Episode 269: Red Rocks, Giant Crocs, and Why Glass Will Outlive Us All

Episode 269: Red Rocks, Giant Crocs, and Why Glass Will Outlive Us All

We’re back and we took the scenic route this week. It starts with Mike going full Baron Von Pearce at a video game meetup at Red Lake Brewery (yes, his in-game name is Baron Von Pearce, and yes, that’s what gamers call each other when they meet up in person), and somehow ends with humanity staring into the infinite void of the universe wondering why a glass bottle will still be here in a million years while we absolutely will not.

In between? A love letter to Red Rocks — the greatest concert venue on Earth, and it's not even close — plus personal concert confessions including Tony's first show, a Stone Temple Pilots mosh pit at a Fresno fairgrounds that went sideways, and a OneRepublic performance so good that every concert after it felt like a disappointment. 

We also get into the surprisingly interesting history of podcasting (spoiler: Apple kind of put it on the map), a deep dive into the top 20 American male names courtesy of the Social Security Administration, and a science segment that covers a prehistoric 40-foot crocodile that ate dinosaurs, the existential scale of the universe, AND how long it takes a banana peel to decompose. (Faster than you think. The glass bottle? Not so much.)

Oh, and the two types of chimpanzees: the angel and devil that share humanity’s evolution. We get into that too. Because of course we do.

This episode has everything. Except a point. And that's the point. 

Cheers!

m&t

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