Happy turkey-related celebration, children! This week, we (understandably) talk a lot about food. And (weirdly) a little about exercise. Also, failure. Our failure, your failure, the failure of the whole damned system! Happy Thanksgiving.
And, to those international listeners, Happy Episode 89!
QUESTIONS:
Dear The Magical Talking Hat, If you could eat pizza anywhere in the world, what kind of pizza would it be, and where would you eat it? — Kiya B.
How much do you learn from failing? — Brenda Leigh
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Eatseating: This year I had… three or four… or five… Thanksgiving dinners. I had my first thanks giving dinner at lunch at work the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, one the day before, two the day of, and one the day after.
The trick for me is not to freak out. Yes, it’s a special occasion. Yes, we don’t normally make these dishes just any old day, but food isn’t going to go away forever if I don’t eat three cups of stuffing. (And you know there will be leftovers to take home of everything anyway.) So I just take a deep breath and treat it like any other meal. I just take a little less then what I think I want, and if I REALLY am not satisfied I can go back for a little more.
Working Out: I can’t get comfortable on a recumbent bike for some reason. I am very fond of Elliptical machines, which took some getting used to, as they are very easy on the knees even though you’re standing.
Foam rollers: They work great but are humiliating yes.
I’m not terribly fond of looking at myself in the wall of mirrors, but it’s helpful for keeping the correct form when doing just about anything.
On the subject of leg pain, it sounds like you’re doing better on that front! That’s great! I just got some compression sleeves for my calves, which I was told will help with blood flow issues that cause some or all of my own leg pain. I’ll report back on how those go.
Doing Math: At the end of the bit where you’re talking about food and health, Tony said he needed to do more “math”… but at first is sounded like he said he needed to do more “meth”. Which is no way to loose weight, that stuff is seriously bad for your teeth!
Will be curious what you think of the compression sleeves. I had mentioned those to Tony, but he apparently has childhood trauma around old-school support hose, so I haven’t been able to convince him to try them yet.
PS – The skin off a Roast or Fried Turkey is my kryptonite.
PPS – Kryptonite is in my auto-correct. I didn’t put it there.
Pizza: I’m going to go out on a limb and say the Chicago style pizza is more like a lasagna. I know people from Chicago, and I respect them and their pizza, but I’ve never met a Chicago style pizza that I was very impressed with.
I tend to teeter-toter between New York and California pizza. But I will generally say New York style, because I do like me some thin crust that you fold and eat point first. California pizza is a very nebulous concept, where as New York pizza is a very specific thing.
So I take it that Tony doesn’t like bagel pizzas?
It sounds to me like William was describing what some people describe as a California pizza when he was talking about the basic type of pizza he likes.
OMG William… that pizza sounds AMAZING.
Learning from mistakes:
Anybody who’s known me for more then about a year is very familiar with the phrase, “I know where we are, I’ve been lost here before!”
So if you’re talking about navigation, I do learn from my mistakes. The problem with that is, if I make a mistake often enough, it has a good chance of becoming part of the route I take.
In the case of “Getting to the Duck Pond”, it became an integral part of the route to said pond. I continued making the mistake from the time I was around 3 well into my late 20’s. And the only reason I don’t continue to make the mistake in getting to the Duck Pond is that I and my parents moved away from that area and I haven’t been anywhere near that Duck Pond in well over a decade. What I learned from the mistake I made EVERY SINGLE TIME, was how to get to the Duck Pond from a particular bend in a particular path which is the spot where it becomes obvious we went the wrong way AGAIN. (Because you can hear the ducks off to the right and behind you down a hill.)
In the case of “Driving to Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles”, I was able to recognize what was happening the first three times I returned to Roscoe’s and turned the wrong way. I realized that it was the Duck Pond all over again and I really needed to do something about it or risk humiliating myself in front of out-of-towners any time I was withing driving distance of Gower and Sunset.
So while I never really mastered hiking to the Duck Pond, I have learned from my failure to ever turn left at the first intersection of the path.
It’s not an old Nintendo thing; it’s the Konami Code. While it was popularized in North America by Contra; it wasn’t a reset code, rather it gave you 30 extra lives.
I felt Tony’s pain over Thanksgiving. I’ve been doing a dieting thing too and not being allowed to have all the pie I wanted was very sad inducing.
So the pizza question is good because it has all these possible answers with no frame of reference but my question about X-men vs Avengers was awful for basically the same reasons? Bah humbug.
Also excluding the crust preference, William’s preference for pizza sounds very Detroit style to me.
Lastly I’ve been in Japan, went to a pizza place and there wasn’t a pizza with octopus on their menu. So either Tony’s list of common pizza toppings around the world is wrong or I managed to wander into the one Japanese pizza place that doesn’t serve the most common pizza topping in Japan.
Failure is not obtaining the result you wanted when you performed an action. Though keep in mind that using this definition, failure isn’t necessarily a bad thing.