June 16, 2023 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Americans are having less sex and making too many
decisions.
Our paralyzing panoply ofoptions makes us sick.
Jean-paul Sartre calls it thevertigo of possibility.
So take your power back.
Schedule in some sizzling hotsex and pound it like you're
busting out of prison.
If you feel sick, broke andboxed in, let go have some
five-star sex and swing it likeyou're demolishing an abandoned
(00:20):
amusement park.
Modern life is hell.
Our species is doomed, socelebrate.
Smash your names into thespace-time continuum and knock
the boots like you're breakingthe lease.
If you can't stop daydreamingabout casual sex but you're
scared of getting hurt orhumiliated and you're burned out
on draining, dead-end dateswith disappointing boy men, stay
tuned because hot, dizzy nightsof exciting, ecstatic,
(00:43):
cathartic sex can be yours whenyou discover casual sex with
Emerson Dameron.
Emerson Dameron comes equippedwith an omnivorous mind, a
soulful, penetrating gaze andgifts for deep kissing and
thrilling, chilling, dirty talk.
Get the playfulness, passionand patience you crave with a
dominant, sensitive and fullypresent man who knows how to
(01:04):
throw you around and when toleave you alone.
With a dominant, sensitive andfully present man who knows how
to throw you around and when toleave you alone, make a casual,
caring connection and get hot,healthy hookups with a selection
of kinky upgrades and a strongprobability of cascading orgasms
With Emerson Dameron.
Fun comes first, and so do youhave casual sex with Emerson
Dameron today or, realistically,early next week.
(01:26):
Your problem is that you knowyou are mortal.
You're not good at everything.
You're not bulletproof.
What you need is theintelligence of someone smart
enough to be here and smartenough to take my advice, and
the confidence of an absolutemoron that interferes with radio
signals and brings planes outof the sky.
(01:47):
Completely self-destructive,sizzling, sexy confidence that
you can only get throughcultivating it over time and
relegating it to a persona thatyou want to keep separate.
Do not let this persona run forpresident, absolutely do not
let it run for treasurer.
Keep an eye on it, becauseeverything else is just going to
happen as soon as you stopcaring.
(02:08):
What you want to remember aboutthis confidence is that it is
first, last and always fake.
It is based on butt kiss, andthe reason for that is that
nobody can take that away fromyou.
Talk some nonsense intoyourself.
You've been making too muchsense.
Stop doing that.
Law number four of the SatanicBuddha you don't exist, so throw
(02:32):
yourself a party.
The self-like time is a usefulillusion and your birthday is
the holiest day on the calendar.
There is no you, and if therewere, there wouldn't be anyone
around to observe you.
Nevertheless, there is no you,and if there were, there
wouldn't be anyone around toobserve you.
Nevertheless, celebrateyourself your power, your
presence, your magnetism, yourwisdom, your courage, your
foolishness.
(02:52):
You don't have a fixed identity.
You have scores of selvesCommittees, cities, drama,
intrigue.
You've got a Westing Gamesworth of different selves duking
it out for control in there.
They're all impermanent,interdependent and insubstantial
.
Show them a good time.
Indulge.
Honor yourself as an animal.
Sleep late, get off, eat adisgusting meal you love.
(03:15):
Rock on with your bad selves.
Offer them compassion.
Be the best lover you ever had.
Love yourself to death.
Happy birthday.
We open in the main living areaof the condominium in Venice
(03:35):
Beach, california, shared by thecouple, leo and Megan.
Leo is an advertising man bytrade and of the absent-minded
professor type by nature.
He is very much in his head andyou would be too.
It's a fascinating place.
He's a connoisseur, a synthesisof all sorts of different
(03:59):
cultural, historical,mythological, philosophical
information that's flowing andgrinding and churning around in
the ecosystem.
He's picking up all of it andhe's creating something in his
head that could either be theultimate autodidact introduction
(04:20):
to human consciousness orabsolute crap enough and
engrossing enough for him to behallucinations, and sometimes
are indistinguishable fromreality for him, in the same way
that dreams can be.
(04:41):
Leo gets sucked into hisdaydreams Bright, red, sexy blue
, velvet blue, violent,bloodthirsty, romantic, hypnotic
, very vivid worlds.
He would claim that heexperiences what former
President Jimmy Carter calledlust in the heart.
(05:02):
In fact, it would be more aptlydescribed as lust in the mind.
He is married to Megan.
