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me like this is quite genial so optimistically.

You know those I guess they're like, I know I Q test questions where they show you a pattern and then there like, what's the next one in the pattern? A, B, C, D, and you have to pick the shape. And then I go, I get IT was up and then down, and the eastern and the west, and then up. So the next one will be down again, whatever.

This ones, like north, south, east. Picture of porcupine.

Well, if we want to start just just reaching for any signs of optimism and hope, then we think we can. We can at least, we can at least say that our pattern is that four years from today, we will be in a much Better mood while we're recording holiday party twenty twenty talk about .

you know of your skies, feel that you feeling is when we do this again in four years, got willing it'll be Better than today is your thought because I friend that I said that might be member, I don't know well.

And in the downside of that is that even in my optimistic scenario, that would imply that eight years from now and twenty thirty two will be globally welcoming eighty six year old to rump into his third term.

Yeah I mean, the so I .

obviously my little game that i'm playing that there's any sort of four year pattern doesn't really hold up to scrutiny part americans.

up to you, to the rest yeah.

it's let me yes, let me tell you a story. I'm going to try something there. I'm going to require you to listen.

Oh, and i'm right here, john. I mean, well.

that what that did .

come off well yeah you want k three, two.

I'm writing this and i'm not sure if i'm going to published IT and if I do, the people listening to this might have read IT on my website by now in a different form because it'll be written. But let me just tell you this and it's going to under the next sentence I say after I finish this one is going to sounds like i'm making you sad, but i'm not my mom died this year in june. SHE was seventy eight.

And I want to say that this is not the point of the story. And my mom's s death is okay. SHE hadn't been that healthy for a while.

And to be honest, he was sort of losing her mental acuity in recent years. And the worst thing is, in may, he was hospitalized a month before he died. He was hospitalized to sort of collapsed and was two week to get up the stairs.

And my dad called nine one one, and he went to the hospital. And they capture for a couple days. And as everybody knows about medicine, if they keep you in a hospital for a couple days, sums sums up, and they didn't know.

And I turned out he had very in cancer, and it's prety bad to about months to live. And that would the effectivity made her collapsed and SHE, we had this whole grim. Everybody has got somebody in their family, hopefully not so close, but for all too many of us, somebody very close.

And everybody knows how this goes, the months to live. And my parents had started talking to host, not because he needed hospital yet he was fine for IT. 2SHE was okay at this point。 That's what we were all as a family looking at months of a grim decline that ends inevitably.

But late june SHE is still felt pretty good overall. And making plans come in the groups with with amazing, amazing dignity and self awareness about what how he wanted to deal with that and do IT. The last monday in june, SHE and my dad was out to eat at at their favorite restaurants are certain ly, one of the favorite restaurants and one of whole families to go to growing up.

They had a great meal, her appetite, he is good. He felt good that day. She'd scored at two on the world, had won the family family chAllenge tuesday morning.

He played SHE, got a four, reported her score duly to the family group, and then SHE SAT down. And at some kind of ordinary incident, and just fall over that my dad found her called nine one one. They got there in minutes, minutes. Really remarkable time in the suburbs. But is, he was going, no pain, no decline, the whole long, slow grind.

about as clean as you could ask for in some, and twisted in a very, as somebody whose I had focused on my family going through cancer and alzheimer and stuff like that. If you have never want to say anything like IT be a signal and so lame to say stuff like taking to you and all that of stuff. But as bad as that could have gone, that's not of the worst way to end IT.

It's so tried to say he was a blessing, but I was given that he was in decline and had been diagnosed with terminal van cancer and was still the night before. I just enjoyed a meal at favor restaurant just fell over dead and that was IT IT was good as I could be.

And my dad, two, seventy eight, my dad is eighty four and he is sharpest attack and he is a great health until recently, was still not just playing golf whenever weather permitted, but walking the golf course, Carrying his clubs. I learned in that month from when my mom was hospital live about hour away. So I I see my dad regularly and stop.

My parents regularly stay in touch. But that I figured out after mom was in the hospital, and you've sort of start putting clues together, that, oh, sh'd been a little bit more and decline than the together had LED on. And dad has been sheltering a lot more of their just daily lives.

Then he had LED on to me and my sister, not out of maliciousness or to hide IT, but because that's the way we are, and I just the way I am, I would think the same way. I don't want my kid. You didn't want me and my sister worried.

He didn't want us worried about my mom, so he took on more responsibility, lies. And I figured out that he'd stopped playing golf, not because he couldn't play off any more at age eighty two, eighty three, but because playing golf, even even when we play half a around nine holes, takes up two hours. And it's like a lipo one off.

He did not feel comfortable leaving her for two or three hours, but he still walks for mile every day. He's in good shape. They have been, they were married fifty two years. And so the story of my mom's death is really more the story of my dad and his grief. And I talk to him everyday and he's doing good.

And I think everybody knows either first hand or somebody close enough to the the sort of scenario of a couple that's been together for decades and to grow old together, and one of them dies. And if the survivor is a man that they often shut down. IT happened to my grandfather, my dad's dad, where when my grandmother died, he is just suddenly no.

And maybe, maybe it's just coincidence. Everybody always says, hey, everyone knows when somebody gets elected, president states to going with a headful dark hair and then they come out with gray hair. what? Guess what? They often go into the office in the fifties when hair starts going great, right? You know, I mean, like it's if I got like to president right now, which would be Better than what's going on.

It's a very good chance at eight years from now, my hair is gonna be a lot, a lot greater than IT is right now. And that might be what happens to the eighty year old men when our lifestyle is they were about to go into decline. Anyway, we thought I saw that happened to eight year old men who are we're thinking about this week with joe biden over the last four years.

My dad is not doing that, I can say, with certainty is an optimist, and he is upbeat, and he is very sad. And he is remarkably for a man of his generation, in touch with and willing to express that. He gets sad and misses my mom everyday.

I talk to, I told you, I talk to him every day. And tuesday morning he called me gram noon. He had voted already, and again is eighty four year old White man who lives in the suburbs of the red county in pensylvania.

But my dad is a lifting democrat. And I not saying that to brag, or that there is anybody out there whose eighty four year old dad is to glue to fox news eighteen hours today. IT is how IT is.

Just saying, this is my dad. And my dad always been a democrat, but I was. And night I went to see the Harrison ford thing this week. And man, when he opened, I been voting for six. I can do an oppression.

but for, given that a terrorist. And ford, a huge fan of his work, but also like of getting to see him on stuff like the sounds random. But if you see him on the corner of brian pokin particularly, they are such a fun report.

And you get to see how good Harris and ford is at doing his bit. And we all know paris son for is kind of corrupt bit coming from him in particular. He's got a lot of lot of credibility with me as a serious person. And I think IT was pretty getty for him to say what he did.

the way that he did. I do too. But the part to remind of me of my dad was the very opening, been voted for sixty four years.

Never really wanted to talk about IT very much and my daddy's blue voting IT was like that heat, the type of man who saw as civic responsibility to vote every election day, even in the odd ears, when it's the burrow tax collector is the only thing on the ballot or the school board. My dad just thought, that's what you do, is the citizen. You pay attention, you read the news, you form opinions you consider and you go on election day, you go vote.

not not to put a sign out .

in a long guy that the never really wanted to talk about a much and isn't going to tell other people how to vote that sort of thing. Although if his friends asked when, I think as an eighty four year old, his peer group was, is decidedly trump y but it's the way IT is. Even IT is not like he SAT there in silence.

He did he give IT to him, but in a friendly way, and in a way that I think people think maybe doesn't happen anymore, but does where the coffee, coffee camera where he goes to, there's people who voted one way and people who voted the other and they do feel strongly but they can stop talking about that and go back to talking about the eagles and the dose cowboys playing this weekend, the next minute um but anyway, he called me tuesday morning and given that, I know he cares. About politics. And we just talked the day before I thought that is certain all that was on my mind and figured that was all that was on his. But he said he had something to tell me and he's laughing is laughing. But I know, I guess is my dad and I talk to him every day and he's laughing.

but I could tell something.

start right. And of course, i'm thinking, you always think something with this health. He's lost a lot of wait in recent years.

He's gone to the doctor and their way and they say, you know, lost you know forty pounds, maybe fifty pounds. Fingers are boner. It's call me right now the matter of fact.

that's true. I know I just said.

ah, he always is voice smells this a true story as voice meles to me, which he always use a voice smell s, if I don't answer, always says, I don't know if you're on a podcast or something .

I talk you later this time it's .

true and i'll tell him that but anyway, these lost weight as fingers have gotten bony and I tell some some wrong with his voice and he told me he went out to eat the night before by himself in fact to the same restaurant where the the one were him my mom and the night before he died um and he came home and he is old and he's always been a very much a morning person. He was going to bed probably like thirty seven and daylight savings had just kicked them to then he went to wash his hands before bed and he is washing his hands. He realized his wedding band was missing .

and he told me a couple .

over the summer when we were talking about his weight, and I believe I was in the context of him just having him just having gone to his doctor for a health check up, that they said, hey, you've lost weight, but you know, everything's good. Blood works good. There's nothing were not really worried about.

IT is eighty four and is, yeah, my wedding is even lose. I have to be careful when I do dishes and stuff now. And here came home and was washing his hands, and the ring wasn't there, and he looked everywhere he could at night. But I know, and he's eighty four, when he went to bed without IT, and he woke up in the morning and in the light, searched everywhere, search the drain, search the tub, looked on the floor, looked onto the couch, went out to the car, looked in the car and the floor, look between the cracks, couldn't find IT.

And he thought, tomes, he said to me, and I, I, I just know I had IT at the restaurant, and it's not because he remembers looking at his wedding ring at the restaurant, is that he knows that if he had eat a full meal and IT wasn't on his finger, he wouldn't notice. Because I don't know if you wear ring, but I I wear reading ring and if I take IT off, my finger feels incredibly weird. Now you notice of, you notice the absence of IT, not that it's there and IT and he said, I don't remember looking at at the restaurant, but I just know I woulda notice, but he called the restaurant anyway.

But they're only open starting at for some like that. So there is nobody there. We left a message, left his name and number in case anybody find IT, maybe put a hint in them that if they nobody had turned IT in, maybe they could please look a little carefully.

It's made something to him. And he went back out to the car, this time with a flashlight, and searched and searched. And you know how IT is when you lose something.

you become manic. It's like you there's a loop that you can't close until you have some feeling that you've even as your mind is telling you, this is a long shot. You're like, well, this is a long shot i've got to write out because I don't know what I do. If this happened, I know such a desperate feeling .

you look and see. And like you, when I really starts to make you sick, is when you're looking in the same the places I couldn't .

be again and are like, I don't member .

how many times looked, how many times i've looked in the sink. I've lost count, but it's nowhere and I told, told amy, and I told her. And when I told her, SHE almost burst in the tears and he said, is your mom just died? And I don't believe i'm not superstition.

I don't. I really am not. But my ear hears superstition. The anchors lost two games of the world series, and I hadn't worn my hat. So when I watch game three, I put my .

hat on.

I couldn't help thing in that was a bad sign on election day just.

And, oh.

i'll tell you this morning, IT is selfish and IT is not in my heart breaks for my dad because I thring whatever that means to me. That means hundred times more to him but um when he dies the only thing that he owns and is the whole house is how still the house I grew up in but one and only thing that I .

want is that ring or wanted and it's still turning up well, here's the thing.

I woke up wednesday morning. I don't know how you woke up wednesay morning, but I woke up feeling bad. And my dad called me early. He knows I sleep late, called me around nine thirteen. And he usually he calls me a ramble lain or so and he'd woke him up and head read the news because he, we're gone to bed long before the election was called and processed the election. He went to mass.

He goes to met daily mass a lot, especially after my mom has died, which not because he turned to religion afterwards, but because I feel an, I feel he wasn't as comfortable in alone, and I think he really enjoys the relative solitude of daily catholic mass compared to sunday, sunday mass. He goes on saturday to for the weekly stuff, but any drove home and he parked in front of the house in the exact same spot, which has happened to be open. And my parents live across the street from the elementary school I went to.

The parking on weekdays is often difficult, but he got the exact same spot, and they changed the street from when I grew up. IT was two ways um and IT blab ba safety, the kids, the school bus. They changed IT to a one way street, just a and four years of which is still really weird for me when I drive home.

But because IT to one way street on my dad's house, my parents, so I thought i'll always call my parents house my my parents house. You park the wrong way now with the driver's door on the side of the curb. And he opened the door and was the same spot, very park before, and he looked, it's just that wonder.

And he looked on the street, on the, on the street, not the the sidewalk. There is a fucking in ery in a bunch of leaves and dry leave completely. My dad calls IT the gutter.

It's not a gutter like a drain. But there would be, and he had told everybody this story. He told his neighbors and his one neighbor he saw, and he, my dad said, I picked that ring up and .

I kissed IT.

John and his neighbors said and said he did. Even frequent rain, that ring would had just washed forty .

feet I mean, if he had made the obviously if I would have fit had moved one car length away that .

have yeah or thought hadn't been open if that spot hadn't been open, he might not looked down when .

something of something of fair tale where he moved one car lengthy.

Well, but there IT was on the story two days later. Just sit there in a bunch of leaves, which is probably why I didn't hear IT when IT hit the street because they hit dry leaves. And I doesn't help with anything that's coming with the election, but I I needed that. I I don't know, you know this. The obama had a lot of posters, which is the word hope, and I always like that.

yeah. Sorry, that's a lot for anybody to bear. And I mean, I I found IT, but my god, what are we think the abundance last six months have been crazy. That's .

teachers. What do you think?

Think i'm so that we says you will be fine. What do I think? I think that is. Thank you for sharing that that that was amazing.

And I think so many have stories like that because we're human beings and were americans and even more than regular human beings, I think americans tend to. In pune, you get to give his coincidences or magical thinking. But I think most of us have a tendency to is the way our attention works. So our attention is such a such a frizzled crazy thing. And I think when most of us know is that when we are feeling especially emotionally elevated, think about when you're in a car cresson IT feels really slow and you feel like you remember.

And like i'm not in all just I don't know how that works, but I do know that whether that's the causes of trauma or the causes of lifetime mulai, that there is a very not sure to scientific this, but there is a very elevated emotional state that we go through that can make us very vulnerable and can make us very A K. I always hung up on this idea of trauma, and what causes us to process information differently after the traumas of our life. In one of those is we start casting about for what the story is, something everybody does.

Everybody loves a good story. You just told a good story. You told a good story. You could have stop on november fourth or fifth.

And what is stop in a good story, but you have nice thing to the end of that. We do that. We we want to see affery their own things. We want to understand things.

One of the things i'm personally not going to get crazy into today personally is all of the recruiters and the goblet hunting and all of the searching around for who did what wrong. And like I, I am finding that very eat overwhelming. And personally, I reject by a lot of those frames personally, but that's how IT works. That's the way IT works is with that attenuated, that hire, that elevated attention in that state of emotionality, we tend to notice more things. I would think about the way our memory works, and I think that's but I think .

both things can be true. I don't think that my dad lost his wedding ring on the eve of the electrical.

blaming him you're saying .

two nights .

before is not his fault completely .

that he lost yours and found IT the day after as a symbol of hope after a dark event. I don't think that there's any cosmic aspect to IT, but as you said, human beings, our natural pattern finders and identifies .

where not the way, the way that we survive. We survive day a day through short cutting, chunking and heroics .

and cognitive mines. And it's where the whole paranoid mindset and and .

or just conspiracy mindset explain how not not necessary of the election, but for a lot of things, what would explain? Give me a way to the word. I like a lot. I don't nothing because this correctly.

