325. Men, Explain Things To Me!
January 12th, 2026
1 hr 6 mins 28 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
- Erica
- Micah
Topics:
- Puerto Rico branded holiday jams
- Chive drama on Reddit
- How to cure tinnitus (maybe)
- The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
- In defense of making movies sequels until they're good again
Microtopics:
- Being finished with horrible shit.
- Being in the middle of things forever.
- The Minutes of the Intermittent Meetings of the Society of Apocryphal Gentlefolk, by Dark Art
- Coming down from the high of PiCoSteveMo.
- Explaining PiCoSteveMo to someone like it's their first time at Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- Two things I'm willing to sacrifice to play PiCoSteveMo games.
- Putting your PICO-8 game in a CRT filter.
- Lawnmower Man, based on the title by Stephen King.
- Developing a field system in Puerto Rico.
- Winston's face appearing to the extent that Zoom thinks it's part of my chest.
- A deafening hospital siren playing while you're trying to have a good time at the beach.
- Pirate-themed massage.
- Stealing the windsurfing gear and going for a ride.
- Walking past the site of a pirate massage and fatal accident holding a solo cup.
- Getting pushed off the road by seven full-sized Coca Cola trucks led by a Santa Sleigh and followed by a party truck with a giant octagonal speaker spreading holiday cheer.
- Charging more for a well-traveled Coca Cola.
- Holiday-Branded Traffic Jams.
- Shipping your worst wine to India and it turns out that the sea voyage turns it into your best wine.
- Spanish Milk.
- Visiting Puerto Rico during linear time.
- The Puerto Rican version of Sleep No More in which Bad Bunny might pull you into a dark corner for a one-on-one and it's not clear whether he works for the event or if he's just another attendee.
- Day 57 of chopping chives on Reddit.
- Drawing airplanes crashing into the chives that are too long.
- Working with (and living with) the Chive Lord.
- Comparing Day 1 chives with day 55 chives.
- Finding Yoshi in a pile of chopped chives.
- A job that exists. (But not one you get paid for.)
- Asking the robot to add heart shapes to your food processor chives.
- These are the Days of our Chives.
- Each Sale I Drink a Glass of Water.
- Self-hosting memes and Turing-complete memes.
- Phase canceling your tinnitus.
- Not wanting to look it up because then you'd know.
- Curing tinnitus with extremely specific grenades.
- A party where everyone is constantly singing their personal tinnitus tones.
- Why don't we get bass tinnitus?
- Can you cure bass tinnitus with snail caviar?
- The native word for white people who are doing poorly in Alaska.
- The ice worms wriggling their purple heads through the crust of the pale blue snow.
- Pine trees cracking like little guns in the silence of the wood.
- Prankster Bill dying with his arms and legs outstretched so that he won't fit in his coffin.
- Poems that demand to be performed with a banjo.
- Whether they have banjos in Alaska.
- Having fun with the way words sound.
- I'm not gonna make it – but I can be an X shape.
- The Cremation of Sam McGee.
- Burning your house down to get the insurance money to buy a telescope.
- Making bad art until it becomes good.
- Tremors 3: Back to Perfection.
- A giant worm monster drilling up out of the ground in order to slice chives.
- Really dwelling on how much you don't have in common with other people.
- Six topics (and Shrieker Island)
- A dollmaker on the run after making farcical plays about Hitler.
- The Saved by the Bell themed music video featuring the same actors as the Final Destination movie it's promoting.
- Would you take 90 minutes off of your life to have not seen Final Destination 4?
- The replacement for the 1 to 10 pain scale where you decide which Final Destination movie you'd be willing to watch to take the pain away.
- Low pain awareness.
- Chess boxing win/loss ratios.