Troll With Bacon and French Horn

We start with a real question hiding inside a joke: what anxiety looks like when you’re good at covering it up. Then we wander through photos, music, engineering, bad gadget design, and the strange ways our parents’ lives quietly steer our careers. • Podcast anxiety versus baseline life anxiety • Describing tree-ring images and lichen wall art as forest design • Acoustic treatment ideas and turning decor into function • Macro photography versus photomicrographs and choosing lenses under weight limits • Arctic tundra textures, color, and making prints you can swap out • The career question: who we’d be without our parents’ jobs • Growing up around community music, sound booths, and engineering projects • Why microwaves and touchscreen cars have terrible user interfaces • Choosing ecosystems and land over medicine and money • PCC breakfast sandwiches, free samples, and the Fremont troll detour • Big-picture idea of salvaged wood and local wood economies Send us Fan MailSupport the show