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You sent me a link to Fountains of Wayne um as a reference to during COVID when I would every Monday morning I would I think it's a reference to every Monday morning I'd listen to Mexican wine and ride my scooter and cry. Okay, wait, what else I mean a pet cats? So things delicious. I I've I have rarely, I don't think I've ever seen like professional porn other than like someone being like, hey, isn't this funny? And the thing is, that actually goes a lot broader than just the name for a thing. It's difficult to explain. Uh uh someone cooked by meat, that sounds delicious, and I didn't know you'd be like, Salty water. Just dunking it in water as one would traditionally dunk it in milk. Syracuse.

I I the same an anecdote, you go all the way up the ladder to some ancient tome and you find out that the reason four generations ago cut the ends off the roast because You change the you change the angle. It's because they live somewhere where lead paint fell off the wall and they ate it. Pica, this is from the Internet Science page, I'll put it in notes. Oh you think you put this one? It seems like a higher percentage of gay men enjoy uh i uh consuming that. i it being a thing. So it's like that's horrible, then you can't see your special thing. Sound very odd. It it doesn't matter. Love that, Amy. That's okay. Yeah, what's happening, sure, news things. Huh? Okay. Yeah. 'Cause he was in his eighties.

Because you never know. And using or not using a computer, that's most of the that's the fuzz they say in law. Yeah. Yes. Like somebody's trying to work you into this thing and like I feel like this happens fairly often. And you keep kinda playing with it with your tongue and it's the worst kind of cold sore. They still do that. And an advanced beginner is following rules. Close enough. Have I told you about my well my Oreo hack? You get queso that you put your chip in. into water. engendered. It's depending on whether you ask John or me. Maybe you should get two cans. cauliflower parts, you you don't really question. why it's front to back because even if you were to do it once, you learn why I didn't know about that until I had a uh an AVAB.

And I I'm talking to one listener right here. We're supposed to jump up and down and hold the toilet paper in one place. I did. But but like a classic pike of behavior is you know like little kids eat stuff, right? Very frustrating. Where he like hired a private investigator who was kind of like him and was like Charlie Day as house. To quote Jeff Foxworthy, you you might be a poor person. True. It's a very like Georgia, South Carolina kind of dish. What if you doodle and then you you don't want to get caught and you just kind of you're saying that's a good idea? Oh gosh, amongst oh god, this this show will never be released, this episode. But yes. If I was to get a divorce, that's gonna be the reason.

Sometimes at night when my hands are really cold I'll just I'll just put them into my pants. Oh actually no, yeah. situation. How many at least we're going to be able to do that? No. guilt. I'm not here to teach you about my world. If you think this is a totally dumb idea, I would like to give very quickly an example from life that is very relevant, has always been relevant to me, which is like, say for example, you're saying like it's at the office, where do people want to go for lunch? Look at as a way to pull out a card at the right moment that says, honor thy error as a hidden intention. Okay. Well yeah, and you can use it in Obsidian or Notion, like it's open source. I I mean sorry, I'm not trying to contradict you.

No, yeah. It's how you want to use it is all up to you. online. That used to be my favorite ride at Disney World. So I'm sorry, I I uh as usual I interrupted you. d directed in its own oblique way where you could go, nah, actually opposite of that is what I want. v like uh first hand vulnerability that because you might just make a dumb m mistake or you might spell myself. I was giving it my own oblique strategies. Can I read you a few of my passive aggressive ones from ChatGPT? I mean for me, if if you said that to me, I instantly without even being able to, like, I already had like a constellation of ten sort of like uh thoughts in my head, right? It's kind of traumatic and I probably should have processed it a long time ago that I was an asshole.

We've never uh it's and I don't think it's important to dwell on it, but that's why i it's Uh well and not also then like this is too wide a scope for this conversation, but like if we ever did decide to like make it a challenge and talk about evil, well, I mean I don't know. You know that song? Eat a bag of barbers, you piece of shit. Oh, yeah. God, I love her. And then I I would tweak them sometimes. And again, this is this is a chance to talk about a thing that is weird to talk about, but I think is important and I care about, which is like, again, And whether the containers for them are really the proper um thoughtful size for who you are rather than who you thought you were. that they're older and a different size and shape.

Did I get rid of them? Mm-hmm. or something. How if I could uh Tyrell and but that's I was watching it and just thinking like it really is dude story after story. Oh well n it was Marquette, but I mean the beginning of the school. And so my sixteen year old kid, tenth grader, has suddenly started receiving, and I guess it might have been because he ticked off the uh what, P S A T or you tick off the box that says, Do you want colleges to contact you? Sure. Yeah, be ready for that. Respect your feelings and your choice. and weird so it makes these weird stalagmites that like hold it up. J except for OLED screens. Yeah, uh Merlin, you know the episode two weeks ago that wasn't uh edited. it's important to examine if that's a good or bad.

And you can take that however you're talking about. Am I supposed to play an instrument too or say that's funny harmonica? I was ready to come in and be really nice to you. Do it again. I'm great Alex. Yeah. Sucks for that poor bastard. using a trackpad or a phone or a controller with my left hand. Which is just because it's not the thing you think it is, doesn't mean it's the opposite of the thing you think it is. But just because it's not the opposite of what you think a thing is doesn't mean it it's there's not necessarily the opposite. evil. I don't like we've all thought that or said that. If you try to explain that away without the devil, it'll be some horrible trauma, and then s uh it's like, wait, I've gone through that.

Yes. But he's not sure who he got it from. And so like, you don't want Jared Kushner to go to jail? Like what should I do about that as a result? you start understanding how little subtlety there is in a lot of binaries. Hey, here's some just some tips for getting started with a bamboo printer. The further you go up in your expertise, the more I would completely understand somebody saying, never do that. Salt your water. Because salt when it's cooking how is a reason you use salt when you're cooking. Use less patina spray at first and you can always add more later. Yeah, you you just you dip it in water because it has the same consistency almost because milk doesn't really uh like it doesn't absorb the dairy.

in some kind of like French onion mix dip, right? chilled water as one would chill milk, I suppose. Mama's water. project shit because if you read that you go, oh that's true. tradition like because I said so, which is the the the notional kid uh will says says to the the person preparing the meal trying to keep this on John might disagree. If you haven't listened to the program, that's okay. Just those things where like everybody knew this but me. By Steely Dan. Eat this. It's called Pika Behavior. having pika? Yeah, I don't think you're in there. So like there's a lot of kids. In the case of my ex's mom eating a quart of Brunswick stew every Sunday that made her throw up all day, like a rational person would not put that on their schedule again.

Oh, yeah, and you soothed your your wrecker. Right? That totally works. uh then aren't the escher of viscous that kind of enjoy that sort of play. So like if you're a kid and you're watching that and you pull it up on your phone, which he did to my me and then I saw it firsthand, I'm like, that doesn't look like a real thing. because I associated that with an enjoyable moment with my sock. porn now is I don't like the name of the I depends what you call amateur. That's but if you're there for the nose hooks, you don't want to see the tittes. He's got something going on and everything he knows about the world is comes from watching TV every available second. Some people don't like the pizza guy arriving.

All right. But the people who actually invented oblique strategies are uh Brian Eno and his friend Peter Schmidt. And as the story goes, like especially during like the Bowie 70, the Bowie like Berlin years, like Brianino would do this thing where he and Peter Schmidt had devised these things they called oblique strategies. And the idea was you write this, oblique is really the key word, is that sometimes you feel stuck creatively or sometimes you feel to get you off the bubble. Or you say to your family, where do you want to go? That you have exactly a 50% feeling about, flip a coin, knowing full well in your head that whatever happens when that coin flips and lands, heads means you do X. I really want the other one.

a bot because it's really hard to find these online for less than an a Like that one. Important. Uh I g I got like the expired uh Peter Pan that might have salmonella right off of the gas station shelf. God, this is so funny on like four different levels depending on Oh my God. Enjoy the movie, not the concept. Okay. And that doesn't but think about but for the thing. Ch I like how you chose which GPT which curate. And like I get it, like maybe nobody needs to worry about that ever, but if you care, you sure want to people to see see it and to go like can I send you to this area of this website or app I want to send you to an area where these things are these are all playlists from Roderick on the line and you should be to me you should be able to go to one page but you can't Yeah, yeah, it's on my ghost thing.

the Spotify app, open it in Firefox, I cannot find any way to see stuff that's in folders. I I made choices that created my worst day and uh there's like some trauma around around that. worst mistake like what what I'm saying. Responsible for your own worst day? Like fuck that. Forgive me for doing a re repeat here, but there are some that I'd thrown into Chat GPT like while we were recording. I'm remembering a line that I think is from a song and company that might be an Elaine Stritch song, but where somebody's or no or or uh or uh Patty Lapone sings um I made it through all of last year and I'm still here. Because that's like wiping with your other hand, sure. address. a better person earlier if my heart had been open to the things in this document.

