360. The Screen Disapproves
September 14th, 2026
1 hr 4 mins 15 secs
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About this Episode
Lords:
- CisHetKayfaber
- Charles
Topics:
- When your therapist introduces their own problems that you don't have
- Color as a separate sensory axis (deprioritized for some, assumption of color in black and white things, dreaming in black and white)
- One-handed triangle
- Many, Many Tekel Upharsin by Jacob Bacharach
- Screen time is a classist plot
Microtopics:
- Ironic usernames.
- Bilingual global information security IT legal compliance.
- Knowing each other through the replies.
- Patrick Cosmos, L Ron Mexico and Senator Lemon Gogurt.
- Taking on a challenge to guest on more than one podcast per week.
- The legal comedy podcast ouevre.
- Riffing with your therapist.
- Your therapist getting really upset about political events and you have to calm them down and then they bill you for the hour.
- Finding your zen when things make you shouty.
- Your psychiatrist telling you you can't have a mental disorder because you've published papers.
- Staying with a therapist longer than is therapeutically useful.
- Doing your best to not worry about things you can't fix.
- Why everyone is to choosing to affront you, the protagonist of the universe.
- Surviving the chaos that being a parent introduces into your world.
- Therapy access in Japan.
- The development stage in which kids are unreasonable.
- Recalled image pastiche.
- Inability to perceive sunburn.
- How to tell if a light switch is working in a dream.
- People who can analyze that they like about music.
- Deprioritizing color information in the same way a color blind person would.
- Coming to reality with different axes of perception.
- Spending time around people who notice eye color.
- Self-describing phenomena.
- Converting to Catholicism so you can become white.
- A triangle that's not shaped like a triangle but it sounds like a triangle.
- Playing a triangle like a shaker.
- Touching the exposed bars so that it sounds like you're eating with chopsticks.
- The Triangle Tessitura.
- A one-man band on the boardwalk clapping cymbals with his knees.
- Not hating a thing because your emotional range just doesn't reach that far.
- Stomp Clap Hey Band.
- DannyB Fanfic.
- Trying to live forever via various peptides and also your son's blood.
- Using Jewish artifacts in a drunken reverie.
- Doing your own hair transplants at home.
- Hey buddy, can you get these peptides in Japan?
- The Ozymandias level of hubris that demands its own poem.
- Becoming a meme of yourself.
- Different kinds of screen time.
- Growing up with unlimited screen time and almost getting a PhD.
- Hyperpalatability.
- The attention economy.
- Not knowing about an Internet phenomenon.
- Developing agriculture and then it all goes to hell.
- Figuring out everything you have to do and then doing the easiest thing on the list.
- The Screen Disapproves.
- Taking the coping strategies that you can get.
- The best parenting strategy you can hope for without having infinite free time.
- Babe Ruth walking with choppy legs on his home run trot.