Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.

Now administering third eye drops. Greetings my dear Wonderlings, fabulous to align minds with you as always.

As far as this episode is concerned, good grief did it yield a heaping harvest of novelty nuggets but there is one feature

of it in particular that has been buzzing around the back of my cerebral cortex.

A particular word actually and I guess I shouldn't be surprised by that

considering Richard Doyle is a bona fide rhetorical

reactor who plays with the English language for a living, but that particular obscure buzzword, as it were, is the word mirth,

specifically inner mirth and although contextually I had an idea of what he meant as he was saying

it I wasn't honestly aware of that particular mouth noise at the time but now I'm a little

bit obsessed with it. But before I get into that I suppose I should wet your comprehension with some synonyms in case you, like me, are not familiar with it.

Merriment, high spirits, cheerfulness, hilarity, glee, laughter, buoyancy, blitheness, euphoria,

exhilaration, light-heartedness, joviality, joy.

And that aforementioned minor obsession, it's not stemming from the fact that it is a novel

word to me. It's stemming from what it represents and how it manifests and how it functions in reality because

if there is any single thing that this conversation and for that matter all of my favorite conversations convey

that is it co-created inner mirth that is magnified via mutual linguistic exploration of boundary pushing topics, with of course a frosting of wonder and a cherry of humbleness atop it.

And as far as those three conversational accoutramond are concerned, dear Wonderlings.

Dr Doyle delivers all of them in spades.

He's honestly up there with my favorite guests already.

And before I get too much into him, I really want to illustrate

what I was saying by discussing the noxious alternative. Think about how you feel when you're involved in a

sort of corrosive interpersonal exchange that is just the opposite of everything I

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