This is all shit calling people always call people what they ask to be called and don't be a dick about it. You get a bra that fits you because that's actually about several things. Uh like I can't tell if I am uh just broken. It depends on the pants. Uh right? or your former n name or something. Or do you remember do you remember in the fifties when everything was really good? 'Cause I think I I mentioned to you that my my uh I'm not uh this is this is a uh a brag I suppose. Catholics are or whatever. Yes. values. Interesting. And I really enjoyed this week's challenge. thinking about this challenge because uh of having like uh like a bunch of headaches uh looking at screens was terrible. There's an episode we haven't released and you were working on it?

Yeah, so I I was I was a soy boy and and it's the thing where it's not just sinus infection, you get like the clusters and it feels like a migraine. But um I But if it's a hot MILF it's actually Munchhausen by Foxy. Yeah, how would you know it's your birthday? The best thing that happens is, oh, okay, thank you, and then they just keep walking thinking, oh that was weird. like within talking display. Room. different people a day. No, I think we just started saying happy birthday and the voices got weirder and weirder and weirder. Oh all right, all right. Oh, that is a Christopher Nolan note card right there. And as short as possible and uh yours just go off the rails in a way that I enjoy. Um let's see, so I got some.

Well you're playing harmonica at the top of the show. And um I mean not every morning, not every Monday. Yeah, yeah. Oh no. Okay, this is. To to to quote uh to quote uh uh the great uh wicked witch of the um have a little fire scarecrow is what I'm gonna say to you. the uh y you know I can't say I can't do it. Really? And he might have gotten it from canned food or a toilet or something. Yeah, yeah, it feels like you're really puffing yourself up. something else. for for for practical purposes to somebody who doesn't know a lot about 3D printing, you could choose to phrase it as here's three things. Now, if you have a 0. Don't use carbon fiber because you're gonna blow $35 on the nozzle for your hot end.

Using your slicer, sure you can use carbon fiber, sure you can use PLU, sure you can use wood-infused. right? Oh no no no this is not ketchup. No, it turns out that the great-great-great-grandmother uh had a dairy sensitivity, and it it's very much like cutting the ends off the roast. But whatever, shut up. the pan that they had for making the roast in would not may not accommodate the size of the roast that they wanted to make. love telling those and I of course even more love hearing them no matter what even if it's a thing I quote already knew but I super like hearing ones that I'd never heard before No. That's where the vitamins were. Well, one, I I thought this was true. A classic though is, and and this is I don't mean this to be classis, racist, anything, but this is a a true fact, is that there is a very there have been for many years a pretty high incidence of kids having lead in their in their blood, in their system.

clear problems you get from eating stuff that has lead in it or exposure to lead. And there are people like these health bros or whatever, like it means you can eat more protein or whatever. Right. But I've masturbated a lot in life. Putting your hands in your armpits. She hate it. I'm like, I'm gonna get you. It it might be like I I do doubt that. Well and and that's the thing. Because that's not really something because You've never seen porn that was made to sell for money? Don't want the hooks. Oh no. I I I think the opposite could be true though of the the sports. um like you could use some kind of a pointer about what to do next. Now, this is right up my alley because the point l lies in the obliqueness, right?

Okay, so like if you were, if you, for example, were to say, I know you probably wouldn't, but you if you were to say to me anything you want is fine, and I would say, but we can either have wet bread with salt. Uh this says destroy and uh there are two oh sorry dude not disturb Burke um there's a list only two things on the list nothing the most important thing Oh disagree. What? The ideas that we're talking about here do not necessitate you, forgive me, sourcing an official box of these cards. If you're doing oblique strategies, if you can get to a point where you can choose a physical card, I think that is better than just having like a hypercard stack that randomly shows you something. You know in your heart is totally an expired Peter Pan.

I mean Peter Pan's flight has always even at Disneyland a couple times we've gone has an improbable Slow preparation, fast execution. Uh this seam, this is like a I feel like another uh uh embrace the you of now, but And not about feeling like sh shame or like potential future regret, like that kind of thing? When you really start to think about it, it's like, is this common advice? you make and they have a very interesting interesting yes, yes. Oh, that makes me so happy. This is it's so so short. That's interesting. done that. Just like the nature of evil. But like is is a person evil? Oh indeed, of course. Okay. I hope you enjoy the wisdom project. who they tell you that they are. That also means like, hey, have you revisited what your real shoe size is lately?

You're saying like you're saying oh I'll never be a of course I'll be a 34 again. like a like a bad thing, but I think a lot of people take that as you uh w want not want, but like um I I suppose uh it's all too much. Somebody blew through I think blew through a light and like I told you this, right? and then the father died after that and the only person who survived that was a baby. It's about the past. Is an incredible self-starter would be a real gift to your school, but you probably gotta go to services and stuff. And you're gonna say, well, wait a minute, this isn't the name that we saw on the thing, and you're like, well, that's because I'm not 18 and I'm not allowed to change it yet. It turns into actually well yeah so about that.

Like there's going to be parts that hang over, which are called overhangs. I w I know enough to then with to just think like, oh, is there something I'm not thinking about in terms of inf infrastructure or support that would help this? Oh, I like that a lot. Wish a stranger happy birthday. But but also if you can't start holding up random objects and saying, Is this yours? But then But my immediate thinking was how often am I in a position where I'm walking around strangers and There aren't as many strangers in my life because I'm not out and about as much. Um let's see. The the the third the third acute strategy for Alex, shit like nobody's watching. Eat something you're not supposed to eat.

I'm gonna do bits and it's gonna twist your melons, so just be ready. I made sure my 3D printer turned off. Um hello that was the show, that's fine. I had an exchange with somebody not very long ago where I was making a joke about how not a joke, I was saying a true thing, which is I don't want I don't necessarily want Jared Kushner to go to jail, but I would like him to have the f the second day of a cold sore for the rest of his life. And maybe our idea about something having to be Adam and Eve is part of the problem with learning to quote understand persons who are just Use less salt than you think because you can always add more later. Mikey. If you're sensitive to dairy, but like a moist Oreo, I would suggest I would come on.

Also don't do fraud starting in the sixties and seventies. It always every Sunday she got it. part of there's a pika that happens with pregnant people where they eat dirt because they don't know that their body I don't I'm gonna go see right uh pikey up okay hang on. Dermatophagia is when you eat skin. Priscidecophobia. What if it's not a desire to doodle? Okay. Being on the receiving end of that. Premise of a lot of like sci-fi stuff. God forbid, just tuning in. That's kind of similar to this, which is like if you're enough of a weirdo or a dingling to have a deck of cards called oblique strategies, don't look at it as a way to transform your life. And so that's what we did this week is we we came up with uh oblique strategies.

Oh, I didn't have that. Daily pages or writing without And it's not it's not it's not necessarily about being careless. Stragege and uh you might completely mess up the markdown show notes. Sorry, it I'm I know I'm supposed to like hate myself, but I don't. a piece of paper or a digital card and not something you should write a thesis on, probably. Seinfeld? Um and uh so I said, you know, basically I I really like blah blah blah. follow me, call them Daisy. I mean how does one say uh that that whole area is a thing you deal with when you're a person is a thing I'd say. Buy a larger shoe size? Do you know what I mean? Madeline Madeline had the news on, uh local news, and it was all about all these just horrif I think I told you this, all these like horrible things happening and a terrible thing happened at West Portal a couple weeks ago where And that's understandable.

