BudPod with Phil Wang & Pierre Novellie - BudPod Classic - #2 - Pierre's Imaginary Son

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

Introducing BudPod Classics! Every Monday we will be releasing a hilarious snippet of a 'Classic' episode of BudPod for you to enjoy and reminisce in.This week’s BudPod Classic takes us back to Episode 79, where Pierre hilariously unpacks his self-induced anger over imagining scenarios where strangers are rude to his completely imaginary son. Link to the full episode below -Apple PodcastsSpotifyEnjoy and KOJI ! X Get bonus BudPod on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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And so like, it will get to that point. It'll get to the point where like... You just spiral. Yeah, and things that I had no, I couldn't possibly have had any control over. My brain's going, oh, if it weren't for this pandemic you've started, you'd have finally realized your potential by now. But because you went and started this pandemic, you stupid. Now you have to do podcasts over the phone. I hope you're happy. I like, um, I like the ones where you, I escalate an imaginary situation in my head to the point where I'm trying to think about what I would say.

If someone at a fictional restaurant insulted my son, I don't have a son. Yeah, I have lots of those. Nothing that extreme, nothing quite that mad, baby. So is your son, in this scenario, is your son having dinner with you at the restaurant and the waiters come over and said something to the son? Well, it's like... Or have you overheard the waiter saying something to the maitre d' and they're sniggering at your son?

It's something like, it has to escalate, right? It can't start there. You got to warm up. You got to stretch. Yeah You got to stretch your crazy muscles before you go on a run like that So it'll be like it'll start with something like I I'll get some memory of like Being in a cafe with my family when I was a kid and someone like made fun of my sister or me or I don't know You know when you're a kid and you have this sort of horrible moments of confrontation

with like other humans. Yeah. And you sort of go, Oh my God, other humans can be sort of horrible. Like grownups can have arguments and things or, or like weird, like glimpses into, into because it's, it's like a, you're having an argument with another kid in a playground and you go, wait, we're not at school. We're not even at the same school. Let me know who you are.

There are no rules out here. Something like that. And then I would go, but then what would I do if like, oh, but what would I do if that happened and I was like, like you've got to have layers of speculation. Yeah. And you start from a position that is quite closely based on something that actually happens. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like an altercation you can remember.

And then your brain just adds on these tangents and tangents and tangents until you end up in a restaurant with your imaginary son. Defending my imaginary son against accusations of some nefarious and obscure kind. Wait, so has the waiter accused your son of something to you? Has he said, I'm not giving a son salad? Don't you know he poisoned the watering hole? No, it'll be something like, oh, what if I had a son with a lisp? What would I do if I had a son and they had a less than if someone was probably rude about the

list? Like what, what must that be like? But I'll be physically physically annoyed. I'll be physically, physically annoyed. I'll be annoyed about this complete fucking fictional cake I've baked. And do you win? You must win at least. It's always a bittersweet victory, Phil, because it had to happen. Obviously it didn't have to happen. It didn't happen. Right.

But you know, but sometimes I'll like, I'll snap myself out of it and I'll be like, I'm lying in bed furious at nothing. I've kind of got it under control, but for years I used to do it and catch myself and go, fuck you, don't go to bed. Yeah. I, I, I will start like putting myself in, in question. Yes. Yes. Like I ended up on the panel in question time and there's a question that comes up and there's, I imagine someone who I disagree with on the other side saying something stupid and then I say something

and they say something and the thing they say is so typical, but it leaves them wide open for the following seven things. And even in this version, I have to take a few goes at formalizing the perfect sentence. Yeah. Like, I have to edit, like, I wouldn't say quite... I say, yeah, that's it. That's it. That's what I say. Ah, they wouldn't know what I wish. I always read about these people who are like, Oh, you all have arguments in the shower. It's like, I'm busy in the shower. I wish I had them in the shower. Oh, right. I'd rather

have them in the shower than when I'm trying to go to fucking bed. That's true. That's true. I save it all up for beddy time. I sometimes, do they ever like sneak out of your mouth? Like out loud? Sometimes I will go, well, of course that never occurred to you. And then I have to like, but like, I have to keep it quiet. You know, it's like, well, how would you know you've never had to live?

You know, they would just come out of my mouth. Like the sleep talking of a sort of a barrister. But awake talking. I'm not even asleep. I do it. I do do that. Yeah. Sometimes around the house.

Yeah. If you're pootling around the house and it gets bad enough, you might slip out with something like, well, you would say that, wouldn't you? Or, um, that's my son you're talking about. Customers and this establishment. Just like any of the others. And we expect to be treated with just the same amount of dignity as someone without a lisp.

Yeah, sometimes I do. He might have a lisp, but he's my son and I love him. I just catch myself with these fucking elaborate houses of cards I've built for no one but myself. A completely internal problem. Oh boy. Acast powers the world's best podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend.

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