Thinking Sideways: Toynbee Tiles

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 13 March 2014

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Since the early 1980's, linoleum tiles have been found embedded in asphalt all around the world. They bear the inscription "TOYNBEE IDEA, IN MOViE `2001,RESURRECT DEAD, ON PLANET JUPITER". Their origins are unknown.

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0:00.0	Thinking sideways stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.
0:20.8	What's going on here?
0:32.8	You're actually like Sherlock Holmes on a cocaine bender.
0:36.8	You've got posted notes and hastily written notes.
0:42.8	Okay, you're a little too into this.
0:46.8	The thing is that this is one of those mysteries that so many people have dealt into.
0:52.8	And I feel like there's like a curse attached to it.
0:54.8	You just fall into it.
0:56.8	It's like Alice in the looking glass.
0:58.8	How many more metaphors can I come up with here?
1:00.8	I really don't know.
1:02.8	Down the rabbit hole.
1:04.8	And you just fall in and there's no, you know, I know I was expressing to Steve earlier that I don't know if I'm really ready for this.
1:12.8	Just because there's so much information out there has been going on for so long.
1:16.8	You were a little manic.
1:18.8	Can't do anything about it.
1:20.8	But I really want to talk about this one because it's like one of my favorite mysteries.
1:23.8	I feel like it's time.
1:25.8	But I'm so sorry.
1:27.8	I can't make it through.
1:29.8	That's talk about you're going to help me with this.
1:31.8	I admit this is this one's off.
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