{"id":15784,"date":"2023-01-02T16:51:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T21:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15784"},"modified":"2023-01-02T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T22:15:57","slug":"episode-520-gil-roth-and-aaron-finkelstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-520-gil-roth-and-aaron-finkelstein","title":{"rendered":"Episode 520 – Gil Roth and Aaron Finkelstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 520:
\nGil Roth and Aaron Finkelstein<\/a><\/p>\n

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“There’s no sense of who I am without this show. Between the relationships I’ve built and the humanity I’ve learned to mimic through interacting with so many people, it’s been great!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s kick off 2023 with . . . me! I My long-time pal Aaron Finkelstein<\/a> returns to interview me for what we’ve decided to make an annual Virtual Memories<\/strong> tradition. Listen to Two Gentlemen With The ‘Rona<\/em> (okay, he’s recovering, but I tested positive a few days earlier) check in on the changes a year has wrought. We get into how a Yom Kippur fast sent me on some strange paths, how our cultural touchstones mark us, what it means to be fair to our college-aged selves, and the one Watchmen<\/em><\/a> character I never identified with. Along the way, we work through some of my personal failings and my ego-vanity complex, the analog\/digital tightrope, whether bookishness is something we need to get over, and a LOT<\/em> more, including an intro about my end-of-year COVID experience. Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

(& go listen to our end-of-2021 conversation<\/a>, where we started this tradition, and frankly had a lot more pep)<\/em><\/p>\n