But how do I take this? What appears to be true information about the world? And how do I integrate IT into the way that I see the world? And how do how do I think? How do I decide? How do I do as a result of that? I don't think that's that exotic an idea.

Yeah and so so both things are true. I don't think any cosmic force made those events coincident, but the fact that they were coincident as tremendous meaning to me I I would have noted if my dad had lost his wedding ring on december fourth and found a december six than the exact same way, I would have been just as worried in heartsick about IT for the twenty four hours that I thought I was lost.

And I would have been just as turbulent for him the day that he found IT. And I might have told friends I certainly would would have shared IT with amy, but I would not have shared IT here. And I win a written about IT.

Does that? How does that? Well, I mean, just just to put a point on IT. Does that as I giving you in in its way, a kind of not a hope in the same? Like, no, i'm not saying and rumble still still comes along.

You like figures, this stuff i'm talking about like though that like that reminds you to butcher kirk guard like that the terrible thing in life, life goes on whether we're into IT or not, we will keep going until we don't. And IT benefits us in some ways. IT benefits us in some ways to obviously to keep the situation or where to keep her head about us to stay as emotionally stable as we can.

But also, I mean, there are sometimes some very panier meaningful things that that can happen to us that whether they reflect the unseen hand of the universe, i'll leave to other people. I think probably not. But that doesn't mean it's not without value for you.

For good and bad, we can in print on certain kinds of things. And I think there are worse things to take away from the month of november than the idea that your dad kept going. And maybe amErica can to.

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And think art bell was an he like the radio guy.

He, yeah. And he wasn't hours today, our story, right? And part of his stick was when he got to a commercial break, he said, got to hit the money bell and I think even had a little, yeah, there we go.

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Yeah, we have. Well, and when you have to get all the stuff in microsoft, you have to save IT out. And old gosh, a forgot somebody made this actual HTML in words and not got to clean all this up.

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we will get to IT. But giving into obsession with busy work has helped to keep my mind occupied this week.

There's something so gratifying. Sometimes I am this really more content from a different show that I do. But I am somewhat famously, not somebody who excels at what are Normally thought of of vacations and bad at vacations. I talked about this with our friend john.

You are quite a lot. I so bad at va, but I don't think bad.

Well, I would be happy to discuss that maybe in four years, we can come back and talk about is only one kind of vacation now or something. But I don't excel what a lot of people think of this vacation. And I Frankly, i'm a very counter revolutionary.

About people telling me whether I am having fun at things or not. I am a little bit of a pale about that stuff. But I think sometimes there is something very gratifying about wilfully saying to yourself, this is gona sound nuts to a lot of people.

Well, the same people who think they can yell themselves to sleep at night. A lot of the same people who think they are, they can do in new year's resolution to uterine change, everything about them, despite having no basis for king, that assumption about themselves. I think sometimes IT is very gratifying to say I have a morning off and or whatever, but you but to say I am deliberately going to be undertaking something that I maybe another person might see as a distraction.

But like dave, like the great David Allen said, councils do need to be sharpened. They maybe just ought to be sharpened while your houses on fire. We have a built in sense of like where we need to be spending our time and attention.

But like there's sometimes like men, i'm going i'm going na sharp in the fuck out of some pencils. And for me, we'd talked about this a little bit already, but because this is not an easy episode for either of us, but I was I realize, oh my god, so I got to get reconciliable differences up. I was so thrill that our producer jim said the episode ready like, oh my god, I get fifteen minutes strugling with lib son.

I have something to spend time on. And there's times when that's really that can actually be really as there's a reason, doctors and other more component people so you to take a walk good out in the Greeny, good out and take a walk. I'm not trying to be helpfully, but just to say that there is something that is difficult for a lot of americans.

There's a reason talking about sleep because i'm really related. Americans are are very shameful about the whole idea of meeting sleep, about taking time for sleep, about taking care of their sleep. And as an old man, and I feel qualified to say you, hey, maybe not be so tough on yourself about those things. Maybe that is something a part of you like that might need a new frame or approach for you to do well.

And if you're having a hard time and you say i'm going to take two hours, maybe you're gonna see the wonderful friends is for a couple of movie, you make lambs, which I think about before and a half hours, but you go and you say, this is the thing i'm going to do now without guilt or without without a means of evasit. This is just the thing i'm gonna do. I think that maybe you can do that forever, but guy tried to do.

But I think for a lot of us, that can be that can be a good way to sort of gets your head together. I'm going to take the anti pattern to me, the anti pattern, and I have the scarce to show this. Unless IT works for you, maybe you don't need to emerge yourself in every conceivable news source today.

I don't know maybe maybe IT works for you, but I think I I think we'll come back to this numerous times. I mean, let me just say this. I mean, interrupt and just say that as we are recording this on thursday, the seventh so it's day two of realizing what's happened .

again and this is trump s two e one. We're currently in the first epic and six and twenty sixteen .

when you and I first had one of these post election holiday parties and I believe we recorded the day after, and I don't remember why, because I was trying to remember.

I was trying to remember, and I can't be fuck to go back and listen to IT.

But I don't remember why do we already scheduled thinking the again daja woo so much daja u why why .

would we record up podcast to talk about hilary win? Why would be scheduled that?

I mean, even like yeah will be coasting on the positive V I see a very .

large multi gigi file in my application support library a lot. So i'm going to see if maybe that text weeks is because I think he was as basic as well. I guess we need need record.

I don't know maybe and maybe that's what we did. Maybe we were decided the on the spot to do IT.

but I will say.

and I I told you yesterday, yesterday you and I spoke on the phone .

for forty five because we thought about the story story a week ago.

a week ago, people started hitting me up. Pay you and marlin, you're gona do this again because you and I did, as I eluded to earlier, we did do IT again four years ago under much happier circumstances the day after biden. And I guess when we recorded four years ago wasn't official. But you yeah if you know, and where you will get to corny, if you follows corner, you knew it's .

hard to explain, but so much .

to say about ni way IT wasn't official .

four years ago until friday morning, saturday. There's still one person that disagrees but no, three hundred .

million and others yes, some disagree it's but talks .

going to happen in .

but we recorded we recorded the day after knowing the biden was almost certainly the Victor. And a week ago, I reach out, people started, hear me up, hey, you and merland going have a holiday party again and and I had been thinking about IT, but I hadn't really reached out, which he kind of have to do.

And you're really yeah I guess so with cancelled in yesterday afternoon and we didn't really at the time we you could go back and it's not that long ago, you could go back and look at the exact text. We didn't really talk about the if the implicit, if then else statement of how that might go. And IT wasn't a cocksureness like we. I had a certainly in twenty sixteen where I thought I was just A A stoned code lock that delerm clinton was going to win both because I thought he was at running a good campaign.

Was the best qualified candidate still to this day, the best qualified candidate in the history, uh uh of the united or of modern united states, uh to service president and the fact that the candidate the other party had nominated was a seven times bankrupted reality T V show, blow hard clown from queens and sort of a joke, who obviously himself clearly did not expect to win. And right? And there is the thing, and people listen to IT, and we recorded IT. I had gotten tremendously drunk on election night. He didn't .

start out that didn't are thinking that was. But the night dragged on, you were there. You were like .

in first for the duration. And amy remembers IT viv, where I realized what corney was telling me in twenty sixteen before calls had been made and realized that he was going to win. And I went, i'm not an animal, the vodka store in freezer so as ice cold, but I had poor, healthy, poor of voda straight into a pint glass, which is ordinary, meant for something much lower and alcohol content like beer. And .

situated myself head.

if you're in, situated myself back on the couch with with the pinky lass have .

with your tumble of tea yeah like you know .

you your measure drink by how many fingers you want to with how many how many hands, how many .

fears about.

And then is the next day and I was hang over, and I this one part, I don't that one day I do not listen to the show. I not I do. I reread and self edit my writing, the recruitment detail, and I don't mind IT.

I don't love profiting my own writing, but I also can't imagine that is no way to do that. I do without IT and I do IT, but I find myself unable to listen to myself on a podcast. And and if I were up to me and I had dad IT myself.

I think a lot of our listeners have in common is just they would just decided not hear IT.

So i've never gone back to listen to our twenty six.

You go back and listen to our sten to the banana window was a classic.

I'd sure IT was. And I some things the things that I remember were good, but I do remember the moment while we were, i'm going to guess that was maybe fifteen minutes in, twenty minutes in. And you I what I remember is you saying me, you dawning on you that I had maybe had a drink before we recorded on wednesday and you said all we we're having a holiday party I wasn't right. I don't believe.

I don't believe very old episode of the talk show from a different where you said some of the funniest stuff that .

I still think about .

to this day and i'm gona quote you because I I remember this is that he said maybe had some drinks while you're recording with our friend in and then kind of intimated maybe there was something just a little bit chemically different about you said of the home day party over here and and dancer, well, why why didn't I get an invite and you said, because you use the word invite, then I still think about that.

I do remember that if you'd .

said invitation, you'd be drinking with daddy.

Yeah IT probably probably LED me that I don't know if I did IT on the spot then or not, but IT reminds me of probably the closest, or the certainly the time that I should have been punched right in mouth. And wasn't you.

me both saying to everything good?

Oh, no, no. This is backing college. The the student newspaper at drexel is in what you think it's sort of I in the building for a student clubs and stuff, and IT was like the beginning of a semester, and I was already in up her classroom, very comfortable, familiar.

But I was probably like the fall or spring or fall, like the freshman were in town and and somebody was there paid to give out coupon book local books and please take a and your local pizza stablished and get this, I don't know, take the book and you can go save five dollars on a sandwick at a local establishment. And me and a friend, we're doing something. I forget what, but they required us to leave the building and come back with a couple of things, take up up to the newspaper office, go back down, get some more, come back up several trips.

And every time we came in, this kid who'd been hired to give out these coupon books, he was just approaching everybody as they came by. And he had been, you know, just like to third forth, fifth time, he'd asked us, do we want a book? And we, of course, to climb every time.

And by the fifth time, and sort of just saying, no, no and he break no oh yeah, you guys again, after he dash us, right? We come in, you guys like a book and we'd really no thanks. And well, you know, I need recent I I realized I just ask you guys.

Seven minutes ago, sorry, and we go and the fourth time I stopped and I turned around and I said to him, well, I do. I know you've been by before. Just let me ask you, are these coupon books or coupon books? And he said, they're coupon books and I said, I only take coupons and I turned to look and my friend Andrew, Andrew ross, I don't know if he listens to the show.

He might. I know he's read sharing variable. He was the one who was with me and he said, I can't believe he didn't punch you right in the face.

I not like that anymore. I would not do that. And I do find that I like .

to think i've had a role in that, not maybe not recently, but at the point when you were struggling, not struggling, but there is a point where you weren't quite as good at talking to civilians.

And I i'd like to think that I helped you with that. What open? I've just I often tell people this that I ve learned from now. It's different because people, you if you are looking to one like I W B D, C, is really the only thing left on the caller. But I go to W, W, B, C, and for a lack of a Better word of micro famous.

oh, cheese and nobody. Now, I I, oh, i'm nobody everywhere been and I mean, IT doesn't. It's not that bad. It's not bad at all. But IT is pretty wild company. I was just looking at photos of our baby shower from two thousand and seven and ways much more popular than we are now.

You don't never get. But do I mean, we were just up in boston where our kid is going to college, and we we gone to see the three of us, my wife and I went to visit a couple of weeks ago, and we went to see the beetle juice. Beetle juice, because all family is the fans of such movies.

And IT was fine. IT was a good movie I recommended, and I don't go to theater much anymore and really enjoyed IT. And we came out of the theater, we where to go next.

And sad that was for and there is some very kind person who might be, again, might well be listening to us. I do forget his name, but give me a look and said, are you jung grip? And the are you jg grip? As I guess, who are you and got his name? Perfect, perfect.

Ask him where is from what he does and that's all that is what I learned from you, my friend, is, yeah, you told me years ago, probably at a south by southwest, where I was incredibly awkward to somebody come up to us. You said, think about IT. They know you and I probably already been podcasting.

They know your voice, but they know a lot about you because they recognizing you and read your work and you don't know anything about them. So the imbaLance is hundred percent whatever they know about me. And again, they don't know everything about me. They know what I should publicly, not my private itself, but they, I know nothing about them, so ask them, find out what's your name, where they do.

where they from? IT sounds like pretty cheesy day one, the connect vice, whether or not that is true now everybody .

listening when that happens and they recognized me or you and we do this, they'll say they're doing the trick.

but it's not a trick. Oh, please, please recognize me. I'm broken inside.

Please up. Yes, I don't know, everyone. We thought .

that would be fairly .

recognized.

This no IT is a trick, but it's a trick that works. And IT is interesting. And I enjoy IT and I but also .

new an important thing, which is that if you want something in life, it's nice to just ask for, if you want to blaze, just tell the people, could I am more plows, please? What's good? There's an article in the york times as this one, probably over a year ago, that I came across. And I will ask you to just bear with me for minute. But this is an article that I have found very useful in my own life, and others may find useful.

And that sounds corny, but that's okay, which is that if you ever had experiences, let's say that classically with with your partner, your spouse, whatever, where you go in and you're like having a terrible day and you say something, you're like there's some dealing with this guy again and then usually the man, because what why don't you blab bw blaw and you should go do this and put up a posted note and get a sashes and me, my with this article said, is just ask a simple thing with three ages, do you want to be helped? Do you want be hug, or do you want to be heard? Now, I think this is a very powerful thought technology, because once you have made IT OK to have that conversation, you can hit escape and just like pop out of whatever happening in that moment.

And you can say to your partner, hey, not going to me in the totally strait up, what do you want to be helped? Do you want to be heard, or do you want to be hugged? Because let me just say, as somebody who frequently just want to be hard, I sure you don't want to be helped.

And like there are times when I just mean I just need a hug. You don't need a hug like we all do, but like it's there's ways that you can like you don't have to be like and over the top in therapy person to find this useful. It's just a nice way to say that hate that sounds like you eventually you'll learn, hey, you know what? Maybe that person just doesn't want or need my help very much so maybe that something I should stop making my defauts response. I think stuff like that's pretty powerful, especially in a long term relationship.

I also think that resonates deeply with me. I am aware that I am learning and changing less in middle than I was when I was Younger, which is think still you can still .

notice the no difference. But I am not not making fun. I ously .

all people think .

they are great. And that's the problem. Most, most, most old guys, we talked about this privately yesterday, but something i've said, the single greatest officer of the, i'm just going to give you the full array. The single greatest chAllenge to the White american aging man is the belief that he is not sufficiently appreciated. And I say that not as a way of announcing that i've gotten Better about IT, but as well as, oh, no, that's everyday like every day you're constantly going like I feel like whether that's your ability to identify classic less power guitars will that your ability to explain how how a differential power transmission works or whatever IT is .

the difference between helvetica and erie, difference between .

there's a difference a lot of times do you get to look at the r, you look at the r and you'll tice, it's not quite right.