There's a lot of love betweenthese two people.
They have become sexuallyincompatible.
Megan is a lot of things.
She's deeply spiritual.
She has been staying at homemost of the time.
(05:25):
She doesn't work.
She collects disability.
Everyone is diagnosable.
Work is for suckers, so I tipmy hat.
That's not a bad way to go.
She is volcanically horny.
She spends most of the dayjerking off, but that's doesn't
quite cover what's happening.
She is so embodied it creates acertain magnetism in and around
(05:50):
the condominium.
People walking past outside canfeel it.
They don't know what it is.
They will sneak into the alleybehind the condo and get down to
business right there, whichonly juices up the atmosphere
even more.
Megan is very much in her body.
She's the Peg Bundy of the KaliYuga.
(06:12):
That's Megan's energy, and shealmost has to stay home to avoid
making a scene.
She's the Peg Bundy of the KaliYuga.
That's Megan's energy, and shealmost has to stay home to avoid
making a scene.
Leo has never created anything.
He's never gonna createanything.
He's a student of the world.
He is having an affair, duh,with an interesting young woman
named Geeta, very intelligent,sophisticated, smart and kind of
(06:36):
impossible.
Leo wants to crack the code.
It's just not happening.
But his fascination hasspiraled, snowballed, taken on a
life of its own.
Gita is happy to use him as avibrator with a thesaurus while
she waits for someone to comealong who is deserving.
(06:58):
And she has another gentlemancaller named Steve, who is an
artist.
He's a deeply passionate person.
His work is brilliant and he isobsessively in love limerence
is what it is with a woman namedLeanneanne who no one ever sees
(07:18):
.
He talks about her constantly.
She's never around.
Being in love with someone whois unavailable and accessible,
in this case, lives in anothercity.
It's not really establishedwhere she travels around a lot,
but for some reason she nevercomes to LA.
There are advantages to beingin love with someone who is
(07:39):
unavailable and will neverreciprocate.
You don't have to haverelationships with people in
your town, which is good All ofthem are terrible.
But you don't have to be alonebecause you can have sex with
whoever you want.
And Steve has been pounding outwith Gita, does not have
romantic feelings for her, whichmakes her intrigued, but he's
(08:02):
also vulnerable and full offeelings and she's not so crazy
about that and she's just notinto his work.
But he's swinging at the.
Sex is good and that's how Leoand Steve become friends.
Leo is on his way in, steve ison his way out.
Steve is in some ways Leo'sunrealized potential.
(08:25):
He is in the arena.
He's doing the damn thing.
He is making his paintings anddrafting plans for buildings.
He has to because if he doesn'the becomes a pretentious
hipster.
Leo is a philosopher, scientist, weirdo, but he's never going
to make anything.
(08:45):
But he's fascinated withSteve's work because he thinks
that Steve is just right on theedge of doing something
fascinating.
He's not now, but his stuff isvery slight and yet there's a
spark there that indicates thathe could be onto something
tremendous.
And he's fascinated by Leobecause Leo keeps speaking in
(09:11):
his own made-up languages anddrifting between different modes
of thinking.
And it's just so interestingand they're totally in love with
each other.
And Gita figures that out and isperpetually bored.
So she suggests a three-way.
The first attempt doesn't gowell.
(09:31):
The second and third attemptsare more successful and this
becomes a bit of a routine.
Steve recognizes that Leo hasstronger feelings for Gita, so
he will step out and wanderaround and sometimes
circuitously make his way to Leoand Megan's condo and take care
(09:52):
of Megan.
Everyone kind of knows thatthat's going on.
It's not talked aboutspecifically because then they
would have to talk about it andLeo doesn't really want to talk
about it, but it's a known thing.
So everyone's pounding it outwith everyone and the spring
turns into summer and it becomesa little routine.
(10:12):
For Gita especially.
She wants adventure.
So the three of them Leo, steveand Gita time for an adventure
into the sexual underworld ofVenice and Santa Monica.
Sometimes they go to basements,sometimes in people's homes,
(10:33):
sometimes in abandoned buildings.
If you ever wondered what'sgoing on at 909 Oceanfront Walk,
just gonna leave it there.
Gita is bound and whipped andtortured and called filthy names
and realizes that that's notquite doing it either.
So she turns it around, putsSteve in bondage.
(10:54):
Steve is a man with a surplus ofself-pity, so it's symbolically
interesting and he talks withLeo about it for hours.
