HAH Wk. 3: Holy Week for the Unholy

In his third episode, dD discusses Poor Bishop Hooper's Golgotha, Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears, 'I Don't Believe in the Sun' from 69 Love Songs, a few pictures he found on Twitter, including Hagios Petros, The Love Letter, and The Shadow, more of his ongoing first reads: Black Empire, Gilead, and The Master and Margarita, the film Small Things Like These, Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate Wolverine, and a few local KC restaurants.

Hagios Petros-Fr. Tom Bombadil: https://x.com/calix517/status/1913273401088565285

The Love Letter-WikiVictorian: https://x.com/wikivictorian/status/1910716974612574611

The Shadow-solisolsoli: https://x.com/solisolsoli/status/1913427332607455528

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro-Music
• 14:26 Visual Art
• 25:48 Literature
• 35:41 Podcasts
• 41:55 Movies
• 53:14 Comics
• 57:57 Food & Drink

Transcript

Hello and welcome to um, this third episode of my podcast habdominal aesthetic, heuristic still just talking about art and The art that I've enjoyed in the past week and the most potentially possible I'm going to jump right into it. We're going to talk about music here. Um, the first thing I want to say I'm kind of trying to maybe restructure this a little bit, but focus on a couple of things that um, Have been the highlights.

I certainly listen to other things. It's actually been a pretty music heavy week and read a ton, and I didn't Or listen to audiobooks time, and I didn't really listen to a whole lot else, but um, I'm going to focus particularly on Two albums and a song. So, in particular, I'm going to focus.

All these are from my spring playlist and finally Equinox. The well, the first one of the two albums is one of the albums is not. Last week was Holy Week, if you're not familiar with the Christian calendar thing, it was the week before Easter. Where you have Good Friday you have.

What we call Monday Thursday, you have these various sort of stations. Um, going from Jesus's Triumphal entry Jerusalem to his death, And Resurrection. Um, And so, one of the things that Mia my my wife especially have Gotten super into. I actually, I discovered this a little bit before I met my wife and it turns out.

She also had a connection. There's a band called, Poor Bishop, Hooper Uh, local band from Kansas City that I I would say, I lightly know them, I've met them a couple of times, I have friends of friends. Um, but they have done some really great stuff, if you've not listened any of their Psalm, Uh, There are some settings.

I I really love them. I could talk about that a lot more, but specifically going to focus on Golgotha, which is an album they put out. I'm not quite sure. How many years ago I would say it's a 2017 most. Like, I've seen this thing. I've seen that performance of this.

Several times. And I, I really, really love the the full Presentation, they do of it. But um, the album itself. Is pretty much a guarantee like I'm going to get into land. I'm going to go and especially when I get into Holy Week, I'm going to listen through it several times and it follows the traditional stations of the Cross starts with Jesus, in the garden and goes all the way to the moment when he's laid his tomb, there's a song for each and, um, Yeah, I mean, I I think it's a really, really beautiful.

Representation of Of the Um, The passion narrative. Some parts I probably like more than others not to say dislike any of them but in particular the um, the ones Jesus denied by Peter, Um, Is. It's six of my head throughout the year. And I absolutely. Um, I can't say enough positive about this whole thing.

I did a really, really good job of mixing up the genres. I think sometimes it's a little, or at least the tone It's probably all pretty. In the sort of stuff. Fulky kind of stuff. But it really doesn't do a good job. Um, mixing up the tones so that there are there are songs that A little bit more.

Or less. Um, A little bit more or less like they are all sort of a somber tone, but some of them are a little more. Um, Happy summer a little bit. I don't know, I don't want to over or over talk about it but um, I'm gonna bring up a little bit here.

I hope I will avoid any. Of the ire of the world. I, I doubt that they're gonna be particularly to this. I'm going to throw in a little bit from One of their songs that I really, really enjoy. The one I mentioned before, Peter is denied by Jesus. I'm just going to give you guys a little hint of that, and then I'm gonna go on to talk about another one here.

And when she asked a question,

That serving girl, she broke my heart.

I knew she was.

That you had spoken all al

In the Prince of Feed in. Said they see me walking. Sit, my tongue gave me away. But I swore against their charges. Claim you. I never Just in time to hear the bird you promised lifted.

Oh Jesus. I wish you were. Wrong about Oh, I wish.

Yeah. So that is a a little snippet. I hope they don't mind but I really do. I love that album and I I definitely suggest that to anybody. Especially as we come. Back around next year to lend and all that stuff. I honestly you can listen to any time of the year.

I am, uh, you know, I try to follow a calendar. To quote a movie. I enjoy very much. It's a revolting adaptation but it calms me. Um, The second one I want to talk about this week is an album that I I probably haven't had that long but I've I'm a huge, Johnny Cash fan.

So, um, Uh, Johnny

Johnny Cash's album, bitter tears is a big is one of a big fan of and one that I am also going to talk about and recommend I I it's a an album that is focused on. Um, Advocacy for Native American tribes. It's from 1964.

