There’s been this gradual loss of freedom of expression since we were younger, and I’ve had trouble putting my finger on it. Then I went through the rabbit hole of watching old Norm MacDonald bits on YouTube, and I was like “this is it.” I remember me and my friends used to spend a lot of time saying the most absurd things we could think of — just because it was funny. In the 90’s there was a novelist named Mark Leyer publishing books like The Tetherballs of Bougainville that I think captured the same thing.