August 02, 2021

93. A Medical Advice Podcast

1 hour 1 minute

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Lords:

Mara

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April

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Topics:

Frog and Toad core

What would you do with a bonus room in your house?

My reptile brain is a cat-loving ninja

If you could submit one thing (a song, a building, a food, an activity, an abstract concept) to the interstellar community of sapient intelligences as your part of The Case For Why The Human Race Is Good And Cool, what would it be?

How earnest lessons you try to teach your children backfire

Murder She Wrote is back on prime

Asafoetida powder

Microtopics:

The Expanse: bigger than before.

A developer's guide to cognitive behavioral therapy.

The various circumstances under which the Frog Fractions DLC hat can be a witch hat.

Cottagecore vs. Frog and Toad core.

Cottagecore merged with an old man.

Embracing Frog and Toad for pride month.

Finding the bodice rippers with people with dark curly hair on the cover because you can imagine those are light-skinned black people.

The relative density of the east coast.

Getting out of California before it's too late.

A complete dearth of natural disasters.

Writing an offer letter for a home you want to buy and mentioning your adorable child who just needs a home several times.

Moving into a space that is twice as big and not knowing what to do with all the space.

An Austenian fantasy you have been cherishing in your bosom.

A perfect cosy library with chairs that trap people.

Installing a ladder on casters so you can ride it around the room every morning in your Belle outfit.

Coming up with excuses to install the ladder on casters even though you can just reach up and grab every book in your library.

One of those booths with a fan at the bottom that you fill by ripping a single page out of every book in your library.

How much extra you can charge for an Airbnb hidden behind a secret bookshelf.

Going into the Library of Congress to check out Bullfrog's Official Guide to Dungeon Keeper.

A room full of music production equipment and no internet connection.

Asking your child to focus at dinner when all the adults at the table have their phones out.

Saving a cat by applying torque to a falling chair.

Doing a thing before you realize you've done it and thinking "wow it's a good thing I agree with those actions."

Deliberately relying on your unconscious mind to do important work.

Whether Jim and his wife need to get checked for ADHD.

A teen who can write a hell of a term paper.

The interstellar community of sapient intelligences.

The case for why the human race is good and cool.

Winnie the Pooh.

Reclaiming the poop.

Taco Bell's cannon firing nacho cheese chalupas at the enemy spaceships.

Trying to convey "hygge" without being willing to try to pronounce it.

Learning about alien cultures by watching Star Trek.

A five year old explaining to you how T-Mobile are leaders in 5G technology.

A perfectly sensible reaction to the story of Noah's Ark.

Learning what fighting is and deciding to fight your mom.

A book about a child who needs to be reprimanded all the time.

Shouting "no" and throwing the phone on the floor whenever an ad plays.

Watching Murder She Wrote every night before bed.

Jessica Fletcher the serial killer and her nephew Grady, also a serial killer.

How good Jessica Fletcher would be at breaking up a loud graduation party.

Predicting when the party next door is going to end by the decade the music is from.

How to recognize a trap remix of the Murder She Wrote theme from just the bass.

Tricking your family into playing the Murder She Wrote board game.

Not needing a wedding ring because your husband got you the Murder She Wrote DVD boxed set.

Discovering what DVDs are and deciding to put them in the shower.

Covering the shower drain with the Wii Sports disc because they're the exact same size.

A bone-dry shower.

Always shirt-cocking it.

Baby poop and onions but also kind of floral but also you hate onions.

Resorch.

Dried latex from the celery family.

Boiling your neti pot water to kill the brain-eating bacteria that might pass through the blood brain barrier.

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