So a lot of the stuff is very much connected to the sort of Rising sense. Of. The the wrongs that have been done to Native Americans in the 60s and leading into the, the aim, the American Indian movement and things like that. Um but I want to talk about this album because I just think that he did an amazing job.

And I think it's one of the ones that I really Uh have loved and I put I feel like it's an essential element of my spring. Um, One of the things I loved by this album is that it is not.

For people who who gain, you know, who have a strong desire to gain connection to The plight of the Native American, it can be very easy to get focused on one or two drives especially if you were gonna do an album like this. I would need a really good job of of Putting together a collection, which feels eclectic and talks about, you know, Things that are both very specific and also, Feel very general.

I'd go through a couple of these songs, there's, uh, Focus, particularly on the Kenzua Dam project. In the 60s, it's pretty contemporary. To when this is happening. And I was a dam. That was planned. That would That would flood an area that had been deeded. Um, in treaties going back to George Washington.

This land to the Seneca. Tribe. Part of the Algonquian. Confederation and, you know, he doesn't amazing job of, you know of He doesn't amazing job of doing the thing, which Country artist historically have done better than anybody else, which is finding a way to simultaneously be extraordinarily patriotic. While also, Bringing, you know, the light of justice to an area where the government is unquestionably in the wrong.

Um, He is, you know, as one of his lines from that song. The father of our country must be wrong with an Indian anyhow. And you know, it's it's this, this Willingness to go back on and betray. Um, The things that we have done in sad in the past, which is so much of the tragedy of how America has related itself to Native Americans.

Um, Oh, some of these other ones. Again, most of them are sort of a ballad. Um, there's one called Custer which is Um, Basically a triumph song about the defeat of Custer and about how The how frustrating it is that? People treat the, you know that battle as if it were some sort of Massacre or some sort of crime committed rather than just a loss.

For the United States, that the America went out. Commit horrible crimes. Uh, under the command of Custer, and then, you know, God, comeuppance and Native Americans. Uh, Destroyed him and his army. The refrain of the song is. The general, he don't ride well anymore. And yeah, as a line we can all celebrate Yeah, you guys sir.

Um, Again, this is a lot of really great ones, Apache tears. Is directed towards? Um, American Injustices. Among the Apache during the, the air of sort of the Indian Wars. Um, The Battle of Ira Hayes about a Pima Indian who was involves in the battle of evil Jima. One of the ones who held up the flag in that famous photo and who Was essentially his tribe even before he came, along was Utterly betrayed by the U.S government and left to sort of die and rot in.

The same way that Ira Hayes was was left to die. And abandoned by by the country that he had. He had vought for um I can talk about all these the one about Sequoia coming up with the Cherokee alphabet called Talking leaves is Mmm. Is absolutely one of my hero songs of all time.

Other ones that are maybe a little more General. The one called drums is about Indian boarding schools. About the the call of Their culture. That was it still felt by the people even if they've even when they've lost. The sort of tangible connections because of the boarding school process.

Again, if any of this doesn't sound familiar to you, I sincerely encourage you to to spend some time looking into The history of how America has treated the people who were here before the white settlers showed up. It's It's pretty much all bad news, but the good news is that the crimes can be known and they can be Brought to light and then they can be Fixed.

I don't fixed. Certainly In a total way, but they can be. The rungs can in some sense. Be righted. Um, Yeah, it's a beautiful album. If you've never heard it. Um, I absolutely suggest that to you and really anything by Johnny Cash. It's a great artist. Um, but this is one that has really been on my mind.

Um the last one last thing I want to talk about is I've mentioned the album. 69 love songs is a It's kind of a backbone. Um my spring playlist and I'm just gonna kind of try to highlight one of the 69 every week until around of spring because I just think the songs are amazing and most of them are Um, Unique in their own way and are genuinely very enjoyable to talk about this one that I Want to highlight this week is called.

I don't believe in the sun. Um, Basically the idea is that this person who has is going through this breakup, right? They, they They no longer see the light or feel the warmth of the sun. So they basically become a Let's say a Astronomical skeptic. They don't believe anymore than any of these things exist.

Because if they existed, how could they possibly have? How could this horrible thing have happened to me if That was really a sound on the moon. My favorite lines is. The moon to whom the poet's. Croon has given up and died. Astronomy will have to be revised. Uh absolutely an amazing song from again an amazing album that I will I will not stop harping on magnetic field.

69 love songs. It's killer. But that is where I'm going to stop here for this week and I will come back to talk about visual art. Thanks.

All right. Hey, welcome back. I'm talking now about the visual Arts for this week. I have made. A concerted effort, I think a little bit this week to do. Um, something that's a little bit more. A little more organic part of this is just Uh, some good stuff I follow on Twitter that has brought some stuff to my attention.

Um, and I definitely appreciate and we'll shout out some of the accounts that I've gotten some of this stuff from Uh, I'm actually going to start this week again. Holy Week, I'm going to start with One brought to my attention by a guy named father, Tom bombadell, I will read his description of this.

