142 Prime Directive

"Prime Directive" is in the Dino cup because Kimberly put it there after finding out Cara Jean is a Star Trek nerd too, and Cara Jean immediately takes it somewhere Starfleet never went: the collapse of society. Star Trek has always gestured at one enormous event on Earth that forced everyone to unify, and the show has never actually taken us there. From there it is the pandemic as a possible turning point, the Star Trek no-money future that did not arrive, crypto arriving instead and the Ferengi standing there as a warning label about capitalism nobody checked.

Then the tangents take over. Replicators, why 3D printing quietly stalled out, forgeries in Leverage: Redemption, what Kimberly learned about Miss Piggy on a tour of the Henson Muppet Factory and Cara Jean announcing she would like to be a Muppet named Et before pitching a series where the Muppets fail beautifully at upholding the Prime Directive without ever quite breaking it. Kimberly tells the story of being a bored kid at the Thanksgiving parade until Scott Bakula's float rolled past, her arms shot up, and he waved back. 😍

It lands somewhere neither of them announced in advance. If you wrote your own prime directive, who would be ready for it, and who is just not here yet? Kimberly's answer is that it is plural and situational, and if it has to come down to one thing, that thing is consent.

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141 Mirror

Kimberly and Cara both land on a hall of mirrors right out of the gate, and then find out they live on opposite ends of the thing. Kimberly barely uses mirrors at all, not even while brushing her teet...

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140 Lava Lamp

Kimberly and Cara take "lava lamp" apart and follow it from a furry-walled 70s movie scene into a black-box theater, a rainbow of imaginary snacks, a coop full of opinionated chickens, and a genuinely...

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139 Prophet

Kimberly dives right in with prophet which , to her, is a leader who is also an oracle, someone carrying a vision they are trying to hand to somebody else. Then she flips the coin, the way she always ...

20 Jul 32min

138 Instincts

Cara calls it before they even start: this is a juicy one, and the word "instincts" is going to send them wormholing across dimensions instead of down the usual rabbit holes. She is right. What follow...

13 Jul 56min

137 Evoke

Kimberly and Cara take the word "evoke" apart and follow it straight into witches, tartans, Southern sass, and the magic hiding in every Disney movie. For both of them, evoking means calling in someth...

6 Jul 35min

136 Morality

Kimberly and Cara pull the word "morality" apart at the roots and find it written in sand by the shoreline, the kind of thing that goes out with the tide. They start where everyone agrees, that killin...

29 Jun 38min

135 Inner Resourcing

Cara breaks the format before the episode even starts and Kimberly's brain promptly fractals. That tiny derailment turns out to be the perfect way into the word of the day: inner resourcing, the finit...

22 Jun 48min