Episode 55 - Angry Men: A Conversation with Thad Russell and Sam Sheridan
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- "Fuck pain. Fuck heartbreak. I'm still in love with life"
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Episode:
- Anger Issues
- "I'm not where I belong"... Thad's pirate dreams
- Everyone wanting to punch Thad and Sam, please get in line
- Props to AJ Hawk and Ben Harper
- Never good enough
- Bad Thad
- Why Sam and Thad drive the smallest cars possible
- The pluses and minuses of L.A.
- How to avoid turning into a suffering artist. Tom Robbins and Ikkyu as my role models
- Thad wants to be an accountant
- Maybe I need to pick different heroes
- Can you be a great creative genius without enduring tremendous suffering?
- Sensitive and happy
- Life is more complicated than a single emotion. If you smile 24/7, I don't buy it
- The Dalai Lama... hard to relate to someone who has never had sex
- This guy has never gotten laid. What can i possibly learn from him?
- Sam likes the ninja turtles
- Enlightenment with humanity
- The bullshit of the mind-body dualism
- Fear of death as the origin of mind-body dualism
- Envy and jealousy
- Psychoanalyzing Thad
- Therapeutic paths and meditation
- "I've done Rogan"... When you utter a sentence like that, it's time to end the episode