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The Deprogram

Episode 208 - The Western Court Jester Left (Ft. Gabriel Rockhill)

The Deprogram

JT, Hakim, and Yugopnik

Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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0:00.0

Actually, you know what? There's one little bit of banter. I was telling the guys the boys about earlier.

0:05.0

I was joking that I'm no longer solely a mental laborer because of my daytime job.

0:12.0

I have started making a table with my wife, a wooden table that I'm sanding down and staining and lacquering, I think, is the word.

0:21.3

But the difference is that we have to completely rely.

0:24.2

She is much more handy than I am.

0:25.6

But we have to completely rely on my father and her dad for the knowledge and the how-to.

0:32.0

And I just know where did the fall off for like male technical skills like this?

0:37.0

Which age got up this happened?

0:39.7

Because I completely lack this.

0:42.0

Access to commodity, bro.

0:43.5

Like, I don't think I would be able to survive.

0:46.8

Okay, in the wild, funnily enough, yes.

0:49.1

I don't know why that's like a Bacom thing that they still teach you.

0:52.0

Of course.

0:52.2

But I need, I genuinely, I have been waiting for a month and a half for a guy to come and take a plank of wood and drill it into another plank of wood without it falling over.

1:05.6

Right now I have four nails, like rusty nails coming out of the thing, out of the drawer where I keep all my

1:13.1

spoons and forks and so on, because it used to have that plank in front of it. The plank fell.

1:18.1

I can't put a plank on that thing. And no handyman wants to like come and do something.

1:24.4

That's a tiny job, yeah. Tiny job. So he told me, oh, I will come in one month and a half. And I've been waiting for a month. I literally have the date say it. I'm like, finally, the risk of getting... Tetanus shots is going to lower in half a month. But yes. It's the eternal socialist experience, Habibi. Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the plumber's coming in 10 years on the morning or the evening. It's stupid.

1:49.0

my favorite making me feel good about how I grew up I grew up with my dad's a construction worker and he also he does architecture and design but I was you know my earliest memories are basically with a hammer in my hand so I didn't enjoy it when I was, you know, my earliest memories are basically with a hammer in my hand.

2:00.9

So I didn't enjoy it when I was doing it because it's a pretty grueling labor.

2:06.6

But now that I'm an adult, I'm like, damn, I actually know how to do a lot of stuff.

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