Yeah, they this particular individual, this particular recruitee. But a a lot of schools that, you know, are uh uh Jesuit schools that are private will be like, yep, not a problem. opposite wi especially with Jesuit schools. I almost said built to spill. We d the the cauliflower is is not in the the situation. Steve uh you know that one guy in the Trump White House? you're implying that there is such a thing as good and then there's not much in between. Or like don't shit in the cake. So like I'm at the very middle level of this. with French well, at least McDonald's French fries because it it I enjoy, you know, having a performance characteristics of of room temperature water are pretty different from the tiny tomato vinegar taste of say ketchup.

What's a reference to it? Because it was just passed down to you as a thing that we do. Funny thing is we got a nice tooth from somebody who wanted to send us uh uh one of these things and said, you know, my mom cuts the ends off the roast. I mean that makes it super canonical because the other thing it took you too long to realize is that we have talked about cutting the ends off the roast on the show at least three or four times. Oh yes. Oh God. Sometimes in the winter I come inside and he sees I don't have gloves and the look of terror in his face. Did that start as I need to destroy the evidence and then became, oh I eat it up yum, I pay people to make me eat my jizz. Oh well of course I he he brought up.

Oh man, I fixed so many pipes in my twenties. on the internet. And uh we have one this week. this stated uh uh i is it shares strategies well the port said uh all right oh i said but designing and thinking into doing isn't happening. Through some combination, I think, of not having an opinion and trying to be, you know, go along, get along, we'll say, I don't care, like whatever you want is fine. I oh no, I well I'll cut it triple uh anky anky uh cards. You can use this in lots of different ways. He's a regular Peter Pan, that guy. Really nice. I approached it with the random actually with the randomness in mind and a coin flip in mind because I with the floor. God. So like a listener had said, hey, are these all in one place?

Hmm, you went long with these. day and is it's not the one that you would think of. as in an adjective like for like you know that was wicked but like as in like um okay like think about dark patterns in UI Ugh. And that the most basic dumb thing about that is, hey, you should be comfortable. Isn't that a dumb st stupid thing? And so how many things, how many saxophones do you have in your house? Well, can we prod that a little bit? Which is fine, but like Billy gets so much the only mail we receive these days, really, is like one to four pieces of mail a day from weird private colleges. Sending brochures to Billy, some of which include stuff like a removable fold-out poster with Billy's name on it.

Yep, you this name, no problem. Um Alex I think you might like this one. Please do you want to talk to the audience while I get it? don't cause like horrible just like brain extra. And you're you're you're you're not reading the room. Oh listen to that precious angel. Because the devil made them. And maybe maybe that maybe that and this this goes for the other kind of binary that you and I talk about sometimes maybe that person isn't Adam or Eve, maybe they're something else. To always do. If you have a pan or pot or a roasting pan that'll accommodate your roast beef without cutting the ends off, you don't need to. Right, and it was told to me by people I adults that I trusted. I ate toilet paper for money once, but it was Scottish.

behavior m might be more common, but it just so happens that there's there's well, there's a deuce, as you'd say, because there's lots of things with comorbidities with mental illness. So many edits, so many edits I had to get fluffed. I don't like talking about this stuff. Yeah. Or bring down the fader on the base. I uh I did not peanut butter, but it's another one of those things where it's it's not like the good natural kind of peanut butter. Did you do any like do more but make it horny? And people are gonna say this is codependent. Buy a new kitchen sponge. Between Fox News and local Tampa Bay Area news just has developed a really distorted idea about how the world works, I think. Oh, let me eat that up for a moment.

Happy birthday. These are five oblique strategies that mention Olive Garden. You don't think that person's evil? He's taught me many great like you know, I don't know what you call it, fables, myths, truisms, saws. If you, for example, have a judgment against you that's just racking up $100,000 a day in uh interest, you know, the sooner you pay that, the less interest you'll have to pay. And mom mama says, Well, we've always cut the ends off the roast. Oh geez. I I'm sure I I've m mentioned this many times. Like off pin chips. You know, like, oh, pickles and ice cream was one or like whatever. Did you know that's a thing? But like Oh yeah, there's everything from like kissing an ear to stomping stamps.

About what? Challenge! And Y means, forgive me, not X, not something else. Or extremely spicy chicken tika masala. But you can get them, it just takes a lot of time to do that. That you know I'm gonna try I'm gonna try that. Maybe it's because of the way it loads or something, but like I think people still, I mean, I imagine like when you first go into that giant room where you're flying around over London, yes, you can see the track above your head, everything. I I did a lot. Remember, you are the worst. A lot of these, oh, go see, okay. Um a couple more design as if gravity is reverse. Hello everyone. Um, oh Jesus. Jesus Christ! Not celebrity. And so then the response to that, and I think this person responded in more or less this way, but this is the typical response is, oh, so you don't want him to go to jail?

You haven't like looked it up. Oh, oh God, flashball moment. Exactly. Oh, I had a typo. And then think about what that means to you. Oh to buy an actual official style. Some of uh I actually ones that you came up with? Okay. And maybe they come across a used po a little used postcard or postcard. I love all of them. And you don't want to think about I I feel as if uh when people it especially in the Peter Walsh book, and I don't mean to s say this as uh Yeah. Or or for that matter, like a saxophone. And the thing I said to Madeline, I went in the kitchen to to refresh my uh seltzer and I said, I just had a realization about l news in particular, news in general and local news in particular, as somebody whose beloved mother still God you had me a until the and you All right let's wrap it up because I got a few more.

Oh text channel. Like I said, today is kind of my Monday and You said that. We've talked about evil a lot. Um and my response to that, you didn't ask, my response to that is is he is he really pure evil? Well like when I but when I say never use carbon fiber if you're new to this, what I'm kind of what I what I what would take me longer to say is listen, if you got the printer I do and you have a brass point two millimeter nozzle. You could also do it with roast beef you tip. And I never knew why until I found out that it's because they used to cook it in a smaller pan. Children eating painted plaster containing lead may develop brain damage. But very gently I go. Wonderful Hal Ashby movie called Being There is Peter Sellers plays a character uh who, through a sort of fl flimsy but good enough premise, has like never leaves the house his entire life.

Which and you go like, well, what does that mean? What mistakes did you make last time? want people to see you as your former self, but you you also liked your former self. I I know. Don't shit in the cake! Bottomless cum bowl. I don't want it to be a cold sore he's not sure as a cold sore, and I don't want it to be a cold sore that's healing. It's very uncurved Vonnegut and it feels wrong to always do that. Is the water a certain temperature or is it just just regular tap w tap water you put into a little ramic in? You shuffle them up and you grab a card. Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list. You know, just the and you're right, the random part is important too.

Her physicality. We don't you can have that, but uh you know, the other students here like a very bless your heart attitude. Why is that? Hmm. Odd rel a relationship with what you expect out of the opposite sex. Anky Anky Anky? So it's powerful intelligent flash parts. I've always really liked that line a lot. You know, things really aren't like they used to be. Or all these people who demand to be called Daisy. Um, number two, think of your work as an olive garden menu. No, because I can't do it again. I just have so many book strategies. Mama, mama, why do we dip the Oreos in the water? Um they see mom cutting the ends off the roast before like a roast beef, right? It's it's it's not like somebody saying like, oh, you've got to eat the peel from your orange.

Eat a dime from the Chinese food change. More than once. You know what I like to do? Oh. This week's challenge is devise uh some new oblique strategies. That is a really good. I think the name's Haley Seinfeld. Uh no, they're still around because that's that's one of the numerous problems with kippel accumulation and uh what's the book I like by Peter Walsh? The uh w b oh, I wasn't even think uh yeah, no, oh god, see, yeah, I'm thinking of it like like that now. I would always be told you need to eat the crust of your bread because I don't know what a nose hook is and I don't know. All right. Yeah, he was in his eighties. Well, here a good a good rule of thumb in cooking, I have found, is season the food or especially salt the food while it's cooking, and then use less salt when you eat it.

