Jakson War täydellinen litterointi

a month. 53 00:02:00,950 --> 00:02:03,769 And I'm like, hey. Hey. Just 54 00:02:04,149 --> 00:02:05,049 sign it. 55 00:02:06,629 --> 00:02:09,509 And maybe that maybe that'll help. I don't 56 00:02:09,509 --> 00:02:10,009 know. 57 00:02:10,864 --> 00:02:12,484 The war is happening. 58 00:02:12,784 --> 00:02:14,805 I was asking AI 59 00:02:15,264 --> 00:02:16,644 about the way, 60 00:02:18,064 --> 00:02:21,025 on the twenty eighth, I was talking to 61 00:02:21,025 --> 00:02:22,484 AI about the Malian 62 00:02:22,864 --> 00:02:23,364 dialogues 63 00:02:23,984 --> 00:02:24,484 because 64 00:02:25,269 --> 00:02:28,090 I feel like the way our culture 65 00:02:28,469 --> 00:02:29,209 is talking 66 00:02:29,509 --> 00:02:30,009 about 67 00:02:30,870 --> 00:02:31,370 international 68 00:02:32,069 --> 00:02:32,569 relations, 69 00:02:34,069 --> 00:02:34,889 the Greenland, 70 00:02:35,669 --> 00:02:37,909 the whole thing, and now we're at war 71 00:02:37,909 --> 00:02:38,729 in Iran. 72 00:02:39,405 --> 00:02:39,905 That's 73 00:02:40,284 --> 00:02:43,344 the Malian dialogue from ancient Greece, 74 00:02:43,965 --> 00:02:45,025 from Thucydides' 75 00:02:45,884 --> 00:02:47,424 history of the Peloponnesian 76 00:02:48,044 --> 00:02:51,405 War, the idea that the strong do what 77 00:02:51,405 --> 00:02:52,224 they can 78 00:02:52,719 --> 00:02:55,379 and the weak suffer what they must. 79 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:57,620 And that was the argument 80 00:02:58,400 --> 00:02:58,900 presented 81 00:02:59,199 --> 00:03:00,419 to the island 82 00:03:01,039 --> 00:03:01,780 of Milos 83 00:03:02,239 --> 00:03:02,739 saying, 84 00:03:03,199 --> 00:03:06,405 hey. You need to pay us tax and 85 00:03:06,405 --> 00:03:08,105 become part of our Athenian 86 00:03:08,485 --> 00:03:08,985 empire. 87 00:03:09,525 --> 00:03:12,264 And they were like, that isn't right. And 88 00:03:12,485 --> 00:03:15,685 the response was the strong do what they 89 00:03:15,685 --> 00:03:18,264 can. The weak suffer what they must. 90 00:03:19,310 --> 00:03:21,330 The Melian dialogue 91 00:03:22,110 --> 00:03:24,530 happens at the end of the Athenian 92 00:03:24,830 --> 00:03:26,689 empires. The the empire 93 00:03:26,990 --> 00:03:27,490 grasps 94 00:03:27,790 --> 00:03:28,290 around. 95 00:03:28,750 --> 00:03:29,490 It starts 96 00:03:30,110 --> 00:03:30,610 denying 97 00:03:30,909 --> 00:03:33,490 its place at the table and 98 00:03:34,014 --> 00:03:36,974 denying the other people a place at the 99 00:03:36,974 --> 00:03:38,995 table. That's about compulsion. 100 00:03:40,175 --> 00:03:40,675 Dad 101 00:03:40,974 --> 00:03:41,794 took me 102 00:03:42,495 --> 00:03:43,715 to go see, 103 00:03:45,055 --> 00:03:47,075 Born on the July 4, 104 00:03:47,969 --> 00:03:48,709 and then 105 00:03:49,250 --> 00:03:52,449 a man died in the theater. We got 106 00:03:52,530 --> 00:03:55,330 our tickets were funded. I said to dad, 107 00:03:55,330 --> 00:03:58,389 please, can we leave? And he said, just 108 00:03:58,849 --> 00:04:02,485 promise me he won't join the military. And 109 00:04:02,485 --> 00:04:04,425 I was like, yes. Let's go. 110 00:04:04,805 --> 00:04:05,865 A man died. 111 00:04:06,485 --> 00:04:07,784 It was the weekend. 