November 18, 2024 • 11 mins
Jack pulls a few Shower Thoughts from Reddit...with wonderful results!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is my nomination for the laziest podcast we've ever done.
It's one more thing, I'm strong and getty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
One more thing. Oh that's quite a claim.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
And yeah, that's saying something because we regularly put very
very little effort into this, I mean astonishingly little.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Effort, and yet it is often delightful.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
All I did was go to uh shower thoughts on
the Reddit and pick up a whole bunch of them,
and we'll go through either laugh or be interested or not.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well. It used to be a regular feature on the show.
We enjoyed it so much.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's pretty good. Do you ever Do you spend much
time on Reddit.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Every I mean every now and then, But I don't
really understand the whole thread way that that works, honest with.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
You interesting, whatever you're interested in, there are Reddit threads
about it, I mean, and it's uh and you know
you can and then you can have them listed as
the most recent, the most interesting and recent, the top
this week, this month, this year, of all time. And
I do that regularly, Like like, I don't just pick
(01:06):
one random. I'm a Hemingway guy. So if I go
to the Hemingway Reddit thread, I could pick you know,
top all time and see a list of almost guaranteed
to be fascinating threads about Ernest Hemingway. Huh, just whatever
you pick anything, sports, music, cooking, the shoes you like
to wear, anything.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I need to play with it more.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, I probably do too, although there's only so much
time in the day. There are a and g threads
of various sorts too.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But if you want to research something like if you're
interested in buying a lawnmower, I mean you can. You
can go on there and get all tons of information
about it. I mean, there's practically anything anyway. This is
something called shower thoughts, and it's just clever little sayings
or jokes. I just picked them from the last month observation.
Institutions can't save money using thin toilet paper, you know.
(01:55):
This is a big one with me. Drives me crazy.
The toilet paper they have work or in a bank
or something like that. Institutions can't actually save when he
using thin toilet paper. Everyone just doubles or triples up
the amount used each time. That is true, So just
buy the thicker good kind in the first place.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Ah, Jack not a fan of the single ply Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
It's so it's so nothing. It's amazing it even still exists.
It's like it's like the imagination of toilet paper. It's
so thin.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Sometimes well, as you know, I have a bidet seat
at home, and when I'm in an office building, for instance,
I just clamber up onto the sink. I've had to
work on my flights a buildy.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I know I've walked in when he's doing that.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's horrific, okay, And yet refreshing your mind is creating pictures.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't want.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The new house I live and has a bi day,
and I haven't taken the time to even look into
how you use it or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
An actual bidet or like the bidet toilet seat, I
don't know the difference. An actual bidet is a separate thing.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh no, it's a bedet toilet seat then, But it's
got a bunch of nozzles and equipment and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh yeah, it's all about the nozzles, Michael, and the
water pressure.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And yeah, exactly, and temperature of course, another shower thought.
It's super easy to permanently change your life for the worst,
but almost impossible for the best. And you can't make
a mistake, you can't do something today that will make
your life so much better. Really win the lottery, meet
mister or missus. Right, but you wouldn't know it for
(03:26):
a while. But you can ruin your life very easily
in one day.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yes, and often know it almost immediately. Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well, how weird would it be if, like the night
Judy and I really hit it off, some cosmic voice
had said, you will spend your lives together. This is
the most important person in your life, and I'd be
this is kind of cute. What are you talking about? Ye?
Takes the fun out of it. Well yeah, not only that,
but it's I wasn't exactly looking for that at the time,
(04:01):
and neither was she, so you ease into it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
This one's more just I don't know, I thought about it.
Imagine what it would look like if all the Wi Fi,
blue tooth and cellular signals were visible to the naked eye.
That would freak you out. If you could see them
all flying around all the time. You walk into a
room and they're just everywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Oh my god, the mirror and they're going through your head.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah. The only thing that makes speed bumps work is
your desire not to damage your car. Clearly true, but
it's like it's like a threat, slow down or we're
gonna cost you hundreds of dollars in getting your car repaired.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, a lot of speed bumps, but there's this one
like Strip Molly Multi Strip Molly Place for one of
our favorite restaurants is And those are speed bumps from hell.
I don't know if they're square or what, but they
will like hurt your body. Yeah, if you don't slow down.
I know.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I think there's a new speed bump that they invent
into certain shape because I've hit those two. But you
could have a guy there with a hammer and say,
if you drive too fast when you park, I'm gonna
come put a dead in your car.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I mean the same thing really functionally. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
One of my favorite memories growing up, they put a
speed bump on the hill to the to the housing
community I lived in, and nobody knew it was there
for a while, and we used to just go sit
down at the park and wait, oh here he comes
cram days on end.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
In the modern world, there'd be a YouTube video thing
for that YouTube speed bump fails. Yeah, we've gotten to
the point in civilization where a household pet dog has
eaten more exotic meats, has more belongings, and has been
treated better than almost any human was one hundred years ago.