What I'm going to call hog, gas, Petros, I don't have Unofficial title, I don't even know necessarily who did it, but Um, he says I love everything about this icon. The accusing rooster. Paul's sorry. Peter's pitiful post posture. The tiny fire that isn't strong enough to warm the cold of his guilty heart.

The barely visible Halo that is muted by his sin before he repents. The fact that the icon background is dark not gold. Um, This image and I'm referring to is hogi S, Patross just Greek for Holy Peter or Saint Peter. Um, is Is in many ways, sort of a standard.

Um, Greek icon. Um, you've got a lot of that style present Um, but as father, Tom notes, it's not in a true traditional gold. Most icons are very triumphalist in the sense they they speak to the Um, The, the state of the believer, the saint who has Gone to Glory.

Right? Who has has reached sort of the end of their race. Um, I think This one is. Is different than those in a lot of ways but it does, it speaks to someone, I think of the Spirit of them, but it is a different style. One, the background is.

A blue. I would say it's actually kind of a blue near my heart. Kind of a Cobalt Dark, not Navy. But but A dark blue. Um but in the image you got Peter huddled. He sited on sort of a stool Looking thing, his knees huddled close to his chest.

And, On the Left side of him is a very tiny little fire with its smoke going all the way up. There's sort of a frame on it. That the smoke sort of goes over. And then the rooster is also found in there. The rooster is Sitting on a branch in the top right corner and Um, He is is completely bent over staring accusingly into the eyes of Peter.

Um, Warming himself by this fire. Presumably in the Courtyard. After having denied Jesus that third time and Um, I think it's extraordinarily well done. It's got It's got very noticeable. Um, Motif's? Whether it's the sandals tied up around his ankles, or the sort of Somewhat sell eye straight Catholic sort of.

Uh, gown over him. Uh, and it's got A Peter that I think is very recognizable from Christian art in a lot of ways. Um he is Got a big beard, a little balding. In this case, these hair is white. Um, So it's kind of an image. I think it's relatively familiar.

I mean, this is the look of Deep sadness, and regret on his face as he stares up at this. This rooster Who is bringing to mind? Who's bringing to mind? His betrayal of Jesus is Uh, I think a lot like the song that I they played earlier, the music section is very um, I know it brings to me the, the sense of Both my own sin right at the betray, the levels of betrayal that.

We all Show to Jesus, when we Don't live up to what he has offered us and what we already know. We don't Show the love to each other. That we ought. We We don't desire that everyone know us maybe for who we are as followers of Christ. I think there's something uh really beautiful in the way it's retrade.

And then the humanity of the image, I will be linking a couple of these in the show notes, so hopefully you guys can take a look and sort of Appreciate the the joy that as our brings, but also maybe have it informed, some of your own uh spirituality and with hopefully some of the other images.

Maybe not necessarily spiritual. But again, having this aesthetic experience, alongside me and enjoying maybe some other things that You wouldn't necessarily go out of your way to find any given situation. Um, the second one I'm going to refer to Um, Is one. From. And they count called Wiki Victorian who, um, sometimes I think they post too much because they have Uh, it sounds like it seems like it's full of it but um, They post a lot of great art and a lot of great art from private collections.

I think maybe otherwise people wouldn't have a good chance to see. Um, In pretty high quality photos. And the one I'm refer to first here is the love letter. By Austrian painter, Hans macart from 1875. And it is. Not a complicated image. It's Two women. Seated next, to each other Outdoors in very Victorian costume.

Very Large flowy, dresses. Um, big hats. Um, I love the detail of the You know, the the painting It's one of the things that makes me a bad artist is that I struggled to care about the detail. When it doesn't seem tomatically necessary. But, I love the way that he builds these characters.

Two young women. Sort of. With a Love Letter, the name of the name of the painting and the other one with um, Who sort of being asked to look at it and there's this the confidenceality between the two subjects. And, The sort of appearance of maybe an age difference, maybe, Uh, the one showing the letter is a little older, it's not quite clear but um, I don't know.

There's something really beautiful. About the detail of, you know, from the detail of the lace. To the plants and the flowers in there and their hats and, and Just the The image of these two women engaged. I mean you might call it friendship I see in the one maybe a desire to sort of Pull the other into her confidence, whereas the the woman woman who's being shown me of the love letter is Showing sort of a sense of reticence, maybe a disinterest in the The drama of it.

I think it's Yeah, it's one that struck me. It's actually the first one that I saw that. I thought I really want. Um, Engage with this. And I think it really has. Great contrast. And there's a great deal of beauty in the And the subtlety of their fingers and And the composition.

Yeah. So again, another area where I, I know that I have more to gain, there's a in terms of the skill of, of looking at these things and seeing them and learning from them. This third one I want to look at um, Twitter by a guy solely, Soul solely.

It's called the shadow by Lou bennish. I don't know much more about it, but it is. An image on the top. You've got a dark background and a white goat. I'm gonna say it's It's in a style that is a little bit. Hard to read for detail. Um, it's A little bit distorted this image.

