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360. The Screen Disapproves

September 14th, 2026

1 hr 4 mins 15 secs

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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.
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