Very true.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Wow wow.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It cost almost nothing to label the up or downside
of a USB, so you don't put it in wrong
all the time. But nobody doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
For real, Why don't they have a u uh a
top or a bottom.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Little letter on there?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
One hundred percent correct. I kind of like the challenge
buddy does. I'm the guy who, if I have a
piece of paper, I will crumple it an attempt to
throw it in a trash can, just because that's how
I amuse myself. Every time I go to plug in
SUV at SUV the thing USB USB, I think, all right,
(06:24):
let's get this one right. But it's the sport of
it that appeals to me.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
But it's kind of funny that it hasn't become Oh
there's a dot on the top. That's the top right
for all of them. It's such a simple fix.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
The amount of things I've almost broken by just trying
to jam that thing in there because I thought I
had it right the first time.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And if it's some sort of device that can be used,
like I've got this little speaker thing I use that
it can be either way or whatever. Just have a
little dot at the top of that, and you match
the dot on the top of your little plug. And
I like for those who can't handle the day, I
can't living on the edge.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I liked that. I learned from an actual neuroscientist that
the reason it seems like you get it wrong more
than you get it right is the way our minds
are built to emphasize failure more than success to keep
us protected. Evolutionary speaking, So it seems like it seems
it doesn't seem like fifty percent of the time you
get it right. It seems like ten percent of the
time you get it right, and ninety nine until you
get it wrong. But that's all the way our minds work,
(07:26):
just to make us remember bad things to protect us.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Remembering where the berries are is good. Remembering where the
sabertooth tiger is is very very good.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Right, Almost everybody is walking around with a fact they
learned on Wikipedia that is wrong, but they'll repeat the
rest of their lives.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That was certainly.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, Oh that reminds me. Somebody bugged me to do this.
I read something really really interesting about how Wikipedia got
so far off the rails, because it was fairly recent
and least several years ago, a well meaning, if flawed,
you know, the source of knowledge. It's it's like like
(08:09):
a lot of journalism. The ten the type of people
who would tend to be really enthusiastic about becoming Wikipedia
contributors and editors, just by the nature of it tends
to lean a little left, but now it is deliberately
inescapably way left because of the financing of it. I
got to get to that at some point.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, I would like to talk about that because I
use it Wikipedia practically every day. Probably kids often react
to something like it's the worst thing that's ever happened
to them in their whole life, because it is the
first person to find out that you could nail horseshoes
to a horse's feet was very brave.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Or very cruel.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
If bugs had a society like ours, their daily routine
would be NonStop funerals.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Oh now that's a shower. Thought, that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I only have a couple more here.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, asking tall people.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
To reach high shelves a sort of a compliment, but
asking short people to reach the low shelves seems like
an insult, doesn't it. Give somebod your shirt and saying
can you get that down there for me? Because I
want to bend over you get.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That pan out from the bottom drawer. Would you about
having to me this weekend?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
About half of the time at the grocery store, somebody
asks me to get something off the top shelf, but
get some of the people ask you to get something
off the low shelf for what.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
My buddy dropped his wallet and said, you're closer to it, would.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You grab it? And I was like, sure, that's funny.
How tall are you? I never ask a woman of
age because I am a gentleman, but what is your height?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I am a smedge over five to four.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh okay, it's pretty simple. That's right in your wheelhouse, right,
your American woman, average ish wheelhouse.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
And this I came across somewhere else and somebody says
it's true. They said it's your favorite story. Ever, this
is what all ends with. A coworker once told me
that he got banned from a bar when he lived
in North Dakota back in nineteen seventy three. He didn't
try going back to it for thirty years, but he
finally did. The moment he stepped in, someone yelled, get
the hell out of here, Dennis.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I could actually believe that's true.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
No one small town bars that people been there forever
and they're always there and they sit in the same spot.
I actually could believe that that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, get out. Well, that is that reminds me of
was it fucked? There are some challenged Hemingway to write
a short story in five words or six words whatever.
It was the legendary baby Shoes for Sale, never worn shortest,
(10:56):
and it is. It's amazingly effective. It just it grabs you,
that is in its own weird way, like an essay
about small town America.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that could be true. I'm telling you,
being from tiny towns. It actually.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Which for a lot of us in our lifestyles. It's stunning.
It can't possibly be true, but no, yeah, it is.
