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The Art of Noticing — 120 episodes

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156 - That This is the End

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154 - How Clear Things Get When You Stop for a While

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153 - That Stuff I Write Always Turns Out Better Than I Thought

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152 - That Mowing Embankments Defies Physics

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151 - How It's Sometimes Okay to be a Complete Slacker

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150 - That Coughing is Just Scratching an Itch in Your Throat

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148 - That Water Isn't Needed to Flush, Apparently

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147 - How Talented People Downplay Their Talents

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146 - That I've Been Telling the Wrong Groups the Wrong Things

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145 - That Even Enemies Have Their Own Point of View

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144 - How My Plant Never Gets Bigger

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142 - That Loose Chalk is OK Again

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141 - That the Only Difference Between Copyright Infringement and Brilliant Derivative Work is TIME

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140 - That They Still Use Nitrous

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139 - That Maybe Bluebonnets Are Being Conquered. Maybe.

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138 - That It's All About Totality

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136 - That I Speak Very Differently Than I Write

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135 - How I Keep My Endurance No Matter How Long a Break I Take From Running

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134 - How Much Everyone Honks in Chicago

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133 - That I've Been Misspelling People's Names

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132 - That Hutch Died

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130 - That Everything Is Automated Now

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129 - That Amazon Can Wait Its Turn

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128 - That Jaws Still Holds Up

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127 - That Kids Are Like Planes

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126 - That I'm Not Going To Write Those Posts Anymore

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124 - It Turns Out I'm Good Under Pressure

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123 - That Fog Makes Everything Creepy

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122 - How Easily Communication Could Resolve This

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121 - That It's Actually Spelled "Doughnut"

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120 - All Those Post-Apocalyptic Windmills

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118 - Wait, that was David Tennant?

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117 - How Big a Difference Personality Made

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116 - How Weird Feet Are

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115 - That "Being You" is the Best USP

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114 - That My New Podcast was Better with Boundaries

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112 - How Good “Last Dance With Mary Jane” Sounds on a 12-String

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111 - How Surprising the Skill Gaps Are

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110 - That Chick-Fil-A Changed Its Drive-Thru

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109 - That Sensory Distinctions Are (Literally) In Our Heads

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107 - How Useful It Is to Fool Myself

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106 - That I Don’t Get to Go To Six Flags

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105 - How Predictable Traffic Is

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104 - That Sticks and Vines Are Good Enough

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102 - How Annoyingly Specific My Tools Are

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101 - That I Don’t Have a Whodunit Brain

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100 - That If I’m a Novelist, I’M A NOVELIST

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099 - Why Novels and the Movies Based on Them Should Probably Be Different

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097 - That I’m Apparently Always High

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096 - How Much Curt Fooled Me

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095 - That Yes, This Song Really is About Diazepam

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094 - That Horror Movies Are Least Scary in Act 3

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092 - That I Want to Make Beautiful Books, Too

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091 - That the Kid Will Be OK

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090 - That I Should Buy Keyboards in Bulk

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089 - That I Can Also Turn Left

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087 - That Another Thing Just Ended

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086 - That Halloween Is Slowly Recovering

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085 - How Much We Stood Out

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084 - That There’s No Cellular in West Texas

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082 - I Don’t Like Superhero Movies, Except …

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081 - That I Have Old School Cred

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080 - The Patterns in Hotel Rugs

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079 - That There's a Huge Yellow Face Staring at Me in the Bathroom

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077 - That All the Slots are Video Now

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076 - How Weird Las Vegas Is

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075 - That Being Around Other Writers is Endlessly Inspiring

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074 - That Only Uber is Advertised in the Vegas Airport

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072 - That The Babadook is Thematic

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071 - That Mr. Ripley Wasn't Who I Thought He Was

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070 - That American Ninja is Terrible/Wonderful

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068 - That The Universe Still Doesn't Give a Flying F

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067 - That Celebrities on the Simpsons Used to Not Play Themselves

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066 - That I Don't Actually Need Those Poker Chips

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064 - That I Don't Like My Endocrinologist

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063 - How Pineapples Grow

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062 - That I Don't Need (or Want) To Be Famous With Everyone

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060 - That There Are Already Self-Driving Cars in Austin

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059 - That My Family is Bored of the Same Old Stories

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058 - That The Dictionary is a Record, Not a Rulebook

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056 - That When I'm Down, I Should Exercise

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055 - That Bob Schneider Performs With His Family

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054 - The Arrow Showing Where a Car’s Gas Tank Is

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052 - That MSG Isn’t Actually All That Unhealthy

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051 - David Komie's Awesome Lawyer Branding

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050 - How Cold I Am at 65 Degrees Now

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048 - How Good I Am With Names and Faces

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047 - Some Profound and Wise Street Writing

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046 - Stephen King's Unique Writer's Fingerprint

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044 - That Even if Someone's Sad Story is Inspiring, it Still Really Sucks

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043 - How Hard it is to Truly Find "Now"

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042 - That It Was Way Too Quiet

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040 - That My Kids Are Their Own People (Really)

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038 - That the Horse Was Never Walking Forward

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037 - Bruce Hughes, Playing in a Different Band

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035 - That We Take Our History On Faith

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034 - How Hard Handstands Are

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032 - That a Water Pitcher Won't Fit Inside a Mini-Fridge

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031 - That Big Ideas Are Too Big

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029 - How Much I Really Wanted to Use One Specific Image

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028 - The Way I Never Wonder How My iPhone Works

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026 - That the Different Ages of a Person are Like Different People

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025 - That I Like Paperback Books More

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023 - That An Accent is Just Pronouncing Words Differently

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022 - That You Need a Different Capo for a 12-String Guitar

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020 - That Little Big Isn't Always Funny

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019 - That LeBron James Teaches Meditation

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017 - How Mike Was Totally Creeping

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016 - That Some Colleges Like Shorter Middle Blockers

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014 - That Noticing is a Learnable Habit

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013 - Why the New Whataburger is a "Digital Kitchen"

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011 - How Weird it is that We Have Animals in Our Homes

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010 - That I Always Wake Up at 3am on the Dot

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008 - That TV Acting is a Feat of Multitasking

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007 - The Laugh Track in a Sitcom That Was There All Along

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006 - That Only a Tiny Area of Our Visual Field is Actually In Focus

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005 - That Exercise Might Be as Effective as Antidepressants

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004 - That Emotional Limbo is a Thing

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002 - That Stephen King Doesn't Remember Writing Cujo

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001 - That I Should Start a Podcast