This episode is a little longer than the average one, which should be no surprise to anybody who has spent any time with Lukas and me.  I clearly had fun, and I think we hit on some important stuff here.  Enjoy.

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I am so pleased to welcome Lisa and Jerry back to the podcast.  Today we hit another long-time-coming kind of topic.  I am sure that no two (or three) people would have the same conversation about this area, but I was quite happy to be a part of this one.

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It was great to have Erin on for the first time–she’s a double threat, podcasting-wise:  smart and funny.  And smart about funny, which might make her a two-point-five threat?  Not sure how the credits work on that…

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Josh returns to for some more comix geekery.  We don’t discuss the Hero’s Journey this time around, but H.P. Lovecraft does make an appearance.

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Megan, along with Tom from episode 40, is one of the first genuine persons of widespread cultural import to join me on Necessary & Sufficient.  I also have the pleasure of working with her on an almost-daily basis in our day jobs, where we have precious few conversations like this.

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Here’s Erik and me talking about something for which neither of us had really prepared (understandable, in his case at least).  We managed to have a pretty good time though, I think.

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It was, to borrow his own phrase, an absolute pleasure to welcome W. Seth Hanisek back to Necessary & Sufficient. The list of people whom I wish I could meet in real life keeps growing. Did I use “whom” correctly? Whom cares.

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Add another stamp to Necessary & Sufficient’s passport.  Direct from the UK, my old cul-de-sac mate Tim Redfern.

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Here’s a topic that I had been itching to tackle for a while.  So glad that Clarence was game.

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In this second half, things get a bit more digressive and tangential–we talk about Conventional & Endemic, Sex & Gender, Me & Myself & I, and Asian & White, among others–but we do manage to swing around again to the original topic.  Happily.

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