353. Hell Yeah, Mold!
July 27th, 2026
1 hr 1 min 15 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
Topics:
- Favourite piece(s) of Greek mythology/history related media
- The accordion children of BART
- Esper says: "When I lived in Washington there was a guy with one who would ask for money outside the grocery store quite a bit. He’d have a full setup, accordion, speakers, sheet music, the whole deal. I saw him out there for probably two years before someone pointed out there’s no such thing as an electric accordion; he was just playing CDs through the speaker and pretending to perform the whole time. Genius grift."
- Esper says: "When I lived in Washington there was a guy with one who would ask for money outside the grocery store quite a bit. He’d have a full setup, accordion, speakers, sheet music, the whole deal. I saw him out there for probably two years before someone pointed out there’s no such thing as an electric accordion; he was just playing CDs through the speaker and pretending to perform the whole time. Genius grift."
- Adult Arnold Palmer
- Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence
- Do animals have pareidolia particular to their own instincts?
- Childhood obsessions that we circled back to in adulthood
Microtopics:
- Mym's Sword
- What does a dog need with a sword?
- Elephantasy but it's a roguelike.
- Whether PiCoSteveMo counts as a conference.
- Waiting until you've forgotten what happens to reread a book.
- Refusing to reconsume any media.
- Rereading a book now that you are a different person.
- Works that you can't scrute.
- Katabasis: the state of being katabasal.
- Reading a novel about Greek mythology and recognizing that boss you fought in Hades.
- PEBCAKing it because you forgot to PEMDAS it.
- Jason and the Argonauts, with those fun stop motion skeletons.
- The wine-dark sea.
- Plinth fans.
- Neoclassical: it's too new.
- Inventing columns and getting really excited about it.
- Making a log cabin out of Greek columns.
- Buskers bringing a boom box on a train and proceeding to pop and lock.
- A real kid-looking kid holding an accordion, ready to bust some notes.
- Evan the accordion-master.
- According squeezing patterns.
- Hunting and pecking on the piano.
- Hand and limb separation.
- The lute as a shitty guitar.
- Playing piano vs. playing around on a piano.
- Having a piano-shaped set of notes in your head and trying to localize it onto a guitar.
- Too Sparse for Buskers.
- Performance vs. Rigamarole.
- Seeing a new genre of busker.
- Thumbing a hundred bucks to save the clock tower.
- Situations where you're socially obligated to drink a glass of lemon juice.
- Sour Screams and other flavor sounds.
- Being a grownup and having to wear a suit and tie and drink horrible drinks and drive a 6000 pound death machine.
- The kid the DMV pays to run out in front of you when you're taking your driving test, and whether you're supposed to tip him.
- Learning to drive and realizing that driving is fun, and then realizing that this is terrible because nobody should do this incredibly unsafe activity for fun.
- Using your fidget spinner to help you focus better while driving.
- Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
- Scots Wikipedia.
- Frogs biding with their long shanks.
- Having a good Scottish accent because you have a theater degree and watched Shrek over and over.
- Predators who like to go for the neck seeing necks everywhere, like humans see faces everywhere.
- The Hello Crow.
- Birds that like to make chainsaw noises.
- Hunters hunting things that look like the thing they they hunt.
- Bees that think you are an enormous flower.
- Wasps that can't tell you're made of meat because your shirt is covering up your meat.
- Re-enjoying your childhood Legos.
- Making the Lego/Legos distinction on purpose.
- Lego vs. Legoids.
- Growing up a K'nex kid and making the K'nex Rollercoaster.
- Overconsuming root beer.
- One of the tamed microbes.
- Building things with Legos with your child.
- Making sense out of the random pieces.
- You say Lego, I say let go of me, let's call the whole thing off.