112 00:04:08,645 --> 00:04:11,365 It was like opening weekend and you know 113 00:04:11,365 --> 00:04:12,185 how movies 114 00:04:12,965 --> 00:04:15,544 used to be. We were sitting in 115 00:04:16,129 --> 00:04:18,610 the side. There was no seat in the 116 00:04:18,610 --> 00:04:19,110 middle. 117 00:04:19,649 --> 00:04:22,209 We were in, like, the third row on 118 00:04:22,209 --> 00:04:23,189 the side, 119 00:04:24,290 --> 00:04:27,009 and the guy in the first or second 120 00:04:27,009 --> 00:04:27,509 row 121 00:04:28,209 --> 00:04:30,470 died in the middle of the movie, 122 00:04:30,925 --> 00:04:34,685 and his date screamed, ah, and the lights 123 00:04:34,685 --> 00:04:36,785 went on, the man was dead. 124 00:04:37,165 --> 00:04:38,705 We stopped the movie, 125 00:04:39,085 --> 00:04:40,305 and the 126 00:04:40,685 --> 00:04:44,125 police came, and I got they offered to 127 00:04:44,125 --> 00:04:45,264 refund tickets. 128 00:04:46,949 --> 00:04:48,789 And I was like, dad, get me out 129 00:04:48,789 --> 00:04:49,449 of here. 130 00:04:50,310 --> 00:04:51,769 I think I was 10. 131 00:04:52,470 --> 00:04:54,490 It was just too much. 132 00:04:55,750 --> 00:04:56,250 War. 133 00:04:57,189 --> 00:05:00,889 Alright. Well, there's war. People shouldn't do war. 134 00:05:01,425 --> 00:05:03,685 Let me get some shout outs. 135 00:05:04,704 --> 00:05:07,365 I wanna give a shout out to Max 136 00:05:07,504 --> 00:05:08,004 Level. 137 00:05:09,105 --> 00:05:11,584 Gotta give a big shout out to Max 138 00:05:11,584 --> 00:05:14,430 Level. He was feeling the last episode 139 00:05:15,050 --> 00:05:15,949 and commiserating 140 00:05:16,569 --> 00:05:18,430 about hopping the hot sauce. 141 00:05:19,050 --> 00:05:21,689 Big shout out. The best shout out of 142 00:05:21,689 --> 00:05:24,269 his whole life going out to Max 143 00:05:24,569 --> 00:05:25,069 level. 144 00:05:26,009 --> 00:05:26,509 Max 145 00:05:27,129 --> 00:05:27,629 level. 146 00:05:28,355 --> 00:05:29,814 Get other people's 147 00:05:30,274 --> 00:05:30,774 perspective. 148 00:05:31,955 --> 00:05:35,894 Be cool with them. Respect them. Respect others. 149 00:05:36,514 --> 00:05:39,795 Get along with other people. I got some 150 00:05:39,795 --> 00:05:41,095 record reviews. 151 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:42,779 Basic, 152 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:44,060 almost 153 00:05:44,439 --> 00:05:45,660 record reviews. 154 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:47,180 The new 155 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,939 album from the local band, San Francisco 156 00:05:51,399 --> 00:05:53,180 band, Magic Fig. 157 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,699 Their new second album is Valerian 158 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:57,660 Tea. 159 00:05:58,415 --> 00:06:02,754 Their, self titled came out in 2024. 160

