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I can't link the stupid email to spam bc any traffic to the website just makes it seem legit which it isn't obviously.
dumbarse made a typo in his email address on his own website
I will destory his life single handed so you don't need to help
ainsley is trying to learn to run
sam has become a hot shot arts executive
live long enough and you'll become everything you hate.
in which Sam comes to terms with the Kennedy assassination and Ainsley recounts her worst date ever
a long one with weird stuttering in it. I tried to fix it but i failed. also i sort of like it.
Holy shit guys. I really hope I get to take a bullet for a duck soon 1. becasue it's difficult for someone in lockdown with complex PTSD to demonstrate profound feelings for a duck without being called a "pervert" or a "public nuissance" and 2. becasue I am probably ready to fall into a protracted coma so then i can say things like "I'm not an insomniac. I once slept for 8 years non stop". Alternative title: "I did it all for the BITS! The BITS. the BITS!"
jesus christ. hard to believe the global pandemic killing thousands has fallen below the fold. what i wouldn't give for a slow news week.
Sam suggests that Lance Armstrong is pro cancers that aren't testicular cancer and I have not fact checked that but it doesn't seem to be accurate.
the period between christmas and new years is not a good time to begin anything again. it should be a time devoted entirely to becoming one with your couch. this episode is mostly about Hilaria Baldwin. #yogaposeoftheday
There was a lot of stuff that Sam wanted edited out of this one. Lots of secrets and unmentionable acts. I hope I got them all... I am in a pretty fragile way so episodes have been hard to finish but the fans have been begging for it so here it is. Enjoy.
Yeah it's my birthday. Birthday's make me blue. How are you guys doing?
Watch this video series because it's amazing and bdg is a genius. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrzMhRx_AuP3ZJ_sRFDnEgnH_lqb0JV8p
utilitarianism, what we learned at school, the use value of education vs the joy of learning, how to make life long learners, how what you like doesn't matter, appreciation as consumerism, all actions as consumption, adaptations for a life not lived, luxury, the time ainsley stayed up all night watching married at first sight, which tools verses why build in the work of marina abramovic. we talk about this tweet: https://twitter.com/TrevDon/status/1296975375227064323
The matrix is both a documentary about how the world works and also a metaphor for how the world works. Work that one out! We skirt dangerously close to a lot of topics in this one without ever actually getting to them. Sam has been adopted by a cat probably in a exploitative relationship. But who is exploiting who?!
Confusingly anti-utilitarians and utilitarians believe the same thing - one is pro happiness and the other is anti suffering. Anyway, we refuse to disclose if we are vegans or not because individual choice is not really relevant. Imagine thinking your diet is political?!
Please go to this Youtube video. It is a masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMq1PiUbf-M
Sam does some full on stuff to mice. Ainsley lets antinatalism get through to the keeper like a dumbo.
I really chopped and screwed this one around. Lmk if you can't follow it.
It features the eerily haunting and pulsating sounds of our mate Costa - listen to them in full here because it's honestly a journey and seems like a pretty great soundtrack to lockdown tbh https://constantinexii.bandcamp.com/album/e-l-e-m-e-n-t-a-l-2
Special Guest Mavis "Maverick" Mahoney adds a unique perspective on lockdown. We discuss the latest mobile MMO sweeping the primary schools: Sky, Children of Light at great length.
Peter Allan was wrong! It turns out when all of the ships come back to the shore we don't get to be together at all. Everyone's finally home and i don't even get to see them! Everyone except Shmoosh that is who is holidaying in the south of France and needs podcast content to fill his sea side days. So this ep is a return to form for Shmoosh, with love. xx
Sam is reporting from Adelaide on the newest game sweeping the universe and Ainsley is trying not to go full sadness - all placebos welcome.
https://www.planetbroadcasting.com/our-shows/two-in-the-think-tank/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29906980-lincoln-in-the-bardo
https://www.last.fm/user/WasteOfBytes
look - I tried to edit episode 21 but it was impossible. It was all about politics and pessimism and I hated it. So instead we are transitioning to a 100% sports podcast. try to keep it on the down-low though becasue every time I have an opinion about sports on the internet i get death threats. Just bc I dared ask how much Eddie would pay to hold the captain of the woman's team underwater?! what a world.
a meandering chat that includes 1. sams prediction we'd seen the last of covid (incorrect) 2. discussion of the BLM protest in melbourne 3. Rachel Dolezal 4. the end of days
for a DAILY podcast it has been a long break between drinks...is that an expression? Anyway, the online space has been filled with more important content than us jabbering about star trek and jeopardy. it still is! so this episode is just for our listeners called Kat and not anyone else. If you're reading this consider also donating some money here: https://bailfunds.github.io/ and also #abolish the police.
The search for validation continues: follow us on our journey into online dating. We already live in the dystopian future you're so afraid of. Black mirror's got nothing on us.
Even by meta standards this ep contains some pretty dumb stuff: we totally goof on pascal's contributions to maths, Ainsley attempts to list the pros of being in a death cult and Sam forgives flat earthers even though being anti-science is clearly not morally neutral.
We're really sorry. We're going to improve.
do you feel lost and detached? looking for a sense of community? run out of things to believe in? time to lean into the meta cult.
in the place of podcast content we have decided to instead create podcast lore by release these untimely heretofor #losttapes
Unlucky number 13. Plagued by technical issues. This is the only part of over 90 minutes of recording that remains. Listen at your own risk!
also listen to wikipedia here : http://listen.hatnote.com/
We use the dumb app to record. Never again. The sound is all out of time. What a piece of junk- back to back wall to wall stories about people you don't know and inside jokes for the real heads. The only kind of jokes allowed under quarantine...you're welcome. also here is a link to my friend leanne's excellent online personal training https://www.roguesc.com.au/
if iso is getting you down we recommend going out in your back yard, setting something on fire and watching it burn. we heard it stimulates alpha brainwaves.
markets vs commodities
the economy is the alter we sacrifice our young to
Sam has a creative breakthrough
Ainsley reveals her pathological fear of the hairdresser
Ainsley talks too much about therapy
Sam talks just the right amount about axial age dualism
Both of them remember the olden days of dial up internet
Ainsley rejects the idea of spoilers and the introvert/extrovert dichotomy and a lot of other things that everyone is taking for granted. Get ready to be mind freaked!
Spoiler Warning - we ruin every action film from the 80s and 90s
Short but good
Resolutions to read more and get better at cooking
Debt - the first 5000 years
Ainsley acts like a bit of a know all
Molly Nilsson saves the day
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ainsley is sick
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sam is hanging with her folks
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the earth is a globe
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meatloaf is a god
"you've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears"