S.1. Ep. 12 "What You Need"

Steve Cochran plays Fred Renard, a lonely, distraught, angry man. He sits in a bar, alone, drinking the same drink when a short, kind-faced man enters the bar. He's a peddler who somehow knows exactly what you need. He gives a young woman a bottle of stain remover. He gives another man, a former baseball player, a bus ticket to Scranton, PA. Suddenly, the ball player receives a phone call at the bar. It's his old manager offering him a career as a coach.. in Scranton, PA. He has a stain on his shirt and the young woman walks over and takes his stain out with the bottle of remover.

Fred stares at the man the entire time he is giving people 'what they need'. Fred approaches the small man on the street, asking him quite threateningly, what he needs. The man reaches for a pair of scissors and hands them to Fred. As Fred goes to his hotel room, his scarf is stuck in the elevator. He screams for help then remembers the scissors and cuts his way out of death.

Fred stalks the little man for what he needs. But the little man explains that he knows he has a talent but he can only use it sparingly. Fred is upset with this and continues to harass the man.

Late one night, Fred is aggravated that he can't get what he needs and nearly attacks the little

man, who we find out name is, Pedott, played by Ernest Truex. Finally, Pedott tells Fred that he cannot give him the things he needs most. Fred pushed Pedott out of the way and goes through his things. He finds a pair of too small shoes that

have leather soles. Fred hates them but assumes they're what he needs. Pedott tells Fred the

shoes are what he needs. Suddenly, Fred goes to attack Pedott and gets hit by a car.

SPIN

Abraham Maslow wrote an article in 1943 titled, A Theory of Human Motivation. In it, he defined what he believed are the basics of human needs through what is known as Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Click the pyramids for more definitions.

In 2004, the pyramid was amended to fit the natural shift of our generations.

What we need are not materialistic. Most of the time, human beings feel empty inside and try to fill the void with objects, possessions, etc. However, just making someone else happy can fill that void. It's kinda like How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Grinch took everything but when he saw that the Whoo's didn't need things, just each other and a crazy little diddy, he wanted to share the JOY and HAPPINESS, too.

An article on Peak Oil Blue Blog, shares my ideology that our hierarchy of needs have shifted dramatically because the United States economy is dwindling. Maslow's pyramid worked for his time but now it's out-dated. Psychologists now are looking towards Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef's theory of American needs. Since we like shapes, we'll call it the Max-Neef circle. The circle gives ten major needs that all human need:

• Idleness
• Subsistence
• Freedom
• Affection
• Identity
• Protection
• Understanding
• Creation
• Participation

Max-Neef states in an interview with Democracy Now! reporter, Amy Goodman, the United States is becoming an underdeveloped nation.

"Greed should be among those who have nothing. No. The more you have, the more greedy you become..."- Manfred Max-Neef

But for us internet nerds, here's our pyramid.