126: Mailbag Part 2: Searching for the Self Teaser
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How does the episode open and why is Patrick’s birthday mentioned?
Happy birthday, Patrick. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Happy birthday, babes. It's true. I am a year older. There's a Freud quote about birthdays, but I don't remember it because I'm a year older. Is that motivated forgetting? Yeah, probably. I will say, though, I'm excited to be celebrating both that and... Celebrating isn't quite the right word, but marking a shift in... We're entering a new life stage, I think is what you're trying to say. Yeah.
What do the hosts mean by entering a new life stage and professional shifts?
And now that Abby, you're no longer responsible in the same institutional professional capacity, or at least. Well, I mean, what are they going to do? Fire me again? This is great because we can super fire. I do technically still have a boss for another year. But I do feel... I feel liberated. Honestly. What is that saying that I always forget that Nietzsche quotes? Having the courage of your bad taste? No. That I remember. Like something everything is... Dostoevsky, isn't it? Nothing is true and everything is permitted? Nothing is true and everything is permitted. Yeah. Sure, I mean... That's... Yeah, 2026. Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. Yeah, do what thou will will be the whole of the law under love.
I do think, though, that this is a great time for us to finally debut. Say the one slur that you can still get canceled for. It's cisgender, folks. Oh, shit. Can we finally, you all, can we finally, in this episode, use... We've used it before. No, we didn't. We took it out. Can we use the cameo voice from the guy from Halo? Dan, can you just drop it in right now to see, like, cancelled. Done. Cancelled. And that goes to exactly what I was saying. Namely, we can finally do what we initially planned on doing. But your institutional respectability politics commitments, Abby, got in the way. Call them respectability politics. You make me sound like Bill Cosby before we realized what he was capable of. What the fuck?
90s thought because like our initial plan right we all we all remember this right was a morning zoo style drive time psychoanalysis talk show where we'd have people call in and we'd do phone pranks and we'd send listeners out to do sort of absurd sort of stern style german duck yeah exactly we'd all have no memory of this ordinary unhappiness with professor k I don't know. What would I be? That sounds too much like hair K. P something or other. And then Dan, you'd have to be like this. No, that's also true. That's two nineties in a bad way. I guess for him and Cosby, but Dan, you would have to, you'd be like the something stir, right? Yeah. That's fine. Just how about the, just the Dan stir is fine. I'll take it.
Yeah. It's really a grease man style sound effects nonstop. Like you'd have different characters who would embody like part objects. Psychoanalysis car talk. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no. My psyche's rattling. It's making this noise.
How do the hosts joke about being 'cancelled' and institutional respectability?
You're making fiat jokes. Have you considered turning it off and on? Click and clack the Tappet Brothers. No, I'm going for something much more vulgar. Like, I really am pitching, like, a Greaseman style. Actually, you know what? All these people are canceled for the right reason. Yeah. Canceled. Yeah, but how do you feel, Abby, just in general? Not to make light of it. I know one of your primary defense mechanisms, if you will, is humor. But I also do want to... The best of all defense mechanisms. I mean, most effective. You're right. I deflect with... I'm just remembering that at some point in our wedding vows, I promised to not deflect everything with humor. Have I lived up to that? Well, we are renewing our vows, but as a stand-up bit, live on the next episode of Ordinary and Happiness.
You know, the next episode is actually about projective identification. So that would be... There are press returns every morning. Oh my God. Yeah. On Car Talk. No, Car Talk was, they were nice. They basically did psychotherapy. Click and clack. We are nice.
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