Men: An Explanation, Conversations Episode 3

Hi everyone!

So, here is our podcast, episode #3. It still doesn’t even have a title. So, I guess it’s still Men: An Explanation. Tim calls it Savage Amazement. Both are good titles. I think we’re waiting to see which one it wants to be.

In this episode, we talk about the drawbacks of being curious, introspective people searching for meaning. We talk about strange people, lonely people and a bunch more. Tim reads the ending of The Stranger.

Here are some timestamps:

00:30: What are the drawbacks of being curious, introspective people searching for meaning?
01:00: Tom’s answer (being overpowered)
05:00 related, Tim on Mary Wollstonecraft, wishing to be left alone
08:22 Notes about Camus’s The Stranger
09:10 Tim’s answer (not interacting)
12:00 Studs Terkel, Kurt Cobain, the mundane parts of people’s existence
13:30 Encyclopedic people, catalogers, translators, etc.
14:00 Tom’s terrible memory and how to meet people in the moment instead
17:00 “We don’t pretend we have the answers”
17:15 Educated people in the Beltway, etc.
18:25 Where are the lonely people who don’t have white collar jobs?
18:50 Lonely people are on Facebook
19:50 Walkie-talkies and CB Radios.
21:00 Seek You by Kristen Radtke
23:00 The lady with the birdcage that Tim saw at the store
28:00 People who just do weird lonely things; the internet and capitalism keeping us from seeing each other’s delicate uniqueness
30:40 Tim’s Reading Corner: The Stranger

Thanks to Tim for his wise thoughts in this conversation, and to you for listening.