398. Tokenized Misery

And like the problem is we have to when we do table reads, there's like there's supposed to be like 16 people there. Okay. And just in my head, I had already, you know what, sa says a lot about society. It's like that in Canada. Or mention something from the news you can't stop thinking about or talking about, or both, is a default you do. I play octaves and slide up and down the neck. That's nice. Do you have any fucking idea how sad I am about everything? Well, it came to me uh what like my friend thought it was bricked and I was like, Okay, I'll I'll try to fix this and I c I couldn't. It's pretty easy to install almost anything. And you can't do the stuff you'd want to do in a window. How is big?

But wha so what is a rangefinder? Where Jimmy Simpson's character has lost an eye. I apologize. I'm gonna close these uh give me an example of both. Wait, D I A H O R R H E A D Okay, it says here, oh God, this is amazing. Oh, yeah. this you are capable of so much more than this. I'm sorry we've talked about this before, but you know, the guilt that I occasionally feel for the amount of joy. Yeah. And okay, fine. the social media. Yes. That's part of the beauty of this you can put EPUBs into Co-Reader. For like K-U-A-L. Um you guys have an app for that or is it just the screen? And you only need to be able to do that. K a Kindle because they also have it for Kobo and all all this other thing. What happens when you can't make the tea table read?

you know you're always butter removed or they they are like well what happens when a body parts are optional let's be honest. And all through the day I look at the birds. What kind of signs? Oh, like a rap. Right. I got I got I got 99 problems but a finch ain't one. I I would do I would do birding. Your hobby, your interest turns into your job, it tends to lose some of its luster. Good dee me doing but good That would probably be a 660. Uh I have a lot of problems with golf just in general and golf culture. I don't know. As soon as I went to just simple Google images and most of the uh rangefinders have uh like Because you understand what I'm saying, right? Jimmy Simpson is a treasure. And you can like walk out and see giant stones, haystack stones.

Mm-hmm. Oh my god, yes. I could I could shoot the thing out and I could tell how far away the raccoon is. That's what that's what the movie The Front is about. or something like that. And you know, you know who we can blame for a lot of that, unfortunately, is Ilya Kazan. Why do I mention this? This is so Stephen Miller. Sunset Boulevard and born yesterday and he's hot as fuck. Thesis committee members. with our hands facing him with the nails up and you say mister Hickson, how do you say my nails are salon perfect? See that's a headline. where he went to school. Yeah, well he likes to wear um small underwear. I just remember a headline, something something Neil Gaiman in a bathtub and I go. d stirring dull roots with spring rain, I want to say.

I so I know why if I know then when I know then when I know then when this was to take everything Bacon Ray has ever ever ever ever done and put it up for free or whatever, just to have a place to host it. Alright, three, two, one, click, who had I son? I on my Kindle right now, on my hacked Kindle right now, I have his book about the history of royalty, the history of the kings and queens of England. Bon vivant, David Mitchell, uh I can highly recommend. You know, the S1E1 of Peep Show also is the source of one of my all-time favorite lines. and pretend that he's like one of the head guys in this police department. people who are I hope are enjoying it. And I think it's it's 'cause they haven't stopped to look at how much how they are is actually helping anything.

uh it was r George uh bush I think George H. Now the Merlin Mann addendum to that is, yeah, but that doesn't mean that we help them by expecting, quote, more of our of them. And why Kierkegaard says it's the leap of faith that's important. Th the it's not I'm not even saying you have to go out and like write a play or something, but you need to keep the the humane plasticity of possibility in your life. Especially when everybody around you is also very, very, very unhappy. Not me. Cher's mother said credited with saying I don't know if she originated it. the or working at a library or whatever, they really like their jobs and their I guess normal Y but what you're describing I think is absolutely true.

But no, there's pressure everywhere to be all kinds of ways, but that's something. I'm doing the sort of chicken problem thing where I'm like, oh don't yell at me. Because what you are at the end of all of this, before you're any other adjective noun or or fucking, you know, chop shop verb is you're a person. Like someone would say to me, Oh god, I can't even imagine like n being locked up with that person constantly. On my left, I have my compost can and on my right I have the recycling bin. I'm gonna say it again. And you need to go take a care of something, not for one person, but a little bit for everybody. In San Francisco, you could just spend two hours just cleaning up around a trash can where everybody leaves their paint in oil and whatnot.

clean out your f clean out your entire fridge and freezer. Um so what I'd said was what I'd said is well let me just start you with the first one. I'm still here's the thing, I am still try like trying not just to like bang my head against the wall, but I've really been enjoying But and the reason just really quickly, 'cause who would care? And I don't want to get into the politics of this. to do this for me is KO reader. Mm, just tell me it's bad. You've always had that with Calibur. you know whatever and send them and you're done and now you're reading so this is like a lot of my secret setup here it's a huge deal of upfront work Like if you don't know what you're doing. d it does not fit the length of the uh when you just hit something you hit the you're pretty sure you hit asterisk but you might have hit something else and now you can't see because dots will echo.

Anyway, I'm co-reader. Writ written down here drugs. then you say something to me about my medication sleep or coffee. But then uh Android divorce w would be a pretty terrible steely dance song. And then followed by that, we are going to have an Android annulment. Hack your Kindle. You said hold on a minute, and so I was holding. Which doesn't affect me, except that it means he could stay up late watching Black Mirror with me last night, which was very exciting. Happy Wednesday. And uh now there's someone to distract the cats while I'm recording. Yes. Don't let the cat attach it that's attachment you know it has attachment issues. And he said, uh, you know, I keep all the foreskins. I don't have anyone to talk to about any of this.

like a baboon and uh a baboon. And the birds delight me and I take pictures of them and identify them and I like to watch their I like to watch their comings and goings. and possibly a rangefinder. Did you know the reason pirates wear patches? Fuck you. guitar. And and I think I mentioned to you the reason that this keeps coming up, if this wouldn't keep coming up if I found a rangefinder in my budget that did something that I understand. quotidian as looking anywhere but wire cutter for what is well reviewed. You'll find out that in most, whether it's hobbies or jobs or whatever it is, there's a good one. because I have an amazing the last one that that made what's left of my testicles shrivel up into my body cavity was a profile of a douchebag in golf clothes with a golf glove on.

have a little g golf symbol or they're from a golf website. I don't want to optimize my business. I've people have occasionally seen photos of this. It's which is a beautiful place, like far, far, far north. had to have other people like Adalton Trumbo would have to have somebody I love oh I gotta write that name now that's good uh gotta have find somebody else to say they wrote the script. And you don't have any context. And I I've always found it a strangely poetic image for some reason. It was just like what people did. Russell Brenn baptizes people, uh um they're gonna be. But it's the best coffee you've ever had. The tactics Elon Musk uses to manage his legion of babies and their mothers.

going over to the Mac to do vocals and occasional guitar or bass stuff. sound like a real song, but I like it. Hill, then when I was having a cigar downtown uh at the cigar shop at the time, probably trying to write a book, not writing a book. Um and uh and I was talking to this guy who's a rabbi and um and we were talking or I don't know if he's a rabbi exactly, but he was super Jewish adjacent title. Yes, sorry, I do. Oh yeah, so here's what he said. point the occasional person to it and I'd like to do that with my Uber too. Everything will still be bad, but but you won't feel like you have to monitor it monitor it all the time. Partly because I think I'm a pretty smart guy. Did you mean are you talking about the British?

