IAT s09e02

Sat, Jan 14, 2023 9:38PM • 33:53

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

caviar, face, slugging, stickers, masterclass, ted talk, lego, tick tock, people, bricks, film, pattern, sondra, bought, totally, terrazzo, influencers, bollywood, music, digital cameras

SPEAKERS

Tom Merritt, Molly Wood

Molly Wood  00:06

Hey everyone. I'm Molly wood.

Tom Merritt  00:07

And I'm Tom Merritt.

Molly Wood  00:08

Welcome to it's a thing, the weekly podcast supported by you, where innovation cooperation and serving our communities are the things that have kept our story alive since 2013. And there's no end in sight. Thanks for joining us.

Tom Merritt  00:24

If we hadn't already done goodwill, I would think that was goodwill.

Molly Wood  00:28

Right? See now that would work for Goodwill.

Tom Merritt  00:31

And then I saw who it is. And I was like, wow, definitely not goodwill.

Molly Wood  00:37

And I mean, I guess maybe that's just where you go when it's that generic and your land, the lakes,

Tom Merritt  00:45

the lakes. Okay, so Landal laby I'm being on unfair I just think butter when I think land of lakes.

Molly Wood  00:54

I also think butter I did not know

Tom Merritt  00:57

they do make cheese. And eggs and cocoa. Oh, yeah, cuz milk. It's very dairy oriented.

Molly Wood  01:04

But I didn't know it was a farmer owned Co Op. I did not either. I'm like about to like this has actually worked. And now I'm gonna start buying land lakes because of like, what your family owned Co Op. That's cool. Yeah. Am I being like Co Op washed here?

Tom Merritt  01:19

Are you being co opted?

Molly Wood  01:21

Okay. Oh.

Tom Merritt  01:24

too obvious.

Molly Wood  01:26

Anyway, yes. In case you're wondering our about page shenanigans continue in 2023 because we think we are hilarious.

Tom Merritt  01:35

Well, it's true. You will tell us when we're not any more feedback, and got me.

Molly Wood  01:41

Ready for us to switch? Just let us know.

Tom Merritt  01:44

Meanwhile, I hope that you are covering your face with Vaseline.

Molly Wood  01:52

Oh, okay.

Tom Merritt  01:54

Yeah. Do you know about slugging? No, no. Logging is the process of slathering your face with petroleum jelly overnight. In order to give your skin that gorgeous glow?

Molly Wood  02:11

Literal petroleum jelly. Yep. Okay, like I have two questions. One Vaseline is back.

Tom Merritt  02:16

Mm hmm.

Molly Wood  02:17

So when I was growing up, I mean, this is amazing. This is like a total full circle thing. Although I do not recall ever putting Vaseline in my face. I cannot imagine the horrific acne that would have resulted. But when I was growing up in Montana and North Dakota, I would occasionally have such dry skin on my legs like they were just like it terrifically and once in a while still do this. They slather them and Vaseline and put on socks or even wrap them in saran wrap. Yeah, and sleep like do it

Tom Merritt  02:45

to your face. Maybe saran wrap your face. Why not? The leave yourself some air holes. But yeah, the the moisturizer part. I heard about this from Bria grant on the reading glasses podcast mentioned it last month. And so I looked it up. Charcot Marie points out this has been a thing for a couple of years, but but Bria had just started doing it. So I think it's having another moment in its cycle. And I looked it up. And of course, because I wanted to make sure I was getting accurate information. I went to Cleveland Clinic to find, you know, some medical opinion on this. Turns out, it's all right, not bad. moisturizes protects repairs damaged, easy to take off. Not a lot of known side effects, if there are any. So Derrick Hall

Molly Wood  03:37

and they call it by the way slugging because of slugs? Yeah, like this slide because

Tom Merritt  03:44

the mucus that a slug leaves. It's like you let a slug the crawl over your face, but without the gross nightmarish inducing part of it. Because it's just the

Molly Wood  03:55

blogging isn't right for everyone. Dr. Kosuth explains what skin types and conditions should avoid it. Oily skin. Yeah. acne prone. Yes. Which like, oof,

Tom Merritt  04:05

you've got oily skin and you don't need to slug in the first place. So yes, if you have dry

Molly Wood  04:09

skin, and you're not prone to burqa breakouts, wow, slugging that's incredible.

