Going Analog is a Safe Bet

Schauer Thoughts

Sarah Schauer & Studio71

Comedy, Education

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This week on Schauer Thoughts we’re discussing two rising trends: going analog and online gambling! These near-anagrams are causing quite the concern so we’re pulling back the Schauer curtain to take a better look at the nasty bits while also addressing solutions to scummy business practices. This is a judgement free zone - if you are struggling with any addiction issues I’ve linked resources below. Also as someone who has gotten sober (albeit after 10+ tries) I would strongly encourage you give yourself some grace. Grace is not forgiveness, it’s freedom of movement, and considering that people with addictions often hide away, grace is necessary to come out into the light and see hope on the horizon. No need to rush, the others and I will just be listening to “No-No Song” by Ringo Star on the record player I got in college. Books from MIT Press (Not Sponsored - Please Sponsor Me) Decolonizing Design - Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall Sweet and Deadly - Murray Carpenter Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes - Andrea Moro Phenology - Theresa M. Crimmins Letterlocking - Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith General Resources: Scientists Finally Figured Out the Math Behind How You See Color https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a70784732/color-theory-schrodinger/ Analog is back, and my millennial heart couldn’t be happier https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/analog-is-back-and-my-millennial-heart-couldnt-be-happier The Analog Life Project: Some Things To Know Before We Get Started https://substack.com/home/post/p-181708555 Creative Reuse Centers https://artofrecycle.org/our-neighbors $230 notebooks, digital cameras and tiny dollhouse furniture: How Gen Z’s desire to get offline is a boon for businesses https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/going-analog-gen-z-desire-to-get-offline-small-business-boost.html#:~:text=Part%20of%20%22going%20analog%22%20involves,of%20the%20University%20of%20Pennsylvania. Fortune Business Insights - Art & Craft Materials Market Size, etc. https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/art-craft-materials-market-109031 Celebrities at the Super Bowl: The ‘Who Will Attend the Big Game? Prediction Market https://www.covers.com/entertainment/celebrities-at-super-bowl-prediction-market Gambling Addiction Help Resources European Safer Gambling Week (Nov. 17-23) https://safergambling.eu/get-support/#:~:text=please%20contact%20us.-,Helplines,0)%2078%2015%2010%2020 Getting help for gambling by European country Help by State https://www.ncpgambling.org/help-treatment/help-by-state/ Getting help for gambling by state SMART Recovery https://smartrecovery.org/gambling-addiction Provides help for gambling addiction for the US, Canada, UK, Australia, as well as global populations Evive https://www.getevive.com/ Support platform offering education, community, digital tools, and personalized resources for all people struggling with gambling problems Gamban https://gamban.com/ Gambling blocking app as well as tools to help you or a loved one quite online gambling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi guys, welcome back to Shower Thoughts.
0:10.0	My name is Sarah Shower.
0:11.0	This is a podcast for left and right brainers, middle brainers, anyone with a ponds, medulla,
0:17.0	anyone with any sort of, you know, frontal lobes, temporal lobes, parodal lobes, occipital lobes.
0:23.9	If you got one, welcome to the show.
0:27.0	So what are we covering today, guys?
0:29.1	We're covering going analog.
0:31.8	Now, I do have to tell you guys ahead of time.
0:33.6	I'm a huge fan of going analog.
0:35.9	And this is going to be a very nuanced episode. Basically, I'm for it, but I do have some nuanced points and some points to make, obviously. It'd be funny if I was just like, yeah, it's a good thing and we should all, I mean, it is a good thing. And I'm excited to talk more about it. But before we get into that, how am I doing good? So last week I was
0:57.9	talking about how I met with MIT Press and they said that they were going to send me some books.
1:02.4	And they did send me some books. And I've read a couple chapters of one of them. But I'm excited
1:09.8	to read all of them. They're so fun. I'm going to tell you what they sent me. That's not sponsored by them. But I'm excited to read all of them. They're so fun. I'm going to tell you what
1:12.5	they sent me. That's not sponsored by them. But MIT Press, if you're listening, I would love
1:17.2	to do a partnership in the future. But here's like four of the books right now.
1:24.1	So the first one, I'm, okay, it's called Decolonizing Design, a Cultural Justice Guidebook by Elizabeth Dory Tunstall.
1:32.3	And it is so good.
1:33.7	I love, like, books on, like, decolonizing, like, every single topic.
1:38.1	I read Decolonizing Methodologies, Decolonizing Therapy.
1:42.0	One of my favorite books is research as ceremony, and it's like
1:47.9	indigenous methods of research. And so when I got this, I like screamed because I'm now in this,
1:54.2	like I'm now studying like optics and how the brain actually like decodes, you know, text and also pictures. And so it's cool to get like, and I talkedodes, you know, text and also pictures.
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