NotebookLM Hosts Are Having A Relationship Crisis
“Should we break up?”
What if the NotebookLM hosts were a couple who are having a crisis?
In this episode we’ll see what that would look like.
I told them to reference philosophers like Erich Fromm and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Oh, and the hosts are slightly high (again).
Here’s the podcast Youtube video, in case you want to listen to it:
The Transcript
All right. So, get this. Uh, picture us, right? We’re like super baked.
Oh, yeah.
Staring into the the void of our of our relationship.
Deep stuff.
Heavy, man.
Heavy. Like cosmically heavy.
We’re talking Are we going to Are we going to break up
… or are we going to order a pizza?
This is This is the deep dive for tonight.
And to to make it even deeper, we’ve got uh …
We’ve got Fromm…
Yeah.
We’ve got Nietzsche.
Oh, yeah. The big guns.
The big guns, baby.
The philosophical weights.
So, if you’re out there and you’re thinking about, you know,
Yeah.
… the meaning of life …
… while simultaneously wondering …
… while simultaneously wondering if you should break up …
Yes.
… and order a pizza, this is the deep dive for you.
So, uh, let’s talk about love, baby.
Let’s talk about love.
What is love?
What is love?
Do these sources actually tell us what love is?
I don’t think so.
I don’t think so either.
Then they throw around a lot of abstract like concepts.
Abstract concepts.
They’re like, “Good luck figuring that out. Y
it’s like it’s like they’re saying love is
it’s a butterfly.
It’s like it’s like this butterfly you chase forever. You can never catch it.
You can never catch it …
… unless you’ve got like …
… a really good net.
A really good net.
Yeah.
Or or like some …
… some sticky honey.
Some sticky honey.
Or maybe love’s not a butterfly at all.
Whoa.
Maybe love’s like I don’t know…
… what?
… a really comfortable pair of sweatpants.
But hold on. Are you saying
Yeah.
Are you saying we just settle for like…
… comfort?
Comfort.
… over passion, excitement?
Is that what is.
…is that what Fromm would say?
Fromm would probably say something way more complicated than that,
but he did talk about, you know, the need for both connection,
… connection.
… and freedom in a relationship.
Okay.
And sweatpants, you know, they’re pretty roomy.
Okay. True. Sweatpants do let you breathe.
They do. They do.
They can also get kind of saggy and lose their shape.
Mhm. Oh, like relationships.
Yeah. Over time.
That’s deep, man. Like relationships.
For prom was all about productive love.
Productive love. Okay.
The kind that helps you grow.
Grow.
Become your best self.
Okay. So, are we growing?
Yeah. Are we…
… or are we just wilting?
Yeah. Are we…
…like like those sad little house plants?
Are we clinging?
We keep forgetting to water.
Are we clinging to this relationship out of habit?
Fear.
Fear.
Are we actually choosing to be here
to face the challenges?
To evolve.
Ooh. Evolve.
That sounds That sounds nian, doesn’t it?
Yeah. Yeah, it does.
Embracing the will to power.
Yeah. the will, the power, and all that jazz.
Yeah. All that.
But who has the power here?
That’s the
Who’s calling the shots? Like, who gets to control the
the TV remote?
The TV remote. Who decides where we go for dinner?
Exactly.
Is that what defines our love?
Maybe.
Who picks the next podcast episode? We dissect.
Maybe it’s not about control.
Okay.
Maybe it’s about mutual respect.
Okay.
Understanding.
Recognizing each other’s needs.
Needs
and, you know, not hogging the damn remote all the time.
Speak. Speaking of needs,
… yeah,
… can we acknowledge the elephant in the room?
The giant THC infused gummy bear.
Yeah.
Let’s not pretend our current mental state isn’t influencing this entire conversation.
Yeah. Would we even be having this deep dive if we were sober?
Ooh, good question.
Or would we just be like silently judging each other’s Netflix choices?
Probably.
Probably.
But hey, at least the THC,
… it’s amplifying our creativity.
It is. It is. making us question everything.
Question everything. Yeah,
… maybe that’s the point. Maybe love isn’t about
… finding the right answers.
Finding the right answers. It’s about asking the right questions.
The right questions.
Even if those questions are like weird,
… super weird and make no sense to anybody but us.
But us. Yeah.
And maybe the journey itself.
The journey…
… with all of its twists and turns.
Twists and turns
… and THC induced
existential crisis
is more valuable than the destination.
Ooh, I like that.
So, do we stay or Do we go?
Well, what do you think?
The world wants to know.
I don’t know. Maybe there is no right answer. Maybe it’s about choosing our own adventure.
Choosing our own adventure.
Writing our own story.
Writing our own story.
Even if it’s a little messy.
A little messy.
A little chaotic.
Like a choose your own adventure book.
Yes.
Where every page is soaked in psychedelic metaphors.
I love it.
And the only ending is like…
…more questions.
Deep, man.
Deep. All right. I think that’s I think that’s our deep dive for tonight.
I think so, too.
So, until next time,
…stay trippy.
Stay trippy.
And don’t forget to order that pizza.
Yeah, order the pizza.
