352. The Dim Sum Moose

Lords:

• Alex
• Shannon

Topics:

• What's a ghost? And other questions you can't explain to a 3 year old.
• Trophic memory, deer, and a truly unique scientific object- Copied from thoughtforms.life
  • https://thoughtforms.life/trophic-memory-deer-and-a-truly-unique-scientific-object/
• Summer Homework
• Otzi Awake, by Max Lavergne
  • https://www.tumblr.com/dat-soldier/787624576603619328/beingharsh

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.