The hell are you doing here? Deaths? Well, I guess
that's it.
This is my nomination for the laziest podcast we've ever done.
It's one more thing, I'm strong and getty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
One more thing. Oh that's quite a claim.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
And yeah, that's saying something because we regularly put very
very little effort into this, I mean astonishingly little.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Effort, and yet it is often delightful.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
All I did was go to uh shower thoughts on
the Reddit and pick up a whole bunch of them,
and we'll go through either laugh or be interested or not.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well. It used to be a regular feature on the show.
We enjoyed it so much.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's pretty good. Do you ever Do you spend much
time on Reddit.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Every I mean every now and then, But I don't
really understand the whole thread way that that works, honest with.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
You interesting, whatever you're interested in, there are Reddit threads
about it, I mean, and it's uh and you know
you can and then you can have them listed as
the most recent, the most interesting and recent, the top
this week, this month, this year, of all time. And
I do that regularly, Like like, I don't just pick
(01:06):
one random. I'm a Hemingway guy. So if I go
to the Hemingway Reddit thread, I could pick you know,
top all time and see a list of almost guaranteed
to be fascinating threads about Ernest Hemingway. Huh, just whatever
you pick anything, sports, music, cooking, the shoes you like
to wear, anything.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I need to play with it more.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, I probably do too, although there's only so much
time in the day. There are a and g threads
of various sorts too.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But if you want to research something like if you're
interested in buying a lawnmower, I mean you can. You
can go on there and get all tons of information
about it. I mean, there's practically anything anyway. This is
something called shower thoughts, and it's just clever little sayings
or jokes. I just picked them from the last month observation.
Institutions can't save money using thin toilet paper, you know.
(01:55):
This is a big one with me. Drives me crazy.
The toilet paper they have work or in a bank
or something like that. Institutions can't actually save when he
using thin toilet paper. Everyone just doubles or triples up
the amount used each time. That is true, So just
buy the thicker good kind in the first place.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Ah, Jack not a fan of the single ply Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
It's so it's so nothing. It's amazing it even still exists.
It's like it's like the imagination of toilet paper. It's
so thin.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Sometimes well, as you know, I have a bidet seat
at home, and when I'm in an office building, for instance,
I just clamber up onto the sink. I've had to
work on my flights a buildy.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I know I've walked in when he's doing that.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's horrific, okay, And yet refreshing your mind is creating pictures.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't want.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The new house I live and has a bi day,
and I haven't taken the time to even look into
how you use it or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
An actual bidet or like the bidet toilet seat, I
don't know the difference. An actual bidet is a separate thing.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh no, it's a bedet toilet seat then, But it's
got a bunch of nozzles and equipment and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh yeah, it's all about the nozzles, Michael, and the
water pressure.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And yeah, exactly, and temperature of course, another shower thought.
It's super easy to permanently change your life for the worst,
but almost impossible for the best. And you can't make
a mistake, you can't do something today that will make
your life so much better. Really win the lottery, meet
mister or missus. Right, but you wouldn't know it for
(03:26):
a while. But you can ruin your life very easily
in one day.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yes, and often know it almost immediately. Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well, how weird would it be if, like the night
Judy and I really hit it off, some cosmic voice
had said, you will spend your lives together. This is
the most important person in your life, and I'd be
this is kind of cute. What are you talking about? Ye?
Takes the fun out of it. Well yeah, not only that,
but it's I wasn't exactly looking for that at the time,
(04:01):
and neither was she, so you ease into it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
This one's more just I don't know, I thought about it.
Imagine what it would look like if all the Wi Fi,
blue tooth and cellular signals were visible to the naked eye.
That would freak you out. If you could see them
all flying around all the time. You walk into a
room and they're just everywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Oh my god, the mirror and they're going through your head.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah. The only thing that makes speed bumps work is
your desire not to damage your car. Clearly true, but
it's like it's like a threat, slow down or we're
gonna cost you hundreds of dollars in getting your car repaired.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, a lot of speed bumps, but there's this one
like Strip Molly Multi Strip Molly Place for one of
our favorite restaurants is And those are speed bumps from hell.
I don't know if they're square or what, but they
will like hurt your body. Yeah, if you don't slow down.
I know.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I think there's a new speed bump that they invent
into certain shape because I've hit those two. But you
could have a guy there with a hammer and say,
if you drive too fast when you park, I'm gonna
come put a dead in your car.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I mean the same thing really functionally. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
One of my favorite memories growing up, they put a
speed bump on the hill to the to the housing
community I lived in, and nobody knew it was there
for a while, and we used to just go sit
down at the park and wait, oh here he comes
cram days on end.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
In the modern world, there'd be a YouTube video thing
for that YouTube speed bump fails. Yeah, we've gotten to
the point in civilization where a household pet dog has
eaten more exotic meats, has more belongings, and has been
treated better than almost any human was one hundred years ago.
