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Bonus 11 - Strategies 2 (Patreon)

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2019-03-26 19:02:55
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2024-09-20 23:43:07
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We once again set up scenarios and describe our strategies to deal with them - from pancakes and cyborgs to killer whales and Wilbur Whateley's cooking. TUNE IN!

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Gregg A Helmberger

Sooo...if the fat guy was wedged into the cave, wouldn't he be a cork keeping the water from flooding the cave? I mean you can still cut him up if you had a personal grudge or if you felt like murdering someone for giggles, but honestly I think the folks will be OK.

Forrest Rush

umm the sentence that everybody can hear superpower: does everyone hear it in their own language? Otherwise a few billion people going "Who is this yank yapping in my ear?" or "Why does god sound like a podcaster?"

Richard Wolfe

I love the Strategies shows, keep 'em coming! People were looking at me funny while I was laughing to the show in grocery store.

Steve

I got pulled over doing a u-turn in Washington DC. I wasn't sure it was illegal but I didn't argue with the cop, just apologised and said I was on my way to the airport to get a plane. That was true, although it was to Indy, not back to the UK. I just got away with a verbal warning.

Steve

You could wear a Chad Fifer mask.

Allison Albright

Years ago, a friend of mine got into one of those pyramid schemes and asked me to go to a meeting she was hosting for someone else in this “company” to try to make sales - she just needed warm bodies so it wouldn't be too awkward. It was one of the more depressing experiences of my life. It was me and one other guy in this basement apartment listening to this sales guy talk about how he believed in this product (and the "multilevel marketing" scheme that went with it) so strongly that he had sold the business he'd built up over years to get the money to buy into it. The product was a phone with a video screen. It was 2011 and Skype, FaceTime, etc. were widely used. There was a video with Donald Trump endorsing the product and a lot of information about how successful associates worked one day a week and could afford mansions and yachts and private jets. Neither I nor the other guest wanted anything to do with it, and the sales guy got increasingly desperate. He started talking about how he was doing this for his kids. He had one of the video phones set up as a display, but didn’t have anyone we could video chat with. I swear to christ I looked into that sales guy’s eyes and saw only the chasmal emptiness at the heart of everything staring back at me. I remember that night vividly. I left shaken. I would sooner gnaw off my own arm than sit through another one of those things even if it was Will Smith and Alfonso Ribeiro and Alfonso agreed to do the Carlton dance and teach it to the rest of us. There’s only so much soul destroying evil a person can take in one lifetime.

Allison Albright

Could you just leave Venus the way it is but send all the not-nice people there? Then the nice people wouldn't have to move and it wouldn't leave the Earth and all its creatures in the hands of the not-nice people. ......or would that make me a not-nice person?

Mandy Reznor (She/It)

Damn. I was hoping you'd cover the scenario I left under the last episode like this. I gotta say, something Chad said irked me. Talking about the marine rehashing of the Trolley Problem, he referenced the idea that one person might have more value to society, such as being "destined" to cure cancer. I have to say, the notion is revolting; a human life has the value of a human life, no more, no less. The only way a person can be ascribed more or less value is SUBJECTIVELY, such as if the fat man is a good friend of yours and you couldn't hurt him to save six strangers--or if the six strangers all had shaved heads and swastika tattoos, and were very blatantly expendable within your own system of values. But all things being equal (IE everyone being an unmarked stranger) there is no "more" or "less" value here. All you know is that they're all people, and the very fact that you don't and CAN'T know what they would do if they live means hypotheticals for or against carving the speedo-wearing Thanksgiving turkey cancel each other out in their sheer uncertainty. It's purely a matter of whether or not you view actively ending a single life or passively allowing six lives to end more upsetting.

gaminette

If Matt Barisi (sp?) isn’t a Patron, could we hook him up with a day pass? I’m dying to know if he’d really unfriend Chris for that sandwich.

Jeff C. Carter

I would keep my global broadcast power secret for fear that terrorists or others desperate to get their ideology out would kidnap and torture me until I blanketed the earth with propaganda.

