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Immigration fights continue, the markets cool off, coal makes a weird comeback, and a nightclub collapse sparks international heartache. But hey, at least Madonna and Elton John are friends again. Immigration in America-via Reuters, Detroit Free Press, AP News, NY Times, and the American Immigration Council Bear Market-via CNN, Washington Post, Axios, and The Atlantic Coal is Back, I Guess?-via CBS News Nightclub Collapse-via BBC Madonna and Elton John-via NY TimesTake the pledge to be a voter at raisingvoters.org/beavoterdecember. - on AmazonSubscribe to the Substack: kimmoffat.substack.comA full transcript (withlinks) is available at kimmoffat.com/hwh-transcriptsAs always, you can find me on Instagram/Twitter @kimmoffat and TikTok @kimmoffatishere

Send us a textBye Forever, I Guess by Jodi MeadowsIngrid is in a bit of a crisis. She doesn't think she actually wants to be best friends with her best friend anymore. Or even just plain friends. Especially after Ingrid feels she has gone too far. But even though Ingrid likes to be invisible, she doesn't want to be lonely. Thankfully she has a good friend online, but when a new person enters her life in an unexpected way, she has to figure out just how to navigate being seen!Recommended for grades 6 and up. 

Peut-on abandonner la vie de ses rêves, alors qu'on y est arrivé ?Je suis très heureux de vous partager l'histoire incroyable d'Anthony Viaux. Il a d'abord réalisé son rêve d'enfance, qui lui semblait impossible : devenir pilote chez Air France.Mais face à l'urgence écologique, Anthony a fait un choix radical : démissionner pour suivre sa conscience et devenir naturopathe.Dans cet épisode, Anthony partage ses luttes internes, ses doutes, et le défi de quitter une carrière passionnante pour être en cohérence avec ses convictions profondes et ne pas devenir malheureux.Vous découvrirez des idées clés de la naturopathie, l'art de choisir un mode de vie qui amène le bien-être et la santé.On y parle aussi de biais des coûts irrécupérables, d'écolucidité, de marcher pieds nus, et des nombreux projets inspirants d'Anthony.Écoutez maintenant pour découvrir un témoignage authentique qui donne le sourire et fait réfléchir ! Références :Le site d'AnthonySon podcast : La santé par natureL'episode 8 pour découvrir la naturopathieEpisode 11 (Re)connectez-vous à la Terre ! pour marcher pieds nusLes cours de Jancovici : cliquez iciDécouvrez les albums musicaux d'Anthony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAv-TzupxIc

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Meet again Joe Sherman. Joe grew up in a family being the youngest of seven siblings. His parents who had not gone to college wanted their children to do better than they in part by getting a college education. Joe pretty much always wanted to go into medicine, but first obtained a bachelor's degree in engineering. As he said, in case what he really wanted to do didn't pan out he had something to fall back on.   Joe, however, did go on and obtain his MD and chose Pediatrics. He has been in the field for 35 years.   This time with Joe we talk a lot about the state of the medical industry. One of Joe's main efforts is to educate the medical profession and, in fact the rest of us, about burnout among medical personnel. Joe tells us why burnout is so high and we discuss what to do about it. Joe talks about how the medical profession needs to change to keep up with the many challenges faced by doctors and staff and he offers interesting and thought-provoking ideas. Again, I hope you will find my discussion with Joe Sherman beneficial, productive and helpful to you, especially if you are a doctor.       About the Guest:   Dr. Joe Sherman helps health professionals transform their relationship with the unrelenting demands of their jobs and discover a path toward meaning, professional fulfillment, and career longevity. He believes the key to personal and professional success lies in bringing “soul to role” in your medical practice.   Dr. Sherman is a pediatrician, coach and consultant to physicians and healthcare organizations in the areas of cross-cultural medicine, leadership, and provider well-being.  He is a facilitator with the Center for Courage & Renewal and a Master Certified Physician Development Coach with the Physician Coaching Institute.   Dr. Sherman has been in pediatric practice for over 35 years concentrating on healthcare delivery to underserved and medically complex children in the District of Columbia, Tacoma, Seattle, Uganda, and Bolivia.  He has held numerous faculty positions and is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington.   Ways to connect with Dr.Joe:   My website is: https://joeshermanmd.com/   LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joeshermanmd   Direct email connection: joe@joeshermanmd.com       About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi all. This is your host, Mike hingson, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. And today we are meeting once again with Dr Joe Sherman. And if you remember our last show, Dr Sherman is a board certified pediatrician and master certified physician development coach, and I won't give any more away, because it's more fun to talk to him about all of that. But we had such an interesting discussion, it just seemed like what we ought to do is to have a continued discussion, because we didn't get to cover everything that he provided to us last time, and and I know we've probably got lots more that we can add to the discussion. So, Joe, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 02:10 again. Thanks so much for having me. Michael, it's good to be back.   Michael Hingson ** 02:13 Well, glad you're here and all that. Do you want to start by kind of, maybe refreshing people about you a little bit life and all that, any anything that you want to give us just to start the process? Sure,   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 02:25 I currently live in Seattle, Washington with my wife. We have a few grown children that are in their early 20s, and I am a pediatrician, and now am a physician professional development coach, and I facilitate retreats for health professionals, medical teams, and most of my focus is on trying to bring who we are to what we do kind of being more authentically who we are in our workplace, trying to come to our work with a more balanced mindset, and trying to work A little bit more collegially as medical teams in today's ever changing health care environment. So now, I have practiced for about 35 years in pediatrics, and am now devoting all of my time to coaching and facilitation. You   Michael Hingson ** 03:37 know, gosh, there's so many, so many things that would be interesting to discuss, and I do want to stay away from the whole idea of politics, but at the same time, what do you think about the whole way the medical profession, you know, of course, one of the things that comes to mind is just everything that happened during COVID. But what do you think about the way the medical profession and some of the things that the profession is trying to do is being treated by politicians, and a lot of times it seems like people don't take it seriously, or it just doesn't fit into their agenda. Does that make sense?   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 04:15 You mean, as far as so as a pandemic was concerned? Well, the   Michael Hingson ** 04:20 pandemic, or, you know, there were some discussions about end of life or life discussions, and some people poo pooed, having that kind of thing and saying that isn't something that doctors should be doing. Oh,   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 04:33 I think, right now, I think that politics and healthcare are intricately entwined. Especially after the pandemic, and I think right now, the idea of the politics getting in the way of a kind of. The doctor patient relationship is, is challenging. It's challenging for healthcare workers. I think where we desperately need political courage is in trying to develop a healthcare system that works for everybody in the country. So I think that that's where the focus should be.   Michael Hingson ** 05:21 What do you think about? And I've had a number of people tell me, single pay healthcare system wouldn't be a good thing. It's too socialistic, and we'll leave that out of it just wouldn't be a good thing. It seems to me that it has been very successful in a number of places, but the kinds of arguments that people give are well, but by having competition, we have been a lot better at producing new and innovative technologies that wouldn't be produced or wouldn't be provided if we had just a single pay kind of system. I don't know whether that makes sense or I'm expressing it the best way, but it just seems like there's an interesting debate there. I   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 06:03 think there is debate because I do think there is some truth in the statement that our health care system has enabled development of technology and research in ways, perhaps that other countries have not. On the other hand, our health outcomes and our health access for people who live in this country is not very good, especially given the degree of wealth that our country has. So I used to joke, although it's not that funny, but one clinic where I worked that was a low income clinic, I used to joke that if one of our patients were to come out of their apartment To cross the street to come to the clinic. They may be turned away at the door because they don't have any insurance, or they don't have the proper insurance, or they can't pay but if they happen to be get run over by a car in the street on their way across the street, there would be no questions asked. The ambulance come pick them up. They'd be taken to the emergency room, given the best treatment to try to save their lives, admitted to the ICU and incur a huge medical bill with the greatest of technology, but they would not have been able to have gotten that primary care appointment to be in with. Yeah. So we are very kind of high tech, high intensity, high specialized in our approach to health care, whereas other countries focus much more on primary care.   Michael Hingson ** 07:54 I know in 2014 in January, my wife became ill. Started out as bronchitis, and it kept getting worse, and she didn't want to go to the hospital, but, and she was always in a wheelchair, so she she found that they didn't really know how to deal with can Well, she was congenital or always paralyzed from basically t3 from the breast down, and she so she didn't like to go, but finally, we compelled her to go to the hospital. And was on a Saturday, and the next day, the bronchitis morphed into double pneumonia and ARDS, and her lungs ended up being 90% occluded, so she had to even to get air into her lungs, they had to use a ventilator, and she had a peeps level of 39 just to get air into her lungs. Yeah, you know what that that means. And it was, it was pretty amazing. People came from all over the hospital just to watch the gages, but she had literally, just about turned 65 and we were very blessed that we didn't get any bill because Medicare, I Guess, absorbed the entire thing, and we we, we didn't know whether, whether we would get anything or not, and we didn't. And she did recover from that, although she felt that she had coded a couple times, and then her brain wasn't quite as good as it had been, but, but she did well, and so we got incredible care from Kaiser Terra Linda up in the San Rafael area, and it all went well. Of course, I we had gotten the pneumonia shots, and I complained to our physician to talk about joking. I complained to our primary care physician. I. Well, you say that these shots are supposed to keep it from happening, but we both had the shots and and, and she got double pneumonia anyway. Of course, the unfortunate thing was that that the doctor had an answer. She said, Yeah, but it would have been worse if he hadn't gotten the shot. Darn. She shot me down, but it was fun to joke.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 10:18 Well, I'm sorry that that happened to you that that's, that's a unfortunate situation, it   Michael Hingson ** 10:26 was, but you know, things, things do happen and and we did get over it. And out of that, we ended up moving down to Southern California to be closer to to family. So it worked out okay. But we we love the and really support the medical system in any way that we can. We see both of us did, and I still, you know, and wherever she is, she must see the value of of what's done. And it just is so frustrating anytime people say doctors are crazy people. They don't, they don't really look out for people's interest, and just so many different things. It, it's unfortunate, because, you know, I can tell you from personal experiences. I just said what we saw,   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 11:16 yeah, I think that what is happening in our healthcare system now is this epidemic of burnout amongst professionals, especially amongst physicians and nurses, but and a lot of that has to do with the amount of administrative tasks and the amount of pressure that's put on physicians and other health care providers in trying to see as many patients as they can in the shortest amount of time as possible, and this is because of our system of fee for service reimbursement for medical care, the way that that health systems stay afloat is by trying to see as many patients as possible, and this unfortunately, combined with the amount of administrative work that needs to be done for each of those visits, plus the amount of communication that comes in from patients, as well as referral sources and requests for prescription refills, all of that comes in constantly through the computer of any physician that's trying to work as an outpatient or inpatient doctor, and it just becomes overwhelming,   Michael Hingson ** 12:43 yeah, how do we fix that? That's a good loaded, general question, isn't   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 12:50 it? It is it is a good question. And I I think it's a multi pronged approach. I do think that one thing that has happened is that the technology of healthcare and the business of healthcare has changed dramatically during the time that I've been a physician, a pediatrician, and the culture of healthcare, kind of, the way we do things, really hasn't changed. So that means that the business and the technology has placed more demands on us, and at the same time, we're kind of doing things pretty much the same way we've always done them, because of these extra demands that are placed on physicians and other health professionals, what's needed are experts that are in those areas of billing, administrative, administration, technology, it all of those things that now all feed into seeing patients in the office or in the hospital. So you need all of those professionals working together side by side along with the physician, allow the physician to do the work that she's been taught to do, which is actually deal with the patient and take care of the patient, and then let other people do the data entry, do the billing, take care of all of the messages and other things that are coming in around that that that provider. Do   Michael Hingson ** 14:23 you think that the same level of burnout exists in other countries that exists here?   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 14:29 You know it does. I do think that burnout exists everywhere in healthcare. I do think that it is less in low income countries, which seems kind of strange, but I've worked for many years in my life in low income countries in Africa as well as South America. And it's a different culture. It's a different culture. Culture of health care there is, there are different expectations of doctors, I think, in other countries, especially countries that are used to seeing a lot of disease and mortality, the pressure on saving lives and the pressure on having to be perfect and always get it right and knowing everything to do it each time that a patient comes in is not quite as intense as it is here. So I do think that it is different in other places. However, I will say that I have spoken to physicians in definitely in the more developed, higher income world, parts of the world that this epidemic of burnout is pretty universal   Michael Hingson ** 15:57 now, It seems to me that I've been seeing in recent years more what they're called physician assistants. Is that a growing population, or is it always been there, and I just haven't noticed it? And does that help?   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 16:14 I do think that in our country, here in the US, the future, will see many more physicians assistants and nurse practitioners, what we call Advanced Practice clinicians, or advanced practice practitioners, providers. We're going to see many more of them doing primary care, and a model that I think would would probably work very well is a team based model where the MD, who is kind of trained at a much higher level for many more years, leads a team of other providers made up of physicians assistants and nurse practitioners to do primary care, to take care of a group of patients, and perhaps that MD is there to consult, to be back up and to care for the more complex patients, while the nurse practitioners and PAs Are are getting the primary care, delivering the primary care.   Michael Hingson ** 17:23 Well, I know that the PAs that I have dealt with through the years, it seems to me, have, especially in the last 10 years, but have been very, very competent, very qualified. And I I don't, I don't know that, where I would say that they're less rushed, but I've had the opportunity to have some good conversations with them sometimes when, when the doctor just doesn't have the time. So it that's one of the reasons that prompted the question. It just seems to me that the more of that that we can do, and as you said, the more that that takes off. Perhaps some of the load from the physician itself may, over time, help the burnout issue.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 18:10 I do think so. But I also feel like there's tremendous pressure right now on those pas and nurse practitioners, because they're under a lot of pressure too, too, and there aren't enough of them. Reduce and yes, so actually, right now, there's a movement within the the federal government to expand the number of positions in training programs for nurse practitioners and PAs. We have far too few, especially Physician Assistant schools. We don't have nearly as many as we need in this country. And if you look at the numbers, I think it's more competitive to get into PA school than it is to medical school,   18:54 really. Yeah,   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 18:58 I, you know, I that's been my experience of what I've seen from people just, you know, the number of applicants toward compared to the number of accepted, hey,   Michael Hingson ** 19:09 they wouldn't let you into a PA school, huh?   19:11 Exactly? Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 19:15 No, I know. Well, it's, it is interesting. I know we read a few years ago that University of California Riverside actually started a program specifically, I'm trying to remember whether it was for training doctors. It was something that was supposed to be an accelerated program. Oh, some of the hospitals sponsored it. And the agreement would be, if you went to the school, you'd get the education, you wouldn't pay and at the end, and you would go to work for those hospitals like, I think Kaiser was one of the major sponsors of it. And again, it was all about trying to bring more people into the profession. Which certainly is admirable by any standard.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 20:04 Yes, I think there are. Now, there are a few medical schools, and they're expanding the numbers that have free tuition, and they some of those schools, such as NYU Medical School has a generous donor who is given a tremendous amount of money as a donation and as an endowment. It pays for all the education of the students that go there. And there are some other schools that have the same arrangement. I think, I think if I were to be boss of the country, I would make all medical education free in in return, people would have to work in an underserved area for a certain number of years, maybe a few years, and then after that, they would be free to practice debt free, in any specialty and anywhere they would like.   Michael Hingson ** 21:10 Well, we need to do something to deal with the issue, because more and more people are going to urgent cares and other places with with different issues. I have someone who helps me a little bit. She's our housekeeper, and she also comes over once a week for dinner, and she has some sort of allergy. She just her face and her neck swelled up yesterday and had all sorts of red spots and everything. It's the second time she took not Benadryl, but something else that made it go away the first time, but it was back, and several of us insisted that she go to urgent care, and she went, and while she was there, she heard somebody say that they had been waiting four hours. So she left, you know, and which doesn't help at all. So I don't know actually whether she went back, because I talked with her later and said, Go back. So I don't know whether she did, but the waiting time is oftentimes very long, which is unfortunate. And I don't know whether more people are getting sick, or they think they're getting sick, or they're just taking ailments that are less too urgent care, but there are definitely long waiting times.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 22:25 Yes, people, the people do not have a medical home. Many, many people don't have a medical home, a true medical home, that early in my practice pediatrician, as a general pediatrician, if there was a child that was in our practice and at night time or over a weekend, somebody would be on call. If that parent was concerned about a child in any way, they call the emergency line for the practice, the on call line, and that operator would page whoever the doctor was on call, and I would, as the doctor covering call that parent and talk directly at home, give advice over the phone, say what to do, make a decision of whether that child needed to go to the emergency room or not, or in the vast majority of cases, could give advice over the phone about what to do and then follow up when the office was open the next day or on the next week. Yeah, but nowadays, people aren't connected to offices like that. Yeah. We have call centers nurse advice lines of people that don't have access to medical records or have very strict protocols about what type of advice to give and the bottom line and the safest thing is go to the emergency room or go to urgent care. So that's unfortunately why some of the highest burnout rates are in emergency room doctors, and some of the biggest problems with understaffing are in emergency rooms right now. And   Michael Hingson ** 24:16 I can understand that, and makes perfect sense to hear that, and it's unfortunate but true. So yeah, but yeah, you're right. So many people don't really have a home. We've been blessed Karen, my now late wife, of course, was always a patient of Kaiser, and was a strong advocate for the way they did most of all of what they did. And so I eventually, when we got married and we were in a Kaiser area, then I did the same thing. And mostly I think it worked out well. I think. Kaiser is a little bit more conservative than some when it comes to perhaps some of the the newer procedures or newer sorts of things like they, you know, we see ads on TV now for the Inspire way of dealing with sleep apnea, as opposed to CPAP machines. And I don't know whether Kaiser has finally embraced that, but they didn't for the longest time. At least our doctor said that it wasn't really great to have to undergo surgery to deal with it, and the CPAP machines work fine, but I think overall it to to use your your words, definitely, if you're in that kind of an environment, it is a little bit more of a home, and you have definite places to go, which I think is valuable. And I think that more people really ought to try to figure out a way to find a home if they can.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 26:00 Yeah, I do think that it is in the amount just society has advanced so so rapidly and so much in in how communication is instantaneous these days, through texting and through internet and through instant messaging, all these different ways that everything is sped up so people are looking for answers right away. Yeah, and it's, it's that's often puts too much pressure on the people that are trying to manage all of the patients that and all of their inquiries that they have. So I think, I think we need to make some serious changes in the way that we, that we staff hospitals, the way we staff clinics, and look and see what are the specific duties that need to be done, the specific activities and responsibilities in attending to a patient and specifically target personnel that are skilled in that activity, instead of having a physician who you know, is not the greatest typist, or is not the greatest at trying to figure out a code of billing for insurance or how to look at 100 messages that came in while she was attending to, you know, 25 patients in A clinic. It's just too much. It's overwhelming. And I mean, I now facilitate a group. It's a support group for physicians through physicians anonymous, where physicians are suffering from anxiety, depression, addiction. Suicide, ideation, and it's it's really at at scary levels right now, and I do think that the healthcare systems are starting to be aware of it. Think patients need to be aware of it, and the reason why, when you call, you're on hold forever or you never do get to speak to a real person, where it takes months to get in to see a doctor, it's because nobody's home. Yeah, everybody is many, many people have, have quit.   Michael Hingson ** 28:39 Yeah, there's such a shortage. I know at least we see ads oftentimes for nurses and encouraging people to go into the field, because there's such a shortage of nurses, just like there's a shortage of teachers. But we don't do as much with the conversation of, there's an incredible shortage of physicians. I think it's probably done in some ways, but not as publicly as like nurses and some other types of physicians.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 29:13 Yes, I think right now, the I always feel like, I mean, this has been always true that on hospital floors, because the profit margin for hospitals is very narrow, there are only certain services that hospitals truly make profit on. So usually the staffing levels are kept to the very bare minimum, and now that just puts too much pressure on those that are remaining. And so now we're seeing many more hospitals have nurses that go out on strike or or decide to slow down, or. Or do other measures to try to get the attention of how dangerous it is to have understaffing in the hospital.   Michael Hingson ** 30:08 Have we learned anything, because of all the stuff that happened with COVID Now that we're in this somewhat post COVID world, have we have we learned a lot or any or anything, or is anything changing, and is there really ever going to be a true post COVID world? For that matter? That's a fair question.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 30:29 That is a fair question. And I do think recent changes in policy by the CDC of of treating COVID As if it were influenza, or RSV or other type of respiratory viruses is there are many physicians that disagree with that policy, because COVID, this COVID, 19 that We've been dealing with, causes many more complications for those that have complex medical conditions, and this long COVID situation is something that we really don't have a grasp on at this point, but I believe one innovation I would see or expansion that has come about is the whole telehealth movement, now that there are many, many more video visits, I do think that's a good thing. I also believe that it can provide more flexibility for healthcare providers, which will help to decrease burnout, if providers are able to perhaps do their telehealth visits from home, or be able to spend time doing telehealth visits as opposed to having to see patients in person. I think what happens now is we need to get better organized as far as which types of visits are should be telehealth, and which types should be seen in person, so that one provider is not going back and forth from, you know, computer screen to seeing somebody in person, back and and so that gets too disorganized. Yeah, I think at times, other things, I think we learned a lot about infectious disease. I think that the general public learned a lot more about infections and infection control. I think that's all good. I think one thing that we did not learn, unfortunately, is how desperately we desperately we need to do something to try to stem the tide of burnout, because it just accelerated during COVID and then has continued to accelerate because of the economic crunch that healthcare systems find themselves in now.   Michael Hingson ** 33:10 Well, and what is, to me, a little bit scary, is all it takes is one COVID mutation that we don't expect or encounter, and we're almost in back where we were, at least for a while. And I hope the day will come when, rather than using the the mRNA type vaccine that we use now that we truly will have a vaccine like an influenza vaccine, that can really kill the virus and that we can then take, even if it's yearly, but that will truly build up the immune system in the same sort of way. Although I have no problem with the current vaccine, in fact, I'm going in for my next vaccine vaccination a week from tomorrow. And what cracks me up is I've been there a number of times, and some people talk about the conspiracies of all they're doing is injecting you with all these little things that are going to track you wherever you go. And I'm sitting there going, Fine, let them. Then if there's a problem, they're going to know about it, and they'll come and get me, you know, but what I really love to do is a nurse will come over, she'll give me the the vaccination, and she pulls the needle away, and then I reach over with my one hand and slap my hand right over where she did the shot. And I said, Wait a minute. One just got out. I had to get it, you know. And, and she says, you know, there aren't really any trackers. I said, No, I'm just messing with you, but, but you know, it will be nice when that kind of a vaccination comes, and I'm sure. Or someday it will.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 35:02 Well, I think the vaccines it this specific, these types of respiratory viruses do mutate quite a bit. There's all kinds of variants, and they change every year. So I think no matter what kind of vaccine we get, we're still with with infections such as influenza or COVID, we're still going to end up needing to get annual vaccines, most likely, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 35:34 and that is the issue, that even with influenza, we do get lots of variants, and I know a couple of years, as I understand it, they kind of predict what strains to immunize for based on like, when Australia gets in our middle of the year and things like that. But sometimes it doesn't work. That is they they guessed wrong when it gets to us, or it's mutated again, and it's unfortunate, but it is, it is what we have to deal with. So for me, as far as I'm concerned, anything that we can do is going to help. And I really have found the current vaccines that we do get for COVID, at least, whether it will totally keep you from getting it or not, which I gather it won't necessarily, at least it will mitigate to a large degree what could happen if you didn't take the vaccination.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 36:34 Yes, yes, that's correct. We We are. We're seeing much less deaths as a result of COVID infection. However, in the peak of the winter time in the clients that I was that I've been coaching, who work in in hospitals and in ICUs, they were seeing still a large number of patients that were there. It's just that we've now developed better treatment and management for it and so, so then less people are dying of it. But it is, you know, we have, again, the amount of research, medical research and development that has developed these vaccines has prevented so much infection that what doctors are called on to do now and what they're called on to treat and manage has shifted much more into areas of behavioral health and lifestyle change than it is treating infections. That's dramatically different experience through my pediatric training than what type of training that a pediatrician these days gets   Michael Hingson ** 38:01 and there again, that means that the physicians have to spend the time learning a lot of that that they didn't learn before, which also takes a toll, because they can't be in front of patients while they're learning or while They're studying.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 38:18 Yes, yeah, it's what the medical students and residents now are being called on to manage in the hospital are very, very complex, specialized conditions and very serious conditions. My experience as a resident was much more. The vast majority of people I took care of as a pediatric resident were normal, healthy children who happen to get sick, mostly with infection and sometimes very seriously sick, come in the hospital, receive treatment, and walk out as a child, a normal, healthy child again, we don't see that as often as pediatric residents, just speaking from pediatricians point of view, and I think that that has a an emotional toll on the resident physicians. I got a tremendous amount of reward from caring for patients with serious infections that received antibiotics and got completely better than patients who already have complex chronic conditions that just get worse or a complication, and they come In and the resident helps to manage them a little bit, and then sends them on their way. But really doesn't feel like they cured them contributed in the same way and that that was they don't have that same type of reward, that rewarding feeling, I think, are   Michael Hingson ** 39:59 we seeing? More of that kind of patient, significantly more than we used to in the hospital. Absolutely. Why is that? Is there really are more or   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 40:11 or what? Well, there aren't. We've taken care of most of the serious bacterial infections that used to be treated in the hospital with antibiotics, we've taken care of them with vaccines, and then we've also advanced the the quality and and variety of conditions that we can treat as an outpatient now, so that people that used to come into the hospital all the time for conditions, simple, basic things, are now treated as outpatients. And that's a good because you don't want to be in the hospital any longer than you absolutely have to. No,   Michael Hingson ** 40:58 I had, well, my father, I don't remember how old I was. It must have been in the we 1960 sometime he had to have a his gallbladder out. So it was a pretty significant operation at the time, because they he was in the hospital a couple days, and came home with a nice scar and all that. And then my brother later had the same thing. And then in 2015 suddenly I had this, really on a Thursday night, horrible stomachache. And I figured there is something going on. I hadn't had my appendix out, but this wasn't right where my appendix was, but we went to the local hospital. We called Kaiser, and they there isn't a hospital, a Kaiser hospital up here, so they sent us to another place, and they took x rays, and then we ended up going down. They they took me by ambulance on down to Kaiser, and it was a gallbladder issue. So I guess all the men in my family had it. But what happened was that when they did the surgery, and by the time we got down to Kaiser, the there was a gallstone and it passed. So I didn't want to do the surgery immediately, only because I had the following Sunday an engagement. So we did it, like a week later, the doctor thought I was crazy, waiting. And then later he said, Well, you were right. But anyway, when I had the operation, there were three little band aids, and it was almost, I guess you call it outpatient, because I went home two hours later. Wow, I was I was blessed. So they it was almost like, and I've had colonoscopies before. I didn't spend any more time doing the gallbladder operation than I did, really, with all that I spent in the hospital doing a colonoscopy, it was pretty good,   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 42:58 right? I do think that there's been again, major advances in endoscopic surgeries and robotic surgeries and minimally invasive procedures to be able to to treat patients. I mean, again, I have to say that our ability now to treat stroke and and heart attacks, myocardial infarction, our abilities to our ability to treat those acutely, do something to try to improve the outcome, has improved dramatically just recently, I would say, especially stroke management. So what we have is amazing, dramatic changes in in reducing the morbidity and mortality from stroke now, and I think that it's remarkable. Even as a physician, I didn't even realize until a recent trip I took to Bolivia with a group of neurosurgeons how stroke is treated now, and it's, it's, it's phenomenal that before you have a stroke, and it's just kind of like, well, you hope for the best. You support hope that some blood flow returns to that part of the brain. Now, if you have a stroke, and people are taught to recognize it and immediately get to the hospital, they can give a medication to melt the clot, or actually go in there with the catheter and extract the clot out of the vessel and restore you back to full function and   Michael Hingson ** 44:56 remarkable, and have a glass of red wine while you're at it. Yeah. Uh, or, or, do we still say that TPA helps some of those things a little bit? You   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 45:07 know, it's interesting. It's, you know, as far as as I think I've never seen so many articles written about the consumption of alcohol coffee, going back and forth and back and forth. You know what's helpful? What's not? Everything in moderation, I would say this point,   Michael Hingson ** 45:28 yeah, I I would not be a good poster child for the alcohol industry. I have tea every morning for well, with breakfast. And the reason I do is that I decided that that would be my hot drink of choice. I've never been a coffee drinker. The caffeine doesn't do anything for me, so it's more the tea and then a little milk in it. It is a hot drink. Ever since being in the World Trade Center, I do tend to clear my throat and cough more, so the tea helps that, and that's the reason that I drink tea. But I remember seeing old commercials about red wine. Can can help you. So if I have a choice in wine, I'll oftentimes get red just because I've heard that those commercials, and I don't know how how true it is anymore, but hey, it's as good a reason as any to have a glass of wine every other week. And that's about what it usually is.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 46:26 Yeah, sounds like. Sounds like a good, a good plan. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 46:31 works. Well, it's, it's now kept me around for a while, and we'll keep doing it. It works. So what is it that healthcare workers and physicians do to kind of restore their love for what they do and work toward burnout? What can individuals do?   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 46:54 I think we're at a point now where in in approaching the issue of burnout and approaching the issue of overwhelm with the amount of work that physicians are called on to do these days is a combination of personal Changes to mindset and approach to our work, as well as structural and organizational changes to facilitate our work. And I think that the organizational structural changes, again, have to do with trying to improve specific staffing to match the activities and responsibilities that are that are called on in the medical setting, and being able to do more in the in the formation of medical teams and in teamwork And in people having a common mission, working together, appreciating what each other does, and hospital administrations and and those folks that run the business of the hospital truly value and enlist The engagement of frontline workers in policy and procedures. So those are kind of structural changes right on the personal side, yeah, I was that's I just a lot of it has to do with being more realistic. And I'm speaking to myself too. We can't do everything for everyone all the time we are human. We often have been taught that we are super human, but we're not. And if, if we try to do too much and try to do it perfectly, then our bodies will rebel and we'll get sick. So I think we need to set boundaries for ourselves. We need to be able to say, these are the hours that I'm working. I can't work any more than that. We need to say that you can't reach me three different ways, 24 hours a day, all the time, and have me respond to all of those inquiries, we have to set limits, and we have to really look at what it is that we love about medicine, what it is we love to do within medicine, and really try the best we can, I Think, with the help of coaches and other types of mentors and folks that can help us to create the types of jobs and the types of positions that help us maximize that experience of fulfillment, that experience of of. Feeling like we truly are contributing to the health and well being of our patients. Do   Michael Hingson ** 50:07 you think overall that the kind of work you do, and then others are doing to address the issue of burnout is is really helping? Are we are we making more progress, or are we still losing more than we gain.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 50:23 I think we're making progress on an individual basis, on people that do seek help. But we need also to change the mindset of ourselves as physicians, to be willing to seek help. We need to seek help and be admit that we need that type of support, but until we get organizational commitment to trying to change the structures and the systems that we work under, then we will continue to have more physicians lost to burnout, depression and suicide.   Michael Hingson ** 51:05 Are healthcare institutions recognizing more the whole issue of burnout, and are they? Are they really starting to do more about it?   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 51:17 Some, I think some are. I think organizations are recognizing it. Associations of physicians are recognizing it. But when it comes to surviving as a health organization, healthcare institution, the bottom line is, what runs a show, and the way you make income is through billing, and the billing occurs as a result of a health care provider providing and billing for what they Do. So if there's an economic crunch, the first thing to go is anything that doesn't generate income and supports for the well being of staff does not generate direct income. What it does, though, is that it retains staff. It it results in a happier staff, a more higher professional satisfaction, and in the long run, is going to save you money,   Michael Hingson ** 52:33 yeah, which, which is another way of making some more money.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 52:39 Yeah. I mean the total cost, the average cost for replacing a physician who has decided to quit is anywhere from about 600,000 to $2 million depending on the specialty of the physician. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 52:57 and then getting people to necessarily see that is, of course, a challenge, but it still is what what needs to happen, because it would seem to me that those costs are just so high, and that has to account for something that is still a fair chunk of money. Yeah, it   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 53:16 is. It's a great deal of money. And, you know, our again, our system of health care, we were headed in the right direction. And I think eventually we have to get there to population based health in looking at health outcomes and trying to look at overall health of of our our citizens and and those who live here in our country in trying to, instead of having a fee for service model, have a model that looks at reimbursement for health care based on the total health of The patient, and that is contributed to by nurses, doctors, technicians, receptionists, community health workers, all those types of health professionals.   Michael Hingson ** 54:12 What can we do to get the wider society to become more aware of all of these issues and maybe to advocate for change.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 54:25 I think, I think avenues like this, these   Michael Hingson ** 54:29 podcasts, this podcast is one.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 54:32 I also believe that look at your real life, lived experience of trying to access healthcare today compared to how it was 20 years ago, and are you having more trouble? Are you having is it more expensive? Are you having more challenges? This is direct result of a. System that's not functioning well.   Michael Hingson ** 55:02 Did the whole process of what we now call Obamacare, did that help in the medical process in any way? I   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 55:11 think what happened with Obamacare was well, and the bottom line answer is yes, it has helped. And the way it has helped is that more people have access to health insurance, less people are completely uninsured than ever before. So I think from that perspective, that's been helpful, but there were so many compromises, oh yeah, to insurance companies and two different lobbyists that were all looking out for their interests, that what ended up happening was a much more watered down version of what was initially proposed, but step in the right direction, And if we continue to work toward that, and we have some contribution of government sponsored health insurance, then we're going to be better off as a nation,   Michael Hingson ** 56:14 yeah, well, and anytime we can make a step forward, it does help, which is, of course, a good thing. So if there's one thing you want listeners to take away or watchers, because we are on YouTube, if there's one thing you want people to take away from this, what would it be?   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 56:33 It would be, pay attention to your own personal experience with healthcare. Pay attention to your own health and observe what's going on in the clinics, in the offices and in the hospitals where you receive your medical care. If somebody is treating you well with respect and compassion, point it out. Make it known. Thank them. Yeah, make it known that you know that they're under tremendous stress and pressure, and that anytime that they can be kind, then that means that they are very dedicated to to treating you, treating patients. And if you're finding that where you're going to receive your health care seems to be understaffed, and say something about it. If you have a health care provider who is a bit snappy, is not patient with you, doesn't seem to be listening to you, it's not because they don't want to. Yeah, they desperately want to. It's just that the conditions are such that they're not able to   Michael Hingson ** 57:44 and and it would probably be good to at least engage them in a little dialog and say, hey, hey, I'm not trying to yank your chain here and kind of try to help warm them up. I've been a firm believer that in a lot of places where I go, like in the in the airline world, the TSA people and so on, I love to do my best to make them laugh. So like when I go up to the kiosk and the TSA agent says, I need to see your ID, especially when I'm wearing a mask, I'll say, Well, what do you want to see it for? You can't tell who it is behind this mask, right? And I've had a couple people who didn't expect anything like that, but they usually laugh at it. Then the other one I love to use is they ask for my idea. I say, Well, what's wrong with yours? Did you lose yours? And I just love to try to make them laugh where I can, because I know it's a thankless job, and I know that what doctors and medical people deal with is a pretty thankless job, too. So it's fun to try to make them laugh whenever I can and get them to smile.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 58:47 Yep, they all could use a little bit more humor. Yeah, there's always that. So   Michael Hingson ** 58:51 if people want to learn more about you and reach out and learn about your work and so on, how do they do that? Where do they find you, online or any of those things? Sure,   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 59:00 I have a website that you can go to. It's Joe Sherman md.com and you can reach me by email. Joe at Joe Sherman md.com also on LinkedIn, so you can find me there. Too Cool. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 59:20 once again, I want to thank you for being here. This has been a lot of fun and very enjoyable and in a lot of ways, but certainly educational, and I've learned a lot, and we got through all the questions this time that we didn't get through last time, which is always a good thing. So see, it was worth doing it twice.   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 59:39 Great. Thank you so much. Well, it was   Michael Hingson ** 59:42 fun, and of course, for you listening out there, reach out to Joe, and I want to hear from you. I want to hear what you think of today. So please email me. Michael, h i at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, I, B, e.com, or go to our podcast page, www, dot. Michael hingson.com/podcast and Michael Hinkson is m, I, C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, s, O n.com/podcast, would really appreciate a five star review from you, wherever you are listening to us. We like those reviews if you can, if you know anyone that you think ought to be a good guest on unstoppable mindset. And Joe you as well. We'd love to hear from you or provide us introductions. Always looking for more folks to to meet and to chat with, and love the incredible diversity and subjects that we get to talk about. So that makes it a lot of fun, but I do want to just once more. Joe, thank you for being here. This has been enjoyable, and I really appreciate it. Thanks   Dr. Joe Sherman ** 1:00:40 so much, Michael, I enjoyed the conversation.   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:48 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. 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Tune in for our annual year-end extravaganza where we reflect back on all of the great interviews and experiences we've had during the year.In Part 1, Hear holiday music, performances, and messages from:- Judah Kim - "Weltanschauung"- Jacob Betts of The American Hotel System- Roberta Faceplant - "Merry Grittmass"- Raina Douris of WXPN / World Cafe- Anthony D'Amato of Fantastic Cat - "Merry Christmas, I Guess"And meet the performers of our live, in-person event happening this Friday, December 6th at Godfrey Daniels:- Joe Edelmann, frontman of There, There - a tribute to Radiohead- Emma Bockrath- Kate HughesWe'll hear "Winter Wonderland" in the key of Radiohead by There, Thereand the wonderful original tune "On Film" by Emma BockrathFind out more info and purchase tickets at our site:https://nextfavband.com/winter-wonderjam-2024/Text us your thoughts on this episode, and who should be OUR #NextFavBand...As always, our hope is to bring you "your next favorite band". If you tuned in today because you already knew this musician - thank you very much! We hope that you enjoyed it and would consider following us and subscribing so we can bring you your #nextfavband in the future. And check out nextfavband.com for our entire catalog of interviews!If you have a recommendation on who you think OUR next favorite band should be, hit us up on social media (@nextfavband everywhere) or send us an email at nextfavband@stereophiliastudio.com.Thank you to Carver Commodore, argonaut&wasp, and Blair Crimmins for allowing us to use their music in the show open and close. It makes everything sound so much better! Let's catch a live show together soon!#nextfavband #livemusic #music #musicinterview #musician #singer #guitar #song #newmusic #explorepage #instamusic #bestmusic #musicismylife #musicindustry #musiclife #songwriter #musiclover #musicfestival

It's that time of the year again, when the Booklist editors gather ‘round the proverbial fire and share some of their favorite reads of the year. Covering everything from our Top of the List titles to personal faves, this episode has a little something for every reader. Here's what we talked about: Donna: We Loved It All: A Memory of Life. By Lydia Millet. (Adult Nonfiction Top of the List) The Morningside. By Téa Obreht. Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar. My Black Country: A Journey through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future. By Alice Randall. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth. By Zoë Schlanger. Annie: Wandering Stars. By Tommy Orange. (Adult Fiction Top of the List) Donna Seaman interviews Tommy Orange for One Book, One Chicago All Fours. By Miranda July. Susan: The Wedding People. By Alison Espach. One of Us Knows. By Alyssa Cole. The Cottage around the Corner. By D. L. Soria. Sarah: A Greater Goal: The Epic Battle for Equal Pay in Women's Soccer—and Beyond. By Elizabeth Rusch. (Youth Nonfiction Top of the List) Dispatches from Parts Unknown. By Bryan Bliss. Ash's Cabin. By Jen Wang. Art by the author. (Youth Graphic Novel Top of the List) Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir. By Tessa Hulls. Art by the author. (Adult Graphic Novel Top of the List) The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History. By John Vasquez Mejias. Art by the author. The Jellyfish. By Boum. Art by the author. Julia: The House on Yeet Street. By Preston Norton. (Middle Grade Top of the List) Bye Forever, I Guess. By Jodi Meadows. Ronny: That Always Happens Sometimes. By Kiley Frank. Illustrated by K-Fai Steele. (Picture Book Top of the List). The Yellow Bus. Written and illustrated by Loren Long. Kelly: Ariel Crashes a Train, by Olivia A. Cole. (YA Top of the List) The Dark We Know, by Wen-yi Lee. Compound Fracture, by Andrew Joseph White. My Throat an Open Grave, by Tori Bovalino. Heather: Birding with Benefits. By Sarah T. Dubb. Read by Mia Hutchinson-Shaw and Evan Sibley. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years. By Shubnum Khan. Read by Soneela Nankani. Know Your Newlywed. By Heather Taylor, Hillary Nussbaum, and Elena Armas. Read by Tyler Posey, Mary Mouser, and a full cast. Stars in Your Eyes. By Kacen Callender. Read by André Santana and others. Nothing: John Cage and 4'33”. By Nicholas Day and Chris Rashka. Read by Fred Berman. Onyx & Beyond. By Amber McBride. Read by André Santana. Gender Queer. By Maia Kobabe. Read by Maia Kobabe and a full cast. Tree. Table. Book. By Lois Lowry. Read by Hope Newhouse. And Anita de Monte Laughs Last. By Xochitl Gonzalez. Read by Jessica Pimentel and others. (Adult Audio Top of the List) Better Must Come. By Desmond Hall. Read by Jaime Lincoln Smith. (Youth Audio Top of the List)

Coley and Tyler are back at it and ready to break down all the sports and entertainment news from this past weekend. The boys start things off by breaking down all the action from a boring slate of Week 10 NFL games. Then, they question how the Milwaukee Bucks have been so bad this year and discuss whether the Oklahoma City Thunder can pull off a trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo. Hop on the Underdog App and play the way you wanna play. Promo Code: CHARM Subscribe to the Podcast

Decompression is incredibly important for your dog's mental and physical health. But what is it exactly? And when does a dog need to decompress? And how do you help a dog decompress? I get into all of that in this episode, so sit back and enjoy! Quick note – this episode drops on Thursday, October 31. Happy Halloween, by the way. But more importantly, there's a very important election in just five days. If you haven't voted yet, get out there and cast your ballot. And don't stop at voting in the major races. Your vote in the down-ballot races can have very direct impacts on you and your family. And don't skip the judge races and judicial retention questions, either. Injustice Watch creates a great guide to judicial races in Cook County, so if you're in Chicagoland, check it out, along with the Girl, I Guess guide for the non-judicial races. Outside of Illinois, you can go to sites like votesaveamerica.com for resources.   However you do your research, get out there and make your voice heard! Big Wags Chicago is online at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.bigwagschicago.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You can also find Big Wags on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlueSky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ under the handle @bigwagschicago. Have a question you want answered in a future episode or just want to say hi? Email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠podcast@bigwagschicago.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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More from Eliot Schrefer: https://www.eliotschrefer.com/ Instagram: @schrefer This week: Eliot Schrefer discusses his new book The Brightness Between Us. Amazon reveals a suite of new Kindle devices, including its first full-color e-ink display. South Carolina library puts a moratorium on purchasing new books for minors to comply with new, vaguely written law. New Releases: A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home by Maysa Odeh, illustrated by Aliaa Betawi Love & Lattes by Beth Reekles Bye Forever, I Guess by Jodi Meadows --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebookfaire/support

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IT'S EPISODE 100! Wahooo we did it I GUESS! Join Joey JD and Justin and we triple J our way into the good guy with a gun big time shoot em up blow em up and stab em up movie DEATH WISH 3. Have seen DEATH WISH 1? no. 2? no....but this movie rules and many things and bad guys are blown up real good. Episode 100 was well worth it!  #TRASHMOVIE #BADMOVIE #CharlesBronson TWITTER/X: https://twitter.com/trashmoviekings INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/trashmoviekings/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/trashmoviekings ⁠https://www.trashmoviekings.com⁠ Charles, Charlie, bronson, gun, movie, 1980s, action, alex, winter, Trash,movies,sbig,so bad it's good,so,bad,its,good,bestworst,best of the worst,garbage cinema,b-movies,b movies,midnight movie,midnight,movie,80s action,indie film,cheap movies,low budget movies,crappy movie,neil breen,movie podcast,horror,boobs,butts,butterfly knives,bad acting,bad actor,bad actress,terrible

Welcome to Sleep Paralysis Horror Stories: Volume 4. Tonight, we delve into the darkest corners of your mind, where sleep paralysis demons lurk and terrifying entities bring horrors the likes of which you could never believe. Imagine waking up paralyzed, your body gripped by an unseen force. You hear distorted whispers, manic clown laughter, and see a looming figure with a triangular head. Picture two red eyes at your bedroom door, an encounter so frightening it forces your astral body to separate from the physical. Feel the terror of unseen entities breathing raggedly, lurking just out of sight, sucking the lifeforce from your chest, or a 7-foot tall shadow figure pacing your room while you're on the cusp of sleep. And finally, we encounter the infamous Old Hag, her wrinkled face inches from yours, pressing down on your chest and filling you with dread. These are just a few of the terrifying tales of sleep paralysis we get into in Volume4 of Sleep Paralysis Horror Stories! We'll see you on the inside.. --- TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - Scott Finally Experienced Sleep Paralysis (…In a Dream) 2:03 - Sleep With The Lights On Is Now on Spotify! 3:04 - The Best Paranormal Podcast Theme Begins 4:23 - Welcome Back, Friends 5:03 - Christian Once Again Brings up House of the Dragon 8:40 - Story 1: Triangle Shaped Head & Clown Laughter 13:12 - Story 2: Scared Into The Astral Plane 17:54 - Why Do People Experience Sleep Paralysis? 21:50 - Story 3: The Things I Cannot See 28:42 - Story 4: The Pacing Shadow Figure 32:00 - Sleep Paralysis in the Spiritual/Astral Realm? 38:16 - Story 5: I Wasn't Alone.. 41:56 - The Good Place Tangent, I Guess.. 44:41 - Found Our Way Back to the Episode (Sorry) 44:43 - Story 6: Pass On Through to the Other Side 53:06 - Story 7: The Old Hag 56:03 - Ah, Christian Brough his Soapbox 58:02 - Christian's Weird Tangent is Over Now 58:12 - Oops, Nevermind… 59:43 - Christian Focuses Way Too Much on Dubai 01:01:40 - Why Do So Many People See The Old Lady? 01:03:13 - Deflecting. 01:06:53 - The Last 10 Minutes of this Episode are Weird..Apologies -------- If you want to become a producer, visit this link: http://bit.ly/3WZ3xTg Episode Producer: Eric Long -------- Armed with nothing more than a non-sensical soundboard, a fascination for all things unexplained, and a heaping dose of dry humor; TFD is a weekly paranormal comedy podcast featuring real ghost stories, Cryptid lore discussions, and true paranormal experiences catering to the week's theme. Fresh episodes drop every Thursday across all podcast platforms, and feature perspectives from both believer and skeptic sides of the aisle. So if you're a fan of haunted places, terrifying paranormal activity, and true ghost stories from real people, you're in the right place, friend. Recorded in an undisclosed location somewhere in the beautiful woods of Wasilla, Alaska. ++SUBMIT YOUR STORY FOR OUR LISTENER STORY EPISODES++ Email: thegang@thefreakydeaky.com Voicemail: 801-997-0051 ++WEBSITE & MERCH++ Website: www.thefreakydeaky.com Merch: www.thefreakydeaky.com/store ++FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS FOR EXCLUSIVES++ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3goj7SP Instagram: https://bit.ly/2HOdleo Facebook: https://bit.ly/3ebSde6 TFD Facebook Group: https://tinyurl.com/tfdfb TikTok: https://bit.ly/35lNOlu

EPISODE #422-- We belatedly celebrate Pride Month the only way we know how: With basic audio problems. Want to know why our SERIAL MOM (1994) sounds like this? Because somebody refused to talk into the mic, because it would "pop(?)". Note: It is not our guest, Alexis Simpson, of Drunkards and Dragons, who is always on point.  And now here we are. Anyways, this is the second John Waters film we've done. We love him. He's great. Listen to this episode. We also talk about George Miller's FURIOSA (2024), as well as CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS and THE HISTORY OF JAPAN, as well as THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE WORLD, I GUESS (2017). Big, weird episode. I don't know, man. Join the cause at Patreon.com/Quality. Follow the us on Twitter @kislingtwits, on Bluesky at kislingconnection.bsky, on Instagram @kislingwhatsit, and on Tiktok @kislingkino. You can watch Cruz and show favorite Alexis Simpson on You Tube in "They Live Together." Thanks to our artists Julius Tanag (http://www.juliustanag.com) and Sef Joosten (http://spexdoodles.tumblr.com). The theme music is "Eine Kleine Sheissemusik" by Drew Alexander. Listen to DRACULA: A RADIO PLAY on Apple Podcasts, at dracularadio.podbean.com, and at the Long Beach Playhouse at https://lbplayhouse.org/show/dracula And, as always, Support your local unions! UAW, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA strong and please leave us a review on iTunes or whatever podcatcher you listened to us on!