Some folks think it's funny, but it's really wet and runny. Yeah, and it's it's nice. Hello, hello, hello. From Peep Show. Jez, Jeremy says to Mark, you know, that oh he'll probably have some kind of a relationship, you know, with the woman next door. Imagine Mark from Peep Show, except now he is a what's called a puzzle setter, someone who designs puzzles, like crossword puzzles, all kinds of puzzles. Who's a police officer? TV's good on uh TV's very good across the pond right now, I think. I I think I told you, I told one of my friends, like, well what should should I just kill myself? But that means every single person out there living amongst and dwelling amongst of the people in their life who aren't horrible to them are also not going to be the people to say to them, hey, you know, you this could be different from how it is.

But there's only one person that can change that. I was trying to explain Christian existentialism to my mom. Hope is a Thing with Feathers is a uh beautiful Emily Dickinson line, and it is featured prominently and as as a literal uh part of the book series well, the series. So oh shit. I just don't have the addressable audience that I used to, maybe because I'm not relevant, but also just because there doesn't seem to be much appetite for anything except a couple kinds of headlines and being angry about it. There's such a big difference between I don't like this thing and this thing shouldn't exist. There's just way in my opinion just way too much of like this shouldn't exist. Feel like it's also vital for me to not get wound up in things that turn into organized negativity.

Even somebody who doesn't consider themselves somebody who makes things, even if if they think of somebody who's like stuck in their life because of what people in the world have done to them, you have the option at all times to improve that situation. care about you, you should care about you. And if you think that having that rough time does anything to mitigate against that badness, how many protests can you go to? uh the little blog I suppose I wrote the other day and I guess okay well you made me feel smart because I um said you write this I completely agree. Uh uh if you do not care about being part of the discourse, if that's never been part of your identity, you just leave and when you aren't part of uh let let's even say like you're not really part of necessarily a marginalized g group who has to have a community in order to survive and thrive But you're you're in taking in so much stuff from so many different places and it's like you're pecking at that bar hoping that the pellet falls out that'll make your day different.

And sometimes making your day different just means getting a little bit more angry in a way where you can agree with another person about what we're both angry about. I know that I can be hurtful when I'm like, no, just just stop doing the other thing. I mean to not not to just like, oh, I I want to figure out a way to feel less sad today. Like uh I um really wonder what I would be like if I was just either five years younger or didn't I I was obviously like so many things, we're very aware of what was happening at the time, you know, during all of that. This really moved me. Idea number one, clean clean out your entire refrigerator and freezer, whatever that means to you. Like actually pick up every bottle or condiment in the refrigerator, look at the date and decide how you feel about that.

Directed by uh George Kukor and starring uh uh uh it's not Jennifer Holiday, that would be quite a quite a casting trick. a test. Oh yes. I hate that they're so they're anime them is so cute together. Ha ha ha ha ha My eyes are big and round Got six irises riding a hound Ramalek Brick it, but I gotta do a root reinstall again. Okay. Calibur's had this forever where you're able to like hook up your device, D L E D, and make it work. what does what your what's your ruling on widows and orphans is. that makes the book almost impossible to read because I don't want every H two to mean an entirely new page and chapter. This is a neat solution. You're bricked. Very good, mentioned that older ones, if they uh were bricked when it had a certain like if you were in between certain firmware updates, it it gets kinda kinda weird.

with the arrow to do things and then dra hope you dragged it into the right folder. So all you do is just you just click on it click on device and where you once saw your local software library, you still see that software library, but it's indicating with green checks which of these books is on the device. It it's less work than you spend trying to just get your Kindle onto a new a new network sometimes. prospectivity. that appears prominently in that season before he actually loses his hand to the loose seal. I was gonna say you just were being honorable and no no uh no no no actually you know what I'm up I'm upgrading it you and I are broken up for ten minutes You're saying you bomb the big thing.

Well, don't we need to have some kind of a meeting of the minds before the show starts? Uh no, no, no, no. And I had a great day if you won if you're curious. And you want to get the birds back, you refill it. Well, the birds give me a lot. Because I'm not a very adventurous birder. Trying to get you to become a bird guy, I thought it was going to have to be a big thing. So if it was from a- Okay, wait, you have mentioned range finders multiple times, but then it we go off into some Gen X references that I don't understand. Yes. And I guess it's got lenses and probably some kind of electronics. Well I say this because I don't want to become a clock guy. And it could be like if you're uh, you know, if you're a carpenter, maybe this kind of nail gun is good for your purposes or whatever.

Like I don't want the I don't want the wire cutter second cheapest one. in profile looking through a rangefinder and I just closed the tabs. find sh you know, an answer and understand more about what uh what's different with 40 mini and then I'm like, oh no, I don't IDK. But I don't know. on Monday where he was visiting this uh you know oceanside community in Oregon where it's very flat and so when the tide goes out it goes way way way out Or no, what do they call it? So of course Betty Davis is nominated. Well it's it l like you said, this is not something that can become part of uh uh it it is not for my work and watching old equipero What? Oh that's not as good, Mr. Oh we're sitting in a bar, sitting in a bar at our hotel in New Zealand talking.

I I am I'm under the table. Whatever I'm accused of, I'm gonna do more to make Merlin mad. I think you should put out like a Merlin EP of the. That's really good. as well as uh episode to episode. to James' office. Um other the problem with going back and watching a movie like this, or listening to the kind of music I enjoy, or reading the kind of books that I enjoy, is that then I have to be cold plunged back into the world of everybody dashing. heedlessly into further and further madness and a little bit of stupidity and go like, oh man, y'all are so much better than to not be anything but depressed all the time. especially if the more that we want is the same of everybody, we need to help people by expecting different things of them.

And that is a way of helping people. The well, I know, right? What was I what was I thinking today? Uh, I can think a captain w wouldn't run a fleet, but do you follow me? But there's always been a worse thing happening. keep open this idea that there are still there are still roads I haven't been down. Do you know the singer share? The people no the people online who are Who Who are you talking about? affiliation and their world is I don't wanna say small, but you know, they really uh whether it be tech social networks are, you know, tokenized misery. seen as callous or problematic and then you d if you're not um you know And that's how this is something I've been struggling to write about for three weeks.

a church like we talk about, like those those people aren't screaming and posting unless you are a Marjorie Taylor. Well, it's also an option. Probably mostly. all completely understandable ways to forge a relationship with a stranger based on something you both don't dislike. What have you done differently that's helping? Yeah. Like we need to be around other people. Entirely clean out your refrigerator and your freezer. to be something other than how you might tend to be. And don't expect a thank you note. I started that episode. Is the first scene we've talked about this at least four times. 50 um funny zipper remarks. And she's dressed up to be in the play and she's hiding behind the plant.

challenge. um just you know getting together all of my various ebooks that I've acquired over the years in j d just in and also in a more easily accessible manner that isn't just uh like I still wish there was something a little bit better than caliber, but it it gets the job done. The uh oh, who d who doesn't like Python and Hasty Image? talked about this. bits, not out of even like meh, I want to owner shit. Right. hardware and software things about it, but not a lot. Because by the way, now you can turn off ads. for me because you can do stuff now like upload PDFs, EPUBs, whatever you want. And there are actual areas, if you don't mind a really, really bad interface, where you can drill down into this and say, hey, look, from now on, I want my books to be set like this.

out of the box the day I got it. And uh the it it's one of the older uh I think in that video that we both uh what is it And there are fixes for that as part of this jailbreaking. But I think it's really neat and it does work really well with caliber. It's a large deal of upfront work, but then it kind of takes care of itself. Like it's gonna take you a while. They got a brick. six tim more than six times and I still swear every time I see a new hand joke. Just I still enjoy e Inc and I don't have a working uh e Ink div device, but you know, I'm I'm a book I'm a book guy. Um, I put co-reader on an Android phone because I I hope that I will be able to get an e-ink device, but not a It's about a guy named Owlsley.

