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[[CLIVE addresses his guests.]]
CLIVE: The premise of the ANCESTRAL DIET is to eat foods native to the homelands of your ancestors.
Over the millennia, your family THRIVED on this food. Your tribe and your clan ADAPTED to it.
THIS food made your great-great-great-great-grandparents strong enough to reproduce. Your DNA is ATTUNED to it.
So for me, that would be Scandinavian foods. Lots of fish, beets and apples.
STAVROS: For me it would be Mediterreanean olives, yougurts, figs and dates!
SANJAY: For me it would be Indian food: Curries, rice and lentils.
GAX: This is OUTRAGEOUS. The closest thing to ancestral Gaxian cuisine around here is all you people’s KIDNEYS.
Chemically speaking.

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[[CLIVE addresses his guests.]]
CLIVE: The premise of the ANCESTRAL DIET is to eat foods native to the homelands of your ancestors.
Over the millennia, your family THRIVED on this food. Your tribe and your clan ADAPTED to it.
THIS food made your great-great-great-great-grandparents strong enough to reproduce. Your DNA is ATTUNED to it.
So for me, that would be Scandinavian foods. Lots of fish, beets and apples.
STAVROS: For me it would be Mediterreanean olives, yougurts, figs and dates!
SANJAY: For me it would be Indian food: Curries, rice and lentils.
GAX: This is OUTRAGEOUS. The closest thing to ancestral Gaxian cuisine around here is all you people’s KIDNEYS.
Chemically speaking.

{{Header: chow down at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Well regardless I have already processed your credit card for the seminar}}

#586; The Ancestral Diet transcribed by in

[[CLIVE addresses his guests.]]
CLIVE: The premise of the ANCESTRAL DIET is to eat foods native to the homelands of your ancestors.
Over the millennia, your family THRIVED on this food. Your tribe and your clan ADAPTED to it.
THIS food made your great-great-great-great-grandparents strong enough to reproduce. Your DNA is ATTUNED to it.
So for me, that would be Scandinavian foods. Lots of fish, beets and apples.
STAVROS: For me it would be Mediterreanean olives, yougurts, figs and dates!
SANJAY: For me it would be Indian food: Curries, rice and lentils.
GAX: This is OUTRAGEOUS. The closest thing to ancestral Gaxian cuisine around here is all you people's KIDNEYS.
Chemically speaking.

{{Header: chow down at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Well regardless I have already processed your credit card for the seminar}}

Well regardless I have already processed your credit card for the seminar

#586; The Ancestral Diet

  — January 12th, 2010

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Applications open for Genius Northwest – an IRL gaming competition

May 8, 2026 by David Malki !

Last year, I participated in Genius Northwest, a gaming competition inspired by the Korean gameshow The Genius and its ilk.

It’s a reality show without the cameras — a 3-day, all-inclusive weekend retreat structured around a series of challenges and puzzles, in which personalities and dealmaking matter as much as playing games.

It’s truly a remarkable thing. I came in dead last in the competition, but I still had a great time participating.

The event is held annually in the Pacific Northwest (hence the name) and applications are now open to participate in the 2026 competition!

Learn more — and apply — at GeniusNW.com.


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