113. Only You In Particular Can Prevent Forest Fires

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Lords:

• Danny
  • https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer/
• April
  • https://twitter.com/aprilsaur

Topics:

• Favorite desserts for when it's hot out
• The horror of almost being older than Princess Diana
• The developer of Abraham Lincolnland has gone on to run a business selling shirts with Vaporwave Abraham Lincoln's Face on them.
  • http://www.lincolnsoft.com/games/all/
  • https://lincolnapparel.com/
• I Would Like to Describe by Zbigniew Herbert
  • https://poets.org/poem/i-would-describe
• Irish surnames as American girl names
• Words that you misunderstood as a child and how that affected your life
• Jordan Mechner calling E.Y. Harburg on the phone
  • https://jordanmechner.com/archive/#2009-11-rainbo

Microtopics:

• Priming with a prompt.
• Using the Inception noise too much so Christopher Nolan angrily accosts you and you can get his autograph.
• A selection of nice suits.
• The swirl of the chocolate and vanilla duo.
• So classy but also so messy.
• The counter with fifty different ice creams in buckets.
• 99.
• A stick of flaky wispy chocolate that you stick into your ice cream.
• The two biggest KLF fans in America.
• Mid-Atlantic Podcast Time.
• Ordering a hot latte in the middle of Summer.
• Realizing it's winter and going back into the coffee shop and asking the barista to put your iced coffee in the microwave.
• The treat that you would least like to have in the summer.
• Hanging your Christmas Pudding from a clothesline.
• Hollywood Pudding.
• The Devil's Sandwich.
• A fancy lad who eats nothing but olives and fig newtons.
• Morbid Distance Markers.
• Royalophilia.
• One princess dies and TV becomes useless for days
• The ethical considerations of faking a news segment.
• The last time you'll ever think about Princess Diana.
• All your dead relatives living in your head.
• Never saying your child's name on the internet.
• What body part is touching the poison oak in this metaphor.
• Refusing to go outside without an EpiPen.
• Abraham Lincoln fighting Nazis in the cyberpunk future.
• Bringing back beards for presidents.
• A 60-page readme about how to run this game in various driver configurations.
• Sitemaps.
• Selling shirts with Abraham Lincoln's face on them at Milwaukee Marker Fair.
• Going full neon.
• Covering the entire surface of the shirt with a garish vaporwave pattern.
• Describing courage without involving a dusty lion.
• Drawing a single original word from your breast, like a rib.
• Falling asleep with your hand in a mound of planets.
• A fleeting moment of recognition that is often very centering.
• Standing at the limits of language.
• Word tattoos.
• Mostly salt up top.
• Describing a moment or a feeling or a concept that is unrelenting in your mind.
• Using a trembling glass of water emoji but nobody knows whether you mean anxiety or an approaching T-Rex.
• His and Hers Mound of Planets Tattoos.
• The Irish guy in the room.
• Paying respect to your Irish heritage by naming your daughter "McPhee."
• 8 out of the top 10 baby names of 2020.
• Having a reaction that nobody else is having.
• Don't Start Fires mascots.
• Thinking that Smokey the Bear is instructing you to start forest fires because you don't know what "prevent" means.
• Only you in particular can prevent forest fires.
• Whatever flips your boat.
• One of those weird European psychological horrors.
• Ha-Ha Hollywood.
• Wanting information and figuring out how to get it.
• John Romero still having the Apple 2's memory layout memorized 40 years later.
• Trying to remember if you've done a podcast.
• A cat trying to get you to come to bed.
• Only grace tweets.
• Overwatch boops.
• Overwatch: Global Offensive.