Episode 106

Episode 106 Transcript cobbled together by Laurie Foster Self-Defeating Thoughts 3384 Toms Shoes 3213 Hoverboard Hoaxes 1736 See All the Problems... jQuery(document).ready( function($) { console.log('test'); $('.voteup').click(function() { var problem_id = $(this).data("id"); console.log(problem_id); var data = { action: 'problem_vote_up', problem_id: problem_id, solution: false, }; var me = $(this); var ajaxurl = ' var ajaxurl = ' jQuery.post(ajaxurl, data, function(response) { console.log(response); obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); console.log(obj); $('.votes-'+obj.problem_id).text(obj.votes); }); return false; }); $('.votedown').click(function() { var problem_id = $(this).data("id"); console.log(problem_id); var data = { action: 'problem_vote_down', problem_id: problem_id, solution: false, }; var me = $(this); var ajaxurl = ' var ajaxurl = ' jQuery.post(ajaxurl, data, function(response) { obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); console.log(obj); $('.votes-'+obj.problem_id).text(obj.votes); }); return false; }); }); Here’s our second best-of episode where we play the first-ever “Weird Matthew McConaughey” voicemail before we gave him the moniker, a classic Bono phone call and the origin of the “go fuck yourself” tag that started from a pattern of disparate comments and voicemail we received. Dick starts us out with Hoverboard Hoaxes and bemoans the lack of boards that hover without the aid of wheels or superconducting rails or weird vacuum contraptions, and I discuss my master plan for stealing the crown jewels. Everyone on the show agrees that it’s brilliant and it was never discussed again. Then I talk about the problem I’ve received the most email about in this show’s history: self-defeating thoughts. This one hit close to home for a lot of listeners and I felt that it was worth including in a “best-of.” If you disagree, you might want to check yourself because that’s a self-defeating thought. Then Asterios rounds out the third problem with Toms Shoes and faux-altruism. Say that last word out loud to appreciate that brilliant portmanteau I created. And stay tuned to the end to hear one of our favorite fan songs by @BandWagonBedlam called, “Too Much Swearing,” a reference to an earlier problem Dick brought in of the same name. And for the curious, the bonus episode referred to in the promo was Bonus Episode 3 .

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Episode 106 is an episode from The Biggest Problem in the Universe by Maddox, Dick Masterson.

This episode is 1:05:33 long.

This episode was published on May 24, 2016.

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