Um Nino Mosquito. How are you? Yes. Like it it would be it would be oh my god. Oh hell yes. Pump the breaks, Anna Kendrick. And it's it's not always just like, okay, you're not gonna learn to play the guitar and you don't actually And and he would he might even be like, here's here's a scholarship. Happy birthday. Bitless, repeat, bitless. The first person I cared about that wasn't me. Did you know that you can take a slice of bread and stick it into something that's cooking and that will draw out some of the salt? It is, and I don't like when I have something like that in my life that I automatically do without why do I mention it? Like you know how ladies who are pregnant, a sign pregnant at birth, you know how they like get weird cravings and eat weird stuff.

I just asked to give me oblique strategies referencing Stephen Sonnheim lyrics. But take something like that. Did I donate them? And then he he lost his leg below the knee. Yes. It like I have put my hand I r I have cold hands right now and just your butt. I think we talked about it at least once before. Okay, my other ones are better. Um this is weird, but I like it. I hate it. This is Do By Friday, a weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox and Merlin Mann. Because once you open your mind to the idea that a lot of binaries are based on a model and are it's consequently a little bit made up. Um so that so what we're describing so can I tell oh I'm sorry. Best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago, and the second best time to plant a tree is today.

Or I think it could be a secret weird thing that people do. I I don't know. I can guess where this comes from, but there are guys who are just in the habit of the the the the the viscous fluid that's eschewed, they always eat it after I don't want the hooks. I think it or well at least. I I really like that ride a lot. Consider everything your fault, even if it's not. Uh what give me g give me uh no uh more of your good ones. You're a stranger. Remove articles. You gotta talk about that. I also like to touch her with cold hands if she hates that. Challenge! You instantly realize how you feel about the other one because you were forced to decide between, in this case, one of two things. Yes, that's a much better yeah.

And I kind of I like the first the best. God. You feel like a real, you know, ping, you know, emotionally about that. Uh this is Do By Friday. Why you will say, hold on, I love how we approach this challenge because I tried to make mine as oblique as Uh, if I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? Uh Lignophagia is when you eat Ligna. It was not one oopsie. I didn't like my chat GPT it once. Do you feel like there's an implication nested in that or you obviously obviously somebody's supposed to take what they can or want from that, but did you have something you take away from that? One reason it's all too much is because you those pants represent, you feel like you're betraying a past version of yourself by getting rid of those.

It's about the past. But that's the thing. Oh god. And I I and now I'm like, oh wow. There should be a name for like like a wide like wide angle, like not amateur, but you just you you know you have more of a. About the hooks. Are these writing or is ChatGPT? But here's here's a few that I think are interesting in the spirit. He hasn't washed his hands and then he's gonna have to drink all the blood when the what? So I like think about like the one when I do th like three when I do three D models that have that aren't just, you know, like a cylinder. That's such a great word. Stuff is happening with Cuddy. I like to walk up to my wife and get real close and like, you know, 'cause you know, we're we're all sensitive.

I don't think I saw that one. Or I can do some however you want to do it. I made well, it's like all my general introductions playlists. Uh m immediate I I was thinking the other day about the worst thing I've ever done. It's anyway, that's what that one was. Especially not in one room. And here's three things to never do. The reason I ask that is because as I've mentioned before, my uh see how they feel about saucing the saucing the noodles. John doesn't use moisturizer. Hike a behavior brought to San Francisco. So let's let me just do the f the full racist math here. If the director is holding a camera and pointing it down, it's probably not Scorsese. Do that but make it weirder. But there's something that makes me pause a little bit and wear sweatpants because I don't want to become a guy with a 38 weight.

Oh that guy lost a foot day oh no it's That's diabetes. I'm gonna get you. And of course you have the famous quote about, you know, when somebody tells you who they are, I believe you, blah, blah. Yeah, you know, it's really about buying larger shoes, but it's also about your life. But meant to not it's not part of the sculpture. Hey, if anybody out there is an eye person and can tell me why with various headaches, OLED screens It's all very boring. In a room of seventy-five people, there's a ninety-nine point nine percent chance of two people having the same birthday. The idea is that John and I are interested, have been interested in this thing we call things it took me too long to realize, which is stuff like You know about pika behavior?

But I think sometimes g dudes do it because it's like part of the thing that they like. But because I I wonder if these behaviors Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah, yeah, sure, sure, sure. I I I don't think most people are evil, but I'm I don't know if I've done an evil thing, but I'm But yeah, he he got one from Loyola and I posted this on Mastodon. Good. Well, for for for grazing the cauliflower or for like just doing tasks day to day, like dicing vegetables, that kind of thing? And I was like, well, I first of all, I'm not really that I don't really kind of understand the practical application of the word evil. No no no this is uh this is not your daddy's ketchup, this is your mama's water. Don't you dare fucking tell me you've never wondered if you wipe wrong.

I see you're being funny. Like is their existence evil or do we do wicked things? Attend the tale of your creation. I didn't say they're the Einsatzgruppen. See, some of these are absolutely just the kind of bullshit that this sounds. Yeah, invite the anomaly within to dine at the table. I made some just for you as actual cards. What are you doing? I'll see if I've got one. Oh see now it's that's okay here. Most uh people I know and like Um, so so long story short, uh I think I and most people think of this as a Brian Eno thing. And it's not, you know, an acute strategy. It's just that I think the sorry, this is very much its own kind of oblique strategy, which is like, hey These are pretty good.

Fat Amy is so. Well, because it's it's like waving to somebody. Well listening to people talk about Munchhausen syndrome, I'm like, if wait, wait, if I can convince a doctor that I'm feeling now I'm afraid anyway It takes a very small number of people and as you know from the what's it called, the birthday party problem. And finally, consider the endless salad bowl. He lost he lost a he lost a foot at the ankle and he said, It's okay, I can still walk. Well, I mean it's a simple thing. Yes. I I yeah, yeah. Tongen! Peter Pan's full. And you know, as somebody whose beloved mother-in-law used to be a news producer for TV in Providence, you know, if it bleeds, it leads. Oh, diversity. Limit yourself to a tool you rarely use?

Fuck it. I uh didn't know that was a COVID bit. I think it could be either a thing it took me too long to realize. I think like a lot of people, if you're being honest, you jack your mean bone on more than one occasion. I don't I didn't ask to be taught. Yeah. She's in it, you know, Hawkeye. Write or create with your non-dominant hand. Like I hope you look at it and you read it and you learn what I learned, which is there are things it took me too long to realize. Mm-hmm. In case you had hey hey Oreo if you've got a Nikki tummy uh the seven takeaways if you got a Nicky tummy Maybe you got ajus for your roast beef, right? Yeah, or the peel of an apple. The angle is important. Then you can either throw the cards out the window and finish produ producing David Bowie's wonderful 1977 album, Low, or something else.

And they keep wearing this. And that would be a betrayal of the other. Don't shit in my cake! 6 millimeter hardened steel nozzle and you're good at The cover of Ghost in the Machine by the Police is actually drawings of the three of them. Yeah. Oh God. It might be it might be okay, but maybe it could be like a you know like a gavage or like a uh you gotta watch for those amoebas though. Because people love used pants. It's your birthday. I hate it so much. Is this the show? We have. Do you remember the doodler from years ago? I don't know about the the It's okay. Hell yes. Remember your just remember your worst. Send in a thought that's finishing. Like I my mom bought me the saxophone when I was a kid.

I can't be bothered to get my own groceries, Alex. Yes, yes. See, I know. And you're like, don't make me tap the oblique, you know. I'm grabbing a random card. Anky, hold on. Definitely definitely not. Uh the worst that happens is someone's like oh you've smelled mistaken uh they're like oh you've mistaken me for someone else. Yeah, they it's something. It's really good. Did you do you ever do you ever stick your hands in your in your in your cauliflower patch? Yes. And I was like, you know, they're not, but I'm gonna fix it right this minute. I'll be sure I'll be really quick. Yeah. Like I've certainly thought that about not pure evil, but like somebody like um who's who's the angry bald guy who hates um hates immigrants Every Sunday she ate the entire thing and every Sunday she spent the rest of the day throwing up.