Tom Merritt  04:14

What a great name. So yeah. Have you been slugging? Oh yes. I've been slugging

Molly Wood  04:19

your skin looks amazing. Have you been slugging

Tom Merritt  04:21

Oh my gosh. Yes. Luck every night.

Molly Wood  04:26

All right. Well, this is one of those things that I never should have to I have to apologize to my brother. I never should have doubted him. Oh, okay. Because he found out early about the RR movie.

Tom Merritt  04:40

Um, what is now

Molly Wood  04:44

the RR movie is the or thing in movies right now. Okay. It's an Indian film.

Tom Merritt  04:52

Okay, so it's a name of an actual film of a movie

Molly Wood  04:55

and it's literally three R's AR AR AR like I started texting me about a volt and I was just like, What are you talking about? Like, why do you keep saying this? And he's like, it's insane and there's like, animals Yeah, the data data die like it's just like

Tom Merritt  05:10

this was one of those things that just made me 100% smarter with the moment you introduced.

Molly Wood  05:15

Okay, good, because it's like gonna be in the Oscars. I think it won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song. It did not win best non English language film for the Golden Globe. But everybody's like, No, I think it might actually it's on the shortlist now for the Oscars. So it is a like, martial arts, Bollywood, like his musical three hour long movie in the language called Telugu. And it recently saw my brother like found it and may or may not have checked it out before it was in wide release. And then it hit us shores. I don't know, like last week, all of a sudden premiered in the US. And it's everywhere.

Tom Merritt  06:03

It's it's a sensation. It's it's music beat Taylor Swift. Lady Gaga, Top Gun Maverick and Rihanna.

Molly Wood  06:17

I mean, that by the way, is like the power of

Tom Merritt  06:19

Lady Gaga on Top Gun Maverick are the same, but I just like it had to throw that in on top right? Yeah,

Molly Wood  06:24

lady, right. Exactly. Like the Lady Gaga song from Cricut. Maverick you guys. Yeah. It just went bananas. And there's this whole piece from the Indian Express about what a global sensation it is that was published yesterday. And it was like, you know, within six days, or within four or five days of its release, even internationally before it got to the US. It was in deadline variety, The New York Times and like, it's just I have to, I mean, honestly, I would have been on this like two weeks ago, except I didn't believe it.

Tom Merritt  06:55

So I think you're still in time because it's going to it's going to probably do have a big big night at the Oscars, right? Because it sounds like it's going to at least win song. at the Oscars.

Molly Wood  07:07

I think the nominations haven't come out. So they'll the nominations will be announced on January 24. And then we will know definitely, shortly.

Tom Merritt  07:15

It'll get nominated. It kind of seems like sounds like it might even win 70 million hours on Netflix. Nothing bad for an international at all. And Netflix

Molly Wood  07:25

apparently is a what is it? The Netflix version is like a Hindi language dub of the original to Gulu with subtitles it's not even considered like ideal you know for it because it's like dubbed and with subtitles. But but people still are just well if you

Tom Merritt  07:44

don't speak to Lugu you may not notice it. I don't know actually there might be there might be other sound issues with the dubbing if you're not been announced, right,

Molly Wood  07:54

but I watched like a few minutes of it and it is visually insane. It's just it's just like I mean Bollywood productions are so over the top anyway. Like it's just banana pan so

Tom Merritt  08:06

there's they're saying this could do for Bollywood. What Crouching Tiger did for martial arts, Hong Kong. Chinese films. Yeah,

Molly Wood  08:15

yeah, totally. So yeah, if you're under you know, forgot to Blizzard, maybe a bomb cyclone atmospheric river. Just throwing that out there if you're not into playoff football, like spend three hours this weekend watching our IRR because it's what everyone's doing.

Tom Merritt  08:32

See, I was gonna I've been trying to watch decision to leave which is the Korean film that's getting a lot of buzz. And now I gotta watch this one too, because this just looks insane. This looks great.

Molly Wood  08:44

Yeah, I'm pretty excited about this one.

Tom Merritt  08:47

My other thing this week is just calling attention to face stickers. They're not new, but I see them all over them. Like everybody, especially over the holidays. I felt like a lot of YouTubers and stuff and celebrities doing face stickers just like sticking hearts on their face and stars and stuff. Yeah, yeah.

Molly Wood  09:11

Is it the it's the kinder, gentler face tattoo.

