PUBLIC BONUS: Estranged Parents, with George Daniel Lea
I Don't Speak German
IDSG
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Summary
Jack is joined by friend (and friend-of-the-show), the writer George Daniel Lea, to talk about the online phenomenon known as 'Estranged Parents' or the 'Estranged Parents Movement'. George did a deep dive and is here to tell us about what he found. It turns out to be a lot more relevant to IDSG than it might seem at first glance!
George's site http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/
George on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid
George on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@ExaggeratedElegy
In researching this episode, and compiling a suite of clips of the infamous Estranged Parent content creator Diane, Jack made extensive use of the work of Maximmino on YouTube, who has covered this subject at length. https://www.youtube.com/@Maximmmino
Here is Maximmino's video on Diane's infamous deleted video, from which Jack harvested several clips. https://youtu.be/SpSRkNYUiAw?si=Af4kRPvMg2PQJ57i
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Children are dumping their parents and is ripping families apart. |
| 0:08.3 | Welcome to a public bonus IDSG, one of those episodes in which I, Jack, have a conversation with a guest on a topic slightly off the regular IDSG beat, but still related. This time I am delighted to welcome |
| 0:23.6 | to the show my friend, the writer George Daniel Lee, to talk about a subject that he has become |
| 0:29.1 | fascinated with, the estranged parents movement. Daniel and I will be back with you for another |
| 0:35.8 | regular episode very soon. |
| 0:40.3 | In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this chat. |
| 0:44.4 | You can find George at At Exaggerated Elegie on Blue Sky and at his YouTube channel, Enigmatic Elegie, |
| 0:48.6 | where you will find links to his work and his own podcasts, |
| 0:52.6 | some of which even feature me. |
| 1:00.0 | Music his work and his own podcasts, some of which even feature me. It's hard to know where one is at the moment, I find. |
| 1:04.9 | There's so much to process, and it's coming so quickly. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, you know, literally before we started recording, I got an update that they, the, in America, |
| 1:18.0 | they've rescinded that whole funding freeze thing. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.2 | They've already rescinded that. |
| 1:22.7 | Yes. |
| 1:23.5 | So it leaves, I mean, it leaves you wondering, doesn't it? |
| 1:26.2 | It leaves you second guessing. |
| 1:27.1 | Was it serious in the first place? |
| 1:28.8 | Was it just like a distraction tactic? |
| 1:30.8 | Was it a, you know, a pressing of the parameters to see just, oh, how far can we get? |
| 1:37.4 | You just, it's, oh, it's so frustrating. |
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