199. The Hum Of The Universe Sounded Like A Bug Zapper

Topic Lords

Lords:

• April
• Ryan

Topics:

• John asks "Puzzles/puzzle games and challenges you find pleasant and brain-expanding vs. the ones that you just cannot get your head around."
• Which foods would be the most fun or the least fun to eat if you rotated them at a 90 degree angle first.
  • https://www.ebay.com/itm/184633478236
• The Shaggs
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY
• Instructions for Traveling West, by Joy Sullivan
  • https://joysullivan.substack.com/p/how-to-leave-a-life
• Songs that we completely ignore how weird they are because they're famous already

Microtopics:

• Unions
• Plug guilt.
• Mentoring young composers.
• Saying smart stuff about things you know about.
• Taking the W.
• A high pitched ding whenever someone succeeds at something.
• A Good Snowman is Hard to Build.
• Into the Breach.
• Pushing the Vek to a different square.
• Making something in your environment more satisfying.
• A squid with your kid.
• Colors that have frequencies vs. compound colors.
• Indigo: a fake color.
• The banger heavy duty colors.
• A range of frequencies that is culturally mediated.
• Paint mixing vs. light mixing.
• Exploding ancient dinosaur juice constantly.
• The electricity magic vs. the valve magic.
• What does it mean to explode?
• How to tell the difference between things you know because it's common knowledge vs. things you know because it's what you obsessed about when you were 15.
• Having a responsibility to the taxpayers to not be wasteful.
• The science of what sounds good.
• The most confusing music you've ever heard.
• Food rotation.
• Imagining you have a banana coming at you. (It's not scary.)
• Biting it the way we bite it.
• Burrowing through your hamburger top to bottom.
• Living with the mayonnaise for 30 seconds.
• What happens when you turn a taco 90 degrees.
• Ike's Paradox.
• Eating a rib straight up and down.
• Pizza sandwiches.
• Explaining to your dentist that your bottom jaw is a ruinous cavern because you eat ribs top to bottom.
• Adding a thickening agent to soup so you can turn the bowl sideways and just shove your face in there.
• Buying the Ultra Rare Cheeto Shaped Like Batman Crying just to flip it.
• A li'l cute ghostie with ears.
• Affection for bands that are bad.
• A rock album recorded by three kids who have no interest in or aptitude for writing and performing music.
• Art that lives at the very tips of the horseshoe ends.
• High fashion and weird looks that aren't meant to be for everyday.
• Music that sounds bad in a way that you don't recognize.
• Music that is boring and propulsive at the same time.
• Music that is not for listening to.
• Threatening your wife with a conversation about Beatles chord progressions.
• Making art that is boring in unexpected, interesting ways.
• Inventing a new boring version of interesting that still isn't interesting but is boring in interesting ways, which should make it interesting but doesn't.
• Finding a desert and falling in.
• Watching a purple meadow quiver and drinking whiskey beside a 100 year old cactus.
• Whether Joy is a trick.
• Blowing up your life and other people's lives as well.
• The other entendre.
• Yet another example of this fucking show.
• Cooking for the rest of your life without ever washing dishes.
• Joy that can't not be real.
• Poetry that's just really well-constructed prose.
• A poem that doesn't have any line breaks because then it wouldn't fit on Instagram.
• A true poet who accounts for swiping.
• An expression of a huge evocative idea built out of tiny ideas.
• How to be happy even when you are not actively chasing your dreams.
• A song that is famous in some way.
• That fuckin' Pina Colada song.
• Marrying the same person three or four times.
• Bouncing along and going on a fun road trip while the world is ending.
• Mystifying number one hits.
• Robot Mr. Feeny in your car and you go around solving mysteries together.
• Getting your wife a Groucho Marx nose for christmas.
• Robust dependable noses.
• Think On Thine Sins, Gumshoes.
• Giving the Latin Grammar Police the L.

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