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Give Mama The Pole

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Give Mama The Pole

The speaker shares a deeply personal and emotionally charged reflection on dreams, technology, and human connection. After having a disturbing dream in which their mother is possessed and attempting to manipulate their family, they feel a growing unease about reality, trust, and the reliability of their own perceptions. This prompts them to start a dream journal as a protective tool to track and understand these intense experiences. The conversation expands to broader themes of technology, including the hidden infrastructure of the internet through ocean-floor fiber optic cables, which raises concerns about global vulnerability and digital dependency. The speaker expresses fear about AI not just replacing jobs, but eroding human emotions and authentic experiences—such as personal interactions or creative expression. They long for physical, hands-on creative activities, like building a bear or customizing clothing, as a counter to passive digital consumption. Emotional moments—like a distressing crush or a dream about a dog in commercials—are tied to feelings of inauthenticity and panic, emphasizing the psychological weight of personal experiences. The narrative concludes with a blend of humor and vulnerability, highlighting how shared stories—like dreams, TV shows, or real-life events—create meaningful connection and reflect the complexity of modern life. Ultimately, the discussion reveals a deep awareness of how subconscious fears, technological realities, and emotional needs intersect, shaping a sense of unease and longing for authenticity in a digital age.

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i'm pretty spooked right now because i had like a weird dream that my mom was like it's like in like she was like housing a spirit and she was like very sly and manipulative and she was visibly trying to like take me and my family and and do something nefarious with us possessed yes the word that i couldn't find yeah possessed the word is possessed and it was really unsettling totally i've been having weird dreams about my family too but i wake up to a text from my mom that's like hi i haven't seen you in a while we should plan a trip or maybe like i don't like all this really like weird almost like ai scripted text yeah like the demon had the phone yeah north posted this yeah i didn't even realize so now i'm kind of like doubly freaked out that now we're saying into the realities that we're not a part of yeah i've been thinking about keeping a dream journal because my dreams have been so weird and like obviously i needed another journal on top of the 18 i'm already keeping up i think dream journal could be necessary yeah that like feels like i mean yeah it's already ordered yeah when i said i'm thinking about getting one the order's placed baby okay yeah it's another hovenichi just the lined notebook for now when someone tells you about their dream do you care at all like when i just started to tell you were you just like oh my god i'm thinking about my journals i you i would say i you've had you had a few you've had a few dreams that have made me laugh but typically i only care about someone else's dream if i'm in it which is just like or it's like really funny but like i'm happy to people cared about my turtles dream when i told them about the turtles or one that you can analyze yeah but no i mean i always care it's just like some are definitely more interesting than others i like when people are like oh you had a dream that your hair is falling out your teeth are falling out that's anxiety and i'm like i had a dream that my mom was trying to kill my family and they're like i don't know what that could be well here's the thing connor someone will let us know i know but like why does like my hair falling out my dream mean i'm pregnant but my mom murdering my family means nothing to anybody you guys don't bat an eye and she physically texted me like why is my dream making me not trust my mom like dreams are really something to me they're powerful yeah they are there's so many people that are like i had a dream about someone i've never i hadn't seen in like 10 years and then i saw them the next day at disney world yeah weird weird we can leave it there you know how we're always talking about how our phones are probably reading our minds they are there's a darker reality that i just figured out what i don't think like our microphone you know how we're always like okay like we're looking for answers so we like kind of like plant seeds for our mic yeah and we i never get those ads when i'm like oh i want to blah blah cheap flights to bermuda cheap flights to bermuda and never picks up on that i think it goes so much deeper that what i'm looking at on my phone is actually influencing my subconscious to what i end up talking about it's a cycle yeah yeah i think it's going i think they reverse engineered interesting yeah that reminds me of something that i wanted to tell you that's i'm right here do you know anything about the internet and like where it comes from can i guess yeah you're never gonna get this no i might it's a series of channels that might be but like what is the source of the channels what is the source of the internet yeah it's a physical no is it like a tree of life situation similar similar there is a an origin that is a physical thing it has to be like if i'm being realistic i want to have fun with this you know i want to have fun with this like so bad let my hair down neutrophil style and like have fun with this i want to have fun with this i want to have fun with this i want to have fun with this yes that that that that it won't kill me okay but it has to be a data center in the antarctic so close really kinda is it underwater connor what yeah no there is a an atlantic cable running the length of the ocean i think the atlantic that it just is the internet it's at the bottom of the ocean floor that's where our internet is it's a cable what is it doing down there that's just the internet okay but i can't get service upstairs in my house but like it's on the ocean floor lift it up i don't get i don't get it at all and obviously this has to be the truth because i saw it on tiktok i would like to double check okay i would like a second opinion completely believe you don't fully need to double check if we're at lunch and i didn't feel like opening my phone to access the bottom of the ocean i would just move forward but we're here yeah might as well check this out fiber optic cables that was the word i was looking for when i met when i said series of channels i meant fiber optic yes yes i promise you i did listen i knew what you meant okay i did me that often no thicker than a garden hose or the backbone of the internet of the internet well thank you fiber optic cables for carrying the whole team on your back literally listen to this carrying over 99 of international data across the ocean floor these cables connect continents span over 1.5 million kilometers in total and transmit massive amounts of light at nearly the speed of light like hi like i'm on my phone right now or just not now but every other second of the day thanks to this cable on the bottom of the ocean floor which i never knew about how and it's no thicker than a garden hose no thicker than a garden hose hey is that not crazy no it is crazy is that is there only one there's only one hose it definitely spans continents but is there several it's a good question i mean like sorry there's oh there's over 570 in-service submarine cable systems worldwide with an additional 81 planned but i was watching this tiktok about when they planted the first one they're just literally like put like planting a cable on the bottom of the ocean floor and then we had internet i'm sure they're a little bit more went into it but whoa no but whoa anyway i thought you should know no thank you that it looks like the thing you plug into your wall when you're setting up spectrum it is completely the thing that you put just to think about it in the ocean it is it is completely insane that because they put a garden hose at the bottom of the ocean i have to spend three hours on the phone with spectrum customer service like why is that so hard but it was pretty it seems to be pretty easy that they did this when 1858 also my understanding is that like technology can't get wet oh so like why is our like biggest source oh in the water completely vulnerable i guess it's because it's encased in like more of a hose material but what does it plug into i yeah i feel like that's like yeah i don't know we are this is what like we need to have like a hank green on set at all times you know because it's like what are you plugging into what are you plugging like where does the hose go i don't know oh my gosh i'm this is amazing i've never heard of this plug into the specialized coastal facility called cable landing stations we've gotten that now we've gotten we've we've gotten away from our i really just was fascinated by the hose piece i know and then it's like too difficult to start to think about thinking about buried under the beach it's kind of dangling