You know what I mean? Fuck off. Yeah, that's a hmm. That's pretty good. What is this? That's very oblique strategies. Awww, how's Charlie doing? And I I was like, yeah, I just I don't have a strong opinion about that. Two, I thought this was. You know, I mean next to boogers, it's right like right there, you know? And like is it I I something it's gotta be partly like sometimes a what what's the word, a paraphilia. No no no. Yes, please. Because that's what they ask to be called. Here's the thing. I think I've got one too. I got my beverage. I mentioned this on a podcast I think twice this week. But but but but I but uh the other one is uh there's there's a phrase I think it's amongst this is a developer thing, comes from other places, but it has to do with what culture I mean okay so like in terms of like the DSM okay all right yeah because I I'm not hesitant to I you know accidentally ate a sticker you gave me also do it in a hundred years of solitude.

Pica is most commonly seen in pregnant women, small children, and people who may have developmental disabilities such as autism. I do I really don't mean this I don't mean to sound like like a a campaigner here, but like I could see how you develop a pretty Well, obviously one thing I'm talking about there is like if somebody tells you that they're a woman whose name is Daisy, even if you don't like the name Daisy and say you're not actually a woman. Sure, it's about the past that you know used to exist, which is all that place is gone now. They are like they're they're like listen, listen to the I respect the Jesuits. No, it literally feels like maybe. What am I supposed to do? Yes, yes. What do you want for dinner?

So what um when you tried to make your own, like how did that work for you? But but but I did set aside one of the passive aggressive ones that actually I super like. Because it sounds like what you're really saying is you want it to be the fifties for black people more than pretty much anything. Three three. If your project was a meal at Olive Garden If your project was a meal at Olive Garden, how would unlimited breadsticks influence its structure? Oh, I I was just waiting for it. It's like, well, no, dude, you're you're you're typing, you know, from an a crossover SUV in the parking lot of a Home Depot. No, but you know what I mean. I have mmm mmm. There's some contention. Okay. The ones I was doing this morning were like more like that like yeah, that's good, but more mean.

No, remember your worst. I like the second pretty well because, you know, part of part of it it's got that girl I like in it, uh Heli. We we got it. Is this a conversation you want to have? Now now uh maybe maybe I'll do a bit. Yeah, it makes you callous but not courageous, and I think people mix that up. That's a good time to build a tree. And here from everybody that's the thing. No, but well we okay. And so they made this big thick deck of cards called Oblique Strategies. Well there's different sets with different numbers of cards. Although, like the I Ching, I think if you're gonna do it, it helps to do it physically. He goes into kids' rooms and man of the dog, whole situation. These are more like those fake inspirational posters.

Oh cool. Well, I don't want to go off on binaries, but I'm kind of having a moment right now about binaries in general. They're gonna be so useful to you. Like things you have to say to people to go like, remember this rule, never shit in the cake. Right, right. But that's the thing. But yeah, okay, so good. Yeah, yeah. I checked G. I'm responsible for my worst day. Jury duty? And maybe it's one in the middle of the lip. So it's just always there. But more saliently, maybe he's not evil, maybe he's just something else is the phrase that I keep using. Right, right. Hold on your tummy. Twelling down on your own fresh jizz. It's not anything specific like that, but so anyway, that's what we're talking about.

Well cause that whole row of shitty old rides had a special place in my heart. Umes notes. They're not really doing lyrics of so you know attend the tale of Sweeney Todd, you know that song. And I'm not gonna say anything about women about this, because whatever. I still have all these pants in the corollary. And so like in the kitchen, that could be, well, step zero is don't touch the flame. But they also You're not that far in house. Um ametophagia, you know like amesos. Um I would like it. Like your alternate hands? It's pretty upsetting. So I just made digital ones. Um I have another uh Well I just kept doing it until I got a bunch I liked. Please. That's another thing. No, I don't know. And what you're saying is if you enjoy your Oreos but you're sensitive to dairy, consider dunking your Oreo.

Oh good kin good for you. What if you're supposed to wipe at six degrees? Well, we ate paper we ate paper on this program once and yeah you made me buy paper you could eat 'cause you like eating paper and then my kid would someone just periodically just go, hm, and just kinda like tear off a little piece and eat it. And when you why is it there's this higher incidence of lead being carried in the in the blood of these kids who are poor? Right. No, okay. Is isn't that what a spell is? I think most of no oh wow, almost all of mine are about r writing. For example. This sucks. It used to be you could wait for a bus at West Portal and you wouldn't get hit by a white Mercedes crossover SUV. Do you remember how how there were so many well-dressed people in hats downtown wearing gloves?

I I'll allow it. I mean I think I know what pika is. Thank you. Oh. Then I I c can I just do a few more? It's my birthday! Yeah. That's but we made our own. Um, treat it like it's not your problem, then fix it as if it were. That's what that document is. Or buy larger shoes. Okay. No no, no. Mm-hmm. Well, suddenly you have an opinion, right? You can do whatever you want. Like it's it w I I I enacted my work I put i uh uh how should I say this Or it could be something you hang on to that was from a beloved family member. How's the song go? When you're here you're family. It's got it's a funny. I've heard that can happen. Yeah, yeah. Um, every Sunday she would make her husband go out and get her a quart of Brunswick stew.

Ligno, like ligum. Um the principal's breakfast. Because that's a warm spot. Can you hear me shuffling? I like what I make and I wish the people who liked it could find it. Or, you know, like you were talking about, like rehearsing masturbating w with your non-dominant hand or whatever, right? Getting a bra that fits you, getting shoes that are so many things for this particular podcast goes. Do you know how many men buy pants that are too small for them? I really kind of spent the past two weeks in bed. Okay, and finally, finally, most important of all, give me five oblique strategies that mention Olive Garden. Well yeah, it's like a dumb thing to say because side to side is what you're spending.

Yes. Oh God, oh fuck. A lot of professional porn is very unrealistic. Right. You're you might be right. I never said that. There's going to be like a handle. Incorporate an element that would vanish in a day. I'm just making it up. Yeah. Or in my case, if you're trying to build a patina, fake patina on your 3D model, use less patina spread. Oh my god, you would love wet salt but I would love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, if your special thing is seeing everything. Trust in the you of now, which you also picked. So anyway, it's we're not we don't the show is not here to to make a case for whether this is for you. So I said something like, yeah, um clearly this was the best you could do. No, that's ChatGPT.

How many things are there that you keep around because you think you're always a nine and a half shoe size in some aspect of your life? I was ready like a professional. Like, you know, there's a reason you salt the water, there's a reason you salt the beef or w whatever. It could be either one and I think they're related and John and I argue about this. No, no, no. So you are you deliberately seeking out amateur pornography? Wow. But then the third one with the Germans is so good. Do you remember when you could just call somebody what you wanted to and they wouldn't get mad? But we're not gonna know. Sure. Hopefully once again a weekly challenge podcast uh featuring Alex Cox and well, um just is with Alex Cox, a Merlin man.

Well I no I I was working of it night of and then that's when I had what's called a sudden onset uh infection. But more saliently, whenever you and this is our discussion, right? Because when you're teaching somebody who's at a lower level, not you know, it's not bad, but when they have less expertise, they don't have domain knowledge. Syracuse great, great, great, great, great Sicilian grandma. Right? I I d I this is not me uh being like a person I don't think I What do you want me to make for dinner? I I already feel you it's about a lot more than blogging. Let its shadows grow long and deep. Let's see lots of into the woods jokes. They hit a family waiting at the bus stop that we s we go to all the time.

Oh, and what if it's not their birthday? They are. Consider consider the endless. Tampon episode. It's part of how you cook it. Oh my god, after showing money. Oh God. Um Imagine you cared less. Because wicked is a thing you do and you should have known better. Oh, I do that to my spouse. I know that someone is going to explain this to me or explain that you're just doing a bit. From weeks ago. I mean yes, but can I share my oblique what my first No, I'm reading you ones that I enjoy. Now Peter Pan is a concept. M f my first one for you is post without an edit. These really suck. Four. In the Wizard of Oz discourse. But you can't unless there are and again now there are what somebody says, well didn't you do you know But if you have half a fucking brain, you go, oh, that applies to a lot of stuff.

