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053 - What would happen every time you restarted Earth?

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🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 103 minutes

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0:00.0

Okay, you just threw out a great idea for an episode.

0:10.1

So we turned on mics because this is genius and everyone should get to hear the process

0:13.9

behind setting up the ground rules.

0:16.4

So tell me again, what is the idea you were just starting to throw out for what we're

0:20.2

going to talk about?

0:21.2

I made a note to myself.

0:22.5

Let me just read you the note.

0:23.8

Do you do this?

0:24.8

Do you come up with ideas and just make a note?

0:27.0

I do.

0:28.0

It allows me to move on.

0:29.5

Yeah, exactly.

0:30.7

So this is my note.

0:32.2

What if we did an episode about things that would happen again if Earth started over and

0:37.4

we both bring things to the table?

0:40.2

So excellent.

0:41.2

Yeah.

0:42.2

So the idea is Earth starts over and there are things that happen again because of, you know,

0:50.2

it's always going to happen.

0:51.2

Like no matter what happens, these things would happen if we started right.

0:56.0

Right.

0:57.0

But depending on the ground rules, we're dealing with two completely different sets of questions.

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