there just so you're telling me if i dug for a sandcastle i could hit the cable like everyone's thinking about digging to china like hi let's try digging the cable landing station for once i agree so anyway i just wanted to let you know nice out um like not to just go there already this is where my mind's been in the past week but like when we think about our future i don't want to i don't either you think i do um does this not leave us a bit vulnerable for several things to happen to us negatively if our if our entire kind of like network and livelihood is is in a and is in the size of a hose well at least there's 570 plus there's also 570 plus like people that i could think of maybe if we sat here for long enough i can think that and i'm like everyone gets a hose i also don't think it's like easy to access you know i don't think just anyone could act like access the ocean floor no but they could access the beach i don't know about the landing station the landing station seems a bit vulnerable we just we just googled it via via the cable we don't we just like we don't know enough about the cables to know if like does does just anyone know where they are that's a good question too i like this is something that i don't but the thing is with enough charisma i feel like we could find out i feel like if we if we if we kind of like wind and dine someone that knew where the landing station was like they would let us know where the cable is but like i don't think that they would let us like there's no way that you could get all 570 people have collected 570 of many things across the world anyway Tim Dillon would have a heyday with this conversation well hopefully Tim tap in no all good on that hey oh wait I have a I have here I have a bone to pick with the landing station and fiber optic cables I got cut off by a waymo on the way here really and I feel like this is something that like we would share frustration is in from my experience they're like really non-aggressive it I think it got to a point where it also needed to exit at the specific exit that we were at and it cut me right off but um I'm in a Nissan Sentra this this week so I'm I'm blasting my music I'm having a great time um I'm listening to the new Ella Langley song and I'm listening to the new Ella Langley song and I'm listening to the new Ella Langley song she's in Texas no oh my god there's a new one and let me calm down it's very good is it she's in Texas no it's like it's back to life it's back to life again book it is she's gorgeous it is she's about she's about six or seven years younger than both of us don't tell me that I wish she was in her 40s so many people are younger than us but she's just simply not um it is such a fabulous song I'm such a huge Ella Langley fan like she's like she's like really pure she's like if country music was like a oh my god let me find my words before I start doing that like warm glass of milk if I was into that yeah I'm not but like a warm drink country yeah she's cozy country I really love I want to listen to this in the bonus because I really love she's in Texas which is the one song I know you are gonna listen to this in the bonus because I really love you're gonna cream your jorts it is such a good song oh I bet um so I'm I'm pretty real I'm in a good mood coming here I'm about to exit and then the Waymo cuts me off I'm like not necessarily road ragey but the fact that I didn't have the option to provide feedback yeah to someone even just thumbs down yeah it made me more mad so like when we talk about AI and things like taking your jobs let let it know that it's also taking very base level human experiences away from you too and express expressions of emotions I had to just bottle that so later on when I get really mad at a gate agent at the airport like I blame it on Waymo well it's really not my fault taking away some of that human experience yeah you've had some really powerful statements about AI that have like kind of influenced me genuinely I'm like very very scared and upset by AI I'm like I'm like I'm like very scared and upset by AI recently yeah I got that yeah and I feel like there's a lot of other things happening that have now like shifted my focus I do want to say just suggestion from Waymo like if you can provide a how am I doing number on the back so that I can cuss at one of your customer service employees like on behalf of the car driving not their fault at all obviously but I need an outlet yeah would be nice or maybe you guys love technology put a hologram up there I'll flick off the hologram I hate to say it but like this is where journaling comes in handy I can't journal period like on the move oh you're saying you were going to call customer service like in that moment hey Siri call customer call 818 okay 747-3363 hi what the fuck was that all about you can text a voice journal in your notes app yeah that might be a good move anyways yeah so the AI thing has been scaring me you know what they had at the airport what a build a bear vending machine and the bears just come out through that hole and there's no building involved no AI is not only taking your jobs and taking your human experience they're taking away I don't think that's AI that's just a machine I have trouble with distinguishing me too because sometimes I'll like share something and someone's like you're a horrible person this is AI and it's like I truly didn't know you there it is that disturbed me to my actual physical core that looks like um that's like if I looked in the zoo and there was a sea otter vaping yeah that's just building the bear that's just a bear that's just a bear yeah that's just a bear oh my god I wish I had saved my build a bears we should go to build a bear I would build a bear like nothing would make me happier and I wish I guess like I there should be more places where you can make your own stuff like the Luby's Carmen journal yeah making like just like I want to be making my own stuff even if it's like clothes like I want to go to a place where like sure maybe there's just like a blank t-shirt but let me decide what I want to put on it Brooke yearns for the sweatshop no it's not it's not quite that I'm yearning for the sweatshop it's that I'm yearning to have more creative outlets while spending money which I something I also like to do also third spaces that gives you a third space like you don't necessarily want to order the DIY kit and sit at home and do it you want to go to a physical brick and mortar place have someone instruct you how to do it have the community of people around you build a bear keep peace about that show me what to do I told you when I went to build my own journal yeah the other day and it was scan the QR code to watch a video on how to build it I can't fault that's not the type of instruction that my brain can process I need hand over hand hands on I want an expert in the field physically there do not give me a YouTube video that's something I can do at home I want your words in my ears and your hands on my hands take the ropes and show mama don't give mama the fish teach her how to fish yeah give her the pole yeah give mama the pole and the pole to mama now mama's turn with the pole so anyway completely aligned with you I'm glad we're I'm feeling aligned with you today oh awesome yeah I love when that happens um no it's it's it's awesome oh it's awesome um and we have been spending time together we went to the Miley we went to the hand Montana 20th anniversary we did much to unpack I I mean I just have to say two things on back oh yeah I was thinking I don't have too many but what are the two you have I have a carry-on here um one watch this film it is so like I was taken aback only because I'm watching this and Miley Cyrus is sitting we go to the premiere Miley Cyrus is sitting there with us and it's loud because of how funny she was she would it could have been it could have been a comedy special riot they should have called it the hand Montana 20th anniversary special it was so funny she is so funny she's amazing she is so real so that was great I think the opening I do want to touch on just like her coming out and she talks she's like I have nothing planned the end of her intro to the thing was so like abrupt for for where we were and I don't think it was intentional and I know like a lot of like press outlets are like Miley Cyrus shades Alex Cooper in the it basically like she came out and she's saying like I don't know I don't Alex was a bigger fan there's no one I trusted more with hosting this this this show and I was so excited to give it to you guys and then she's like um and Alex got a little bit of money and she moved right next to me and I knew she knew where I lived because she interviewed me five years before at my house so that's pretty creepy and I think it was just like if you know Miley Cyrus at all she's just straightforward and that is her love language there's no is it picking on people lovingly yeah I don't think it landed with the audience of people trying to clock it but no people are like twisting her intentions yeah like that's I just like because I know her so well me too exactly I feel like everything yeah that is how she she likes like poking fun at people and then it landed with