The Cursed Episode
Decoding Curses, Crises, and Cursed Chairs: A Cursory Look at Legends and Local Sports
Discover the eerie connection between historical curses, modern business pitfalls (like the $55B EA sale), and the surprising environmental phenomena that poison entire towns.
Short Summary
- Analyze conflicting methodologies in teaching children to read, favoring phonics over context-heavy guesswork.
- Evaluate the implications of EA being taken off the public market by potential new private ownership groups.
- Explore real-world disasters interpreted as curses, including toxic gas eruptions, burning towns, and legendary poker hands.
- Determine whether the earth itself objects to human activity, evidenced by gas flows killing forests and lakes.
This episode dives into historical and contemporary legends of curses, contrasting them with business shifts in the gaming industry and recent localized environmental catastrophes. The hosts debate reading pedagogy and the role of private capital in fixing—or ruining—businesses based on past consumer experiences.
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Top Comments (10)
The accidental "Unfair" is always so funny. Edit: Since this is getting a bit of traction I have a humble request for Mark. This Halloween please dress up as Metroman and do that dance.
It has been 172 days since “The More Perfecter Crime”
I home schooled my son for for 2 years, taught him phonics, cursive, and how to read a clock. He's now top of his 3rd grade class in reading and writing. If the school won't we should.
You can see Mark's ring. Hell yeah
Bob asked for us to correct Mark, so I'm going to hit em with the "um akshually." The exploding lake isn't caused by caves under the lake, it's CO2 IN the lake. The local volcanic activity causes CO2 to leak into the lake, but it's at such a slow minuscule rate that it dissolves into the water itself. Same as a carbonated drink. Then an earthquake or other geological disturbance will happen, shake the water, and shake the bubbles out of the water, causing a massive release of gas. Fascinating stuff.
Bobs lawn mower is the next bob fridge im calling it now lol
My ex's daughter was in second grade and was struggling to learn to read. Bought her hooked on phonics, after three months of working with her she was a reading machine, her teachers were impressed and asked what we did and were genuinely surprised when they found out I taught her phonics. Turns out she felt really motivated to learn once she knew some rules and could make informed guesses lol.
Ecologist here, the story about the man who was the only survivor of the town that was hit by CO2 asphyxiation is a phenomenon unique to equatorial regions. Lakes across the world that are deep enough have a zone at the bottom that oxygen does not reach. In this zone because there is no oxygen for chemical processes other elements are used to be terminal electron acceptors producing gasses such as CO2. In lakes not in the equatorial this gas is released twice a year when the lake turns over as temperature changes cause water to sink and rise, but in the equatorial region lake turnover does not occur as the temperature is similar all year round. This means that the gas just builds in the bottom waters of the lake until physically disturbed, frequently by something large falling into the lake. There are multiple instances of this happening in Africa and as such there are multiple lakes that humans turnover multiple times a year to keep this build up from happening.
The stuff with kids not learning is a much deeper issue with the American government and the funding for the public school system. As a teacher, I know for a fact there are few good teachers because of how poorly we are paid, and it just continues to get worse
MArk forgetting that he screamed "FUCK!" after accidentally saying unfair and then just giving away the "most angry" point without even fighting
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Top Comments (10)
The accidental "Unfair" is always so funny. Edit: Since this is getting a bit of traction I have a humble request for Mark. This Halloween please dress up as Metroman and do that dance.
It has been 172 days since “The More Perfecter Crime”
I home schooled my son for for 2 years, taught him phonics, cursive, and how to read a clock. He's now top of his 3rd grade class in reading and writing. If the school won't we should.
You can see Mark's ring. Hell yeah
Bob asked for us to correct Mark, so I'm going to hit em with the "um akshually." The exploding lake isn't caused by caves under the lake, it's CO2 IN the lake. The local volcanic activity causes CO2 to leak into the lake, but it's at such a slow minuscule rate that it dissolves into the water itself. Same as a carbonated drink. Then an earthquake or other geological disturbance will happen, shake the water, and shake the bubbles out of the water, causing a massive release of gas. Fascinating stuff.
Bobs lawn mower is the next bob fridge im calling it now lol
My ex's daughter was in second grade and was struggling to learn to read. Bought her hooked on phonics, after three months of working with her she was a reading machine, her teachers were impressed and asked what we did and were genuinely surprised when they found out I taught her phonics. Turns out she felt really motivated to learn once she knew some rules and could make informed guesses lol.
Ecologist here, the story about the man who was the only survivor of the town that was hit by CO2 asphyxiation is a phenomenon unique to equatorial regions. Lakes across the world that are deep enough have a zone at the bottom that oxygen does not reach. In this zone because there is no oxygen for chemical processes other elements are used to be terminal electron acceptors producing gasses such as CO2. In lakes not in the equatorial this gas is released twice a year when the lake turns over as temperature changes cause water to sink and rise, but in the equatorial region lake turnover does not occur as the temperature is similar all year round. This means that the gas just builds in the bottom waters of the lake until physically disturbed, frequently by something large falling into the lake. There are multiple instances of this happening in Africa and as such there are multiple lakes that humans turnover multiple times a year to keep this build up from happening.
The stuff with kids not learning is a much deeper issue with the American government and the funding for the public school system. As a teacher, I know for a fact there are few good teachers because of how poorly we are paid, and it just continues to get worse
MArk forgetting that he screamed "FUCK!" after accidentally saying unfair and then just giving away the "most angry" point without even fighting