This is the pre-show planning and banter for episode 308, recorded and edited basically by accident?? Enjoy??

Microtopics:

• The old saw that if the teacher is 15 minutes late, you are excused.


• All the hosts forgetting about the podcast so that episode just doesn't get recorded.


• The seam in the fish video.


• Procedurally vs. manually textured terrain.


• How to texture a limestone chunk.


• Whether Donkey Kong Bananza is deliberately evoking the sickly sheen of Donkey Kong Country's raytraced art.


• Procedurally decorating terrain in Techtonica.


• A lens flare shaped like bananas.


• Mario Kart opinions.


• Doing a stunt for the next 30 seconds.


• The Baja 1000 but with Mario Kart.


• How Mario Kart tries to make highways interesting.


• A souped-up Volkswagen Beetle driving 1000 miles through the desert


• Mario Kart except it's Desert Bus.


• A Hunter S. Thompson stand-in sent to report on Mario Kart races and ranting about the Mushroom Kingdom.


• Keeping your powder dry in case your anecdote gets promoted to Topic.


• Topics that have been in the bucket for a long time and probably will remain there for a long time.


• Doing a brass fall with your mouth.


• Finally learning to play "Imagine" on piano.


• Zoom's musician mode.
  


• Going on a date with twins to the same restaurant but neither one knows about the other, so you have to keep going into the bathroom and parting your hair the other way.


• The episode of Three's Company where there's a misunderstanding.


• Don Knotts making a weird face.


• Your prospective roommates explaining that you have to pretend to be gay so the landlord doesn't think you're all having sex with each other.


• More behind than ahead.


• Keeping cats in the Storage Atrium.


• Buying an organ from a salvage yard.
  


• Bartering with the organ maker's apprentice.


• The Estey Organ Company.


• Playing a bad prog rock solo on the analog synthesizer next to your couch.


• An organ with all of its organs showing.


• An accordion with zero subtlety.


• The difference between an electric piano and a digital piano.


• The Yamaha Clavinova with Advanced Wave Modeling.


• Don't play these notes unless you want to hear them forever.


• Topic Negotiation.


• Driving every single topic into the ground.

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