us we were laughing yeah it when you were in the room like the two of us were and you're that close with Miley yeah you know what she's saying yeah and these media outlets they weren't there you know and they don't get her like we do and yeah it's all fun and games and you know but you know who's not fun and games genuinely who you know what I'm gonna say chop yeah that's what that was my next that was my next piece uh chapel in the special bad timing of course just absolutely abhorrent timing um it's just like the intro to like all these people because like she brings out Selena Gomez and it's uh that's like okay this makes sense and then it's like and now this this next person just unbelievable that they're here and I'm like Michelle Obama I'm not like who could it be Chapel Roan comes out complete crickets in the crowd like not even a cricket made a noise everyone went oh and it was just quiet like everyone else got a clap because everyone was in the room all I think I think if Dave Chappelle was announced as the next person on the special like people would have clapped nothing nothing for Chapel Roan she's not going through uh she she's not going through a good time right now no and it more is coming out on that too which we can but basically Chapel's thing when she came in was like I just want to thank you I grew up watching you all these things Miley's obviously just like oh I'm so thankful that you're here so sweet and Chapel's like you walked so I could run you worked so hard to make sure that women in the space wouldn't be attacked on red carpets and now i don't have to i don't have to go through that and everyone was someone goes in the room and then everyone starts laughing and i was just like i'm sinking in my sea i'm looking at you you're like doing the same thing but it was just like oh what what you know what got me more about that than her saying like now i don't have to worry if someone told me that i walked so they could run i want to quickly touch on that too miley i would say wait wait wait wait oh wait oh wait yeah wait yeah i was sprinting i wouldn't say i walked no like that to me i would have taken that as an insult i would say miley cyrus ran so chapel could kind of just like walk around kind of and enjoy i would have told miley you sprinted so i could crawl for 20 years so obviously like it's a common expression chapel like i don't mean to be hard on her she didn't she meant to it as a compliment of course truly it should be ran so so i could walk but i made it easier for me yeah i would have been like ah miley's not like that no miley's no not my not miley but it's just it's an interesting expression less about chapel and more about the expression itself like i don't i don't think it lands i used it yesterday in the exact same way and i said walk so i could ran so i could walk and i was like oh that's not right i think it's inherently putting down the person you're saying walk yeah wow because you're like you walked because it implies that person who ran is like a bigger you know i think it implies that like you walked so i could run like you like planted the seed so that i could really take off it's like do we have an opposite because now it like doesn't make any sense that anyone would ever say that no that's what i'm saying like i i think it doesn't make sense like i think it should be some i think it should be something else unless you mean it like that like sometimes it makes sense like it'll be like you did these little things so i could do these massive things usually when i when i say you walked that when i say this person walked so this person could run run and i wish i had a good example the person that walked just didn't really take off enough but the person who ran did you know yeah yeah because it implies like this person walked is like inherently like lesser than run i'm having a hard time with my tenses i know i know what you do you know what i'm saying i mean it's difficult but i hope you all can understand what i'm saying it's just i just think we need a new expression yeah can you give me a second to think of an example yeah maybe like neopets walked so that webkins could run like we started getting interested with neopets but then things really blew up with webkins yeah you know it implies that the second thing the latter is the one that really took off aligned again who gives a fuck who cares though um okay that's it and then i watched the hannah montana movie last night because i was in the mood why are you laughing i'm saying my favorite part you'll you'll watch the show you'll get it if you watch the show skip skip 30 seconds if you care to not hear it favorite part in the whole film taylor swift the hannah montana movie when she says we were looking for someone who and i'm just going to be frank here would perform in a barn i was like oh shit that makes so much more sense i thought she said bar barn that makes so much more sense i mean it was the funniest i don't and then it was taylor swift she was like quite frankly at the time that was taylor swift it was just so funny just she's so funny she's so funny she she was talking as a just like frankly like as a like a 12 year old just being like i dated dylan sprouse and i was like bring cole i love the way she was talking about having a crush on everyone because like that is what it has she was 12 she was like 11 like that is what that's all you're thinking about i'm not gonna go through all the things she said that were so funny but she was non-stop about her crushes which i loved that like love triangle she had as hannah montana and it was that jake and i don't know the other one jesse jesse and jake was there jake ryan jake ryan was there jake ryan was there he stepped right in front of us in line at the i kept pointing i was like and he's he's like tiny and burnett so kind of like unblockable but he had a body guard no he didn't yes no he was wandering around alone all night no his bodyguard was nearby oh i didn't see the bodyguard i'm glad you didn't that means he was on his duty um but that's fun that was so fun i'm so glad we did that me too i freaking love hannah my shirt so i wore a shirt there i loved your shirt my shirt was great but it photographed as if i was pregnant and it was the structural integrity of the shirt itself because it was cropped and it had a very stiff stiff life about it and did you see i loved i loved everything about your shirt did you see it was cropped yeah anyways it looked made me look i mean you can kind of zoom there if you want to i did look super super second try oh my god i was sobbing about my hair can you are you able to zoom no it looks great no i look like oh i see i'm housing like and like i'm about to to pop but in my upper abdomen i look really good there yeah anyways it was the shirt but that was really fun i haven't gone to something like that in a long time it was really fun and i loved the people watching oh my god like i had one of those moments that i was just like if little brooke yeah if i could tell her because someone worked from across the room was like brooke brooke i mean that's that's like my close personal friend david archuleta yeah i saw you get stopped by him so i'm just like that's my like my brother and if i could tell little brooke that like your brother's reaching out to you at the hannah montana premiere like come on man like that's like it's those things to me that are just like come on man come on man what like what are you talking about anyway it made me happy to to look back wait it seems like nothing changed day to day it seems like nothing changes but look back nothing's the same no even like a it could feel like nothing changes in a year but like if i tell my year ago self like everything that's happened it's sold a good amount sure that's why it's important to journal yes i'm about to fill up my first are you close to the mic and i'm so sorry like i'm just double checking no thanks for checking i wasn't even remotely close to it no worries um i don't care at all i'm going through something like really really shitty what watch it's gonna feel like my sour cream didn't come when like no so much worse so much oh my god tell me i have a new celebrity crush can i let me think no i don't want you to here's the bad part you know no it's not a new celebrity crush it's always been like someone i've been interested in but it's flared recently and i can't talk about it because it is someone that we're like we have probably been in a room with will be in a room with way too close to us and it just always feels like when this happens because it's happened before it feels like i have to throw up and i can't get it out when i can't talk about my celebrity crush that's not like you're telling me i can't post about this person oh i see 15 times a day i feel like i'm gonna throw up and i it's not coming it's like in my throat can you give me a hand i mean i'll tell you later but it's just like i'm it sucks because i'm consuming so much content of this person and i'm like i'm not gonna oh i know who it is no you don't it's just so so hard for me but hey man that's what journals are for am i right brother but just know it's like this has happened before and it'll happen again and i hate