71. There's No Chicken Nine Because Chicken Six Seven Ate Nine

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Lords:

• Elena
• Quil

Topics:

• Some people put on music and then just talk over it instead of singing along?? Why
• Being the only person in a movie theater/concert
• A Spirograph but for your butt
• Daniel asks "Legacy board games such as Pandemic Legacy or Gloomhaven."
• Weird sleeping apparatuses
• "House Special Live Frog in Hot Stone Pot" on the delivery menu

Microtopics:

• A girl who is raised as a boy in pre-revolutionary France and becomes Marie Antoinette's guard.
• Turn of the millennium club music.
• Finding out that Itsy Bitsy Spider has been about perseverance all this time.
• Having to restrain yourself from singing along when you're at the opera.
• Trying to eat dinner but you can't eat because you need to sing along to your sea shanty playlist.
• Trying to eat bites of dinner during the verses because you keep having to sing along to the choruses.
• Properties of sea shanties.
• Having a different song for every task.
• Everybody performing music before recorded music was a thing, because that was how you had music in your life.
• The horrible historical handwriting that historians never show you.
• Celebrating the new decade with Cats (2019) and when you walk out of the theater you're the only person in the building.
• Seeing Pitch Perfect 3 at 10pm on Christmas Eve and probably ruining a bunch of theater employees plans to have a party in that empty theater.
• When you're the only person in the theater, asking the projectionist to pause the movie while you go to the bathroom.
• Being the last person seeing an awful live band because everyone else walked out, and realizing that if you too walk out, they'll be playing to an empty room.
• A drummer and a guitarist who are both playing too loud to hear each other.
• The only live performance you've ever walked out on.
• Pooping in a spiral.
• Nature's sharpie.
• The origin of topics.
• A disc that you sit on.
• A combination nausea inducer and butt spirograph.
• Cake icing videos.
• Asking your son what his life is a commentary on.
• A shark embedded in a formaldehyde solution.
• Work that aggressively annoys the art community.
• Ironic cocaine.
• Sneaking into the museum to hang up your own work.
• Taking photos of a painting and then destroying the original and then taking photos of the photos and destroying the original artist.
• Modifying the rules as you play the game.
• Opening up more and more of your board game every time you play, like an Advent calendar.
• A board game that you learn like a video game.
• Memorizing a dozen page book before you can start playing a game.
• Copyrighting the concept of a legacy.
• Proposing to your wife by intentionally losing a board game over and over again.
• The thing you were working towards screwing you over and now you have to undo it.
• Trying to think of a board game you've played more than a few times.
• Really looking forward to a board game and finally getting it and deciding to just watch your friends play.
• Whether it's apparati or apparatodes.
• The doublet of apparat.
• Wanting to be hyper correct in everything you do.
• Buying a tent to go over your bed because your blackout curtains aren't cutting it.
• Buying a bunch of weird pillows to compensate for the position your arms automatically get into when you sleep.
• How CPAP machines all have a SIM card and phone home with your sleep behavior and there's no way to turn it off.
• Nasal pillows.
• Sleeping with a weird contraption blowing air into your face constantly.
• Discovering that it is much easier to fall asleep when you are very tired at the end of the day.
• Ranking your morningness and eveningness.
• Sleeping in a hammock.
• Making a nest of pillows around you.
• Putting on your velcro pajamas and jumping onto the velcro wall to fall asleep.
• Your velcro bed waking you up with a loud ripping sound every time you switch positions.
• Time-release velcro.
• Ice velcro.
• Making a salt igloo at the salt flats.
• A weighted blanket that is so heavy you can't get up until a crane rescues you.
• Sleeping under a chainmail sheet.
• A quilt made out of beanbags.
• The first thing you searched for when you got on the internet.
• Youtube videos about your idealized farm life.
• Ordering a pet frog from your Szechuan delivery menu.
• Getting Hot Pot delivered and the Pot arrives cold.
• Ordering Chicken 65 because there are no other numbered items on the menu.
• Not wanting to eat animals whole because there's poop in there.
• Frog Fractions 65.
• If Chicken 6 was so good, why isn't there a Chicken 6 5?
• A Kidz Bop version of Ocean's 11.