00:03:20.500my angel so um you're jet lagged yeah so just to quickly report i listen to this1.00
00:03:30.220gravel in my throat i was in london it was wonderful as any any of the poog hags that1.00
00:03:35.940were in london thank you and then i had i'll just say i know everyone's tired of hearing about how1.00
00:03:40.720gruesome it is to travel right now but no i i actually well i don't know google keeps serving
00:03:45.420me the articles and i'm loving everyone i can't stop reading but he throws baggage problems well
00:03:49.700Jacqueline exactly and Jacqueline you coached me through my packing and my bag situation remember
00:03:55.380I was sending you I forgot I want to talk all about that actually anyway so
00:04:00.420the point is I carried on okay and it was great it was great to carry on but here's the thing
00:04:08.260about Heathrow and I'm just going to say this once do not be fooled folks the thing about Heathrow
00:04:13.820that's impossible is that with the with your toiletries you can only carry 100 milliliters
00:04:18.960of liquids and they have to all fit in this total right there's something weird they all have to fit
00:04:26.460in this ziploc bag that they give you that is tiny right right so you cannot carry more than
00:04:30.940so anything that doesn't fit into an eight by inch eight by eight inch bag you have to throw
00:04:35.280into the river and i'll argue it felt like it was seven to me it felt seven it felt seven by five
00:04:40.660so small i i i agree it feels five by four it's so small so i i made the bold decision on the way0.97
00:04:46.580back i was like i'm gonna just check it fuck it because i don't want to throw away you know my0.92
00:04:50.500my makeup you know god imagine going shopping at the garbage bag right before security i know0.99
00:04:56.640oh that's actually an interesting idea if you can get to the security gate make your way up there
00:05:01.460and dig through get imagine the botter oh my god definitely full-size botter in there luminous silk
00:05:07.320by the ton yeah and so i check it all okay i was traveling the hottest day of recorded history in
00:05:15.220london and i love london to death but air conditioning is not a part of their culture
00:05:20.260they haven't needed it until now due to the global collapse and so i was at the airport
00:05:26.380and again i'll just say no one's wearing a mask right at all and i'm double masked in the and
00:05:31.280there are pockets of the airport one of the finest demonstrations of masklessness i've seen
00:05:36.780i know no air conditioning so it's like i'm stagnant air hot people coughing maskless into
00:05:44.200the heat it was just anyway and their bodies are not used to heat no they're sweating they're
00:05:49.460sweating so i found a little area by the vending machine and leaned up against the wall tucked
00:05:53.880away thinking maybe the particles would fly past me ricochet off the corner of the machine
00:06:00.020go on the point is my flight was delayed and delayed and then they go actually you know what
00:06:04.760folks come back tomorrow the flight was delayed for the following day which had never happened to
00:06:10.500me and I actually want to just give myself a second go I'm proud of myself I didn't cry yeah
00:06:15.280I held it together I thought you know what you're gonna be okay because I was looking around watching
00:06:19.580people traveling with like you know it is true in that environment when you see people lugging0.98
00:06:24.040around their kids and elderly people you're like okay I'm fine I'm just gonna get out of here0.99
00:06:27.520and they were like you can wait in this line to get your bag and I thought I'm abandoning it I'm
00:06:31.420not waiting in another line so I fled I left my bag isn't that kind of bold and shocking I was
00:06:36.640like what if i never see it again i was like you know what let it go let it burn and so let it burn
00:06:41.500the moment that i almost lost it though was when i was exiting the airport and then it dawned on me
00:06:46.620i was gonna have to re i was like i thought i was gonna have to go through customs and that was
00:06:50.640again you mean yes because you already had wait so you were at the gate you're saying sorry oh
00:06:56.180honey i was at the gate i was drinking my water oh my god i was at the gate it was delayed delayed
00:07:01.760and then they go it's tomorrow i leave the customs moment is when i almost shattered
00:07:05.940but i got out and it's tomorrow it's tomorrow let me just take a minute with this because