You know, and so what we take what we've got and we put that out. His his little ball sacks are empty, but how do you what did you drain them? Uh no. You should check. I don't know. Um number two is poop. Binocular vision is very helpful for depth perception. Outside of uh going into light research around the podcast S Town, no, not not. No, I'm sorry. I found that out immediately. I don't know what I'm agreeing to. You've got um oh fuck yes um Sunset Boulevard. I should know this. That's pretty funny. So, well, there's not really any wait a second, that's a hyphenate, you know, American vernacular. Kind of. No, well, no, because Okay, make it make it relevant. Shanti. You can put things on Bandcamp for free and it does have Really?

What do you do, right? the discourse or talking to people about things. And I'm not going to apply that to anything specific, because if you have half a fucking brain and you choose to use it, you could do that yourself and have a real different afternoon and evening. And while it's not specifically Kierkegaard, what one thing the existentialists taught us that I think is really valid, in addition, I mean it's a lot like Werner Herzog in some ways, like the world doesn't fucking care about you, nature doesn't care. Which is not an answer to every question in the world, but isn't that an interesting way to think about things? How many, how many gates can you storm? Why you know, why is the person at the DMV kind of a jerk?

sad than alone. I want you to get rid of all that stuff. Like Emma Corin, she's so she's so pretty and but she's so fashionable and she's always got such interesting outfits, but she always looks like her shoulders are scrunched up and like she looks a little confused a lot of the time and Rami Malik looks like he's from another galaxy. Can I get a can I get a giant 8-bit floppy disk icon? And so when you jail, what happens is when you jailbreak, I have only done this once and in one way. by like it does something and you're kind of just looking at some Linux folders and doing stuff and I have to say like at this point the only reason Which the Kindle does not let you do. I want you to always use hyphenation and I want you to always use Ragged Right.

Like if there's an H one and H two and H three, should that be a new page? You know, I don't know. Well, you're a very busy professional. Well, you have to remember our cats are freaks. It's been there for a while. Because then because then you do a lot of the work and then I ask you the questions. Oh shit, that's really good. You end up on places that have rangefinders for sale, like the uh the the Washington Fulfillment Company. What? And uh and you know I think William Holden was in two of those movies. Oh. Helps. I w name a single headline I have brought up. That was a headline. Or so. Telling me about something that Hillel the Elder said. And being for myself, what am I? Really, really, really good.

Yeah, up the apples and pears. I don't want to say causing encouraging their own and and I'm not saying I'm saying like they are immersing themselves just I can see the people, you know, the way people that I respect who make em have made amazing things, um, they're uh And I think we could probably mostly agree, a lot of us, that you don't just say to somebody who's depressed, hey, cheer up. Oh, which is I think a wonderful phrase. What do you say? I n uh maybe the it feels relentless because I look at the world too much, but I mean I don't want to disappear into a garret. And I said, and you know what I said? Was there any? Don't ask me a question about coffee. posters. sharing something and it has the little asterisk of it's not helping a specific thing that you care about your they wouldn't even necessarily call themselves conservatives or um even right wing, but a a lot of uh people who aren't sad are associated with you know, um in in justice.

Like you you have nothing except despair and uh there will be people who can congregate around, you know uh other they they see it as no other option except being a part of the internet discourse because that is where their friends are. just like uh you will still feel like you're part of a cesspool even if you leave it. not having a ma Eddie, not being married is right. And i you know, I I could explain why I think each of these is good. Very specific that you can control a little area. Check your messages. You've seen Summer Wars though, you call Koi Koi. Organizing them in a way that is easy for not just me to find, but for, you know, if anybody were to come across them, uh Yeah, but uh in order to use them on an even uh jailbroke and Kindle, you have to do that a anyway.

You know, it's just if you're interested in this, you'll figure it out. Brother printers used to have show uh used to have showed no brother printer. Reader the the reader readwise app is still uh the best. Yeah, Roderick and I talk for thirty, forty minutes before we start. Okay, I went to bed at 10 p. Um a lot of the things that that give me a little bit of uh the routines that give me pleasure in life, but also have a functional component. And so we got bird feeder um on the east side. When we're not sure about something, we go and we try to learn more about it. To be perfectly candid, whatever that thing is, I want the good one. And there's a very funny bit where where his his character keeps having problem he can't figure out how to cut Mac's video card in half because he can't have this his brut Ryan has to help him.

And it's about 1950. With shh oh the McCarthy era list about people communists in Hollywood. What did I I think the very first thing I saw her in wasn't even a movie. He's worse because he's using who he is and the implicit, you know, promise or threat of of money being given or withdrawn. I think that's why it's the bunker capital of the world. I I think he is coded as either somewhat kind of maybe on the spectrum, kind of maybe agoraphobic, but he definitely doesn't like going places, doing things, talking with people. in it because to feel joy is bad. from that and to to to think that you and the world are capable of more. Yeah. Hope is the thing with feathers. Keeping tabs. So you're talking about the thing where headline.

The the thing is the upfront work is uh or even and uh even not uh b being successful You're saying you divorced it from your it's an Android divorce phone. Okay. And and one of the first images will be a person in golf gear using one of these because that's what most people buy for is golf. It's just it's just weird. Oh. Yeah, Judy. Of course you say runes. Challenge! not just reaction but immersion in things that make them sad that they cannot do anything about. Oh. No. And that is not making anything better. Yeah. then the like cesspool of despair just continues to grow out. Wasn't everybody great in that? Let's see what I got here. It was a success in that I continued to just remove all of the little DRM And you open this thing called like uh USB file transfer or something, and you get this piece of shit wack-adoo window that doesn't behave anything like a normal window.

Get up here and speak some truths. I didn't ask you if I could say this. It is literally breathtaking. I mean, yes, she's adorable, but the point is she's like she's ridiculously talented. Um April's the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory with desire. Um and so imagine Mark from Peep Show, I mean like a character that already seems tailor-made for David Mitchell reading his book about Stalingrad, you know. Well, uh, there's it's difficult for me now to figure out whether or not my friends are Well no, but I'm not saying like, oh why. That I was I was going to make the junky analogy, but that's still yours is better. I think this is the only show without an official pre-flight that you have?

Do we do souls? Do they throw up signs depending on which side? Right? Perception's a weird- isn't perception wild? And it didn't work. Uh but the or uh what is really difficult is that right now the I guess I just I uh so I've had ChatGPT start generating images for me of of what it's like when the two of them hang out at their house staring blankly into the middle distance. Because then I I've um been using the book. So we hacked our Kindles and I don't know. Oh oh I did not know this. Is this good for the show? Uh-huh. Not gonna say content. And that's one of the problems with headlines. That's uh sort of the the thing that people are s uh not the thing. The biggest part of uh what did you say or organized sadness and like this communal despair is the closest thing most people have.

And I want you to I don't I don't want you to I don't you could listen to a podcast I don't fucking care do it the way that works for you but you need to go do an act of service that nobody knows you did No, I think that's my new Rickenbacker 330. Oh, oh crap. I miss Mr. I mean, like, but honestly, when I say when I say, you know, people like things, people don't like things, people have opinions about things. In what way? And second of all, what sense could there possibly be in doing this all in one real-time thing? Challenge! Like for some some reason it's attached to the side of the toilet. How do you know what when something has a functional compound? Like a 90s rap battle? You are so not in danger of becoming a clock guy.

Yeah, things are going great. Um, okay. I it doesn't it doesn't harm me for that person to not like it. Okay, look, I know there's a million ways you can parse that. And God. Yeah. The ch it doesn't really, you know, I didn't peanut butter because I did try to do the challenge and it wasn't a complete success, but it's Alright, everybody, let's give our thanks to Brother Printer. Something like that. I've noticed um I I wouldn't say I've noticed is I I don't know what depression looks like in different people, but I'm so hard to tell. It's it's up to you to decide how much you think the world will improve, or the people who are your the antagonist to your protagonist in the world. Uh but no no no.

