Episode 545: The Cat's Fine
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4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: The rules of "Rabbit Rabbit"; exploring the magic of Domino's probability-altering powers; forests versus trees and past versus future; Chevy Chase and a familial ninety-ten inversion; and, finally, praise for Lulu Miller's mind-blowing thoughts on the downsides of imposing "order" onto chaos.
Links for this episode:
- Organizing Chaos — On the Media — Overcast
- Organizing Chaos | On the Media | WNYC Studios
- Why Fish Don't Exist | Book by Lulu Miller | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster
Part biography, part memoir, part scientific adventure, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a wondrous fable about how to persevere in a world where chaos will always prevail.
- Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life , Miller, Lulu - Amazon.com
- No Such Thing As A Fish | Nosuchthingasafish
Each week Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss their favourite facts unearthed in the past seven days.
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: van der Kolk M.D., Bessel: 9780143127741: Amazon.com: Books
- Opinion | This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma - The New York Times
The core argument of the book is that traumatic experiences — everything from sexual assault and incest to emotional and physical abuse — become embedded in the older, more primal parts of our brain that don’t have access to conscious awareness.
- Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Bessel van der Kolk - The New York Times
- They Podcast | Blank Check with Griffin and David Wiki | Fandom
They Podcast is a miniseries covering the films of John Carpenter beginning in August 2021
- @BlankCheckPod | Linktree
- Domino (character) - Wikipedia
In addition to her exceptional marksmanship and hand-to-hand skills, Domino possesses mutant probability-altering powers, similar to those of the mutant Longshot.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Merlin. How are you doing today? I'm fine, Dan. How are you? I'm pretty good. |
| 0:07.0 | Good morning. Good morning. Here we are. And we didn't have time to record on the first, |
| 0:14.0 | like we usually do, because it wasn't our day, but rabbit rabbit. Oh rabbit rabbit to you as well. |
| 0:20.0 | Thanks. Did you remember? I did. You know what I actually didn't know. I know. No, I did. Did you not? |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, well, you know, okay, I'm going to try to hijack your story. Come back to me. I have a very loose, loose, |
| 0:34.0 | my standard is loose for rabbit rabbit or bunny rabbit. Tell me about yours. This would be, |
| 0:42.0 | no, let's go back. Let's go way back September, September 1st, the year of your Lord 2021. |
| 0:48.0 | I remember. That's all. I mean, I somehow I remember. Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | Which at what point did you remember and say allowed rabbit rabbit at what point? |
| 0:56.0 | My understanding is that it has to be the first thing that you do. It has, you have to start with that. |
| 1:02.0 | That you can't, you can't do it later in the day if you miss it. If you miss it, you miss it. |
| 1:06.0 | This is a really good topic that we've probably had three times, but we should talk about that. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, let's hit it. Because I think it gets to something. Dan, Dan, I'm, I'm betwixting between. |
| 1:16.0 | I've got, I'm gathering string, you know, sharpening stones, you know, to increase my business |
| 1:24.0 | acumen. I got a lot going on here that is not done cooking and I don't have time to buy extra ovens. |
| 1:30.0 | So all I gots to do is stack. Also, my wife had surgery. |
| 1:34.0 | Oh, a lot going on here. She, she's an athlete and she had to, she had her knee operated on. Her knees |
| 1:42.0 | not allowed to do anything very interesting for a while. Okay, how is she feeling otherwise? |
| 1:48.0 | I have to say she's a champ. If I had a thing that would not let my knee bend on my knee, |
| 1:54.0 | well, first of all, let's get some things out of the way. I don't move a lot. I don't need to move a lot. |
| 1:58.0 | I'm like, Polly. You're like, was this going to say, when you move, you move slow, you know, you don't move. |
| 2:04.0 | That's because you don't have to move for anybody. |
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