He doesn't really get off, andneither does Gita.
They still feel kind of bored.
But that's just the beginning.
They discover new drugs.
They go into rooms withlighting and colors that they've
(11:19):
never seen before, not even inthe big box of crayons, and in
those rooms they are finessed byescorts who truly know what
they're doing.
Individuals of the night willabsolutely convince you that
they long for you, that theywill lust for you.
It will be the pure experienceof sensations of being loved and
(11:44):
wanted that you probably won'tget in real life.
Oyo finds it very interestingto analyze after the fact.
Steve is fully immersed.
He wishes Leanne was there.
She would really enjoy this.
This was totally different.
This was the frontier,indescribable To the point,
where Steve had a bit of abreakdown In one erotic
(12:09):
encounter, was forced toconfront his age-old fear of
being separated from his family,from the group, being left
alone to starve, being left tohis own devices, but being
convinced that there's nothinghe could do for himself but hope
for a quick death.
Find some honey, pour it overhis body, hope that he was
(12:32):
devoured quickly by bears,because otherwise, starving to
death and the worst lonesomenessthat he'd ever experienced was
simply unthinkable.
He had to face that head on.
He had to face the full burn ofexistential isolation.
He went home and made some.
First he called Leanne and leftfive voicemails each of longer
(12:58):
than 90 seconds in duration,which already is too much.
She was not responsive.
He took all of that through.
Sex transmutation made the bestwork of his or arguably anyone
else's career Five stars, nonotes.
Instant summer, classicGalleries in Venice were
fighting each other over itphysically.
(13:19):
Gita discovered that watchinggallery representatives beat the
tar out of each other is whatgot her off.
Decided to take over the artworld, which she did in short
order.
The stuff that she learned inthe underworld served her well.
Steve got everyone out for hisopening night.
When they saw the paintings,they were there, everyone was
(13:42):
there.
No one did not show up for this.
It was jam-packed and he eveninvited Leanne, although he was
certain that she wouldn't showup.
She did Anne, although he wascertain that she wouldn't show
up, she did.
She flew in from Montreal orPittsburgh or wherever on the
other side of the continent.
She was living in.
(14:05):
Whatever situation she wasliving in.
She was never totally specificabout that.
She showed up when she did achill, went through the room
because Leanne is a demon.
There's just no other way toput it.
Leanne is awful.
She sucked the oxygen right outof the room.
Miserable Angry oxygen rightout of the room.
(14:32):
Miserable Angry Went aroundtelling people that they should
leave because they're killingthe vibe Finds Steve.
Steve doesn't know what to do.
He's falling apart.
He owned the room A few minutesago.
He was on the verge of thebiggest breakthrough the art
world has seen in a generation.
He was owning the world andeveryone was fascinated with him
and thoroughly in love with him.
(14:53):
Leanne comes through and hejust falls apart.
He starts babbling he doesn'tknow, but he's actually babbling
in the languages that Leotaught him and Leanne tells him
that his work is crap.
She doesn't want to see himanymore.
She kind of wishes they neverhad.
Nervous breakdown at what wasgoing to be crown zero for his
(15:17):
breakthrough that was going tochange the art world and make
art relevant again.
Now it's just a disaster.
He's falling apart.
People don't know if theyshould call an ambulance.
Someone calls 911.
Steve says why did you do that?
I don't have health insurance.
This is going to ruin it more.
(15:39):
Maybe this will fix it.
If I ruin my life twice, theywill cancel each other out.
He's losing his mind.
Leo is belligerently drunk.
Cancel each other out.
He's losing his mind.
Leo is belligerently drunk.
He, as the emergency vehiclesarrive, starts picking fights
with the gallerists who havealready been mixing it up with
each other.
He just started throwingpunches and, of course, just got
(16:00):
destroyed, vomiting up blood,broken bones, severe damage in
multiple ways.
And now everything has changedfor Leo.
Leo is in his body.
He can no longer retreat intothe library in his mind, no
(16:24):
matter how big it is, no matterhow many little nooks and
crannies it has.
He can't get in there anymorebecause he is in his physical
presence and it hurts.
It's agonizing.
The ambulance shows up.
Steve hits the bricks, 23skidoo he's out of there Runs
around town in the streetscrying.
(16:44):
Leo is taken to the hospitalwhere he's treated, knowing that
his life has changed Not in agreat way.
It doesn't seem like so farthere could be post-traumatic
growth down the line.
He's able to zoom out a littlebit.
