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Speaker: Hey, Blake, thanks for joining us. Hey, say Blake. Hey, Blake. How's it going? Hey, I'm good. Say Blake, I hear like some fun. Yeah. Kendrick. That's Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker: It's Kendrick dissing you and because he heard that you liked fun. i always know of you to do like a lot of remember how when Kendrick, I feel like first got popular, you started doing all the little voices. oh yeah. Oh, I kind of associate that with you as well.
Speaker: You said when Kendrick first got popular. Yeah, when Pierce first got popular, he spoke in his voice. When first got popular, it was for my Kendrick impression. Yeah. He got popular off of this. Okay.
Speaker: um Blake is here. Blake is the creator of Horse Race Tests and many other ah splendid digital media projects. And he also, I think, is ah one of our one of our most loyal listeners.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. I listen to this thing all the time. ah What's the best episode? ah The Ivy Walk episode. Yeah, I don't even think that's a controversial take. I think people think that we get along with Ivy.
Speaker: People say, i didn't like this Ivy Walk character until she went on Chamber of Reason, and now it's all clicking. I said that to you. here i thought i thought, well... You thought she was not that great.
Speaker: I won't get into it. Okay, what's our worst episode? What's your worst episode? Which one really did nothing for you? bleep out so that our listeners can discover for themselves what it is.
Speaker: You probably haven't even done it yet. That's good point. There's an episode that I felt was not like the others, and it was a bit punishing. There's a punishing element to it, but I did like it, but i did I do feel like... Well, the thing is, I feel like you guys are artists, so I'm not supposed to have like...
Speaker: a good time. You're really keeping us in suspense here. Yeah. you know it's been having Well, the one, the one where you guys were just listing off, you're, you're going through the political compass.
Speaker: And, and then when you went to the, I think you, was that a two part episode? no yeah smart Matthew's political. When, when, I felt like you guys just had to commit to the ah concept. And by the second part, I felt like you all didn't want to do it. But I also felt like had to see it through to understand your artistry.
Speaker: um And I appreciated it, but I and didn't have a good time listening to that. yeah no We were struggling to understand our artistry during that episode, too. Yeah. it was kind of an experiment.
Speaker: Right. I really appreciate that because I forgot about that episode. it is definitely our worst episode. I forgot that it's a two-parter. We spent so much time just answering questions and trying to answer serious questions in a funny way.
Speaker: I think that was also what was strange is because... Well, I'd never really understand when... if any of you three are joking or not and I felt like it kind of like wore down the the irony like I felt like you just kind of were like no i just I can't you like you couldn't keep up with it anymore that's a very good observation it's very it was very serious we were beaten by the political compass we were beaten by a quiz
Speaker: There's some serious stuff in there, I think. We spent 30 minutes on the call before you came on not figuring out. if We never got on the same page to see who was joking and who wasn't, and we wasted 30 minutes trying to figure out if we were all joking or if none of us were joking, and then nothing got done.
Speaker: We still never fully figured it out, though I have my i have some hunches about it. It was a complete disaster. was kind of like a little puzzle. in some way.
Speaker: And we should be doing puzzles also on some of our bonus episodes. I do feel like the bonus episodes are, it's it's sort of the place where it can be a sandbox for experimentation and play and new kinds of podcasts.
Speaker: New kinds of play. Joyless play. Derek also had an idea for us to do a Chamber of Reason like symposium writer's room with someone taking minutes and notes on what we were talking about to like figure out the nature of our podcast.
Speaker: And that was also something where we couldn't decide if we were joking or not throughout the episode. Did you already do that? We did that, but we haven't released it yet because it's literally unlistenable. unlistenable. It is basically an exercise in competitive kayfabe.
Speaker: The bit, and i you know I take full blame for this because it was my idea, is that we would drop kayfabe and we would sincerely talk about what it means to be doing this podcast and um like our relationships with each other and you know our our problems with recording and we would hash it all out. We would have like a writer's assistant there taking meetings and then we would plan future episodes in this writer's meeting.
Speaker: um And it's obviously not... You already did this though. That's just a terrible idea. We did this and it didn't work. it Did you have a guest? It was wrong to do it. We had someone taking minutes and ostensibly trying to kind of mediate.
Speaker: That was their role. Well, if you're not going to release it, you could just do it again. i don't know. Wait, what would be the point of that? It was a failure. well you Well, no one is going to hear it, so can do one that people can hear.
Speaker: Well, we should just do it again, but correctly. We should release two episodes every week, one that no one can hear and one that people can one that's audible.
Speaker: We should fail and have our failures exist, but not necessarily be accessible. Yeah, it's like a little like Wu-Tang Clan. Yeah. if If someone pays $10,000 a month, they can hear the unreleasable Chamber of Reason recordings.
Speaker: guys are a little bit like Wu-Tang Clan, a little bit like Kendrick Lamar is in Wu-Tang Clan. They all have funny voices. Everyone sounds funny when they're singing along to a big song, in my view.
Speaker: Is that true? People sound funny? People sound funny when they're making music. They sound ridiculous. there's definite There's no way of getting around that. Did you say there's no getting around that?
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: yeah hell yeah um i wanted to find one question about spore the game spore but the so far the best question i found on the entire spore subreddit is do i have to re-download spore if i already downloaded it is blake a big spore guy i i i don't know so i like talking about spore though i I think like everybody else who played Spore, think I downloaded a cracked copy.
Speaker: and think it's one of the most... pirated games of all time. I think you're right. And I loved making little ah creatures. It's a pretty whack game outside of being able to do that.
Speaker: All the other prototypes are good. I like that game. I guess where it goes at the end of the game really doesn't make any sense. You're like you're suddenly like a a galactic empire or something. And that part's not very good.
Speaker: i like I do like the part where it's just little critters and then they can um kill each other based on whether or not they have longer legs. did you ever play Sporer, Matthew? No.
Speaker: Was it about spores? Or you control spores or something? It was supposed to be the first everything game where you start as a cell and then you evolve your creature until it's tribal, then civilizational, and then spacefaring.
Speaker: um But there was a 30-minute teaser that showed all this crazy complexity. And then when the game finally shipped, it was basically just like six horrible minigames and one character designer.
Speaker: they They took out all the complexity because um it was supposed to be determined like your character would walk different if it had different shaped legs or whatever. it would all be generative. But they took it all out because they were like, shit, no one's going to want to play this.
Speaker: It's going to too hard for the toddlers that are target demographic. They took it out as in they had a game that was cool like that. And I think they they could have had a game or they only put all those resources into a trailer for the game. Right. Sort of like those iPhone game trailers.
Speaker: Yes. They just realized it wasn't it wasn't fun at all. But the all the prototypes are online. It's pretty cool. You can poke around. really Here's a question I have um for Blake, which is not from Reddit. This is just from the heart.
Speaker: You're a games guy. You've done game jams. This is your thing. Games don't have to be fun, right? Okay, that's not really a good question. It's very leading. But right, you agree with me? That's my question.
