I thought for a good minute(s) on how to leave the BEST comment and then remembered oh wait this is exactly the point of your season. 3. Almost tripped on your 5:47 fake-out, so good. 2. Follow the struggle, mess up, get meta, flow with it (nice intro). 1. How do I shed bad competitiveness and keep good competitiveness? What's the difference? 4. Brad cameo. 5/6. How might you put everyone in your audience into an absurd/meta competition against each other? Feel like I can rationally get "don't be competitive," but almost feels like I need to be electrocuted down to my lizard brain to truly cleanse it.
3. particularly partial to the paradox joke, as I spent my high school years in Paradise, CA and every olde tyme business in town was a riff on Pair-a-dice. I'm sure there was a Paradogs animal hospital lurking around town somewhere, probably specializing in telling clients that your dog is both alive and dead during surgery. At the time we had a dog named Muffin that used to hump the car tires all the time. You know where this is going.
5. DAMMIT! I heard you sign off, saw how much time was left on the audio, and thought for sure I was going to be privy to the unintended behind-the-scenes. You read me like a paradogs.
7. My father-in-law had a half mannikin he was getting rid of named RON (because that was the name stamped on the back of his head, right above a giant hole). I painted him a stylish lacquered black and he moved with us several times until he just...disappeared. I secretly hope he's gone on to megahit fame and fortune with his robes and roasters business.
Let the booties hit the floor? (remix for troubled times)
3) But really I feel this is good and I laughed. Is this one of those tests where if you say what your favorite joke is, then the joke gets cut in half?
4-6) Was listening to the "Are U talking Springsteen on My Bean" podcast recently (great series of pods IMO) https://www.earwolf.com/show/u-talkin-u2-to-me/ Scott Aukerman was saying how people really just want to hear them talk about mundane shit like, catching up with what they did recently. So maybe just like tell us about your week, what's going on in your life? Give the sickos what they want.
OMG, I nearly spat out my coffee reading that. Also, I would TOTALLY by the robe with my coffee if it was ankle-length and made from bamboo. That shit gets softer each time you wash it.
But if I don’t set myself for greatness, then a I can’t fail miserably and turn to myself (because I’m clearly two people) and say “See! People hate you. I told you! Sissy. Tryer. That’s what you get for trying.” Without the reach for greatness I’d have considerably less self-hatred and in my life. And then what would I think about when I’m standing naked in front of the shower and I can’t remember what I was in the middle of doing?
"Prove your worth". Powerful momwnt. I dont have to prove my worth but I do have to fund my life. And even stronger, I want to be heard. There's a strong desire to share. I often wonder how much easier life would be wuthout it.
Life is a Pairadogs to be experienced; not a problem to be solved. Transcend for free! Spine erect, look at point in between eyebrows, chant I’m not the body I’m not the mind 108 times 🙏
What came up for me was the tension between 'doing' and 'being' and how we derive our worth, or lack thereof, from either or both of those. We seem to be pretty wired to 'do', and competition exists all across nature (with serious consequences for winners and losers). So to your point I imagine it's pretty tough to ~transcend~ that. I sure as hell haven't been able to. Historically my competitive drives have been funneled into useless arenas - money for its own sake, or being the best salesperson, or whatever - and I'm working to reorient my life to instead funnel those drives into something of value. Because that competitive drive has the potential be the fuel for some pretty incredible shit. But I suppose this begs two questions: 1) what exactly is something "of value", and 2) how do you not destroy yourself in the process?
I don't have answers to any of this but it's good to at least be out here paying homage to Rilke by living the questions. What I can say is that you are doing something ~of value~ here and we're better for it.
This all started out well, but then again, I ended up in the bathroom to finish up. And just like that experience, it didn’t end well.(I was out of TP.) Butt, we wash our hands and try to do better next time.
Practice is free and can be done anytime anywhere. When we tire of playing the game of pretending not to be ok and being ok we arrive at Truth, for now I wear my lululemons
NEURO MY OWN BAGS
Seriously, put 10 points under the Worthy column for the pairadogs joke. Fire.