00:07:12.340it's almost like it's an illusion they're selling you on right like this idea that your plane is
00:07:17.280now tomorrow yeah right as though like your plane is like stopping off for the night i don't do
00:07:23.640you know what i mean like what's actually happening i mean i guess it's literally it is that plane
00:07:26.780hasn't come in and so well that's what's strange is they were like it's like it's a new flight
00:07:30.240folks it's a new flight it's a new flight well no they were your same seats and they said they're
00:07:34.960like you can pick up your bag or not i fled and then i'll just say you know had to go back the
00:07:43.480next morning and then there was a moment where we were being bussed from the terminal to the plane
00:07:48.240and i saw a crowd of people outside the plane i go why aren't they getting on that's interesting
00:07:52.140no and this guy next to me goes my wife's over there i say there's another maintenance issue
00:07:55.680they won't let them on the plane no by the way same plane so this is actually more disturbing
00:08:00.660so it is the same plane i mean i guess that right exactly so then i so then i grow worried and i go
00:08:06.180well this plane's gonna go down surely something's wrong with it they couldn't figure it out overnight
00:08:10.000two issues and now we're tempting the gods by trying a third time like like you got two warnings
00:08:15.260kate like i know the rest of those people got two warnings and will you heed courage to say
00:08:20.860got on the plane watched adaptation watched a lot of the crown which i'm now obsessed with
00:08:27.160and i i don't want to just say oh she goes to london and suddenly the crown is on her lips
00:08:32.820i had already watched it you know 4 000 years ago but only a couple episodes completely taken
00:08:37.360with it shocked floored um really oh yeah have you seen it i i i too saw a couple episodes way
00:08:44.980back when for whatever reason john lithgow's churchill will render you oh speechless wait
00:08:50.820yes i'm just recalling i mean for me you know i think of you when i see churchill these churchill
00:08:58.400you know films i go for them okay i i just i yeah there's something about a rendition of
00:09:07.320when there's one that doesn't look like him oh yeah gary god it's shocking you ever see those
00:09:12.860because they're like they're out there boys who did the big prosthetic oh wait for for churchill
00:09:18.960who won all the oscars gary oldman that can't be right yeah yeah it is right right and then
00:09:26.760always as we as we continue to struggle with the the question the fundamental question of
00:09:31.560prosthetics is it cheating and the answer is yes i don't need the the obsession with actors morphing
00:09:37.780fully into the characters they're playing is one of the most embarrassing limits of the imagination
00:09:43.300I've ever seen in contemporary culture. That has occurred thanks to film and television
00:09:48.540exclusively. Have you heard of the stage? Okay. Have you heard of actors? Yeah. Have you heard
00:09:54.320of acting? Well, this is why I'm, as you know, and I'm sure I've said it before, completely against
00:09:58.400children acting. We don't need them. We can play them. This is an adult endeavor. This is an adult
00:10:03.600endeavor to use the imagination and our gifts to create a scene why the hell is there a live child
00:10:09.100on stage i agree it's abusive and it's okay there's no need they're not and i've got an
00:10:14.760ugly one i'm gonna are you ready for this one here we go they're not artists well of course
00:10:19.120not and that's what's that's why it feels like that's why it is abuse they go that kid can really
00:10:23.020act they go because children are closest to the dream state of the womb like the children aren't
00:10:28.600a dream state creativity they they're still knee-deep in subconscious they don't have
00:10:33.660creativity to access they are creativity yeah they are they are that so it's literal and thus
00:10:39.800i'm not impressed well like i'm not impressed that something that just popped out of god's
00:10:45.740you know hand is still connected to higher source like you have to grow into the the hellish
00:10:52.620limitations of consciousness in order to what's that it's my phone oh you have to
00:11:00.980bake and solidify for then it to be meaningful to crack through right yeah like as to be an
