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WELCOME, one and all, to the long-awaited premiere of season 4! Today, your good ol' host, Shift Orion, is joined by Nick Roth and Lindsey Haun. Shift and Nick met while wandering around in the howling abyss of social media. Nick was looking for podcasts to talk about his new movie, Hanky Panky, and Shift was looking for inspiration to reboot this show. So Nick hailed Lindsey to join Shift for a chat about this fantastic, whacky, elevated, innovative film made with love under crazy conditions. And they also talk about other things like Nick and Lindsey's kids, Nick's upcoming haunted dreidel film, Lindsey's dark and vague works in progress, and Shift's upcoming sci-fi about an average white American man who gets knocked up by an alien parasite just after landing his dream job and has flashbacks to that one time he tried to convince his teenage girlfriend to not have an abortion.  We hope you enjoy this episode and then go watch Hanky Panky on Tubi! Special thanks to Gina Mangiaracinage for hooking it up with the functioning Internet that carried this episode to your ear holes while my Internet was not working. Nick & Lindsey, Co-Directors:  Hanky Panky marks the feature debut of frequent collaborators and future Hollywood power couple Nick and Lindsey. Lindsey is a gold-record winning singer/songwriter, an actor and horror icon (Village of the Damned, Trueblood, Shrooms, Color of Friendship), and a director of several award-winning short films and music videos. She is repped by Bohemia Group. Nick is a former middle-school substitute Latin teacher, current pun factory, and film and television writer who most recently wrote on ABC sitcom American Housewife. He is repped by Zero Gravity.   About HANKY PANKY  Logline: A man and his talking handkerchief save the world from an evil top-hat, and also learn to love. Genre: Puppets and Blood. Runtime: 86 minutes, 4 of which is a fight scene between a napkin and a hat. Full Synopsis: When sweet and quirky ayahuasca marriage counselor Diane mistakenly invites the wrong “Sam” to a retreat she's co-hosting with friends and family at an isolated snowy mountain cabin, instead of her best friend's sister Samantha showing up, she gets Sam, a socially anxious oddball who has brought his best friend, Woody, a foul-mouthed talking handkerchief Sam believes only he can hear, and who is sexually aroused by cleaning up messes. Diane is Sam's opposite, but it's love at first sight. The only thing that stands between them is that right away everyone in the cabin starts being mysteriously murdered, and the whole vacation quickly descends into a zany pandemonium of cults, psychedelics, aliens, and, as Woody himself puts it, delicious chaos. Short Synopsis: A socially anxious oddball and his best friend, a foul-mouthed talking handkerchief who is sexually aroused by cleaning up messes, must confront an inter-dimensional evil in order to save the world and find true love. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqKFZm04ViM Official Website: https://hankypankythemovie.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/hankypankymovie FB: https://www.facebook.com/HankyPankyMovie X: https://www.twitter.com/HankyPankyMovie TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@hankypankymovie YT: https://m.youtube.com/@HankyPankyTheMovie LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hankypankythemovie/   FEATURED REVIEWS  "A perfect pick for 420... gleefully absurd... No matter how deeply you've dived into horror comedies, I can assure you that you've never seen anything quite like this... the comedy equivalent of a Jackson Pollock... sensational... an absolute avalanche of silliness... “ —Kristy Puchko, Mashable https://mashable.com/article/hanky-panky-movie-2024-review   "Hanky Panky is a delightfully unserious horror movie crammed with comedy." ––Becca James, Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/film/review-hanky-panky/   "Hanky Panky is a genre-bending rollercoaster that seamlessly blends elements of comedy and horror, all while descending to a new level of insanity… A surreal success in ambitious independent filmmaking." ––Smrithika Majukar, Film Ireland https://filmireland.net/2024/04/08/review-hanky-panky/   "Cheap, Dumb, Delightful... Joyous. It's a silly movie that just wants to make its audience smile, and it succeeds." ––Kyle Logan, Screen Anarchy https://screenanarchy.com/2024/04/hanky-panky-review-cheap-dumb-delightful.html "Hanky Panky is the stupidly funny horror-comedy of the year... wacky, wonderful, and at times completely bonkers." ––Romey Norton, Film Focus Online https://www.filmfocusonline.com/post/hanky-panky-review "It may be a little too strange and outlandish for some, but those who are willing to embrace its unashamed weirdness and its brazen nonconformity are in for a great time." ––David Gelmini, Dread Central https://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/494104/hanky-panky-review-seth-green-voicesan-evil-hat-in-absurd-new-comedy/?amp "It's silly, it's wild, and it's filthy in all the right ways, made by a team with a clear love of film... No one should deprive themselves of an opportunity to see a napkin learn about the power of friendship." ––Jules Caldeira, Film Inquiry https://www.filminquiry.com/hanky-panky-2023-review/?amp=1 FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS & AWARDS LA Comedy Film Festival Official Selection Int'l Independent Film Awards Best Actor (Jacob DeMonte-Finn) Best Supporting Actor (Seth Green) Best Actress (Ashley Holliday Tavares) Best Supporting Actress (Clare Grant) Best Casting Best Directing Best Narrative Feature World Premiere Film Awards Best First Time Filmmaker Best Comedic Script Best Comedy Feature Best Production Design Judges' Choice Central Coast Int'l Film Festival Official Selection Beast Feature Film Athens Int'l Monthly Art Film Festival Best Debut Feature Film Golden State Film Festival Official Selection Best Supporting Actor (Seth Green) Robinson Film Awards Best Comedy Feature Golden Lion Int'l Film Festival Best Actress (Ashley Holliday Tavares) Best Actor (Jacob DeMonte-Finn) Best Comedy Feature Best International Feature Film Los Angeles Film Awards Best Indie Feature Best New Director Italian Comedy Festival International Comedy Prize Five Continents Int'l Film Festival Official Selection Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actress (Ashley Holliday Tavares) Best Art Direction Best Team Performance The IndieFEST Film Awards Best Feature Film Best Ensemble Cast Best Special Effects Cinema Cappuccino Best Feature Film Gothamite Monthly Film Awards Best Feature Film Indie Vegas Film Festival Official Selection Best Supporting Actress (Clare Grant) LA Cinema Festival of Hollywood Official Selection Best Narrative Feature Best Director Best Actor (Jacob DeMonte-Finn) Kalakari Film Festival Official Selection Fortean Film Festival Official Selection MegaFlix Film Awards Official Selection Silver Wing Int'l Film Festival Best Narrative Feature Dreamz Catcher Int'l Film Festival Best Feature Film Independent Horror Movie Awards Best Feature Best Actor (Jacob DeMonte-Finn) Best Humor Best Kill Top Indie Film Awards Best Humor Best Original Idea Kalakari Film Festival Certificate of Achievement    Directors' Statement: Hanky Panky was inspired by the way certain zany comedies like Wet Hot American Summer and Caddyshack seemed to capture the energy of locking their whole cast and crew together in, say, a summer camp, or a coke-orgy fueled hotel in the middle of a Florida hurricane with Chevy Chase -- and then somehow get that energy on screen. We shot Hanky Panky in Lindsey's dad's cabin in the mountains above Heber, Utah, where the entire cast and crew crammed together, at 8,000ft of elevation, during the most intense blizzard ever recorded there. It was a true anarcho-communist-guerilla production: literally no budget, nobody got paid, everyone chipped in for food and drugs, and we all cooperatively own the film now. We shot it on a camera our team won with a short film at Slamdance in 2015. A friend who shoots porn let us borrow his lights. By far our biggest expense was that Lindsey backed her car into Nick's in the blizzard and knocked out a headlight, so that did cost us like $900 to fix. It was crazy. Everyone went a little bit crazy. Some of us went a lot a bit crazy. It's our hope that a bunch of that fun, contagious craziness has ended up on the screen. CONTACT Nick & Lindsey:  hankypankythemovie@gmail.com    GMM's YouTube -- Subscribe and like all our videos please! 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Welcome back, Mayberry! Your good ol host Shift is here with Auntie Boy, the most contrast, hyper masc/femme, elevated and deep, up and coming rapper from the LA area you.  This is the Audio Only Version of this episode. To watch the video version, go to Good Morning Mayberry YouTube.   This conversation is all pearls, cardigans, and lap cats while Shift asks what in the actual fuck went down to manifest this cottagecore musical masterpiece. After a special appearance from Auntie Boy's little kitty, Twissleton, you get to find out why these sicc genre jolting beats and lyrics exist.  We out here talking bout weird ideas, people trying to make us watch Dr. Who, and the multitudes we all contain. The jive is hawt on production, collaboration, sharing, and life lessons learned through music and talks about perfectionism as an obstacle to success and happiness. Auntie Boy shares his creative process for writing and beat production.  Shift shares how his drum teacher taught him to find solutions by making loud mistakes.  Auntie talks about his song release party at Violet 7 Studios. Spoiler alert, Shift went and is still obsessed with Echos dropping a surprise that may or may not be edited into the end of this episode. Sit in with your boys, Shift and Auntie, as they appreciate the art of crafting your weirdness into a homing beacon to attract things and people into your life. It's giving Celine Dion. It's giving Matisyahu. It's giving lit version of gramma's house. It's raining flowers! hallelujah. Come join Shift as he meets the beautiful and brilliant Auntie Boy!   Follow Auntie Boy on IG @auntie.boy  TT @auntieboy  auntieboy.com free stems!! @auntieboy on youtube and soundcloud   Also check out Auntie Boy's collaborators and friends @i.am.omri @awaynotfound @echosofficial @greymusic   Now. Go listen to the Meryl Streep EP!

