#66: ⁠IP Theft Is Huge in the Moth Community

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Welcome back for another episode of Is There Something In This?

Outside, seaplanes kept coming down the East River like they’d been thrown, and every twenty minutes Scott and I stopped mid-sentence to watch one not crash. One aborted, came around, and hit the water hard enough that we both made the noise. Nobody plans these segments.

I’m back from Columbus, where actual listeners turned up and forced us to describe our audience out loud. Here’s what we landed on: you’re pretentious, but you’re dumb enough to know you shouldn’t be. You want Barry Blitt on trade deficits, but you also want to know if the mouse has a really big dick. You are, in other words, exactly like us. (btw here’s a thing: I’m now live-drawing the ideas as we go, so the video version on Substack and YouTube is where you can watch me ruin a perfectly good joke in real time.)

Then we did the jokes. A jester’s head in the guillotine bucket, and the salesman who pitched the guillotine to the king as a workflow disruption. A MoMA guard with a new sign about muttering AI slop near the Van Gogh. A snowman in couples counselling, his wife a bucket of water: “I just think this summer has changed her.” A moth has an idea, and every moth for miles descends on it…

Somewhere in there, we stopped writing jokes and got onto the Flock cameras, the licence-plate network that lets cops look up their exes without a subpoena.

Also: the balls on the Big Merino, a pigeon with a hustle, a Borg water tower in Greenpoint, and a Gallagher courtroom gag from which Scott has formally removed his name. Because why not?

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