TbP 10: Good Night (f/ Ilya)

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Step into a smoky dive bar w/ Billy Ray Stupendous and me in th days before smoking was banned on Earth, as we are joined by Ilya th disco cosmonaut to talk bout everything related to th night except Batman.  What makes staying out until th sun comes up feel good ?  What's in a cemetery ?  What goes on in Berghain, Berlin's most secretive club ?  Do gays age differently than str8s ?  What's th diff between tolerance and acceptance ?  What's th over-under on th number of years more it'll take to accomplish world peace ?  And who committed a hate crime against th Shoney Bear ?  Mysteries upon mysteries, my friend

Table of contents:

00:00  "Freaks Come Out @ Night" performed by Whodini
04:35  "... Answer every question with a question" | intro Ilya | 7-hour time diff
05:49  What's the weirdest thing you've seen in the middle of the night? | Ilya's story (circa 2007) Pt 1
09:26  Why cemeteries @ night are boring
11:16  Popular themes of th night | Ilya's story Pt 2 | rampant sexism by MZA | vocabulary lesson by Ilya
15:19  Ilya's story Pt 3 | class consciousness after death | Oscar Wilde's grave
19:01  Th storytelling urge | visual gags on podcasts | The Iron Rose (Jean Rollin 1973)
22:13  Slightly late bloomers | th first time Ilya got a hangover
27:21  Shoutout to Natalie's discreet hurling style | rug-peeing asshole
29:00  Billy & th Shoney Bear 
31:44  Chain-restaurant-dining barbarians | shoutout to P.F. Chang's in Ridgeland, MS
36:55  MZA has never seen anything weird @ night | flippy rat mugger
39:19  Th attractiveness of low visibility | porn in HD | th forbidden and eternal | one night in NOLA w/ Ilya & Dimi
47:02  An artificial natural ending | th Wizard of Oz moment | theft of time vs reclamation of time
54:42  Deepest darkest fears | Do you find that you use the Internet differently in the middle of the night?
56:35  Movie soundtracks, imaginary & non-imaginary | Quentin Tarantino and Tumblr are lying, cheating dickheads
1:00:47  Guardians of th Galaxy (James Gunn 2014) & nostalgic sci-fi
1:04:16  Phones for lighters | Berghain's (anti)culture of unphotographed debauchery | We lost Ilya
1:12:33  Bad nights | Ilya's embarrassing night Pt 1 | on th upside of getting beaten up
1:16:27  Exploiting yr shitty nights for stories | Ilya's embarrassing night Pt 2: party @ ex-girlfriend's
1:30:08  Ilya's embarrassing night Pt 3: th angelic Dane
1:37:42  Taming th ego vs clinging to self
1:43:00  Being open or not open to th night's offerings | shortcuts based on experience | aging clubgoers
1:45:49  Experience, perversion, th sex drive, & watching Aladdin (Ron Clements & John Musker 1992)
1:48:21  Aging in th gay community | th gay nuclear family | not settling down
1:51:42  Gay rights, gay marriage, & th play for accessibility | legal strategies | NOLA prostitutes' "unnatural acts" | "taxation without representation"
2:01:27  Th overrepresentation of gays in night culture | alternative strategies for gay rights | How can you criticize somebody else's strategy if you don't have one of yr own ?
2:07:11  Perceiving similarity vs perceiving difference | non-legal strategies
2:09:24  Overhauling th education system | infiltrating kindergartens @ night
2:12:19  Tolerance vs acceptance vs embracing vs penetration | de facto segregation | acknowledging gay people's importance
2:18:42  Not being optimistic bout world peace
2:24:03  Bonus Track: elevator jazz

 

TbP, Ep 06: Sex, Nerds, & Tribalism (f/ Doc Carnage)

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This week on Talking bout Practice : Billy Ray Stupendous and I go head to head to head w/ th troll's troll, th notorious Doc Carnage -- former combat medic in Iraq, Portal of Evil alum, cat owner, and caveman polymath -- to pay tribute to our tribal past, push back against th nerdish present, and speculate on th future of sex.  Who are th nerds of th United States Armed Forces ?  Which is th more powerful psychic force -- th nerdification of sex, or th sexification of nerds ?  Do nerds constitute a tribe ?  What's up w/ Christians ?  We pull th answers to these questions out of ourselves, one by one, as one might beads on a string. 


Table of contents:

00:00  "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex than Me" performed by TISM
02:51  Possibly th most hated man on Facebook 
03:51  How much sex have you had?
06:33  Nerd-inspired anger
08:12  So are you an actual doctor? / Doc's background / K. Thor Jensen's Portal of Evil
12:21  Th troll's definition of trolling
14:24  "Where does the trolling end and the reality begin ...?"
16:23  Did you ever troll th fuckyoucrew ?
17:22  Why we lost th war 
19:02  Yr most awkward sexual experience
22:42  Nerds as a tribe / Christians as a non-tribe
26:08  Soldiers as a tribe / sub-tribes of soldiers
29:18  On not talking about combat / th North Pond Hermit / nerdy war stories
34:06  Th nerdification of beer/everything
36:57  New Orleans has got liquor in th grocery stores / Alabama's dry Oktoberfest
39:49  Th nerdification of sex / Mary, Queen of Farts / zero sex future
45:00 Sex barter system / sexbots / "I'd like to order one Realdoll in the likeness of my mother"
49:02  Lizard brain vs prefrontal cortex / Joel Rifkin / "the serial killer whisperer"
52:21  Organizing principles of autistic people / arbitrariness of DSM-5 / antisocial vs borderline vs troll
58:39  Cognitive misers vs chaotic narratives / doing Th Wave on social media
1:03:46  Audio difficulties / either a classic or a masterpiece
1:04:49  Th sexification of nerds / "You hate the things that you are"
1:08:42  Retirement strategy
1:11:13  Pulling it out of my ass
1:12:33  Bronies on their way to th zero sex singularity / House M.D. / Felicia Day-ness
1:16:44  Poop-throwing @ th Gathering of th Juggalos / Drew Ailes, journalist / th nerdification of gangs
1:21:19  WWJD / "high-tech rednecks"
1:23:21  A plug in th interest of veterans w/ PTSD: https://www.facebook.com/VipRtech or http://www.viprvr.com/ / Cesar Millan (flooding therapy)
1:25:23  Bonus Track: nerdiest song about sex ever written