209! Defining Cool

What is "cool"?

This week, Joey and Aaron talk about kinetic energy, Obama, privilege and power, nerds, Blackness, and fish sauce. They don’t talk about Freestyle Fellowship.

references

• The Joey Sleeps Alone Tonight while Aaron Learns
• Damien Rice covering Sia's "Chandelier"
• How do you do, fellow kids? (the not-black version)
• Wondrium Daily: Why The Word ‘Cool’ Has Stayed Hot For So Long
• "I Like to Watch": Drag Queens Trixie Mattel and Katya React to Mean Girls
• Hank and John Green
• Quartz: How Black Americans have shaped cool globally
• Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness
• Corrections Department: Big Boi, not 3 Stacks, said "cooler than a polar bear's toenails".