Topic Lords

158. Bark Mitzvah: Where Your Good Boy Becomes A Mensch

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  • The Real John B

    • Topics:

    • The Nancy Drew Point and Click adventure series
    • Advances in garbage food technology
    • The mysterious grunting voice playing over the American Airlines intercom
      • https://waxy.org/2022/09/a-mysterious-voice-is-haunting-american-airlines-in-flight-announcements-and-nobody-knows-how/
      • A poem I found: "The Cow" by Oliver Herford
        • https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo/status/1053873522823446528
        • Klik, freeware and indie games in the late 90s and early 2000s
          • http://freegames.org/GameHippo

            • Microtopics:

            • Other topic podcasts biting Jim's steeze.
            • Spending the next hour blushing.
            • Holding a Bark Mitzvah to watch your Good Boy become a mensch.
            • Releasing a director's cut from beyond the grave.
            • Bad games that you can't get enough of.
            • Adventure games that make you feel like when grandma would visit and bring you donuts.
            • Secret Fandoms.
            • The new Nancy Drew series where Nancy Drew is an airhead and nobody likes her.
            • A 70 year old woman playing a teenager.
            • Whether game designers play anything other than World of Warcraft.
            • Why the Nancy Drew adventure games are not on phones.
            • Putting Nancy Drew in Fortnite.
            • Friend of the show, Dropsy.
            • You don't have to be an American to eat a garbage diet, but it sure helps.
            • Food color technology over time.
            • When Froot Loops added the fourth color.
            • Speaking truth to power about the little silver disc that you microwave pizza on.
            • The starchy packet that helps the noodles cook.
            • A job that requires the skill sets of both a chef and a materials engineer.
            • Things that come out of boxes nowadays.
            • Watching meat substitutes grow up.
            • Plastic golems living in your body.
            • Getting your first reading glasses at your Old Mitzvah and giving a speech starting with "now I am an old."
            • The second person this hour who has admitted to the pharmacist that they need reading glasses.
            • The baby technology section at Walmart.
            • Snot removers that'd also be great for insect collection.
            • A sock that measures blood oxygenation.
            • Earwitness accounts.
            • Working on the American Airlines announcement system and adding strange grunting noises to the playlist.
            • Electrical noise that is being interpreted by a system intended to transmit the human voice.
            • The guy who does all the grunt voices.
            • A sound that is like audio from a music album.
            • An incredible technical smartass who got annoyed at luggage fees.
            • A fridge full of snacks in the middle of the plane.
            • Every passenger getting up and going to the snack pit.
            • Wrestling for Cheez-Its.
            • All the folks who are into weird pranks and technical glitches making a pilgrimage to the American Airlines flight with the weird grunting.
            • Nancy-likes.
            • The Three Investigators, presented by Alfred Hitchcock.
            • Joining the discord for more on the ukulele plane.
            • Back in 1901 when they worried about Peak Cow.
            • Milk punch.
            • Eggless egg nog.
            • Celebrating all the positive ways cows influence our lives, and also we eat them.
            • Whether scientists knew extinctions were possible in 1901.
            • Looking for free games on the internet in 1999.
            • Letting the Game Hippo domain lapse and a domain squatter picks it up and the rest is history.
            • Dink Smallwood.
            • A multidirectional shooter with a cool perspective trick.
            • All the search engines they had before google.
            • The Williams College MUD that you could log in to and visit Williams College in the MUD.
            • Graal Online.
            • Receiving a box of shareware from your mom's coworker.
            • PC games from before developers realized that computers would get faster.
            • Typing swim fast enough that you don't drown.
            • Please Copy That Floppy!

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