Critical Nonsense Live‽ Adult Play, Fungi, Hot Takes, and Other Nonsense

This week, our first ever live show! Joey, Aaron, Jess and special guest Daisy Walker (joined by Hot-Takers Osei, Hannah, Ilana, and Katie) talk about junk playgrounds, The Big Mike, the alternate and "maybe probably true" origin story of Santa, Heinz Mayomust, Dolly 'effin Parton, and sweatpants material. They don't talk about how we slyly convinced the whole audience to sing with us (in true, Nonsense fashion).

To skip around: Hot take 1 and Adult Play [2:45], Hot take 2 and Fungi [23:50], and Hot take 3 and the Lightning Round [50:34].

references

• WaPo: "Why Grownups Should Play," and NBC: "Adults Need Recess Too."

• "The Decline of Play and the Rise of Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents" from the American Journal of Play

• The Atlantic on junk playgrounds.

• The least playful article for adults: a list of ideas on "How To Play"

• Health anxiety across generations.

• "The Problem with Reptile Play" a study we didn't ask for but the study we deserved. And it seems "Non-Mammals like to play too" so there's that.

• Ohio's new Giga Coaster.

• Banana candy flavor mythology, (expanded in the comments) and debunking banana apocalypse myths.

• The beautiful Santa is a Psychedelic Mushroom video.

• The Infinity Mushroom Suit Luke Perry was buried in.

• NYTimes: Hopkins opens its center for psychedelic drugs this year.

• JK Rowling was obviously inspired by mushroom names

• Oregon’s Humungous Fungus is the world’s largest living organism

• Glowshrooms? On bioluminescent fungi.

• Ancient Greeks on shrooms.

• "The Nervous System of the Forest" Harvard SITN

• Heinz released Mayomust and Mayocue. "Saucey Sauce?" Come on.

• We love that this link is from Indoor Gardening News: "Are Mushrooms Intelligent?

• Jessica Day presents: The Swuit