Speaker: Do you agree with what I said? Well, I think there's a big thing about um intent. And of course, you've probably played a game that's intended to be fun.
Speaker: And it's not fun. So I think that's the most obvious example. A lot of games are not fun. Not intentionally, but because... I'm a mistake. But if a game is not fun intentionally, then um the author has succeeded. There's usually another intention to replace it.
Speaker: Replace the fun intention. If an artist seeks out to make something not fun and people do have fun with it, that artist has failed. there's also that is also true. Or if an um if a games company releases a game intending to make money and they don't, that means the game is bad.
Speaker: and And if a company tries to lose money and they actually receive money, that money ill-gotten. that money is ill-gotten I think there's ah there's a bunch of games that actually were not intended to be fun, ended up being fun and making money, like Cow Clicker.
Speaker: It's all these games where it's like trying to prove a point, and then they accidentally make a fun game that people get addicted to. Like Monopoly is that. They changed the rules, but it was ah originally like an anti-capitalist game, and then was bought and then twisted.
Speaker: And I heard the original Monopoly was circular. That's true. I don't know if that has anything to do with how it's played or the politics behind it. But I had a waking thought ah yesterday morning, which was... waking thought.
Speaker: A waking thought. You guys know what i'm talking about? like ah A thought you have when you're awake? ah Oh, when you're waking up. When you first wake up, it's like a half dream. Yeah. My waking thought was like, i i like I have the idea for the most mid mobile game of all time. like Not really bad, but like truly insane amounts of mid for a mobile game.
Speaker: And it's called Dice Stacker. And every you have three columns. And each column, you can drop a die into it, which is either a pip from one to six.
Speaker: And then you stack them. And then once it gets the top, it's game over. And then your final score is whatever the value of dice are.
Speaker: has nothing to do with the number on the dot and nothing like that. no it does have to do with the number on the die, but not until the end when they count it. Is this a game like what Derek was talking about, where it's intended not to be fun?
Speaker: It's intended not to be fun, but there's one special ability, which is that you can combine two die. And if the die exceeds six, then it makes two die. And then you have not actually combined the die.
Speaker: So if you combine like ah four and five, which amounts to nine, then the dies that were originally four and five combined to make six and three. It's actually like a fairly complex game.
Speaker: You're just switching pips around, but it's still the same value. I i really zoned out. This sounds exactly like Yahtzee to me. What'd you say? There's dice? It's like Yahtzee. It's still like Yahtzee, yeah.
Speaker: That game is so bad. It's called Dice Stackers. I do like the idea of you just explaining to me in every single way in which die can be combined. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: They can be stacked, merged, or organized, or thrown, or rolled. There should be a game called Rule rule Learners. Because I feel like that's what you game lovers are into more than anything else. Talking about and learning rules.
Speaker: There should be a game where that's all you do. You memorize a series of rules, and the more remember, the more you can learn. The more you remember? The more you win the game. I think it could be a box and it comes with like dice and jacks and a board and pieces of paper with nothing written on them.
Speaker: And what you do is you just make a mess. You just dump it out on the carpet and then you pick things up and you throw it at each other. it's called It's called disaster. there There are a lot of games from the 50s and 60s, early board games that are simply just about slapping things.
Speaker: Really? like you know You have like a ball and a cup and you like slap each other's hands. Yeah. I think I've played games like that with like cards. you You're supposed to hit the cards or something. Yeah, there's Rat Screw for sure. That's going to have some slapping in it.
Speaker: Isn't that a sport in Russia where um they slap each other until one of them passes out? Yeah, slap. Pass out? But that's not a board game. That's not a card game. They're strong that they actually are doing brain damage when they slap. It is a tabletop game. You've got to grab the table.
Speaker: They're standing on a table. yeah Yeah, it's it. that our Arm wrestling is a tabletop game. ah Jumping on a table is versus is a form of tabletop play. um But wait, what were we just saying? that ah Oh, yeah. um Slapping, i think, was the first game. Yeah.
Speaker: like Just punching and slapping hands together, that counted as a game for, I think, 400,000 years in human history. You don't think it was tag? Hurting people was playful at first before became business. Tag is ah is a relic from back when we used to slap people that were next to us to make them it.
Speaker: That's true. Because when you get up to somebody and tag, you just touch them and it does feel anticlimactic. but you to You should slap the shit out of them. yeah Just Will Smith going up to tag Chris Rock on stage.
Speaker: Yeah, um because his because he had so much horrible feelings about his wife tagging a 19-year-old his bed. and Tagging him on stage would be a far more aggressive move than flatline. Tagging and then saying, you're it and getting off stage.
Speaker: Running your way. Will Smith just said, I'm it but This is the greatest night in the history of television. He just tagged the shit out of me. The games began. He tagged it out of me.
Speaker: Can't believe that happened at the Academy Awards. At the Academy where they research things. Yeah. Did you see that that that like countdown? like The donation countdown at the Emmys?
Speaker: I didn't watch the Emmys. There was a donation countdown? For what? I just saw it in the clips. Apparently, if people went over in their speeches, less money would be donated to a specific cause.
Speaker: So it's a little bit like you're holding hostage. Oh, I heard that the countdown clock clock was Orwellian, but I didn't realize how help Kafkaesque it was, too. also Freudian, the countdown cock.
Speaker: Yeah, right I made a Freudian slip when I was trying to describe its Orwellian nature, which itself is Dostoevsky-esque. Yes, Dostoevsky always did that with clocks.
Speaker: Yes. um Well, I mean, did anyone... There were some people that went over, right? Seth Rogen went over. He said, I'll make up for this later. They didn't want they don't want to run down the clock? but if it was a I feel like it would be more um interesting if it were a bad charity that they were donating to.
Speaker: And then people were trying to defeat it. Do you know what mean? Like maybe the longer you talk, it donates more and more money to the IDF. Well, you know that some of these Hollywood people who who ah get who invest in the Iron Dome, they they would actually want it to would actually want more money in the Iron Dome. whats Let's get to a question here.
Speaker: This is maybe a good jumping off point. This is from Deep Thoughts. And the the deep thought is this. ah intelligence is extremely overrated and creativity is disliked. And there's more.
Speaker: In Western culture, we associate intelligence as a personality trait and less with what it actually is. If someone with a 90 IQ does a bunch of Adderall to most people, they feel like that person has a 120 IQ.
Speaker: Having higher intelligence also doesn't give you success in life. I would actually argue that society is catered to slower people and people that aren't gatekept a lot of information and money ah needed to succeed in life like the rest of us are.
Speaker: Edit, sorry, I didn't mean average slash lower intelligence people were more likely to succeed. Ha ha. I meant institutionally, we treat everyone like they are eight year old, an eight year old. That haha is one of the most like evil ha-has I've seen. Of course we know dumb people won't succeed. I don't succeed too good.
Speaker: Sorry if I offended by people by saying that ah dumb dumb people would succeed. Anyone who gets offended by the thought of dumb people succeeding, they might want to get their IQ checked.