I thought for a good minute(s) on how to leave the BEST comment and then remembered oh wait this is exactly the point of your season. 3. Almost tripped on your 5:47 fake-out, so good. 2. Follow the struggle, mess up, get meta, flow with it (nice intro). 1. How do I shed bad competitiveness and keep good competitiveness? What's the difference? 4. Brad cameo. 5/6. How might you put everyone in your audience into an absurd/meta competition against each other? Feel like I can rationally get "don't be competitive," but almost feels like I need to be electrocuted down to my lizard brain to truly cleanse it.
3. particularly partial to the paradox joke, as I spent my high school years in Paradise, CA and every olde tyme business in town was a riff on Pair-a-dice. I'm sure there was a Paradogs animal hospital lurking around town somewhere, probably specializing in telling clients that your dog is both alive and dead during surgery. At the time we had a dog named Muffin that used to hump the car tires all the time. You know where this is going.
5. DAMMIT! I heard you sign off, saw how much time was left on the audio, and thought for sure I was going to be privy to the unintended behind-the-scenes. You read me like a paradogs.
7. My father-in-law had a half mannikin he was getting rid of named RON (because that was the name stamped on the back of his head, right above a giant hole). I painted him a stylish lacquered black and he moved with us several times until he just...disappeared. I secretly hope he's gone on to megahit fame and fortune with his robes and roasters business.
1) Nothing's wrong with me
2) Nothing's wrong with me
Let the booties hit the floor? (remix for troubled times)
3) But really I feel this is good and I laughed. Is this one of those tests where if you say what your favorite joke is, then the joke gets cut in half?
4-6) Was listening to the "Are U talking Springsteen on My Bean" podcast recently (great series of pods IMO) https://www.earwolf.com/show/u-talkin-u2-to-me/ Scott Aukerman was saying how people really just want to hear them talk about mundane shit like, catching up with what they did recently. So maybe just like tell us about your week, what's going on in your life? Give the sickos what they want.
7. SOLID GOLD
OMG, I nearly spat out my coffee reading that. Also, I would TOTALLY by the robe with my coffee if it was ankle-length and made from bamboo. That shit gets softer each time you wash it.
But if I don’t set myself for greatness, then a I can’t fail miserably and turn to myself (because I’m clearly two people) and say “See! People hate you. I told you! Sissy. Tryer. That’s what you get for trying.” Without the reach for greatness I’d have considerably less self-hatred and in my life. And then what would I think about when I’m standing naked in front of the shower and I can’t remember what I was in the middle of doing?
Do people really only know "transcend" because of TM? I'm so behind on how dumb people are getting!
Mega hit, here for all the robes
"what is art if not.... the struggle? nice, dude" that made me laugh out loud
"Prove your worth". Powerful momwnt. I dont have to prove my worth but I do have to fund my life. And even stronger, I want to be heard. There's a strong desire to share. I often wonder how much easier life would be wuthout it.
Life is a Pairadogs to be experienced; not a problem to be solved. Transcend for free! Spine erect, look at point in between eyebrows, chant I’m not the body I’m not the mind 108 times 🙏
Neuro-myownbags really got me. Nice work.
What came up for me was the tension between 'doing' and 'being' and how we derive our worth, or lack thereof, from either or both of those. We seem to be pretty wired to 'do', and competition exists all across nature (with serious consequences for winners and losers). So to your point I imagine it's pretty tough to ~transcend~ that. I sure as hell haven't been able to. Historically my competitive drives have been funneled into useless arenas - money for its own sake, or being the best salesperson, or whatever - and I'm working to reorient my life to instead funnel those drives into something of value. Because that competitive drive has the potential be the fuel for some pretty incredible shit. But I suppose this begs two questions: 1) what exactly is something "of value", and 2) how do you not destroy yourself in the process?
I don't have answers to any of this but it's good to at least be out here paying homage to Rilke by living the questions. What I can say is that you are doing something ~of value~ here and we're better for it.
This all started out well, but then again, I ended up in the bathroom to finish up. And just like that experience, it didn’t end well.(I was out of TP.) Butt, we wash our hands and try to do better next time.
A friend has 2 dachshunds and he's always calling them a Pairadachs....
I was hoping for just another 10 seconds....a skinny peak. But hey, we heard voices and a bark. Do you have a paradogs?
Practice is free and can be done anytime anywhere. When we tire of playing the game of pretending not to be ok and being ok we arrive at Truth, for now I wear my lululemons