Um, But there is a white goat on a dark background, and a darker goat on a, on a white background. Uh, and they are both of them. Have what appears to be kind of like a sun with an eye. In the middle near, their sort of the the near their Center?

And, and there's a An image of like blood vessels connecting these two sun heart things and um, I feel like it has a sort of a yin yang quality, right? The. The lighter goat is baby staring at us and the darker goat is staring away. But there's just, I think a sense of It reminds me of Blake's.

Songs of Edisons and experience and I like the way that it contrasts. These two images, Um, And the strange list of the of the the way that they're portrayed is itself, kind of Brings a little bit of joy to me. Just the way that it encapsulates them, I think is really, really Um, Affecting.

I see these. Images, I think there's a There's something about this contrast of the the light in the dark. Um, That sort of draws me to contemplate. The way that each of them may be represents me. Or parts of me are facets of me. Um, Yes, another one. I really.

I want to recommend to you guys. I really think it's pretty. Um, It's one that I've thought about and looked at for quite a bit and I I feel a little richer for it, so, Um, Hopefully, that's it's interesting. At least, that's interesting as I'm more interesting than the, the art league versions.

Um, I will probably come back to some of those and get to look at some of these big. Um, Big name works of art, but I've really been enjoying Uh just trying to find things that I thought were were worthy of comment and worthy. Um, mentioning here, I'm going to leave and I will come back and talk to you guys about literature here in a little bit.

Thanks.

All right, welcome back. Um, so I'm going to focus into literature this time and I think I'm I did last week Don Quixote and Swan's way. I'm going to be jumping sort of talking about some of the other ones that I'm in the middle of things that our first reads and that And for the most part, I'm enjoying The first one I kind of want to hit.

Um, is a book called black Empire. It is a It's originally a serialized. Science fiction story from the 20s and 30s. I was put out is written by a guy. Um, named George Skyler. He is a black man from Um, I don't know. I think I want to say New York I I there's a bunch about his biography and the introduction but it has been a minute since I did that.

Um, I think It's been a relationship story. I'm over halfway through now. I think, and I think

It's interesting for a lot of reasons one because it's a it's a vision of what it would look like. For Black people to unite and to. Sort of throw off some of the oppressive yoke that they were certainly under in the 20s and 30s. And, It's a vision of that sort of of an alternate world where Um, White supremacy.

Is, you know? Comes crumbling down certainly earlier than it did. And I think, Uh, his vision is Kind of fascinating. A lot of ways one, he casts sort of this this very Megalomaniacal. Um, A character in Dr. Balsadesh the head of this, the black International who is a very Um, I mean, it feels like a very villainous character and almost every way he he reads a lot like And the instruction points of this, I didn't think of this all my own, but it reads a lot.

Like some of those characters that I mean, Most people argue for fundamentally racist, depictions of sort of the mastermind Chinese. Sort of um if you're familiar with Marvel Comics the old 60s Mandarin like this guy who is Crafty and evil, and Um, ruthless and Sort of dangerous to everything in the white and stands for, right?

And He creates this character. But seems to be making the argument, right? That this guy who That, that black people being ruthless. Is the only way for them to, they have to outgrowth less the white man in order to topple his sort of His demand for the premacy and I think I think it's a really interesting story.

I I think that there there are some evidence maybe that this guy is kind of and I think you can kind of see it in the book. These guys kind of a fascist like he fundamentally believes that. Freedom is not right. A practical long-term solution and The illusion of freedom is sort of.

Um, Keeping black cool down, anyways. And they're using black Google server tube. Manufacturer, that illusion of Freedom. Um, And I think, you know, some of it that I don't certainly agree with by any means, but Really a lot about it that I find fascinating to talks about, you know, this, this group coming together and And pooling its resources and Finding a way to, you know, establish an Empire in Africa and this whole thing, and it's it's really fascinating.

Sort of science fiction. That's that sort of Spirit of Only 20th century science. Fiction, that is very Um, Oftentimes wildly incorrect for he imagines like Solar generator based on technology that I do not think would work. Um, he also Thinks that Cooked food is just like bad for you.

That's really weird because they start off, it starts off very Central like it's very set. Like all of these people are drinking smoking, you know, they're, they're interested in the best things of life in that sense. Um but then it slowly sort of becomes revealed the Dr. Pat Bells this wants to like Remove, all these things that he consider devices, including apparently Cooked food, he believes that That when you cook food, it kills the living cells.

And basically your body gets dragged down by a bloat of dead matter, inside of your body, which is I mean, it's It's insane, but also It's um, Yeah, it's a very interesting. You know, vision to the world and it's um it's compelling even when It's nonsensical, although sometimes it does I think this is where the second half of the book has gotten a little less compelling is just getting too focused on some of that sort of Description of An alternate view of the way, you know, the way the life should be led, I guess it's Becoming less of a narrative and more of a program.