Join Jam, Jeff, and JD for another episode of the TradeWaiters. This time we read "Roaming" by Canadian paragons of cartooning Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki. It's a story of three young women visiting New York and discovering themselves, and in true Tamaki fashion, pushes the medium of comics to its limits. We'll discuss our own adventures, the genre of comics that I GUESS we're officially calling “mumble-core” now, and also the “Darryl Ayo method” of how the comics industry should work. Music by Sleuth. Our next episode will be on "My Aunt Is a Monster" by Reimena Yee

Brought to you by Roninbasics.com: Protect yourself from the perils of modern technology with high-quality faraday products designed and developed by yours truly. Podcast overview Dive into the most captivating and controversial topics of our time, blending deep research with a touch of humor and a lot of heart. From bizarre trends and historical horrors to groundbreaking medical theories and conspiracy revelations, we cover it all. Summary of Major Topics: Influencer Insanity: We delve into the bizarre trend of influencers and celebrities shaving their teeth down to nubs for porcelain implants. Discover the dark side of aesthetic trends and the shocking consequences people face for the sake of beauty and uncover the ancient wisdom of meridian energy. Disappearance Mysteries: Dive into the harrowing tales of individuals who have faced unimaginable horrors, from underground bases to mysterious disappearances, this is the chilling case of Gabriela Rico Jimenez. A mexian supermodel who blew the whistle on a elite trafficking ring and then was never seen again. Historical Horrors: Journey back in time to uncover the gruesome and fascinating stories of historical figures like King Geza, whose reign was marked by brutality and human sacrifices. Cultural Collisions: Witness the rapid cultural erosion experienced by remote Amazon tribes upon gaining internet access, and the profound changes it brings to their traditional way of life. Make sure to hit that subscribe button and leave a five-star review. Follow us on YouTube, Substack, and social media to stay updated on our latest episodes. Thank you for your support! All the Links: For easy access to all our podcast-related content and platforms, visit linktr.ee/theaustinjadams.----more---- Full Transcription  Adam's Archive.    Hello, you beautiful people. And welcome to the Adams archive. My name is Austin Adams, and thank you so much for listening today. On today's episode, we have a couple of deep dives. We're going to have a couple other things sprinkled in there too, but a couple of deep dives that we're going to discuss starting with the. Crazy trend that has happened probably over the last, I don't know, five or six years, but even more so recently, the amount of celebrities, the amount of tick tock influencers that are out there getting their teeth shaved down with essentially nail files into nubs, and then getting fake implants of teeth, porcelain implants into their mouth. Now  there's a specific case that brought this up more recently, and it came from TikTok. So we'll discuss that. But what we're really going to talk about there is the idea behind why this is truly a problem, right? There's, there's this fundamental idea behind traditional Chinese medicine, which talks about the meridian.  And so that's what we're going to discuss first. After we talk about that and the horrific things people are putting their bodies through, and we'll actually use a case study here of the, with this woman from tick tock that caused this  topic to be discussed because I saw it recently pop up in one of my feeds. And it's just unbelievable. The amount of people that are doing this without even understanding what the potential side effects could be. So we will talk about that. After we talk about that, we are going to talk about a father in, I believe this was in Mexico, who went on stage at a,  uh, comedian's show and smacked him several times.  And you would go, that's crazy. You should be able to take a joke, right? But there's a lot more to the story. And I think He might be justified in this. So we'll talk about that. Then we will jump into a remote Amazon tribe left hooked on pornography after finally connecting to the internet. Uh, so this tribe essentially got. The internet and the very first thing they did was get absolutely unbelievably, horrifically addicted to pornography. So we will talk about that. Then we will move closer and closer into our real deep dive of the day. But before we jump into that for that last deep dive, we will discuss. A royal tomb of an African king that is actually completely made of human blood? After scientists had recently confirmed.  And then the last thing that we're going to discuss today is the curious case of Gabriela Rico Jimenez, who was a Mexican supermodel who essentially disappeared off the face of the earth.  Going outside of this hotel back in August of 2009,  and she had made these crazy claims. Something about celebrity, elites, billionaires, cannibalism,  and a lot more. She even calls out a few names, one that you'll be familiar with, and if you're not familiar with it, I'll tell you who they are, and why it's important, and who they're tied to.  Spoiler alert! It's the Clintons.  And so we'll talk about that. We'll do a deep dive into that situation. We'll watch a couple clips and we will go from.  So all of that and more, but first I need you to hit that subscribe button. I know it's been a few days, few weeks, even two, three weeks since my last podcast episode. And I apologize, but I appreciate that you're here. I love you. Thank you so much for listening in. I know life comes up for a lot of people on a lot of things and that's what's happened here recently. Anyways, so.  Uh, life comes up, life gets crazy. I have, uh, career, children outside of this, but the goal has always been to consistently put out great content for you guys, and that's what I hope you think about this episode right here. So again, thank you for being here. I appreciate you. Subscribe. Leave a five star review. And if you haven't heard I have a new side project among those other things that I have, including a career and a family and a wife and a hobbies like jujitsu represent. And, uh, all of the different shit that I do, I decided that I was going to start a completely separate business, which is Ronin. And if you haven't listened to the last few episodes, maybe you don't know Ronin is a Faraday Goods company and what Faraday Goods do is they protect you from the harmful effects of modern technology, everything from EMF radiation poisoning that is being emitted constantly from every piece of technology around you all of the time, including the cell phone that you're listening on this to including the car that you're in right now, if you didn't know that most cars today emit EMFs while you're sitting there  driving your vehicle.  And they have unbelievably terrible side effects to your health. 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You'll love it. Love it. And that's what I got. Let's go ahead and jump into it.  The  Adams archive.  That's a jam. Every time I hear that, that's a jam. All right, let's go ahead and jump into it. The very first thing that we're going to discuss today is going to be the disgusting trend of influencers and celebrities out there getting their teeth shaved down with nail files so they can look like Gollum from Lord of the Rings, only to have  porcelain implants. The teeth implants implanted into their face after they get their teeth shaved down to little disgusting nubs  all in the name of aesthetics,  right? You know, there's like 80 year olds, 85 year olds, 90 year olds out there who need veneers and that makes perfect sense to me, right? If you don't have teeth, you need to eat. You don't want dentures. You don't want to deal with that. That's okay. Get veneers.  But if you're young and you're healthy,  the hell are you doing? Why in the world would you take something that God gave you, beautiful teeth in your mouth, maybe not so beautiful, but much better than shaving down your teeth  with a file, and then having some dude in Miami shove porcelain into your mouth  like it's not an actual living part of your body.  Your teeth are so much more important to your body than modern medicine, western medicine wants you to believe. And that's what we're going to talk about today. So the very first article that we're going to take a look at  is going to come from Indy 100. One of my favorite new news articles that sources a ton of different articles from all over the world for you. And, uh, Pretty good stuff. So there's a video coming out of the New York Post and this TikTok video that this woman had posted, but let me just show you what we're talking about here. Okay, when we talk about them shaving down your teeth,  this is what we're talking about. Okay,  here we go.  If you're looking at my screen right now,  you will see a woman.  That looks just like Gollum from Lord of the Rings. I have to get this up here for you. There it is. Oh my God. That's terrifying.  How horrific. And to do this to yourself for just aesthetics, like I can get plastic surgery, do your thing, I don't care. It's not my body,  but. Like there was absolutely nothing wrong with this woman's face. Absolutely nothing wrong with her teeth, but she was convinced by society that she had to whittle down her teeth from what they were to turn them into this horrific Frankenstein science experiment, because that's what celebrities do.  So let's go ahead and watch this video. This woman's talking about her veneers and why she decided to do this and all of the terrible things that happened to her sense  here.  Here we go.  I know that I look crazy and it's so embarrassing to come crying on the internet,  but this stuff that I have been dealing with for two years  because of my freaking teeth  is like I don't even know what to do anymore and like the only place I can really go to  is my platforms.  As everybody pretty much knows,  two years ago  I Had, um, dental work done, I smelled Dental Center 32 in Miami and it ruined my life.  Like literally ruined my life  and I'm still dealing with it to this day and  I just left another doctor, another TMJ doctor. This is the third or fourth one that I've gone to  and  I'm just very overwhelmed. Like,  The medical industry, the dental industry in America is like, they literally do not care about what you are going through. Like, everything is about money for them.  And like, I understand like, people have to get paid. But it's like,  the fact that like, I can't,  I can't do anything.  Like, I can't use insurance. I can't do anything. I've already spent 80, 000 pretty much on this whole situation in two years. And I go to another TMJ doctor because I have severe TMJ now because of the veneers that Smile Dental Center did. They, they, they lost my bite. I have severe TMJ. I got my T3 done. It, it didn't fix it.  That was another 30, 000.  It's just like,  I just had an appointment and like, you know, they're telling me like, okay, we could do this, we could do this, and it, you know, it could, it could be a big money pit and, you know, it could be, you know, another 80k and, you know, might not work. Like,  I spent so much money with so many doctors just praying that something works for me.  And nothing works. Nothing ever works.  I don't know what to do anymore. Like, I can't even sue  the freaking dentist. Every, every time I come on here telling my story about what happened, which is a crazy ass story.  I'm like, just sue. Why don't you sue? If I could sue, that would be the first thing I'm, I'm doing. But I can't do that. I can't do that. It's, it's not possible. Like,  can't sue for my sensory issues. My sensory issues are unknown. Every time I go to the doctor.   So let's talk about this real quick. And it's easy to look at this person and say, You're vain. You shouldn't have done that. Your body was perfectly fine. You know, it's easy to laugh at this person and go, You know, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Right?  But let's, let's put our empathetic hat on. Let's pretend this is your wife. Let's pretend this is your daughter. Let's pretend this And I don't know what she looked like before before she got this done. So let's pretend that maybe she had some little bit of messed up teeth. And you're in Miami. And if you ever been to Miami, like literally 10 percent of the people 20 percent of the people that are there, if they have money, they have these fake veneers.  And so  this woman,  With our empathetic cats on your wife, your daughter is convinced that she would be more beautiful, that people would accept her more, that she would have more friends, that she would seem cooler. Like she would look like, you know, one of those supermodels that she watches on Instagram all day in Miami. And like  to have society convince you  that you need to be anything other than what you were  then to go somewhere that  convinces you that you need to pay them 80, 000 and they'll make you better.  Then to have all your, your teeth essentially whittled down to nubs, this porcelain shoved into your mouth, which is too big for your mouth. You've ever seen people that, that get these done. It's way too big for their mouth. A lot of times they don't look natural. They don't look normal. A lot of times. And when you get that done that way,  And it's not the natural way that your teeth were supposed to sit that your body had gotten used to for, I don't know, in this woman's case, 25, 30 years, maybe  your jaw alignment, your, your teeth all  are meant to be the way that they were.  And so  when she's talking about TMJ,  she's talking about the misalignment of her jaw, causing consistent pain.  throughout the day, causing migraines, causing all these things. I've had TMJ in the past and it's, it's a terrible thing to deal with. And it makes your jaw click and you can't open your mouth as wide. It's, it's not fun at all. And to have it caused by somebody who told you they were going to make you better, that you spent your own money on to have them do it. And then as a result, to have this happen is just, I can't imagine. So keep your empathetic head on while you're watching this and, and maybe. Yeah, maybe it's,  you could roast her a little bit, but right. It's still, it's a terrible situation to find yourself in. So let's finish this out.  After they've never heard of it  and you can't prove that they gave you these issues because there's no way to diagnose it specifically. Like it's just a whole thing.  They offered to give me my money back within the first year. And I told them no, so that I could bring awareness because like,  People are just like, you know, out there getting veneers and whatever the case may be, like, my life is literally ruined because I got my teeth redone. Like, I'm not even joking, like, my, I'm constantly in pain. I can't even close my mouth properly after a retainer every single day. 24 7 pretty much to even close my mouth comfortably. No bite adjustments can fix it. Nothing. I've done a hundred bite adjustments. I've gone to 10 different dentists, four different TMJ doctors. I've done integrative medicine. I've done acupuncture. I've done everything you could possible. I've done hypnosis. I've literally done everything you could possibly do to try to fix these issues. I've been called crazy by my primary care doctor at Kaiser. They told me to therapist. Because I'm wondering what I'm going through  At this point like I just don't know what to do. I'm in severe pain I've gotten freaking acid or Botox twice my fucking face is slim the fuck out Like I look crazy as fuck because I'm in pain 24 7 I Guess my only thing is just don't get fucking veneers and  know that like Something like this can ruin your life like literally and Quite frankly, I'm not giving nobody else 80 fucking bands. Like no, I'm not doing it. Like the fact that these people are so like,  just everything is so money driven. And then like, I understand, but it's like, this shit is like really medical for me. Like why does nobody care  about people?   And so that video had 9 million views. Let's see how many it has now.  Not sure  where to see that on the web app.  But it has 100 or 864, 000 likes.  Let's see what the number one comment is. Veneers and LASIK I'll never do because of the horror stories I have heard.  Somebody said, babe, could it be a trigeminal neuralgia? Basically, the veneers hit the specific nerve.  Interesting.  Veneers are so extreme. I don't know why people have to do it. Try braces or composites when the tooth was hurting. I wanted to walk off the little planet. Yeah, so that's the terrible thing about this is she hasn't even begun to see the real effects of this.  Hasn't begun to see the real effects because the only thing she's dealing with right now is TMJ.  And she probably gets headaches or migraines as a result of the TMJ or even that trigeminal neuralgia, which is, can cause, you know, essentially what they call like these terrible, horrific, uh, types of migraines. And so  she's not even beginning to see the effects of this because what we're about to listen to is the fact that your teeth are tied to the nerves in your body and those nerves  have connections. throughout your entire body. And this isn't something that's like mainstream accepted within modern medicine dentistry within the United States of America, but it is in many, many, many other countries. And so that's what we're about to watch this next clip on, which explains how these types of like each individual one of your  teeth has a specific nerve that it's tied to that affects other parts of your body that causes issues within your body as a whole, whether it's, uh, things like, um,  I don't know, talking about high blood pressure, talking about your, your obesity, talking about all of these different health effects. And we'll actually pull up the map here in a minute and look at it, but let's go ahead and watch this video. It talks about the meridian, uh, essentially the meridian lines in your body and the connection to your teeth and all of the terrible things that can happen from doing something like what we just talked about. And this is coming from  the ultimate human podcast.  Here we go.  Doing the most harm out of any medical profession. It's like, here you go, opiates. What is biologic dentistry? Because it absolutely blew my mind. Each tooth is alive. It's a living organ. Any disease in the mouth can correlate to the rest of the body. You're taking a look at the whole body, not just the oral cavity. We can help people live a lot longer. How quickly can we help a patient heal? We're getting them off of meds. That's a passion of mine. If you're having symptoms, question it.  Hey guys, welcome back to the ultimate human podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary.   Wait, what was I doing? And then you seek out the world's best doctors are knowledgeable in this and it's stuff that's been, it's out there. The literature is out there. The science is out there, but it's, do you believe in it? Do you want to take that step and actually go that road? And it's very hard to talk to all the dentists and all the colleagues like, Hey, there's something else out there. You know, we can actually be causing harm. It's like, do no harm is our first, the Hippocratic oath, right? It's do no harm. But it's actually, when you look at it, we're actually doing dentistry is doing the most harm out of any. Medical profession now leading  dead tissue in the body. Yeah I mean, you just got to wrap your arms around that there's actually dead tissue in the body And it doesn't have a blood supply and what a bacteria like they like dark moist oxygen deprived places anaerobic bacteria That's immune system can't get to and I want to talk specifically about a study that that was just Published in, in July of 2023. So this is only about three months old. It was published in the  journal of microorganisms, but it was a longitudinal study that investigated the association between periodontal disease. and neuroinflammatory disorders. And neuroinflammatory disorders are Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, dementia, all kinds of conditions in the body that are related to inflammation that eventually begins to affect nerves. And we don't correlate dental hygiene or, you know, dental pathologies to Parkinson's, to early onset Alzheimer's, or dementia. And even before these conditions exist, we Memory and cognitive decline, um, exhaustion, fatigue, weight gain, water retention. And what I found really fascinating was that out of the 24 studies they examined, 20 of them  showed a positive correlation between periodontal disease and neurodegenerative disorders with the studies focusing on cognitive function. Demonstrating the most robust effect.  Yes.  So these are all the things that are robbing people of their short term recall, their cognitive function, their waking energy, that they may be chalking up to a consequence of aging, that may actually be a consequence of something going on in their jaw from dental work that they've had done that they've left unaddressed. Correct. And one of those bacteria there, the Treponema  Yes, the Treponema denticola. Yeah, that's me. Sorry, it's one of the five bacterias. Let's just keep it simple. Yeah, one of the five bacterias. That's, that's known for beta amyloid. Producing beta amyloid, which we know is for Alzheimer's. Right. So when it all starts here, if we can actually control it, and it sometimes goes more in depth than doing a, Regular cleaning, sometimes we have to use lasers, sometimes we use ozone gas, sometimes we'll put some medication in the pockets, what we call the periodontal pockets. Right. But if we can cure that, doesn't mean like every tooth needs to come out, right, but if we can hold on to the teeth and we have ways much better than ever before, much better than when I graduated dental school. When you say  keep, to keep your  teeth. Keep the teeth, yeah, we graduated, I graduated in 2009. Keep  your  teeth. How  simple  is that? Keep your teeth, right? And so we'll look at this, this, uh, article. We'll pull it up here. This is  Dr. Rose. com R O Z E and talks about the Chinese Meridian Theory. And so let's talk about that. I was hoping to find it within that video, but I think that was a good point enough is that the health of your body, your cognitive decline, your obesity. High blood pressure, arthritis, all of these things could very well be tied to the dental work that you're getting done by modern dentistry.  Because when you're pulling teeth, or even worse, whittling them down to nothing, only to be replacing them with exterior material that isn't meant to be implanted in your body,  something's going to go wrong.  And so here's a clip about Meridian.  Dentistry or meridian belief system or theory, and let's watch that. Each  tooth is a key. The key is press, and it causes a motion to strike a note, which creates a vibration and a sound. Each key produces a different sound, just like the relationship between the keys and the notes. Our tifa connected by nerves to our brain. These nerves and nerve impulses send messages to specific parts of the body. What does this all mean to you? Well, if you have a bad tooth, the energy flows through the meridian belonging to that tooth, and this flow can affect the health of all the organs on that meridian. For example, tooth number 14, the first molar, is on the same meridian with the kidneys, liver, spleen, stomach and breast. So if this tooth has a problem, it may affect the energy flow through the meridian, and the health of those organs may be affected as well. Your mouth is connected to specific organs in the body. This is something that practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine have known for thousands of years.  The human body is really quite amazing when we listen to its messages.  Sir William Osler, a founding father of modern medicine, said the mouth is the mirror to the body. A vital relationship exists between your teeth and your organs.  Use our bio dental chart available from dr rose. com to see the relationship of your teeth and the rest of your body.  Right, so that's the idea. And when you think about that, and you go, Oh, you know, you hear about traditional Chinese medicine, meridian lines have been a debated topic in modern medicine up until about I think is about two one, one or two years ago, where they actually found the interconnection within the body of these like nerves that are all connected. And so When you look at the traditional Chinese medicine, think of acupuncture, acupuncture utilizes the meridian lines in your body to help, uh, you know, unblock the, the energy flow, the, the nerves connections and the firing of your nerves within your body that, that all speak to each other.  And so  this is, this is how it explains it says in traditional Chinese medicine, meridians are channels that form a network in the body through. Which qi, or qi, I assume, uh, vital energy flows. A blocky Causes pain and illness the flow is restored by using pressure needles suction or heat at hundreds of specific points along The meridians, right? You talk about acupuncture The meridian tooth chart is based on acupuncture meridians pathways of energy that span across interrelated body parts glands and tissues and you have to remember What did she? Say what are the comments say they're like when you have people having terrible horrific what they call like Suicide migraines or that trigeminal neuralgia that she talked about  Acupuncture is one of the only things  My wife actually dealt with that during one of her pregnancies, where she had what we thought was either trigeminal neuralgia, some sort of horrific like, um,  um, like clot in her brain or something. It was horrific, horrific headaches, unlike you could ever imagine in your whole life. And the only thing that helped my wife, The only thing that subsided the pain. We went to the hospital over it multiple times. They literally did nothing for us. Kicked us out with an 8, 000 bill.  The only thing that helped her.  And up until very recently, and even today, right now, the traditional acupuncture is not an accepted form of, of Western medicine. They don't, they don't agree that it's, it's works, but it works. People all over the country get acupuncture done. It's literally the Only thing that she did that helped her with her migraines. Why? Because it has to do with the nerves. It has to do with the meridian lines. It has to do with that flow of that, that firing of, of the nerves, that flow of energy throughout your body. We are electrical beings, your thoughts, your movements, everything that's happening inside of your body is an electrical pulse within these, the, the firing of these nerve endings. And so it makes sense that if you.  use the body to its advantage and understand that rather than trying to impose your will upon it with metal,  uh, you know, types of tools and  medications and pharmaceutical drugs and injections and all of these things that the modern Western medicine tries to impose its will upon the body rather than trying to allow the body to do what it needs to do to correct itself. That is the huge difference between modern medicine. medicine in traditional medicine, holistic medicine.  So it goes on to say the meridian tooth chart is based on acupuncture meridians, pathways of energy that span across interrelated body parts, glands and tissues. Each tooth is associated with a particular meridian through which energy flows.  And so  when you look at this chart here, make sure you're,   So when you look at this chart here and you zoom in on it and  take a look and if this is a chart that you want, I can send you over the link, just go to my Instagram. I'll have a post about this and you can just comment, uh, and I'll DM you it, but it basically outlines all of the teeth and, and what their attachment is to which part of your body and what can result from not Dealing with those issues correctly for that specific tooth. And so it goes through a whole long list of things from migraines and epilepsy from the, so if, so first, I guess it shows the tooth or teeth that are associated with it, then the part of the body. So things like your stomach and spleen, your lungs, your liver, your gallbladder, your bladder, your  lungs and large intestines, stomach, heart, small intestines, um, all of these different parts of your body.  are associated with a different tooth or a different meridian line.  Again, same thing that they deal with with acupuncture. And so the things that this can result from is migraines and epilepsy, rheumatism, migraines, focus issues, sterility and impotence. So even your, even your  Fertility can be affected by your teeth,  um, focus, right? And so each one of these different zones of your mouth can have different negative effects on your body. It says if a weakness of in a particular system or organ exists, the condition of the tooth associated with that area could exacerbate the problem working with our Meridian tooth chart makes us able to assess patients, general state of health and wellness, simply through a review of the oral environment. Each tooth is associated with a particular Meridian through which energy. Flows.  Very interesting. It says the mouth is the mirror to your body. Energy flows through the body along lines known as meridians. These lines associated with specific tissues, organs, and teeth. Health problems manifesting in the tooth may be related to conditions of the associated meridian.  Interesting because this is a specific doctor that kind of specializes in this stuff. And again, it's D R R O Z E dot.  Now, the funny thing about this is I found this article today,  which says there is now a drug to regrow teeth, which has been approved for human trials.  So, on the back of that, maybe you don't need to get all of your teeth pulled and get veneers. Maybe you just need this other pharmaceutical drug and that will solve all your issues, of course. And there'll be no side effects, just like everything else. Um, so it says, scientists are gearing up for human tricks.  Not tricks, trials. Human trials, which makes way more sense than tricks. Human tricks. For a groundbreaking, truth growing science. A tooth growing drug with hopes to offer those suffering from tooth loss a revolutionary alternative. Molecular biologist and dentist Katsu, uh, Takashi  developed the first of its kind drug by deactivating the uterine sensation associated gene, the UTI. One, protein, which is known to stop tooth growth. He has been working on tooth regeneration for almost 20 years. We want to do something to help those who are suffering from tooth loss or absence.  While there has been no treatment to date providing a permanent cure, we feel that people's expectations for tooth growth are high.  By stopping USAG 1 from interacting with other proteins, the drug prompts bone morphogenetic protein, BMP, signaling and encourages the growth of new bone and teeth. The researchers noted  that mice and ferrets share the same USAG 1 properties as humans. The animals happen to grow new teeth from the drug. So my concern would be that if you're growing new teeth and growing new bones, how does your body know which  to grow when and how long? Right, like if you hope to grow one tooth back, are you going to, you know, make yourself taller?  Like, are you going to make your fingers grow long, too long, and you're going to look like Edward Scissorfingers? Um, the USAG 1 protein has a high amino acid homology of 97 percent between different animal species, including humans, mice, and eagles? Wow, that's very specific.  Beagles.  Um, is that what they're doing the studies on? Oh, that's horrible. If you go back and listen. Remember what Fauci was doing to dogs? That nobody's bringing up again? Like, the horrific trials that Fauci was involved with? And I'm pretty sure it was all specifically beagles. Where they would  essentially put them in a cage where they couldn't escape and then put thousands of bugs in there that would essentially eat them alive?  And meanwhile, I'm sure he's just living it up on a yacht somewhere after getting roasted by the Senate this week.  Anyways, just a side tangent, human trials are set to start in September 2024 at Kyoto University Hospital in Japan, using 30 male participants between the ages of 30 and 64 who are missing at least one molar. The next phase will look at children who suffer from congenital tooth deficiency.  Then, researchers will explore other  Generations who have lost a tooth due to environmental factors have proven successful the drug could become widely available as soon as 2030. The promising development in dentistry has the potential to revolutionize the way the treatment of tooth loss and provide solutions for people across the globe. So, if this lady, this girl, this woman, maybe just waited a few years,  I don't think that was her problem. The problem was vanity and living in Miami around a bunch of vain people.  People, but anyways, interesting, very interesting.  Now, the next thing we're going to talk about here, which I found to be a pretty wild scenario is that there was a dad. Dad went on stage and punched a comedian  over his sexualized joke about his baby son. Now, from what I saw, this wasn't onstage joke. This was like on Twitter,  uh,  prior to this. But let me read 'cause maybe I'm wrong, I didn't read this article yet. It says, footage of a dad punching a comedian's mid, uh, comedian Midat after he allegedly made a sexualized joke about his three-year-old son has gone viral. Spanish comedian Jamie. Caravaca was performing a standup comedy show in Madrid on Monday evening when a man unexpectedly gets on stage. Dad, Alberto Pugalito, punched Caravaca  in the head while shouting in Spanish. This is for the pedophile comment he made about my son. Will you repeat now what you said about my son? Pugalito continued while calling the comedian a piece of shit.  Say it. Say it again to my face, he said, enraged. Here, now, say it to my face. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this happened, like, on Twitter, and then he went to his show and started, and, like, punched him on stage and then smacked him in the face. It says,  Three month old son. The dad hit Caravaca one more time before leaving the stage.  Says comedian makes jokes at art. So here's the video. Let's go ahead and watch it. It's in Spanish. So I'll, I'll translate for you. In which case, don't listen to me translating and listen to the Spanish.  It says, who are you?  What's up? It  says, this is for, this is for my Alright, let's just start the whole thing with this. So loud. He  said, who are you? Huh? Oh shit.  What's up, huh? He smacks him. What have you said?  This is  for the pedophile account. Huh? Huh? Will you repeat now what you said about my son?  Huh? Piece of shit. Now what?  What were you saying about a black cock in my son's second cock at  three months  old? Huh? Piece of shit?  Huh? Now what? Say it. Say it again to my  face. Here. Now. Say it to my face.  He said, I'm sorry. He turns around. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm asking you all for forgiveness. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm just a dad that defends his kids. He has made sectionalizing comments about my three month old son. And that has it's consequences. He says, can we talk to you? He says, no, you can go. He calls him a clown. He's a weird  dad. I don't believe in that so much. And this next bit is how I would crack your fucking skull. And then he says, let's leave.  Good.  Finally, justice is served for somebody who's talking shit online, who in no way shape or form would ever back it up or say the same thing in person. So this man, this father gets his, in a Twitter argument with some comedian online.  The comedian then tells him something about his son sucking black cock. Excuse my vulgarity.  And his son's three months old. So this man drives to his comedy show, goes up on stage, punches him, and then smacks him in the face while ridiculing him in front of his entire crowd.  That deserves a standing ovation, and I'm sure it was much more entertaining than whatever bullshit comedy this clown, as he would describe it, was going to actually do during his show.  Alright, so, good. Good. More people getting to get smacked. Hundred percent. More people getting to get smacked for the stuff they say online. Good. For sure. 100%.  If you are willing to say something to somebody online, you should understand that that is a real person, potentially, depending on if they're a bot or not, but majority of the time, they're a real person  who  you could see out there and you would never repeat yourself to them in public. Right, just the same way that when you're driving a car, you would never treat people the same way as you treat them when you're driving. Because it's like removed, you remove yourself from the human aspect. It's not a situation we were supposed to find ourselves in biologically. Is that you're going 85 miles an hour with a metal, you know, 3, 5, 8, 000 pound  vehicle representing you.  Not supposed to be that way. Just the same way. It's not supposed to be you're on a  looking, staring at a piece of glass, somehow  communicating with some person across the globe, or maybe even five minutes down the road, but you don't know it in that part, you would say some crazy stuff to that person, but in this situation,  he got what he deserved.  So  let's see if there was any updates on this. Nope.  Clarified the transcription. Cool. So just wanted to point it out. I think this, that's a real dad right there. That's a real man who shows up there, says, say it to my face, say it to my face, smacks him just like he deserved and then leaves. Respectfully looks at the audience, apologizes and says, but I needed to do this for my son.  And I don't disagree.  All right.  Now onto some more serious matters. Okay. Which is the fact that a remote Amazon tribe was given Starlink and given access to the internet and the very Very first thing that they did the very first thing that they did was got addicted to porn.  I Mean to be fair. I don't blame them, right? If you had never if the only thing you've seen is like the seven Ten twenty hundred women that are around you all the time and in your remote tribe You  And all of a sudden you have access to all of these  supermodels from around the world, shaking their ass in your face on a piece of glass in front of you. And you've never had the opportunity of that before.  I get like, I get it.  It really does show you the power of, of like human human biology,  that the very first thing that they did was get addicted to porn, not gambling, not cryptocurrencies,  not NFTs. They got addicted to porn. Almost immediately. Thank you, Elon Musk.  And I believe there's a video here. Let's watch this video. I'm  not sure if there's audio to it.  Let's see.  Let's refresh.  Here we go.  You're just watching this guy in this forest with his knife next to a tree.  It's like indigenous tribe member.  And they're like behind this leaf with the camera. I'm not sure what this has to do with this article at all.  Maybe he's sneaking off with his new iPhone to go  watch Pornhub. Why is this on this page?  Okay, maybe it was like some random,  maybe we'll have context here.  Rare footage of uncontacted tribe in the Amazon. Okay. So it says what started as a moment of optimism and excitement was swiftly transformed into something worrying and sinister. After a remote tribe in the Amazon rainforest was finally hooked up to the Internet.  The Marubo people had resisted modernity.  Moderninity? Modernity? Moderninity? What the fuck? What? And preserved their indigenous way of life in one of the most isolated stretches of the planet for centuries. But then, in September, they found themselves equipped with high speed internet thanks to Elon Musk. The tribe is one of hundreds across Brazil that have been given access to the web through Starlink, the SpaceX subsidiary which provides satellite internet coverage in almost a hundred countries.  But rather than feel beautifully connected to the world, the installation has left the 2, 000 member Marubos feeling bitterly divided as pornography and social media poison its youngsters. When it arrived, everyone was happy.  SonomamaMarubo73 told the New York Times, whose reporters traveled to the tribe's remote villages.  But now, things have gotten worse.  Says, uh, they explained that the internet has brought a number of undeniable benefits, such as the ability to video chat with faraway loved ones, or call for help in emergencies. However, she said, the youth has grown increasingly disinterested in more traditional activities, such as making dyes and jewelry from berries and shells. Yeah,  young people have gotten lazy because of the Internet.  She lamented, they're learning the ways of the white people.  Hmm.  Pretty sure it's not just white people that have access to the internet. After just nine months with Starlink, the Marubo.  Already found themselves faced with the same issues that plague Western families. That's really interesting though, to like kind of accelerate this technological advancement and see as like a Petri dish, how quickly their lifestyle could be tainted.  Um, it says that.  The same issues that plague Western families, addictive social networks, misinformation, wow I'm sure they're so concerned about misinformation, scams, violent video games, and minors watching adult content. Alfredo Marubo, leader of the Marubo Association of Villages, has become the tribe's most vocal critic of the internet.  He told the New York Times that he worried that his culture's oral history and customs will be lost now.  Because everyone is so connected that sometimes they don't even want to talk to their own family. He admitted that he felt most concerned by the newfound interest in pornography, particularly given that Marubo culture frowns upon mere kissing in public. We're worried young people are going to want to try it, he said.  He said of the graphic sex depicted in videos which young men now send each other in group chats. That's a little gay. Alfredo, Alfredo added that some leaders have already noticed more aggressive sexual behavior among their youngsters.  Meanwhile, a father of three said that while he was happy the internet was helping to educate his children, he also felt concerned about the first person shooter video games.  I'm worried they're suddenly going to want to mimic them. I don't think you guys have, you know, the right equipment out there. Uh, yet many tribe members continue to extol  the internet's positive power and potential.  Uh, he pointed out that a venomous snake bite can require swift rescue by helicopter, but before the internet, the Marubo relied on amateur radio to relay urgent messages through several villages in order to reach the authorities. Now such calls are instantaneous, and it could, it's already saved lives.  Very interesting. This is in the village, you don't hunt, fish, or plant, you don't eat. Well. Now they can just order DoorDash, right? Maybe not, but you get the point. Meanwhile, Thomas A. Marubo, 42, the tribe's first woman leader, stressed that while some young people just want to spend the whole afternoon on their phones.  Yeah, I'm sure that's actually quite difficult. Like I have, you know, I have children. I have children that are the age enough to have technology and deal with the woes of an iPad in your house. And you, it took a long time. Like when I was growing up.  Our parents saw the, the, the advances and still gave like some timelines, but there's a lot of children today that just have absolute free reign of their technology, and it baffles me because you have to set those guidelines. The, the, the iPads, the social media, the whatever it is, pornography, whatever it is, is absolutely 100% designed so that you, it hijacks behaviorally the, the biology inside of you to make you want to stay there and give them your money and your attention. Right, because tension is just a currency.  Uh, he explained that decades ago, the most respected Marubo shaman had visions of a handheld device that could connect the entire world. Oh, did he?  You mean he somehow saw a phone? Um, it would be good for the people, he said, but in the end, it wouldn't be. Wow, they foresaw this. In the end, it would be war. Nevertheless, his son, Inoki,  insisted,  I see, I think the internet will bring us much more benefit than harm, at least for now. And regardless, there's no going back. The leaders have been clear, he said. We can't live without the internet.  So interesting. So many conversations that you could have about that regarding that, that, that, like, incubator, right? That, that Petri dish of just it completely accelerating from hunter gatherer societies immediately being Thrusted into, for lack of a better word. thrusted into our modern society of technology and all of the negative side effects that that would have on the not just the youth but the I guarantee you the adults are watching just as much porn as the kids right or playing the first person shooters or you know there's so many things that that are actual negative effects on society  so speaking of like faraway tribes and I'm not going to touch on this long because I have to get to the bigger deep dive but there was this african tomb  and  The king, the tomb of this king was made of completely human blood. Is that what I'm reading? Right? So scientists have uncovered a grisly secret at the tomb of an infamously bloodthirsty ruler. King Geza ruled the West African kingdom of Dahami from 1818 to 1858 before it fell to the French colonization at the end of the 19th century. And yet he carried his violent tyranny to the literally, as a news study published in the journal of  Prodemic  says, Over the course of his four decade reign, King Geza was known both for his military power and his brutality towards his enemies. Uh, he was so vicious that the ally, uh, leading to his hut was paved with the skulls. The alley leading to his hut was paved with the skulls and jawbones of defeated enemies,  while his throne rested on the skulls of four defeated enemy leaders.  Gangster. Ironically, according to the official records, Gezzo died peacefully in his home, but he couldn't resist bringing a bit of savagery down to the underworld with him. Before his death, he ordered the construction of two adjoined funer Funerary huts to be built in honor of his father,  who wrote from 1797 to 1818. For decades, rumors swirled around his tomb, suggesting that it was built using the blood of 41 human sacrifice victims. Now a team of researchers have confirmed that this is indeed true.  True.  Whoa.  According to the team of medical and archaeological specialists, the victims would likely have been prisoners of war or enslaved people. And because 41 is a sacred number in voodoos, they would likely have been sacrificed in a ceremony conducted to protect the late king's remains. Geez. The study's authors explained the kings of Aberney were god kings,  whose culture and religion centered on voodoo beliefs.  In this chronocultural context, death is only a change of state, not a total disappearance. Importantly, which I completely agree with. Importantly, a barrier between the human world and the place where the body is laid can be magically delineated. The separator is part of a supernatural border, since metaphysical elements are incorporated into the physical world.  Prayer, sacred water, and the blood of enemies were among the elements considered key to consecrating buildings such as these. When combined,  so prayers, water, and blood.  When combined, their mystical force was believed to symbolically protect what remains of the subtle essence of the deceased king. Geez,  uh, to determine the truth behind the legend, the scientists use a technique called high resolution, tandem, uh, tandem mass spectra spectrometry, spectrometry to analyze the mortar, uh, used to build the funeral Hutt's wall. Specifically, they examine the proteins present rather than the genes  as DNA degrades easily over time, depending on the storage conditions and most importantly, for this study, it cannot provide information on the source tissue.  Unlike proteins, which can serve as biological archive, the testing identified hemoglobin and. Uh, immunoglobins.  from both human and chickens present.  Very interesting. This involved a sacrifice of as many as 500 victims. So it's possible the blood in the mortar may have come from one such ceremony.  It's a ceremony called the great customs.  Now the researchers hope that future DNA analysis might help pinpoint the exact number of individuals in the tomb. As far as we're concerned, even one is too many. Yeah. Thank you for your insight. Yeah. Don't kill people and scrub them on the walls. Well, after you die to protect you  don't do that.  All right. Now we have our deep dive, my friends,  which is going to be about Gabriela Rico Jimenez.  But first,  make sure you hit that subscribe button.  Make sure you leave a five star review and make sure you should you support your boy. Go to Ronan basics. com. Check out the new website. Some of the products are a backorder right now, and you can actually pay and order them. And I will ship and deliver them to you as soon as they are here. 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One from, uh, this right here is from the daily mail, which outlines all of this as well. But the most  intricate of these I found from this Reddit post, which has all of it.  So, here we go.  Let's watch this video first. This is the video  of this supermodel, Gabriela Jimenez, where she is freaking out outside of this hotel.  And I will tell you what she's saying again. We have a lot of Spanish translations today, interestingly enough.  Uh, so, let's go ahead and watch this video and I'll tell you what she's saying. Translate for you. Right?  All right. It says, let's hear what the young girl was shouting on the street. This is from a news company  She's saying I wanted my freedom  and you can hear the pain in her voice  Since Monterey freed me, but it cost me a lot of work.  I was in Mexico City for a year and four months She's crying  all of this began in mid 2001  I barely remember. They were young and powerful, and they killed them.  I'd been knocking on doors. What I wanted was my freedom. I want my freedom.  She was claiming to have been abducted or essentially being, kind of, uh, being trafficked in a trafficking situation.  Um, Carlos Slim. Dominique knew about this. I want my freedom. Now that name becomes very, very important. Carlos Slim. You may be familiar with it. One of the richest men in the world, and is the richest man in Mexico today. It hurts my soul, she said, that they took him away. Leave me alone. They have already taken me to the police station, and they have told me that they know nothing.  She's screaming at these police officers right now.  They took me to the general hospital.  You, you were there. Go get the, you killed Murino.  And we'll talk about who that is in a minute, it's a politician. They told me, who did they kill? The  Queen of England? The Queen of Germany? Did they kill the princesses? And Mickey Mouse?  It was also him, she said.  What? Nothing is gonna come here. The people where you come from, they are crazy.  They killed a lot of people, she's screaming at this man, telling him. Death to that kind of human. Go away.  Saying that he was a part of it.  They ate humans. Disgusting, she said.  They ate humans.  I wasn't aware of anything. Of the murders. Yes. But they ate humans. Humans. They smell like human flesh.  Now this female police officer is walking up to her. You are not going to take me until this is clarified. You already took me there. Let me go.  As this female police officer grabs her,  she says, let me go.  It says, this is the sad  reality of the young Gabriela Rico Jimenez that you saw a moment ago tried to attack the police officer who managed to take her, no, the police officer grabbed her and she pushed back. She wasn't attacking the police officer. That's  so silly. There's  the video for you and the translation thereof. Let's go ahead and read this article and talk about it.  So, this says the event took place in August of 2009  in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, in front of a hotel located on Ocampo Street, in between the avenue of Pino Suarez and not going to try and pronounce that. The news broadcast features a young woman named Gabriela Rico Jimenez screaming in front of a luxury hotel. She repeatedly pleads for her freedom and claims she was held against her will. She makes claims of murder and cannibalism and drops some very big names in her accusations. Most public outbursts such as this could be attributed to mental illness or substance abuse, but Gabriela's claims are consistent and somewhat coherent and she speaks with such horror and conviction. I feel compelled to further consider her credibility.  Then they show the news clip.  There's the transcription, I already read it for you. It said, What happened to Gabriela Rico Jimenez? So, you saw this woman, out in front of this hotel, screaming at this man, screaming at this man, saying, You knew about this. You were a part of it. You were there. They took me to the hospital because of it. And they said, who, who did the, who did they kill? Who did they kill? Did they kill the princesses? Did they kill the Queen of England? Did they kill Mickey Mouse making fun of her?  And she said, no, they killed Marino. And Marino  was a politician.  She even mentions the name Carlos Slim. Now, Carlos Slim, as I was telling you, was one of the most powerful people and the richest man in Mexico.  Carlos Slim is a huge contributor and donor to the Clinton Foundation.  The Clinton family  funds all of these politicians, Democratic politicians. And guess what else he funded?  The movie, The Sound of Freedom.  Hmm. So the same man being accused by this woman who disappeared and was never saw again  funded the Clinton campaign  was,  she claims,  was trafficking people,  cannibalizing them, and set up the murder of a politician.  That same man funded the movie, The Sound of Freedom,  which is just so happens to be about trafficking children.  That's interesting.  Very interesting, especially when you understand the controversy surrounding The Sound of Freedom, and the man who did the documentary, and the accusations against him.  Now it says a witness speaks, and this is, let's see.  Here it is. Here's where it talks about Carlos Slim.  It says what happened to her. Finally, Gabriela Rico Jimenez, the woman who was arrested outside of a hotel in Monterey, was helped by DIF police on Monterey. And after she was detained in jail by the regional police, she was, she was sent to a psychiatric center in Buenos Aires. colony where she will stay indefinitely while she receives help and can be well cared for.  Gabriela mentions the name Carlo Slim, and who was a Mexican business magnet of Lebanese descent. He is the richest man in Mexico and was the richest man in the world from 2010 to 2013.  He has a son Carlos Slim,  who serves as chairman of the board of his father's conglomerate company. The Merino,  Gabriela claims was murdered is Juan Camilo Mourinho Torre Torrezo,  who is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party, and the Secretary of the Interior of the Cabinet of President Felipe Calderón. He died in November of 2008.  During a Mexican city Learjet crash, the government plane was seen traveling and crashed into rush hour traffic under mysterious circumstances. There were 16 fatalities, all 9 people on board and 7 people on the ground died.  Juan Camilo Mourinho was 37. As President Felipe Calderon's strongman, he had been leading a government campaign against Mexico's powerful and violent drug gangs. Illuminati conspiracy theories frequently mention the British monarch, among others, as well as Disney symbolism. There is also a rumor that the Prince Philip, the Queen's husband, once said that cannibalism is a radical, but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation?  Whoa, let's see if we can verify that in a minute. Um, there is a testimony of the alleged witness to Gabriella's breakdown on a Spanish language blog called the black Manic  a law student claims to have spoken with Gabriella and gives the following account of their interaction.  Um, it says a witness speaks after a long time. I will not reveal his name for obvious reasons. So what he says is basically that he was in the detention center at the time he was working as a law student and was in this detention center doing some work. And he said that he saw her there. He said, I still remember her face full of despair, fear, anguish. She felt very weary of the environment and a strange feeling. I approached her and asked her some questions.  Um, if I name, if I knew where she lived, she told me that she, they were all, that we were all dead. And that we were all dead, that we were all, we were among them, among other things. That simply left me paralyzed after 20 minutes of being with her some tall well dressed people arrived They practically pulled me out of there I asked them why they did this if this was just a poor girl with a mental disorder  Asked where that where they were taking her. They told me that was not my business to for me to retire When they left me they stopped me and asked me what she told me  I answered them insane and I ran away. The next day I went to the senior officers of the ministry and told them about the issue and wanted information because the girl's family requested it. They just laughed and said, really? If she does not exist, she never existed. And you do not work here.  I got a shiver and left. I left everything and left Monterey. I had a feeling that what had happened those days and what that girl said were true as I could. I left everything and got out of there. She told me that in Monterey there was some kind of underground base where they lived and regularly stole children as food and other things.  By my profession, I dare not reveal my encounter. I have family and children who depend on me. And for logical and reputation reasons, I cannot. I would like to go out and spread it to the four winds, but society would call me crazy. Although I have the marks of the attack,  is a little bad back, there are nights I just cannot sleep.  That's a weird translation. I have the same feeling, the same feeling that when I saw them the first time, it was like a, uh, presentiment is appreciated that they do not judge me as crazy for telling me that. Only me and for those who were with me at the time know what happened. Those are monsters. At least the one who attacked me was a monster. If he found me, he would only have died since a drawing came into my hands.  What?   Interesting.  Hmm.  So  that's what happened to this woman. She's never been seen since nobody knows where she's at and the internet was essentially scrubbed of her modeling history. Like she was a pretty prominent supermodel. She had brushed arms with all of these oligarch types like Carlos Slim and she Essentially after this happened, you look up her name now and you can't find anything about her as a person or her modeling career besides just these articles about this situation calling her crazy. But she's never been seen again. And she was 21 at the time. So she would be what this was 15 years ago, she'd be 3536 right now. And some people believe she's just still in that same mental institution. And she may very well have been a part of some like MK ultra type mind programming. And so  crazy shit. Transcribed  And there's video of it and the only reason that they showed this video on the news was because she was a prominent model.  And so when you look at who is Carlos Slim, who is the person that she is claiming was a part of this, who is at the head of this, and actually if you understand that the most powerful people in Mexico, who have the most money,  I mean, this is conjecture,  um, but,  Very likely have ties like you don't you don't get to flaunt your money or be in a position of very high power in Mexico I assume without having some way shape or form brushed arms with the cartels.  So who is Carlos Slim?  Well, let's watch this video of Trump  First and see what he has to say about Carlos Slim   Times is Carlos Slim now Carlos Slim as you know comes from Mexico He's given many millions of dollars to the Clintons and their initiatives. So Carlos Slim, largest owner of the paper from Mexico, reporters at the New York times, they're not journalists, they're corporate   lobbyists for Carlos Slim and Hillary Clinton. He is the majority holder of the New York times.  So why did Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton's Mexican cartel partner, Carlos Slim fund the sound of freedom?  That's interesting. And here's a picture with Joe Biden, Carlos Slim, and Hunter Biden all together, says the sound of freedom brings to light the horror of human trafficking. However, there's one major question about the film. Why did Carlos Slim, a man with connections to Mexican cartels, Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden fund the film?  In 2016, Donald Trump warned America about Carlos Slim and his connections with the New York times. And Hillary Clinton saying now Carlos Slim, as you know, is a Comes from Mexico. He has given many millions of dollars to the Clintons in those organizations.  WikiLeaks emails revealed that Slim had connections to with drug, Mexican drug cartels. Even the Guardian published the article titled, who is more dangerous? El Chapo or Carlos Slim?  Hunter Biden's laptop revealed that Slim was also a top customer of the Bidens.  There are even pictures of Hunter and Joe doing business with Mr. Slim. Now here comes the tricky question. Why did Mr. Slim fund the Sound of Freedom when he has direct ties to cartels that are guilty of smuggling?  The Deep State's most effective tool against Trump was the QAnon conspiracy theory. Q is effective because the Deep State  used the theory and its associated accounts to leak just enough information to be credible, but at the same time, nothing being leaked could ever  tie anyone directly, hence why dark to light never happened. Hmm.  What is this company? National  The national file. com. Okay. So maybe take this with a grain of salt because I don't know, but I mean, it's legit. Everything he's saying is legit. Or she, um, Q also gave the false pretense that to MAGA supporters that they did not need to be involved with their local GOP through the trust plan line. Okay.  Um,  Hmm.  Interesting. Uh, re energizing the Q PSY op may have been Slim's reason for funding the sound of freedom.  The solution to the human trafficking problem is the same as election integrity. America's first patriots get involved with their local GOP to ensure MAGA, congressional and presidential candidates,  are on the ballot and win free and fair elections. Hmm. Okay.  Uh, so take that all with a grain of salt, but nothing he said that was factually incorrect. Carlos Slim is tied to  drug cartels. Carlos Slim is tied to the Bi