Um Madeline tells me unf I'm sorry to hear that she and Rami have broken up. It's nice. But now imagine a monocular and it's a thing you look through with uh one of your eyes. This becomes very important in navigation. I know I realize this this this makes me sound dumb, but and I could and I don't really need it. I those one of my favorite chapters in interest. Anecdote saying from Hillel the Elder? I And I don't think I don't think people do that. And I I he might have even said hugged, but like it I think that says enough. I'm glad you're having a good Wednesday, Merlin. I'm saving it. And then Daryl Zanick Daryl Zanick felt her up. I think it's Holiday with two L's. We say we all call them Mr.

We could just listen to my episode where we just listen to my uh my old music. And every episode has an Agatha Christie style room full of suspects. Oh, that's amazing. Because first of all it's hilarious cause his mother threw that chair away or gave it to the housekeeper because she hated it. The thing is well it's hard to do because it takes the problem is, okay, you know there's that that that joke where like if you recorded something for an animated thing, like, you know, is that you and if they cut it out, like was that ever you? First of all, people should watch Beekine Rewind. Oh, that's so nice of you to say. Spend at least five minutes somewhere doing nothing but looking for trash, picking it up, and putting it into the bag that you brought with you.

Can I briefly address why someone might want to hack a Kindle? Yeah. He it's very clear that his were, you know, a clean break. Like pick up after your dog? Yeah, you know, like like like like um what do they call that? Judy Holiday and the writer of Born Yesterday were both on the list, on the big list. But like they would just write people up and say, oh yeah, you did this. I kn I don't know what that means. I mean they can forget everything else. I'm like, I wish they did the thing and then they did go and explore the thing that I wanted them to. Oh interesting. There's a hack that will like keep uh keep it from you know getting updated by Amazon and stuff like that. He's got a little U U1 chip.

The birds know about it. She's the origination of the dumb blonde voice, but she weren't dumb. Yeah, that's really good. Because of what you've been exposed to or or what's expected of you, what would be different? That's that's the first one it gave me. Clean this mantle, thus we'll all end up in jail. Empty. Google Google Damn Torpedoes. Now did you watch is he in USS Callister uh sequel? Oh, yeah. You say, I understand. Um it's the Cerule Yeah, the Cerulean C by TJ Clun. And and it all there it was also a weird uh not not weird, it was very uh foreign to me when someone's like, oh god, I Entirely clean out your refrigerator and freezer. It's not that difficult to do. That's bullshit, man. The thing that the thing that gives one of the things that gives us depth perception is having two eyes, right?

Shanti. Are you talking fancy diarrhea? I'm not even gonna dignify uh D-I-A-R-R-H-O-E-A. You got a little bit of wetness in your trousers, isn't it? And I mean again, all of that is to say, like, I just it is wild how I wanted I w I've got okay. Because of erections. Hmm. That was a big nineties trick for us. You can't just tell people to cheer up, but we are. Uh if it's X, the Everything Out app, or Blue Sky or whatever. You're 10 to 1, 50 to 1, 1,000 to 1, especially if you look at these stats I've seen about how social media actually works in terms of who posts what. Um I um I don't uh I The software's so, so bad. It's like I don't know. Cut into and then you remove the testicles. There might be some in there you forgot about.

And like cause now of course I my my mind then because I'm broken inside. We've I've watched almost all the other ones, but I'm saving that one for when Bill and Moore um has has time to watch it. I already have so much respect. Um I think you're gonna like this. You made a diarrhea Victoria line, isn't it? Share is in share, share? Unless you're my kid. I'm having a great Wednesday. Mais on le sent parfait du salon. And everybody there is nice and but not in a patronizing way, which is awesome. Okay, okay hit the hit the next one. It's it's very difficult to find something to read. And moving on, can I suggest uh I'm not gonna call it homework. The challenge this week is to hack your Kindle.

Keeping tabs. It's just it used to be you had to make everything a Moby or an AZW. Can I say this? So it's still got the scrota, but the uh but the contents have been removed from the bag is what you're telling me. I just I just don't want to commit. I just I wanted to. Oppenheimer was such a commute like he yeah he hosted the parties. I'm helping pick up the shreds. Runes. If I'm going to be accused of bringing up headlines, I just am going I'm going to do that. One of my wife's direct reports, or as we used to say, employees, um, one of my wife's direct reports said to her, I haven't I haven't touched another person in a month. I have not found a co-reader, whatever it's called. And that's that's all I really need from it.

Remember like how Howard used he wants them the clouds, he wants Ian Ian Holmes to make fun of clouds that look like breasts full of milk for because you can't tell how fast and how good it is without something to compare it to. I got lots more. By the way, that's my new catchphrase. It's but the soft biggest bigotry of low expectations in this instance is like you'd never want to say to somebody, hey, cheer up if they're depressed. Yes. Hickson. Okay, forget it. He said, if I am not for myself, who will be for me? I was probably urinating. It gives you a lot more flexibility and control over how things looks how things look. You have to keep detaching it from things. It sounds very cool and fancy.

Never mind. I But like the the latest uh not the latest, the most recent Beekon Rewind that I'm I'm watching what I'm watching right now, which is so fucking good, is called The Best Best Actress Oscar. Is it good for the show? I said, I think it's neat that we all have so many things that we can like and enjoy. Do you have any idea how much of my life you have no fucking idea about? But you should also take responsibility for the stuff in your life. I want you to entirely clean out your refrigerator and freezer, whatever that means to you. Kindle seems to think it's fancy and it's a typesetter, which it's not. That's so great. I wish I had friends that I could talk to about this. Bird birds are in our challenge spreadsheet.

Because I think I've told you I'm very interested in getting a range finder, but there's an important reason I keep not ordering one. Oh, I don't think you have any interest in getting better at this, and I think it's part of the charm of the show, and you should shut your fucking whore mouth. I like music. And that twin is missing, and his sister-in-law needs help. Like the for a lot of people, there's just no Oh drug thing, I don't You said uh before you're like before you ask me a question or 'cause cause sometimes when I have a rant and I could tell you think it's not terrible You can look at the night sky, you can see the Pacific from our window. You have to learn to become a um like a a s a stuff farmer That's a very funny title.

Wait, wait, wait. Don't ask me a question about drugs or coffee. While I'm looking this up, I'm gonna re- re- re- recount. You bought this device. Dalton Trumbow was one of the Trumbo. Hickson because we thought it was funny. Did you know I made a pop song out of the wasteland once? I wrote I w I w kinda wrote that I wrote that terrible is terrible lyrics, like the dumbest fucking literary joke you can make. And the only way we could get in his office is to find somebody who looks a lot like him. Uh well that's the thing is I have stopped feeling guilty for being happy because I Number two, uh clean up, go go get rid of some trash for five minutes. That's my history of Python. So it's not for everybody, but uh but maybe we could talk about who it might be useful for.

Can't make it work out, Android divorce. Turn off ads, change the uh have a whole folder full of images that it uses for the lock screen. Yes, because then if you carry around you b because you can use it the same way you would a Mac, but if you're traveling Shanti, shanti, shanti, shanti, shanti I watered my plants, uh, which are thriving, thriving, and I uh I did lots of little things. This is gonna be a a new one of those I thought it was a thing it took me too long to realize, but it's probably actually a thing I need to unrealize. Oh yeah. Straw donators. He just needs to make a poo and he needs to get some loo paper and he's not a nonce. So without giving it all away, the it starts because his sister says, you know, there's something we to find out what happened, we need to get It's on Brit Box and I also have a copy of you.

