What’s The Opposite Of Nostalgia?

We did a Listeners’ Choice Special on setisoppO this week.


Based on suggestions, we ended up discussing what might be the opposite of nostalgia, of the Large Hadron Collider, and of turning 30.

If you want to know what the actual rules of the game are, they’re something like this:

And if you want to know what my stand up used to look like, it usually sort of went as well as this:

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