84. Whirling Away Into The Unhearable

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Lords:

• Erica
  • @YerrikTRB on Twitter
  • Erica plugs Kitchen! The Musical, and also Micah’s books: https://tinyurl.com/46k5zfnm
• Micah
  • @micahwrites on Twitter
  • Micah plugs Bermudez Triangle, “Chilling Tales for Dark Nights” https://www.youtube.com/user/chillingtaleswi

Topics:

• In praise of bad hidden object games
  • HOPAs, or Hidden Object Puzzle Adventures, made by studios in Hong Kong and Eastern Europe:
  • https://www.eipix.com/hopa-games/
  • http://blueteagames.com/
  • https://elephant-games.com/games/
  • https://www.world-loom.com/
  • HOPA Let’s Plays: https://www.youtube.com/c/YourGibs/playlists
• Better designs for the human body
  • Modularity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity_(biology)
  • CRISPR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR
• When you say "excuse me" you're asking forgiveness for doing something rude, such as burping. When you say "excuse me" as a demand that someone move out of the way because you're impatient to get past, the demand is itself the rude thing, so you should have to say it twice.
  • Brood X: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22362042/cicada-brood-x-map-2021
  • Palo Verde beetles
  • https://www.azfamily.com/weather/phoenix_weather_blog/the-monsoon-monster-beetle/article_bb4bd606-0476-5c0e-ae2a-ddbe1467d9d5.html
  • https://arizonareport.com/big-black-arizona-beetle-palo-verde/
  • Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_hissing_cockroach
• Beastie Boys - Sabotage
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE
  • https://youtu.be/-TQgbVk9jss
  • Deodar Cedars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedrus_deodara
• Ryan Reynolds and the Deadpool Cinematic Universe
• Watching Shakespeare
  • The Hollow Crown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Crown_(TV_series)
  • Henry V: https://globeplayer.tv/videos/henry-v
  • Falstaff, who is actually more in Henry IV than Henry V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Falstaff
  • Hamlet in the original Klingon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0k4qV1I1Y
  • Richard II (the one that precedes Henry IV) https://tinyurl.com/344kjjp4

Microtopics:

• Kitchen! The Musical.
• Inviting the general public to write the musical that exists only in your head.
• Introducing the guest who is bad at introducing himself.
• Running a white-hat ARG on company servers to research and understand the employees you fired for running an ARG on company servers.
• In praise of terrible games.
• Procedurally-generated hidden object games.
• Organizing your life in a video game when you can't organize shit in real life.
• Where the Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure fan communities are congregating online.
• Using the block button on the pile of dishes in the sink.
• Asking the manliest gamers to play feminine-coded video games and discovering if they become less manly.
• Ladies who want to wear big dresses to be fancy ballroom ladies.
• Gamers who don't congregate online but instead enjoy video games by themselves.
• Where the Russian developers who make games for American women congregate online.
• Clicking on something to make it go away.
• Improving humans by adding components vs. by replacing components.
• The legality of inventing a new organism by adding or deleting genes.
• The Modular Human.
• Plants undergoing full genome duplication.
• The Diploid Human.
• Using your hundred tongues to speak a hundred languages at once.
• The one line you remember from "Kitchen! The Musical"
• Saying "excuse me" in a higher and higher pitched voice until you're only saying "excuse me" to dogs and bats.
• Running an errand in Tucson and incidentally removing horrifying beetles from multiple strangers’ hair.
• True bugs and untrue bugs.
• True bugs, with piercing and sucking mouthparts.
• A reimagining of the insect phylum that includes small dogs and especially annoying children.
• Hissing cockroaches that repeat what they hear like a parrot, so when you walk through the forest all you hear is a chorus of raspy voices saying "agh, get it off of me!"
• Brood X, scheduled for this summer!
• Brood X: Brood In Space.
• OS X: OS In Space.
• Which is worse, piercing and sucking mouthparts or sawing and sucking mouthparts?
• What color of flashing lights civilians are allowed to use.
• Pretending to be police.
• The invasive plant species that the Sabotage music video is trying to highlight.
• Hypothetical potted plants in the background of Powerman 5000's When Worlds Collide.
• Being sentenced to community service and filling your rap punk band's trailer with fresh vegetables.
• Nick Cave throwing a chair.
• A poolside interrogation to find out if someone has a waterproof phone before you push them into a pool.
• A cloth dummy falling off of a bridge.
• Whether that cloth dummy had a cloth family.
• Whether 1970s porn stars styled themselves after 1970s cops, or vice versa.
• Popeye the Sailor Moon.
• Everybody at the party dressing up as sexy cops and handing the real police a beer when they show up at the door.
• Accidentally bringing up sexy cops every time you're on the show.
• Chill dudes in short ties.
• Taking a picture of a tree out of your moving car and asking a botanist to identify a blurry mess.
• A boss who thinks your name is Marcia.
• Meeting somebody with overlapping energies.
• Total freedom from all societal expectations.
• Setting up a movie streaming service that only streams one movie to promote your new phone company.
• Buying every copy you can find of your first movie.
• Watching multiple sets of people trapped in the same reality where they play out the same dramas and say the same lines over and over.
• The one time Shakespeare wrote a stage direction.
• Every time Shakespeare has been adapted into a movie.
• Who even likes Falstaff.
• The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged.
• Re-subtitling your movie using lines from Shakespeare.
• The origin of Klingons as Shakespeare characters.