You know what? We got two fucking episodes left. We're going to do what the fuck we want to do.

Okay? We have two episodes left. Are we live?

We have two episodes. Yeah, we have two episodes left. We're going to do what the fuck we want to do.

Yeah, we're going to talk about David Lynch and Mulhall and Drive. Of course, that's the thing to get you all here.

But, like, fuck, we're going to talk, okay?

And so join us.

I'm going full Uncle Austin.

So I'm going to, I'm embracing the fact that I'm in my 40s now.

And so this is for all of you under 35s, particularly under 30s out there, come along the journey with Uncle

Austin. My biggest pet peeve in recent years, and I've really been, I talk about this with

Raymond a lot on cinematology, and I've just been, I've been craving mature artistic expression.

And I feel like the reduction of everything to branding, marketing, storytelling. mature artistic expression.

And I feel like the reduction of everything to branding, marketing, social media,

the new algorithm, like making content so that it's also digestible while people are on their phone, on Netflix.

Like these initiatives, outside of that, pop music that's all all about, like, live this night, like, you're never

going to die and we're just young and all this shit forever.

Listen, I want, there's a book out there by Susan Neiman, who's a philosopher, and it's

called Why Grow Up?

And while I'm not, I love Susan's work as a philosopher it's great blah blah blah i'm not

going to shit on her work the value of growing up in maturity is something that when you live in a

culture in an age that wants to just perpetually keep everybody young two things one it sends off

alarm bells in my head why is it that everyone is saying the same shit about staying young? Now,

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