Let's time travel back to January 29, 2023, with the glorious gem, Amy Dee, who came to stand by Shift as he firmly defends his reputation with the truth. Some liars have threatened Shift's life and livelihood by targeting him with hundreds of triggered fanatics --- this story is very important. Learn about the timeline of Shift's experience getting caught up in Eat Predators' messy “organization” after Alexa Nikolas started what may be the most selfish, inappropriate, and poorly managed book club that has ever existed outside of Yellowjackets season 1.  Amy Dee reminds us that the #metoo movement centralizes around Central Casting, and mentions how irrelevant people can be made relevant by connecting their names in articles to actually important, well-known people and events. Shift covers some anecdotal moments like how Alexa Nikolas' husband randomly left their baby alone with him... In a car... With the keys. And made Shift drive the baby around while he and Alexa Nikolas hung around taking pictures at a protest at Orange County School of the Arts with people like Nomi Abadi, Amanda Peters, and their partners. He also mentions how he was aggressively harassed by a police officer during the time they left him and their child alone.  Shift refers to the bizarre and mysterious exposé website, alexanikolas.net, and how far back some truly alarming accusations about Alexa Nikolas' abuse of others goes. He also reviews how Melanie Veronica inserted her undeserved and erratic #freebritney clout to boost Alexa Nikolas' lies. Tangentially, Shift highlights how long he's been working with media, culture, and movements with a story about taking care of Bella Eiko's baby for 2 weeks in 2014 when Bella went to live stream the events in Ferguson just after Mike Brown was killed. Can Alexa Nikolas project a lie that shines brighter than who Shift really is? Can people play dumb while being smartasses? Can movements ever get their shit together? In all these questions and confusions… we know this much is true… liberal movement "leaders" tend to make themselves the Mean Girls in every room they're in. And… Shift and Amy Dee are committed to facing any foe to help make society more trauma-informed and honest.   How did Shift go from being called a “godsend” to being falsely accused of being a “stalker” by Alexa Nikolas and her husband, her mother, and her cultish fanatical “organization”? Let's get into it.   Hate us or love us? Call us and tell us at 415-343-4420.   Also.... get ready for Amy Dee and Shift's upcoming podcast, Glitch Sesh! A media and culturally-informed history and society focusing on spiritual predators and power abusers who seek to serve themselves at the expense of society and the cultural ramifications and consequences and how social behavior contributes to the erosion of trust in the culture of American society in modern times. Season 1 is all about Britney Spears' circa 2004-2005.               [By the way, we aren't breaking any laws, civil or criminal, by continuing to tell the truth.]

Lapi rushes in to update us on the new vile, fallacious smear/scare campaign being spun into tangled webs of lies that are constricting the #freebritney ecosystem.  Lapi points out the extreme danger that cult behavior in Eat Predators poses to survivors and allies. Shift points out how much of a waste of time it was for Lapi to try and come up with more respectful terms than “pink clown” to describe Melanie Veronica even after she tried to silence him from publicly addressing concerns about Michael Kane controlling Britney Spears' business. How tragically meta that the Free Britney groupies are now getting their own following of fans.  Let's connect some alleged dots. Melanie Veronica used to work with BJ from That Surprise Witness. BJ has routinely avoided addressing many key players surrounding Team Con. Melanie is now buddied up with Alexa Nikolas. Alexa, Melanie, and BJ all regularly silence engagement in critical discussion about their platforms' harmful impacts and have made concerted moves to manipulate Britney Spears' conservatorship case to vault their own platforms into greater visibility. Alexa, Melanie, and BJ have also all been suspected in several people's alleged opinions of behaving in ways that several people suspect to be in controlled opposition to freedom movements. And they've all received significant material and social rewards at the expense of activists and researchers they try to bully out of the movement. The growing list of false accusations Melanie and Alexa have publicly made against Shift includes uncharacteristic criminal and unethical acts… all because they don't want you to hear our episode about The Real & True Origin Story Of Eat Predators w/ Caeli Higgins and Kay Brown. You could check it out. Or maybe you should just shield your eyes and ears from the truth since these pretty little gals don't want you to know what's in there. Get the real timeline of events to clarify confusion and alleviate public fear that Alexa Nikolas conjured up with her bizarre, alarmist tweets and “69 page open letter” (that Shift still hasn't read yet as of the airing of this episode and) that (according to multiple lawyers, PR professionals, and literally random people just using basic common sense) should be removed and revised with the truth. Learn what malfeasance Haunted American Girl Dolls Meanie the Clown and Hellexa are up to. Melanie Veronica is running out of reasons to propel her fame on the inertia of Britney Spears' conservatorship case so it could make sense that she's trying to stay relevant by fabricating scary stories with deceitful, failed former child actor, Alexa Whattheactualfuckgurl Nikolas. Anyway… go listen to Lapi's new song as a palate cleanser when you're done getting updated on this shitshow. Always remember to never forget... follow, like, and rate us everywhere you listen! Follow Lapi Follow Good Morning Mayberry! GMM's YouTube -- Subscribe and like all our videos please! GMM's IG Credits: Shift Orion, producer/host, graphics Lapis Stone, guest Soundtrack: GMM Intro by Wonderful Glass Cage Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage (in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage Question by Wonderful Glass Cage Tip your host on CashApp $iamshift About Sam Maloney and Warner Music Group sexual harassment and NDA abuse Lapis Stone is a writer, violinist, singer, songwriter, creative performance mentor, and world-class entertainer performing as LapiOnTheBeat. Lapi was formerly on the cast of Good Time Kids. After being signed twice, Lapi has evolved into an independent neon pop superstar.

