Nerd Pride Radio

Kyle

Phoebe wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:34 pm Oh wow, I wish you will get one, seriously, you will experience joy.

Well, I just bought my new car six months ago. So it'll be about four or five years before I'm in the market for a new one for me. But I will be buying a new car for my wife in the next year. So... cool butts unite!

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I'm planning on winning the Megamillions main jackpot tonight and the Powerball main jackpot tomorrow night. What do you want? I'll buy you whatever you post up, up to $10,000 IF you post it before the Megamillions drawing tonight and I win the main jackpot. If you post up after the drawing, but bef...

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I asked a question about using a washcloth and Mike makes me feel guilty about not checking my white privilege.

FINE! I'll start using a loofa! Are you happy now, Mike?!?!

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But cooling technology is much more expensive than butt cooling technology. That said, I'd like a butt cooler.

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Hard pass for me after I heard about a grieving scene thats... (wait for it)... hard to watch.

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Not that I ever would look at it or even seek it out. But apparently Texas passed an age-verification bill that would hold porn companies liable if a minor accessed their site. So the porn companies now block access in Texas. Meanwhile, porn shops line the major interstates and strip clubs are all o...

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I actually understand the concern about the Chinese government harvesting information- there was a recent story about how Temu was getting access to people's text messages and private photos even though the app didn't reveal that or ask permission. But on the other side, I'm really wary of the gover...

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So I'm 51. I've come to discover that when you hit your 50s, your knees just aren't like they were when you were 20. Still can't do squats reliably. Like for real. There's a 50/50 chance that if I try to do a full squat, on the way back up my knees will just cease working.

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All of those examples include fluid. I agree with you that spraying bodily fluid is unacceptable and gross. But when I cut my nails (and I don't know how short y'all are clipping yours), but there's no fluid involved.

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Whoa whoa whoa- this is not the same thing as wiping ear glue on the desk. That requires sanitation, as would putting mucus covered nose hairs somewhere. But since you clip your nails in front of your family, does that mean you also just wipe your ear wax on the arm of the couch? That's nasty. But s...

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Yeah- heated seats are great. I only need them for a couple of months a year here in Texas, but it makes the cold weather so much more comfortable in the winter.

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There's a lot of parody photos of the Last Supper, and I was having fun searching through them. But then I realized, if you want to do this right, you have to figure out which character is in Judas's spot. For reference, here's the seating chart: https://i.postimg.cc/pdzLc4Zq/last-supper-names.jpg S...

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To start with- yes, I now regularly wash my legs and feet. Previously, I would wash to my knees and stop, letting residual rinsed soap do the job. I now recognize through much shaming from family and close friends that this was gross. I now wash my legs and feet. So get off my back, germaphobes. Als...

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The Nineties - Chuck Klosterman. I really enjoyed Klosterman's absurdist short story collection. This is not fiction, and is not absurdist. It's a dissection of the 90s by someone close to my age who was a firm Gen Xer when it happened. The focus is on how it was a transitionary time that bridged t...

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I'm so confused by this. Someone walks into my office to discuss a case with me. We're a casual office- t-shirts and jeans every day unless we're going to court. As they're walking in, I was reaching for my nail-clippers. They sit down and we start chatting and I start clipping my nails. They are di...

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Everything gets a 1 point boost for the secret contextualization you utilized to make this so conversational and smooth. Well played. I don't know if I can do this justice, cuz I see your pictures and hear your stories, and things seem to be going well for you--raised your kids right, having fun... ...

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My youngest son and I started a quest two years ago to watch the complete catalog of goose movies. We've only got six left. Love the goose.

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I was the guest teacher for a four hour math and economics class for a dozen homeschoolers. I thought it was going to be horrible and no one would pay attention- but it went so great! Very fun.

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Do me! Do me!

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I mean, not really. It's not a Tesla. I can't just say- "Go here" and it does everything to get me to my location. But we're getting really close. I bought a base-model Elantra about six months ago. I hadn't bought a new car in several years, so I wasn't familiar with the "standard&qu...

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I wish I had a talking truck that only complimented me.

But on the other hand, I have a car that basically drives itself. You know what? I'll start a new thread.

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I can't believe I'm "that guy." 30,000 dead in Gaza? I knew it was horrible what was going on. I generally agree with what Mike's saying. When I've discussed it with people, I've expressed how I don't understand how a ceasefire isn't something people should want-- or the converse being, I ...

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Just a reminder for y'all to be prepared for my absence again. I know it seems like it's awhile away, but you really should start getting things ready now.

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Hey Mike, I heard about the truck and I've got to tell you that not only am I super-jealous of you having a truck (and I don't), but I also am jealous of thinking about how much fun you're going to have riding around in it with an elbow hanging out the window. Hey Mike, so is the podcast ever coming...

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Rules: Step One: Post a one sentence compliment to Mike- it can either be superficial or sincere. Dealers choice. Step Two: Post a single sentence to trigger Mike. Step Three: Post a second one sentence compliment to Mike. This time it must be sincere. Step Four: Wait for Mike to respond with a scor...

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All of this being said I want to acknowledge something that I think is really important. I've not been the victim of a violent crime. I live a privileged, very safe life. I acknowledge that people who have been affected by violent crime may have radically different views than I do, and I don't place...