Speaker: I don't understand the question. there They're saying that intelligence isn't a personality trait. It's something you can just kind of do with Adderall. You just get it with Adderall. This is an Adderall based question. I think the Adderall thing looked like a throwaway, but mostly this question is about how Adderall can make anyone succeed. Having higher intelligence doesn't give you anything in life because if you've 90 IQ, you can always take an Adderall and then you'll be like 120. Yeah, they already have i IQ pills, but they don't really have creativity pills is what they're saying.
Speaker: Right. Well, that's like Adderall and smoking a joint. So if this person knew about that, they'd know how that creativity is also only two drugs away. Joints make you creative. Adderall makes you intelligent.
Speaker: h I always just come to think of like in elementary school, You ever have like a teacher that just like says something that's just completely off script and it just like sticks with you longer than whatever was the important subject?
Speaker: I just remember this English teacher I had was like, ah one of the like the the etymology of the word devil is knowledge. And I don't know if that's true. don't even sound alike.
Speaker: But this this question reminds me of that. Yeah, I had a very similar thing where um this this one teacher was just like, anthropology is the study of bugs.
Speaker: Think anthro. And anthropods are bugs. Anthro. And their bodies look like pods.
Speaker: Did you know at the time that your teacher was wrong? No, that was my first exposure to it. And then also I remember someone saying stalactite stalagmite. Here's how you remember. Stalagmite like tigers which crawl on the ground and stalagmite like monkeys which swing above. but Wait, what? It was the opposite. They're both just on the walls.
Speaker: One's on one wall, the other's on the other wall. How are mites like monkeys? Mite, monkey, tight tiger. Stalag mites looks like monkeys. Stalag tights. Tigers go on the ceiling? Is that what you said? So they were just wrong about... ah Yeah, it's mites on bottom and tights on top.
Speaker: But ah that was like a one... thought it was tights on bottom and mites on top. No, but that's what they said. And I remembered it wrong all the all these years. Did it help you like later on?
Speaker: Yeah, the incorrect information, it was very easy to recall. But it's cool because creativity is... Well, I mean, definitely what we're saying in part is that creativity is way more memorable.
Speaker: And intelligence, just kind of just textbook shit, just kind of like a boring. Intelligence is not memorable. It's just kind of background stuff that's happening.
Speaker: Like divine intelligence that's like the universal pre-human intelligence, what people call God. That kind of shit is just like always... just It's just white noise. Just like, oh, I get it. There's like a universal intelligence.
Speaker: But creativity, this sort of 90 IQ shit, that's what like bright, bubbly... That's what all the cool that's where all the cool stuff is. Yeah. That's how we build bridges.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you get an intelligent person to actually do the engineering, but that's like that's bug work. Anybody can do that. you know If they take an Adderall or two, it was really creative for the first guy to say, what if a line went over that water?
Speaker: Yes. What if we made it so that this bridge worked? Alright, let's get these kind of functionaries to do the intelligence work. You point across a gorge and you say, i'd like to be over there. And then everyone looks at the tip of your finger like a dog. And they say, what, the tip of your own finger?
Speaker: and he goes, no, no, no. Follow my finger. I'm actually seeing an invisible line. Oh, let's build an invisible line with visible bricks. I feel like the the key of all of this, though, that they're like, but imagine if someone with 90 IQ does Adderall.
Speaker: How much better would that be? It's like, yeah, we we kind of are structuring a world where people with 90 IQs are doing Adderall. um As long as there's no shortage. But I don't know. Do you guys like being around people who are experiencing euphoria and who are sweating a lot?
Speaker: ah Does it make you more intelligent? Did you guys say that at the exact same time? Yeah. We're both intelligent. It's intelligent to just be sweaty and euphoric, right? like That's what most geniuses are. That's why the lab coat was invented. is To absorb absorb the moisture.
Speaker: It's a straight jacket for people who are ah ecstatically lost in thought. Bill Gates famously dropped out of high school because he was too sweaty. Mm-hmm. That's why Einstein's hair is so frizzy like that Adderall. All the exuberance is coming out of his hair.
Speaker: Sweat came out of his scalp like bullets and made his hair like that. yeah And that's because he was taking a lot of Adderall on the bus. And um Stephen Hawking had to get wiped down regularly. i mean, basically, the sweat would collect like a pool beneath his bottom, which you couldn't feel, but ah led to... Liable to slip out of the wheelchair. Stephen Hawking was suffering from Adderall psychosis.
Speaker: Short circuit. That's why acted stranger than many. Stranger than many. I'm going to start talking like a robot now. Well, that's just his intelligence acting up. Yeah, it's not that it's a computer. It's that a his voice is so exuberant. it sounds like a computer.
Speaker: he has the voice of an artist. He just started to look like a computer. he was being creative. living Imagine if he was more creative. It's hard to imagine. Yeah, he wouldn't even do anything. Stephen Hawking was a double threat. He was both very intelligent and he was also singing all the time.
Speaker: um He was doing an impression of a computer all the time. Just because he thought it was funny. Yes. He was singing. He was doing like Vocaloid. yeah Yeah, those were musical notes. If you zoom in, if you zoom in on Stephen Hawking's voice, you can see that those are actually musical notes.
Speaker: Most autotune is just a sample of Stephen Hawking, I think. Yeah. do you guys think he made anyone laugh on like the Lolita Express or whatever? nape Yeah, probably. Like in a Ricky Gervais kind of way.
Speaker: Cringe comedy. Yeah, but ah Ricky Gervais is always like mugging to the camera or whatever. I feel like Stephen Hawking, it would be hard for him to that. If the camera's like right in front of his face, that's what he would do.
Speaker: You think so? He would lift his gaze slightly to the lens? Not directly in front of him, like the way his legs point, but just off to the side a little bit. That's where his face tends to sit. yeah Yeah, but he's he's he's not so smart anymore.
Speaker: might have just been doing smart stuff on the Lolita Express, like solving puzzles or... Trying to fix the plane. Yeah. Trying to fix the plane? here he was to tell a joke, I could see him a little bit more an Eddie Murphy kind of style, just because of his exuberance, I think.
Speaker: You think you like bombat he was like playing multiple different characters? yeah Yeah, doing Kendrick-style voices. Here's my character in a wheelchair and here's my character that walks upright.
Speaker: His name is Bill Gates. and they We're looking similar. Oh, that's the difference. What happened to the frizzy haired tongue out nerd? That was just Einstein. and think I think that's me.
Speaker: ah You're way more like Einstein than Hawking. How come Eddie Murphy is never in a wheelchair? Is that solved yet? Is that something know?
Speaker: Well, would you stop looking for the answer if he came out with a movie where he was in a wheelchair and you'd say, oh, okay. I guess I thought that he was going to die without having done it. But is it still... If he did it in 2025, would you retire the search?
Speaker: I guess I would. I would still wonder why he waited so long to get inside one. But but you wouldn't investigate it. it would only be a wonder. be like Okay, I have that now. He did do a lot of... He did white face. He did Asian face.