00:11:07.900artist in other words like like no i do not celebrate even people in their early 20s it's
00:11:13.900like questionable right there even that old masters all the way okay yeah call me when you've hit 40
00:11:21.260it's a little repulsive technically yeah call me when when i can see that like you've begun to die
00:11:27.440yeah like like i mean like in the sense of dying since the day we're born of course
00:11:32.100but when your own patterns have solidified as you say so intensely that you have something to
00:11:35.800actually break out of and access you have a well of pain and experience to push away and lean into
00:11:41.160yes no but people the fact that people aren't prosecuted for putting children in cinema is
00:11:48.160shocking and then to applaud them the whole thing and then no no no but I want to stay with this
00:11:53.000because I'm not done I like it he really likes it yeah oh yeah I'm sure he does you know what I
00:11:59.020mean it's like a child he doesn't want to be at school yeah I'm sure he does yeah and and he likes
00:12:06.680being applauded and he likes I just Leo started what happened to it what happened to what acting
00:12:11.680is what happened to what acting is yeah no i want to see a movie like well realism in film
00:12:19.520has it gone too far right yeah realism is of no interest like are we trying to pretend it's a
00:12:26.040documentary what's going on well i mean i just i woke up screaming authenticity through artifice
00:12:31.300is the only there is okay i woke up screaming it this morning and immediately thought of you like
00:12:35.320jack i was like authenticity is false yeah well this is my i actually i can't even talk about
00:12:40.320this on Pooh because it's too it's actually too close it would be as if I were showing pictures0.88
00:12:46.680of my full labia on the Instagram it's too intimate minor and major it's pornographically0.92
00:12:52.940personal I can't talk about artifice today and and the and the fact that it is the no no actually
00:12:58.200actually we actually have to leave artifice behind no because it's the only truth no but
00:13:02.400I was gonna say what you just said about I'll just say I believe it was Stella Adler who said
00:13:07.300yeah clearly imagination is more important than experience right this kind of idea that people
00:13:22.380like well i have to tap into my to go there i have to tap into the moment that i realized
00:13:26.500that when i saw mommy sitting kissing right no but like imagine i was imagining that as a real0.94
00:13:33.860memory watching your mom get fucked by santa let's talk about it because it's always been0.81
00:13:40.040i've never made peace with it what is that i saw mommy kissing santa claus right it's like well0.98
00:13:45.380first of all leave her alone to me it's it's like so if you think it's santa yeah i never saw it
00:13:51.240quite a because they say mama's kissing mama i think that the cute idea is that is that the
00:13:57.000the boy child okay yes it's daddy okay i didn't know that until just now well i'm pretty sure i
00:14:04.020mean i i think and so i'm thinking back on it everyone knows the mother is the real santa
00:14:08.540have you ever seen well yeah mommy i mean have you ever seen a mom father wrap a gift yeah have
00:14:15.260you ever seen a father buckle under the weight of ribbon and oh no just groaning mommy does it
00:14:23.220just whipped about in the storm of a ribbon uh can't even peel a sticker off the bottom of a
00:14:29.200pre-made ribbon yeah well and that and then this is so classic ready ready the charm this is they
00:14:34.920get extra points okay for their badly written the badly wrapped present from man yeah totally okay
00:14:42.660yeah from you know it's like look he did it you know what i mean it's yeah but don't worry he
00:14:48.160hasn't fully become feminized to the point of utter desexualization don't fear not worry yeah
00:14:53.600yeah then you know mother's rapping becomes invisible the gorgeous rap becomes invisible0.52
00:15:00.660because it's taken for granted my mom doesn't listen to poog not out of hatred hatred of me
00:15:07.560it's almost like refreshing because i know that she's you know obsessed with me but she doesn't0.55
00:15:12.640she just can't do it it's like kind of like yeah maybe i mean she has not listened to any of it
00:15:17.520But I just was going to say she won't hear this, but in case she does, I just want to take a second, Mom, to say your wrapping, your gift wrapping is one of the most exquisite things I've ever seen.
