93. A Medical Advice Podcast

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Lords:

• Mara
  • https://twitter.com/McaelinL
• April
  • https://twitter.com/aprilsaur/

Topics:

• Frog and Toad core
• What would you do with a bonus room in your house?
• My reptile brain is a cat-loving ninja
• If you could submit one thing (a song, a building, a food, an activity, an abstract concept) to the interstellar community of sapient intelligences as your part of The Case For Why The Human Race Is Good And Cool, what would it be?
• How earnest lessons you try to teach your children backfire
• Murder She Wrote is back on prime
• Asafoetida powder

Microtopics:

• The Expanse: bigger than before.
• A developer's guide to cognitive behavioral therapy.
• The various circumstances under which the Frog Fractions DLC hat can be a witch hat.
• Cottagecore vs. Frog and Toad core.
• Cottagecore merged with an old man.
• Embracing Frog and Toad for pride month.
• Finding the bodice rippers with people with dark curly hair on the cover because you can imagine those are light-skinned black people.
• The relative density of the east coast.
• Getting out of California before it's too late.
• A complete dearth of natural disasters.
• Writing an offer letter for a home you want to buy and mentioning your adorable child who just needs a home several times.
• Moving into a space that is twice as big and not knowing what to do with all the space.
• An Austenian fantasy you have been cherishing in your bosom.
• A perfect cosy library with chairs that trap people.
• Installing a ladder on casters so you can ride it around the room every morning in your Belle outfit.
• Coming up with excuses to install the ladder on casters even though you can just reach up and grab every book in your library.
• One of those booths with a fan at the bottom that you fill by ripping a single page out of every book in your library.
• How much extra you can charge for an Airbnb hidden behind a secret bookshelf.
• Going into the Library of Congress to check out Bullfrog's Official Guide to Dungeon Keeper.
• A room full of music production equipment and no internet connection.
• Asking your child to focus at dinner when all the adults at the table have their phones out.
• Saving a cat by applying torque to a falling chair.
• Doing a thing before you realize you've done it and thinking "wow it's a good thing I agree with those actions."
• Deliberately relying on your unconscious mind to do important work.
• Whether Jim and his wife need to get checked for ADHD.
• A teen who can write a hell of a term paper.
• The interstellar community of sapient intelligences.
• The case for why the human race is good and cool.
• Winnie the Pooh.
• Reclaiming the poop.
• Taco Bell's cannon firing nacho cheese chalupas at the enemy spaceships.
• Trying to convey "hygge" without being willing to try to pronounce it.
• Learning about alien cultures by watching Star Trek.
• A five year old explaining to you how T-Mobile are leaders in 5G technology.
• A perfectly sensible reaction to the story of Noah's Ark.
• Learning what fighting is and deciding to fight your mom.
• A book about a child who needs to be reprimanded all the time.
• Shouting "no" and throwing the phone on the floor whenever an ad plays.
• Watching Murder She Wrote every night before bed.
• Jessica Fletcher the serial killer and her nephew Grady, also a serial killer.
• How good Jessica Fletcher would be at breaking up a loud graduation party.
• Predicting when the party next door is going to end by the decade the music is from.
• How to recognize a trap remix of the Murder She Wrote theme from just the bass.
• Tricking your family into playing the Murder She Wrote board game.
• Not needing a wedding ring because your husband got you the Murder She Wrote DVD boxed set.
• Discovering what DVDs are and deciding to put them in the shower.
• Covering the shower drain with the Wii Sports disc because they're the exact same size.
• A bone-dry shower.
• Always shirt-cocking it.
• Baby poop and onions but also kind of floral but also you hate onions.
• Resorch.
• Dried latex from the celery family.
• Boiling your neti pot water to kill the brain-eating bacteria that might pass through the blood brain barrier.