Episode Details

Is Goblin Mode a privilege? And how should we feel about pathologizing our behaviors? [27:24]

This week, special guest Ilana Bondell joins Joey and Jess to talk about the versions of Goblin Mode, pandemic nihilism, identity politics, repressing trauma, the western medical industrial complex, and "The Man." They don’t talk about Jareth.

references

• "Iris" and the City of Angels 
• The doobily-doo ... er ... link to reach our Corrections Department 
• Revisiting Vibe Shifts in Episode 161! 
• The Guardian: "Slobbing out and giving up: why are so many people going ‘goblin mode’?" 
• The original meaning of goblin-ing? 
• Sex and the City: Season 4 Ep 13: The Good Fight 
• Corrections Department: Zen-DAY-uh 
• "Going to the Bathroom" Is Not Normal 
• Here Comes Old Gregg 
• Gollum and Sméagol