I oh God If you're having trouble getting it, just let me know. And now we're back to Kira Kagaard, who I referenced in a call with my mom yesterday, and it didn't go that great. I'm not not those I'm not talking about like the uh fucking online. If they yeah if you had to choose it's like do do I have to be lonely or do I want to be sad? We are like the Velociraptors, you know, I think we are we are we are herd people. Number two, I want you to pick up some trash. My kid gets it right the first time every time and it really upsets me. We're like, you know, again, it's one of those things. That's how T. Thank you. I mean w uh it's how could you not feel unmoored at this point? Oh, and do it. You cannot select something to find out its size.

Hey, brother. Hmm. Yes. Those are the only two good countries. No. And in that instance, you're referring to, hey, you know, look at any school, look at any class. She watches a lot of TV. And uh but it's not a lot of people. Oh wait, real real quick. Divorce. Oh, I don't do anything till you unmute. Uh I've recently added, so I had a bird we've a bird feeder that's been featured on my internet before, and then I've added two more bird feeders. Uh oh god, the name of that piece is so funny. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? I've never spelled Uber right on the first drop. You're sliding down the stairs with diarrhea. Because as soon as the headline enters, now we have to both find the thing that we both agree to be mad about, or we can choose to argue about what the other person should be more angry about.

Why would you buy I literally bought a Kindle and hacked it that afternoon. Oh, it's really pretty. This is so good. All of you are capable of so much more than that. It's just most of that stuff is not for me. last night and I slept really well and I got up today and um uh uh talked to my wife. But okay, here's what I'm saying. I c I don't understand Apple Music. I got lots of really good ones. What if phones a bit too much? Why don't you why don't you cheer up? Everybody got download your books for Kindle. And there's other ones that I think I have one the other day that looked a little bit like a J, which is kind of exciting. Yeah, it's not because of disability. It's a really nice record.

But I don't want to golf and I don't I don't want I don't want to be associated with golf. And then the woman whose name escapes me who plays Eve. He was so nice. I'm ranting. When he ends up he gets confused, he ends up at the housekeeper's house and he finds the giant hand chair. Here's the thing, you guys. Does anyone sometimes see I'm a very important businessman? Well, no, I I I was making a unsuccessful well, I I think I was making an unsuccessful joke about the east and west sides of your And I uh like birds and I I would I would be open to that. Okay? Are you talking about the the the UK spelling of diarrhoea? Off you pop. So that seemed like it has a functional component. And how did you feel how did you feel?

And it's a bummer. Because that would be impressive. S. Yeah, you know what? How do we lift each other up and give each other the chance to see something beyond the end of our nose? It was it got it it was so much better than I expected, but kept getting so much better than I expected. They're so cute. That's so confusing. I closed the whole window with all the tabs in it and I said, I can't I can't be part of this. We'll just listen verse of this. I said if it weren't faith, it would be a promise and it wouldn't be interesting and we wouldn't need buildings with communion. How do you continue to have some sense of personal integrity in the face of stuff that makes you very, very, very unhappy?

I don't know if I'll be able to put these in the notes, probably not, sorry. Uh and we know what that means, right? I I I there's nobody to please by saying anything at this point. You know, we get together, do some we do what they call table read. I'm very explaining a joke. Like I want the I want the good one. Like, and there's a d Ross dress for less that I can see the window very, very barely. It's easily one of the best channels on YouTube. Mr. Elliott would say it. Oh. And people have somehow found a way to make art and to thrive and to connect with other people. And I mean, I absolutely agree with you. That's such a good question. Uh there's there's pigeons and their spouses that come and dine together.

Straw donations? It was delayed because of something regarding, I believe their phrasing was the media climate. Especially if you enjoyed Mitchell and Webb show, yes. But even using that word, the discourse has such a meaning to it now. Oh, yes. Like that we find on an airplane. Yeah, yeah. The reason I'm avoiding it is we know like anything, you know, when your vocation or when you're how you put this, when you're avocation And I I've never personally used one, but my understanding is that you point it at something and it helps you determine to some level of certainty how far away something is. Don't worry about that. Not now. You can't make me stop liking music. Oh, it's very funny. That is a coping mechanism that's understandable, but we're all capable of so much more than that.

If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter. But what I'm saying is like if you think everything that upsets you is a permanent situation that will never improve, you're gonna have a pretty rough time. The people feeling joy are seen. Did you hack your Kindle? It's kind of like the New York Times, but bitter. I can't wait to see what we'll do with that. Why do you want me why can't I just like a bird without being a bird guy? And I feel the same way. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean it would the same thing. I think they're having a difficult day. I look at the birds. Almost always finches and I find out because I take a photo and go, hmm, who's that little guy? And you can see the photos of the phone.

I only realized last night. We say Mr. Hickson got really fucked over in tenure and it bums me out. We had a very fun, garrulous conversation, but she spits when she talks. Diarrhea? Or even if it's just helping you? Do you remember the scene we've talked about a bunch? Um, and so the idea is that you change its ability to not do a lot of stuff. Do you have an outline and you know all the references he's gonna make? Oh nice. No, I I I talk I think I feel like I really know what you mean. You know, he he he named names, unfortunately. I just need a place to put it. Ludwig is a a show that I like a lot. Imagine David Mitchell having to pretend a very nervous David Mitchell who doesn't know how to drive, doesn't know how to talk to people.

I would think I was in the bathroom anyway. Is that is that is that would that be too stupid to the other thing? I did it with a brand new Kindle, whatever the current paperwhite is. So if it's just the screen, I'm like, oh no. You thought I was gonna ask you about drugs earlier. What? Um, and sh I I just have been on an old movie kit. Yeah, the guitars and drums are pretty standard. Off you off you pop. I'm ranting on that. That and that's if you're I mean most people probably will never even do that. So like if you've got it mounted um if you got it like you plug it in, it takes a second and then caliber's like, okay, you see this new thing. Hey, hey, brother. And ironically, a depth finder is a device that you look through kind of like a little telescope.

And I just thought it'd be neat. But I think that one is entirely No, no, the guitar. Like I just I fell in love with her in that scene. Uh I've done it for three. It does stuff. Like a Oh shit believe me. Like uh you know where you try and like affect an election by hiring someone from Turkey or some Turkey. I was gonna make a funny joke about baptism and put it Russell Brand Make it as classic as Judy Holiday. Remember we went to New College and it was a good school? And like I I but you can't say that because it sounds like you're being mean. It's something in your little world. Do that. Well and like if you wanna if you wanna be able to drag stuff over, because I think it's considered legal in Copacetic to I mean it is.

This is and I'm gonna leave now because I gotta go do this and um but here's the thing. And uh I keep all the four skins from, you know, with the bristles, right? What what is it? You attended this this you know communist like Lucilla Ball. Yeah, I'm learning We ask our French teacher how do you say we used to love to harass our our French lit teacher who also taught French language, Jeff Hickson, late late great Jeff Hickson, my one of my uh He introduced me to the butthole surfers. Okay, well let's just not not go too far into the headlines unless we need to it's not a headline. W. Because there are some books, like the Book of Lists, where that puts But, you know, I don't mean to sound obdurate or anti c uh anti corporate, but like, yeah, I did buy this thing and I do want to use it for the purpose I want to use it for and I did put co-reader on an Android device device.

And um and then this morning I almost searched at GP F T for how to attract crows, but then I thought I'm gonna that's gonna be a project, so I should just wait and do that later. Which table? J the uh I s I'm just like vlogged because that's so delightful. And if not now, then when? That would be a good project. And I I guess I will have the temerity to say it oughtn't take privilege for you to give yourself a break. I mean, at least they in generally probably have some idea of a of a larger supernal influence that's worth acknowledging. Did you not like her? Here you go. I have not found a lot of other ML packages or similar that like do anything that interests me. And it just I was like, oh it it was the feeling of when I'm trying to find something out about an LLM model and I go to Like similar or a front, like Woody that Woody Allen movie The Front, where like people who were on the blacklist Hickson, you know, there's that thing they say on TV.

