The Literate ApeCast

The boys discuss the new maskless world, why David has issue with people on Faceborg writing long-form posts, and then get into disagreement about whether workers have a right to self expression when employed by corporations seeking homogeneous in the workplace.

The Basecamp Dilemma Facing the Desire for Self-Expression

David both looks surprisingly like Bradley Cooper in “American Hustle” as well as wrote a speech for President Joe Biden. No one most of the planet gives two shits about the Moth Radio Hour. Don gives a bit of inside skinny on his latest gig which bores David into a stupor. The Monkeys talk what one will do to gain a salary and and answer the question “What does Elon Musk look like?”

WARNING: Spoilers for MCU’s “Falcon and The Winter Soldier” as the chimps on microphones parse out the new Captain America. Then David opens up about a true rift in his marriage and his screaming child. Don decides to offer his sage relationship and parenting advice, neither which worth much.

The Chauvin guilty verdict is an absolute win in our days but what does it mean for the future of police reform? David reveals that one of his favorite storytellers in none other than Chicago’s Nestor Gomez and the gentlemen apes walk through differing ideas as to how to put perspective on some of our system’s biggest issues.

Don and David explore the possibility that history is ever repetitive and may result in a second “Roaring Twenties” scenario. They also cover the existence of OnlyFans and the awful wonder of a Cruise Ship Cabaret by Adrian Zmed.

Amidst an urbane and surprisingly adult conversation about the social responsibility of the church-goers, gun rights for the Evangelicals, and our decades-long descent into toxic individualism, three-year old beast Harry does everything he can to reduce his father to a blubbering mess.

WARNING: Those with toddlers will be triggered by this episode.

It’s perhaps a very good thing that Don has never spawned offspring and is not in charge of the “self-care” industry in any way. David tries to guide this self-professed “guy from the eighties” in the softer, gentler age of letting children destroy any peace of mind parents have and bragging about therapy and anxiety as badges of inclusion.

Turns out Don is the corner of the table you bump your funny bone on (according to David) in a bit of a therapy turnaround with the Chimps psychoanalyzing the guy “from the eighties.” David moves on with his rage at the gun culture in America and they close things out with David’s “Nine Levels of Offense”.

David believes Woody Allen is a child molester; Don does not. This one gets ugly.

David and Katie throw Harry his third birthday and then, mid-episode, have to deal with life in a cell with a three-year old. D&D reminisce about birthdays they can barely remember then dive in to the latest POLITICO poll of Americans and the extreme margins that aren’t really that relevant.