Fellow lifter and My So Called Life fan, Sudana Krasniqi beamed in to discuss record-store films Empire Records and High Fidelity. Only five years apart, they feel like they occur on different planets. The music is different, the culture is different, the underwear are different, and by now, all the drugs are mandatory. We also talk about growing up in households with more Eastern European sensibilities where, if you aren’t careful, tampon use you.
Topics discussed:
Empire Records (1995)
High Fidelity (2000)
Growing up Eastern European
A Dante’s Inferno of women
Catherine Zeta-Jones in her prime
Being the hot one in a relationship
A Rube Goldberg of shit-tests
Caffeine, Niacin, pre-workout
How Corruption and Greed Led to the Downfall of Rock Music (in 1996)
Having sex with a lot of women who underwhelm you
Why does the year 2000 feel like it came 15 years after 1995?
Thongs
Harvard
GWAR
Work drugs
501(c)(3)s
Pot brownies
Atlantic City
Record stores
Donnie Darko
Patrick Swayze
Dr. Mike Israetel & Joshua Citarella
Being a fat gooner
Having low test
The left and right battling to be the authority on health
Bryan Johnson vs. Bryan Shaw
Vitality vs. Health
What it would feel like to take cross-sex hormones
Drunk Wisconsin’s evil twin
Pitfalls of promiscuity, polyamory, and prostitution
Agents of chaos
Explosions in the sky
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