But Still very much enjoying that I'm like uh, almost 70 of the way through it looks like So that's um probably the first one. The second one I kind of wanted to highlight here is Maryland, Robinson's Gilead. Um, I got suggested that by somebody from, Twitter. And It's been a very interesting road.

I want to say I'm about 50 of the way through and I I like I loved hearing I love hearing the story, right? Of this sort of multi-generational. Family it, many of these feels a lot like my family. It's a family full of Preachers and and full of Fold the power and presence of God, I think.

It's theology, theology, espoused by the narrator as Sometimes so far off that I'm like a little bit embarrassed. Like, it's just very not. I don't think a lot of it doesn't make sense to me. I'm in the middle of a section. Uh, where he's going on and on about the fifth commandment.

I'm like, it's What it means and what it's about. And it's just Yeah, I would say that it's beyond questionable in many cases, just very weird. But it's the father son, it's the description of, you know, a connections, you know, the questions about violence and his father, his grand.

The guy's grandfather. Involvement in the bleeding Kansas stuff. It's just very Many parts that feel very Um, I don't know again, maybe two up my alley but um, I've enjoyed it for the most part, I don't think that this is one that I'm gonna like Want to keep going with.

I I feel like maybe I'll finish it and then I'll probably be done. I think I gather there are more in this series but it's just I'm not I'm not loving Marilyn, Robinson's Vision. I, I like a lot of her other stuff, but Her decision to kind of A sort of theology and doing ways.

I just I don't Think are very Um, Very well grounded is definitely not. Keeping me in the story. Um, besides that trying to think there are, not that many others that I am. Reading, for the first time, the only other one I'm probably going to mention here today is the master Margarita by the Caleb bogukov.

I'm reading a translation by. I think Diana Lewis is the name. Um, I I've enjoyed it. It's a in his kind everywhere as a book. Um, It appears to be about the devil visiting Soviet Russia, but it's also, it's kind of all over the place. Chapters are jumping around quite a bit.

There's a lot of it that About some sort of alternate version of the story of Jesus and his death. Um, The authors really trying to use like very

He's calling people Yeshua. Levy, matvay and all these other very, um, Kind of, Correct terms historically. Um, And try to tell the story. Talking about Pontius Pilate. It's a very interesting story. But as a lot of stories going on, and I don't know. I'm not totally sure. I think it's a really well, written novel but also I'm sometimes a little bit Um, I'm a little bit uncertain as to whether I'm going to feel that way at the end of it.

Um, that's another one that I almost halfway through now. So, Yeah, I'll probably keep talking about those more as I get into it. As I finished get closer to finishing them. But that is where I'm going to leave you guys for now, and I will come back to talk about movies and TV here in just a bit.

Okay, um, slight correction. I, I did forget that I want to talk a little bit about podcasts just for this week, I, I did, For the first time in a little while, listen to a podcast, I actually picked up Um, WTF by Mark Marion. I was just kind of looking at stuff that I had downloaded and I did download an episode of him.

Uh, talking to Jesse Eisenberg. The recep is I think a really good podcast. It's one of those podcasts that I have spent long periods like listening to a lot of them. Pro. I don't think I've ever really tried to listen to every episode. I always sort of think where I was listening to.

The episodes that had people, that I really liked. You know, some, a fantastic interviews. I still think about that Dick. Van Dyke interview every so often. Um, but The most recent one, I listen to was Jesse Eyes and work. And uh, it was shortly after a real pain came out.

Um, and yeah, I thought I was really a conversation. Um, I feel like Jesse Eisenberg is just like a really interesting person in a lot of ways, I think. I, I just love a person who Who is very self-effacing and who kind of has their own Um, Who doesn't necessarily think they're super interesting?

Because it maybe you had it being the most interesting people. Um but yeah, his uh, his discussion of sort of what he does. Um that he sees himself as a writer, which is while I didn't realize he was actually a playwright and various other things. Um, I really loved a real pain.

That was before the time of this podcast by a little bit, but it It was it was a fantastic film. I think him and Karen Culkin are amazing in it. I think the whole cast is really very good and I love the sort of pocket drama elements to it that it's just so it's not.

It's Feels a little bit like a play. It has Um, you know, so much of the drama is just People talking people family expressing sort of the The restorations and difficulties of their life. And dealing with really hard stuff. So, um, Yeah, if you haven't already seen, I definitely suggest that Um, but the podcast is also very good.

I feel like WTF is a solid podcast. I, I've Interview podcast. I feel like we're kind of all I had listened to until Ralph recently. Um so you know I love a, I love a good interviewer. I genuine they think Mark. Marin is one of the better ones. Like I know people who have Who get frustrated by his way of doing things, but I think, People often say that he interjects them himself into the interviews too much but I think that's where I like about them, right?

They don't feel like interviews in the sense that Um, I don't feel like interviews in the sense that You're just the, you know, this person is a blank slate who's just there to reflect, right? The other person's, Um, what makes the other person, interesting? A Charlie Rose type of person.

