Ep 9: Awesome Muffins

In this episode we talk about entropy, cynicism, misery, and Ryan Gosling, with plenty of #sports, #popculture, and #currentevents. Also discussed, why not to start a French Revolution.

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• How Ryan survived the 27 club
• Song: I am the cosmos
• Burner Phones, Motorola and Victrola
• Ryan Gosling in ‘Drive’
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind and Bicameralism
• I Always Look Up the Word ‘Egregious’
• Creating a Wikipedia loop
• Leslie Lohan, Lindsey Lohan’s twin sister
• Disney & the homunculus
• Bertrand Russell’s turtles all the way down
• Godel Escher Bach
• Sickness unto death with Kierkegaard
• Irreducible Complexity
• Psoriasis or Psychosis or Cirrhosis
• Synecdoche, New York
• Funeral Monologue
• Why sad songs make you happy
• Entropy, the second law of thermodynamics
• Elysium
• Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
• Choose Your Eschatology
• Korg Organs
• The Daemons leaving (see Elizabeth Gilbert and Daemons in His Dark Materials and Daemons in classical mythology)
• Passing it on, like the Sprint Dime
• The Gifts of the Jews
• The World is Not Ours to Save and The Two Futures Project
• Regular, awesome muffins to the right
• Micah’s MTA talk
• Venkatesh Rao and Evil Twins
• Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael and the Second Great Awakening
• Pete Rollins
• Seeing the world negatively makes you happy, seeing the world positively makes you miserable
• Nature vs Grace, as seen in The Tree of Life, Superman and Lex Luthor
• Jem and the Holograms, their arch-rivals the Misfits, and the song Winning is Everything
• Arrested Development, season 4
• Life is not a game, like Go or Magic the Gathering. It’s more like basketball. #sports
• “Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?” - Robert Browning
• Whenever the buzzer sounds, there will always be balls in the air
• Every single episode of LOST, in six seconds.
• Vihart explains 20th century and atonal music and we use that as a way to talk about the breaking of language, and the urge to destroy everything in the hopes of remaking it
• Hippies grow up to be Wall Street bankers
• Jimi Hendrix and the national anthem
• “Call the world if you please ‘The vale of soul-making’.” - John Keats
• The theology of Jean Valjean
• The Vast Economy includes black markets, grey markets, and thermodynamics
• Micah is meta-cynical, seeing behind not just the first curtain, but the second curtain as well
• And finally, everything comes to an entropic close.