00:49:53.480today i'm i'm not what time is it now so god how is it only 10 a.m when you wake up at 3 let me
00:50:03.140tell you 10 a.m hits it's a shock it's oh i would love it to be 2 30 and it's like i'm actually
00:50:11.840feeling a little bit poo has energized me this morning i'm thinking maybe i'll i'm gonna do my
00:50:17.620swiss chard i've got some amazing szechuan chili oil in there i want to do some swiss chard with
00:50:22.640some fried eggs in the szechuan chili crisp i ordered a um enchilada last night and um
00:50:29.940but so how do you do an enchilada with no tortilla well that's the thing so so so last
00:50:35.960night i had an absolute sort of hour where i was like it's over the meds have finally given through
00:50:44.940or whatever yeah like now we're not just like making home in gotham city like i'm i'm in the
00:50:49.960um the gutter of gotham city screaming to them sorry jacqueline i'm fine i mean it's all completely
00:50:55.200fine like you know um but i was like actively like oh no this okay and i was feeling this feeling
00:51:03.660which is like the feeling where like the minorest frustration it was actually comical i i'm sitting
00:51:10.680on my apartment uh balcony and on this couch and and where i've balanced one drink and another
00:51:19.080drink a mug of coffee and a ranch rider okay they're both there okay and and one goes and
00:51:25.520then the other goes okay somehow just falls off yeah like i was drinking the ranch rider the coffee
00:51:29.880was from earlier in the day and it was still resting there and because i'm i rest things i
00:51:34.020rest drinks on unstable surfaces i do it all the time because i'm like i got it so like on the couch
00:51:39.360i rest it on the next cushion because that one's not directly being depressed by my body you know
00:51:43.700chris you know can't even it's shocking to him you know what i mean and i'm like i got it that
00:51:47.640shocks me as well so i rest it there and then they both fly i'm so like diminished in resiliency
00:51:54.580so then i throw the computer okay yeah totally more of a toss but i throw it groundward in this
00:52:00.960feeling of like no i chuck it like i push it kind of okay yeah and because there's also a lot of
00:52:09.060fury at my computer at the moment because it's just a sight of pain you know what i mean of like
00:52:13.080Yeah. Yeah. And so so I throw the computer hysterically. Not at the time, of course, it lands in a pocket of air like it bounces on something like it lands in a, you know, this fat boy.
00:52:25.800It's called fat boy. OK. It's like a nylon thing. You like drag through the wind. It fills with air and then you roll it up. And it's like a chair. Yeah. Yeah.0.85
00:52:33.220So like I was testing it out the other day. And so I've got this half blown up thing. So it sort of like it lands in a pillow of air. It was like kind of safe, which was, of course, unsatisfying.
00:52:43.080Of course, you know, you know, I was looking I was looking to sort of do something irreversible to to to mark the level of what I was feeling like a cry for help to myself.
00:52:58.820Yeah, this computer smashes. And then like and then like, Chris, I smashed my computer. Like, I'm really depressed, I guess.
00:53:05.840Yeah, yeah. I think that's the childish sort of and I don't mean childish even in a disparaging way.
