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* Tyriq is working on video games including Catacomb Kids: https://fourbitfriday.itch.io/catacombkids and has a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/FourbitFriday
* Avery still made that solo album. https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases
Topics
* 5:12 Reading non-religious texts as scripture.
* Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. http://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/
* Orphans of the Sky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OrphansoftheSky
* Generation Ships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generationship
* Water. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Water
* Wookieepedia has removed Poggle the Greater so I guess their editors are just as serious-business as Wikipedia's.
* Video Game Advisor. https://twitter.com/VGAdvisor
* 18:13 I just found out that "pitched battle" means "pitch" as in "sales pitch" as opposed to "fever pitch."
* Pitched battle on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchedbattle
* Pitched battle on Merriam Webster. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitched%20battle
* 24:01 How do you really use carrier pigeons?
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homingpigeon
* Pigeon racing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonracing
* 32:05 Larry asks: "Which ship is the best one?"
* Earthships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
* Dyson spheres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysonsphere
* Is it Hogwarts or just Britain? https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/ajmpqi/nonbritishharrypotterfanswhataresome_things/
* 40:53 One of two ways of doing a thing.
* 52:17 The switch in ancient Greece from clothed to naked sports.
Microtopics:
* Taking a bite out of a cartoon bird and leaving a tooth-shaped hole, like a cookie.
* Empire Records now being more real than Tower Records.
* Not remembering record stores.
* Mowing your face into a lawn made of tiny green clones of you.
* Trusting that in a couple years your record will be classic enough that dads will want it for Christmas.
* Trying to glean philosophy and life lessons out of the Bible even if you don't believe it's real.
* Trying to glean philosophy and life lessons out of Harry Potter even if you don't believe it's real.
* Star Wars being more real than Tower Records.
* Mixing methamphetamines and marriage.
* Language changing to mean the thing people misunderstand it to mean.
* Drinking tea and watching war as if it's a sport.
* Wearing enormous flags so people can see at a glance how the battle is going.
* Pantsed and unpantsed meaning the same thing.
* The union of shells and the union of unshelledness.
* The dude whose job it is to take homing pigeons away from home.
* Homing pigeons basically being a rubber band.
* Defcon attendees hacking the pigeon timestamp machine to win the pigeon race.
* Buying a signed shot polisher from the guy who won the International Barista Championships.
* Going to the barista gym up keep your skills up between barista gigs.
* Coming back from your barista sabbatical and discovering all coffee is now made in node.js.
* Not letting anyone else use the espresso machine you convinced management to pay for.
* Being both a barista and a bard at GitHub.
* Singing to GitHub employees a tale of the GitHub CEOs valor.
* The Roman alphabet existing in the Star Wars universe.
* Being a huge fan of Dyson spheres.
* Shamefully burying your fanfic in the desert, like E.T.
* Wanting to live in a pile of garbage.
* Wanting to live in a desert house, but not in the desert itself.
* Forming complex structures using simple rules.
* Wizards just pooping on the ground and magicking it away.
* Being furious when someone peels a banana wrong.
* Orienting your toilet paper so it's harder for cats to unroll.
* Cats sticking their paws under the door.
* Being sad because the doors are too flush with the ground for a cat paw to say hi.
* Bringing your guitar case to lure your cat admirer away from you.
* Waking up screaming about raccoons.
* A cat's ability to form a mental model of the world.
* Unloading the front door from memory when you get to the second floor.
* Never getting the dog you wanted so you get an iguana instead.
* Waking up snuggling a cold handbag.
* Whether lizards snuggle with sleeping deer in the wild.
* Earnestly proposing a Utopia ruled by you and your friends.
* Doing the Olympics naked being a week-long fad at best.
* Soccer fandoms gaining political power and going to war with one another.
* Soccer's popularity fading immediately after its invention, being just one of millions of microsports.
* Going into the wrestling pit with a spring loaded revolver up your sleeve.
* Voting somebody off the island of Earth.
* Biting open your cell phone tooth and the liquid going into a mold in your stomach shaped like a cell phone and pooping out a cell phone.
* There also being a mold for a cell tower in your stomach.
* Being qualified to gatekeep a culture because you once dated someone of that culture.
