264! Art in the City

How do y'all deal with your digital poltergeists? This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about search results, the endless repository of stuff, digital cleanup, emails, collateral distraction, and friendly ghosts. They don’t talk about warlocks. references Dinosaurs eating Joey Toe beans and the art of reading them poltergeist They're here! Woah, my love, my darling ... Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville "Don't Know Much" Teenybopper Manwich 

How do we age right? This week, Joey, Aaron, and Jess talk about aching, supplements, cognitive decline, Tom Brady, LeBron James, and the future. They don’t talk about Alphaville. references L.A. Times: "Talking 'Men of a Certain Age' with Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher" Radiolab Podcast: The Secret to a Long Life John Meyer's "Why Georgia?" The 5 Regrets Of The Dying: Life Lessons Everybody Learns Too Late... New York Magazine: "The 12 Best Nice-Looking Pill Cases" System Shock 

What types of folk knowledge or rules of thumb do you live by? This week, Joey and Jess talk about cheating at science fairs, sleep, the rule of threes, tenets, the How I Met Your Mother pause, and concavity. They don’t talk about what Werner Herzog's thumb tastes like. references Chris Brunet's X thread on the ISEF cheating scandal Jean Yang's life lessons Pause The Idea of You (and Maybe Not Harry Styles) 

Why don't we have more public art? This week, Joey and Jess talk about toy poodles, graffiti, sidewalk chalk, murals, face painting, and sandals. They don’t talk about ESPO. references Tom Otterness' Life Underground sculptures The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon Street art by David Zinn Mural Arts Philadelphia 5Pointz 

How does one deal with being an acquired taste? This week, Aaron and Joey talk about stinky fish, mole vs. mayonanaise, blue cheese, safe spaces, leadership, and sandwich lubricants. They don’t talk about surströmming. references Holiday in Spain Did they ruin it for you? (Yeah | No) Thelma and Louise Stinky Fish activity rumspringa Aaron: We need antiheroes in the boardroom to spark progress in the workplace Spread your wings and fly, Butterfly Call Your Girlfriend 

How are we using bowls? This week, Jess and Joey talk about diversification of delivery methods, quick-serve restaurants, slushies, mush, ratios, and salads. They don’t talk about Prince. references Fascinator "Frozen in the Face of Tech": Joey @ Web Summit Rio 2024 Ramekin 

How has neighborliness changed in the past five years? This week, Aaron and Jess talk about lost dogs, trash pandas, the pandemic, masking, isolation, and marble runs. They don’t talk about the McFeelys or Cousin Mary Owl. references Aaron keeps your head ringing while The Sequence funks you up. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids "Frozen in the Face of Tech": Joey @ Web Summit Rio 2024 Petco's Love Lost pet finder 7 Signs of Undiagnosed Autism in Adults Jelle's Marble Runs The Lemonade Machine 

Why should we be concerned wth generationally slow timebombs? This week, Joey and Jess talk about trees, the Bradford pear, city planning, Barcelona, pilot programs, and the candy bowl theory. They don’t talk about Cameo. references @jjvincent on the tree timebomb in the UK. The Guardian: Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade The New York Times from 1964: BRADFORD PEAR HAS MANY ASSETS; New Ornamental Fruit Offers Sturdy Form And Early Bloom The New York Times from 2021: A Tree That Was Once the Suburban Ideal Has Morphed Into an Unstoppable Villain Superilla Biological Control The Psychology of the Candy Bowl Dunbar's number Street activity sensors in NY Definitely Maybe 

What does this "trend-mill" mean, what does it say about us as people, and how bad is it, really? This week, special guests Claire and Chloe join Jess and Joey to talk about the mob-wife aesthetic, accessibility, TikTok, blueberry milk nails, social networks vs. social media, and Trader Joe's totes. They don’t talk about why the combination of peanut butter and jelly is a gotdamn abomination. references Vogue: Blueberry Milk Nails Are Summer’s Most-Wanted Manicure Zaria Parvez: How the Comment Section became Duolingo's new Push Notification The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt onika burgers 

What happens if we're all deathly affraid of the cringe? This week, Jess, Joey, and Aaron talk about pain, yips, shame, fremdschämen, the Apple Vision Pro, and Michael Jordan. They don’t talk about Gracious K. references Skanking Revisiting Critical Nonsense 253! Teaching Agency and the Scandinavian Swimmers Fremdschämen The actual King of Belgium