260. This Sentient Life Could've Been An Email

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October 14th, 2024

1 hr 15 mins 33 secs

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  • Jenni
  • Chris

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Microtopics:

  • Too much dick content for one show.
  • What kind of fetus dong shot engagement you're looking for.
  • When they smear the goo on your belly.
  • Throwing a gender reveal party and the uncle nobody wants around is like "I don't believe you" and you get to whip out the photo of the kid's dick.
  • Shipping a person in Q4.
  • Automating the Omelas kid.
  • The Disney suffering animatronic child asking passers by to walk away from Omelas.
  • Gen Z no longer needing to read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas because they live in modern society.
  • Gardening in one of the hardest places in the world to garden.
  • What's the grass for?
  • An office park spending millions of gallons of water to maintain a lawn nobody ever walks on or looks at.
  • What if the Omelas kid is a dick? What if they're treating him really well and he just has impossibly high standards and hates everything.
  • An electrical problem that's very pronounced when Jenni turns on the blender.
  • The Golden Age of Corporate Mascots.
  • Undead Corporate Mascots.
  • Trying to find a picture of the Toucan Sam redesign and ending up on Deviant Art.
  • Howard and Nester.
  • Whether American kids will tolerate anime.
  • President of the Nintendo No Fun Club.
  • Spending $200 on the Nintendo hint line trying to solve the last screen in Solstice.
  • An adventure game that's also a platformer where if your toe touches a candle flame it's an instant game over.
  • Inventing terrible camera angles in a 2D game.
  • It's 3D, but on your Speccy!
  • Trusting a YouTube documentary more the longer the video is.
  • Are Domo Kun and Hello Kitty free agents?
  • Cap'n Crunch guest starring in the Star Wars Holiday Special.
  • A Roma who was once helpful.
  • Eating a sandwich and getting the sandwich tattooed on your bicep because.
  • A baby name that Boomer moms love.
  • Remington Steel On At 7PM After Matlock Jones.
  • Getting into a thing with people on Metafilter.
  • POV: when your girlfriend gets you Swedish meatballs at Ikea.
  • Whether Frosthaven is important to the testicles tasting umami story.
  • Vanilloid receptors.
  • Why you can shock your tongue with a 9 volt battery but you can't shock your forearm even if it's wet.
  • The chef with the tiny spoon in your testicles making sure to get the exact right MSG level in your semen.
  • Peppers hacking mammal biology.
  • Seeds who enjoy being digested by birds.
  • The cardioprotective benefit of spicy food.
  • The Ones Who Bring it Back to Omelas.
  • Broccoli evolving into crabs.
  • This is canon: BB-8 drives a 2016 Corolla.
  • Pretending that you are talking to a Youtube audience while you make s sandwich.
  • Just a li'l guy who rolls around on a ball.
  • R2D2: a mean mean man.
  • The floor falling out of the Pinto while you're driving it.
  • A rubber pad with friction stripes on it.
  • Turning it until it feels like you broke it, but you didn't and you have to keep going.
  • After the cake comes out of the oven the recipe stops having steps.
  • How to get help from Linux users.
  • The entire wheel snapping off the axle as you're parking at Camerica Bank.
  • Different car, same maintenance strategy.
  • Driving a car until it can no longer be ontologically be classified as a car.
  • Churchill's Irregulars.
  • Waiting for Peter Jackson to mansplain to you the sound a car makes when the wheel snaps off.
  • Delving too deeply into the Cars cinematic universe.
  • A Mastodon setting that hides all of Jim's BB-8 toots.
  • How to find people to follow on Nectarine.
  • The dying MUD you joined in 1997.
  • Radioactive names such as Hitler and Sheldon.
  • Joining a social media service and it tells you there are no posts.
  • Sam Pink strikes again.
  • The emotional arc of putting a tiny hat on a woodchuck.
  • A woodchuck you would definitely do a murder to.
  • Ampersand at the beginning of the line.
  • The Furniture That Rolled Away From Omelas.
  • Why the computer is mad in I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream.
  • Looking for sentient life in the universe when you have dolphins at home.
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