15. More Real Than Tower Records

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Lords:
* Tyriq is working on video games including Catacomb Kids: https://fourbitfriday.itch.io/catacombkids and has a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/FourbitFriday
* Avery still made that solo album. https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases
Topics
* 5:12 Reading non-religious texts as scripture.
* Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. http://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/
* Orphans of the Sky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OrphansoftheSky
* Generation Ships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generationship
* Water. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Water
* Wookieepedia has removed Poggle the Greater so I guess their editors are just as serious-business as Wikipedia's.
* Video Game Advisor. https://twitter.com/VGAdvisor
* 18:13 I just found out that "pitched battle" means "pitch" as in "sales pitch" as opposed to "fever pitch."
* Pitched battle on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchedbattle
* Pitched battle on Merriam Webster. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitched%20battle
* 24:01 How do you really use carrier pigeons?
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homingpigeon
* Pigeon racing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonracing
* 32:05 Larry asks: "Which ship is the best one?"
* Earthships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
* Dyson spheres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysonsphere
* Is it Hogwarts or just Britain? https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/ajmpqi/nonbritishharrypotterfanswhataresome_things/
* 40:53 One of two ways of doing a thing.
* 52:17 The switch in ancient Greece from clothed to naked sports.
Microtopics:
* Taking a bite out of a cartoon bird and leaving a tooth-shaped hole, like a cookie.
* Empire Records now being more real than Tower Records.
* Not remembering record stores.
* Mowing your face into a lawn made of tiny green clones of you.
* Trusting that in a couple years your record will be classic enough that dads will want it for Christmas.
* Trying to glean philosophy and life lessons out of the Bible even if you don't believe it's real.
* Trying to glean philosophy and life lessons out of Harry Potter even if you don't believe it's real.
* Star Wars being more real than Tower Records.
* Mixing methamphetamines and marriage.
* Language changing to mean the thing people misunderstand it to mean.
* Drinking tea and watching war as if it's a sport.
* Wearing enormous flags so people can see at a glance how the battle is going.
* Pantsed and unpantsed meaning the same thing.
* The union of shells and the union of unshelledness.
* The dude whose job it is to take homing pigeons away from home.
* Homing pigeons basically being a rubber band.
* Defcon attendees hacking the pigeon timestamp machine to win the pigeon race.
* Buying a signed shot polisher from the guy who won the International Barista Championships.
* Going to the barista gym up keep your skills up between barista gigs.
* Coming back from your barista sabbatical and discovering all coffee is now made in node.js.
* Not letting anyone else use the espresso machine you convinced management to pay for.
* Being both a barista and a bard at GitHub.
* Singing to GitHub employees a tale of the GitHub CEOs valor.
* The Roman alphabet existing in the Star Wars universe.
* Being a huge fan of Dyson spheres.
* Shamefully burying your fanfic in the desert, like E.T.
* Wanting to live in a pile of garbage.
* Wanting to live in a desert house, but not in the desert itself.
* Forming complex structures using simple rules.
* Wizards just pooping on the ground and magicking it away.
* Being furious when someone peels a banana wrong.
* Orienting your toilet paper so it's harder for cats to unroll.
* Cats sticking their paws under the door.
* Being sad because the doors are too flush with the ground for a cat paw to say hi.
* Bringing your guitar case to lure your cat admirer away from you.
* Waking up screaming about raccoons.
* A cat's ability to form a mental model of the world.
* Unloading the front door from memory when you get to the second floor.
* Never getting the dog you wanted so you get an iguana instead.
* Waking up snuggling a cold handbag.
* Whether lizards snuggle with sleeping deer in the wild.
* Earnestly proposing a Utopia ruled by you and your friends.
* Doing the Olympics naked being a week-long fad at best.
* Soccer fandoms gaining political power and going to war with one another.
* Soccer's popularity fading immediately after its invention, being just one of millions of microsports.
* Going into the wrestling pit with a spring loaded revolver up your sleeve.
* Voting somebody off the island of Earth.
* Biting open your cell phone tooth and the liquid going into a mold in your stomach shaped like a cell phone and pooping out a cell phone.
* There also being a mold for a cell tower in your stomach.
* Being qualified to gatekeep a culture because you once dated someone of that culture.

