We're No Experts

Halloween 2020 is upon us! If you had to be one of the classic Halloween monsters, which would it be? Is the move to go vampire? Werewolf? Juke into being an alien? Let's figure it out since we can't go to a Halloween party.

Bucket lists as a concept don't make much sense to us, so we attempt to unpack the idea and figure out what the point is with frequent digressions into: trading cards, going to outer space, and top dollar vs. bottom dollar.

Don't be fooled by the excellent episode title. This time around, we address a dense listener email! It's the email that's dense, not the listener. Includes follow-ups on littering and tough decisions about everyone's favorite topic: time travel.

Spoiler alert: We are talking about the morality of spoiling stories and what price (if any) you should pay for it. We necessarily spoil several stories in the process. You've been warned.

If you ever get the chance to zap a new skill into your brain, what's the right move? Do you go straight for the kung fu and gunplay, or do you become the most dominant Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon player in history? We get there after about 20 minutes of digression centered around the filmography of Keanu Reeves.

Urban legends and conspiracy theories spread quickly and stay around a long time. Why is that, and is there any truth to them? Also: assigned seating norms, driving in the left lane, and other tangents.

Why the hell do people litter? What's in it for them? What distinguishes litter from something you wouldn't care about throwing on the ground? We try to get to the bottom of that. Plus, we think it's time we had a little talk about the birds and the bees.

Why the heck do people even dream? There must be a function or reason for it. We puzzle through it and tackle some idioms.

If you had to be an animal for a day, what's the right choice? You don't want to mess up and be, like, an armadillo or something and wind up roadkill. You also don't want to go the draft horse route and wind up doing a bunch of work. Let's figure this thing out.

A listener suggestion brings us the topic of: How would you spend a Groundhog Day-esque loop? There's a lot of fruit on the vine here, so expect us to return to this cheap and easy well of material.