What if you were allowed, even encouraged, to lie? If you're learning about public communications from Professor Christine Warda, you might find yourself invited to lie… and possibly rewarded for lying if you do it well.  Let's explore some angles on information, misinformation, and disinformation. How can we make sound choices in a world riddled with competing opinions and conflicting narratives? Can we really know people through online interactions?  After Shift gets into how much he doesn't get commercial holidays… briefly time-travel with christY back to 2011 when she was trying to hold teach-ins about what Occupy Oakland was really doing... and how she got the shakedown from law enforcement based on devious media warping their expectations.  This chat on ethical communications kinda gets into everything here… truth, lies, trust, the idea of what a "friend" is, human psychology, betrayal, social dynamics, pop culture, media, news, the unreliable narratives our memories can offer us, satire, influence, fear, derailed trains in East Palestine, Ohio... ruining television, conspiracy theories, our individual power, aliens (except not according to Biden's White House)… but… You can leave your tin foil hat on the rack for this one. Shift and christY get this show back on the rails with a sobering look at perception and trust. Always remember to never forget... follow, like, and rate us everywhere you listen! Follow christY on Medium GMM's YouTube -- Subscribe and like all our videos please! GMM's IG Credits: Shift Orion, producer/host, graphics Christine Warda, guest Soundtrack: GMM Intro by Wonderful Glass Cage Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage (in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage Question by Wonderful Glass Cage Christine Warda is a Communication Consultant & Educator with rich and innovative experience in professional training & coaching. She's coached national champio debate teams and worked with a vast range of demographics in her private and academic offerings.  About Sam Maloney and Warner Music Group sexual harassment and NDA abuse

Lapi returns to discuss concerns about Alexa Nikolas hijacking the Eat Predators group from the seasoned survivor advocates, organizers only to wind up manipulating the #freeBritney movement for visibility and fame-chasing with Melanie Veronica.  Shift misquotes one of his favorite quotes --- then google checks himself. Lapi ponders on the ethics of big platforms weaponizing the Internet to attack people, then tears into callout culture and celebrity influence on fanbases.  Lapi describes being contacted by participants of #freeBritney who were reaching out to bully and guilt him into reporting posts on and blocking Shift's personal and the Good Morning Mayberry Instagram accounts to suppress our reach in retaliation for us offering the episode we released with Kay Brown and Caeli Higgins a couple of weeks ago.  Lapi and Shift connect to discuss the alarming and disorienting distraction the hijacking of the Eat Predators "group" has become for ethics watchdogs, activists, advocates, and people who need us. Heads up! We talk about Melanie Veronica, who is — at the time of this recording — on both Shift and Lapi's shit list… and also Melanie Carlson aka Mx_Defying, who is a leading entertainment business researcher specializing in Britney brands. Always remember to never forget... follow, like, and rate us everywhere you listen! Follow Lapi GMM's YouTube -- Subscribe and like all our videos please! GMM's IG Credits: Shift Orion, producer/host, graphics Lapis Stone, guest Soundtrack: GMM Intro by Wonderful Glass Cage Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage (in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage Question by Wonderful Glass Cage Lapis Stone is a writer, violinist, singer, songwriter, creative performance mentor, and world-class entertainer performing as LapiOnTheBeat. Lapi was formerly on the cast of Good Time Kids. After being signed twice, Lapi has evolved into an independent neon pop superstar. About Sam Maloney and Warner Music Group sexual harassment and NDA abuse

Shift Orion hosts Jaden Young --- aka @y2remayne from Instagram! --- talking in his own bold and brilliant voice about how important it is to have morals and caution when reporting publicly on events and people as he deconstructs the impact and consequences of intentionally spreading false narratives with powerful platforms in attempts to sway public thought. Jaden talks in his own words about topics including but not limited to: TMZ Bam Margera Wendy Williams Wells Fargo lawsuits How Britney's fans can be used to make her life hell Alexa Nikolas and what the Eat Predators book club and Discord community she invited us into were like The humans behind the markets that brands and media seem to forget exist ... and how the same manipulation tactics lurk in both Hollywood and religious cults. Without any further adieu… Jaden Young (in his own voice). Raw and unedited. For an hour and 30 fucking 6 minutes without counting my intro and outro commentary.   [Update: We were informed that Jaden publicly posted that there was some type of confusing issue with Eat Predators book club involving a person called WILL. We are not sure what's going on here, as this is a developing story, but here is what Jaden posted to the public from his Instagram.]           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Jaden (@y2remayne)           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Jaden (@y2remayne) Screenshots of Jaden's plight on GoodMorningMayberry.com!

Introducing Lapi! Here to talk about working in television as a child and entertainment as an adult, developing healthy approaches to engaging with toxic industries, and Lapi and Shift's respective experiences both consuming and creating media. Always remember to never forget... follow, like, and rate us everywhere you listen!   Follow Lapi Follow Good Morning Mayberry! GMM's YouTube -- Subscribe and like all our videos please! GMM's IG Follow Shift's YouTube Credits: Shift Orion, producer/host, graphics Lapis Stone, guest Soundtrack: GMM Intro by Wonderful Glass Cage Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage (in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage Question by Wonderful Glass Cage Tip your host on CashApp $iamshift About Sam Maloney and Warner Music Group sexual harassment and NDA abuse Lapis Stone is a writer, violinist, singer, songwriter, creative performance mentor, and world class entertainer performing as LapiOnTheBeat. Lapi was formerly on the cast of Good Time Kids. After being signed twice, Lapi has evolved into an independent neon pop superstar.

