Episode 236 : Mystery Episode 24

7 Responses to Episode 236 : Mystery Episode 24

1. jas says:

   September 17, 2015 at 4:54 pm

   Tony’s joke about molly/ecstasy was well timed for me ’cause I just taught a class on the section of the Odyssey in which Odysseus is given “moly” and my students were laughing knowingly in the nudge, nudge, wink, wink, kind of way. And then I’m listening to the podcast on the way home, and I think….Oh….right….

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2. jas says:

   September 17, 2015 at 5:00 pm

   I’d add one more thing to the definition of joy which is that joy takes one out of one’s self–you lose self consciousness. And I think that’s why joy also requires a connection to something outside the self. For that reason I think some of the things you might have been including in the definition of joy don’t actually count as joy but as compulsion. For instance, a need to cause others pain, to get pleasure from that (I’m talking nonconsensual) is usually associated with empathic disorders. And without empathy I don’t think you get joy.

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3. jas says:

   September 17, 2015 at 5:02 pm

   Mmmm mashed potatoes with butter and sour cream are the best! (And I like a little garlic as well, and lots of pepper).

   Grocery stores here do have English sections. ‘Cause where are you going to get your Lyle’s golden syrup for treacle tart!

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4. Azuretalon says:

   September 18, 2015 at 12:07 pm

   British cuisine is the uncanny valley of food?

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5. jas says:

   September 18, 2015 at 12:14 pm

   I think Will was talking about how few marriages are actually built on an amorous relationship. A further thought about this–up until very recently (like 100-200 years), people would have been surprised that there would be an assumption that marriages would be based on that kind of relationship. Even in the 19th century, when you start having more fiction based on that assumption, most people in real life assumed that one’s closest friendships would be with those of one’s own sex. And I think that’s ’cause the material conditions of marriage, women’s status in particular, kind of preclude intimacy. Now-a-days, we have at one and the same time, a huge cultural apparatus telling us that marriage should be based on amorousness while at the same time the material conditions haven’t changed that much. It’s an interesting contradiction.

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6. Beth says:

   October 4, 2015 at 5:21 pm

   Tony, earlier today I was talking about how awesome it is to buy cider in 2L or 3L bottles for just a few pounds. I do miss that – what is preventing stores from selling cider in those bottles/quantities state-side?

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7. Mark says:

   November 9, 2015 at 11:18 am

   Wow, it sounds like it’s awfully crowded in there today. It’s amazing how quiet all those film crews are.

   Define “Joy”: Being able to tell co-worker, multiple levels above you in seniority, with no negative consequences.

   *listen to more of the podcast*

   Wow, apparently in this episode you’ve decided to be all philosophical and deep which makes my definition above seem trite and shallow.

   Whys of Joy: Agreed, so long as nobody (including yourself) are being harmed by your joy; then the why doesn’t matter.

   Potatoes: Tony’s nailed it. Hashbrowns FTW!

   Plastic 2 litter bottle of hard cider: But how good of a cider was it?

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