E312: We Must Imagine Frankenstein Happy

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

We talk about Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and decide: Worth it and/or woke?

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Del Toro interview: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5577963/guillermo-del-toro-frankenstein

Marx on alienated labor: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm

Song: Alice Cooper - Teenage Frankenstein

Transcript

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0:00.0	I can regale you all with the story of me getting fired for cause the other day.
0:14.2	Let's hear it.
0:16.0	I don't know.
0:17.0	You want to hear it?
0:18.1	No one has been fired more than you besides me when I started working in food service
0:25.5	when I first moved to the city because I stank so bad and sucked so bad.
0:30.2	Now, I assume getting fired is more common in your line of work for less egregious causes,
0:40.4	but let's hear this story. Well well these fuckers didn't even have the fucking uh courage when my business agent showed up to try to get me my
0:49.0	job back to tell him that they fired me for cause they had to pussy pussy out. I'm sorry to use that term, but they pussyed out and they said, oh yeah, we just slowed down. That's why we got rid of him. No, you got rid of me because two days in a row, the fucking dipshit Scottish Super busted into the fucking Channy and started yelling at me like I'm a fucking child and I
1:13.1	yelled back at him and I yelled back at him twice in a row like the first time I guess the guy
1:17.5	didn't get the fucking message and the second time he backs down and then he fucking gives me
1:22.7	a layoff check fuck you fucking coward so we're talking about insubordination here.
1:29.2	Insubordination.
1:32.2	So that is pretty similar to a lot of why I was getting fired.
1:39.7	Like bog standard insubordinate activity on the job, and they fucking shit can be.
1:43.0	And I'm not surprised, you know, they were justified.
1:46.2	So is Nikki and the crew, are they going to stand up for you?
1:47.7	Are they going to demand your job back? Or at least will you get some documentation that you were fired for a reason other than a slowdown so you can get unemployment?
1:56.1	No, I mean, they let me go.
1:59.9	They said that things were slowing down, which means I can get unemployment. Okay. So that's good. It's so, yeah, it's so busy right now that I don't plan on, on being off work for a while. I think I'm going to take the week off to podcast or whatever. But the point is, go to L.A. Yeah, you're going to L.A., right? That's great.
2:18.2	I mean, I could go.
2:19.3	It's a little last minute, considering you're leaving, what, tomorrow?
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