"Dudes and the Abstract Truth"
Well, my fellow earthlings: The rocket ship is landing. The grand finale of Conversation Oblique Season 4 is here and our lovably nauseous hosts cap off the season with one of their most irrelevant & accomplished conversations yet. Sky & Estevan spend this precious half-hour together discussing Sky growing up in the same house the telephone was created, primal scream therapy, emoji’s that are a disguised cry for help, when moving meditation meets traditional talk psychotherapy, and finally a ghastly Halloween omen that Sky once experienced. Is it the end? Shortly after recording this episode the Conversation Oblique boys have found, to both gripping ecstasy AND despair, a black curtain of time falling, revealing a mysterious door that is the entrance to another spiraling vortex. Will they open it? Stay tuned.
This week finds the attached-to-each-others-conversational-hip twins discussing the strange self-awareness of Slipknot, commerce shifting cultural aesthetic, the youth comatosing on insincerity, Andy Warhol being one sick puppy, technological stasis being the strangest fate for humanity, and the fact that you can tell how a society is doing by their most recent google searches. Seize the days while you can & thanks for listening to Conversation Oblique!
Why, hello! Behold another episode of the podcast critics (50 years from now) are hailing as the "tumbleweed of 21st Century thought rolling through the empty landscapes of America's consciousness". Sky & Estevan return as your dutiful hosts to explore another round of baffling concepts such as: vibrators with personalities, upholding rituals in a ritual-less society, Halloween as a super chill mob shake down, some Netflix movie Sky watched called "Clown", and the fact that, whether you're aware of it or not, the whole world IS a stage and no it doesn't matter if God left his seat for popcorn hours ago. Enjoy!
The third installment and startling conclusion to Conversation Oblique’s COVID-19 special. Attempting to solve the entire global pandemic in one conversation, the duo of a cosmic linking tackle topics such as; how being a mutable, changeable character in times of catastrophe is an advantage, hitting this crisis in your 20’s is an ideal time of place, the future of young people who are motivated to study virology after this, changes in airport security, micro-ecologies of zeitgeist, the imperishable desire for movie theater experiences, and the hope that there’s a ton of narcissists being reawoken right now. Enjoy!
Part Two of Conversation Oblique’s COVID-19 Special: The boys battle with their swords of discussional wit about the numbing blizzard of entertainment, the peculiar situation of artists live streaming their performances, court jester’s resembling shaman’s, and the strangely anti-capitalist situation of students being burdened with debt. Enjoy. Wash your hands!
Well, well, well, interrupting their broadcast of Season 4, the Conversation Oblique gentlemen meet up (6 feet apart!) to share their takeaways on these unprecedented times under COVID-19: the mythology of Jimi Hendrix, self-direction, the strange beauty of industry being halted, financial woes and windfalls, common myths, and wine bottles are all discussed as Sky and Estevan attempt to make sense of a most peculiar global crisis. This is one episode in a mini-series, so stay tuned for next week’s second installment.
Wow.. do these two ever get sick of each other? Sky Cooper & Estevan Muñoz have one of their most clear-headed conversations in the history of the podcast yet. Exotica, Pygmies, fringe creatives, cultural assimilators, underdogs, self-sabotage, groupies from the 80s, extortion, cancel culture, roads to redemption, social brownie points, strong communities, voting and finally America’s perverted relationship with entertainment are all touched over with the paint brush that is the shared consciousness of Sky & Estevan. Relax, take a bong hit of coffee, and enjoy one of their finest moments together.
Here we go, again. Again. Sky Cooper & Estevan Muñoz, in their on-going ping pong match of whimsical dialogues, return to the dimension of podcast with another conceptual museum of topics they verbally explore. AI secretaries, the sub-genres of online dating, humanity’s evolution into chatterboxes, the spoiling of conflict resolution skills, height discrepancies in potential suitors -- you know the drill. Press play and go on a magic carpet ride of charmingly irrelevant conversation!
