The Far Side
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Nov 4, 2026
Chuck NiceHOST
Okay.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
There is a far side and a near side for that reason.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
But all sides of the moon get sunlight.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
A day on the moon, daytime on the moon is about 15 days long, and then 15 days of night.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
No.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
Wait.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
The Far Side.
Chuck NiceHOST
Oh, the Far Side.
JessHOST
yeah i so i realized after who was the ben was ben his first dog first then peter and then he like immediately was like here's
LucyHOST
peter he has three alt dogs waiting in case something happens to peter yeah because he has so many goldens and i will say i only like naming dogs human names if it's funny like a dog named todd is hilarious or like kevin kevin i mean i don't like the name kevin just like doesn't say it right with me just thinking of frank i there's like a far side comic where the dog's name is doug and it says beware of doug and i'm like well that rip
JessHOST
that is my favorite comic strip from when i was a child i used to read far side comics like they were novels like i
LucyHOST
had the book compilation i did i used to get my every year i never know what to get my dad for christmas so i get him like a far side like calendar yes
JessHOST
and he's like Thank you.
JessHOST
Thanks.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Answer six.
DanHOST
And finally, the thagomizer, the cluster of spikes at the end of a stegosaurus tail, got its name from the far side.
DanHOST
In a 1982 cartoon, a caveman lecturer points to a drawing of a stegosaurus tail and explains that it was named after the late Thag Simmons.
DanHOST
Paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter used the word at a scientific meeting in 1993, and it has been a beloved informal term among dinosaur experts ever since.
speaker_0HOST
Their large surface area and network of blood vessels suggest they could absorb or release heat, and possibly for display.
speaker_0HOST
The four-tail spikes, known informally as the Thagomizer, a name coined by cartoonist Gary Larson in a Far Side comic, were defensive weapons capable of puncturing the hide of a predator.
speaker_0HOST
The name Thagomyser, despite its humorous origin, has been adopted by paleontologists and is now used in scientific contexts, a rare example of popular culture contributing a term to science.
speaker_0HOST
Stegosaurus had a remarkably small brain for its body size.
speaker_2VOICE_ACTOR
out of curiosity, we're going to see if we can also cram in this tennis ball.
Jonathan DrakeHOST
I've used this far side as an analogy for like where I used to work.
Jonathan DrakeHOST
I was like, you know, can we find their breaking point? Let's just see if we can...
Jonathan DrakeHOST
push them a little further in a lot of ways.
Nicholas Patrick HazardGUEST
And also, I do take influence from comics as well.
Nicholas Patrick HazardGUEST
You know, Peanuts and Calvin Hobbes and The Far Side and...
Nicholas Patrick HazardGUEST
I would say probably even bone and graphic novels, too, and some other influences for this book.
Nicholas Patrick HazardGUEST
Well, not just for this book, but for, like, I would say maybe my entire future over.
Mur LaffertyHOST
They're going to see different things that they think are important.
Mur LaffertyHOST
Remember that Far Side cartoon where someone's trying to leave a city that there are riots and fires and there's a a bomb, an atom bomb going off in the background.
Mur LaffertyHOST
And then, but there's a dog in the car and it sees a dog on the street.
Mur LaffertyHOST
And the caption is like, suddenly Rusty saw something he was interested in.
Nat LauzonHOST
And they just like destroy the body in like seconds.
RupertHOST
Well, I learned from a Far Side cartoon, I don't know if this is true, that a school of piranha can skeletonize a cow in under two minutes.
Nat LauzonHOST
I guess if there's enough of them.
Nat LauzonHOST
Yeah.
Jim NortonHOST
I wonder if there's a way to...
Jim NortonHOST
Because Gary Larson, The Far Side, they always have those cartoons.
Jim NortonHOST
Oh, right.
Jim NortonHOST
The books of them and the calendars.
Craighton BermanGUEST
was always, you know, always kind of drawn stuff.
Craighton BermanGUEST
And, um, you know, I love the far side growing up.
Craighton BermanGUEST
I actually have right over there, a couple of the anthology to the far side.
Craighton BermanGUEST
It's still like a high watermark for me.
Craighton BermanGUEST
So it was sort of this like, absurdity, this like one panel joke idea, which obviously I still have a whole practice of sort of one panel humor.
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