OSPod Episode 143: A Mouse Surprise Q&A!

“I will simply not be Jumanji’d.”

That is how Indigo explains her refusal to play board games, and it sets the tone for an episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast that is exactly what it says on the tin: a Q&A session where Red, Blue, and Indigo answer patron questions about cats, toothpaste, Chicago travel, worldbuilding, sword names, monster hunting, and hypothetical video games. The throughline is less a single argument and more a consistent attitude—a wry, self-aware skepticism about committing to anything that requires learning rules, risking embarrassment, or getting trapped in a genre you did not sign up for.

Cats and Their Mundane Obsessions

The first question asks about the cats—Cleo, Ziggy, and Wolf—abandoning expensive toys for mundane objects. Blue reports that Cleo likes to eat wrappers out of the trash and once signaled Blue to follow her to a cabinet where she started licking plastic, as if asking Blue to keep lookout. Red describes how Ziggy became attached to an Amazon box placed across from her automatic feeder, sitting in it and staring at the feeder until it went off. The box is now a permanent fixture, decorated for holidays. Indigo says Wolf ignores her stuffed hedgehog toy in favor of clamping onto a memory foam floor pillow and doing bunny kicks to disembowel it. The takeaway: every cat’s evolutionary destiny is to choose the box.