Um, I I think I think I've done this probably before but not on the podcast that I think in terms of interviewers people that I really enjoy listening to interview other people. I would say. Um, Mark Marines, maybe two, or top two or three along with Charlie Rose and Conan O'Brien.

I I just think all of them do a really good job in different ways. Charlie Rose really, is that a mirror or that just shows another person and really does not feel like he gives A lot of himself away like he's really focused on making it possible to see another person in a way that's really.

Um, Striking. Um, I really love that Mark Marin doesn't feel the need to exclude himself. And the fact he brings out So much sometimes when people by asking but also by being willing to sort of open himself up in ways that I think open people up, there's a great pork part of the interview with Jesse eisenberg where Um, Where he asks a difficult question, right?

That, like Do you have a sense of sort of what has made you, maybe the neurotic person that you are and he's like yeah I do I don't really just hasn'tburg doesn't want to talk about it and he's like yeah I get that he doesn't doesn't pressure him, he doesn't push him.

To reveal something that he's never said in public before, but he does. Like he brings in his own empathy to say, you know, hey, like I have seen You know, this is my experience and putting that in front of him. It doesn't make just yet and we're suddenly like reveal his deepest darkest secrets to people, but it does.

Take, what could have been really weird moment but also like it builds a rapport that I feel like gets Really good stuff from people and really gets people to talk about themselves. In ways that Appropriate to the medium. Without being invasive. And I think that's, I think, the way he doesn't is really good.

Definitely a podcaster. Though I can I'm not going to pretend that I'm gonna listen to every episode of WTF. Even at the most, I've always only listened to the people that I really wanted to Um, but I think he does a really good job especially if you find him that he is interviewed somebody.

You really like I genuinely can't suggest. Anymore, his episode. Uh, with Karen Culkin, it's another one that I was just like, wow, he really did a good job of Talking to this guy with a very interesting story. Interesting backstory right, his family. Everything else and and really engaging with him as a human being and and getting a very interesting interview in many ways because of the fact that it's just kind of a conversation between you to hearing means Um, so that's I thought I got for this week on that.

Um, I'm sure I'll come back and talk more later, but I will be coming back with movies and TV here in just a bit.

All right, welcome back. I'm now my movies and TV section. Which might be a little sparse. I only watched one film successfully. I did start a complete unknown. Um which I kind of enjoyed for the first little bit, but I Kind of got distracted by various other things and didn't finish it and also kind of made a plan to finish with my wife or to walk out with my wife, so that didn't end up.

I don't know if it's actually working. I also didn't finish, um, a film that I got from the library that I've been meaning to Finish me watching for a while now. Um, that is eighth grade. I didn't finish it. Before the end of the week, I have finished a sense and I'm excited to talk about it for next week, but I think Yeah, it's been a lot of things where I've like, watched part of something, didn't get all the way through it.

Uh, they're honestly wasn't even a lot of TV this week. I don't know why I felt so busy. But either way, I did not get around to a ton of things. And the only film I finish this week is a film called Small Things. Like these came out last year.

Directed by Tim Milans, it's about The Irish. Magdalene schools. I think I'm pronouncing that correctly. They were institutions that took in girls who got pregnant in Ireland for Several decades. Um I want to say, I want to say it's like from the 20s to the 80s. It's a really, really long time.

And they run by the Catholic church and they We're reformed schools in many ways, like I I've probably I don't know if I've expressed in the podcast yet but I have I have an experience with. Places like that that are supposed to be institutions, help, allegedly helping. Young people try to quote, overcome whatever.

Thing, we've decided we've decided about them as negative. Uh, I mean it's not to say that these on these girls weren't and troubled situations, but Um, From the, you know, from the sort of Unwilling. Detention of these young women in these, these places the fact that there are children Who they tended to have while they were there.

Uh, forcibly adopted out many many times to Americans. And

The fact that You know. So much of this is done to cover over some sense of Shame or stigma. Um, And then, of course, these institutions, Because they Thrive on secrecy because they thrive on. Um, Shame and Punishment and whatever. They are ripe for abuses and they almost always involve at least some measure of psychological abuse.

Um, I I say that you know, with A lot of confidence. Because of my own experience. But I think like, It's Difficult. It's a difficult topic. The film actually follows a character played by.

Killian Murphy.

And, He is a father of. I want to say whoever six young girls. He he is in a position, and I are in Ireland, you know, he's a man with a good trade, he works in fuel. Wood and and Coal and things like that, and delivering it to people.

And and He has this business. He has this plan. He has, I think, in many ways to life he wants, right? Um, But there is this. Underlying discomfort, his mother. Was in many ways like a lot of these young women, she was a single woman who had a child in.

I'm guessing 30s 40s Ireland and Um, Yeah. A lot of the film. Really, it is not a film about the Madeline houses, it's not told from the respective of Of the girls or of the nuns or who anybody directly involved. It is the story of a man. Who. Is coming to understand.

The.