00:06:03,935 --> 00:06:07,214 Their new record, Valerian Tea, it's been getting 161 00:06:07,214 --> 00:06:09,074 a lot of play on KFJAC. 162 00:06:10,319 --> 00:06:12,560 My wife and I are, like, perked up 163 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,740 when we hear it. It's kinda interesting. 164 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,180 We're like, oh, what's this? And it keeps 165 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:22,240 being magic fake. Off Valerian t, it sounds 166 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:23,699 kinda like Stereolab 167 00:06:24,479 --> 00:06:24,979 sometimes 168 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:25,860 and, 169 00:06:26,294 --> 00:06:30,294 like, Lady Tron and, like, the French band 170 00:06:30,294 --> 00:06:30,794 Air. 171 00:06:31,654 --> 00:06:33,435 It's a local band. 172 00:06:34,375 --> 00:06:37,334 Where did they really come from last day? 173 00:06:37,334 --> 00:06:37,834 I 174 00:06:38,389 --> 00:06:41,029 And it's like a super group. Let me 175 00:06:41,029 --> 00:06:44,009 see. Where did they really come from? 176 00:06:44,870 --> 00:06:47,430 So they came out of the SFC. It's 177 00:06:47,430 --> 00:06:49,529 like a post pandemic band. 178 00:06:50,230 --> 00:06:51,290 Muzzy Moskowitz 179 00:06:52,365 --> 00:06:55,824 from Almond Joy in color green. The keyboardist 180 00:06:56,125 --> 00:06:58,625 John Chaney from Healing Potpourri. 181 00:06:59,564 --> 00:07:03,345 And bass is Matthew Ferraro from The Umbrellas. 182 00:07:04,699 --> 00:07:05,100 They, 183 00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:08,160 were interested in fuzz organ 184 00:07:08,460 --> 00:07:09,759 sixties, seventies, 185 00:07:10,220 --> 00:07:10,720 prog. 186 00:07:11,340 --> 00:07:15,500 The drummer Taylor Griffin Healing Potpourri came on 187 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:16,480 and the vocalist 188 00:07:17,564 --> 00:07:18,064 Mellotron 189 00:07:18,444 --> 00:07:20,305 player, Ina Showalter, 190 00:07:21,324 --> 00:07:24,764 kind of an Eastern European vibe. That reminds 191 00:07:24,764 --> 00:07:26,224 me, kind of like Persephone's 192 00:07:26,845 --> 00:07:27,345 bees. 193 00:07:28,125 --> 00:07:31,870 And another local SF band with an Eastern 194 00:07:31,930 --> 00:07:33,229 European vocalist 195 00:07:33,529 --> 00:07:34,349 I would like. 196 00:07:34,649 --> 00:07:36,269 That'd be a cool set, 197 00:07:37,370 --> 00:07:38,430 to play together. 198 00:07:39,529 --> 00:07:41,789 Music recorded at Santos 199 00:07:42,329 --> 00:07:43,870 Studio in Oakland. 200 00:07:44,824 --> 00:07:46,205 The Oakland producer, 201 00:07:46,584 --> 00:07:47,084 Joel 202 00:07:47,384 --> 00:07:47,884 Robineau, 203 00:07:48,425 --> 00:07:49,324 that's their 204 00:07:49,705 --> 00:07:50,605 big producer 205 00:07:51,064 --> 00:07:53,324 guy. And I checked him out, 206 00:07:53,705 --> 00:07:56,185 and he was playing a live show with 207 00:07:56,185 --> 00:07:56,685 Wobbly 208 00:07:57,689 --> 00:07:58,829 at the Natural 209 00:07:59,209 --> 00:08:02,569 Batting Cage, which is a batting cage in 210 00:08:02,569 --> 00:08:03,389 San Francisco. 211 00:08:04,089 --> 00:08:07,209 So he played some show with Wobbly, who's 212 00:08:07,209 --> 00:08:08,269 like an experimental 213 00:08:09,050 --> 00:08:09,550 electronic 214 00:08:09,930 --> 00:08:10,430 musician. 