207. Muppet Bird Generation Ship

Lords:

• Lesley
• Nathan

Topics:

• Thinking of survival shows like Alone, is "wilderness survival" a sport?
• Regional differences in the tone and caliber of NextDoor posts
• Pastry arbitrage
• The Light That Shines When Things End
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• Wild takahē (TAH-kah-hay) have been reintroduced into the mountains of New Zealand
• How are we feeling about the Boston Robotics advancements? Welcome our new robot overlords or not?

Microtopics:

• Hyper Light Breaker.
• Bumpy Grumpy.
• Recording a podcast from inside a toilet.
• Fishtank bubbling noises.
• Assigning a point value to eating reindeer lichen.
• Eating your belt because someone famous ate their belt once in the 19th century.
• Starving contests.
• Calling in an air drop for your favorite outdoor survivalists.
• The reality show where a guy is living alone in an apartment scouring thousands of magazines for offers of free stuff.
• The "it's a living" joke.
• Pez Guy.
• Trying to redeem Pepsi tokens for a fighter jet.
• A boiler room full of people tilting soda bottles.
• Weary cereal mascots.
• Hippies living in a canyon until Topanga emerges.
• Making a Nextdoor post about a guy peering in your window and the replies are like "it's cool it's just Window Peering Jim checking out your remodel."
• Making a Nextdoor post about finding a baby goat and what do I do and a reply saying "you need to call the Goat Goddess" and another reply saying "I'm the Goat Goddess and I can help you."
• Encouraging microcultures.
• Surfacing positive comments to the top of Youtube videos.
• Using technology to steer people away from being terrible.
• Writing a story about a guy with a sword.
• Writing a parody of bad fanfiction and building Minecraft worlds to support your world building.
• Whether jokes are funnier now or if old jokes are just out of fashion.
• Trying to relate to the kids by saying "I can has cheeseburger?"
• How art used to happen before copyright law fucked everything up.
• The dudes at the farmers market selling tomatoes that are obviously from the grocery store.
• The farm with a sign that says "come pick pumpkins at our pumpkin patch" but the pumpkins are just sitting on the ground and by pick they just meant "select."
• The Quasi-Authentic Experience.
• A pumpkin velcroed to a vine.
• A large hill. (Not a mountain.)
• Making the light a liar, at least until your mid-thirties.
• Ruining an otherwise amazing moment.
• A Minority Report precog murder kind of situation.
• Whether the light has a bell too.
• A poem that's just a shower thought if you think about it.
• Taking the eggs to an incubation center.
• Muppet Bird flavor.
• Cutting open a cookie monster to reveal the cookie layers inside.
• Seeing the Cookie Monster's leg in the window of the butcher shop.
• The roast chicken saying "It's a living!" as you slice it up.
• Robots that sound like bees.
• Slipping on the ice and hearing the bees.
• Whether fun robots are even scarier than serious robots.
• Moxie the child companion robot.
• A dog named Spot and his SDK.
• Too loud, too scary, too many bees.
• People who can pollinate.
• If it's empty, fill it with bees.
• Memes that the kids don't think are old because they have fallen out of the cultural memory entirely.
• Still being on Twitter because you have games to sell.