Dateline 8-17-2017

Yesterday I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts called The Complete Guide To Everything which is a show I discovered what seems to be at least a decade ago back when I discovered the podcast medium. I found the show back when I was living a nine to five life and was allowed to wear headphones at work and was looking for a show similar to Stuff You Should Know in order to have another informative but fun distraction to get through the otherwise boring workday.

The show is hosted by Tim and Tom who are two friends that go back to high school who, like Chuck and Josh from Stuff You Should Know do have a topic of the week but are so easily distracted that they barely stay on topic while at the same time, their wandering off course feels organic to where it feels like two friends having a fun conversation and not just two assholes blabbering on about nothing the way you might imagine a meandering discussion to be. That said, you better like McDonald's talk because it's often during fast food talk where they realize they're off track.

Anyways, yesterday the topic of the show was the sun as a way to prepare their listeners for the upcoming solar eclipse. During one point where the two were actually on track, Tom, who kind of drives the bus, informed us that the true color of the sun is white and that it's actually our atmosphere that gives it the yellow/orange tone that we see while on the ground of Earth.

This got Tim, the young old curmudgeon co-host, to get comedically upset that they consider the true color of the sun is established from a perspective that no one on the planet can see. Tom then pointed out that astronauts are both of this planet and can witness this white sun while in space, which only infuriated Tim twice as much that we're basing this truth on what only seven people at a time can possibly see.

He said this in a way that was just reactionary and not as an effort to sound deep but it did get my stoned mind thinking about what the truth actually means. Like for example how I personally feel that Atheism rings true to me but I'm in the minority with this opinion leading me to have to navigate a world that is based on false belief whether or not I am correct.

I'm not saying that I am right in this argument because being in the minority when it comes to thought is a very rough place to be because if you are actually wrong you just come across as an idiot but if you are right and everyone you turn to still doesn't believe, you just come across as crazy. What makes it worse is, if you look at the reverse and the masses are wrong they have plenty of people to turn to for a session of group therapy and if they are actually right nothing changes because the numbers were already on their side in the first place.

I don't know if this really opened my eyes to anything that's all that new, but this little bit of comedic outrage, that might be more genuine than I'm giving it credit for, just triggered a new way of thinking about things kind of like the first time you hear the old adage, "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to witness it, does it make a sound."  So, I figured I would share this interesting thought.

Now it's time to get back to work as I am almost done with Phase III of my pre-work for my SNL reviews which I've now been working on almost full time for close to a month on top of the other nonsense.

Talk to you tomorrow with another update.

Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker