Adam Leventhal

this year's start to use them up oh you know what there's a there's no this is not our favorite one but there's another one you for the adam stachowiak episode you took a selfie of yourself in the in the podcasting studio and annoyingly you took it in portrait mode and really i need the landscape mode so i had ai kind of fill in the rest of it and it made like here i thought the story was going to go to any other delightful aspects of the selfie of the fact that i'm

God, you really dolled yourself up for a podcast. I mean, you look just terrific. It's from my Pied Piper shirt. Pied Piper shirt looks great. But it invented a microphone stand that's not there and an arm that was definitely not holding it. And I don't know. It is kind of remarkable what it's capable of.

God, you really dolled yourself up for a podcast. I mean, you look just terrific. It's from my Pied Piper shirt. Pied Piper shirt looks great. But it invented a microphone stand that's not there and an arm that was definitely not holding it. And I don't know. It is kind of remarkable what it's capable of.

I'm glad you feel that way because I felt like, you know, I felt like it was probably more work than the XC one, and I feel like it just did not land.

I'm glad you feel that way because I felt like, you know, I felt like it was probably more work than the XC one, and I feel like it just did not land.

why like the various subtle aspects of the craft on this one that i know i know all the subtle aspects like i i am like i poured my heart and soul into it and i just feel like when i even when i was looking at the podcast episode i downloaded i listened to that episode like three days ago

why like the various subtle aspects of the craft on this one that i know i know all the subtle aspects like i i am like i poured my heart and soul into it and i just feel like when i even when i was looking at the podcast episode i downloaded i listened to that episode like three days ago

And I was like, God, I worked so hard for this font that you would have to break out the microscope to understand this joke, I guess. And it looks like just me in front of a screen squinting.

And I was like, God, I worked so hard for this font that you would have to break out the microscope to understand this joke, I guess. And it looks like just me in front of a screen squinting.

Well, obviously, like I nailed my audience of one on that one. I nailed your audience of one. It was one of these ones, too, where I was like, look, I'm in this deep. I've made the laptop ghost image mask. I've been dorking with the opacity of that. I'm not not posting this. I'm not just writing off this effort to zero. That's going on the image.

Well, obviously, like I nailed my audience of one on that one. I nailed your audience of one. It was one of these ones, too, where I was like, look, I'm in this deep. I've made the laptop ghost image mask. I've been dorking with the opacity of that. I'm not not posting this. I'm not just writing off this effort to zero. That's going on the image.

We conjure up an idea for an episode where we're like, we are going to have an episode on, I don't know, accounting. And we thought you'd be a great expert as a local. And then we kind of slow walk into like, have you ever won a contest? I don't know. I love how we would get here in a subtle fashion.

We conjure up an idea for an episode where we're like, we are going to have an episode on, I don't know, accounting. And we thought you'd be a great expert as a local. And then we kind of slow walk into like, have you ever won a contest? I don't know. I love how we would get here in a subtle fashion.

I didn't know. That would be a much better oxide in French tradition. No, this is like the Seinfeld bit, right? No, I know Festivus. I'm unfamiliar with its specific date.

I didn't know. That would be a much better oxide in French tradition. No, this is like the Seinfeld bit, right? No, I know Festivus. I'm unfamiliar with its specific date.

Well, this one actually maybe even took more work also than the XE episode because not only did I dig around and find it, I found like a very low res image then had to like, okay... Then I had to, so my mom has a New Yorker subscription. They have an archive and stuff like that. I don't know if you've been in this particular hell, but the like helping mom remember her password.

Well, this one actually maybe even took more work also than the XE episode because not only did I dig around and find it, I found like a very low res image then had to like, okay... Then I had to, so my mom has a New Yorker subscription. They have an archive and stuff like that. I don't know if you've been in this particular hell, but the like helping mom remember her password.

But like it was maybe just felt like it took three days, but like it actually took five minutes, but it was like my least favorite brand of hell.

But like it was maybe just felt like it took three days, but like it actually took five minutes, but it was like my least favorite brand of hell.

That is usually like the, the gating factor. Like I definitely have had episodes that, that kind of were, I put on the back burner for a couple of days while I noodled on the right image.