Still Buffering: Mother Night

Still Buffering

Sydnee McElroy

Comedy

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Times are strange, and it's doubtful they'll get any less strange any time soon. So the siblings are looking towards the one and only Kurt Vonnegut for some guidance by reading his unfortunately still so topical classic: Mother Night. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

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0:00.0	Maybe you change your mind too many times over and over again.
0:05.0	Over and over again.
0:21.6	Baby you change your mind, oh too many times, over and over again.
0:30.6	Hello and welcome to Still Buffering, a cross-generational guide to the culture that made us.
0:34.8	I'm Sydney McElroy.
0:41.0	We've exchanged sniffling for whatever this is now.
0:49.6	I feel like my voice has been gone most of this year. Is that possible? I mean, it's totally,
0:55.4	it's still February, so that's not that long, I guess. That's, you know, you're the doctor.
0:56.9	I don't know.
0:59.0	I usually don't get sick.
1:00.0	You know what it is?
1:04.1	It's that I don't acknowledge I'm sick when I'm sick, and this has been hard to not acknowledge because you can hear it, you know?
1:09.9	Yeah.
1:10.5	Like, I normally don't tell people if I'm sick.
1:12.7	I don't mean, like, I'm hiding it so I can, like, can be contagious.
1:16.3	That sounds like, like, if I'm on the phone, if I'm...
1:19.3	You don't allow yourself to recognize that you're sick.
1:21.6	Yes.
1:22.1	And if I'm on the phone with somebody, I would never say, like, if they're like, how are you
1:25.6	feeling and I was sick I would never say like
1:28.2	actually I've been sick I'm like oh I'm good how are you like I never talk about being sick but this is
1:33.5	I can't hide it and so I've had so many phone conversations in the last week where people are like oh are you
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