158. Bark Mitzvah: Where Your Good Boy Becomes A Mensch

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Lords:

• Erica
• The Real John B

Topics:

• The Nancy Drew Point and Click adventure series
• Advances in garbage food technology
• The mysterious grunting voice playing over the American Airlines intercom
  • https://waxy.org/2022/09/a-mysterious-voice-is-haunting-american-airlines-in-flight-announcements-and-nobody-knows-how/
• A poem I found: "The Cow" by Oliver Herford
  • https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo/status/1053873522823446528
• Klik, freeware and indie games in the late 90s and early 2000s
  • http://freegames.org/GameHippo

Microtopics:

• Other topic podcasts biting Jim's steeze.
• Spending the next hour blushing.
• Holding a Bark Mitzvah to watch your Good Boy become a mensch.
• Releasing a director's cut from beyond the grave.
• Bad games that you can't get enough of.
• Adventure games that make you feel like when grandma would visit and bring you donuts.
• Secret Fandoms.
• The new Nancy Drew series where Nancy Drew is an airhead and nobody likes her.
• A 70 year old woman playing a teenager.
• Whether game designers play anything other than World of Warcraft.
• Why the Nancy Drew adventure games are not on phones.
• Putting Nancy Drew in Fortnite.
• Friend of the show, Dropsy.
• You don't have to be an American to eat a garbage diet, but it sure helps.
• Food color technology over time.
• When Froot Loops added the fourth color.
• Speaking truth to power about the little silver disc that you microwave pizza on.
• The starchy packet that helps the noodles cook.
• A job that requires the skill sets of both a chef and a materials engineer.
• Things that come out of boxes nowadays.
• Watching meat substitutes grow up.
• Plastic golems living in your body.
• Getting your first reading glasses at your Old Mitzvah and giving a speech starting with "now I am an old."
• The second person this hour who has admitted to the pharmacist that they need reading glasses.
• The baby technology section at Walmart.
• Snot removers that'd also be great for insect collection.
• A sock that measures blood oxygenation.
• Earwitness accounts.
• Working on the American Airlines announcement system and adding strange grunting noises to the playlist.
• Electrical noise that is being interpreted by a system intended to transmit the human voice.
• The guy who does all the grunt voices.
• A sound that is like audio from a music album.
• An incredible technical smartass who got annoyed at luggage fees.
• A fridge full of snacks in the middle of the plane.
• Every passenger getting up and going to the snack pit.
• Wrestling for Cheez-Its.
• All the folks who are into weird pranks and technical glitches making a pilgrimage to the American Airlines flight with the weird grunting.
• Nancy-likes.
• The Three Investigators, presented by Alfred Hitchcock.
• Joining the discord for more on the ukulele plane.
• Back in 1901 when they worried about Peak Cow.
• Milk punch.
• Eggless egg nog.
• Celebrating all the positive ways cows influence our lives, and also we eat them.
• Whether scientists knew extinctions were possible in 1901.
• Looking for free games on the internet in 1999.
• Letting the Game Hippo domain lapse and a domain squatter picks it up and the rest is history.
• Dink Smallwood.
• A multidirectional shooter with a cool perspective trick.
• All the search engines they had before google.
• The Williams College MUD that you could log in to and visit Williams College in the MUD.
• Graal Online.
• Receiving a box of shareware from your mom's coworker.
• PC games from before developers realized that computers would get faster.
• Typing swim fast enough that you don't drown.
• Please Copy That Floppy!