Baron Lucas is a riot.
Dear colleagues,
Please humor my curiosity, and perhaps satisfy your own. What are some specific topics you wish Lucas would address? What areas of Wernology would benefit most from elaboration? What are the nagging questions facing Wernologists?
Are there forgotten gems buried in this thread that ought to be reconsidered? Things you're tired of hearing about?
What would you most like to know about Jason Perva's penis?
I appreciate your input and contributions to Wernology.
I would
love to hear him go on about his childhood / young adulthood - I can see him getting pretty easily baited into telling stories that he doesn't realize are incriminating/cringeworthy, either by asking seemingly innocuous things ("who was your first crush? how did that resolve?") or even, if you're feeling brave, asking him to "correct the record" re: stuff his mom has said in her blog post about his childhood (the "fever" he had, not getting invited to birthday parties, etc.), although that option feels super risky given how quickly he popped off last time when Goldaor brought it up.
Another interesting topic that isn't brought up much anymore is something he alluded to in his semi-lucid "Reflections" - he implied that his birth/existence (telomeres something something) caused his mom to get skin cancer when he was in his teens, and he felt deeply responsible and scared by this (we all know that, underneath it all, Lucas is an extremely anxious, paranoid person - I've seen old texts where he talked about lying in bed at night thinking about his fear of asteroids and how one might crash through the ceiling and kill him at any moment). I believe this is the kickoff point for his "telomeres will make people healthier" schtick. So what I want to know is: does he think that his own health (he may not admit to the mental health stuff anymore, but he acknowledges the diabetes, etc.) will improve in real, tangible, measurable ways if he is able to get with a Zoomer? Or does that only affect their offspring's health potential? (Sidenote: I'm curious about how many of his wild-ass beliefs are rooted in paranoid anxieties that bubbled up when he was still semi-lucid - and then, as his mental health worsened, spiraled out of control until they were nearly unrecognizable and logically detached from their root.)
Same thing re: his family - I really crave any knowledge at all about how he related to the people who knew him personally, and since there are so few of them / all of them are alienated from him now, it's hard to get info on that.
The thing I like about Goldaor's podcasts is that it really threw into relief how fucking inept at conversation he is. When he's just recording videos by himself, it's easy to excuse the rambling and topic-switching because he's effectively talking to himself. Hearing him talking to someone else is... wild. He has no concept of conversational turn-taking, he always loses the plot, like, five seconds after someone asks him a question, etc.
This is why I think Goldaor honestly is a more effective host than a lot of people give him credit for. Sure, he's unprepared a lot of the time and doesn't always needle him where he should, but I think it's actually a hell of a strategy that he's using - tipping him off on a key word that he
knows will land, throwing in an open-ended, neutral "what do you think about that?" or "is that true?" to protect his own reputation so Lucas doesn't flee, and just letting him ramble on from there. When left to his own devices, Lucas has no problem spilling all kinds of new details and accidentally giving us a picture of what his insanity really looks like to the average man-on-the-street in Spokane, etc.
That's essentially what I want - just more opportunities for him to blather on about the lesser-seen sides of himself (childhood, time in Olympia, family) without making it obvious that he's being trolled, because he's definitely not above just hanging up and blocking Goldaor - I feel like we can milk this podcast saga for a little while longer if everybody plays it cool.