I hadn’t thought of conflating being grateful with being happy. In fact, I was just talking to a friend about how we didn’t need to be happy if we’re not feeling it, but we did owe it to ourselves to acknowledge the good stuff along with the bad.

I did, but it’s still crazy when you see him in front of you. And he shows up as a judge on The Final Table. Dude is doing the food show circuit.

You know what? I’m not mad at this list and can agree with about 80% of it. Even gin and tiramisu, which I enjoy very much but get why people don’t like it.

This is a prime example of how titles matter. I’m not saying it would make any of these very astute points less true, but it would feel less coded as the kind of commentary that it doesn’t incorporate.

Do something useful and read this: Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience.

I have good results with holding up a finger to stop someone and interjecting with “hold that thought for a sec” and then saying my peace. I guess it’s the nicer version of the Kanye move.

I don’t think this is much of a surprise. This sounds like it plays out exactly as I figured it would. It’s still disappointing though.

For sure. Zumbo’s Just Desserts was so weird and I watched every second of it. I liked Sugar Rush too. Both were serious yet also delightfully goofy.

Okay, but only for one second...I wait too long and I forget what I was saying because my brain is getting rickety and old. Seriously, the best way to win an argument is distract me until I forget my point.

I don’t think my people were really around that area at the time. So they dodged that bullet, I guess, only to catch much worse ones later.

Yes to Nailed it!!!! It’ll be my post-GBBO digestif.

I would have thought they’d amended that rule a while ago, but I guess it’s been low priority because of how it’s enforced. Reminds me of those Supreme Court shenanigans back in the day—but at least they had the exemption on the record.

The podcast talks a bit about re-directing someone who is “flooding” to common ground so they feel heard about something less loaded. But I think understanding that people are complex and have many varying sides and opinions to them—some compatible, some not—is a good way to view people in general.

Agreed. And a lot of folks treat marginalized people’s very existence as political in ways that hold them back from engaging. And that makes it difficult to even start from a premise of cordiality on either side much less give people the benefit of the doubt over disagreements that cut the heart of someone’s identity.

And there needs to be accountability for the assumptions that fill out that analysis and a willingness to adjust when new facts are introduced into that scenario.

What I’ve heard so far in the first interview is interesting. I don’t disagree with some of the conclusions about having a more thoughtful perspective on the positives and the negatives we encounter, but I also think other conclusions are filtered through the vacuum of the higher education setting and privilege that I…

I thought this was gonna be Tiffany the singer. I’m not sure yet whether I’m disappointed or not.

This is great too for folks like me that are nervous fliers. 

so whoever pays the utilities should probably look up the usage stats for your dishwasher and faucet to see what they’re working with.

But unless you think a film’s value as art is solely a product of its politics, then its a good film, so go see it.