Is listening to a book the same thing as reading it? If so, why? And if not, why not?

This week, Jess and Joey talk about audiobooks, purity testing, locked-in mode, ADHD, lectures, and celestial orbs. They don’t talk about Mychal Threats.

references

• Reading Rainbow
• Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
• Matt Dinniman
• Variety: Peacock Gives Series Order to ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series From Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door, Chris Yost

How do you know if something's going to be good to eat by looking at it?

This week, Jess and Joey talk about grilling, cheesesteaks, coffee, the burden of knowledge, authenticity, and mangoes. They don’t talk about Drunken shrimp.

references

• Air Bud
• Smithsonian: Why Did Van Halen Demand Concert Venues Remove Brown M&M’s From the Menu?
• NYT Cooking: Bowen Yang Teaches Matt Rogers How to Cook Mapo Tofu
• Maillard reaction

How does one deal with being an acquired taste?

This week, Aaron and Joey talk about stinky fish, mole vs. mayonanaise, blue cheese, safe spaces, leadership, and sandwich lubricants. They don’t talk about surströmming.

references

• Holiday in Spain
• Did they ruin it for you? (Yeah | No)
• Thelma and Louise
• Stinky Fish activity
• rumspringa
• Aaron: We need antiheroes in the boardroom to spark progress in the workplace
• Spread your wings and fly, Butterfly
• Call Your Girlfriend

How are we using bowls?

This week, Jess and Joey talk about diversification of delivery methods, quick-serve restaurants, slushies, mush, ratios, and salads. They don’t talk about Prince.

references

• Fascinator
• "Frozen in the Face of Tech": Joey @ Web Summit Rio 2024
• Ramekin

How has neighborliness changed in the past five years?

This week, Aaron and Jess talk about lost dogs, trash pandas, the pandemic, masking, isolation, and marble runs. They don’t talk about the McFeelys or Cousin Mary Owl.

references

• Aaron keeps your head ringing while The Sequence funks you up.
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
• "Frozen in the Face of Tech": Joey @ Web Summit Rio 2024
• Petco's Love Lost pet finder
• 7 Signs of Undiagnosed Autism in Adults
• Jelle's Marble Runs
• The Lemonade Machine

Why should we be concerned wth generationally slow timebombs?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about trees, the Bradford pear, city planning, Barcelona, pilot programs, and the candy bowl theory. They don’t talk about Cameo.

references

• @jjvincent on the tree timebomb in the UK.
• The Guardian: Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade
• The New York Times from 1964: BRADFORD PEAR HAS MANY ASSETS; New Ornamental Fruit Offers Sturdy Form And Early Bloom
• The New York Times from 2021: A Tree That Was Once the Suburban Ideal Has Morphed Into an Unstoppable Villain
• Superilla
• Biological Control
• The Psychology of the Candy Bowl
• Dunbar's number
• Street activity sensors in NY
• Definitely Maybe

What does this "trend-mill" mean, what does it say about us as people, and how bad is it, really?

This week, special guests Claire and Chloe join Jess and Joey to talk about the mob-wife aesthetic, accessibility, TikTok, blueberry milk nails, social networks vs. social media, and Trader Joe's totes. They don’t talk about why the combination of peanut butter and jelly is a gotdamn abomination.

references

• Vogue: Blueberry Milk Nails Are Summer’s Most-Wanted Manicure
• Zaria Parvez: How the Comment Section became Duolingo's new Push Notification
• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
• onika burgers

What happens if we're all deathly affraid of the cringe?

This week, Jess, Joey, and Aaron talk about pain, yips, shame, fremdschämen, the Apple Vision Pro, and Michael Jordan. They don’t talk about Gracious K.

references

• Skanking
• Revisiting Critical Nonsense 253! Teaching Agency and the Scandinavian Swimmers
• Fremdschämen
• The actual King of Belgium