Happy Locks (w/ Joe Castle Baker)
Exploration: LIVE!
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4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Ideas Covered:
- Happy birthday song do it bad
- Happy locks
- Sun pop
- Who's the girl
Guest: Joe Castle Baker
Exploration: LIVE! is a weekly podcast in which Brooklyn comedians Charlie Bardey and Natalie Rotter-Laitman explore some of the most (and least) pressing ideas, theories, axioms and concepts out there.
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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. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm that extollary, baby. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Good morning. |
| 0:36.6 | Are we starting, Emma? Yeah. |
| 0:37.6 | We are live on air. |
| 0:39.6 | We are airing this for the first time ever live. |
| 0:41.8 | Live. |
| 0:42.6 | This is Exploration Live, live. |
| 0:44.2 | But due to the reality of the laws of sound, you will be hearing it in like five months. |
| 0:50.8 | End of July. |
| 0:52.0 | This is, we are, it's live, but the wires that we're doing it are a slow because of budget |
| 0:57.6 | issues so this is getting to you in many many months from when we are actually recording it you know |
| 1:03.4 | who I want to have on the podcast to do like an expert like witness interrogation is like someone |
| 1:09.4 | who knows about like what Wi-Fi is and like the cables and stuff |
| 1:13.1 | actually maybe our guest today knows I feel like he does don't say anything I have a friend who knows |
| 1:17.6 | who my friend Milo I'm like starting to think myel is not real like the way I'm like the way he's like |
| 1:24.7 | your answer to everything well he is a physics and philosophy PhD. Right. And actually the reason... Those do go. He used to have a blog where he would explain stuff like that. Like how Wi-Fi works. And he's like an explainer by trade, basically. I actually saw an Instagram that was like the desire to explain things before you really understand them. It's just a desire to perform. |
| 1:47.7 | And it was kind of like a takedown of that behavior. Right. And I was like, that's so funny because that's what we do. And it's like, and yeah, we're performers. You know what I mean? Like it was kind of like, oh yeah, we're performing. But in this But in the context of the society of this Instagram real, it was like, that's such a shallow way to live. You know what I mean? Like, to like, try to explain it without asking questions. You actually don't want to teach. You just want to perform. But it's funny. We're like, yeah. Yeah. to add a dynamic or an element to that also often teaching things before you fully understanding is a way of |
| 2:17.9 | learning them yes like that is a way that like pedagogically and there's research on this that like |
| 2:25.5 | if you want to teach yourself something you like teach it because it also kind of shows you what you know |
| 2:30.9 | what you don't know yeah i i honestly i understand that there's research |
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