Episode 29: Vachina
You Look Nice Today
You Look Nice Today
4.7 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2009
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about “Das Futur”; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State’s surviving TAs an urgent drum solo.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys question. You know what else is expensive? What's that? You know what's expensive? |
| 0:06.1 | What? Reading cards? Don't get me started on greeting. |
| 0:11.2 | They should sell a two pack one that says happy birthday and one that says You look nice today a journal of emotional hygiene. What is Marin like as a place like Marin? |
| 0:34.2 | Is it just rich people hanging out among trees? |
| 0:38.3 | No, I mean it's not just rich people, it's also extremely rich people. |
| 0:42.0 | And a lot of successful people and a lot of people with |
| 0:44.9 | three or more boats. So all types? No the air is clean and you know there's not as |
| 0:49.5 | many black people so they're comfortable bringing their kids out. Yeah a lot of a lot of people it strikes me have the have the I don't know the resources to have a lot of anxiety about weird things. |
| 1:00.0 | Right, right. You get that in Los Altos at all Scott? get that with people, people have time to read books and go to websites and they learn about |
| 1:06.0 | problems they didn't know they had? |
| 1:07.4 | I get the sense here, I get the sense here that people are much more mellow. |
| 1:12.4 | People are pretty cool |
| 1:13.6 | yeah I mean I guess the one weird thing is that in Los Altos there's a crazy |
| 1:18.1 | fitness community and it's fairly evenly divided between cyclists and joggers. |
| 1:23.8 | I don't know if I've talked to you guys about this much, |
| 1:25.4 | but as you may know, I'm on the jogger side. |
| 1:29.4 | And then there's the cyclist side. |
| 1:31.6 | The jogger side has their weird folks, you know, at night, the nighttime joggers have |
| 1:35.7 | recently shifted from wearing those flashing beacons to alert them to passing cars. |
| 1:41.6 | Now they have four Mexican heralds with bugles, flanking them. |
| 1:46.8 | So is that costly? |
| 1:48.8 | Same price as an LED battery. |
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