Ep 10: The Episode of Unnecessary Intrusions

This episode doubles as a going away party, and a chance for a rival group of partiers to launch a mutiny and a podcast of their own. Will the whole thing capsize before reaching a meaningful resolution? Tune in to find out!

Read our detailed shownotes here.

• You can’t prove a negative, but can you argue from silence?
• David's twitter conversation
• Tabula rasa
• Crack babies and crack addicts
• Greek theater, with its Greek choruses and all those deus ex machinas
• In Nashville, everything’s a music venue
• Bathroom walls, music, education, ancient relics
• The CoC’s favorite fallacy: the argument from silence.
  • Some people argue for the argument from silence 1 2
  • And here’s someone arguing that rejecting the argument from silence is engaging in an argument from silence of your own 3
  • And here’s someone who blames the argument from silence on God himself 4
• Henry Cavil & the Episode of Unnecessary Intrusions
• There are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns - Donald Rumsfeld
• Dick Cheney doesn't have a heart
• Is this podcast supposed to be funny?
• Recorded voice, actual voice, internal voice
  • The voice of my internal monologue
    - I'm in love with the voice inside my head
  • James Earl Jones is Ryan's internal voice.
    • People who played god.
      • Morgan Freeman
      • Whoopi
      • Alanis Morrissette
      • George Carlin
  • Voices by decade
    • The stereotypical 40s voice
    • The nasally high pitched 90s voice
• Seizure sneezes or Caesar Schneezes?
• If there's anything we don't do on this show, it's name drop
• Science attempts to falsify, not prove positives
• Prank phone calls
• Spin-off podcasts
  • The Necessary Distractions podcast
  • Unnecessary Intrusions
  • Necessary Extrusions
• Cross pollination
• No screaming
• Art is about seeing
• Experiments with a hand in a box. Phantom Hands. Phantom toes. Curing phantom hands.
• Justin Timberlake puts some things in a box
• The blog of unnecessary phallic symbols. Medical and medicinal phallic references.
• Prosthetic sixth toe. Five finger shoes.
• Foley
• The coming shownote singularity
• Transcription, transubstantiation, transfusion
• Keep it publishable
• The penultimate pendragon
• A large thistle on the verge of exploding