Evil. And the things that are happening around it, he's coming to see Abuse. He's coming to see all of these. All these things happening in the society around them. And, It's a thing that in many ways, everybody seems to be willing to To look the other way about. To ignore and they do it because the Catholic Church is powerful in Ireland.

Um, And because

Probably maybe they don't know what the best, they don't they don't have a plan. Nobody has a plan for how to aggress. You know what, they might see as a legitimate problem, right? These girls sort of Stepping out of the lines. Getting pregnant. Being sexually active. Drinking, whatever it is.

Whatever it is. It's got these girls into this situation. They don't know how to fix it and so they don't feel like there's anything for them to do, even even if even when they do. Have these brief hints right, but for him,

Partially because of his mother in her experience and partially because of You know. Just the pangs of his unconscious can't. Can't just forever. Look away, right? He's cut. He's constantly being bombarded. With. The wrongness of some of the things he's seeing and Yeah, I just think I mean Kelly Murphy does an amazing job.

He is a great actor anyway but I love to see him. Play Irish. I know he's Irish but I think. He's done a lot of things where he's X Y, z, he's done a very good job, but some of the movies that I've loved him in the most, are the ones where he is.

Unambiguously Irish. The one that comes to mind is the wind that shakes, the barley

You know, years ago? When I was first starting a movie list that was one of the movies that was very, very high on my list. I don't think it's a movie that like People. Today generally think of, it's like, oh, here's this is, you know. What we're going to remember him for but I I really do love watching him play that.

I love, I've loved him in so many other things. I mean, he's done a lot of things that are sort of in that. General British range isn't done a ton of things that are like, Really, really, you know, I don't know that he's played a ton of Americans, but he's done a really, really good job.

Um, A a portraying a wide range of people but specifically, when I get to see him. Um, You know, doing things that Irish history or or have these these connections to Ireland? I don't know, it feels like it feels like a different level and it feels like he goes up a gear, which is not to say anything about any performances.

He's been amazing. In things forever but I really really do love. I love seeing him. In these roles because I really think he I just see a little bit more. I see a little bit more on him and I really, I love it. Um, and yeah, you just portrays the, the sense of Um, He portrays the sense of The the crisis of conscience.

Around. Knowing that something is wrong. But also, knowing that If you just shut your eyes, right? It sounds like right. You can just Get a little bit further from that. You don't have to. Let this affect you, right? You can kind of push it away. Like all these other people are doing and people are going to can you know, keep Urging you keep a encouraging you to make those moves.

Emily Watson, fantastic actress. In any situation. Uh, plays the head none and does an amazing job of just That subtle thing, like she's She's encouraging him with everything she has, you know, just Keep to not make a big deal of it. And the thing about it is it's the it's the corruption of the whole thing.

That makes him. That continues to bolster its confidence. Right. He has this idea right? That something evil is happening here, and If other people had, Tried to do the dirty deal. Try to do the corruption to convince him to look the other way. He might never have It might never have gotten him to the point that point of Courage where he could Take a stand.

You could actually do or say something turned out of the ordinary. I don't want to give too much of that away. I think there's a little bit of something to the To the ending to the process of getting there, but it's that That struggle and it's heart. That is.

It's exciting to watch, honestly. I think he does it about as well as anybody. Um, that really is about it for the section. I don't have any TV Is really coming to mind. Um, I will probably next week, dig a little bit into. Paradise, the pit. Me some Daredevil born again.

You know, I've just started the pet so I'm not gonna Say too much about that. Uh, Severance which we we finally finished the first second season. So, You know, take all that, but I will come back here in just a bit.

All right, welcome back. So now I'm going to be talking about comic books. I've got maybe a little bit of a light week this week. I'm just going to talk about a couple that have. Struck me, particularly

So the only two that I really have that I felt like were worth. Um, Mentioning this week are Uh, ultimate Wolverine number three, and ultimate Spider-Man, number 15, um, I have enjoyed, I think both of these books to some extent. Um, But I think this is where I start to see them, maybe go in different directions.

I I think ultimate Spider-Man. Number 15 is probably one of my favorites. Uh, if you're not sort of up with where they are, Um, Spider-Man and his family are kind of On the run a little bit. There's, there's, there's still sort of in this this world of the makers making And it's Things have kind of come crashing down around him.

Uh, and ways that have been really interesting. I want to dig too much into it but I really love the father son Dynamic. I love Um, You know, dealing with characters. Dealing with. Seeing at teenager in both, both those aspects both as like, Assan trying to engage with his father.

Uh, and a healthy way but also Experiencing the draw towards sort of his own personhood. Yeah, I really been loving this book and I think Probably is at least among the better ones. Um, In the series so far. Second one, though, ultimate Wolverine 3 is a bit of a disappointment.

I I think I've seen that. This one is. More stayed and traditional maybe. Petro Milko's. Ultron X-Men, I think And disappointed that they decided to go this way with it because they feel like somebody saw, you know, peace promoco and all of the very exciting interesting. Sort of wildly out there stuff, she's doing building this version of the X-Men in Japan and focusing on these Japanese characters focusing on characters that maybe aren't at the Forefront of most people's mind when they think about X-Men.