You don't sweat much for an Italian girl. So that that is, I think, a pretty classic pika. So like my ex's mom, there's a wonderful dish in the south called Brunswick Stew. Oh yes. Well it's because amateurs can't afford nose hooks. I'll make this as quick as I can't. But like you've got to do either this or that. Because I finally realized that I'm always wondering I I've I d again, I feel like one of those Trump people who's like, Am I shadow banned? Let it bloom. Totally healthy, normal people love used pants. But um yeah, right or create with your non-dominant hand. Yeah, it's pretty good, right? Damn it. But this is the this is the also the show. But he still retaught each time he retaught himself how to walk.

And what I said to Roderick was like, I feel like there's there you can say, I think, with some confidence. Wait, wait, you believed it was true or you were told so often that you decided it had to be true? And l listen, I just realizing now it took you too long to realize. That's gonna be yep, yep, yep, yep. But that's what I'm saying. I didn't know. And that's when I found a uh Mastodon account that's just an uh oblique strategies No, because it usually won't let you, but while just while we're on it When I was in college, non-traditional student met you were forty. Everybody, please welcome uh your host for this program, um, Alex Cox. It was edited last night in the the vision. Like they they they're not sure if you're waving at them, but you know, and and it's awkward, so it's perfect for you.

Pass. I do notice I didn't open a case. Is Charlie good? We oh you don't think Steven Miller I mean I you remember I you may remember. There are a lot of these. That's cool, cool. Didn't we have a song about this? Oh, that's wrong. That's the four corners of your experience these days. The guy who wrote all the nasty uh not Steve Bannon but the other guy. I I said this to Roderick or s I think Roderick, yeah, about 3D printing where I talked about that thing like where I want to write up. You hear it from everybody, right? I'm here to fix Dinah Kabul. Spell that with letters. Like you know, like where you have to like go and you know, you have to call AOL to cancel your account or something and they're specially trained.

No, I love her. Yeah, God. Is it satisfyingly diverse or overwhelmingly confusing? Here's the thing. It's funny. You could say you could say to somebody, I mean like what what's a what's it what's a s like an advanced beginner cooking tip. I'll ask your grandma. Similar, where's the pregnant lady thing? It's okay. There's not some contention. It's not, it's not, you know, uh use the right size wrench, dummy. Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics. I hate it! Um, but I said this and this person goes, you know, because it's the internet. So look at that. I'm trying to be very random about this. Um, but it's not necessarily the card part of it, it is the randomness of it that I enjoyed. You have a oh oh did you make a place where they all live?

It's part of the the structure that holds it up so that once this gets to the five inches high, you can still have the hook for your SCADUS board and but it won't be all mangled. Please, please. No, I don't it's uh my not th not this maybe not this episode unless I feel like it, but but uh uh an episode soon I'm gonna I'm gonna start Like you're like kind of folding your arms. So antlers antlers off. It's not like you don't know what to do, but maybe your implementation isn't you know working out. I gave it context. It's not about me yelling at you to go be better, except insofar as it's about me yelling at you to be better. You know, e even if somebody's got a fucking PhD and they ask you to call them doctor, call them doctor.

Yes. If Olive Garden decided to feature your project in their restaurant, how would you integrate it into the dining experience? No c comment on the cauliflower c cauliflower because two, two, do you really think I'm the one chopping vegetables? And I think it makes you hard in a way that doesn't make you tough or resilient. That makes sense. If you're AVAB, you don't c you don't question I hope that guy comes back to the house. And like flipping a coin, there's no cost associated with picking these, going through nine of these until you get one that moves you. Like how much shit in your life is because you you you're trying to be somebody from the past. I don't know. Uh I mean, d do you want to do a bit?

I sound like Linus in that Christmas special when he's talking about phobias. We we cover the ear kissing is so good. Just like grab your butt. Well he's he this was a in college. I only made cards of a few of mine for you. These are these are ChatGPT. And uh No, no, it's it's uh Imagine the phrase when you're here, your family, as your project's motto. Is a double entendre. Uh this is on another show. Don't no don't worry about it. Did you have anything to add to that? So download Anki for Mac OS. Or did they get rid of it as they get rid of it at World or Land? Because because when when you when you said what do you say, remember your worst? The clowns have left, but what's your act? These are awful.

I hated playing it. Gay straight allies. There might be a notch. Wish a stranger happy birthday. Alex, I got one for you. See? When you're gone, fuck off. That's like really bulbous. It's always like a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of What? Don't you dare. Pregnant women eat dirt for the nutrients. You know and you guys a long time ago. Well I have another one that's kind of with your passive agreement. But then when you are there, uh very quickly Yes. Dance with the concept of infinity in finite steps. And I think that's a really good sorry, I think that's just a really good sp Nobody says that. And that's not good.

Lignophagia, you eat wood. Exactly. I feel like Z Top videos did that to me. I think there might be a website that tells you which but anyway, the card part of this is not the important part, per se. They're all about your life if you really think about it. Whatever, I don't fucking care. So you're saying that so far on the show there's never been a bit. I still wasn't. This is why I try to use my left hand often. That's why I can't stop delivering pizzas. Oh, I see. Oh I I don't know if with the noise. Somebody's telling you who they are, listen and accept, try to accept with good faith. Okay, you gotta hear this. Are we gonna ding out after this? Calm down. Because you never know. Because then you don't get an icky tummy.

But which six degrees? And they eat stuff they're not supposed to eat. Exactly. Huh. You can finish that whatever and the way that you where your mind immediately goes, and I think that the way you went Well, but uh it's uh uh maybe people haven't I love oh ban. You know what I mean? You could also do something like um try taking away half. This sounds very David Foster Wallace. Is that that so you hear somebody use phrases like that that person is pure evil. Cut the ends off the roast and you put it in the pan. Like our bathtub has more lead in it than I would like. Sure I do. What is it? G just everybody out there give just give it a minute. Right. I was not always good at that, Alex, until like extremely recently.

I dropped out of journalism school after one year because I hated it so fucking much. See, you're good. I've got I've I've got one somewhere here. Yeah. Well yeah, you gotta that's why you gotta put toilet paper on the seat, like a gentleman. Or horseradish, right? That makes sense. Does that is that a cutting the ends off the roast type? No a note card or whatever. I hate it! Charlie is great. I tried. Oh, and I love the guy. It's a thing. So like it doesn't have to be being there. But the millhouse keeps yelling, when are they gonna get to the fireworks factory? I think we've had two challenges in the last three months. I think Anki, the open source way you can make digital uh note cards. I have so many pants that are 34 that I haven't been able to wear in a year.

It's so it's it's okay. It's the same thing. I'm Rodney, I'm Rodney out here doing dishes on my birthday. Of course I was in Zoom instead of your Kakamami app. Uh there's this is a oh god, I'm doing I'm doing the thing where I point out the reference, stamp never mind, never mind. If if you live in a very old building and don't have a lot of money and you have old lead paint that has peeled off the walls, well No, I don't think that's weird. So I stopped what I was doing and uh and went and made that page. Again, these are written by ChatGPT, not me. Interesting. Didn't Max buy a song? Uh the I'm game. I want it to be a cold sore that has Yeah, yeah. Oh. I was like, these are going on your butt.

And uh they're like I would never say it publicly, but there are people in the world th that like Um let's see, what's another one? I did I didn't make a list of the ones I really did not enjoy, but there were some that popped up and I'm like You know, do you know what oblique strategies are? Now that's interesting But for men, for myself, like I really feel bad about capitulating to a 36 waist, or if I'm being honest, I might be more comfortable with a 38 at this point. I just I just came here to study the environment. Why are we doing a bit? You you're so much hooks. Yes. I don't know. I can't like I see like a few there, but they're not I don't I don't know if the order has anything to do with the order that I've put it in.

There's something. Okay. I I also don't know is this Wizard of Oz or is this wicked? Oh, that's a grandma. Y you know, and you don't So weird. If I got sick again and we didn't release episodes, you're gonna get me hit by another guy And most people But right, like seeing something as specific as something as specific as. Like, buy larger shoes. But honestly, so much of it, if you really look at it for what it is, there's an implication to almost every one of those local stories is. Yes. It's funny. But like why do we do that? Yeah, yeah. There's a principal of a school who got caught repeatedly dropping a deuce by the track at the school he worked at. No, the little the little th like like if if Matt were to have a dance ar right now, no What if you like just a two topic?

