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I have decided to spend the rest of the night listening to old episodes of The Reality SHOW show instead of going out and drinking.

Me too except the time I die.... I mean went on a cruise for a month. That was a close one.

PS - I think my first RSs episode was the one with Jonna because I was burnt out on comedy podcasts with UCB people and i wanted to listen to one with idiots from The Challenge. The Michael Stagliano episode was good.

Thrive is a strong term.

I discovered this show when they stopped The Reality SHOW show and my life felt like it was ending.

I am so glad this happened.

I don't think I talk about most of those things.

Yeah, but you're less likely to find a hippo to poke. Now, poke a mosquito and I'm in. For safety reasons.

Why? Because it's actually pseudoscientific snake-oil sales and calling it economics is over-dignifying it? Edit: I genuinely enjoy the pedantry of these kinds of conversations... Because I have problems with my brain. Psychology is fun, guys.

And this is why different people pay different rates for insurance. Economics is fun, guys. Edit: Trained hippos are still incredibly dangerous and I think the cost of insurance for such a job would be prohibitively high for the general public, so unless you have tons of money or work for an accredited zoological institution with relatively deep pockets this probably isn't an option.

Beer is produced in a particular unit just like hand grenades so they are analyzable. Also, one has a choice about how much of the beer they can use but not so about the hand grenade. I think that factors in to the deadliness of the product. Consumption is usually a measure of the purchase of such a unit. One could measure beer in liters, cans, or pints. You could look at how much of it is consumed by the person or purchased at a store either way the number of deaths per can purchased or per liter drank would still be lower than that of the smallest unit of hand grenade purchasable which is a hand grenade. They may have different levels of explosive within them just like beer has different levels of alcohol in it but including all beers available for sale and all hand grenades available for sale, I feel comfortable assuming that in the aggregate more people die per hand grenade used or purchased than unit of beer. Also, yes hippos are dangerous, which is why you aren't allowed anywhere near a hippo but you are allowed to be within close proximity to mosquitoes. Sometimes they get so close that they suck your blood in order to reproduce. The bastards. I would go as far as to say that I've been bitten by well over 100 mosquitoes (very conservative estimate [Edit: because I'm actually a badass outdoorsman]) and have yet to be maimed or killed by such an event. But literally every single time I've encountered a hippo there was a very large fence, which I'm assuming was for my protection. If the mosquito was the more dangerous thing to my health I would think such a device would be necessary to keep it away from me. The likelihood of the hippo killing you is far higher. You just aren't as likely to encounter one. That doesn't make it less dangerous, that makes it less dangerous relative to your likelihood of encountering one. But the world doesn't revolve around you and these statistics are for everyone, not just you. And it's up to your local public health department as to what you should and should not be vaccinated against but I don't think the danger in hippos is the disease they have the potential to carry (though that probably is a risk to someone somewhere) I think it's that they will crush you (Edit: or drown you), which is something science has yet to produce a vaccine against... Bruce? Freja? Why aren't you working on this????

Because he was on Frasier (Seattle) and likes to do shrooms (Seattle)?

Grammar is fun, guys.

No, the topic of statistics (which is a singular) IS fun. Statistics (multiple standalone things) ARE fun. I was saying the first one. But either could be right depending on interpretation of what I was trying to say.

I think the statistic to look for would be deaths per use or death per 100,000 uses rather than just sheer number of deaths considering the number of uses of hand grenades or number of people caught in a hurricane is probably much smaller than the number of times beer has been consumed. I don't know for sure though. My guess would be that hand grenades are more likely to kill someone when used than beer when it is consumed disregarding all other factors. Again, I don't know, I haven't researched this in depth, but something tells me that, all things being equal, the thing specifically designed and engineered to kill people probably kills people more often (per use) than the thing that is legal to consume and is readily available in most communities across the globe (with some restrictions obviously [but, and I'm making an assumption here because I'm not familiar with the applicable rules and laws around the world on this subject, far fewer than the restrictions put on the purchase of hand grenades by the general public]). I suppose it's all about how you measure something though. But I would argue that it's (nearly) completely irrelevant how many times something has happened in the aggregate if the likelihood of the thing occurring is incredibly small. I mean, the number of people who have choked to death on a Ritz Cracker is probably rather large but it's not exactly a major concern for me. Statistics is fun, guys.

"I'm here so I won't get fined." "You know why I'm here." Legend.

Unfortunately no show is as compelling as The Challenge. It's the premise, the cast, everything. It's just great. You really couldn't make a reality show that's as good. Also with the kind of minor league shows that feed into it and stuff. It's amazing.

More choice quotes: Adam: "Maybe she won't vote me in if I rub my dick on her face" Jemmye: "Touching's allowed?" Seriously. Gold.

Also, HOW COME NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT HOW FUCKING AMAZING THIS WEEK'S EPISODE WAS???? Like, Zack saying Jenna's a fucking "smoke show." Theresa' s comment. Just all of it. One of the best single episodes in Challenge history. Not even joking.

Something Theresa said really stuck with me, Joe. "I never want to be in the bottom two. The bottom two people suck." Those are the words of a true philosopher, scholar, and humanitarian, so they have extra gravitas.

Also, they pretty much put in like 30 closeups of Zack's donger... So yeah.

You guys this week's challenge was especially crazy because they had to feel each other up to transfer the paint from their teammate onto themselves which is totally awkward because they are exes and not people who are allowed to feel each other up to get paint off of their partner onto themselves because that's something that only people who are fucking exclusively are allowed to do. Also the fuel pump went out in my car today...

Agata: all business.

Can the guys talk about drones on next week's ep? That's something no one is talking about ANYWHERE and I really want to hear people talk about and speculate about something they don't know anything about but are vaguely suspicious of... K Thanks.

Solid.