Randy Olson travels a lot these days, and frequently calls me from airports to whine about how much he hates to travel. Randy, this clip of stand up comedian Louis CK talking about how times have changed is for you (with thanks to Dale of Faith in Honest Doubt for titling this piece with the symptom it describes: shifting baselines).
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Louis is shamelessly funny. I saw him live last year. he had people gagging with laughter. go Louis!
is that Randy?
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