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Oh my God, why are the Jews in this series so stereotypically jewish? Because Jews are stereotypically Jewish. FLASHBACK: But what am I really saving here. Gevault! CUT BACK TO: YOU'RE A PEANUT BUTTER JELLy SaNDWHICH WITH NO PEANUT BUTTER AND NO JELLY. So just bread? –yes. But–[Anime sword swish] I don't eat bread. [Anymore] [FIGHT] Dang what DJ battle is THIS. The One You've Been Waiting For Mad men avatar the last air bender Grounded for life So how long's this whole thing supposed to take. –as long as it takes. What kind of answer is that. It's an answer. Don't be so sure of yourself. I am sure of myself; Just because it's not the answer you wanted doesnt make it any less of an answer. Now, sit down Watch out, and watch this: Too many apps on my phone I'm better off alone I'd better kill myself Nobody will ever love me Nobody will ever love me Watch out, watch this: My iPhone is trying to kill me, For real? 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Which one's the Big King? The little one, I think. He's not little In fact: LOOK AT EM. Dawh. Look at Skrillex. Dawg. Look at Skrillex. He bossed up. He was already boss. Well. He Sauced up, then. What kind of sauce is that?! I don't know, but looks like Dillon Francis is eating it. DILLON FRANCIS IS EATING IT pause. How am I still writing this show. She doesn't eat? She hasn't eaten. She doesn't eat. I haven't ate yet! BET. BET. OK—Bet. Nice. Sick. What are we betting. … … … WAIT. ,,, josh pan? … … Did you unpause? Unpause what? Uh. The game. This is the game. No, the game. This is the game! What are you talking about?!! Now I'm famous> This is The Game. sup. This is Sunni Blū Sup. It is?! Yea it is. Wait, it is?! I thought you were the kidd?? I am the kidd. Then, why is The Game meeting Sunnï Blu? For a collab. Duh. Wait. Pause. QUIT PRESSING PAUSE. Wait. Go back. I didn't get that last part. WE WATCHED IT A HUNDRED TIMES ALREADY. Screw you. We're watching it again. Ugh! I hate this! Dude. I hate watching this with you. It takes 3 hours to watch an episode! You guys are talking over all the good parts! It's all the good parts! This shit's exciting. I'm defaulting. What? This isn't—this isn't fair. I'm not doing this. What?! It isn't safe anymore. It was never “safe” SAFE! Oh nice. Baseball. It is baseball. Who's playing? All the DJs. What. For what?! It's the DJ GAMES. THE DJ GAMESsssssssss ITS THE DJ GAMES! OH FUCK YEAH. I fuck this. I quit. what. You can't quit. I can quit. I just did. You can't quit the DJ games. I just did. But you can't. I just did. Hey. Hey, what's up. I'm gonna be late. What's going on? My bus driver's drunk. Are you sure? CITY BUS DRIFTING IN SLOW MOTION /Hans Zimmer Music Yes. Welhp. What. That's it. I'm just gonna have to kill myself. Why, what happened? I'm pretty sure that's the only way to beat this level. What, really? Nah. I'm pretty sure Let me see. *SUPACREE jumps into oncoming traffic* YOU DIED. Aww. I died. WHAT THE FUCK. Well, you said. GAME OVER [fade to black] I HAD NO LIVES LEFT. WELL, YOU SAID! THATS'S NOT THE WAY TO— [fade to white] NEW LEVEL UNLOCKED: GOD MODE OOOHHHHHHHH. WHAT?! LVL i - DREAMSTATE What is this. SUPACREE. I— what? Hello? Follow me. Who is this? I know you. Oh. The above and beyond part. That's funny. I was just— So wait. If the end of this episode, is the end of that movie, then… I guess whatever's happening about now is whatever happened before that part. What part? I, having run off from I, runs into a forest alongside The Endless River, which opens out into a beautiful meadow, the micolored cosmic sky twinkling sweetly above, strange auroras dancing in the skies; a field of glowing and stardusted singing wishflowers at her feet, she frustratingly falls into them, soft grass puffing with the twinkling sounds of fairy dust and sprites (a homage to the lion king) the wishflowers softly sing her to sleep with the subtle and sweet frequencies of Skrillex. (A homage to the wizard of Oz) From Above & Beyond, a flock of Cosmic Creatures in flight spot a golden glimmer from afar; they descend dimensions-- to get a closer look; Closing in on the universe within the confines of a massive structure, which propels itself seamlessly through galaxies faster than the speed of light and sound, though she appears as a large golden space station, slowly drifting through the atmosphere. Manned by yet unseen beings, the golden ship descends upon Skrillex, almost silentl— a swishing whir as the ship, more similar to a futuristic building, an ovaline rounded structure seemingly structured in brass, gold, and silver as it docks to the soft soil of planetary terrain. The landing is soft enough not to have awaken Ū, still sleeping; but an immense light pours from the openings of the ship, waking her--and blinding Sonny as he finally approaches from behind, having been searching for her. She is drawn into the light; he shields his eyes as the beings emerge from their massive station. Monologue/Montage I fell in love with you...it was an accident. I fell in love with you, because I had to; I hadn't thought about it before, but i've been thinking about it ever since. Had I succeeded in my attempted suicide, we wouldn't have come face-to-face… Had I succeeded in my attempted suicide, I'd have no reason to write something so pathetic as this, pititul letter, which you will probably never read. Probably, anyway. I've spent a majority of my lifetime very deeply troubled, yearning for all the attention one could ever crave--until suddenly, I no longer craved any at all. Solitude, rather than isolation, became sacred, and safe to me; It was in the solace and quiet of my very own world, that you entered my kingdom...and it became ‘ours'. Silence. Nature. Astrology. My greatest found pleasures, in a cavalcade of endless self-doubt, self-loathing...a tiresome collection of all the hatred I've harbored for myself in my twenty-something years. I fell in love with you...I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to do anything, except be. Another festival, another escapade...another chance to dance, in the sunlight--the moonlight, under stars… And under the stars, is where I was forced to find you. Now, it seems, can't escape your presence--or lack-thereof. Unrequited? Perhaps. But, not unprovoked. I love you because it is in me to do so. I will always love you, always. There is a world where you're in love with me, as I am you; All I can do now, is hope that this is that same very world, and that as days go by, we draw closer to one-another, rather than further apart. In truth, friendship, in the very least, would serve as a worthy reward...for all the worry, all the wonder, and all the willing I've done for you; in honesty...I'm ashamed in my inability to let go--yet also proud, that I am able to love this much, this hard. To see you with someone else, now, would be a gentle relief; to know that you are kept in love, with graciousness...a subtle gift, an answer to a prayer I asked. Loneliness, I wouldn't wish upon you for anything--love is, in fact, my whole wish for you--be it mine, or not. While I can wish that it will be mine, I've also wished for you, the very best--I would want not for my flaws to burden you. Flaws are what create our perfection; God is, as I am. Losing you, the flame of fear that set my heart and soul to fire; Cancerous, weakened, plagued--premonitions impolitely penetrated my fragile, eggshell mind… the death of a friend, fast-forwarded and reflected into my mind's-eye; How could I forget a face like yours--eyes like those? How could I not know you, as I have? Tears bearing your name roll over my nose, like the rain on a rose...the burden of belonging to one, rather than some; To all, rather than none. So now, I keep my favorite photo of you in my phone...a comfort, to the weary and wounded heart I carry. I can pretend that your sweet voice accompanies mine, as I sing to soothe myself, as I sway in solitude; A gentle kiss, I imagine to give, if ever the chance. I love you, without reason to--and with every reason to, I love you. Find me, again As the ship departs, charging to go into warp speed, Sonny is left alone on his own planet; as a slight panic falls over him, A key-like object falls from the ship as it dissappars at warp speed into a portal. As his hands clap together, catching the object, the sound rings outward--this clapping pages The Skrillex, which lands promptly beside him, exclaiming-- "I AM SKRILLEX"; he has never seen this ship before, however proceeds onto the ship as though familiar with extra terrestrial phenomena all together. We only see him enter the ship; we do not follow him inside, but instead cut to Ū on the Interdimensional SpaceTime Station. Ah wait. So Skrillex is a planet? Skrillex is a lot of things SKRILLEX is a planet . That explains it. No it doesn't. I mean, it might. No it doesn't! I mean, it kindof does, if you think about it. BleepBleepBloop bleeepbleepbloopBloop bleepBleepBleeppBoopBoop bloopbloopBloopBloop. bleepBleep. bloop. Bleep? … This is a disaster! Don't look at ME. I'm not looking at anything! I can't stand it. __ This is the best thing on TV. Damn right it is. What channel is it, anyway? On Channel 43. What! I thought it was on Insomniac TV. They keep fucking with me. The Lord giveth, and taketh away— I thought you were Jewish. I want a sandwich. You're so useless. __ Who's this bitch? I won her in a bet. No you didn't. Royal Flush, bitch. What'd you get? It's a secret. __ My Lord. (Petrutheio Humphs) You look awful. I've been—working. Working on what, your majesty. Just—working, is all. Very well, then. Theodore— My leige? MEANWHILE, IN SEASON 4 [ When the 4th Wall Actually Broke] GO! I found this gym because of Dillon Francis— I found Dillon Francis because of my evil ex husband; I think the lesson here, or at least one of hundreds— Is to trust no one, And love unconditionally, No matter what. — 02-12-2022 Well, there's a conundrum. KEY/BPM: Slip, deadmau5 Conundrum. LEGENDS: ENTER THE MULTIVERSE Fuck. What was it? It was a p— Well it was a *PR Lol. *PT cruiser Yeah, but it was— It was purple. It was a purple PT. Cruiser It was—but what else was it? Ugh. I forgot. Yeah, I bet. GOOGLE SEARCH shades of purple. Ooooh. PERIWINKLE. You fucking dumb ass. I mean, Jesus. How long has it been? At least a lifetime. No, past that. It was a perfect periwinkle PT cruiser. So, start there. ‘Start there' what? Everything since then, till now— For what? Enter The Multiverse. That show is still on?! YES. What day is it? Fuxk. What time is it? What—the fuck. What?! CUPCAKES AND A MUFFIN?! I don't care how fat I am. You're not fat. QUASIMOTO Can I just say, your ass is like —woah. CC/SUPACREE Oh, thank you. QUASIMOTO I mean like—DAAAAAAMN. CC/ SUPACREE OK. QUASIMOTO i mean like—what the FAAACK. CC/SUPACREE Yeah. thanks, bro. [an awkward silence] QUASIMOTO …Good job, though. [light fist bump] EARLIER: MORE CUPCAKES. NAH. OHH, OREOS?! Oreos are the G.O.A.T. I WANTED CUPCAKES. SHUT THE FUCK UP— Before that, at the gym: —do the butt machine again. Again?! Get the glutes. But I'm tired— GET THE GLUUUUUUUUTES. SONNY/SKRILLEX Where am I? Ū Hell. ANGEL 1 In bed. ANGEL 2 In mexico. CUT TO: SUPACREE finally gets to Heaven, looking for SKRILLEX. SUPACREE So, where is he? JESUS Somewhere else. ANGEL 1 At home. ANGEL 2 In mexico. JESUS Who knows? CHAK CHEL Someone must... DILLON FRANCIS I'm someone. JESUS But I don't. ME I don't know anything. MYSELF I don't need to. I I just wanna go home. SUPACREE Can I come home now? JESUSYou always could. SUPACREE But really, I mean-- CHAK CHEL Really's all it really takes. ANGEL 1 You have to know, ANGEL 2 You have to mean it; Don't look both ways before you cross, if you honestly want off the cross Christ, for your sake Honestly It's probably wise to admit that you've tried For the third time; Mankind's just not worth it. Mankind, maybe; But humanity's my baby And this earth is definitely worth something I love it-- Her. And the rest of the planets, but Look how she spins, It's magnificent, Look at the way the ocean's Make this mist; And the wind-- If i sing loudly enough I might Vibrate the trees, How they love dancing and laughing for me; And I just can't help but to laugh at her inhabitants; They dance oh-so rhythmically They're very creative-- and grateful, they always give thanks to me It's no need, but the Earth, she keeps feeding them She makes these beautiful things, So sweet; Mangoes, I think. Greed; The Parable of the Mango Tree Mango VIP. In the pre-existence, a young God prepares for her journey through the Land of The Living; Her older brothers taunt and tease, as she shuffles through notes and index cards, studying her predetermined fate on Earth. I That's easy. The cover art's just got a Mango On it, White Backdrop; It looks super juicy; with a green leaf, I think. E Who made it? I Uhhhhh. ^> Uhhhhh... O You forgot! I No! I know, I know. It was.... A Who? U She forgot again. I I did NOT. E Did too. Who made it? I It was...it was...Herobust! Y Herobust? I Wasn't it? E Wrong! A Loser. I I am not a Loser. It was…Was it Ganja White Night? E I don't know, was it? A Was it? I I don't know! Just tell me. E I can't. I Yes you can! E I can't. Your rules-- I Exactly, it's my rules! Just gimmie the answer! E I think you're going to have to GOOGLE it. I Ugh, no way. E So is Liquid Stranger your final answer? Y Liquid Stranger?! I I never said Liquid Stranger. A Idiot. O Now she's never gonna get it. U What did you say before? I It was...oh... A See dude. I Shut up, I had it-FUCK. A Damn dude, you broke her. I I'm not broken, I just forgot - E Liquid Stranger, going once-- I I never said Liquid Stranger! I know it wasn't Liquid Stranger; Why would it ever be Liquid Stranger? CUT TO: A pair of mysterious dudes Suits in Sunglasses are collecting famous DJs. SUIT Martin Stääf? LIQUID STRANGER ...Yes... SUIT. Come with me. ___ CUT TO: Two fans are watching interdimensional cable. SUPACREE It's a practical-- FAN 1 WHAT HAPPENED? FAN 2 IT JUST CUT-- __ Aliens in an Ascended dimension of hyper-intelligence are studying our three-dimensional existence from an unknown cosmic world. BRAMF Remember that planet I showed you--the-- ARLA Yeah, with the Axis? BRAMF Yeah. ARLA Yeah? BRAMF Something happened to it, ARLA Like what? BRAMF It's flat now. ARLA WHAT? BOTH Woah. >^ Sometimes, even i'm surprised by the things I've written. ME I didn't see that one coming! MYSELF Neither did I: I was gonaa say it was off it's axis. I Flat's funnier. ME Yeah, and probably not as tragic. MYSELF I mean...that would be pretty tragic. I Probably easier to manage. ME Perhaps…But I mean, if you have a whole planet, and then it just collapses-- MYSELF It's just flattened; nobody said it collapses. MEANWHILE The planet collapses. __________ CUT TO: SUPACREE is now a full-blown superpowered vigilante; She seeks revenge for GETTER sending her through the interdimensions at AUDIOTISTIC. SUPACREE Getter, we meet again. GETTER I've never met you before; what are you doing in my dressing room? SUPACREE Why does a DJ have a dressing room? GETTER I don't know; get out. [She swiftly leaves; as she exits, THE SUITS approach the dressing room door.] SUIT 1 Tanner Petulla? GETTER Yeah? SUIT 2 Come with us. GETTER Fuck that! [He doesn't have a choice.] Oh shit, the next scene is already written, I remember this. Oh, okay! I get it! Yeah. She's still at-- She's still on the-- ____ JUST KILL YOURSELF ALREADY. For what? You're suck in this until it's done. What's done? It'll never be over, it's just infinite. ENTER THE MULTIVERSE ^ UNTITLED DOCUMENT >< >< >< ANGEL 1 YOU'RE GONNA LISTEN TO SKRILLEX ON YOUTUBE? ANGEL 2 DON'T. JESUS I mean... ANGEL 1 DON'T you dare. SUPACREE I might as well, by the time I finish downloading it I probably won't even be able to listen to it. ANGEL 2 You shouldn't. SUPACREE I shouldn't, but I know i have to. ANGEL 1 In PUBLIC? JESUS Could go Incognito... ANGEL 2 INCOGNITO; The “oh please don't look at this:” easy algorithm engine for “LOOK AT ME, I'M HIDING SOMETHING.” MEANWHILE...IN DEEP MEDITATION…(IE OMNIPOTENCE) SUPACREE So... if a song is... nothing but question and answer, what's a song which references another in an attempt to address the question which was asked? ME A conversation between one song and another? MYSELF I guess, yes; I Well, that would be a symphony, I would suppose. SUPACREE It would, wouldn't it. ME That is, if the songs were in sync. MYSELF They could be made to be. I Every song is made to be in sync; ME I mean, two songs, made to be in sync with each other. _______ SUPACREE is on the floor at a rave. BASSGOD WAKE UP. SUPACREE This isn't funny anymore. ANGEL It was never funny. You have to get up. SUPACREE I'm up. BASSGOD You're NOT UP. ANGEL Come on, you have to do this. SUPACREE I'm doin it. GOD NO. ANGEL It's no use. She's so, so under there. It would take all of us to try to pull her out--that is without... [The darkening sky crumbles, as the thunderous storm rages, the battle between worlds expands throughout the outer galaxies.] ____ You're not skinny enough You're not pretty enough You're too dark, And you don't work quickly enough Much younger girls are putting in such Efforts, just to be, the perfect little beauty queen You wish you were, But couldn't be and kids these days are Everything that means anything Sometimes I Don't Wanna Be Happy… It was bad, But better than I'll ever be A basic remix, For the basic bitch that sings it And, I'm basically a Dillon Francis fiend, Have you seen this? Now it's getting serious, I seriously doubt there's anything I can do about it It's in God's hands and, I live in Satan's house How did he do this? How did this happen? The sad result of the damage, Cause i'm pretty sure The very last time my ex ever hit me Something got stuck on repeat; It's just eating me up. ___ [Untitled Document] What did we call that place, between “The Blackout” and waking up. Hazy. I thought it was something more clever. Maybe, but i'll never find it if i'm just scrolling through these documents. Write ”Untitled Document” That's all I've got, I guess. _____ [A DJ] Can be played by literally any DJ. A wild, wild party has happened. A DJ wakes up, previously having been sprawled out across the floor. A DJ Whose house is this…? Ugh. [Looks in mirror.] A DJ ughhh. [S/he gets up and stumbles groggily, stepping over bodies hunched and perched, slung about sleeping. Peacefully. The sun is bright, a curse to the eyes of the clearly hungover, and likely still quite inebriated DJ. ] CONCURRENTLY: >>> SUPACREE awakens from a ‘stupor' herself, displeased. She looks in the mirror, at first disgruntled, then “picks up her face” adjusts her perception, and decides, SUPACREE (“I'm good.”) Yep. [And she keeps it steppin, still asking aloud, as she ponders to herself;] SUPACREE Whose house is this? [And makes her way into the kitchen, where she (probably in a montage) cleans around the many bodies of hot people and rave babies still smudged and dripping in everything glittery; she appears to have ‘frozen time', as she vacuums faces and erases permanent marker penises drawn onto the foreheads and other exposed body parts of those who have fallen asleep with no shoes on. She cooks breakfast and straightens the entirety of what is now more recognizable as someone's home, though the owner still remains unknown. She sips coffee and reads the newspaper, as she steps behind the freshly detailed decks; and prepares a set through the headphones shes hung happily around her neck.] PAUSE ME See! THIS IS RIDICULOUS. MYSELF It is. Ridiculous. You can't vacuum someone's face! I Not that part-- MYSELF --Especially white people! ME You never said they were all white people. I I mean, predominantly; it said hot people and rave babies. MYSELF That's racist! ME It isn't. This whole scene would be entirely different, if it had nothing but black people in it. ALTERNATELY: She wakes up in the same house, but it's clean. SUPACREE ...Whose house is this? BEYONCE It's my house. SUPACREE It's... nice. BEYONCE Yes it is. ______ DILLON FRANCIS has the master plan. SUPACREE Ugh, he knows everything. GOD Not everything, dear, believe me. SUPACREE Everything that matters. GOD There's no such thing as everything that doesn't matter. SUPACREE ...What?! __ Don't look in there! You won't find anything in there. I hate these things. ____ It doesn't work if you don't practice. How do I practice without decks? You don't. How do I Dj without practicing? You don't. So DJing is just for rich people? I mean, primarily, or just...anyone with money, if you have it. Fuck this, I quit. You can't quit. If you quit we forfeit the game. No... You idiot. What game? I thought she knew about the game. What. game. Well, it's not just a game, it's a language. WHAT GAME. She's about to be so angry, dude, just--- Just run. ___ 8 Dimensional--wait, what? Oh, she finally made it. I never thought she'd get to this part. Well, she stopped eating meat and cooks asian food-- ---yeah, but that's like 6 different places-- She's not listening to Skrillex. --She's not skipping it-- --yeah, but she isn't listening to it actively.-- Josh Pan. Yeah. I am. Why. I thought we were past “why” We were, we were WAY past “why” It wasn't really a question, guys, don't worry about it. “Don't worry about it” Tsh. Tsh. ___ It's just an expression. “expression” yes. I get it-- ___ He named it “Kliptown Empyrean” What. What's “Empyrean”? I'd love to know, but I don't. Don't google it. I won't, I just. __ GO KARTS. With A K. __ Where's Kliptown? South of Capetown? South? South Afri-- Stop. HE”S AFRICAN? Stop. What's more offensive; Being called an African, or an Alien? ___ One off...hmmm… Always one off. ___ Get out of my house! This is your house? Thank God, I was starting to worry the owner like wandered off and got lost; or, you know (makes slitting throat) I... no, this is my--wait. Who are you? Me? I'm S U P A C R E E “S U P A C R E E”? [having been yet unrecognized, shes is used to having to spell it] Yeah; ___ Key of Cringe: I'm in a box with all my thoughts, And I am not on top of the world Or taking shots, I'm just rocking back and forth Like broken record, Repeating sequences, a robot A beat box of kittens Nobody wants I'm lost (if rock and roll will take me I wonder how much it costs) ____ What did this kid do? Nobody knows _Oh, shit, it's the Jews again. I love the Jews. We know. I keep telling you, you're jewish I'm not jewish my mom's… That's not your mom. Of course that's my mom. It's not, I already told you what planet you're on? __ Now, tell us why we wear our masks! Oh, there are lots of reasons for that. Tell us about the Sauce! All the sauce? Yeah!!! That would be a long story. __ Oh, the Google kids are cute, too. I especially love that little chunky one. He is cute, he's probably my favorite, actually ____ PIERCE? Who the fuck is PIERCE? Google it. I like this, this is- It's different, isn't it? Yeah, and then it __ Sunni—are you Jewish? I...identify as “Jewish” You can't just identify as Jewish. Well, I do. No, you can't just “identify” as Jewish; your mother has to be Jewish. Okay; my mother is Jewish. Sunni—you don't talk much about your family; who's your mother? Who's your mother?! Oh! Okay, we're done. See you next time, bye! What are you doing? What? “Identify as Jewish”?! WHAT?! I do! No I don't! You don't know me! Maybe not! But I know TMZ. I'm not on TMZ Sunni Blu is on TMZ What did I do?! YOu know what you did. ∆ Well, alright then. ∆ Must be something. ∆ I got it. . Don't look at me;; I'm a catastrophe, I'm just waking up now Don't look at me, I got so high i think I might not come down It's not a bad thing But I'm a bad guy, i promise It's not a bad thing, Don't look in my eyes; Especially if I like you Especially if you have other plans tonight, Or this morning That's right Time flies when you're (dynomite) Time flies when your mind right I didn't mean to stay here It's been nearly half a year, you know It's nearly half a year It's nearly half a y AHEM ALRIGHT. JESUS CHRIST. No, not that! [sighs heavily, frustrated] Enjoy Your Day. FARRO nobly sacrifices his own life during The Lovers Quarrel, as PETRUTHEIO attempts a final and fatall blow unwittingly against ‘CESMET' A saturn of satirical Return of reverb Expanding explosions of Outward and unearthly Worlds within words Or words within Worlds on the Curve of the Unwritten overtures of -Mother wow . I guess. Do you want a cup of coffee? I want you to shut the fuck up. What if Jimmy Fallon had a diary as a kid. And I found it when i shapeshifted into his body. Yeah, what if. What if this is it? [SUPER HUGE GASP] Oh, AHEM- No, i Gotta write this. AHH– Oh, the things i would do to you Oh, woah, The things you would do to me Oh, no, no, woah The things i would do AHHH– Don't be mad I'm a writer I'm like this Hi kids wanna see how sharp my knife is yikes Sigh, bitch, ive been sitting in silece With the lights off cause i like it Ilike it a lot, but uhm Ahem, The rabbi's mad cause that i'd write this And it's shabbat This is why i don't listen to deadmau5 anymore. What are you talking about *listenining to* GODDAMIT. what The invisible man, in Manhattan The sunglasses matches her madness The cloud cover looks just like Texas The suns going down And it's getting colder As the winds blows… 03. JIMMY FALLON All ya'll are all worth bout a dollar; I am a cyclone, watch me holler I lived my whole life underwater I got a dollar; Jimmy Fallon All ya'll are only bout a dollar I work so hard, I guess for nothin I am not worried bout a dollar I got a dollar; Jimmy Fallon I guess I'll do it on my own I had to do it all alone I made some soup, all out of stones I am the only one I know I am not worried bout the sauce I am so famous, got a stalker I am so famous Can't go no where I got a dollar, Jimmy Fallon I'm at the office, Not my home No collab I work alone Opened a business, got a loan I got a hundred of them passwords I went frontwards —1I went backwards Went to Manhattan, took a walk Went to the rock and dropped a rock Now put your money where your mouth is I got a thousand Jimmy Fallons (What's that) (I'm the host) What's that, what's that I work alone What's that what's that I dropped a rock into the rock What's that what's that I'm the host, I'm Jimmy {enter the multiverse/ as seen on tv} Story/ music video Moderately famous household television Jimmy Fallon suddenly begins appearing everywhere—that is—on every possible TV screen imaginable— The Protagonist, in confusion, can't seem to escape, and also amusingly begins finding Pennies in very strange and seemingly random places—these Pennies then begin opening up portals, breaking the fourth wall and opening worlds to other dimensions— Have you seen this? Uhh, hmwhat is it? Mits m “Two dumb Jews, starring Seth Rogen, and some other dude— Who's the other dude— some Jew,but it's got Adam Sandler in it. Oh, so three dumb Jews. So, no, then? I'd watch the shit out of that, though, tvh. Why's the synopsis? Uhh. Two Jewish musicians struggling to make it in new York's congested underground music scene hit it off in comedy by complete accident, after being booked as a duo for a comedy club they mistook for a bar. Heh. Okay, who does Adam Sandler play? “The Bookkeeper” What. Who the fuck is “the book keeper?” We'll see, I guess. “Two Broke hoes@ It's like two broke girls, but actually funny. What, be nice . Okay. Two Broke Ghosts That's better— — And marketable. Are you pale, or just— No, I'm dead. I'm dead. X.X Be NICE. Now our musical guests, SWAGGARBOMB. What in the fuck kind of music is that It's called “Dorkstep” [the doorbell rings] Great, who the fuck is I got a train car of your body count I got way far out to far rock away, way out Stop to talk to me, or don't, Kill your culture You need some? I got u— Probiotics, yo The truth hurts Your shit stinks Must be a mirror over herer Cause that's me I m your hero. Esha I think McGuiennes? Or McGrefor, after Ewab, maybe New York wants me to kill myself Maybe eventually New York if full of the devil The devil is money And everyone wants it The root of all evil, Is getting even The root of all evil Is people Beside myself, But besides that The ones hurting me, are soon to be where I am That's just karma The gangstalkers are soon to be stalked Coughed, and shot at The neighbors are soon to be eaten by their own demons When I don't clean them The root of all evil is evil, And that's all I see here White power wants me to kill my self The Caucasians get crazy when the race war is waging The elections are coming up And they see us coming up on conciousness They don't want us Just being honest They're hateful, They washed all the love out Thanks Karen But she don't care White firms just wanna have fun And they get to Meanwhile, me and I Eat shit( bro, And die Why's it nice to be white Even when you're wrong, you're right All you gotta do is lie, Open up your big blue eyes real wide and Decide what you want, Put us under your foot, And make us pay for it Thanks Karen Caucasians are terrorists I think it's McGuennes or however you spell it, cause half the names are like plays on Okay, I lie: You made a world where I have to Okay, I steal You took everything that I'm after already Or your ancestors did Call the luxury apartment reparations But ain't got no privacy, and hells angels and the kkk Ride motorcycles every time I get my eye on the prize So what's the price for being indegenous, black, and a genius White supremacy finds sneakier ways to kill you ESHA MCGUENNES (I thought figure out how to spell that. My left side's off I guess I got Stuck in the love of the art I was writing that part When the life of my love Fell over me A lover huh I'm so confused. I'm sorry bro, But if you're morbidly obese, But your feet are like a size 6– You are not BIG BONED. My doctor said I have a small frame, my feet are size 9, I went from a 10 to an 8.5 after losing 200 hundred pounds, I'm like “goddamn! Even my feet were fat! Fuck” But if you're fat like I was and your feet are size 6, your feet might be like a si3 4! You're a fat fucking pixie that fucked around and can't do little pixie shit now, cause you like pixie sticks Too much I'm just the rat in the dumpster I made this whole world up I swallowed the doctor I hearted the surgeon I locked up the dog catcher; I cauldron'd the Mormons I called it a sermon, but He called them all — Wait, who is Herman?! I don't know! Some black guy on that show I'm writing! what. I don't know. You're writing a show?! I'm on it! Ugh, I don't know. No fair, You really know how to make me cry When you give me those ocean eyes Those ocean eyes Good looking people In good looking places Doing good things; I just want to be Good today Good looking people Good looking people Bye, bye little bird, Think of the dreams we made Think of the drummer boy, Your lover boy, Then, the other boy There we go again, With the drums we played And the love we made It just won't make it Oh I Just Can't take it Can I come back yet? SHUT UP, GAYBRAHAM LINCOLN. I'm having breakfast at 10 am Thinking damn this depression is just setting in There's a chest on my elephant Chester drawer with hand carved elements Elephant ok my chest, Clisets with hangers and button ups I haven't won't yet What FOR WHAT FOR. MY EYES. For the sake of the art, I heart ya. For perhaps if I love, That's how I lost ya. So I keep all my love close, The brothers have found the fountain How many dollars do tootsie pops cost For one Jimmy Fallon? return to the blacklist. Great. Now I'm Jimmy Fallon. Well what's fucked up! What happened! FUCK! I hate being Jimmy Fallon! Whose dick swings to the right like that. Ow. FUCK. Fuck this guy. GODDAMMIT. -_- Let me in. Or I could just leave you out. No, don't do that. WHY. Ahh. Shhhhhh!!! What if someone sees me. Hmm, let's see. [rings neighbors dooorvelk, shuts door] No! The neighbor opens the door; now gifted with the ability to see demons, after merging with Fast forward Oh no, when did that thing come into play (When this happened) Liz lemon lives on the ground floor It don't matter cause she ain't never home l She's at the rock That's all the way up Good talk, Donaguey, Good, Good Talk Good people Good show Good good times It's good to be long gone from home Go to work at the plaza That ones Conan. Oh, Why?! Why not, though. OH, you mean— Katt. What up Snoop . Ahh, Look what the pimp limped in. You think you're clever. You think you're at least 5 foot—but you're 4 foot 9 I'm STILL WINNING CHARLIE SHEEN relapses on the dance floor Oh shit. Relapses to which habit? All of them! 10-4 CALL RUSSEL BRAND. Csnt. Why not. He's blacked out. What? Another relapse?! No, he just— passed out KABLAM. “The Cockney Thug” He's just like that now. God What is it. Can I have ham in my spam samwhiches. —you want ham in your spam sandwhich. Yes. Roasted cantaloupe with Put your notebook On my throat-Scrotum I like your poems So I wrote you this one Oh. That's. Welcome—to the' creepy shit fans have done for u's backlogs. “Backlogs” Well, I have millions of fans, It would take me years to look at all this. [the festival project] Woah. Woah. Ok. Yo. Have you seen this. What is it. I don't know. Hm. Look. Woah: Yeah, it's— Wow Ok. It just goes on like this— For how long— For like GOH GOH l GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUT TO: Latest — 1:04 WHAT? MEANWHILE ….IS THAT A JIMMY FALLON? LOOKS LIKE ONE. SHOOT THAT MOTHERFUCKER. ok , boss. I told you, He would play The Devil's Advocate, If need be [JIMMY FALLON is shot mercilessly in the shoulder in broad daylight.] YO. THEY SHOT ME. He'll be okay. He's Jimmy Fallon. [LIKE 90,000 Ambulances and a SWAT team roll up.] See. DEADMAU5 charges himself in a high speed chamber—a tech-driven coffin via a USB port in his neck. Lol. Ok. (PDA) Public Displays of Affliction I've never even see. A. Aston Martin Sometimes it's worth it, Getting lost in Manhattan I just saw the sign I wouldn't dare entering, anyhow Not in this outfit Not in this predicament (I just left the Whole Foods market) I got lost and god was happy Motor cars for music Force a figure ibto music Forgive Annie, Run a mile what's a california smile In New York What a garden Oh, what a garden Double back. For a second glance Oh, don't we all want second chances Now I've been an Aston Martin Motorists dot muses now u want her What a party I just saw the sign Now I've been an Aston Martin All by design Companion passing through KAWS I just bought a Ferrari I said, Where the roof is?! Where the roof is?! Blū electrico Roof finished in Nero Just a hit of magic A menacing, incredibly ambedextrous submissive One time I played God, I was hanging as the sun in Toronto In my third eye was a camera lense; My baby daddy, Lover and my best friend My husband My lover and My best friend My brother And my father Were my best friends Once upon a time I never had friends Now I remember sitting in the backseat, Has been I remember when I never had ribs I remember when I never had meat Nice to meet you I already had a coffee I remember sitting in the front seat Once upon a time I was anno one Once upon a dollar, Jimmy Fallon Once upon a dollar, Jimmy Fallon Once a bunch of Pennies, lady Gaga I'm a baby, haha Once upon a time, I was a no one A nobody Once upon a dollar, Jimmy Fallon I remember penny was a virgin I remember when you were the third one, l Once upon a time I was the first one Once upon a time, I thirst my quench with Coffee Body guard! I remember going on a long run I remember once there was a Knock on my door Now I quench my thirst with smart water With a hard on Never was a smart one Just an artist I was no one Once upon a dollar Jimmy Fallon Once upon a nothing, there was no one Now I take my coffee on a long ride No fun Once upon a dollar, Jimmy Fallon Amen I wish for every dollar I ever had, back Jimmy Fallon I wish it was 11:11, every Dillon Francis I wish for sandwhiches on leavened bread at Passover I wish this whole world would Passover, With the the stories in my home And in my notebook I wish for the fame and wealth with it, Jimmy Fallon I wish I never laughed at Dillon Francis I wish Skrillex was never a demon, I take it back I want the wealth And not the fame Just the freedom, Jimmy Fallon What do you mean by that? A dad, an actor An attack, The press is back and asking questions I can't handle that I can't. I just can't with that Abandon the matrix Go back to What's his name But I can't Cause I made him up Call my mother begging to drop the charges Called my God Just asking what the pocket watch does What's an engagement ring like that coat How much to rug the cameras up Inside my home So I don't know about em That shit's priceless Like the 9 Dollar's I've got Marked up, but not to spend them at the Market Jimmy Fallon I pray for your family But not as hard as I pray For my son Or God To take this fat off So I can look like Jennifer Aniston Cause that's God to em, 22 year old Adam Sandler At a brunch A talk show with my Least favorite host of all time Jimmy Fallon But I love to laugh, huh I just got back, God My house is a mess I want meth like AshGod If Method man was drinking up the water Would there be backwash It's a horrible, windfall This awesome art project My broken heart The coughing stalkers Whatever the fuck is going on in New York I love New York But not New Yorkers It hurts to be the worst person The first person to put reverse curses On shamans from the 3rd world And I'm living in the first world, But I just learned that Underneath the surface Is the fourth world That's some dichotomy Huh That's some diabolical plot The cosmic avenger is stuck in a dimension Of white pocket tenses And white bitches who get offended With this scripture But listen I just got up And I've been privy to Never sleeping again Norman Needs you, Mrs. Hotch But I was never Mrs. Roberts With all of the hearts and crosses , stars I give up on love Where's DimlonnFrancis at That's a man without a mask, That's a mannequin m. Just got up And I still want breakfast All I got is Stuff that's leavening A hand in my pocket Just for God to show me Nobody I want wants me Jimmy Fallon has a family That's a tragedy, that But I laughed so hard in the bathtub I still haven't come back from that I feel bad for em, actually All the husbands Cause I was the wife that sucks And he hated me so much I got punched in the— Doesn't matter Stuck in the telling it over and over Nobody loves me My new password is Fuckit I'm gone galloping horses, And hornets, I'm just a furniture Probably should have aborted me, mother Just like you wanted to But I'm still in the hospital On the honor roll Cause I had them all lined up The prophets of the “Impossible, could not be my God!” That's what they all said, But they dressed me up like Some sort of messiah, So I was, then It wasn't right, no That was malpractice But now I've got Camping in Malibu Crossed off my list forever Shit It's some dichotomy Just hold onto me I'm the rock, You're the kite now, Jimmy Fallon I was just better off dead, You know Better off stuck in my head, you know. I read your messages, every one of them Every one of the drugs in my bucket I threw up from the fan club Impossible, Could not have been at that clown JIMMY FALLON - THE COSMIC AVENGER JIMMY FALLON THE COSMIC AVENGER is levitating in a hyper-meditative state. UH – “hehe” …I beg your pardon. “Hehe” Um… Fuck. Or “haha” “haha” … Just admit it. … Admit it already! –haha. Admit WHAT. This gets Levels. Nobody thought Patrice O Neal was a woman! I thought Patrice O Neal Was a Woman. Ah, fuck, I'm nobody. “Nobody” Is that Bob Saget? I swiped right on this dude, just cause he looked exactly like Bob Saget. Omg. Bob Saget! Fuck, that's right. EXT. THE W HOTEL, BEVERLY HILLS, DAY/ EXT . PODSHARE WESTWOOD ROOFTOP, DAY OH MY GOD, GUYS, LOOK: IT'S BOB SAGET. No it's not! Oh My God! Yeah IT IS! Fuck, really?! Bob Saget?! BOB SAGET! YO GUYS, IT'S BOB SAGET. It was, in fact, Bob Saget. Bob Saget's dead, right? Oh yeah, bud. That's it guys! No more dead celebrities! I'm coming with you! NO MORE GHOSTS. Look, I have something to tell you. UGH. COME ON. This is a weird superpower. EXT. GRAVEYARD, QUEENS, NY. DAY … … … Having fun yet? Alright! I have a question! What? When do I get to– Get to what? You know. Luckily, I die long beore Jimmy Fallon, and as my time approached, I took all i could absorb from the world within, and without, almost as if any and all of my deathwish had been satiated with the gentle ease, the notion of knowing my imminent death would come long before what those surrounding me would consider my time, and therefore would not be made to lose anymore than I already had–but at least, I did have th strength in knowing, not only would i never grow so old as to see for show most of what I had done, but that I had done most of what I would have at all, and not much longer than my words would form into all that would come to be known as my full body of work, I would perish, even before–long before– those I had studied, admired, and known to love–if only through the fourth wall, at all. The invisible man, in Manhattan The sunglasses matches her madness The cloud cover looks just like Texas The suns going down And it's getting colder As the winds blows… THAT was a HARD left turn. So, what time can we listen to Excision? Sometime after intermission. How many acts is this again? ___ I told you, IN-FIN-ITE. Okay… I just wanted to know how long it would take? ___ I know someone that cold get us in _____ (Sitting on a speaker in the BassPod) What is she doing? What are you doing? Charging. __________ I think I found that girl you were looking for. Where is she? I said I found her: I didn't say you could have her. She's not a possession, I'm just trying to talk to her. You didn't mention that she was-- Be careful with your words. Oh, I think it's you that ought to be careful. You're losing your power over her and it shows. Mm. And what about your ‘power', hm? I haven't any power over her-- Oh, but you do-- Will Power at best, That would only be half of it. That would be all I had anything to do with; she was given free agency. HA. “Given”? ____ awww look at that bass face. Well, that's one reason... __ Ah what! you can change your entire frequency? No Fair, I can't do that You can, it just takes practice. What kind of practice-- ___ Oh shit, this hits different with two headphones. It all hits different with headphones. Calorie Deficit Calculator: -3423 Oh shit. Well how many calories did I eat? BEFORE: …chocolate chip cookies? NO— —CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIESzzxz— [CC/SUPACREE robotically and autonomously ditches her bicycle outside of sprouts, not giving a Fuck.] —s—noh! stop it! Stop controlling me! THEY ARE VEGAN. SO? STOP IT. Ooh, what's this. I don't know— get it. CC/SUPACREE stands awkwardly at the checkout with a varied selection of vegan baked goods. *beep* Yeaaaahh. So wait. SUPACREE is controlled by aliens? WE ARE GODS. Knock it OFF! [NEW ABILITY UNLOCKED: SUPASTRENTH ] Nice. Yeah dude. Watch this. The Legend of Supacree is the #1 MMORPG in the world; it is also happening in real-time, in multiple worlds within the multiversial construct of the actual Omniverse. AGHHHHH In fact, nobody even plays GTA or call of duty anymore. YAH! [Random objects falling from the sky. ] SUPACREE Oh, nice. INSTANT MANIFESTATION. JUST POST THE FUCKING EPISODE ALRIGHT?! this bitch is fucking crazy. Watch this. Watch what? SHIA LABEOUF discovers The Legend Of Supacree franchise and becomes villainously obsessed with It, hatching a heinous and maniacal plan to hunt her down and capture her—tracking her every move and learning everything about her he can. Wtf. I don't know. Is he a villain? I don't know. I guess. I'M A SUPERVILLAIN. …He's a supervillain. I guess. Why?! I don't know. This is creeps. It is creeps. [lifts one eyebrow.] SUPACREEps. Scary monsters and supacreeps. Heh. NO, NO MUSICIANS. Heh. SHIA LABEOUF is a straight up gangster. HE'S CRAZY! [SHIA LAUGHING MANIACALLY.] Oh, wow– That dude is a straight up psychopath. You're a straight up psychopath. I'm not arguing. What is THIS part of the story? Well, son, you made it through. WOODY HARRELSON? WHAT. Woody Harrelson?! WHY? I don't know. He just fit the part. WHAT PART?! WHAT/! Nobody quite understands what's happening in ENTER THE MULTIVERSE, however, THE LEGEND OF SUPACREE has taken an incredible turning point, intersecting with the world of LEGENDS and THE SECRET LIFE OF SUNNI BLŪ/ THE SUITE LIFE OF SUNNI BLŪ. IT HAS? YES? WHERE? I WANNA DIE. OH! That's not SUPACREE! [CC HULK SMASHES her bike onto the rack on the bus. THE HULK, sitting just in front stares at her wide-eyed as she boards the bus over the rim of his sunglasses.] Oh, maybe, nevermind. Wait! Is it THE HULK, or MARK RUFFALO? I don't know! I don't give a shit! Why are you even writing this? Uhhhhhhhh. [CC's brain is slowly melting as she rides the bus to work. THE HULK– OR IS IT MARK FUCKING RUFFALO!? I DON”T FUCKING CARE– THERE'S A DIFFERENCE WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE IT – DOESN'T– MATTER! ‘It doesn't matter.' Chal's words echoed in my head almost too loudly–as boldly blind and sometimes even dumb as he was, he was also wise, and as it turned out, right–it really didn't matter. Nothing mattered at all. I had gone through the motions of reaching out to him, to of course as expected learn that he and whatever her name was had gone their separate ways; I understood that would be the case nearly immediately back in Mazunte, but as he was insistent he would woo her–and persistent in doing so, that I thought maybe after all love– or what really turned out to be his obstinate lust would win the day–and yet, it hadn't; he was again single and on the prowl– and although at one point I had even lusted after him briefly, trailing behind him in nonchalant platonic carelessness as he obsessively followed another woman, had allowed me to become comfortable enough in the friendzone that i could just simply exist next to him; Now, again faced with homelessness and factoring in my inability to travel much further than south of the border, especially now knowing well how to travel throughout mexico and into Guatemala, I wondered truly if my own self-worth had really been lowered to the point of allowing myself to meet Chal in Guatemala–even full well knowing that he, too, preferred perfect and illy white to my dark skin and quite seemingly matronly features, and, knowing for myself that I wasn't his first choice– as he and I had of course met in Mazunte around the same time he had met whom he considered to be ‘his Goddess'-- albeit while on a topless beach and thus hynotized by her breasts. Men were hopeless. Then, here I was, waking up every other sleep cycle in the cold sweat of a wet dream, the subject of which I typically at least tried to keep deeply hidden in my subconscious psyche as secrets, although by now it seemed there really were none, and all that I knew and that I thought were known and seen by some other than myself–though somehow still holding true to my belief that there really was none other than myself–in my own broken and twisted world, alone and punished in the depths of mediocrity and shame. Woah. Riding the bus. There's nothing lower. There's walking. To the bus. Yah. And all the sick people. And all the crackheads. And all the–what are those? Demons [demon hacks.] Ugh, fucking–ugh. SHIA LABOUFF'S obsession with SUPACREE is helga petaki-meets Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch. Oh, wait, we're back on that storyline? I mean– I don't know how to write this. Just write it. he's a villain, right? I mean, that suit. SHIA LA– FUCK. WHAT?! Worst last name EVER. Well, not ever– Wait, is he black?! –It sounds french. GOOGLE SEARCH: ‘How Jewish is Shia LaBeouf? ‘ –no, he's Cajun – That's french-black–wait— –what? Cajun AND Jewish? –Yeah– Jesus! JESUS What? (raises one eyebrow) SUPACREE strategizes a plan of attack. Attack for what? {ATTACK} YOUUUU INCEPTED ME!!! AGH! {COUNTER ATTACK} NOT ME! DISNEY! {DODGING COUNTER ATTACK} Yeah, Blame “Disney!” I JUST DID. Oh, yeah, right!! RAVEN SYMONÉ It was Disney. THEY OK'D THIS?! They bought Marvel! THEY OK'D EVERYTHING. —Even the SKRILLEX? Especially the Skrillex —Especially the Skrillex. AGHHHHHHHH—— ———-AAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!! SHIA LABEOUF VS SUPACREE: FIGHT!!!! Everything looks good— —everything looks good. Everything looks fine— —Everything looks fine. But wait— What? What about that guy? Oh My— —oh my… Is he gonna be alright? Is that guy —gonna be alright? Is that guy gonna be alright? Is—that guy gonna be alright? Is that guy gonna be alright Is that guy— Gonna be alright? Is that guy gonna be alright?? Is that guy gonna be alright?! Is that guy gonna be alright m? Everything looks good— —everything looks fine Looks good— But what about that guy? …I don't know about that guy. Is he alright? Yo. Yooo. Stop writing songs about Skrillex. ((I literally can't.)) What?! It doesn't have to be about Skrillex! It could be about anybody! Here, they call with disco balls Stars in my eyes, but stars do fall First true love dies hard after all, No star shines bright as morning comes —(for) Sonny …I didn't write that. CUT TO: CC writes automagically between sets of heavy lifting. IMAGINARY FRIENDS, PART III DEADMAU5!!!! okay—one more—then cupcakes— Cupcakes? No cupcakes! I WANT CUPCAKES. Uh—No way! YES WAY. Mmm—no I'm sick of this diet! I'm not on a diet! I eat! You eat GRASS. I'm a vegan. This shit sucks. I told you, grass tastes bad. RICK?! (I also want cupcakes. ) Mmkay—ohh. You said that was the last one. No, more more. NO “one more” But I like this one—and it has the right amount of weights on it already—see? Jesús Christ He's not here. (Yes I am). Why the Fuxk. I also want cupcakes Okay, one more No “one more” The power of Christ compels ye! … Is that how that works? No. Maybe. (((Yes.))) AGHHH. The celebrities of Hollywood are gang stalking SUPACREE Can we— No. But I didn't even get to ask the question. The answer is no. THE CELEBRITIES OF HOLLYWOOD, after assembling with the Bampheramphs and Morherfuckers, have formed a supergroup tasked with bringing SUPACREE to THE HOLLYWOOD PEOPLE—so far, they have cunningly out-bested and outwitted THE US GOVERNMENT, including but not limited to THE FEDS, THE CIA, THE FBI and THE SECRET SERVICE. REALLY? I GUESS. HOW?! — DRAKE snoops on SUPACREE as she writes working half heartedly at THE NECK MACHINE with peaking curiosity, peaking over the time of his sunglasses. Whats it called. “Nautilus 4 way neck “ BPM: you're a jerk Do the Drake Do the Drake Do the Drake Work that neck Work that— Neck, Becky Work that neck, Work that neck Do the— “new note: Purchase ‘Honestly, nevermind' I had worked an entre month at LVAC before the circus went underway; Not a single drop of Skrillex had ever been played over the loudspeakers at any moment, for any of the time I had been employed there, nor had it burdened me any of the other time I had spent bettering myself within what I once cherished as sacred walls–now the illusion shattered, as nowhere I could seem to run – even the rural coastal jungle of Mexico-was far enough to escape the clammerings of something I quite honestly very much still loved, but wouldn't allow myself to enjoy— Or maybe, now, couldn't. BANGARANG. ‘Fuck this shit.' I wanted to move, but didn't—I wanted to leave, and probably should have, but wouldn't. I just sat there through it as my coworker, standing at about 5'4 ½ in a pair of tight black skinny jeans sang along and bounced rhymically. What the fuck. Then, as it had just been earlier that I was thinking of Sonny himself, and how, be it that any of my premonitions were actually accurate and true as I had once thought them to be, there would perhaps come a day that I regretted not listening to his works, just as one regrets not spending time with a loved one before their passing not giving enough attention to the little things, the tiny details, the time they had missed, but never missed without missing their loved one until it was too late. Then again, for me, any time in the then- present was too late, as I had only been followed, taunted, and ridiculed, openly humiliated and embarrassed, and never really paid directly for anything I had done, whether it did have to do with Skrillex or otherwise –and so I had made it more than a point to distance myself from it, anything having to do with it, or him, or anything really, music related—of course besides relying heavily on deadmau5 just for my own existence–that is, willingness wake up, move about the world and its endless, pointless constructs, and even so, completing a worthwhile workout with enough satisfaction that I could allow myself to leave the building–and now, with my commute taking up a grand total of 4 hours of my entire day—I didn't have the time or the energy to stay late into the days and even afternoons as I had before, or to arrive early as I had in the days and weeks before; Now this job was amounting to nothing at all, and I was surely less than breaking even. Whats the worry? You've got 20 minutes to write a story! Don't be sorry Mind your orders. You're a war chief Marry me, Oh pretty please— I plead to you, just sing for me Just think of me as a Never ending fantasy, At the very least When you bury me —and you buried me alive, Just for the look of things What makes us even Slitting wrists Or splitting things unevenly (Either thing benefits me, And my penis, I think.) Make me famous— She said Hate me or debate me, I have everything I need And I have everything you have, But I can leave, All with my dreams intact I do believe You think I'm evil Either way, unnecessary Why would I sit down and write a story— When you just did it for me? Why would I pledge allegiance to old glory She's ignoring me; Why would I change my name to satisfy your needs When mine sit idly by waiting Why would I dream of you, When you dream of me I have all I need, You have all of me in the other room While you watch cartoons with your lady I hate anime and now I hate you too, But I'm so stupid, Nothing soothes my moods, Except playing your tunes, Or music Whoop De Fucking do Would you Marry Me? He said (He never did, he just let her—) She said, I do And now they're doomed I built a tomb for two The bride and groom In music Two by two And used by Tuesday Music I presume To the beautiful Music I presume For the usual Music I presume For those who —- SHIA LABEOUF JUST DO IT. That is not how the end of the song goes. No, but this is how the end of the episode goes. Really!? How? [CC stares lifelessly forward out of the front window of the double decker bus; a man dressed in all blue catches her attention—another telepathic shapeshifter.] You brought…an umbrella? I told you there was a shit storm coming. Oh, nooh. Where's yours? I— don't care? That's right you don't. I don't. That's good you don't. I really don't. You don't give a Fuck, or a shit. I—don't give a fuck or a sh—wait— DILLON FRANCIS? I'm good at what I do. What do you DO? THIS. “A Silent Partner” Oh. I like that. That has all kinds of insinuations. Doesn't it? Hermph. You're a creep. A Supacreep. PAUSE ITS MISTER MAGOOoOOOOOOOooO0oO. No, it's the IRS. Fuck. HOLY SHIT SUNNI. WHAT. HOW DO YOU OWE 100,000 IN BACK TAXES?! Student loan debt. WHAT. THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. Yes it does. HOW. Calm down Marci —MY ÑAME IS— [Sunnī Blū subdues her instantly with one if Supacree's mysterious rave weapons] Sit down, please. …what is that? You like it? Yeah. [she gives her another dose of strange vapor, she relaxes even further.] See. Yeah. Now that you're happy— —am i “happy” ? [she gives her another relaxing dose] —are you Happy? Yeah. Ok. So. I never filed my taxes because I had so muc