Lower case.

And then I just remember polti, it's got the foot go on one way. Foot goes one way, one goes the other way. So lower kt.

Ariel has a diagonal thing at the top page is inexplicable.

I think you get more talents .

and not ah I think .

sites .

like that, let me tell you sweet hard if you really understand the real versus helvetica, something I have learned and I think I might have I think begged before. I think I might have been guilty.

I think I might have been guilty more than twenty sixteen maybe but I certainly felt IT intuitively this year, certainly starting yesterday after this election, is that I I do I do want to talk about IT and I am I don't know if you ve noticed I am posting about IT and writing about IT, but I am not and I did not because i'm afraid to or I feel like it's out of out of turn. I am not going to offer any suggestions as to what could ever should have been done differently. I'm not I don't think what anybody out there who is who is hurting because of this election needs to hear that. I don't think they need in your context to help, which would be the, uh, they should have done necessary s started.

I think the hearing .

doesn't cost any no, no, I think it's more hugs huggs and hearing real, real metaphorical and heard. And I I, I would very much like to listen to what others not know. Maybe we want to advise as having done differently, but how others are i'm sure you're the same. I'm sure everybody listening has had this experience, text messages, maybe even phone calls, but know I ve heard from a lot, a lot of friends, and I have myself reached out to a few friends I haven't texted to talk to in a while regularly.

And eric kindle away overdue one to short a relationship that i've slightly missed for five years, eight of officially actively rectangle in the last really couple weeks. And it's been one of the bright spots of my month because it's someone ideally and this is not about know who you voted for. It's just more like that the way life works, but like it's somebody that I did very sorely miss, somebody I do think about a lot.

And if there's somebody you think about a lot and you miss a lot is a chance you might love them. So it's probably a good idea to reconnect with them if they're on your minor lot. I am i'm very grateful about that. But now I I don't I I don't know you should well.

I this that i'll just go back to where I was a few minutes ago. I know I know what we did that we did IT the day after the election in two thousand and sixteen. And part of IT was that I was hung over and I had a couple more.

And again, I don't haven't listened. I ve listened a little bit here and there, but I couldn't have been drunk again, because otherwise there's no way the show would have hit. But IT hit for .

people and people. Really, this post hoc reconstruction of an audio recording in two thousand and sixteen can be bother. I do remember at one point what was our catch phrased that episode you're not going to get all of them. I think with the catch phrase, I don't think, listen.

maybe I should listen to that. I almost .

vital to say something here to disagree. We're not gonna get all of you. There's no way that as big as we would like to make our tent too soon as because we try to make our end, it's not going to fit everybody who doesn't actually want to be in a tent and would rather set a tent on fire or play gallon.

I I have not really spent a lot of time on social media and last forty eight hours and I would recommend if for anybody out there is so yeah, me too. I have by the time you listen, the first day off you. Nobody ever regret stay in off social media longer. If you're taken a break, you really like, wonder if i've taken enough of a break. If you are even asking yourself, keep IT going.

But well, I, I, I mostly agree. But I think also the important thing to remember is whatever contest you've made for yourself about anything, it's earth and contest you can go and choose to do whatever is that you want to do. Maybe part of the problem is also that in addition to this feeling, that things like social media, like we're addicted in some ways perhaps, or we are, I mean, my way I look at IT not as being addicted, but as being like it's difficult not to be a character in that particular world participating in leg. When I have time away from social media, people think i'm by having a self harm thing.

I don't know this is not a there's A A rule thing for me or you right now and when I know that that's a good time to step out, same way that like if you don't like what's happening at the party, just leave. Try to legislate a Better party by yelling everybody down. Sometimes you just got a bounce.

and sometimes when you've got IT in your head that on, my god, this party is excruciating, I can wait for IT to be over and then IT just pops in your head like, I could just fuck and leave and then you leave and you're like, this wasn't like a roof excuse, this wasn't immensity test. Oh, I know yeah, but why did that not pop into my head earlier even? And my god, do you feel light on your feet? Leave in a party .

or whatever whatever. I mean.

it's something you have an agency. And I don't know I don't know what magic we pulled off in twenty sixteen, but so glad that we did because i've heard over the years, even just random times people is just is probably the best episode of the show that that ever happened in problem. Hope maybe. I don't know. People.

people reference IT.

And in the last forty eight hours I was on mass dawn for a little, which I thought would be the the same est of the social media I can to check.

Ack, a lot of people are mad about the computers.

no. Well, I did. But there's a lot .

of people just also disappointed .

about the surprising number of people that who've requested that you would do .

you and I I don't know how do we? how? Thank you so much for people who feel that way. Is there anything you think we could particularly do for those folks?

You texted me yesterday. We were gonna IT too. I'm going to use this certain time. We were, we were gonna record IT too.

And you texted me at eleven fifty two when we scheduled this recording, IT hadn't really occurred to me that trump might win. And I have to say, I thought the same thing. And that is not. That is not.

And in my analogy that I wrote on on daring fireball yesterday, and one of one of my brief posts, and I like you a lot, I love analogies in general, but I really like this one, is that twenty sixteen felt like a trap door that we didn't even know existed, springing under our feet on election night. And I just this, this, this, this was literally uni magin able to me that american people would nominate trump. I thought I was very unlikely that the republic, I, this is how nave I was. I thought in twenty and fifteen, IT was pretty. The republicans would nominate him as their candidate.

I knew that time, at that time, I did seem very, very crazy that what we thought of as the like republican sort of Anderson was toward the classic c sort of rectory.

Republicans like to say we've had a who ran from George wallace.

I mean, was in one thousand .

nine hundred and ninety two of the year that he ran for reelection, where you can in a ninety .

two clans.

ninety two, yeah, but I think I think that was the year, but you can and embarrassed George J. W. A.

Bushed by winning new hampshire. Maybe IT was A D A. I.

I think he was ninety two, but George w. Or George H. W. Bush, the old George bush was already president for four years. But the the what we would now call the mega types were very, very unhappy about is moderate overall views and pap can and ran against him and one and new hampshire.

I said, you know, actually a very interesting example, because what I remember from that election, I think, well, what I remember from one of those elections, and I think IT must have been nine, because the duplin H W. Was running against clean ery. Yeah what I remember is in the final days, see what you will about the the older George wish.

I've got a lot to see the older George bush, but he was seen as like one, as they say, one of the adults in the room. And something happened in the last like week or two, I guess he's gonna remember. And being like some kind of like a whistle stop tour.

And like he decided to adopt the reti c of people of like of being an angry republican in the same way that the begin was, which I think, again, like in so many elections, put something in kind of accord position where it's like if you're not making the right sounds as the person who seems ascendant right now, you might as well be the people, the enemies on the other side. And I never seems so undignified. Bob doll at some, pointed a similar thing where it's lack of all the people to kind of break down to become a fussy baby. It's weird that these, these global or two that are, are the people to people know you do what you, what you've got ta do.

But I have A, I have a correct, the office is coming up. So in one nine hundred ninety two, with George w. Bush as the sitting president running for real election, became in, he lost new hampshire to bush.

But IT was fifty two, thirty seven in the republic and prime, which he never performed as they the closest of that. And he did win in one nine hundred and ninety six against bob doll in the in new hampshire in bob doll, of course, famously went on to be the nominee. But I saw trump, as you can, in with a bit, a bit more telegenic. I don't know how us to describe pep canin was not going to get to host a game show every week .

for ten years on nc continuum of restante st to Donald trump.

But the message was.

if you're old .

enough to remember, pat, you can and you understand .

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the yeah and any literally one new hampshire mary in ninety, nineteen, ninety six and embarrassed George, at least embarrassed old George ninety two. While we were sitting president, I knew that there was this, a too big for my comfort, a populist rate wing, very, very, very White rock rib male sort of mindset. And I just saw trump as papa can in plus right, and that he'd finish like that.

And guess what? He did get the, I don't know if you recall this, he did get the nomination in two thousand and sixteen and he did he did be L E. Clin, which neither, which I thought was going to happen.

But that having happened, it's just imaginable, was to me I just, I really could, I just couldn't end when the unimaginable happens. It's no longer uni maginnis I was talking to, I think I don't know, hope I didn't talk IT when we talked on the phone yesterday, but we didn't record IT. So maybe I will repeat myself.

I had actually think that was when I was talking to our mutual friend, mister Scott simpson. But IT reminds me of how I grew up thinking of the generation that went through world war two, like when I was, and I, you know, roughly the same age, and when I was a little kid, you could tell the old people, not the elderly, but just the old. There were the people who lived through world war two, and they're different, where there was a hardness to them.

And for my family, that was the depression. We're like, my grandfather was far too, too Young for war, war one and a little too old for world were two. But my mom was born in thirty four.

My father was born in two and nine. So they here's all kinds of stuff. I'm still processing about what that meant to my parents and grandparents in terms of a whether that in terms of a sort of provision attitude about life for just about how risky everything is. But how do you become like A A little bit of a maybe it's not a holder, at least what we to close string favor, kind of clear e cleaner like, oh, you gotto be in the clean play club.

but those people, even if you didn't serve in world war two.

my late mother and law talks about this and the the things that may not, I don't know, important. I don't important other people, but two things keep my about world, world. You, I want a lot of world war doors. And let's just say, in nineteen forty two, forty three, there was no certainty, or they look, no IT is real bad. And that was just for us, like we entered, we entered in thirty or forty one.

and we had, like two really nice big oceans.

That's exactly right, that like those oceans were gona keep us safe, and we were still pretty burned about a war one and at all.

right? Well, our friends in me, i'm going out to turn into a world war two history podcast. But our friends in england who, under churches leadership, we're lucky to be an island, if not.

right, until they figured out how to fight. Blitz planes over.

right? But there are liquid barrier is famously narrow enough to swim, right? I mean, IT makes a difference. So movie .

that just want a movie hoping, Gloria, by a chance, IT was a movie in the way, early mid avid, the guy who did I knowing from escalloped. But it's a wonderful movie about I I think it's a wonderful movie about in in london during the blitz about this family and especially about this little boy who sort of like a somebody who's sort of us standing for john morman.

But what life was like in the blitz and it's I won't say it's like an unvarnished ed you but you see how like you're a little kid just trying to stay alive, you're in in the case of what's that wonderful actress from there, the White one, Sammy, something that blond woman. She's his older sister. SHE wants to like me guys, and like he was to go and play army with his friends.

Well, those guys are getting her bark enough in the army. Those places where he goes to play with his friends are his other friends as houses that have been levelled because the life does. Go on. And this is still the time when they were like trying to keep the kids in london rather than sending them away to other places.

But IT just gives you the sense of like, maybe not as much in america, but like in the case of, like my mother and law talking about food, like up until midway mid, what I mean, like we really the way IT would midway. And by the way, that ever hell of a story, what happened at that battle? But there was no insurance at all.

And then think about this of all that. So for us, that's five years, five, about five, middle of five years of that. But think about this. You had the russians and americans were moving into the camps. And here you can learn from the poland you really want to go invade.

I mean, you really want invade russian, when, or maybe not such a great idea, but but that really screaming up, and then, of course, scary, caring, screaming over, because he was lying about what the law could do. You can be started on this, but here's the thing that things were on their way. The swing was already moving up after someone or forty four things in more direction.

rape? Here's yes. So then you get into think about this. Think about like and Frank was alive like until like, I think a couple weeks before the liberation of that camp, but I wasn't.

So I think it's very full month of April when a lot happens in rose elt dies. We were still in that war. I mean, i'm sure you have seen up in harmer, but think about that.

The eastern part of that was really winding down, hit or done what he was gonna by April of forty five. But we still had may, june, july, August. Now we know you and me, this is really important. You and I know that IT ended in August. And the way that IT ended is just A A horble horrible thing where decisions were made that was Better than cn ARM.

And if you know what was going on in places like in those irelands in the pacific, the incredible number of casualties that americans were, the marines in particular, navy, we're getting as a result of trying to mop up on the different islands was just brutal. We know now that that's August in the months of july nineteen forty five, they did not know everyone and did August right on trying to say is this is there's a couple of things that I keep wanting to pick up on that you said, one is, one is that you don't know how things are gonna turn out one way or another. You don't know what turning out even looks like.

right? History, history feels like I was inevitable IT is and that is that why I think older people are like us, get into watching world war two documentaries as we aged, is you become more aware of the error of your ways of youth. When you think the way the dice rolled to get to the point where you were born in the decade you've born was, of course, inevitable.

Of course, I was going to grow up. I was gonna born in one thousand nine hundred and seventy three and grow up in the seventies. And again.

because humans, and especially americans, love a story, so you can, in retrospect, IT becomes like one of this terrible biopics where you're like, oh, john palmer carney sees a base in a window that means he's going to be a baseball you try to put those moments together into something that makes a cohesive story because that's what helps keep you like, is saying this must have happened .

for a reason if in one thing i've learned, and i'll come back to this world war two, but one thing i've learned from learning more about history, as opposed to when I grew up thinking the history was just blow blab, is a, for example. I know I love science, but I have zero interesting chemistry and never did. I was.

I just had to take chemistry. You figured out history was like that. Well, they tell me to read this, are going to give me a test on that, and goes in my air and goes out the other.

But now i'm kind of obsessed with that. And one thing i've learned, and of course, and i'll say this, but I didn't learn this until, like my forties, and just never popped into my head. But now that seems incredibly obvious.

If if A A military .

struggle is is an, has an inevitable Victor IT doesn't take more than a day or two like the first iraq world .

in nineteen ninety two .

or ninety one but I was saying when in the kuwait and old George bush was like, hey, no and that I sent the army and decided not to invade iraq. Just get him out of kua took like two days and I was over that's one where the history is IT was inevitable and I since if if we're going to go and take questions one thing I just saw this somewhere recently was like A C I, A documentation.

I was watching where they were talking about how intelligence is never, never certain. It's always, we think, seventy percent change. So this thirty percent chance this. And if I was a hundred percent chance or no, this is zero percent chance is first, then the top intelligence agencies aren't on that issue because it's certain they're only there to deal with the ones they don't know.

But that just of IT was, said adam, who saying figured that we would be fine with with him inviting quit because he just figured this the way they said IT in the middle east, all of them. They just assume that our CIA knows everything and listens to everything and knew everything. And so when they made some plans for which they just assumed that our CIA knew that they were going to invade, quit and we didn't do anything and is like what they must be good with IT.

And so they went ahead with IT, and IT turned out we weren't good with IT, and IT turned out our CIA didn't really know that they were going to do IT. They thought I might to be pumping and when they captured sadam, who saying, let years later, you know, in a little spider hole, spider hole that he was hiding in, that that was one of the questions that he said to them. He was like you, why didn't you tell us not to go in and early? We didn't know you're going in and he's said to them, I can't believe that I asked.

asked me something about danes love. Yeah, we're like.

I don't think strange love as the other, as another one. Strange love seems so goofy and silly and ridiculous to me when I first said, and I loved IT IT might be again the changes. And at at this moment in history this week, as I speak to you, I would say it's my favorite colberg movie right now.