Another morning, another podcast. Sky Cooper & Estevan Muñoz traverse together through their hell-bent curiosities (as we apologetically know them to) for another rambunctious round of stimulating ideas. The ground covered this week includes social media gossip, micro-penises, polyamory, radical personal transformations, and genital probiotics. Subscribe for a new episode every Monday. Cheers to all!
An unusual episode of Conversation Oblique indeed. Running against the current of their typically zigzagging discourse, episode 5 finds Sky Cooper and Estevan Muñoz shaping their time together around a single topic. Sky expounds upon his wacky idea of putting the entire internet on a block chain as a means of fighting fake news. Estevan, accustomed to responding to the world in an entirely blip fashion (not to different than a pinball bouncing from one shiny corner to the next), clumsily but heroically tries to make sense of this convoluted yet detailed proposal. Have a sip of coffee and explore this uncharted realm of Convo Oblique with us!
Life rafts built of intuition & values. Psychedelics that scramble your brains but also tune you into unseen worlds. The dynamic duo behind Conversation Oblique tussle with another series of ideas with no definitive answer. But hey: everything is complicated and that is okay. Enjoy the monday commute with these two chatterboxes.
Tap your feet to the rhythm of this purposefully scattered episode of Conversation Oblique. In traditional fashion, these two hopeless romantics dash through a discourse of stunning variety, flying through topics of cold showers, stimulants, astral projection as the first Facebook, guarded receptivity as an artist, the dangers of outsourcing your imagination and the idea that language may have gone too far!
Just when you thought the Conversation Oblique gentlemen had resigned to being washed up nobodies mushed into the depths of obscurity, the two ne’er do well hosts return with one of their most imaginative episodes yet! Painting as alchemy, dark room Impressionism, primal body wisdom, what an Ultra Premium Shazam App might look like and many other mind-melting topics prove these two hosts are far from over. Listen to episode two and bask in this paradox of a chatty friendship!
Conversation Oblique enters their 4th Season on the backs of camels made from concepts across the vast desert of the charming host's collective curiosity. Sky Cooper & Estevan Munoz openly ponder polyamory, the process of squeezing our romantic relationships through new technology platforms such as social media, and wether or not life for either of them is truly, really, undeniably cooking.
Are the most potent artists the ones metaphorically tripping all the time? Is the application of electricity a long-term elaborate scheme created by a demon to lure humanity into a prison? Is self-hatred a cop-out? Is the lesson of death to experience vitality fully? Catch these questions and some more off-hand banter by the Conversation Oblique boy’s in a new episode for your Monday!
As 2018 marches on with unstoppable trajectory, so does the purposefully aimless dialog between Sky Cooper and Estevan Munoz. This week the two discuss heavy bass in music as a display of sexual power and maternal comfort, the mystery of not remembering our time in the fetus, and the insanity of drug addiction in relation to the physical animal. Enjoy today while you have them.
In one of their most inspiring talks recorded, Sky unintentionally lectures Estevan on how living a healthy, balanced, and honest life is the most positive contribution you can give back to society. DON’T GIVE IN TO DESPAIR. THE UNIVERSE NEEDS YOUR CONSTRUCTIVE ENERGY!
Conversation Oblique returns for another Mundane Monday as we find the two amicably befuddled hosts Sky and Estevan tackling the question on if there is a biological impulse for humanity to seek a Messiah, and what function does that impulse serve society. From Charles Manson to Michael Jackson, it seems as if humans need a higher ideal or symbol to project their aspirations and fantasies on to help navigate their lives, but is this a necessary way to live? As always, the answers are as a thick as the fog that permanently stains Estevan’s brain, and Sky’s inherently skeptical nature never lets one answer be “the One.†Join us this Monday as we ponder subjects way beyond our formal education but well within what keeps these two gentlemen up at night.
Welcome to a deep cut in Season 3 of Conversation Oblique, the relatively arbitrary outlet for the charmingly strange friendship of Sky Cooper & Estevan Munoz. This week the boys discuss pet owners projecting their psyches onto their pets, the under appreciated intimacy of apps like FaceTime, the emotional perversion of call centers, the living organism of the Corporation, the Unseen World that humanity self-perpetuates because we need something to surrender to, the fact that God is more than likely an alcoholic, and the possibility of Estevan being addicted to despair. Enjoy!