He's able to go meta, but it'snot good right now.
Megan is aware of all of this.
Megan has exhibitionisttendencies which she has turned
(17:08):
inward.
That's why she doesn't gooutside.
That's why she didn't show upat the art opening that everyone
showed up for and that's uh,it's kind of flipped into
voyeurism she's.
She has some binoculars and shelikes to watch the neighbors
boning from the window, which isnot hard to do.
It's Venice, and after a whileshe has to ramp it up a little
(17:31):
bit, much as people on EroticOdysseys will do, and she
becomes clairvoyant.
She is able to see anythinggoing on in Los Angeles County,
in parts of Orange County.
She is just aware.
It's not like a surveillancecamera, it's just.
(17:52):
It's an embodied awareness.
You really have to be her toknow how she knows and she knows
she knows all of it.
It gets her off hard,especially now the physical
destruction of Leo, and shebooks it to the emergency room
and finds out where Leo is,jerks him off furiously for the
(18:17):
weeks that he spends recoveringand they kind of sort of
reconnect.
(18:47):
This has been a special bonusepisode of Emerson Dameron's
Medicated Minutes, thebite-sized erotic thriller
Solacity and Bloom Celebrationof Bloomsday, which also happens
to be my birthday.
Thank you, I made it this far.
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Music for this episode is byVisions of the Universe.
Everything else is by me.
I'm Emerson Damringer, wittyand wounded romantic hero,
producer, writer and host ofEmerson Dameron's Medicated
(19:54):
Minutes.
I love you personally.
Levity saves livesMedicated-Minutescom.
(20:18):
Take a beat, breathe into theexperience of being here and ask
yourself what am I so afraid of?
Maybe you're afraid of missingsome essential life experience.
You're afraid you already have,or that it doesn't matter
because nothing does.
Maybe it's nothing, maybeyou're just a regular nerves
McGee, or maybe you're afraid ofyour own glorious cataclysmic
(20:43):
power, the riotous multitude youcontain.
You are smart enough to knowhow nearly infinitely ignorant
you are, but you're not toosmart to be hot, and you may
already be a satanic Buddhist.
Nothing is good or bad inisolation, only in context, the
Buddha and the Beastmaster are agood team.
(21:04):
This right here is all you get.
Life is for living up downacross, diagonally, sideways,
because nothing matters.
You may already be a satanicBuddhist.
Americans are having less sex and making too many
decisions.
Our paralyzing panoply ofoptions makes us sick.
Jean-paul Sartre calls it thevertigo of possibility.
So take your power back.
Schedule in some sizzling hotsex and pound it like you're
busting out of prison.
If you feel sick, broke andboxed in, let go have some
five-star sex and swing it likeyou're demolishing an abandoned
(00:20):
amusement park.
Modern life is hell.
Our species is doomed, socelebrate.
Smash your names into thespace-time continuum and knock
the boots like you're breakingthe lease.
If you can't stop daydreamingabout casual sex but you're
scared of getting hurt orhumiliated and you're burned out
on draining, dead-end dateswith disappointing boy men, stay
tuned because hot, dizzy nightsof exciting, ecstatic,
(00:43):
cathartic sex can be yours whenyou discover casual sex with
Emerson Dameron.
Emerson Dameron comes equippedwith an omnivorous mind, a
soulful, penetrating gaze andgifts for deep kissing and
thrilling, chilling, dirty talk.
Get the playfulness, passionand patience you crave with a
dominant, sensitive and fullypresent man who knows how to
(01:04):
throw you around and when toleave you alone.
With a dominant, sensitive andfully present man who knows how
to throw you around and when toleave you alone, make a casual,
caring connection and get hot,healthy hookups with a selection
of kinky upgrades and a strongprobability of cascading orgasms
With Emerson Dameron.
Fun comes first, and so do youhave casual sex with Emerson
Dameron today or, realistically,early next week.
(01:26):
Your problem is that you knowyou are mortal.
You're not good at everything.
You're not bulletproof.
What you need is theintelligence of someone smart
enough to be here and smartenough to take my advice, and
the confidence of an absolutemoron that interferes with radio
signals and brings planes outof the sky.
(01:47):
Completely self-destructive,sizzling, sexy confidence that
you can only get throughcultivating it over time and
relegating it to a persona thatyou want to keep separate.
Do not let this persona run forpresident, absolutely do not
let it run for treasurer.
