Roderick on the Line

00:00:00 ◼   ► or don't get back [TS]

00:00:07 ◼   ► hello [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► I job hi Merlin has gone good i was just [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► watching a gynecological comedy video [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► for teen girls tampons tampons very [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► important this is something I'm gonna [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► have to learn more about don't forget [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► dodged that bullet a little bit with [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► those things you mean not being a girl [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► yeah i think that every day b2b but but [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► now that I have a daughter now I have to [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► know things about things I don't know [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► anything about it's so easy to fake it [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► you know if you just get you know what I [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► mean you don't need the most detailed [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► topographical map to sound like you're a [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► cartographer you know you know like a [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► strong one [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► you know the high land is high and the [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► low lands are low i'll be in Scotland [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► for you but I'm telling you now I'm [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► gonna be no coverage is locked lemon but [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► blocking open [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► um you know my you know my experience of [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► women's periods is coming to see you can [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► you don't get to be my age without [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► having some experiences caught riding [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► dirty off of them [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► oh my god first time ever don't you ever [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► never hurt that I never die just little [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► a coin that [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► yeah but uh but I remember I remember [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► the first time a guy told me in high [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► school a guy you know confided in me [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► that he had sex with a girl who was on [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► her period and I was like what was that [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► like [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► and he said kind of just the same which [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► meant nothing to me except it's like [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► sandpapery oh it's like rather than its [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► rough there's a lot of extra there's to [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► try to us he didn't use that word but [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► now that's what he meant there's you [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► know there's flotsam and so I was I was [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► afraid of it for a long time and then I [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► learned not to be afraid [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► but it's pretty I think it's that is the [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► guy version of having a period [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► I mean the first time it happens your [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► little bit startled you could have heard [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► about having a period is having sex with [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► a girl on her period is not a menstrual [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► scientist but I you know I think the [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► first time you you get the you know you [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► get the katana out of the she treats you [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► know what I mean I you know what let's [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► move on and I'm just glad I didn't let [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► me hear it because i don't think i don't [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► think the guy version don't think you [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► can say that the equivalent of having a [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► period for a guy is having sex with a [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► girl on her period that would be gender [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► normative I think big the equivalent [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► what is the equivalent for example [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► clarinet and I'm sitting right now [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► trying to figure out what that is [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► once a month the moon comes around like [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► a big pizza pie [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► thank you and something in your changes [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► and suddenly you are not open to advice [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► suddenly you are made 45 you are fine [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► hot baths and yelling everything is fine [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► I don't know that happens to me all the [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► time hot bats and yelling that's she [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► just just just drew two sides of my [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► trying to force your parade but I you [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► know it's not an equivalent but that's [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► that's the challenge really i don't know [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► i mean you know it's something like a [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► wet dream that's kind of a whole [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► different deal [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► I've never had one of those never had [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► one of my life you never had one either [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► nope yeah i'm sure they exist i don't [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► believe they exist you think it's like [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► the female orgasm like a mass hysteria [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► it yeah it's like it's like the g-spot [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► is sometimes right is my masters and [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► johnson it's like snipe hunting up it's [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► like yeah it's like you take a girl down [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► to watch the submarine races [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► absolutely but i'm saying you okay you [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► get a boner you're having a dream of of [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► a sexy time check then you just like [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► scum all over your bed [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► it seems impossible [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► I have to tell you I i am very reluctant [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► you know what I'm an older man now and [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► I'm not as embarrassed about as many [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► things right [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► I and I'm just here to tell ya maybe i [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► just got me my timing was impeccable and [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► my slugging percentage was high because [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► i never have experienced that no so [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► you're saying your timing was impeccable [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► in the sense that you became a man and [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► then you immediately your slugging [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► percentages I you immediately started [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► putting it into girls you never had a [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► period where you were just lying around [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► i said where I've never had a period but [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► here's here's the thing I my thinking is [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► maybe if the timeline had been just a [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► little bit different and i had become [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► self-educated a little bit later maybe I [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► would have busted a pool but i have [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► never I've never busted a pool and you [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► know I was aware of [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► obviously we were all aware of Playboy [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► magazines a long time before we knew [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► what anything was it to me it was like a [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► socket wrenches didn't know what to do [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► with a playboy it was like here it is [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► it's you mean you look at cartoons my [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► friend can flip into the boobies and is [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► what you read the cartoon you know what [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► to do with the Playboy when you're eight [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► years old you hide it to read the state [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► there is nothing to hide [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► yes thank you know you shouldn't have [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► and that that is sexually exciting but [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► uh I became aware of dirty movies I've [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► told you about visions sure if this is [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► the you have the crazy is an anchorage [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► yeah the effect the crazy the crazy the [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► crazy table with the dishes and that the [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► crazy cable with the dishes and I [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► software might the first time a dirty [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► movie called the great Texas dynamite [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► chase and I told you about this movie if [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► you have forgotten the great Texas [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► dynamite chase was a movie that was the [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► first time I ever saw boobs in motion [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► idea what it was it was one of those [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► seventies kind of soft-core porno [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► cinemax yeah that tried to have a plot [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► but also had simulated sexual encounters [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► and it was about a guy say I'm i haven't [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► seen this movie since I was 10 years old [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► but it was about this [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► give me the high level and it was about [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► a guy who was kind of like a Luke Duke [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► above maybe it's more of a bo duke he [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► was one of the Duke brothers type of guy [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► and he was on the lam from the cops and [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► he picked up two hitchhikers in Daisy [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► Duke shorts and they went on a bank [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► robbing spree or something and the cops [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► were chasing them and they were and they [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► use dynamite dynamite was their weapon [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► that's right in your wheelhouse say what [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► it was I was so excited i'm watching you [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► know I put the channel that change the [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► channel into that in between two [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► channels thing where the cable dirty [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► movies came in uh-huh and and here's [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► this movie where this guy is driving [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► around with these two beautiful girls [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► and they are blowing shit up right and [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► left blowing up cop cars blowing up [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► cabins and then and then they have [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► simulated sex and I knew what I wanted [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► to do as a grown-up you need the English [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► guy with the SEC case of mosca it but it [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► never happened for me exactly like that [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► the way I've never seen that movie sense [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► but I room it's burned into my head [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► the great Texas dynamite chase I don't [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► even I don't think it's like one of the [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► great films i have but i haven't even [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► got on netflix to see if it's there just [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► netflix have dirty movies IE now in a [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► nuanced way they don't they don't have [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► like canonically dirty movies you know a [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► lot of that stuff it's like the old [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► kinescope so the doctor who's that they [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► the doctor homes that they threw away [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► like this last of you just can't get any [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► more like rights iic for me [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► we there was this this wonderful window [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► next 82 or so I don't know how this [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► happened cause we were not a wealthy [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► family but we had cable with showtime [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► and HBO I things like fifteen dollars a [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► month right what happened to UNM TV [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► yeah but I'm you know so you saw some [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► simulated sex is most well yeah most [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► importantly that is that's what you so [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► much the stuff we talked about stuff to [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► talk about everybody got burned on my [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► brain that's where that's where stripes [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► alright I'll show escape from new york [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► likely have been hell I mean that all [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► got so I alien-like movies i would just [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► watched literally six times [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► in a month circles they were they were [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► just on instrumentation and then you [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► know there's always that you know the [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► joke like cinemax after dark or whatever [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► but they're truly used to be something [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► that was actually show time after dark [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► but anyway the point was that there [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► would be the kinds of movies are talking [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► about and for me there my camera would [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► pan down and they would be having the [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► sex and they be panning down and you'll [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► be like I'm about to see it i'm about to [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► see some and then it would like to [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► frustrate you [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► yeah that would cut to like some flowers [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► wilting in a meal like where's the [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► dynamite you're like who's there who's [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► the direct first of all who is our [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► director he didn't know which he forgets [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► seems like you need that needs to be if [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► you're going to cut at least cut to a [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► locomotive calamity that might as well [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► have been get the flu like I know what's [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► down there [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► no that's the problem i'm like i'm going [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► to see I'm gonna see a minute's like [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► there's so many movies they make you [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► watch in school but they're all like [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► like lineart cross-sections it's like [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► I've never seen a woman with like a [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► cross-section fallopian tube and I [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► couldn't locate that on a body you know [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► what I mean all those reptilian oh now [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► really because you know I was [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► alternative rock I think you have to [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► learn stuff but for the g-spots down the [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► team know what I mean you're looking for [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► a g-spot you find a bunch of other stuff [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► that's a good point [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► you know you know how there's the the [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► bit like the the cliché in like [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► standard shitty porn movies is like oh [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► it's a pizza delivery man or the cable [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► guy I'm here to fix dining table talking [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► about cliche but that's I mean I think [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► that's how have the babies are made in [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► America still have you know it'sit's top [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► turns out because of all the people [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► canceling cable the birth rate is [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► plummeting pizza not popular but I mean [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► I hated to leave a diner gluten-free [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► option but the the problem the way we [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► are we are touching on a major problem [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► for me in my mind which is that in you [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► and I have both have this problem and [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► you are in advance of me in being a [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► father of a daughter and my whole life [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► you know women have been the very [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► confusing [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► they've been some people that I admire [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► they've been paid some people that I [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► have at you know I haven't angle moments [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► with talk they talk to some of them I [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► talk to them occasionally they objectify [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► them all the time [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► and now I have a daughter and none of [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► those methods i am I I have no interest [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► in objectifying her [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► I've struggled to talk to her still [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► because she's too and that will get [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► better but I'm which I shall talk more [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► you know I look into the future her [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► future as a as a young woman and then as [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► an adult woman and I'm trying to [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► struggling to try and and be try to [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► figure out like what how I can help her [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► do this and I'm it I'm scared to death [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► I am too I am too bad i just closed the [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► one threat so as pizza delivery is you [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► actual shitty porn i think having some [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► kind of a charity event is to cable port [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► that's all I wanted to say this for me [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► it was a movie i think i want to say i [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► can find on IMDb i think it was called [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► hots with like enter periods forgive my [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► saying like mash this disaster risk and [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► stood for it stood for ladies playing [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► softball to save an orphanage or [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► something [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► jiggling and now here's the thing i am [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► told you the story but when I'm when my [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► mama lady got you know in that way her [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► family through as a little yeah so what [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► you got softball [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► hi Daddy title we hear they threw us a [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► wonderful baby shower up in rhode island [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► and we went there was great and my one [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► of my favorite family members my brother [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► want one of my brother-in-law's this is [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► standing outside the door he's already [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► three sheets to the wind [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► yeah he's like enjoy it while you can my [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► cat hey John how's it going [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► oh we walked up now he's awesome he's [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► awesome he's like a successful lawyer [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► and he does enjoy it while you can cause [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► bleeding changes will she hits about 11 [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► with the sexting in the pictures and the [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► snaps snaps snaps and an independent [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► thing is though this guy is part of so [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► my wife is the youngest of seven but [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► like all of her older brothers and [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► sisters you know and this is not about [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► them [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► this is about the Fleetwood [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► magnification of the nineteen seventies [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► they should all be fucking dead sure you [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► guys are now worried about like taking [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► photos of your couch [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► yeah and they were permanently drunk [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► driving through all of the seventies [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► it's true but you don't remember about [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► the seventies first of all there was 3.2 [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► beer second second quality a near beer [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► the second of all the we the weed was a [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► lot mellower was real serious some shake [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► shit you know you'd roll up a big fat [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► doobie weed smoke at all day and maybe [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► you'd feel a little irie it's not like [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► the hardcore today and I have never felt [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► I read but you're absolutely right i [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► mean how are you going to survive the 71 [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► like a absolutely i mean i feel like we [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► really talked about dodging a bullet [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► like you know we're from the time i [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► don't know if it is at your school but [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► it was when like around the time like my [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► sophomore year drunk driving was like [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► the cause celeb rather than drag like a [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► like a like I hear they're short you got [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► the dare [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► but they would like you to be the big [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► campaigns on on campus sure they bring a [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► reference call her right right we had to [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► like you know pea-like it out of this [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► what was left of him you know but I'm [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► serious it's anyway I I worry about that [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► for them a selfish reason which is i'm [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► not sure how I will handle it and yet I [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► feel like you know there's not that much [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► you can do about it you try to equip a [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► kid to not be a dumb shit but you know [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► but it isn't it ironic to me that this [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► guy who's now an extremely successful [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► personal liability lawyer is worried [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► about my daughter's future when he was [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► out there like literally drinking a case [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► well i mean i'm going to equip my [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► daughter with flamethrowers but but what [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► I think that I think what worries us is [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► that the lady the lady lamb though [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► although although we were I mean in the [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► seventies and eighties like consuming [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► massive quantities of drugs and alcohol [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► all the time and unsupervised Lee like [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► driving muscle cars which you know that [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► which cannot turn once they're moving in [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► a straight line i was driving the muscle [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► cars hundred twenty miles an hour with [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► the headlights off and other wonderful [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► things that characterize the eighties we [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► were still all more or less in the dark [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► about sex even after the sexual [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► revolution i mean at least I feel like [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► like we were much less aware of like the [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► whole panoply of sex [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► I certainly well maybe I'm just speaking [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► from first personal experience not but [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► lets the elephant in the room is herpes [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► an 818 from the time from time junior [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► herpes became a thing there they knew [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► about when I was in like junior high and [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► all you need to know about like I I feel [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► like I think more about herpes and I [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► knew about vaginas [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► all I knew was there was this thing was [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► going to happen to you they're gonna [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► fuck you up for the rest of your life [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► only now by the way aids right and [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► herpes was herpes basically made a like [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► 10 really painful vaginas on your penis [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► that was what herpes did it made little [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► bit little little burning vaginas all [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► over your holiday a deck i know and the [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► maids and if it is gonna get no we [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► didn't know what cost anyway I i agree [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► with you it's another one of those [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► things that like skipped a generation if [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► you look at but the kids the kids with [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► the pictures of their of their a of [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► their nakedness well just let Stephen [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► just say nakedness let's just say like [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► like like even to even girls take [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► teenage girls taking pictures of their [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► brows like they take a selfie in a [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► beginner I I mean this is not a thing [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► that i am happy about as a father I [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► wanna get I'm gonna be terrible at we [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► were downtown last week and my daughter [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► was wearing her spider-man hoodie and I [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► corrected 3i angrily corrected three [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► different people go [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► hey spider-girl like fuck you it's [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► spider-man ask all a spider's better [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► girls