
47. Malcolm Gladwell: 10,000 Hours of Jokes
Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
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The Old Man and the Pool
The YMCA pool is a great metaphor for existence because everyone's trying to stay in their lane, but no one stays in their lane and it feels enormous, but it's actually limited. There's wealthy people, the unwelty people, and all races and genders,. Everyone's sort of naked and there's technically a lifeguard, but we probably shouldn't trust the lifeguard. The whole YMCA power grid is based on a 75 year old man at a V-neck or the smell of chlorine. When I was seven, she sent me to the men's locker room. And the only thing more shocking than a hundred vaginas is a hundred penises at eye level
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