Sanjay Mathew

Pizza would be the most versatile One Food surely. Also after listening a bit more I change my One Food to an In-N-Out burger, animal style. They're the best. In-N-Out did a pop up food truck here in Singapore last year but I refuse to queue for an hour for food so despite my longing for an animal style burger I gave it a pass.

Beccameriel

This just made me laugh a lot. You sounded like two 14 year old boys in your secret den. But, strangely, not irritating. *fond mum face*

Eldritch Scerry

But who makes better pancakes? Kurt Russell or Wilbur Whateley?

Ethan Cordray

But if all the nice people got to go to terraformed Venus, then all that would be left on Earth would be a bunch of not-nice people victimizing everybody weaker than them. Which means that anybody who was *actually* nice would choose to stay on Earth to help alleviate all the injustice. So Venus would end up being exclusively populated by people who weren't actually nice, but were good enough at faking it to trick you into taking them there. What I'm saying is, you're gonna end up having to blow up Venus like three years after you get done fixing it.

Steven Moore

I love these shows and wish you did them more often. As for the fat guy I would try to use the knife to widen the opening. Short of that push him back in so the others can get out? The he can just stay there. Just a head. Feed him mackerel.

David Halstead

So when you say the one sentence that everyone hears does it get translated, or do they just hear you in English?

David Halstead

The "one sentence" question is really sticking with me. Does a global event people could use as proof a god, or their god, exists really benefit mankind? I envision a wave of fanatism and war that leads earth into a new dark age. You guys might be more optimistic for humanity than I am.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

"I'm going to be nice so I can get to the utopia planet" is more or less the motivation of adherents to many major religions who manage to find excuses not to be nice, so I'm not sure it would improve the average person's behavior--although on the other hand it might be different if you could actually see tourist photos of the place.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

These strategies shows remind me of the Book of Questions fad, and especially Tom Weller's parody version ("The Book of Stupid Questions") that my nerdy high-school friends and I delighted in ("You are on an airplane and an attractive stranger offers you a thousand dollars to go have sex with them in the restroom. Do you take an out-of-state check?")

feedergoldfish

Was that The Amazing Kreskin in your outro?

Eric Grant

The Strategies concept is sui generis and could easily be a fun and entertaining podcast on it’s own. The only problem is that Chad and Chris are both so sweet, kind and loving that they always come up with the most altruistic answer to any of the scenarios. If only we could have the input of evildoers, like, say, the smoking man from the X-Files, Nyarlathotep, Vladimir Putin or the My Pillow guy.

CoolToad

My power level increases to new and transcendental heights every time we are blessed with a Fifer whisper.

G. Monaldo

Maybe Lying Vincent Price could make a guest appearance on strategies? Hmm....

Sebastian Tonewo

I feel like a planet of "not nice" people, with time, would find it very easy to declare war on the "nice" planet on the pretence of needing their resources. It could make for an interesting book if the proper scale is taken into account.

lazyelvis

Didn't Star Trek: Insurrection explore the topic of what inevitability happens on a planet exclusively populated by nice people? They have kids and there's no guarantee that the kids will be as nice as their parents. Once they start in with the extreme plastic surgery it's game over for utopia.

Michael-Paul Schallmo

Please keep these Strategies shows coming! You both are so creative and funny, and this is a great new venue for that.

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

I'm still astonished by the ubiquity of going back in time to kill Hitler when you can accomplish the same good without killing him. So you have this time machine and you use it to make Hitler's childhood a lot nicer and pull him out of some nasty situations so that while he still might be a jerk, he isn't a genocidal lunatic. Annnnd you end up with an even more nasty world conqueror. Thank goodness we still have a time machine.

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

The large fella and the cave scenario is perhaps most interesting if you just keep upping the number of people that will be saved. Killing him to save one person? No go. Killing him to save ten people? Tempting. Killing him to save one hundred people? Seems like a solid yes. After that we have established who you are and it's just - as Winston Churchill taught us - haggling over the price.

Lord Rancid

HA. "You have to wear a mask 6 months out of the year..." Welcome to 2020 guys!