Cam And Brock Are Two People

Take a trip back to life before the midterms with this episode, recorded just before all that business. Brock invents the word "rerefer". We both express hope that jingoism isn't the final form of patriotism in America, and that progress exists in the world. We also discuss replacing ourselves with robots.

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This podcast is best viewed at 1024x768. At some point, cars got blobby, and we’re not sure why. Cameron reminisces back to the heady days of the button spritesheet. If you’re looking to get into design, just say “holistic” a lot and that things feel azure, and you’ve got it made.

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The ideas keep flowing this week, as we invent a sort of device ecosystem of parental sentinels for keeping children in their beds at night. Comforting body heat? Programmatically generated existential rhetoric? Bluetooth connectivity? Cheez-it dispenser? Sleep Daddy and Cuddle Mommy have it all. Patents pending.

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Cameron uses coffee to swallow a pill, live on microphone. Brock survived another hurricane. Cameron doesn’t understand why they cut holes in new road. Your two 140-decibel timeouts a day can be a gift you give to literally everyone around you. EVERYONE. The weaponization of the timeout is a short-term problem.

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America has improved on literally everything else we inherited from the UK – why not the knighthood system? Join us on a journey toward an, in retrospect, obvious and inevitable market opportunity: honorifics. Start saving your pennies now, because you’re going to want to be in on the ground floor of this golden opportunity, or my name isn’t Chicken Hyphen Nuggets Cameron Daigle, U.S.A.

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Cameron overdoses on tea. Brock is a coffee bubble boy. How about some some juicy baby shrimp on that pizza? Cameron’s sleep was stolen by K-Pop Tony Hawk. Cameron and Brock discuss the distressing Instagram trend of clinical food dissection. How about some pickles on that pizza? How about some MAYO on that pizza?

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We’re back after an altogether unexplained absence! Cameron and Brock share storytelling techniques for getting their children to go the heck to sleep. Cameron generally works in the castles/festivals/magical forest vein, while Brock weaves tales of eldritch horror and ancient terror. Cameron takes great pleasure in being able to mention Thrackan Sal-Solo. Doctor Hamheim likes ham.

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It's the LASIK episode! Two weeks into lasered eyes, we're finally climbing out of the politics-and-religion hole to talk about some good old-fashioned eye cuttin'. And don't forget, if you have questions about lasers, corneal flaps, Brock's perfect eyesight, or Cameron's resistance to Valium, dial 25-25-HEY-CAM today.

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Dear listeners, you may notice that there is no Episode 29. That's on purpose! Join us as we reflect on the fact that sometimes the best thing to do is record a podcast, learn from it, and NOT upload it. Also: Cameron is 10,000 tiny decisions lighter. Learn why a "Coolapeño" isn't as great as it sounds. A cornucopia is a bad basket.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT: We are now accepting voicemails! We see no downside to this plan. Please dial 25-25-HEY-CAM – that's (252) 543-9226 – with your question, comment, complaint, recipe, joke, or series of filthy, filthy curses, and we will address your voicemail accordingly.

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It's all about the other 97% of the universe. Cameron can't take a 7-year-old to a bar. You don't have to invent Chicago for a story. Brock is constantly disappointed by the physics of the real world. Cameron probably invents the word "perfunctorily". We dig deep into the highs and lows of No Man's Sky, and also the highs and lows of the crappy version of the Matrix we call "reality".

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