1.5 Day 4, Childhood, and the Future

Day 4 of 14 — Low spirits — Slept — Flock of birds — Or bats? — Norm Macdonald’s bat song written and performed by Josh Gardner — Heart of Tampere — Courtyard — One single star between the Venetian blinds — ”Star light, star bright” — Introversion and extroversion — Extrovert forced into an introverted lifestyle — Happy childhood — Years alone — Everything builds on what went before — The years we learn to socialise — Nerd background — Knight Rider featuring David Hasselhoff — Drawing comic book adaptations — A talking car with many safety features and that could drive itself — Disney comics popular in Finland — KITT features already a reality — All kinds of comics — Marvel, DC, Asterix, Peanuts, etc. — Computer games — Game magazines — Newsfield magazine Zzap! 64 — Original Star Trek on a portable black-and-white TV set — Firing the imagination — New Star Treks not for me — The more you fill in detail in a story — Daydreaming — No room to imagine anything — More like a theatre play — Just enough detail and nuance — Sets like theatre sets — Love of theatre — Prefer stories where there is stuff left to imagine — Endless roleplaying sourcebook — Working to escape the introverted lifestyle — London last year — Living alone not by choice — Ideal life — Activities when younger — Outdoors adventures and exploring — Rollerskating at 4 a.m. in the Finnish summer — Fresh morning air — Sweden, Iceland, Paris, London, Sidcup — Most friends far away — Watching TV and films with others — A social experience — Missing that — YouTube, Norm Macdonald, Curb Your Enthusiasm — Larry David — The relationship of Curb Your Enthusiasm to Seinfeld comparable to that of season 3 of Twin Peaks to the first two seasons — Heightened and extreme — Many other directors than David Lynch involved in the first two seasons of Twin Peaks — A healthy form of anxiety — Also the light and the humour — Scenes between Larry David and Richard Lewis — No laugh track — Mostly improvised — Earning the privilege to do certain things — Happiest moments of my life — The road to my dream future — Taking the steps in blind faith — Getting my driver’s licence — The freedoms it opens up — Bicycling — Reading the road — Driving in Finland and other Nordic countries — Driving my kids to school, going on outings, etc. — Strange lives right now — Life continues and will continue — Reaching out — Thanks to listeners — Second set of names — The nature of this podcast — Editing these — Natural pacing — No machine-gun delivery — Audio messages from listeners welcome — Future idea — Thinking of my friends — Take care