#8 Anxiety Box

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Sometimes, on his way to work, a feeling of pressure begins thumping in Paul Ford’s chest. His breaths shorten. They speed up. And sometimes, in those moments of extreme anxiety, Paul’s phone talks to him. It tells him everything that’s wrong with him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How many websites are you at at this point?
0:02.0	So I'd say there's probably 10 that are my actual sites
0:06.5	and then a bunch of really dumb domains
0:08.5	that I register when I've been drinking.
0:12.2	I'm not really supposed to get it anywhere else.
0:14.8	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:19.3	From Gimlet, this is ReplyAll, and I'm PJ Bo.
0:22.2	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:25.5	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:27.5	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:28.5	This is a show about the internet, and this week,
0:31.2	we're talking to a man who makes websites.
0:33.6	A man named Paul Ford.
0:35.8	Paul gets websites like some people get tattoos.
0:38.5	He pulled up the master list of all the domains
0:40.4	he currently has registered.
0:42.1	I have, leave Kitty alone, because that's the thing
0:45.4	I say to my children all the time.
0:47.9	So I was just like, well, I'll just register this.
0:49.8	I have one for my novel that didn't sell very well.
0:52.7	I have this day in anger.com, which I registered a while ago.
0:56.2	That's about to expire if anybody out there wants it.
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