Third Space Podcast

25: The Golden Phonograph

This episode is dominated by an intricate and outlandish Mind Your Morals involving genies and Christmas gifts. Is Daniel strong enough to resist the genie's temptations and threats? Are you? There's also some talk about minimalism and multivitamins, in case you're into that.

24: Pets of Girth

Why don't people return the shopping cart? Why are striped shirts usually horizontal? How important are eyebrows? Why are our pets fat? All of this and more is discussed in this episode, along with a level 6 (!) Superpowers and Drawbacks and a discussion on the anthropomorphization of pets.

23: Apprenticeship OR Identity?

In this episode, we cover a lot of ground, beginning with the educational system and its failings, as well as what a large-scale apprenticeship replacement might look like. The we introduce a new segment: This or That! It spawns multiple mini-topics. And lastly, we discuss the concept of intrinsic identity by basically psychoanalyzing Daniel.

22: The Act of Podcasting

This is a bizarre episode for reasons I explain at the start of the podcast, but at least it ended up releasable. We cover a range of topics from spam calls to wrinkle cream to horror movies and egg terrorism. Then we discuss a level 3 Superpowers and Drawbacks before diving into the topic of voting, not related to the 2020 election, but instead to how we might create a new voting system and what obstacles it would face.

21: An AI for Effort

Bennett creates a sport everyone -- literally everyone -- can enjoy in Bennett Fixes Sports, Daniel and Bennett discuss the benefits of skepticism, and then Bennett has an affair while Daniel defeats a Sith Lord (at least in an AI-generated story). We also have our most awkward ending yet, thanks to TECHNOLOGY.

20: A Sign of Our Times

Bennett experiments with a walkabout podcast while Daniel is chained to his desk, poetic remembrances of noble appliances are had, and we examine and complain about the ever-present, annoying world of advertising. 

19: Crash! Zap! Social Media!

Kids whacking things with baseball bats! Unattentive drivers wrecking Bennett's car! (Im)moral situations of zapping phones in Mind Your Morals! This onomatopoeic episode covers it all, along with some discussion on the effects of social media in general.

18: All About Interaction

Whoa! Daniel and Bennett do a "live" podcast! Well, live in the sense that they're both sitting at the same table in person instead of talking virtually. Topics are many and varied, including eye contact, virtual communication vs. live interaction, retro gaming on the SNES, and a tried-and-true Superpowers and Drawbacks.

17: When Worlds Collide

Daniel and Bennett discuss fat-tired bikes, dive into a Mind Your Morals segment that handles both towel dirtying and cancer laser home invasion, and then examine the strange and uncomfortable phenomenon of "worlds colliding," and for some reason grandma's urn keeps popping up amid it all.

16: International Flavor

This episode features pandemic related broccoli tragedies, a set of extraordinarily lame Superpowers and Drawbacks, some examination of distance learning, and a rigged game where Daniel attempts to guess foreign accents, proving empirically that Bennett isn't as bad at accents as he suspected.

15: Robopucky Flu's Cruise

Daniel ponders the wisdom of refrigerator door opening strategies, we introduce a new segment, Bennett Fixes Sports, which will surely annoy sports fans (especially hockey fans), and we take a look at two interesting situations in another edition of Mind Your Morals.

14: B.O. Cuddling

Daniel introduces a new segment tentatively called "What Are Your Thoughts?" that, in this instance, examines professional cuddling. We also discuss intimacy and AI, the hardest video game Bennett has ever played, and Daniel Does Science (with body odor!).

13: A Lil' Meaning

In this episode, Daniel and Bennett talk about Lil' Wayne, touch on the hot topic of Corona virus, do a rank 5 Superpowers and Drawbacks, and examine a theory of meaningfulness that breaks the concept down into 5 easily communicable components.

12: Moral Kobe

A new segment graces this episode: Mind Your Morals, where we examine the intricacies of mild, medium, or spicy ethical dilemmas. We also discuss Kobe Bryant's death, hyper-theticals, and food labeling.

11: Gifts

This first episode after Christmas kicks off with Superpowers and Drawbacks, and then delves into Bennett and Daniel's experience and thoughts on gifts, both how they're given and how they're received.

10: A Cycle of Superstition

In this episode, we discuss Daniel's dental dilemmas, suss out the suckiness of cyclists, Daniel Does Science (Astronomy!), reminisce about childhood activities, and examine superstition. It also appears that Daniel's mic wasn't configured for this episode, so apologies for the lower audio quality on his end.

9: Attention: Testicle

This episode contains a number of topics, including food delivery services, the etymology of the word testify, how attention works, auto-driving cars, and malware. This episode wraps up with another Superpowers and Drawbacks.

8: Hereditary Poetry

In this episode, Daniel and Bennett discuss family and the importance of lineage. Next, Bennett tests Daniel's English teacher cred with a set of poems, trying to see if he really knows his stuff or not, and trying to see whether poetry is worthwhile or just pretentious nonsense.

7: Velvet Chlamydia

Daniel introduces a new game called The Test Results Are In, which deals with some unusual mental disorders. Another installment of Superpowers and Drawbacks follows, and then Daniel and Bennett discuss AI, robotics, and phonaesthetics, the beauty of words.

6: Words and Dating

This episode begins with a lengthy and in-depth examination of words, how they're used, how they might come to be created, and how communication is influenced by word choice. Daniel also describes his first ski experience, and Bennett presents some (not so) surprising data and discussion on online dating.