161. How Much Can This Dog Deadlift?

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Lords:

• Shannon
• Avery

Topics:

• Measure words
• Is color even real?
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/hdrdlt/poem_my_cat_is_sad_spencer_madsen/

Microtopics:

• Game Changer.
• Why various albums aren't on Spotify.
• During the American Revolution when the British were always quartering punk bands in colonial household.
• The Bug Porn calendar that Shannon drew for the FF2 ARG.
• A singular bug in a pin-up pose.
• A praying mantis cosplaying as a nun.
• Learning a language and then forgetting it because you're too embarrassed to speak it around people.
• A soup vs. a bowl of soup.
• Thousands of years of associating this thing with this other thing.
• How singing works in tonal languages.
• The people who keep insisting that orange doesn't rhyme with anything.
• That time Tom Lehrer rhymed "orange" with "bizarre enjoyment."
• Memory palaces.
• Stand over mouth next to person equals.
• The "two six-packs" mnemonic for remembering what the two dots on the guitar fretboard mean.
• Mnemonics that you would prefer to forget.
• The blue/black/gold/white dress.
• Changing the perceived color of an object by changing the lighting in the room.
• Whether light is real.
• Naming a color and never telling anybody the name.
• Keeping a color swatch because your memory of a color might drift over time, but the swatch fades.
• Perfect pitch for color perception.
• Getting two sensory outputs from a single sensory input.
• A deeply visual species.
• Striving to be amazed and confused by things normal people take for granted.
• Visualization but for smells.
• A list of attributes of what your daughter looks like.
• Blind sight.
• Seeing but having no experience of sight.
• Hashtag Kant Folks.
• Discerning green and pink.
• Do these two sexy nazi ponies look the same to you?
• The purpose of music theory.
• The invention of standardized tunings.
• Where to find poems.
• A cat who does not have a cat.
• A cat wondering why nobody else in his family is a cat.
• Things it is funny for a cat to be sad about.
• Why the family cat didn't go to college.
• Making sure to get a pet early enough that you child can see it die before going to college.
• Getting a second dog vs. getting your dog a dog.
• Dog IQ tests.
• The placards at the dog shelter listing each dog's D&D stats and alignment.
• Cockatiel owners.
• A sporting event that measures how hungry you are.
• How many cinder blocks you'd pull for a kingdom's Klondike bar.
• Looking into a well during the full moon and saying Avery's name a hundred times.
• Dating a string of Lisas.
• Six Songs For Lisa.
• Starting your six song album on song number three.