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Lords:
* Mark
* Shirley
Topics:
* Neuroscience!
* Fertility tracking is more complicated than I realized.
* When it turns out that a character in a movie is movie-star hot because it's a plot point, rather than because they're portrayed by a movie star, and I guess then the audience is supposed to pretend all the other characters, also played by movie stars, just look like regular schlubs.
* Immortal - Call Of The Wintermoon
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VBdAY8eA9w
* Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu.be/I4XK7YqwgFg
* Tiktok food trends that are more about elaborate assembly than flavors.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vesYREe6_uk
Microtopics:
* A band from Sweden that just released a demo.
* Album art with a big giant snake and a shirtless barbarian dude whipping a mace at a guy.
* A punk band composed of mixed race middle school riot grrls.
* Speaking to a rude 12 year old and running off to write a bitchin' punk song about it.
* Observing someone's career arc via the podcasts they guest on.
* Talking yourself out of being a scientist.
* Helping people with early-stage dementia manage activities of daily living.
* An acquired language problem.
* Adapting to not being in an abusive workplace environment.
* How a process improvement is received when you suggest it to your BevMo manager vs. when you suggest it to the head of your neuroscience lab.
* How every retail store is as understaffed as possible by design.
* Switching from a retail job to an office job and suddenly being trusted to decide when to go to the bathroom.
* How the world might be different if the people in charge had to live in the world they created.
* Thriving in Our Hypercapitalist Dystopia.
* Trying to have a kid and learning a whole bunch about your own body in the process.
* Giving kids facts instead of ideology or even advice.
* Going to pregnancy club and wondering if there's an aspirational pregnancy club.
* Taking your temperature when you emerge from slumber.
* Peeing on sticks. (A medical process.)
* Not trying, not preventing.
* Cervical mucus.
* A bad batch of kombucha can kill you, and other ways kombucha is like a pregnancy.
* Being naturally blessed with high motility sperm.
* Asking your doctor if you should run a bunch of tests and they're like "just chill" and you're like "take my blood, please"
* The science of trying-adjacent.
* Drinking too deeply of the colloidal silver.
* A bookish nerd who is portrayed by one of the most attractive humans on the planet but they're wearing glasses.
* The incomparable Finn Carter.
* Trying to cast an actor to play an unattractive person but Steve Buscemi is busy and you can't find a single other ugly actor so you cast Scarlet Johansson and have the makeup department put her in uglyface.
* Doing an image search for "ugly actors" and every single result is of a South Asian and freaking out until you find out that there's a Bollywood movie called "Ugly."
* Putting "the frumpy one" from a movie in a room next to a bunch of normal people and realizing that you need to blow way past the conventionally-attractive bell curve to even be allowed into Los Angeles.
* A music video that was shot on VHS and uploaded to 2006-era Youtube.
* Goth clowns scowling and looking out from behind trees.
* A troupe of grumpy goth clowns in leather daddy outfits discovering and exploring ancient ruins.
* Cutting your frenulum so you can stick out your tongue as far as Gene Simmons and waking up choking on your tongue meat every night.
* Grumpy goth clowns crouching in doorways.
* Hearing a variety of different screams and growls.
* Training to scream for several hours a day, every day, without ruining your screamy bits.
* Doing the crabcore thing decades before crabcore.
* Googling "candlemass bewitched" for a good time.
* Watching TikTok on Reddit because you're old.
* Extremely simple and compelling recipes that can't possibly work and will in fact cause a fire in your chicken.
* Making bad content to make people mad.
* Trying to redefine porn as anything you enjoy.
* Making a series of recipe videos with your nonstandard measuring cups so people need to buy your weird measuring cups to follow along.
* Elsagate.
* J. Kenji Lopez-Alt.
* Hard boiling a million eggs to scientifically determine that you're super sick of eating eggs.
* Food Wishes.
* That's Just You Cookin'.
* A cool chef with a cool attitude.
* A chef with a cadence of speaking that really annoys your dad.
* Learning to improvise when faced with an unexpected situation.
* How to get joy out of cooking.
* The fugu preparation certification.
* Watching somebody spend five minutes washing some extremely starchy rice.
* Having two gimmicks.
* A knife that you can also use as a spatula.
* Using fresh stream water in your forest cooking videos.
