352. The Dim Sum Moose

Lords:

• Alex

• Shannon

Topics:

• What's a ghost? And other questions you can't explain to a 3 year old.

• Trophic memory, deer, and a truly unique scientific object- Copied from thoughtforms.life

• https://thoughtforms.life/trophic-memory-deer-and-a-truly-unique-scientific-object/

• Summer Homework

• Otzi Awake, by Max Lavergne

• https://www.tumblr.com/dat-soldier/787624576603619328/beingharsh

Microtopics:

• Game Changer and other Drop 7 shows.

• What real Topic Heads know.

• California Extreme, the pinball and arcade machine expo.

• Getting in on the ground floor to become the only place where topics are discussed.

• Dropping soup cans into a jacuzzi to record the Frog Fractions splash noises.

• Dropping the Frog Fractions lore.

• Releasing art and watching people get it in the way you wanted them to get it.

• Seeing the Human from Frog Fractions in real life and wondering "where do I know this human from?"

• A pin-up calendar where you draw your own pin-up each month.

• Conveying the concept of a ghost to a three year old.

• Whether it's okay to tell the truth to a small child

• Realizing that the three-year old only knows about fantasy skeletons and explaining that actually, skeletons are inside of us.

• A two-minute soliloquy about where mama owls come from.

• Doing your best not to adopt a child's adorable mispronunciation of restaurant.

• Hearing Dust in the Wind in a car commercial and being like "That's my dad's guitar song! That's the song my dad plays on guitar!"

• Accepting that you are responsible for shaping this child into a good, healthy adult human, but also, wouldn't it be funny if...

• Training your child to ask for "hot guys on Instagram" when she wants to look at pictures of unicorns and waterslides.

• Finding and ankylosaurus in the bedsheets.

• The age at which children develop a sense of fear.

• An entire song about not being afraid of ghosts and also how to bust them.

• One of the major delights of being around a child.

• Big bones sticking out of your head for a few months until they fall off.

• A New Fork in the Antlers.

• Whether it's advantageous to have more complicated antlers.

• Growing antlers in the lab.

• Owning a bunch of deer and collecting and labeling all their antlers.

• Telling the bone cancer what to do.

• Watching a moose shake its head and the antlers just pop right off.

• A moose dropping antlers to distract a predator.

• Trying to get on a plane with your new antler growth.

• Eating enough calcium to do all the antler growing you need to do.

• Scoring deer by counting the antler points.

• Moose lifespan.

• Seasonal Antler Disorder.

• The Dim Sum moose with one dumpling on every point of its antlers.

• Your 2nd grade teacher calling you up to assign you math homework to do on your honeymoon.

• Homework: what is it for?

• Homework as anti-union training.

• Striving to care less about your job.

• An after-school program that helps kids finish their…