awesome i will especially one [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► better than the other but like but you [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► know at least spider-woman like but like [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► you know she's spider-man but let her be [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► spider-man that's fine right stop being [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► so gender normative is what your [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► homemade t-shirt should say that's a [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► question about selfies yes of course i [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► know a lot about them ok there's a lot [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► of pitches ladies taking pictures in the [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► bathroom right [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► why did they look at the screen instead [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► of the lens they this is the [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► it's just as you know they take because [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► you know they're taking more than one [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► you look at livejournal days you take [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► six or 15 and you do the one with the [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► least meet beard and that's the one you [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► put up right so the fact that they're [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► taking 10 probably but but like why [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► can't you just get like tap to like it [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► the focus and then look at the lens like [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► a gentleman [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► no but this is the problem because girls [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► of that generation if they look at [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► themselves in the mirror they [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► automatically make a duck face and so [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► you don't want a duck face picture no [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► matter what and so looking at the [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► looking at the little screen seeing [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► yourself at one remove your like somehow [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► it breaks the duckface spell it's if I [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► were the kind of person that's still [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► read roll-on borrow like I would think [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► about this a lot because like the whole [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► act of taking a photo of yourself in a [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► mirror like as a thing I mean you can [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► almost like you could take 500 selfies [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► adjust them for size and they would [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► basically be exactly the same silhouette [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► you don't mean they look pretty much [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► exactly the same except my cosplay of [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► the boobs and they're always looking at [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► the screen [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► yeah my feeling about my feeling about [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► selfies taken out of context is that [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► they're meaningless out of context and [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► that in fact the point of a selfie is [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► never the photograph itself but it is it [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► is how it is that it is happening in [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► real time and that the person it who is [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► sending you this picture you know is at [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► that moment somewhere across town or [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► across the world getting naked for you [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► oh it's intimate and timely right so so [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► the picture itself is kind of us the [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► it's what if you go back and look at [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► them later [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► it's like oh this is actually kind of [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► not a very good picture and that's kinda [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► now it's not happening when you're [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► turning in your papers late [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► we're like it's a kind of way of saying [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► like yeah but you don't mean like I [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► think it's a form of procrastination [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► where you could say like well I could [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► have done better if I had another week [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► but I did it all like it as an [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► all-nighter in this case when I was in a [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► fucking bathroom of course I look like [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► yeah but i but I really think like in [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► the mo [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► moments in the immediate moment of a [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► sexual exchange / texting [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► the point is just that the point is that [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► it is a form of communication not an [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► actual form of pornography which is why [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► taking those pictures out of context and [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► sharing them on 4chan is like you still [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► looking at that is his to I mean I have [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► to I have to maintain my relationships [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► with my online community this is your P [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► towns in Alcatraz there because well [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► it's not just there's the star trek [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► forums it's a lot of forums i have to [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► you know it's takes up half my day some [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► little bit of light consulting for an [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► independent record label a few years ago [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► interesting one of the things that I [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► said to them was at the time when [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► something like this would sound slightly [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► profound and rather than just merely [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► obvious today which is that to [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► understand most people on the internet [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► it's it's useful to understand [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► instead of thinking about things in [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► terms of like what it is you have to [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► sell it's useful to remember that [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► everybody out there is grooming a new [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► version of their personality in real [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► time in front of people that the it you [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► know in order to really understand like [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► how people use the internet or with the [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► time myspace was really big [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► you can get those horrible pages with [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► the flashing things and the dancing [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► bananas and all of that and every single [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► bit of bling on that page was about a [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► brand association of some kind it was [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► about any of it wasn't like coca-cola it [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► was a way of saying i align myself with [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► this and it's like how do you how do you [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► make yourself kind of person on the kind [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► of company that somebody would want to [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► align themselves with and I believe that [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► more than every day it's like there's so [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► much branding and you know itself is a [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► good way to brand just saying I today I [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► you know I'm looking for an old suburban [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► this is Ida sake is like a wet out [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► no you know what is really really shy [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► right now I'm looking for a guy with the [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► rake and my friend you're mrs. Nelson [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► and I commitment [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► no I've decided you know I've been [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► looking at classic cars on the internet [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► for 15 years before there even was an [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► internet and and I realized the other [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► day [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► driving down the road somewhere in some [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► rental car and some guy blew past me in [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► a you know an austin-healey and I said [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► I'm not getting any younger [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► like I am already over the threshold [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► where it's over i'm no longer a young [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► guy in a hot car i'm i'm already a [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► middle-aged guy in a hot car and I don't [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► even have a hot car yet and what I don't [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► want to be is one of these guys ahead [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► little you know that that looks like a [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► looks like what's the guy that says [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► diabeetus but that's not what is a [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► little friendly well for Brimley I don't [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► like Wilford Brimley in a in a hot car [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► you see those guys all the time where [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► you are driving up here like wow nice [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► camaro and then you can set its a 76 [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► year old guy with diabetes and like [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► you're gonna die in that car so you know [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► because you keep I keep because of [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► because it grew up in that era I keep [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► thinking that the only guys driving [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► around in in cars with Cragar rims or [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► like like any kind of car with SS on the [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► back you're going to get up next to him [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► it's going to be a guy with the duck [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► tail and a pack of cigarettes rolled [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► that's going to be Harrison Ford or [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► possibly Matthew McConaughey yeah right [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► and then you get a hit up next to him [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► it's all these days just decaying [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► corpses [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► I don't want to be that guy but I've [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► been looking at classic cars for so long [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► like I've lost have somehow lost the [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► ability to choose so I decided the other [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► day I want a classic suburban those [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► things are so big big four-wheel-drive [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► suburban and write my taste in suburban [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► is very specific i want a [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► three-quarter-ton superb and I'm not [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► going to bore you with this mono I want [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► to hear three-quarter-ton [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► four-wheel-drive suburban between the [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► years I mean there's and there's two [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► different body styles i like the the [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► late sixties early seventies Suburbans [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► just that you found a hobby they only [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► have three doors but it's been three [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► very cool doors and then I also like [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► that the the mid-seventies Suburbans the [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► first ones i found what 7279 [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► anyway the problem with loving these [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► cars is that they were flogged to death [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► by people you know like you didn't buy [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► one of these suburban and polish it and [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► keep it in your garage you went and [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► joined the Forest Service or you went [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► and took it to to treat it nom like it [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► worked a treat nam-gu went to out to [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► fucking nowhere land and but you can use [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► it for real actual stuff would really [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► use it for real actual stuff and then [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► the thing would the at the exact moment [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► that the rust ate it from within [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► it also would fall apart from outside [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► and it would just be a pile of dust so [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► there are very few of these things left [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► all by way of saying today I was sitting [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► at home and I was like I wonder if [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► somebody just owns the URL old suburban [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► dot-com and so I typed in old suburban [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► dot-com because I am an old man i didn't [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► put in up to the URL bar I actually [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► typed old suburban dot-com into google [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► and uh and the first couple of sites [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► that came up that weren't pay [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► advertisements i clicked on the first [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► one and it took me to a site that had [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► not been updated since 2000 1000 [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► literally had dancing bananas [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► wow you finally had time capsule and [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► like little flat like little animated [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► flash it's a last updated on the page it [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► did was it said like you know this site [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► was constructed in june of 1999 last [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► updated her looks down at the bottom [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► yeah little counter and if the site was [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► so hard so hard to even be there was it [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► was it was it wasn't just that it was [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► hard to navigate or understand it was [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► impossible to do either thing but it was [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► hard even to be there with all these [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► little things moving and the cool-blue [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► little hole little question marks and [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► things written in complexing lights [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► under construction [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► yeah and it was it was like oh shit [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► that's right that used to be the [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► internet everywhere you went [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► I always figured figured that if I have [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► really I i get involved in this site [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► because I find it hard to look at too [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► not just visually but like my mind races [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► because i'm a story guy like there's [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► always I mean [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► the story so first of all I figure the [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► person's dead right and nobody it's [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► probably like an act like a university [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► account like it's taking up almost no [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► space there's zero bandwidth and like [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► it's like you know at Ile de suburban [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► guy PhD and you know he's been dead he's [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► been dead from heart disease since nine [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► eleven like nobody-nobody is updating [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► the site and its and i always think of [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► like oh my god I'm gonna find typos and [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► there's gonna be no way to fix them [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► it's it up it's a horrible horrible [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► feeling our next door neighbor when I [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► was a kid had a suburban and it and this [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► is that we had a house you know this is [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► in the seventies it was an old house but [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► like this thing barely fit in the [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► driveway it was so good [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► yeah yeah it was it was all it was [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► almost like a bus [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► yeah Mike my friend Kevin had a suburban [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► in the very early eighties and it was [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► school bus yellow and he was just a [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► little teenage kid units to 16 year old [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► kid and we would go out in that suburban [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► and he had by the time he was 16 years [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► old he had such control over this [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► vehicle we would be speeding along down [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► the street in Anchorage and they would [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► have pleaded they would have kind of [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► plowed the snow into a center berm that [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► sometimes was four feet tall snow [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► between the lanes of traffic and Kevin [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► could you know at 60 miles an hour [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► pop the suburban up high Center it on [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► this snow berm kick on the summer you [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► know it had the the emergency brake was [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► it was a pedal on my where would be [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► where clutch would be right on the [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► emergency brake and flip the suburban [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► around like it was pure wedding like a [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► ballerina all four tires [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► you know going in different directions [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► and he could balance the suburban on its [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► front bumper [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► he wasn't he was incredible in this [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► truck and I remember writing you know in [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► the passenger seat and this was before [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► any of us ever wore seat belts either so [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► we're sliding around like ball bearings [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► and just thinking like this is the [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► greatest it is great to be an American [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► this is the greatest time to be alive [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► we are listening to the Scorpions we are [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► driving the suburban it and and no one [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► can stop us we are we are driving the [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► suburban like the Millennium Falcon and [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► I think it's stuck in me and now I'm [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► having a midlife crisis nama in my [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► forties and i wanted i want to get that [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► suburban exactly that suburban and just [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► drive around this is your lolita it is [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► my lowly I want that big freaking truck [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► this you know this is something I was to [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► the gallon of all the idiotic things [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► that you could do and there are really [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► literally so many this is a good one [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► i mean it's it's probably pretty safe [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► for his for a car from the seventies I'm [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► not gonna run right here this is the GMC [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► carryall i love this level but the [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► problem is there's a lot of [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► two-wheel-drive ones out there and I [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► don't want two wheel drive truck can get [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► a six [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► well you get a v8 in this oh yeah oh [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► brother you can option those already [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► speed manual four-speed manual power [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► glide and turbo hydra-matic I just want [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► to put the turbo hydra-matic at that [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► sounds nice so nice transmission I gotta [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► say this thing is gorgeous you should [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► John you should do it i can't just give [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► you a suggestion [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► yeah two directions not number number [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► two you just get a suburban I mean it [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► can't cost that much you know if it [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► doesn't work out get another one right [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► now you're right you're right [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► the other 1i number 1 i've talked about [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► this my friend chris from college had an [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► austin-healey sprite you know you would [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► look great [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► you would look so large an austin-healey [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► sprite yeah you know I'm actually [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► partial to the big he leaves rather than [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► the little healing is a model and that [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► would be what he called you know that [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► you like the 100 put in as almost you [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► died in where he died in Paul McCartney [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► die thought you died in a Volkswagen [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► Beetle please mind the core native would [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► have been yeah okay [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► God these are handsome cars yeah they [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► are and the big Healy's are are like [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► their proper like a sprite i think i [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► would it would be a little clown car but [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► a big deal i would be I'd be feeling [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► very strongly like it was like being in [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► a mountain dew can one time and sarah [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► said we're at a light and and we're [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► lower than like a driver side window and [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► increased says a you see that yamaha [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► over there [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► oh yeah I guess that's got a bigger [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► engine this haha [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► and and the the big healing though we [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► don't start it we can just push start at [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► any time they have any here they have [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► like six cylinder motors and they're [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► still not that bigger car but they're so [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► like they're so deadly [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► yeah they don't all have six cylinder [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► but that but anyway those cars now are [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► priced like ice I was driving down the [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► road not very long ago and I saw kid who [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► had to be in high school still 17 years [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► old driving an austin-healey 3000 with [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► his high school girlfriend sitting next [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► to him and their hair blowing in the [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► wind and you know that his father is [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► some kind of criminal defense attorney [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► or worse and they live in a big house [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► with a water ski boat parked out front [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► because it's a little waterfront house [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► and he's driving this austin-healey to [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► town because his dad threw the keys and [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► said you know go crazy junior prom or [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► whatever and I really wanted to run this [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► kid off the road it it it just wasn't [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► it was thinking that frustrating some [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► 90210 shit that shouldn't happen in [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► seattle and typically I don't allow it [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► but yeah you know I think that's the [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► kind of thing you should you should you [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► should be on top of that there's a I you [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► know had you know John trying to grow as [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► a person and I'm stamp set aside I say I [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► say leave it to the shot in Florida [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► leash a little bit but dad there's a [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► tumblr i follow called i think it's [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► called rich kids on Instagram actually [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► sent somebody sent me a link to that [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► back when I was I was I was making it my [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► thing to tweet everyone 'so i like [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► nobody has it easy it [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► life life is hard for everybody like [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► stop stop thinking that anybody is right [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► everyone has their reasons [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► everybody's got up everybody wakes up in [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► the morning goes global here we go [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► and a lot of people were we're really [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► pushing back on this idea like no you're [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► wrong there are people that have it easy [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► and I was like no there aren't like like [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► like Eric Clapton son fell out of his [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► hotel window right like everybody's got [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► a tragedy [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► and just being rich doesn't solve [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► anything and people were like no [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► bullshit and I got set a lot of links to [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► this rich Kidz tumblr which kids on [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► instagram tumblr where they're all these [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► you know smug little twerps taking [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► pictures of themselves and their dad's [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► plane and I and I i spent a 20 minutes [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► on that thing and i was like i never saw [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► so many miserable people in my life [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► yeah I mean it's like these kids like [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► check out my watch or whatever and like [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► oh my god you can [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► yeah i saw today we're in three watches [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► yet there are few things in life more [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► lonely