Tom Merritt  09:13

It's very much like I don't know if it's quite entirely Gen Z. It's also a millennial. But yeah, it's a like, Ooh, let's do face stickers. When we're dressing up for fun when we're when we're doing something, you know, celebrity celebratory,

Molly Wood  09:29

huh? That's kind of fun. Yeah, it's just

Tom Merritt  09:33

is almost as much a thing check as a thing call of like, I'm seeing a lot of people do this. Can anybody back me up out there in the world of people who are doing this?

Molly Wood  09:43

Yeah, I'm looking. I mean, it looks like Khloe Kardashian had eyeliner stickers. And so there you go. Like it's a little sticker above and below her eyes, it seems. Yeah. Thanks. Oh, well,

Tom Merritt  10:02

I found a Teen Vogue reference the kind of here I'll throw that in our, our discount that's kind of along the lines of what I'm talking about.

Molly Wood  10:10

So it's funny because I have just an app to spoil it. There's a there's a thing that I've had in my reminders list as a bullpen thing. That is kids are wearing these star shaped acne patches in the world

Tom Merritt  10:27

so the first thing is may even be old and the acne patches building on top of that, because that turns oh god guys from 2019

Molly Wood  10:35

I wonder so face stickers must because I was like, wait, you were the acne patch out in the world now. But they make these cute little star ones. And there's kind of this Gen Z brand that's become really popular that are the star shaped ones. And they're wearing them out there. And it must be because the face stickers like paved the way. Also, face stickers are key you.

Tom Merritt  10:56

Ah, yeah, they're like adorable. I love this. And I've seen I've seen men and women both, you know, just popping them on for kicks. It's kind of

Molly Wood  11:07

this could not be cuter. But also yes, this 100% goes so you got a bonus thing everybody. Bonus thing with the star shaped acne stickers, but I never would have put it together with like, with the cute face stickers.

Tom Merritt  11:21

Stickers. I know. I wish I had taken pictures, you know, or collected more links of examples because the Teen Vogue story the the examples they're given are kind of way over the top like LA stickers on. The ones I'm seeing is like, oh, there might be like, a couple of stars in a unicorn or something like that. Right Heart. Yeah.

Molly Wood  11:43

Well, let me see if I can find these little sticker pimple patches. Justin Bieber has turned these pimple patches into the new must have accessory. Oh,

Tom Merritt  11:54

my goodness. There we go.

Molly Wood  11:57

I mean, I almost want to dump my second thing because this is like the thing. This is the thing. Okay, it's a double, it's a double star shape pimple patches? Totally goes, you'd

Tom Merritt  12:07

say stickers. No one even needs to know.

Molly Wood  12:10

Right? Because if base stickers are already cool, which they clearly are, which they clearly are. Wow, I love it. Well, even this discovery of crossover things is not enough actually, to make me doubt my second thing because I could not be more excited about this. Because once again, my friend Sara shout out Sarah on the cutting edge of everything has been super into caviar. And then that caused me I was at Whole Foods all by myself before the holidays, and they just had a whole like, display of caviar and blini and I was like, You know what? I'm, I'm gonna be a caviar person. In 2023 I'm gonna I'm doing this and she was like, Oh, hell yeah. been all about like champagne. I was like, Yeah, I've got a bunch of tiny like half bottles of champagne. I am going to become a champagne and caviar lady. This year. This is gonna be amazing. I can't wait. And then my friend Christine was like, I'm also about caviar. Let's do it. And then Martha stewart.com Sorry, tasting. table.com has an interview with Martha Stewart published today. Martha Stewart makes the case for why we should all be enjoying more caviar.

Tom Merritt  13:20

What is the case for why it's awesome because it tastes good.

Molly Wood  13:25

Because it's amazing. And classy. It's indulgent and glamorous. And it makes you feel hella special. And it's more accessible. Probably because it's a frickin thing. All right, so I bought it for like $13

Tom Merritt  13:39

a note and a question. The note, I could have sworn you picked caviar before, like years ago. So I was thinking oh, is this is this one where we've we've caught two, two cycles. But it could not find a reference to you picking it in the first run of it's a thing way back when I did find from June of last year. Health Student sent us a tweet about caviar bumps in which a dollop of fish row is eaten off the back of one's hand becoming a trendy way to consume caffeine.

