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You thought the Fire Museum (episode 21) was a million-dollar idea? Here's a TWO-million-dollar idea: the Phobia Museum. Brock's knows he's claustrophobic, but his report from the Phobia Museum will help him know WHY he's claustrophobic. We're going to help people learn so MUCH about themselves. Also: chinchilla hats, sloth baskets, and birds what poop out their mouths.
We celebrate our half-year birthday with the first 3 minutes of this podcast having screwy audio. Cameron grew up 5 minutes fast. Brock has lost the ability to lose contact with outer realities. It's hard to idealize any point in American history in between three-cornered hats and now. We definitely don't figure out what sextants are for. There's too much available information. Your intellect is not a gas. Cameron pines for community via proximity.
Draw one wavy line down the long side of a church bulletin and it's all stick men and tanks from there. Sometimes you've just got to put the avocado on the bathroom floor. We discuss the possibility of one being a sociopath via laziness and privilege, stare into the abyss of our current Presidential situation, and wonder what the Ethical Republican Christians are up to these days.
Brock's name is a heretofore unspecified onomatopoeia. Cameron recommends the film "Chopping Mall". Brock isn't ready to pass on his legacy. Cameron lacked the self-actualization to eat more Sbarro. Brock's children need to stop licking things.
Cameron doesn't want more items in his mental queue. James Jameson needs a modded barrel. Cameron dropped the bottle rocket in the floorboards. Brock invents the word "incautious". We spend a while dipping back into high school reading assignments with Camus' The Stranger. Cameron says the "R" word.
Some people are more scared by the unfinished business ghost. Horror is the hot sauce of films. Cameron's CRT minimap was pixel oatmeal. Brock could spot the REAL engineers. Cameron knows enough about computers to be pre-demoralized.
Cameron didn't know the wok process. Page 3 of Google isn't what it used to be. Only narcissistic cartographers reveal their occupation. You're not paying $40 to burn a pile of Cheerios. In a burst of inspiration, we produce the next great museum concept. You're going to want to hear this. It will involve a LOT of waivers.
Brock has over-locked his house. Cameron thinks he ran away one time. No bacon unless you're all at the table. Children are chaotic neutral. Cameron hallucinated a cursing man at the movies. Corporations are trying to cut down the forest to make elevator buttons. You'd think "Let People Vote" would be a simple phrase.
[Addendum: we recorded this episode on Tuesday morning, before the latest news coverage regarding planned tent cities for immigrant children separated from their parents, and before the walkthrough of an existing detainment center for immigrant children housed inside a former Wal-Mart, with bar codes on childrens' wristbands, 2 hours of outside time a day, and a mural of Trump on the wall. Those items would have colored my side of the last 30-45 minutes of this podcast significantly more strongly. - Cameron]
Computers were always disposable. Apparently kids don't reinstall their Windows anymore. There's a black hole in personal computer history. Windows would never find a driver. The shared culture was a silver lining. How many people do you NEED to have a shared experience with, anyway?
Politics talk morphs into religion talk PRETTY quickly in this one, and we really never shovel ourselves back out, so buckle up, folks. Cameron is unconvinced that everyone believes in societal progress. Brock wants to balance without equivocating. Now's as good a time as any to emphasize that we're doing our best off the cuff here to have sincere conversations about difficult topics, so maybe use TWO buckles and LET'S GET READY TO RAMMBBBBBLLLLEEE
(After this one, I'm positing Cameron is some sort of Chaotic Good situation, and Brock is Lawful Neutral.)
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