Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Being a fan of comedians and musicians Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington, both for their music and their brilliant but somewhat cultish comedy show 'On cinema at the cinema', I got to know some wonderful people from all over the world. One of these truly good people is John Villareal from Houston Texas, who recently started a fun conversational podcast on many topics and opened up the floor to audience questions during his final show of the season.
I just wanted to ask an interesting question, looking at the US from my European perspective. Though I was genuinely curious about the answer, John and his co-host tackled my question with so much depth and candour, that I felt a bit smug afterwards for asking a question that required so much introspection and for perhaps seemingly implying that my homecountry is free from some of the issues addressed in their answer. It's not. So let me just be clear that it wasn't my intention to get on a high horse, point to everything that's supposedly 'wrong' with the US and imply that the problems facing European countries are somehow less serious. I could say great things about Belgium, but could absolutely be brutally honest about Belgian and European shortcomings, hypocricies and blindspots.
Anyway: thanks for addressing the question with such a thought-provoking answer, guys! Great work on the podcast! Bring on season 2!
Being a fan of comedians and musicians Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington, both for their music and their brilliant but somewhat cultish comedy show 'On cinema at the cinema', I got to know some wonderful people from all over the world. One of these truly good people is John Villareal from Houston Texas, who recently started a fun conversational podcast on many topics and opened up the floor to audience questions during his final show of the season.
I just wanted to ask an interesting question, looking at the US from my European perspective. Though I was genuinely curious about the answer, John and his co-host tackled my question with so much depth and candour, that I felt a bit smug afterwards for asking a question that required so much introspection and for perhaps seemingly implying that my homecountry is free from some of the issues addressed in their answer. It's not. So let me just be clear that it wasn't my intention to get on a high horse, point to everything that's supposedly 'wrong' with the US and imply that the problems facing European countries are somehow less serious. I could say great things about Belgium, but could absolutely be brutally honest about Belgian and European shortcomings, hypocricies and blindspots.
Anyway: thanks for addressing the question with such a thought-provoking answer, guys! Great work on the podcast! Bring on season 2!
