Free On The Inside (ft. Donald Morrison)

We're back! After their triumphant NYC debut, Lauren is back in
DC, Drew's moved into Morningside Heights with his Jane
Goodall-fancying roommate, and they're ready to chat Grandma's
shit death house with their pal Donny Morrissey, an investigative
journalist and fan of the show who was first K-pilled some years
ago during a stint in county jail for heroin possession. This is
a classic struggle session, with equal parts textual analysis and
Martin anus riffing. You're going to want to shoot this one into
your veins, listener!


NOTE FOR THE AUDIO FREAKS: There was a weird rustling sound on
Donny's end to begin with but it's resolved by 38:40 so skip
ahead to there if you really can't stand it (although you will
miss a lot of good riffing).


0:00 - Lauren and Drew convene early to catch up and plug Our
Struggle's 1ST ANNIVERSARY CALL IN SHOW, the deadline for which
is August 21 (GOOGLE VOICE NUMBER: 443-584-6486). We've been
getting a lot of delightful missives from listeners and would
love to get more. So call in! Especially if you can help Lauren
interpret her MRI report, a dramatic reading of which she gives
at 8:15.


14:00 - Our boy Donny beams in from his Marc Maron-style LA
garage and we quickly stumble upon an excerpt from Christopher
Hitchens' memoir about being horny for Margaret Thatcher and
definitely not horny at all for his good chum Martin Anus. After
pondering how Martin A would fare on Twitter, Donny tells us
about his K-pill experience in the clink (interestingly he
couldn't Pynchonpill himself, even locked up for 23 hours a day)
and Drew whips out the James Wood blurb on prison literature.
Does the cleaning grandma's alcoholic shit death house section of
Book 1 have a certain prison lit quality, in which every minor
detail takes on great world building significance? 


1:20:39 - Lauren, Drew and Donny sat sail upon a sea of cleaning
products, or is it a ocean of meaningless? At any rate we try to
draw out what we feel is one of the most important paradigms in
Book 1, about the erosion of meaning over time. We read from some
of the most iconic passages in the book, about childhood,
construction cranes, crabs. A lot of roasting of Yngve in this
passage for everything from his outfits to his sleepwalking to
his lutefisk eating -- the latter of which inspires us to
interrogate our own relationships to fish.


2:10:10 - After what is surely an unhealthy amount of on-topic
discussion, our three close readers lapse back into digression
and chat neck pain, the notorious JC episode, Donny's hot take
re: jail vs. prison. We spend at least a quarter of an hour
discussing height percentiles with the help of tall.life,
ultimately arriving at  the conclusion that Lauren is taller
than Drew.


Thank you for listening! As always, write in to us at
teixeira.lauren@gmail.com or deohringer@gmail.com. And please do
call in! You have three days left!!!