than being unsympathetic well no [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► I mean I'm being honest it's that's the [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► problem [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► that's exactly what the problem is is [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► you would hesitate to go well I [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► playgroups it's true it sucks to be [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► unsympathetic it's called a first-world [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► problem or white wine like know [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► everybody does have the problem that i'm [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► trying to side with the bro last guy to [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► white wine whi and he is and not mine [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► that's not mine [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► white wine pretty good huh or they [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► really um I saw one of a guy I think it [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► was a selfie or maybe he had his his [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► black man take it for him but it was him [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► in bed with three different bottles of [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► like like magnums of costly brands of [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► champagne like you don't need to get a [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► fake nap with them [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► oh yeah yeah oh yeah he's having a great [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► time back guys ladies really he's doing [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► nothing wrong with that guy could not be [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► solved by a couple good ass kickings oh [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► yeah i mean i can't help but think that [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► that there is no one on Instagram that [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► is really living a good life i tried it [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► try to create it like now when I tried [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► it twice [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► I tried twice rate that you can see also [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► independent label consulting like it boy [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► talk about like a tradition of your life [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► I mean how many be saturated pictures of [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► birds on a telephone wire do we need [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► wow I'm increasingly feeling like I've [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► always felt like I lived somewhat in a [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► ghetto of a certain kind of people a [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► certain kind of thinker being like [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► associated with the university wearing a [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► guitar well after you are a problem but [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► but now my life on the internet I I'm [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► really seeing the borders of it and [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► realizing that [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► oh I'm not sure that this i'm not sure [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► that this is the enlightened and [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► beautiful capital of of futuretown that [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► everybody here thinks it is it feels a [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► little bit it feels like a bunch of as [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► kurt vonnegut said a bunch of bacteria [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► drowning in their own shit and and not [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► realizing that they're making champagne [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► i don't i don't know if if if the [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► internet is positive [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► Merlin don't know this but i don't i'm [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► not sure right now if it is positive [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► they did it and that is if you'll [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► forgive me a net positive but it is a [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► net positive I've got my eye I imagine [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► the internet the first time I heard [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► about it back in the late eighties write [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► songs about in 2008 you told me about [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► you to use you specifically told me [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► about the actual internet in 2008 but [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► when somebody when when when somebody [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► first whispered in my ear [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► the idea of the internet you know I [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► imagine just as every futurist imagined [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► like the sum total of human knowledge [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► right I a free and completely free and [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► neutral space where everywhere [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► intelligences can mix with one another [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► unencumbered by their life like their [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► physical attributes are unencumbered by [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► their class electron but a library like [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► it would be this completely blank space [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► where it is pure [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► white desert where like like it could [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► all be fresh and new and intelligent [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► right tron library [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► exactly and now it seems more like kind [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► of a swap meet at an old drive in the [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► head [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► it's like a cubit rectory a swap meet an [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► old driving where there are a lot of [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► people playing like a three-card Monte [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► and and yet also there's like that that [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► hovering a billboard the the flying [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► billboard from Blade Runner maybe like [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► Minority Report like all the ads are [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► yelling at you can yeah the the ads are [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► yelling at you that's right that's [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► exactly you have a sense of I think this [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► is a very interesting thing up [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► although we try to avoid talking about [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► the internet what was there something [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► specific that you came across well [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► certain movement [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► I think it's the I think it's a little [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► bit it's like the yelling chamber like I [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► feel it in your and my conversations in [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► the sense that i have i have always been [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► I've always self-identified as a radical [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► but I've also always been very impatient [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► of the kind of like the kind of [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► institutional radicalism that [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► characterizes the left right so so you [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► you want to disassociate yourself with [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► people on the Left who are saying that [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► we you know that that cutter that [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► Christopher Columbus's it was it was a [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► genocide of maniac or whatever you want [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► to say alright alright alright alright [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► we weave weave all we've all read it but [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► it doesn't make it true because somebody [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► wrote it and like that that kind of that [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► kind of like the the hyper righteousness [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► of the edge does a lot of it does a lot [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► of work of pushing the boundary but it [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► also do values the inside you know the [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► the middle fringe [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► which you know which is actually like [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► getting work done but the problem now is [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► that that on the internet if you if you [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► take a stand anywhere against the fringe [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► you are positive immediately as a member [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► of the opposite fringe you know where [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► there's no like the nuances getting [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► beaten out of everywhere except in these [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► little pockets like like you like on [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► Matt Howie's site or whenever there are [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► places where people are talking but they [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► increasingly feel like little domes of [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► silence where like a very few people [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► walk in they check their their swords [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► and their pistols at the door and they [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► say for the amount of further for the [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► time that i'm going to be here [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► I agree to these rules of decorum and i [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► agree not to tell not to call anyone a [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► Hitler or a baby raper not to write in [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► all caps and i'm going to do and i'm [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► going to agree to that here while i'm [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► here in this protected space but the [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► rest of the top the rest of the internet [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► and everywhere you go [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► because because you you follow a news [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► story you end up on a new site it's [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► talking about you know all this funny [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► lady she rescues bats for a living and [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► you're like I watched the video and this [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► lady is rescuing bats how cute [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► then you scroll them you make the [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► mistake of scrolling down and the first [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► comment says if it wasn't for Obamacare [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► bats wouldn't get sick [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► nice bat your shirt from gap was made by [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► children and they might be just and then [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► you check-in there's 1500 comments down [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► on thumb and your hand and you just feel [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► like there is unless i am prepared to go [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► into an ivory tower somewhere on the [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► internet to talk to people [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► there's nowhere to be where where it [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► isn't just what we're not so you're not [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► oscillating between like clickbait news [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► item pop-up ad people screaming at each [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► other about at ignorant people screaming [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► ignorantly at one another and and making [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► people ignorant [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► yeah and i added about you have to be in [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► that is the that's kind of the cover [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► charge to come in that's like that's [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► like that's like the two asshole minimum [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► like to get in you've got to be willing [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► to get involved in that particular way [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► and the subtlety subtleties just not [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► possible but what I found was I was [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► walking down the street my normal in [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► normal life and I was kind of wrestling [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► with these questions they were wrestling [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► with feeling like I was at the age of 44 [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► i was at a point in my own life where [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► we're a natural kind of conservatism is [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► starting to enter my thinking you know [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► the the famous adage of like if you're [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► not a liberal when you're a young man [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► you have no heart and if you're not a [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► conservative when you're an old man you [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► have no brain Churchill thank you [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► and so this natural kind of conservatism [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► that comes into your life when you're in [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► your mid forties where you just have [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► seen enough and you look around you go [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► yeah alright kid but but really here's [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► how life works and you know it you start [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► to you start to feel like you're you're [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► not willing anymore to be imposed upon [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► so much you start to appreciate a little [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► bit of quiet and a little bit of comfort [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► I start to shake my fist at people who [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► stereos are too loud [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► it's a it's a kind of it's a kind of [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► quality of middle-aged that I think you [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► need to resist you need to resist the [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► this inexorable ility of of feeling like [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► building up a tolerance fence and as I'm [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► talking to myself and I'm resisting my [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► own my own natural serve trend to [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► personal conservatism [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► I'm I'm feeling the templates of the [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► internet in my mind and I'm arguing with [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► myself in the voice of these internet [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► templates and I kind of jump back out of [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► myself and I say I reject this I reject [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► this model I am NOT it is it it is not a [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► simple matter of either being like uh [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► you you cannot accuse everyone of [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► classism or racism or sexism who doesn't [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► conform to the most radical [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► interpretation of any scenario there is [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► a middle that is that is like really [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► where we should all aspire to be and a [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► and I just so I heard the internet [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► ringing in my ears as I'm walking along [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► trying to navigate my own my own in my [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► own aging and I went oh there's it's a [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► bad influence [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► like legit like it'sit's unintentionally [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► kind of slightly reshaped your the way [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► you frame these things you think about [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► these things [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► well I I feel like if because because [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► given that template that the term [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► templates or is a really interesting [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► idea cuz what is a template template is [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► an easy way to get started on something [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► that could be complicated and and the [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► more you use that template over and over [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► and and you know let's be honest you and [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► you people here using that template or [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► just using that that form a lot it's you [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► know it's not unusual at all I mean if [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► you go if you go off for a weekend with [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► your buddies and start seeing you know [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► cocksucker motherfucker a lot over and [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► over and over like you keep saying that [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► for a day or two after you come home [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► that's right i mean you go to another [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► country you can you you start picking up [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► the language again that you didn't know [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► you even remembered so I mean if we [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► spend 6 to 14 hours a day in that land [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► of templates it's not unusual at all [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► that to find ourselves doing that are [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► thinking oh this is a thing I should [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► photograph and post will be another [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► example I mean you know a lot more [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► lightweight example but rusted starting [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► to change the way we think a little bit [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► yeah then you don't see things except in [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► terms of all I wish I had my camera i [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► wish i could photograph that post but [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► but more importantly I feel like I feel [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► like people are not rewarded in on the [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► internet they are not rewarded for [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► having middle-middle opinions middlebrow [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► views or middle middle work opinions you [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► know no one is rewarded for compromise [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► or for trying to see both sides of the [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► story that is a thing that we all agree [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► the person that's like can't we all get [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► along or let's let's look at both sides [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► of this that person is shouted down [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► immediately and it and the effectiveness [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► with them always the most interesting [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► part think about literature think about [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► my energy I'm sorry but like any [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► literature movies anything the most [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► interesting part is always that surprise [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► of like a character somebody who learns [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► a little bit about themselves and that's [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► what a story is a story is something [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► started here and ended there and we [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► learned something about the character of [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► the person by how they handled an [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► impossible challenge and sometimes that [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► means really changing your idea about [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► something that that's what a story is [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► the only king olaf's brand in any the to [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► be the person who is like who the the [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► character in a novel who is for the most [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► part totally disagreeable maybe even [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► evil but they have a redeeming quality [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► and that's enough [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► you know that's often enough to make a [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► story and to make a and to make the [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► world go round almost and I and I feel [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► like I feel like what what the internet [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► is doing is it is it is rewarding people [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► for extremism in very subtle ways and it [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► is depriving people of the natural [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► reward they should be feeling when they [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► say hey actually I kind of see both [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► sides of this and in the past like [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► that's how civilization got built people [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► would get to a certain age they go [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► actually I kind of see the other side a [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► little bit now and everyone who everyone [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► would stroke their chins and take [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► another puff on their pipes [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► and maybe they would resolve that [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► property difference or maybe they would [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► resolve the the you know the question of [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► whether the beer is 22 hobby or whatever [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► it is the problem that primitive people [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► had and now we're where we've created [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► this place where it's like this is where [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► we're going to invest our time this is [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► where we're going to invest our [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► intellectual energy and and the [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► combination of anonymity and the and [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► distance from one another no physical [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► consequences no risk of a punch in the [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► nose [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► we're creating a human environment where [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► radicalism is rewarded and that is gonna [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► have disastrous consequences [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► I i agree and part of the problem and I [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► will literally beg yeah that's get me [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► started on this but that extremism and [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► that radicalism the problem with that is [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► that it doesn't have a cost and so I've [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► been taken to task by many many [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► good-hearted people for saying that like [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► Martin Luther King would never have had [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► an impact if he if he said I mean [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► fucking Cheetos and typing on Twitter or [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► asking people support his fucking fun [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► run it out there and he threw himself [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► you know on the levers for you so well [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► yeah I mean that's I mean and that is [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► another kind of extremity but i'll just [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► take the one tiny point that will be [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► hopefully tweetable is is that the the [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► problem with the ex extremism and [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► radicalism is it doesn't cost anything [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► yeah and you still get to get your [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► ribbon for being the fucking you know [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► che guevara a hundred and forty [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► characters even though you haven't [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► really done anything and and you get to [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► sit there and then now you get to be [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► some kind of like a sniper character [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► trying to like pluck out people on the [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► other side of the of the DMZ who don't [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► agree with you and any say entrenched [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► and there's nothing to be gained by [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► either developing a more nuanced or [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► intelligent argument and like the kind [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► of problem that used to be mostly [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► restricted to pro wrestling and congress [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► now goes everywhere because if this [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► permanent state of identifying and [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► getting this personal branding I hate [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► that word but it's true [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► it's kind of personal branding based on [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► which kind of sniper you've decided to [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► be and who you decided to pick off and [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► who you high-five for get a shot off [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► well and it is a fucking thing I've [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► found just personally I've noticed that [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► it d values to the those instances where [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► set where somebody does really jump up [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► and say something radical because [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► they're immediately like dismissed as a [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► troll [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► so just personally I'm i am at a turning [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► point in my life where I am having to [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► say to myself on a kind of daily basis [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► there is there there's all the everyday [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► there's some reason why I feel like what [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► I feel like the easy path in middle age [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► is to confirm stereotypes confirm biases [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► I feel like I feel like your experience [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► your heart your hard-won experience [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► allows you to not you know not be [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► tolerant i guess and that that the [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► u-turn a certain point no matter what [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► your your proclivities are where you [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► feel like I don't want to be I don't [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► want to be taken advantage of any more I [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► don't want to be a Rube I'm I don't want [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► to be a fool and that inevitably causes [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► a certain hard name you no longer give [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► money to panhandlers where you once did [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► you no longer roll your window down to a [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► guy running up on the street with a [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► broken fan belt you know it's a it's a [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► it's a it's a gradual process i haven't [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► I i have done nothing but laugh in the [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► face of anyone who approaches me holding [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► a fan belt for 15 years but but [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► increasingly like a this is this kind of [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► this battle and fighting against myself [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► in in the just the kind of creeping [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► transition toward comfort away from [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► struggle and and struggle rewards you in [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► ways that comfort cannot and struggle [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► requires that you not succumb to cliché [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► that you not succumb to stereotype and [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► you and that is increasingly difficult [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► as John Hodgman is fond of saying you [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► cannot run as fast as you did when you [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► were 20 nor can you think as fast as you [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► did when you were 20 and so it's it's [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► additional work to wake up in the [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► morning and say i am going to i'm going [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► to approach every person as an [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► individual today and I'm gonna take on [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► these scenarios i think i know the [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► answer to already and it think you know [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► increasingly I find my online life is [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► not especially helpful and then [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► well I part of the problem I you know [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► I'm reluctant at this point is to say [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► the internet as a medium because its [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► series of media crap but in in addition [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► I wanna go back to that but i think if I [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► was on metafilter exclusively male many [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► filters no bargain sometimes I mean [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► there's there's no there's a lot of to [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► quote the the great drunk [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► John Wayne during his Stanford [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► commencement speech i say i didn't say [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► that for clapping haha never heard that [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► that's liberties at their worst John [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► Wayne's three sheets to the wind hire [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► out these kids and [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► yeah definitely Stanford can happen [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► before you get the run time that the [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► active occupied columbia for the the [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► guys in like defecating in drawer [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► hi yeah I'm not saying that for clapping [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► the problem is the problem is that [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► radicalism extremism doesn't cost [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► anything but empathy is expensive [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► because empathy toward any body empathy [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► doesn't mean you agree with somebody it [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► means you like feel for them a little [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► bit like you understand you enter it [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► like you want to understand that there [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► another human being that doesn't make [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► your pussy to say that that that means [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► being an adult [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► yeah but most of the time it takes 10 [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► extra minutes out of your day but that's [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► not getting back to the medium in a [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► minute but but i think i think part of [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► the problem is that I mean I'll speak [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► for myself [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► you've had a pretty flawless life so you [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► won't appreciate this but like I make so [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► many fucking mistakes every day I i [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► mis-read things i do dumb shit i get mad [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► at the wrong person ID so much dumb [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► stuff every day that it's made me on a [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► good day little bit more empathetic [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► about how everybody has those days or [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► decades but that doesn't that doesn't [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► get you any three pointers on the [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► internet that does not get you a thumb [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► you know and and the to the medium part [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► i'm tempted to bring up a real Godwin's [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► law here in the sense of pro-wrestling [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► like the name your favorite pro wrestler [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► who took 15 minutes to really explain [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► things in a way that we can all [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► understand even if we didn't agree with [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► it now you like you like Ric Flair or [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► you like Ricky the dragon steamboat I [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► personally did not like Ric Flair yeah [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► now-now I he was he was part of a [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► different tradition for me i would love [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► to talk about wrestling but but to me [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► that's I mean thatthat so that's a [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► careless of 35 year old analogy but i [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► think it's true i mean i think you've [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► got to pick your side like are you going [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► to be a face or you're going to be a [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► heel and then like you know who we gonna [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► team up with who you gonna cheer for and [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► he got hit with a fucking folding chair [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► and you know and wherever you go even [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► the most subtle environment you know [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► metafilter whatever i going to [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► metafilter sometimes I don't look at it [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► like I used to because it has gotten way [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► to me and snarky and I will go in and [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► just look at like most favorited posts [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► and that will be twice a month I'm going [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► to nothing it's matt it's just that it's [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► it's too big [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► they've lost that sense of of personhood [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► we're all in our own little car honking [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► horns of people because of like a [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► millisecond you know miss decision on [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► their part which I'm guilty of which i'm [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► going to you but I mean like do you want [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► to get better at that or or do you want [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► to get loud horn that you have a problem [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► i mean as you get older it's almost like [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► you know you imagine that you're [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► chilling at the Churchill quote was I [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► honestly did not look this up but it's [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► something like anyone any man is not a [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► liberal by the time he's 25 is [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► hard-hearted any man is not a [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► conservative by the time he's 40 is [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► soft-headed something like that yeah [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► that's what it looks like there's [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► something to look at while know what I [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► mean it's the only point being that like [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► you know and there's always having [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► people say that old canard about how [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► like all journalists or liberals and [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► journals will come back and say well no [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► it's just that we seem like liberals [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► because we like asking a lot of annoying [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► questions yeah which is something that [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► liberals like to do I think it's easy to [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► say oh as you get older you see more and [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► more like a conservative it's like it's [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► no it's not that I'm becoming more [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► conservative it's just that I've seen a [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► whole lot of your radical ideas I seen [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► the ones that worked and it wasn't [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► because they were Radical that they work [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► it's because they were the right [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► solution at the right time [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► yeah and-and-and the louder horn does [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► not make you a more persuasive driver he [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► said mixing several analogies but anyway [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► I'm just saying like trying to settle [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► this shit 240 characters at a time is [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► not a great place to try and settle it [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► did you read questlove's SI no on the [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► Trayvon Martin case no but I well [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► getting a card is from the tribe called [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► quest quest llano is the routines roots [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► everybody plays on the Jimmy Carson show [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► oh oh I know what you mean you're [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► talking about the never not funny [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► Fallon part oh that's right got it right [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► here ok but so he he writes this very [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► thoughtful personal essay in the style [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► of someone who is just who is simply [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► saying here's how it is for me like and [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► he is a he it's a very it's very it's [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► just a personal and touching anecdotes [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► that you cannot argue with you know it [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► is not a political [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► comment really at all except that at the [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► end he kind of ties it to this national [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► conversation personal essay as we used [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► to say it's a personal essay and it's a [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► personal essay that I that I read and [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► liked a great deal because it describes [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► a kind of private experience that he's [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► having as a large black guy with a [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► gigantic afro and his his success and [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► his fame and the fact that he has a [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► beloved person and now lives in a [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► doorman building it in you know in [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► having achieved everything that he set [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► out to and more he still is subject to [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► and he's very careful to describe it not [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► as subjected to but just subject to a [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► kind of treatment where people are [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► scared of him because of how he looks [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► and he's aware of it and has been his [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► whole life but it's still you know wears [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► him down over time in in a way that [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► everybody can relate to you know where [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► he and he's just telling the story and I [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► read it and it was like fuck its if more [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► people wrote with this kind of just [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► simple candor if our carpet for national [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► conversation included voices like this [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► where they weren't where you know and [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► kind of like obama's speech to the same [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► fact and it's like anyway I posted this [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► a link to this just like hey this is a [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► great thing and I think everybody should [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► read it and I immediately got a bunch of [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► like again push back in the form of well [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► that's not the whole story and i was i [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► was astonished [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► was astonished [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► at at how primed have primed the world [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► is to reject even like the the best [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► hearted attempts to say like better than [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► that [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► oh we're not here to take your gun you [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► don't think that's the medium know John [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► I mean you're putting out you're putting [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► it out there in you know it's a quote [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► myself you know the the internet is not [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► what you have to say it's what others [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► have to say about you [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► it's like when you when you put [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► something out there like that even with [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► the best heart no matter who you are [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► it's going to be about somebody else [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► coming back with whatever they think [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► their thing is even if they're dumb ass [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► I mean you know I don't want to get in [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► battle you know I i wonder if it if I [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► mean in 1975 when Time magazine was the [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► only place the the only national den [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► right the only thing that everybody read [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► first of all NSA like that would never [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► appear in Time magazine but also we had [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► no sense of we had no sense of the great [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► hundreds of thousands of people who read [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► Time magazine every week and threw it [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► against the wall and said a bunch of [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► jimmy carter liberal communist [TS]

