Does this podcast really exist? Do you really exist?

Does anything actually exist? (Other than the simulation in which we are all trapped.)

This time around, we get all deep and talk about our very existence...specifically:

• When was the first time you realized that you, as a person, actually exist?
• When was the first time you worried you might not exist?
• Is it possible that none of us exist?
• How often do you ponder your existence? The meaning behind it?
• Do you think people ponder the meaning of their existence enough?
• What do you do to find purpose?
• Why are we here?
• Does how we came into existence matter? (Religious idea vs scientific, etc.)
• What is, in your opinion, the meaning of life?
• What is the end of existence?

We got through this entire episode without making an instrument = penis joke.

Apparently, after 300 episodes, we have become complacent. For that, the Gorillamen apologize.

So...this week we talk about hard wood(en) instruments and playing flutes. (But not skin flutes...another opportunity squandered...) It's all about musical instruments.

Specifically, here's what we discuss:

• What's your first memory of someone playing a musical instrument?
• Do you play any instruments? (What...and how long have you played?)
• Did you ever take any kind of musical training?
• How do you teach yourself new musical skills?
• Have you ever played live music for an audience?
• Who is the best musician you personally know (and what do they play)?
• If you could snap your fingers and play any instrument very well, what would you choose?
• Is there an instrument you feel you'll never play that you still think is very cool? What is it? (And why?)
• Do you believe playing a musical instrument benefits the person playing? If so, how?
• How has social media and YouTube changed the way people play music?
• Would you ever want to build an instrument from scratch?
• If sci-fi has taught us nothing else, it's that musical instruments will evolve. So...What is the future of musical instruments?

Gorilla Christopher almost totally forgot to load this! Sad thing: he got a jump on the episode, but didn't get to this part on Wednesday.

Were he to justify things, he'd say, "Well, technically, our release date is Friday...Wednesdays just happened along the way..." Or he could have said something about a busy work-week or that things got lost in the excitement of an approaching long weekend in the U.S.

But nah, he just totally forgot!

Still...this time around, it's all about how people justify things...specifically:

• When’s the first time you heard someone try to justify something?
• Do you feel the need to justify your actions/decisions much these days?
• What’s the worst thing you’ve ever had to justify?
• What are the little things we all justify every day?
• How do people justify the actions taken by our government lately? The racism, the violence against our own people, the fascism?
• Is use of force ever justified for private citizens?
• How about for law enforcement?
• What’s the most unjust thing you’ve ever done?
• The most just?
• What’s the future of justification?