Usually two thousand. One in Normal times takes, takes precedence. But strange love is so fucker and funny and so smart .

and so whatever. But I you remember laughing, the whole.

the whole premise of the movie is about a nut job with any kind of authority and the government or military who's obsessed with florrie in the drinking water sapping and a purifying.

He's no long. And there here we are, elections, communist and doctrine and the international communist conspiracy to sap and and purify all of our precious bottle there. Actually, in a moment of intimacy.

I always knew there were cooks who add crazy ideas about the low levels of florida and drinking water, which have have had tremendous .

mendous increase in the string. Yeah, look at renew .

in our fifties with a multiple the teeth.

which should be on posters. We have still been to prove the role I could still lead, not selling somebody, the commercial on images. Abc, here we are.

the core I want. Here we are in the wake of an election where in the days, the very days leading up to election day, one of the stories was that crackpot, a robot of Kennedy junior, is going to be appointed to be the head of health and human services. And one of his top agenda items is getting four out out of our drinking water.

I mean, we've elected jacki ripper.

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And the problem, the silla wet. And then if you kick in a soccer ball or whatever, yeah, yeah.

it's going to draw your glasses real thicky know, because that's what you do, is a character, your heads the size of your torso? Il, because it's charactered. It's like if you walked down the street and met somebody who actually had those proportions, right? But that's .

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here here. But like, I was my whole diversion about the world war two generation, was that I just figured as a kid that that's what happens to people in their sixties and seventies. They kind of get grim. And and H I .

just assuming that was, I don't want to I meet the joke that I have made from time to time is not very kind as I just assume that all people were old because of the equivalent of sin. I had a actually evil idea about how my fresh, Young king body was, because I was how I am. And everybody else got old.

Because, oh god, why do you know like that? Where are your toes like that? Why is your entire deal like that? Can I mention one thing that I heard something to talk about the other days, one of those no done things that I learned person should think about, but a one, a reason I did have a lot of hope for this year, even that was standing.

The cells are paul, even before that was, well, let me just feel sorry. Let me take away the available ance and just talk, talk about a fact that I think is an important thing to keep in mind. The old people of our youth are not the old people of today.

And we should realize that because we are amongst the aging people of our day. Now, that sounds a silly thing to say, but here's here's the thing. When we talk about all these things, we talk about things that have in the past, in these old says that we could rely on in a popular idea of american politics.

Early voting tends to benefit democrats lake voting that you know all these kinds of things. Old people are the most elderly seniors with everyone to call in. Older people are very reliable as voters, they show up, they go to the polls even on the day or whatever.

But we've always known that the that is there's a reason that the political aspiring political people go after and try to please those people because they are really solid, which here's the thing is interesting. i'm. Put on my professional to aside for a minute, but the people who were seventy years old in one thousand nine hundred and seventy five are different from the people who were seventy five.

Seventy years old in one thousand and eighty are different from the people who are seventy years old in twenty twenty four. Now again, forgive me, sit with me for just a minute. But you don't want that means that means people who are sixty now were fifty only ten years ago.

They're different people. They're different. So I feel like at least in the way that i've come up, I tend to look at all people called and called seniors as a mono.

I mean, is all the sort of cliches and opening going to go to dinner early and everything we've learned from sign fell about people loving pens and all that kind of stuff, but would have here, here's the thing to think about. I luck. I can do them.

I like a tragedy, the rithmetic right now, but somebody who's seventy now, what you tell me? Jackal, what a while? The person is seventy now what year were they born?

Mean a one thousand nine hundred and fifty four.

one thousand fifty four. So that means they are about the age of sting, who famously with a song called born in the fifties. Why am I saying the silly? They go million.

You shouldn't be on post here, a silly person. You think somebody born in one hundred fifty four that who seventy? Now, I thought that a was A B, I thought that I would have a bigger impact this election.

But a, that's something I needed to hear, is like, it's not like the canonical, like iran, ryan in beverley hills is that one of these people are these are people who might have been, I mean, see the boomers or whatever. I despise these generational, the useless generational names we give. But but the point is the the nature of that is likely to change.

The nature of old people doesn't change. You tend to get weird. You get defensive. You you imagine that you're more powerful than you actually are, and you do all these are speaking as a american man, i'm all too in later with the way that people he believe me, but that's one of the things that have really hit me.

And so is there anything that we can do to extend that? Well, maybe just from a liberals for in his view, realizing as a learned person that the people who are seventy now are not the people who are seventy in the fifties or sixties. I think that's really viable.

But it's also a reminder that the people who are Young now are not the people who were Young in the eighties. A lot of stuff is changing, and we need to update all kinds of this is gonna. I'm not going to get in to what we talk about this, just not going get into IT.

What I have a couple big tip, but they say at the new york times, which are thinking about the cancel, so close to cancelling to take a waste is that we might need a new way to think about what I see. division. I don't mean in this, I mean neither arithmetically or in terms of dividing people, I mean in terms of binning people in her, I thought, said this to a pictures to you yesterday as, like, imagine deg.

The the rose of spread chee, and then you have mini columns for a spread sheet. I'm wondering if I am not saying, ly, we need to z ais and necessarily to fix this, but a lot of the older, more conventional ways of thinking about how americans are been up, whether that is by gender, class, all these kinds of things that tend to be those drivers, license, license aspects of our life. Race still matters.

Does recently I feel like I don't see race. I can. I do see color, especially on the black you.

But now keep on trying to say, is that the dummy morin man saying to you, of course, the not the same old people, who are you sure? Are you sure you've integrated that, internalized the idea that that's all changing and a lot of the people who are now twenty are pretty different from people who used to be twenty. Maybe that's obvious to you. And if so, thank you for listening. When i'm saying is this is one of a lot of things that we as individuals and as a country, need to sort of reprocess.

I think about this a lot, a lot, even the outside, the context of a week like this. But I think about IT a lot, that as a species as as just the highest evolved of the many fascinating primate on the planet, we did not evolve to live in a world that changes as fast as our word lives, where each generation grows up in an entirely different context. right? I mean, you know, our kids do not grow, do not feel their youth is not like our youth in the seventies.

and go back, no.

no, no, go back a thousand years. And that happened a thousand years, isn't that long ago, right? But then a thousand years ago, nobody y's life changed. And is for most people, in most places on the planet, IT didn't really change much until the last century, really. I mean, and there were pockets, the europe and a lot of IT didn't .

change to even I mean, like there are a number ways in which for Better, for worse or whatever american life was the way IT was until the fifties. Yes, but the reason say that is for one thing, highways there's things like highways, sounds like mass media the way that we more and more heard what other americans sound like. And all you have had radio since the twenty years.

Well, not everybody, you have a radio. But the idea that I can watch a video from the english span and abc on mtv in one thousand nine hundred eighty two does a pretty exotic idea, considering that in the generation or in the lifetime of people who were very much alive and still driving themselves around, they didn't have a phone in their house, maybe they didn't have a toilet in their house even. And I just that we don't know with I know i'm going into old man, wise man though, but I still feel like there's a way in which we sometimes there's so much and he's word earlier that i'd learned an interest like chunking the way that we like get information.

And you can think of this whatever way works for you. Think of this chunking thinking of cognitive biases. Think of IT as priors.

Even some people in journalism like to say, but there's all kinds of ways that in order just to get by for a quiet life, as the comedian study says, for a quiet life, there's all kinds of stuff. We just kind of five past, and I know I personally had many things I continue to fly past. A lot of people would say perhaps maybe that the lives of people in epileptic, i'm not thinking about as much as I.

I although I reveal to you yesterday that is my people IT just has a lot of, do you have all you as the egg? I blame florrie if I was going to be like my grandfather before ming, if I had, if I had, if I had White, long teeth, I got to serve in the minds. If I got that, you have know, I charm that. who? luo? Dup, sick.

No, I have not recommended.

I recommend IT to you because i'm going to be basic. I would be basic enough to say that I had a big impact on me. IT was one of this.

The space you get sometimes. So like this case was about the sacris hanoi's. And it's my favorite.

One of all, it's got k and fever. Who rules? It's got batman. What is named I Michael kitten, in his terrific. But that gave me insight into what first fall the way of the sackler very deliberately shows to market those drugs in areas.

You probably know this, you have family that did this for a living, but you would make this stuff in areas right? What's our walls are bit, a million years ago, nobody ever got black long from using excel, right? But like, you IT gave me an insight.

I'm not trying to say this is like some woke mind virus. And now I understand people in west Virginia perfectly, but I did. I was there.

I'm, i'm being dead onest with all is, I was very easy for me, not easy for me. I was difficult for me not to go. Oh my god, what are these people doing? Their working against their own self interest.

They have the strong man that they are obsess with any other kind of stuff. And I, for a long time, just really didn't understand on any level the appeal of the forty fifth president. And I I wonder that I refused to understand what other people saw is just that IT was so out of alignment with every value that I have, including being able to complete sense that was very difficult for me. And I did reject IT, but like learning, like how much you can mess with people who are vulnerable.

And and again now and this is, I just think, is red place holder here, include once the idea that, oh my god, actually maybe I had to be, I must be an actress to bring IT to me, but to see kin deever working in a mind, getting a back injury, and then accidentally becoming addicted to something that every doctor was told is not addictive, gave me an insight into how this country can screw over anybody where it's a little bit like washington ble. You don't realize how many bodies we can throw into this meat grinder if IT meets the story that we have in our head. And I found that incredibly you useful. And I don't know.

you know which show I we did watch same story. H was called pain killer couple. Matthew brodie played the head of the circular family. It's a netflix show, and there is a similar plot line in that .

where I like every year, I like every actors ever played microsoft.

There's a guy that .

the this man played him, the a serious .

man .

played him in other one, that one guy, Michael, what's this new? Yes, I did.

I don't think this is even as spoiler. I know everybody knows what how the oxy content story but basically played. But it's very you get to know the guy before IT happens, but his family business is a garage and could leak and oil take IT to this guidance place because they are good. They're actually you know like a good IT was a good garage like the one where if you're new, your neighbor moves in the town and .

I gotta get my car, looked at me and well, change. I got a is there are a good garage. They're I got got the good garage.

It's a guy you ran the good garage. But guess what? Running the good garage is actually frequent hard work, right? Because it's like low margins and people care and it's like a lot of work and anyway, he hurts is .

fucking back in a little .

many just. An accident was even down, like a major actions done in the hospital.

but is found back always. The story is like one guy, guy or god, but does something.

but he's to keep working. He the whole place. He's not the only guy there, but he's and we gross can't run with out. So he's got ta work. He can't take time off.

And guess what? The oxy content then he was good to go but you'd see how yeah and with IT and IT is IT is a conspiracy, right? And IT is you see, I don't know, i'm going to put topsy on the list and I suggest that I mentioned.

and i'm not trying to cover myself with the glory for watching television sending you the cast of top sic. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. Murderer though, is that I think the opportunity going back to in Frank cara, his great podcast, going back to in Frank like you, how do you tell the story of there's a lot of numbers in world were two that get overwhelming pretty fast.

A lot of suffered the six or six and half million jewish who died in the, again, as as a, as as A A, A new and Young student of the role of russia had who all war to twenty million, twenty million. They killed themselves. A lot of people, I don't know.

It's a lot of people, I mean, even by a lot of different standard, it's a lot of people. It's it's even more than the vote that we get out of crucial Walker shop leave. No.

you live that you live through that euro. And how could you not be changed?

Absolutely.

absolutely right. And because you know what can happen, it's not the unimaginable is no longer on imaginable after that happened and IT then IT becomes, for those of us like me, born in the seventies, IT becomes uni magin able again. I grew up thinking, of course, there's not going to be another holic. I didn't downplay that there was still tremendous antisemitism in violence and hatred based on religion or race or any of these things in that that can happen. But certainly there's not going to .

be a systematic rounding .

sixty six million of people just because, say, of there a certain religion and they're just gna march in the death camps or line them up on a fence and .

the shoot him in the head and .

throw in the deck kitchen mania. I not just and I think I am not excusing holo us denialism .

all thank john. I'm really glad i'm .

thank you for you. My my belief that there is I can see where IT starts and I think IT starts, that I can start where and which where .

which starts.

how denying that IT exists because I can seem to somebody and I think that almost everybody and yeah, that the real the real dept. The cycle ers of holocaust analisa are the people who old enough to have lived through IT and knew that what happened. But I can see how Younger people could grow up thinking, well, how could something like that even happen? It's not how it's uni maginness IT becomes an imaginable again.

and therefore imaginable because you couldn't imagine that something. If you go back and watch, read a book about five more germany or maybe a caaba, exactly.

But if you go and look what was happening in germany, in berlin, i've a really good book on basically the life's lives of queer people in in the video republic, which was, I mean, I guess some people would read IT and go, oh my god, you know, no wonder that I was so, because who wants all of these these weirdos running around? But to feel like these, when you look at the photo or the the films, i'm not not trying to be historic, but you can see this, even the channel's list. You see all these very successful polish people with friends.

And you're like, you can feel in every step of the way. Well, this is a bit get right. This is having to like move into this areas as the worst.

no. Now we got to move into a smaller place with more people. And now we're putting our jewelry in in bread and swallowing IT because we know we need to run in that.

But there's something even at that time, especially at that time, i'm guessing where your mind just rejects IT and go is like and I think that's I think for a long time, the denialism came from what the numbers don't really add up, the scale of this. People trying to have use their model trains to figure out with how wars all works. So how whatever whatever LED to that in the past.

And I think part of IT now maybe like, I mean, what do you think explains in now is, is IT just hatefulness. Is, is just depressing. Do IT way we are going to be one more add, right? So like, I will have a chance to say the one thing I wanted to say about, and then we can talk about something else.

Yeah, all i'd got to say about this is this, this is what I read. I sent you the entirety of my notes for this entire project. I said, you screen grab from graphs that you can see.

And I decided that on tuesday night, I would keep a log in preparation for my celebratory ory visit with, with, with chairman gruber. And so I have time stamp. Here is an election nightrobe.

And then got a time stamp. And then as three words, come on, George. And then I didn't type anymore, which tells you something.

But here's the other thing. Oh yes, so yesterday I was reading this not very good book, these things I learned yesterday at the grandfather laws. I learned the origin of that phrase, which is a little bit problematic.

But here's what I wrote down. When I was prepping for this show yesterday, when I write down, was the Harris campaign was perfect for me. And maybe that was the problem that as far as i've gotten and i'm OK with that right now, like I can, I would be difficult with the time that we have in this visit.

And the fact of this is nominally A A show about mckinnon as or whatever, to get into this. There is is a lot to get into, but the part is low. Hey, for me, is that I liked the vision of amErica that that campaign was pulling for, and I really hoped that other people would like and get with IT two.

And right now, just to be dead honest and to be a little bit touch, this is part of the reason why i'm not currently fine trying to see whose frame I can just drag over how I feel. I'm just gonna this emotion for a minute, which is, I think the way that we feel about abstract strangers says a lot about us as people. And sometimes we find ourselves able to think about specific strangers, and sometimes that even becomes perverted into, here's things I imagine, happening to specific people that I know there is all kinda of ranges of ways of thinking about that.

But like a lot of what I liked about justice improbable campaign that was put together so well and so quickly and tell with so many things that matter, to me, those are all just bullet points. Now to go well, nobody really cares that much about trans people or nobody actually cares that there's just all of these different things. Now works like you guys talk too much about this thing.

And that was bad. I'm still not ready to begin rejecting, let alone morning, the fact that all that shit really does matter. The part, the bumps me out is that there were not more people that saw that, and that instead think there are some very large red button somewhere on pencil vane aven hit to stop inflation and no gas Prices go down. I understand I would like a such a non sequence is such a non square to keep walking over and over and over about. The economy is a popular on secure.

but like with a divided congress.

And like whoever was in there, what I wearing am at today, john grierson, is I don't think anybody, I don't think anybody could have beat him. And I didn't see that coming. I did not see the numbers the way they are.

I'm not ready to learn on a lesson about love in anyway. I care about all of that stuff, and i'm not ready to say we got IT wrong or thought wrong what we got. What are they Better off today than yesterday will know they're not. But there's just not enough babies to throw out with all the bath water at this point. There's people are so ready to just a pain in the entire project because the point of change reform said that the sheep going your rogan .

and SHE like funny and he had they don't like her laugh I can't, can't, can't aggam more and I I really and end if IT that just palin around me and you. Which I think is helpful and I think people enjoy hopefully and listening to if you're imparting any iola sprinkle of wisdom or just a suggestion for everybody listening while this is fresh as to how to cope in what to do and maybe how to direct or attention.

I have so so strongly encourage you to stop thinking about what I could of shooters or if so, if you would somebody else or and dropped out earlier, just not run or and just um no, we are gonna SE. And i'm not saying that there is an a hypothetical role of the dice million monkeys type in a million different twenty twenty four or the million different last four years that one of them doesn't involve. I mean, one of them involves trump token on a hamburger and dying. I mean, there's a lot ways this could turn out. But in terms of what one of the things that made twenty sixteen so hard to process is that was so close and IT really does seem like.

And when I want to make your dad story, yes, that's the point I want to make about your dad story, was like when I said clean, as horrible, i'm so sorry to say as your mother's death was, it's kind of good, didn't for something. I'm glad this was clean. I super m.

And an addition of respecting the way that we did what we always do, which is the right thing. And like the institutional thing, i'm glad I was clean. IT would sucked if this was still going on forever.

And i'm not even saying that to go and goes, although I think that, but I was clean. IT a clean. And then now we move on to the next thing in that part that we said was important is important. Keeping democracy .

together in one sixteen wasn't clean a truly objective. In fact, i've never read a counter argument that the the coming letter issued days before the election was enough to spill public opinion in the states that were close to swing the election IT really was, and that the letters never should have happened. The whole thing was figure nonsense. There was nothing to IT and IT was against department policy to issue such a letter up to the election. And the only reason he did IT wasn't because he wanted trump IT was because he thought he was covering his own own ask because her Victory was certainly he didn't want to seem like allergy clinton .

already doing that premium tive thing we do, which is more than we need to because we want to seem fair.

I'm gone to get ahead of this and look so objective as the head of the FBI that I issued this letter against who's the woman who certainly be going to become my boss in next week. And in fact, that we turn the election and there is a bunch of those and there are no, there is no coming letter this year. There is no what I could shoot.

The SHE ran a figure perfect campaign from where he started. Again, it's like with my mom, given that he was diagnosed with terrible, really bad this, you're gonna beat this, you just have to learn, have to decide how we're going to cope with IT a very in cancer. To just dropped dead on a tuesday morning after a lovely meal the night before is the way to go, given where we started with biden in that debate.

And oh yeah, he isn't decline. What are we going to do? And is Harris go SHE ran a perfect campaign and tim, tim walls was a perfect choice. And I didn't know who the guy was. And that sort of thought .

I couldn't believe at first, I couldn't believe I was .

I just super natural.

was like chemo or the I who .

buy the way two years ago, one something like fifty .

six to forty here .

in pencillings. Like in terms of how weird this election and how IT is, how that it's not just red and blue democrat, republican, but is really it's trump. IT is him.

Personally, I thought this should be him. But then IT was walls and our friend. He's been on the show. I think at least one to john mult.

I am in a group chat, john mult, he said yes and yes, I did like bad mouth walls as pic. I was just say, I never heard the guy and I just a group that was no, I didn't sense. I kind of thought he was a tim cain who hillery picked as a vice president who is so forgettable. Did you watch S N L last week?

hilarious. And I the commitment to saying, tim, right? Yeah, iron right up to the moment he was to cane, yeah, whatever.

Remember red and again to hillery did not lose twenty sixteen because you picked a forgettable guy, but he probably didn't help. But he thought I was helping to pick the most unobjectionable got. I thought maybe walls was that sort of a Carrier. And no, IT turns out this guy .

is a dynamic, dynamic.

a done IT is a dynamic presence. He was a great pic. And IT keen on your message of, I love the message of this campaign, is that walls, based on just what he figure looks like, but especially what he's said in what he has accomplished in minnesota, was inclusive of everybody.

And IT is not as first as them and IT is not your on team. I am totally not just comfortable, but for some of my closest love ones and family members, in fact, themselves or trains. I mean, if you think you've never even met a trans person, just just think you you probably have but you just don't know IT. But i'm just saying if you think that that's another that campaign was still inclusive of you that all the jokes about a tim's being in the guy who when he knocks on your door to ask your vote, will help you clean your gutter and and stuff like that, that's the inclusive part of the message that IT .

really was for everybody. Well, anyone help solus me being mean for a second? We have one candidate who says i'm going to go to protect them, whether they like IT or not.

But then there's another guy who says, well, we're going to help you take care of people you love, whether other people like IT or not. He doesn't good thomsett son say god, he jeffson thoms. Jeffson had a great quote that Lawrence lesser used to use about, like when I let somebody, he's the word taper, but i'll use candle.

When I let somebody like the candle from my candle, they get flamed without diminishing midland. And I mean, I for a variety of reasons, I don't want to get super intuit right now. But they found a way to make a version of trans stuff of big deal, which now I think is kidding a little bit of a rap as like, well, SHE did pay for two people exchange.

It's like, no, no, that's a coded way of saying, well, it's certain like the way as an apple enthusiasts, you'll know about the way they are always saying to think of the children and if we don't put a back door in security of every single thing out there, you're basically saying I love child predators and it's no child predator is what we do to get the rights to do anything but like in that same way, like pretty soon all those traffic laws are merely being used against black men. Isn't that weird? And like there's all these ways in which something, if we come up with the most extreme example of something, and in that case, in the most cynical bad faith, way possible.

I mean, what up? But brilliant, I guess, from from a sort of terrible political stampings to say, like what could be worse than an immigrant in our clogging up our jail? Well, what if is the guy from silence of the lambs and we paid for his necklace? I think that's kind of like how that got through to people. But those folks aren't doing.

The people who are out there a quiet people out there are not doing anything to harm you. There is. There not? There is so desire. Can I tie this together with one thing? And then you could go to commercial, yeah, you and I did to talk itself southwest a long time IT only you to me a second ago.

It's kind of relevant to the thing i'd like to say to our food today, which is, as usual, as a typical x punk rock guy, like i've merely talked about, the things i'm not doing, the things I don't want. And to you here, I want to think about the one thing I do want to do, which is this, which is I would invite anything by the out there to join me in not abandoning the things that you believe in when I put IT differently. Let me encourage you to think about this on at least two tracks.

There's the track of, like hole boy, lessons learned, all our learnings and leaving, what do we learn from this and who should we be mean or to to be popular? Richard's, because all that stuff, all things are going to learn all that. I if you're doing post warms, at this point, you are a goblin.

It's a little bit early to be cutting up the bodies, but fine, you do. You here's what i'm going to say to our friends, regardless of what you decide to do tactically, what you decide to do politically over the next few years, don't burn down and everything you believe in just to try and fit the frame of somebody else. And i'll tell you why I think that's related to our their little jokey talk we did when blogs mattered.

We just is there a way that you could find a way to become successful at what you do, not because not in spite of your unique take on things, but because of your unique taken things. Is there way that you could find the phrase of the joke? When are the jokes we made was just have a blog about? Don't have a blog.

Don't just have a blog. Star wars don't have a blog about we're trying like is there a certain particular jaw? Wa like the more I watch the seventy seven movie, the more I appreciate, oh, that's a teenager.

That's yes. The talk, the talk is the a kid right? Well.

he was a told ja, who was a short kid, right?

This one is like practically a toddler. You can tell that there's the wonderful photos with Daniel. Um no, but I am i'm not trying to be cute about this is just that in that same way that idiots like you and me well and perhaps privilege dating, it's like you and me title is that I want to continue to I don't want you to love me for the wrong reasons, and I can prevent you hating me for what you consider the right reasons.

And that utt changed the things that matter to me. I have many very personal reasons for believing in a lot of these things that nobody needs to worry about. But but there's something you care a lot about and that you worry about.

I'm not saying double change, are not saying digging, and i'm not saying double down because that's a time from black jack and is nothing to do with politics. Does that drive the crazy john, when they see triple down? Because it's not a thing anyway, my point is people .

down drive .

not there's no using double the insurance.

using double down, using double down in a sense that does not really analogize to a use in black jack i'm still OK with because that how language works.

it's like Young people say out of pocket when they mean crazy instead of unavailable.

That metaphorically, the way people say double down does apply to the game, but IT does, because there is no triple definitely in the game.

What's closure to playing two cards in bingo, I think, is closer. What IT means? Here's my thing.

I just want to say to you, my friends who are listening, and thank you for putting up with this. I don't have any advice about anything. I don't have to change anything.

But as I said here today, the seventh of twenty twenty four, I am nowhere near ready. I don't I don't want to be unnecessarily dramatic care, but they just put in this way just because we legitimately straight up gokhos handed to us, going to to see us. I mean, a lot of us is little .

everybody well .

and about he was of the guy, one, he won big. And there's probably things to learn from that. But what I want to say is I want to encourage you.

I want to encourage you to think about what is still worth caring about. And i'm not same, you'll become an activist. But what i'm saying is to remember something I said and I talk and don't cut muscle like the worst way to lose way is to cut off your muscles.

And if you see people who give you in the world of blogging, social media, whatever is, there's always a constant temptation to become an idiot because you think it'll make a stranger love you. And I personally have not had great luck with that. What i've discovered is I do not have a big impact on what other people people think about anything, including me.

But know, what I have learned is that nothing bulbs out. The people who love you more than seeing you throw the way the stuff that they know matters to you in order to find in. And that's what i'm saying. Give yourself some time to be sad, do not feel like you've gotten, throw, await the things that are valuable, able to you in order to choose to your trip.

But I shut down, or did you shut down and just do nothing?

I mean, which is in a way is is, is, is he doesn't change the fact that .

I if you really passionate about trans acceptance or are you you really passionate about the plight.

um do you think how about how can we say the environment, one that really got lost in the lights a lot this year? Yeah, yeah. We know that a good I thought the ocean would be bigger than climate climate that's one like I got yeah that's cute. That's like a technical award at the Oscars. It's nice, but it's not a real thing.

But the climate is a very much Better example because those of us on one side of the climate argument have everything on our side. We've got all of the facts, all of the science .

and all of the the actual data.

Yeah and the lived experience IT is my mom.

My mom was displaced from her home a few weeks ago because of one of the clearest pieces of data. You could look at the hurricane that happened in the gulf recently. You can, I know people like to send you that thing that's like use of internet, explore, causes, cancer, causation, court.

No, no, really, the heating gulf is what made that bad. It's not controverted. It's not something the whole thing that I mean.

you've grew up in floor, you have probably looked at the maps more than often than I do. But know you and I have fifty years of looking at hurricane PS in the added states, and that was not even a map that that used to happen, right? The path that that took is the whole thing. Just what didn't use be possible.

Again, ash fill. Ash fill is not a place that was affected by .

that partial inland on north CarOlina. Yes, because the bananas is stuff out of banana movie today. I live in philately pensylvania.

I don't know how much you know about the, uh, weather patterns in late october and early november. High temperature today seventy six degrees. I word, i'm wearing a shortly polo.

I'm self for disco. O and you can see my sweet mark.

seventy six degrees IT is currently dark IT is sunset IT. thanks. So I just .

wanted to believe this. You do your program.

but the only currently seventy degrees after sunset.

Now the problem, john knows now you're going to get into the whole like the whole bomp called the global warming thing or it's well snowing a different areas and it's no, that's not how IT works. This is the socket terrorists .

on the way weather even when it's a nice, a lovely day, which at the upside of IT is that we get lovely days in november. IT is wrong. IT is absolutely wrong, right? IT. IT is wrong is what the ancient people must have thought when a freaking the solaris clips happened. Yeah.

angy, that's the one. It's that the train book where the kind is going to be a clipsed?

Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah. Halloween was a week ago, and IT was so warm that I was again, was again the seventies into the evening. And, you know, is the too hot for your kid's alloweth costume? I had grew up every freeing year as you and I finally talked about this song show.

So you ve got to put your code on over your costume.

God blessed now that she's got my mom. My mom, man does not wear an overcoat. My mom was a very firm believer .

in my visibility, has got to be White now just not.

does not have a jack cold when it's cold that you need to wear a coat, a coat or you sick. My mom would drive by the playground because I would, you know, we'd go play, touch football with the the nerve football on the basketball court. And I would take off my winter coat because I was running around playing football .

and wanted to throw the ball and wage on.

My mom would stop the car and get out. And y'all, john, put your coat back on. God lesser, I miss the, I miss your mom.

I miss you, man. I don't miss that. Oh my god. But the the halloween, every frigid year, superman doesn't wear a coat. He doesn't have A A winter coat over his costume there.

There are very few costumes to benefit from a new IT wasn't like one year. how? No, no, no, was a cold IT was cold. That problem was also visibility was the part seventy. But like we had to have a code and head to reflective.

How can climate change is a maybe the most important long term? I don't think that's high properly. It's because however important, anything else that you might you might want to put above IT IT literally affects all life on the .

planet and just that is score well, this week does not mean .

you should put your news down and keep double down.

double down a lamer than that i'm saying before you get talk, I don't know why I turn the TV the Rachel meta said, we're all going to be like pirates. We're going to be like pires as you said IT twice and I was like, oh my, now comes the real work and you're like, okay, well, I pretend to do more real work. I said something a long time.

I, well, two things. I just want to say you all out there. I'm sorry for everybody, body and how we're feeling what we're doing.

But like you do you but like I just if there's one person out there that needs to hear IT, please don't feel ashamed about how much you care about something that other people don't care about because that's that's what makes you such an interesting human being is that you care so much about something that other people don't don't give that away, don't sell that, just to feel like you're going to fit in. And I just think that's vital to keep them much. And I really star mostly what I had. I had another thing I think let .

me take a thing about.

hey, alright, what do you got?

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I don't i've stop my I do still buy a new iphone every year, but I ve stopped my obsessive collection of them because at the up to like it's like iphone thirty three now and a lot of them look the same. And IT doesn't really seem like a point to keep them. So now I trade in my old iphone and get a new one. You can do that a tiptop with, like all sorts of stuff that is incredibly easy. You go to check out and you simply select any item that you own that you want to .

be in phone cases, john, because I think I feel like my kid could go to a uc with the number of phone cases I could sell. The phones is ging, but the number of cases that I have no useful is just sickly.

