352. The Dim Sum Moose

July 20th, 2026

1 hr 3 mins 50 secs

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About this Episode

Lords:

  • Alex
  • Shannon

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Game Changer and other Drop 7 shows.
  • What real Topic Heads know.
  • California Extreme, the pinball and arcade machine expo.
  • Getting in on the ground floor to become the only place where topics are discussed.
  • Dropping soup cans into a jacuzzi to record the Frog Fractions splash noises.
  • Dropping the Frog Fractions lore.
  • Releasing art and watching people get it in the way you wanted them to get it.
  • Seeing the Human from Frog Fractions in real life and wondering "where do I know this human from?"
  • A pin-up calendar where you draw your own pin-up each month.
  • Conveying the concept of a ghost to a three year old.
  • Whether it's okay to tell the truth to a small child
  • Realizing that the three-year old only knows about fantasy skeletons and explaining that actually, skeletons are inside of us.
  • A two-minute soliloquy about where mama owls come from.
  • Doing your best not to adopt a child's adorable mispronunciation of restaurant.
  • Hearing Dust in the Wind in a car commercial and being like "That's my dad's guitar song! That's the song my dad plays on guitar!"
  • Accepting that you are responsible for shaping this child into a good, healthy adult human, but also, wouldn't it be funny if...
  • Training your child to ask for "hot guys on Instagram" when she wants to look at pictures of unicorns and waterslides.
  • Finding and ankylosaurus in the bedsheets.
  • The age at which children develop a sense of fear.
  • An entire song about not being afraid of ghosts and also how to bust them.
  • One of the major delights of being around a child.
  • Big bones sticking out of your head for a few months until they fall off.
  • A New Fork in the Antlers.
  • Whether it's advantageous to have more complicated antlers.
  • Growing antlers in the lab.
  • Owning a bunch of deer and collecting and labeling all their antlers.
  • Telling the bone cancer what to do.
  • Watching a moose shake its head and the antlers just pop right off.
  • A moose dropping antlers to distract a predator.
  • Trying to get on a plane with your new antler growth.
  • Eating enough calcium to do all the antler growing you need to do.
  • Scoring deer by counting the antler points.
  • Moose lifespan.
  • Seasonal Antler Disorder.
  • The Dim Sum moose with one dumpling on every point of its antlers.
  • Your 2nd grade teacher calling you up to assign you math homework to do on your honeymoon.
  • Homework: what is it for?
  • Homework as anti-union training.
  • Striving to care less about your job.
  • An after-school program that helps kids finish their homework by having an adult just do all the homework, like the parents would if they had the time.
  • The cat on Jim's head.
  • Finally hearing about a behavioral problem from your kid's teacher, that he likes reading too much.
  • Doing the social norms because you are in a group who is all doing the social norms.
  • Otzi the Preserved Carcass.
  • A pretty dang old guy.
  • An ice-age man with almost as many tattoos as a modern teenager.
  • Gen X Cuspers.
  • The earliest known human with Lyme disease.
  • Wanting to make a gutstring bow but there are no guts around.
  • What being any celebrity is like.
  • What percentage of humans are related to Otzi the Ice Man.
  • Being chased through the alps by people who want to kill you with arrows and the next thing you know scientists are rummaging through your stomach contents.
  • An ancient form of Grindr.
  • How old does a corpse need to be before you can buy and sell it?
  • How lost does a corpse need to be before you can find it?
  • Which natural laxatives the ice man used.
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