We had to upload a duplicate of this episode that's audio only because Spotify only lets big-wig Hollywood podcasts stream video to y'all. You can watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube. Can we Eat Predators if we are what we eat?  Kay Brown (Four 4 Consent, Nightlife Safety Summit) and Caeli Higgins (Music Industry Watchdog) join Shift Orion to describe the origins of the Eat Predators collective and how the brand was co-opted as they were driven out… just before Shift discovered it on social media, joined the unregulated Eat Predators Book Club, and hauled his ass from SF to LA to help the mysteriously misrepresented "leadership" lock down a business strategy. Caeli and Kay detail their experience forming Eat Predators alongside other survivors and organizers like Nomi Abadi, Sochil Martin, and Alexa Nikolas.  They cover the first planning meetings, escalating miscommunication and misrepresentation accelerated by media attention from a nearly-off-brand protest at Nickelodeon, and challenges navigating interpersonal and professional conflicts as the group (and Alexa's wounded ego) grew faster than anyone (except people who've been crushed by it) could imagine. As the media and public began to exclusively center and sensationalize Alexa, her participation and story have warped. Shift describes his experience getting into the "Eat Predators book club" (then finding out it was never supposed to exist), having a short-lived but intense friendship with Alexa (and an even shorter-lived role working as her media and public relations manager), and being shocked and heartbroken discovering that Alexa had misled him about everything. Opening up about getting to know her remotely then planning an in-person visit, even staying at Alexa's house for 5 days, Shift recalls how quickly Alexa's endearing personality turned hostile after he became concerned about her capacity and ethics as she orchestrated the book club community and other people to shun him by making alarming and untrue claims. Ultimately, the conversation remains loving and generous with hope for accountability, amends, and honesty to prevail. Perhaps this is only the beginning of the story...    Follow Caeli and Kay: Kay Brown Caeli Higgins   Follow Good Morning Mayberry! GMM's YouTube GMM's IG   Follow Shift!  Shift's YouTube Shift's IG   Logistics Credits: Producer/host: Shift Orion   Graphics Credits: Shift Orion   Soundtrack Credits: GMM Intro by Shift Orion W1&WGC by Wonderful Glass Cage Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage (in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage   Caeli Higgins, leader of Music Industry Watchdog, is a writer, activist, dancer, and publicist for artists, brands, events, and music festivals.  In 2020, she started an Instagram account that exposed multiple serial predators in the music industry.  In 2021, she helped organize hunger strikes at the Louisiana State Penitentiary and David Wade Correctional Center that successfully demanded the release of 23 prisoners from illegal long-term solitary confinement.   Kay Brown is Steward, Leader, and Founder of Four 4 Consent. As a living legacy of commitment to serving survivors of violence, Kay stays at the forefront of the highest levels of professional education related to advancing the fields that support that work. Kay has been in advocacy for nearly a decade. Their certifications include being a Nationally Credentialed Victim Advocate and holding a Master's in Criminology and Criminal Justice with a concentration in Victimology.  Kay is a nationally recognized advocate, specializing in Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking, Child Abuse & Domestic Violence Intervention, Campus Advocacy, Comprehensive Victim Intervention, and Program Management. Kay was awarded Registered Advocate with Advanced Standing status from the Ohio Advocate Network and also achieved the requirements to be recognized by California's OES as a Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Counselor. Kay is a member of the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, Campus Advocacy and Prevention Professionals Association, and GLAAD. Kay works to create a safer and more positive culture in nightlife, where all people are free to be themselves without experiencing discrimination or violence. For more info on the org, like what sets Kay's organization apart from the rest, check the FAQ towards the bottom of their site: four4consent.org   Resources For Survivors

Can we Eat Predators if we are what we eat?  Kay Brown (Four 4 Consent, Nightlife Safety Summit) and Caeli Higgins (Music Industry Watchdog) join Shift Orion to describe the origins of the Eat Predators collective and how the brand was co-opted as they were driven out… just before Shift discovered it on social media, joined the unregulated Eat Predators Book Club, and hauled his ass from SF to LA to help the mysteriously misrepresented "leadership" lock down a business strategy. Caeli and Kay detail their experience forming Eat Predators alongside other survivors and organizers like Nomi Abadi, Sochil Martin, and Alexa Nikolas.  They cover the first planning meetings, escalating miscommunication and misrepresentation accelerated by media attention from a nearly-off-brand protest at Nickelodeon, and challenges navigating interpersonal and professional conflicts as the group (and Alexa's wounded ego) grew faster than anyone (except people who've been crushed by it) could imagine. As the media and public began to exclusively center and sensationalize Alexa, her participation and story have warped. Shift describes his experience getting into the "Eat Predators book club" (then finding out it was never supposed to exist), having a short-lived but intense friendship with Alexa (and an even shorter-lived role working as her media and public relations manager), and being shocked and heartbroken discovering that Alexa had misled him about everything. Opening up about getting to know her remotely then planning an in-person visit, even staying at Alexa's house for 5 days, Shift recalls how quickly Alexa's endearing personality turned hostile after he became concerned about her capacity and ethics as she orchestrated the book club community and other people to shun him by making alarming and untrue claims. Ultimately, the conversation remains loving and generous with hope for accountability, amends, and honesty to prevail. Perhaps this is only the beginning of the story...    Follow Caeli and Kay: Kay Brown Caeli Higgins   Follow Good Morning Mayberry! GMM's YouTube GMM's IG   Follow Shift!  Shift's YouTube Shift's IG   Logistics Credits: Producer/host: Shift Orion   Graphics Credits: Shift Orion   Soundtrack Credits: GMM Intro by Shift Orion W1&WGC by Wonderful Glass Cage Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage (in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage   Caeli Higgins, leader of Music Industry Watchdog, is a writer, activist, dancer, and publicist for artists, brands, events, and music festivals.  In 2020, she started an Instagram account that exposed multiple serial predators in the music industry.  In 2021, she helped organize hunger strikes at the Louisiana State Penitentiary and David Wade Correctional Center that successfully demanded the release of 23 prisoners from illegal long-term solitary confinement.   Kay Brown is Steward, Leader, and Founder of Four 4 Consent. As a living legacy of commitment to serving survivors of violence, Kay stays at the forefront of the highest levels of professional education related to advancing the fields that support that work. Kay has been in advocacy for nearly a decade. Their certifications include being a Nationally Credentialed Victim Advocate and holding a Master's in Criminology and Criminal Justice with a concentration in Victimology.  Kay is a nationally recognized advocate, specializing in Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking, Child Abuse & Domestic Violence Intervention, Campus Advocacy, Comprehensive Victim Intervention, and Program Management. Kay was awarded Registered Advocate with Advanced Standing status from the Ohio Advocate Network and also achieved the requirements to be recognized by California's OES as a Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Counselor. Kay is a member of the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, Campus Advocacy and Prevention Professionals Association, and GLAAD. Kay works to create a safer and more positive culture in nightlife, where all people are free to be themselves without experiencing discrimination or violence. For more info on the org, like what sets Kay's organization apart from the rest, check the FAQ towards the bottom of their site: four4consent.org   Resources For Survivors   Tip Shift on Venmo or CashApp: @iamshift