Speaker: But he never did cri ah he never did crippled legs. No, he did Dr. Face. Dr. Doolittle. Dr. Face, yeah. but dr All these people were bipeds. Oh.
Speaker: None of them. Did Norbit did norbit stay two legged and not in a wheelchair the entire movie? yeah Norbit never lost the use of his legs. I don't think he got his feet cut off from diabetes, but he used crutches. is that true?
Speaker: Norbit? Yeah. Said the after credits sequence. You just see the chopped off feet after credits. yeah um
Speaker: Eddie Murphy. Well, it was con man valette Valentine from trading places briefly in a wheelchair. Actually, I think he was. Imagine being like an amputation surgeon ah and getting in like a passed out. Eddie Murphy is rolled into your operating room.
Speaker: You gotta just lob these things off. Yeah, you can lob anything off. Anything. When you're an amputation surgeon and someone is wheeled in you just have to make an educated guess about what they want you to lop off.
Speaker: You gotta do your job somehow. Do it on an arm or a leg or... Do you think amputation doctors are always hoping that it's mostly frostbite because the frostbite people have a clear... It's like their limbs are in a mobile game. If there was a mobile game about amputating people, it would be a lot like frostbite.
Speaker: It's another morning morning game idea of yours. Yeah, exactly. Is this a fun one or artsy? This was just an easy time passing with a lot of breaks. It seems fun. It's something you do on the shitter, right?
Speaker: Right. Doctors who cut off ah frostbitten limbs, they should have to deal with ad breaks because of the the work is so easy and mind-numbing. There's an ad midway through sawing off an arm every time Midway through cutting off a limb.
Speaker: Right. Just because the work is so satisfying that you you kind of need an ad punishment. and Sometimes I feel like mobile games with a ton of ads are are not just like, this isn't just to make money. This is like this is what makes the game better. It's because if there were no ads, you would stop playing it. The challenge of the game is sitting through the ads. Exactly. That that is that is true.
Speaker: Right? but yeah Isn't it true? um and There's no way to play Tetris without ads anymore. like You have to play a version of Tetris with ads. the The withholding of the game makes it more desirable.
Speaker: No one cares about the content of the game, but they want to be in a state of playing a game. They care more about that than the challenge of it. right i do I do think that's true. That's got to be true. I also feel like premature ejaculation is a way of outsmarting the the hump breaks of sex.
Speaker: like Humping is its own sort of ad break that like staves off the orgasm. But if you if you experience orgasm within the first three seconds of of sex, then it's almost like you've skipped the ads.
Speaker: If you cum even before you take your pants off, you can skip all the foreplay. You can skip all the repetitive sort of fucking motions that occur in the ads. Yeah, the gameplay is not appealing. Let's get back to the story. Let's but sit down and talk for a while.
Speaker: It's interesting, and like if there was a Metal Gear Solid sex simulator, would you be able to skip the humping or would you be able to skip the orgasm? It'd be really hard to figure that out.
Speaker: Hard to figure which one you can skip. It'd be hard to know how to play.
Speaker: there were a sex simulator, it'd be really hard to figure out the rules. I'll say that. Right. That long part where he's just crawling on the ground in Metal Gear Solid 4. Yeah. It's just like, I'd like to just get to the end of this, I think. It'd be cool to skip this triangle section. But he's probably orgasming from rubbing his his penis across the ground the entire time, right? Yes.
Speaker: That should just happen throughout the game and it just sort of makes you look startle for a second as you're playing or getting to your objective. The more Snake crawls, the more he should... Every once in a while, he just busts the floor.
Speaker: He shudders. I just busted.
Speaker: You see his spine like shiver, a like a little convulsion. Yeah, and his toes curl up through his octocamble. I like that his octo camo turns off every time he orgasms. So he's revealed for a brief moment.
Speaker: Yes. Nearby soldier. Huh? What was that sound? What was that shiver? It's crazy how good an orgasm would feel for him. Snake? It would release endorphins in his brain. It makes him invincible briefly.
Speaker: oops Yeah. It helps to deal with pain. Nanomachines augment your battle fatigue and orgasms give you dopamine. yep Releases high amounts of dopamine, endorphins.
Speaker: Yeah. Endocannabinoids. All these things cross the blood brain barrier. it helps you to bond with your partner. Yeah. yeah um And then he becomes a flaccid snake. how about that?
Speaker: Yeah. How about it lot of guys become flaccid after they come. it the bottom no lot of them. So this anyway, so that's our answer to the question about ah creativity versus intelligence.
Speaker: Let me pose this to you. This is also from Deep Thoughts. It's just a very, ah very potent well. Title of the post is navigating life without emotions or sexual function.
Speaker: And Blake, do you want to read this? Yeah, sure. If you developed a medical condition that suddenly caused you to lose feeling, love for others, and function sexually, what would you do?
Speaker: How would you find meaning in life without emotional connection? And what if the condition affected you cognitively as well, um impacting deep thought and memory?
Speaker: Impacting deep thought and memory has. You lose that as well? The question is just, what if you lost everything? I think you you lose how would you be impact you lose your feelings and your love for others and even the memory of feelings and love others. think or feel.
Speaker: can't even remember what it was like to function sexually. Yeah, what would you guys do? This question is like, if you had medical condition where your toes were gone, how would you wiggle them?
Speaker: What would you do? You don't feel anything. You don't love anybody. I'd walk to the left. i would hurt others.
Speaker: and sounds kind of nice in a way because then you don't know what you're missing. Yeah. This is like being SSRIs or something. It's nice. It's not so bad, right? Yeah, you just kind of you just going to go to the store and get lost in the store.
Speaker: it's fine. Yeah, who cares? There's a lot less anguish. It's all good. It'd be great if I didn't care you ah about anything, I think. Yeah. But if you lost your ability to care, um what if the condition affected you cognitively as well, impacting deep thought and memory? Yeah.
Speaker: If you lost your ability to feel love and fuck and also ah remember remember anything, I guess. Yeah. Walking to the left. That's a good answer, Matthew. like one What if you died? What would you do?
Speaker: Just keep living. Same old, same old. Just keep on living. Just do your thing. Yeah, probably just do my thing for a bit and so so until I got all that shit back.
Speaker: It'd come back. It would come back. Yeah. I was feeling suicidal, just losing my sense of smell for a week and a half when I had COVID. ah was like, this isn't worth it. You love smelling. Losing anything is ah it sounds like a trite observation, but that really is.
Speaker: It's terrible. It's so destabilizing to have lost. I lost my eyesight in one of my eyes a couple weeks ago. it was actually, this is very coincidental.
Speaker: I was at a metal show and it was, I hate God. The word i And it's spelled E-Y-E. Yeah. yeah I hate God, and I couldn't see, and it was on a boat, and they didn't have any like medical anything going on on there.
Speaker: Yeah, metal shows kind of disregard. You really notice when you can't see out of one eye, but you would probably would not notice if you can't smell out of one nose. No. I'm not really smelling things at all times, I think.