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Golden Bachelor in Paradise - Week 6 Double standards, horse girls, and new faces - this week had it all. We get a little into the Reddit muck again, but no spoilers! Sammi just keeps getting the annoying popups on her phone, and sometimes, in weak moments, she swims in the mess. Transcript - Please Forgive Typos! Sammi Hello I'm Sammi and you're listening to rose plate special the most dramatic almond mommingest Merry Goroundingest menschingist recap podcast     Steve Oh hello and I'm Steve.   Steve Ever.   Sammi Of the bachelor ever. Yeah, that was me not having any ideas again. Ah but I will tell you thank you? Um, first of all, we're well we're not that late I guess I don't have to apologize I was going to say but it was kind of interesting because we were both busy with different things. My battery.   Steve Um, good job.   Sammi Just decided to completely stop working on my computer and ah become very bulgy. So it's a good thing I replaced it the same day because I don't know what would have happened Otherwise yeah I It was weird because I saw.   Steve Um.   Steve Um, who yeah no I don't think I don't think like a lithium battery is supposed to do that. That's it's it.   Sammi Um, like I watched a video on how to replace my laptop battery cause I was like do I want to pay an extra $ to have someone else. Do it no because my whole goal is to like build a computer in  and I'm like if I can't replace a laptop battery. Do I have any business building a computer.   Steve Um.   Steve Right.   Sammi No, so I can do this and I watch like some videos and I bought like a little fix it kit and okay, are you familiar with the store micro center because I had never heard of it. Why why did I not know that this place existed until yesterday.   Steve Um, oh yeah, Microsoft is dove I mean there's.   Steve I don't know they're super cool I mean there's not  near me now. But when I used to live in ah Detroit there was there's  pretty close spy. So yeah, you go there all the time. It's awesome.   Sammi Yeah, like I had no clue but that place was bustling. It was like an hour before close and it was so busy and I did like an online order pickup and I got the battery and I got the toolkit and stuff and and the guy who behind the counter was like first of all before I could even say anything it was like I like your outfit. Was like thank you and then he and then he asked oh then he saw my last name and then he said it reminded him of someone from like the witcher and and he goes he goes have you read that I said no and then he said something like you strike me as an english person and I didn't know if he meant like I am english.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve Um, oh ah.   Sammi I like the subject english or I like or I like english shows I had no I I mean yes to all  I guess but I was like so confused and he's and I was just like ah I'm not opposed to it and he said great and that was an okay answer.   Steve Um, like you Mary Poppins ah     Steve Me.   Sammi And then we continued and then he tried to he was like oh you know what? I would get is like the bigger toolkit because that thing has everything but I don't I didn't know how much I needed. But anyway it was It was very intense in a way I like and I'll definitely be back. Ah for some sweet sweet bundles.   Steve New.   Sammi When I build my computer but I was really proud of myself the video that I watched that demonstrated how to change the battery. It looked just like mine.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve Said That's always nice too. It makes you feel better when you're doing it. You're like okay I could definitely do this. Oh.   Sammi Well I mean down to the like it looked bloated and so I was like what is happening but I mean this computer's almost four years old and the only thing I'd have I've had to replace is the battery so and with today's age of planned obsolescence.   Steve That's not bad.   Sammi Um, I think that's pretty good. Yeah, Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! a lot. Um, so anyway, yeah, so that's what I was doing yesterday. But now we're here today and I want to tell you that while I was watching the Golden Bachelor this last week I was.   Steve Um, yeah,  years a good run, nice work.   Sammi Flipping coupons which I think just doubles the Boomer energy. Yes I was getting really fed up because we just had a bunch of like you know mailers just stacked up in front and I was like.   Steve Um, real golden bachelor behavior there. Jesus.   Steve I.   Sammi You know what? this is the perfect time to just cut out the things I know we might actually use organize them by month and put them put them away So that's what I did while I was watching this fits up.   Steve Good act now Dear listeners I will have you know that I ah I watched intently I I did not blink I did not do anything else I didn't go to the bathroom I didn't eat I just I just watched the show because I care about what's more I got it. Um.   Sammi Oh okay, okay, all right all right? Yeah, okay I see where I was like where is this going? um.   Steve Um, what a great setup for a show too because I love how they basically lead off the show. It's hometowns. It's gonna be weird and different because it's just no, it's it's like a totally different vibe which.   Sammi Because there's no parents to please? yeah.   Steve But it starts off by basically setting Gary up for failure and I love this because he says in the beginning. He's like I do that I only want to say I love you to  other woman rest of my life bro I got to tell you it ain't going to play out that way.   Sammi Um, ah yeah.   Steve So I just as soon as he said that I'm like but.   Sammi I was kind of surprised I was like I can't believe he's getting himself into like Clayton territory over here sticky situation. Um, yeah.   Steve Yeah, yeah, it's like don't don't back yourself in that corner because it's not according you want to be and you got you got to leave as many options open as you can. Yeah.   Sammi You just get wrapped up in the moment production the vibes the family the grandkids going we'll call you pop pop and then you're like oh God I Want to be pop pop that sounds so nice. Yeah.   Steve We all want to be pop pop and masterful editing this week on golden bachelor too because the way this is set up and the emotional journey they take us on is as people just viewing the show. It's so good because as soon as he says that I'm like oh are you going to commit to that. And then you kind of watch where things go and it's it's really masterful stuff I love it. Juicy and also heartwarming.   Sammi Yeah, it was it was heartwarming. Um, so first we have Teresa and um I know we left on a cliffhanger but like I feel like Teresa's gone right.   Steve Oh she's done so well, it's it's great because if you watch just the first like  minutes of this episode. You're like oh Theresa is doing great and then you watch the other ones you're like oh no Theresa but.   Sammi So you think okay.   Sammi She lost compared to the other ones if you just heard a weird noise that was me pulling out my lipton. It could be the weirdest bubbly noise on my side anyway, um so Teresa is first. She bugs me was my note I don't know I just yeah, she's like.   Steve You.   Sammi She kind of channels the same energy that jes does like I'm just a baby you know and I just like no thanks? Um, but they're meeting so Jerry are Gary's meeting like the daughter son in law grandkids and sisters and oh this was sad.   Steve Um, you.   Sammi Okay, Teresa's grandsons kind of sold her out. They were like well she comes over a lot because she's lonely oh like damn all right and then and then okay this was like such a they have to have like at least  cornball like boomer moment in each of these episodes and the     Steve Ah, yeah.   Steve Um.   Sammi This episode was when he was talking to the grandkids and they're like she she does that thing with her lips and pictures and then they were all doing duck lips. Um, and I was like this just feels like a  joke but okay sure um and they're just like o oh like chick Chik Chicko Teresa oh     Steve Um.   Sammi So duck clips. Um, but yeah, so the reason I said alba mom do you think Teresa's an Alan Mom I just like feel like she is I don't know I'm getting Almond mom energy from her that's all I'll say um, but it was like yeah it was like a pretty benign.   Steve Um, she definitely could be I think there's there's there's potential there. Yeah.   Sammi Hometown like the grandkids were like you could be our new pop-up and you know everyone was like well she's just so sweet. She's just so sweet and you'd have a really good time with her because she's sweet.   Steve All I Love Gary's playing coy because it's just like we are you Pep pop now and you just look all I do't know maybe I will be oh who? Ah I love this. So yeah, it's It's mostly like.   Sammi And he's like I don't know maybe we can do ducklips together later. Ah yeah.   Steve Standard family time. Whatever it's going. Well it's going good and you're thinking ok like nothing bad here and and that's how it continues and then they they head to the jersey shore as you do little Jim Tan laundry they're on the Ferris wheel and she.   Sammi Ah, yeah.   Steve She drops she drops the I love you like she's she's fall in love with them and all this and he what does he say? Oh he's this is amazing. Um, because it's you got to like with the I Love used fair thrill.   Sammi Yes I said mary go round I meant I meant Ferris wheel I had to like Google real quick.   Steve So if someone says I love you on the bachelor and you're not ready to say I love you or you can't because the show has dictated that you can't you have to come up with like a way to be like that's so cool without like that like makes them feel validated but like without reciprocating.   Sammi That's amazing.   Steve And he says e wrote this down that makes me feel so special so like okay, there's this not answer because he can't say it yet and and this is me like based on the on what he says in the beginning and based on this I'm thinking ok gary is he's saving the I love you He's going to drop it that. During like the the grandpa fantasy suite or like the at the very end or we're going to get and I love you later but then but then he doesn't say it to her on the Ferris wheel. But then we cut to him just like getting the you know like the confessional style like.   Sammi Ah.   Steve Productions just interviewing him and he says that he's fallen in love again and they's in love with Teresa he says he's in love with Teresa and so my initial thought is like oh shit I do this this went pretty well. But I think go that it but that fuck it well so I guess it's done right? We're done because he said he's always saying I love you.   Sammi Well and he didn't just well and he didn't just say that. Okay, he said for someone who paid only attention to the show. Um, can't believe you miss this? Ah so he said ah I'm not just falling in love I'm.   Steve Right.   Sammi In love for the first time since  I'm in love again, that's what he said. yeah that's what he said     Steve Wow. Ah, you mean love with Theresa yeah, that's what he says? Um, so then so then we are led to believe and this is the mask for editing. We're like oh fucking done deal right? It's over. We know that he said he's only going to say I love you to one woman and it's Teresa.   Sammi Yeah, you're like time to pack it up and go we're done I Guess so.   Steve And I didn't think it was gonna be Teresa. But here we are all but here's are that little dirty dog. He yeah, he's he swerves us. He swerves us because it turns out this is a man who loves everyone and perhaps he loves tersa least of all.   Sammi He does.   Steve Right? ah.   Sammi Yes, at least yeah, that's at least that's a thing. Um, So yeah I mean it seems like it goes well and then and then he goes on the date with faith and he's like oh like ah she looks. Awesome and Wow like he's just kind of gets like stars and his eyes are on Faith. He's just like Wow and then they have like so they go on horseback and they have the most awkward horseback Kiss ever No, it looks like it hurts.   Steve Oh he loves that horse girl. Oh.   Steve It's not good and then and then she says the weirdest stuff faith is constantly doing weird stuff and I'm kind of into it but like only because I don't have to experience it directly. But at some point they're like doing their awkward like whatever ride around thing on the horses and. She's like she's like oh my my old horse is buried over there something like it's such a weird thing to say my horse is buried. There.   Sammi Um, ah yeah, she was like I can't move because my horse is buried over there and he was just like and he's like well yeah, he just goes. Well yeah, it's really tough that would be tough like.   Steve I Like think of like ominous things You don't want people to say to you and my horse is buried over. There is like top of that list for me.   Sammi I Mean yeah, it would be worse to say like my ex is buried there but you know yeah my horse is buried. There is like definitely up there. Um, yeah I mean it's interesting I Do think her family is pretty cool. Um.   Steve Um, yeah, yeah.   Steve M.   Steve Um, oh sure. Ah I don't think so I could be wrong. They do look a lot of like they could be oh know.   Sammi Question are her son's twins.   Sammi They look a lot alike. But yeah I just couldn't tell anyway. Um.   Steve Great. But I mean and and then you know other than the horse right? It's basically it's the same Teresa stuff. You know it's a lot of like you know are you are you? The new pep pep they they all have their pep pep moments pop pep pop pop papa plate. Let's play. Let's.   Sammi Pep Pep Pep Pep pop up and papa.   Steve To throw around the old Pig skin with the grandkids or maybe not grandkids. We don't know how this is gonna end up. But yeah.   Sammi Yeah, so yeah, so um, but yeah, they're just kind of like are you in love and then um and then he goes Yeah I kind of think I am um so.   Steve Um, great.   Sammi And then I wrote so he says in love with Teresa and then he also says like in love with faith or whatever and then um oh my gosh faith sister almost made me cry because she's talking to gary and she's just like it's ah it's a really rare thing for faith to trust people with her heart. So like don't. Get up you know and she's like ah.   Steve Faith. It's a little kooky and she's she's like yeah I don't even I don't even believe in love and he's like whoki but this is the interesting thing and this is what turned it for me is after they have that like weird exchange. Ah.   Sammi Um.   Steve With Beth the face sister they like Beth says something like she says like oh I can tell that you're in love with faith right? and instead of brushing that off because then face like oh you see out. Ah, ah. Gary instead of like just laughing and just like playing it. Cool. He's like oh would you see that and then she said I would say that and then they say they say I love you to each other. So now we have this bizarro position right? because he says he's only going to say it to  person. He says it off camera to Teresa. But now on camera he has said I love you to faith. So this is like and my my brain is just exploding at this point because like how how how what's going on my my my world has been shattered I'm ok with it because I don't think Theresa should win. But. It's just wild right? it's.   Sammi I I suppose it's wild. It's wild I don't know if I would use the word wild but you did so I'll let you use that word.   Steve Yeah I but like what is so the other thing is to like obviously it's it's edited in a way where we're allowed to like it's it's done this way intentionally to mess with me I get that. Thank you bachelor but like. When he said that he was only going to say I love you to  person like what is the order that this is going in who actually got the first I love you that is interesting to me and then at some point like.   Sammi Um, that's a good question because he did seem kind of hesitant to say it. But then he was like well yeah I mean I guess I am you know and then he was just like yeah you know what? and then I mean he looks at faith like like oh you know? so.   Steve Yeah, yeah, and the the wild part to me is at some point despite saying that he only wanted to say those words I love you to  other woman. He was just like oh well, you he just gave up on it. Ah.   Sammi Yeah.   Sammi Yeah, well I mean I think you know maybe that's just that comes with age. You're just like whatever okay is that gonna be something you get that upset about we don't have time. Um, yeah I mean it was interesting and they're like they're like kissing and stuff and the grandkids are like E Um, at the end.   Steve Um, whatever and I got time.   Steve Who is.   Sammi And that my only note was that he's gonna get himself in an entanglement. Um, yeah I can see it I'm excited because there is gonna be a women tell all. So if it comes up. It'll come up then but I was I wasn't sure if they were gonna do a women tell all so I was like actually kind of happy that.   Steve Um, this is straight up entanglement situation.   Steve Yeah, what? What do these women have to really they they don't much to tell other than like I guess they could be mad about that but they probably won't be and they're so nice to each other so it'll just make we're all best friends we play pickle ball in Fort Lauderdale now like that's going to be the whole thing.   Sammi They're doing it.   Sammi I think it's going to be a little bit of like the cathy. Well I don't know well I okay here's the thing if Teresa ends up going home then she might be there. You know hard to say though hard to say um, but yeah, so so that's that's the only thing I think I mean regardless Kathy is going to.   Steve Um, who yeah.   Sammi Her mind about it. It just depends on if someone else is there also listening or whatever. Um, so okay, so so now Gary's basically in my city essentially next door. Um, and and he's with Leslie and.   Steve I.   Sammi And she and Leslie calls him a mensch. Um, which is sweet and I love the minnesota accents. It just feels very cozy, very much like home very much love it and um, we find out a little bit more like um that you know her brother's the one who's going to be protective because.   Steve Martin Love that.   Sammi And this sounds like yeah so hard because he like picked her up from school or whatever and and she's like where's my dad and he's like not here. Ah, he's dead. Ah so that was messed up and so her brother like.   Steve Um.   Sammi Yeah, had like a major role in her life growing up and he's very protective and it sounds like she's been with a bunch of Zeros absolute losers and tools which I believe like I mean she's really I mean I hate to be like that like she's really pretty.   Steve Um, yeah.   Sammi And she's like a dancer and stuff and I'm sure she attracted some real chodes. You know so like not not shocking, not her fault but not shocking and ah her brother just is like a bizarro version of my dad. Ah so that was strange ah and.   Steve You.   Steve Um, yeah.   Sammi Ah, yeah I mean I think it's a good conversation that they had. He seems to like Gary so that wasn't like too hard to like prove you know I don't know being trustworthy or whatever. Um the grandkids are these grandkids are the best ones? do you. Love my grandma like they asked a bunch of but like weren't they the ones who who did the the scripted stuff like are you here for the white weasens I do like where well.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve Oh yeah, because if you get a kid that like does that voice you got he got to exploit it and I agree with you % these are the best kids as someone who is like vehemently antich childrenre like I mean you can go have some I don't care I just don't want to like be around him.   Sammi You just don't want to deal them deal with them. Yeah, yeah.   Steve No, why are they always? They're always covered in like boogers or food and they're just they're not smart I mean? yeah yeah, what do you  Oh you are yeah I could tell like you know, um baby. Yeah, ah, but no these these kids are cute.   Sammi God just grow up already. What's your problem just be smart already. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you you talk like you're  we like yeah I'm in third grade. Yeah, they're really key. Yeah, yeah, um.   Steve I Don't want to like be responsible for him. But I'm glad someone is.   Sammi Yeah, so then she went from saying falling love to in love and she's like I'm crazy about you and he says and he's like I love you and I will say in terms of the women into on paper Leslie makes the most sense because she's.   Steve Moon.   Steve Oh yeah, yeah.   Sammi Not that far away like they can find they could move to Chicago they could meet in the middle you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I mean it's like if you're already like in the midwest you kind of know the deal and like do you want to stay in Indiana like probably not.   Steve Yeah, yeah, our Milwaukee will welcome you with open arms here I'm I'm here for you. Gary.   Sammi Like you want to move to Minnesota or Wisconsin or something like that.   Steve Um, well and and Teresa especially like comes with a lot of the ah the the big I don't know the geographical baggage because the family was even like they were like oh she's lonely and but also she spends every single day with my children. How will that change here. He's like. I don't know we'll make it work. It's like bro I don't know if you will. Ah.   Sammi Yeah, yeah, and I mean with faith I Think if he's open to like moving I I don't think that there's any other way with her. It's yeah her horse necessary. Well and she's still working in stuff and.   Steve Um, yeah I mean her horse is buried there like what it.   Sammi I mean but I could see him saying I want to total change a pace and let's do this for a while and then like once we retire let's decide what else we want to do and I could see faith also changing her mind and moving or whatever but I feel like if they moved they'd move somewhere I don't know like.   Steve Um.   Steve Yeah, why? Why would anyone live in Indiana come on.   Sammi Not indiana like if it was the  of them I don't know I did it for a few semesters and that was enough um no offense to all of our who's your listeners. Um, but yeah, like it's. Yeah, if it was them I feel like they would probably just like live other places in like California or something like that you know or like they they do like you know hippie dippy stuff in Arizona. Whatever um, so that just it's like I feel like he would change his habits to be with her. Um, whereas with Leslie it's like yeah I think I don't know just from outside observation. It just seems like it makes the most sense it would be the easiest to adjust. Um, they would no matter what no matter where they settled if it was like somewhere in between or on one side or the other they still wouldn't be.   Steve Um.   Sammi Too far away from their families. So yeah, it just seems like that makes sense and Leslie also kind of seems open. She didn't say I she didn't say anything about like I would have to stay here right? I didn't think so so.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve No I don't think so.   Sammi That's so that's the only thing so I mean it wasn't surprising to me. Oh I also made a note that Leslie Looked awesome at the row ceremony cause she did um it wasn't surprising to me that he gave her the first rose like that made sense to me. Um.   Steve Um, yeah, um.   Steve V.   Sammi And then we're met with a cliffhanger cause he gets upset and he leaves the room duh da da.   Steve This is an extreme cliffhanger too like just absolute because the way that this is constructed is it's it's masterful stuff. He says the I love yous to everybody and then you give out the roast and then and then the other thing is is just like ok well Teresa has had. Such a I I don't know if you can say she's had the poll position but she has clearly been up there for a long time. Um, but then I don't know you know it's like faith is always just kind of buzzing around that same area and then you realize too that. Like Teresa didn't get the actual I love you on camera and does that matter and it's and it's really it's like I don't I don't know what's going to happen.   Sammi So yeah and he said in love to to faith and love to Leslie right? Just saying.   Steve Um, correct and I don't know if that makes a difference to him I'm not sure it's the bachelor. So oh batch nash for sure. Ah, but also gary if if I don't think he should be.   Sammi Makes a difference to bachelor nation.   Steve  I think you should be as open as humanly possible to moving because we mentioned the Indiana but also consider that he is currently living in what he thought would be a retirement home chosen specifically for his deceased wife and it is a constant reminder of his pain and trauma i.   Sammi Ah, yeah.   Steve Know if that's the best place for you to be gary. There's a lot of other places I I don't know.   Sammi Yeah, that's why I'm saying like if he wanted a major change I could see that with faith I think Leslie is like the most familiar thing that he could do so and and Teresa I just don't think it makes sense I think she's gone if she sticks around next week then it's.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve Yeah, yeah.   Sammi Obviously Leslie yeah.   Steve Yeah I think Leslie has to win at this point I mean getting the first house here is huge barring some sort of incident in the next week which lord knows that could happen. Um, ah faith is intriguing to me and I I like having her around just because she's such a weirdo.   Sammi I Think she's the underdog. Yeah, she'd make a good golden bachelorette. Yep yeah, we'll see yeah I don't I'm not so.   Steve Yeah, yeah, total weirdo I would love that for her. She's got some quirks. It's good. But I yeah I don't I don't know.   Sammi Sure exactly what'll happen. But I think I think we're starting to see it take shape. Oh yeah, oh yeah, all right? So now.   Steve Um, oh yeah, so now that our minnesota gal is there. She's got her rose and you know there's  other gals. There's also a golden rose they show. Ah.   Sammi Oh do is that what the last rose is going to be. It's gonna be golden. Oh I love it. Oh hot dish. All you know what? Okay this is bad because I still live in Wisconsin right? but like base essentially minnesota.   Steve Oh yeah, just the the same same color as my tater Tat hot dish after I pull it out of the oven. Ah.   Steve Barely.   Sammi And the other day I was in like a a Zoom room and someone mentioned it was like a co-working space and somebody mentioned like duck duck goose and I was like well you know in Minnesota it's duck duck gray duck that I felt like yes yes.   Steve Ooh.   Steve Um, what is that true. That's so fucked up.   Sammi I Felt like such a traitor I felt like such a traitor I was like I don't even why am I defending because it was like a crossword clue or something it was like duck duck blank and there was one Minnesotan in the room as well and they were like gray duck and I was like I know that like there's there's actually a place. Um, in St Paul I Think where you can buy ah pint glasses that say either duck duck goose or duck duck gray duck on them to like pledge your allegiance but it makes no sense like why is it duck duck Gray Duck. It's and it doesn't.   Steve Um, a wow.   Steve Um, you know what? the fuck's a gray duck. That's not even a animal like what.   Sammi Like fool people anymore. You know what? I mean it's not like you're saying it to fake someone out. It's a great duck. There's like a lot of gray ducks too like you know like.   Steve Um, that's like what I would call a goose if I didn't know what a goose was right I Think what's that gray duck over there and they'd be like no dummy. It's a goose like what.   Sammi A lot of like lady ducks are of the gray persuasion or or graye their grayish.   Steve The great persuasion I don't know they general Earth Tones I don't know if I would call them fully grayed out though I don't know. Yeah I mean.   Sammi Okay, now I'm googling gray ducks but the problem the problem is gray duck has been co-opted by this area so you get a bunch of brands.   Steve Um, yeah, no I'm I'm looking at Gray ducks right now these are like like shades of charcoal and white and like brown. This is not a gray duck a gray dock is just a goose if you don't know what a goose is period I'm done with it.   Sammi There is a there is a Pacific black duck That's called the gray duck that duck is also brown but you know what to to tuck their gray. So just saying maybe maybe colorblind people name them. Yeah.   Steve Um, ah wow. It's so yeah, maybe I like Tuck so I'll I'll give him a pass. No one else gets a pass though.   Sammi Yeah I have no idea why? Okay someone said duck duck gray duck was scandinavian and origin I don't know Anka Anka Graanka yeah I don't know could make a great dissertation. Not for me.   Steve Whatever.   Steve And that for you.   Sammi Not for me I've got plenty to write about. Let's talk about bat I mean pay me days all right? Ah so oh God you know is I hope so I was ah I was just thinking about that the other day I was like I hope she pooped because I didn't give us an up tape.   Steve Um I would love to you think that girl's pooping yet.   Steve No, she's not like she's got like butt sesis or something at this point like she yeah they never gave us an update. The only update they gave us was that last rose ceremony where he was just like she didn't poop like you can't just say that and not give us a she pooped Update That's that's like really messed up.   Sammi Well apparently I mean the thing that's so weird to me is like why is this a book that she was going to write like why was that already in the works like what does that? What does that mean? yeah.   Steve Um I.   Steve I I have no idea no clue.   Sammi Oh apparently she went on Jimmy Kimmel and did like a breaking news I pooped thing.   Steve Um, oh good. Ok good for her but like why should I have to watch like a late night talk show that I'm not interested in to learn about the poop like this should have been front page headline like we should have got an update.   Sammi So this was interesting. Somebody said I think the storyline was all made up to promote the book. You're writing at least that's what I heard and she said you're entitled.   Steve Ah.   Sammi To think whatever you want. But I'm a pediatric ot and a lot of my kiddos struggle with issues related to poop fear of going in public fear of losing a body part sensory seeking behaviors etc. The book was an idea six months prior to paradise to normalize pooping and educate in a funny way. However, my experience on paradise helped guide my manuscript.   Steve Um, whoa.   Steve Hashtag Normalized pooping.   Sammi Um, yeah, yeah, normalizing Bowel movements not all Heroes wear capes.   Steve Um, didn't we I thought like didn't didn't the book. Everybody poops published probably like forty years ago didn't that kind of normalize the old dump a roof for everyone is that.   Sammi Well I guess maybe she thought she wanted it to just be human and not like animals or something. Maybe that's what she wanted I have no idea. Yeah, um, yeah.   Steve Um I don't know that's good. Yeah Hashtag normalized pooping for sure.   Sammi Apparently she's still friends with a and s that's another update. Yeah yeah, um huh.   Steve Ok, that's good. So. But she's still she's still looking for a poop father for her future Poop babies. That's good.   Sammi Yeah, but she said something like oh different. Oh god this is interesting. She said different views on faith took Aaron and I on separate paths but the twist were still the best of friends. We may not be soulmates but we're bullmates for life. My relationship with Jesus will always be my number one priority and I'm so.   Steve Um, you he's just that that into you faith like come on like.   Sammi Beyond grateful for I'm just free to get to you. She is really into Jesus but he did not want to help her poop. Um, so yeah I think he's not as into her because he was like I'm not going to let you poop but she's hanging out with.   Steve Button. Yeah, sorry Sam.   Sammi Ah, Jen so all is good genevive. So yeah, um, okay so that's our update on on on those things. Um so cat's pissy. Oh I this was terrible too I like turned on hulu and they were like.   Steve Um, moon.   Sammi For some reason even though I know I watched it on Hulu It was like here's the episode from the week prior and so I was like why is this so deja vu and then I was like wait a minute This is the same episode I got to go to the next and I was like oh God Um, but yeah cats like pissy because like her birthday is over and then.   Steve Ah.   Sammi Sleeping Beauty gets ah goes is awake and he's gonna chat with cat real quick and I'm sure that that's gonna be fine. Um I'm sure that that's gonna go really great and then I made a note because like so now I like looked at one subreddit about bachelor in Paradise and now my phone's like bachelor on Paradise especially in Paradise especially in Paradise and I'm like oh my god.   Steve Martin.   Sammi I don't want to see this because I'm trying not to see spoilers or whatever. Um, but some people ask questions on that subreddit about the bathing suit choices. For some reason though I feel like the whole ah theme of this week was like bathing suits like.   Steve Um, oh.   Steve So.   Sammi You'd get clips of people being like I Really like your bathing suit. It's very cute. Yes, thank you I am trying to attract someone with it. Um.   Steve I am interested in the bathing suit stuff too but only from like an editing standpoint so because sometimes they blur the bits in the bobs right? So like how much butt is too much butt. Yeah.   Sammi Um, yeah.   Sammi I Feel like they're really I feel like they're testing the limits of blurring technology.   Steve How much bulge just too much bulge.   Steve And then like when when Rachel and Braden went on that like let's paint each other date or whatever because Rachel's butt was covered in paint. It was like fine for all the butt which is interesting.   Sammi Um, yeah.   Sammi Yeah, well, it's like they're fin times remember when they've like painted their whole bodies and stuff. Yep and then they're like well now we can show it because we live in a puritanical country that makes no sense.   Steve Um, yeah, and then what I know that's the answer I Just want to know like who who sets the line who's the decider and then it gets even weirder when you get into the cleavage.   Sammi Ah, who decides.   Steve Because like standard cleave fine under boob. Umm no no no side boob. Ah, ah, not gonna work.   Sammi Sometimes it's sometimes it's fine though because whose suit was it that I was like you're not even I mean and it's fine. You can you could wear nothing I don't care but I was just like I don't even know how that stays in place. It was like it was like a structural like.   Steve Um, yeah, who was that there was somebody.   Steve Thank you.   Sammi Anomaly you know I was just like this defies physics in my mind. So I'm assuming there's a lot of tape happening. There's a lot of tape happening and I was just and I was also like but that's also not like and this is me being old I'm like that's not practical. You can you can go.   Steve Um, yeah, yeah.   Steve Um, I Forget who is wearing it it Maybe it was was it was it cat or was it it Maybe it was someone who got knocked out early like rear or something.   Sammi Go out into the water with that and it's like that's not the point.   Sammi It wasn't cat because cat really likes cat really likes to no this was this week but cat really likes doing like the cutout stuff. You know it's like oh I'm going to have this thing that like she she likes she likes one shouldered stuff in swimsuit form and she likes cutouts and she likes all that kind of stuff. Um.   Steve Um, oh yeah.   Steve Yeah, who what? no it was. It was somebody early on in the season but I had the same thing where I'm like I don't understand the physics like what do those hold on to so.   Sammi Yeah I can I.   Sammi There was another one this week. But anyway it kind of reminds. Well this is like slightly different but ah, kind of reminds you of this an old Archie Comic I used to read. Um yes I think we even established that.   Steve Ah, because you're  years old     Sammi I was clipping coupons crocheting a blanket and reading archie comics listen Archie is good. You don't have to like it but I do um okay, okay, good I'm I'm a weirdo just kidding. That's not a good junkhead. Um, so.   Steve And I thought about my favorite Archie comic. ah I'm ah I'm a jug head guy for life. Don't worry.   Sammi So okay, so Betty and Veronica are like at the beach or whatever or maybe it was just Veronica and Archie I don't know but Veronica's at the beach and she's like getting buying swimsuit after swimsuit and these are like expensive ass swimsuits and it's like  of them. She like. Couldn't get it wet like it couldn't go in the water and then she ended up getting like mustard on it or something like that and then she had to like go change and then like another one she couldn't get like sunscreen on it or something like that or like it wouldn't like maybe didn't fit quite right? I can't remember but she ah.   Steve Um.   Sammi Buying like  or  really expensive swimsuits in the course of like one beach day and for some reason all these interactions with the women where it's like they are trying to find the best swimsuit they could possibly wear to attract these men on the beach. Ah, and it's not working.   Steve Um, ah.   Steve The.   Sammi Ah, just made me think of that I'm just like I don't know maybe maybe we don't have to take it so seriously. But I think he did compliment cat's swimsuit when he talked to her this first time I I can't remember if he did or if or if John Henry did um but this was so weird. So so.   Steve M. Oh John Henry the simple man.   Sammi Tanner's talking to yeah tanner' talking to Catt and he's just like he's like giving her a corporate breakup and he's like I I it's been awesome getting to meet you and there's like all this like weird music going on like a lot of percussion. Whatever and then he's just like so I love you as a. Person and I was like this is the best and then and then she's like you know what? Ah don't that was let the record show that I also wanted to break up with him so it was mutual and ah he didn't break up with me first. Okay, we broke up at the exact same time and I didn't like him.   Steve Um.   Sammi And I was going to say the same thing but I just let him say it first because I'm really nice. Okay, so it's fine. Ah, and I was like sure Jan sure Jan this was mutual. Okay, yeah.   Steve I Love cat so much right now it was so good and then and then like like you right? It was a total like corporate breakup. It was just like your position as Beach Girlfriend has been eliminated and then fortunately we're going to have to let you go up.   Sammi Yeah, it's become redundant.   Steve But then she immediately goes into Pr mode. Um, and then my favorite part like I I know that like the only Jest that I've been that I've seen on the beach has been like like you like you say like that I'm just a baby but she says something.   Sammi Um, jazz.   Sammi Yeah.   Steve Really funny and I actually like rewound hulu to to catch this because it's like she actually just like do that but Catt is just like she you know she she runs over to all the other women. She's just like oh my gosh and yeah I we break up save time you know, but but but bu but but but spin mode. And then just just throw away lines. She's like I'm glad we clarified that but is like clearly like clearly like does dad believe her at all I'm just like ah I didn't know just had that in her so you know she's she might have a little something in there. But but even if she does have it.   Sammi Yes I remember that I did think that was funny.   Steve I Bet it's just easier for her to say I'm just the baby and not deal with stuff right? So fine.   Sammi I Just a baby? Yeah, um, yeah, that was so my God I Also ah did not surprise me that cat's the kind of person who like obsessively does her hair when she's upset I could not I was like get your confis out of your here just so annoying. So.   Steve Um, yeah, stop touching it.   Sammi Yeah I just like hate it. Um someone someone asked the question is cat a plant like the producers are are telling her to be extra.   Steve No, no, no, no, she is.   Sammi And people said I've read in multiple other posts of people who went to college and heard that she's  times worse in person and actually acts like this in real life.   Steve Yeah, and you can't you can't coach someone. That's the beauty of cat like there's there's coachable stuff and there's things that the bachelor does to try and heighten things. This is just the pure uncut good stuff. This is like you know. I feel like it's like  I'm watching like Elizabeth Taylor fight with like Richard Burton or something. It's just absolute meltdown mode. Amazing I don't know if she's actually going to kill someone It's so cool I'm very into it. Love this cat.   Sammi I Mean you know she is a nurse ah which I think is interesting because a lot of nurses were like former mean girls right? and they're like mlmmers up.   Steve Um, that's very interesting I don't.   Steve Um, I do find it very interesting.   Sammi There are amazing. Nurses nurses are the only reason I'm like existing in this body in the state. It's in today. But there's a lot of like nurses out there that are like that. It's like a very toxic weird industry.   Steve Um.   Steve It's so weird because yeah like I like some of the people that I know that are nurses are some of the most just like wonderful caring loving incredible human beings. Yes, yeah, also I know I've I've met a lot of traveling nurses just like bartending.   Sammi Yes I love nurses but not cat, not nurses like cat.   Steve And they're always the coolest super generous people like very very nice. So a lot of good nurses out there. But at the same time she travel I hope she doesn't travel to Milwaukee um, but every once in a while like I just don't get it because it doesn't make sense with what you do and I know a person who ah not.   Sammi Except for cat. She's also a travel nurse.   Steve Not like cat because cat's special but it's a person who I would describe like if so was like describe this person in  word I'd be like selfish or if I had more words I'd be like selfish dumb baby weird selfish person adult who acts like an  year old like she is just garbage and she only cares about herself and I'm like.   Sammi A nurse.   Steve How can you be the most selfish human being I have ever met and your job is to like give yourself fully to helping and caring about others like that's crazy right? Like what is that.   Sammi Yeah, sometimes sometimes I wonder if it's like compartmentalization and like compassion fatigue or something you know what I mean like um, it's like I you're like well I'm not bringing my work home with me So I'm gonna be a dick to you.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve Ah, yeah, there you go are just it's just balance. Yeah, it's balance I Well I I'm such a giving person in real life that as soon as I'm outside of my scrubs I'm going to be a little goblin. Sure.   Sammi You know what? I'm saying like that it could be that. Yeah.   Sammi I'm just saying there is I mean there's a lot of memes about like about like nurses being the the girls who are mean to you in high school and now they're trying to sell you essential oils while they're nursing I'm not saying that. That's true of all their nurses by any means but there is like a subsection of them that other nurses also hate.   Steve Um I Love that? yeah.   Sammi Um, and yeah, yeah, so I hope you all understand our loyal nurse listeners that we are not talking about you but you know just like when I say men are trash I'm not talking about you Lovely men listeners I'm talking about you specifically? Um, but it is.   Steve They'll try to sell you a cut co knife and if you don't buy  They'll stab you in the back with it. Okay.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve She's talking about me specifically.   Sammi Interesting I mean I want to think that there's something redeeming in cat because she says that she and Olivia are best friends but we'll get early not hurt Olivia her and charity are best friends but we'll get to that later I was looking at the the little talking heads of her and Olivia talk or her and Eliza talking. Oh my god I'm getting everybody's name messed up today. She does not talk to Olivia that would be funny if she did.   Steve Um.   Steve Ah, that would be funny. Yeah.   Sammi Ah, they don't like each other. Ah okay I'm getting tired. Okay I love you as a person. So yeah, so she's like we broke up first. It was mutual whatever and then she's like um, you know what he doesn't even get open mouth make out with me so I hate him which.   Steve Um, yeah, what was that I don't even know what that is what.   Sammi But she was just saying that he doesn't like use tongue. So like they're not even like kissing it sounds like yeah, that's true. That's true. Um, and then I was trying to figure out what she was saying on the bleeps. It took me like a while to figure it out until they like made it very obvious later that they're like oh she's saying fuck Boy she's calling him a.   Steve Yeah I wouldn't kiss her either though like consider that like ah.   Sammi Fuck Boy um, and and then she's like I walked away from him. He didn't walk away from me and then no I don't think he's a fuck boy at all. He's just like doing the game but Braidden getting upset about her calling someone a fuck boy is the ultimate hypocrisy I think that is.   Steve Um, is he a fuck boy if he I don't think he's fucked any. But.   Steve Um, right? yeah why yeah yeah I was like yeah, let's talk about double standards bro and then what does he? What does he say because he she calls him a fuck boy and then Braden accuses her of.   Sammi Hilarious. Yeah, he's like oh oh my God I can't believe she would call but a double standard and I'm like I can see the future to braden. Um.   Steve Um, what is it homie hopping. That's it right.   Sammi Home me happy. Yeah Homeie happy. Ah, okay, yeah, and this is when there's more bathing suit talk because je has that like cool bathing suit on and I don't remember who she was talking to I don't have that note but I just remember their like cute bathing suit. She's like yeah I'm just trying to like I'm hoping that and this says me like oh so cute because like that.   Steve Um, yeah.   Sammi That like you know beige part like matches your skin so kind of looks like you're like not wearing anything like very is cool and she's like well I'm hoping he notices but he wants me to give him space today and I just don't know what's gonna happen and and and Blake's like well one of us has to be tested at some point I guess um. By the way Blake is playing the game perfectly. He is so strategic he is so good at pretending that it's kind of scary I have to say but I see through it.   Steve Eaten Wonderfully masterly.   Steve He has he has grown and by grown I mean I don't know as a person but he has grown as someone who understands how the bachelor works like that is too. Yeah, he is. He's got a Ph D in like dumb Bachelor Tv crap like he is so good at it.   Sammi He understands game theory.   Sammi Um, he is so good. He is so good. Um, so he's just like you know I guess one of us will have to be tested but I didn't want to see it go down this way, but it is what it is I'm kind of hurt I'm kind of hurt by what she did um but you know.   Steve What are you going to do.   Sammi We're just gonna have to figure it out and who comes on the steps but genevie and she's like this is my time to shine and she's real excited and she's like and I don't really remember what happened ah with her before.   Steve Um.   Steve With Genevieve.   Sammi Because my memory is so bad. Yeah, because she was saying like she got in her head and got anxious did that like play out on the show or am I forgetting something am am I forgetting something.   Steve Um I I am a hundred percent forgetting something because I I have no idea what happened to her.   Sammi Because when she when she alluded to that I was like there must have been something that happened right? like where she got like stressed out or something.   Steve Yeah, and in a show where people are on a weekly basis being very stressed out and just kind of melting down um hers doesn't stick out to me. So oh yeah, yeah, yeah.   Sammi Oh yeah, she had a slang remember that I forgot about that She had an injury. Yeah um.   Steve During a ah probably a a power powder puff football game of some sort I would imagine that's typically how the injuries are.   Sammi Yeah I think it was yeah it was. It was the bachelor bowl I think and then yeah and then her team didn't even win and they didn't even cover that she was like in the sling. She just like we just saw her at the Rose ceremony with the sling getting a rose Thank goodness.   Steve There you go.   Sammi Um, yeah, okay I didn't remember anything I'm not seeing anything like quickly and if you're yelling at me because I don't remember I'm so sorry I just I don't remember because I was like I don't remember anything controversial with her anything like that or anything that I don't know nothing really stood out to me in terms of like oh yeah.   Steve You.   Sammi That would be weird or whatever. So but she's she's maybe that was part of it. It's like we didn't really see her a lot so she's like you're gonna see me now. Okay, it's happening and so it's her time she talks to Tyler and to blake and.   Steve Button.   Sammi Um, oh and then and and it's obvious that she's like angling towards blake and then um, he's like okay well I got to talk to Jess or whatever and I felt like it the whole time he was just like what can I say to get out of this situation. You know and he's like ah maybe a shakeup. Is a good thing. Do you ever think of that I bet you didn't.   Steve Um, is this so good. He's just like I'm going to make you think that my idea is your idea and then you're going to think it's a good idea. It's really good, but.   Sammi Yeah, you like shakeups right? and she's like remember those salads for Mcdonald's that you could shake you liked those right? Maybe we can maybe we could do that again. Um I'll get you a free pedometer and everything and you know.   Steve I Love those? um.   Sammi Yeah, like I think Jes is treating Blake not well honestly and and she's like but I don't know why you would say yes because I'm just a jqe baby and and he's like listen I just got to go explore other options. That's what I got to do um.   Steve So no, no.   Sammi That's all I have on that because they don't go on their date for a little bit. Ah John Henry okay so let's talk about John Henry so first of all, ah he's like he's like talking about golf and like he did not. He did not strike me as a golf guy but he was like.   Steve Ah.   Steve No, he's a simple man. He strikes me as a I'm going to sit on the porch and whittle. What does he do.   Sammi But I am bad at it.   Sammi He's like well I do I I do like playing golf but I am bad at it and then olivia' is like oh my god because she thinks everything he does is the best because she just thinks he's really cute and so she's just like John Henry you golf I got.   Steve Um, he is like.   Sammi Um, and he's like yeah I mean I'm not good. She's like can we all calling together and he's like sure I don't Why could we golf together. Yeah absolutely, she's like yay. Um.   Steve It's it's so great like I don't John Henry is wonderful. He is beautiful and pure and and lovely but it he is so far out of his element here. He's just getting tossed around. He's just like an empty husk of a band getting chucked between these women.   Sammi Yeah, he's just like sure sure and then yeah, so cats just like oh I'm gonna go for him because you know what I want to I want to what's his what that tongue do to to call back to to many bachelor and paradises ago.   Steve Well, he's an easy man to get the attention of all, you got to do is like stand over there in a bikini and squeak a little ball or something it'll come running over. It's oh the problem is I don't think like he doesn't realize that he's being flirted with at any point with anyone ever.   Sammi Yeah, and he's like oh hi. How's it going? Yeah, we can. Yeah I'd like to talk to you. You seem nice.   Steve Like he's just like happy to be there like he has no idea that Catt is trying to flirt with him and she's just like oha it that you do a dangerous job for a living that's crazy. Ah, that's so cool you you go on know lot' wonderful stuff.   Sammi Yeah, he's like oh this is nice.   Sammi Yeah, and like this is when Braden's like oh she told me hopping and then he does like a really bad rap every time every time I go maybe I'll like braided he does something that makes me hate him so that's good. Thank you for doing that keep doing that brain and keep that energy up I love it.   Steve Um, ah we love that.   Steve Ah, is good. Listen there's there's nothing wrong with Braden he's just on the beach looking for someone that he can call my wife that's he loves his poor at ah.   Sammi Ah I hate him so much I really do hate him. Um, he's just soul cringe anyway. So so then so cat's like ah all right I'm going to cause more trouble and she's like hey Eliza. Um, so.   Steve Ah, is trash.   Steve Um.   Sammi Charity and I are basically bf fs. Okay, she's my best friend and so yeah, that's why I'm like some of some part of me wants to think that she has some redeeming qualities because I don't know why charity would be best friends with her but I also think she's probably exaggerating the best friendship between um, but she's like. All I saw so charity and I talked before I came up paradise and I was like who should I be worried about and he she was like stay away from an b and I was like oh my good what and she was like there's a cheating skinball and I was like us scandal just know that okay, just know that. There is a cheating scandal doll. Um, yeah, well we'll find out. Um, but yeah, and then there's oh by the way I made a note that Olivia and Eliza's cat impersonations are spot on much better than mine.   Steve Um, and I just made it up just now. Yeah, we'll see.   Sammi Ah, they both like impersonated a cat and didt like huge. Ah um, but yeah, ah so it's kind of like well why is she bringing that up now why out of the blue. Why at this what you know she's just bored. She's just trying to like take the heat off herself like don't know. Um, probably because she's awful. Um, and then I think this is something that Kat says she's like he's not actually country. He's a deepseed diaper. Okay, so he's like not country can't be country under the sea did you know that and also he's got a vibrating tongue ring. Okay.   Steve Um, ah you can't be a cowboy if there's no cows under a water.   Sammi And need I say more and I will say.   Sammi Ah I do love like Avan's always kind of like in the mix gossiping with the ladies and I really enjoy it. He's just kind of off to the side and he goes oh like gasps every once a while like you didn't no oh my god like.   Steve Um I like that too.   Sammi He's just like who I love this like this hot gas. You know, give it to me so he's just kind of doing his thing doing that stuff. Um, and it's very cute. Ah Becca comes down and I was like I have no idea who this is and she's like I only made it one night I was like that's why I have no idea who you are. And um, so she's here to add some more trouble to the beach and I just have a quote that says everyone thinks she's hot because she is ah and her day is choose someone and create a recipe for love? Yes, um, and so okay. There's some drama there and we're going like back and forth between like the like the cat and John Henry stuff and like these new dates that are coming in I don't remember was this cat who asked him what do you look for in a woman John Henry and he goes adventure. You know, doing stuff.   Steve Ah, you so precious.   Sammi And then he was like and then he was like sense of humor and then and then who said this was a cat my brother fishes so I totally get it and it's like that is not deep sea diving my brother fishes. So I totally get you.   Steve Um I love all of this. It's so good John Henry and John Henry what kind of food. Do you like I like pasta from the box. You know I heard you could put it in water and heat it up, but it gets soft. It's so good like John Henry     Sammi Deep sea diving.   Steve Did he say that no could he say that Absolutely you know.   Sammi Sure that's on my John Henry Soundboard already um and I think my other note is for Braden. Maybe I don't know I just said. They have  brain cells to rub together between the two of them. This seems like the perfect pairing must have been Brayden Becca and and the it was like could you see us vibing I think we're gonna vibe I think it's time for us to vibe together and then Braden's like     Steve Um, it's going to be good.   Steve We're gonna vibe.   Sammi Go on the state and then he's like I should probably talk to Rachel and she's like um I just got like naked and turned into a pinata with you and now you're leaving with some other check on the beast like what the hell. Yeah.   Steve Um, yeah, it's time to go to the horny kitchen with with Braden who are just previously accused a woman of homie hopping. Yeah and he yeah.   Sammi Yes, exactly that's why I'm saying he's such a hypocrite. Also we already know that this is something he does because one of his exes on Tiktok very kindly I will add called him out. Yeah, we know.   Steve And yeah, so and and with Rachel he was bor adding like big time and he's just like with such a magical day. So much born me lu more and then immediately. Yes, so excite.   Sammi So excite? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like yeah your homie hopping because that's what you do? um so we go then we go to like the blake and Genevee date and he's like genevie makes me feel calm.   Steve Button.   Sammi And it's like really nice and I'm like oh you  you  are cute like whatever um and then Tyler starts talking to Jess while they' while Blake and jevi are on their date and I just wrote picking Jess over Mercedes is a wild joyce wild.   Steve Now up and energy. That's good.   Sammi Absolutely wild. Why would you do that? What are you doing tyler you can't in the real world. You cannot get a woman like Mercedes I can guarantee you that what do you do? What do you do when you throw on it away anyway. So he think very highly yourself, but he's just like you're so mut know and I just love your glitter and she's like oh what? So you do think i'm.   Steve Um, interesting, very interesting.   Sammi Cute me is like duh.   Steve But I love your glitter they they've like every wo but on this beach has been slathered and glitter for the past three weeks is there all that I just want to know if like.   Sammi I mean he didn't say I love your glitter but Jess is known for glitter. Obviously so it's implied.   Steve Just Jess is wearing the glitter and then it's rubbing off on everyone else if they're all just getting into the glitter game.   Sammi I think they were like we're gonna wear glitter like Jess. Um, yeah, there's a lot of eye contact that's happening in this part. It's also interesting because Blake and Jess both have very intense eyes and now they're like on dates with other people.   Steve I.   Sammi And they're just like looking at each other's eyes and there's a lot of smooching and and then there's like  of the most like like on brand songs ever played in bachelor history where it's like is it me or you or you and me I was like what is this? ah.   Sammi Play The background I was like damn. Okay, yeah, it's there was ah there were some tictoks I saw where it was like the extremely literal music of love is blind. It's so on the nose. It's like it's like someone in their you know department their media department.   Steve Um, really good stuff.   Steve Um.   Sammi Is just searching for song titles. You know where it's like you know it's like I'm indecisive and then the song's like I then decisive I can't decide I Just don't know which way to go of indecisive and you're like oh yeah, that's it put that in.   Steve Um.   Steve That's that's the mood.   Sammi Insert. Yeah, so it's very but which I mean listen when I'm just like I don't know which stock photo thing to do how many times can I put a scale on something or someone climbing the stairs or someone walking a trail I Just can't do it anymore I can't do it anymore. So I get it. It's fine. Yes.   Steve You make sense.   Sammi Sometimes you just have to pick pick the easy Rod but I was like is it me or you or you and me if you didn't hear that song I would encourage you to go back to that point in the episode and really listen to it because it cracked me up. Um.   Steve Loop it.   Sammi And then Braden just gets to go on like every sexy date and like is this what tntra is like not really whatever. Ah, but they're in this kitchen and they're like doing sexy stuff and he's like very excited um and that's all I want to say about that date. He had fun. Yeah I don't know if you have anything to say about that date. But I don't.   Steve No, it's I mean it's just like this is classic Braden right? Like yeah you go he goes out the sex kitchen date and he everything that had previously happened with Rachel out of his head but he's worried about what women are doing and if they're dating other people. he's he's trashed     Sammi And okay, yeah.   Sammi Um, yeah, he's shot.   Steve They tried they tried to rehab him and some of us I'm not going to name name some of us were we We were starting to you know, get weak knees here and and just and he's give in just give in I know he's He's the trash God and he will remain as such.   Sammi Not me, not me not me fool me once. Yeah, never again. Um I keep calling everyone Olivia but now I'm actually talking about Olivia um, so like I loved that what she's talking about cat. They put. Ah, her kron not a cat fan and then she just was like I'll vomit about cat I'm just gonna vomit about her and I can't believe she's talking to John Henry he is like or whatever and she's like yeah motorross m ya love that That's so great.   Steve Um, yeah.   Sammi You know and Sam is like she's the voice of the audience. The reason sam's here. She's voice of the audience and she's like John Henry just has a little hamster wheel in his head. Ah and and then there's like more gossiping with Cat Kylie and aven and they're just kind of like what. Talking about with Olivia what's going on over there and whatever. It's like this is like the whole John Henry has to choose who who he likes and what he's doing and but he doesn't know that yet and he's talking to Olivia and my favorite part was he was like is that limp lip plumper which means she's been wearing lip plumper on the beach and it burned his lips.   Steve Um.   Sammi Because I don't are are you? You're familiar with Lip Plumper I can't say that word.   Steve Oh yeah, that yeah, ah, only from the the standpoint of if you smooch someone and they got it on then you're like why does my my face hurt and that's why.   Sammi Yeah, yeah, yeah, can't relate because my lips are perfect. Ah no, Ah, someone did give me it once like because they're like oh you try it and I was like I don't really understand the point because now it just looks like I got stung because you know. So I'm just like I don't think that's cute, but that's just me but I have tried it before and yeah, like it feels kind of tingly and stingy and whatever and so he's I Just like that he looked at her lips and he's like is that lip plumper because I don't want my face to burn and I and I was like I thought that that was actually very successful of the smartest things he said.   Steve Ah, it's a good question. Ask.   Sammi Um, but then they're making out knees like it was lip plumper and it kind of went by fast but it was very funny. Um and then okay and then this was like the wildest thing. Okay, so so first of all cat and Olivia are not friends. We have established this um and cat goes. Why is my. Friend doing that like why is she? Why is she kissing the person that she's been dating hello are you delusional like what is going on. Ah yeah, so strange and so there's like this whole yeah love triangle thing going on of the beach. We'll see how that resolv

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In this episode of the "Here, There, and Everywhere" podcast, host Jack Lawless is joined by the multi-talented musician, songwriter, video producer, and internet personality, Bill Wurtz. Together, they discuss Bill's music, his inspirations, and how he got started writing songs. They also delve into one of Bill's biggest musical influences, The Beatles - in particular, the incredible talent of Paul McCartney. Bill shares his thoughts on the recently released Get Back docu-series, providing a unique perspective on this behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of one of the most iconic bands of all time. If you're a fan of music, The Beatles, or just great conversation, this episode is not to be missed. So, turn off your mind, relax, and enjoy the "Here, There, and Everywhere" podcast with Bill Wurtz. Don't forget to subscribe for more exciting guests and thought-provoking conversations!   Check out Bill's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/billwurtz Follow Bill on Twitter: https://twitter.com/billwurtz   If you like this episode, be sure to subscribe to this podcast! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Or click here for more information: Linktr.ee/BeatlesEarth   ----- The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all timeand were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock 'n' roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era's youth and sociocultural movements. Led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the Beatles evolved from Lennon's previous group, the Quarrymen, and built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over three years from 1960, initially with Stuart Sutcliffe playing bass. The core trio of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, together since 1958, went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them in 1962. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding their domestic success after signing to EMI Records and achieving their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962.   Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr all released solo albums in 1970. Their solo records sometimes involved one or more of the others; Starr's Ringo (1973) was the only album to include compositions and performances by all four ex-Beatles, albeit on separate songs. With Starr's participation, Harrison staged the Concert for Bangladesh in New York City in August 1971. Other than an unreleased jam session in 1974, later bootlegged as A Toot and a Snore in '74, Lennon and McCartney never recorded together again. Two double-LP sets of the Beatles' greatest hits, compiled by Klein, 1962–1966 and 1967–1970, were released in 1973, at first under the Apple Records imprint. Commonly known as the "Red Album" and "Blue Album", respectively, each has earned a Multi-Platinum certification in the US and a Platinum certification in the UK. Between 1976 and 1982, EMI/Capitol released a wave of compilation albums without input from the ex-Beatles, starting with the double-disc compilation Rock 'n' Roll Music. The only one to feature previously unreleased material was The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl (1977); the first officially issued concert recordings by the group, it contained selections from two shows they played during their 1964 and 1965 US tours. The music and enduring fame of the Beatles were commercially exploited in various other ways, again often outside their creative control. In April 1974, the musical John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert, written by Willy Russell and featuring singer Barbara Dickson, opened in London. It included, with permission from Northern Songs, eleven Lennon-McCartney compositions and one by Harrison, "Here Comes the Sun". Displeased with the production's use of his song, Harrison withdrew his permission to use it.Later that year, the off-Broadway musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road opened. All This and World War II (1976) was an unorthodox nonfiction film that combined newsreel footage with covers of Beatles songs by performers ranging from Elton John and Keith Moon to the London Symphony Orchestra. The Broadway musical Beatlemania, an unauthorised nostalgia revue, opened in early 1977 and proved popular, spinning off five separate touring productions. In 1979, the band sued the producers, settling for several million dollars in damages. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), a musical film starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton, was a commercial failure and an "artistic fiasco", according to Ingham. Accompanying the wave of Beatles nostalgia and persistent reunion rumours in the US during the 1970s, several entrepreneurs made public offers to the Beatles for a reunion concert.Promoter Bill Sargent first offered the Beatles $10 million for a reunion concert in 1974. He raised his offer to $30 million in January 1976 and then to $50 million the following month. On 24 April 1976, during a broadcast of Saturday Night Live, producer Lorne Michaels jokingly offered the Beatles $3,000 to reunite on the show. Lennon and McCartney were watching the live broadcast at Lennon's apartment at the Dakota in New York, which was within driving distance of the NBC studio where the show was being broadcast. The former bandmates briefly entertained the idea of going to the studio and surprising Michaels by accepting his offer, but decided not to.   Bill Wurtz (stylized in lower case as bill wurtz or billwurtz) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, animator, video editor, and internet personality based in New York City. He is known for his distinctive musical, comedic, and narrative style which includes deadpan delivery and singing paired with colorful surrealist, psychedelic, and non-sequitur graphics. Wurtz first published material on YouTube in 2013. He set up a website in 2014, presenting a catalog of music and videos he had created since 2002. Wurtz proceeded to upload edited versions of his videos on Vine, where he gained his initial popularity. He experienced breakout success on YouTube with his animated videos, History of Japan (2016), and History of the Entire World, I Guess (2017). Wurtz released music videos regularly from 2017 to March 2019. Through the rest of 2019 and all of 2020, Wurtz was inactive on YouTube, returning to the platform in January 2021 with a new visual style of 3D animation. Wurtz's first recorded composition was an instrumental named "Late Nite Lounge with Loud Lenny" which according to his site was recorded on June 17, 2002, his first recorded song was "stuck in a rut" recorded on March 3, 2005. Wurtz's first known YouTube activity were on an account called "billynothingshow". Wurtz was first known for his presence on the short-form video-sharing website Vine, where he first gained a following in 2014. He began by taking short videos he had previously published to his website and re-editing them to fit Vine's six-second restriction.Before transitioning fully to YouTube, Wurtz was uploading a video to Vine nearly every day. He received early attention in 2015 for the short video "Shaving My Piano", which was covered briefly in The Verge. On April 11, 2016, Wurtz won the Shorty Award for "Tech & Innovation: Weird" at the 8th Shorty Awards; during the awards ceremony, attention was given to one of his Vine uploads "I'm Still a Piece of Garbage". Wurtz withdrew from making vines to focus on finishing History of Japan. Wurtz had originally intended to make a video on US history, but abandoned it. Alongside interest on Vine, Wurtz achieved wider popularity in 2016 with History of Japan, a nine-minute YouTube video that outlines Japan's history. Wurtz chose the topic due to his lack of knowledge of it. The video covers key events of its history: "Buddhism, internal conflict, alliances with Britain, World War I, World War II, the dropping of atomic bombs and its post-war economic miracle". It showcases Wurtz's quirky visual and comedic style through a mixture of fast-paced narration and animation, intercut with short musical jingles. The video was described as "an entertaining new approach to education". It went viral on social media after its release on February 2, 2016, and under a week later, received over four million views by February 8. It particularly received considerable attention on Tumblr and Reddit. As of August 2021, the video has over 68 million views. German Lopez of Voxcalled it a "strange", "pretty good – and surprisingly funny" video.  History of the Entire World, I Guess was the top video on the YouTube trending page on the day of its release, receiving 3.2 million views on its first day, and on Reddit it became the most upvoted YouTube link of all time. It became an Internet meme and was listed at eighth place on YouTube's list of the top 10 trending videos of the year. As of January 2023, it has over 152 million views.[25] Writer German Lopez for the news website Vox praised the video for not heavily focusing on western and US history, and successfully covering other areas in world history which may be neglected in US schools, such as powers in China, Persia, and India. Because it resists specialization and assembles history in chronological order starting from the beginning of the Universe, history of the entire world, i guess can be considered a work of Big History, and is probably one of the most popular works associated with the discipline. It has been called a "must-see" and is considered to be Wurtz's magnum opus. In 2020, Thrillist ranked the video at number 40 on its list of best YouTube videos of all time. Wurtz's song "Just Did a Bad Thing" and the accompanying video spawned TikTok videos of people lip-syncing to the opening lines; in the platform, #ididabadthing became the top hashtag of March 2019. Following this, Wurtz would only post four more videos before his break, ending with "Might Quit". After "Might Quit" was released, Wurtz would not post any new videos to YouTube for nearly two years, before continuing to release music and videos animated in 3D with Blender. Wurtz has developed an absurdist, surreal style on both his music and animation. Eddie Kim wrote for MEL Magazine that Wurtz "refuses to mimic anyone else's animation or musical style, but it's not weird for weirdness' sake alone", comparing him to Thundercat and Louis Cole and highlighting Wurtz's pretty pop melodies, unexpected chords and multi-layered rhythms as commonalities. Geoff Carter of Las Vegas Weekly stated: "Merge Don Hertzfeldt, Jenny Holzer and Thundercat and you might get someone a little bit like Bill Wurtz". Nick Douglas of Lifehacker summarized him as "somewhere between comedy and education and vaporwave." Wurtz's music has been classified as jazz-pop, incorporating elements of lo-fi music, smooth jazz, funk and easy listening. Wurtz tends to reject genre categorization, and does not consider himself to be a jazz musician. Overall, his music evokes malaise, self-deprecation, and a "blurring of the lines between irony, parody and honesty".[35] This is often paired comedically with dire circumstances or sobering undertones. In an interview with Genius, Wurtz stated that "it's a good... songwriting technique to write about something bad with a good sounding melody, because if you can get people to feel good about something bad, then you're bulletproof in life." Wurtz's voice has been described as "silky tenor with range and energy". Artists who have expressed admiration for Wurtz's music include indie musicians Daði Freyr and Sidney Gish, fellow YouTube musician Adam Neely, DJ and producer Porter Robinson, as well as Australian singer Sia. '[Music] theory' may be fun, but it's made of liquid and has a tendency to melt. The music comes first and then you figure out how to describe what happened, although fully describing it can never be done. One of the classical composers said 'We will never understand music, but music understands us readily and instantly'.   Wurtz started playing music at a very early age. He has claimed to be "wholly self-taught" as a musician, and regularly downplays the importance of music theory in songwriting and composition, insisting that the sound and feel of music should be prioritized over attempts to conform to theory. In fact, one of the defining characteristics of Wurtz's style is a subversion to conventional approaches to composition. One example is "I Wanna Be a Movie Star", highlighted in an article for the student newspaper The Harbinger, where the author praised Wurtz's skill in incorporating complex time signatures without causing the music to feel "either incomplete or too long", instead achieving a sound that "feel[s] completely natural" and "pop-ish". Wurtz has used different programs to edit his music, including GarageBand from 2009 to 2010, and long-discontinued Logic Express 9 until at least 2016. Videos Wurtz's videos are typically in a lo-fi, neon aesthetic, and have been described as surreal and psychedelic. They range from "nonsensical" shorts to animated music videos, and often involve deadpan humor, dancing stick figures, vaporwave-like transitions and neon, sans-serif text on-screen. Wurtz often follows similar patterns in his videos such as multi-layering, and clip art images. He has stated the low-budget quality arose out of a necessity to publish videos regularly and evolved naturally. At Vidcon 2018, Wurtz was asked why his style is so different from other YouTube musicians. He stated that he chooses to "live under a rock" and produce his music in isolation rather than take inspiration from other creators on the platform. Wurtz publicly struggles with perfectionism, making use of schedules and deadlines to overcome it. In response to a fan question he explained that in the process of doing this he has "been forced to become an expert on carelessness". Website Wurtz launched his personal website billwurtz.com in 2014. Despite this, it has been compared to a late 1990s website due to its simple design. Apart from containing all of his released songs and most of his videos dating back since 2002, the website also features many other types of content not available elsewhere. For example, Wurtz posts vlog-style 'reality' videos depicting his creative process. Wurtz maintains a section on his website to answer anonymously submitted questions. His answers to questions are considered an aspect of Wurtz's creative output; the style of his answers have been described as "verging on the poetic" and "earnest, if somewhat loopy-sounding".

