Society & Culture
The fellas go all in on Narrative. Ground covered includes buzzword overuse in everyday life, the devaluation of overworked language, the double edged sword of repetition, the mainstreaming of storytelling jargon and formulas, Jamal’s sexy underwear, the stories we tell in how we present ourselves, inside jokes as a form of layered narrative, everyone being the hero of their own story, inclusion/exclusion in narrative (IYKYK), the danger of weighting all information as equal, cherrypicking a narrative before having all the information, untrustworthy narrators, Dragon’s Lair, the Venn diagram formed by overlapping lives/narratives, Disney Princesses and, of course, a 6’8” Tom Cruse.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/barflysbflies)