Red the Shred rejoins me on a special FaceTime edition of Unteathered Ears. Recorded over a week ago, I wanted to wait to post until I was safely out of quarantine and didn’t have the ‘Rona so as to not jinx myself (:
Because Red and Brandon Carroll are good friends, some of the conversation here is his reaction to topics Brandon and I previously breached (on Episode 4!) such as their podcast together “Not Another Critic”, the power of comedy, and what it’s like to live in a ghost town. We wind down some philosophical corridors about science and its limitations, thalassophobia, how conspiracies “muddy the waters”, living in echo chambers, and how to compensate the loss of non-verbal communication in the age of masks. Red reflects, “I look like a menacing person to someone who doesn’t know me, all covered in tattoos.. People hold their children closer when I walk by. And now I don’t even have the ability to at least smile at them.” We also talk about death.. a lot.
Oh, and it’s Red’s birthday this week so to celebrate (but also to maybe make his nihilist heart cringe lol), I did his natal chart reading! Stick around to the end if you want to hear some of that woo woo.
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