Omnibus Out of Context
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From the Omnibus podcast featuring Ken Jennings and John Roderick. Fan account.
K: If I’m in a text editor like Emacs, what am I engineering? J: You’re engineering your paycheck.
about 3 hours ago
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As everyone knows, one of the Omnibus co-hosts is not a millionaire friend of Matt Damon.
about 16 hours ago
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It’s really amazing when the engineers don’t understand the product and don’t want to leave their cubicles to find out.
about 22 hours ago
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You’re making a molepile out of a molehill.
1 day ago
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J: There’s the nurse log. And then there’s the… K: Sexy nurse log, for Halloween.
2 days ago
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There’s like a third dimension outward from the org chart, which is just my face in 3D.
2 days ago
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Is it engineering just to sit and typey typey typey?
2 days ago
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The great lesson of adolescence or young adulthood: you’re fine. No one noticed. No one cares.
3 days ago
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I did make the classic Roderick mistake of thinking that a measurable portion of my job was socializing with the bankers and making them feel good about the files and making them feel like they could trust me with their file requests.
3 days ago
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J: Futurelings need to get to know the whole me. K: They need to get to know the Roderick on the Line stories that somehow I never elicited.
4 days ago
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Could you live the rest of your life happily just eating Conagra food?
4 days ago
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J: Where are the good Germans in this story? K: They are not pictured.
4 days ago
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Now, things get better, as they always do, when America enters the picture.
5 days ago
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This era is too Napoleonic for this, but your kids are going to love it.
5 days ago
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It’s fun to kill Nazis, but it’s easier when you have a bunch of ghosts.
5 days ago
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K: It’s also a time of transition here at the Omnibus Project. J: It hasn’t gone wrong. It’s only gone sideways.
5 days ago
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K: Why don’t we have an audience here? J: We have an audience of all of these little figurines and old ship’s bells.
6 days ago
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The only thing keeping you from going to Japan was a grand total of zero listeners.
7 days ago
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The thing we say about America is it was founded by religious weirdos — and it shows. Australia’s just all people that stole a piglet.
7 days ago
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J: You couldn’t put two jet engines in a Subaru Outback though. K: Watch me.
8 days ago
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Every skyscraper looks like a conquistador helmet from one side and a pistachio shell from the other.
8 days ago
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🛎️
9 days ago
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J: Australia though, The Long Winters do great there. I have a lot of fans. We’re on the radio down there. K: Are you called The Long Summers there?
9 days ago
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A little bit of derring-do and saxophone and reckless folly.
9 days ago
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I’d never thought I would watch all five hours of the Billy Joel documentary on HBO. And guess what? I watched half of it on the way out and half of it on the way back-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack.
10 days ago
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Y2K didn’t happen for our marriage.
11 days ago
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You could be forgiven for going there and thinking, “I don’t want to live here. There’s no water here and there’s nothing here.“
11 days ago
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Are you a smart aleck or do you have oppositional defiant disorder? We're about to find out.
12 days ago
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The hogs are as thick as bugs on a bumper.
13 days ago
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I used to carry a tun on my belt.
14 days ago
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K: Do you think anybody who listens to this is interested in homebrewing beer? J: 140,000%.
15 days ago
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It’s interesting that it has snakes in it, but you know, I didn’t realize how much I like snake.
16 days ago
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I’m kind of shaped like a pig, but I act like a goat.
17 days ago
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J: Of the two of us, who is the foodiest? K: You have more food in your beard right now than I do.
17 days ago
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You can email us at
[email protected]
, unless you are the weirdo who’s doing Omnibus Out of Context. And in that case, just stay anonymous. Be quiet over there, weirdo.
18 days ago
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Jeopardy is Yoko.
18 days ago
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There was a time when I felt like maybe “drifter” was the best I could hope for.
19 days ago
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J: The people in Australia do watch Jeopardy. It’s people in France that don't. K: No, and that’s why they’re so dumb and they don’t have grass in their parks.
19 days ago
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New Baltic Dmitry just dropped.
20 days ago
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I wake up every morning and look in the mirror and go, “Real or pretender?”
20 days ago
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Do you know what keeps your heart ticking? Peach cobbler.
21 days ago
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When you die from a stroke, it’s kind of over. Unless they prop you up Weekend at Bernie’s style, as the current administration is doing.
21 days ago
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I have a pretty long list of people that I want to bury in the desert in a shipping container where I subtly change the geometry of the walls every night when they’re asleep.
22 days ago
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I know you guys all want to invade Poland — but… Three words: universal basic income.
22 days ago
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You think you’d be a Grade-A Hitler. This is a clip no one will ever take out of context.
23 days ago
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People that want coffee to taste good are missing the entire point of it. Coffee staves off death. And so it should taste a little like death to remind us of what is at stake here. You’re drinking this because every day it keeps you going one more day.
23 days ago
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We always knew there would be a day that the siren song of Hollywood would carry Ken off to dash him on the rocks of big time showbiz and fame and money and decadence. Except Mormon decadence, which is like two jars of pickles.
24 days ago
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K: We had a hoe for 2000 years. J: Easy now, easy.
24 days ago
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Continue to be in hell, the devil.
25 days ago
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I want to hear Johnny Gilbert say, “And spouse in the house from Altoona, Pennsylvania…”
25 days ago
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