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54 Looking For a Towel

  • June 28, 2015
  • - Listening Time: 54 minutes

Internet girls that like the same things you do. Where you go after Douglas Adams and The Simpsons. Swords, dragons and gods. A strong distaste for high fantasy garbage. How fiction gives us a better understanding of reality. Losing your favorite author and personal guru. The eleven lives you live. All the books you love that you’ve yet to read.

In this episode, the boys talk about Terry Pratchett, as a very drunk Ryan tells Joey what to read next.

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32 Feel Free to Fear the Reaper

  • January 6, 2014
  • - Listening Time: 29 minutes

Joey’s been stuck reading about the Industrial Revolution, which means that Ryan has to regale him with tales of eternal life, the universe and everything.

0:50 – Montreal, the city that always amazes Joey

1:37 – Kindle talk

6:45 – David Copperfield found the Fountain of Youth in his pants

11:45 – Ray Kurzweil, the guy who takes a lot of fucking vitamins

14:06 – Find what’s fascinating, and follow that

15:37 – Cryonics: not just for vegetables

18:08 – Who doesn’t love a hypothetical coupon?

20:08 – We are not your men of tomorrow

21:02 – That moment when you start to cry about the Spanish Inquisition while pooping

22:46 – Fear is only a good thing when you’re dealing with panthers

23:54 – The point in the conversation where Joey has to reference Kevin Smith

24:47 – The Science of Immortality

26:14 – Your life, as a book

27:13 – This closing still left Joey depressed

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