28: An 'out of this world' lecture
Lateral with Tom Scott
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The Boiling Frog
The funk band Volfpec released an entirely silent album so their fans could listen to it when they didn't want to listen to anything. The Boiling Frog was a Spotify thing where if you wanted guests to steadily leave your party, you would put in a song that was lovely and then put in asong that they absolutely would hate. It's like restaurant music at $1.45. Like please leave. We're going to play the sad stuff. We're trying to clean. How is that possible? And what is the tradition behind it?
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