Adam Burke
Appearances
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I love how folksy that sounds. You know, like, my father is Mr. Balzac. Call me Balzac. But his grandfather was the jaws of death and his grandfather before me.
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I love the thought of someone showing up to NPR for the first day, seeing you guys, and like, man, Ira Glass does not look how he can.
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This is like when you're watching Netflix, and it shows you ads for Netflix, and it's like, I'm already watching, I can't watch more Netflix while I'm watching Netflix Netflix, and then you realize you're talking to Netflix.
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Can we find this ex-girlfriend and give her an award for creating the perfect metaphor for Bitcoin? It really is amazing. Because it's either worth everything or it's just another piece of garbage.
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What do you pair cocaine with other than a 14-hour-long story about your dad?
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Is that the only reason people get into the priesthood in the first place? Jokey, how did Vanessa do in our quiz?
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Well, fortunately, I've been practicing a video game since 1982. You're all set.
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I'm sorry, the theme from Robin Hood, everything I do, I do it for you? Excuse me, Mr. Adam Stant.
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Yeah, yeah. Until he got another text from her going, oh, and he's cheap as well. Well, at that point, it wouldn't matter.
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And Adam Burke. We're going to take all those pennies over the next four years and throw them into fountains and make a wish over and over again.
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When we get rid of pennies, what are we going to put on corpses' eyes? Or do they take Bitcoin and Hades now?
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I'm surprised the French went for this because I've seen Les Miserables and they love just standing around yelling their soliloquies at each other. Yeah.
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Oh, is this a banging robots thing? Yes, it is a banging robots thing. Because you can't spell laid without AI.
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And how do you first suspect? Does the electricity bill look really high?
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Wait, so this is laziness. This is like, I don't want to have sex with you. Let the robot do it. It's basically me.
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What is... Yeah, but what if it's like that thing in those old movies where the understudy is better? Oh, yeah. The understudy becomes the star.
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Nature conservation can be a slow process, what with the red tape, bureaucracy, and complaints from trees that never consented to being hugged in the first place. Take the Czech Republic, for example, where government officials were poised to act on a plan seven years in the making to build a $1.2 million dam designed to help preserve a protected wetlands area.
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Construction on the dam was just about to begin when it was suddenly and unexpectedly derailed by the fact that a bunch of beavers had gone ahead and built a far better dam the weekend before. Not only that, they'd used nothing but locally sourced, sustainable, and renewable materials, all at no cost to the taxpayer.
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While farmers often decry beavers as a destructive nuisance, felling trees and creating toothy mayhem, these particular rodents seem to have filled out all of the required permits and permissions, building as they did far from any inhabited farm. We get it, beavers, you're better than us. Beavers...