I don't know if some cases are on their list. They might be. I know sneakers are, if you like a speak go through.

There's a lot I need to learn about. They what train?

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Start go check him out tiptop that come, let me to say this because as as we said yesterday, when we strategize over what to do, we decided yesterday that, counter intuitively, I would say that in twenty sixteen, with a far more shocking result and a far more, I felt, more contest, for lack of a Better word, we've recorded the next day. And here, while I think I think this is going to be worse for the america, for the world, for a lot of people within america, a trump second, I do think it's going to be worse. And I I I just don't want to talk around IT. I feel Better personally because and again, I do part of IT and again, I don't like prefacing stuff with declaring my privileges.

but I have .

all of them. I I White, I am a man. I am financially successful.

Um I am healthy. A I you tick the boxes and I got him. I get IT. But i'm saying from a different perspective that the fact, like I said, that this was not an image. I was not ready for IT.

I really didn't think ahead, even scheduling you to do the show that what if he might win? But I knew he might, and I was braced for that trap door that I didn't even know existed under my feet. Well, i'm never gonna get that IT was there.

Um I might have been surprised if trumpet not run and somebody else who is worse or just as bad, i'd done IT. but. Certainly the same guy appealing to the same people didn't come as a surprise to me. But let me we .

said we said yesterday.

we're not going to talk about the election, will talk about other things that help people get their mind off. And and here we are, and I think we have done that to some extent, as you and I tend to do on these episodes. But here we are still talking about IT.

But on that context of people not beating themselves up over the world could shoot is or the what if, or the which is, isn't there that the cleanness of the Victory and not one that not only was a no coming letter, he won the popular vote too. right? IT hurts.

Yeah, there is. And for me, as somebody who does have a primal and as I described IT on during fiber este, it's a quatia religious, what the catholic churches to my dad, even though he also believes in democracy. Democracy feels that role.

For me. IT is a belief system that is larger than me and is my belief in IT is predicted in a significant amount purely on faith, that IT is the right way to to govern ourselves. IT is faith.

And that to me, is what defines a religious belief. And I totally get IT. I'm a nerd. I've known how the electoral college works since I was a teenager.

I totally got IT when I was I don't know about you when I was in high school and my wife, and because I I don't mention a lot, my wife and I went to, literally went to in the same kindergarten class. I mean, we went all through school together. We we both recall this that are, are we A A good history teacher, U.

S. History teacher in tenth grade, mister danger. And he, when he taught us about the electoral college.

and he was the old old school .

teacher and older at the time. But even he presented IT as sort of a the whole thing was sort of an asterisk. Every four years we old presidential election over gives the most of wind, but we don't actually do the tablet lation by just counting the votes and ever gets the most votes from coasts from floria, alaska gets the thing we actually do, a state by state, and you get state electoral college votes. But IT always turns out that whoever gets the most votes went right. IT was IT like .

a technical lucky cy coincidence for years. And then just how attended to go?

And then two thousand happened where the gore won the popular vote and bush won the electoral college. And IT was by its crazy, crazy st. flutist. One in a million.

Are we living in a simulation that's just meant to tormenters margin of hanging five hundred hanging chats and ford a while speaking of our good friend patch, you can in the idiot graphic designer and broward colney designed a ballot that made IT look like vote. If you wanted to vote for gore, if you wanted, if you wanted to vote for our gore, you there was a circle next to his name. And if you filled in that circle next to outgoes name, you were casting a vote for Patrick buchanan and five thousand jewish, elderly jewish democrats in broward. Conney wound up casting a vote for patrik in, in, of all people .

in the people.

in an election where the state of florida was determined by only five hundred ballots, and that the floridas electoral votes tip the scale to the candidate who didn't win the popular election. But I was so close, but is still SAT wrong with me. And part of what made twenty sixteen sit so wrong with me in a fundamental is I know that the game is for the electoral college, and I know IT, and that's how the campaigns are geared.

And if the game were for the national popular vote, they'd run different campaigns. They'd have commercials in what's a big state out west? relive?

Oh, neva.

no. The other is a little bigger california. Yeah.

yeah. Did you get t.

do you have T, V commercials to? Did you have commercials over the last month? All we had, all we had for the last six weeks?

I mean, I just can only begin to guess how different are. Like we get a lot of stuff here for some local politicians, but the real money to buy .

commercials is .

for ballot .

initiatives like gar gari art.

I had him, ty gari really story.

Did you hear on your, I mean.

did you hear on your wife watching? No, no, no. Oh, I met to seven, nine digs in the b bob trumpy from the bengals. I never told the story. No, I don't.

Is that really his name? unfortunate. A name is center SHE.

Is Christman. I you say what? Center titan for the bengals three years .

so long story but yeah yeah you remember .

him yeah and then he was TV. You had a radio show since the story but should mean like it's it's IT would be different.

They would play all .

candidates .

would play the game differently if IT was just a national vote.

But to put the Nathan arizon if a flaw, G, G, at wince, you wouldn't do this, this.

that happen right in the same way .

that in in the theory, I mean, if that things were different, theyd be different. That what makes them different.

right? In theory, you could have a baseball world series where one team wins three games by a landslide, like ten to one, thirteen to three, fifteen to zero, and then loses four games by one run, each to the one, three to two eta. And the team that won those four games by one run wins the world series.

And the team who last money, well, that didn't happen that .

that did not happen that. But that the most famously happened to the yankees before I was born, when the pitcher pred, to beat them in one thousand nine hundred and sixty on a home run by bill mather, asked seven that before I was born. But as the anche fan, you learn, you learn that history before you learn that was in the world.

Yeah, the world's series in the anchors were by far Better team in one three games by large margin and lost four games by one run, including the last game by a but the yank is knew, the yankees knew that the way we, the world series is to win four games out of a possible seven IT doesn't matter how big you were, fair and square, the pitcher pirates one and fair and square. Donald trump was the Victor in twenty sixteen because he won the electoral college. But IT didn't sit right.

There is something fundamental wrong about the bed. What's wrong about the electoral college is not that I hurt my team in two thousand and twenty six totally. I it's wrong, fundamental and IT was, and that is actually came partial the night silver.

who who's entire to this day, who's unlucky, say, but to this day my entire impression of him is governed by the experience that you and I had with him after sunset in ad sunset.

as I recall, IT was right around the dusk.

And here's my person. Here's him. Anyway.

mate, server simula just .

solar .

relations for this election, which turned out in handset, would be very, very accurate. The polls. I hats off to the whole polling industry who kindly had IT right this time, but he his simulation showed numerous outcomes where trump could could have gotten the winning election by winning the electro al college, but losing the popular vote get to her, which happened again.

And IT also showed outcomes that went the other way. There were outcomes were coming, a Harris would have been the next president, the united states having one, the electoral college, but trump would have won. The popular vote is so close, we one solidly, but you know, a two percent here, two percent there. And that could have happened.

And I really kind of wanted IT to happen in a in a very small and a very small person, bitter way, because I knew I would drive the man at insane if he won the did the reverse of what he himself bended benefit from eight years ago and lost the election, but won the popular vote. Is I I think you would have died on the spot. I do. I think I don't think .

that strating for.

I think whatever amount of french fried greece is holding its synapses together, IT would have burst into flames if that had happened to him. But then I and I am even hesitant to share this with you in the our audience on this show because I know how small that is because I do believe in democracy and I and it's not as good as A A clean win for Harris would have been, even though he would have been. The spiteful part of me would have enjoyed IT.

But it's not atlantis to think that democrats could one day they know I could have happened this year. IT could happen in four years, that if the rules are the game as such. But I just the reason to abolish IT is is wrong.

One person, one vote. Everybody who's american citizen, an adult gets to vote, count them up. Whoever gets the most votes win. That's the way IT should be because I believe in IT I do. And the fact that I went the wrong way and IT is A A clean Victory for trump where he won the popular vote and the electoral college and none of the margins in any state is really within dispute. Able nobody's about recount or anything is horrible, but IT is so much Better than twenty sixteen where you could say that this is even the will of the majority of the people of the who voted IT is IT IT.

IT is Better in that way. yes. evening. Do I have any parting thoughts? I like we should talk about computer sometime. I got to have this stuff. I want to I know I non i'm not really i'm not really at the level of a job mult that would be on again and less, fewer than four years. But if you ever wanted to talk about computer things, or I still talk a lot.

I want to give people, I want to give people something, how to listen to at the end of the show time .

really been two hours and twenty minutes. Give me to lying around.

Yeah, let me, let me take another break here and take another friend. Like friends of friends, you kid me that the money bell, let me, let me take a break. care.

K, K, please put all that in the right order.

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This is to the lighting round. And I don't know. I don't.

If we helped, I know.

Well, you were talking about our mutual friend, john, say, accusing. And I, I, I told you, I i've just, you know, i'm texting more friends this week than I do most weeks because I want to I want to be that I don't know. I oh, everybody else is too. And I do is a stupid thing that I justify because it's my job and i'm supposed to pay attention where I instead of having the APP store on any my devices installed updates automatically, a manual mode. So every day and I I have a lot of apps, my devices so everyday .

says a hot tip. That's also a good opportunity when you're getting the update. I'm being serious to swipe with your little thun from right to left and delete the APP if you don't use that anymore. Yes, if you go when it's tomato .

and it's actually a lot easier to delete apps in there and IT is delete from the the GLE screen. No, IT is a great way to, you know, baby, like every every ounce. Look at these things manually. I like to look at the release note if they have some and john.

that I realized amongst the tech class, and that's what I call you people, the tech class, I realized this is consider responsible. But I ve always done, which is if I have absolutely no idea what the APP is, what IT does and why I have in, I tend to have, i'm pretty song when about letting IT go. I think I can always get IT back if I learn what IT is.

If I don't remember what an APP does, I either forced myself right then and there after IT updates to hit the open button and open IT and remind myself to swipe and delete IT is a great time to delete. But anyway, I update all my apps manually because I want to see, oh, here, I want that. I want to be able to see. Is that something I don't use? Anyway, I was on my mac and I went to the mac APP store, never six updates and to them perhaps from john sir USA bug fixes to his little utility from .

center center. And I know that .

switch glass yeah, updates, bug fixes. And he had .

switch here right now, right?

I don't know if you know john sir accuser wells against what his release notes are not bug fixes and updates. They are actually tell you what the bug fixes are.

You're thing. Just what i'm clear, john, you're saying he does more than say we're always improving the APP always does more than that. We get tweak and bug fixes you .

is more than that, he also doesn't waste your time by over explaining.

This is one of the numerous reasons I love. great. The man says how the APP changed. Thank you. Yeah, i'd want to know how the APP changed.

Thank you. great. Pierce's, author of your loved everybodies beloved dance but I know you i'm .

on the home .

page and you feel you feel stronger about draft.

A lot of people, I watched one hour video yesterday about how to create an entire notes infrastructure system inside of notes. And I almost and then of course.

you remember insider .

after inside the notes, notes. And you will be over that today. All the preparation I did in notes, because you are so great one for rapper stuff, IT totally shat the bed and I lost all the preparation. They're still wheel spinning in a corner of your screen. I'm guessing how to with that, I would just just .

so I posted the screen shot two, two of the six apps with updates from my mac where his and I wrote, I text the screen shot and wrote nose down on busy work as a distraction and he wrote, yeah, me IT works and he said, we also recorded for over three hours last night. I assume me, I just presume that means A, T, P. And ford that, and I said i'm recording with merlin this afternoon, gave me the salute because I think .

thank you for your service.

Well, yeah, exactly. I think you knew we were in for IT only three hours.

three hours long. How I wonder if there is anything and their discussions about about somebody who likes the wrong stuff, the wrong way. C, D, R, S.

or what have you? I don't know. I worry about our friend. Do you worry about casey? I work because .

I am the casey here. I'm the casey and the group and newman. I know what character I am on shows I was on.

You look nice today, for god sake. We made the episode called who voted, which I think about every election day, because I am sent him. That was, your mind is like getting a stick of that says, who farted? I voted.

But anyways, I GUI worry a lot about casey. Here's what john is. I don't like to throw out under the bus. I like to throw under some kind of municipal transit .

t system in long island.

maybe how I R M, but know what he does is he makes casey read. So john, jump with all the stuff, decides what the show will be. I'm more familiar with this, and they makes casey read IT and say IT and would have found if like, unless a group to whoever write in case is the one who has to navigate the name.

I look killing .

casey john.

He's such a good person. He is the best thing.

Yeah.

he's the best person and but part of what makes him the best person is a certain forgive me, casey, but a certain navy .

navy possibly but also he's not as committed to his bit as a lot of us.

I don't think it's a bit which I think anybody listens to. What you're saying is when casey is reading those show .

notes that were obvious itt thing that .

cares of and and .

in his work, cline has the producer in to interview .

him and casey will say and I don't think casey can act. So I don't think it's a bit casey will say, I don't know which one of you put this in here and every .

single time because my famous for always doing his homework.

it's probably marker every every time I have to paul, my airports and I I have to laugh out loud. I have every single time IT is, I don't know which one of you to be here .

and I know and then of course, then later on, accused will say somebody will find that for .

notes and I think really.

will someone find that? Is that somebody or is that that you basically talking to casey? We have a small support group I can kit super do, but is another another now the number of people who have to deal with people like john circus in in their life, and we talked each other quietly about, we turn out to give his attention because they'll find out that what we're doing, we're doing wrong, even the way that we're talking to each other.

But we all need this is like the election in a lot of ways. We're got to stick together. We're got to stick to our values. What's wasn't to let me around? I'm going to talk about scissors.

I wanted to start. I want to start. But the last time you run the show and shame on me because just shame on me, I was I was actually two years ago, october twenty, twenty two.

I can't believe IT. I feel like you're on all the time, but that was two years ago. But I I think that was even at the end of the episode we got to talking about nail clippers and you made a suggestion to me .

to buy a certain japanese brand c ka .

or similar name .

of something like that. Ah, C, K, I, K, I look here. Look, and I.

yeah, yeah, yeah. Listers.

i'm going to general my computer camera now.

And I, I, I needed a new pair. And you said they were Better. And I actually do believe I as soon as you said IT, I I was their new clippers and I must they cost they're not they're more expensive than the the gas station new clippers that most people buy for dollar forty, but they're not.

People put get into whether it's sushi nail clippers .

to gas station cells because I get to you next time you buy again, next time you buy gas, don't pay at the pump, go inside, get yourself a beverage.

And when he wonder, is the I ask the guy.

if they sell no clippers.

I guarantee you one hundred percent.

There is one hundred percent chance .

they sell new clippers. There is eight are sharp as how .

there is a hundred percent chance that they sell USB cables and charges hundred percent chance. And there is an eighty five percent chance they sell pink on balls.

pink ball. Now that's something where you that's an organic thing where you learn your community, right? It's like you can have, like Robert muller candles.

