
Podcast: Dreamy Audio
Episode: 14
Title: Buying Happiness
Host: Lewis Moten
Release Date: April 28, 2005, 5:41 am
Restored Date: January 16, 2026
Duration: 4:07
Channels: 1 (mono)
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Encoding: MP3, VBR (~130 kbps)
File Size: 1 MB
Summary
In this fourteenth Dreamy Audio entry, Lewis Moten recalls a domestic dream that pivots on a small accident: a joking toss shatters an object and scratches a music CD belonging to his wife, drawing in her sister as tensions rise. A simple solution—buying a replacement—briefly feels like a clean fix.
That relief collapses into emotional mismatch. Grudges linger, eyes morph into cartoonish designs, and a friend urges him to shrug it off and leave. He refuses, choosing repair over escape, insisting on calming the room and rejecting the idea that indifference is expected or acceptable.
Transcript (auto-generated)
So, Angel was at the table eating something and I picked up some kind of swirly object and I just threw it on the table being funny but it broke and when it broke part of it went into one of her music CDs on the table and scratched it and I was just trying to get together trying to glue it or something and I couldn’t do it and then I was like, can’t we just go to the store and just get another one and she was like, yeah, we can do that and I just had a big grin on my face and I kind of like chuckled that I could buy happiness in a way for just $7.95 and then she started getting kind of pissed off and their sister was getting upset too and then I was sort of saying that they would usually hold a grudge against me for the entire day and just make life miserable if I did something that was bad but this here, the answer was so simple and I was telling them usually I don’t know what it is I need to do to make things right and they won’t tell me and then something with their eyes, they start changing colors like they had actual designs in their eyes that were like red cartoonish outlines and then somebody came to door and apparently he was a friend of mine and he figured out the situation and he agreed with me while the girls got more upset and he was just going to leave with me and then I was like, no, I got to stop and make sure that these two get calmed down so that everything’s right here so that they don’t get more upset and that they can calm down and he was upset because he was like, you know, guys, let’s just be dicks, that’s what we’re supposed to be. I mean they know that, they expect it and then I was like, no, that’s it.
