Ancient Impulse
Exploration: LIVE!
Headgum
4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Ideas Covered:
- Let's hear it for the boy
- Video is crazy
- Ancient impulse
- Honesty of complaining
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | Life gets pretty boring when every day's the same. |
| 0:15.0 | Take me on a rocket ship to see the earth from space. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm that ext my peeves. |
| 0:37.1 | I row my little leaky boat. What? Popping my peas. |
| 0:40.8 | I row my little leaky boat. |
| 0:41.3 | What? |
| 0:42.7 | I don't know that one. |
| 0:44.7 | That was what we used to do in high school theater. I roll my little leaky boat. |
| 0:48.6 | I row, oh, my leaky boat. |
| 0:57.0 | Jeez, Louise. |
| 0:58.2 | And up I row my... |
| 1:00.8 | Wow. |
| 1:01.3 | I just saw an ad for something |
| 1:02.8 | where it's like a device |
| 1:04.6 | that you can like sing into |
| 1:08.3 | and it like muffles the noise. |
| 1:11.0 | So it's for like singers like who live in like, I don't know, an apartment or something |
| 1:15.6 | or have roommates. |
| 1:16.5 | So like they can like, it's like for musical theater kids to like practice there. |
| 1:19.8 | So funny. |
| 1:22.0 | It's like that is so funny because everyone does kind of want to put a muzzle on them. |
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