Younger Drives Impact Theory7:53
“there's this thing called the Younger Drives Impact Theory that's around 11,000 years old. 11,800 years ago, there's all this evidence that there was massive asteroid impacts all over the Earth, comet impacts.”
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1:14:59
“Cassette player. Well, 8-track was the first, right? I think so. But those were so impractical. Well, they were huge. Yeah. Plus, they'd stop in the middle of a song and then go to the next track and continue. Oh, really? Yeah.”
Discussed
1:15:47
“He's going to put his foot down. It's Sex Pistols now. That's hilarious. Yeah. I remember my first introduction to 8-track. My friend Javier, when I lived in Florida, his mom. Had an 8-track player. And she had. What is that song? Who sings it?”
Discussed
1:16:08
“I don't remember who sings it. Pablo Cruz. Oh, yeah. OK. Yeah. And she had a Pablo Cruz 8-track in her car. I'm like, this lady's a wizard. She's got her own music. Because before then, I think I'd only seen people play stuff that was on the radio. Right, right.”
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2:00
“Like, this is incredible. And he was literally going to throw it out. Because it was just out of his mind. He wrote The Shining, right? Yeah. So what? Was it Carrie? Yeah. He threw Carrie away? Yeah. Crazy. No way. Crazy. That's crazy. Yeah, Shining was a big movie for me.”
Discussed
2:30
“in writing. Well, he hated the movie, which is so crazy because he felt like Jack Nicholson got insane too quickly. Really? Yeah. Because in the book, I read the book too.”
Discussed
2:09
“Because it was just out of his mind. He wrote The Shining, right? Yeah. So what? Was it Carrie? Yeah. He threw Carrie away? Yeah. Crazy. No way. Crazy. That's crazy.”
Discussed
2:05:42
“Right. Like, that's nuts. Yeah. You know, or a drink. You know, you get one of those ... What is it? Baskin-Robbins Blizzard? Is that the one that has ... Oh, my God. That thing? Boom. Those things will mess you up. Oh, you get a headache after you're done.”
Discussed
1:55:33
“No. I'm thinking about getting one. I have a computer that I write on that's not connected to anything. My writing computer is just a Lenovo ThinkPad. I never use it for anything other than writing. If I go online, it's just to research something, like ask a question, like what is this?”
Uses Personally
2:20:33
“I mean, there's this old way of thinking. I became, do you know what the, there's a book called the nature of things by a guy named Lucretius written in 350 BC and it's Epicureanism and Epicureanism now is about, you know, you like food, you like wine, whatever.”
Discussed
4:04
“how they're influenced. And then, of course, demonic possession and Salem's lot and all that other crazy shit. He was just so good. But then the idea that a library can be the, you know, and Shawshake, that the library can be the liberation.”
Discussed
3:32
“it was decades after his career began. Some of the great stuff, like I think the stand, I think all that stuff, he was out of his mind when he was writing all those. But in the midst of all that madness, there's a tenderness. Oh, yeah. Oh, a great humanity to it all.”
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the Apatow documentary about Carlin57:31
“Who was it in Apatow's documentary about Carlin? There was a comedian that said George Carlin was basically, in the early part of the century, in the 1900s, philosophers debating used to be a huge deal”