215 00:08:11,264 --> 00:08:13,985 We used to check out Wobbly, like, twenty 216 00:08:13,985 --> 00:08:14,725 years ago. 217 00:08:15,665 --> 00:08:18,944 So Wobbly is at the Batting Cages with 218 00:08:18,944 --> 00:08:22,245 Joel Robineau, the producer of Magic Fig. 219 00:08:22,625 --> 00:08:23,764 Kind of an interesting 220 00:08:24,144 --> 00:08:24,644 album. 221 00:08:25,169 --> 00:08:26,389 Recall Stereolab 222 00:08:26,769 --> 00:08:29,669 Lady Tron Air. It's a local band. 223 00:08:30,050 --> 00:08:33,009 Where do they really come from? Oakland, I 224 00:08:33,009 --> 00:08:33,509 guess. 225 00:08:33,970 --> 00:08:37,250 They're an SF people, but they record in 226 00:08:37,250 --> 00:08:37,750 Oakland. 227 00:08:38,495 --> 00:08:39,634 They're an SF 228 00:08:40,014 --> 00:08:42,274 people. I like the sound of it. 229 00:08:42,975 --> 00:08:44,195 Also recently, 230 00:08:44,654 --> 00:08:46,595 I picked up Wet Leg, 231 00:08:47,294 --> 00:08:47,794 another 232 00:08:48,174 --> 00:08:48,674 recent 233 00:08:49,134 --> 00:08:50,195 record purchase. 234 00:08:50,940 --> 00:08:53,519 Their second l p this is all about 235 00:08:53,580 --> 00:08:55,919 second records today, sophomore. 236 00:08:56,779 --> 00:08:57,600 Wet Leg 237 00:08:58,220 --> 00:08:58,720 Moisturizer 238 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:00,320 l p. 239 00:09:00,940 --> 00:09:03,120 This record kind of soppy. 240 00:09:03,825 --> 00:09:05,745 That was a word. I I had to 241 00:09:05,745 --> 00:09:07,605 look that up. What is soppy? 242 00:09:08,144 --> 00:09:10,404 S o p p y, they said. 243 00:09:10,785 --> 00:09:13,045 Wetleg has turned kind of soppy. 244 00:09:13,985 --> 00:09:15,365 So it got good 245 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,759 reviews, pretty good reviews. It's a catchy record. 246 00:09:19,759 --> 00:09:20,419 I would 247 00:09:20,959 --> 00:09:21,699 the reviewers 248 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,259 are like it's kind of more emotionally 249 00:09:24,959 --> 00:09:25,459 vulnerable 250 00:09:25,919 --> 00:09:27,139 than their debut 251 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:27,940 record. 252 00:09:29,065 --> 00:09:30,845 And I guess that 253 00:09:32,424 --> 00:09:34,605 it it uses more profanity. 254 00:09:35,065 --> 00:09:36,845 I'm not sold on profanity. 255 00:09:37,304 --> 00:09:40,024 People here know I have accomplished I like 256 00:09:40,024 --> 00:09:40,524 profanity 257 00:09:40,904 --> 00:09:42,924 and I don't like it sometimes. 258 00:09:44,389 --> 00:09:45,610 It's it uses 259 00:09:45,910 --> 00:09:48,789 some and I it's not like really adding 260 00:09:48,789 --> 00:09:50,330 to it for me. 261 00:09:50,710 --> 00:09:54,470 But it, it's like soppy. So that means 262 00:09:54,470 --> 00:09:55,769 like emotionally 263 00:09:56,470 --> 00:09:56,970