Especially, um, The sort of world at large beyond. Beyond your average comic book fan. Um, but I I guess I can see that somebody thought to themselves, right? We've got Give people what they want. And I think, I was hoping the ultimate Wolverine would have like a more interesting reveal that it would end up being something maybe different than what we'd imagined.

And the fact that it, I mean, this issue introducing two characters that Extraordinarily well known in, you know, two of probably the bigger name X-Men. Certainly of the last. Couple decades. And then, you know, Putting that along with. Along with just the reveal of of his identity, which is just is not a reveal, it's, it's boring.

I I was, I was really hoping for something more and honestly, I kind of It's the closest I've been to turn being turned off of one of these ultimate books so far. So Yeah, hopefully they'll figure out a way to Do that differently. And and Uh, hopefully the rest of the stuff will continue to be sort of, as I don't want to say edgy, it's not like they're going out of their way to piss people off but they are Really refusing to just give people what they want, right?

Just do the basics. Um, I think that's what probably the thing that's most exciting about. Um, This version of the ultimate universe is that it just doesn't feel like Where they think a lot of mainstream Comics feels like right now, which is just That light, keep it. Keep the stakes low and just Let things ride out.

I think that's It's exciting that it's not that and so I'm, I'm happy to see where it's going. Again, other than this one and hopefully we'll see. A more good things, I'll have more things. Hopefully next week to talk about I'm in the comic world. Um, I will come back here with food and drink here.

A little bit. Thank you for your time.

All right, guys. Welcome back to my last section here, talking about food and drink. Um, it has been a pretty Simple week in a lot of ways I have been finishing. I still haven't finished even further into the future. Um, that fall 15 pack of all the IPA. I haven't done anything more interesting in the world of beer.

Um, I haven't probably gone it too far out of my Norms. Um, this year this week. Um, Palm Sunday was Old shiny Pizza with my wife, which was Not particularly exciting. I I I didn't find the pizza that I had great and I think her He was not cannoli.

Um, Those long thick. Pastors. I forget in the carbonara, sauce was a little bit better but it wasn't. Wasn't anything to write home about. So old, Johnny Pizza and Shawnee Kansas not. You know, the most exciting thing I've had in recent times. Um, we also went to a place called Our house KC with some friends and, um, It was also kind of A letdown.

I didn't really have an associate for. I hopes but I was honestly a little bit. I ended up getting a thing that was essentially like a Johnsonville sausage on a Hoagie roll from Dylan's and You know. Azure naire that I'll admit had some kick to it but it's like My guess is they probably bought that somewhere too.

It did not feel particularly Exciting, my wife said the mac and cheese wasn't great either. So another one that I can't particularly recommend I did get to go. Uh, that same day. I was hanging on Kansas City, and I want to place called. I forgot the name of this.

I I was it seemed like it was gonna be a cafe and ended up being a little different than I expected. This place is called, Midtown Cava. Down 39th Street and just Bad tea. I had a good matcha latte. Another day complain about. Very Buddhist. There was a lot of THC stuff all over the walls and Um, some terrible philosopher on like I don't know they're playing like A speech over.

Music system. It was Weird. It was fine. I wasn't if you're the kind of person who is very into all the shit they're into um you probably really enjoy it but I was just disappointing because I didn't get coffee and I probably should on different place. Um, but I didn't get to go to my sugar.

Um, because Midtown doesn't have a bathroom and onto mishuga and I got a poppy seed bagel with the jalapeno smear and Shout out to Michelle, one of my favorite places in Kansas City. Um, I found no particular difference between the various locations. I used to live by the one I'm 39th.

And I, I still go to soccer games downtown with some people, uh, to watch them at a bar. And, um, The. Uh, the sugar down there is also fantastic. Just I love their Shamir. I love their Bagels and I love That our sandwich is honestly a little sad. I didn't get any of the beetier sandwiches, but the jalapeno smear really, you know, The, the sort of You know, the cream of the Of the cream cheese with the You know, a little bit of sweetness and a little bit of spiciness.

In the jalapenos. Absolutely perfect. I would have gotten a different bagel if I thought about it. I kind of got a little flustered as I often do in ordering things. If I make a mistake on the first, Like thing I say, I am. I'm in trouble, I'm gonna end up saying something really stupid.

So Uh, yeah, I got the public seed. Bagel. I probably would have gotten something else if I had. Everything or something, I don't know. But again, sugar very Bagels. No nothing negative to say what's over there. Um, Yeah, I mean that's about as out of the box as my week.

Got, in terms of food, I will have some more things. I made some fun stuff since then but I won't uh, I won't drop all that on this week's. Thanks for listening. I really appreciate everybody who's uh who's listening and giving feedback. And hopefully this thing will start can be.

Can you pick up? Uh but uh I appreciate everybody who's who's been engaged? Right? Thanks. See you later. Oh, and still happy Easter. To everybody out there.