00:53:11.780like like I mean like in a raw way that's like what's happening there in some way but
00:53:15.260oh yeah wanting to that's how just destruction yeah I remember one time in my apartment in New
00:53:22.300York I was in a terrible mood or something I don't know but the the blinds I was like the
00:53:28.700sun was streaming and it was too bright I was trying to sleep or something and I went to like
00:53:33.700close them and it just slightly broken or something and I just ripped the blinds straight
00:53:38.000yes just did it tear down the because what you what you want in that moment to me is it to tear
00:53:45.480the um rod out of the wall that like that's the satisfaction and then be swinging so the the wall
00:53:51.220was okay the wall was okay somehow but the blinds just straight just ripped right off yeah and it
00:53:56.420was like well there you go and now the sun is completely blinding and then i took a hammer
00:54:01.320and nails and nailed up towels oh yeah yeah that's the other way no that that's constrict that's like
00:54:07.880constructive anger i do this too where i get furious about trying to like hang something in
00:54:14.820a good way and so then i just hammer it like i hammer it to the wall boom boom boom like yeah
00:54:19.520i'm gonna ruin the wall yes it's gonna look bad yeah like you know it'd be like hammering a screw
00:54:23.160into a wall or something it would be like i know this is only gonna hold for like a day yeah but
00:54:28.240right now the fury i um so i'm sitting there and i'm in this like very active state that's reminiscent
00:54:36.080of like times in in the deep past and it's like oh god and it's where where I feel uh like the
00:54:44.620slightest frustration like my body does a thing where it's like where the instinct is to go limp
00:54:49.980and literally collapse right yeah because I was like on the phone with Chris and I was like okay
00:54:54.000I'm just gonna say something I'm going to try I'm going to experiment with not collapsing
00:54:57.520yeah okay and it's like because collapsing is like was an original way that i would sort of
00:55:05.860i think like basically alchemized anxiety into depression so i'd feel rabid anxiety and the
00:55:12.200whole thing and go what do i do what do i do and like start like slamming things and and destroying
00:55:16.180things or trying to do things and then i think i learned like to immediately go like limp almost
00:55:21.360paralyze myself you know it's so and that's like where you go like where some of these
00:55:25.580concepts of like and I don't mean I'm not denying the biochemical nature and the all the many
00:55:32.460facets but like from a therapeutic standpoint like depression as like anger turned inward and
00:55:38.820in women and that whole kind of thing so it's almost like all this energy this rage this
00:55:43.540whatever is flying through me and I'm going to immediately stun gun myself like I'm going to
00:55:49.220immediately uh tranquilize lie down and be a be a damage to no one like neutralize the bomb
00:55:56.000yeah and so and then like there you are laying on the floor not moving uh staring at a wall it's
00:56:00.840like there have been times where i've gone the path of like yeah let like let yourself collapse0.58
00:56:05.560and my book a goddamn depression book is like that side of things it's the like you're on the0.87
00:56:10.680like yeah let yourself like fall to the floor and i'll like keep you company while you're there and0.96
00:56:14.200that's fine and that's important but so right now i'm doing the other thing which is all right i
00:56:18.700think I've got enough energy reserves built up over the years okay of not of not being in that
00:56:24.560state that I'm like I can stay up because I'm actually not in the mood to collapse and have
00:56:30.440to get back up once I go like limp it's it's like then I have to do a whole thing in my brain
00:56:36.520to find like a reason to get up and you know I'll just say talking about this the biggest
00:56:43.020trouble with talking about this is the desire to explain and contextualize and uh alert to
00:56:49.100gratitude about my life uh blah blah blah blah blah blah yeah no need i'm gonna trust the listener
00:56:53.940on this one um i'm like we're gonna not do the collapse and so i say i say to chris like i'm
00:56:58.200gonna not do the collapse thing like i'm gonna tell you every time i feel like i'm about to do
00:57:01.860it like or not about to do it but i'm that i'm feeling the feeling and that's not doing it it's
00:57:05.320like it's like not not that's been proven to be good or something like i know that's a thing to
00:57:11.420speak it like if you feel like oh there's the pattern i'm trying to break or the thing i'm
00:57:16.380trying to resist you say like i want to do it but i'm not going to or something right even just even
