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For the second time in the history of the podcast, we've got a bit of a juicebox on our hands. Your hosts are falling rapidly in love with the work of Jon Brion, the composer of the Punch-Drunk Love soundtrack.  NHR, who was already an afficianado of the film itself, explains how the soundtrack brilliantly mirrors and reinforces the action. Tristan, encouraged by the one song Brion sings on the so...

What does it really mean to say that something warrants further investigation? Where do the warrants come from? And how many more species of Eucalyptus might there be? These are the big, important questions your hosts are considering this episode. Along the way, more personal ones arise as well, such as whether NHR likes anything.  This episode might just pull you back from the brink. Don't come b...

Your hosts are back at it, locked in combat. We discuss the idea of the glory of war, how it may have peaked around the time of Napoleon, and how this is a problematic idea to express properly. If a name originally means something etymologically, are you 'misspeaking' when you call something with that name when it lacks the feature that the name originally meant? NHR, astonishingly, argues for an...

Does loving a cat mean that you must anthropomorphize it? NHR is in crisis. Tristan learns that NHR's tiny desk is stored under his bed. In the opinions of many, it's impressive to be a professional athlete no matter what. NHR takes a more critical perspective.  Michael Serr (born July 14, 1962) is a German retired football player. He spent 7 seasons in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Kaiserslautern. As...

A nice political episode. Tristan comes out against the Vietnamese and doesn't know what the Eye of Soron (?) is. NHR blames the hippy movement for the rise of organised crime in the Americas. The security policy of the Enrique Peña Nieto administration that governed Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018 prioritized the reduction of violence rather than attacking Mexico's drug traffickin...

We have "cold opens" as part of the format now. We discuss the intersection of naval and anime culture, Japanese curries, and the reality show Terrace House. NHR gives an interesting political account of Japanese "cuteness" as a response to unfair demands placed upon women in the wake of Japan's defeat by the Allies in World War II.  JDS Kumano (DE-224) was the tenth ship of the Chikugo-class dest...

We got a juicebox on our hands here. After toiling through articles about moths and meaningless sport statistics, an oasis appeared before your hosts when Wikipedia's Random Article link took us to My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2010) starring Alyssa Milano and two blokes we aren't aware of. Unavailable on streaming services in both Australia and the UK, an ex-rental DVD copy formerly owned by Civic V...

NHR explains his baritone and tells a house-hunting story. Cricket is the most complicated game in the world (according to Stephen Fry). NHR heaps scorn upon Tristan's new coffee-table book of Australian Mammals, saying that this kind of book is commonplace in London and even calling it a 'magazine' late in the episode. We learn about the Duckworth-Lewis method for determining who wins a cricket m...

If you're a New York mobster from the 1950's, what does it mean for your biographer to write that you talk like a New York mobster from the 1920's? Does it just mean that the way you speak is a bit out of date? The two circles 'boomers on Facebook' and 'extended families of gangsters' are discovered to coincide in a very attractive way. Tristan would have become a gangster if Goodfellas ended righ...

It sinks in that ~20% of Wikipedia articles are about particular species. Once you have a substantial zoological collection going it's damn near impossible to get rid of it. We notice a tendency to just say facts from the article to each other and say they're 'cool' or 'kinda cool'. We manage to stay off Syd Barrett and NHR is rocked to learn that the phrase 'down pat' is not 'down packed'.  NHR t...

NHR provides a long overdue explanation of what he was thinking with the original title of the podcast. Tristan hauls him over the coals again. We discuss NHR's antipathy to biology, and the fact that he has reached full maturity. We get into what it means to dry a moth for a collection, and how the resulting item could survive a fire. As the episode draws to a close, NHR argues that Tristan is a...

'Football has to be played.' When we were forced to research and talk about the 2018-2019 season of the Tanzanian Premier League, we did not anticipate that this League would have been so plagued with activities not going ahead. Before we get there, Tristan nearly breaks open a huge match-fixing scandal that turns out to be a false alarm while NHR has some insight but also some padding.  The 2018–...

Antun Vujić (born 14 July 1945). A fruitful episode about a fruitful man. From dissident political activity to squabbling over words. Was the wolf tamed? Or his vigour sublimated? NHR is off his chipolatas. We really like Antun. Where are the men like this in our culture? From heady beginnings in 1967 with an underground magazine before winding up at the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute in the e...

Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphised, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or  saying . A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes anima...

Sveti Bartul (Italian: San Bortolo) is a village in the municipality of Raša, Istria in Croatia.[3] According to the 2021 census, its population was 265.[2] Theme music by Edward Lonsdale. IG: @wecanpedia See also Tristan's other podcast, Ultimate Segment with Tim Knight .

Hosted by Tristan Haze and Nathan Hugh Robért Implicit leadership theory (ILT) is a cognitive theory of leadership developed by Robert Lord and colleagues.[1] It is based on the idea that individuals create cognitive representations of the world, and use these preconceived notions to interpret their surroundings and control their behaviors.[2]  Theme music by Edward Lonsdale. IG: @wecanpedia See a...