Luck
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Oct 27, 2026
MattHOST
You can bring your hero back from the brink of death, avoid certain death, immediately gaining 1d6 plus one hit points.
MattHOST
But that's all of your luck and you have to spend over 30.
MattHOST
Luck cannot be used to adjust luck rolls.
MattHOST
So if you failed your luck roll just now, you can't use your own luck to help you succeed.
MattHOST
You cannot adjust damage rolls.
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MattHOST
Give me a luck roll.
KirkPANELIST
All right.
MattHOST
Luck.
JohnHOST
One person who's done a lot of research on these cockatoos, whose name is G.A. Wood, first person to describe many of the behaviors that we'll discuss and things like that.
JohnHOST
However, in 2025, also published a really, really interesting paper that was called Good Luck for the Bad Luck Bird.
JohnHOST
And Dr.
JohnHOST
Wood has spent a lot of time up in northern Queensland living among not just these birds, but the local First Nations groups, the Aboriginal people.
ChloeHOST
So I generally think the black cats are good, but some other people think the black cats are bad.
ChloeHOST
So if they cross your path, it's supposed to be good luck, but you think they're bad luck.
ChloeHOST
No, I've
MasonGUEST
always been told it's bad luck.
MasonGUEST
I
ChloeHOST
don't know what it is, good or bad luck, but I'm a cat lover anyway, so that's fine.
ChloeHOST
Although they make me sneeze.
ChloeHOST
But Mason...
BrianHOST
Persuade.
BrianHOST
I'm gonna spend 12 points of Luck, and I'm going to make that an Extreme Success.
BrianHOST
Down to 21 Luck.
BrianHOST
From 60 is what I started
TomPANELIST
with.
speaker_2HOST
And I say, I'll say it is.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Superstitious But a flag can't cross my trail Bad luck ain't got me so far And I won't let it stop me now Don't begin to bark All over my neighborhood That ain't all Don't begin to bark All over my neighborhood Cause it's a mean old world to live in I got a feeling about the future and it ain't too good.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ain't superstitious, but a black cat crossed my trail.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I said so one time before.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ain't superstitious, a black cat crossed my trail.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Bad luck ain't got me so far, and you know I ain't gonna let it stop me now.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Very superstitious Seven years of bad luck With the things in your past When you believe in things That you don't understand And you suffer Simplicity All that you
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
can
Justin MalikHOST
So with that, let's get right to our next article and continue optimizing your life.
Justin MalikHOST
Does Luck Matter More Than Skill? by Cal Newport of calnewport.com.
Justin MalikHOST
The most provocative business title I've read recently is Franz Johansson's The Click Moment.
Justin MalikHOST
In this book, Johansson argues the following.
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Justin MalikHOST
Pick a small number of things and become so good they can't ignore you.
Justin MalikHOST
Along the way, however, keep taking your growing skill out for a spin, launching related projects, one after another, carefully studying the outcomes to see if you stumbled into something big.
Justin MalikHOST
You just listened to the post titled, Does Luck Matter More Than Skill? By Cal Newport of calnewport.com.
Justin MalikHOST
And I'll be right back with my commentary.
speaker_0HOST
Fascinating is...
speaker_0HOST
There was a Semitic god, a god in the land of Canaan known as Luck, or God in Hebrew.
speaker_0HOST
And the Romans co-opted that god, the Greeks as well, but the Romans named it Fortuna, fortune.
speaker_0HOST
Right? Good luck.
Lily BayHOST
He wasn't getting money.
Lily BayHOST
And somebody told him, oh, it's because this girl's doing brujería on you to have bad luck.
Lily BayHOST
So for you to stop this, you have to do this, this and this for the brujería not to work.
MandoHOST
So I
Lily BayHOST
I wouldn't say, okay, because yeah, recap to what Manu just said.
MandoHOST
You don't got to say who or what.
Lily BayHOST
Somebody that we know has recently had really bad luck.
Lily BayHOST
And when she says bad luck, it's bad luck, bro.
Matt SouthallHOST
Number five versus number six.
Matt SouthallHOST
I will be without Jane Daniels, so I'll be firing up CJ Stroud in that game versus the Giants.
Matt SouthallHOST
Lucky me, I'll be playing Eric on Buffalo's bye week, so he will be without Josh Allen and Keon Coleman.
Matt SouthallHOST
Looks like he's already got Bo Nix in his starting lineup.
Matt SouthallHOST
Favorable matchup versus Arizona.
Tennery TaylorHOST
Allison wrote down what had happened in a wire-bound book filled with photos of Cassidy and the butterfly, and adorned with additional illustrations by Allison's sister, Julie.
Tennery TaylorHOST
She titled the book Cassidy's Good Luck Butterfly Day.
Allison FragakisGUEST
That was the way I got back into creativity.
Allison FragakisGUEST
The eyes of the children open reawakened wonder.
Tennery TaylorHOST
[laughs]
Allison FragakisGUEST
Yes.
Tennery TaylorHOST
Producing Cassidy's Good Luck Butterfly Day awoke something in Allison.
Tennery TaylorHOST
She would take this creative impulse beyond writing and into music.
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