165. Spitting Wiggly Air

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Lords:

• Mark
• Shirley

Topics:

• What would you do if you came downstairs and all of my clothes and my glasses were on the floor in a heap in a puddle of water?
• Aphasia: What doesn't it mean?
• Dr. Icecreamwala
  • https://www.icecreamderm.com/
• Eternal Champion - I Am The Hammer
  • https://eternalchampion.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-hammer
• Teen Censorship (what to restrict, if anything?)
• SCA stuff: social skills in the SCA, thrown weapons, and winter camping!

Microtopics:

• EEG, EKG and ECG.
• Dogs and video games.
• Kingdom: Two Crowns.
• Whoops, I'm Dead!
• Borker and Starina.
• Waking up in the morning and telling your wife "and we're back!"
• Sleeping with the Shirley-cicle.
• When your wife turns into a puddle of water and you have to get a hot water bottle shaped like your wife to sleep with every night.
• Hedge witches.
• An Alex Mack situation.
• Turning yourself into a goo accidentally vs. on purpose.
• A dog athletic enough to pee on your glasses while you're wearing them.
• Figuring out what muscle to flex to telepathically communicate as a glass of water.
• Believing things you see written in an authoritative voice.
• The kind of movies Bruce Willis has been making lately.
• Aphasia vs. Primary Progressive Aphasia.
• The four primary modalities of human language.
• Figuring out how to hang out with someone you can't talk to.
• Decoupling the word "yes" from its literal meaning.
• Apraxia of speech.
• Thanking colonialism for this moment of delight.
• Serving your patients their prescription in a waffle cone.
• Flying to the Bay Area to get some light dermatology done.
• The battle-starved riders of Tarsul.
• The demon priests of ill Nitaar.
• Nolan Bushnell receiving feedback about the name Atari.
• The God Blade.
• Fist-pumpin', sword-swingin' heavy metal.
• A good source of lore.
• Cosmologies where god is a species.
• Drinking his blood to see what happens.
• Heavy metal bands fronted by blacksmiths.
• Wanting your teenager to feel safe listening to fascist heavy metal in front of you so that you can talk to them about it.
• Installing a web filter so that your child doesn't accidentally stumble into gross abusive porn.
• Opinions about parent-child relationships from someone who was once a child.
• Heavy metal bands who write music about white nationalism vs. heavy metal bands who are just white nationalist without writing about it.
• Deliberately not separating the art from the artist so you get the extra enjoyment out of musicians who are cool people.
• Videos of common household items being crushed under the wheels of a car.
• Videos of people building things in the woods.
• Devil's toothpaste.
• Reacting to the sugar tax by angrily boycotting soda.
• The Society for Creative Anachronism kicking you out if you dress up as a time traveler from the future or a 1950s greaser.
• The SCA re-enacting the before-times, when morning zoo radio didn't exist yet.
• Apex Nerds.
• Geniuses above petty squabbling.
• A better system of chilling out.
• Going into the woods with your friend who likes building stuff in the woods and watching him build stuff in the woods.
• Movies set in the 80s that have absolutely nothing from the 70s in them because everybody threw all that shit away on January 1st, 1980.
• Handing out arm rings to your sworn men.
• Instituting a buddy system where you buy each other awards.
• Happy baby cow.