Speaker: Yeah, it's hard to like figure out what the smell of your apartment is unless you're you've been away for a while. What's your apartment smell like? Sometimes it has a smell, and it's not a bad smell or anything. Only guests notice.
Speaker: The guests are like, oh, you're so terrifying to have people over. Your guests are going to come in and smell what your life is like. They're going to smell the particular. You don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. Yeah, they're going to have secret smell knowledge. And even they kind of get used to it after five minutes. But every time a new person comes into your apartment, there's a 30 second period where they're experiencing something that you'll never know.
Speaker: a as a black person, what I've noticed sometimes going over to black family members houses is Their houses smell different than white people's houses.
Speaker: And I'm always curious, does my house smell black at all for my guests? That's a very interesting question. What are the sort of base elements of these distinct smells?
Speaker: Can you name them? there's ah There's a blackness to it, I think. Yeah. But I think there's... You know when you've smelled a White House, though. I know that for sure.
Speaker: There's like a little bit of fruity... lot lavender candles. Yeah, it's a little it's a little more fruity, flowery. Almost like maybe even artificial...
Speaker: It's a little, it's a little, there's like a fear, I think, that gets set in. When you really, not every White House smells white, but when a White House smells palpably white, there's, think, a fear that gets set in.
Speaker: Like, you're saying the smeller when you walk in, the smeller fear. When walk in and I smell that it's very white, I get, get frightened. I've made my apartment very unwelcoming in its smell.
Speaker: You're talking about like so that sort of ethete suburban like um like shoes off and like um a mom who's always like cleaning with like toxic chemicals. There's lemon. yeah There's a lemon in the air. There's a lemon in there.
Speaker: A black house, I think there's... ah You get the spices of the home. I feel like they set into the the walls a little bit. i Yes, the spices are... Yeah, it's not just like... um You can smell that there's like nutrition and and and oxygen in a non-white home.
Speaker: And then in a white home, there's an antiseptic smell because the food is ah like frozen, reheated, and then like sour milk, and then the smell of like wet dog pheromones from... yeah Yes, yes.
Speaker: Wet Dog is huge. my My family are hicks, so their houses smell like sawdust, wet dog, and cigarettes. The cigarette smell is comforting, though. That's a good white home. find comforting, too.
Speaker: I think cigarette smells are so comfortable. It's almost like, um you know how they say when ah when there's a phone on the table at the restaurant, people divulge less? I feel like when you can smell cigarette smoke, you divulge more.
Speaker: It's almost like, well, hey, if everyone in here is trying to give themselves cancer, then we can basically say whatever we want. Doesn't matter, yeah. We're all knocking on death's door. We're all going to lose our memory and function for sexuality. Anyhow, who cares?
Speaker: Did you get your eyesight back? Was it temporary? It was temporary, but it took quite a long time for it to come back. They say that that's ah like an aura migraine or ah or something, right? When you lose your... do Did you also get like a headache?
Speaker: Um, it, I didn't really get a headache. I don't think I got a concussion. What I think happened my nose was broken and then my nose went into my eye. the orbital bone.
Speaker: Blood vessel in my eye. How'd you break your nose? Some, some guy started windmilling at the, I hate God show. Oh my god. It was like white and then black and then I couldn't see.
Speaker: it gradually came back. It was white? Wait, what? There's like white blindness and then there's black blindness. yeah They'll have different smells to them. I noticed that when you meet a black person, visually are different from a white person.
Speaker: There's subtle differences. Blind black guys are really yeah they're really more interesting than than blind white guys. Yeah, they walked they walked in more black neighborhoods.
Speaker: More historically black neighborhoods. But they would never know. Ironically. Except for by the smell of things, I think. Right, exactly. They can tell if they've gone in the wrong neighborhood, I think. To ah to a blind person, every neighborhood is a black neighborhood.
Speaker: If they're seeing black, sure. Right, but I guess it's a mis that's a misnomer, is that black people or blind people see black. Some probably see blue. that true? i think some just see I think they all just see blur, unless they have no eyes. If you have no eyes, you you probably aren't seeing a brain color.
Speaker: Or they have face blindness, which means they can only see faces kind of floating around. They only see faces, yeah. And color blindness is when you only see colors.
Speaker: Yeah, I can't see the shapes of things. I just see this guy doesn't have a border. His color is spilling out into the horizon. and Shoot. I'm going to need those special glasses that give things their shape.
Speaker: um Hey, Matthew, why don't you want to read this one? This is from the writing subreddit and something ah we can all put our creative minds towards. All right, here's a question.
Speaker: Would this character be offensive? For context, my story is a post-apocalypse world where people don't have people names like Carter and Sabrina, but nature names.
Speaker: Some of my characters are Sunbird, Gray Fox, Cypress, Zabron, and Ivory. I'm chilling with a friend and I told her about a character idea and she said it would be offensive.
Speaker: I don't think it would be, but I figured I'd ask because I'd like to possibly get this book published. The character, an albino black man named Polar Bear. i don't know if it matters, but I'm white. And they have their kind of like sideways sheepish emo emoji.
Speaker: I don't even matter. so I'm white. Colon backslash. I'm not committed to it. I'm white. Cringe. Why a black man named Polar Bear? That's the question. Should this have offended this person's friend?
Speaker: No, I'm pretty sure anyone who's albino can be called a polar bear. Unless the character is gay. Then it's kind of like that's pushing it. That's too much.
Speaker: Because then it's like pole, meaning male penis, and then pole or bear. ah Which one is it? Yeah, it's hard to say.
Speaker: I guess I would be interested if his other traits kind of line up. Like, is he a, is he furry? Is he really, is he really big? Does he have claws instead of normal hands? But he he has all these other character traits, but the way people talk about him is look at this crazy albino guy.
Speaker: has horrible claws. He's a bear. He's a bear. He's albino. Wow.
Speaker: ah Well, it it's probably not offensive in the writing because you can just add a sentence afterwards saying, and this name in the world of this story is totally chill. It's all good.
Speaker: His name should be Snow Panther. Ooh. Something like that. Well, I'm wondering who gave him the name in the book. Because if it's something that other people gave him. The world of the fiction.
Speaker: I know. It's just funny that the author's like, in my world, people don't have normal names. They have nature names. And the reason is because if that's my preference. Yeah. I can't change that now. Yeah. It already happened in the book.
Speaker: I just got a, uh, someone, someone commented on something I did and they're writing a fan fiction on the horse race tests. Cool. And, um, they, they told me that they're, they put me into the fiction and that I'm an omnipotent God like creature in, in the fiction of their, uh, fanfic.
Speaker: And so I'm wondering if this is like, if is that, when is that a normal usual thing? for the authors to be present in the fan fictions? And is that happening here?
Speaker: Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, it's like people write Harry Potter fan fictions. Do they say, oh, and here's J.K. Rowling, by the way, kind of spinning spinning a yarn? I think that's a natural. I think, um yeah, this person should simply insert the character, insert the friend who said this was an offensive into the book. Yeah, they're the big bad.