I don't think the guy that is, I believe, IT for beer pong and what you really shouldn't be doing right.

shouldn't be playing .

on a road trip, but discovered things .

that are for marijuana that I don't call about. We're like there's more things that I think might be for marijuana and in that case is a similar kind of thing where you're like you got to be a bit, a bit cover for this. Anyway, you told me to buy A K, I, K, I, C, K, but anyway.

I was pretty disposed anyway. You could told me to buy them. And if they could have been from north korea and I still would bottom, but I happen to think i'm a fan of japanese design and the japanese tia approach to design.

And I think things like not our kitchen knives upstairs are japanese and they're very nice and have wonderful handles. I happened to think, as soon as you said, I thought, I bett, the japanese can make a half and nail clipper. I, but they can.

And if the truth is IT is one of the best little things I have ever bot, IT is they are the best nail clippers. I can't imagine how they could be Better. And I have had IT in my head.

I was like, I I didn't even write IT down. And I write everything down because I forget up. There was one hundred percent chance, no matter what, whether you came back last year, no election, whether you came back today to talk about a holiday party, whatever. I was not going to forget to thank you for this nail clipper recommendation, because one thing about have set a nail clippers is you need to use them. I think I like I once every ten gate ten days nail clip guy, I don't know, but I think most people already want to depends .

like in a different playing guitar like you've gotta ep kind of trimmed on my left hand. But also it's one of those things kind of like a knife where IT might seem like every knife is pretty much the same as you, the sharp parts, not or whatever, but like he developed and you're not a weirdos like one of those weirdos with their case ful of knife. They got a CIA top chef weirdos.

But you'll discover all this kind of knife, I can depend on IT being this kind of way. Having the confidence with their clips will add a little bit of quality year, lot of life because they will, they work. So you're not the problem with a dolly knife.

There's a lot of problem with the dolly knife, including its ways you to cut yourself, but it's also you develop a lack of counter and yeah absolutely but you like if you trying to cut up an orange size, like for an old fashion and you know that you like, i'm a big knife sharpener I love sharpening, nice but like to know that but like you're gna be like mincy about IT and then pretty soon, like keep in sharpened was what i'm saying get these, it'll make a difference. Quality of life. I keep prepared in my in my talk from being on, well.

what happened and I mention them when I did. The sponsors for tiptop are found matter pants arena now right says since leaving technical and please join tiptop as I don't even know what is title is but you know, is Matthew hands arena there is is him but on the side, his running his own website to a blog as you, as a wear, which is not dead, and which I encourage anybody out there thought about starting one, and is to inspire, to change, to do IT.

But he runs a great one called the obsess, or which is like a great name for what he does. And couple August twenty, and faith, he wrote a headline, the best nail clippers you'll ever use. And he had a recommendation for a nail clipper.

And I thought, all this is even greater, because next time merlins on, I can hit my friend Matthews choice against marlins choice, and i'm going to buy the one that Matthews recommending and see how they compared to the one i've been using for two years from my power marine. yeah. And then I got to the pictures showed, wo that looks a look a lot .

like the w use I might avoid about from Kevin.

He calls his the Green bell. G one thousand eight. And I I knew the year.

yeah. But there they are. In fact, from the same.

What about this from Kevin Kelly side? I'm not sure, isn't not all areas. Why be is glad the information getting out there.

He picks a different model. He's got a bigger model, sort of a maybe more of a tonio clipper, to be honest, got a bigger model. And in fact, just I don't know if you knew this, he's actually photographed with a bunch of sitters for some reason appeal.

But anyway, i'm going to put this link in the shown notes. And anybody out there is using spare gas station nail clippers. Get these.

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I want to thank you. And somebody had parents. You're so welcome as something that I think you time I T A single time that dark. Okay.

I think you know .

to pick how people remember you in life, but somebody who grew up as A D A child of the depression era people, boy, fancy new clip is about the last thing in the world.

like every single time I cut my nails and i'm taking, I think, single time with this, every time I at least pops into my head. I I thank my friend marland for recommending these. To me, these are clearly superior.

They, they cut Better. They last longer. The lever is smoother, the grip, the the little circles on the grip that they're comfortable. Everything about people .

find yourself because and before your family do actually have families that worked in mining at some point yeah I think yeah.

Grandfather died of black long disease. He went to work in a coal mine and outside possible pensylvania when he finished, I built I think he finished death grade or else he was like he's dad told him to stop going eighth grade and you we .

need you but you've got people in your family where i'm what i'm curious, do you ever find yourself thinking like it's their stuff of course, where you go oh my god H I wish bend Franklin could see how torch or something but you go oh my god. I'm so grateful that I got my grandfather does not have to know about certain aspects of my life. And this one I thought about enough.

I think about IT all the time. I mean, this one I actually wrote down and never do anything with that. But I imagine this is a dialogue between me and my grandfather.

My grandfather is, how can I like bob? Us dollars. And I say a great call. You can use your phone to turn in on and on. 好。 And my grandfather and my imagination says, you call your twenty dollar light bold to start and on and off.

And I would say, sort of and he would say, well, I hope it's a local call because how do you we can be explained, my grandfather from south america. But no, I have this one because I can make a less yellow, less blue light in the room. And I control IT all.

And by the way, it's all gotten so much worse in the last five years. Everything I own has become ungoverned. Nothing works anymore.

My voice, my dictations on my film finally broke. Like everything is as the thing. Maybe I can say everything is catching on fire.

It's all falling apart. My grandfather was right all along. Sorry.

great. I do. And I do think if you wanted tide back to the election, I think that I .

do something really. Do you do think .

apparently people, people around the world are are truth is an .

awful lot of the truth. We even mal clip. The obvious truth is.

and it's not a partisan thing, IT is not a partisan thing. IT affects both saw everybody, but there is a large the elector that is necessary to achieve a majority who do not really look beyond the present tense. And IT is exemplified in the results here in the us. This week by people who lived through trump s four years in office and seemingly don't remember any of IT like just you'd say you remember the time he blank, which is the thing that not only happened but is on on db on camera and was we played many times because .

I was ridiculous putting bleaching your arms yeah during .

that the time when IT what if some really bad a true crisis happens and people are dying and we actually need leadership in the White house? And we had a guy up there who on the fly, took over the daily press conference from the actual scientists .

and suggested.

I think you guy, I believe that was the same time. He also, in addition to the possibility the bleach in the reverent might be a suggestion, there was bright lights .

and and said, okay, so I gotto stop this right now, because this is making me sick. I, I think you are not giving this guy the credit to use. So he has been told by people who are some of the greatest professors, not just in america, but in the world.

At MIT, including an MIT he did, he did go accomplish in pensylvania, which is no small matter, but he knows, for example, he's been told by many, many improved ent scholars. I don't know this scholars of sharks or batteries, but they believe that his response to the famous shark versus battery cannon rim might be the smartest way they've ever heard to deal with the shark versus battery. Also, he has passed two cognitive tests. Me, he ask them, in his words, first and woman, first. Camera.

man, T, V, woman, man. Camera, T, V. He's still remembers them.

and he's still very low of bread stick a bus. You know what .

you know what to be. So many people have set up, but it's associated acted that he has now spent five fucking years bringing about acing is a test for if you get one wrong, they call your family, they go to that sheet that says, who do we call this an emergency and they call your family and they were we're going to have to have a hard conversation about grandpa.

And yeah, we kind of like going like like I totally A I, I, I E am very strong.

going to be able to let him drive home.

That's the test .

that he brags about any sorry people.

sorry people, are you're taking the train now, but do you let me I will say just let me say .

this at the point is I do wanted to make IT before the shows over IT. For people, to I honest, to feel a little Better, is IT is global. We can look outside the us.

And globally. There has been in the last year, two years now the covet is over. There has been a .

fished out anti it's .

not right wing in some countries that is its anti bassy though that people saw the okay covers over and inflation is inevitable. It's inevitable after the government after everything shuts down and the government has to pump p money .

into the economy to keep and sorry, but is in passing and that nobody likes to see their dad cry, but once you seen your dad cry, your dad can cry to see these governments that by in large, whether that trudeau or after, whoever had mostly been prety pretty reliable, you seen your dead crime? No, like you've seen, oh, this can fail, like this can go bad. And I think that had a huge impact. What you think about in terms of competency or community care, what how do you think about IT? I think that leaves a mark on people's trust of whole body systems.

And just know, yeah that that happened and IT was let's get rid of them and put in competence out new people in because I don't like IT and inflation was like that. These Prices are crazy high for whatever. And they were they are all sorts of Prices went up and who people immediately just looked, who's in office now? Well, here was the biden, and there IT was the the tories.

But if you look at the other countries around the world that have thrown out the incumbent by large margin in U. K, which they do, we have a special relationship, as they say with them, called the, we share a language of my debate, how much there was a forty seven point swing in the election results that put cheers, stormer in and got the reach. Whatever, whatever the tories, I mean, the tories were in trouble. I mean.

go the lady who didn't .

last as long as come back.

it'll be found .

the one who didn't last as long as I .

head to let us, the prime minister.

But forty seven point swing, forty seven point swing. And you go a country after country. Fifteen point swing, twenty point Young and it's not all to the right. If there were the party .

was trying to say, I knew you're giving people hope, but this is what I was trying to say about even different ways to slice up and understand how the stuff worked.

The old labels are not working that there is an argument in the context of what's happened to the incoming parties post cover around the world that the seven point swing we saw this in the united states is by far the smallest swing of any of the western countries. We will consider our peers and therefore further proof the commonly Harris ran the best or of IT is close to the best campaign we could possibly hope. So good in second.

Yeah, we're really good.

really good. How about a pair scissors? Can you tell me? Like to spend some money?

Oh, well.

this shopping makes me feel Better.

Well, shopping makes me feel good. A lot like busting in my house. These are our sister I learned about from mark ormen.

And they're called. I put up, I think I put out. I can't tell.

Search k AI. These are scissors. These are the big ones.

I get big ones. I get little ones. Now here's the thing. If you're like me, i'm gesturing that, you know, i'm sorry, that's aggressive.

But if you're like me and you grew up the child of people who came up during the depression, you know, the notion of the good scissors, the good scissors. This is an idea that stuck with me through my whole life. Don't use the good scissors.

It's only recently in my life and i've covered this. Please put a link to my document that I wh people talk about more in the wisdom that limo, you can go to this. If you got good scissors, use good scissors.

What are you saving IT for? What are you save in the chicken breast that you cook? fork? Are you going to eat IT? It's not a museum. Do something with that in my feeling, is even as frustrated as I got with my Young person about all the mini disappearing scissors in our house. I am now believer in getting good scissors and using.

using them for everything .

can do whatever seems like when you, as I feel, I can feel like my grandparents sensibility, like ringing in my brain, as I, I don't know these are too nice to use. And I do. You spent twenty boxon scissors.

Why don't you use them for step? Would they make rect? Okay, then you get different ones or not. But way that we americans try to keep them, like you people, you people with the plastic on your furniture, it's crazy. Like what I enjoy, like a couch, instead of tried to enjoy like or no like some kind of like an ability that needs to be easily cleaned up.

These are called high sures.

K, I learned about this from maro and will tell you what marco told me. He said, marine, you're you going to get these scissors and you're going to cut yourself on them and I say, thank you. So I probably will get the scissor cut. I still be clear you're gonna get these, sir but really certainly you will cut yourself from them as at all maro, i'm not in the habit of cutting myself once there's i'm a big boy strong like bull what i'm going to tell you, you will cut yourself on these but only god, I don't know if you see what I do. I .

tell little.

but I K A, oh, kind of just swell. Don't do the D K, A. Treat yourself.

yeah. You know what more in this household is well known that you can .

go to that about one of those. You can go and and japanese. You can go to dad's office and go to dad is desk.

and you can find a good, a decent para scissor. And it's a thing in this household because you know who the one person is, who sometimes is sitting this one and this one in every one person who is sometimes sitting at my desk and looks over to the cup where there should be two parasite scs, and there's none is me because it's like i'm not going to say who i'm not gonna drop name is one boy here.

There are, there are other people who live in the house and including a person who now only lives in the house, like over the summer yesterday. Interesting, when they do go to my desk to take my scissors, seem to forget to bring them back. And you know what has occurred to me? And I think you can probably imagine my private itself is not that different than my podcast self that I I don't rant and rave, I don't spit, doesn't come out of my mouth when I address the issue. But IT has occurred to me that what I could do is just by a several parts, more scissors. Oh, oh, oh, oh.

john, this is such a strategy. No, we used to do that. I'm trying to i'm struggling to find something for you, which is on the real .

why my wife of my kid's .

room and come out with a basket of six pairs of scissors, five or eight rules of tape, like all the stuff that could be like in the service of being in eight year old, my kid was stockpiling like a doomed proper and you didn't know that's where are six? I thought, I thought I was by enough sizzles to keep up. But then there's the thing, it's other should be a named for this like a morphs law thing.

But so SHE redeploy them, they're gone. I'd do the same thing with the utility nights. Oh yeah, I deploy these around the house.

There's, I have lots of different ones of these. But you know what? Life is too shortly. Look at this. God damage. Look at this. I get two pairs of beef of the the good nail clipper is right here on my desk and very organized.

Yeah, but that's smart.

But do IT can life too short? So what points do you get for keeping the scissors?

nice. right? You can stop yourself before you get to getting a phone call in the people who run the horders T, V.

Show nail clips. I don't want election. Yeah, you don't want that call.

You can stop yourself before them, but you can buy a pair, two more nail clippers or scissors than you need, and and never be short. So, ky, scissors, i'm going to try this. I'm going to buy a pair.

OK, you will, can I check? T I check? I know you're going to suggest a pair scissors. And so I actually looked at my desk, and I, I have one pair of scissors at my desk, and I said, I should IT always. I wish you could see my three.

I mean, going to send you photo because I just can't be anywhere that I could go anywhere, but I have so much of everything everywhere. But what i've learned as a dad and as a god american is you will benefit from deploying important things around the house. Hey, did you know it's OK to hide more than one key outside? Did you know that sounds crazy, right? But put IT in two non obvious places instead of one.

My advice would be to put IT off site, not on. sir. It's so kick now, if you like my lady and you fancy pultzer that he used to spatchcock a bird part on my french, we will try to sometimes move those aside, because those are special for spatchcock.

There was, there was a time where Jones took her kitchen sides and and there was yelling about, we use those for food for whatever purpose he was using them. And all I did was in still believe that, yes, the way to go to take appearance's is go to the daddies office member member, the far as know there's no yelling .

what we say versus what dogs here. Oh yeah, but blood ginger, blob of ginger. I mean, that's a lot of IT by blaw, by more scissors blow blew by more.

I have a sage. I have a say, you know that I love the the physical waters. And I. I believe IT broke during the pandemic. I don't know when I did, but I for years and .

years I used the so distress s and made one. I like a very it's a lot .

of work and you know and I broke and again is very marco in ATP heavy episode here but my friend marco, while visiting him in his lovely family at this there each several years ago, I encountered this brand house.

You can not get I heard about IT from mark to you can't get IT here. It's like trying to .

get you go can get IT go to a is go to asis com.

There is full belly where you can get like a three hundred dollar pizza delivered.

Is that kind of? No.

it's not that OK. Tell me tell me again what it's called. Where are .

going a wasis snacks? That com is a rest I become to order.