it i hate it it feels it feels inauthentic and it makes me feel nauseous just know i'm like exploding sorry it's all right all right i wish i had something happening in my personal life at all but it's just not nothing's happening at all all my stuff is like related to the headlines like i'm just being affected by the news yeah i've been kind of depressed i don't know why just like my house is really dirty and it's like it overwhelms me to even like think about picking something up totally i get that i my landlord i don't know if i told this last week but like i'm i'm obviously gonna move like love my apartment but i just just like it's not right for me and my landlord goes hey what have you said did i tell you this yeah i said i'm not gonna stay like you're raising the rent she goes what if we don't raise the rent i say i'm like it's just wrong for me and she goes okay then we'll be over we'll be over to do a walkthrough on sunday and i was like i'm out of town till wednesday and my place has been i came into unpacked packed came there's suitcase and she goes we're doing it sunday i go enjoy the space yeah not your fault she goes in she doesn't walk through i get a text from her long i'm assuming it's gonna be like how are you living like this she's asking me what can we do to make the unit better so that you stay what's going on i don't know something like i'm getting love bombed by my landlord yeah i don't know and i haven't also your apartment is incredible it's not like someone else is not gonna want that pretty immediately yeah well i think that i i think that i got sucker punched to be honest like when i signed the lease like she because i was i was desperado what do you mean like it's too expensive yeah probably like you're paying yeah so i i'm gonna be like you could you could lower the rent i don't know what else they could do you can't make it if she lowered it by like a lot would you say yeah tell her give her a number and then she won't meet it and that's that end of conversation it's crazy that almost everything in the world is negotiable i wouldn't say that what is not like you can't just go to like urban outfitters and be like i will do 10 i'll give you 10 i promise you there's no you can't do that at like you think you think you think this 16 year old cashiers at urban outfitters wouldn't take a little bribe for you to shoplift they're shoplifting i believe that they are really strict there like that's the type of place where like those people are like taking their job very seriously yes no they're not i disagree no i really think that you can get it you can get i got i'm trying to think of something else i negotiated i just love saying i'll walk i'll walk i love when like i would love to watch you do that i'll walk and then i'm sure the person's just like okay bye i just i i think in some sense of the word everything is negotiable okay i disagree give me another example your bill the hospital i'll walk okay and it's like okay we'll send you the bill that's a perfect example health care is negotiable there's so many bills i haven't paid from the doctor that's not negotiable that's just you committing negligence no it's not because they keep giving me 28 discounts month over month please pay this and i'm like no i'll walk listen like i guess the only example of i'll walk that wouldn't work is if you're in the hospital because you broke your legs i am like in alignment with you that like i'm also not paying those but it's not it doesn't feel like a negotiation well someone the price is getting changed the rent is too damn high i don't know man the buses are nasty you thought we wasn't gonna steal a bus wow i just did three of those in a row that was pretty good i didn't recognize any of them i know i've been online recently i am so proud of myself yeah and this is so sad to even say but i'm so proud of the amount of tv i've been able to watch recently really great just because it means my attention span is coming back a little bit because you know i couldn't do something anything longer you know it's negotiable your attention span okay sure i watched rooster yeah what'd you think i i mean i just love steve more than life itself he's looking good he listen looks are the least important my mic is limp it's slipping away from me his looks are the least important thing about him yeah looks freaking do you agree do you agree what i said about it being like kind of a hybrid character about like him being a little serious but a little bit kind of michael scott yes because there's a like a sadness there that i didn't that michael didn't have michael was more delusional and this character is more like oh he's a little bit like broken i i would say that looking deeper michael scott did make me more upset on a deep deep i'm depressed level just because of the delusion but like you could tell it was like oh my gosh 40 year old virgin irl type type beat no michael i think michael was not a four-year-old virgin well when you like i don't know that something made me very very deeply upset about michael scott yeah of course but like it's a different upset it's like it's hard to explain almost isn't it it was like it was like i i want you to continue living in this delusion but the world doesn't say for you michael scott yeah yeah yeah like i wouldn't want someone normal to go over to oh my god he's been in every movie that is a perfect example like a dinner for schmucks i wouldn't want michael scott to go to dinner for schmucks yes no michael scott is like a little bit like clueless whereas this guy is like more like intentionally sad i wonder if steve carell could ever get into this studio he's that's someone that he's promoting this the show we've been promoting it for free connor i love you and i love this podcast we can't get steve carell i'm gonna put i'm gonna put it out there steve carell is coming on the podcast just go on podcast he went on amy poehler's podcast because that's amy poehler we are almost there no baby you're like doing michael scott delusion we're almost there come on out but i mean i i i just i would watch anything steve is in i'm not a thousand percent convinced with this show yet but steve's just incredible and i would watch anything courtney's in it our friend i just saw that i know that's insane i actually didn't know that but it was still when i saw her i was like whoa when i promoted the show i didn't know that i was really like whoa i know she's that's a big show good she looks so good um Huh other tv do you realize euphoria comes out april 12th and no one cares why well they released the poster and it fully looks like one battle after another i was like oh this is like a joke and it was pop bass i didn't even see that it's really funny it's like desert themed and it's like zendaya at the top and then like jacob already on the side like yeah like look at this it doesn't that's not euphoria that's not euphoria it's too light oh my god cassie i can't not why is that right you know what it feels like none of these people filmed at the same time type vibe yeah they know they're all yeah totally agreed they're all photoshopped in there from a different timeline right um and i i like i you know what i want to do what i want to start season one again this is what i did when season two came out i want to watch season one may god have mercy at the top this is not a movie it's not no look jesus saves there's going to be something really really cool i'm going to watch season one i'm going to watch season one i'm going to watch season about it because also you got to have faith is the caption so i'm sensing did they graduate high school i'm really not following yeah this is a there's a big time jump there's a time jump okay i think what i liked about it was that they're all in this like little town i'm sure they're all still there they're in the desert and where the hell did they live it's impossible to say i would say like small town usa okay but it didn't seem desert vibe so i don't know how they all ended up in like arizona this is the last season confirmed right 100 there's no way they could keep going east highland california oh and it definitely was giving california okay okay okay can i tell you what else i've watched yeah jury duty season two i didn't know it was out jury duty season two that's a really good question what it's a good question it's not you don't know if it's out and you watch it no you said is it good i said is it out no wait no it is a good i don't is it cake i don't know and here's what i'll say about it first of all it is insane that they managed to find somebody else who is the same exact level of like good as ronald is it a girl or a boy boy his name anthony is okay i don't know how they found someone else that is just like so pure of heart but whoever is casting the heroes hats off to the chef we've got another ronald on our hands one of the greatest guys you'll ever meet this season is it takes place at a company retreat so he's hired as a temp as someone's assistant and then he comes on the company retreat and then the guy whose assistant he is has to leave pretty immediately so he's pretty much in charge of this company retreat at a company that he started out like one day ago that's so