Molly Wood  14:15

Wow, well, maybe that maybe that incepted itself into my brain, but also that was probably a recognition of the fact that it's because it

Tom Merritt  14:25

was on the rise. Yeah.

Molly Wood  14:27

I'm Martha Warren in this interview.

Tom Merritt  14:30

And I was like, Oh, we probably had a double peak. Right. But yeah, I couldn't find good.

Molly Wood  14:36

Martha points out that in the last two years caviar has become a mainstay of almost every fine dining menu. It's served with everything from omelets to scallops to deviled eggs so it's so it's it you know started up up in the fine dining world and now is like every I mean, I bought some like grocery store caviar and the other day was like, Oh, I bet I can make like I have I had some tinned fish because you know, thing shopping now. I made a Puttanesca A pasta sauce, but I didn't have capers. So I used caviar, because that's how frickin fancy I would say sustainable food is become much, much more accessible in price and it makes you feel like a baller.

Tom Merritt  15:15

So the price is lower. We're not talking that, you know, the, the 1950s movie version of caviar is that it's like outlandish ly expensive and older the richest people could afford it. That's not totally the so I said I had a point and a question. The question is, isn't it interesting that this is happening at a time when caviar which is associated with Russia? Russia, not terribly popular in the West.

Molly Wood  15:45

Very interesting. Maybe it's a secret psyops campaign.

Tom Merritt  15:51

We're taking it back, like where is the caviar sourced from I would be interested to to know, for these people like Martha Stewart who pay attention to that part of their message, right? If all their caviar was coming from Russia, I don't know whether they would be recommending it.

Molly Wood  16:09

Martha says and I quote, it's a sustainable food. We've actually learned how to farm caviar very well. So we're not relying on Russian caviar anymore, or Iranian CAMI caviar. And in fact, the caviar that I bought the other day, I can't remember the holiday caviar. That was like expensive. I mean, that was like, you know, like $50 cans or whatever was fancy Christmas stuff. But I bought some the other day at Whole Foods That was 12 or $13 for I think like three ounces. And it's Lake caviar. Yeah, like local. It's like us.

Tom Merritt  16:38

Is that the zirconia of caviar

Molly Wood  16:42

is still shiny Tom has let me have that.

Tom Merritt  16:47

What is it chemical diamond? It's more like the chemical dye because it's absolutely caviar

Molly Wood  16:53

still made out of carbon? I don't care man. Let me tell you that I will not know the difference when I pop open my half bottle of champagne and have my well it also arsenic and a snack. And I bought a little pancake mix so I can make my own blinis fresh Yeah, and you can do a little dollop of hot sauce and you're crammed fresh.

Tom Merritt  17:13

I know fish eggs probably you know doesn't go down smooth for some some folks out there. But if you ever eat row, which maybe you don't eat that either, but like, you know, like at a sushi restaurant. Yeah, that's same.

Molly Wood  17:30

Delayed caviar is actually not like I bought some say like the caviar that I use to make the putt danesco was very, like salty and fishy. But the freshwater caviar is not salty at all. Well,

Tom Merritt  17:42

that means he's like heavier. Yeah, yeah, I hadn't even thought about that part. It is

Molly Wood  17:46

delight. The salty staff is really good with the CRAM crash. But then the more fresh stuff. That's where you do like the dollar badass and like maybe some like a slice of persimmon is what Sarah did my friend Sarah. Yeah, well, it's interesting woman in the world. Yeah, I mean, you couldn't really you could have a lot of fun with your new caviar lifestyle for 2023 treato sale

Tom Merritt  18:06

can you spare caviar on your face for as much?

Molly Wood  18:10

I mean, don't we think that's got to be next.

Tom Merritt  18:13

That's the altar Yeah, it's the it's the outcome. You know, after you've watched the our our movie with your face stickers, you remove the face stickers and then slug yourself cameo?

Molly Wood  18:23

Absolutely. And save a little for on top of your blending. Yeah, and then lick a little out of the corners. And that friends is how to live. That's

Tom Merritt  18:33

that's how we will all live for the next week. We also have other things from you and some of the some of our best things. No lie come from the email among the emailers who are some of our best thing finders is Manny. And Maddie has a new bit of phraseology for us. Hey Oh tamale Have I got you a thing let them cook or let him cook it's everywhere and it's coming soon to everywhere else. Let them cook meaning literally but more often metaphorically let them do their thing. A third party telling someone to leave someone else alone or more often just a compliment I'm a bit late but I think there's still gas left in this thing rocket says many thing on

Molly Wood  19:22

Oh my Okay, well first of all, man he thinks he's late. That means nobody else has heard about it. Probably. So that's amazing. Also, it's everywhere and it's coming soon to everywhere else. We may have to steal as our actual tagline Yeah, great.