vulnerable. 264 00:09:59,115 --> 00:10:00,014 Some reviewers 265 00:10:00,954 --> 00:10:03,294 felt the album had skip tracks 266 00:10:04,475 --> 00:10:08,014 where certain ballads felt languid and cliche. 267 00:10:09,595 --> 00:10:10,735 Heavy reliance 268 00:10:11,389 --> 00:10:13,730 on ironic quirky immaturity 269 00:10:14,190 --> 00:10:15,330 could be polarizing. 270 00:10:16,029 --> 00:10:18,269 I guess that's what I'm saying. We don't 271 00:10:18,269 --> 00:10:19,250 need the profanity, 272 00:10:19,870 --> 00:10:20,610 wet leg. 273 00:10:20,990 --> 00:10:23,009 It's not showing us anything. 274 00:10:23,684 --> 00:10:26,725 So but another thing people were saying was 275 00:10:26,725 --> 00:10:28,024 it's, like, nineties 276 00:10:29,365 --> 00:10:29,865 nineties 277 00:10:30,325 --> 00:10:32,884 music. So I I was, like, thinking, and 278 00:10:32,884 --> 00:10:34,825 I looked up Marilyn Manson. 279 00:10:35,365 --> 00:10:38,480 It is not like Marilyn Manson. I looked 280 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,100 up Jane's Addiction. It's not like Jane's Addiction. 281 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,940 I looked up garbage. It's not like garbage. 282 00:10:46,159 --> 00:10:48,820 It's a dull thing. It's catchy. 283 00:10:50,254 --> 00:10:53,134 It's kinda like party music. I think wet 284 00:10:53,134 --> 00:10:55,075 leg, I played it at a barbecue, 285 00:10:55,855 --> 00:10:58,095 and the models, she was like, oh, yeah. 286 00:10:58,095 --> 00:11:00,495 I heard this at the they were playing 287 00:11:00,495 --> 00:11:01,715 this at the fashion 288 00:11:02,095 --> 00:11:03,394 shoot or whatever. 289 00:11:03,740 --> 00:11:05,659 And I was like, oh, yeah. That makes 290 00:11:05,659 --> 00:11:07,440 sense. So it's kinda got 291 00:11:07,899 --> 00:11:08,639 a little 292 00:11:09,980 --> 00:11:12,940 it's a little brain dead. It's not it's 293 00:11:12,940 --> 00:11:14,480 not that deep. 294 00:11:15,019 --> 00:11:15,519 But 295 00:11:15,899 --> 00:11:17,199 I kinda like it. 296 00:11:17,855 --> 00:11:19,475 Wet leg moisturizer. 297 00:11:20,095 --> 00:11:22,514 I'm just too old for that, I think. 298 00:11:22,735 --> 00:11:24,834 Not bad for a second album. 299 00:11:26,414 --> 00:11:28,434 I've learned the word soppy. 300 00:11:29,870 --> 00:11:32,509 Another thing I'm too old for, I got 301 00:11:32,509 --> 00:11:33,809 John a CD. 302 00:11:34,190 --> 00:11:35,710 I was like, you know, I'm gonna get 303 00:11:35,710 --> 00:11:37,490 him a CD for Christmas. 304 00:11:37,870 --> 00:11:41,490 And I got him getting killed by geese. 305 00:11:42,434 --> 00:11:45,894 And that's like it reminds me of Radiohead. 306 00:11:46,995 --> 00:11:48,695 It reminds me 307 00:11:49,235 --> 00:11:50,455 of The Strokes. 308 00:11:53,634 --> 00:11:56,615 Does that mean it's a non serious music? 309 00:11:56,754 --> 00:11:57,654 I don't know. 310 00:11:59,100 --> 00:12:01,740 Serious or not serious, I bought it for 311 00:12:01,740 --> 00:12:04,059 my son because I was like, you're you're 312 00:12:04,059 --> 00:12:06,720 getting that age. You need a cool record. 313 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:09,580 So someone can come over come over to 314 00:12:09,580 --> 00:12:11,340 your house and be like, oh, you have 315 00:12:11,340 --> 00:12:11,840 that? 316 00:12:12,220 --> 00:12:12,720 Cool. 317 00:12:13,795 --> 00:12:15,415 You know, it's it's a teenager 318 00:12:15,795 --> 00:12:17,894 now. He's 12. 319 00:12:18,835 --> 00:12:20,615 He's going on 13. 