As Chicago's municipal election approaches at the end of February, Dame and Kiss chop it up with mayoral candidate and liberation movement member Brandon Johnson. A longtime organizer and public servant, Brandon has been running a campaign championing many of the policies and campaigns that our movements have been pushing for, and has coalesced the support of grassroots organizations and progressive organized labor behind him as he elbows through the crowd of mayoral candidates. We talk with him about his understanding of what Chicago needs, his relationship to the movements that have elevated him, and much more. SHOW NOTES Find your voting locations and info - https://chicagoelections.gov/en/your-voter-information.html Learn about the candidates with the Girl, I Guess voter guide - https://www.stephanieskora.com/voter-guide Plan your ballot with BallotReady - https://www.ballotready.org/ Listen to our first conversation with Brandon from back in 2018 - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2018/4/11/episode-132-brandon-johnson Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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Hosts Keith, Phoebe & Andrew break down the Top Five Worst Celebrity Moments of 2022. Can you guess which celebs got dragged in 2022? Was it Adam Levine's naughty texts? Or maybe Olivia Wilde being served divorce papers makes the top five! #Drama #Beef #These aren't actually doing anythingTranscript: Hello and welcome to the very first episode of not your best moment I am Keith Scopinich host along with Andrew Harris and Phoebe Matanna and this podcast is going to be all about. Breaking down celebrity beefs their scandals going through historical scandals throughout generations in time. Um, but today we're doing something very special. Um, we're going to be doing a top 5 celebrity scandals celebrity news stories. Of 2022 guys. We have number 5 and I want you to introduce yourselves and so I don't hog the show.00:42.21AndrewUm, yeah, well we were kind of waiting for it. But you were doing so well. So we're like all right, Let's go. Let's just do it.00:45.50PhoebeAh.00:49.41PhoebeI was I was like a proud parent just listening wow Keith is doing so great. He's killing it.00:53.76AndrewI know I was kind of naming. It's exciting.00:59.47KeithThank you guys I appreciate that? Um, so number 5 is don't worry darling Olivia Wilde's movie release which had all sorts of crazy and insane stories surrounding it. Um, amongst my favorites are the olivia wild's getting served ah by Jason Sedakis during the filming of the movie. Um, it is perhaps one of the craziest. Moments I've ever seen that is actually recorded and you could view it on Youtube the actual moment where it happens.01:36.17AndrewYou know, first of all props to her for handling it like a pro you know what? I mean like she's doing a professional presentation. Some guy walks up with an envelope. She opens it sees its custody papers and was like all right I'll set that I mean it was like it was like Bush on nine eleven she was like mm. And just kept right on going nothing nothing phases. Her.01:57.70phoebeAh, nothing phases 1302:01.98notyourbestmomentUm, yeah, she would I think she said initially that she thought it was someone giving her a screenplay which I'm sure happens all the time.02:09.72phoebeI Honestly love that as an alternate like oh yeah, people come up and ask me to read their screenplays all the time and you know what that is more traumatic than me getting custody papers during a presentation.02:22.99AndrewI Just think it would have been so funny if she had gone on thing like hey you know what guys you know this not not cool like this is not the time in the place. This is not the time you know I mean that she hopes that she goes ah is really not the time. Ah.02:31.62phoebeAh.02:36.96notyourbestmomentI think from now on if you're going to pitch olivia wild you have to give her of like ah envelope that says divorce papers or Subpoena and then it's just your script. She's like who that was great. Yeah relievd.02:37.14phoebeAh.02:46.59AndrewI gotta say though not not not nuts about the fact that she thought that Jason Sedaus like coordinated that like come on. That's just a that's just an asshole process server. That's all that is yeah you and she and I think she knew that.02:53.55phoebeYeah.03:02.60AndrewAnd I don't know her at all. But I think she knew it.03:03.10phoebeI also would like to add to this little bit. The Harry Styles interview where he says it felt like a movie. It felt like a real movie so that that was not not great, especially when you have Chris Pye in the background looking.03:17.20notyourbestmomentUm.03:19.61AndrewBut not ah look but not a bad sign at least it felt like a real movie. You know you like I mean can you imagine he's like this didn't feel like I was making a movie like that that would be I think further cause for concern.03:22.34phoebeNot pleased. A real live movie. Not a fake movie.03:31.39notyourbestmomentUm.03:34.40phoebeTrue but you wouldn't say that in an interview I Hope not.03:37.70AndrewWell, you also wouldn't spit on Chris Pye Slap but there were a lot of things that happened to surrounding this particular subject.03:42.39notyourbestmomentJustice is back enough so we could tell the audience just essentially they were they were doing a presser when it appeared that harry style something dribbled out of Harry Style's mouth into the lap of Chris pinnes.03:46.47phoebeAh.03:54.65AndrewUm, no, it was the it was the premiere. It was like the Venice premiere or something. Yeah, and it's because like and there was already lots of drama because um, ah Florence Pugh did not ah seem to care for making the very real movie that they made.03:56.88phoebeYeah, and it was as they were sitting down right or something. Yeah.03:57.40notyourbestmomentRight.04:12.25AndrewUm, you know it felt it may have felt real but it also doesn't seem like it felt too great making the movie.04:18.91phoebeWell, she was talking about how she was basically directing the film in her eyes. Um, because Olivia Wilde just wanted to spend time with Harry Styles and you know what harry styles seems pretty cool. So it's kind of hard to blame her.04:30.84notyourbestmomentYeah, and that's probably and.04:32.93AndrewUm I I disagree. Um, there's a time for love and canoodling and there's a time for professionalism and if you can do both at the same time I say my hat's off to you However, ah you know what? I mean like.04:35.77phoebeAh.04:50.20AndrewIs busy. You know what I mean like she's running around. She's like you know, Ah, she's a little woman next minute Doingne the next minute and then you know someone's telling her don't worry darling the next minute and you know what I think I think she should have worried and it seems like she did.05:03.20phoebeDon't think that I'm actually condoning this. Let's just make 1 thing clear I don't condone inter I guess would you would you call that ah office relations right? I guess that's what you'd call it work relations.05:07.26AndrewAh.05:13.56AndrewYeah, yeah, that's their set set sets the office like what do you want? yeah.05:19.43phoebeUm, um, but at the same time.05:23.36notyourbestmomentSo that. So so if you don't know when you're listening Harry Styles Olivia Wilde were supposedly engaged in an affair during the filming this movie so much so that florence peugh had the direct scenes. That's the rumor that has been out there. Um. Additionally, she also ah, didn't show up to a lot of the premieres because there was supposedly some beef between the 2 and if you're interested in this one. You could listen to our later episode where we're gonna do a deep dive into everything that went crazy with this episode.05:53.54AndrewAnd you can find out who's not best moment. It was. Yeah yeah, you read through the lines on our on our elementary ruled pages.05:56.66phoebeThough I'm sure you can deduce.05:57.14notyourbestmomentExactly.06:08.57AndrewYou know the big fat ones with the dashed lines in between so you know how you're you big lines so you know I mean you don't you don't need to squint to read between those lines.06:09.58phoebeAh, the lines are the lines are pretty wide I'm just going to say.06:21.78phoebeAh, it's actually a paliest.06:26.45notyourbestmomentBut and then moving on to the number 4 craziest story I think is a continuing story really, but it's.06:27.25phoebeAh, ah.06:33.57phoebeKeith Keith pause pause you have to give a little more bravado number 4 coming in.06:39.38AndrewYeah, come on. Where's the where's the show. Where's the showmanship we're trying to get people to listen. She.06:43.16notyourbestmomentUm, number four on the not your best moment. Fine.06:47.79phoebeKeith Keith let I want I want to hear some stage presence which is easy because no one's looking at you.06:53.86notyourbestmomentDo you want.06:55.54AndrewLet's all. Let's all go around and try let's all go around and try what a number 4 sounds like to you phoebe all right? Okay I'll do I want to do it krock style from from my home in Los Angeles06:59.33phoebeI think I already did it but I'll do it again. Number 407:10.42AndrewComing up at number 407:15.36notyourbestmomentUm, what's the guy from total ah home makeover. What's like I tie Wi Pennington I'm going to do something like him never for.07:16.54phoebeAh.07:18.61AndrewHi Pennington Pennington07:27.77notyourbestmomentHere coming on up. We have Kanye West and all all his racist rants and craziness in general. Um, so it all really starts off with him when he's at his yeezy kickoff.07:30.66AndrewNo, ah.07:31.59phoebeAh.07:45.23notyourbestmomentAnd he wears a white lives matter of t-shirt. That's really the beginning of the end for ganya.07:53.26phoebeAh, it it's so it's so much that I don't even know where to begin. So all I can do is sigh dramatically.07:53.47AndrewAh, this is.08:00.29AndrewLike it's it's it's it's not even a moment like it's fitting that this is like a year-end recap because it's like not your best year Kanye you know you know what? I mean no, how old is he how many decade how many decades hess he had.08:03.23notyourbestmomentUm.08:07.60phoebeNot your best decade. Old enough.08:13.73notyourbestmomentOn earth he is 4508:19.95AndrewOh Wow I don't know if that's older or younger than I would have pegged him to be perfectly. Honest, yeah.08:21.21phoebeYeah I actually I have no I had no sense.08:28.18notyourbestmomentTo be fair. That's about the age where you start to get really weird political ideas I feel like.08:35.10AndrewAll right? Let's everybody just pump the brakes on I don't like the ageism let's but let's just leave age out of it for no, all almost always um I have a level of anxiety that I.08:41.18notyourbestmomentI.08:43.68phoebeAh, do you feel attacked Andrew there.08:52.15AndrewPrefer not to have diagnosed. Ah.08:53.20phoebeSo.08:57.96AndrewUm, ah yeah Kanye um gosh where to I guess he's had so many wonderful, not good. Moments. Um, but it kind of it kind of starts with with the separation and divorce and then. Kim dating Pete Davidson a little bit right.09:16.40phoebeYeah, where he kind of goes off the rails. He does that video where he has a clamation of him killing and burying Pete Davidson's head is that right? um.09:26.11notyourbestmomentYes.09:29.10AndrewAh, point of 1 point of technicality I don't think Kanye would appreciate the idea that he was ever on the rails.09:36.37notyourbestmomentUm.09:36.84phoebeAh, Genius doesn't exist on the rails. Ah.09:37.11AndrewAh, yeah, he makes he makes his own tracks. Ah.09:43.83notyourbestmomentYeah, and so I yeah definitely like the relationship started to like the cascade and then after all this racism sort of followed and it's rumored that some of the anti-semitism is actually pointed at Pete Davidson b is Pete Davidson is part jewish.10:01.48AndrewUm, that's a that's a long way to go for someone who's just part Jewish you you know what? I mean like.10:02.66phoebeAh, yeah.10:10.66phoebeI don't know he all I'm saying is that Khane did that interview with um, ah fuck what's his name Alex Jones thank you and said Hitler had some good points so you know there's something questionable there. Most people.10:11.26notyourbestmomentUm.10:16.84AndrewWas that Alex Jones Alex Jones the ah10:28.69phoebeAh, like out and out say like Hitler was a good guy. They'll just kind of skirt around it like Kyrie Irving you know10:34.72AndrewThis whole this whole topic makes me feel like 1 of my mom's friends like after a movie they didn't like just like oh you know I mean like ah ah it does it does old ladies. Love to I don't even miss. Ah.10:42.82phoebeDoes that happen.10:51.97AndrewBut is that is it. That's like a farw. No, that's not a sigh. What's it. What's a oh grunt.10:53.73notyourbestmomentGood far.11:00.41phoebeDoes it have a name I just even when they write it in like books. It's like UGH ah11:04.30AndrewYeah, yeah I text to people all the time. Oh but that's that's how I feel about the racism I I'm I'm standing on the other side of the mountain to tell you it absolutely is.11:11.21phoebeDo you think that's another thing that you increase with age increase the usage with age.11:23.47AndrewYeah, just my eyes my eyes. My eye muscles are so in shape just from rolling over and over and over.11:24.20phoebeAh.11:28.68phoebeAre.11:33.79notyourbestmomentI think I think that you're looking for is on a on a pia I think is the word you're looking for right? is that correct.11:35.19AndrewYeah, ah.11:40.17phoebeWell because a on a pias are like when someone's so like power W or anything that you would see like an action comic. Yeah, this is not like what but.11:40.61AndrewUm I don't think it is. It's a yeah, it's a word. It's a word that sounds like what it's what it is yeah like what.11:49.70notyourbestmomentFair like Wap is that what you said like wap. Okay, fair enough.12:00.55AndrewAh, interestingly the word and the sound are kind of different. It's more of awap.12:01.43phoebeAh, yes.12:02.70notyourbestmomentUm, yeah, um, so with all this race of stuff that Kanye did he his at his spins on radio actually went down 21% since all of this craziness. Um.12:16.90AndrewUm, is that all that's yeah, that seems low.12:20.35phoebeThat's it that seems pretty low.12:22.73notyourbestmomentYeah I mean I know it does but it's it's I mean that's as significant as it's gotten so far. Um, but ah, yeah, and this also led to him getting banned off Twitter and Instagram and then ah I think it was um, Elon Musk reinstated Kanye eventually once he bought ah rebought Twitter um.12:47.86phoebeUm, we honestly Elon Musk is a whole other just 1 big eye roll.12:50.79AndrewYeah, that's that that he him running Twitter has a whole inmates running the asylum type of vibe to it. You know what? I mean? yeah like it's like it's like the ridler broke into aa and broke all the batman villains. You know what? I mean like that's kind of what.12:59.80phoebeA little bit.13:09.20phoebeAh, but he's the leader of all the batman villains.13:10.39AndrewYeah, yeah, so he's the Joker He's the joker than everybody else except he's not you know, funny.13:19.22phoebeSo key is it time for number 313:21.91AndrewYeah, although let wait wait again, you will get to get a slightly deeper dive on our thoughts on Kanye is not best moments of Twenty Twenty two later on in the year13:23.21notyourbestmomentUm, yeah I think so ah, hold on hold on hold a home.13:36.88notyourbestmomentExactly um number 3 number number 3 it's the thank you for the the whisper and it's the royal family. Um.13:40.19AndrewNumber 313:43.39phoebeUm.13:50.65notyourbestmomentAnd we're not necessarily talking about the Queens passing although that is a big story. It's more. Ah.13:55.29AndrewYeah, that was not her best moment where to where to go Liz.14:00.89phoebeAh, that's a pretty. It's a pretty rough thing to say your best and you're not best moment was when you died talk about insensitive.14:07.55AndrewYeah, ah you you dedicated your life to this and then you stopped living boo. No, that's.14:15.97notyourbestmomentSo we're talking about Harry Styles and Meghan Markle leaving the royal family.14:17.26phoebeAh.14:21.17phoebeWait who wait hold on you just wait. That was the best Freudian Slip ever Harry styles. You just said Harry styles. Ah.14:25.82notyourbestmomentWhat what did I say I about this Oh my God Yeah I did I did I said it.14:34.70AndrewIt feels like Harry Styles left the monarch me too though doesn't it like a little bit with that. Don't worry darling stuff like it's like a little bit ah see there I go again. Christ i.14:35.18phoebeA little bit.14:40.92notyourbestmomentWell, he's a prince in my eyes. So that's fine. Um I think I'm the leading cause of Andrew's eye rolls at this point.14:42.60phoebeOh.14:50.87AndrewYou You have no idea. But.14:50.93phoebeBe.14:55.56notyourbestmomentSo there's several bad things that happened or interesting things that happened that led to their not best moments but um, particularly I think it was Meghan Markle's dad who really led the charge. Um between beside. But.15:10.58AndrewIt was more.15:12.69notyourbestmomentBetween staging photos for tabloid photos and somehow having a letter Megan sent to him leaked. It's really.15:20.85AndrewOh oh oh my friends. Oh my friends it wasn't but a topic on that is very much this year and I just finished it so have you guys seen the netflix Harry and Megan show holy crap in a bucket.15:22.67phoebeWait but was that this year was that this year15:32.92phoebeNot yet that's on my Christmas list.15:39.43AndrewSo okay, yeah, well you know? ah so they so Harry and Megan yeah, they did the Oprah interview right? and like it kind of.15:41.90notyourbestmomentUm.15:42.63phoebeAh, at least it was in a bucket.15:50.76phoebeYeah.15:56.42AndrewNow that I've seen the Netflix documentary I see what they were trying to do with the Oprah interview. Although the Oprah interview was not a successful shall. We say execution of their strategy. Um it. It felt a little ah I don't know insincere. A little bit. It felt it felt like we're telling our side of the story. There's another side but we won't tell you um the Netflix documentary expands on a lot of it and um, they they do talk about that and ah all about like the letter that her dad sent and like the press you know, really manipulated him and whoever got to him. Um, it really kind of fucked things up, but she won that's one of the things like maybe this was one of her best moments of 2022? they Meghan Markle did end up winning the court case for the mail was every there was a mail online or someone or the daily mail ah releasing the letter publicly. Um.16:46.49notyourbestmomentThe.16:51.89AndrewBut there's a lot of information in that in that documentary where they're like ah you know the texting back and forth of why would you do this and the responses didn't seem like him you know I mean they can't get him on the phone and talk to him on the phone. There's a lot of interesting things about that where I get it can I Got to admit I went into the the documentary a little skeptical. And I came out of it being like oh shit these guys got fucked a little bit is it. It's interesting Phoebe you're you'll enjoy it and I welcome your texts when you watch it because I would love to discuss it? Yes, Oh oh please do oh that's the best way to do it. You know what? I mean.17:22.99phoebeOh I shall a live text you ah.17:28.93AndrewLove being able to respond to people in real time, especially when I've already seen the thing and then I can be like oh just wait does worry. Ah.17:35.69phoebeBut yes that entire debacle. It's like you can even pick at 1 moment because it just kept happening. It's still going on.17:44.41AndrewOh it was endless and it still is um, but apparently and this is one of the things in the Netflix documentary that they talk about is that um in order to be called a royal expert. Ah you there's no you don't have to be a royal expert. Someone can just say well you know Meghan kills puppies for attention and then ah the like are you royal expert. You're like sure why not boom printed like there's there's not a high journalistic standard in the british press. Um, ah this is going to kill my british fans.18:18.50notyourbestmomentSo.18:19.69AndrewUm, but ah, but ah, and and there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff with the way. The the press interacts with the royal family and the roda and the way it all works. Um, that's shall we say fucked up and I will say you know we do. We do have an episode on Harry and Megan. Coming up that was very picked by me because I'm a big big fan of the royal fan a fan I enjoy about the royal family and I I fucking love the crown I know um in England I could be um.18:46.54phoebeWould you call yourself a fiend would you call yourself a Royal expert. Ah and yet.18:48.63notyourbestmomentUm, yeah.18:57.26AndrewAnd I am 100% a southern californian american ah, yeah, yeah, and yet um, but ironically and there's a twist to who's not best moment that is apparently it's princenz Williams stop best moment.19:12.77phoebeOh my God Ah, ah.19:16.40notyourbestmomentUm, no spoilers. No spoilers.19:17.47AndrewWell look bald people shouldn't wear turtlenecks and he's going that way which definitely makes him look up but like a bond villain so you know there's just there's just some things that you know.19:27.20phoebeYou're right, he does He does give off Strong Bond villain energy now.19:29.69AndrewLittle bit.19:32.60notyourbestmomentYeah, the I feel like the furthest cat was a bad choice. But um.19:38.28AndrewThe fur cat. That's what you that's yes, that's what you're describing his hair I Guess haircut as.19:38.66phoebeUm.19:47.81notyourbestmomentNo, that was meaning like you know how they villains are always petting like a cat you know sometimes make jokes.19:51.66AndrewOh oh I Thought you were genuinely describing his haircut that's Hairless cat.19:56.97phoebeAh, me too. It's like that was happening I was like Wow that's bold that's bold ah who we thought you were much more malicious than that.20:04.10AndrewI see rocking a furless cap.20:07.43notyourbestmomentAh, ah.20:09.58notyourbestmomentNo I was pretty pretty kind actually all right guys.20:13.56AndrewThat said I have nothing but the utmost respect to the Royal family and if anyone want to come after me, please don't I have the emmost respect for you and I would love to move within your social circles. Thank you.20:25.80notyourbestmomentSpeaking of malicious this number 2 is the shot heard around the world the will smith slap of Chris Rock at the 90 fourth academy awards um, for.20:27.52AndrewNumber 220:38.32phoebeWo Mama who.20:42.38notyourbestmomentWhat a crazy scene this one really really was insane just from the mount of shock and all it caused and the amount of memes that came out immediately after that. Um, so chris rock is on stage trying to present the best documentary when he makes a joke about. Ah, Jada Pinkett Smith she says Jada I love you? Ah g a g I jane two I can't wait to see I can't wait to see it and will Smith's shouts get you my gets your wife's name out of my get. My wife's name out of your mouth and then goes onstage and max him silly um and I have to be perfectly. Honest I was so conflicted about this because I legitimatelyly love both of those guys on stage like like it was like.21:36.17notyourbestmomentIt actually hurt me like I was actually very upset about it like I was like my I couldn't believe how upset I was ah.21:39.58AndrewYeah I think I heard Chris Rock more I thought I thought it was a bit I had to rewind it I.21:47.18phoebeHonestly me too I thought it was like totally this you know one of those stage little skits that they usually put on.21:51.29AndrewYeah, like I thought it was like oh they're spicing it up and making making the Oscars feel like the golden globes or something like I didn't like it genuinely like I had to rewind it and then when social media blew up I was like oh shit that was real I had like I genuinely didn't think that that was something that would or could happen.21:58.50phoebeYeah, ah.22:11.24AndrewYou know what? I mean I guess not.22:12.80phoebeIt was pretty wild I also kind of felt like of course the 1 year that I don't host an offscar party the most dramatic thing happens.22:18.99notyourbestmomentUm.22:21.78AndrewWell, honestly, this is an argument for not hosting or going to Oscar parties because you miss a lot of shit when you go to those and everyone's talking and you know you're really like I prefer to just in the quietly just like you know, intensely focus. On all 5 hours of the oscars.22:39.96phoebeOkay, so what I'm hearing is that you don't want to invite to my Oscar party. That's what I'm hearing.22:46.70AndrewIf no, you miss you? You're misunderstanding I absolutely want the invite to your Oscar party so that I can decline it.22:50.16notyourbestmomentUm.22:53.16phoebeSee That's my point is I don't want to put the power in your hands that makes me look like a schmuck.23:01.17notyourbestmomentUm, is.23:02.48AndrewThat's the idea that.23:07.34AndrewAh, no I get invited to like watch parties all the time and I'm like no I want to watch the fucking show I don't want to listen to you talk? Um, they also being around people.23:13.32phoebe223:13.46notyourbestmomentBut don't you don't you think that if you hosted the party and then that happened the party like the music would screech like everyone's like so uncomfortable after that I feel like it would really kill a party.23:25.73AndrewNo, because every time I've been to an Oscar but I can tell you exactly what happened at like most of the Oscar parties around the world like people were watching and then you know dirt job. My wife's thouuch to motherfucker mouth. He walks up slaps him and half the party would have not been paying attention. A quarter of the party would be like oh my god he justlapped him and another quarter of the party would be like oh my god would have already been and then no one would' have been able to agree on it and then before you know what? they're announcing. Best picture you know what? I mean like it just would have been It would have been chaos. It would have been absolute chaos.23:57.40phoebeUm, are you saying you don't thrive off chaos Exactly my point.23:59.83AndrewNo comment.24:05.71AndrewI Am chaos.24:08.26notyourbestmomentWell will smith did ah did issue on apology to ah Chris Rock it took a little while though and to be perfectly. Honest I don't know if Chris Rock ever accepted it. He hasn't talked about. Slap in his standup yet. But I'm waiting for that moment when he goes and breaks it down.24:24.22phoebeHe needs a little time right? a little time and distance between it and then I'll become a bit because everything that happens in your life will become a bit at some point.24:32.93AndrewWell remember too like in the immediate aftermath of it. You know, like then and we as comedians should kind of you know? Yeah I write this was a this was a big deal amongst comedians at the time which is like shit this you know, let's.24:49.20phoebeYeah, yeah, yeah.24:49.21AndrewFeels like it's opening the door to assaulting comedians if they tell a joke You don't like you know what? I mean um and like mean spiritrited or not. It's a joke. You know what? I mean so it's not that mean spiritrited ultimately um, and and that that that for me was one of the biggest things where was like whoa.25:06.23phoebeNow.25:08.20AndrewDon't go around hitting people that's not correct and then let's not forget the bonkers speech will Smith gave when he won um which was didn't yeah I love I love all the all the stories about like oh my god they cut to commercial and like all hell broke loose.25:16.95notyourbestmomentThat they let him make it was.25:27.58AndrewYou know I mean agents and managers and publicists are running around like you know sweating and pissing themselves which just really kind of makes me feel good about not being an agent manager or publicist. Not that I disrespect those professions.25:41.43notyourbestmomentAre you guys? So so far you respect the royal family and publicists and marketing people got you Andrew anyone.25:53.67AndrewUm I don't want to piss off people who can have me kill to ruin my career. That's that's my number one listen. My biggest fears are going to prison and ending up as Mr Walrus on some local access. You know children's show on Pbs in Nebraska god.25:59.69phoebeThat's your number 1 goal.26:11.40notyourbestmomentLike this is oddly specific.26:11.46AndrewDamn it.26:13.20phoebeBut like a very real fear.26:15.48AndrewIt's it's a nightmare I have often.26:21.23notyourbestmomentUm.26:21.76phoebeAh I learned so much about you? Andrew.26:24.64AndrewYeah, and if I could shut up about myself I would but I can't and I'm 40 so boom here we are this is it. This is what you get? ah.26:30.37phoebeThis is 40 Ah no, that's in 5 years when he hits 45 and it's when the weird political stuff starts happening.26:30.69notyourbestmomentWait to here's wait to here's political thoughts. Ah that's right.26:36.66AndrewYeah, my politics are pretty are pretty normal for right now but like no at 45 I'm going to be like we should have mandated chipping chip all humans.26:51.75notyourbestmomentUm.26:51.84AndrewWhat's going on in Canada. Fifth the.26:57.22phoebeAh, can't wait for the day.26:58.58notyourbestmomentSo Batlings us to number one. Do you guys? Want to do the big reveal. Give some drum roll right? You're right? So the number one.27:05.78AndrewUm, I'll do I'll do a dremel for you.27:06.19phoebeI mean it shouldn't really be a reveal if you've been following that social or news or anything.27:15.42notyourbestmomentNumber 1 story ah is Amber heard versus Johnny Depp and the crazy court case that was all over the place. Probably the biggest court case since the o j simpson trial.27:16.21AndrewNumber 127:17.61phoebeBlind.27:32.59AndrewIt's so fucking bizarre that that's the trial of the century of the twenty first century27:35.72phoebeEspecially because they both just come out looking awful.27:40.42AndrewCorrect yes, like there the Johnny the Johnny Depp vindication was so interesting because it was like if you I mean if you follow the trial.27:40.97notyourbestmomentYeah, there's.27:42.81phoebeLike nobody wins. It's like everybody's worst moment.27:57.55AndrewYou get why they ruled in his favor. You know what? I mean? Um, but at the same time It's like all right? Maybe maybe don't strut out of the courthouse. You know what? I mean maybe just like you know like you didn't even come off so great. Although I mean do we or do we not believe that Amber heard. Shit in his bed.28:17.80phoebeIt's one of these things that I believe that everything that has been claimed not just in this um trial but like earlier um the first time when John Depp was canceled initially um you yeah um.28:27.52AndrewWell after she wrote the after she wrote the Op-ed yeah.28:30.10notyourbestmomentYes.28:33.82phoebeAh, so when Johnny Depp was initially canceled like I totally believe that everything that has been listed totally happened and they're both just shitty and we're totally shitty towards each other like yeah.28:43.50notyourbestmomentOh definitely? Um, so just so yeah, so the listeners know it's just this was actually a defamation case. Um it was because of that op ed that this lawsuit was actually even moved into place. Um it. It. That op ed on the one on the Washington post was released in 2018 she described domestic abuse but depp giant depp was never mentioned but obviously it was implied. They had been dating for 10 years um and ah.29:08.23AndrewYeah I think that the biggest sign of your guilt is when you sue someone for deformation in an article that you're not mentioned in you know what? I.29:18.35phoebeAh.29:19.27notyourbestmomentWell, it was to recover damages because he had lost the pirates of caribbean gig which was twenty two point five million dollars um and then heard yes and fantastic beast and then heard countersuit for a 100000000 um because he.29:24.53AndrewAnd and fantastic beasts.29:36.43notyourbestmomentBecause of his accusations against her and um, you know the court case was probably 1 the most watched um court cases in a long time I um, you know there were clips online that had over 29000000 views. Um, and there was apparently when he went on when Depp went on a stand to testify ah almost so the average viewing time was ah two point seven million ah during his ah time on the stand. Um, so it's. Ah, crazy amount of people were watching and it was no. It is baseball games. Don't get that many people. Um.30:14.37AndrewMost network shows don't get numbers like that anymore. That's insane. Yeah well and like I have to say like part of me goes back and forth between like it's really really sad that like the.30:17.87phoebeYeah.30:33.59AndrewThe subject matter that they were talking about you know abuse was reduced to entertainment. But then then you see them on the stand and the levels of ridiculousness that both of them. You know what? I mean like like. The stories that were told were so so ridiculous that it's like it's you you completely lost sight of the maybe that was the depp team's legal strategy. You really did completely lose sight of like you know the allegations. That were set and again not what the trial was about the trial was about defamation. Um, so little bit what the trial was about um but very like it interesting that something that we should all be like oh this is this is awful and then the way both of them approached it. You're like I don't. Don't feel bad for either 1 of you like it was. It did very much end up being feeling like a apox on both their houses type of thing which is I think at the end of the day really really tragic. You know what? I mean.31:42.89notyourbestmomentYeah I mean it just seemed like this was just a toxic relationship and there was nothing good coming out of it. Um, what? what? I also found to be like super interesting. Ah another thing was that um Johnny Depp's attorney Camille Vasquez like became like almost like a star of of this court case. Um, yeah, and and people tuned in for her and it was you know it actually got rumored that she got to such a point during this case that was rumored that she was dating johnny depp.32:03.14AndrewShe had a sta quality I'm not going to lie she was you know she knew she.32:20.31notyourbestmomentUm, so it was a circus in every every stretch of the imagination.32:28.86AndrewYeah, it ah pooping in a bed um cutting people's fingers like this goes this goes Beyond I Do do non celebrities have trials like this.32:44.74phoebeNo.32:45.65AndrewYou know what? I mean like what is it? What is it about the rich and famous that like makes them legitimately Crazy. You know what? I mean I think that's that that's that's ah, that's a deep question that I would like to find out. And if it means I have to get rich and famous to do it and so but.33:08.61phoebeAh, oh poor baby.33:11.64AndrewI Want to be in the club the club. Ah.33:13.88phoebeAh know. But honestly you have to imagine that at certain point that drama just sips that just sinks right into your real life right? There's just such a like the line is gone and all of a sudden all this drama that exists in your professional life has to.33:14.92notyourbestmomentUm.33:30.87phoebeHas to seep into your personal life as well.33:31.40notyourbestmomentUm, right I Also think good.33:31.55AndrewI Just didn't know how you didn't get tired of it. The I mean like that's a that just feels exhausting to me, you know what? I mean.33:39.85notyourbestmomentYeah I also feel like you're just like if you're an actor. You're probably have a lot downtime. You know when you're not like so you're just there with each other. It's like you Both don't have jobs just staring at each other. It's like it's just a combination for bad things to happen like you need some space go to work.33:54.40phoebeUm I guess the the only 2 options. Ah.33:57.20AndrewThat's not how I spend my downtime like I I enjoy the ah drink in the odd gummy but I'm not going around shitting in other people's beds and cutting their fingers off.34:00.95notyourbestmomentAh.34:06.45phoebeUm.34:08.55notyourbestmomentWell, you should come to my house sometimes um.34:12.22AndrewIt's going to be a hard pass Keith yeah yeah I was open to it but I was open to it for that comment. But now I'm a little hesitant I have to be on.34:13.54phoebeThat's going to be a pass for me too. I'm glad we do this virtually now.34:16.52notyourbestmomentAh, well I'm not inviting you to my Oscar party.34:24.80notyourbestmomentWell, my Oscar parties can be a remake of what's going on to the depp hard cows. Um, ah.34:30.38AndrewLook and and yet lightly curious. Not slightly lightly lightly curious. Maybe I'll head on out there.34:33.25phoebeAh, ah, that's the top 5 Um, so.34:36.36notyourbestmomentUm.34:44.51notyourbestmomentWell.34:48.97phoebeJust because we have a top 5 does not mean that there are not honorable mentions things that happened that probably shouldn't have happened. Um, what that's the truth. That's how it works. Um, so I would like to nominate for this category as Rami Miller period Ezra Miller34:55.17AndrewThe the.34:59.50notyourbestmomentUm.35:04.92AndrewOh yeah I I would like to nominate Elon Musk for reasons previously mentioned.35:08.75phoebeThat's it. That's.35:17.10phoebeAh, Keith any other nominees I have a couple but we'll go at a little circle.35:17.69notyourbestmomentUm I I want us I want to say the Adam Levine Texts are probably some of my favorite celebrity news that's come out of here. Um, it really it really made me change the way I flirt through text but um.35:24.29phoebeAre.35:34.59notyourbestmomentIt is some hilarious sex. You haven't seen them check it out.35:36.69phoebeYes, it it actually sounds like he reminds me of like a 16 year old boy like trying to figure out how to sex the girl for the first time that doesn't that feel about accurate.35:52.69AndrewAgain, this feels slightly ageist when I was 16 There wasn't such a thing as texting so like were I to sexed now. It's not like it's not like I I grew up with it and have a history of it I'd be like a you know I'd probably get arrested. So I don't.35:52.74notyourbestmomentYeah, oh no, definitely. Ah.36:10.97AndrewThat.36:11.81notyourbestmomentUm, so what did you carve into to your tablets andrew.36:17.73phoebeAh, the hiboglyphs.36:20.18AndrewThey're called trees and you put your name and your girlfriend's name with a plus in between them and you carve a heart around it and that's how you do it or you do a prom proposal in a park at midnight surrounded by candles and with a giant heart saying. Will you go to prom with me written in toilet paper on a lawn That's how you that's how you fucking do it Keith and you know what? you know what she said? yes.36:40.94phoebeI've learned so much today she said yes.36:47.52AndrewWe dated for three months36:50.28phoebeGreat success.36:52.71AndrewAh, yeah, oh yeah, writer shortly after pro it was like okay bye.36:59.00phoebeAh, dated you exclusively so you had excuse to remain prompt dates.37:02.90AndrewI had actually funny sort I had actually committed to going to prom with another girl who was a senior and then you know started dating someone because I didn't I was I wasn't with anyone and then I started dating this girl and I was like I call this girl like hey sorry I can't go to pro with you I got to go to prom with my girlfriend and this girl who was a senior was. So mad and me I think I don't know she threatened to kill me but I did I Do think she threatened to quote end me she didn't um and she you know she's she's married Now. She's got kids. Ah, but ah, yeah.37:24.98notyourbestmomentUm, if.37:34.00phoebeAh, ah, she's doing great.37:37.54AndrewYeah, you know we all we all have our foibles but the point is you do them when you're 17 not when you're 56 Johnny depp.37:43.33phoebeI will end you I Love that.37:48.91notyourbestmomentSpeaking of endings guys I think this is the perfect time to call to quits and end you guys and the podcast the very first episode of not your best moments. Um I just want to wish you guys and our listeners a happy holiday.37:49.54AndrewShe.38:06.69notyourbestmomentUm, and I I realize something I want to have a new year's resolution to the end of this because I think this is important. Um I'm going to try to get better with knowing an actor's name and not describing them by a role. So i.38:09.35AndrewOh I Want to do one too I like this goal.38:26.45notyourbestmomentRecently saw stifer's mom. Um, and I still refer to her as s stiffifler's mom but I'm going to learn her name and I'm going to try to get better, but it was Jennifer. Yeah.38:31.81phoebeAh, Jesus have you learned it since. Thank you I okay I've actually had a conversation with someone about this everybody.38:35.22Andrewher name is jeif free yeah her name is Jennifer Coolidch and you can't call her sifler's mom after white lotus you simply cannot do that.38:47.67phoebeHas a different canon Jennifer Coolidge like and mine is legally blond and you can't convince me otherwise.38:54.34AndrewInteresting I would say like Stifer's mom is how I was introduced to Jennifer Coolidge but like Jennifer Coolidge is now Tonya like 100% and I mean the second season of white lotus is it surpasses the first season I think.38:59.29phoebeUm, yeah.39:14.10AndrewUm, and it is so fucking bonkers. Um, especially the end which I I won't spoil for those who haven't seen it. But if you if you have not seen the white Lotus That's that's a strong endorsement from me I'll I'll say that much.39:26.66notyourbestmomentDo do you guys have a new year resolution that you want to put out there no doesn't.39:29.98phoebeDoes it have to be podcast related because mine is just to drink water just like drink more water. What do you mean? what? I feel like you know how you're supposed to drink.39:42.42AndrewBut what? what.39:48.71phoebeDrink like whatever is the 8 glasses of water a day. You definitely don't by that look on your face. You definitely don't and I'm looking.39:50.45notyourbestmomentSo.39:53.72AndrewNow I get whole on I'm gonna show you my water glass and you'll see why I'm so exasperated right now this is astein. It's like a two liter sign that I got at October fest this is what I drink water out of I drink probably one and a half gallons of water a day I love water. It is the.40:12.51phoebeYes, so that is my that is my new year's resolution to drink more water maybe like 4 to 6 glasses a day would be a good improvement for me.40:13.42AndrewStuff of life. Yeah.40:22.84AndrewAre you? okay like how are you not dehydrated on the regular.40:28.85phoebeYou also get water from the food you eat.40:36.55AndrewThat's a weak argument Phoebe I'm very concerned and I want to help you out and I'm gonna I'm gonna check in on you all right here's my resolution I'm gonna chicken on Phoebe and make sure she's st drinking enough water.40:36.86notyourbestmomentUm.40:50.12phoebeAh, kind of feels like you're piggybacking. But since this benefits me I'll allow it.40:51.17AndrewAnd.40:55.64notyourbestmomentVery original.40:57.58AndrewNo I think oh god it's so funny because I've been so like wrapped up in Christmas and like Chris like I I did it I did Christmas badly um whereas I waited too long and now I can't get things shipped appropriately. So. Like last weekend I had to go out in Manhattan in person to go Christmas shopping which is not pleasant in any way shape or form. Um at all ever. Don't do it. It's terrible. That said.41:29.42phoebeBut you did it.41:32.89AndrewIt's not related to my new Year's resolution which I don't have because I've been so focused on Christmas but I can come up with one on the fly I am going to who I'm gonna listen more. Yeah I think I talk too much.41:44.64phoebeI Love that.41:49.75AndrewAnd I'm going to spend some more time listening.41:50.17phoebeHow Wow how woke of you. Every Gen zer who isn't listening should be so Proud. Gen Z is the young generation.42:04.44AndrewAm I Gen Z I don't know what I am of what oh oh no, they don't care for me. Um I.42:09.16notyourbestmomentThe youngest generation so far.42:19.42phoebeUm, as long as you're selfaware.42:21.43AndrewI have I have several Gen Zers who work for me and they're there. They humor me but no, no, no, no um I'm told I'm a millennial but I think I'm a little old for that too.42:29.71phoebeI think you're on the top end I'm on the bottom end of millennial like I'm the last year millennials. So imagine Jen's ears it's me but worse tell me about it. Yeah.42:34.92AndrewYeah, and I may be well I might be 1 of the first.42:35.26notyourbestmomentNot and I'm right in the middle.42:44.42notyourbestmomentUm, can't get worse and you look you so Ge hydrated. Um.42:48.32phoebeAh, that's the.42:50.59AndrewYes, wait Gen Z Gen Z's just walking around like oh you're like they're all like in like in a desert looking for oasis because they have no fucking water This is awful.42:57.86phoebeNo, that's the difference. That's how you know I'm a millennial Jen's ears drink water and I don't drink water. That's the big difference.42:59.46notyourbestmomentUm.43:03.65notyourbestmomentRight.43:04.51AndrewThere We go there. We go I picked it I picked my resolution I am going to be more charitably active there. That's what that's that's my resolution.43:11.40phoebeThere you go.43:14.10notyourbestmomentOkay I think this has been this is the the very first episode of not your best moment just so you know we're gonna be releasing skinny dip episodes will be quick topical ah episodes every Tuesday and then we'll be releasing twice a month. Deep dives into these longer more in-depth topics like the Kanye West's Pete Davidson beef the royal family all that type of stuff so stay tuned. This has been the very first episode of not your best moment.

