Idle Thumbs 235: Plaited Haircut of the Whale

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🗓️ 5 November 2015

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Our attention is split three ways this week, all thanks to Anno 2205. Jake sits in his island city patiently awaiting the new Super Mario Maker update. Nick spends his time on the moon, never sleeping, launching missiles until there's nothing left to nuke. Spaff sits alone in the arctic, huddled for warmth. Meanwhile, buried deep beneath the earth in a recently unearthed fortress of his own design, Chris sits down in a barber chair. "Give me an Erich Schaefer," he says. His barber knows exactly what he means.

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0:00.0	Wait, the Newseum?
0:02.0	The Newseum, that's the best.
0:04.0	It is a really stupid name, but you would love it.
0:06.0	It's really awesome.
0:07.0	Like, Nick told me about it, and I went there.
0:09.0	I haven't been to D.C. since I was like 8.
0:11.0	Yeah, I mean, I had never been there before this but it's just you know I mean it's what it sounds like it's a museum dedicated to news
0:18.3	but they have a an archive of historical newspapers going back hundreds of years and it's really, really cool.
0:26.2	You can just see, I mean it's like amazing.
0:28.2	You can see how big those broadsheets were.
0:29.2	Yeah, and also just how much news, in some cases how much news writing has changed and also in some cases how much
0:34.2	it hasn't.
0:35.2	Like it's amazing how much these sort of traditions of reporting and news, like good reporting and
0:40.5	good news writing go back a long fucking way it's really cool nice yeah
0:44.9	yeah yeah I didn't think no I should have
0:49.6	that space ice cream in DC has space ice cream. Every museum in DC has space ice cream,
0:54.9	including the Holocaust Museum.
0:56.1	Do you mean?
0:57.1	It's true.
0:59.1	You mean like they have like a-
1:00.0	Some for the kids?
1:00.8	Like astronaut ice cream?
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