01:01:22 ◼   ► communists so we we have was at the [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► police officer from confederacy of [TS]

01:01:29 ◼   ► dunces some kind of communist Dominus um [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► she's a grandma and and so now you know [TS]

01:01:38 ◼   ► now we have insight into all these door [TS]

01:01:41 ◼   ► dark corners but but also like my the [TS]

01:01:46 ◼   ► people who are following me on Twitter [TS]

01:01:47 ◼   ► presumably are not a broad cross-section [TS]

01:01:50 ◼   ► of America they are a self-selected [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► group of indeed twerps and comedy [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► computer nerds and people who are [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► presumably taken people who are [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► animating bird gifts [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► 22 appear you know but no bows [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► uh well I've never I've never I know you [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► weren't point I'm sorry John I know you [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► were pointing that at me but I've never [TS]

01:02:23 ◼   ► felt worse about three nouns up in [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► comedy computer nerd [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► oh that's depressing [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► it's a big part that's a big part of my [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► demographic now but even among those [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► people and this is what I'm saying like [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► I i look at that guy who are let's take [TS]

01:02:44 ◼   ► would take one of the detained the [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► person responding to questlove's was [TS]

01:02:47 ◼   ► just like westlink what happened about [TS]

01:02:50 ◼   ► Trayvon but I've ad and and you feel [TS]

01:02:53 ◼   ► like okay this guide is probably because [TS]

01:02:56 ◼   ► he's following me on twitter he is [TS]

01:02:58 ◼   ► probably not [TS]

01:02:59 ◼   ► oh he is probably not a racist he's [TS]

01:03:03 ◼   ► probably not a a gun nut in the Idaho [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► mountains he is probably a kid who feels [TS]

01:03:12 ◼   ► like he has to like you're saying [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► because of the medium he has to take he [TS]

01:03:20 ◼   ► he feels like he has to take this [TS]

01:03:22 ◼   ► oppositional position because there is [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► no place to be [TS]

01:03:29 ◼   ► there's no place in his world to read [TS]

01:03:33 ◼   ► something and go hmm well that's [TS]

01:03:37 ◼   ► interesting [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► like he he lives now in a in a lives in [TS]

01:03:42 ◼   ► a world where [TS]

01:03:43 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

01:03:44 ◼   ► we're here in a certain in certain [TS]

01:03:47 ◼   ► extent like he has been called a racist [TS]

01:03:50 ◼   ► so much for expressing like [TS]

01:03:55 ◼   ► middle-of-the-road views that he's [TS]

01:03:59 ◼   ► beginning to feel like well maybe you [TS]

01:04:01 ◼   ► know maybe I am [TS]

01:04:02 ◼   ► or maybe I maybe there's some merit to [TS]

01:04:04 ◼   ► that you know what I mean like he is [TS]

01:04:06 ◼   ► being pushed to the right by assist by a [TS]

01:04:11 ◼   ► bio by living in a world where there is [TS]

01:04:14 ◼   ► no room for him to be in them you know [TS]

01:04:18 ◼   ► slightly to the right of the middle [TS]

01:04:22 ◼   ► I mean I feel that more and more reading [TS]

01:04:24 ◼   ► people on the internet who are taking [TS]

01:04:26 ◼   ► who are taking like stances that you [TS]

01:04:30 ◼   ► really don't feel like they own but but [TS]

01:04:34 ◼   ► that they've been nudged there by the by [TS]

01:04:38 ◼   ► the fact that there's no room to say [TS]

01:04:40 ◼   ► well you know there's there's two sides [TS]

01:04:43 ◼   ► to every coin and I mean obviously the [TS]

01:04:45 ◼   ► Trayvon thing is what I'm talking about [TS]

01:04:47 ◼   ► but it doesn't cost anything that's part [TS]

01:04:52 ◼   ► of the problem [TS]

01:04:53 ◼   ► yeah none of it none of it cost anything [TS]

01:04:54 ◼   ► and you know it's I don't know the first [TS]

01:04:56 ◼   ► thing about economics I mean everything [TS]

01:04:58 ◼   ► i know about economics I've learned from [TS]

01:05:00 ◼   ► Wikipedia but you know that's not true [TS]

01:05:02 ◼   ► you you took me down to the University [TS]

01:05:04 ◼   ► of San Francisco computer store because [TS]

01:05:06 ◼   ► you knew [TS]

01:05:07 ◼   ► oh that's right was gonna have to you [TS]

01:05:09 ◼   ► know I was going to get a better deal on [TS]

01:05:10 ◼   ► my computer I don't sound contradictory [TS]

01:05:12 ◼   ► John but i think that's really more [TS]

01:05:13 ◼   ► about finance that no i mean the the [TS]

01:05:16 ◼   ► idea that things cost stuff you know [TS]

01:05:18 ◼   ► it's it's I mean that that's that's a [TS]

01:05:22 ◼   ► big part of the problem is that it [TS]

01:05:23 ◼   ► doesn't cost anything it doesn't cost [TS]

01:05:24 ◼   ► anything to be a radical it doesn't cost [TS]

01:05:26 ◼   ► anything to agree with this person there [TS]

01:05:28 ◼   ► and agree with that person there you [TS]

01:05:30 ◼   ► know it's it doesn't it's there's [TS]

01:05:32 ◼   ► nothing to it but there's no and I'm [TS]

01:05:35 ◼   ► feeling the cost i guess this is the [TS]

01:05:37 ◼   ► business case you actually fucking [TS]

01:05:38 ◼   ► caring you and you inhabit the the point [TS]

01:05:40 ◼   ► of view that's costly yeah [TS]

01:05:43 ◼   ► yes it is it costs it makes a it makes [TS]

01:05:46 ◼   ► bruises on my heart like an apple at the [TS]

01:05:49 ◼   ► bottom of a bin ya stop there for a [TS]

01:05:52 ◼   ► second marker there I gotta go get opee [TS]

01:05:55 ◼   ► can call you back in a minute [TS]

01:05:56 ◼   ► oh yeah you don't want to just leave it [TS]

01:05:58 ◼   ► running no I I don't trust this thing [TS]

01:06:01 ◼   ► here is the primary problem i have [TS]

01:06:05 ◼   ► shopping for a suburban on on the [TS]

01:06:07 ◼   ► Internet yeah people who are selling old [TS]

01:06:12 ◼   ► Suburbans are the number one they are [TS]

01:06:17 ◼   ► the number one miss spellers of the word [TS]

01:06:19 ◼   ► original huh [TS]

01:06:21 ◼   ► they'll put it all put an extra 0 in [TS]

01:06:23 ◼   ► original in it so it says a red guy on [TS]

01:06:26 ◼   ► all our original organ nononono or a [TS]

01:06:31 ◼   ► Donal and so I want to buy this truck [TS]

01:06:35 ◼   ► and I and I gotta click on it says i [TS]

01:06:38 ◼   ► have a lifted set so anyway no [TS]

01:06:40 ◼   ► punctuation in this whole ad i have a [TS]

01:06:42 ◼   ► lifted 73 suburban on 35's built motor [TS]

01:06:45 ◼   ► has headers full exhaust E with an e at [TS]

01:06:48 ◼   ► the end full exhaust the intake carb has [TS]

01:06:51 ◼   ► cam runs and drive great Oregon old [TS]

01:06:54 ◼   ► paint has nice weld wheels and pretty [TS]

01:06:56 ◼   ► good tyres interiors like new no rips or [TS]

01:06:59 ◼   ► tears ta IRS has ruder mate no carpet [TS]

01:07:05 ◼   ► has dual shocks d ule dual shocks and as [TS]

01:07:10 ◼   ► custom front drive line please call for [TS]

01:07:12 ◼   ► more information have title in hand in [TS]

01:07:14 ◼   ► my name I can text more picture i can [TS]

01:07:20 ◼   ► text more pics and i'm reading and I'm [TS]

01:07:24 ◼   ► just like the hope it makes you happy [TS]

01:07:27 ◼   ► were older men that makes us wind it [TS]

01:07:29 ◼   ► because we've had poetry classes you're [TS]