Doctor Larry is back talking about how parasocial relationships impact our daily lives, collective illusions compiling our shared reality, and some other stuff like family, working in entertainment and marketing, and relationality. This is the 1st half of the conversation from Dr. Larry Lyons - feat. Cancel Culture Club Pt 1. We talk about Larry's nephew Camden Coley (Karma's World, Abbot Elementary, Mike) and the vibrancy of Black boy joy. We talk about the monetization of love and relationality, how our presence on the Internet results in our unwitting consent to toxic cultural developments, and get GRANULAR about what parasociety even is. What does it mean to have fans? What does it mean to force love and loyalty from a commercial market? Are there actually barriers encasing our socioeconomic roles? WTF is a demi lovato and why is Shift mad about that? Shift gives more details about the non-denominational fundamentalist evangelical performing arts cult he traveled across the U.S. with as a teenager in the late 90s-early 2000s, and describes how he discovered (in 2021) what the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato even are and that, as teenagers, they all directly and literally made millions of dollars by directly and literally causing abuse against Shift and the other kids in the cult to escalate to inhumane levels. Shift lays out similarities in evangelical fundamentalism and Hollywood, marketing and evangelism, and both sides of “parasocial” bonding. Shift talks about our real world programming, dealing with people who accidentally virtue signal and warp their praxis into unraveling, and glory of discovering the gospel of Anne Heche (aka Celeste) in the wake of her sudden, tragic death. Larry comments on the power of fits and fists in the comments' sections and IRL, ponders the architecture of the ecosystems that divide people from experiencing life outside of their class' status expectations, and details people insisting upon keeping social traditions they know don't work.  Oh, how glorious that brands and companies have effectively strived to exploit our most intimate vulnerabilities. Oh, how everybody has to deal with the impact of public relations whether they know it or not. Liars and Grifters and Fakes? Oh, my!!  Always remember to never forget... follow, like, and rate us everywhere you listen!   Follow Dr. Larry Lyons and his nephew Camden Coley: Larry's IG Camden's IG   Follow Good Morning Mayberry! GMM's YouTube GMM's IG   Follow Shift!  Shift's YouTube Shift's IG   Logistics Credits: Producer/host: Shift Orion   Graphics Credits: Shift Orion   Soundtrack Credits: GMM Intro by Shift Orion Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage (in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage Help our studio get our shit together by dropping some dollars on Venmo or CashApp: @iamshift About Sam Maloney and Warner Music Group sexual harassment and NDA abuse   Dr. Larry Lyons has lectured and taught courses in 20th Century American literature, sociology and composition at Rutgers and Princeton University. As an independent consultant, he provides­ writing, editing and creative services for clients in education, public relations, non-profits and the arts. He is also the founder and creative director of Brick City Varsity, a Newark-based photography studio and vintage clothier.

Dr. Larry Lyons dropping in again to celebrate family and dissect parasocial relationships, psychology, celebrity, power, wealth, illusion, and propaganda with your good ol host Shift Orion!  This episode is part 1 even though it is the second half of a conversation that was recorded on 9/8 (a day before the previous episode with Mx Defying). Part 2 is the first half because time isn't real and that was a better order in which to release the vibe. We talk intimate, remote, and imaginary relationships, personalities as marketing tools, and the consequences of leaving a mark in people's hearts. We talk Britney Spears and Brittany Griner prior to Griner's return home. We talk Special Forces and the Black Mirror energy of punishing disgraced celebrities in a commercial entertainment arena until their reputations are laundered enough to be commodified again. We talk obscure ethics. Larry and Shift unpack ways Britney Spear's conservatorship was excessive, capitalistic nonsense!  Between gushing about Larry's nephew, Camden Coley's Black boy joy... we get into: What is parasociety? How celebrity work on celebrities and consumers. How social media changed the disproportionality in relationships with those know only through screens. What can happen when fame is deliberately engaged.   Always remember to never forget... follow, like, and rate us everywhere you listen!   Follow Dr. Larry Lyons and his nephew Camden Coley: Larry's IG Camden's IG   Follow Good Morning Mayberry! GMM's YouTube GMM's IG   Follow Shift!  Shift's YouTube Shift's IG   Logistics Credits: Producer/host: Shift Orion   Graphics Credits: Shift Orion   Soundtrack Credits: GMM Intro by Shift Orion Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage (in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage Help our studio get our shit together by dropping some dollars on Venmo or CashApp: @iamshift About Sam Maloney and Warner Music Group sexual harassment and NDA abuse   Dr. Larry Lyons has lectured and taught courses in 20th Century American literature, sociology and composition at Rutgers and Princeton University. As an independent consultant, he provides­ writing, editing and creative services for clients in education, public relations, non-profits and the arts. He is also the founder and creative director of Brick City Varsity, a Newark-based photography studio and vintage clothier.

Get your spiritual armor ready, Mayberry. Melanie Carlson (aka Mx Defying) is here to jump tandem with us as we jump in from 51k feet to skydive into the superstructure that ensnared Britney Spears into an excessively long and cruel conservatorship.  Mx Defying is a leading researcher in the #freeBritney aka #justiceForBritney community. She is extraordinarily perceptive and unflappable in her approach to educating herself and the rest of us. Shift Orion is extremely excited to drop in and learn about the people, places, and events that led to the public health crisis created by the Pop Patriarchy's predatory capitalists.  Nothing but blue skies ahead as we stick together on this dark adventure and examine long-term private equity investments, IRL social network manipulation, legalities, harassment, intimidation, dirty Russian money, accountability, familial abuse, mental health stigma, human trafficking, and Las muhfuggin Vegas. Here's to hoping we can ultimately figure this all out and all help fix it. We are the system.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The truth often lies in the space between: the punchline & the laugh, the reason & the feeling, and the jester & the king.” — Melanie Lynn Carlson   Check out Melanie Carlson aka Mx Defying website and socials!    Follow Good Morning Mayberry! GMM's YouTube GMM's IG   Follow Shift!  Shift's YouTube Shift's IG   Logistics Credits: Producer/host: Shift Orion   Graphics Credits: Shift Orion Mx Defying   Soundtrack Credits: GMM Intro by Shift Orion Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage (in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage Help our studio get our shit together by dropping some dollars on Venmo or CashApp: @iamshift About Sam Maloney and Warner Music Group sexual harassment and NDA abuse

Starbucks fired Sam Amato after he'd devoted 13 years to them because he gathered with other team members to organize ways of ensuring they all have what they need to survive and thrive! So… your good ol host Shift quested deep into the interwebs to find Sam and bring him here for you to meet him and learn about the details of how Sam and his community are pushing back against Starbucks in a fun, sweet conversation. You'll be glad you joined us for this one!  After breaking down the events and timeline, Sam and Shift talk about:  the impact of dehumanizing policies and actions rational approaches corporations could take to survive impending changes to global economics and then… (thank heck)… Britney Spears, #freeBritney, and refusing to be a passive market that funds complete monsters who abuse artists. What happens when a corporate overlord masquerading as a commonplace cafe manipulates its staff and treats human beings like tokens on a game board? -- NATIONWIDE STRIKES!!  What happens when a simplistic yet stunningly talented performing powerhouse grows up in front of the general public while being kept on leashes and in cages by abusive handlers unless she's being forced to perform on cold microphones?  -- Global friendship and support networks, unprecedentedly rapid legal education to the masses, and the most fabulous protests the world has ever known!! Help the studio get episodes out faster!! Drop some dollars on Venmo or CashApp: @iamshift Follow Sam! @mr_amato Follow the union! @sbworkersunited Follow the podcast! Follow Shift!   Logistics Credits: Sam's Equipment Assistant - Rachel! Producer/host: Shift Orion Soundtrack Credits: GMM Intro by Shift Orion Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage (in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage

Back to 9/23/2021 on another time travel episode! JJ Obee joins your host Shift Orion in a vulnerable, funny 2-part episode. In Part 1, Shift reveals the challenges he faced when coming out of lockdown. JJ details how they met Shift and how they ended up with a furry pterodactyl who was supposed to be dying already... then had a miraculous and annoying recovery. JJ and Shift talk about the power and nutrition in human interactions and how lockdown and reemergence impacted their mental health. Also... Shift's theory that a lot of glam is a coverup for disabilities and how Cooking With Paris on Netflix surprisingly got him through a suicidal episode. JJ is an Ohio-born actor, writer, singer, artist, and landscape architect with a soft spot for wheezy Pomeranians currently dominating the dream in Los Angeles. Connect with JJ Obee on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter @JJ_Obee, or JJObee.com... or just google JJ Obee. You'll like what you find.