Keep an eye on it, becauseeverything else is just going to
happen as soon as you stopcaring.
(02:08):
What you want to remember aboutthis confidence is that it is
first, last and always fake.
It is based on butt kiss, andthe reason for that is that
nobody can take that away fromyou.
Talk some nonsense intoyourself.
You've been making too muchsense.
Stop doing that.
Law number four of the SatanicBuddha you don't exist, so throw
(02:32):
yourself a party.
The self-like time is a usefulillusion and your birthday is
the holiest day on the calendar.
There is no you, and if therewere, there wouldn't be anyone
around to observe you.
Nevertheless, there is no you,and if there were, there
wouldn't be anyone around toobserve you.
Nevertheless, celebrateyourself your power, your
presence, your magnetism, yourwisdom, your courage, your
foolishness.
(02:52):
You don't have a fixed identity.
You have scores of selvesCommittees, cities, drama,
intrigue.
You've got a Westing Gamesworth of different selves duking
it out for control in there.
They're all impermanent,interdependent and insubstantial
.
Show them a good time.
Indulge.
Honor yourself as an animal.
Sleep late, get off, eat adisgusting meal you love.
(03:15):
Rock on with your bad selves.
Offer them compassion.
Be the best lover you ever had.
Love yourself to death.
Happy birthday.
We open in the main living areaof the condominium in Venice
(03:35):
Beach, california, shared by thecouple, leo and Megan.
Leo is an advertising man bytrade and of the absent-minded
professor type by nature.
He is very much in his head andyou would be too.
It's a fascinating place.
He's a connoisseur, a synthesisof all sorts of different
(03:59):
cultural, historical,mythological, philosophical
information that's flowing andgrinding and churning around in
the ecosystem.
He's picking up all of it andhe's creating something in his
head that could either be theultimate autodidact introduction
(04:20):
to human consciousness orabsolute crap enough and
engrossing enough for him to behallucinations, and sometimes
are indistinguishable fromreality for him, in the same way
that dreams can be.
(04:41):
Leo gets sucked into hisdaydreams Bright, red, sexy blue
, velvet blue, violent,bloodthirsty, romantic, hypnotic
, very vivid worlds.
He would claim that heexperiences what former
President Jimmy Carter calledlust in the heart.
(05:02):
In fact, it would be more aptlydescribed as lust in the mind.
He is married to Megan.
There's a lot of love betweenthese two people.
They have become sexuallyincompatible.
Megan is a lot of things.
She's deeply spiritual.
She has been staying at homemost of the time.
(05:25):
She doesn't work.
She collects disability.
Everyone is diagnosable.
Work is for suckers, so I tipmy hat.
That's not a bad way to go.
She is volcanically horny.
She spends most of the dayjerking off, but that's doesn't
quite cover what's happening.
She is so embodied it creates acertain magnetism in and around
(05:50):
the condominium.
People walking past outside canfeel it.
They don't know what it is.
They will sneak into the alleybehind the condo and get down to
business right there, whichonly juices up the atmosphere
even more.
Megan is very much in her body.
She's the Peg Bundy of the KaliYuga.
(06:12):
That's Megan's energy, and shealmost has to stay home to avoid
making a scene.
She's the Peg Bundy of the KaliYuga.
That's Megan's energy, and shealmost has to stay home to avoid
making a scene.
Leo has never created anything.
He's never gonna createanything.
He's a student of the world.
He is having an affair, duh,with an interesting young woman
named Geeta, very intelligent,sophisticated, smart and kind of
(06:36):
impossible.
Leo wants to crack the code.
It's just not happening.
But his fascination hasspiraled, snowballed, taken on a
life of its own.
Gita is happy to use him as avibrator with a thesaurus while
she waits for someone to comealong who is deserving.
(06:58):
And she has another gentlemancaller named Steve, who is an
artist.
He's a deeply passionate person.
His work is brilliant and he isobsessively in love limerence
is what it is with a woman namedLeanneanne who no one ever sees
(07:18):
.
He talks about her constantly.
She's never around.
Being in love with someone whois unavailable and accessible,
in this case, lives in anothercity.
It's not really establishedwhere she travels around a lot,
but for some reason she nevercomes to LA.
There are advantages to beingin love with someone who is
(07:39):
unavailable and will neverreciprocate.
You don't have to haverelationships with people in
your town, which is good All ofthem are terrible.
But you don't have to be alonebecause you can have sex with
whoever you want.