Speaker: Yeah, and their nature name is like, um their nature name can be something like Flea Bitten Mutt or um Zika ridden bug.
Speaker: and um And then they should write themselves in the story that and they simply just squish this woke this woke scold. polar bear polar but Polar Bear squishes the woke scold and says, I love my name.
Speaker: Don't give a shit, you idiot. But the character is not a bug. It just has a bug name. So now that I'm thinking about it. It just doesn't have a person name like Carter or Sabrina.
Speaker: Or maybe it is, it should just be like a bug with a name like Carter or Sabrina. Right. And they're defeating the normal people names to establish that everyone's going to be named something kind of nature-y.
Speaker: yeah Can you imagine worrying about this? Like you' you're trying to publish your book, you name your albino black character Polar Bear. Also, like, we're we're confident that this person has not written a single page of this book. All they've done is come up with names and they are not even...
Speaker: Yeah, but they're hoping to publish it soon. think they've done some sketches or something. writing characters Look like they know what Sunbird or or Gray Fox.
Speaker: ah They know what they're like. They know what those characters are kind of all about the vibe they get. They a folder on their computer just with a bunch of references of albino black people. It's oh, I think this is about what polar bear looks like.
Speaker: um And Gray Fox. Chat GPT, show me a character named Gray Fox. Well, he's gray. that's why he That's why he looks like that. Some bird is going to be quite orange.
Speaker: Ivory is also white, but not albino, I think. Yeah, different kind white. Egg. the Egg shell. What is that, Bron? It does seem like this is a common thing for a lot of these Reddit writers is they really want names to reflect character traits that people have ah really unsatisfied with the world we live in where people are just sort of meaninglessly named Sabrina doesn't convey meaningless. Yeah, it's meaningless. Also named after Sabrina, the teenage witch.
Speaker: Right then. Okay. Okay, cool. So you're like a witch. Got it. I think names end up looking like people eventually. Right. Over the year, over the decades. Yeah. Oh, you look like Matt.
Speaker: That's true. You kind of know a Josh when you meet one. Yeah. I think they've done studies on this, on whether you can identify like people like Henry's or whatever. And people generally do a fairly good job.
Speaker: You can identify like who's what name. If you like look at two people, I see a albino black man. I'm like, oh, you're probably polar bear. Yeah. Well, that's definitely true of polar bears. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, polar bears are always called that species. That's what makes it so easy. I mean, yeah. When I'm watching a Coke ad and I see that monster in the ad, I'm like, I think that's a polar bear.
Speaker: I think that this person probably is just, this is like ah ah the difference between a 90 IQ racist and 120 IQ racist. Is there like, after the apocalypse, we're all going to be named after nature things.
Speaker: We won't have like names like that are special or in context with our families. We're just going to be named essentially whatever species we are. And ah like, you know, so very special groups of people will have very special names, but a lot of my the hero's name is Nordic Master.
Speaker: Because that's his special species. That's like the natural world that he He'll be known as Proud Lion. Yeah, the only difference between this person and a full-blown racist is just the Adderall, I think.
Speaker: Right, exactly. Yeah, they're just like... ah And then, of course, like in you know this post-apocalyptic world, there are many people named like Camel, and there are many people...
Speaker: Many, many people named Deer. um But every once in a while, there's like a special person named Polar Bear.
Speaker: He probably gets mixed up with all the just white guys named Polar Bear though, right? Yeah. Yeah. Are you allowed to pick your own name? Q-tip. That's not from nature. Well, the post-apocalyptic world, everything's going to be nature. Some people are going to be named Reese's Rapper. on Yeah. Rubble.
Speaker: Rubble. but Microchip. So Q-Tip is a wrapper. Is Q-Tip white? I forget. I didn't know Q-Tip. Yeah, he kind of sounds white when he's wrapping. Sounds white as a Cotton.
Speaker: Sounds white as a piece of cotton. yeah Q-Tip doesn't look to be white to me, but he could be a white person suffering from melanism. could just be referring to the fluffiness. Mm-hmm. Of his flow.
Speaker: Yeah. You're not supposed to put that shit in your ears. a Oh, maybe that's it. Yeah. Oh, like, don't listen to me. My music is unlistenable.
Speaker: Listen to my music, but not too close to your ears. Yeah, it's not good for your ears. Keep it out of your ear, but still keep listening. Yeah. Keep buying my records, surely.
Speaker: That's a nice way to your money. Put my records on the shelf. Use my records to clean up other spills. What do you use what are you supposed to use Q-tips for? To clean up spills.
Speaker: To clean up when you spill a droplet of water. Yeah, one drop. You need a little cleaner. ah a little mop. It's essentially a little mop. Right.
Speaker: I was ah using witch hazel to clean out some... I bought a bunch of electronics. I was cleaning them all out with witch hazel and Q-tips. And I ended up... I was doing it for two hours. And then I looked at my fingers and they were completely They were like chalk white.
Speaker: theyre like chalk white recently is that what's actually happened you know witch hazel is it a white powder it's like a stringent like liquid like yes people use it as an aftershave right Well, i'm I'm sorry to hear that you became your hands became white. But ah when I go to a climbing gym, there's a you can use chalk to climb. But there's a liquid chalk dispenser.
Speaker: And sorry, but I have liquid chalk now. They have liquid chalk. You use a dispenser. What happens when your hands become white? Does anything change?
Speaker: Yeah, it makes you, your hands are... You're better at climbing. so different color It's color. It's because when you climb, all of the different shapes that you're supposed to touch are all brightly colored.
Speaker: um And... but's see Let's see if I can do this. This is at the climbing gym, right? Is it all happening at the climbing No, anywhere. Anywhere that they're bright. It's all happening the climbing gym. Sounds about white.
Speaker: The whiteness of your hands and the brightness of the colors. It's just like when white teeth eat are attracted to bright candy. um It's the contrast that's important, I think.
Speaker: It's just how... like yeah Everything is attracted to its opposite. Teeth are attracted to canyy and candy, which the opposite teeth. It defeats them.
Speaker: In the long run, yes. In the short run, team is coming out the victor. Yeah, they think they're winning. When teeth eat candy, they're like, another win for teeth. And the candy goes. will bla keep we see We'll see. We should be making like animated explainer videos for kids like trying to get kids to brush their teeth.
Speaker: he You might think that teeth destroy the candy. ever It's the other way around. That's why kids eat candy. because They want to kill it. they you up Alright, you idiot.
Speaker: Gotcha! They love destruction. Yeah, they want to destroy something beautiful. Eating is kind of destroying in that way. feel bad eating like a well-plated, a beautiful dish.
Speaker: You like tearing up a beautiful dish. I feel a little bad doing it. I feel bad unwrapping a present. I don't like messing stuff up when it's made so lovingly. Yeah. um I don't feel that way about like grapes, though.