Tom Merritt  19:39

It's everywhere. And it's coming soon to everyone coming soon everywhere else.

Molly Wood  19:42

I love that incredible. Like

Tom Merritt  19:45

I don't we don't mean to diminish your amazing things budding of let them cook which is spot on. I love that but also it's everywhere. It's coming to suit everywhere else is great.

Molly Wood  19:54

I love that so much but also I will now be on the alert for it because I haven't heard it but I love it. aren't using it.

Tom Merritt  20:00

I'm just gonna stop saying it inappropriately good. Yeah, somebody's taken a long time at the checkout register at the grocery store. Why don't caulk? That's not how that's used. Oh, yeah.

Molly Wood  20:15

Jacob writes in on a pattern thing. Hey Moto G sloop 1496 years sending in a thing of dents or my things spot nice to ratso a pattern thing looks like someone tried to make it a thing during the pandemic, but maybe now it's getting off the ground. Particularly I saw the following travel tumbler and a local boutique shortly after Rambler finding some terrazzo dresses, actually, silicone wrapped glass travel drinkware may also be an upcoming thing. My girlfriend just received one as a holiday gift sourced from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria. Alright, I'm clicking on the link to become immediately obsessed with anything for a

Tom Merritt  20:55

gold Durand style of flooring. Oh,

Molly Wood  20:59

oh, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, it's so it's it is a flooring style that has chips of marble stone or glass and the gaps are filled in by cement. But there's also to ratso the pattern in dresses on a basketball shower speakers throw blankets.

Tom Merritt  21:16

We had faux terrazzo tiles in my kitchen as a kid.

Molly Wood  21:21

Oh, really? Yeah, I remember that era. Yeah.

Tom Merritt  21:25

I saw this. When I click this and saw it. I'm like, oh, yeah, I know that pattern. Can't it's impossible to clean? Because, right, because that's why it always looks like something got spilled on it.

Molly Wood  21:38

Exactly. Yeah. That's why everyone did it. Because they were like, Oh, you can never tell like that could be a little blood on the floor or just part of the pattern

Tom Merritt  21:45

in the late 70s. I don't know why my parents carpeted and the terrazzo tiles stayed under. Oh my

Molly Wood  21:56

goodness, Toronto. Okay, so they try to make it a thing in the pandemic. And then maybe now it's actually really coming back. I love it. Let's go.

Tom Merritt  22:05

Yan from Germany on LEGO. Hi, Tom. And Molly Lego. And off brand bricks are definitely a thing in Germany, so much so that Lego took legal action against some influencers in Germany, who used the term Legos to refer to the bricks of other companies as well. Other companies are allowed to produce brick design in that are similar because the brick design has expired. There's no he said trademark. I don't think it would be a trademark on the brick design think it would be a patent. But but but the protection has expired. And I've heard that so I bought back eon on that. Apparently Lego claims that Lego isn't a generic term. And people should use the term interlocking building bricks instead, Clem bow Stein, in German. But Yan says, I think YouTube should be saved from Legos lawyers. I think you're right. Thank you.

Molly Wood  22:59

I think that's probably true. It expired in 2011. And I actually remember hearing a story about how and in fact, maybe even, I might have even done a story about how the exploration of the Lego patents totally reinvigorated Lego. It was like the company was, you know, people were just like, Oh, that's it. They're done for because anybody can make interlocking bricks, and then Duplo came out and like it all went crazy. And then Lego went hard into the intellectual property game. They created Ninjago Yeah, I think that was I think Ninjago was the first big IP that they created. And then they had a bunch of characters around it. And then they got into this licensing game, and it's almost like they've never made more money than when they're handing samples. You don't need that s.

Tom Merritt  23:43

It's a great example of how protecting patents copyrights, trade, you know, not trade, but trademarks are a little different, because it's like brand confusion, but patents and copyrights for sure, like protecting them for a small period of time is beneficial. But after that, it's actually detrimental to everyone.