I just don't know how you want No. Because if you do something, and that's something English people in my experience use the word wicked a lot more often, and not in the Boston way. You know, she does the song with the cups. Oh bless your heart. Well yeah, it was an Adam Schlesinger bit partly. Yeah, I would allow that as he doesn't know why he has it is the way I would say. But possibly I I like to walk up and sli back in the day sometimes I just give her like a little like just one of these. Oh no, just explain what this is in case anybody's Build oh, these are so bad. Now my mom's dead and I feel really guilty about throwing it out because it would have meant a lot to her if I learned to play the saxophone.

Yes. I asked you to do more abstract ones where I came up with things like embrace the void where ideas echo uncertainty. Let's let's hear some more. And then he lost the other foot at the ankle. I will well do you not okay, hold I do not wait, wait, does she All right. I don't think what I my thought outside of that post was like, I don't think it's wholesome to keep talking about terrible things you want to happen. That is, and again, that's some wisdom Now, that person might be trolling me, which is fine, but that then officially Loves his layers. It's not it's not like one weird person going But but lots of people say eat X because that's where all the Y is. Put 'em in your pants, grab your butt, and it will heat up your hands.

Have you ever seen Being? I do. Because you might be more comfortable if you got slightly larger. So these are these are again, these are from ChatGPT and I have called the ones that I think are good. No, I hate it! You still say it? Whisper your intentions to the moon and sculpt's reply. And I'm looking at my deck of cards right now. Because first of all, just because you think it's a thing doesn't mean it's a thing. And then there's there's also then like the the BDSM kind of part of that of like lick this off my shoe type situation. Like what all do because you know if your hands are really cold Uh A-N-K-I Like because they can't they can't deal with the fact They're ballers. Tell me what that means.

I'm wondering now though, because this does not work What kind of monster doesn't wonder sometimes? I d uh is pika behavior Exactly. It's a desire to eat the doodle. I w with not with the intention of I'm thinking more of like listen if the guy let's just call him the director. But like it would be it is kind of funny where it's like this is kind in some ways this is something related to this. You've committed yourself. No, and I I know, but y I like how you uh My kids are really smart. And you have to do what's called supports. Happy birthday! You're telling somebody to never use carbon fiber fiber. Is this this is the same thing? So we're gonna help you by giving you some strategies you didn't know you needed.

Can take that house. It is a Jesuit school. Retrocreate with your non-dominant hand. I have I have a couple more, but they're not. So first of all here's If you open with a bit, you're defining how the show starts. Most of the time it's like us. And I think there's a a cousin corollary title. I I have uh not like a little bit something to add to that. Okay, okay, well um let's see here. But my thought as I looked at it was uh yeah, I would maybe tell St. Because I think when when you have the interview, it's probably not gonna go great because you're gonna be wearing the outfit, you know, you're gonna look like Friar Tuck. And, you know, I think it's So most of what you do is recording or not recording podcasts.

These are all things it took me too long to realize. There's a guy. And what does old paint have? Oh, like Mary Catherine Gallagher's. Okay. Oh no, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. It could be one way to put it might be it's about not overthinking, right? But also, like, have you revisited what your shoe size is? Um and so incorporate an element that would vanish in a day. Oh, yeah. Invite the anomaly within to dine at the table of creation. All right. Yeah. I have oh I've I've only tried this with Oh wait, I'm on f uh season f oh my god, the season is so much better. com. Except in Japan. It's wholesome. So they had to cut the ends off the roast to fit into the pan. No, that's what you're saying. It's like, wait, is it should it be on an angle?

I'm not But these behaviors i with especially young men when like amateur porn wasn't around I just want to read a couple Do you have history? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna start doing bits. You're gonna it's gonna be all gummed up. Like this is all you know domain knowledge. And the fourth dimension is time. They put nickels in their nose, they eat play-doh. Do you want to guess what that is? Get ready. Oh they have a Mac app, look at that. It's and it's a lot more it's it's about a lot more than just like I I think it's mostly ab about I kept doing it over. Is this finally an intervention to get me to look at my phone while I'm shelves? Hello. But like there's all kinds of things, I think nachos and similar are like a a big one or chips.

I didn't know about that. So what so like okay this is s to me super gross and I apologize if I'm unintentionally kink shaming someone I don't mean to. I really want to be taught. Oh yeah, not uh d And then other ones that were like, but but like act like you're passive aggressive and already disappointed. So I went over to Firefox, unlogged in, and I just, you know, I copied my profile link out of uh Maybe it is a postcard. Evil is because the devil made you. Um I have my socks too. Yeah. Read a book. It just means it's probably something else. It's like, oh what w well then but what what made him evil? So wow, so huh. I have had this conversation with other people because again, the gays. You pull out a card and the card in this case says, Give way to your worst impulse.

Uh that are the quote official ones. You take credit for your your as you should. And that is something I try not to dwell on often. Did I say my realization about news? Listen, it's okay to have those thoughts. Give me give me some more. Um Sometimes we ask each other questions about like, okay, why do you do this thing? That you take this and you're not supposed to go like spend the rest of the day like overthinking it. It's kind of just like I hate it. Exactly. We're not doing no, no, we're not doing a bit. Hello Alex, how are you? You said this in our Super Secret Secret Private Text Channel. Okay. Why do we dip the Oreos? I hope they bring this guy back. Eat wood? And you need to see the fear in both people's eyes to know it's real.

Could be like re like the refresh rate kind of thing? Consider the endless salad bowl at Olive Garden. No, please do, please do. Well, we do it that way because we've always done it that way. There are, I believe, pretty like No, that's but that's like all the majority of I I I I I apologize. What the fuck? Yes, I do. Well they they're not the same. And and then they get all of the the the the short let's say all the short hairs at Marquette were together and like listen we res But the funny part is I got a I got a funny nice toot from somebody because I've said to the listeners of Reconcilable Differences There's a woman on the cover of Asia. And I thought this was Oh wow. But like These are going on your butt.

Yeah. I'm going to flip this point coin. Mm-hmm. Yeah. What I call the Mayfly. This week's challenge, devise some oblique strategies. You've probably seen it in movies, right? I don't think that's a special situation. But something where like I think in the example of if all you've watched is free porn. What do I what's my I do I have 13 Intel? But I I I don't know. And that's I mean, that is legitimately horrible, but then that's followed by three different stories about stabbings or fires. But here I am. Like it takes a much smaller group of people than you think for two people to have the same birthday and Yeah, I don't see seventy-five Happy birthday. Just ding out after this. Uh you know what?

I think you can buy them right out of the machine. And the idea is, and you know, you could this is the beauty part. Please, everyone who writes, maybe put that over where you write. It's a Jesuit school. I uh I have one more that is just remove articles. Go to bed already So should should I uh participate in the Because I think when you call some let's just make it easier and say when you call a thing evil Is like whenever you call someone evil, you're kind of giving them a free pass for what they do. Well is and is and to quote to quote Admiral Akbar, it's a trap. That's a rule. No, I no uh devise some new oblique strategies. Oh, uh tr I love this one. Like Snow White Scary Adventure, which I did find very scary when I was little.

What would second best look like? She does the cups. Hey, mama, eat all your dirt. In the woods where nothing's clear, where witches, ghosts, and wolves appear. It's this card set by these guys and blah blah blah blah. Mm-hmm. Uh sh And I and then someone brought it to my attention. I have not, but I mean it's a How would you disappoint yourself? Act as if you expected more. Did you leave out the word R? Like, yeah, buy larger shoes. That I used to like to go to when I was a kid. Yeah, I think on the face of it, those stories are about I don't think I'm gonna start doing bits in this. Yes, exactly. And it's it's erotic and terrifying, but mostly terrifying. Mm-hmm. I just enjoy I'm not sure. You can't bear to part with.