I uh I I s I don't exactly know what he like some d like he is he's a he's he's a creepy sex man. Oh no. Emily Dickinson. It's very funny. Oh my gosh, this is amazing to see what all is in here from Rectius last night. Oh, I love hearing that. Uh yeah. Yes. I m want to watch all the time. And I'm able to throw a lot of stuff into that compost and then throw the container it was in into the recycling. Look at the third one. How's your Wednesday, Merlin? And but you know how it is where you're trying to judge how far away something is? I love New Zealand. Bush. It's very hard for me to propony. Yes. How whatever that means to you, but I want you to really get in there and I want you to go and find that frozen piece of protein that's been in there since Obama.

It would also be really sad. Fucking ridiculous I don't think so. What do you like to play on it? Right? Uh I that could be it. It's so funny because this is a lot like weird stuff in life with perception. Okay. He's not he's not Oh my fucking god. I I don't know. I don't think you could do this. I don't understand how I do anything in Apple Music. They shared that and I appreciate that, but I also at this point this month Oh god. You will put it on an Android device. I observe their behavior. And now I've added two bird feeders on the west side. So but how would you say I don't held all in our the three of us in our harassment group that lived together would all hold up our hands like this? Uh-uh.

Or I want to feel a way to feel less powerless this week. It is basically a vending machine for Amazon and that's how they like it. There's a hack on there to keep it from, you know, from getting um, what's the phrase they use? And you put what on it? Oh. You know what we say in my business, Alex? Uh-huh. Come take a walk with me for Hellday. And as as useless as I may be as a carbon life form, uh I've given the world a lot more than in through the last three months than a lot of other people. There are other things to do. The test tubes and the scales. Did you understand that Joe? You uh because like I I mean I I don't mean to this to be a leading question, but I I mean for myself Runes. Winter kept us warm.

I gotta figure out where to just put I see the original dream and I talked to two of the other guys from Bacon Ray about that. That's the I I I like the w No, but I mean like you you're also you're intake no matter how much of a poster you are Python, Python, Python. And I want, you know, all those sorts of things. When there's like a leftover word or a sentence and it makes it weird. I see my time. I'll pay a little more. I already thought he was. You can tell them to stop though, which is something I keep. Oh well, I did in enough to um not again not I I'm just here to like put a stake in the ground. Pending all the stones. Oh, life act. And so I go to and I try to learn about rangefinders.

And but the second I gotta find this image for you. Let me give you some names here. Her start in show business came from writing and directing Oh the silver table. Oh? I don't I don't want to deal with commerce or anything like that. Yeah, there's I mean there's good stuff all everywhere all the time. Most of No, I think most people would rather be You can't double-click to open in a window. It wouldn't make it take it as an E PUB. I I must assume I've seen it Divor. John's mom is there. Oh I know it's a long bit of people like what do they do after you've taken if someone gets But uh it occurred to me that the East side is probably I wonder if the East Side was doing better. I don't think so.

And it's not it doesn't even have to be the best one, but there's the good one. Like I I have been this sad without any situation in Written by it was credited to his speechwriter Michael Gerson. Uh just I guess people who do not have any sort of or at least they don't think of themselves of having any sort of political It's kinda it was kinda like that also during COVID where you're like, oh my God, what it was such a strange time to feel like completely on We have to have you have to have something to start from, you know? William Holden, late great William Holden, William Holden drinking helmet, he um he was in um he was in both There's one I so so your default response to things is to either ask a question you haven't thought about or mention something And it's just it's difficult to see right now and it's giving me a fair amount of situational depression.

Oh how did uh that conversation uh uh end? Wait, shut up. Please share. I'm gonna suggest uh three ideas for things that people can do today, and then perhaps we could do our challenge. And third, if you have access to it, consider watching the 1950 bo movie Born Yesterday. Third one's Summer Wars. I'm gonna ask Brother Printer to step down from the pulpit Um but no no they're they're removed because if if if you've ever seen cut off. So I don't need to look it up. Do you follow the history of clocks and navigation? Like I can look at a map and do it, but it'd be cool, like when I see a raccoon or something. Oh yeah, yeah. Uh-uh. And that's totally normal. And nobody will care and nobody will thank you.

And then when you throw your bag of trash into the community trash can, notice how you felt about that. That's different than Hawking or Kindle. It's just that, in candor, it's not a particularly, it's got, there are some good It's wonderful. Makes him easier to find. Just say yes or no. You've got uh Gloria Swanson, you've got another woman, and you got Judy Holliday in one of my all-time favorite movies, Born Yesterday. I got I got I got one that's based on um an old uh Jewish um That comes up in uh Ludwig. Oh that's probably why I've seen it. And you can see this in my interactions with people. Okay, factory reset. Hey. This is Do by Friday, a weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox and Merlin Mann.

I I also have a project which is I've said this forever. When it's clear, which it's not, but when it's clear, you can see like point rays. Did you ever read The Wasteland? And I think this is you know what? And being for myself, what am I? If you want to like get, you know, clean it entirely out and like clean it with liquid. So you download your books. You're just talking about on your Mac ripping out all the DRM before you put it onto the Kindle, yes? Like, you know, if you like music, don't get in the music business. It's just that we have a west view out of our window that's really nice. She'd been in the like when she couldn't get jobs in Hollywood anymore. I'm all over the map today, but it's Wednesday and I'm happy.

He says, Well I suppose you'd have to say something like Maison Glisson parfait du salon. No, it's the thing is the sex man stuff is gross. That's it's got it's got lots of that thing I like to do where I where I do like Mac from Super Chunk where where I play uh play play octaves. Don't yell at me. If only we were anime. She wanted to get out of the business. Where um where uh Now, let's just pause for a second. No, I'm like genuinely thinking, like, w But I'm not talking about like changing the world. Oh god yes. I'm a church going minister. Doo doo doo doo. Oh, that's so polite. Challenge. Raise high the red string! And it's a six-part series that's got a season-long arc. Uh and and feel free to do any of those any way you want, but if I can do something.

Well it was already folder or something? Tell me more. It must be nice. No, you'll be like one of those guys that buys nice guitars but doesn't know how to play. Both the part in the brain and the part in the eye. The bunker capital that we know of. Like y like the horny like Well, you're not all that young and you're not really much of an adult. If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter You're stuck next to somebody in an airplane seat and you complain about how long it takes on the on the runway. Maybe we could talk about that, but uh I'm learning the patterns of how a bird works. I could, you know, the the the the my my benchmark for most things in life. I want the good one. Mm-hmm.

That doesn't work. I might have been spritzing some uh crud cutter. And in the sense that like it's not gonna change unless you're the one who changes it. Um what I am exposed to, but also Oh no, I I just haven't seen her in that much other than being a little bit more than a little bit of a couple of things. And I wanted to cut cut you off at that and just just let me be a person who's here. Um Merlin regrets the air. Yeah, yeah. Um that was uh yeah I And then Woody Allen had a wonderful book of essays called Without Feathers, because he's a funny guy. What what was I? Share share like and subscribe and then share. There's there's fucking rivers and valleys and widows and orphans all over creation with most Kindle books that are shit.

What are you talking about right now? One of them has attachment issues because Because it haven't you ever seen a dog? I just polish. You used to like movies. I don't think I need to give examples of this because I don't think it matters, or importantly Uh and if you enjoy the British comedian, writer, and But he's so good at puzzles that he ends up repeatedly accidentally solving murders. They're just the one on the park bench is really funny. I didn't know cats humped things, but that's another uh you know, issue that is you one chip. Well bird feeder that needs to be refilled, or if y in your words is empty. Oh, and look at this, because they most of them do have two lenses, so it it can do But also to say that both Judy Holiday For me, that often means throwing out like old leftovers.