brilliant but it is so much more one was jury duty season one was very much like slice of life at the beginning and it didn't start to get ridiculous until like episode four when they were like james marston's taking this massive shit um and the noah and genie are soaking and like all this crazy stuff started happening like episode four they are throwing him into the deep end right off the bat episode one and they're having like multiple insane things happen each episode and it's it's almost like too much it's like so unrealistic like i would be like i'm on a tv show within five seconds really and they're also just like they're just trying to create the office it is very much like the office they're doing like so many scenes that like michael scott himself like was actually in um like verbatim pretty much so am i laughing a lot yes but it's like too ridiculous yeah like jury duty season one was like believable and then but this one it's like uh-uh i would clock being on a show pretty immediately it's but it's i'm still obviously entertained um but i've re-watched season one i'm really drawn to the guy in the hat here on the left so he is the boss who had to leave immediately oh that sucks after doing something that michael scott did and that's what i'll say about that okay um he was kicked out or he no he he left he vacated on his own free will due to public embarrassment that he inflicted upon himself but moral of the stories that i went back and watched season one that's the best thing i've ever seen in my life it's a really brilliant concept i would recommend going back and watching that it was even better the second time does this feel like nathan for you because it's so no because nathan for you wasn't wasn't scripted any part of it really oh that's true this feels really like they scripted a million insane things and they're doing them all i see but i would go back and watch season one if anyone's listening because it's the it's so brilliant james marston he's so good i that man needs to do more comedy his character in jury duty is one of the greatest characters of all time he's so good he's so good remember him rehearsing for lone pine the entire time yeah incredible he's so good he's so good i have nothing else to say besides he's so good he's me neither really what else is there to say about james besides he's a freaking cast cast james i walked by him in the at the grove last month very early we were the only really the only two people in the world in that moment and it was awesome like the grove would be a great place to like be whenever everyone else dies it was literally like before people are awake yeah it was me and james against the world he was like looking at like anywhere but at me i was eyes like laser beamed he was looking at the sky to his right appreciate it man totally i would do the same thing if i was james i'm not doing eye contact right now i started well i i started watching tv on the treadmill when i have run on treadmill it's so awesome to do which like made me feel kind of sad because it was like really i used to listen to music but now like the easiest way to pass the time is like just more screen time but it's like it's like it's like it's like it's used to be like no screen time vibes but it's so easy to run when you're watching tv i started watching dtf st louis with um jason bateman and who's the who's who's velma og velma from scooby-doo lindsey something linda linda cardellini linda cardellini and david harbour he's so canceled and i didn't know pedro pascal i have not i have not been introduced yet richard jenkins i have joy i have it seems really good it's good like mystery vibes if anyone likes mystery murder vibes but also like with like a like there's a comedy and sex oh that sounds really good it's down to having sex i'll just give you a premise vibe yeah so jason and david are like in kind of sexually frustrated later in life married kind of dead end outside of st louis like suburbs and they're married to each other no no no um david is married to linda and jason jason i don't know but there's an app called down to dtf is jason married i can't remember i was i can't remember okay i think so i think they're both in marriages yeah look that woman plays something with the same last name as him the blonde oh i guess he is you haven't you don't see much of her but um they he basically jason he's married to linda and jason and david are married to linda and jason are married to he's like slimy in this show it's very unsettling and david's kind of like a big doofus big horny doofus and oh he's the bhd yeah that would be a good book write it the big horny doofus yeah brooke is like an extremely like accoladed novelist and i'm writing the big horny doofus hey guys my new book came out the big horny doofus it's about david harbour horny doofus available for 25 off at barnes and noble for a limited time it's actually completely free i'll pay you to take it um so they basically both download this app that's right i'm i think i'm on episode two but they both downloaded this app and they're gonna get murdered i don't know yes but i don't know but it's good it's like very dark that sounds funny like i i i'm i'm very new to it so as soon as like people watch it and it's like this sucks i'm like keep in mind i'm like 42 minutes in that reminds me of the other that dark comedy about the podcast that i loved with chris messina haven't seen i talked about that for so much the name is escaping me but and uh the woman from big bang theory big bane bang bang bang based on a true story yes yes yes yes reminds me of that reminds me of that this seems like that it's a little less it's like less kitschy it's like actually genuinely dark because this was murder this this one's filmed in like a very blue lens like it's always dusk and raining okay like twilight yeah whoa yeah that's that voice you i don't like that voice at all should we shift gears yeah um they just raised the we're done talking about the war after this i'm done maybe they on on the 20th of march they raised the enlistment age to 42 no the day after i was like i want to be enlisted they they raised it 42 yeah and they eased up on the marijuana usage rules which means to me they don't have enough people and they eased up on the mental health questionnaire wow so that's okay not like ideal but i am done talking about the w big w the big w theory um yeah so the previous ceiling was 35 years old i thought oh i thought it was 20 25 maybe i misread no i don't know maybe i'm maybe i'm dyslexic and maybe that's why i can't be put to use anyways um i am flying out today yeah where are you going i'm going back to new york no there's no way oh god yes why you're coming back here next week i'm booked wow i can't i can't do what you do i'm bead um and it's been amazing it's an amazing time to fly it's fabulous are obviously i've seen tiktoks of the airports being like overflowing out into the parking garage everyone walk don't run to the airport is it fake it is absolutely amazing no i mean it is fake in this sense like the airports that we're seeing that are just like oh this is so bad this is so bad like there's line there's lines like look now like ice has to work at the airport and that's on purpose because they're trying to privatize these airports so that they're showing you the airports that are out of control so that they can privatize tsa and they can break it's like an anti-union farce where did you get that information it's true like the san francisco airport i believe is like a private no it sounds good and smart i'm just like no where did you get that information it's like public it's just public it's just public because they've been actively trying to and that's why people are quitting tsa because they're like you won't pay us during the government shutdown and now they're like well then we'll shut down an air we'll shut down the airports damn they're like forcing people into a corner sounds like all good things yes i can't wait to go to the airport later four hours early i don't mind being at the airport no i know you i don't like waiting in lines is my issue yeah a guy like you no my issue is like tsa objectively pretty important job you don't pay the people enough i don't get it i also don't understand why anyone would still work without getting paid beats me i think it's like i'd be out of there unless i'm getting paid my wages that i earned later or in advance i'm like i'm confused i'm confused too let's um incentivize the people that are ensuring nothing goes wrong on your flight with a little cash yeah no no yeah like some sort of benefit i know i really am confused but in fact let's put people that were not trained to work this job yeah i'm not i'm not super excited to fly it's super it's very much like being like let's get the urban outfitters employees to work tsa they like they they're really hard like they're well you know as i've a bad example i'm sure if you work in urban outfitters there's not like a dig at you although like it does read directly and it is word for word a dig at you but it's not it's like a made-up character in my mind understood you're great at your job i'm sure i've never met you but i i know your heart but good news this came