Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to the podcast about art and poo. We’ve got it all covered. With poo.
Thia week on the show: fresh start; bar band; the miracle of Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas; creepy Mummenschanz; many Tom Sawyers; ape-mania; staking out Stake Out; too much TV; making murder easy; Dexter was silly; Judge Justice; old books aren’t for kids anymore; other Mark Twain books; travelling with Gulliver; development of the novel redux; The Swiss Family Robinson vs. Robinson Crusoe; Daniel Defoe guesswork; bad doctors; Star Trek is gross; shit on the floor; gone viral; medicinal cosplay; Dr. Giggles mix up; Darkman trivia; two different ideas of “crazy”; Sam Raimi, actor; extra Ian; KFC is overrated; Ian’ altered reality; too pimply; Little Chicks on the Prairie; bloody Bloody Mary; Alan Alda shows up; Ian’s mystery date; M*U*S*H and other Uncle Croc’s Block shows; Stephen King on the TV; gluten and celiac disease; fake recipes; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; over doing art museums; pissed off by Piss Christ; the objective and subjective value of art; dirty dog; in context; dog robot; Lady Starbuck; and, finally, the X-Men and their sushi.
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Question of the Week: What is something cultural that a parent or guardian took you to see that had a big effect on you? For good or bad.
Sub-question: Who is your favourite (classical or modern) “fine” artist?
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Hi, Dragons!
In the Star Trek universe, I think you are right that they replicate soup in part with poop.
The characters in Trek don’t care, because the poop is zapped so far down into the micro level that nobody considers it gross. They eat their poop soup because what has happened to the poop first is — and this is me assuming now — that it was broken down into protons, neutrons, and electrons, which by that micro level, have unquestionably lost the gross factor. In and of themselves, none of those subatomic particles contains a germ because that’s impossible at that level. It’s also impossible at the atomic level, and it’s even impossible at the molecular level (germs are made up of molecules in certain configurations), so whatever assumption works for you for it not to be gross which level deep into the micro world the replicator works to transform poop into soup, you can assume that the Enterprise replicators go down to at least that level.
But think about this. When you eat your soup today, have you considered that it too could have particles that at some point were in poop? It’s probably true, when you remember that living beings have been sharing the surface of this planet for millions of years, and the fact that matter is constantly being moved around and reformed — organic matter particularly. The soup in your bowl is of course not made out of “new” matter. It’s been around. Particles of it almost certainly went through at least one living being’s digestive system at some point, whether recently or not. What we don’t have is the benefit of the Enterprise’s fictional soup-replication technology to break down matter to whatever micro level eliminates grossness.
Enjoy your lunch! 🙂
Does anyone else remember a weird Huckleberry Finn TV series that was shown during episodes of the Banana Splits show? Becky, Tom and Huck were played by live action actors shot against blue screen. Animated backgrounds and characters were then added in post. It was a little trippy.
Doug’s comment on the movement and reforming of organic matter reminds me of the scene in Hamlet where he says, “A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.” “Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.” So maybe we can enjoy a little Shakespeare in more ways than one!