253. A Unified Theory Of Hot Dog Preference

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• Wacy
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• Chris
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Topics:

• Difficulties with long term traveling
• Norway
• Why don't they have novelty whipped cream
• The Dirt Man Song, by Carter Vail
  • https://genius.com/Carter-vail-dirt-man-lyrics

Microtopics:

• Specialty pour over filter coffee.
• A very deep rabbit hole of discovery of flavors.
• Drink the Machine: a Clean Metallic Flavor.
• Wacy and Chris.
• Chris or sounds like Chris.
• Living near your friends and family and being able to see them any time you want.
• Spot-it.
• Explaining what "on air" means to someone who has never listened to the radio.
• Why are flickering lights creepy?
• Getting Winston ready for swim class.
• The pressure to hyper-optimize.
• Being in the place where you are all the time.
• The world: it's really big and really full of stuff.
• How to exist in a city where you don't speak the language.
• Things you don't feel like maximizing.
• Grocery store bagged salads.
• Countries that are known for salads.
• Eating nothing but pickled fish and salty licorice during your trip even though you hate both.
• Being delighted by mediocre sushi.
• How many times Topic Lords has been downloaded in Osaka.
• Modern New-Age Scandinavian Food.
• Gas station hot dogs in Norway.
• Ordering a big slab of My Girlfriend is Not Hungry.
• Ways Norway is familiar to Americans.
• Walking around kicking the glaciers.
• Bikepackers.
• Giant highway ferries with six lanes of traffic.
• Brown Cheese Waffles.
• Daylight all night long.
• Normal people going outside and walking their dogs at 1am.
• The song that plays with the baby raccoon spinning in a circle.
• A country that is extremely serious about tunnels.
• Opening up your windows to let the cave air in.
• Visiting the Arctic circle in the winter.
• Good ideas, like Pesto Whipped Cream.
• Orange Cream Whipped Cream.
• The toothpaste tubes with the colored wedges.
• Birthday Cake Coffee Creamer.
• Guava-flavored beer foam.
• Coffee creamer except for beer.
• Chefs seeking out the worst food so they can understand exactly why it's bad.
• The Friendly's Cone Head.
• The Bad-Interesting Food Spectrum.
• Sleep regression, or more generally how you don't always keep forward progress.
• Why kids become picky eaters.
• Replicating the texture of uncooked hot dog in a novelty whipped cream.
• What whippets are for.
• Original flavorless N2O tanks.
• Using the word for amyl nitrite that signifies that you are a VCR owner and not a drug user.
• How to not become dirt in the dirt lair.
• The dirt man's tithe.
• Lying to your kid about cosmology.
• Pretending to believe the little lies as practice for believing big lies.
• Reminding your mom to make a leprechaun trap.
• Making fake boot prints to convince your kids that god is real.
• Reindeer food. (It's just hay.)
• All the years you didn't keep dirt under your pillow.
• The dirt man's dirt man taking you even deeper down.
• Lots of great places where the dirt man can be found.

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