Joshua Citarella

There is an essence of this thing.

It's like spitting in the face of a public treasure.

Yeah, look, I had this conversation with Rogan and I said, I think, I understand why.

Do you ever see the movie Don't Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio?

Yeah, there's a meteor.

Correct, there's a meteor, well remembered.

It was a little bit of a forgettable film, but you got some of it, you got the big bit.

Things coming towards Earth.

You can use that as a stand-in for any existential risk or looming crisis that you want.

Meteors coming toward Earth.

Educated, scientist-y people say this is a big deal.

The media makes light of it, makes jokes of it.

They're not paying sufficient attention.

They're not treating it with the appropriate level of scrutiny and care that it needs and, you know, drama.

And what happens over time, there's a scene halfway, two-thirds of the way through the movie where they're on a news story at a news station and they're sort of trying to explain how big of a deal this is.

And the newscasters are just sort of making more jokes about it.

It's pop culture reference after half-meme ironic speech shitpost after da-da-da-da-da.

And then one of the characters just starts screaming on TV.

I remember this, yeah.

You need to listen.