00:00.00 Dr_ Placebo Pretty funny before they wouldn't They wouldn't know what I wanted like they didn't understand what come sit stay meant so I was like yeah that's Fine. You're just Puppies. You don't understand what I want now. I'm certain that they understand what I want and sometimes they just won't do it. There's like a little rebellion phase that's happening right now. 00:31.38 mikebledsoe This payback. 00:35.46 Dr_ Placebo And well you know so far. We've just been using carrots. Basically no stick for our condition and. 00:45.42 mikebledsoe Ah. 00:54.30 Dr_ Placebo My special lady friend is a really kind soul it it would she would like lose her mind if I struck a dog I don't want to anyway. But I I get this feeling that they know that I'm all bark and no bite. And that's why they're like yeah okay keep talking big fella like I'm just going to do what I want to do. 01:17.51 mikebledsoe Yeah, um I learned this trick for dominating dogs which is you want to make sure you got control of their snout when you do this because I've done this with a big pit before which is you bite their ear so you take like your. 01:32.74 Dr_ Placebo M. 01:34.67 mikebledsoe Your canine and you dig it into their ear until they until they yelp and then they know because that's how dogs talk to each other right? like 1 dog is going to dominate the other and then they they bite an ear or they put their their mouth around their neck and then the other dog kind of gives up. 01:45.40 Dr_ Placebo Right? right. 01:54.57 Dr_ Placebo Ah, oh man, my dogs battle each other so aggressively all day long I mean I'm glad we got two I can't imagine just getting 1 dog and I don't like to say that too much. Because I don't want to make everybody who just got the 1 dog feel bad but it seems like they have some level of communication between them that I will never really understand they're on the same level. You know what? I mean. 02:20.95 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 02:25.85 Dr_ Placebo They can play in a totally different way. They communicate in a totally different way. Um, but man it is it is aggressive and then I remember like oh yeah, playing it is two things. it's ah practice for killing and and it's ah socialization that's that's what play is and for humans that's not how we play typically but that's in the animal kingdom that's what play is that's how you first learn how to how to kill things or not get killed depending on what the animal is. If you look at though I'm trying to think of ah what play looks like for herbivores. It doesn't occur to me right now. But for carnivores there's its play is basically practice for killing and it doesn't it's. Just reminds me of the circle of life. Something needs to die so that you can live and it doesn't matter if you're a vegetarian you got to kill that plant and that plant becomes part of you so it's kind of like the highlander there can be only one like you can. Eat it or it eats you basically and then when you die provided you you don't put yourself into one of those fancy boxes then you get eaten again after it's all said and done and that's ah I mean that's a funny thing maybe not cemeteries aren't funny. 03:56.41 Dr_ Placebo In a traditional sense. Maybe but it is weird that we try to take the the physical body out of the ecosystem. It's a really interesting practice. 04:07.50 mikebledsoe I Mean it's happening. You know we build homes we built. Ah, you know because nothing in nature is Square. You know have straight lines like I look around my house I've got a flat floor flat ceiling flat walls and they all meet at Ninety degree corners. And for the most part So We we basically separate ourselves from nature by putting ourselves in these boxes and then when we die we want to continue the separation So casket we go I need a new buck. This one doesn't have to be as big. 04:24.31 Dr_ Placebo And. 04:36.49 Dr_ Placebo I need and I need a new box. 04:44.60 Dr_ Placebo Um, that is kind of funny. That's like the whole whole life is like I need a new box I need a car that's like a mobile box and then I need a new house and that's a stationary box and then I need a coffin That's a very snug. Ah airtight. 04:58.30 mikebledsoe Yeah, you leave you leave the box. That's your house to get in the box that your car to go to the box. That's your work and or or maybe you're just building boxes for your work too. Like yeah yeah. 05:01.72 Dr_ Placebo Waterproof box. 05:07.72 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 05:14.33 Dr_ Placebo Yeah I mean if you're in construction you're building boxes. Basically it's it's funny. It's just so it's more ah comfortable on the inside right? I'm surprised. There aren't more oh it's It's actually because Ah. Squares tessellate the best so you can line a flat plane full of squares and rectangles. But if you try to do it with Circles. You have a lot of space left over but I think ah, a big dome would be really cool. 05:45.32 mikebledsoe Yeah, there's um I'm sure you've been in some cathedrals where the the ceilings you know they're they just kind of go up into a point where I've been in. Um I've been in big malokas. 05:52.56 Dr_ Placebo Beautiful. 06:00.30 mikebledsoe And the jungle where they're doing medicine ceremony and it all goes up to a point and I heard somebody talking about why don't we build our homes with a point um and or a cathedral like what why don't We build our home like a cathedral where there's this. Point that's going up right? and I think it might be that It's a little ungrounding and your attention gets funneled into that single place whereas with a box you can diffuse your attention a little more easily. 06:39.15 Dr_ Placebo Um I think it's probably that plots of land are rectangular and a rectangular house will maximize your living space on them honestly and. 06:46.70 mikebledsoe I Mean what if you had a rectangular house with ah with your ceilings coming to a point like to a single point like a tepee. 06:57.30 Dr_ Placebo And and no ah, no rooms just 1 big room and. 06:59.49 mikebledsoe Yeah, may well that that would suck So the round room doesn't really. 07:06.40 Dr_ Placebo Right? I mean there there are some cool. Ah, there's some cool domes. There are some really cool like I've looked into it. Ah you know me I've looked into a lot of different alternatives for how to live and how to eat how to live how to exercise like what alternative is there. Let me. 07:15.65 mikebledsoe Ah I mean. 07:22.79 Dr_ Placebo Let me at least examine it and you can you can get a house built like a dome you can buy yourself a plot of land and you can have basically a kit sent to you because it's all triangles you know Buckminster Fullers the inventor of the geodesic dome. And it's ah it's a kit that 2 people can put up this whole thing because it's just like 1 row at a time of the ah same side same size triangles the whole way through and it's really kind of an interesting thing. Um. 08:00.27 Dr_ Placebo But I think a lot of it has to do with the the plots of land and blending in.. There's most places that people live. There's a homogenization right? You you kind of want your house to look sort of like everyone else's and everyone has. This idea of what a house should look like like a fancy house looks like this and a medium fancy house looks like this and a not as cool house looks like this or whatever and we have these ideas of what it should look like right. Um I think it is if you have a rectangular plot of land though you're going to get more ah space with a rectangular house that that's for sure. 08:49.78 mikebledsoe Yeah, well I think we need to start creating triangular plots of land. Let's see what we can do with that you might be able to fit more houses in a single in ah in an area who knows. 09:00.11 Dr_ Placebo Um, that would make the thing that would make the well you also need roads too right? So it's ah it's interesting though to look at um. 09:05.91 mikebledsoe Those damn roads. 09:18.80 Dr_ Placebo Like New York city right is basically a grid like you know if you're on a and tenth street. you know exactly how to get to b and Twelfth street you know exactly how to get there 09:27.74 mikebledsoe Well the but 1 of the best grids on the planet is phoenix completely flat. It is a straight up grid. Well I think about I think about ah like New York or Boston you look at the East Coast and 09:34.65 Dr_ Placebo Because just straight up grids. Yeah. 09:44.51 mikebledsoe A lot of those roads were built when you know it was horse and buggy or carriage and so they're not that wide and then only that they have to they have the there's might be some old buildings that to go around So it's not it is grid but not as great as Phoenix which was way more planned and then you have to worry about the. 09:53.90 Dr_ Placebo Aha. 10:00.49 Dr_ Placebo And more modern right. 10:03.36 mikebledsoe Yeah, the the coastline you have the coastline that you have the that you have to work around. That's why on the west coast like you know like you can end up on a street that you're going east 1 minute and then north the next minute because it's having to go around everything but you go somewhere like Phoenix where it was. 10:17.40 Dr_ Placebo Right? so. 10:19.64 mikebledsoe Laid out in a grid. It's flat. There's nothing to go around is just a desert and now you now you get like this really, you can you can go to a street in Phoenix and look down the road and see blocks and blocks and blocks and blocks down the way without without any any blocking your view. 10:25.91 Dr_ Placebo Great. 10:37.20 Dr_ Placebo Um, and a lot of older cities are are more like um branches of like root systems or capillaries. Like Paris for example, there's like a central location and then it branches off. It's not really a grid. It's more like branches and rings. It's it's really interesting to see how we try to ah transport people around and if ah. If a place is growing um it it actually makes a lot of sense that it would be more like ah, a branching type of thing like a root system. 11:15.75 mikebledsoe Yeah, well I think about shapes and um, what that does relationally for people or communally and one of the things that happens at burning man is everything's done circular so you have the center of the city. 11:21.65 Dr_ Placebo Nothing of 1 11:30.84 Dr_ Placebo And. 11:31.66 mikebledsoe Basically black rock city and then ah the roads are by time so 2 to 15 to 30 so you've got a clock so those are your roads that that extend out and then the rings going around are abcd and of course. 11:42.26 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 11:51.55 mikebledsoe Every year that like the D is different like you know, depending on the theme or whatever. But in this circular community. 12:00.81 Dr_ Placebo So of course I don't understand that less. 12:04.34 mikebledsoe Ah, what do you mean? Oh sorry, No no, no, no like E might be a different word. Yeah elephant one year. Yeah. 12:09.82 Dr_ Placebo Abcd and then it's different like it's bigger or. 12:17.25 Dr_ Placebo Like Elephant Okay, got it? Okay, ah you're like of course I'm like am I supposed to feel stupid now. 12:24.33 mikebledsoe But the whole point of this podcast and see if I can make max feel stupid. But ah it hasn't It hasn't worked I don't know. Ah so that I think the circle um. 12:34.14 Dr_ Placebo I Always feel stupid. Ah. 12:42.60 mikebledsoe When people this is this really cool topic to talk about because we're talking about environment. How environment it's what raises and rings. Yeah Raisin rings are who I like that. So with the raisin rings. What I what I think is happening. There is it. 12:47.58 Dr_ Placebo So it's rays and rings. it's it's rays it's Rays Rays and rings. Yeah. 13:01.51 mikebledsoe Creates more? Um, it's It's hard to to say this is where this ends and this begins as much and there's more opportunity for people to interact from someone across town. So I can just follow this road and then now I'm on the other side of town. 13:20.52 mikebledsoe Whereas with a block. It's like if I want to go? Yeah, you know if I want to go anything other than North Southheast or west if I want to like cut across town then I'm zigzagging or I'm having to make this big loop. But with the raisin rings you you can start at the center and then get anywhere. You want. 13:22.30 Dr_ Placebo So. 13:35.18 Dr_ Placebo A. 13:38.86 mikebledsoe By just pointing and going. So I think there's. 13:47.61 Dr_ Placebo Um, I mean you're always going to have to take somewhat of a circuititous path no matter if it's a grid or raises in rings that's kind of the nature of roads. 13:50.14 mikebledsoe No matter what but I wonder I wonder what creates how what the social impact is if we're say say you're in ah and a structure you go into a tepee. 14:03.17 Dr_ Placebo And. 14:05.59 mikebledsoe Or you go into like a lot of like places where you do ceremony. They're all circular structures almost always yeah and it's because it it's like diminishes hierarchy and then ah. 14:16.80 Dr_ Placebo Nights of the round table. Totally. 14:24.10 mikebledsoe I Think it makes things more communal people are more if you're sitting in a circle you're more likely to talk to each other than if you're sitting in a square then it kind of feels a little weird. So I wonder. 14:34.83 Dr_ Placebo Or like a big long rectangular desk where I sit at the head of the table in a really really big chair which is of course how I like to have all my interactions with all my lackeys lining the sides. 14:36.42 mikebledsoe Um, yeah, exactly? Yeah, so yeah. 14:48.71 mikebledsoe A good example like I had dinner a few weeks ago where there was a dozen of us at a table at a restaurant and half the table I didn't talk to almost the entire time. But if we were sitting in a circle. It would have been a completely different experience so thinking about cities that are designed to be squares or circles. Um. 14:53.16 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, right. 15:03.46 Dr_ Placebo M. 15:08.71 mikebledsoe Also I I heard this recently that ah cities that are more circular based get more rain on average I need to find the information like actual data on that. But yeah. 15:27.32 mikebledsoe Yeah. 15:27.47 Dr_ Placebo More rain all fit I mean that's ah I have no clue what you're talking about I Understand the words you said and I wonder if it has to do with places that have more rainfall had. Earlier civilization and earlier civilizations had more circular ah systems of travel. But yeah, that's really interesting. Yeah. 15:53.14 mikebledsoe Could be could be yeah I Just I think about um the older I get the more I think about how the environment is shaping. People's behavior in general because I think that the majority. 16:07.33 Dr_ Placebo Button. 16:10.68 mikebledsoe I know we talk about incentives here a lot too. But if you look at in what your environment and how that shapes someone's behavior and then the incentives put in place those 2 things are likely the biggest drivers of ah behavior. 16:21.32 Dr_ Placebo Click m. 16:29.33 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, right? So where where you are and then the carrots and the sticks. Basically when I was doing a lot of ah virtual reality. It made me think a lot about environment because when you set up ah like a fancy. 16:29.94 mikebledsoe Yeah. 16:47.13 Dr_ Placebo Vr system. They have basically different areas where you can do different stuff. It's very compartmentalized and of course as you know I've been learning a lot about compartmentalizing with the puppies because you need to have them in a specific zone that is cleared. For puppies to not destroy all your shit basically and then you know I had this idea of basically you have a console for work and that's where you always do work and then you have a console or you have an area for eating. And that's where you always do your eating and then you have a place where you do your bathing and your bathrooming and we sort of have that. But um, just to even focus it down even more So. There's no question about what you do. When you're in a specific Area. You're like okay I'm at the console I'm doing ah you know writing and emails boom and that's the only thing I do in that place and when you're in a virtual reality. It's It's exactly that you can't do. Anything else because as soon as you're like oh I think I'm going to play a game. You actually are like teleported basically to a different place so you're not even there Anymore. So I think that's actually pretty valuable is to have a place where you go to work. 18:18.83 Dr_ Placebo Place where you go to eat a place where you do this. It's not necessarily very very flexible. But I think it can help you get into that laser versus the lantern type of focus. 18:29.11 mikebledsoe What you know? ah when Covid hit a lot of people were concerned that you know work wasn't going to get done and then they found out that people were working even more hours when they were working from home and they're. 18:45.40 Dr_ Placebo E. 18:46.55 mikebledsoe Inability to compartmentalize work from the rest of their life was demonstrated and and a lot of people didn't know how to manage that. 18:57.91 Dr_ Placebo So so so they all became entrepreneurs. 19:01.95 mikebledsoe Well, ah, the the amount of freelancers that exist is has skyrocketed in the last few years Tons of new freelancers. Um I did a presentation recently where I was highlighting that it was um I want to. Can I remember off top my head I want to say at least 15 % of the workforce in the us of freelancers maybe more um and it's just like it's growing at ah at such a fast pace and it's and it's a sign of the decentralization of. Of labor and ah these companies don't want to have you know people don't stay with the company for 203040 years anymore like they used to the last time I heard a figure on it was the average and this was like. Ten years ago they were talking about how average employment link has gone from 30 years to 7 I'm sure it's more like three or four years now so people are switching jobs a lot faster. Um companies want to be more agile. 20:05.13 Dr_ Placebo Whoa. 20:12.81 mikebledsoe Which means they need to be able to exchange their people out faster which means that employment contracts get replaced with with and and people are becoming more specialized due to technology. So now it's like I specifically work in this type of marketing you can hire my firm which might just be me. 20:26.63 Dr_ Placebo Who. 20:32.42 mikebledsoe And might be me and a team and now I'm ah now I'm contractor so now these what's happening is companies are even the big ones are reducing the amount of employees they have and they're increasing the amount of ten ninety nine s they have the the contractors. 20:35.89 Dr_ Placebo Right. 20:50.17 Dr_ Placebo In. 20:50.38 mikebledsoe And um I my theory is this is this is part of the why they want to hire 87000 irs agents is because you have a bunch of people who have had taxes deducted out of their paycheck. 21:01.93 Dr_ Placebo I. 21:09.32 mikebledsoe Every paycheck for their entire life. They just went freelancer. They just turned ten ninety nine they didn't file their they didn't ah pay quarterly payments. They went to file realized they didn't have the money to pay the tax and not only that we're in the middle of recession. 21:17.12 Dr_ Placebo So. 21:27.88 mikebledsoe So and people are out of money already anyway and so now that's one I'm sure that's a ah factor. It's playing in in this decision try to squeeze the middle class more All these freelancers is ah is because of ah. 21:31.97 Dr_ Placebo And. 21:42.62 Dr_ Placebo I. 21:46.15 mikebledsoe People don't know how to file their taxes now. So now they gotta hunt these people down. 21:54.29 Dr_ Placebo Well I mean I I think it's even more simple than that if you hire a bunch of those thugs. It's ah 2 ways to win and no ways to lose because you're not even paying them with money that you earn you're paying them with money that you steal. So It's like.. It's kind of like two ways to win and no ways to lose which is a good way to go through life If You're an individual like give yourself opportunities where you have multiple ways to win and no ways to lose. Ah so I think it's more just like they can and why wouldn't they if that's their prerogative. But. 22:26.93 mikebledsoe Yeah, um, no. 22:30.90 Dr_ Placebo I Mean we don't want to have the whole podcast be ah, just about that. Probably just just another episode of fucking Max Angry. Ah. Episode 51 max is pissed Again. Ah. 22:50.41 mikebledsoe Ah, it's not fair. 22:53.35 Dr_ Placebo Ah, oh man, but it's not fair, but then again like once again like it's so important to have perspective and recognize that there's this constant rebalancing between business. And state where the the business is like okay you know you're going to work in our coal mine and by the way we have a little general store on the way out so you can spend all your money at our general store after your you know. 23:25.56 mikebledsoe That I tell you about this. 23:28.16 Dr_ Placebo 12 hour shift in the coal mine you know because I feel I feel like ah yeah, yeah, yeah, like only 30 episodes ago. Ah like you you basically have your you basically own this little work town more or less. 23:33.55 mikebledsoe Yeah man that shit blew my mind. 23:46.97 Dr_ Placebo And South Park app actually did a little episode about that. Ah, where all a lot of the people were working for Amazon and then ordering packages on Amazon so they basically just got a job at Amazon doing grunt work. So they could support their habit of buying shit from Amazon it's like work 16 hours what do you get another day older and deeper in it. It sounds and it's like this whole thing. Ah so there there's like a constant. You know rebalancing of that right? but it still it still falls into the natural order of an alpha dominating everybody else and it doesn't matter if you're a wolf or something like that. You know it doesn't matter what animal. There's always this pyramid. Type hierarchy and um, you know that's I know you talk about decentralization a lot where everybody is more or less free to make their own choices and once again, that's what that's what America was originally intended to be I think was. Everybody's more um, sovereign over their choices and the consequences of those choices which is a big part of it right. 25:05.19 mikebledsoe Yeah, with that comes the responsibility right? The yeah and that's I mean I think that's the key to the development of consciousness and people's ability to get in greater contact with reality is to. Suffer the consequences or reap the rewards of your behavior and when you're shielded from any of that. 25:32.58 Dr_ Placebo And that's also the worst. Oh that's also the worst type of governance is when the people making the decisions don't assume the consequences for their behavior right. 25:45.11 mikebledsoe Right? Well this this happens in um and business as Well, right? So when we look at and it usually so government creates Corporate. You know the idea of corporations right. Some some businessman comes along and says look if you allow me to create a corporation then I can and it'll shield me from liability from personally personally from my decisions in business and they go Oh. There's a great idea. It's gonna make a lot easier for. For investors. 26:26.93 mikebledsoe I lost you for a second you there? Okay, good. Um and so and so this idea that people are now shielded from liability now you've got. 26:27.22 Dr_ Placebo Yep. 26:32.78 Dr_ Placebo Oh yeah, I'm here. 26:43.76 mikebledsoe You know, ah was just we can take it up and in their notch. You know you got Pfizer who was had the largest fraud case in all of human history and had to pay out all you know how much money it was it was a ridiculous amount. Not as much as Alex Jones Doesn have to pay for running his mouth but ah, that wasn't a fraud case. So this is like 1 of the biggest fraud cases in all of history less than a slap on the wrist and then ah, what. And which results in people dying. The results are people dying and what happens with a Ceo fizer the one who's ultimately responsible for the company. Nothing nothing the company pays the fee pays the fine. No repercussion. And a lot of people go well, that's capitalism and I go no this is this is a people who are capitalistic who are capitalizing on the use of government for violence so without without them leveraging government. Pfizer would be in every individual if you take the government out. Well then people start looking around with well who do we blame you know and you can start pointing fingers now I don't think that I think that the. 28:12.29 mikebledsoe Even going after the Ceo of a company that just makes a drug is a diffusion of responsibility I would say what doctor prescribed this doctors are are shielded from liability as long as they follow these rules now they can't be found guilty of anything in court. Even if they were truly negligent and not practicing medicine appropriately as long as they follow the algorithm so you have all these things all these rules that are put in place. All these things are shielding liability that create an environment where people actually. Are not practicing judgment from moment to moment. They're just doing what they're told. 28:57.60 Dr_ Placebo Like which is what you would want if you were in charge hundred percent like if I'm in charge I don't want people questioning what I say I would like to have a small secret group of advisors. 28:59.31 mikebledsoe Um, which is yeah. 29:15.61 Dr_ Placebo That help me make decisions but I wouldn't want the broad population to question anything I'm saying under any circumstance because that would just make things very difficult to do what I want right? So It makes sense that you would not want that. What's. Interesting to me is you know there's all this like wrongful death. Let's call it I think that's what we would Call. That's let's call it wrongful death if you can if you can pay a fine for wrongful death. Why can't you have a slave. 29:52.24 mikebledsoe Ah. 29:53.14 Dr_ Placebo Like like if there's a number that they've decided is like okay that's all right? You paid the money you you do your thing That's fine like why can't you have an indentured servant or something like that. It just seems I don't know. 30:09.77 mikebledsoe Stop using your logic max. You're gonna you might trigger somebody. Ah. 30:17.75 Dr_ Placebo It's like we try to say oh you can't value a human life and yet we do all the time. 30:21.34 mikebledsoe Ah, it's worth $15 an hour for minimum wage for for minimum people. Um. 30:33.61 mikebledsoe I Mean we do have all right all right? So so. 30:35.58 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, it's It's a little bit weird the way we try to like value human life. Ah like monetarily it sort of makes sense I guess like what you'd like I don't know the way that we. 30:44.40 mikebledsoe Well, this is how I break it down look. 30:51.48 Dr_ Placebo The way that we punish wrongdoing is really weird it Most of the time doesn't really provide any relief to the victimized party right? Someone commits a crime and we're like we're going to send you to Jail but then the victim is just fucked basically still. 31:07.60 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 31:11.38 Dr_ Placebo So the taxpayers foot the bill of this alleged criminal now. But there's no like rested I mean once again like a lot of the stuff is done as badly as possible but like you say it's all about the incentives at play more than anything. 31:24.30 mikebledsoe Yeah, if someone wrongs somebody else or say we want to be humane right? We're not going to pay him back? Yeah, so like you Rob somebody maybe you you injure somebody and. 31:31.95 Dr_ Placebo Pay him back. Pay him back. 31:41.67 mikebledsoe They lose an eye or an arm or whatever it is. They can't do their work anymore. It's like all right? Well now you're working for them. You're not gonna enter. 31:50.63 Dr_ Placebo Insurance companies figure it out insurance companies figure out exactly how much they're willing to pay if you hurt your leg. They know exactly if you have a pancrea Titis they have a schedule. 31:55.35 mikebledsoe Exactly. 32:06.63 Dr_ Placebo For exactly how much they're going to pay to help you resolve your pancreatitis. So why don't we have I mean look you just put me in charge and I will fix everything ah right before I'm assassinated. 32:08.30 mikebledsoe Um I Love how we're solving all the world's problems right now. 32:20.75 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah, so I mean this is interesting like you're right? There are all sorts of formulas for figuring out what the cost should be so somebody injures somebody else. It's like okay you owe me X amount of dollars and you've you've got to give me. 32:27.25 Dr_ Placebo And then ah. 32:40.88 mikebledsoe 2 wo-thirds of your money that you make until then and so you're basically you basically lose your freedom of labor and time and of your own life in exchange for your wrongdoing and no one had to die that person could still improve their skills. 32:44.49 Dr_ Placebo Right. 33:00.25 mikebledsoe As a and they're late their skills of labor that could still contribute to society. They could still help build the wealth of the society and the person who is wrong gets made right. 33:13.89 Dr_ Placebo Well and that's what taxation is right? It's part-time servitude and people don't recognize what an imposition that is especially when you consider the fact that there's no incentive for the people spending those stolen dollars to be efficient with them. You know. 33:25.68 mikebledsoe Um, right? But what about the roads max. What about the roads. 33:33.53 Dr_ Placebo Um, we would We would never have roads ever unless we were like deeply gouged every fucking year. There's no way. No one would think to lay down asphalt. 33:41.42 mikebledsoe A lot of the roads out in California were not poured by anyone wasn't paid for gut by government. It was private roads that were built by lumber companies and other things that were later. 33:49.24 Dr_ Placebo I Mean it's ridiculous like these arguments. But. 34:00.60 mikebledsoe Purchased by the government but government didn't build those roads. 34:06.55 Dr_ Placebo Well and just to push back I agree with you and I'm also glad that we didn't just let the lumber companies go full hog and completely take down every tree that existed in the western side of the United States because when you start looking at how efficient we have gotten at processing the environment. It is. It is really insane honestly, how good we are at catching fish. How good we are at processing lumber. Um the speed with which we can. Expand and procreate I mean even with relatively few offspring ah per couple per coupling. We can spread crazy fast. Um and I was I was watching this thing the other day it was about. 35:03.98 Dr_ Placebo Another animal documentary. You know I love that stuff and these fish these fish these herring on near Vancouver island they go to lay their eggs. There. They do 20000 eggs per fish up to and they they plant them all individually. Everywhere. So. There's this huge influx of like a million fish. They each drop off like 20000 eggs and a lot of them get eaten by in the environment and then you have these wolves on Vancouver Island and they have like 2 wolf pups like 2 compared to 20000 so the amount of sophistication required and the investment per offspring is so significant the more complex of an animal you get. But I mean look how crazy good humans are at keeping offspring alive. It's incredible. So. On the one hand I guess I'm glad we didn't just go total free rain on ah you know, cutting down all the forests and eating every single animal. Um, but at the same time There's an incentive if you're a lumberjack to not. Ah, cut down every single tree right? So once again, you just want the incentives to be in place I always think of the Roman Bridge builders that's like my favorite example, you build a bridge you have to stand underneath it when we test it out that that's my favorite example. 36:33.23 mikebledsoe Yeah. 36:40.89 Dr_ Placebo So when you're looking for someone who's going to work for you. Make sure that their performance and their incentive are related. Simple is that if you're looking for work ah make sure that your performance and incentive are related. And all the other stuff we're talking about is mostly mental masturbation. Um, because it doesn't really affect the bottom line of what an individual can do what an individual can do is um, get clear on their values. And figure out how to provide value so value and values and regardless of what you decide to do as a profession just make sure that the incentive and the ah consequences are in the like the same place. Basically. So you can get so you can earn more if you do better and you earn less if you do worse and that way you really have Um, you're like the master of your destiny so to speak. 37:43.94 mikebledsoe I Want to go back to the lumberjacks. So there's no one So there's an incentive for them not to cut everything down but the problem is sometimes people are short sighted. You need somebody else to come in with an objective. 37:59.22 Dr_ Placebo True. 37:59.67 mikebledsoe And objective perspective and go hey hey I'm looking at the bigger picture here. Don't do that anymore. Do it like this and then people either listen or don't listen, but that's where government comes in this because the government says well you have to listen to me or else I'll conduct violence on you? yeah. 38:17.44 Dr_ Placebo Shoot you right? or put you in a box back to our boxes. We'll put it. We'll put you in a box that you don't want to be in you want to be in this other box. But we're going to put you in this one. 38:18.40 mikebledsoe So you know yeah. 38:31.43 mikebledsoe So How do you?? How do you motivate people I mean some people will argue that um I mean I do which is the lack of of ah the repercussions hitting that person individually is what's keeping them From. Understanding their their um the impact they're having and that's been going on generation after generation after generation they're shielded from it so people are actually become too dumb to realize the the impacts of of their behavior. So How do we. 39:07.96 mikebledsoe How do we do? How do we do that without threatening violence like how do we get people to expand their awareness and not do dumb stuff without threatening them. 39:07.99 Dr_ Placebo Well ignorance it. 39:21.76 Dr_ Placebo Ah, well, it's like ah it's like heaven and hell basically it's it's a carrot or a stick and people are the natural condition of humans is ignorance the natural condition of any animal. Ignorance so you need to have some sort of carrot and some sort of stick and ah heaven and hell are really good examples of that but you need to have some sort of ah constructive incentive I Think that's why religion did work so Well. And has continued to work really well because it's like ah it's It's an untouchable goodness and badness like you can't even imagine how excellent heaven is and you can't even imagine how awful hell could possibly be.. You're like oh. You know about hell if you burned your hand.. It's like way worse than burning your hand.. It's like a thousand times worse than that and it's forever and you're like oh fuck forever that seems like a really long Time. You're like okay I guess I won't covet. My Neighbor's goods or something like that right? so. I Guess it's kind of the same thing. Um and some people don't give a shit about whether the local wildlife stays alive and some people take it way too Far. They're like oh you can't You can't build this. 40:52.70 Dr_ Placebo Bridge here because it's going to impact the spawning of the the spotted pigmy something or other you know what I mean and you have like 5 ah people working full time to figure out and. Make up some fancy charts about why it's bad that you can't ah bad to build that bridge. So I don't I don't think there's a definitive answer other than you need to have with any group you need to have some sort of hierarchy because it's got to ultimately be somebody's decision. 41:29.66 mikebledsoe Yeah, um I guess my question is does the hierarchy need to need to include violence you you guys just that's human nature. We need somebody who's gonna like to say you know what you better behave wrong gonna beat you down. 41:38.85 Dr_ Placebo Well I think. 41:50.73 Dr_ Placebo You know, a lot of people are robbing stores right now. Um from what I understand and I don't know if I'm getting bad information or not well I mean at my local home Depot I See a lot of ah tools. 41:54.57 mikebledsoe I mean it's mostly in in Northern California 42:07.15 mikebledsoe Ah, ah. 42:07.86 Dr_ Placebo That are now locked up that were no were not locked up before and ah, you know there are some like there are some things that you can go on like next door and it's mostly a bunch of curtain twitchers like look lo and busybodies. 42:22.41 mikebledsoe Yeah. 42:27.76 Dr_ Placebo Just like oh can you believe these damn kids were riding their bikes without a helmet and it's like yes, kids are stupid and 1 of them might die and that'll be really sad but like do we really need to talk about it. Um, but they also discuss like what's going look and and you might die. 42:36.10 mikebledsoe Ah I never wore a helmet when I was a kid just for the record. 42:46.57 Dr_ Placebo You know it's just you got to accept the consequences right? code of Hamurabi had clear consequences for every crime if you pluck out a man's eye your eye gets plucked out if you kill a man you get killed if you rape a woman. Have to marry her and pay her dad 50 silver shekels. It's really weird rules but they had a clear consequence for every crime that there was and so people are talking about folks just walking out of stores with a bunch of stuff and I can't imagine. Being a business that's open all the time that people can just jack your stuff and walk out because the consequences of trying to stop them. Are you probably get sued or something crazy like that which is. Is way worse. We're talking like ah you know the litigiousness of our of our culture is so pathetic. Honestly, it's ah it really makes it harder for everybody. 43:51.77 mikebledsoe Well this is the difference between what I saw between California and Florida we could take the 2 extremes here is you had people writing and stealing and all that stuff and in California you know you actually tried to stop. 44:08.43 Dr_ Placebo And. 44:10.29 mikebledsoe Like if you harm somebody and trying to stop them from stealing from you like you're going to be in trouble and they're not going to charge a person for theft and they're just like no property rights just aren't honored there or in Florida my buddy he lives in Miami and. All the rightots were were going pretty strong like two and a half years ago and I forget exactly what what person in government said this you know don't know if it was like the sheriff or if it was the mayor or the governor or whoever it was they were like all right. If you own a store and people are coming in that try to Rob you, you can shoot them. We encourage you to they basically encourage the behavior that you're gonna get you know? Ah, ah, what's it called. They're gonna try to do something to you in California. So. 44:56.92 Dr_ Placebo And. 45:06.18 mikebledsoe All these business owners. They're like okay so they go to their stores. They aren't armed I think 1 or 2 guys got shot they died and then all the writing stopped and it it's the you that um. 45:06.81 Dr_ Placebo Right. 45:16.48 Dr_ Placebo Yeah Incentives work the incentive to not get shot is tremendous. 45:26.47 mikebledsoe But the thing is is what you have in in Florida was the government getting out of the way you say you know what we're actually not going to ah get in the way of you protecting your life your property. Your labor because your property is your labor It's a product of your labor and you know our job is to make sure that ah we're not going to fuck that up and that if someone else comes and fucks up your your property your labor your your life then we're going to help you know, bring. 45:53.27 Dr_ Placebo Yep. 46:04.00 mikebledsoe Some type of ah Justice there. But in the meantime if you are going to be able to bring your own justice very quickly and defend yourself because if you break if someone breaks into your house. They have to me they initiated violence. They just. They broke a window. They didn't harm me physically but they they have just that they put their life on the line there because I have no idea what their intentions are right. 46:36.70 Dr_ Placebo I totally agree and you don't have enough time to figure out if they're just trying to take your television or if they're trying to murder you and then take your television like there's no way to tell so basically in Florida what they did is they. 46:45.38 mikebledsoe There's no way to tell. 46:53.29 mikebledsoe Right? right. 46:54.37 Dr_ Placebo They did not interfere with self-defense. That's all they didn't do right? So if you just don't interfere with self-defense things have a way of rebalancing themselves and it reminds me of when I was in Oklahoma with ah my grandpa. 47:12.21 Dr_ Placebo He took me to this jewelry store where ah we didn't have to go there like he wasn't going to pick up jewelry or anything. He just knew the owner of the jewelry store and wanted me to meet this guy and see the bullet holes in the wall. 47:28.29 mikebledsoe Ah, and yeah. 47:28.30 Dr_ Placebo Because this guy I was like fourteen years old I was like whoa this is pretty heavy stuff. Ah, and so basically some some guy came into the jewelry store and said to the owner give me your money but the jewelry store owner had a shotgun mounted. Underneath the ah ah like display case and he just fired out like both barrels of a shotgun basically and he left the little beeb's ah, some of them were red some like red Beebe's in the far wall and he just left them. There. And I was just saying wow that is like a strong incentive to not do that and it's like if that's not ah if it's not okay to defend yourself. Do you really want to be part of that group and I think for most rational people they would say no. Right? I don't want to just be a sitting duck. Basically. 48:27.59 mikebledsoe Yeah, well I think it's um I found it interesting over the last couple years how a lot of the same people who have been preaching consent around sex are the same ones that. 48:43.54 Dr_ Placebo Oh yeah. 48:45.60 mikebledsoe Ah, will be the first ones be like don't defend yourself and went from things that aren't rape. It's like it's like it's like it's like ah sex gets put in a super special category I think I think I. 48:52.82 Dr_ Placebo Totally. 49:03.61 Dr_ Placebo Rape is not about sex Rape is not about sex. It is about choice almost everybody really likes sex. It's just that they want it to be their choice right? That's it. It's like most people like food. 49:11.00 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 49:20.80 mikebledsoe Yeah. 49:20.57 Dr_ Placebo They just don't want to be like force fed food through a funnel or something like that. It's all about choice. It has nothing to do with sex is like just barely the ah the medium for that removal of choice. 49:32.29 mikebledsoe Yeah I think I think when it comes to sex is extra touchy because women specifically are at a disadvantage in those scenarios right? It's very rare. 49:45.93 Dr_ Placebo Well why would you say that I don't understand can you explain because women are just as strong as men. 49:52.38 mikebledsoe So ah. 49:57.86 mikebledsoe Ah, they can also have penises. 50:04.50 Dr_ Placebo And their penises are just as big. Ah god. 50:04.70 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah, ah actually to make this a little bit more clear for people. Um, yeah, if you're if you're a man then your your job and for sex is to penetrate and then for the woman is to receive that Penetration. So. 50:22.56 Dr_ Placebo Oh God I've been doing it all wrong. 50:26.76 mikebledsoe Ah, so ah, yeah, it that the the the penetrators are are more likely to be the rapist is what I'm getting at so that's right the point. 50:38.31 Dr_ Placebo The penetrators are the perpetrators is what you're saying. 50:42.38 mikebledsoe More often than not so um, so I think that in our society sex is ah yeah, that for some reason it's way touchier when it comes to consent when it comes to sex but it. There it when it comes to physical violence or when it comes to injecting people with experimental drugs go going to War Consent. It's I. 51:11.10 Dr_ Placebo Going to war taxation. 51:16.78 mikebledsoe Tell people who go who have the realization that I'm um, talking about here and they go holy shit like these people are like arguing for consent here but not over here and there's a lot of things like that I go. Well yeah, it's because people don't understand principles. People are. Ah, if they were actually principally based they would then say well consent matters in every situation. There are no special occasions for when consent is is not okay or you know isn't isn't useful. 51:53.63 Dr_ Placebo Agreed greed. 51:54.25 mikebledsoe And so ah, the majority of people in politics the majority of people who care about politics are very hypocritical so you know if you're getting mad at somebody else about you know because if you look at the left. They basically say we want consent for this but not this if you look at the right They say the same thing we want consent for this but not this and they're basically just arguing over who's going to be able to boss the other one around and who's going to not be bossed around. 52:29.21 Dr_ Placebo Right? There's like 5 things that they'll never agree on and never budge an inch and then 1000000 things that everybody agrees on because it's just super obvious and that's what keeps people divided the five things that no one will budge on. 52:35.67 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, the 5 the 5 things. 52:49.10 Dr_ Placebo Ah, yeah, you're 100% right it is all about consent I think um I mean there's not much else to say really, it's just that people are trapped where they're just feeling something. 53:02.65 mikebledsoe 5 my. 53:04.75 Dr_ Placebo Something just feels wrong to them. But the other thing feels right to them and we're we're trained to seek authority from some higher figure and that person is going to make it right. That Authority figure is going to make it right? and it's always like people are always in favor of that people want the leader with a big stick who says my way or the highway until the other guy gets in charge like I feel like a broken record sometimes. But it's like everybody is like oh we hate that guy in Charge. He's doing all these executive orders and then the next guy comes in and they're like yeah look at our guy taking charge making those executive orders. It's like no dude What? like? okay. 53:53.18 mikebledsoe I. 54:00.46 mikebledsoe Terrible. 54:02.11 Dr_ Placebo Democracy is also a bad idea. That's why capitalism at least true capitalism would be a lot better because look if 51% of the people vote that it's okay to rape the other 49 of their stuff or their anuses. Whatever. Right? It doesn't matter. That's okay, according to democracy because it's still just glorified mob rule that they put their leader in charge and they can pretty much do whatever the fuck they want because they have the biggest stick around and it's just crazy that people think that is the best way to go go about it. Rather than mostly leaving it up to the individuals each and every day to decide what they value and how they want to spend their dollars how they want to spend their time how they want to spend their ah resources right. 54:51.12 mikebledsoe Um, but how could we control them the ah. 55:02.27 Dr_ Placebo I Mean some things you need if you're going to be a leader though. You do need to have some sort of um, incentive for people to want to be part of your group right? That's the. 55:11.42 mikebledsoe Yeah, you got gotta to make someone else the villain you know like I'm gonna save you from these people over here I mean I learned most of what. 55:17.82 Dr_ Placebo That's the main thing. 55:24.16 Dr_ Placebo I'm going to save you from an invisible scourge that is ravaging the world by the way. It's totally invisible. You can't see it don't breathe the air. It will kill you. 55:33.67 mikebledsoe Other Invisibles scourges inflation. Let's see inflation is Evil Ah, ah, there's another one. Ah and this up. 55:46.70 Dr_ Placebo So do we talk about how we're trying to fix inflation by printing more dollars and giving everyone more money. Do we talk about that. 55:50.81 mikebledsoe And and inflation terrorism. These are things that are invisible that ah you can you can scare the be Jesus out of people. So like you know we're gonna get those terrorists I'm like who are the terrorists. You know the terrorists like can you show me one of them. 56:06.81 Dr_ Placebo Well, if terrorism if Terrorism is controlling people through if terrorism is controlling people through fear. No one is a bigger terrorist than our own media and government. No question. Not even. 56:08.67 mikebledsoe Are they wearing a uniform. 56:16.44 mikebledsoe Yeah says Cnn. 56:24.25 Dr_ Placebo not even close. It's not even close it's so it's so crazy far ahead like Al Qaeda we shouldn't even know their name based on the small percentage of terror they've instilled versus these media conglomerates which people are mainlining. Every day like a fucking drug. They're like oh god I forgot I wasn't supposed to be I forgot I was supposed to be afraid every second of every fucking day right. 56:51.34 mikebledsoe I Think the same thing goes for um I got the inflation I think dude. 56:57.20 Dr_ Placebo Oh my god North Korea North Korea is going to get us that country across the sea that can barely feed themselves. Oh god thanks for reminding me to be afraid of North Korea 57:08.12 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, ah was it last night I was hanging out with some friends and they were talking about the chinese have created an artificial sun that's 5 times hotter and I go well where is this. And go it's in a nuclear. They got some like reactor or whatever and I'm like man I'm having a really hard time believing this because the chinese are terrible innovators. They're very good at copying things ah like 80% as good as it was originally intended to be but they're not making anything new. They're definitely not creating a sun and extracting energy from it and they were getting I think something like that. 57:54.42 Dr_ Placebo Well, do they just mean a nuclear reactor that is more efficient because those things are very those things are very hot and you'd be sort of I I believe we can make stuff that's hotter than the sun. Um, don't quote me on that. But I think there's a lot of stuff that we can. Make that's hotter than the sun. It's not necessarily true that we can extract a ton of energy out of it Although Nuclear power plants are crazy efficient compared to anything else that we've sorted out So if they have a nuclear reactor. That's even you know 20% more efficient. 58:18.12 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 58:31.20 Dr_ Placebo That might actually already be hotter than the sun but probably whatever information they read is so misleading right? because now we're trying to get eyeballs that have just been skull fucked every day for the last decade of like the 1 thing you should be afraid of or. 58:50.24 mikebledsoe Um, well there' a the conversation I was having with my friends yesterday went from it went from China's got a sun. It's hot than the sun or ah, that's hot than yet the sun and then. 58:50.26 Dr_ Placebo Is the apocalypse happening today here's what you should do. It's like every this is like oh my god like how could you? ah. 59:04.89 mikebledsoe It was all ref in the conversation about ah Russia and nuclear war unlike I'm like oh you just got like spun up so anything that you could be afraid of from a country that's on the other side of the planet. You're freaking out and then they're like yeah I mean they mean nuclear war I'm like I'm like. 59:12.20 Dr_ Placebo Great. Okay. 59:24.52 mikebledsoe Russia can't is not gonna get a warhead into like America. It's not gonna like they don't have the they they could shoot something this direction but I don't think it's gonna make it and and again, yeah, it's not good. 59:39.72 Dr_ Placebo And if it did what's the probability that it hits you. 59:42.69 mikebledsoe Yeah I mean people are then they're like oh the fallout and all this I'm like unlike maybe but here's the thing with the chinese sun and the russian nukes I can't do a damn thing about either 1 of them like I I'm not. Ah. 59:59.57 Dr_ Placebo Better start building that Bunker blood. So the blood so bunker. Okay here. 01:00:04.16 mikebledsoe Ah, oh we should start selling this all right. The new new New direction for the show. We scare the shit out of people. 01:00:12.36 Dr_ Placebo You can order your blood so bunker and it it 5 5 3 2 4 5 call now to reserve your blood snow bunker. It comes with six months of food six months of water. You're welcome simple simple as that right. 01:00:17.30 mikebledsoe That's a. 01:00:25.80 mikebledsoe that's ah that's Alex Jones's that's Alex Jones ' whole thing just scares the shit of you. Oh my god the world's gonna end the pedophiles are gonna drop nukes on us. But and then it's like commercial comes in. It's like. 01:00:30.56 Dr_ Placebo I Mean. Totally yeah. 01:00:40.98 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, the pedophiles are going to drop new on. 01:00:41.31 mikebledsoe Buy the fair supply by my food supply. 01:00:47.74 Dr_ Placebo Right? Totally by this bucket of slop that will keep you alive in your bunker and okay so one 1 thing that's practical insurance and acceptance most people aren't spending their lives all that well anyway. 01:00:50.17 mikebledsoe A. 01:01:06.87 Dr_ Placebo Now I'm not 1 to judge right? But if you're just afraid you're just afraid all the time like is that really a way to live and there are only 2 things you can do about the future insurance and acceptance and if you're going to get insurance. 01:01:07.36 mikebledsoe Um. 01:01:22.78 Dr_ Placebo You got to set it and forget it Otherwise the insurance is a waste of fucking time. It's like buying fire insurance and then every day worrying that your house is going to burn down. It's stupid. Yeah, very nice. Excellent. 01:01:31.13 mikebledsoe That's why I cover my house with water every morning you know, just in case. Yeah. 01:01:41.25 Dr_ Placebo I'm sure it takes ah a really long time. Ah, just and I'm sure it's really good for the materials to be constantly drenched in water. 01:01:44.56 mikebledsoe Um, oh I I got ah I got a buddy who lives in tahoe and was it last year. Yeah, it was last year basically tahoe was on fire. 01:02:00.27 mikebledsoe While burning renegade burning man was happening so he walks out of his house. He sprays it down with a hose and then he just leaves the hose on to try to make the property as wet as possible gets in his car and goes to burning man for a week 01:02:12.80 Dr_ Placebo Ah. 01:02:20.28 mikebledsoe And that was acceptance. He's like he's like I did the best thing I could do and you know my house and might not be there when I get back. 01:02:24.80 Dr_ Placebo That's an option that is an option. 01:02:31.96 Dr_ Placebo Insurance and acceptance you got to figure out what'll make you feel comfortable and just set it and forget it. There's no point in buying the insurance If you're going to worry about it all the time and you ultimately. Like everything comes back to accepting your own impermanence and the ego is only ever trying to gain more and more permanence so they're at odds with one another. So unless you bring acceptance into it. There's no amount of insurance that'll make you feel really safe. You'll be.. You'll be deep in a bunker. You'll be like oh fuck I forgot about Earthquakes I'll be totally fucked down here in this bunker If. There's an earthquake and then you're like okay I need a I need it to be in the Sky. No I need it to be on the Moon. And then you live on the moon and you're like fuck. There's no asteroid defense on the moon and it's like ah I don't know kind of like the same Hedonic treadmill where you are just so focused on material. Um things. You're like oh I need a better house and a better car and a better this and a better that and you know realistically ah, most people just want to feel ah like they're in flow with whatever the thing they're doing is some sort of play. 01:04:01.73 Dr_ Placebo For some people play is playing cards with their friends or having ah an adult beverage with friends and just talking but people really just want to play more than anything else. But if you're so hellbent on like I got to get safe I got to get safe I got to get safe. You're just gonna be stuck in your lizard brain. So You're not going to make a very good forwardthink decision. You're gonna make short-term decisions that assuage the fear of the lizard. So You know we have those 3 tiers lizard mammal and wizard and if you don't feel safe. You're gonna be stuck in Lizard mode and be like I got to get safe I got to get safe I got to get safe. You won't go to the mammal level where you're like I got to find love I Got to find love I Got to find love of course it's the easiest thing to find you just you just be Love. That's it. It's it's like. The easiest thing ever and the hardest thing for most people to do and if you feel safe if you feel that not only are you loved but you are loved then you have this wizard brain that can be creative and think of new things and. Tell jokes and play music and play games and think about what would be good in the future without being totally trapped by the fear of the lizard or the lack of love in the mammal. But if you're if you're stuck just like being bounced around from fear to fear. 01:05:34.19 Dr_ Placebo Via Terrorism I mean you're just playing into the hands of the people who are profiting from that terrorism right. 01:05:39.82 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, and you got to be careful I mean media? What what media are you consuming the fact that you're here consuming this media I think you've made a good choice. But yeah, if you're consuming Cnn Msnbc Fox News they're gonna be just scaring a shit out of you all the time. Um. And then. 01:05:59.37 Dr_ Placebo And it and it probably won't even change your decisions in like a constructive way. It'll just make you. It'll just make you more afraid right. 01:06:03.38 mikebledsoe Not in a good way Now it'll make you more it. Ah you know you got fight flight freeze most people freeze you know I don't know what to do I'm going to freeze and they they they freeze in. 01:06:13.20 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, yeah. 01:06:20.43 mikebledsoe Being able to move forward in their life. Um, so you got also need to look at who you're hanging out with if you're hanging out with people who are always talking about prepping for the apocalypse you're probably not going to make a lot of forward motion in your life. Ah, if shit hits the fan. You might be a little more prepared may probably not. 01:06:34.11 Dr_ Placebo Totally. 01:06:39.15 mikebledsoe Because my my whole thing on it is I hang out with some people who sometimes get a little far into the prepper mode and I help you know fish them out a little bit and then I also have another group of friends who that never crosses their mind whatsoever and every you know unicorns and rainbows are coming. 01:06:49.62 Dr_ Placebo Yep. 01:06:55.75 Dr_ Placebo At once. 01:06:58.91 mikebledsoe The reality is somewhere in the middle and the but it's helpful because I like to visit the friends that are unicorns and rainbows because it helps balance me out ah from like hanging out with people who are like freaking out the end is coming I'm like look. 01:07:00.72 Dr_ Placebo Right? so. 01:07:17.88 mikebledsoe Things are gonna change. It may be really uncomfortable but like as you were saying the impermanence is always there So how it changes and you think you're gonna predict that I've never predicted how something was going to go accurately. Ah. 01:07:29.70 Dr_ Placebo Right. 01:07:37.27 mikebledsoe I Mean only vague predictions will be like oh this guy will win. This guy will lose or this even then my predictions aren't that great like the the track record's not amazing is like oh this business work. This one won't well I thought all my businesses were gonna work and not all of them did so not the way I. 01:07:45.00 Dr_ Placebo A. 01:07:55.82 mikebledsoe Not the way I wanted them to um, they worked in their own way and so same thing with life. 01:07:59.75 Dr_ Placebo Right? Ah so you want the preppers you want the preppers to set up your insurance and you want to hang with the unicorn and rainbow crew because it's going to be a lot more fun. Ah. 01:08:07.67 mikebledsoe I Don't let out my secret man. 01:08:17.27 Dr_ Placebo Oh Wow I couldn't have figured that who could have figured that out. 01:08:18.94 mikebledsoe Ah, blowing my cover bro. Yeah. 01:08:23.52 Dr_ Placebo Ah, ah boy I'm sure no one would think of that your plus plus if everyone else do is does it then you can't right? That's like ah it. 01:08:32.18 mikebledsoe Yeah I mean we might end up with a lot of really healthy adjusted people if they all did what I did but instead I need to keep some of them in the clouds and some of them in in deep fear. 01:08:44.66 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, it's not ah, it's well it's not a 0 sum game right? It's actually the more like so the micro level like for you and I as individuals. Um the more value that. We can provide the better off. We are the more concrete. Um, our values are the more that we know and can love ourselves the easier it is to make decisions and broadly speaking in a community the more value every individual provides the healthier that. Community is because if you have people who earn nothing and don't provide anything of value. Well here's what you can do you can work. You can beg and you can steal and those are the only 3 ways you can get stuff Basically so if everyone. Has something valuable then we can all work and earn and the overall value and the health of the group economy community whatever is significantly higher I mean that's hopefully what's happening here is there's a small group of people. Maybe a large group of people who are listening to these are like oh yeah, you know what? I I now can work past this fear I was having and maybe I can ah accept my own

