My Brother, My Brother And Me: MBMBaM 389: Horsebonology

January 16, 2018 10:15 AM

This episode contains some dark revelations about Earth's Best Animal, as well as some semi-coherent ramblings fueled by a cocktail of potent cold and flu medicines. It is a challenge; a mountain you must overcome. Suggested talking points: Nastyman, Sweat Dress, Ghost in the Eggshell, Equine Anatomy, Ski Jeans, Ann, Unrinal Transfer
posted by Tevin (11 comments total)

Boy this was an episode of podcast content. That much is certain.
posted by Tevin at 11:24 AM on January 16, 2018 [1 favorite]

I've been involved with a project at work involving many, many horse joints. The non-vet colleague I was discussing them with called them "knees"; when I mentioned the "horse knee project" to the vet colleague, they looked at me a little funny and said that a closer equivalent was a toe joint, and that their knees are way up near where human's hips are. They're basically a big galloping terrifying hand.

Suffice to say I am super familiar with the kind of beanfreak the boys were going through, and the fact that they were having this conversation in my ears WHILE I was looking at these exact horse parts really exploded my lentil.
posted by tchemgrrl at 12:42 PM on January 16, 2018 [7 favorites]

I haven't actually listened to this episode yet but I saw some diagram about horse legs actually being horse hands on Tumblr literally just yesterday. This info is circulating.
posted by showbiz_liz at 2:23 PM on January 16, 2018 [1 favorite]

I want people to always be healthy but goddamn Griffin hopped up on meds is some next-level shit. This was a barnburner.
posted by kmz at 3:26 PM on January 16, 2018 [11 favorites]

I just went down a google hole about horse fingers and found out about Propalaeotherium, the tiny lil cat-sized proto-horse, and it might be the best animal.
posted by jason_steakums at 7:44 PM on January 16, 2018 [2 favorites]

I think it's hilarious that the brothers either intentionally or unintentionally didn't realize Ann was period-code.
posted by drezdn at 8:05 AM on January 17, 2018

>Ann was period-code.

Is it? I considered it briefly, but 16 is super old for that nowadays, or for a 15 year old to not know about it.
posted by tchemgrrl at 9:13 AM on January 17, 2018 [2 favorites]

Griffin + Drugs = Travis.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 9:40 AM on January 17, 2018 [6 favorites]

So the brutal best friend horse cops are pulling the earth out of orbit on their fingertips. Cool cool cool.
posted by bleep at 12:03 PM on January 17, 2018 [3 favorites]

Is it? I considered it briefly, but 16 is super old for that nowadays, or for a 15 year old to not know about it.

It could be that 16 is just the age that all the other family members assume you must have gotten your period by. So, they clue you in at that point, even if you've been menstruating for some time by then.

I dunno. I'd never heard of "Ann" for that before.
posted by meese at 12:07 PM on January 17, 2018 [2 favorites]

One thing that struck me is "a bunch of vampire-hunters talking shit about Dracula" isn't an entirely inaccurate description of the original Bram Stoker book.
posted by jwgh at 6:27 AM on January 25, 2018