333. Bring Your Daughter to Monastery Day
March 9th, 2026
1 hr 8 mins 33 secs
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Topics:
- The 5th Ramsey number
- Why Mr. Satan (from Dragonball) is one of my favorite characters in all of literature
- The Odyssey 2's ROM sprites
- Search Lizard Vagina And You Shall Find by Patricia Lockwood
- Why do drugs have two names? What's up with that?
Microtopics:
- Recording the fakest possible sounding laughter in case someone makes a joke that doesn't work.
- Going on a nice short walk.
- The PNW, where the frogs are a-croaking.
- Going out to see the dog pee.
- Lying down and pretending to sleep
- Explaining to the doctor that you didn't sleep at all and he's like "that's not what your brain waves said!"
- Dreaming that you've been awake for 48 hours.
- Path of totality vs. regular shitty boring eclipse.
- Consume Me.
- Attempting to become hot in high school.
- Whether unwishlisting and rewishlisting a game helps.
- Very large prime numbers that are only two apart.
- Prolific math speed freaks.
- Whether the aliens know the fifth Ramsey Number and are just quizzing us.
- Aliens visiting and sharing the ultimate secret to doing laundry.
- Sentient arithmetic getting angry.
- How do kangaroos clean their pouches?
- Topics that don't cause listenership to drop precipitously.
- Thinking about Mr. Satan in the bath.
- Localizing Mr. Satan for the American audience.
- A cartoon of two muscly guys screaming at each other, getting louder and higher pitched over the course of five minutes, to the point that you start worrying about the health of the voice actors.
- An episode of TV that's just 22 pure minutes of building tension.
- Goku's hair turning blond so that the manga artist doesn't have to laboriously color his hair black al on every panel.
- Everyone in the story growing strong enough to blow up the planet on a whim.
- Everyone on Earth showing up to cheer on Mr. Satan.
- When wrestlers stopped maintaining kayfabe outside of the live show.
- King Lear asking the audience if they can see the corpse breathing.
- Giving annoying characters a moment of sincerity and/or heroism.
- Enthusiastically chanting for Satan.
- Witnessing the total horror of the universe and then being like "I didn't just see that"
- Mr. Satan convincing the evil alien not to destroy the Earth by showing him a cool puppy.
- How is Goku going to prevent spam bots from registering accounts?
- A weird lens on this strange universe.
- Sincerity punchlines.
- Behold, an anime horse!
- Top 37 Classiest Satans.
- Death losing every game against Bill and Ted.
- Coloring the up arrow green to represent a tree in your skiing game.
- The division symbol you learned in grade school and never used again.
- When you want to shoot a golf course, a plane or a tiny flat cake.
- Collecting your favorite medieval manuscript scans.
- The medieval scribe deciding on a whim to write the next passage in Greek.
- The guy plucking penises off of the penis bush and putting them in a basket.
- My brain, and the bad sunning lizard inside it.
- Here is some pornography, if it will help you.
- Great job, Canada.
- Poems that foresee themselves being uploaded to the Internet.
- One of the early "isn't it weird that this literary person is on Twitter writing shitposts?"
- My Least Favorite Antibiotic.
- Wrapping your antibiotic in a tortilla.
- I love an antibiotic with a nickname.
- Magic acts you can only do once. (Because they kill you.)
- Settling Space. (And why we shouldn't do it.)
- Establishing legal precedent for selling moon rocks.
- Can God get a thorn stuck in his paw?
- There's No P in Thomson. Let's try to keep it that way.