That's in the style of Summer Wars. It could be really Yeah, yeah. Mat Matchie, I ask you nicely. Oh, oh, it's real good. Well, I I had a thought I've had a lot of thoughts about this, and um Well I I thought it was the binoculars. That's two of the five. It was oh yeah, uh i it was just clips from Broadway. I've seen no his wife's a sex man too. I bet he was so maybe um And the thing I can't say publicly is ask yourself how the last three months of how you are has helped the world. And I'm not saying that like, oh go be you know me or whatever, but like we all have that. But I think I told you this, but It will make your world better. And people get mad when you post things anyway. I'm no kind of expert on this.

Oh no. But do the birds provide any function to your day-to-day life? Uh he's up like uh Ring Lardner Jr. I really you cannot bring up you can no longer bring up headlines on this show unless it's very fun. Uh yeah. Tell me when you're ready. It is really fucking hard and you will still feel sad and You wanna watch a factory reset? I seed my time. Well they have a song called Haitian Divorce, which is probably what made me think of that. The guy, the guy who did on the waterfront, the wonderful director, Ilya Kazan, he named names. And and there's this like very detailed and often like Look at Judy Holiday. New Zealand's so oh my god, it takes them way too long to make a fucking coffee. Your bond doors open, governor.

I heard a wonderful quote from Cher. I mean, I'm sorry, I'm not trying to make it into my thing. Whatever that means to you. Another thing I do is um and I'm not suggesting this, I'll recap all the suggestions in a second, but we're almost done with this before we recap it and then do the Why would you do that? I'm gonna bring up friend of mine, brother printer. Hey brother. Oh Just say yes or no. I don't know the whole thing, but I know that much. I say it, but I don't know. But there's a big difference between I don't like that. What was I good what did what was the drug thing? Uh-huh. How active a process is that? Um he introduced me to so many good bands, especially from Wisconsin. No, but that used to be my Thanks man.

Oi! It's very fucking funny. And all that stuff is true. Hmm. No, well I was going to s say like the spirit of this, I think I s That's not compute. Oh no, my Bluetooth speaker's attached to the cat. Because why does somebody always have to become a type? I don't want to have to buy another one of these because the first one sucked and didn't do what I expected. How do you say my nails are salon perfect? Also apparently Russell Brand was going to speak at New College, I saw It's a good poem. Yeah, yeah. Put up everything you've ever reported. No. Kind of like that Black Mirror episode. No, we're talking about like you know like my password. Just get them all out of here. The show must go on. Just because I'd like to have access to it and I'd like to be able to It has such a an um such a valence, a negative valence when we use it.

Did you ever see the movie five centimeters per second? You got your AZWs. Okay, well that's that's probably the same thing, I imagine. Now I'm done. Gab No, what the f And if you're Like you you can't get the grime off. But you y you'll know what it means. Yes, you put it on the website. Yeah. You know, maybe they could have sex through the wall or something. Was I talking about a head? It's a lovely, it's like one of those books where you're like, is this YA? Um, because I don't want to hur Uh is it the final So when she's very first introduced in the crowd? It feels it feels really uh at least selfish and maybe even careless. That's my opinion. And that's we need some of that, even if it's just somebody putting change in your hand.

But Issa Rae was so good, and I think that might be one of the best things I would Which bums me out because I have this thing I like to do where I imagine what life at home is like for the two of them because they both seem like pod people. You're talking about removing DRM from like EPUBs or Mobis or AZWs. You can only disclose. John's daughter's mother slash partner is there. Oh, it's it well, it's Matchie my spouse Matchy's day off Real good. I I know everybody knows this, but that's how you can tell how far away something is and oh my god, the very funny joke in Sunny. Um, you can see uh that island that looks like an alligator, the Faro the Farallons, or if you say Farallones. Cry during an ad that is a uh rock opera.

They they talk about popping a lot. Well, why is it taking so long in this doctor's office? Oh boy, has Amazon made it a lot less fun to use this device in every way. You can even say things like down to like Everyone are password on one of those little screens? Well, because I I want to see if I like, um Or Yes, you're a very, very important businessman. It's uh You got all about Eve. That's all I'm gonna say about that. Not really. Can I just say you know that word you love, you know, agency? Uh wait, was this for oh? And you don't really run into those folks often because the currency of That's gonna be my new country ballad. And I'll be honest, it took a while for the west side to accumulate new members, but now it's going great guns.

Okay. Okay. How do pirates do it? Smoke on the water. And it's just Dorothy. Oh Ercule Po Yes. I'll play you another song. Either you understand the value of this and you do it, or you think that probably that we're pi pirates, quote unquote. But you can still if you've just got books in Caliber the way you want over on this side, and then you've got a Kindle over here you want to put it on on that side, boy is it ever easy now. He doesn't have any like if you looked at him, you wouldn't see two empty And I don't know, it's it's Oh, that's a great strategy. You don't need to. Hey everybody, don't be sad all the time. What's all this then? A spot of tea! I introduce people. No, you can put uh you can What device did you put what on for what reason?

Have you looked into this at all? No, I don't know. Did you look her up? And if not now, then when? Sliding into third. But there is a spectrum, there is a continuum. Like, don't you appreciate how sad I am about everything? That's that's that's what that's what we've got. And if you don't feel good about it, throw it out. But also like you know, how we feel about the process. But you know what it don't do anymore? They're like that. All right. And I might start with something as Yeah, the bunker capital. Right. I wanted an army. But it's also funny because it's one of several hands. Oh f If you talk to somebody and who knows a lot about a thing, I used to have the Rick and Backer that was on the cover of Damn the Torpedoes by Tom Petty, but I had to sell it for rent.

You're going to have to find a secret guy, I think. Stirring I tried that right before my divorce. Anyway, I said and that mom is why it's called faith. I love being part of I'm talking about any kind of personal growth. And consider uh watching uh Born Yesterday from 19. But anyway, not for everybody. And phone goes finch. A nice nice person yesterday on the internet said to me, you know, I don't like that book a confederacy have done Y yes. Hey, here's a marquee feature. Because you eventually but that's not an e-reader, because you Like she was she was in trouble. Okay. Go to album. No. He's a really smart guy. Britbox is a good thing. Yeah, I can Doesn't that sound like kind of an outlandish and unnecessary thing to say?

I told you this, but like And the f yeah, and like it's it takes a lot of buy-in. Well, I mean partly I was inspired by this video that I'll put in show notes, maybe. You can you can control all of that. The reader readwise app is Okay, but what does that have to do with a Kindle? Marriage never existed. I'm serious, what is a rangefinder? You just have to take the time to find it and you have to allow yourself to be like a Oh, it happened. She everybody said she was too Jewish and fat. I am very interested in one day visiting New Zealand. Um Do you know they spell it in England? And I really feel like that's something we should celebrate. That's so lonely. Now that could be in your house. And I want you to do that.

You've got to rip out that. Otherwise you just you can just, you know, come going out like a bunch of hobos. Fancy diarrhea. I Android Inc. Thank you. And I get to enjoy the fruits of your labor without actually. He's not breaking into the apartments of strangers and fucking nurses. I just I just don't want to have to host it on Libsyn or something and then make an interface for it. Oh, it's Well they've got something to it other than just the angry part. Look how cute they are. No. I mean you have to monitor pretty actively, but then you've got to always be ready to intervene, right? I don't see especially if it gave me an opportunity to buy new binoculars. I can see the blue neon of the lot draw Ross dress for less.

