Ryan Broderick

But me and the outlandish shit I said is absolutely funny.

And she explained that she was basically having an argument with someone who is not on in the frame.

Like she was screaming at someone on the other side of the frame.

So she was having a meltdown, but she was like, she wasn't hallucinating.

Got it.

Okay.

But I don't think any of the videos that go viral of people having meltdowns at airports or airplanes or whatever would go viral if it didn't sort of touch on something we all kind of feel, which is like any of us could have had that meltdown on a plane or an airport because traveling sucks ass.

Like all of these things have to have this like, I don't want to say relatable, but perhaps that is the best word, like dimension to them where it's like they're tapping into something that like we're all already fighting about.

Yes, yes.

And I think post-COVID, there's more things that we're all fighting about because everything's worse.

It ended in 2021.

It's done.

Yeah, it sort of feels like our eyeballs are pointing in two different directions and one of them is outside and one of them is online and we're constantly living like that and it's like very disorienting.

And like the rise of the personality type you're describing

Grant and I did a whole bonus episode about the movie Eddington, which I think is like the best depiction I've seen yet of sort of the psychology of that moment.

And after the break and a word from our sponsors, we're going to talk about sort of the initial... I'm using this term to mean that post the existence of COVID.

So the initial post-COVID era of... What are you talking about?

No, we're...

I'm doing a transition.

We're going to be talking about the immediate main characters of the post-COVID era.