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🗓️ 12 April 2022
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The Problem: You’re responsible for keeping the swimming pool clean.
(Recorded on Monday, April 11, 2022.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hi, John. Hi, Marilyn. How's it going? Can you hear me? I can. Are you concerned |
| 0:15.2 | about your volume? Yes, I'm concerned about my volume. In my, in my, in my own, uh, |
| 0:23.0 | in just a, oh, wait a minute. Oh, oh, wait. I just turned it up. How does that sound? |
| 0:27.8 | Sounds fine. I, I used to be concerned about my mass. And now I think I'm most concerned about |
| 0:32.7 | my volume. How much, how much area I take up? You know, I mean, not how much I weigh, but like, |
| 0:37.7 | like a, like a, like a, like a noble gas. Yeah. I was just on an airplane yesterday. So my |
| 0:43.4 | mass is really well established. Oh, God. Yeah. They gave me a, they gave me an upgrade, |
| 0:49.2 | because you know, the airlines are really, really trying to, uh, to make, to keep all their friends. |
| 0:57.0 | Uh, but they gave me an upgrade and it was a window seat. And you know, it's, |
| 0:59.8 | biggers can't be choosers. Uh-uh. I didn't want to say, oh, wait a minute. I don't want that |
| 1:04.1 | upgrade. But then I'm sitting next to it like a seven year old boy. And, uh, I haven't had a, |
| 1:11.0 | like a panic feeling in a long time. I'm sorry. And upgrade today is a little bit like the |
| 1:17.3 | Vikings letting you sit next to a stronger man. Yeah. Right. Exactly. It's like, oh, |
| 1:23.6 | the plays are just, they're just crammed with people and everybody's so fucking mad. |
| 1:28.7 | Everybody's mad. John, people have lost their shit. Everybody's so fucking mad all the time now. |
| 1:33.8 | I sat there next to, you know, I'm sitting in the, of course, toward the bulkhead. And |
| 1:37.4 | these two, uh, flight attendants are just talking about like, they're just running down the list of |
| 1:43.2 | all of the insane events that have happened to them in the last eight months, you know, |
| 1:47.8 | completely candidly, like not even trying to not even under their breath. Just like, oh, yeah, |
| 1:52.6 | they must get, they must get at least one bananas thing like every, every day, if not every flight. |
| 1:57.4 | They're just rolling their eyes so hard and kind of you could tell that they were looking at the, |
| 2:01.6 | at all the people in the plane just going like, who's next? What's the next? Which one of you is |
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