Career Advice & Gen X Cold Case
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What career advice do Kim and Penn offer for creative dreamers?
I identify as an iPhone with low battery. Okay, that's good. That's good sleuthing. You're not going to go walking down the street and get eaten by an alligator.
Or are you? It's the most romantic story I've ever heard. Yeah, we get older every day. Got more wrinkles, that's okay. Yeah, we're laughing when we age. Life is like a comedy stage. And that's what we got planned.
Hey, everybody. I'm Kim Holderness.
And I'm Ben Holderness. Welcome to Laugh Lines.
If every time you crack an egg over a frying pan inside your brain, you say, this is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. You're home.
Yes.
Remember that PSA?
100%. And remember the last line?
No.
Any questions?
That's right.
Right. It was because they needed to fill a little bit more time. Like they, they got the point across in about three seconds and they're, and I'm sure the ad people were like, well, you gotta have 15 seconds. I have a question. Yeah.
Where were all the free drugs? I really thought that I was going to be approached on a street corner and offered, see what they told us was going to happen. Free drugs first. Free drugs. They get you hooked and they give you free drugs and you're just going to be out and about and they're going to come up to you and they're going to give you free drugs, get you hooked. And then you're going to, and you're going to like give up your life. You're going to become a dealer. There was like a whole pyramid scheme. They were really out. And I just never, I never saw any of it.
Yeah.
You, I mean, I feel lucky. I feel lucky that I was not, I was not exposed to that.
I lived in Durham.
Okay. So did you get a lot of free drugs?
I did not get any free drugs, but there were, there were drugs. Okay. Our elementary school was an inner city school and we had the best teachers and the best administrators who like helped instruct us and like get us through it.
But you would have had to pay for the drugs.
Yeah.
No, the first one's always free. I'm sorry. This is so bad.
Did a friend tell you that?
No, I got the same speech you did. But it was like, you know, there was the brain on drugs and there was Nancy Reagan. And Nancy Reagan, she had a three-word slogan as well. Do you guys, Sam and Marie, either of you? What is it? Just say no. That was her big thing.
That's all you have to do, guys. It's as easy as that.
Nancy Reagan and that fried egg were the majority of the commercials.
We could really go down. We can do like a Gen X Dateline thing about the impact and the quote war on drugs and like the impact that it still has in terms of like the people who are in jail that maybe like shouldn't be. We could go down and be very serious journalists. Yeah. Because of like sometimes it was like they were unnecessarily being punished for things.
And we are obviously unequipped to be those journalists.
A hundred percent. But we could find a podcast and put it in the link.
I think that's the way to go.
Okay. That is not how I thought this podcast is going to start.
I mean, you started with the frying egg. It was a good, good opportunity.
I do have a question though. Yeah. I have a question. Yeah. When did we as a family and we as a community of people become just so incapable of watching TV without another screen in our hand? Either sometimes you have a computer in your lap,
Yeah.
I have a cell phone. Yep. I realized we were watching, we've been going through the show hacks because there's an amazing race episode. We wanted, so we're getting through it and Penn star. I'm like, Oh, I haven't seen this one. He's like, we saw it yesterday, but I'd watched the entire episode with a phone in my hand. Yeah. But I was doing things. I bought socks. I was getting our son ready for camp. But, like, I can't watch an episode.
You know what it is? It's our boy Michael Easter. It's the comfort creep. Like, you don't even realize it's happening, and then you kind of creep into it. And all of a sudden, you just have all of these things that are around you that help make you feel comfortable. And maybe now there's something uncomfortable about just staring straight at a screen, which, you know, shouldn't be uncomfortable.
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