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🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | A few days ago, I got a very funny text. |
0:07.0 | It just read, Life Goal Achieved. |
0:11.0 | And then it linked to an article about how the sister wives, stars of a reality TV show about Mormon wives, |
0:20.2 | had visited a place out in the desert called the Plots Plot. |
0:25.4 | And the text was from David Plotz himself, |
0:30.1 | who was the former CEO of Alice Obscura and the namesake of the Plots plot. |
0:36.7 | So it took me a minute to do, there was some detective work. |
0:40.4 | There was a flurry of texting back and forth to figure out what, what David was talking |
0:45.2 | about when he wrote Life Goal achieved. |
0:47.7 | But the long and short of it is that the plot's plot, which is the only Atlas Obscira entry, |
0:53.5 | which is created by Atlas Obscira,, which was created by Atlas Obscira. |
0:55.9 | It had shown up in this reality TV show. |
0:58.7 | It had shown up on Sister Wives on TLC. |
1:01.0 | And it was, like, quite prominent. |
1:02.9 | It was not like in the background. |
1:03.9 | It was a whole big, important plot point around it. |
1:09.2 | And so this just set off a flurry of delight. The Alice |
1:12.7 | Obscure team is texting back and forth. We are watching clips of Sister Wives. It's a very funny, |
1:19.2 | strange collision of worlds. And in fact, a few years ago, we made an entire episode of this show |
1:25.6 | about the plots plot, about what it is, why we brought a shipping |
1:30.9 | container out to the middle of the desert and painted an orange and named it after our former |
1:35.3 | CEO, David Plotz. So we are going to play that episode for you. You can hear the story of how |
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