Lords:

Jason
- https://bumpyskies.com/
Ben
- https://www.zerofiftyone.net/

Topics:

Prepping for a colonsocopy, the jmac way!
- https://fogknife.com/2023-12-31-my-colonoscopy-strategies.html
How to do things you're bad at
The Trustworthy Shirts Tournament
- https://eldritch.cafe/@cassolotl/116156921111844432
Do not go gentle into that good night, by Dylan Thomas
- https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night

Microtopics:

The Wordle Puzzmo and Dall-E shitposts channel.
Plugging your turbulence forecasting web site at both ends.
Kids picking a name for themselves at age 8 and then being stuck with it forever.
Going to court and the judge is named "velociraptor#1993" and that's just normal.
Trying to pick a baby name and suggesting the name of your great grandmother whom you never met, velociraptor1993.
People still being named Baker even though nobody bakes any more.
Ripped off vs. stolen.
Colonoscopy Strategies.
Poorly understood advice from well meaning friends.
Drinking squid ink the day before your colonoscopy.
A power-blasted clean empty warehouse of a colon.
Why are you still listening to these colonoscopy stories? Skip to the end of the episode where I ask you to give money to the patreon.
The tattoo on the inside of your colon of an arrow indicating "this polyp right here"
Staying up until 3 AM drinking an entire jerry can of mineral wax.
Referring to the COVID pandemic as "the pandy"
The colonoscopy robot's tattoo gun.
Knowing all the names of parts of the intestines because of the difficult boss fight inside an intestine at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
Hideo Kojima setting out to design a game to force people to write strategy guides about traversing the human rectum.
What Google searches Hideo Kojima was trying to inspire when he designed Snatcher.
Writing a strategy guide for drinking a five gallon can of lemon-flavored gym socks.
Slightly chewy boiled sweets.
Whether Jim should already have had a colonoscopy by now.
Getting your colon cancer screening kit in the mail and it swishes when you shake the box.
The tattoo scissor robot: it's out there waiting for you.
Getting an image of someone else's intestines tattooed on the inside of your intestines.
Getting "how's my driving" or "if you can read this you're too close" or "we bought this before we realized Elon was a fascist" tattooed on the inside of your intestines.
Striving to be more comfortable with being bad at skills.
All the ways you can fail at throwing pottery.
Learning to enjoy being bad at the piano.
The doodle that Bach drew on the cover of Well Tempered Clavier.
Flanderizing yourself because nobody else will.
Art forms where you accumulate physical evidence of your skill progression.
Recording three audio books and observing yourself getting better at recording audio books.
Audible's gig economy thing.
Never studying piano because you get too much done when you procrastinate studying piano.
Converted telephone microphones.
Trying to learn to play piano with a broken digital piano and really getting into electronics repair.
Playing live music and being completely at the mercy of time passing.
The Moogseum in Asheville, North Carolina.
The aspect of human existence that you're most missing out on.
Sitting there watching people play music and wishing you could also play music.
Learning to play the Final Countdown riff or the Axel F riff and being set for life.
Following a tutorial to create a convincing cover of Satisfaction by Benny Benassi.
Rip it Up, by Orange Juice.
Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat.
The Lesser Trolley Problems.
Whether viewers of The Good Place are more likely to value moral philosophy.
M*A*S*H vs. Moomins.
Who would go around wearing a M*A*S*H shirt in 2026?
Deciding how much to trust a Moomins aficionado without knowing how old they are.
Identifying Moomins on sight.
Owl House vs. Owl City.
People who go around wearing Owl House shirts without thinking about all the passers by assuming that they mean the Fireflies band.
What the characters in Interstellar think of Dylan Thomas.
The last wave by soaking in the green bay.
Whether you should get mad before you die.
Breathing life and fire into those who yet live.
Showing people an argument for losing so that they get mad and win instead.
Charitable Reads Book Club, LLC.
Production values that are way too high for this bit.
Soupertasters 15, with guest star Michael Caine.
Corn poems vs. carrot poems.

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