69. Wave-Cat Duality
February 15th, 2021
1 hr 5 mins 13 secs
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Lords:
- Hallie
- Jenni
- jenni@jennipolodna.com
- Riff and Jenni play Policenauts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnaryt7Vd-U&list=PLQqC_GkS4_4ZgJEvjj31kQpY75-Pnmbul
Topics:
- Tarot readings using meme templates
- In the musical Cats, jellicle cats ascend to the Heaviside Layer & come back reborn, therefore cats are radio waves, discuss
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1382102/Now-Lloyd-Webber-puts-Eliots-dogs-to-music.html
- Original twitter thread about platonic cats: https://twitter.com/chriscereza/status/1316118239785574400
- Why the Music In Cats Is Worse Than You Thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3aK-EK5V2k
- Disney attending your funeral
- John asks "Country Time Lemonade lent their brand name to the best lemon candy I ever had which I discovered right about the time it was discontinued"
- Why are you not supposed to let a moose lick your car, is it because their tongues will get stuck, how do you stop them
- Jokes as motivation to learn
- Unkomario and kintamario
- https://i.imgur.com/83LapJQ.png
- https://i.imgur.com/Vj3nsyW.png
- 18-Volt squatting on a coin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJKFZVEKHYY
Microtopics:
- Whether this is going to be a fun episode or if it's going to crash and burn after two minutes.
- Trying to eat a watermelon in December and nature punishing you for your hubris.
- A tarot deck of memes.
- Describing memes in an audio medium.
- Arby's.
- Getting ASMR live on the podcast.
- The Deck of Old Memes.
- Where the horsey sauce comes out.
- Your Arby's cups with a radioactive ghost.
- The Loss Spread.
- Literary analysis of a work of art, except it's a roguelike.
- Jellicle cats.
- Making noises even if you have nothing to say.
- Loving Cats unironically except for the fatphobic one.
- Advertisements for the stage musical Cats making it seem like Les Miserables, a show you go to to cry for three hours.
- Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat.
- Fantasizing that the hipster guy at the moustache wax store is your boyfriend.
- Platonic forms that have been banished to earth and must prove themselves sufficiently perfect to return to the realm of ideas.
- Whether pollicle is a back formation from jellicle.
- Never having met a pollicle dog, nor watched a fever dream of a movie where they sing to you.
- The good content that you can't keep it together through.
- Reinforcing Goofy's head so that it doesn't fall into the casket when he kisses the body.
- Burying you with a solar powered mp3 player so that you can hear "It's A Small World" on loop for eternity.
- Hiring someone to be you from the past so they can have it out with Goofy dressed as the Ghost of Christmas Future at your funeral.
- Planning the Best Funeral Ever.
- Whether Disney is willing to DMCA takedown your novelty Disney funeral.
- Our Cyberpunk Future being cool as heck and also unimaginably awful, like Lovecraft.
- Our Cool Cyberpunk Future, where there are cool things and terrible things, and the rich people have the cool things, and you can try to steal them from them.
- To what degree we got our Dystopian Cyberpunk Future because Jeff Bezos loved Neuromancer and wanted to make it happen for real.
- Hiring Hiro Protagonist from Snow Crash to come to your funeral and kiss you on the lips, and getting a Meme Virus that persists through your death.
- Hiring Tron Guy to come to your funeral and kiss you on the list.
- Refusing to let Tron Guy see Tron Legacy at your movie theater because Ernest Cline would just buy the theater immediately.
- Pickle brine that tastes a lot like peppery lemonade.
- The hierarchy of sour candies.
- Sour candy marketing in the 90s proclaiming that "your mom hates these!"
- The difference between macaroons and macarons, and whether it exists.
- The difference between pies and tarts, and whether it exists.
- Graham cracker crust quiche.
- The same podcast episode but you keep editing new guest commentary in so that gets longer and longer.
- Not letting a moose lick your car, because their tongue might get stuck.
- Driving away after the moose's tongue gets stuck to your bumper and the moose flies behind you like a kite.
- Driving in bemoosed roads.
- Driving away when a moose tries to lick your car.
- Moose seeing a car and thinking "oh good a source of salt."
- The hippos of the West.
- Telling your child that every animal is imaginary so they can have the magical moment of discovering the truth over and over again.
- Frightening a bear away by putting moose antlers on it and showing it a mirror.
- Inventing and testing sour honey live on this podcast.
- The patron saint of standing on your head.
- A sour honey update: it's fine.
- The new sour salty honey candy, "Are They Gonna Give Me That Sour Salty Honey?"
- People and learning and why they do it.
- The thing about jokes.
- Putting a bunch of bad programming means on the classroom wall because students will want to understand the joke.
- Learning a little about many things and becoming a generalist.
- The only STEM person in this anatomy and physiology class making jokes about how the kidneys are a linked list.
- A meme in the sense of making your calculator say "BOOBIES"
- An extremely elaborate process for making it kinda look like Mario is pooping.
- Duolingo finally paying off when you can discern which Mario is pooping and which Mario has testicles.
- An official Nintendo product acknowledging the schoolyard meme where it looks like Mario is pooping.
- Inventing new things to do with video games.
- The Green Demon.
- The essence of swag.
- Memes with good cinematography.
- Inventing rules to apply to yourself to make video games harder.
- Beating Pokemon with all Woopers.
- A problematic Kojima game?!
- Opting out of having an adult name.