Rock Paper Scissors

Known for Being a Game

Famous for I threw rock.

What did you throw?

Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why Rock Paper Cissors

is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, hey there folks. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alec Schmidt, and I'm not alone. As you might have heard last week, Katie was out then, and she's out this week as well.

She's doing fine, but she'll be back soon. And in the meantime, I have a wonderful returning guests joining us on the show.

He's a phenomenal comedy writer. You can read him every week on 1-900 hotdog.com. And he's a wonderful author. And his new novel is How to Dodge a Cannonball. It is out now. Please read it. Please welcome Dinar Dale. Hey, Dernard. Hey, Alex. and I am very happy to be here.

And yeah, thank you for the plug.

It is a very strange time seeing a basket of ideas as insane as that whole book enter the

general ecosystem.

The New York Times absolutely raved about it if people want to read a New York Times review. And also, I am slow and I'm only a few chapters in, but loving it so far, because the protagonist just keeps switching sides in the United States Civil War. And also meeting Confederate generals who are dupuses in the exact way I sort of thought they would be, but also ways I didn't expect. It's great. Like the guy who keeps doing things that Stonewall Jackson would have done with his

posture. Amazing. Really good. Thank you. Thank you. Is that spoiling too much of the book?

I'm very early. That is jacket. That's jacket copy level stuff. You are totally good good and it feels very good to have the

schmitty seal of approval i think that's a little more exclusive than the times one but yeah writing

it's a good time i think you guys will enjoy it yeah absolutely and thank you for joining for another siff

i always start by asking our relationship to the topic or opinion on Yeah, absolutely. And thank you for joining for another SIF.

And I always start by asking our relationship to the topic or opinion of it.

So how do you feel about rock paper scissors?

So I have two dominant memories or, I guess, interactions with rock paper scissors.

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