320 00:12:21,235 --> 00:12:24,035 He's almost gonna be a teenager, so he 321 00:12:24,035 --> 00:12:27,554 can have time. Getting killed, keys, the guy 322 00:12:27,554 --> 00:12:31,570 uses the kind of vibrato that's very constant. 323 00:12:33,070 --> 00:12:36,110 It's, like, not very he doesn't, like, ease 324 00:12:36,110 --> 00:12:38,910 in and out of the vibrato. He sounds 325 00:12:38,910 --> 00:12:39,970 kinda like a 326 00:12:40,750 --> 00:12:41,889 he's like, woah. 327 00:12:42,350 --> 00:12:44,210 He sounds kinda like a goose. 328 00:12:45,764 --> 00:12:48,644 You know, it's the time to move on. 329 00:12:48,644 --> 00:12:50,024 We're all old now. 330 00:12:50,644 --> 00:12:51,865 Geese is popular. 331 00:12:52,644 --> 00:12:53,384 I'm reading. 332 00:12:53,764 --> 00:12:56,164 Now it's a book review. Okay? A lot 333 00:12:56,164 --> 00:12:56,985 of reviews, 334 00:12:57,365 --> 00:12:57,865 tertiary, 335 00:12:58,325 --> 00:13:00,424 almost reviews, not very 336 00:13:00,830 --> 00:13:01,970 not very this, 337 00:13:02,350 --> 00:13:04,769 very that, some here and there. 338 00:13:05,230 --> 00:13:07,009 I have been reading 339 00:13:07,710 --> 00:13:08,929 the the 340 00:13:09,710 --> 00:13:11,570 book Your Name Here 341 00:13:12,190 --> 00:13:13,570 by Helen DeWitt. 342 00:13:15,595 --> 00:13:18,335 It's a book that's kinda like the movie 343 00:13:18,394 --> 00:13:18,894 adaptation 344 00:13:19,754 --> 00:13:21,294 by Charlie Kaufman, 345 00:13:22,554 --> 00:13:24,495 like the cover of the book. 346 00:13:25,115 --> 00:13:27,595 I'll just the cover of the book is 347 00:13:27,595 --> 00:13:28,095 just 348 00:13:28,580 --> 00:13:29,080 text. 349 00:13:29,620 --> 00:13:30,519 And it says, 350 00:13:31,540 --> 00:13:33,940 the book is on a table in the 351 00:13:33,940 --> 00:13:34,440 bookstore, 352 00:13:35,139 --> 00:13:37,639 part of a three for two offer. 353 00:13:38,019 --> 00:13:41,399 You've also been meaning to read Seymour Hershey's 354 00:13:42,019 --> 00:13:43,160 Chain of Command, 355 00:13:43,704 --> 00:13:46,345 and this too is in the three for 356 00:13:46,345 --> 00:13:47,164 two deal. 357 00:13:47,625 --> 00:13:48,924 They've got Gravity's 358 00:13:49,384 --> 00:13:51,325 Rainbow by the notorious 359 00:13:52,105 --> 00:13:52,605 recluse 360 00:13:53,225 --> 00:13:53,725 Thomas 361 00:13:54,105 --> 00:13:54,605 Pynchon, 362 00:13:56,039 --> 00:13:57,980 Mao two by DeLillo, 363 00:13:58,759 --> 00:14:00,220 the border trilogy 364

00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:01,500 by McCarthy, 365 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,700 the catcher in the rye by Salinger, 366 00:14:05,399 --> 00:14:05,899 notorious 367 00:14:06,759 --> 00:14:07,259 recluses 368 00:14:08,039 --> 00:14:09,019 to a man. 369 00:14:09,914 --> 00:14:10,735 They've got 370 00:14:11,195 --> 00:14:12,014 The Loser, 371 00:14:12,475 --> 00:14:14,495 a novel about the notorious 372 00:14:15,034 --> 00:14:15,534 recluse 373 00:14:15,914 --> 00:14:16,894 Glenn Gould, 374 00:14:17,355 --> 00:14:18,414 by their notorious 375 00:14:19,034 --> 00:14:19,534 misanthrope 376 00:14:19,995 --> 00:14:21,215 Thomas Bernhardt. 377 00:14:22,289 --> 00:14:25,190 They've got lottery land by the notorious 378 00:14:25,889 --> 00:14:26,389 recluse 379 00:14:26,769 --> 00:14:27,269 misentroped 380 00:14:28,129 --> 00:14:28,629 Zosanian. 