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367. A Mausoleum For Chompies

November 2nd, 2026

1 hr 4 mins 49 secs

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Topics:

  • My Experience Moving to Pittsburgh
  • Saw-toothed roofs are making a comeback, baby
  • The science of eating on the toilet
  • I Slapped Mothman's Ass
  • Star Trek: TNG Season 1 postulated a being of the most concentrated evil in the universe, and it was a 4chan troll covered in Metamucil and printer ink.
  • Requiring waiters to serve you food is as ridiculous as requiring gas station attendants to fill your car

Microtopics:

  • Your least favorite thing about Markdown.
  • Having a really nice failure state.
  • Fixing your asterisk with a backslash.
  • Pivoting to deviled eggs to hit the timing window.
  • The Frog Fractions URL of the Year soundtrack LP .
  • The Scrubbin' Trubble OST.
  • The novel Steven King wrote about deviled eggs, except they're cursed.
  • Joining the Topic Lords discord just for the PiCoSteveMo thread.
  • Permanently moving to Pittsburgh.
  • Dying the river green for St. Patrick's Day.
  • An eidetic memory but just for topics.
  • Skyscrapers with mooring posts for dirigibles.
  • Collaborative and neighborly driving.
  • The whiteboard lecture you have prepared for everyone you see driving too fast on the freeway.
  • Getting perogies literally every time you leave the house.
  • Burning the sacred shrouds of Mr. Rogers soaked in martini oil.
  • Burning all your excess Mr. Rogers sweaters in lieu of coal to power your steam train.
  • A last name that's allergic to vowels.
  • The function of sawtooth roofs.
  • A massive amount of natural light coming into whatever building it is.
  • Finally seeing emoji in person.
  • Shitty shells, porous to bacteria!
  • Being mostly food but hopefully for very small things.
  • Why all the roofs in Pittsburgh are flat.
  • Taking a tour of the Warner Bros. studio lot.
  • Your girlfriend signing you up to be an extra in the next season of The Pitt.
  • Paint me a Dream (1997)
  • Not being sure if this movie doesn't have any goofs or if you just can't find them with the new IMDb interface.
  • Learning to smoke a cigarette but it's just a light bulb at the end of a Silly Straw.
  • Sucking: it's not eating.
  • Turning a solid into a liquid in your mouth.
  • An amuse bouche for the cookie sommelier.
  • The fecal-oral route of bacteria transmission.
  • Sucking a lollipop and letting the dissolved lollipop drip out of your mouth, refusing to swallow any of it.
  • The danger of chewing ice cubes. (Whether you're on the toilet or not.)
  • The ice cube chewing postulate.
  • A dog cone funnel filled with General Tso's Chicken.
  • A supercomputer that can weigh the risks and benefits of eating a cheeseburger while on the toilet.
  • Mothman Ate My Entire Ass at Denny's.
  • A web search for "mothman statue great ass"
  • Local Cryptid.
  • Digital abs and analog ass.
  • The RoboCop sequel where the only part they could save was the ass.
  • The Dawn of the Dead museum in the mall where they filmed Dawn of the Dead.
  • Finding out that your mom was a zombie extra in Dawn of the Dead.
  • A bipedal humanoid emerging from the goo.
  • The Omelas kid inventing 4chan.
  • Star Trek episodes where the entire galaxy might explode vs. episodes where Geordi might get annoyed.
  • Riker looking extremely unimpressed at this particular goop monster.
  • Breaking Mothman Update: Mothman Eats Homophobes.
  • What states still mandate full-service gas stations.
  • The Tipping Onus.
  • Ringing the Rude American bell.
  • Ordering Coldstone via Doordash so the Doordash driver has to listen to the singing Coldstone employees instead of you.
  • Musical Theater Offsets, where you pay people to plant trees to make up for all the musical theater you're performing and/or listening to.
  • Standing very still in an anechoic chamber so you can hear your tinnitus extremely well.
  • Saying offensive things on Twitter to make your followers unfollow you, but then new people get excited about your offensive statements and follow you.
  • Convincing people to log back in to Twitter for the first time in years just so they can unfollow you.
  • nicknicknicknicknicknicknick.gov
  • The Odd Object discord. (It used to be the Catacomb Kids discord.)
  • Happy National Deviled Egg Day!
  • Doffing your lord hat.
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