EPISODE · May 17, 2023 · 36 MIN

Powder Me Up Pt 1

from Terrible Person · host Terrible Person

Gary and Selena spiral through creative burnout, audience expectations, listener feedback, and the tension between oversharing and holding back. They unpack driving arguments, hypocrisy behind the wheel, public embarrassment, and how small moments inside a relationship turn into long standing grudges. The conversation moves into apartment disputes, renter frustration, corporate indifference, and the exhaustion of fighting systems designed to ignore people.From there, Gary and Selena veer into masculinity debates, male friendships, emotional intelligence, autism discourse, anxiety, depression, and the uncomfortable overlap between identity, labels, and modern workplace culture. The episode slides into historical bleakness, child labor, conspiracy thinking, pyramids, aliens, and skepticism around accepted narratives. It closes in chaos with celebrity resentment, royal family outrage, media manipulation, and the strange urge to watch powerful figures collapse, all while Gary and Selena wrestle with irritation, humor, and a growing sense that everything feels manufactured and broken.