00:57:21.860not necessarily to anyone even just yourself to acknowledge like i want to do that but i'm not
00:57:24.900going to yeah yeah it felt like it felt important because it almost felt like well i don't want to
00:57:29.360do the same thing where where i'm where there's some element of this that becomes my way of0.50
00:57:34.320communicating to my partner for example that shit's bad or something you know like this0.80
00:57:39.300unconscious need to like make it like look I've collapsed you know like like whatever so so I'm0.95
00:57:45.320like I'm going to articulate that I will be seen uh for the thing I'm feeling and just like try to
00:57:50.620stay up and um and I was I was like really like and it's so it's such an active thing and trying
00:57:57.340to so I'm going it's like I'm literally going okay um um maybe I'll go get cigarettes like0.81
00:58:03.060fuck it I haven't smoked for like 10 years but I'm like oh my god cigarettes maybe like I'm like0.88
00:58:06.880that like and it's actively like not cigarettes will make me feel better it's like cigarettes are0.99
00:58:11.820like they're a way of doing something bad to myself that's like sort of sanctioned in this way
00:58:17.300that almost it's a very it's very weird it's like it's like staying in the game and then and then
00:58:22.320you just like and that's the other thing it's like you know people got to do what they got to
00:58:27.420do to stay in the game I mean you just have to have empathy for literally everything everyone
00:58:30.720does it's true in that way in that way like did you get cigarettes no I was like and then the
00:58:35.940other thing is I sat there and I go I'm like talking to Chris and I'm like all right it might
00:58:40.740be food like I might I might do like do like food stuff that will make me feel bad but this might be
00:58:48.960like well I'm just trying to get through tonight I mean it's yeah and so then it sort of becomes
00:58:53.660and then it was interesting because like this is sort of a new thing too it's like
00:58:59.280because I don't quite use food in the same way maybe I don't know it was like I was looking
00:59:05.280to like it's like okay what would be the old thing it would be like get a pizza and sort of
00:59:08.260like eat it like very in this very specific way that I just move and mow through the pizza you
00:59:14.320know and it's like it gets to a point where it's like bad but but that's its pleasure and then
00:59:18.340you know or something like that and then but I'm just like I was like sort of able to be like nah
00:59:24.540yeah and that one actually felt like I gnapped on both of those things I'm like what did I do
00:59:30.000I'm trying to think it this is so fucking like embarrassing in this one way to talk about because
00:59:36.260it's like here it comes folks but it's like not the depression I don't care about that I'm0.96
00:59:45.640legitimately truly embarrassed to be like someone talking about like fucking like going for it and0.90
00:59:51.520getting the enchilada like I just I mean do you know what I mean like that this isn't like I mean0.93
00:59:56.320it's not that i'm literally humiliated by the fact that i'm someone who's like tries to be
01:00:00.340like i'm humiliated because it's so ugly to be like we like we don't talk about diet a lot on0.85
01:00:07.780the podcast right because it's fucking triggering you know what i mean to people and food is like0.95
01:00:11.860really fucked for people so it's like there's that and like everything i stand for like technically0.94
01:00:17.580is like i'm the best with like food and food enjoyment like i'm it's literally my best quality0.97
01:00:23.400i always order enough i never like no like i never like don't prioritize pleasure when it
01:00:29.160comes to food and so it's like this absolute fucking like conflict for me that like i that0.69
01:00:36.300and i'm also this person who's like looking at my glucose like trying to like and like0.84
01:00:39.600this whole thing like the fact that i'm this person trying to order without bread all this0.84
01:00:43.300shit is like so not who i am and so it sucks because it's like i sound like this thing that0.97
01:00:49.580i'm not it fucking sucks i don't know but i think also laughable and like i'm not laughing i but i0.99
01:00:56.220do think this is funny also it is but i understand what you're saying it's incongruous to to who you0.98
01:01:02.920are in these other ways but it's also like you fucking cares everything is like defined by0.61
01:01:07.680those contradictions and you're you're yeah but you're protected like you know like what we are0.90
01:01:13.700like you know what i mean like we love dinner we love martinis like the whole thing and so like
01:01:18.580And I, like, can't decide in the context of this podcast whether or not, like, how much to – I just cannot believe I'm someone that's talking about, like, a tortilla.0.90