Molly Wood  24:00

Yeah, exactly. And this actually reinvigorated the whole, like Starbucks being on every corner. It was like all of a sudden everybody want a coffee. Yeah, it worked. Yeah. Lee price right then on tick tock music. I spent my New Year's Eve in the company of friends with some preteen kids, they couldn't stop showing me music videos for older artists they discovered via tick tock. But the cool thing was, these were all genuinely good songs of substance, not the teen pop music I'd normally expect kids to gravitate to. They legitimately introduced me to some cool indie bands I'd missed in the 2010s this has always been one of tick tock strength but I've noticed an increase in more and more youngsters getting into older non top 40 music via tick tock so is this increasingly a thing? I guess let's just collectively wait and see if any prepubescent try to Childsplay in the cure this year. See all at the 10 year it's a thing live recording spectacle fest which I can only assume will be held to Glasgow FoodCorps.

Tom Merritt  24:55

Yes, next year.

Molly Wood  24:57

Next year, always we had to put it off this year. Yeah. because, you know,

Tom Merritt  25:01

Whenever anyone asks you when spectacle fest is, it's next year, next year. Yeah, just like nuclear fusion

Molly Wood  25:07

is totally a thing. My kid knows all this weird old music and I'm like, How do you know this? And you've

Tom Merritt  25:11

been you've been building the case for this with with several things you've mentioned, like the Fleetwood Mac and the John Denver and stuff like where they these older groups, older songs go viral on Tiktok with the kids like totally, ya know, Lee, you're definitely on to an Uber thing here for

Molly Wood  25:28

sure. 100%.

Tom Merritt  25:31

Professor art from the Philippines send us an email on the latest y2k nostalgia. Hello, Molly, Tommy, Molly, your prediction that we're now moving from the 90s to the 2000s is just spot on, because now Gen Z is coming after our early 2000s era digital cameras. Yes, old digital cameras are a thing. I first bought it through some YouTube or using an ancient Olympus and I went Huh, that's interesting. But then it was quickly followed by a New York Times article, basically declaring that this thing has exploded. Apparently the youth is fascinated with the idea of disengaging from their all in one smartphones and making events feel more special. Plus, they're loving the harsher, less polished aesthetic that these 20 year old cameras create. So yeah, bring out your old Castillo's and Nikon's and Olympus with the sliding lens covers. They are once again a thing.

Molly Wood  26:24

Guess what my son got for Christmas? A digital camera.

Tom Merritt  26:27

Oh, which

Molly Wood  26:29

one? Film deliver? Oh, wow. So there you know, he's like even more he's layering on the the hipster aspects. But producer rich helped us find an old Nikon SLR. That's amazing. Not DSLR. But SLR. But yeah, but I actually am like, I think he's finding it. I mean, he really is a film camera. But I'm also like, you just need to like point to like, you know, digital camera. Right, right.

Tom Merritt  26:58

Rich, which wanted us to disclose that he did use Professor arts email as the basis of a daily tech news show segment that he did on Monday as well

Molly Wood  27:10

as he should because this is this is an Uber trend story. Eddie Craig

Tom Merritt  27:15

credited Professor art at that point too. But yeah, it's I mean cassettes, digital cameras, like Sony released new mp3 players this week that look amazing because Sony's still great at design. I'm curious if those start getting some pickup like if you know if this idea of like you know I want some single use stuff like could we see a little resurgence there? That'd be interesting.

Molly Wood  27:42

I know probably probably Ichor from way back in the bol days Oh yeah. Is in our Discord and was like guys I posted on December 9 About Nepo babies

Tom Merritt  27:56

in the discord you score I'm definitely guilty of missing again. That's

Molly Wood  27:59

being channel I know me too. And he totally was like look Nepo baby, he posted that New York Magazine article so yeah, you're we're giving you all the credit and you were right. You were first

Tom Merritt  28:07

and then you are right to remind us of that. Thank you.

Molly Wood  28:10

Yes, thank you. And we gotta like in fact, donkey Joe has new pickleball in there, which I've been avoiding talking about but nevertheless, still isn't practicing

Tom Merritt  28:22

Sondra on the new TED Talk. Happy New Year. Molly Tom enrich to your prediction of substack as the new TED talk, I agree on the decline of TED talks, but nominate masterclass as an alternative. My social is full of masterclass ads from established influencers, filmmakers, authors, chefs, it seems that hosting a masterclass is the new status symbol, so don't expect them to become aspirational for upcoming influencers. Are you seeing this too?