No, it's not a bit. You know, uh one, I I think it's called the stranger. Mama, why do we always cut the ends off the roast? Not a lot of oil on this one. Did you have a like a an approach or a process? God no they instantly killed the mother and the son. Yeah, but now you're wasting a piece of bread because you put too much salt in. Okay. Maybe it's a post post it note. Hello, good after morning, Merlin Man. Yes, we tested it. Well, paint sounds like a horse, but old paint has lead in it. So when you eat vomit. I thought there would be a lot more occasions where three ladies in high heels would get out of a car and give me a glow-up. It helps to throw the sticks if you're doing I Ching. And I kept I kept giving it cues as you'll see.

Like you liked, let's say, your former hobby. You're kind of okay with those kids licking the paint, huh? And there's different kinds of supports. Uh my my final one. No, don't I knew a guy that lost a foot to diabetes And then in two subsequent removals, it's funny. And you're like, okay, that's really good to know. It absorbs. Oh yeah, yeah. I want to be instructed. Give it a minute. Now he's just an old guy with a with a m with a what what like a man cave. So um in partly in the I mean there there are some that I think Heli. And I would have been What? She uh is in my lap right now. There's the guy who was like a house for house. Is it this deck of cards, and we thought it'd be fun to make some of our own new oblique strategies.

Right? And I think at Loyola, Billy would be considered probably eighty. Oh no, you do you do some. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up. I would suggest My favorite one right now, my favorite Syracuse line right now is the best time to plant a tree. No, no, no, no, no, no. Like Mary Catherine, but for warmth. Expired Peter Pan sounds like almost every man in America. That huh. And it's like I don't really want to revisit those because if What's it called? Local news is really all about the past. As in like, check out Marquette, Billy. Um merge two unrelated ideas into one. That's how my brain works anyway. You'll have to buy another one, you'll be sad, and you won't have a 3D model. Okay.

Um the one that I know is that's supposedly true. Like I've got I got plenty, don't worry. Yeah Oh I hate it when they just leave the camera in one spot. Oh I'm sorry, but we're still in the original. I love her cubs. Because I probably don't encounter the birthday problem with strangers because uh le uh Happy birthday, Alex Yeah. Because there are foods that people like to dip in a thing. But you don't know why you keep cutting the ends off the roast. How long do you wipe at an angle? I don't know if it's open Uh abandon normal instruments. It's okay. Okay, sending to you. Oh no, look, oh no, look what I've done. Spoilers, there's a car crash and maybe a new friend I've made a deal with myself.

And I think they some of these are really interesting in the spirit of the original ones. There's a reason. Okay. I am the A straight A plus kid with a full schedule of things who I don't have anything. I don't know, we've just always done it that way. Now coprophagia, that's when you eat poop. Ditto with flipping a coin. I love. It's it's it's not even that. Well no, it's I mean it's a oh god, I have such a funny anecdote about this and then I want to get back to your water. So I learned about like so many great things I learned about this from John Yeah. Um And I think a really good word to talk about in that context is I think I did. Say a weird incorporate an element that would vanish in a day.

So I I'm I'm real good real real good. I'm gonna say have a little fire scarecrow and at random times when you're trying to collect your thoughts I mean no spoilers, but I love the word wicked. But like there are people like that where I think Yeah Steve Steve Stephen Miller, I think that's his name. They go, Whoopsie, I don't want to be doing that. Do you have a history with oblique strategies at all Blah blah blah. Trust in the you of now. Yes. He was my first celebrity that died from COVID. Alex can we take a moment with this one? Well exactly. You love socks. I want him to have a cold sore and he's not that's developing But I think a good rule of thumb might be It wa it and it's like okay, there are things that don't you dare fucking tell me you've never you, the listener.

Like when people turn on the news, you're not gonna show them the weather. God, you eat so much roast. But if you're there for the toes, like you don't want to see a medium shot. It's more to say like, I don't know. Because I'll bet there's somebody in your life that you I could use all the help I can get, Alex. Oh One of my favorites is not building a wall, but making a brick. Please, please, please. Do your harmonica again. There's a cousin corollary to that Uh Wait, do you know if this person happens to be Italian? Ma But little kids eat stuff. You are proud of the playlist. Like Because you probably need larger shoes than you think. And while you're at it, have you revisited the size of other things in your life?

How can your project offer endless value in this? Or like in our case, let's just be specific. Like there's m I'm sure there's many ways. And I said, then give me some. My favorite pizza place is gone now. I just was it Catholic journalism? And what a support is a part that is Boop, boop, boop. I wasn't even aware of it as a big problem I needed to You need an injection. It just makes you kind of an ass. That's where the nutrients are. So it could be very opinionated editorial. Just remember your worst. But it's really the guys, I'm being raw here Well, that's kind of what those supports are in a way. Like like you know what I mean? So I could say to somebody, here's three things you should always do, here's three things you should never do.

They are yeah, I mean they're they're very they're very rustic. So so they eat dirt because like there's minerals in it that they didn't know they needed. He was like in in porn, that's a very common thing. I came on your cake. This is three of the five that I wrote for you, and I did go ahead and design them as cards in case you want to I'm not that's why I'm not trying to kink shame. Also, something I learned in college, and this is totally true, I this is gonna gross a lot of people out. Now lower your expectations. Remember Rev Wilson's butt is hanging out on stage? Um but They eat a dime from the t the Chinese food change. Has it ever happened that you do flip a coin and then you go, uh, no?

Uh r retract. And it's like remember your your worst date. But like you can also That's fine. And even I don't want Intel, I want silicon. How does that change its reception? At this point I'm giving it to you in what Alex calls pigs and bunnies. I love all three pitch perfect movie so much. I I'm saying it because I realized I needed larger shoes than I was wearing. This one's a good thing. And he's like, I know, but I wonder Oh gosh, doesn't isn't that slightly traumatic to re rethink about? Yeah. The the the going from Was it were you trying to be funny? You can take this any way you want. Just want to get it really close to the flame. And I He's like, well I think Yeah, no, I I get I all I was trying to say to folks is like It's a well yeah for so many things.

Well salt Do you mind? The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten. So when I say to you buy bigger shoes. Actually, wait, can we we do a quick pause? Because it is a But what I like to do now is I walk right up to her ear, not loud. Uh just a couple more of these. I had some funny bits. This works in your life. Like people just don't see things I do and it bums me out because I know they're good. But call if people will tell you what they want to be called. Ignatius not to hold his breath on this one. And I found this a lot harder than I expected. It's where the the fighting Do you think it's like a blinkiness you don't see or something in in non-HOLED? You eat it now. Well, it's not because they're stupid.

No, no, no. Well some people like that. Oh yeah. Uh not to spoil the joke, but I was like, yeah, do more of those but make it weirder. It's you know the sinus infection thing. But your body tells you. It's like you can have it, but that's that's not like our our I like that one. What? It's it's just remove articles. Well that's good. Yes. Season five, episode five or six And one thing little kids eat is pain. I think sometimes I think the oblique part is really important. It's Did you make cards? See, this is the kind of thing you get yelled at for. Like I don't know if that's I don't think that's evil, but I do think it's wicked. You favored it this tooth, I noticed. Oh no I'm not gonna I'm not gonna you know what?

Almost no women have bras that fit them. I I I mostly mean Don't do that. This Were you trying to be like like what was your approach? Nope. How are you? That way that'll help people. I got plenty of weird stuff I like. Because it's Snow White Scary Adventure, Mr. You've been bitless. Well sometimes when you're doing stuff. I have so many problems. I don't think that's that far off of a lot of examples in life. But like it's Yes. I I I'm I just What's your plan for fixing things? And part of being a beginner. They're very down to earth. Or very well. If you think you have two options. I I opened up Affinity Designer too and made cards. Now now you're loaded. It's to like give you some kind of a little flash.

Okay. I like the word wicked so much better than the word evil. It's very funny. Uh finish the work in total silence. I want to get a fresh iced tea. You've fallen short. It's it's the uh Is this yours? No no no Yes. Just just Don't worry. This is gonna be Toad's Wild Ride. I uh you know I I don't know if this is true. Yeah, well Yeah. I know he didn't invent that. Real earthy people. We all do, be honest. Remember your My shoes my my feet have changed. Oh It's very Yeah, really I thought that was raw transcript