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Lords:

Tyriq is working on video games including Catacomb Kids: https://fourbitfriday.itch.io/catacombkids and has a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/FourbitFriday
Avery still made that solo album. https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases

Topics

5:12 Reading non-religious texts as scripture.

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. http://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/
Orphans of the Sky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphans_of_the_Sky
Generation Ships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_ship
Water. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Water
Wookieepedia has removed Poggle the Greater so I guess their editors are just as serious-business as Wikipedia's.
Video Game Advisor. https://twitter.com/VGAdvisor

18:13 I just found out that "pitched battle" means "pitch" as in "sales pitch" as opposed to "fever pitch."

Pitched battle on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitched_battle
Pitched battle on Merriam Webster. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitched%20battle

24:01 How do you really use carrier pigeons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon
Pigeon racing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_racing

32:05 Larry asks: "Which ship is the best one?"

Earthships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
Dyson spheres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
Is it Hogwarts or just Britain? https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/ajmpqi/nonbritish_harry_potter_fans_what_are_some_things/

40:53 One of two ways of doing a thing.
52:17 The switch in ancient Greece from clothed to naked sports.

Microtopics:

Taking a bite out of a cartoon bird and leaving a tooth-shaped hole, like a cookie.
Empire Records now being more real than Tower Records.
Not remembering record stores.
Mowing your face into a lawn made of tiny green clones of you.
Trusting that in a couple years your record will be classic enough that dads will want it for Christmas.
Trying to glean philosophy and life lessons out of the Bible even if you don't believe it's real.
Trying to glean philosophy and life lessons out of Harry Potter even if you don't believe it's real.
Star Wars being more real than Tower Records.
Mixing methamphetamines and marriage.
Language changing to mean the thing people misunderstand it to mean.
Drinking tea and watching war as if it's a sport.
Wearing enormous flags so people can see at a glance how the battle is going.
Pantsed and unpantsed meaning the same thing.
The union of shells and the union of unshelledness.
The dude whose job it is to take homing pigeons away from home.
Homing pigeons basically being a rubber band.
Defcon attendees hacking the pigeon timestamp machine to win the pigeon race.
Buying a signed shot polisher from the guy who won the International Barista Championships.
Going to the barista gym up keep your skills up between barista gigs.
Coming back from your barista sabbatical and discovering all coffee is now made in node.js.
Not letting anyone else use the espresso machine you convinced management to pay for.
Being both a barista and a bard at GitHub.
Singing to GitHub employees a tale of the GitHub CEOs valor.
The Roman alphabet existing in the Star Wars universe.
Being a huge fan of Dyson spheres.
Shamefully burying your fanfic in the desert, like E.T.
Wanting to live in a pile of garbage.
Wanting to live in a desert house, but not in the desert itself.
Forming complex structures using simple rules.
Wizards just pooping on the ground and magicking it away.
Being furious when someone peels a banana wrong.
Orienting your toilet paper so it's harder for cats to unroll.
Cats sticking their paws under the door.
Being sad because the doors are too flush with the ground for a cat paw to say hi.
Bringing your guitar case to lure your cat admirer away from you.
Waking up screaming about raccoons.
A cat's ability to form a mental model of the world.
Unloading the front door from memory when you get to the second floor.
Never getting the dog you wanted so you get an iguana instead.
Waking up snuggling a cold handbag.
Whether lizards snuggle with sleeping deer in the wild.
Earnestly proposing a Utopia ruled by you and your friends.
Doing the Olympics naked being a week-long fad at best.
Soccer fandoms gaining political power and going to war with one another.
Soccer's popularity fading immediately after its invention, being just one of millions of microsports.
Going into the wrestling pit with a spring loaded revolver up your sleeve.
Voting somebody off the island of Earth.
Biting open your cell phone tooth and the liquid going into a mold in your stomach shaped like a cell phone and pooping out a cell phone.
There also being a mold for a cell tower in your stomach.
Being qualified to gatekeep a culture because you once dated someone of that culture.

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