336. The Four Colonoscopies

Lords:

• Jason
  • https://bumpyskies.com/
• Ben
  • https://www.zerofiftyone.net/

Topics:

• Prepping for a colonsocopy, the jmac way!
  • https://fogknife.com/2023-12-31-my-colonoscopy-strategies.html
• How to do things you're bad at
• The Trustworthy Shirts Tournament
  • https://eldritch.cafe/@cassolotl/116156921111844432
• Do not go gentle into that good night, by Dylan Thomas
  • https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night

Microtopics:

• The Wordle Puzzmo and Dall-E shitposts channel.
• Plugging your turbulence forecasting web site at both ends.
• Kids picking a name for themselves at age 8 and then being stuck with it forever.
• Going to court and the judge is named "velociraptor#1993" and that's just normal.
• Trying to pick a baby name and suggesting the name of your great grandmother whom you never met, velociraptor1993.
• People still being named Baker even though nobody bakes any more.
• Ripped off vs. stolen.
• Colonoscopy Strategies.
• Poorly understood advice from well meaning friends.
• Drinking squid ink the day before your colonoscopy.
• A power-blasted clean empty warehouse of a colon.
• Why are you still listening to these colonoscopy stories? Skip to the end of the episode where I ask you to give money to the patreon.
• The tattoo on the inside of your colon of an arrow indicating "this polyp right here"
• Staying up until 3 AM drinking an entire jerry can of mineral wax.
• Referring to the COVID pandemic as "the pandy"
• The colonoscopy robot's tattoo gun.
• Knowing all the names of parts of the intestines because of the difficult boss fight inside an intestine at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
• Hideo Kojima setting out to design a game to force people to write strategy guides about traversing the human rectum.
• What Google searches Hideo Kojima was trying to inspire when he designed Snatcher.
• Writing a strategy guide for drinking a five gallon can of lemon-flavored gym socks.
• Slightly chewy boiled sweets.
• Whether Jim should already have had a colonoscopy by now.
• Getting your colon cancer screening kit in the mail and it swishes when you shake the box.
• The tattoo scissor robot: it's out there waiting for you.
• Getting an image of someone else's intestines tattooed on the inside of your intestines.
• Getting "how's my driving" or "if you can read this you're too close" or "we bought this before we realized Elon was a fascist" tattooed on the inside of your intestines.
• Striving to be more comfortable with being bad at skills.
• All the ways you can fail at throwing pottery.
• Learning to enjoy being bad at the piano.
• The doodle that Bach drew on the cover of Well Tempered Clavier.
• Flanderizing yourself because nobody else will.
• Art forms where you accumulate physical evidence of your skill progression.
• Recording three audio books and observing yourself getting better at recording audio books.
• Audible's gig economy thing.
• Never studying piano because you get too much done when you procrastinate studying piano.
• Converted telephone microphones.
• Trying to learn to play piano with a broken digital piano and really getting into electronics repair.
• Playing live music and being completely at the mercy of time passing.
• The Moogseum in Asheville, North Carolina.
• The aspect of human existence that you're most missing out on.
• Sitting there watching people play music and wishing you could also play music.
• Learning to play the Final Countdown riff or the Axel F riff and being set for life.
• Following a tutorial to create a convincing cover of Satisfaction by Benny Benassi.
• Rip it Up, by Orange Juice.
• Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat.
• The Lesser Trolley Problems.
• Whether viewers of The Good Place are more likely to value moral philosophy.
• M*A*S*H vs. Moomins.
• Who would go around wearing a M*A*S*H shirt in 2026?
• Deciding how much to trust a Moomins aficionado without knowing how old they are.
• Identifying Moomins on sight.
• Owl House vs. Owl City.
• People who go around wearing Owl House shirts without thinking about all the passers by assuming that they mean the Fireflies band.
• What the characters in Interstellar think of Dylan Thomas.
• The last wave by soaking in the green bay.
• Whether you should get mad before you die.
• Breathing life and fire into those who yet live.
• Showing people an argument for losing so that they get mad and win instead.
• Charitable Reads Book Club, LLC.
• Production values that are way too high for this bit.
• Soupertasters 15, with guest star Michael Caine.
• Corn poems vs. carrot poems.