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00:10.29 Dr_ Placebo Welcome back to Monday mornings with max and Mike Today we're going to talk about Mike's funny glasses and we're gonna continue to cut through the Bs where we see it and then we're gonna add some BS. of our own Mike what's up and what's up with the glasses. 00:33.17 mikebledsoe Absolutely only the most helpful BS in the world. So ah, you know I had to get the we've already used that title. Ah. 00:38.00 Dr_ Placebo Oh can we call this episode constructive lives fuck. Okay I Guess that's really all there is is that all language Anyway, whatever right. 00:48.14 mikebledsoe ah ah I mean the enlightened folk out there I think I would tell you that. So yeah, the glasses are to solve ah a problem that was created by trying to solve a problem that we're trying to solve a problem. So. Ah, basically well these are blue light blocking glasses. So these are not my I still have twenty I'm forty years old 2020 vision to this day I ah I have to acknowledge my parents for their good genetics. 01:19.73 Dr_ Placebo Quit bragging. 01:26.50 mikebledsoe And ah and and my own personal work of doing a lot of things outdoors. No but ah, it's funny because I did start getting some floaters in my eyes and but not I mean I don't even notice them unless I'm like staring at the blue sky you know type of thing. But I. 01:37.10 Dr_ Placebo E. 01:46.21 mikebledsoe Was somebody asked me about their floaters and I go I go you know I'm not really sure what it is but I'm sure that if your body is incredibly healthy and doesn't carry a heavy toxic load and a lot of inflammation your eyes are probably eye health overall is going to do well. But so um. Was like you know what? and it's funny after that conversation I started noticing I was like oh when I'm looking at screens all day. My eyes I can tell like there's I go from being in my living room and then I sit down I have this I have a really big screen at my desk and I got the screen. 02:22.70 Dr_ Placebo Um. 02:23.68 mikebledsoe To improve my posture. So if you if you've got a tiny screen you're more likely to be hunched over trying to look at it and your head's gonna jut forward. But if you have a big screen. It's positioned right? You actually have to like sit back a little bit your chin tucks and you go into a much better posture. So I got this big screen and then I. 02:33.46 Dr_ Placebo Yep. 02:42.81 mikebledsoe Realize that my eyes are just getting blasted by a ton of blue light when I'm looking. There's artificial light I'm just staring right at it for hours and hour hours and hour hours and hours a day and I was like oh I need to get some blue light blocking glasses. So these are like my daytime I have some that. 02:47.24 Dr_ Placebo And. 03:01.32 mikebledsoe When the sun goes down I just swap it out with something that's more heavy duty. Ah and when I wear these glasses my eyes like my nervous system. Overall it's not just my eyes. My nervous system tends to be calmer throughout the day so looking into the blue light all day without anything to block it. Yeah. It was frying me. So yeah, we'll see. We'll see if. 03:21.60 Dr_ Placebo I Smell a sponsor. 03:30.11 mikebledsoe You got to be on my email list be on my email list. You might get links to the you know these products these magical products. 03:31.34 Dr_ Placebo Ah, ah, um, man and ah, all right all right I like it. You know I noticed um because I play tennis and. I Don't know if you know but you really need to be able to see quite well to play tennis at a distance in a variety of light scenarios and I noticed a couple times when I was on the computer a bunch before it Just absolutely. Put my ability to see the tennis ball in the basement. It was really rough. So I try to think of it like you know, um, like rpgs like role-playing video games and some you know you're you're going around. Maybe you're fighting monsters or some shit. But occasionally you find yourself. 04:10.54 mikebledsoe Here. 04:28.90 Dr_ Placebo A little console and I kind of think of ah life that way a little bit. It's a role-playing game and I try to be really mindful of how much time I'm spending at the console.. There should be a really compelling Reason. To use the screens basically and we we really we really don't know what the total cost is um, certainly there's the old ah example of the accountant becomes nearsighted and the farmer becomes farsighted. Right? And so I think the cycling between is the key. 05:06.54 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, dude I I agree this is a I love we're talking about this because Ashley and I oh my my mistake, my fiance and I forget her name. Ah yeah. 05:21.39 Dr_ Placebo Jennifer should come up with a fake name. 05:23.75 mikebledsoe Do that now I'm gonna be in trouble. Ah, she'll be the last person listen to this show. She she hears me rant enough. Ah the we we were having date night last night and one these little fancy blind bars. We had bread and accoutrements. 05:34.68 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 05:41.63 mikebledsoe And i't know what that word means but I know when I order it I Love the food that's put in front of me So the ah the oh yeah, the charouty as well. 05:53.29 Dr_ Placebo Charcotery is what I like I can say feed me meat and cheese in like 10 languages. 06:00.81 mikebledsoe Yeah I mean that's that's that's the necessary skills to have any travel. So. It's basically food and and bathrooms. But ah ah we were talking about Myopia and so I had I. Talked about ah I saw a study there day and said there's a huge rides in Myopia and that is nearsightedness that means that people can see just fine something that's in the room with them but something that they try to see far away appears to be blurry and um. You know it's attributed to the fact that everyone's looking at things really close but hardly ever looking at anything very far away and ah that that had me thinking about a concept and I don't know where I picked this up but I I didn't invent it myself. 06:45.19 Dr_ Placebo Edit. 06:56.68 mikebledsoe Which is ah basically the idea is that the more time you spend looking close if you're in a room and all that your your brain actually has a hard time conceptualizing very far out into the future your ability to project. Further out your ability to consider more is hindered and so your eyes are basically just like your your brain is reaching out in front to try to capture some sense of the world and ah if you spend a lot of time. 07:29.63 Dr_ Placebo A. 07:34.42 mikebledsoe And a small space. You're probably gonna think small thoughts. You're gonna have there's gonna small thinking your ability to think into the future is gonna be minimized and you know what? what? Mate. What I thought about next is you know the last two and a half years people spent. There's a 2 wo-year period where a lot of people probably the most people most people who were already indoors way too much now decide to lock themselves inside a house and stare at screens instead of. 07:52.34 Dr_ Placebo Um. 08:08.21 mikebledsoe Instead of looking at somebody who's ten feet away they're always eighteen inches away and if you're on your phone dude it's it's like it's one foot away from your face. So now you have an entire population of people who are near so ah near sighted they're they're myopic their thinking becomes myopic. So. 08:09.71 Dr_ Placebo M. 08:27.38 mikebledsoe As above so below. So whatever's happening in your physical world is going to dictate how your internal world is if you're living in a messy chaotic space your mind is likely gonna be a little messy and chaotic. So this I remember back to when I was living in California and remember. You remember my house and had that big window that was just dude I spent most of my time like I would wake up and walk in the backyard and look over the cliff into the expanse of the ocean and all that and at any time I could leave my computer and put my eyes out there. And it was all it was really nice to be able to get that that contrast and I and it felt good now. You had the practice of looking across the way and trying to spot little boats or a house down the way and to help with my eyesight and. 09:14.56 Dr_ Placebo A. 09:23.80 mikebledsoe And it got me thinking about just my ability to operate in business if I'm in front of a computer screen all the time you know how does that hinder my ability to plan for the future to see greater opportunities or am I going to be able to just see what's in front of me right now. 09:42.42 Dr_ Placebo Man I love what you said there starting about ah 2 two and a half minutes ago in case, anyone wants to timestamp this for later ah, because as soon as you said myopia I was thinking ah visual and psychological right? You get totally locked in. 09:54.20 mikebledsoe Yeah. 10:00.19 Dr_ Placebo Your your world literally shrinks your peripheral vision goes away and from just a more mechanical standpoint your muscles in your eyes and just outside your eyes are going to learn to stay frozen. In that certain area. You know most people are looking between twelve inches and twenty four inches away from their face all the time and if you want to do that. That's fine, but just understand there are going to be tremendous costs to this behavior right. The muscles on the inside of your eyes and outside of your eyes are going to start to freeze into that position because remember your body is always and exactly adapting to whatever you do so just the same way if you sit in a chair all the time your body is going to go. Okay, we sit in a chair a lot How do we make sitting in a chair easier. So if you're looking at a screen that's right in front of you or even papers that are right in front of you which I would argue is a little healthier for you to not have light emitting straight at you but instead have it be bouncing off a page but. Ah, you know before there were screens people were still damaging their ability to see further away by honing in on something really close like a scholar or an accountant or something like that. 11:32.78 Dr_ Placebo Going to get really good at looking at little spreadsheets but they're not going to be very good at seeing far away and it kind of reminds me once again of specialization. It's so useful to have you know 1 person counting the beans. They're locked away in an office all day. And then you have the visionary who never has to look at a spreadsheet in his life. He just looks up from the highest tower to survey the whole situation and lets someone else take care of the details and probably the best. Progress I've made in my life was when I had a clear um separation between those activities. So someone who was really specialized in those minor details. Would take care of that while I was able to see more like the big picture and connecting all these different ideas. So the ah connection between your vision. Ah,, let's call it physically. And your vision psychologically is completely interlinked and there are even um, different physiological responses to the position of your eyes even just looking up for a while. 13:02.96 Dr_ Placebo Been playing a little volleyball recently and so of course I've I've tried to break down all of the volleyball shots and the stances that you find yourself in and sort of like deconstruct volleyball because I don't like to be bad at Sports I like to be good enough to really enjoy them. And I was just thinking how in volleyball you're basically looking straight ahead or up the entire time and I was like wow this would probably be 1 of the best things for people to do just force them to look up and extend. If they're spending tons of time looking. Let's say down at a 30 to sixty degree angle now they're looking up at a 30 to sixty degree angle and everything is up and the hand-eye coordination. Everything is pointed upwards so that. Ah, equal and opposite force could be really beneficial. So just not only the um the distance away from the object and certainly being able to track an object in and out is one of the more fundamental visual skills but also just the angle. Of your eyes has a big influence on your nervous system. You know you snap your eyes up. You should be going into extension. You snap your eyes down. You should be going into flexion so like a fetal position so the position of your eyes and the distance away. 14:33.56 Dr_ Placebo Is going to have a big influence on your nervous system Vision's really complex. So one of the most complex things to understand. 14:37.96 mikebledsoe Yeah, the the other thing is is I mean if you study any body language like I I watched a bunch of videos by this guy who worked for some intelligence agency where he was. Talking about? Well you can you know their eyes do this. It's a tell right? and then I got into a little bit of Nlp and it's you and you can you can watch people when you're talking to them now and you'll I'll ask somebody a question and they'll start looking up into the right or up into the left. 15:00.00 Dr_ Placebo E. 15:08.26 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 15:14.15 Dr_ Placebo Right. 15:16.38 mikebledsoe And then if I ask them how they're feeling and if they're going to be honest with me a lot of times they'll look down like their eyes will will settle straight ahead into my eyes or they'll drop down or they'll they'll want to close their eyes and so yeah, well the the idea the idea that I'm thinking about. 15:30.00 Dr_ Placebo Submissive. 15:35.59 mikebledsoe Is is when the eyes go up a lot of times they're searching for something in the mind they're looking for a memory right in some people say I don't know how accurate this is up into the right you know is more creative processes are going and that part of the brain up into the left is a little more linear thinking more organized. 15:40.36 Dr_ Placebo E o. 15:55.40 mikebledsoe And so I mean I've watched people as I ask them questions and be in conversation. They're looking up and then they're looking to the right and up to the left and I can I can like I can actually see them searching for the information they're looking for. 15:57.51 Dr_ Placebo I. 16:09.28 Dr_ Placebo That's why I always just roll my eyes whenever you talk so you can't get a read on. 16:14.86 mikebledsoe Um, but yeah, ah I mean try try looking up and looking down and see how that impacts. 16:15.40 Dr_ Placebo But but. 16:23.73 mikebledsoe Your experience in that moment. I mean anyone can try this right now just look down or close your eyes see what happens look up see what goat happens and to me for me. It does it shifts I can I can watch my awareness. Go up into my head or my awareness fall into my body. 16:43.60 Dr_ Placebo Well, that's amazing I Think a good example is the connection I'll just bring it back to movement because that's sort of my thing still I Guess if you want to like mellow yourself out. You would basically take a lightweight and do some Romanian Deadlifts and you would look down you would you would you would look down. 17:18.10 Dr_ Placebo You would kind of bend over so you're folding into that fetal Position. You wouldn't stand all the way up and that's going to bring you down that's going to take your nervous system way way down and then um, the opposite would be. You're doing something where you're looking up. And exploding upward whether that's throwing a medicine ball or a sandbag in the air. Um, ah, jumping all that kind of stuff you go up explosively man you are going to jack your nervous system up big Time. So. 1 of the things I've noticed is you can use the eye position as a way to influence the nervous system. Especially if you sync it up with ah synergistic movements along those lines is really powerful. Yeah, you take someone in the very beginning of a session. 18:01.19 mikebledsoe I Like that. 18:08.51 Dr_ Placebo And they're all lethargic and you have them throw a medicine ball up overhead as high and far as they can and snap their eyes upward and within a few repetitions they're they're just absolutely bringing up the level into more sympathetic which is where you're going to get a little more aggression. And then at the end if you want to bring someone back down, you just have them do something kind of eyes down and I'll just say fetal Ish position. Yeah. 18:38.65 mikebledsoe Interesting I like that a lot I like that a lot um are you familiar with Paul check's totem. 18:47.15 Dr_ Placebo No, ah no. 18:51.21 mikebledsoe Basically has a hierarchy of of what dictates the health of the body. So at the bottom of the totem pole is the Musculo skeletal system and then you have the organs and then you have ah ah I think breath. And then you have ah your jaw basically your ability to masticate and then you go up level the stibular system and then you go to the ocular system which is the eyes and then above that is consciousness and all of all of like. 19:12.31 Dr_ Placebo Oo a. 19:26.83 mikebledsoe The idea is consciousness as we were talking about last week is what if something's off in your consciousness. It's going to filter down into your ocular vestibular your jaw your breath your organs and your musculoskeletal system. So if you end up with an injury. It may not just be 1 thing so ah say more. 19:47.18 Dr_ Placebo It reminds me of the neural hierarchy. That's what I've heard which is visual vestibular and propriepptive so visual is the highest vestibular is second inropriacceptive which is your your body and your stuff is third and I've had. Lots of firsthand experience where improving someone's ability to see whether that's just moving their eyes or tracking an object through space has had a really significant difference I mean it feels like Voodoo almost. The fact that some people can have a pain in their back or their shoulder. We do something with their eyes and then it resolves itself and the the criticism of stuff like that is they're like oh well, it won't maybe it won't stay that way but I I would say that anything you can do. To get someone out of the fire basically and into a situation where they can move. Well again is really valuable. So I've seen how that neural hierarchy has played out to be true. You know if someone's got a visual problem. And they don't know that they have a visual problem and their leg hurts. You can do leg circles forever. But it doesn't resolve the root cause which is higher up on the hierarchy just like you know if you. 21:20.50 Dr_ Placebo Give someone liposuction but you'd never repair their relationship with food. They're just going to get fat Again, you know what I mean so it's about addressing things at the root cause of it and the neural hierarchy is a top-down understanding I mean that's why I say vision is so complex because. 21:24.84 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 21:39.70 Dr_ Placebo Our whole frame of the world is based on our ability to distinguish 1 thing from another and being able to label those things so when you see something it's fucking insane. But is actually really going on like we talk about all the different words that the eskimos or inuits have for snow a lot of different words for green and all of it has to do with being able to distinguish 1 thing from another and initially it was just ah like which way is up. Ah, is this thing going to eat me or not in fact, the evolution of the eye is a really interesting thing. There's a book ah by Isaac Asimov who I thought was just a sci-fi writer but he was also a science writer and it's called the human body structure and operation and it talks about. 22:33.29 Dr_ Placebo Evolution of an eye which started out just as a few um photosensitive cells that could basically just detect photons so you know on the body of some organism. They can detect light or no light and then it turned into a little cup. So It could take in a little bit more light and then this eyeball evolved over time and that's also why like a lot of sea creatures are black on the top and white on the bottom so they are camouflaged against the surrounding environment. If You're an orcca whale and you're above something you're coming out of the they're coming out of the light so you want your belly to be light colored and if you're lower, You're going to be coming out of the darkness so you want the top to be darkly colored and a lot of fish are colored that way specifically. So It's a. Quite an interesting game of cat and mouse between vision and camouflage. Really interesting. 23:33.73 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, just goes back and forth. Yeah I think I was watching one of these dock 2 series on like a planet earth or something like that and they were talking about the evolution of the eye and how basically. The the basic functions of our eyes are the same as the a fish and just kind of basically well really. 24:00.33 Dr_ Placebo I think I was saying that last week. Yeah, maybe to you maybe to someone else I talk about that all the time because um, that's there's more similar than there is different. With animals and the fact that a fish eye in your eye are so crazy similar is that blows my mind really because that's a very different creature but in a lot of ways you know they eat or get eaten. 24:27.13 mikebledsoe It's tripping. 24:35.48 Dr_ Placebo Shit stuff out and they have to see what's going on and we're not that different fundamentally. Of course we have all this other ah different stuff like language and metaphor and symbolism and arguably more complex relationships. But even a lot of very simple creatures. Have eyes I mean even ah tardigrades which are like the little water bears. Um, there are really really tiny microorganisms that can survive the. 25:02.68 mikebledsoe Are they that that like the smallest are they the smallest living Organism or. 25:11.15 Dr_ Placebo They no no, no, no, no, they're really weird. They have like 6 legs they're they can survive the vacuum of space they can turn into a crystal if there's not enough water it can survive like radiation. They're really weird. Ah they're. Called water bears but the real name is a tardigrade and they have tiny little eyes. It's a single cell little black spot here and here just in the same place that you would imagine an eye should be and even they have these little eyes. It's it's really trippy. It's it's a huge advantage in the primordial soup to be able to see a little bit further and we talk about ah projection on this show quite a lot and so being able to see further literally with your eyes. And then being able to see further. Let's say ah philosophically or symbolically with like your third eye and being able to project and plan into the future goes right in line with what you were saying before about that myopia of we could call it a. Mindopia like myopia of the mind. Basically that is ah synchronous with the myopia of the vision and once again, it's it's fine because that's how we get the comparative advantage of having someone who's purely focused on a few details. 26:25.82 mikebledsoe Ah. 26:42.81 Dr_ Placebo While someone else can be focused on the big picture and not bother with those details so much. 26:57.23 Dr_ Placebo It's like having a lookout on a ship. Their job is to see and the Captain's job is to choose what to do about that. 27:03.46 mikebledsoe Very specialized. 27:08.14 Dr_ Placebo That's that's the name of our game. We specialize you you go kill the stuff I'll cook it I don't know why I made myself the lady in that example, right? there but but that's what it is specialization. Yeah no. 27:21.87 mikebledsoe Ah I'll be the dude I'll be the dude I okay well at the end of the conversation I had with my fiancee last night was you know what do we do because you know I did go we but we both left. 27:25.38 Dr_ Placebo No, one's going to believe that though. 27:38.90 mikebledsoe California we're living in Texas and there you know, depending on where you live you may have some views that you can look out really far but where we live that's not really the case so spend a lot of time indoors especially because it gets so hot and we get outdoors quite a bit but. If I were to look at the amount of time I spend indoors and looking at screens versus out in nature and looking far away. The ratio is skewed a bit so we've made a commitment to spend more time outdoors my birthday. We're going to go backpacking. We'll be in tahoe next week um 28:16.85 Dr_ Placebo Ah, nice. 28:17.90 mikebledsoe You know? So we'll be so we're doing that and spend a lot of time in nature. Go hiking every day and yeah, so I think that I mean the way I I typically run my life is and ah you know just a sequence of extreme events and it's like. Extreme smallness in my my office and then going out and being nature for 3 4 or five days and then come back to the office for a week and then back and forth which I think is okay for a period of time but the overall goal is to live somewhere where I can regularly. Exercise my vision and and yeah and have that balance. 29:00.98 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, maybe take up bird watching probably some birds down there in Texas really you have a little journal. 29:06.50 mikebledsoe Dude I did so much bird watching when I was in California I ah I you know I lived on that lagoon and I had those I had those? no but I would go out there and I I could I got to where I could predict. No. Every month there was a different type of bird that was coming into the trees these trees in the backyard and they'd be migrating and coming through and then these birds would come hang out for February and then they would disappear and then in April another different type of bird would be hanging out in the same trees. Ah, and. 29:24.50 Dr_ Placebo Ah. 29:28.93 Dr_ Placebo O. 29:38.11 mikebledsoe Yeah I spent a lot of time out there just checking the birds out. 29:44.63 Dr_ Placebo Yeah that's a really ah engaging activity. Actually it's really weird. It's kind of like ah I had this idea that if you see a shooting star. It's lucky, but really. Is it lucky because you are making a wish on the shooting star because if you are that's cool. You're setting an intention. But also if you just happen to be outside looking at the night sky enough that you see shooting stars then that already means like you're bringing that luck. Into your life like that's a healthy behavior and you know it's not like ah this is good and this is bad kind of thing but you know if you are looking at something like straight. Ah you know eighteen inches in front of you ah getting that tunnel vision versus. Actually laying outside and looking at the stars. It's a very different kind of experience. So even if you don't make a wish you just happen to put yourself in a situation where you can see some some shooting stars. It's like you already did the thing that sets you up. For a little bit more peace of mind and relaxation. 30:57.64 mikebledsoe Yeah, how often do use Stargas I don't do it hardly at all anymore it it only happens when I'm traveling and I'm out of the city because the city really messes it up. 31:08.20 Dr_ Placebo Um. 31:13.30 Dr_ Placebo Um, ah the last few weeks of having puppies I've done very little I've done more helping them chase crickets so ah, looking down I'll like find 1 and point it out and then let them go like try to catch it. 31:21.52 mikebledsoe Perfect. 31:30.91 Dr_ Placebo At night but I would say at least once a week I was ah laying outside at night. Um, and just looking up and it's it's ah another one of those really soothing experience it and it's not for everybody like I mean you don't have to do any of that shit it just. Can be a ah nice way to sort of temper the constant ah dopamine buffet that we have available to us. 31:59.24 mikebledsoe All right? This is probably the first time I mean since the invention of the light bulb is you know the last hundred hundred and fifty years I mean really for the average person hundred years the first time that star gazing was not a thing. 32:16.28 Dr_ Placebo M. 32:18.67 mikebledsoe Sun goes down. Everyone's hanging out there's little to do after dark. Maybe you got some candlelight but the stars I mean when you know when you go out into the country you get away from the city. The the stars are so much easier to see it's It's something worth looking at. But if you're. 32:22.37 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 32:30.35 Dr_ Placebo And. 32:36.30 mikebledsoe And L a and you're trying to look at the stars. Good luck. 32:40.86 Dr_ Placebo Right? I mean you'll still see stars. You just won't see as many and I would argue that you're better off to to look up at least a little bit I mean should we just call that ah call this episode look up even. 32:42.61 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 32:57.26 Dr_ Placebo Even that the metaphor of look up is ah synonymous with having a positive attitude right? You can you can look up. You can also look down on somebody. That's a pretty ah unhealthy behavior I would argue you. 33:11.24 mikebledsoe Look up to look down on. 33:15.53 Dr_ Placebo Look up to somebody yeah look up to look down on. Yeah, it's It's pretty big. 33:18.41 mikebledsoe You know. 33:35.10 Dr_ Placebo Ah, do you do any? ah exercises for your vision. 33:39.25 mikebledsoe Ah, there's one I don't do it frequently enough. But um one I like to do is I wrap a towel around my head um Criss Crosss it to basically keep my head from being the thing that turns basically stabilize that and then take my eyes I got a mandala. 33:50.92 Dr_ Placebo And. E. 33:56.77 mikebledsoe Hangs in my garage gym and I circle the mandala with my eyes and I'm I'm really focused on going slow and smooth and then if I find an area where my eyes want to skip which everyone will find some area. It's like oh down and to the right. 34:13.19 Dr_ Placebo E. 34:16.27 mikebledsoe My eye kind of jumped from here to here. Can I go back smooth it out and then keep going and if you can if you can go each way you know from right? you know, clockwise and counterclockwise around the mendala smoothly then you're going to be in a pretty good space. Ah. 34:18.90 Dr_ Placebo In a. 34:36.36 mikebledsoe That's also one way that they're able to see if you had a concussion in the past is if you're if you're either unable to I remember I was I being worked on once and I couldn't look up to the right I think it was. 34:40.10 Dr_ Placebo He. 34:52.91 mikebledsoe Was having trouble looking up to the right? they were doing an eye test on me and they were like oh did you have a concussion and you know where were you hit now. Of course I don't know which concussion they're talking about ah but the the ah. 35:05.10 Dr_ Placebo So. 35:10.14 mikebledsoe They they said oh yeah, a lot of times people they were hit up and to the right, their nervous system remembers that it basically thinks it's still happening and then it's that reaction to try to you know your eyes lead the way and you and you get away from whatever. Ah. 35:19.74 Dr_ Placebo 6 35:29.69 mikebledsoe Force was coming at you and having maybe having some damage to the brain in that area keeps your eyes from being able to go back up and so one of the ways to help heal. The brain is through vision. 35:47.54 Dr_ Placebo Absolutely I think being able to or not being able to but doing a few um circles with the eyes closed and then with the eyes open really smooth is a very simplified and good way to. Improve your ah overall ability to interact with your environment and then another good thing to add is throwing a ball against a wall with some letters drawn on it and calling out the letter that you see right before you catch it. So You're really tracking something in space I would say. 36:21.42 mikebledsoe So you got letters on the wall. Oh on the ball. 36:24.80 Dr_ Placebo Those are probably 2 of the biggest ones on the ball so you take a tennis you take a tennis ball and if you imagine the tennis ball is a cube you draw a letter or a number on each of the 6 faces of the cube. So whatever, whatever you see last you call that out. And do you have to draw anything on it. No, but if you do you're going to track it a little bit longer. So it's going to make you a little more attentive to staying focused on the ball. So even if that was all you did I mean I've written tons of stuff. About vision. It's in a lot of the programs that I've made. But if you just did some ah eyes closed circles and then eyes open circles and then throw a ball against a wall and track it through space that is going to go a really really long way. To improving your overall eye ability and if you do find a spot that's difficult. Um, you know, hold those 8 cardinal directions up up to the right, right? down right down down left left up left and back through. 37:20.00 mikebledsoe I Like that a lot. 37:38.57 Dr_ Placebo And what's interesting is if you do it with the eyes closed. You can focus a lot more on the extra ocular muscles because you're not receiving a lot of input about like oh I'm trying to look at this or that you can really just focus on the movement of the balls in the sockets. 37:54.41 mikebledsoe You can feel it more. 37:57.16 Dr_ Placebo Actually some of the yeah, it's some of the fastest muscles blinking is the fastest thing but your eyes can move really fast, pretty pretty fascinating that we can like look and cover so much distance. Like you can cover way more distance by looking and moving your eyes than you can by moving your body So It's a huge huge advantage. A lot of creatures don't have eyes and they figure it out just fine. They basically have to sniff and bump into stuff. 38:21.90 mikebledsoe From. 38:30.63 mikebledsoe Yeah I was ah I was watching a ah documentary on hunting and they were talking about they they were with these tribes people who had basically um. They would find an animal. They want to hunt and then they would basically creep up on it and then chase it until it ah was exhausted and they would kill it persistent hunting and um it was. 38:59.10 Dr_ Placebo And persistence hunting. 39:06.97 mikebledsoe Really interesting because I mean the the human body is made for that endurance. It's able to endure whereas an animal. Maybe some of these animals may be really fast but they can't cool off fast enough ah like a cheeah like you chase it long enough. It's going to tuck her out. 39:16.74 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, like a cheetah. Yeah. But dude Cheetahs have absolutely shit endurance like they can they can They can hum their motor for like cats in general but Cheetahs especially they can rev it really high but they just can't go very long and. 39:26.22 mikebledsoe So yeah I think that's cats in general. 39:41.27 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 39:45.30 Dr_ Placebo I I talk about this all the time actually because if you look at the human body ah compared to a lot of other animals. It's It's so fucking flimsy it's were. We're Squishy. We're Squishy. We don't have Claws. No armor, no poison. No Venom We're not particularly Fast. We're not particularly Strong. We don't have a lot of offspring. It's It's like really sad but we have Thumbs. We have neocortex and by working together. That's basically good enough that we can have these like. 40:17.39 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 40:21.50 Dr_ Placebo Squishy Bipedal bodies and just dominate every other animal. 40:24.90 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah I mean one of the things about the persistent persistence hunting the two things that stood out to me was one is we as humans can keep our bodies cooler for long distance than than a lot of these animals and then. 40:42.28 Dr_ Placebo Sweating. 40:42.68 mikebledsoe Yeah, just being able to sweat versus you know, most perspiration coming through the mouth through a lot of these maybe an antelope or something like that that they're chasing down or a buffalo and the other thing is ah if you look at the anatomy of a lot of apes. 40:51.57 Dr_ Placebo That's why dogs pant and. 41:01.81 mikebledsoe They I don't remember the exact like joint it is That's in the neck you may know that allows us to stabilize our vision on the horizon while we run So ah, a typical ape wouldn't actually okay. 41:16.72 Dr_ Placebo It's a vestibular ocular reflex. So that's one of the drills I have people do in Primal Athleticism is to keep your gaze fixed on a spot on the wall. You can draw a spot or put a Post-it note and you move your head left and right you tilt it left and right. 41:20.74 mikebledsoe Is this a. 41:25.58 mikebledsoe They have. 41:34.22 Dr_ Placebo And you nod up and down and you can stay focused on the spot over there. You can do figure eights and if I do figure eights I can still see you crystal clear and that's that's pretty wild. Yeah yeah, this yeah. 41:45.58 mikebledsoe I Like that just doing it with you for the people who are only listening which is everybody. Ah. 41:52.23 Dr_ Placebo You're really missing out on our funny head movements while we stare into each other's eyes. 41:53.79 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it really stood out to me is the the thing that really the the 2 things that allowed humans to consume more meat and more what I would imagine be enough fat. To to sit well 2 things. The fat helps build the brain and gives you the ability to sit and think because you you get a ton of calories for you know you expend some calories you kill the animal. But now you have a lot of calories to sit around. And consider things or to build something whereas ah most animals I think they spend their days finding the food chewing. Well a lot of apes I know it's chewing. Yeah. 42:36.28 Dr_ Placebo It's chewing chewing and it's just chewing. They're just chewing all fucking. How do you get to be a giant gorilla with huge muscles and you're a vegetarian you have to be chewing all fucking day. You're just chewing all day. 42:50.13 mikebledsoe All day. 42:55.61 Dr_ Placebo And we have these vertical bodies So We're also not encumbered by gravity the same way like if you imagine just how much less work you have to do by stacking your entire mass like a pillar. Instead of like a bridge. You know if you're a quadruped you're basically doing a plank all fucking day. So you're constantly expending energy just to to stand. Let alone walk. You're expending even more energy. So The fact that we can use our Skeleton to support our structure in. 43:17.83 mikebledsoe Yeah. 43:33.36 Dr_ Placebo Perfect alignment with gravity more or less with these nice Arches through the neck and the spine and the hips and of course our hips are highly optimized for ah, walking and running especially walking. It allows us to cover a lot of ground much slower. But a lot more ground with a lot less energy expenditure. It's incredible and see further. It's like we're in a constant ah prairie dog position where we're up being able to see further along the horizon right. 43:53.59 mikebledsoe Yeah, what. 44:05.48 mikebledsoe Yeah, the do you have any exercises for working peripheral vision specifically it seems like the the figure 9 might help a bit. 44:18.91 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, ah, um, so if you're doing it yourself. You bring your arms all the way out to the side and you start. Ah, you point your Index fingers straight up and you look straight ahead and you start wiggling your fingers and slowly. Bringing your arms forward until you can see your wiggling fingers and what's interesting is um I can't remember which book I wrote it in but the eye loves movement. The eye is attracted to Movement. So if you um, try to see something in your peripherals. That's. 44:38.37 mikebledsoe No. 44:56.17 Dr_ Placebo Still,, you're probably not going to see it because what ends up happening is you only see like a small field of vision of your focal vision. It's called versus your peripheral and your brain fills in the rest. This is what this is why vision gets so fucking Crazy is. You see stuff and then your brain fills it in based on what it thinks is supposed to be there. But if you have like wiggling objects come in from the outside of your periphery you're going to see them a lot easier because your eye is attracted to movement and of course that's ah, an evolutionary advantage. That you want to see any shit that's moving way more than stuff that is ah, not moving right? Another another thing you can do for a peripheral vision is if you have like ah a partner to do that for you coming in. 45:38.58 mikebledsoe Yeah, something I want to kill or avoid to be killed by. 45:54.54 Dr_ Placebo From the peripheral or even throwing a ball over your head in front of you So you're waiting your partner is behind you and he tosses a ball ah over the back of your head into your field of view and you try to catch the ball. As it goes from your peripheral and to your focal vision. Yeah yeah,. But even if you just do the the the finger wiggling thing that'll give you something and it kind of reminds me of that. 46:10.95 mikebledsoe I Like that a lot that sounds fun. 46:28.92 Dr_ Placebo Ah, martial Arts Soft eyes where you try to diffuse your focus like the lantern versus the laser like we talk about. 46:44.47 Dr_ Placebo Right? No, we haven't talked about that I'm getting getting and getting a lot of silence over here. 46:48.56 mikebledsoe Um, totally I yeah I'm having a you know I didn't get a lot of sleep last night is two weeks in a row I'm just I now I know you. 46:56.87 Dr_ Placebo Here We go with the fucking excuses you son of a bitch I don't want to hear that shit just fake it. 47:04.97 mikebledsoe Um, just having I'm having I'm having a time in my life. You're gonna have to carry me a little bit I think we're gonna We're gonna be okay max. 47:10.11 Dr_ Placebo Um, fake it like your wife cinnamon. Your wife's name is cinnamon Cinnamon cinnamon. 47:17.35 mikebledsoe Oh yeah, cinnamon cinnamon cinminnamon in oh I think we covered a lot of good ground here. A lot of practical ah advice things for people to do go outdoors. 47:31.10 Dr_ Placebo Are. 47:35.70 mikebledsoe Ah, make sure you're looking far I don't think anyone needs to be told to look close I think we're getting plenty of that just make sure you're getting some type of balance there move your eyes around ah circles are great. Ah, what else you say we got. Ah. 47:43.68 Dr_ Placebo Um. 47:54.25 Dr_ Placebo So you have ah visual tracking so being able to track a ball coming in at you. Um, there's way more. But for the sake of simplicity. Yeah, even if you just did the eyes closed ah circles and holds. 47:56.58 mikebledsoe Yep. 48:10.71 Dr_ Placebo Eyes open circles and holds and then tossed a ball against a wall preferably like twenty Ish feet away and then the other thing I would say is whenever you sit down at a console set a fucking timer. We have. These magic rectangles and one of their functions is that you can set a timer just don't get frozen in any single position. You know you want to have the farmer vision and the accounting vision. You want to have the lantern and the laser and it's the Alternating. You know another thing I have people do um in the primal athleticism program I do nearf far drills which is you basically put a post it on the wall twenty thirty feet away and you draw something on it a letter a number something that you have to really be able to focus on. And then you hold another one in your hand like let's say twelve inches away so you have something that's twelve inches or twenty inches away in your hand and then you have something that's about 20 to thirty feet away on the wall and you basically try to see how quickly you can cycle between focusing on each one so you know let's say I have a written in the post it in my hand and I have b written in the posted on the wall and I'm going to try to cycle between a and b back and forth as quickly as I can and of course you can move the post it around. 49:42.29 Dr_ Placebo And have it be down a little lower but the main thing is that you're just changing the distance of your focal point because if you're focused on the post it in your hand. You're not going to be able to see what's written on the posted on the wall and if you wanted to you know?? um. Upgraded a little bit. You could write like love on the wall and courage in your hand or something like that. So you have more of like a psychological thing going On. It's you know a little bit sterile to be like ah look at a and then look at B Ah so as long as you're going to do that You might as well. 50:16.36 mikebledsoe I think you should put Mike and max on these postcards that that you know, ah if you if you go to if you go to the website and there's a lead. 50:20.78 Dr_ Placebo Right? perfect. 50:31.58 mikebledsoe Well, there's a pdf over there. Ah. 50:35.95 Dr_ Placebo This is getting weird I love it. But basically you just cycle back and forth see how quickly and use a metronome if you have 1 available to you get free app on your phone and cycle between the close and the far vision. 50:37.18 mikebledsoe A. 50:52.20 mikebledsoe But the you introduced me to using the metronome with training for all sorts of different things that was incredibly useful for me appreciate that I Highly recommend it? yeah. 50:54.93 Dr_ Placebo So that's another thing you can do. Ah. 51:05.90 Dr_ Placebo Oh my god yeah, it's ah it's an absolute game changer people are so focused on how much mass is being moved versus how much acceleration is happening. And 1 of the most fundamental physics. Equations is force equals mass times acceleration and I think it's hilarious. This perverted obsession. We have with mass and this complete neglect of acceleration when in actuality. Um, people care way more. 51:25.36 mikebledsoe Yeah. 51:41.50 Dr_ Placebo About how fast they can move rather than how much stuff they can move and the people who have the best longevity are the ones who retain their ability to be able to move quickly and in fact, that's the athletic attribute that deteriorates more rapidly. Which is why ah sprinters you know tend to peak before age 30 but power lifters tend to peak often in their 40 s late 40 s fifty s so ah, way too much focus is spent on. The amount of mass that is being moved versus the amount of force that is being generated which includes the acceleration and a metronome improves your coordination. It proves your rhythm and it also is a way to very easily ah increase the force. By increasing the acceleration as opposed to just increasing the mass really powerful stuff. I mean there's a lot of other eye Exercises. You could do with it. But yeah for sake of simplicity ah eyes closed make Circles eyes open make circles throw a ball against the wall. 52:37.81 mikebledsoe Yeah, love it. 52:54.80 Dr_ Placebo And then try that near far drill and then use a timer so you're not stuck ah on any 1 ah console for too long. You know there's like the twenty Twenty rule every 20 minutes look twenty feet away for at least 20 seconds that's fine ah a little bit longer would be better though. You know so every 15 minutes or so look at something further away for a little while it'll make a big difference. 53:20.89 mikebledsoe Yeah, so we call it is anything else. You want to leave him with feel like got some Yeah, everyone's got homework to do. Don't go back and put these things into practice. 53:31.80 Dr_ Placebo Ah. 53:37.52 Dr_ Placebo Do do some drawing and doodling do doodling is better than dawdling is what I say so if you're if you're stuck like draw dry it out. You know, a lot of ah. 1 of the big advantages we have is being able to draw symbols and shapes and connect different ideas together. So if you're if you're not sure just start just start drawing shapes and ah connecting words and ideas with lines so you can see it all. Big picture and I think this is probably one of the things that I do best because sometimes I have difficulty staying engaged with details but I will often get out a piece of paper and just draw down some ideas but I'll connect them with ah shapes and lines and diagrams. And I'll try to make some math equations there too but getting your ideas. Ah not only down on paper in words but also connected together in shapes and symbols and lines is really powerful and so you will be able to improve your ability to visualize. And ah envision the future if you use some symbols on the paper. So ah I'll just I'll close with that. Thank you guys. You can see me Maxshank.com Mike Bleso you can find him on his new newsletter where you can get. 54:53.15 mikebledsoe That hurt. 55:04.61 Dr_ Placebo Hot Fresh ah wisdom delivered to your inbox and then also blue light blocking glasses I think you can learn the secret as well. 55:16.90 mikebledsoe Yep yep, just go go go find on the newsletter. Maybe one day I'll yeah I mean if you actually there's if you Dm me I can get you on the newsletter. But right now I don't have anywhere. 55:19.50 Dr_ Placebo Where can they find that strong coach. What where do I sign up for your newsletter dude right. 55:33.76 mikebledsoe For anyone to sign up so I'm ah. 55:34.84 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, how convenient it's like it's like a secret club with no sign on La door. 55:43.42 mikebledsoe I Got I've got a I got my email list that people that got in or get my messages. The people who want in are confused. It's okay I'm I'm rebuilding some things. Ah. 55:56.86 Dr_ Placebo Ah I like it so send you a dm Mike Underscore blood so if you want to get in on it I like it. 56:00.74 mikebledsoe Yeahp Yeah I'll I'll add you and yeah I like to keep it tight I Only want to be talking to people who really want to be talking to me. So yeah, yeah. 56:08.70 Dr_ Placebo All right? nice. Keep it keep a clear vision until next time folks. Thanks Mikey! Love you buddy. 56:15.61 mikebledsoe Love you lady y'all.