And Steve has been pounding outwith Gita, does not have
romantic feelings for her, whichmakes her intrigued, but he's
(08:02):
also vulnerable and full offeelings and she's not so crazy
about that and she's just notinto his work.
But he's swinging at the.
Sex is good and that's how Leoand Steve become friends.
Leo is on his way in, steve ison his way out.
Steve is in some ways Leo'sunrealized potential.
(08:25):
He is in the arena.
He's doing the damn thing.
He is making his paintings anddrafting plans for buildings.
He has to because if he doesn'the becomes a pretentious
hipster.
Leo is a philosopher, scientist, weirdo, but he's never going
to make anything.
(08:45):
But he's fascinated withSteve's work because he thinks
that Steve is just right on theedge of doing something
fascinating.
He's not now, but his stuff isvery slight and yet there's a
spark there that indicates thathe could be onto something
tremendous.
And he's fascinated by Leobecause Leo keeps speaking in
(09:11):
his own made-up languages anddrifting between different modes
of thinking.
And it's just so interestingand they're totally in love with
each other.
And Gita figures that out and isperpetually bored.
So she suggests a three-way.
The first attempt doesn't gowell.
(09:31):
The second and third attemptsare more successful and this
becomes a bit of a routine.
Steve recognizes that Leo hasstronger feelings for Gita, so
he will step out and wanderaround and sometimes
circuitously make his way to Leoand Megan's condo and take care
(09:52):
of Megan.
Everyone kind of knows thatthat's going on.
It's not talked aboutspecifically because then they
would have to talk about it andLeo doesn't really want to talk
about it, but it's a known thing.
So everyone's pounding it outwith everyone and the spring
turns into summer and it becomesa little routine.
(10:12):
For Gita especially.
She wants adventure.
So the three of them Leo, steveand Gita time for an adventure
into the sexual underworld ofVenice and Santa Monica.
Sometimes they go to basements,sometimes in people's homes,
(10:33):
sometimes in abandoned buildings.
If you ever wondered what'sgoing on at 909 Oceanfront Walk,
just gonna leave it there.
Gita is bound and whipped andtortured and called filthy names
and realizes that that's notquite doing it either.
So she turns it around, putsSteve in bondage.
(10:54):
Steve is a man with a surplus ofself-pity, so it's symbolically
interesting and he talks withLeo about it for hours.
He doesn't really get off, andneither does Gita.
They still feel kind of bored.
But that's just the beginning.
They discover new drugs.
They go into rooms withlighting and colors that they've
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never seen before, not even inthe big box of crayons, and in
those rooms they are finessed byescorts who truly know what
they're doing.
Individuals of the night willabsolutely convince you that
they long for you, that theywill lust for you.
It will be the pure experienceof sensations of being loved and
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wanted that you probably won'tget in real life.
Oyo finds it very interestingto analyze after the fact.
Steve is fully immersed.
He wishes Leanne was there.
She would really enjoy this.
This was totally different.
This was the frontier,indescribable To the point,
where Steve had a bit of abreakdown In one erotic
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encounter, was forced toconfront his age-old fear of
being separated from his family,from the group, being left
alone to starve, being left tohis own devices, but being
convinced that there's nothinghe could do for himself but hope
for a quick death.
Find some honey, pour it overhis body, hope that he was
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devoured quickly by bears,because otherwise, starving to
death and the worst lonesomenessthat he'd ever experienced was
simply unthinkable.
He had to face that head on.
He had to face the full burn ofexistential isolation.
He went home and made some.
First he called Leanne and leftfive voicemails each of longer
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than 90 seconds in duration,which already is too much.
She was not responsive.
He took all of that through.
Sex transmutation made the bestwork of his or arguably anyone
else's career Five stars, nonotes.
Instant summer, classicGalleries in Venice were
fighting each other over itphysically.
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Gita discovered that watchinggallery representatives beat the
tar out of each other is whatgot her off.
Decided to take over the artworld, which she did in short
order.
The stuff that she learned inthe underworld served her well.
Steve got everyone out for hisopening night.
When they saw the paintings,they were there, everyone was
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there.
No one did not show up for this.
It was jam-packed and he eveninvited Leanne, although he was
certain that she wouldn't showup.
She did Anne, although he wascertain that she wouldn't show
up, she did.
She flew in from Montreal orPittsburgh or wherever on the
other side of the continent.
She was living in.
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Whatever situation she wasliving in.