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So I have a friend that went to prison. For a real long time. He's never been arrested before or been to prison, but he used to be a prison guard so he knew what to expect. His family and kids talk to him sporadically but no one keeps in regular touch with him. I feel bad that he's basically been se...

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Yeah, the VR version sucked. Controls were way too janky. Mando- I love it. It’s been so long since I’ve played that I’ll find some rando missions that I think are new, and then when I get to the conclusion I realize, “Oh right! I remember this! I love it!” I’ve played Fallouts 3 and 4 on the PlaySt...

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So for several years I’ve been looking for a game on my Switch that can scratch my Skyrim itch. I love the game so much, and have played through the entire giant game four times before. I probably had 200+ hours into it or more. So I’ve constantly been scrolling through the Nintendo store for a game...

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Trucks are so much fun until you have to fill the gas tank. But I’m jealous. A lawyer I work with lives on 20+ acres out in the hill country and has an old truck that he keeps just to haul and move shit. I’m so jealous- I hate having to borrow my dad’s sports pickup to haul off brush. But with five ...

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With respect to the sick leave issue- I know plenty of people that work at jobs to do provide sick leave- but the hurdles they put up to get it is ridiculous and sometimes unobtainable for people. When I was a teen working entry-level jobs, I always had sick leave. And if you needed to take it, you ...

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System Collapse - Martha Wells. Hey- it's Murderbot. I'm not going to go into a deep dive explaining why Murderbot is great. Read Mike's review or any of our reviews of the other half dozen Murderbot entries. I haven't read a Murderbot story in probably over a year, so this was like coming home. I ...

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The Eighth Detective - Alex Pavesi. Normally when I pick a murder mystery book, I know what I'm getting into- an Agatha Christie-like work that hopefully (but not always) has some new take or spin. This book is not that and is way, way better. This is the meta-deconstruction of murder mystery stori...

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Oh yeah! I have a new granddaughter! Olivia June was born on February 27!

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We play Donner Party- which is very similar, but with simplified rules and tracking than the traditional Werewolf game, or the needlessly complicated ones that make you use a phone app. Donner Party is simple- some are cannibals and some of pioneers. Standard werewolf. But his reminds me- I played P...

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Yeah- that's pretty cool. I've actually thought about renting a hive for a period of time to see if it's something I wanted to make the purchase on.

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Counting the Cost - Jill Duggar. Wow. Now I need a detox from traumatized celebrities. Jill Duggar, if you don't know, is the fourth oldest child of the Duggar family. The Duggars are those super-conservative, super-religious parents who had 18 kids and a show that ran forever on TLC (18 and Counti...

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Nooooo! Take the journey! For me, I hit the same wall about a third of the way in. It wasn't that I wasn't enjoying it- it was how intimidating the commitment was. But then I thought, "That's dumb. If I'm enjoying it, I should keep listening." And then I listened to them all in six months....

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The Woman in Me - Brittney Spears. And now for something completely different. This book was not well written, was repetitive and vacillated to extremes between "Brittney's voice" (things she clearly said in her own way, "I swear to god.") and the ghostwriters (which used flower...

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Bookshops and Bonedust - Travis Baldree. The delightful sequel to Legends and Lattes (see entry above) is actually a prequel about how our orc-adventurer, Viv, gets injured by an undead beast and has to convalesce in sleep seaside town while her leg heals. She quickly befriends a ratkin at the loca...

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Incarcerat - Garth Marenghi. It's hard to recommend. This is the second in the Terrotome series by Garth Marenghi, a fictional author first seen in the short-lived satire/camp TV show on the BBC called Garth Marenghi's Dark Place. It's so over the top, absurd and brimming with false machismo that i...

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Dawnshard - Brandon Sanderson. I promise that this will be the last Sanderson thing for a while. Mostly because it's the last thing in the Stormlight Archive to be published that I haven't read. It was great. The series is great. This novella (like Edgedancer) is a "short for Sanderson" s...

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Edgedancer - Brandon Sanderson. This novella is a side-story focused on Lift, one of the "tier 2" characters in the Stomlight Archive series (although she's one of my favorites). I won't really try to explain the whole premise, because if you haven't read the other books, it wouldn't make...

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Silver Nitrate - Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I read (and loved) two other novels by Moreno-Garcia, both Mexican gothic horror novels (one was even titled Mexican Gothic). This is not a standard gothic horror novel. And honestly, it's a bit hard to review. To be clear, I liked it a lot. The author is wond...

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They never pick me because I’m a lawyer.

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Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree. Great book. Like I posted before, I needed a break from the high-stakes fantasy epics in the Stormlight Archive series (and the fact that each book in the series is like 50 hours and I read the first four back to back). This was the perfect counterpoint. It focu...

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I'm taking a Sanderson detox and trying to read the opposite type of fantasy novel. I think I'm calling it Cozycore. The book is called Legends and Lattes. It's about a female orc fighter who has made her fortune diving dungeons and slaughtering monsters and decides to retire before she's killed. Bu...

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Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson. This is the fourth book in the Stormlight Archives. I love the series and won't belabor the point by going over everything that was great about this book, because I said the same thing about the other three. So go to the 2023 list and read my review of The Way of ...

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It was a great day. My family surprised me with a surprise pickleball party! It was awesome. Thanks everyone.

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Thanks guys!

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