Youtube: notfunnyfunnyguy Instagram: @notfunnyfunnyguy Twitter: @ntfunnyfunnyguy Jeremy is a San-Francisco-Bay-Area-raised, Los-Angeles-Acting-School-Trained, twenty something year old who recently moved to Sydney, Australia for the love of his life. If you have no idea what’s going on in this strange thing known as “reality,” GREAT NEWS! Neither does he! Come share a few laughs as he tries to piece it all together! Hopefully something in this podcast inspires you to act with a little more empathy today, or a bit more courage. Or, at the very least, makes you feel a little bit less alone in your confusion.
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In this, the 19th of (hopefully) many episodes he offers up some thoughts on media representation, being a Westerner through and through, the nobility of being a writer, how much he hates insensitivity around mental illness (but is not surprised by it), and how much he loves Wes Anderson’s ‘The Darjeeling Limited.
Hopefully something in this podcast inspires you to act with a little more empathy today, or a bit more courage. Or, at the very least, makes you feel a little bit less alone in your confusion.
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1:48 – We just MADE UP numbers!
4:23 – My playlist tonight is just thoughts.
4:44 – On “Blasian Representation”
6:50 – How I felt seeing half White half Filipinos in the media
9:00 – How I DON’T think
11:25 – Race problem solved
12:50 – Jordan Peterson on the dangers of the arrogance of the intellect.
14:06 – Glenn Loury on identifying as a Westerner
15:30 – The media and ideas I was raised on.
17:05 – Tobias Wolff and Raymond Carver
17:45 – My creative writing class at Chabot
19:00 – That time I met Tobias Wolff
19:40 – The nobility of writing
20:00 – My published story and having Betsy Franco read it
21:30 – I’ll always come back to fiction, I’ll always make screenplays
23:10 – The feedback Betsy Franco gave my story
25:13 – At least I got “Bullet in the Brain” signed, hahaha
27:23 – I hate insensitive comments about mental illness, especially from loved ones
29:20 – You’ll always have all kinds of people
31:10 – How good is ‘The Darjeeling Limited’?
33:28 – The “Hotel Chevalier” Short Film
34:30 – On Nietzsche’s ‘Beyond Good and Evil’
35:40 – People will live and die and never grapple with ideas as lofty as these
36:22 – Why my former classmate’s mother loved Jon Stewart
37:30 – The value of art
40:25 – A Connoisseur of nuance
41:40 – The more sides you see, the more you understand truth
42:15 – Do we need lies to survive?
43:20 – The fragility of the average mind
44:40 – God is essential, if you can’t find Him, you must create Him
45:30 – Most belief systems are prejudices, notions, or inspirations defended after the fact
47:35 – Master morality v. Slave morality
49:10 – Being hyper-critical of great figures out of insecurity
52:05 – Detaching yourself from your culture
53:22 – Where do our thoughts come from?
56:30 – I’m such a genius
56:50 – You’re my tribe!
Categories: Comedy
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