The Great Tig Hasei's Rations

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It's actually right because he said he has it a neon aura around him that yeah but the footnote really really explains it I think that's a weird fight. Joaquin Phoenix's performance is in some ways the performance of someone kind of trying to find what the person's voice what the Joker's voice would be um and this might be just that like trying to found what what this character of Neil might be. Well let's end there let's quit while we're ahead uh join us next time on very bad the great tug hasei's rations.

Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 “pop culture” in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves etc.) – and of course what could be more fraudulent than a deep dive into a David Foster Wallace story, rhapsodizing over the endless sentences, the logical paradoxes, the seven-layer bean-dip of metacommentary (Jesus Christ I’m surprised there aren’t like eight footnotes in this episode description), and meanwhile the Partially Examined Life dudes refresh their overcast feeds and wonder through the tiny keyhole of themselves how David and Tamler have sunk so low that they’d ramble on about “Good Old Neon” like a couple of first year Comp-Lit grad students trying to impress that girl who works at the Cajun bakery.