EP 55: GRIEF AND OFFICE POLITICS
Added 2024-11-26 06:18:26 +0000 UTCAudacity crashed on us halfway through recording, so this episode takes a lot of turns. Binky has a cancer scare, Alex and Kay discuss grief and near death experiences, and of course, the now infamous out of office emails.
Shoutout to Slic for our music.
Comments
I actually died laughing when Kay told Alex he gives too much of a fuck about chicken fried steak
Dia
2025-01-05 12:19:30 +0000 UTCI wanted to share that, I lost my mom at 14 to addiction and that the kind of grief at that age (even younger than the 16 to 23 age range that Alex listed) is life altering. It stunts a lot of crucial development that takes place in those years and that isn’t really made up until well into adulthood. It’s so young that you don’t even have the tools that older teens have in terms of grief or parents for losing their children, at that age it destroys your sense of self and personality, it also presents the unique circumstances of adults trying to drag you along through life and never getting to carve out your own space to grieve.
Ash
2024-12-26 05:03:51 +0000 UTCight time to go binge RHOBH
caveswater
2024-12-09 06:52:02 +0000 UTCI felt a bit of relief after hearing that an hour of dead mom talk was lost to the void (2recent 🥸) .. but then hearing Kay speak about things towards the end of the episode, things I’ve been resistant to thinking about, was actually quite cathartic. I hope that when I find my way out of this space, I’ll have also discovered a family like y’all have made 🖤
caveswater
2024-12-09 06:51:56 +0000 UTC"what do i do with that" in reference to the tweet actually killed me
connor
2024-11-29 16:20:15 +0000 UTCi laughed at alexs “nailed while you were crossed” so it wasn’t dead silence
Elli Seiff
2024-11-28 19:11:43 +0000 UTCYou might enjoy Monstrillio by Gerardo Sámano: “Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses― though curbed by his biological and chosen family’s communal care― threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life. A thought-provoking meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty”
Ana
2024-11-28 12:54:49 +0000 UTCBtw i think everyone who is seeking an office/service job hybrid should consider library work
JT
2024-11-28 05:56:27 +0000 UTCI’m just settling into my very first office job and I am now feeling very empowered to work less and call others to walk me through websites more often between stretching
JT
2024-11-28 05:37:02 +0000 UTCHolding Binky in my thoughts, hope he is okay
feelitbreak
2024-11-28 04:13:33 +0000 UTCI'm very thankful to you guys for this episode. I have a pretty similar experience to Kay, but with my dad, he died a year and a half ago. I don't think I ever really processed and it's only now starting to hit me. I know it seems silly to say, but this was a very important and healing episode for me. I could never imagine I would feel this way. Thank you two from the bottom of my heart, truly, thank you
feelitbreak
2024-11-28 04:12:44 +0000 UTCthis episode was so much scarier than the ghost episode
Jori
2024-11-27 19:15:34 +0000 UTCI think the visual of a blood clot can also be seen in the way of, if you have a blood clot, you need to seek help or else it can kill you too. Support after a death is the only thing that keeps one death from turning into a domino effect.
Theo
2024-11-27 16:50:54 +0000 UTC"a blood clot in space time" was such an apt description for grief. its accurate to how I would describe my family after my brother died. even as a toddler, unaware of the gravity of the situation, I could feel it. it was years of this oppressively stagnant feeling in the house, like no one stopped holding their breath after the initial impact. my best friend passed the same way when I was a teenager and it was that all over again.
Theo
2024-11-27 16:47:56 +0000 UTCCan I just say, as a fellow cotton patch lover, I feel seen at the beginning of this episode thank you Alex
Lauryn S
2024-11-27 04:45:38 +0000 UTCjust googled gladiator 2 gay harem to see that noise band and every image is from a bunch of gay news sites calling it a queer classic in the making... hmmm
TODD
2024-11-26 20:09:10 +0000 UTCMy dog had a mast cell tumor. He got a course of prednisone first and they were able to remove it surgically :)
Ana
2024-11-26 17:46:43 +0000 UTCI will never stop mourning losing the black keys to the curse of car dealership commercial music
Luci☆fer
2024-11-26 16:32:35 +0000 UTCsomething very sinister happens to white male musicians when they reach a certain age
Luci☆fer
2024-11-26 16:32:07 +0000 UTCMovie etiquette is dead 😭😭😭
Tiff
2024-11-26 15:42:55 +0000 UTCSmoking weed in a movie theater is WILD
Tiff
2024-11-26 15:42:42 +0000 UTCnever had a salt lamp but i'm 100% on alex's side as a fellow salt fiend
salem
2024-11-26 06:39:19 +0000 UTC
