{"id":4887,"date":"2015-06-21T16:16:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T20:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.com\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2025-04-15T20:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:37:03","slug":"the-need-coffee-dot-com-12-monkeys-group-therapy-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.com\/?p=4887","title":{"rendered":"The Need Coffee Dot Com 12 Monkey’s Group Therapy Session"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, there, old readers and new<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s been a pretty harrowing week, everywhere in this world, with many strange<\/a> and terrible<\/a> things<\/a> happening all throughout. We are definitely going to spend some time orienting ourselves within those things, and integrating them into the world, but right now, I figure we can all use a little bit of a breather\u2014a little headcleaner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So with that being the case, here’s a little pop culture conversation between me and some of our fine friends over at Need Coffee Dot Com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The 12 Monkeys Group Therapy Session<\/a>”<\/p>\n

It’s a pretty freewheeling, stream-of-consciousness ramble about the first season of Syfy’s serialized televisual take on the time travel\u00a0epic 12 Monkeys<\/em>. This is the first of at least two conversations I’ll be having with various groups of people about this show, and I think acts as a nice mental palette cleanser, before we get into some heavier stuff, this coming week.<\/p>\n

Hope you enjoy it, and if you do, please tell your friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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