Molly Wood  28:50

Yeah, you know what, you are a genius Sondra, you are 100% Correct? That is so it masterclasses the new tech talk

Tom Merritt  28:59

I have seen these and immediately dismissed them because their

Molly Wood  29:02

ads right but it doesn't matter that

Tom Merritt  29:06

exactly that doesn't matter. Like if it soaks in and like Sondra is arguing influencers also seeing them go oh masterclass i i should imitate that right or if masterclass take I mean, I should charge him for this idea. Launches masterclass Acts, where like, people could do their own small versions of a masterclass like, I don't know, maybe they have something like that already. But yeah,

Molly Wood  29:32

I don't know. Well, and I can see also why masterclass would be more popular than a TED talk, because I'm pretty sure to get paid. Yeah, master classes. Like they pay. They choose you and I believe they pay you and maybe you even make revenue based on I mean, I'm not sure how the business model works, but you do get paid and I'm pretty sure if you do a TED talk that's just like, you do a whole bunch of work on your speed. And then you do it for the prestige of giving a TED talk. I think again, I don't know for sure if you get paid because no one's ever asked me to do a TED talk so bite me. But I'm suspecting that getting paid to do a masterclass is a big part of the reason what is the difference? Yeah.

Tom Merritt  30:16

Ted to and I wonder if one gets paid and the other doesn't? Right. Yeah, I do get the feeling. It's all for the honor of doing it. I think it is. Yeah. And the exposure because what if you do like a full on real like TEDx get you some exposure, but if you do a TED talk, TED Talk that you'd like, Yeah, everybody,

Molly Wood  30:35

it's big. Like, that's how you're gonna sell your boy or whatever. But, yeah, interesting. I'm gonna I'm gonna look that up. I do not know these answers. This is all speculation but by next week, or possibly the end of the show, I'll know.

Tom Merritt  30:47

Our shout outs this week. As every week go to people at the top tier in our patreon.com/ it's a thing. They are always handcrafted by artisan producer Richard Stroffolino. Based on all the best aspects of human culture, and intellectual curiosity, this week's shout outs are based on a selection from Paul Carl Farah Ben's against method outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge.

Molly Wood  31:22

Rich is the smartest person we know. He just had this probably like on the shelf or whatever. Yeah,

Tom Merritt  31:28

yeah, he pulled this remember? Yeah.

Molly Wood  31:31

Did you definitely. Oh, all right. Shall I begin, please do all right. The objection that Kevin sill is self correcting and thus needs no outside interference overlooks first, that every Eric Duncan is self correcting. Look at what happened to Louis St. Amour after Vatican two. And secondly, that in Gabrielle Cohen, the self correction of Jake woods, which tries to achieve more humane ways of living overrules the self correction of Benjamin Forrest, which has a more narrow aim, unless Laura Abel is given temporary independence.

Tom Merritt  32:12

Hence, in a democracy, a local Lee price not only will but also should use Jo hood in ways most suitable to Mike Aikens, the competence of Morris Jones could be vastly improved by a jamesy Smith that exposes Andrew Bradley's FAL ability instead of acting as if Miranda Janelle did not exist. Hmm. She exists

Molly Wood  32:36

she exists. Expose the fallibility is we ask

Tom Merritt  32:45

expose it.

Molly Wood  32:49

God forbid you become Louis St. Benson to

Tom Merritt  32:52

I am an anarchist, you must do what I say.

Molly Wood  32:57

I'm an anarchist. Follow my rule.

Tom Merritt  32:59

These are the rules. And any advocates that are listening to me know that's not really our work. So

Molly Wood  33:08

funny joke. Rich says it's legit my favorite theory of knowledge that I don't really agree with but I like thinking about rice. Yeah, I like that. Ah, thank you friends. If you would like to join the lucky patrons in the shout out level, please visit patreon.com/ It's a thing where you can support us at any level you choose. And we are grateful to have you

Tom Merritt  33:30

and all those great things that we got an email keep those coming. If you're like, Oh, I got one of those. Here's the email address feedback at it's a thing.me

Molly Wood  33:39

See you next week. Bye everybody I know

Tom Merritt  33:50

you're gonna give it to me.