new cell…
00:17:14 |
Mon 04 Sep 2023
Travel Days
From humanity’s origins in Africa, it took around 100,000 years to spread across the globe. The pace of that journey was decidedly less than ideal, and since then our feverish desire to move oursel…
00:18:18 |
Mon 28 Aug 2023
Tourists
The Twenty-First Century is a wondrous time to exist. Humanity now enjoys an age where we can safely see the wonders of the world. We exist in this tiny window of history that is framed on one sid…
00:18:03 |
Mon 21 Aug 2023
Bar Snack Utensils
Eons of evolution have culminated in creating the perfect form of life: Humankind. Unfortunately, it didn’t bother cleaning up after itself. All the failed first-steps are still lingering around, …
00:17:22 |
Mon 12 Jun 2023
Barbeque Chips
Summertime is a joyous time. The quintessential image of peak happiness is the sun shining from a blue sky on bright green grass with birds chirping from lush trees. It is no wonder that the outdo…
00:17:09 |
Mon 05 Jun 2023
The Price of Gas
Humanity has plunged into the Cyber Age at terminal velocity. Everything must move at the speed of light. High-speed internet, 5-G Lte, One-point-twenty-one Gigawatts; if you’re not keeping up, yo…
00:19:11 |
Mon 22 May 2023
Zak Chapter 2
Grumble Goat is off this week! So Mat has commandeered the feed to bring you a preview of his fantasy-adventure novel, Zak: the Hew-Man! Chapter 2!
Welcome to Allspire, a quaint goblin city nes…
00:11:58 |
Mon 08 May 2023
Spoilers
A picture says a thousand words. But those words are silent, and they are in your head, and it’s really you doing the work of putting those words together. A tour of an art museum might involve so…
00:18:23 |
Mon 24 Apr 2023
Sauce Gatekeepers
Machines require lubrication. The clockwork motion of gears and levers grinds to a halt without the grease. Proper lubrication is the key to a well-oiled machine. Like a drunkard at closing-time,…
00:19:05 |
Mon 17 Apr 2023
Ice Water
Humankind matured into a collective during the last Ice Age. The frigid Earth was an inhospitable place for our furless ape ancestors. They struggled to master the art of fire just to survive. Th…
00:17:16 |
Mon 10 Apr 2023
Blue Apron
The 21st Century is a fast-paced, bustling cacophony of technologically enhanced productivity. Computers, cell phones, and Artificial Intelligence have turned our lives into rigidly packed, chaotic…
00:16:26 |
Mon 27 Mar 2023
Reusable Bags
In the vast, empty blackness of the Universe, there is one frail, tiny pebble bobbing along on the gravitational waves of the Milky Way. This little blue dot – that we call Earth – contains all the…
00:16:47 |
Mon 20 Mar 2023
Zak: the Hew-Man
Veronique is off this week! So Mat has commandeered the feed to bring you a preview of his fantasy-adventure novel, Zak: the Hew-Man!
Welcome to Allspire, a quaint goblin city nestled in an isol…
00:15:07 |
Mon 13 Mar 2023
Exercise
The Human Body is the perfect biological machine. With over a million years of R&D, this high precision work of art rocketed Humankind to the top of the Food Chain. Complete with four posable limb…
00:17:24 |
Mon 06 Mar 2023
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