Randy Blythe
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Apr
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I mean that I'm a great catastrophizer. That means that I start with something relatively minute, maybe that has gone wrong, or more likely that I have screwed up, and my mind immediately kicks off like an English soccer riot and draws an entirely logical sequence of events that ends in the worst possible outcome.
Everything, my friend. I'm from the 1970s, a child of the Cold War. And the worst logical outcome is global thermonuclear warfare.
So I forget to stop by the grocery store to get yogurt for my girlfriend, like I promised. And the next thing you know. Putin's invading Ukraine. The sky is on fire and everything's dead but cockroaches and Keith Richards, right, bro? So this happens all the time. I need some adult guidance and should not go wandering around up in my head without some adult guidance.
So that's why I do things like... read philosophy and talk to people who have more experience. I used, when I was younger, try to figure everything out myself. Why am I so upset with the world? Why are people jerks? Why can't they put the grocery cart back in the car corral? It's 10 feet away. And I'd get so mad that I'd have to change my perspective.
And the best way I found to do that would be drink. And then you're just possessed by impotent anger. It's okay to be anger about some things. But if you're not doing anything with that or it's not inspiring any sort of action whatsoever, then you're just sitting there mad. And nobody likes the mad guy. He doesn't get invited to parties. Were you an angry kid? After a certain point, yes.
Did something start that? Yeah, absolutely. I don't come from money. I didn't grow up in a dirt shack with no electricity or anything. My dad and mom,
lower middle class and upper lower class lower middle somewhere there somewhere in there and when they split up when I was in like the end of third grade my father and my brothers and I moved to Virginia from North Carolina my mom stayed in North Carolina to go to college Shout out, Mom. I love you. Good for her.
She had three kids.
No. So she went to college, and my parents are great friends to this day.
The separation was not what, like, really made me angry.
Because they handled it. They never weaponized my brothers and I against them.
They're beautiful. Both of them are beautiful people. I love them both very much. Learned a lot from both of them. But when we moved from North Carolina to Virginia, I went into a new school. I did not fit in. I did not have the right clothes. I did not live in the right neighborhood. I was not interested in the right things. Like sports? Yes.
I want to read books.
And I want to go skateboarding, and this is in the 80s.
When skateboarding was not cool.
no oh man in Michigan it was like the coolest thing not in the broader sense that it is now sure like you were a weirdo punk rocker most of the time if you were a skateboarder yeah wow and I lived in a little tiny redneck town maybe that's why so it's like you're a fag remember when people could just freely say that how horrible yes to the point that was in the culture so much that I don't know how old I was I managed to eradicate that from my vocabulary
Because it's something I used to say. Of course. Because I was raised around it and didn't mean like... It wasn't a slur.
Oh, I should just not say that anymore. I didn't know any gay people until I got older. You did, but they didn't tell you. Now I have some very dear friends, and it's, like, embarrassing to me. It is embarrassing. I'm like, oh, my God. I was like, even though these people called me that word, I'm still throwing it around. What a jerk. So it's a process.
Oh, my God. Dude, I say that so many times. I'm like, thank God there were no cell phones when I was a teenager.
Not really, though. Yeah. I think that's a problem with children today, though, too. We're joking about it. Thank God we don't have this. But they do have it. They do have it. There is a frothing mob of iPhone wielding documenters waiting just to catch your every screw up. And like, that's got to be pressure.
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