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Learning to Fiddle While Rome Burns. When Ronald Reagan became president in 1980, we thought the world was going to end in a nuclear winter. When George W Bush, who couldnāt pronounce the word ānuclear,ā took over in 2000, we figured the whole planet would be consumed by the War on Terror. In 2016, we [ā¦]
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Superstition as a Brain Eating Virus. People believe all sorts of crazy things. The world is flat. Gluten is a huge problem. Thereās a mystical being who knows everything and controls our lives, but we canāt see them or possibly know what they want. Once you open your mind to ideas that are magical, mystical [ā¦]
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The Customer Isnāt Always Bright. Expectations are the enemy of happiness, which is why the Amazonification of customer service has ruined a lot of people. They want everything now. They want a refund on it before itās been shipped. They want a tracking number and a thank you note and a discount. But weāre all [ā¦]
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White Whales and Sinking Ships. All of life is a struggle between our best intentions and the predations of time. Will we land our great white whale before the veil falls and we return to dust? Or are we still able to heft the big harpoon and land the whale, filling our holds with oil [ā¦]
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Bill and Tedās Hot Tub Time Machine. In 1968, when Dr. Spock invented the internet, it was just a cool way for people to share information with each other. Then the same people who brought you credit cards and telemarketing turned it into a predatory beast that wanted the last four of your social, every [ā¦]
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New Yearās Icebreakers for the Dull or Demented. From a party perspective New Yearās is really amateur hour, hordes of emotionally chaotic humans getting sloppy and rubbing up against each other, celebrating an arbitrary milestone with Jell-o shots and plastic thimbles of champagne. This week weāre gonna help you bone up on your conversational chops [ā¦]
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The Warm Breeze Off Jugalo Island. We live 3000 miles apart, but weāre neighbors on Jugalo Island, a special place where two fifty-something jabronis can have a podcast where they offer uninformed opinions, share dubious battle stories and generally pretend to know whatās going on in the world. This week youāll get the warm breeze [ā¦]
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Bad Reasons to Talk About Batman. Batman is clearly the best superhero because he doesnāt have any superpowers and because he isnāt even sure whether heās a good guy or a bad guy. Also, because he wears his underwear on the outside. Recent events have highlighted that humanity has a real soft spot for vigilante [ā¦]
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Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again. Weāre just a couple of cracked eggs, and all the kingās horses and all the kingās men apparently need to be involved in our rehabilitation, which has to thread the needle between opiate addiction, night sweats and the fear of sneezing. Music pick of the week: Robot ā Dissolves [ā¦]
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The Last Will and Testament of Stevil Kinevil. By the time people are hearing this, Iāll either be in the great beyond where all the guitars are air guitars and all the cocktails come with umbrellas, OR Iāll just be crawling out of an opioid nightmare on the other side of knee surgery. And so, [ā¦]
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Trying Very Hard Not to Try Very Hard. After 153 hours of jibber-jabber, I think weāve established that nothing matters, and that quite possibly weāre all dead already anyway. That means weāre all free to do what we want, which for most us means, not very much. And yet, itās still so hard to pull [ā¦]
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The Epistemological Challenges of 21st Century Consciousness. One of the problems of being alive right now is that itās becoming increasingly difficult to know whatās true, to even know what you know. Thereās AI, deep fakes, fake news, memes, rumors, conspiracy theories, stuff we see in dreams, numerology, astrology and psychic surgery. How in the [ā¦]
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Looking for a Good Cult to Join. Humans will believe just about anything. You wonder how people join UFO-worshipping, death cults, but is any of that so far from the stuff everyday people are completely sure about as they walk around the planet, eating food and reproducing? Music pick of the week: Robot ā Billy [ā¦]
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The Apocalypse Being Nigh. This episode has been gifted to humanity one day before the US election that may or may not (but probably will) trigger the end of our species in the universe. We can imagine a few of you are feeling some considerable stress, so today weāre going to talk about how to [ā¦]
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Arbitrary Moments of Joy, Pain and Indifference. There are milestones in life that you see coming, and there are others that just happen to you. There are some you think are going to move your forward, like a marriage or a new job, but maybe they donāt pan out quite as expected. You shouldnāt expect [ā¦]
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Natural Born Killers. There are aliens among us, people endowed with extraordinary abilities and no fucks to give. They donāt need expensive equipment. They donāt need a very tight shirt. They donāt need you to see them do the things they do. Theyāre just built different. Music pick of the week: Robot ā Buildings ā [ā¦]
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The Three Body Problems. Never mind the sci-fi novel or the mini-series they made from it. Today weāre talking about the design problems with the human body, which are as obvious as the nose on your knee. Also, we canāt do anything about them, even though theyāll probably cause us to go extinct sooner rather [ā¦]
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Anthony Bourdainās Nightmares. In the night, when the hungers come, the mind capers at the culinary possibilities lurking in pantries and refrigerators. Weekend mornings, when weāre maybe not our best, weāve contrived dishes that will never find a home at your local Applebees. Then thereās the stuff weāve eaten on dares. Music pick of the [ā¦]
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The Eventual Thoughtlessness of the Homogenized Mind. Either by algorithm, lowest-cost architecture, or the crushing weight of American cultural hegemony, we are all being rinsed clean of original thought, encouraged to communicate in memes and enjoy things like ābonelessā wings. Music pick of the week: Robot ā Pissed Jeans ā King of Jeans Stevil āLady [ā¦]
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The Revolting Biopic Starring Danny Devito and Pauly Shore. The Revolting biopic is a comedy and a cautionary tale, a bildungsroman and a French period drama. Sure, itās got panache and style. The costumes are outstanding, but what are the lessons weāre meant to learn from it and why does the plot seem so incoherent? [ā¦]
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