Werndrawal.... I too am going through it, and because of this, I've been watching some old Wern videos, and I found myself focusing on his mention of the TV show Friends.
It's interesting; at the beginning Lucas starts off criticizing Friends, because he thinks that the show doesn't show enough literal sex, or enough physical affection, he describes it as "likey-likey", his babyfied way of indicating the superficiality of a relationship that doesn't include deep affection, which was one of his early phrases to indicate a relationship that didn't involve the man constantly having his arm cuffed around the girl's shoulders to prevent her from running away, a concept that he still mentions now.
It's so fascinating to me the way he acts as if the fictional sitcom Friends is somehow indicative, and evidence of, his theory of older man younger woman, because of the relationship between Courtney Cox and Tom Selleck.
It's like, lucas? It's not real! However well they did or didn't get along on the TV show, it's just a show.
Making the Tom Selleck character older was just a way of introducing a foil into the plot, which otherwise relied on same age relationships primarily.
It's just a device to add some variety to the relationships which make up most of the plot focus of the show, right?
And then later on of course, he says that he calls women honey and baby, because all the men on Friends call all the women these nicknames, because they're always a potential mate, which is disgusting, and I don't think was ever the intention on Friends, but that's what Lucas took away from it.
He also mentioned something about the show Friends, no, it was that 70s show, always using the word bitch, and always calling women bitches, which I don't personally remember from that show, I'm wondering if that's more phantom "Voices on the Wind", or what.
Right now, and for the recent past, "voices on the wind" are my holy Grail of Wernography.
This is the subject I most want Lucas to be quizzed about, because I'm entirely uncertain as to how he would deal with it, the only example we have being the very end of the final golden USB podcast, when he acted as if he didn't understand what goldar was talking about, even though there was a brief moment of acknowledgment.
If Cyril ever comes back, I'd be curious to see whether he has any remembrance of Lucas mentioning phantom voices, whether he referred to them as voices on the wind, or the background noise bigots, or something else entirely.
I mean, someone in Lucas's immediate circle, especially his family, must be aware of this auditory hallucination, right?
It's one of the most obvious outward signs of his insanity, beyond his ranting, which he obviously tries to use his political passion to disguise as normal, although that's fairly unsuccessful.
But "voices on the wind".
Lucas, who is such a student of society, although he's an idiot student, who spends so much time watching people, still hasn't figured out that no one else hears "Voices on the wind".
No one else hears or ever mentions background noise bigots.
How has this been possible for so long? Lucas patterns his speech after people around him so thoroughly, picking up bits of slang, explaining that his brother had to teach him how to respond in casual interactions, so much of his activity is copied and played out incorrectly, and yet the Voices on the Wind stand out.
Alone he hears and discusses this obvious red flag of insanity, despite the fact that people who interacted with him personally must have mentioned to Lucas their confusion at hearing him discuss the idea of voices coming out of the ether, right?
This is why the Voices on the Wind stand out, even amongst the library of insanity that he has spewed, as being uniquely crazy.