381 00:14:29,889 --> 00:14:31,269 You feel certainly 382 00:14:31,649 --> 00:14:32,709 and uncommunicative. 383 00:14:34,725 --> 00:14:36,424 You hate your fellow man. 384 00:14:37,044 --> 00:14:37,544 Reclusiveness 385 00:14:38,325 --> 00:14:39,144 and misanthropy 386 00:14:40,164 --> 00:14:42,264 could be the hair of the dog. 387 00:14:43,284 --> 00:14:46,904 They've also got Helen DeWitt and Ilya Grigniff's 388 00:14:47,365 --> 00:14:49,705 new book, Your Name Here. 389 00:14:50,629 --> 00:14:52,330 So that's the cover. 390 00:14:53,669 --> 00:14:56,330 Helena DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff 391 00:14:56,710 --> 00:14:58,250 and Your Name Here 392 00:14:58,870 --> 00:15:01,509 are in red. The rest of it is 393 00:15:01,509 --> 00:15:02,889 just type. It's a, 394 00:15:03,225 --> 00:15:05,884 so it's kind of a meta book. 395 00:15:06,985 --> 00:15:09,725 There's like a book inside the book 396 00:15:10,825 --> 00:15:11,804 that Zosanian 397 00:15:12,825 --> 00:15:16,264 Lottery Land is like a fake book by 398 00:15:16,264 --> 00:15:19,779 a fake author that's inside this book. 399 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,340 It's just like a book. 400 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,879 She had gone through some mental illness. She'd 401 00:15:26,879 --> 00:15:27,779 been committed. 402 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:29,460 There were suicide 403 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:31,700 attempts. This is in 404 00:15:32,115 --> 00:15:32,855 Helen DeWitt's 405 00:15:33,154 --> 00:15:34,375 actual life, 406 00:15:35,075 --> 00:15:35,894 real life. 407 00:15:36,355 --> 00:15:36,855 And 408 00:15:38,034 --> 00:15:41,335 she had written this book, The Last Samurai, 409 00:15:41,715 --> 00:15:43,414 in 2003, 410 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,259 and it was a big success. 411 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:49,839 And she spent a long time trying to 412 00:15:49,839 --> 00:15:51,940 get this book published. 413 00:15:52,879 --> 00:15:55,279 It's kind of a little wild of a 414 00:15:55,279 --> 00:15:55,779 book. 415 00:15:57,074 --> 00:15:59,334 It like imagines a world 416 00:16:00,034 --> 00:16:01,735 in which the Moors, 417 00:16:03,314 --> 00:16:04,615 the Moorish empire 418 00:16:05,794 --> 00:16:08,454 stayed in Spain, and their headquarters 419 00:16:08,914 --> 00:16:09,975 was in Granada, 420 00:16:10,940 --> 00:16:11,820 and they, 421 00:16:12,379 --> 00:16:15,759 settled the new world, like Spain with Columbus. 422 00:16:16,379 --> 00:16:19,100 But the Moors settled the new world, and 423 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:20,480 they speak Arabic 424 00:16:21,179 --> 00:16:24,559 in the new world, and it's like a, 425 00:16:24,904 --> 00:16:28,205 and then it kinda breaks into this other 426 00:16:28,264 --> 00:16:30,125 novel, Lottery Land, 427 00:16:30,665 --> 00:16:31,384 which is, 428 00:16:31,785 --> 00:16:34,125 about a world where 429 00:16:35,225 --> 00:16:37,565 you everyone gets lotto 430 00:16:37,865 --> 00:16:39,085 lotto monitors, 431 00:16:39,509 --> 00:16:42,410 and they check their luck all the time. 432 00:16:43,190 --> 00:16:45,590 And people have bad or good luck and 433 00:16:45,590 --> 00:16:46,330 some people 434 00:16:47,110 --> 00:16:49,690 lose everything and then kind of become 435 00:16:50,070 --> 00:16:50,570 outcasts 436 00:16:51,830 --> 00:16:52,330 outcasts 437 00:16:52,870 --> 00:16:54,009 from society. 