Very true.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Wow wow.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It cost almost nothing to label the up or downside
of a USB, so you don't put it in wrong
all the time. But nobody doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
For real, Why don't they have a u uh a
top or a bottom.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Little letter on there?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
One hundred percent correct. I kind of like the challenge
buddy does. I'm the guy who, if I have a
piece of paper, I will crumple it an attempt to
throw it in a trash can, just because that's how
I amuse myself. Every time I go to plug in
SUV at SUV the thing USB USB, I think, all right,
(06:24):
let's get this one right. But it's the sport of
it that appeals to me.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
But it's kind of funny that it hasn't become Oh
there's a dot on the top. That's the top right
for all of them. It's such a simple fix.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
The amount of things I've almost broken by just trying
to jam that thing in there because I thought I
had it right the first time.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And if it's some sort of device that can be used,
like I've got this little speaker thing I use that
it can be either way or whatever. Just have a
little dot at the top of that, and you match
the dot on the top of your little plug. And
I like for those who can't handle the day, I
can't living on the edge.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I liked that. I learned from an actual neuroscientist that
the reason it seems like you get it wrong more
than you get it right is the way our minds
are built to emphasize failure more than success to keep
us protected. Evolutionary speaking, So it seems like it seems
it doesn't seem like fifty percent of the time you
get it right. It seems like ten percent of the
time you get it right, and ninety nine until you
get it wrong. But that's all the way our minds work,
(07:26):
just to make us remember bad things to protect us.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Remembering where the berries are is good. Remembering where the
sabertooth tiger is is very very good.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Right, Almost everybody is walking around with a fact they
learned on Wikipedia that is wrong, but they'll repeat the
rest of their lives.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That was certainly.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, Oh that reminds me. Somebody bugged me to do this.
I read something really really interesting about how Wikipedia got
so far off the rails, because it was fairly recent
and least several years ago, a well meaning, if flawed,
you know, the source of knowledge. It's it's like like
(08:09):
a lot of journalism. The ten the type of people
who would tend to be really enthusiastic about becoming Wikipedia
contributors and editors, just by the nature of it tends
to lean a little left, but now it is deliberately
inescapably way left because of the financing of it. I
got to get to that at some point.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, I would like to talk about that because I
use it Wikipedia practically every day. Probably kids often react
to something like it's the worst thing that's ever happened
to them in their whole life, because it is the
first person to find out that you could nail horseshoes
to a horse's feet was very brave.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Or very cruel.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
If bugs had a society like ours, their daily routine
would be NonStop funerals.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Oh now that's a shower. Thought, that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I only have a couple more here.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, asking tall people.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
To reach high shelves a sort of a compliment, but
asking short people to reach the low shelves seems like
an insult, doesn't it. Give somebod your shirt and saying
can you get that down there for me? Because I
want to bend over you get.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That pan out from the bottom drawer. Would you about
having to me this weekend?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
About half of the time at the grocery store, somebody
asks me to get something off the top shelf, but
get some of the people ask you to get something
off the low shelf for what.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
My buddy dropped his wallet and said, you're closer to it, would.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You grab it? And I was like, sure, that's funny.
How tall are you? I never ask a woman of
age because I am a gentleman, but what is your height?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I am a smedge over five to four.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh okay, it's pretty simple. That's right in your wheelhouse, right,
your American woman, average ish wheelhouse.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
And this I came across somewhere else and somebody says
it's true. They said it's your favorite story. Ever, this
is what all ends with. A coworker once told me
that he got banned from a bar when he lived
in North Dakota back in nineteen seventy three. He didn't
try going back to it for thirty years, but he
finally did. The moment he stepped in, someone yelled, get
the hell out of here, Dennis.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I could actually believe that's true.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
No one small town bars that people been there forever
and they're always there and they sit in the same spot.
I actually could believe that that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, get out. Well, that is that reminds me of
was it fucked? There are some challenged Hemingway to write
a short story in five words or six words whatever.
It was the legendary baby Shoes for Sale, never worn shortest,
(10:56):
and it is. It's amazingly effective. It just it grabs you,
that is in its own weird way, like an essay
about small town America.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that could be true. I'm telling you,
being from tiny towns. It actually.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Which for a lot of us in our lifestyles. It's stunning.
It can't possibly be true, but no, yeah, it is.
The hell are you doing here? Deaths? Well, I guess
that's it.
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