Rade humano papachango. Oh, Happy 2024, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another episode of tangentially speaking yet another episode can you believe it

For someone who is not known for his consistency. I'm amazed I've been doing this for so long.

It must mean I like it.

And I do, I think

maybe the greatest luxury one can have in life is to not do things one doesn't enjoy doing.

I mean, what can be better than that, right?

I think that's why people tell themselves they're making lots of money, right?

That fuck you money, fuck you, I don't want to do that. But then they never say

fuck you, do they? Because by the time they get the money, often they've lost that

ability. Because now Often they've lost that ability because now they're part of the money crew and the

money crew does not say no thanks and walk away. There's a great story by Herman Melville

called Bartleby the Scrivener. It's a it's a long short story. I was going to read it in the book club and I looked it up and it's like 80 pages or something. It's a long short story

But it's essentially about a person who doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do.

And he, the refrain in the book is, people ask him to do this and do that, he just says I'd prefer not to. It's an

interesting interesting way to think about life. How many times would I would prefer not to have been the correct response to you know whatever

invitation whatever job offer or whatever, date, whatever solicitation,

were constantly being pulled in directions

that if you really pause for a minute, you'd probably prefer not to move in.

In any case, this podcast is something I really enjoy and I thank every one of you

for giving me another year of this. I don't know when it'll end.

I might just do it, you know, right up until I croak. Would it be great if I croaked on air? Like if I just sort of like you know tumbled over into the

microphone and on yeah or whoever is around at the time sees that the recordings going and decides to

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