Yeah. I just had to. The g I added that guitar that that that guitar. I'm happy now. Share share. Well, let me fucking blow your mind. But KO reader is a really big deal. A lot of finches. And it may make the people with whom you live have a better world as well. If we could get her, wasn't that a good episode? I'll find it. Um And I know it ends like this. And I've got so many more songs. The people who are like enjoying all this. I I think First of all I said uh make a painting of Rami Malik and Emma Corin sitting in an empty room and staring blankly into the middle distance. I But then you can also do stuff like say once you really get into it, hey, how when do you want new pages for things?

They're like that. Is there gas in the car? Correct. But you know the pa they wear patches actually so so that they can go into dark areas and have an eye that can see. Um Born Yesterday is very good. It's a headline. I think it might be a northern England thing. Way beyond I mean, it it isn't like I mean I guess you could say the dark ages or something, but I think so. Um but it's Oh oh you mean if you okay so Um and Alex, don't be simple. It had kind of a blue butt. That's number one. Look at that face. Uh it's uh i I I think it's a bit more of an opinion because it's Must be nice. I mean, so do I. Um that's a really, really good point. So uh yeah, if not now, then when I can do that. We're not helping people by expecting less of them.

But I was thinking about oh I was listening to a podcast probably and thinking about how It's fascinating. Is that a headline about about preppers? Okay, diarrhea UK. Off your pop! Um bars exist. Um and I'm s Hello, am I still holding on or where are we starting? He says, I made it into a wallet. She took a job in the stage production of Born Yesterday. Well they are. I can send you that one too. And I think more than like when you're when you're when you're as stuck as that kind of stuck feels Yeah. And You know what it means. We're doing a thing now. Oh absolutely Oh never mind that's like that old joke about the rabbi I just want to know what the good one is. Play at a game of chess. As like a as like a coping mechan mechanism it's understandable.

This is Alex. So I'm all set to do. You just point your phone and follow the arrow and there's Kat. Monitor the bad boy. It's house finch. Roderick was talking about this I I always wanted to see h I wanted to go as far as I possibly could on the whatever eight tracks on an iPad before That was it. No There's even a bigger difference between I wouldn't prefer that and this should not exist. It's all so lonely. It does not mount on the finder and it's very difficult to SSH into. They can really make they can really make a person think. I'm surprised. Or sorry, the monocular. She was she'd been in the communist party in the 30s. Yeah, and Leonard Bernstein hosted the Black Panthers and Tom Wolf wrote about that.

I just it was What what what was that? Share sure with your friends. Number one That's gonna work for Russell Brand too. Go to go to album and library. Isn't that pretty fucking good? It's the phrase, the soft bigotry of low expectations. That's what makes it faith. Ha ha Now here's the problem. What I would suggest And I want you to spend five minutes. And I understand why they have that point of view. That's so funny in retrospect and in Like Varus on Game of Thrones? They spell it diarhuria. He's like a highly regarded It's not the greatest thing in the world, but it it was definitely worth it. Look at that puna. Go make a thing and watch a Judy Holiday movie. But then there's also the role that we have in dealing with other people.

We're we're we're just big dogs with mortgages. Yeah. So like um imagine like, you know, binoculars. 'Cause he's one of those nice sex men. I don't remember this at I think. I uh It would be hard to write that whole episode unless we had a very detailed outline. I turned I made a funny joke because I went to new college. Fancy diarrhea. I think it just came out on Brit Box and I think I think this is as Brit Box things go. It's like, yeah. Here's a good strategy for doing this that I've learned over the years. But then with Android I thought a little bit for a second of uh of Radiohead. Like how we got latitude and longitude and stuff like that. I want a fuck, buddy And then he pauses and he goes, and he turns and looks him, of course, looks him straight in the eyes and goes, How thick is wall?

I don't care. If there's any fucking way in the world that it cannot be fully justified, it will do that for you. How much margin do you want left, right, side? Uh-huh. I refilled the bird feeders. Oh my forgotten. Oh dear. Yes. I We should be playing so you want to be a rock and roll star Off your pop! I'm seeing here, at least on a quick legal search, this is a term that's heavily associated with George Bush. Ideally though, get out of the house, fucking fix something. I've got it in several several different anime styles if you'd like to see one of those. Like you gotta and it won't even Shanti. But but the thing is, you know, you understand? So my Siddlies book I keep remarking House Finch.

Uh I'm doing this off the dome. So her eyebrows upset me. Um hi Alex, how are you? America's roast beef, yes sir. No, I'm smoking a cigar downtown. No, I wasn't. That's y yeah. No. How much have you grown in any way in the last three months? You know, you're r uh raising a son, you're the leader of a family. And the guy goes, Oh, that's no big deal. That sounds like a Steely Dan song. I I I did that part in college and then I recorded this in 2012. Oh it went great. You're m you're uh did you Uh-huh. But I want you to do something. But all I've done is turn off ads. Yes, there's gas in the car. What do we do? Isn't that pretty? That's all that's the only kind of community that's available to most people.

It takes a lot of buy-in. Mm-hmm. Did you freeze his eggs? I'll have to I'll have to well Good lad Did you like the Emma Corrin episode? My nails are perfect as though I have just come from the salon And he was um Wait, that's not It says here that You need to keep And I wrote this down in Obsidian uh yesterday. I like the single bad my fate my single favorite Emma Corin scene. So like if it's a good password. Me too. And it's not. Oh my god. I like to refer to it as my oeuvre. It went exactly where I I'm First of all, 'cause it's better established. And uh but he also has a twin. He's got to get to the police place. But on the other hand. Is there gas in the car? Jason Finn. Oh yes, I've seen Peeps.

You have to be the captain of that particular fleet or that ship. I think Jennifer Holiday. That was done entirely on an iPad, except for the vocals. Yeah, but remember the headline is only allowed to come in if it's And uh this is go go Google Judy Holiday or look at that gif I posted last She said soar in Kierkegaard and I said yeah. I mean, isn't that kind of part of it? The uh a variety yes like that is You could put on gloves, bring a bag. You're talking about on a on a you're saying when an Android device Everybody was in was a communist for a while. Oh, it's so nice there. And and too much compression and it's the Um Alex Cox Yeah you can't you can't hit It's not. And so I start doing research.

He falls off the bed because he misjudges where to sit down. It's hard to be a person right now. Because first of all, they sold that to her as, hey, this is just This week's challenge. If it's had the balls removed from the scrota. Shh, shh. Yes. The birds Tell me more. It's it feels it feels good. And it's like, well, yeah, but like Yes. Like you can put He says, Yeah, but if you rub it, it turns into a briefcase. Yeah. That was all on a that was all on an iPad. You plug it in to your in my case, my Mac. What you're describing though is is so vital. It is just a delightful little read. That's where um I don't share that point of view. That show is so funny. Yes there's gas in the car. Right?

They they'd say otherwise is a little dim, but like So hard to tell. And that that's really And notice that five minutes that you got. If you're actually going to read books on this thing that you claim to like I put I might have said Jennifer Holiday. I'm allowed That's the next one. He's very hard to get hold of. Uh 2011. These are all options. I'd love to hand you my fruits. Now your job is to fill that bag. But uh the the the That's a song about making LSD in San Francisco. He does all of the stuff in that creepy nice guy way. I was going to ask if you read the thing uh Imagine Mark. Oh, it's this device up here. And then a funny thing happens. Um Yeah. The people are the best. Any books you want to put on the device, you select, command select.

A a you know A straw man. Um You love it that's Python. Happy Wednesday. Yeah. And it's really funny. It's it's really it's it's isolating. I mean if I said Jennifer I meant Judy. Damn. That's the next one. I'll get there when I get there. He's a slippery little guy. Um well yeah Yes. He's yeah. I think a lot of people Um What is that? What? Yes. Well All right, let's raw transcript