Lessons learned from board games: Choice is an illusion - Life How to perform surgery - Operation Keep on, keeping on - Shoots & Ladders Diabetes - Candyland The most complicated solution is the best solution - Mousetrap There’s never enough, leftover are for losers - Hungry, Hungry Hippos How to apologize without meaning it [...]

On this week’s castoid we’ve got two hard sciences squaring off.  Astronomy vs meteorology. The impersonal vs the in-person. Enjoy the heavy sarcasm font on the intro! “Look to the stars if the clouds aren’t in your way.” Ps - Mount Chimborazo and the link to the cars on different planets video *** Topic - [...]

Getting old is fun! Arcade entrepreneurship 101. We all want to be part of something bigger than ourselves. The troubles with binary, black-and-white, heaven-or-hell thinking. Hanlen’s Razor and micro-aggressions. The Cher Party. “What we’re missing now is empathy and grace.” *** Topic - Classical Liberalism from its conceptualization through now. From - Roscoe Tealeaf *** [...]

Do a podcast like this for long enough and you’re bound to get a repeat topic or two. Vintage Bowie and the Stones. Prince’s disappearing guitar. John Mayer’s mouth gymnastics. After parties and groupies? Was Mozart the first rockstar? Also - who knows what Ben did to piss off our overlords? PS- It was Nigeria [...]

3 middle-aged white dudes talking about the police. One person’s actions speaking for a whole community/population is dicey.  Qualifications, hiring, retention. The robots get mad at us near the half way mark. (Ben goes autotune!) Was Cops the first reality tv show? *** Topic - Are all cops bad? From - St, Jayospher *** Submit [...]

Geoff is the master of the one-to-four word answer.  Why Ben loves Plo Koon. Max fact checked and learned some things! Colorado is ranked 48th in starting teacher pay (here). 39th in per pupil funding (here). 24th academically, overall (here). Where the weed money goes is complicated. But it's not to the operations budget of [...]

Social media and the Supreme Court fall in the center.  Geoff goes with sweet potato pie and Peeps.  Ben questions the causality. Max gets out there. The difficulty judging history and historical figures. *** Topic - Which instills more fear in people: power of evil? From - St Coates, of Twitter *** Submit Your Topic [...]

Roadhouse of the Dragon lore. Laughter is the herpes of emotions. How I Met Your Mother comparisons. Seinfeld wasn’t a good person. Where did Friends take place? The whitest neighborhood in New York. Moral of the story? Sitcoms don’t often age well.  *** Topic - Why does Seinfeld feel so much more dated than Friends? [...]

What’s she got against people born during late June and July?  We get it. The world is very sensitive right now.  A definition of good art. Spoilers vs content warnings. Exposure and working through. Geoff’s genius idea that already exists - doesthedogdie.com  Kinky ASMR in exchange for healthcare? Deal! *** Topic - Should movies have [...]

Well it certainly won’t be ALL of us. Some of us don’t even have water to drink. The post-apocalyptic truth of the Jetsons.  The differences between machines, tools, robots, and AI. Sex doll etiquette. Am I a robot?  *** Topic - The Jetson’s cartoon series is set in 2062. Do you think we’ll all have [...]