But that's okay.

But how's new york capture? I've heard great things.

I heard great things.

IT is so in cry, if you like extra physio, you.

we talk about this. You and I have really refreshed the envelope on what's safe to do .

yeah and should my busy water.

if I make myself that burns, don't stock around with my phy water, you get my room. You're going to remember that leaves a mark.

I am telling you that I buy IT and I buy in bulk and I have its down here in the basement and i'm telling you that there are by the time it's time to reorder, I have like a twenty four pack of the plastic bottle.

This is this has assets.

I will have twenty four packs of bottles that has been sitting completely inert for weeks, probably months. So i'm not like I was just on the truck and the guy was shaking IT up. I mean, hasn't been touched in months. A guy can carefully open IT, take out the bottle. And if i'm unlucky, when I unscrew the top, the that have physical.

what is that? You get that kind of a leader. Now I don't .

like a leader. I get, I get the twenty eight bottles o but I just I actually just reordered and I am trying the tall boy cans again because i'm not quite sure I liked the idea of put the the cap back on. But I often times when I go back to IT and drink .

the second hand a soccer, you learn that in the eighties and the two leader.

it's already yeah ah and when the whole point of the houses, the fish, it's so I bought a twenty four pack of cans in the shipment that I think literally arrived while we were recording this. I've got a notification that band kind of put me in that. So because it's sort of IT, it's a shitty thing to get delivered. Several cases of fizz water now on the spectrum .

of you said free delivery.

I would I I kind of wish I had answered the door rather than you yeah but a in addition of that, I have another brand to recommend. This is for the the flavor stuff. You ever heard of the spin drift? Heard the spin drift is like a competitor to join a blanket a because I hate them. What's the name of that brand that everybody buys with?

Look with with the is very not is enough for me.

I does not pyy enough. And I find all of their flavors taste incredibly artificial. I like .

somebody said a long time ago, it's like why you put you put a candle in the bathroom so that when you take a shit, you can like the candle and i'll smoke a candle plus s somebody just took a shit. That's how I feel when somebody has me a, quote, flavored water. And I say, are, are you testing me, say, and handing me what is called a flavor water?

Spindrift is not super physical, but IT is physio.

That flavorful one. My shrink k recommended another one of those for the new. They have a purple one. They have a grape or a line is nice.

It's just, in most cases, a taste like, what does that? An x used to say, used to say zim. M A tase like diet spirit with a cheese after taste.

So many of them have this weird taste that's like somebody took a hit in your bathroom and let a candle. I think that should be the new bench work. How many canals did you give this?

Zimmer, there was always, there always these faces of these. Cris, 对不起。 And za, but sometimes they are alcoholic and last for two years. But the messaging of zima is if you don't like the taste of alcoholic beverages that you that are traditional, try za, which doesn't taste IT all like them and is actually .

discuss just like a and it's like a take yeah like a colonoscopy prep it's .

like why are .

you even flying flavor in or in or strong for well.

this is not alcoholic and on my twenty sixteen and I have not been yes, drinking in the aftermath curtail. But spindrift is like A I really like this. I don't like every flavor, but I never got a bad S.

I got a wasted snacks.

Now I think part of the secret, part of the secret is the spin drift is not a zero calorie beverage, but IT is not the and this is a personal preference. If you're out there and you have a task profile like I have moved away from sweet sodas, which I used to see me like A.

I drink in such, I drink like old man cans.

Now on a yeah and now I know why .

the old people drink. Does little blood wizard and stuff now I makes me feel like hundred the giant when I this little tiny doctor pepper, what how does doesn't keep me a .

but I and I know many people looking to cut down on the calories of sugar beverages switch to the the zero ones like coke zero famously, which are zero calories, but they substitute the server with the other sweetener. I like things that have no added sweetener. I've gotten the need for sweetness out of my pilot part of IT getting older. Part of IT is just by drinking IT, so they don't add any sweetener spinner, but they do use real ingredients. So here's the ingredients of their passion fruit, orange guava island punch, which is one of my favorites.

Too many words, the .

island unch all the IT tastes s like. Island punch is a good name o here's the ingredients, carbonates water, guv, a para passion fruit juice, orange juice, crc acid.

That's not that that could be a lot worse.

Oh, and IT is thirteen calories, so very close, very low color. I don't think anybody is going to say I gained weight. My pants don't fit because i've been drinking these thirteen calories spd's, but it's not that chemically .

taste of yeah, no, I know. I know exactly .

what you mean. Yes, I really like this. I like this .

island punch. Try bunch .

IT to get a variety pack.

Like, sure, you know anything .

else you want to recommend?

how?

Now I got one.

but me, now people aren't here for me. They're here for you. I really think I have his lane.

Let me see what I got. anything? Let's little do you think if there's anything I can change somebody's life? Let me look conversation with my grandfather, my election log. I'm in drafts, so i'm all I can always recommend drafts when I was invite you share me back caisses, how do I fix my apple dictation? No, I think that's probably mostly IT.

You want to hear? You want to hear about the nano texture.

a macbook pro displaying IT, just impossibly briefly.

I don't .

know if that's plenty, but keep going. I love IT good. Okay, I like, I like. I like. I, no, you, you know, I like.

Guess you should let me want to talk about computers sometime, because I ve got to say about computers. I don't i'm just going to say like stuff like be going to bring up your phone on your mac is really nice. Yeah, nice.

I mean, you very quickly. It's one of the things like running in a way more the worst few minutes. Ter, like this is uncanny. So then after that, you're like, this is the aling way I ever want.

Let me tell how I know that. That's an feature. So I just I upgraded late to the fifty macos fifteen.

somebody who hates you talking about technology.

but I upgraded late to macs fifteen. And in hindi, when I did, I was like, you know what, this is no big deal somehow I with all this shit over the summer, with people talking, yeah, you got all these warnings recording stuff and it's annoying and I wrote about IT and get a good about preferences. And then I am going to wait, i'm going to wait a month.

Top grade, my max is too important, and i'm very precious about IT. But in the hind side, I should have just upgraded weeks ago, but anyway, upgraded and I got the iphone mirror. And on my grand, this is great.

I did. Everybody says this great. And I really like IT, and this is a lot of great.

And track pad over there, add my desk next to my my computer, and then spent the last week reviewing the using a sixteen and macbook pro m for the new one, which apple said me is a review in at which, you know, a sensibly I would have already reviewed today, but even because I don't know, you know, there is election this week, remember that but they also sent me the new magic track pad with U. S. B, C.

And there's obviously some kind of bug. IT looks just like the one, but there's some kind of bug and I don't know what that is. I heard the keyboard .

doesn't work on some current data. Yes.

there is a thing if you like. Yes, something is going on with these new magic preferable. But none of I don't think they .

even worth if clave and all that stuff, there must be a lot of stuff going on. It's like why vulnerable people that .

that can be the track pet story.

So mad john, I really on but anyway.

the magic track pad with U S B C, even though i'm on the new machine that supposed sed that can be compared with when I use IT IT with the iphone mirrors. APP scrolling works at one thousand. The th Epace i t's a lmost i s t hat e ven w orking a t a ll? Oh no, moved to pixel.

There's something wrong. And I went back to the lightning trackpad with the same computer and IT just worked in that go fix IT. It's a bug. But IT was just proof that even after a week of using the iphone mirrors with living to when I couldn't score with this new computer, with the new track pad, yes, on this one APP that I thought, ah that's cute. Sometimes I i'll use my iphone like I need I need to finish up this review and go back something to work so I could use my iphone, iphone maring. I realized how much already.

That's one reason I wanted to mention. So we had to do by friday chAllenge a couple weeks, couple three weeks ago to. To the, if impossible, just to use voice to text on your map, which was easy for me, because I use IT a lot.

And I i've passed the important thing, which is I now know which kinds of things are faster than others. And i'm talking about him, the thing in the lower right hand corner, which you cannot make part of a shortcut. It's very frustrated to me because I wanted everywhere and boys' ce, for whatever reason I stopped working.

I've tried to bunch of things I really wonder, bring that to you because I didn't really see how addicted I was to location detect until I was a working and IT works with my airpower. It's really weird, but IT seems to be not sure as the keyboard. But anyway, the point being like that's how you know it's good.

Who's my tip for you? I'm going to say IT again. So I think I talked to over you if you think you might like the iphone mirror and you're OK with the risk, but all means that command comma and turn on automatically.

Block me in and remember because if you don't have to end, so if you've been doing IT and entering your passport each time, that's a success game like you. But to haven't be just another window you bring up. And also if you play with this in july and don't have earned up today, command ship plus command shift minus will change the size of the window on your mac so you can actually make IT a little smaller. Common, one command, two command, take you through stuff.

It's brilliant when you know what is the default to making IT like a one to one real .

sized ed thing yeah so you .

can definitely so change the size. And I realize that. And I think this is one of those areas where apple not explaining itself is what's given me a career.

So I can explain things that they explain themselves because they just don't. But it's like, why is the default? And you know, apple knows how important the default settings are.

And they have in the recent era, I would say fifteen to twenty years, gotten religious about minimizing the number of options their own software offers. right? There was the go. The gogo eighties and nineties were like.

hey, and at least because, like, make a preference to be me trying to track down what is wrong with the dictation means, constantly returning to completely different areas of settings on my phone. So I need to double check the language settings, for example, in keyboard, but then I also need to, like, clear up the cash. In theory, dictation history, these are all kinds of things that I think apple is really trying to get Better at minimizing and saying, this is the way you most people use that you should be fine.

right? And so you'd set up iphone mirrors, which very easy to enable on your phone and on your mac. And the default is you have dinner a password every time that starts up.

And you think, well, that's for a reason, because apple does things for a reason. And so you leave IT on and you're not going to use IT as much and you should definitely do that more. And I think but here's why that's the defauts. You know why is the default?

Because that makes people feel safer .

and IT might people some people use their max in a family contest where the kids just sit down in front of the max and they they don't do the everybody a .

bit in every T, V show where somebody plugs in their iphone or like first playing and they like you hear the dirty message somebody left on somebody's phone. You don't want that up on the screen.

It's kind of a shame that apple doesn't advertise the fact that IT is so easy to set up your .

own user accounts on the password thing I mentioned. Have you already done .

that for iphone? mirror?

Yeah, I remember my password.

Yeah, yeah, I did thirty.

Maybe folks are aware of that. And that's the thing. Is that a again, change? If you can tolerate that amount you trust, if you can .

trust that the only person using your mac is someone who should have instant access to the contents of prompt, you sometimes, yeah IT will reprocess t you. But I nobody else uses my mac. So it's no inner, but it's off by default of people a feel Better and so that people in a context where their kids or their spouse or whatever also use the same makers, they can't like quick pick up their phone.

But everybody like us, and probably most people who are the only people who use their mac or at least their mac user account and the only people who use their phone, turn that off and just get easy access. And IT is a game changer. And you will go if you've been like, I don't see why people are making a big fuss over this, you'll go to, oh, this is amazing and I can't believe that into .

this ten years ago. Yeah, totally great.

Alright, marine, I think that's IT. You feel.

you feel good. You share a lot today, and you feel, you feel in burned. We feel reburning.

I feel determined.

determined.

Yeah.

I feel more than ever, like I way out of touch three times in the last two days, independent of seeking out memes. I've seen the the picture of, seen more skinner looking through the broken window and asking, is the children that are wrong or him? But i'm, i'm, i'm determined that the people I care about they'll deserve to be cared about, even if it's unpopular with people. I don't know.

My wife had an interesting observation, and I not original, but just, I wish i'd written the dog because he put IT very succinctly, but SHE said, and he feels SHE really feels Better this time than when I came with me, feels Better personally because she's braced for IT knowing that this is going to be worse and he said, i'm going to do what they do is i'm not going to pay attention to what the fucker .

does and yeah.

they don't do IT that and they're proud of IT and i'm not proud of IT. But yeah, just don't pay attention to what he does even after he takes office, but is especially specially between now and then there there is no point to IT just don't pay attention to IT just tunit don't tune of life, just find something else you care about and IT could be something important.

something important. Social times games. I don't play the world, but I play the other ones .

and go nose down, go nose down. And if if you're favorite to social network, if you've been using master on your threads or the blue sky, the old one, and you go there and it's just just freak close IT or delete the APP from your phone, but you don't have to delete your account, just delete the APP, just get rid of IT. You can go downloaded and again, if you want to but deleted, you not pay attention to find something there is so much more. And I am already just one day in just, uh, just finding that the focus I can get by, I don't want to pay attention to that. So i'm onna pay attention to this and .

I was always available to you, but now you have more reason than ever to with that agency.

IT doesn't have be useful, could be becoming a model train guy in your, know, that's me, a three printing.

I mean, prety pressing and music. And I was trying to sell on broom's yesterday. I dought you've listen to IT, but I was trying to sell you on.

I have so many things prepared for today that we're not going to get tube, including my list of things that I think cheers me up and I hope cheese, other people up of a really good youtube bliss. But honestly, things like listening to the bali and three d printing has been really good for me. And my blood pressure, which is something I work on, is like having something I can really focus on.

And I can can always apply the same kind of of skills i've always tried to apply, which is things like catching myself heading into an area. I don't want to go with that from a productivity standpoint or an emotional standpoint. I mean, you can 3d print too much。 You can listen to too much for all.

I like all the things can happen but well, and i'm not trying to be a fancy that saying that i'm saying everybody forgot sick people. I like fucking life matters. Go find something that very much thing, even to be distracted.

But you need something to do with your hands and with your eyes, and that doesn't enough to be jamming your cullet with more and more bizarre information that that somehow keys you up. Like, I understand I have A D H D, which means that my body has a problem doing healthy things about dopamine. And with dopamine, I totally understand that, but you do always have the choice to do.

But selling me a part, you always have the ability to do the thing that you want to do with that information. And with that ability, and I think it's up, a little bit of a thread is running through what we're saying. I wanna telling you anything you don't know.

We're just reminding you what you already know, which you can leave the morning, keep caring about the things that you that you care about. Don't cut muscle. We should probably have some action pots at the end and maybe a way to if you will get a sponsor for that.

Maybe I could be keep brought you by some kind of meal service company, but don't let go of all those things just because you're losing your god down. Mind this a side benefit of any kind of a practice of anything approaching meditation is developing the ability to to s prema children who has accept that you're the sky of the weather, do not feel like everything. Every feeling that inhabits you have to define you.

You always got the executive function to hit the escape key and about which I mean, vi escape key not isn't like jump out of a plane, but like like just kind of pop out of what you're doing, do a level set, think about what you're doing. And i'm not trying to be i'm not trying to be calling about this, but find your version of three d printing in the wald that which might trying to family they pretty you know people love because all the ones we received this children now. But i'm just saying, like kate observer, any piece of advice I try to leave off, end up with just having to be a person who grew up in america, go easy on yourself that you think you deserve and say love you, say I love you, everybody who deserves IT and care about the stuff you care about. And if you want to turn that into a form of what that's activists and more outreach, whatever is, you can do that, okay. But before we ever get to that, that zero is don't come muscle and donor band in the stuff that does mean a lot to you just because a stranger says that will make them like you.

See in four years.