Time jump back to February 14, 2021… when See Ellauri floated through Good Morning Mayberry to chat with Shift Orion. Hold space for infinite energies, flow state, unveiling, and listening while digging into chaos-order, grounding in charged social energy, and having insight about internal voices. Shift pulls his head out of his unicorn coloring books to get updates See delivered about the political events of the day. Spoiler alert - there was no impeachment declared that day. Anyhooo…  Back to something interesting! Reverence of authentic performance and the struggles of having personal conflicts erupt from “newsworthy” events! You know by now - we're all masters of weaving struggles and success, horrors and healing, and pain and progress here on the Revoluship! Buckle up and hold on tight… because, as Shift said about last year… “There's a pace outside unfamiliar to me”. See Cristian Ellauri is an MC (“Minister of Community”), a tea peddler who makes an unparalleled chai, and a poet who loves free-styling and hosting events. He's a gravitational force that draws creators of all types from all over the place and uplifts them to platforms that allow them to shine at their brightest. Shift and See reminisce about the open mic See hosted, how they met, and talk about See's new project BlessItUp.com, a flow state podcast full of chill rhymes, beats, and guests. 

Well, hey there, Mayberry!  Get tf in here and talk about labyrinths, goals, demons, and persistence against resistance with guest host Cara Cordoni and your good ol host Shift Orion!    Check out Cara's coaching at caracordonicoaching.com Feel like dropping us a line? Ping us at connect@goodmorningmayberry.com Want to connect by phone? Call us at 1-415-343-4420 We have a website at goodmorningmayberry.com! Join the scene at www.patreon.com/goodmorningmayberry!

We're back! Thank heck! Did you miss us??? Good! We missed you too.... Welcome back! Feel like dropping us a line? Ping us at connect@goodmorningmayberry.com Want to connect by phone? Call us at 1-415-343-4420 We have a website at goodmorningmayberry.com ! www.patreon.com/goodmorningmayberry    

Shift Orion slides briefly into your earholes with: - an update about personal emergencies - deconstruction of a close encounter of the silly little hater kind. - talks about accidentally drinking too much - announcement of the upcoming new podcast Master Of Propaganda!

Excerpt of Shift Orion and Tiana J talking about trying to relax as a fixed sign in Gemini and Saggitarius vibes.  Come jump in the time machine to a month ago and celebrate Tiana's 13 year anniversary and hear the story of how she met Joy. Then she preaches about the old chestnut, This Little Light Of Mine. Shift uplifts Sigour Ros' music video for Vario, expresses unease about technology, and invites you all to go in on a meal for him to celebrate his 4-year celibacy anniversary that happened on February 15th, 2021. Yes, that is the day after Valentine's Day. No, he does not explain how that happened. Please direct Shift's belated, celebrated 4-year celibacy anniversary gifts to: cash app $iamshift  Tip guest host Tiana J on Venmo @TianaJC and CashApp $TianaJC. Follow Tiana on IG @retreatyoselves and @djtjc   Hear the full episode on Patreon!

Shift Orion is back with his brother Blake (aka Sister Mary HotTakes) resuming the terrible discussion on the unsettling, infuriating legacy of Nickelodeon and Dan Schneider.  Don't forget your tin foil hat, “ShitStorm© DeepWeb™” muck boots, and stay hydrated on your Haterade because it's HOT IN HELL.   (“ShitStorm© DeepWeb™” is a fauxbrand and not a real rabbit hole protective gear and apparel company. For now.)

Get ready to be donkey-kicked down a rabbit hole of analyzing kids' television made by loud sexual predators. Sister Mary HotTakes, aka Blake, brings us on a logically erratic trek through an absolute nostalgia sewer system to autopsy the impacts of the career 90's producer Dan Schneider built with his predatory working relationship with Amanda Bynes, Arianna Grande, Keenan Thompson, and other child actors under his lenses. Blake connects the conspiracy facts of Jimmy Savile with what we know about the overtly creepy foot fetish empire of Nickelodeon. Beware. Triggers, bold allegations, and unbelievably upsetting actually confirmed facts ahead. Content alerts: Sexual assault & rape, child abuse, mind control, mental illness, general Jimmy fucking Savile (gross), probably a bunch of other shit but this is the worst of it. Breakdowns on Dan Schneider & Nickelodeon's horrible campaign to infuse kids' content with grooming and sexual expression from Sloan: Inside DAN SCHNEIDER'S and AMANDA BYNES' BIZARRE RELATIONSHIP - 29 min  Dan Schneider Made Ariana Grande DO WHAT?! - 26 min

2-minute promo clip of Larry Lyons and Shift Orion leading a rabbithole exploration into Britney Spears' career. Learn about ghouls like: Max Martin (a goblin who made a life writing sex songs for children) Francis Lawrence (a mask burp incarnate with a compulsion to cosplay white girls in other cultures' skins) Justin Timberlake (an ice prince made entirely of glass) Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes (an elder urban boy nymph who maybe sweats an elixir of youth) Shift makes wild stretch connections to Frankie & Annette and other randomly dissociated pop culture connections. Hear the full episode on GoodMorningMayberry.com

Larry Lyons returns! To platform over Britney Spears' career & lead us through a rabbit hole full of ghouls with names like Max Martin (a goblin who made a life writing sex songs for children). Francis Lawrence (a mask burp incarnate with a compulsion to cosplay white girls in other cultures' skins), Justin Timberlake (an ice prince made entirely of glass), and Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes (an elder urban boy nymph who maybe sweats an elixir of youth). Shift reveals more of his yesteryear icon nostalgia referencing Frankie & Annette and makes randomly dissociated pop culture connections.   Join us as we walk a neat groove of nuance in navigating the space between victimhood and victimizer. Get a Cancel Culture Club mug. Larry Lyons has lectured and taught courses in 20th Century American literature, sociology and composition at Rutgers and Princeton University. As an independent consultant, he provides­ writing, editing and creative services for clients in education, public relations, non-profits and the arts. He is also the founder and creative director of Brick City Varsity, a Newark-based photography studio and vintage clothier.

Audrey Sterling breaks down the impacts of whiteness on white people, surveillance tech, and intellectual prosthetic connection to transhumanist inventions. Shift bitches about people binging data and using each other as vomitoriums. Lament the open field World Wide Web turning into a technofascist corporatocracy!

Have a short chat with Shift about the work of keeping ships relating, how resistance of our own passions can convert into delusions of mediocrity, and pushing through feelings of abandonment and inadequacy to show up for the program. Shift opens up about his emotional preciousness and reactivity in The Fall of 2020, how he intentionally created a caustic environment for people who triggered his grief, and questions how any deity could be described as “infallible” or “omniscient” when humans are their product. Celebrate Shift's 4 year anniversary of partnering with himself by getting him a snickity snack on CashApp $iamshift or Venmo @luciferousshift-mannee. Being celibate during a pandemic but loving being spoiled is tough shit! Join the Good Morning Mayberry sponsor scene at patron.com/goodmorningmayberry.com. Join the first subs for hot take poems in hot baths on Shift's OnlyFans.    

