If you want to hear about the title topic of this episode, temper your expectations. At the very least, you'll have to patiently wait for Jarid and Jake to randomly fire off their Cleveland Browns and morality takes for the first 10 minutes of the show.

And even if you make it through that, please know that your hosts didn't follow their show sheets at all. They instead had an unpredictable conversation about values, avoidant behavior, news and algorithmic content consumption, and how it all compares to the life of ancestral humans. We recommend you stay for Jake's deconstruction and transformation of Jarid's terrible pornography/masturbation metaphor.

Of course, you'll also get Jarid's weekly random histrionic soliloquy about the impossibility of the universe -- and even an accidental reprise of the "Teasing Not Telling," where Jarid alludes to things in the news but won't actually say them.

Why does music make mathematical sense? Why do toddlers know how to dance before they've seen other humans doing it? How exactly do we know when a note is off-key? What the hell is a key? Did music exist in the universe before humans? Or before the Earth itself, perhaps, as Pythagoras theorized? Jake and Jarid explore humans' oldest art form and also discuss whether Taylor Swift is the most positively impactful human of all time.

As Jarid is closes in on his PsyD, he's focused on completing his dissertation. The topic: secular faith — in other words, faith without religion — and how it might impact the health of veterans.

These two professionals get over halfway through the episode before even saying the title of that dissertation draft.

That’s because the show opens with Jarid trying to tell Jake that the whole idea of his dissertation came from something he read in Jake’s first novel … or was it the second one? And what exactly did Jake write that was so inspiring? As it turns out, Jarid’s not actually sure, but he spends 3 solid ADD minutes trying to get Jake to figure it out.

Jake seems to hijack the episode quickly in order to present a hypothesis of his own. He also, of course, talks too much about talking, while disguising it as ideas about the influence of language on the subject matter. Who doesn’t love a language nerd?