literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

from dick jokes to cocktails, grant o'brien's friends are passionate about a lot of things, but the one thing they love above all else is correcting people. this is um, actually: almost true facts about grant anthony o'brien.

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joining us on today's episode we have <three of grant's friends>, and joining us not as always from the fact-checker room we have grant anthony o'brien himself.

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in front of me are a stack of incorrect statements, and it's up to you to find out what's wrong, buzz in, and correct me. if you do not start the statement with "um, actually..." I cannot give you the point, and someone else can buzz in and steal that answer from you

this is a poem to me

I wish rainbow trout flew around in the skies so I could release them like doves at my wedding.

imagining a world where askjeeves won out as the most popular search engine so people having arguments online end up saying stuff like "literally just ask jeeves about this, it's not hard"

real life cartoon character

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

Hans Neumann Colour Woodcut ‘Letzte Sonnenstrahlen’ 1908.

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i started doing things scared and doing things alone years ago the real challenge is doing things tired

this thing is TOO LARGE

Sir do u have a license