Shift pushes through the cosmic weather to talk a bit about: Mercury haterade Britney Spears' conservatorship Exhibition culture, cannibalism & Armie Hammer Boots Riley is hella chill Occupy Oakland celebrity stories Pop culture activists And we swear Shift only goes off for one moment about BlueMAGA. Dedicated to Rico, a chihuahua who got very very old, ????-2021

What does Vito Russo (The Celluloid Closet) have to do with Anthony Fauci? “Sister Mary HotTakes” Blake is back to pour all the tea for you and Shift Orion. In this episode, Blake talks about having to cancel his trip to hug Shift before getting into the similarities of the historic AIDS crisis and the current COVID crises, Fauci's commitment to ignorance, and his refusal to approve effective international treatments for AIDS people dying in the US. Shift flips out when he realizes that Fauci fits perfectly in the 2020+ political kayfabe cast.  Blake references a video from November 2nd 2011 about Olympia, Washington riot tourists who almost broke the encampment because they were violently misguided irreverent guests, titled This is NOT Occupy; Day of Occupy Oakland General Strike.   Come for the covid compliance whining, convenience store conflicts, and civil disobedience controversies… stay for the salt, tea, and glitter!   Episode artwork by bleakzblanketfort.com IG @bleakzblanketfort

Nikki Aliah's Earth Is Ghetto, a soulful new song about escaping the planet, has launched into viral revere! In this episode, Shift Orion gives the wheel to Black Literature expert Larry Lyons who jettisons our agenda about Britney Spears to take us on a voyage through Afrofuturism, practical time travel, and honoring powerful Black creators by contextually uplifting Nikki Aliah's work in concert with other artistic technologists. We're also going in to discover some impacts of misguided cancel culture against individuals, communities, and superstructures! All aboard! Larry Lyons has lectured and taught courses in 20th Century American literature, sociology and composition at Rutgers and Princeton University. As an independent consultant, he provides­ writing, editing and creative services for clients in education, public relations, non-profits and the arts. He is also the founder and creative director of Brick City Varsity, a Newark-based photography studio and vintage clothier. Credits: Nikki Aliah - lyrics, vocals, keys Episode also includes covers by  Broken Blues  & Damon Grant (percussion) w/ RAHBI (music) & Noah Schak Farlot (background vocals)   Other mentioned creators/works: Flossy Baby (content creator) Tiana J @DJTJC @retreatyoselves (content creator) Steven Hurst (custom clocks) Enpafè Crafts By Carmen (jewelry) Nick Lovett (author, poet, musician) Boots Riley (prolific poet, rapper, songwriter, producer, screenwriter, director, community organizer, and public speaker) Watchmen (miniseries) Lovecraft Country (TV series) Janelle Monáe (singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, and record producer)   Grab a Cancel Culture Club fanny pack in our merch store! Episode artwork by bleakzblanketfort.com

In part 2 of this bonus set, we are getting into a topic about a recent livestream broadcast that was brought to Shift's attention by Eugene. The original video has been removed. It's extremely violent and not in any way satirical, ironic, or disingenuous. We've got a link to a deconstruction of a screen capture of it here even though it may be pulled again. It's a video of 3 drunk not-exclusively-white men talking about committing acts of violence and calling for civil war as retaliation for recent censorship sweeps.  Shift melts down then pulls himself together while Eugene, aka Lantern, takes us on a journey of evidence and illustration leading toward clarity around confusions and collisions in attempts to make sense of our situation. Is it possible to deescalate the Culture War?

Mo Garvey returns to talk about the momentum of the Twitter conflict over what a “real leftist” is or isn't. Shift declares himself the Leftist Purity Test in the leftier-than-thou game, then manages to make reference to Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now and Robert Evan's Behind The Bastards.  All hail the labeling and dragging of the Boutique Left and their virtue signaling and cherry-pick stylist shopping for culture to wear. Come on in and hear about “fascism”, “communism”, and how people are talking without using the same meanings but pretending they understand each other. Make space for having a critical eye and a graceful hand in sifting through the nuance of a planet in labor.

Monique Garvey joins a spacey Shift Orion to talk about sociopolitical confusion, parasocial relationships, and anti-sycophantic avoidance. We dissect the logic of some statist trajectories and ideas. We scratch the surface on the essence and utility of the word “coon” and the awkward soft censorship of the word on FaceBookInc social media before juggling nuance about covid vaccine anxiety. Come make fun of landlords crying about eviction moratoriums.  Mo goes off about superficial Oppression Olympics and political bandwagoners, and teaches Shift some things about this #ForceTheVote thing and that Jimmy Dore exists. Shift makes literally everything literally existential. Have we mentioned we do not understand billionaire apologists?   Recorded on 12/30/2020.

In 2011, Shift and Blake, aka Bakesale, aka Sister Mary HotTakes, met on the street, there was an immediate connection, and now in 2021 they have ripped a wormhole into the past to bring you back hot, hot tea for your apocalypse buffet. Join us in a comparison of social movements, mainstream media irresponsibility, and personal impact of mass demonstrations from Occupy to whatever the fuck has been happening since 2020. Come for the protest breakdowns, stay for the Lindsey Graham gossip, cameo meows from Tubby The Background Cat, and occasional graceful tumble down deer trails of PTSD-charged street ministry and riot porn flashbacks with two random formerly homeless queers who suddenly realized they are spiritual and social first responders in a terrifying timeline. Shift pops off about his frustrations over the misuse of words like “fascist” and “nazi,” reminds everyone he is coloring with crayons in unicorn coloring books instead of watching ANY of this news, and reiterates the logic of shunning of the DNC. Sister Mary HotTakes deconstructs Obama stans, illustrates the impacts of witnessing attacks from police, and shares his explorations into why racial violence is saturating recent American experience. We gonna talk about how the dark and swampy South has changed with the Trump PRESIDEncy. We gonna talk about individual and communal healing from epic and neglected wounds. We gonna talk about the “anarchy of love.” experiential vs. theoretical politics, and people who use other people's real lives to gain college credits.  And we gonna talk about how Occupy was not a protest. And we're going to tell you why. Two bitches came to talk with y'all about how we TOLD Y'ALL SO.  TW - sexual assault community counseling story TW - liberal/centrist sensibilities Image Credit: Graph - Ryan Cleary Icons - Shift Orion

Preview of tomorrow's bonus episode with Shift and Sister Mary HotTakes, a.k.a Bakesale, a.k.a. Blake. 

Today's episode was recorded a month ago and the mood is a dated fresh breath of some kind of air. Your good ol host Shift is joined by Eugene Steele in California and Yolanda Fulmer in Alaska to have a soberingly psychedelic discussion about community, responsibility, restorative communication, and compassion. Come join this powerful chat about social beliefs, the abstract nature of capital, and hypotheses of responsible activist DNA coding.

In this steaming hot take bonus episode, learn about how Shift got a unicorn coloring book and 152 crayons and that's the biggest news of the week. Ryan, however, saw many hours of mainstream news so he's here to discuss the sycophantic coverage of the most boring wannabe coup ever. Shift informs the world that "leftist" white women and gays tried to sully Horny Twitter by disappointing everything again "simping for nazi dick" then he absolutely flips out when Ryan tells him the news said the furwearing bonehead was with "antifa" but never mentioned his affiliation with Q.  Shift bumbles through Ryan's explanation of wtf an impeachment is then wonders if this is all actually a sloppy false flag to increase bluewave lawyercop lover fascism. As we look up the words "insurgency", "revolution", "fascist", "far-right", Shift snaps at Google and Dictionary.com for concealing extended definitions. Come explore with us if it's possible to be and "insurgent" and a "fascist" at the same time based on the math that a "fascist" must be "far-right" and "far-right" means preservation of "tradition" and "existing views/institutions"... and "insurgents" overthrow existing institutions. Meh, maybe we're off the rail. Who could know. A friendly reminder that Shift doesn't give a shit about any of this shit so if you're gonna get all triggered by a black queer radical community healer cackling about that woman getting shot to death, go do something else. Tip your good ol asshole host, Shift Orion, on CashApp $iamshift.