Speaker: You want to destroy them. I'm like, time to pop these grapes. trying to burst them in my mouth. There's something ah so satisfying about popping a grape with your mouth and and chewing it. It opens and it tastes so nice.
Speaker: It's like gushing grape and then... Yeah. yeah There's something so nice about eating all sorts of sweet fruits and delicious candy and eating cantaloupe or kiwi or ah juice he' good apple a juice.
Speaker: excuse and There's nothing really destructive about sipping a juice. I was just going to say that unless there's like a lot of crinkling ice inside. oh my juice normally comes in a container so I can actually destroy that while i'm drinking it.
Speaker: Crush it and crush it into my mouth. It's a destruction that happens before you get the juice, sort of like before you get the burger from McDonald's. they were doing stuff to these cows, but it's all behind closed doors, so you don't even realize what you're eating. It's pre-destroyed. You can imagine how it was destroyed when you're sipping it.
Speaker: They should send someone like into the juice the juice slaughterhouse and show the horrible conditions that the fruits are living in and how sometimes they squeeze them when the but without without humanely killing them first.
Speaker: like they squeeze They squeeze the fruits alive. They should put a bolt through the grapes head. Well, it's it's sick because if you get a juice from like the grocery store or a bodega or something, you get to see the the fruits being destroyed right in front of you.
Speaker: But they don't do it on the vine. I do think it is obscene if like you lifted a blender up towards like the branches of an apple tree. And the apple... apple goes in the blender and you make smoothie but it is well it's a lot there's something about those just straight raw
Speaker: yeah you blend like yeah just uh and just doing it for sport too just like uh time to blend this a lot beautiful oranges on this tree let's blend them and then just tossing them into the sand.
Speaker: it does feel like the advancements in in genetic technology will not lead us to like kind of create emotionless cows that do not feel pain, but will probably lead us to create um grapes that feel pain very vividly.
Speaker: Yeah. We pick each one from the bunch and They're not making any noise. they're the It's the same experience for us, but we know they're in agony. Yeah, we're going to be drinking agony juice, but that's really like the only the only ah victory that we'll get from tinkering with ah God's plan.
Speaker: We haven't given them any means for self-expression, but we've given them anguish. Yeah, I have no mouth and I must scream. This is the grape talking. Right. I think that's mostly what gives the nourishment in the first place. The destruction.
Speaker: The sacrifice for our being, yeah. Yeah, that's why just playing with your food is a form of sustenance. That's why like just um cutting your steak is ah is half of eating it.
Speaker: A lot of people can walk away from the table full after just sort of ripping their food into little pieces and just kind of moving it around on their plate with their fork. ah So when your mom says, don't play with your food, she's saying, wait for the suffering to happen inside your own body.
Speaker: Yes. um And she's also probably so frustrated with like sticky fingers and stuff like that. It's practical. Yeah. Don't play with your food is just a way of it's just mom's way of not using a napkin.
Speaker: If she can get her child to not play with their food, it'll be that much easier to um not use a napkin. It's like a form of control that makes that not use a napkin.
Speaker: Yeah. It doesn't waste napkins. Exactly. Simply she could say, play with your food. We have all the napkins in the world. But moms actually care more about saving napkins than they do about children's free expression.
Speaker: I think that's true. the only danger of playing with your food is that you have to clean it up. So it's either conserving napkins or conserving water. because Some people just play with their food and eat dinner and take a shower afterwards.
Speaker: believe.
Speaker: I thought you were about to say that some moms say, don't play with your food, and the child starts splashing the cup of water. And the mom says, dang or your water, i should have said.
Speaker: ah it It does feel so nice, though, whenever you eat a meal and you you've just had no mess. That does feel nice. You don't need to touch napkin to the corners of your mouth. It's just like, look, I'm clean.
Speaker: like We can go anywhere. i can keep the napkin for later. you know so That's a good point. if you It's almost like them it's like clearing a level on S rank is just like And you've unlocked a clean napkin to use for future spills.
Speaker: You're now entitled to spill mud on yourself. You're invulnerable to the next damage you receive. right This is my mid-mobile game that I'll make. It's just so try to eat things and not get little things on your lips or your teeth. And you collect napkins. look at the The napkins are my lives, and um I take damage by getting little driplets on my my mouth and my...
Speaker: My tongue, my teeth. What do you do with napkins? Clean little birds covered in oil?
Speaker: It is so funny to invite you. You have to eat. You have to eat as someone who's cleaning up the birds and the oil spill. There's sort of the eating stage and then there's the cleaning up birds stage.
Speaker: Yeah, the cleaning up bird stage is like the bonus round that you get for clearing a meal with no crumbs. I really like writing the idea of writing a dialogue for the waiter who goes, nicely done. i see that you didn't use our napkin all at all.
Speaker: As you know, that means that you're allowed to leave with our napkin. I would hate to waste those napkins on those birds. I'd rather just keep the napkins, I think. You would just let the birds be oily? Yeah, the napkins are mine, I think.
Speaker: Does it hurt the birds to be covered in... oil or is that just a visual that as humans we find distasteful is it actually bad for them to be covered in petroleum i've heard it's good for them to have oil it's good for their feathers it's nice and shiny it makes them more flammable makes them more flammable it must right yeah okay so they have that added quality They get something. They get it.
Speaker: Why someone would complain about being more flammable is beyond me. It's simply more... it's more qualities. We all want more, and more, and more, don't we? More qualities.
Speaker: I wish I had more qualities. Yeah, you have a lot, but... You need to have more substances on you. ah could have some more, i think. If you get concrete on you, wet concrete, and then it hardens, you have the quality of dry shit on you. Rock solid.
Speaker: Yeah. I guess i don't have I don't have concrete on me. I guess you're right about that. That's something that you don't need to want, but if you had it, you would say, I don't know what I was missing. All right. Here's one ah from the Soul Nexus subreddit. This is a sub where spiritual individuals gather to discuss the nature of the universe and ourselves.
Speaker: Pierce, I would love if you read this one. Okay. Business and consciousness. Can they coexist?
Speaker: Business is my dojo. I bring my true nature with me wherever I go. My expanding consciousness expresses itself freely, unafraid of judgment, and without risking the love of my family, the respect of my co-workers, or the loyalty of my friends.
Speaker: I am at home in the city as I am in the wild. I release the old belief that solitude is the only path to connection. I choose to deeply connect, joyfully, and seeing the wow in life.
Speaker: And then I marvel at how life wows itself with infinite lifing. Wow. There I go again. I'm grateful. So very grateful. Business is my dojo in which I let the mystic play.
Speaker: Have you experienced anything similar? and Please share. So is this was this on Adderall or was this not on Adderall? That's such a good question. This feels creative, but it does also feel very smart.
Speaker: I also like that the word business here doesn't really have any content. All they talk about is, yeah, their co-workers briefly. I just love the respect of my co-workers and I just love business. um You're in the city. but You're saying, wow, business.
Speaker: Business is my dojo. And what is a dojo? It's a place where you go.
Speaker: it's like a place where you go to do martial arts usually. It's a place of study for martial arts. It is. yeah it's a place where you you wrestle guys. um this This one actually does have a very good um comment. There's only one comment on post. Here it is. Let me read it.
Speaker: The world needs healed, powerful people now more than ever. I see my business as a place where we can evolve to become better, kinder people every day. I believe in win, win, win, wins between my company, our customers, vendors, and the earth.
Speaker: A business can be a fountain of resources that allows the opportunity for resources to be put towards things that change the world. Jesus Christ.
Speaker: yeah What is business for these people? it is just business for them, business just means life because they're just businessmen.
Speaker: Business to them, I think, means somewhere to go where people have to listen to all of their cringe bullshit about how life is full of wows. Right.
Speaker: The office is where I feel sense of purpose is what they're saying. The office is where people are captive to my ah horrible thoughts.
Speaker: It seems like they like having these thoughts, though. No, I know they like having these thoughts, but they... i mean, have you guys ever had a co-worker that's just like... You know, they're like, I just love life. I mean, life is... um You know, i edge um I clock into work every day so that I can tell my co-workers how great life is. i feel really good about these meetings we're having.
Speaker: Really good. who Yeah, the office is a place where we dress like this and we talk like this and it's it's a sacred space. Yeah. I love having a morning coffee with you guys.
Speaker: Where we going out for lunch today, fellas? Fuck, man. I love my vendors. But I'm certain you guys feel that way about people who are like creative types too, right? like non People who aren't in the world of business.
Speaker: Artists and writers and those sorts of noble people. when they feel like they get some sort of spiritual, don't know, gifts from the, the work they're doing that is kind of similarly kind of dweeby, right?
Speaker: but Get it done, make the song. Cool. You shouldn't be liking it that much. Yeah, it's like almost like when people share works in progress and say write something big coming soon.
Speaker: That's like, wow, I'm so in awe of my own process. My computer is my dojo. Mm-hmm. I'm having a lot of battles, I feel like, on my computer in in a sort of way.
Speaker: i do view it as a dojo. It like a dojo. I learn something every day. i mean, ironically, in a dojo, you could not believe in win, win, win, wins. Because in a dojo, you would spar with somebody and you'd say, well, I won.
Speaker: They lost. No, we both learned something. And the audience was like the vendor. And the um dojo is like the earth. And the resources are just like punches and kicks.
Speaker: And the business is booming. Because as long as people are sparring, the dojo is making money. Yeah, and I say boom when knock a guy on his ass. This is what happens when you win against your computer. Yeah, I usually get knocked on my ass when I win against my computer.
Speaker: I finally beat my computer. i did I did earlier. i i solved a... I mean, i think you're calling it dorky. you i think you called this like kind of element dorky. Dweeby. Dweeby.
Speaker: I can't even divulge because, well, I think I'm just a dweeb. And I think I'm too nervous to say how much joy I felt. What did you do?
Speaker: i just i like ah i i put i put a video in reference to for video in HTML5.
Speaker: And i i stood I stood up and I left my room and I proclaimed to my girlfriend now. happy I was that I that i and did something like that. And she was really just like, what dweeb. What a loser.
Speaker: And I'm just like, i really don't understand what you did. You sent some you sent someone a link? It doesn't it doesn't it doesn't matter. nature What matters is that it was an accomplishment.
Speaker: Yeah. And I felt, I guess I should be embarrassed that I felt good about that. No, I don't think Matthew would ever say that you should feel bad about that. I don't actually feel that way.
Speaker: It is dweeby, though. i think I should be more cool about things like that. I should just keep it locked in. and not I don't mean that you shouldn't feel good about any accomplishment. but A wife or girlfriend is someone who allows you to dweeb out over things that you would never...
Speaker: yes You're allowed to be uncool in front of the person you love. Maybe you should have been embarrassed to share that because it is nice to have these moments with your significant other where you're just like, holy crap, I just figured out like i just figured out what my favorite way to play Civ V is.
Speaker: favorite way to play it? Yeah, I kind of disagree. This is a relationship killer. This is like shitting with the door open. we should have We should keep things from each other and one of those things is ah looking dorky. you should You should leave your computer room and you should say to your girlfriend, wow, just made a million dollars.
Speaker: Whoa.
Speaker: whoa this is the This is the business and Adderall conversation like mixed into one thing. It's just like, ah if you're on Adderall... You have to make your girlfriend think you're on Adderall, but you're really just being creative. yeah I think she'd be happy if I was on Adderall. I think I would be more concentrated, right?
Speaker: I've never done Adderall. i Should I do it? i mean i really like ah I really like the merits of using um high octane math.
Speaker: i speak to its i speak to its men I speak to its merit. Did you do it in school? and did it like to help me with my writing. i want to say like four or five times in school.
Speaker: And since then, I've probably used it on like... A thousand occasions. No, I want to say like I've used it on like six different projects, and for each project, I've probably taken it like three or four times throughout the project on separate days to try to get a lot of writing or work done on it.
Speaker: But it's it's it has been a part of my creative process to like have an Adderall day, so to speak, where I figure out a lot of the logistics of whatever I'm working on. So jealous of you.
Speaker: I have ADHD and like I take this shit and it doesn't just doesn't do anything. It slightly calms me down. It does not give me a manic feeling. i don't feel like... I can't hyper-focus.
Speaker: But isn't that what it's supposed to help you with if you have ADHD? It has diminishing returns, though. If you don't use it as a once-in-a-while sparkly genie, then I think it has diminishing returns.
Speaker: I've been having to switch out all my allergy medicines for the same reason. I'm just so extremely allergic to just like the environment that just need to be ah sniffing Flonase at all moments.
Speaker: All drugs need to be used as like, this drug is going to grant a wish, but it's going to come at a great cost to me. um Even allergy pills are like that, I feel. i think it is like that.
Speaker: i There is a point... I felt like I was raised kind of like, not anti-vax, but like... kind of like, oh, you know, like you should be wary of like putting things that yeah, that like change your body in some way.
Speaker: So I was kind of like I never took ah aspirin or Advil or things like this until recently when I realized it was just fine. it just helps.
Speaker: It really helps. It's pretty good. I think it like resets your gut biome. That's like the only bad thing about it. Oh, is that true? and like ah Yeah, it's it it can damage the lining of your stomach.
Speaker: Really? Aspirin? Not aspirin, but ibuprofen and and whatever the other one is. You kill all the spore-like creatures that are developing inside of you.
Speaker: Yeah, it's like starting a new game plus in your gut biome. So what's everyone doing after this? What's everyone up to you later? I'm going back to my dojo. Your business. Your business.
Speaker: Oh yes. ma Your metaphorical dojo. I'm probably also going to continue using the computer after this. I feel like I'm trapped in the dojo. I feel like there's no way out. Just battle after battle. Win, win, win, win.
Speaker: You just need game and performance Your life is a prospecting company Businessman, yet you kill the boss Computer programs, shadows in the night
