224 - A Failure to Duck

About this episode

The episode features personal reflections, listener interactions, and discussions on current events and celebrity birthdays.

This episode opens with the usual comfortable chaos: a fumbled intro that Daniel immediately clocks as "off-syncopation," a brief tribute to a listener-written birthday song that threads back to Daniel's old World of Warcraft podcast, and the unexpected reappearance of former co-host Jean in his inbox ahead of an Orlando conference visit. From there the show settles into personal-journal mode — Adam's Mother's Day recap features a chocolate pie that survived a second-degree burn from a saucepan handle (the second week running that a metal object has wronged him), while a side discussion of the TV show The Pitt leads Daniel into a candid, sobering reflection on his mother's Alzheimer's and what he's already told his partner Zach to do if the same thing ever happens to him. The show's recurring segments land in the second half. The Contact segment surfaces a voicemail from loyal listener Tony in Illinois and a text reporting the death of Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player. The News Game has Daniel going 4-for-5 on the New York Times quiz — correctly nailing YMCA as Trump's Beijing banquet song and the mid-2010s as the start of declining student test scores —…

People in this episode

Hosts: Adam Burns, Daniel Brewer

Topics covered

• personal stories
• Alzheimer's
• celebrity birthdays
• listener interaction
• current events

Keywords

• Mother's Day
• Alzheimer's
• celebrity birthdays
• New York Times quiz
• listener voicemail

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times

Books & works: The Pitt

Places: Orlando, Skywalker Ranch, Illinois

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