Critical Nonsense

This week, Joey, Aaron, and Jess talk about the Boston Celtics, Jayson Tatum, Nikola Jokić, celebrity, debates, and Caitlin Clark. They don’t talk about Simone Biles' 10,000 crystals. 

references 

• Celtic Football Club (pronounced with a soft 'C') 
• Boston Celtics name origin 
• Jab Like Jayson Tatum 
• Hollywood Reporter: What Tina Fey Told Bowen Yang About Expressing Opinions Publicly 
• What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith (summarized nicely here) 
• mesophyte 
• Red Panda 
• Andscape: They Call Her Big Ellie: Meet the New York Liberty's viral mascot 
• Ladies Love Cool James 
• Coaster Studios' Dollywood Review 
• Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang 

How do we predict the future? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about polling, phone phobia, targeted advertising, e-mail compartmentalization, stacking ambiguity, and Airheads. They don’t talk about nomophobia. 

references 

• Adam Duritz 
• Irish Times: Why younger people don’t make phone calls 

This week, a takeover! Aaron shares his latest edition from SYLVAIN’s Progress Report newsletter: Automating Our Instincts: How AI Can Be Embraced Rather Than Feared By Creatives.

For more from SYLVAIN's Progress Report, see progressbysylvain.co.

How do y'all deal with your digital poltergeists? 

This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about search results, the endless repository of stuff, digital cleanup, emails, collateral distraction, and friendly ghosts. They don’t talk about warlocks. 

references 

• Dinosaurs eating Joey 
• Toe beans and the art of reading them 
• poltergeist 
• They're here! 
• Woah, my love, my darling ... 
• Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville "Don't Know Much" 
• Teenybopper 
• Manwich 

How do we age right? 

This week, Joey, Aaron, and Jess talk about aching, supplements, cognitive decline, Tom Brady, LeBron James, and the future. They don’t talk about Alphaville. 

references 

• L.A. Times: "Talking 'Men of a Certain Age' with Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher" 
• Radiolab Podcast: The Secret to a Long Life 
• John Meyer's "Why Georgia?" 
• The 5 Regrets Of The Dying: Life Lessons Everybody Learns Too Late... 
• New York Magazine: "The 12 Best Nice-Looking Pill Cases" 
• System Shock 

What types of folk knowledge or rules of thumb do you live by? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about cheating at science fairs, sleep, the rule of threes, tenets, the How I Met Your Mother pause, and concavity. They don’t talk about what Werner Herzog's thumb tastes like. 

references 

• Chris Brunet's X thread on the ISEF cheating scandal 
• Jean Yang's life lessons 
• Pause 
• The Idea of You (and Maybe Not Harry Styles) 

Why don't we have more public art? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about toy poodles, graffiti, sidewalk chalk, murals, face painting, and sandals. They don’t talk about ESPO. 

references 

• Tom Otterness' Life Underground sculptures 
• The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon 
• Street art by David Zinn 
• Mural Arts Philadelphia 
• 5Pointz 

How does one deal with being an acquired taste? 

This week, Aaron and Joey talk about stinky fish, mole vs. mayonanaise, blue cheese, safe spaces, leadership, and sandwich lubricants. They don’t talk about surströmming. 

references 

• Holiday in Spain 
• Did they ruin it for you? (Yeah | No) 
• Thelma and Louise 
• Stinky Fish activity 
• rumspringa 
• Aaron: We need antiheroes in the boardroom to spark progress in the workplace 
• Spread your wings and fly, Butterfly 
• Call Your Girlfriend 

How are we using bowls? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about diversification of delivery methods, quick-serve restaurants, slushies, mush, ratios, and salads. They don’t talk about Prince. 

references 

• Fascinator 
• "Frozen in the Face of Tech": Joey @ Web Summit Rio 2024 
• Ramekin 

How has neighborliness changed in the past five years? 

This week, Aaron and Jess talk about lost dogs, trash pandas, the pandemic, masking, isolation, and marble runs. They don’t talk about the McFeelys or Cousin Mary Owl. 

references 

• Aaron keeps your head ringing while The Sequence funks you up. 
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 
• "Frozen in the Face of Tech": Joey @ Web Summit Rio 2024 
• Petco's Love Lost pet finder 
• 7 Signs of Undiagnosed Autism in Adults 
• Jelle's Marble Runs 
• The Lemonade Machine