In this preview of next Sunday's episode, Shift tells Yolanda and Eugene about Good Morning Mayberry slamming its one month milestone download goal.

A preview from next Sunday's upcoming episode wherein Shift Orion connects with Yolanda Fulmer in Alaska and Eugene Steele in California to discuss recovery from religious abuse, spirituality, activism, and radical healing practices. 

Shift, Bec, and Ryan talk about what it means to "do the work", mutual aid, advanced White Nonsense Roundups, and self-motivated direct action reparations. Bec talks about the mental and spiritual fortitude they've gained in confronting racism in their family and hometown. Shift gripes about white bitches who won't learn then act murdered for getting called out on public threads. Ryan calculates reasons privileged wannabe anti-oppressors do a virtue signal. 

In this short, Shift tells you and Ryan real quick about the genius that struck 10 minutes before 2021 New Year's Day closed out on the West Coast. Come get inspiration for resolving your constitution of consternation with bigot ass bullshit.

Shift tells a story about telling stories, touts psychedelics as a medicine and creative tool for himself, describes an unexpected encounter from a visitor, and weaves it all into a soapbox sermon about challenging his trauma-based narratives of personal and community potential.

Heaux, heaux, heaux, y'all! We've got yet another bonus episode, recorded on the Winter Solstice Grand Conjunction with Shift and Christine Warda to discuss the clusterfuck holiday that is occurring in 2020 USA. Christy talks about parenting without Santa, simplifying concepts, and devil's advocates the holiday economy. Shift talks about arguing with his parents about doing mutual aid when he was 6, conveys compassion for tradition-nostalgic people and confesses grief over missing "normal" too, postulates that billionaires are making a modest proposal of themselves. Come explore ideas about bridging information and ideas with the intention to have healthy cultural celebrations. Grab a Deescalate Christmas hoodie in our merch store. Have a blessed winter. 

The 1st half of this episode is one thing. Tiana & Shift tried to do a short episode but, alas, they talk. Tiana talks up people who ask "what's your bandwidth?" before they begin with you and billionaires giving away billions of dollars. Shift announces the Good Morning Mayberry merch shop being rejected from Facebook, reminds us that guillotines are for billionaires, and illustrates some damages Facebook is faulted for. Shift asks Tiana clumsy poetic science questions about the Covid vaccine and speculates plans for an OnlyFans exhibit.  The 2nd half of this episode is another thing altogether. In preview clips from S2E1 (coming next week), Shift talks with a new guest about relationship structures and they volley experiential narratives about romantic and sexual dynamics of people with extraordinary lives. Always remember to never forget to check out our merch store! 

5-minute preview from episode 8 There Seems No Plan Because It Is All Plan, There Seems No Centre Because It Is All Center After you share this clip of Shift and Tiana J unpack conflicts and healing, make sure to check out the new Good Morning Mayberry merch shop! We got Marginalize Centrist leggings and GMM fanny packs and shit.... fuggin' get you a sticker or throw pillow or something.... we're legit excited about the all-over-print t-shirts and sweatshirts! That shit is slick as fuck.   Share, like, subscribe, rate. All that. Thank you for your attention and care!  

Tiana joins Shift again to talk about situaionships, differences of mind, fragility in cis het Black men. Shift chips at podcasters who don't edit their content, goes off on his template for "the math of masking" and being forced to mask, hiccups random contextual poems, and nails himself in the feels.  Fight technofascism by shopping at our merch store!

4-minute preview from episode 7 Your Relationships Are Activism Too (Ice Always Melts The Same Way).

Virtue signaling, victim feigning, and sleepy progressives, OH, MY!!!!!!!! Can we click our heels to get some genuine solidarity around here? Shift and Tiana J get INTO IT on risks of being in “relationships” with people who are too privileged to “RELATE” to you. Welcome to a class read on people who act like liberals when the stakes raise... and reject marginalized lived experiences like liberals when they are faced with a conflict of interest... and melt like snowflakes when they are called liberals.... fake "progressives" a.k.a. FAUXGRESSIVES! Come hear organic deconstructions on tokenization, marginalization, and ostracization by privileged “allies”. Unpack commonly under-analyzed/overused rhetoric like “community”, “love”, and “relationship” in this speedy crash course in the impact of loving lazy, under informed, self-declared socio political allies. Shift describes how clumsy “normcore” fragility has disrupted his capacity to trust. Tiana J pours the hottest of tea on existentially dissonant “relationships” with laser-sharp prowess. This episode is a partial answer to a question not enough people ask: “What happens when Black queer people are (still) erased by media?” Production note: Editing inspired by Uncle Fred (a.k.a. Mr. Rogers) and Sesame Street vibes. Magic School Bus your ass the fuck down and enjoy this narrative-based educational episode. Tip guest host Tiana J on Venmo @TianaJC and CashApp $TianaJC. Follow Tiana on IG @retreatyoselves and @djtjc Tip host Shift on CashApp $iamshift and buymeacoffee.com/Shift  

Shift is already employing a new year's resolution for 2021 (a.k.a... 2020-1, 2020.1): MARGINALIZE CENTRISTS Come hear why and how that works... and how techno centrists have enacted a censorship assault on activists and radical public figures. Closed captioned episode on YouTube. Get your festive af Marginalize Centrists hoodie, t-shirt, or mask and official GoodMorning Mayberry merch!

  This absolute gem of a 5-minute episode is a slightly adapted story Shift's mom used to tell. Immerse yourself in a tender side of Shift's childhood and get some insight into some of the roots of this complex comedic vulnerability artist's mindscape. Closed captioned episode on YouTube.

We couldn't wait any longer for a musical episode! This one has Shift's original songs, including one mentioned in previous episodes about losing a loved one to murder when they were both kids, along with a song about breaking up with democrat honeytrap relationships, and another that is a call to action for radically rational people I'm Sorry, Frankie Mead - 20:05 A Howling Abyss (The Mensch) - 28:35 Come Find Me - 33:35 Closed captioned episode on YouTube Get your official GoodMorning Mayberry merch, including the festive af Marginalize Centrists

  Shift casts a critically deconstructing yet ironically empowering lens on “the power of manifestation”, makes an attempt to bridge rhetoric for skeptics and mystics, and tells the story of how he accidentally found a loophole in “the secret”. Come join Shift dragging privileged mystics for abundance gatekeeper culture and learn applications of mysticism's practical psychological and sociological mechanisms! Go to the Extended Episode exclusively on Patreon to hear childhood stories of ways Shift snuck around on the parentals, perspectives on psychedelics as medicine, Shift's pursuit of a psychological evaluation, and extra details about one of the partners Shift was with while homeless. Closed captioned episode on YouTube   Get your official GoodMorning Mayberry merch! Become a member on Patreon!