Set & Centered
Join Mark and RJ on a 50-acre rescue dog sanctuary in East Texas...where nothing ever goes as planned. From scorpion panic and snake facts to losing dogs they love and building things that refuse to cooperate, Set & Centered is an unscripted, unfiltered look at ranch life, rescue animals, and the friendship that keeps it all from falling apart. Explicit. Real. Frequently ridiculous.
Episodes
36 episodes
Save It For Madonna's Doom Buggy
We punch in for a swing shift where tiny annoyances pile up until they demand a full-blown rant. We laugh through pop culture flops, billing nightmares, DIY headaches, and the surprisingly intense TV preferences of a cat named Ranger. ...
Save It For Your Values
You ever do something genuinely selfless and generous, feel good about it, then get hit with that cold realization that the other person might be playing you? That’s the gut punch driving this conversation.In this episode:The...
Save It For Slate
RJ has an update on the Suburban he'd rather not talk about, so naturally we talk about it. Turns out the check engine light saga has a dumb ending: the cone filter on the cold air intake had fallen off at some point, and the truck had been hap...
Save It For TLB
Most sponsor reads are scripted weeks in advance. This one happened live, by accident. Rob dropped the words "Tender Loving Baskets," and RJ spit-took hard enough to land it on the board. That's the whole origin: a fake sponsor, born live, imme...
Save It For Robot Sea Legs
We start with a check engine light mystery and end up arguing about humanoid robots, military automation, and why redundancy exists when the stakes are high. Along the way, we bounce from O2 sensor voltage and OBD2 codes to SpaceX hype, Starlin...
Save It For The Celine Dion Spec
After last episode's Pokémon deep dive, RJ decided somebody needed to man this podcast up — so naturally we're talking trucks. Specifically, the ranch fleet and the very distinct personality of each one.It starts with Ranch Force One hit...
Save It For Pikachu
For this shift Rob finally gets the floor, and he's using it to talk about the manliest thing a guy can do: collect Pokémon cards. After preloading his masculine credentials (football, wrestling, hunting, shooting — you're welcome), Rob breaks ...
Save It For The Clickety-Clacketies
We geek out over a Texas-based remote observatory that lets you run telescopes under dark skies from anywhere, and we can’t stop admiring how simple and scalable the setup is. Then we pivot into the oddly satisfying world of 35mm film, where fe...
Save It For Banana Town
We kick off the first run of Save It For Swing Shift by chasing two kinds of chaos: the grand opening of Arizona’s first Buc-ee’s and a very real QVC fixation that turns “background TV” into a shopping strategy. Along the way, we end up talking...
Introducing: Save It For Swing Shift
Set & Centered welcomes a new addition to the family lineup. You already know Rob — he's been mentioned more times than we can count and has guested on a couple of episodes — but now he's got his own mic and his own show with RJ: Save It...
Honkers & Booties
Flash showed up uninvited, hit the mute button, presented his cat butt to RJ, and left like nothing happened. Oakley had opinions about the cats. Hartley chewed through wires on the Expedition that turned out to be fine, which is the only way t...
Flash Hacks The Pentagon
Oakley, Finley, and Flash are all in the studio and none of them were invited. Spotify thinks Set & Centered listeners should also check out Calm Your Daily Stress and Handbag Designer 101, which we are choosing to take as a compliment. Mar...
The Portfolio of Life
Finding Nemo has been fully watched, including the turtle scene this time. RJ returns with an official updated review — same five categories, same seven-duckie scale — and the scores have moved. Some significantly. Meanwhile, a Mother's Day gif...
17 Out of 35 Duckies
RJ watched Finding Nemo. It took two months, a lapel mic, a homemade review template scored in duckies, and royalty-free background music that sounds — his words — a little like porn music. He also accidentally skipped the turtle scene. Mark is...
We're Anti-Sponsoring Layne's Chicken Fingers
RJ went down a YouTube rabbit hole at midnight watching West Coast swing dance competitions in Singapore. This led to a completely serious investigation into why nobody has brought the Macarena back. Then there was a road trip to Palestine, Tex...
Hemipenes Horror Show
We came in planning to talk about ranch projects. We left knowing more about boa constrictor reproductive anatomy than we ever asked for. In between: a twenty-minute spiral about whether the air purifier should be on Auto or Pet mode (we never ...
Back On The Ranch
We’re back in the studio swapping road stories, ranch updates, and the kind of pet logistics that never show up on a map. A cross-country detour to pick up a family dog turns into a homecoming full of food math, messy cleanup, and one very nerv...
In The Wild: Tickle Me Baby Shark
We head outside to record and immediately prove we should not be trusted with telescopes, technology, or having a podcast. We start under the night sky and somehow end up in a wandering tour of pop culture, nostalgia, pets, small business econo...
Barbie Boat Backhaul
Mark checks in from Oregon while RJ holds it down back in Texas, and we bounce from family dinners and pizza in Turner to the logistics of hauling a "Barbie Boat" across the country to Texas (via North Carolina?). The conversation drifts from A...
Lake Lucy
We start where we always do — somewhere ridiculous. Brontosaurus names, Pluto's planetary status, a fearful stray puppy who won't come inside but absolutely will paw at the door the moment you turn your back. Then Rob joins us from Arizona, and...
European In The Fish Tank
We bring Rob on from Arizona and immediately get hit with peak brother energy, tech chaos, and a fish tank that sounds way too much like a bathroom. Along the way we check on Maggie, relive listener nicknames, argue about a movie quote poll, an...
Clean Jokes And Heavy Hearts
The tone flips fast when you live with dogs: one minute you’re laughing about pop culture, dumb polls, and a joke so bad it’s good, and the next you’re dealing with the kind of responsibility that keeps you up at night. We laugh, we vent, and w...
Nobody Puts Buckley In A Corner
We catch up after a brutal snowstorm drive, a missed release, and another round of remote recording chaos that turns into a surprisingly good setup. Then we pivot back to the ranch where we try to find Nemo but end up with a new puppy instead. ...
On The Road: Riding Dirty
Ever tried to keep a podcast alive from the cab of a truck at 4 a.m.? We did—one of us in the ranch studio, the other barreling north toward the Pacific Northwest with two sleepy dogs and a stubborn laptop finally tamed by a password named afte...
In The Wild: A Lullaby For Insomniacs
We head outside to record under a cloudy sky, trade telescope tips we can’t use, and dig into the strange comfort of a slow, honest show. Between Starlink mishaps and ranch projects, we find a lane that feels calm, funny, and unforced.