out this morning i'm really excited about this united is offering entire rows now i saw that as lay flat rows in the back which i promise you i promise you is better than first class anytime i've gotten a full row and you're able to lift the arms and you can lay that way you're actually flat not like a lay flat seat in like a first class look at this and you can extend the footrest up how much does that run you it doesn't they haven't released details knowing united it should be about twelve thousand dollars fab yes but they had to do this because because if you have a 4 p.m flight your flight's probably going to be delayed to about 11 30 12 a.m so that you will be sleeping overnight on your flight from Los Angeles to about San Francisco understood and it does look nice cuddling with your loved one I don't get the details like could someone rent like one of the seats and then your lay flat is like you have to be curled up into a cannonball I will say you know I'm a big fan of JetBlue Mint yeah if I could turn my bedroom at home into the JetBlue Mint pod I would really yes you sleep good in pod I sleep so good in pod like I want to curl up into the smallest ball that I possibly can and be contained when I sleep I think I'm gonna get a net like a canopy bed is what I meant that I can draw I've never done that I've never done JetBlue Mint oh my god you should one day and they give you these chapsticks which is awesome like a little goodie bag you know and it is a Dr. Dennis Gross chapstick and I love that shit who's Dennis Gross Dr. Dennis Gross one of those like skin care lines I'm sure he's a doctor too or she good catch yeah thank you women can be doctors so can Dr. Pepper the doctor was his mom the pilot was his mom and JetBlue Mint the pilot could be a woman yeah yep yep yep yep anyone can be a woman a woman just don't tell me so I feel safe on a flight oh my god I'm joking stop that was a good one okay like stop I'm sweating you guys stop Izzy's packing up in the back just like don't throw me under the bus she's pissing her pants back there like okay I'm gonna change the subject did you see there was a young man who kept thinking that he saw his dog in commercials and he's like that looks just like my dog right I haven't seen this okay so he's like watching these commercials he's telling his friends like that I swear to god like my dog I want to do like this DNA test I want to figure out what's going on because I promise you that's like looks exactly like my dog like has to be a sibling he finds out his dog walker has been taking the dog to auditions and getting paid because the dog's been on commercial sets wow yes wow is that not Kramer is that Kramer like taking dogs like I started a dog working or like like Nathan for you yeah that's crazy well I almost passed out I have something stuck in my throat again come on come on I can't it would be really bad okay well that was just that's why that was one example of something crazy that I have the second thing is my Nissan Sentra does not have Bluetooth so I have been listening to almost exclusively radio and I'm loving the radio I'm outspoken radio fan of radio now the talk shows is what I'm missing the original podcast is the radio talk shows yeah and it's like Molly and Mike in the morning right and they do like calls in and this guy calls in and he says can you help me out here I have had a crush on this girl from my work we've known each other for a while I took her on a date and it just so happened to be my birthday that I took her out and then she ghosted him after and like she's being cold at work and the guy on the radio Mike on the radio an example I don't know if this is actually Mike is like that's so rude and the girls are like I would be so freaked out if you know what I mean that's an interesting one would you go out with someone like first date with someone on their birthday I , was he making it a big deal that it was his birthday I'm sure he was like not knowing the guy at all and I didn't get I was getting out of my car right when they called the young woman so I didn't hear her side oh shit I would have loved to hear that I mean I think it's totally dependent on the guy's behavior if he mentioned his birthday how many times he mentioned his birthday I think I'd be weirded out if I found out halfway through that it was someone's birthday like and we're just like sitting there and it's like why didn't you say that but I'd also be weirded out if it was like yeah this is my birthday party this is my birthday dinner that's weirder I think the ideal is like he would like it would come up in conversation naturally and then I'm like wait what and he's like I just like really don't care about my birth like I don't really like to celebrate so I just like to like it's just like a normal day yeah that's fine like a guy that like doesn't care about his birthday is good you know you don't want a guy that's like it's my birthday party you know you don't want a guy that's like it's my birthday party I'm turning 35 like that's the last thing you would want you know so it could actually even be great that you have a guy that doesn't care about his birthday and it just happens to come up naturally in conversation I have a feeling that's fine I have a feeling the way that this was delivered is that the guy was like there's no one I'd want to spend my birthday with more and I have a feeling he was like making his birthday a big deal which is an active turn off when I like a grown man is like it's my birthday my ideal situation would be like a dinner for my birthday and no one talks about it completely I am coincidentally reading a book right now a romance about a radio station a love a love station this guy hosts like a love Colin type of show and this basically this little young girl calls in and it's like I need help with my mom and then basically this whole like that moment becomes viral and then the mom ends up becoming like part of the show and she's like 29 she's like a teen mom and they're about to fall in love the radio host and the teen mom that went had a viral moment on the radio show but I'm reading a radio show romance right now that is crazy because you saying that just now like I made me remember that the radio people are people like I for some reason was thinking they're just like a voice they're people that worked at the radio they're completely people and they're about to fall in love which I'm really looking forward to wonder if anyone that thinks that we're just a voice like an AI bot because we live here in the studio it's like when you think you're when you see your teacher outside of school and it's like what are you doing yeah you're supposed to be sleeping you sleep in school you sleep at the school you sleep at the school when I would see my kids out of the classroom they would be like not themselves they were so taken aback and what is that disturbed what is that phenomenon it's like what are you doing you don't exist I think kids compartmentalize their lives so much that like seeing one part of their life in another makes no sense like I don't exist to them outside of the classroom you know yeah so I do know that's what I'm talking about Willis hi Willis okay okay I oh I don't really have it much else do you I've actively nothing we went through my whole list me too well besides this one tweet that I thought was really funny this week how about you share the tweet with us okay parting words of wisdom this this this woman tweeted that her daughter her daughter's teacher called her and said that your daughter talks so much we moved her next to the nonverbal student and the nonverbal student speaks now that's really good that is like probably the most amazing thing I have ever heard it reminds me of my parents would be like you'll never get kidnapped because the kidnapper would return you yeah yeah that's really I would be like too damn much like if my kids teacher called to complain and that way I'd be like that's my girl yeah of course that's my future podcaster that's like have you ever heard what Tristan's teacher said about him I remember there was something that was said I don't remember what was it do you remember no I think it might be his Instagram bio I check out my new purse oh you like that hi cherry season hi cherry baguette let me see and if I can't find it I can't find it is he you've got it whiny disruptive intolerable dramatic that's perfect yeah that is that's him yeah and he's so cute which reminds me about this young man is that we are going on tour we have some live shows coming up so if you want to come to our live shows I'm just gonna read off where we're going really quick or wait can we still have stage fright or not we will be in San Diego on the 3rd of April next week we'll be in Irvine California on the 8th of April and we'll be in Sacramento California on April 11th and the pre-sale code for Sacramento is Chumai C-H-U-M-A-I the pre-sale code for San Diego is BNC what is Chumai they've been you today oh cool and that's on our link tree the link is in bio and Tristan and Channing will be there with us and which is a good reminder to make I have to go pee so bad so make haste love to all see you in the bonus make haste and make love goodbye

