Episode 29: Eventually My Scabs Healed


 * Kiss: The sound of handicapped people having sex.
 * They’re more handi-capable.
 * Queen: The sound of angels in the night.
 * Gene Simmons and Donald Trump are the same man. An unholy union.
 * Merlin wishes the Germans would pixelate.
 * ~12:00- Merlin has some friends with social anxiety disorders. It’s almost a prerequisite.
 * It’s on the form, which they don’t like.
 * John was in Ibiza at days before his birthday in 1989, with the English kids and the ecstasy. (Ed., reminded of- “I woke up naked on the beach. In Ibiza. In 1988” -LCD Soundsystem).
 * He was eating a lot of train tickets and smoking black hash.
 * John tries to get a trucker to take him across the Sahara. Not gonna happen.
 * Stranded in Gora. Has to take a cab North towards the Algerian border. Ended up being $40 or so.
 * 28:00- John was in Berlin the day the wall came down. He was in Oakland the day of the Oakland fire.
 * Merlin’s personality: He likes to make an appointment to go to the bathroom.
 * 32:35- Avignon. There were popes there. John is robbed in Avignon.
 * This story is told in greater depth (i.e., with more color) in Episode 133: Secret Pope Songs.
 * They left his shoes. They aren’t animals. They aren’t monsters.
 * “It’s not Germany.” -MM
 * John reflects on connection to home.
 * Being a fully-vested human being.
 * John as chaotic good.
 * And what is good, right.
 * You can’t change one single thing about anything.
 * 1:21:00- Their voices become children’s voices for a few seconds!
 * "If there’s one thing that you can be reductive on, it’s that stoners are fucking idiots.” -JR
 * Concepts for John having a booth at the fish-throwing market.
 * Lessons on throwing hand grenades.
 * John’s grandfather instructed on hand grenade throwing in WWI. After fighting in France, he had all of his parts. Except for his mind parts.
 * John as a pyromaniac in Alaska.
 * Blasting caps and torpedos.
 * Spraying WD-40 through a lighter into the fireplace.