62. A Real Egg Hobbyist

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Lords:

• Mark plugs Ravening Iron
• Shirley plugs a silicone reusable popcorn maker

Topics:

• The trend of positive media (Great British Baking Show, etc.)
• What is your favorite magic paradigm? Related: Space Wizards: What happened??
• Transitioning from being able to cook a dish to being able to cook a meal
• Larry asks "Yearbooks. Do you still have them? Have you ever actually used one? Is it full of signatures and stuff like that?"
• "Dude, maybe Jim can give us parenting advice" is what I just said out loud, what do you think of that, Jim?

Microtopics:

• Whether Ravening Iron slaps.
• The life-changing silicone popcorn maker.
• A cup that says "tea" on it that's filled with bourbon.
• Dirty Harry except he's shooting the mishandling of evidence in the face.
• Dirty Harry except instead of shooting perps in the face he takes a bath.
• Watching Joker (2019) and thinking "finally, the IPs of my youth are real art now"
• A slow motion replay of a lady forgetting to put ice cream back in the fridge.
• Choosing the biggest burliest man you can find who is moved to tears at the drop of a hat to judge your reality show.
• Being moved to tears because a jug is unexpectedly light.
• A manual of non-toxic masculinity.
• Men Feeling Feelings.
• Collecting magic paradigms.
• Staying up all night studying your book of magic and then the next day you can cast one (1) fireball.
• Studying magic for years and then having spells in your head that you never cast.
• All the spells in a wizard's head going off at once when the wizard dies, like that fireworks show in San Diego.
• Accidentally learning the spell that will unmake reality.
• Learning the magic words and swizzling a wand.
• Teaching children that magic is an inherent ability that you either have or don't have.
• Why there are so few space wizards.
• Waking up in the middle of a night with a great story idea and in the morning you realize it's Star Wars.
• Doctor Who explaining the science behind space vampires.
• What if Marty McFly's photo of his brother was an actual person and his body parts started to vanish.
• Battle mages carrying around notepads and calligraphy pens and battling by writing notes at each other.
• Magical inscriptions all over your body rendering you invulnerable to physical harm everywhere except your face because your retail job doesn't allow face tattoos.
• Recognizing Rise of the Skywalker as bad but still basically enjoying it because you just don't care that much any more.
• The plot of a long running movie franchise suddenly hinging on the protagonist needing to find a bathroom when they've never been depicted as pooping even once.
• Growing out of hating art.
• Loving this topic.
• Breakfast being easier to cook than other meals because it's okay to just make one dish and call it breakfast.
• Breakfast being easier to cook than other meals because it uses a smaller set of potential ingredients.
• Learning to look at a set of available ingredients and plan a meal out of them.
• Learning how to cook to learn about process and flexibility.
• Following a recipe but ultimately having to make the decision yourself that the food you're making is ready to be taken off the heat and served.
• Skimming a recipe to get the gist and then just being able to make the thing because you know how food works.
• The canonical flavor pairings of breakfast.
• Figuring out your flavor profile and then your main protein and working outwards to the sides.
• Learning to make scrambled eggs and realizing now you can just have scrambled eggs any time.
• A Real Egg Hobbyist
• Leaving behind audio logs for future civilizations.
• A paint pigment made out of mummies, and more generally how every pigment is made from some different weird thing.
• Every ingredient in your kitchen coming from a different weird and often horrifying animal or plant process.
• Humans possibly developing larger brains because we invented cooking.
• Raw food enthusiasts just enjoying digesting harder than the rest of us.
• Measuring the calories in a food by making the food explode.
• The millennia-long development of corn as a staple crop.
• Posing with a crazy hat because your yearbook editors didn't have enough photos of Crazy Hat Day.
• Falsifying the historical record.
• Seeing a yearbook on a friend's bookshelf and offering to sign it.
• Paying extra to get your high school yearbook pre-signed.
• Seeing your parent's yearbook and realizing for the first time that they had hobbies once.
• A nice kid who is always doing their best.
• Seeing your high school teacher in street clothes at the grocery store and realizing that he is just a few years older than you.
• How a task seems impossible until you have a strong enough incentive to do it.
• The switch that flips in your brain once you have a kid where it becomes unthinkable to not have a kid or want to have a kid.
• Childbirth lawyers.
• Having an extra plug.