I finally got around to listening to this. Really fun insights into the hoe if you haven't heard it.
Justin mentions that being allowed to do what he wants in life is one of the greatest joys aside being in love with a truly good woman. Unfortunately at the time he was doing really shitty comedy about how scary and bad he looks and playing guitar.
Interesting note about the comment on love. This interview takes place in December 2021. In January 2022 he mentions having a girlfriend in this comment on his music based tiktok account. So he either did not like that woman or was lying about their relationship status. Either way it must have crashed and burned, like most things touched by Justin.
Steve mentions that Justin plays into his bulbous head and permanent bitter expression for comedy on stage. Justin explains it like some avant garde performance art.
He is playing a creepy murderous weirdo who is depressed and does a suicide joke as his closer every night so he can reflect onto the audience what he feels is being placed on him. He says he really puts his emotions into what he does, trying for that pretenious "I make people feel things" shit he has now warped his mind around.
On that subject, Justin mentions bitterly that Covid destroyed his life and comedy career, that he was headlining comedy shows until it hit, and then nobody wanted anything to do with him after. He told Steve that he wanted to leave California for Colorado. He complains about the liberal hivemind of the Bay Area, signaling yet again that the "anti liberal despite being liberal" aspect of his personal story is true.
Justin tells the other adult man on the other side of the call that he gets physically sick, overeats, and starts drinking if he can't speak his truth. Steve manages to stomach that pretenious bullshit without laughing.
Justin discusses wanting to make an eight song album, and is focused on that instead of comedy. As this sort of thing sounds like work, it's not a surprise that nobody can find the album anywhere.
Justin also mentions he's looking for a job, because his natural state of being is looking for something better rather than actually attaining anything he truly wants. We know now that he didn't find or keep a job, and had to move in with Mom. We also know he told his fans she's a jerk anyway, despite her kindness.
Justin talks about using the drug Kratom. Steve says that it's good for opioid addicts because it's natural. Justin seems slightly defensive and says he never took opioids. He doesn't mention he's more a 15 beers a day sort of fella.
There's a moment when Justin desperately says he would take a chair thrown at him to be famous. Most comedians try being funny, or fucking their way to the top. Justin needs copious amounts of alcohol to be funny or to get a woman to have sex with him, so that would never happen.
The only other thing of note I can mention is the undercurrent of Justin "surviving" this old boomer he's talking to, politely sitting through Steve making several mundane things Justin says into to a reminder about a song he's heard.
Justin's WASP upbringing allows him to politely play along without insulting or questioning, the same way he does today when white supremacists tell him they were members of a Chinese cult.
The admission that Justin feels physically sick when not speaking his truth is telling. It probably explains why he can't shut the fuck up on Twitter, even when his piggy bank fans express concern or anger at his overly emotional rants.
I think that this explains what was so annoying about him that lead to him getting "phonebooked." This online thing is his outlet for his angry thoughts on women and anyone else that he wants to say in public. When actually in public, he is likely this polite and effiminate WASP who is scared to speak that way.
His self described isolation seems to be an attempt to stay in the space of like-minded people for comfort and a sense of power, but this is a fatal flaw.
He can't relate to country people, real deal racists, real deal misogynists, nor most normal people who discuss having jobs and responsibilities beyond medicating themselves over bad feelings.
When he saw ShoeOnHead bitching about her taxes he saw someone he could relate to. After being a net drain on the system for 20 fucking years, Justin suddenly owes the system and he hates that shit.
The pretty girl who can't decide if she is a right winger or a leftie really speaks to him, because that's what he is inside too, especially the pretty girl part.
