7. I Love A Good Mind Poop

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Lords:

• April is a Park Ranger and a Beast Lord and Jim's wife
• Ryan Ike Composer is a topic bucket at https://twitter.com/RyanIkeComposer/

Topics:

• 4:58 Inventing secular rituals for children
• 19:25 Playing a Tabletop RPG can make you a better person
• 33:02 Which key is most fun to jam in, on the piano?
  • The Strong Songs episode about "I Wish," by Stevie Wonder. http://strongsongspodcast.com/i-wish-by-stevie-wonder
  • "I Wish," by Stevie Wonder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKYka-PNt0
  • Perfect Pitch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch
  • A=432 tuning. https://attunedvibrations.com/432hz-healing/
  • Patent: Vibrating toilet seat. https://patents.google.com/patent/US4920583A/en
• 40:30 The Muddler asks: "What would happen if we outlawed moss, botanically and culturally?"
  • Reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone. https://youtu.be/ysa5OBhXz-Q
• 47:27 Monster Kabinett is a robot-hell you can pay to go to in Berlin, why don't we have these here? https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/monster-kabinett
  • The cliffs of Dún Aonghasa. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BAn_Aonghasa
  • Oneonta falls. https://www.whentobewhere.com/travel-listing/oneonta-gorge-lower-oneonta-falls
• 58:18 "Dance Monkey," by The Tones and I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0hyYWKXF0Q

Microtopics:

• Taking the beast lord before someone else does.
• Being the bucket.
• Being rooted to the ground and going down with the ship.
• Brains autocorrecting puns out of existence.
• Vouching for a deer prancing across a beach.
• Not marrying someone born in the early 2000s.
• Getting into that bucket.
• Getting to sing in a room that's made for singing in.
• A cat wanting to get into the recording studio really bad.
• A cask of amontillado situation except the cask is the entire world outside the recording studio.
• Choosing to consciously develop rituals for your son.
• Throwing all of spirituality out with the bathwater.
• Going to Hell even though you tried your best.
• Being a steward of the land.
• Recoiling from going out in public because social media has drained all your life energy.
• Calling a dog a good dog when they're just being a dog.
• Having a quiet reflection about the Solstice in the middle of a labyrinth.
• Changing your real name because your pseudonym is better.
• The murder squad rolling out.
• Giving polygons the business and feeling bad for them.
• Figuring out how to be a good person even though you're literally a monster.
• The laws of physics demanding that you torture a goblin.
• Turning into a grouse and being like "peace out, losers."
• Creating an even worse relationship dynamic but at least this one isn't racist.
• Rolling up a CVS middle manager for your D&D one-shot.
• Working to become blind but always knowing you could work harder.
• Meeting someone who won't admit that they like fun shapes.
• Your local goth park ranger with a tattoo covered in flowers.
• A toilet seat that vibrates at the brown note.
• Knowing from experience that eventually you run out of poop.
• Clicking random grids while you think about moss being illegal.
• Outlawing Kate Moss as an unintentional side-effect of your moss legislation.
• Being the moss lord.
• Being the moss beast.
• Muddling your mimosa because you're ahead of the curve.
• Not drinking, but knowing so much about it that it'd be dangerous if you did.
• Moss turning out to be the linchpin to global biological harmony.
• Taking the time you used to spend itching and spending it reproducing.
• Everybody being everything.
• A Delightful Nightmare.
• Having to wait because Mother is not ready yet.
• Mother being ready now.
• Mother turning out to be a free-roaming robotic spider about the size of a smart car.
• Mother malfunctioning and kicking an aluminum folding chair across the room.
• Mother vibrating out of the way like a cheap hotel bed.
• A robot sticking out of the wall with crazy proboscis lips.
• A robot that knows how to use chopsticks.
• A flesh robot playing German industrial metal while you try to escape.
• Mother remembering you and wanting to drink your blood.
• Guessing sweaters until the beast lord tells you to stop.
• A tourist attraction with a bunch of signs saying "don't come here"
• Not wanting to die but on the other hand wanting a cool inscrutable death.
• Having an animated gif of your cool death on your tombstone.
• Joanna Newsom doing Aretha Franklin.
• Not wanting to admit whether you're a doctor.
• Playing a miniature game of snake in the spreadsheet that only you can perceive.
• Still not having a catchphrase.
• Being the beast bucket.