Hey, it's Leandra, Medine, your friend from Man Repeller and also Now Monocicle.

Welcome to a brand new episode of Monocicle brought to you by Man Repeller, featuring myself and all 10 of my fingers, which I'm currently wiggling around.

Today I want to talk a little bit about the concept of boredom.

So I have this theory right now, and I'm going to try to unpack it today, and I really need

your help, that boredom is a relic of a bygone era.

I can very distinctly remember being much younger and calling my dad in the office one day.

And he was like, oh, hey, is mom home?

And I said, no.

And he said, okay, cool, what are you doing?

And I said, nothing.

I'm so bored.

And I have never heard anyone get so angry at someone else.

The reason I got to this notion of boredom as a bygone relic is because I was thinking about specifically man-repeller and the content that we're producing and what service we're providing.

Because if you consider the engagement that's under a post, sometimes it sort of spikes out of control and that's obviously ideal, when other times we'll put out stories that we really, really believe in,

and they elicit very little engagement. We just don't really live in a place anymore where people

are reading the internet just for the sake of reading it. And I know that the buzz feeds of the world

might argue otherwise, but I'm just not sure if the concept of a boring nine to five desk job

still exists. And as a result of that, I'm not not sure if the concept of a boring nine to five desk job still exists.

And as a result of that, I'm not sure if content serves the same purpose that it used to.

This morning I was talking to my therapist, and I told him that I feel like boredom is a relic of a bygone era.

So here I am talking about boredom, yada, yada, yada, and I'm like, Steve, boredom is a relic

of a bygone era.

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