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The speaker is deeply unsettled by recurring dreams involving their mother attempting to possess or manipulate their family, which raises concerns about reality, trust, and subconscious influence.
  2. They reflect on the importance of dream journaling as a tool to process disturbing or meaningful dreams, especially when they challenge personal beliefs or relationships.
  3. There’s a growing awareness of how technology, like fiber optic cables beneath the ocean floor, underpins global connectivity—raising questions about vulnerability and digital dependency.
  4. The conversation touches on AI’s creeping influence, from automated customer service experiences to deepened fears of emotional displacement and loss of human connection.
  5. The speaker expresses a yearning for tangible, hands-on creative experiences—like building a bear or making clothing—over passive digital consumption.
  6. Personal emotional triggers, such as anxiety about a celebrity crush or a strong reaction to a dream, are linked to feelings of inauthenticity and physical distress.
  7. A dream about a dog appearing in commercials leads to a shocking realization that the dog was actually used in ads, revealing how real-world events can emerge from seemingly random observations.
  8. The dialogue concludes with a mix of humor, emotional vulnerability, and a sense of connection—highlighting how shared experiences, like watching a TV show or talking about dreams, strengthen personal bonds.

Summary:

The speaker shares a deeply personal and emotionally charged reflection on dreams, technology, and human connection. After having a disturbing dream in which their mother is possessed and attempting to manipulate their family, they feel a growing unease about reality, trust, and the reliability of their own perceptions. This prompts them to start a dream journal as a protective tool to track and understand these intense experiences.