She was never totally specificabout that.
She showed up when she did achill, went through the room
because Leanne is a demon.
There's just no other way toput it.
Leanne is awful.
She sucked the oxygen right outof the room.
Miserable Angry oxygen rightout of the room.
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Miserable Angry Went aroundtelling people that they should
leave because they're killingthe vibe Finds Steve.
Steve doesn't know what to do.
He's falling apart.
He owned the room A few minutesago.
He was on the verge of thebiggest breakthrough the art
world has seen in a generation.
He was owning the world andeveryone was fascinated with him
and thoroughly in love with him.
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Leanne comes through and hejust falls apart.
He starts babbling he doesn'tknow, but he's actually babbling
in the languages that Leotaught him and Leanne tells him
that his work is crap.
She doesn't want to see himanymore.
She kind of wishes they neverhad.
Nervous breakdown at what wasgoing to be crown zero for his
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breakthrough that was going tochange the art world and make
art relevant again.
Now it's just a disaster.
He's falling apart.
People don't know if theyshould call an ambulance.
Someone calls 911.
Steve says why did you do that?
I don't have health insurance.
This is going to ruin it more.
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Maybe this will fix it.
If I ruin my life twice, theywill cancel each other out.
He's losing his mind.
Leo is belligerently drunk.
Cancel each other out.
He's losing his mind.
Leo is belligerently drunk.
He, as the emergency vehiclesarrive, starts picking fights
with the gallerists who havealready been mixing it up with
each other.
He just started throwingpunches and, of course, just got
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destroyed, vomiting up blood,broken bones, severe damage in
multiple ways.
And now everything has changedfor Leo.
Leo is in his body.
He can no longer retreat intothe library in his mind, no
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matter how big it is, no matterhow many little nooks and
crannies it has.
He can't get in there anymorebecause he is in his physical
presence and it hurts.
It's agonizing.
The ambulance shows up.
Steve hits the bricks, 23skidoo he's out of there Runs
around town in the streetscrying.
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Leo is taken to the hospitalwhere he's treated, knowing that
his life has changed Not in agreat way.
It doesn't seem like so farthere could be post-traumatic
growth down the line.
He's able to zoom out a littlebit.
He's able to go meta, but it'snot good right now.
Megan is aware of all of this.
Megan has exhibitionisttendencies which she has turned
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inward.
That's why she doesn't gooutside.
That's why she didn't show upat the art opening that everyone
showed up for and that's uh,it's kind of flipped into
voyeurism she's.
She has some binoculars and shelikes to watch the neighbors
boning from the window, which isnot hard to do.
It's Venice, and after a whileshe has to ramp it up a little
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bit, much as people on EroticOdysseys will do, and she
becomes clairvoyant.
She is able to see anythinggoing on in Los Angeles County,
in parts of Orange County.
She is just aware.
It's not like a surveillancecamera, it's just.
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It's an embodied awareness.
You really have to be her toknow how she knows and she knows
she knows all of it.
It gets her off hard,especially now the physical
destruction of Leo, and shebooks it to the emergency room
and finds out where Leo is,jerks him off furiously for the
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weeks that he spends recoveringand they kind of sort of
reconnect.
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This has been a special bonusepisode of Emerson Dameron's
Medicated Minutes, thebite-sized erotic thriller
Solacity and Bloom Celebrationof Bloomsday, which also happens
to be my birthday.
Thank you, I made it this far.
In lieu of flowers orcondolences, please donate to
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Tell him to cancel it.
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I'm Emerson Damringer, wittyand wounded romantic hero,
producer, writer and host ofEmerson Dameron's Medicated
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Minutes.
I love you personally.
Levity saves livesMedicated-Minutescom.
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Take a beat, breathe into theexperience of being here and ask
yourself what am I so afraid of?
Maybe you're afraid of missingsome essential life experience.
You're afraid you already have,or that it doesn't matter
because nothing does.
Maybe it's nothing, maybeyou're just a regular nerves
McGee, or maybe you're afraid ofyour own glorious cataclysmic
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power, the riotous multitude youcontain.
You are smart enough to knowhow nearly infinitely ignorant
you are, but you're not toosmart to be hot, and you may
already be a satanic Buddhist.
Nothing is good or bad inisolation, only in context, the
Buddha and the Beastmaster are agood team.
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This right here is all you get.
Life is for living up downacross, diagonally, sideways,
because nothing matters.
You may already be a satanicBuddhist.
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