Bo Burnham "The Movie of Your Own Life Does Not Suck"

Summary: <p>Playing for Team Human today is YouTube phenomenon, Netflix comedian, and writer and director of the movie <a href="http://eighthgrade.movie/trailer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Eighth Grade</em></a>, Bo Burnham. Bo and Douglas consider the other, positive side of social media — how it still gives young people a way to test and share social strategies and express themselves. </p><p>A conversation with many inspired tangents, Douglas and Bo also look at the ways social media pressures us to live our lives like a performance in a movie, the tragedy of becoming trapped in metanarratives, and how to get ahead of a self-satirizing internet. </p><p>Today’s conversation references Douglas’s Frontline documentaries <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/generation-like/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Generation Like</a> and <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Merchants of Cool</a></p><p>Clips from Bo Burnham’s Netflix show <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80106124" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Make Happy</a>, also appear in this episode. See the official trailer for Eighth Grade <a href="http://eighthgrade.movie/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>This week’s show features intro and outro music courtesy of <a href="https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/track/foremans-dog" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Discord Records and Fugazi</a>. At the top of the interview, you heard a sample from <a href="https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-31-r-u-sirius/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">episode 31 guest, R.U. Sirius</a>. </p><p>You can now <a href="https://d.rip/teamhuman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">support Team Human on Drip</a>. Become a supporter of Team Human on Kickstarter's Drip for only $5 a month to receive access to our community forums, live events, and a signed copy of Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human in January 2019!</p><p>And please leave us a <a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1140331811" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">review on iTunes</a>.</p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>