The conversation expands to broader themes of technology, including the hidden infrastructure of the internet through ocean-floor fiber optic cables, which raises concerns about global vulnerability and digital dependency. The speaker expresses fear about AI not just replacing jobs, but eroding human emotions and authentic experiences—such as personal interactions or creative expression. They long for physical, hands-on creative activities, like building a bear or customizing clothing, as a counter to passive digital consumption.

Emotional moments—like a distressing crush or a dream about a dog in commercials—are tied to feelings of inauthenticity and panic, emphasizing the psychological weight of personal experiences. The narrative concludes with a blend of humor and vulnerability, highlighting how shared stories—like dreams, TV shows, or real-life events—create meaningful connection and reflect the complexity of modern life. Ultimately, the discussion reveals a deep awareness of how subconscious fears, technological realities, and emotional needs intersect, shaping a sense of unease and longing for authenticity in a digital age.

FAQs

Dreams about a mother trying to possess or harm family members can be unsettling, but they often symbolize deeper emotional fears or unresolved tensions. They don’t necessarily indicate real danger, but may reflect anxiety about control, trust, or family dynamics.

Such dreams are usually psychological rather than literal. They can reflect subconscious worries, stress, or emotional conflicts. While they may feel real, they are typically symbolic of internal experiences rather than actual supernatural events.

Dreams can trigger emotional reactions, especially when they involve threats or manipulation. This distrust may stem from the dream’s intensity and the fear of betrayal, even if the dream is symbolic of deeper emotional issues.

Yes, keeping a dream journal helps track recurring themes and emotions, providing insight into your subconscious mind. It can reduce anxiety, improve self-awareness, and help identify patterns in stress or emotional triggers.

Fiber optic cables carry internet data across oceans using light signals through thin cables. They form the backbone of global communication, and their presence beneath the sea highlights how critical and vulnerable our digital infrastructure is to physical disruptions.

Yes, such dreams often reflect underlying emotional stress, insecurity, or unprocessed feelings. They can be a sign that the person needs to explore their emotions, relationships, or mental health more deeply.

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