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Depresh Mode with John Moe

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Depresh Mode with John Moe

Maximum Fun

Mental Health, Comedy, John Moe, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Health & Fitness

5777 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The talented actor and singer has run into a buzzsaw of Hollywood’s ridiculous standards.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

0:12.3

That was from the movie Zoolander, 2001.

0:16.2

The website, Know Your Meme, explains this.

0:19.5

It says, quote, the phrase, I feel like I'm taking

0:23.0

crazy pills occurs when the fashion designer Jacobi Mugatu, played by Will Ferrell, finally

0:30.2

expresses his frustration at the fact no one else in the fashion world has noticed Derek

0:35.8

Zoolanders, played by Ben Stiller, supposedly career-defining

0:40.0

runway looks, are nothing more than him pulling the same face over and over again. Since the

0:45.3

film's release, the phrase has been used to describe vexation when the common consensus appears

0:50.8

to go against common sense, or when an unexpected, straightforward situation is greeted

0:56.4

by a surprise outcome, unquote.

0:59.2

The world is full of these crazy pills situations, like when you have a mental health problem

1:06.3

and the world expects you to simply pretend not to have one.

1:15.7

Or when you lose your job and therefore lose your health insurance.

1:17.6

It's mental dissonance.

1:19.3

Just makes you feel like... Doesn't anyone notice this?

1:20.8

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

1:23.3

How about this one?

1:24.3

You're a skilled and successful actor, but then you put on a couple of pounds,

1:28.2

and you no longer get to work at this thing you're really good at, even though weight has

1:33.8

nothing to do with acting ability. It's sexist, and it's unjust, and the dissonance of it

1:39.8

all can mess with your head. It's depression mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

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