Listen, your desire for a legacy is absolutely bonkers - everybody is eventually nothing more than an faint echo of something that never happened - also listen to your inner voice so you’re not the 50 year old buying a red convertible out of misplaced existential emptiness. Life is complicated but at least you have the Conversation Oblique boiz breaking this reality down for you.
Have you found your Destiny-Level work? How many existential sandpits are you currently in? If life is the process of letting go, what does that mean for relationships? Do you realize Bank Leaders are lizards? These and a barrage of other topics occupy the busy minds of Sky and Estevan for Season 3 Episode 8. Enjoy!
Season 3 of Conversation Oblique galumphs onward with Estevan and Sky scrutinizing the role of the critic in modern society. Are these individuals and institutions merely competing for attention with the artists or are they actually the shamans of culture? And what if this culture is grotesquely vapid in meaning and intention? Like always, the answers are never clear - but Estevan and Sky continue investigating their questions like a Sherlock Holmes rip-off that gets cancelled on Nickelodeon after half a season. Enjoy.
Is the mystery of life understood by the geometry of molecules?
Estevan breakdowns Danny Brown’s track “Downward Spiralâ€ÂÂ, Sky shares a story of a troubled childhood acquaintance, both contemplate the ultimate fate of the Universe and Estevan reveals his most cackling laughs yet.
Kicking off Season 3 of Conversation Oblique we find co-host Sky Cooper meditating on how to crash the economy with YouTube plays and co-host Estevan Munoz sharing his perspective on the fate of humanity that bears striking resemblance to that of the mysterious Elders. Thanks for listening. Stay tuned for more episodes.
Perhaps memes reflect the emptiness of our culture. Perhaps the attraction of Donald Trump is from millions of humans knowing they’ve been castrated and spent by the powers that be. Perhaps the larger your ego is the more absurd you are. Perhaps humor is a necessary expression of vitality. Perhaps spiritual maturity can be measured in how you handle the endless ambiguities of life. Perhaps the most rational thing one can do is be passionately inspired by the utter nothingness of our existence.
How forgetful are you? What do you use your music for? What's funny about being a terrible human beings? Have a quick hit of Conversation Oblique as we tackle yet another series of topics that have even confused even the greatest minds in the history of the World.
From maintaining ones integrity in a world obsessed with selling, to the social-anthropological challenges of human cooperation that are being tested due to the looming crises on all aspects of society gathering before us, this episode is concerned with the uncertainties that come along being a human in this terrifying new world, topped with our hosts sharing early formative experiences each of them had. Enjoy.
Are we a collage culture? Are we merely referencing and recycling the old ideas from the past and presenting them as new? Is that how it has always been? Can a vital new form of art arise from that? What does this have to do with the development of visual storytelling alongside musical composition? Give a listen to your pals Sky & Estevan and ponder these topics with us.
The perverse scale of reach that commerce and industry has achieved. The dysfunctional "Hero" myths that govern America. The moral bankruptcy of being productive for productive sake. Convo Oblique is back for another Monday as modern civilization continues to tumble down it's own self-inflicted death spiral. Transcend these Earthly conditions with us and press play.
Sometimes silence is the best feedback...
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Is pop music purely artifice, and if so, what kind of music has real meaning?
The Revolution Will Be Streaming on Netflix!
Conversation Oblique boi'z have a fairly single-track talk for once and discuss Sky's theory on developing maturity in the realm of Earth.
Tangents on Tangents on Tangents in this new Monday episode for the Convo Oblique Boi'z. We return to familiar topics like living in a hyper-toxic environment but explore new terrain by contemplating Ninja and Samurai dynamics, along with Joe Pesci's music career. Enjoy!
Estevan & Sky discuss and explore mating signals under the culture of Instagram.
How Do We Live in the Super Structure?
Sky & Estevan are back for another Monday to discuss the bizarre implications of being alive in this seemingly hyper-absurd world & if human consciousness is really all that special (among other things).
We discuss Devil Worship Is Materialism amongst other things.
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