438 00:16:55,304 --> 00:16:55,965 Really interesting 439 00:16:56,904 --> 00:16:57,404 book. 440 00:16:59,945 --> 00:17:03,325 A lot of it is, like, emails. 441 00:17:03,865 --> 00:17:06,345 Takes the form of emails where they have, 442 00:17:06,345 --> 00:17:07,404 like, the header 443 00:17:07,759 --> 00:17:12,500 and it's, like, from popesonecstasy@hotmail.com. 444 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:15,059 And and and it's, like, MSN. 445 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,119 It has the, like, auto signature at the 446 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:19,619 bottom, 447 00:17:20,144 --> 00:17:23,045 and you're just like, this is insane. 448 00:17:23,904 --> 00:17:25,765 Then there's, like, Arabic. 449 00:17:26,305 --> 00:17:27,765 Like, I learned that 450 00:17:29,025 --> 00:17:29,924 words like 451 00:17:30,705 --> 00:17:31,205 mujahideen 452 00:17:31,825 --> 00:17:32,724 and jihad, 453 00:17:34,109 --> 00:17:36,289 that they share the consonants 454 00:17:36,829 --> 00:17:38,450 j h d, 455 00:17:38,829 --> 00:17:40,769 and they're like, a lot of 456 00:17:41,070 --> 00:17:41,570 words 457 00:17:42,269 --> 00:17:43,490 share consonants 458 00:17:44,750 --> 00:17:46,515 to, like, kinda point 459 00:17:46,835 --> 00:17:50,454 them in meaning. It's just it's really interesting. 460 00:17:51,714 --> 00:17:54,214 A lot of discussion about Arabic. 461 00:17:54,515 --> 00:17:55,015 It's 462 00:17:56,275 --> 00:18:00,214 a really good book, like, but written by 463 00:18:00,434 --> 00:18:00,934 just 464 00:18:02,650 --> 00:18:03,309 a lot 465 00:18:03,609 --> 00:18:05,710 of what it seems like despair 466 00:18:06,089 --> 00:18:06,589 or 467 00:18:07,049 --> 00:18:09,069 you feel a lot of sympathy 468 00:18:10,970 --> 00:18:12,429 for this person 469 00:18:13,529 --> 00:18:14,670 whose livelihood 470 00:18:15,289 --> 00:18:16,509 is based on 471 00:18:17,744 --> 00:18:21,285 writing, who is writing something that's, like, 472 00:18:21,664 --> 00:18:22,164 unpublishable 473 00:18:23,105 --> 00:18:23,605 almost, 474 00:18:25,105 --> 00:18:27,924 but it's, like, written by a master. 475 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:30,820 Reinvention 476 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:32,740 and imagination, 477 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:35,220 the level of imagination. 478 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,380 Like, James Joyce making up words, 479 00:18:40,559 --> 00:18:42,579 and she's making up 480 00:18:43,805 --> 00:18:46,704 so much where there's so much interior 481 00:18:47,964 --> 00:18:51,825 world that the author lets you into here. 482 00:18:51,884 --> 00:18:53,904 Your name here. 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