278. Successfully Talking

Lords:

• Avery
• Linker

Topics:

• Twin Peaks
• Myxozoa
• How storytelling is failing us
• Bones and Shadows, by John Philip Johnson
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56581/bones-and-shadows
• Novelizing films that originated as novels

Microtopics:

• A spike of interest corresponding with every episode you're on.
• How many hate listeners Topic Lords has.
• Chiaroscuro.
• Buying Linker's games so he doesn't die.
• Watching Blue Velvet while high.
• Finishing season two of Twin Peaks out of a sense of duty.
• A protagonist who you want to be happy.
• That time David Lynch bought five Woody Woodpecker dolls and named them Chucko, Buster, Pete, Bob and Dan, then had to cut them out of his life after their personalities changed.
• Focusing the energy you have on the things you love: filmmaking, painting and smoking.
• The David Lynch Foundation for the Human Mind.
• David Lynch changing the subject back to transcendental meditation.
• The permeable boundary between dreams and reality.
• David Lynch putting sawmills in every movie because he just likes sawmills.
• The disappearance of all-night diners.
• What it takes to get Denny's In small-town New Brunswick.
• Whether it's possible to mod the bad parts of Deadly Premonition.
• Putting evolutionary pressure on jellyfish to get smaller until they evolve back into a single-called organism.
• Mammals returning to the sea.
• The mutation that allows Henrietta Lacks to live forever.
• The cancerous organism that's been hitchhiking in dogs for over a thousand years.
• What kind of tumors are blowing around in the Tasmanian Devil whirlwind.
• Real and metaphorical spandrels.
• Where the Panda's sharp thumb came from.
• The kiwi egg-to-body-mass ratio.
• Big Bird, the evolutionary pinnacle of all birds.
• Introverted Darwinism.
• Keeping your toilet paper on the bed.
• It's an indie game, you have to put a dead wife in there somewhere.
• Obama's presidency as the end of history.
• That time everyone was terrified of superpredators.
• Human beings organizing facts info stories.
• One of the many human traits that cause problems.
• Interpreting observed facts differently when you are depressed.
• Virtue Ethics.
• Deducing ethics via pure reason.
• Whether it's true or false that Sherlock Holmes smoked a pipe.
• Flash games where you drone strike terrorists.
• Exploring a system by interacting with it.
• A poem about a guy being beaten up for money.
• Successfully talking.
• Becoming the bones in the last case.
• Pre-nostalgia.
• Answering a question by just saying shit.
• A video game adaption of a poem.
• An atheist take on Tarot readings.
• The opinions of someone who once read a lot of philosophy.
• Sensing the passage of time in a film clip of a stationary object.
• Splinter of the Mind's Eye and the Star Wars radio plays.
• The Weird Al song that's just the whole plot of The Phantom Menace.
• The Blade Runner and V for Vendetta novelizations.
• Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, the novelization.
• Kenneth Branagh rolling around in slime with a naked reanimated corpse because because Mary Shelley would've wanted it that way.
• A social media platform that was designed to be mindful of mental health, going out of business almost immediately.