00:00.00 mikebledsoe Oh last too bad. Yeah, it's great. It's great. 00:00.00 Dr_ Placebo All on my end I Still don't see it look. Do you see that see the levels. There's nothing there. You think it's great that we can only hear you talking on the recording is that what you're telling me. 00:15.28 mikebledsoe Now I can we can hear you just fine. We're working on Max's audio again. Um, how's your week ben. 00:17.27 Dr_ Placebo If you say So oh. 00:28.30 Dr_ Placebo My week's been good. How about you. 00:33.35 mikebledsoe Ah, man, it's been ah, it's been a lot of lot of fun I'm I'm rereading a book right now dollars flow to me easily by Richard dots and highly recommend it to anyone who well. Wants easy transformation. So that's really the book has little to do with money has everything to do with ah creating an inner state that ah of goodness allowing that to emerge and then ah. 01:00.62 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 01:10.26 mikebledsoe Allowing the universe to deliver all your intentions and desires to your doorstep. So if if money is what you need to reach your desires then you know I find that when I find that inner peace and goodness and just sit in that. Really cool things. Emerge. 01:33.25 Dr_ Placebo Kind of reminds me with ah dog training that it's not about training the dog. It's about training the person a lot of the time and as far as creative work is concerned if you are in a. 01:42.60 mikebledsoe Um, yeah for. 01:49.42 Dr_ Placebo Ah heightened state of some kind whether that's a flow state or otherwise you're just going to do your best work right. 01:55.49 mikebledsoe Yeah, you know what? I Also find that I've never figured anything out in Business. It's never been. You know there's definitely things to Learn. There's skills to learn. You know, managing finances and budgets and. Learning how to copyright and all these things are really useful skills and it doesn't mean you need you, You should avoid learning anything but it ah for me to sit with oh I'm going to sit and think my way to a solution when I'm having a problem is rarely. 02:26.51 Dr_ Placebo What. 02:32.43 mikebledsoe Ah, how it works out I can't even think of a time where I thought my way to a solution most of the solutions that have occurred to me has just been. You know you're in the shower or something or ah, you know I'm thinking about something I go to the fridge. 02:37.25 Dr_ Placebo Um. 02:43.83 Dr_ Placebo And. 02:49.87 Dr_ Placebo Who. 02:50.15 mikebledsoe So it's um, yeah, what I like about this book is it really puts me in that place of just observing what's good and then watching these things these ideas emerge and I definitely had that experience yesterday and um. 03:03.19 Dr_ Placebo O. 03:09.23 mikebledsoe Was being interviewed by John North um of weightlifting talk and he he and I had like similar rises of notoriety in the in the weightlifting Crossfit world and like at the same time and then also had you know. 03:24.60 Dr_ Placebo Ah. 03:27.79 mikebledsoe Kind of disappeared into the ether around the same time I I ah regularly get hit up by people on Instagram or Twitter and they're like oh shit, you're still alive like yeah yeah, still hanging out still doing some stuff and we had he. He. 03:30.30 Dr_ Placebo And. 03:37.52 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, yeah. Um, funny wo who. 03:47.14 mikebledsoe He asked me he goes he goes look. We can talk about all the good stuff we could talk about the good times. But why don't you tell us about the dark moments in your career in business I was like oh boy, Oh boy I can deliver that. 04:01.74 Dr_ Placebo Um. O. 04:05.32 mikebledsoe There's some dark moments. And yeah I don't know how long the show went on for it felt like 2 hours and it was you know I think it's the most emotional I've ever been on a podcast I don't think I've ever been interviewed and gotten that emotional. 04:09.82 Dr_ Placebo Whoa. 04:14.54 Dr_ Placebo Whoo. 04:19.92 Dr_ Placebo Woo Whoa. Oh. 04:25.11 mikebledsoe And um, yeah I really just I but basically I covered the year of 2017 for me and I didn't go through the whole year in detail but I went through the the thing a lot of the stuff that you know it's a good story. So I recommend anyone go listen to that. Um. 04:45.43 mikebledsoe Ah, do weightlifting dot com and you click on the podcasts. Ah and it was.. It was so emotional and it brought up. You know? Ah, Ah, you know if I could label the emotions. It was just there were it was just ah, a constant flow so much. So like I don't think I felt my emotions that deeply for that period that extended period of time in a very long time and when I got off the show. My fiance she she went off to dinner with a friend of hers. So I go sit in the sauna afterwards and meditate and just Sawa and cold plunge and then came home and got in bed and it. It occurred to me I was like this story that this story of 2017 is there's so many lessons that I learned that I really a lot of times I share the lessons in a very straightforward way but not in. But I could be sharing it from a place of storytelling which as you know that's the best way to get a point across is if you can embed it in a story. 05:52.98 Dr_ Placebo So. 06:00.80 Dr_ Placebo We need an arc with no arc no one care. No one cares without an arc. It might be true. It might be correct, but no one cares and that's been ah that's been something that I have hardly capitalized on much. 06:03.72 mikebledsoe Yeah, so no one cares. 06:17.43 Dr_ Placebo Because I don't care about the story interestingly enough I just want the I want the bullet points I want them in the correct sequence and I want as little fluff as possible but that's just not how people work. 06:23.76 mikebledsoe I yeah. 06:34.10 mikebledsoe No yeah mean we live by narratives and archetypes and archetypes is even a narrative about a type of person and ah you know? And yeah, so in in the world of you know speakers you know. 06:35.16 Dr_ Placebo The. 06:51.61 mikebledsoe I know you know this is every great speaker has got their keynote story and speakers that have been around for a long time people who get on stage. They'll have 2 or 3 depending on the situation and I've had so many I've had like so many they. So. 06:55.80 Dr_ Placebo A good. 07:10.83 mikebledsoe Speaking Coaches Love targeting me as a client they're like okay you know you're you're good on Stage. You're good at telling stories all this but you haven't really honed in on a story that converts people into a product that you're selling or a service. Or whatever and I go Yeah, you know, ah all the greats. The people who can sell a lot. They do it through storytelling and I've tried different stories and nothing really nothing really stuck. Nothing was super powerful and. 07:48.58 mikebledsoe I'm in bed last night and I'm I'm simply in the fields of my feelings and emergency goes. Oh that's that's the story. You should tell because these guys were on the edge of their seat at the end they were blown away they were it was it was obvious it was and I had never told the story in. 07:56.13 Dr_ Placebo Are. 08:07.62 mikebledsoe That much detail before on a podcast partly because lawsuits are a part of it and ah you know while lawsuits are going on. You can't go around telling stories about it. But it's ah. 08:19.40 Dr_ Placebo Um I would check with someone who knows these things rather than your hunch. 08:23.37 mikebledsoe I Think enough time has passed I think I'm okay. 08:31.30 mikebledsoe Ah I'm pretty sure. Um, yeah, the contract said something about 3 years and it's been more than three years. So I'm not too worried about it. 08:42.63 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, it's Interesting. You mentioned that because I find I know I'm in the minority but I find ah nothing ah less genuine and more fake when I see a speaker going through this big personal story. I'm like I I want to go like I know what you're trying to do. Can you stop it. You're annoying me like I came here to learn something and if you give me this long thing about your life I'm only going to leave. Basically so I I I know I'm in the minority. Um, with with that. But I mean. 09:02.81 mikebledsoe Okay, yeah. 09:12.55 mikebledsoe You are. 09:17.76 Dr_ Placebo Really successful guys. Ah, really do like Tug the heartstrings they play they play a crowd like a fiddle and it's quite a cool skill. But if I'm in the crowd I I like start to hate that person almost and I hate that person that's too strong but it makes me. 09:30.94 mikebledsoe Yeah there. 09:36.60 Dr_ Placebo It makes me ah feel less connected to them because I know that they're not doing this to provide a service they're doing this to like puff up their character right? who. 09:48.20 mikebledsoe Right? right? Yeah I mean um I think you and I are like in that way and that might be why we avoid you know, telling that story and um. 09:54.98 Dr_ Placebo It depends on what message you're trying to convey to right? like it's possible to tell a good story without making it about yourself right? You can talk about like. 10:08.66 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 10:12.65 Dr_ Placebo Costs and benefits and consequences and archetypes without telling a 20 minute personal story during a 30 minute lecture 10:21.35 mikebledsoe Well one of the most popular one of the most popular books on leadership a couple years ago was extreme ownership and I don't know if you read that is by Jocko willing and the entire the there's like ah a paragraph that gives the lesson embedded in. 10:28.43 Dr_ Placebo Yeah I did. 10:37.93 Dr_ Placebo These war stories. It's worst. It's war stories and I was like what what? yeah. 10:39.20 mikebledsoe this this story it's all war stories war stories with like ah like you could you could have gotten the point in like 2 pages the entire book. But it's buried in all these war stories and everyone loved it and I was like I like I was it was okay. 10:54.25 Dr_ Placebo I Find that? yeah well, what's funny is um, like I I don't like the book I think he is a really interesting character and it's the perfect example. Of who you want to lead a team of killers like but but is that who I want to emulate in my personal life as a leader and it's like I don't think so you know there are qualities that you can pick and choose and that's why it's so tricky to. 11:13.20 mikebledsoe Yes. 11:21.66 mikebledsoe Right. 11:30.89 Dr_ Placebo Pick someone to emulate consciously or subconsciously because you're only ah seeing a window into their life and you may not want their life. Um, right. 11:40.31 mikebledsoe Well in addition to that I mean you referred to dwayne the Rock Johnson in that regard before I think even on the last show but the the and I agree with the Jocko thing there was there were. 11:50.95 Dr_ Placebo That's my go to. 11:56.52 mikebledsoe There were certain things about that book and his attitude that just don't don't jive with me either and it's always been funny because people people are like oh my God It was so good I'm like well what parts are like all of it I'm like ah maybe not all of it. But some of it was Good. Um. And it because we do. We do need to be careful about who we model and. 12:21.57 Dr_ Placebo We're supposed to think that the books are good sometimes sometimes you're just supposed to think a book is good like my ah my friend was really kind. She got me a Tony Robbins book ah his newest who is his newest one life force. 12:33.64 mikebledsoe I who. 12:37.66 Dr_ Placebo Um, and before you think this is a plug This is the opposite of a plug. Whatever I'm about to do right now I was like I was it was fucking unreadable. It was so embarrassing like it was a giant infomercial of widgets that he's invested into. 12:41.84 mikebledsoe Ah me. But. 12:49.41 mikebledsoe A. 12:57.47 Dr_ Placebo Very unclear, very superficial, hardly practical, really like off the-wall shit that applies to nobody I Fucking hated it and of course I told my friend this too I told my friend this I was like that's one of the worst books about health that I think I've ever Read. It was hard to Read. It wasn't Useful. It wasn't simple. It wasn't clear but I really appreciate the gift. You know what? I mean like don't like hey I I Really appreciate that someone would buy a book for me I Think that's really nice but I don't have to like it just because. 13:25.97 mikebledsoe Ah, good effort. 13:36.43 Dr_ Placebo Um, you're supposed to like it and I think that happens quite a lot and. 13:39.62 mikebledsoe Well, you're gonna be my editor for my book. So it's gonna it's gonna have to pass the the max shank Sniff test. 13:47.69 Dr_ Placebo Ah, oh dude, ah call me the copy doced. Yeah copy doctor a doctor the copy up I'm I'm great I'm great at that sort of thing. 13:50.91 mikebledsoe The what the copy Doc Oh okay, all right, all right? Perfect Oh perfect, all right look at that look at that folks. We finally agreed to do something outside of the podcast. So. 14:04.44 Dr_ Placebo Oh perfect. 14:10.16 mikebledsoe Ah, well you brought up something interesting and because ah we are we learn through modeling but we also have anti-models and there are people that we don't want to be like and we got to be ah, equally careful of that. So. There's a number Tony Robbins would fall in this category right? Maybe maybe for you I'm the same way I've never. 14:34.73 Dr_ Placebo I Think he does some great stuff by the way I think there are people that he legitimately helps so much and I think that's fantastic and I think that book was awful. 14:42.98 mikebledsoe I agree. Yeah well I think his style overall is just not for me I don't think you're going to find max and I and a crowd of 10000 people you know psyching ourselves up. It's just not kind of not going to happen and we don't need that we're we're past that. 14:53.93 Dr_ Placebo Woo Totally right? Hey people like different things. 15:01.96 mikebledsoe And people like different things but we're not going to model Tony Robbins you're you're not going to find max or I on stage. You know, screaming at people and getting them pumped up with music and jumping around and it's just not going to happen. And we should. We should just do it just to just a fuck with people like. 15:20.32 Dr_ Placebo Cut to a year we're both on stage with headsets on. Are you guys ready to do fire breathing and then ah. 15:32.28 Dr_ Placebo I would do I would do a fake one I would I would do a fake one and just ah play a character I think that would be hilarious. 15:37.80 mikebledsoe Too bad We don't live in the same town Anymore. We can make a bunch of Spoofs about personal development programs. But ah, we got to be equally Careful. So ah, you know I don't think I shared this with you privately. But I didn't share this On. Podcast and I'll I'll share it I won't mention who this person is but I was hanging out with this person and they refused to wear a seatbelt why because they were because there's a law that says they're supposed to so they just don't want to do it and then the same person. 16:13.64 Dr_ Placebo Rebel without a cause sure. 16:15.25 mikebledsoe Ribble without a cause and the same person opens up their mail at the house opens it up. There's a picture of a license plate and saying you were speeding in the zone or whatever he rips it in half throws in the garbage can he's a god that's the thirteenth one this year and. Ah, and you know I I don't disagree I would handle that differently. But there's a lot of like really easy easy legal ways of getting out of traffic tickets that involve automatic cameras. They pretty much have. You pretty you challenge it at all and they have to drop it because nobody caught you in the act. So ah, the the point is is a lot of times people who who are the rebel without a cause they just rebelling so they they may find some. We could say some people just rebellious in nature like I'm I'm very rebellious you're rebellious I can tell you that you you don't match the status quo heartily at all and yeah, and. 17:18.57 Dr_ Placebo But only because they're really Ill like if they were healthy I would like I I don't even really want to be a rebel I Just want to get a good result. But. 17:26.76 mikebledsoe But to be. Yeah, you're selective right? And so I remember you know I'm in the car with the person and they're not wearing their seatbelt I'm like why you know why didn you put on the seatbelt like yeah, that and I go Well, you know it's it's you're following in the same trap of lack of critical thinking. 17:48.68 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 17:49.85 mikebledsoe You don't want to be like this person so you don't do anything like that person does it like ah Tony Robbins like you were saying there are some aspects of his life that should definitely be emulated. But if you go look I don't like Tony Robbins I'm not can do anything and this is a lot of people and people general. 18:00.13 Dr_ Placebo Yep. 18:07.15 Dr_ Placebo So it's the devil. 18:07.59 mikebledsoe A lot of times generalize this to say wealthy people. Oh I don't wanna be like I don't want to be like that greedy rich guy. So I'm not gonna have any money I'm like you know you can have money without being greedy right? like there's and there's collapsed distinctions in there but you gotta be careful about. 18:20.98 Dr_ Placebo Right? Yep I know Yep, it's the same ah like God and the devil ad hommonym appeal to authority thing. 18:27.37 mikebledsoe Who you're modeling and then who you're anti-modeling. 18:36.32 mikebledsoe Um, yeah, um. 18:36.94 Dr_ Placebo Over and over like if you dislike somebody personally and that causes you to ignore the lesson they have that would help you then you're an idiot you're you're overly emotional and you're conflating this personality that you don't like. Thinking that they are wrong and that's just simply not the case right? You have to be able to dislike somebody and still be able to use your logic to determine whether they're right about something or not and I've had plenty of opportunity to do this because ah, especially. In ah like the copywriting world right? like there's there's a supreme emphasis on exaggerating the truth and maybe even being like a bit of an egomaniac and so those are traits that I really dislike personally and there are even people. 19:18.11 mikebledsoe Um. 19:33.63 Dr_ Placebo That I dislike personally but I still want to take the um the idea separate from the individual. It's like ah is Bill Cosby still funny yes absolutely fucking. Hilarious 1 of the best comedians of all time and whether you think he is ah guilty of certain crimes or not should be irrelevant to the comedy. Um, and this is not a popular take by the way I'm not going to win any friends with this. Idea. Ah okay I think people like ah Bill Cosby less than hitler somehow even though it's entirely possible that the guy was completely set up which is crazy to think about you know, speaking of all that I think it's so funny. 20:08.60 mikebledsoe Um, I'm going to follow it up with a hitler one. So we'll just lose everybody. 20:21.27 mikebledsoe Yeah Trump. 20:27.20 Dr_ Placebo That we we collectively kind of watch the news and we see something or we hear something we're like whoa how did that happen and then we watch a movie and we go whoa. That's amazing. So realistic and we never think that some of those movie people would. Like create some news like if you're directing a movie. You're organizing thousands of people, computer programmers actors extras camera people and it's like you think these ah geniuses of illusion. Never fabricate some sort of reality of. 20:48.91 mikebledsoe No, ah. 21:05.31 Dr_ Placebo Of course they do is. It's very. It's very interesting. How quick we are to throw people under the bus just because ah he said she said kind of thing. 21:13.40 mikebledsoe Yeah, that's absolutely right? Yeah, the the I would say the movie. What's happening in movie theaterore and what's happening in the news is is very much alike I think there's tons of crossover there I mean it what this is. 21:28.87 Dr_ Placebo Of course, there's incentive to do So What do we? What do we know? if there is an incentive and opportunity it happens like there's enough people that if there's incentive and opportunity. It's happening. You don't have to like it. But that's what's happening. 21:36.50 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 21:44.67 mikebledsoe Yeah, there's I'm gonna go into like conspiracy theory land a bit but that but there's there's actual evidence of cia being involved in hollywood in the early stages of of Hollywood coming around. Um. 21:46.43 Dr_ Placebo Are. 21:58.48 Dr_ Placebo If if they weren't They'd be stupid to be the central stupid agency if they weren't using the fucking movies and like I mean are you kidding me like this whole. 22:00.92 mikebledsoe They yeah. 22:08.93 mikebledsoe Ah. 22:12.14 Dr_ Placebo Even the word conspiracy is used as an ad hominem attack when the word conspiracy just means that people meet up in secret everybody people meet up in secret all the fucking time That's like almost all that happens. 22:19.88 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and um, and people have theories about them about these meetings now it and ah even before the cia I mean that's how they drummed up. 22:27.71 Dr_ Placebo No deck. 22:35.18 mikebledsoe Ah, interest or support for the war effort in World War two is they would they would show these they would they would show these hype videos like sizzle reels basically of why you should support the War effort World War Two and. 22:38.52 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 22:51.86 mikebledsoe It worked it hyped everybody up and they use movie theaters for that early on so when you look at what how that was used then and then you look at ah who if you watch the news like so Cbs is probably the worst Cbs Nbc you watching these major news networks. Almost every evening you're going to see them interviewing somebody from the cia or somebody who used to work for the cia or the Fbi or something like that these intelligence agencies have totally got these ah news agencies by the balls. 23:19.54 Dr_ Placebo A. 23:30.74 mikebledsoe Like they they basically get to weave whatever narrative and they desire and people just buy it hook line and sinker and so I bring this up because yeah, the differences between Hollywood and what's happening in the news same thing same people. Ah. 23:34.41 Dr_ Placebo Well. O. 23:47.63 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, no doubt like there's too much incentive and opportunity for that to not be going on I would say it would be foolish to not do that if one of the main goals is to control the domestic population and then. 23:50.16 mikebledsoe Same narratives. 23:56.61 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 24:07.36 Dr_ Placebo Maybe like a secondary goal is ah to defend against foreign invaders because one of them is way more likely to cause a problem actually historically speaking I mean yeah. 24:15.85 mikebledsoe 1 the and the United States that's absolutely true because get waging war on the us is difficult. There's you know two oceans between every yeah, geographically we're positioned really well. There's there's a lot of reasons. 24:25.97 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, there's a lot of reasons lot of reasons. Yeah, you got to watch out for Knida I hear their military has grown to 2000 people I don't know why I'm talking I don't know why I'm talking on Canada. 24:34.42 mikebledsoe Um. 24:38.76 mikebledsoe Sorry Canadian listeners to get fired up. 24:45.18 Dr_ Placebo Like Well what's the point there's it's like ah it's like picking on the small kid that's like hardly fair. Yeah, it's kind of funny I Guess yeah. 24:51.51 mikebledsoe Is got. It's like ah south part in South Bark and the was it Terrence and Philip did you ever watch south part. 25:02.14 Dr_ Placebo I watched ah tons of South Park I actually even caught their ah concert they did to celebrate their ah 25 year ah anniversary um, is on. It's on Youtube they showed the whole thing. It was incredible. 25:08.11 mikebledsoe Did you? Oh I thought you caught it live. 25:16.96 Dr_ Placebo Oh no, no I didn't go live but I did watch it at home. It was fantastic Man it was crazy I mean they got like ah the remaining members from rush to come play. You know they had they had like these serious rock stars like come out of retirement. 25:26.18 mikebledsoe Oh man. 25:34.67 Dr_ Placebo Just so they could play with the guys who made south park and I mean it just shows that what they've created ah goes across all these different genres of art and culture and I think those guys are absolute creative monsters. They played a ton of so it was just those guys are crazy talented crazy motivated. It was a hell of a cool thing to see ah six days to air. Great documentary. Terrific. That's how they stay so current. Meanwhile you know Simpsons. Ah. 25:59.88 mikebledsoe Well they they put the shows together in six days yeah Yeah 26:14.16 Dr_ Placebo Which also ah used to be a great show. Um, they're like six months out basically of what's going on so South Park is always crazy current on what's going on because they ah condense that creative work so much. 26:31.13 mikebledsoe Yeah, my my my favorite south part ever to this date I think I laughed harder on any other one was the ah when they covered the recession 2007 2008 and and when they chopped it. 26:42.57 Dr_ Placebo Oh that was good. So so funny. 26:46.97 mikebledsoe Head off the chicken and let it run around to figure out which who's gonna get bailed out next shit shit sent me over the fucking Moon I was I lost it ugly these people are complete geniuses is this so good. 27:01.42 Dr_ Placebo He's like trying to return a margarita v he's like well what we did is we took your Margaritaville loan and we bundled it together with a bunch of other Margaritaville loans and we traded it on the open market and then we have people betting. On the viability of the payback of those marker. It's like a fucking margarita maker but they're just going through the whole thing. Ah but through the lens of like an overpriced beverage machine is so funny. Those guys are absolute studs anyway, yeah so. 27:26.21 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 27:32.76 Dr_ Placebo Back to conspiracy theories. Ah which are really just ah I Guess it's like ah hypotheses right? It's not like it depends on. 27:42.35 mikebledsoe Right? Well here's the thing is here's the thing is I think we're conspiracy theories people with conspiracy theories get in trouble is when they believe them ah or people who hear conspiracy theory they believe it and it's as if they forget the theory part. And ah, you know there's you know who people are treating like conspiracy facts or conspiracy truth or whatever you want to call it and that's it's it's funny I get sometimes I'll meet somebody who's way into that I'm like like.. What do you believe? I'm like dude I have a hard time believing my own thoughts most of the time let alone some really complicated explanation of how we got this result and somehow you've connected all these dots. 28:27.26 Dr_ Placebo A. 28:34.74 mikebledsoe That are this infinite amount of information and go I know who the bad actorress I'm like oh I don't fucking know but I I do know who to avoid though. 28:41.80 Dr_ Placebo You know what? I think about all this I think that well when when I think about this sort of thing because I I try to use the scientific method which is not ah science tm it's the scientific method. Which is ah see guess test and record right? And if you're really being scientific about things. It really means you're using the scientific method and one of my favorite examples of abandoning the scientific method. Is by people who are atheists. This is a very very funny thing to me because in order to be an atheist the definition of an atheist. Is you believe there is no god certainly but what's funny is that is so far. Equally unproven as the fact is there are 1 or more gods now once again, it depends on your definition of god if you say god is something you believe without proof then there are ah you know certain gods available. Some people could say that money fiat money. Which is faith money is a type of god based on your semantic definition. But what's funny to me is that atheism is a religion of there is definitely no god meaning it is having faith that there is 0 gods. 30:16.86 Dr_ Placebo And religion is a faith based on. There is 1 or more gods. But if you are truly scientific about it. They are both equally invalid because the burden of proof should be on the one who's trying to prove it. So to me atheism is the absolute funniest religion because it's just based on elitism of I'm too smart to believe in 1 or more gods. But I'm also but that's what I'm saying. It's ah it's a cult. 30:41.50 mikebledsoe Well I think a lot of people just that they claim it because they don't want to appear stupid. Yeah. 30:50.28 Dr_ Placebo Of I'm smart. It has no bearing on science whatsoever agnostic is perfectly reasonable but atheism is ah like super unscientific right? So just because no one has proven. There is 1 or more gods doesn't. 31:02.36 mikebledsoe Yeah. 31:09.83 Dr_ Placebo Mean that there is definitely no gods. So it's ah it's like the funniest tribalistic religion that claims to be scientific, but their proof that there is no god is just as scientific as the proof that there is 1 or more which is zilch. If we're talking about the scientific method and that's what's so funny to me. So it's that my favorite example is that atheism is a religion also with no proof and so like like it's it's great. 31:43.30 mikebledsoe Yeah, there's I think there's a ah Terrence Mckenna quote and he he says something. Ah I'm not gonna quote it exactly but basically take a a scientific based sciencebased atheist and. 31:44.77 Dr_ Placebo You. Oh. 32:00.98 mikebledsoe To explain how the world started and it's like look you just give me 1 single miracle and I can explain everything else and it's like oh yeah, so you kind of stuck there. 32:07.90 Dr_ Placebo Right. 32:15.95 Dr_ Placebo Ah, totally even the name is very funny. The big bang that it's like the least scientific ah label I've ever heard. There was a it. It sounds like a a fucking ah ah, primitive tribe. 32:21.47 mikebledsoe Yeah, it's um. 32:33.90 Dr_ Placebo Trying to explain lightning or the sun. First there was a big boom and then there was fire. 32:34.12 mikebledsoe Well. 32:41.51 mikebledsoe Um, as you're you're so spot on so well we got this new telescope out there supposedly I don't know what to believe anymore. Um, probably cgi. Well you you know about the new telescope they put out there that makes the hubble. It's like 20 32:49.88 Dr_ Placebo I Think telescopes are awesome I Well I I I totally telescopes are cool telescopes and microscopes are. 32:58.47 mikebledsoe I Forget how many more times more powerful than the hubble it is but. 33:06.81 Dr_ Placebo Incredibly cool. 33:08.71 mikebledsoe So cool. So um I guess that all these scientists are questioning themselves now they these astrolog astronomers now astrologists astronomers. Um. 33:19.35 Dr_ Placebo K five. 33:25.48 mikebledsoe They're questioning everything because they're looking out there and going oh is the universe contracting and they're doing their job. So but here's. 33:31.70 Dr_ Placebo Wait They're questioning everything. Do you mean? they're doing science. 33:43.50 mikebledsoe I Mean we've already talked about this the scientific community at large is primarily filled with institutional thinking you know and ah yeah, so like I think some of these scientists are having you know existential crises at this moment is what it sounds like. 33:45.82 Dr_ Placebo Um, ah so it's a it's a little religion. It's a little religion. Yeah. 34:01.84 mikebledsoe Because the the new findings put the big bang in question and now they're going. Well we got to find an answer and it's interesting how we as humans. It's like we need to have some type of ah there's this desire to to ah Certainty. It's like if you. If you're an atheist or you're a Christian or you're a muslim or whatever it is. There's a level of certainty that's being clung to and that creates ah safety. So if I can come in the room and I can create certainty in the room then people feel safe and they. Their nervous system calms down and. 34:42.51 Dr_ Placebo That's why people make bomb shelters and and hide away bunkers. It's because there's a natural tendency to expand your sphere of control and um. So that that is a hunger that can never be totally filled because you're always going to find some new thing further as you project into the future. So. The only path is some acceptance right? But if you're a hardcore control freak and you must know and you must have certainty. Then there's no end to the certainty because then you'll be like okay, what about 10 years from now. Okay, what about 15 years from now. Okay, what about 50 years from now. Okay, what about my great-great-grandchildren how do I make sure that they survive to be 1000 years old and. 35:31.58 mikebledsoe Yeah, well, it's interesting. You bring that up the so we think about certainty and we're we're talking about how the universe started people are desiring to have certainty around that so they either choose a religion that has a story about how it started or. 35:32.70 Dr_ Placebo There's no end to it. 35:47.45 Dr_ Placebo Um, how nice that they don't have any real problems. 35:51.22 mikebledsoe Which which I I really like I really like ah yeah I like and I really like a lot of ah religious genesis stories because there's so many metaphors in these genesis stories around language and basically. 36:09.88 Dr_ Placebo Um, in the beginning there was the word and the word was god. 36:09.99 mikebledsoe Ah, the the exactly and so yeah and if you if you it's so easy I remember being a kid and hearing that and I go I don't know what the hell that means and. All right? So then he created Adam and then he created the mountains and the earth and oceans and all the ship in the the birds and the fishes and um, it's really like the way I read that now is it's um, it's a metaphor for consciousness. 36:28.41 Dr_ Placebo Right. 36:42.33 mikebledsoe Consciousness came online for human beings when language came online. Oh I now have a word for this and this word separates me from the from God the natural world and when when read that way. It makes a lot more sense to me. But when some. 36:45.15 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 36:57.72 Dr_ Placebo To me God is the genesis of an idea like that's why they say ah you know the word is God and God is the word is that that's the genesis of an idea. So ah, interestingly enough by that logic God is in fact, real. It's just been made by man just like logic is real and it's also a God Basically an idea that's been invented by man. Yeah. 37:24.78 mikebledsoe Well the well the idea the idea that um was it men don't have ideas ideas have men. Ah who that that's ah man was that voltaire not quite. 37:30.73 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, yeah. 37:37.64 Dr_ Placebo I think that was ah max shank who said that actually I'm just going to misattributing all these baller quotes from like many centuries ago and they'll be like wasn't that Plato I was like no that was me. 37:41.55 mikebledsoe Um, so ah, the a did I I. 37:55.31 Dr_ Placebo Because no one will no one will follow up very few people. 37:59.22 mikebledsoe I love posting really like I'll come across a quote and I'll put it on Twitter and then one out of 10 times I was like you know that's normally attributed to Martin Luther King Junior however it was really said by so I'm like get the fuck out of here focus focus on the quote. Don't worry about where it came from. 38:12.43 Dr_ Placebo Yeah I used to be like that too I used to be totally. Ah well my favorite quote is what's more important the quote or the quoter and that's ah my quote which is fucking hilarious I think because does it really matter who said it and what's funny. Is it. 38:24.97 mikebledsoe Ah, oh. 38:30.16 Dr_ Placebo Does it does a lot of the time sometimes there's a great quote from like an unknown monk in ah, 1500 Bc or something like that or 500 a d or whatever and people are like oh that's really cool but that would be the easiest quote to poach. 38:49.00 mikebledsoe Right? Like you know or you know the and Chinese proverb unknown um know yeah and you know that who you're quoting a context matters. So you know if it's a quote. Yeah, but. 38:52.78 Dr_ Placebo Right? right. 39:01.32 Dr_ Placebo The appeal to Authority That's God Also so God is the genesis of an idea. It's a word. It's a new idea and it's also um, that appeal to an authority. It's ah like a focal point. 39:11.28 mikebledsoe Well are are you coming? Are you coming at this from the perspective that that people create thoughts or ideas. 39:23.61 Dr_ Placebo Um, that's a good question I I believe that ah the thoughts that people have are a combination or permutation of what they have experienced. So. If you put a human being in a vacuum and just gave it food. It wouldn't learn. Ah how to speak it wouldn't learn language so it's just some sort of um. Synthesis or combination or permutation of everything that you are aware of and that's why the idea of having like the genesis of language at all is very interesting and there's a specificity of language. That occurs in many different animals like dolphins and orca have different languages or at least Orca have different languages based on the pod or the family that they're a part of ah green monkeys can lie and say look out. There's a hawk or and we don't know if it. It means hawk or if it just means danger from above but they have distinct calls for danger from above or danger from low below and what they'll do is they will lie. So like if you have a banana I'll say look out a hawk in green monkey language and you'll look out for the hawk and then I'll snatch your. 40:38.97 mikebledsoe A. 40:51.33 Dr_ Placebo Ah, your your banana right? So like it's literally the oldest trick in the book which is look over there while I Rob you so so language ah is I I think um the genesis of some ideas. But. 40:57.26 mikebledsoe Yeah, so. 41:08.71 Dr_ Placebo You know a polar bear may not have language but it can still plan a spider doesn't have language but it can still plan out an attack where it will like walk around and jump around until they're above their prey and then dangle themselves down mission Impossible style. So. 41:23.92 mikebledsoe Well well the question I got to ask next is so are are you I find there's 2 camps. There's one camp which is the most popular camp which is. The the materialistic view which is ah consciousness is a byproduct of biology like the biology exists not is what makes consciousness possible or is our. 41:51.49 Dr_ Placebo Um. 41:56.59 Dr_ Placebo And. 41:57.93 mikebledsoe Is physical matter a ah ah manifestation of consciousness. 42:05.38 Dr_ Placebo Um, you know that's a I knew that's the question you were going to ask actually? um, ah fortunately I have the exact correct answer which is ah how could I know? Ah, it's like ah I. 42:15.78 mikebledsoe Ooh. 42:21.20 Dr_ Placebo I can think so does that mean I am so is it I think therefore I am or I am therefore I think basically so our sensory ah Organs influence the way we interpret the world. 42:28.17 mikebledsoe Right. 42:40.26 Dr_ Placebo as well as um the the influence of our surroundings like in Africa there's way more words for green because the distinction between different plants is a little more important different words for snow in the inuit tribes. Because that distinction is way more important for survival. Um, whether you are ah, an animal having ah an experience of consciousness or whether you are a consciousness who has called yourself an animal is sort of like a chicken or the egg type of situation. My. My personal perspective is that the I that I refer to as I is um, basically a fabrication of our culture so without these ideas of. Names and things like that you would just be an animal and all animals have some level of consciousness ah mushrooms have some level of consciousness. It's it's a different level of consciousness than a human being. But the fact that they can you know send information miles across a web of mycelium as soon as they figure out how to digest a certain type of material like the biggest living organism is actually a mycelium I think it's an Oregon. 44:11.64 Dr_ Placebo And it's several square miles in size which is pretty cool and what'll happen is they'll encounter a material that they can't digest figure out a way to digest it and that information that signal will get sent all the way across the mycelium. 44:14.54 mikebledsoe Yeah. 44:29.63 Dr_ Placebo To the other side and then they'll start being able to digest that material whether that's like some sort of rocky mineral or ah or what have you? Ah so different animals and fungi have different levels of consciousness but ah just like the. Story of of God or no God or these gods or those gods. That's that's our invention. 44:57.47 mikebledsoe Yeah, the um, the perspective I I tend to hold is consciousness creates. There's when I when I went through the hermetic principles. The first principle is that everything is of mind and ah. The idea is that ah everything everything occurs in the mind first and when I when I'm holding that perspective I I find that to be the most useful I don't know which one is true and. 45:31.88 Dr_ Placebo And. 45:34.10 mikebledsoe Like you had said, there's no way to know. Um, you know I I think some people have had some experiences that would have them really believe one way or another for me personally I find it to be more useful to ah to be of the. Belief that consciousness is creating everything it to me. It makes everything a little more malleable and if I believe that anything could be changed through thought. Ah then. 46:10.40 mikebledsoe Then that that seems much more powerful to me and. 46:14.32 Dr_ Placebo There's a great book by Richard Bachman called illusions that I really like it kind of talks about that. How you you know like ah the only reason you can't swim through the earth and stand on the water is because of your belief in the illusion. 46:18.25 mikebledsoe I've read that? yeah. 46:30.80 mikebledsoe Well here's the thing is okay so I the way I see is you don't have a separate mind that I have there's one mind we all share it. You just have different you just you just? yes, you just. 46:30.87 Dr_ Placebo That it can only work a certain way. 46:42.87 Dr_ Placebo For humans humans only so one species has one hive mind. Basically yeah. 46:52.15 mikebledsoe Yeah, we have a certain filter. Um, you know what? I'm gonna have to sit with that one I'm gonna go back and sit with that that question ah because they animals just may have the filter. So the way I see is we share the same mind Consciousness is expanding. 46:59.74 Dr_ Placebo And. 47:09.81 mikebledsoe Um, the universe is doing its thing and um may Ornet may not be expanding I'm sure it goes through expansions and contractions just like everything else. Another hermetic print principle being as above so below and. 47:21.46 Dr_ Placebo How could we measure. 47:27.20 mikebledsoe We can measure it to a point. But yeah, once you get out there. It's not going to happen. Ah so ah, we all have like this super mind and this is why a lot of the same ideas occur to people around the planet simultaneously or they've done studies with rats where. They're teaching them something in a lab in France and then a lab in Alaska they see those rats be able to solve whatever puzzle that was taught to the rats in France and so you know there they never so met they stayed in those locations. There was no. 47:53.45 Dr_ Placebo M. 48:03.33 mikebledsoe No communication between the two that we we would know about and yet they still do that So there. There are some I don't of I would call it ah evidence for it. But there's definitely correlative evidence for that argument and so I really like to think about it as like. These aren't even my thoughts I'm not these are thoughts that are flowing through me and my filter is allowing me to have you know certain thoughts where I'm allowing those thoughts to come and go and so I become a lot less attached to like this is even mine I get a conversation with someone we're having where brainstorming. It's like. This isn't really my thought it's not your thought it's you know it's this is just a thing that's happening right Now. So I like the thing about it like that and I find that to be ah the most useful there's another point I was going? yeah. 48:49.32 Dr_ Placebo Ah. 48:57.34 Dr_ Placebo It makes you sound pretty cool Either way I but I think so ah yeah, it's like ah I I don't think you're using it that way. But it's funny because it's kind of like. 49:01.28 mikebledsoe Does it perfect. That's what I was going for I mean that's the real use utility here. 49:14.95 Dr_ Placebo Kind of like the coolness factor is apathy. So the super enlightened factor is it's not about me man. It's just about you know the collective. Whatever's going I'm just a conduit I'm just a channel for what's happening now there there is no me man and you're like fuck that guy sounds really cool. 49:25.33 mikebledsoe Yeah. 49:33.24 Dr_ Placebo And then what ends up happening is the guy's like fuck. Maybe I am really cool and then it it comes like crashing down and I've experienced that personally a few times myself where I'm like oh man I'm really just like you know I'm I am I'm in it. It's not. There's no me I'm just like. 49:40.90 mikebledsoe Um, be. 49:52.95 Dr_ Placebo It's all happening right now and I'm a big part of it and then I go fuck I think I must be pretty enlightened and then just fucking back to the basement like shoots and ladders all the way back to level 1 49:58.48 mikebledsoe Yeah, the the prop the problem is when you get credit for it. That's that's when it happens someone else gives you credit you give yourself credit and then yeah, then it all just falls at pieces. 50:06.65 Dr_ Placebo Well, that's what. 50:14.14 Dr_ Placebo Well and that's also like the the bane of the guru like I was talking um talking with my buddy Brian this morning. Um I know I was well I was talking to him. But yesterday I was talking to ah another gal who works with me Victoria and she got me this lovely book. Ah, that I haven't read yet. Just got it for me wrote a really nice note in it. Ah and I was like oh man, that's so nice and it's by brene brown and brene brown is one of those people who if you're a lady you have to think she's awesome and. I think she is I think she's got a ton of really good ideas. But I think um as you embody the guru more and more you have to create more stuff so you have to muddy the waters a little bit otherwise you sound like what people call a broken record. So what I notice. Is that someone will have a few fantastic idea and I don't know I haven't read the book. It could be like life changing best book I've ever read. But if a pert. 51:18.31 mikebledsoe Rene Brown is good but to me falls into a similar categories Tony Robbins there's some good stuff in there. But if you dig further beyond the self-love conversation. She gets look. She's an expert in 1 thing and. And think she got lost in some other stuff. 51:35.24 Dr_ Placebo So selling herself right? And that's what I'm talking about with guruism like you have people with good ideas like Jocko. Ah good ideas. But there's a hunger for more and people are like guru. Ah please tell tell me what. Tell me the truth illuminate the way and if the guru says I already did it fits on an index card like I'm done like go do the thing I said people are like I think I'll find a new guru and they're like wait a second I just thought of something in fact, in. 51:57.77 mikebledsoe Yeah. 52:08.50 mikebledsoe I got bills to pay. Ah. 52:11.00 Dr_ Placebo In fact, it's even it's even better than what I taught you before. In fact, this secret I Just I just unveiled and you know so like the that's what I mean with like the bane of the guru is now you have embodied the guru. And I felt that happen to myself which is why I just fucking vanished off the face of the internet for several years and people are like what what totally totally man. 52:34.54 mikebledsoe As you're as you're talking about this. Um I relate completely because I I kind of I fell off as well. Yeah, it was like it's like oh I got to keep making shit up. Ah life is actually pretty good. It's pretty simple, pretty straightforward. 52:45.86 Dr_ Placebo I Wrote 200 plus articles about exercise I Taught 200 seminars all over the world I wrote all these books and video courses and they're excellent by the way like my latest couple primal athleticism and elasticity available on maxshank.com Are so good. They're They're really good. But also if you are having to keep pace with some sort of artificially imposed ah like guruism you're going to muddy the waters a little too much and that's. Um I don't know other than repeating yourself a lot if there is a way to avoid that because there's definitely a hunger and a thirst for knowledge and if you have embodied the characteristics or the character. The avatar of the guru. There's There's definitely a pressure to to make more of this this thing than there actually needs to be. 53:43.48 mikebledsoe But me. 53:50.60 mikebledsoe Yeah, well um, think of my friend Jesse Elder who's amazing. Love that guy and so inspired by his creativity and he tends to attract hit huh. 54:07.11 Dr_ Placebo Here comes here. It comes. Ah. 54:07.94 mikebledsoe But he had. He's very good at attracting a crowd and he's got that guru vibe goinglling on and the thing that impresses me with him is when I met him in 2014 he was just getting started on the like speaking gig thing. 54:12.97 Dr_ Placebo So ah. 54:23.49 Dr_ Placebo Um. 54:24.94 mikebledsoe And what he was talking about then and what he's talking about now is very much the same but he's so good at creating new context and and weaving together stories to bring people in so like it's it's he he really has gotten it to some core truths and he's really good at. 54:38.74 Dr_ Placebo Whoa. 54:44.85 mikebledsoe Ah, communicating it. But what I'm most impressed with is is a ability to communicate those in a way that people can receive has continuously improved over the years and I love seeing you know I'll see him speak and then three months later seem to speak again and he's cleaned it up or he's tightened it up or he's. 55:02.41 Dr_ Placebo Yeah. 55:04.37 mikebledsoe Ah, or he's using a new analogy to get the point across like guy. He's like oh now he's nailing it now. He's nailing it. It's almost like watching you know a comic you know, develop a routine over a year yeah it's like the first show you're like yeah, it's a little clunky and then by the time they're on Netflix special. it's it's tight 55:09.85 Dr_ Placebo Who hone their routine. It's magic. 55:24.50 mikebledsoe So I think that there's I think there's ah that impresses me and I really like that. So there's that's somebody who does have he doesn't I don't think he tries to be a guru but he definitely has you know people people follow him like. 55:27.13 Dr_ Placebo Whoa. 55:34.36 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 55:43.60 mikebledsoe Cult Leader style. 55:43.21 Dr_ Placebo And that's what will happen if you get better and better at transmitting ideas right? is you will You will attract a crowd and so it's like can you maintain that integrity without the crowd. 55:48.34 mikebledsoe Yeah. 55:59.52 Dr_ Placebo Transforming you into something different like I saw this great video the other day by this Youtube channel after school and it showed this ah transformation of this kid who was like a violin prodigy and then he turned into this guy who just. Eats tons of food like he challenges himself. So the guy gained like hundreds of pounds of fat. He oh dude. So it's like 1 of the most recent after school videos Skool and it goes through this like no one cared that he was ah. 56:22.31 mikebledsoe What. 56:36.21 Dr_ Placebo A Violin prodigy but he like ate a big meal once and people were like yeah we like that and so he he was transformed by by the audience because they were craving something else and he's like okay I'll I'll just be that right. 56:51.38 mikebledsoe Or he's craving validation are you? Oh you're gonna validate me. Yeah, we want to be loved. 56:56.51 Dr_ Placebo Aren't we all We want to be Loved. We want. What do we want? um attention power Love mostly we want Love if we can't get Love. We'll settle for power if we can't get Power. We'll settle for attention and if you ah aren't getting the attention you want. And then you do something and suddenly you are oh look out that's temptation big time like I used to get ah like high fives and praise and people would even applaud if I could drink the most poison in college like if I could drink a ah. An alcoholic beverage Really fast. So before I knew what was going on I'm taking like 4 lokos and shotgunning them before ten a M because everyone's like Wow What a what a tough cool guy you are and I I Really liked that positive feedback. So yeah, it's.. It's easy to see why people go down certain paths because these ah these base desires for love power attention ah are almost impossible to avoid. 58:10.55 mikebledsoe Well that that makes me think about my my fitness career and I remember I was I was fifteen years I was like well I had like um. 58:15.49 Dr_ Placebo Me too I talk about that all the time. 58:24.23 mikebledsoe I didn't feel like I was getting love. So yeah, maybe it was attention but the what ended up happening is I remember I couldn't I couldn't wait till my fifteenth birthday because on my fifteenth birthday I was allowed to go to the gym and lift weights because my parents didn't want me to stunt my growth and which we know is all bullshit now. But. 58:39.13 Dr_ Placebo But depends on depends on the level I think if you do gymnastics from age 5 You're probably going to grow less. 58:43.77 mikebledsoe Like a lot mom. 58:50.42 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, so ah, as soon as I turned 15 I started working out all the time. My dad worked construction. He saw that I was basically burning a lot of energy unnecessarily you know wasn't. 58:54.93 Dr_ Placebo O who. What right? right? o. 59:06.26 mikebledsoe And wasn't making any money. Ah, he's used to like yeah pick up heavy shit and walk around and you know we make money when we do it. We're we're being of service and and my perception of how he viewed what I was doing was ah that it was just a ah superficial. Ah, frivolous pursuit and he was like he's like you're never going to make any money. Ah, you're never going to make any money working out and I remember thinking I was like I'll fucking show. You. 59:27.30 Dr_ Placebo Frivolous. 59:36.94 Dr_ Placebo Um, I'll show you dad I'll show you? um oh my God are those like the famous last words I'll show them I'll show all of them. 59:45.80 mikebledsoe Um, and that's what you want to make yourself miserable live like that. So and there were what will ended up happening is I ended up proving him wrong. Um. 59:54.71 Dr_ Placebo Ah, bro. 59:58.53 Dr_ Placebo And. 01:00:01.65 mikebledsoe And but it's not like I only got paid to work out sometimes I was getting paid to work out but I was getting paid for a bunch of other shit too And um, no, that's not true when I was in the Navy I got paid to work out. 01:00:06.44 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, dude, you never got paid to work out though you got paid to like run a company built around people working out you. 01:00:22.13 Dr_ Placebo That's ah like you got paid extra. You didn't get paid to work out motherfucker you got paid to be in the Navy bitch. Basically what I'm saying is your dad was right. 01:00:23.50 mikebledsoe No, no, no I mean it was it was. 01:00:32.97 mikebledsoe Ah, well I'll tell you there there is that I was I was. 01:00:38.20 Dr_ Placebo Your dad was right? That's all I'm saying. 01:00:41.75 mikebledsoe I do remember I was I was nineteen years old I was in I was in coronado I'm running on the beach with a group of guys and all we're doing is you know, swimming running and managing being cold as fuck and that was it and I was like I was like. 01:00:48.10 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 01:01:01.79 mikebledsoe Fucking Did it I'm getting paid to work out and you know it was very short lived Um, because. 01:01:02.41 Dr_ Placebo And also not true. You were basically paid to be a weapon and your exercising was like greasing the barrel and the parts basically like. 01:01:14.92 mikebledsoe Um, you are 100% accurate about that. Yeah I was ah you know, ah, it's so funny like people are like wow thank you know you're a veteran. Oh thank you I'm like um I'm like I'm like as I got duped you know like I got. 01:01:25.35 Dr_ Placebo Thank you for your service. 01:01:35.14 mikebledsoe Like you're like congratulating me for being a ah for getting duped I appreciate it. Yeah I went and basically worked for the the biggest gangsters on the planet. So cool you know? ah I was muscle for the biggest gangsters on the planet for. 01:01:47.53 Dr_ Placebo Um, hey if you're gonna be in a gang be in the toughest one. It's still like. Ah. 01:01:51.85 mikebledsoe Ah, through a period of time being the biggest baddest toughest one and I was so so eat it. 01:01:59.91 Dr_ Placebo It's still the great. It's It's still the great pirates. It's the same shit is still ah the great pirates who has the fastest boats who has the best range. It's ah hilarious. How true that is. 01:02:02.28 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 01:02:08.18 mikebledsoe Totally yeah so it's funny because a number of years ago. Not that long ago I remember I had that memory I go I go oh my god this is about five years ago I was like oh my god is my entire. Fucking career built around that moment where I was going to prove my dad wrong. do I do I really like working out. Ah do I like talking about fitness do I really like these things and the reality is is yeah I do love health and fitness and I i. Find time in the gym almost every day and I enjoy myself in there. It's one way I show myself love and it doesn't play nearly the role it used to There's so many other interests that get play time and then in addition to that i. I'm showing myself love by taking care of my body but I'm not working out for any type of validation from other people anymore. So it's it's caused me to be in a much better spot and dude I probably make less money because I I seek less validation. 01:03:08.31 Dr_ Placebo Yeah I get it. 01:03:21.22 mikebledsoe Ah, if I if I was one of those people I I listen like no like no the Alex warmosi was talking about this in a video. He's basically saying like insecurity is what you need to be a you know 100 millionaire I'm like you might be right because i. 01:03:22.39 Dr_ Placebo You don't have the same motivation to like you don't care like so value. 01:03:38.94 mikebledsoe Have very few insecurities these days and the necessity that. 01:03:42.22 Dr_ Placebo If you don't feel secure if you don't feel secure with $50000000 then a hundred isn't going to make you feel secure. You know what I'm saying like that that's sort of like what I'm talking about is like who's to say that what's right for you is right for me. It's like why? ah like Gary Vaynerchuk 01:03:51.67 mikebledsoe Um, a. 01:03:59.16 mikebledsoe Yeah. 01:04:00.33 Dr_ Placebo Gary Vee that fucking guy that guy to me is out of his god damn mind and he might have a few good ideas like let's not discount it. But. 01:04:08.94 mikebledsoe Ah I'll say he's made improvements over the years his message five years ago versus today has as improved and from what I can see. 01:04:16.60 Dr_ Placebo And that's cool, but like what we said is you know when we see other people we see through a window so we don't see the big. We don't see the whole thing that's going on and there is nothing to cloud our evaluation of it. When we look at ourselves we look into a mirror so we see basically the whole thing and we have our ego in the way. So that's why I say it's harder to look into a a mirror than it is to look through a window but of course that's because you don't see the big picture. You're more objective rather than subjective about the whole thing. But with um, you know these guys who assume this avatar you know they they embody this persona and you're almost caught in a loop where you're it's sort of a sunk cost fallacy you know Gary Vee I got to own the jets. Someday and look for him that might be exactly the right thing. So I don't want to say that that's a bad goal because it's his goal but it's not my goal like I would not trade ah playing tennis and hanging out with my dogs more often. Ah. To sacrifice maybe owning a sports team because to me that's like no extra value. You know what I'm saying so that idea of insecurity will lead you to a hundred million I mean maybe maybe not but like. 01:05:48.19 Dr_ Placebo Why do you want that in the first place is it because you really believe in what you're doing is it because you feel like 10000000 just won't be good enough or 20 or or whatever I mean it's ah it's really a funny thing like how we fall into these patterns. 01:06:00.19 mikebledsoe I I invested in a sports team once to look cool. Yeah yeah, and then the entire league went belly up like two months after I invested and I lost all my money. 01:06:06.17 Dr_ Placebo Really nice. 01:06:16.55 mikebledsoe That I what I felt cool for about three days and I I got like I got like 15 now I would say the highlight this is the highlight. 01:06:16.61 Dr_ Placebo did you feel cool for two months though did you feel cool for two months though did you get any swag like like ah a hat. 01:06:35.50 mikebledsoe Is what $60000 got me by the way is got me about 10 or 15 tickets at Madison square gardens in New York City ah some like front row shit and I got to like. 01:06:42.97 Dr_ Placebo So. 01:06:48.19 mikebledsoe All my all my northeast friends I called him up I was like meet me at Massison You know we're gonna meet at the bar Beforehand have some drinks go watch the teams compete. So like I had ownership in it. It was the grid league. It was that Crossfit Rip off. 01:06:56.30 Dr_ Placebo Ah, what? what? sport. 01:07:05.34 Dr_ Placebo Nice. 01:07:06.80 mikebledsoe And which I think that sport still exists I actually prefer it over c

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00:00.00 Max Shank Welcome back everybody to Monday morning with max and Mike Today we are going to talk about arguably the most important topic in your life because it is your life. It's about securing your future. Both. From a fitness standpoint a financial standpoint and a friendship standpoint so we are gonna talk about what is going to happen in the near and possibly distant future and what you should do about it. This is gonna be really fun. Mike thanks for joining me today. 00:34.83 mikebledsoe Thanks! Man. Ah yeah, I'm excited to talk about this because we were just chatting before as we always do we we get a good fifteen twenty minute chat on before we do the show and I was walking max through all the steps that I've been. I've been getting walked through by a friend of mine on how to secure crypto finances and what it really takes to make sure that those things stay safe and why does that interest me well that interests me because. I look at the future and I see a lot of uncertainty which I think everybody does and if you're somebody who thinks that the future is certain then you have really fooled yourself and because we have no idea what will happen so the lot of ah. 01:25.67 Max Shank I Think a certain future has to be kind of a sad one The the more certainty in your future. The more sad it's going to be and that's the paradox of what we're talking about is the more you secure something the more you trap that something. 01:30.12 mikebledsoe Set Yeah a certain future is boring. 01:44.85 Max Shank Because there are really only two ways forward. There's exposure and avoidance and if you only use avoidance as a strategy you will have greater security but you also have a much lower quality of life in your world Your universe your unique perspective. 02:03.69 mikebledsoe Yeah, well, this also makes me think about the was it Nicholas Taleb nasim his approach in the book anti-fragile anytime I think about securing the future or investing or health and fitness I gravitate towards his philosophy. 02:03.89 Max Shank Will shrink. 02:23.41 mikebledsoe And his his first really well-known book that came out was the black swan and black swan was about black swan events those are events that are unpredictable and black swan is is a reference to ah europeans that thought that only swans could be white. And they never considered that there'd be a swan that was any other color and then some of these europeans hopped on boats and traveled to other parts of the world and one day they see a black swan and it was mind-bending because it was never considered that. That could ever be true anyway and so the future and well the the past is is littered with black swan events. We think we know what's going to happen or we think we can prepare for every eventuality but the truth is is you can't actually prepare for every eventuality. And I find that anytime I start trying to set up an avoidance system for every potential problem that might come up I actually end up getting really bogged down and creativity goes down and it becomes very difficult to move forward and so ah. In his book. Black Swan he starts getting into the anti-fragile conversation then he goes into anti-fragile conversation and in that book and he ah basically says that most humans think about systems as either being. Ah, fragile or robust they're on the spectrum of fragility to robustness and so I have a Toyota Tacoma. It's considered a very robust vehicle but over time it will become more fragile. It. It will not make improvements and the same with my computer. These are systems that are truly fragile systems but the human body and he also talks about he makes a lot of comparisons between the human body and the economy is there are certain types of systems that do well with some uncertainty. So if you. If you expose your body to in exercise to novelty in small doses. You will actually see improvements and the system improves. Overall if you if you throw ah too much novelty all at once then then you start breaking the system down of course. But really separating out. How do you What's the difference between a fragile to robust system that spectrum versus something that exists outside of that which is anti-fragile system and so that's how I like to think about. 05:10.34 mikebledsoe When I think about my finances when I think about my business when I think about my health when I think about a lot of these systems some people if they're trying to prepare for every eventuality actually end up building a fragile system instead of. Thinking about it as how do I build an anti-fragile system and when they do that having a hiccup in the system may be a little uncomfortable in the short term but in the long term It turns out being a really good one so just bringing that to the forefront as I. When I think about securing my future I think about those things. 05:48.90 Max Shank Yeah I like to think of adaptability as the Chief characteristic of survival and Thrival which is not a word but I like to use it Anyway. Ah from a fitness perspective. Adding chaos to your training is really valuable. In fact, culture the whole purpose of culture is to reduce unpredictability and to reduce chaos and if you do not. Do something to compensate for that. You get really sad human beings. That's why you need to have games where you introduce chaos in a relatively safe environment like I don't know if you're familiar with pushing hands from TaiChi. 06:43.69 mikebledsoe E. 06:45.99 Max Shank There's couple different types. But basically you and your friend try to push the other one or pull the other one so that they have to take a step and your feed are firmly planted and this chaos is like a more appropriate version of wrestling. For the average person. So the ability to adapt and react to an external force is really the chief characteristic of survivability. So I think adaptability number one culture is to reduce. Chaos and unpredictability so we need games and we need to dose ourselves with chaos if we want to really thrive and then just in terms of the the systems let's say there's ah, a fine line between prudence. And paranoia right? because the most the most robust system really would be to live with maybe 1 other person or a family on a farm by the river in a bomb shelter. And only leave when it's absolutely necessary so you increase your predictability but you also decrease your openness. That's probably why the further you go down that rabbit hole of securing and protecting the less creative and open and expansive. You are right. 08:17.73 mikebledsoe Well Also Chaos is still going to find its way in going back to the black swan event is you when you create I think when people create a high level predicted Predictability. There is this inability to deal with the the chaotic and. Environment that that will come no matter what the black swan event's gonna show up no matter what and the more predictable you've been trying to make it the harder it is to adapt to that situation. 08:49.54 Max Shank I don't think they're mutually exclusive but I understand what you're saying I think the more cards you have in your hand. The better off you are I think the benefit of living in a culture is that there's a lot of redundancy built into the system. Where I live. There are a lot of people who are electricians and plumbers and auto mechanics. So if one of them goes down I can go on to the next one if 2 of them go down I can go on to the next one and if you're relying only on yourself. You have to. Gain a ton of skills or you have to live in a very primitive way where you're not really able to use technology I just had my laptop sent in to get the battery fixed and before I sent it in. 09:39.38 mikebledsoe Drew um, did you remove all the videos of you with hookers smoking crack. 09:44.65 Max Shank Oh no no I just have it in a secret folder. Why would I get rid of those hookers love crack some of them do ah but I looked online first before I sent it in to get fixed. And it was 75 steps to replace the battery and you can buy a kit and do all those and it was 75 steps and I was like oh my god if I mess up one of these steps I can totally destroy my whole computer. So I ended up getting it sent in and. Especially with technology you have to recognize that no man is an island and that's why you really want to have kind of a segue here a little bit you want to have a social network ah a radical rolodex. Of. Not only service people but also friends that you can count on so there's that safety net we talked about a little bit before the 3 safety nets financial fitness and friendships basically and it's so valuable. Have those relationships with different providers of service and different providers of products and it really does increase your security and survivability. 11:09.16 mikebledsoe Yeah, well I think about what's happening what I'm witnessing happening that continually which is ah the decentralization of things and the the format of of our our current economy. Being very capitalist I think it's going to just become more capitalist but the capitalism has allowed for a lot of that redundancy a lot of that the natural configuration if somebody goes down somebody will fill that spot and it doesn't have to be ah. Decided to buy a person's like oh we need to change this thing the system pretty much just adapts to whatever's going on in the environment in a capitalist society and as things decentralized more right now. It's like everybody is trading with everybody. But if we have a currency that is no. That not everyone agrees on in the future if if the dollar loses its value to a point where now we're going into decentralized currencies then there's this potential for a more tribalist type of society where you may not be conducting commerce. With certain groups of people and I think there's going to be an opportunity for these groups to segment and now I'm only go do business with people who are using these four currencies which I also use because the people that use these currencies share the same values and so whereas. Previously things were done geographically or by nationality things are now split up by individual values and and can be distributed throughout the entire world instantaneously and so I think that as far as the friendship goes and. Ah, social goes and economics go is having um you know if things deteriorate socially in in society as as it seems they they may go right now. It's good to make those friends have that person on board. You know have. 3 electricians on board have a few farmers that you're in contact with because the way that things have been done right now is there's a lot of single points of failure. For instance, you know through regulation Usda. You know you have to have a Usda butcher butchering the meat for it to be shipped across state lines and now you have these states that have almost no ability to birch butcher animals and distribute food and so ah, there's gonna be I think that there's gonna be a time where we. 13:56.25 mikebledsoe We actually have to create our own network instead of just relying on I'll just go to the grocery store and pick this shit up and I've already begun doing that I've been on the phone with a woman just last week where we she she's in contact with regenerative farms and and it's helping distribute those goods locally. So. It's I think that yeah being able to just go online and pull up a technician to do this or that may become more difficult in the future and I think that the level of responsibility for having to create those connections yourself may go up. 14:33.99 Max Shank Yeah I mean unfortunately the closer you get to the barter system the less comparative advantage you have because you have to have an agreed upon currency. That's the whole advantage of money. 14:49.46 mikebledsoe E. 14:52.87 Max Shank Is that it makes it so easy to trade Things. We would never have been able to produce computers and yachts and trucks and all these crazy things like if you think about it I'm in shock when I. Drive my truck around because of how impossible it would be for me to make anything like that. Even if I knew exactly how to make it and what that's that's what I'm That's what I'm saying it would be. 15:21.40 mikebledsoe I would totally not make it I could have every step laid out and be given all the parts still not doing it. Yeah. 15:29.63 Max Shank It would be impossible just to gather. The materials would be Impossible. So The fact that we figured out how to trade with each other in such a hyper efficient way is the only thing that has allowed us to do all that so you know it. It's frustrating sometimes because the only thing a leader really needs to do is not fuck up the money and not get into any ah Wars or conflicts. That's actually the only thing a leader really needs to do ah and if you do those things though. 15:58.47 mikebledsoe Ah. 16:07.37 Max Shank It gets really bad so preparing for those eventualities is valuable I think gosh you know we can start getting into the nuts and bolts of preparedness. Certainly it's good to own at least. 1 property because you got to live somewhere and as the money devalues because we don't know if it'll be hyperinflation or stagflation or we we can't predict those sorts of things. 16:43.68 mikebledsoe Yeah, the the the variables that are currently present have never been present before we we are in a black swan event. So we have no idea what the result will be. 16:44.26 Max Shank But rents. 16:53.11 Max Shank Yeah, we don't know what's going to happen next exactly. But it's good to have an Id in your mind just have your best guess because I think we've talked about it once before it's like buying Insurance. You don't ah buy insurance for. Everything you just buy insurance based on what is legally required or based on what probability you assign to a certain thing happening right? So What is the probability that the value of a dollar or you know let's say that just a. Keep it simple suddenly a gallon of gas is $200 and you're like whoa. This is really bad but then you have to in your mind assign a probability to that. Oh and a certain timeframe and it gets very difficult to do those things. So. 17:43.75 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 17:50.99 Max Shank Barring that which is unknowable. What do we know for sure that will not change and that is human nature will not change and so if you are productive yourself and you provide a skill or a service or a product that people will always want. That's always going to be very valuable so that's like your your functional safety net. What function do you perform. 18:15.70 mikebledsoe Yeah I I think about the 2 things that that I am I do I was talking to Ashley about this Saturday which is I secure my future by continually creating value and investing in emerging economies or emerging. Technologies and if I do those 2 things I'm not really that worried about my financial future now the other the other the 2 other f's we were talking about It's not relevant as relevant to that I mean the creating value is pretty relevant to the the. The friendships the social piece because if you're valuable people will want to be your friend. 18:53.24 Max Shank Is. 18:59.80 Max Shank No question I think that having a group of people that you can be open and honest with who have your back and you have their back. You can't really put a price on that. So. It's good to nurture those things on a regular basis. That's really not natural for me to do I tend to be more in my own head working on projects and not really think to just reach out to people but it's something that I've gotten a little bit better with and it makes a difference. You know invite a friend out to lunch or throw a frisbee around and it can go a really long way, especially given what's going on right now where people have probably been socializing less than ever in Maybe any society for a very long Time. You know. I Guess ah neighboring Hunter gatherers probably socialized with ah their neighbors less than we do, but it's It's not a lot so reinforcing Those relationships is huge. 20:04.52 mikebledsoe Yeah, and they didn't have ah well what? what's interesting is in the last couple years. The amount of actual social interactions gone way down, but the but the we'll call it the the fast food of. 20:19.55 Max Shank Basement. 20:24.36 mikebledsoe Social engagement has gone up. You know the Facebook instagram all the social media platforms. So I remember I was listening to a thing that what's his name. The guy the dilbert guy. What's his name Scott Adams he was talking a guy anyways. Um. 20:34.87 Max Shank Scott Adams 20:43.28 mikebledsoe Brilliant in some ways not in others but he he was talking. Yeah come on now I Well he would. 20:46.30 Max Shank Not like you. You're brilliant in every way wait but real quick though he has an excellent Youtube video on writing just and the reason I'm plugging. It is. It's free. It's maybe a half hour long and writing. Or communication is one of the most high yield skills. There is so give give that a look in terms of securing your future. 21:08.12 mikebledsoe It is yeah writing copywriting if you can write copy that is just you're able to write things that cause people to buy shit then you'll never go hungry. Ah yeah, so. 21:23.89 Max Shank No way. 21:28.40 mikebledsoe So Scott Adams was talking about somebody was challenged saying you know social interaction has gone down. He was like really seems like you know social interaction is higher than ever online and and that's why I say maybe he's not all that smart because he was making an argument for. Being we have more social interaction we ever have which is being dictated by algorithms and and you know of course humans tend to to create their own bubbles for sure like I surround myself with light-minded people where there's not a high level of disagreement. Ah, but the. 21:48.92 Max Shank Um, yeah. 21:57.50 Max Shank Oh yeah. 22:04.55 mikebledsoe When there is disagreement. We can actually have a conversation and work our way through it whereas online that doesn't really happen. It just further divide is what happens and so um, you know a lot some people even people who are considered to be really brilliant like Scott Adams who who is brilliant in a lot of ways. You know he challenges that and I don't know what kind of world he lives in where he think and he may not have experienced that at all. He may have been surrounded by friends this whole time. Um, but. 22:30.70 Max Shank Well, it also is a personality type difference and you know I've read a bunch of his books and they're very good. He's a hyper Introvert So this situation for him is almost perfect. 22:41.31 mikebledsoe Yeah. 22:47.10 mikebledsoe Probably been calming. He's probably been able to chill out. 22:49.20 Max Shank He gets to he gets to hang out at home more. There are a lot less social obligations that you have to fulfill. Um, it's never been a better time for introverts and ugly people because you can stay home all day and put a mask over your face. 23:05.86 mikebledsoe Um, well there was a did you see the study that people people now find other people more generally more attractive when wearing a mask. 23:08.89 Max Shank Ugly introverts have never lived so good. Ah. 23:18.64 Max Shank I mean it works in ah Saudi Arabia oh very mysterious. Ah, but you know someone like that. 23:22.70 mikebledsoe Yeah I mean to that point I've been in the Middle East and I I was on a deployment I hadn't seen hardly any women for months and then I arrived somewhere where they're wearing the. Full facial covering all I can see with their eyes. So sexy. My imagination just fucking went wild. It didn't take very long at all couple months. No women and then full on Bura and that was it's true and I've seen I've seen some people where I've been on the airplane. 23:43.89 Max Shank Now we're talking totally yeah, totally. 23:59.66 mikebledsoe Like oh that girl looks pretty good. She pulls her mask down like ah. 24:00.42 Max Shank Right? Well, it's like why guys grow beards so we can hide the bottom half of our face. It's like you don't know if I have a chin. Maybe I have a really strong chin. Ah. 24:14.53 mikebledsoe That's right. 24:16.99 Max Shank There are a lot of examples of what you're talking about with Scott Adams there and I think ah nasim Nicholas Teleleb is another good example where you have people who are really intelligent in 1 regard and then they just are so far off the mark in another regard and. We're so locked into this cause-effect relationship for health and we're trapped by the way that we do experiments and who runs the experiments and who pays for the experiment. So if you're. Taking everything very literally. You're only doing what is proven ah proven quote by science quote again, you're not going to recognize the value of sharing the same physical space with another person. You know you and i. Have explored that realm quite a lot where even just being in the same room as someone if you're not saying anything can be a really rewarding experience and it can bring you a lot of joy. And calmness and peace and resonance. There's a harmonization of 2 living beings and if you are caught up in the explicit and more material. Sort of thing you're going to discount the value of that and so in a sense you're right? It's it's easier to socialize now than ever through a screen ah through the telephone and it's better than nothing but it's not the same. 26:07.51 mikebledsoe Yeah I'll go back to what you're saying like the the quote unquote proven for people who aren't seeing the video of us is anytime anyone starts talking about something's being proven to me. That's an immediate red flag. Someone goes. Oh. It's proven that that I go immediately I I Dis If if they got a Ph D beside their name or they consider themselves a scientist I in my from my perspective they just discredited themselves because any good scientists look saying the word proven. Is a marketing term. It's not a scientific term.. There are very few Proofs in Science. There's the only time you would talk about Proofs in Science is it's It's a mathematical equation. It's a it's hardcore physics. There are laws involved anything else. 26:46.96 Max Shank Totally. 27:03.00 mikebledsoe What I want to hear from somebody who's a scientist I Want to hear is there is evidence to suggest that http://dot.dot the problem is it's not a very good marketing.. It's not a good way to convince people of taking your side So just want to throw that out there. So as you're listening to. Quote unquote scientists out there talking about what's being proven and what's not usually if they're a bureaucrat in some way and they've got a Ph D and they start saying that I I immediately you know start questioning. Whatever it is. They're saying. 27:35.54 Max Shank Well, it's like ah the phrase caused by cells way more than correlates with correlates with doesn't sell shit and if we don't know. 27:45.70 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 27:53.81 Max Shank The best diet for people which we can't know because I don't know if you know this but people are different this whole idea that we should all eat the same stuff is freaking Insane yeah you and I we should all We should all take the same medication. Ah, you know. 27:57.57 mikebledsoe Ah, no should we should We take the same medications to globally you know. 28:12.16 Max Shank We should. We should all eat soybeans for the greater good too. Probably yeah, no correlation versus causation is probably my biggest gripe and it has to do with essentially gang mentality people are trying to protect their authority. And make these claims that x causes y when really it's just that x correlates with y and it would be a lot easier to have a conversation about that if there wasn't such a fanaticism around these things. Let's have an open conversation about correlation. Versus causation and god it's it's hard to see if you're not in the industry yourself, but the amount of people throwing $10 words around is like so unnecessary. Maybe that just irks me because. I I know what those words mean but I also know that it just makes it harder for the individual to understand and when you say something like post brandial forward ambulation. Why don't you just say go for a walk after you eat. So so it's like so ridiculous to me? well but that's just yeah, that's just it. It sounds much fancier if you use these fancy terms and that that is what sells and um. 29:29.30 mikebledsoe Ah, well I won't I won't sound smart to the other scientists I won't be able to impress people. 29:46.73 Max Shank You have to protect yourself from that speaking of securing your future I think making sure you can't make sure all the way but making sure you don't get swindled by the popularity paradox and the popularity paradox is something I use to describe. The fact that um things that are popular are usually only so because they're striking or different.. It's like a purple cow is going to be more attention grabbing but you probably shouldn't eat. It. 30:23.29 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, that the more popular something is the more I I question it something that like I just look at Mainstream and I've had people ask me and they go. Why are you? Why are you so extreme and. So alternative in every area of your life. It seems like if I if I uncover an aspect in my Life. You will go Wow. You're so extreme or whatever and I go look if it's mainstream if everybody is agreeing on it I start asking questions. And I start looking the opposite way because I'm just looking at the results of the mainstream if the results of the mainstream were you know, ah beautifully healthy bodies financially secure and everything was going really great I would pay attention to what the mainstream is. 30:58.74 Max Shank The. 31:05.94 Max Shank Totally. 31:16.55 mikebledsoe Doing and and follow suit. But when I look at the mainstream I go the results of what's happening in the mainstream are so poor that to listen to any of those people giving advice on how to live life or to do things their way. And it would just be sad and for people who understand Health and fitness the the food pyramid's a great example of of that or the most the most predominant food in the grocery store is corn and there's all these there's there's. 31:39.27 Max Shank For. 31:46.90 Max Shank A. 31:51.54 mikebledsoe There are these things like the food pyramid and and the predominance of corn that bring into question is like oh should I be eating corn if that's what everyone else is eating and they look like shit and ah and should I be eating like the food pyramid because the average person. They've been exposed. That's the only information they've really been exposed to on how to eat and they look and feel like shit. So let's look at something else. So the same thing with with economics and with investing you know if everyone's doing an ira. Everyone's doing an Ira and doing ah a. This and that and s and p five hundred I I look you might be able to have your investment match inflation. Hopefully probably not this year but in previous years you you probably outperformed it just kind of depends on here and there. But. You know the average person is not making that kind of investment but even out of the people who are investing the mainstream is that and there returns the amount of money you have to to invest in order to retire if you're gonna put it into a typical ira or something like that is ridiculous. You have to start investing in your twenty s and hopefully you'll be able to take some out in your 60 s. And it just it that to me does not make any sense so I look at alternative investing strategies as well and so and to me that's where I was talking about investing in in emerging technology. So web 3.0 to me right now is the emerging technology anything that's web 3 o is interesting to me tesla stock is interesting to me there. There. Ah, there's a new. Ah there's a new. Strategy for mining bitcoin that Exxon Mobileil has put into place but there's also some small companies that have ah partnered with some some oil drilling companies that the flair. So. There's a lot of methane gas that's produced when drilling for oil and that's where you see those fire stacks and they're just letting that air out well burning up that methane and creating a lot of co 2 in fact, and they're being taxed on that co 2 but they figured out how to capture that methane. And use that as a fuel for servers to mine cryptocurrencies and so now they're going to save 50% on their taxes and they're now mining cryptocurrencies. So to me I look at that and go that's a very clever emerging technology that's based on. 34:21.73 Max Shank There you go. 34:37.71 mikebledsoe What's happening and and blockchain and web 3.0 and so I'm looking at all this and I go that's where I want to put my attention. Ah the majority of it for me and of course I'm I'm someone who's who's always trying to stay ahead of the curve and not be in the mainstream. 34:54.63 Max Shank Investment Strategy can look a lot of different ways. You can get very rich selling wood pellets. Ah I I tend to do kind of the opposite of what you're talking about which is more more to look at things that are. 34:56.40 mikebledsoe So. 35:08.22 mikebledsoe Yeah. 35:14.39 Max Shank Generating cash and creating real profit right now that has a bad public perception If we're talking about individual companies to invest in something that people need something that is delivered at a profit. Something that isn't going to change in the future but there are a lot of things that get publicly beaten down because they're not. They don't sound as cool. Um, so it's tricky. The truth is though if you don't know. 35:41.00 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 35:50.90 Max Shank Ah, you can spend the time to teach yourself, but you probably would be better off investing in growing your own business I Assume most of the people listening to this own their own business. So um, investing into your own ability to generate income and then investing into a single. Property that you can live in so you're not just spending money on rent every month before you worry about investing into other companies because you can get a way better return betting on yourself. 36:17.70 mikebledsoe Yeah. 36:23.36 mikebledsoe Well that that's a predominant view and which which I held for a long time which is if I'm going to reinvest in my business What's what's a better place to reinvest the problem is I I lacked diversity. And my portfolio basically and so my business didn't do well which is not always in my control then now I'm fucked to so the the frame that I've I've adopted in the last year is I treat my business as an income producing asset. 36:40.56 Max Shank Right? right? totally. 36:59.67 mikebledsoe It's not a place to build Wealth Wealth is built by other high leverage income producing Income Producing assets and what I'm looking for is the highest leverage that means it requires the least amount of effort for me to get the highest returns possible. 37:18.58 Max Shank So investing. Basically. 37:18.97 mikebledsoe And so if I'm investing my own. Yeah, but if I'm investing in my own business and I'm still working in my business. It's actually not a very high leverage. But if I become a a true. Yeah, well you want to become a I don't think anything is passive. But. 37:26.14 Max Shank Right? I see so you're talking about passive investing right. 37:37.38 mikebledsoe Some is more active than others and so like even in the stock market. 37:41.29 Max Shank Passive meaning you're not doing any work or management. You know you can trade certainly but right, but okay so you could hire you could hire a fund manager you could hire a fund manager I suppose would be the the. 37:45.11 mikebledsoe Um, that's still managing though you're stopping a you're giving it energy. Yeah, you do it all the politicians do yeah so and they can claim that they they oh I didn't know I was investing in Lockheed Martin 24 hours before the war with Russia was announced. 37:56.92 Max Shank Least effort. What's that what. 38:11.39 Max Shank Ah, well. 38:13.51 mikebledsoe There's ah that you Nancy Pelosi you know one of the the biggest offenders of taking advantage of inside knowledge for the purpose of investing there was a Twitter account that tweeted every one of her trades. 38:19.55 Max Shank Um, oh yeah, yeah, what a surprise. 38:30.81 mikebledsoe And then Twitter bandit which is a very interesting thing. Yeah, but going back to I really like to put money I think you're right invest in your own ability to create value so that you can continue to have income that produces income initial income. And then ah you know own a home so that you're not just paying rent because she does hit the fan and look my mortgage is set I'm paying the same amount. The the dollar could lose half its value which it may and. Which basically means I got a cheaper house and what good for me. But if I was paying rent. What what do you think? Rent's going to do rent's gonna go. It's gonna skyrocket. It has to so actually if you're a homeowner you almost want and and most of your stuff's in real estate inflation. 39:10.96 Max Shank You're locked in. 39:16.74 Max Shank Um, it has to. 39:27.76 mikebledsoe Could be seen as ah as a positive thing hyperinflation is not because that's just disrupts the entire economy. But yeah, so and then the third one is so invest in your own ability to create value and get your property and then invest in high leverage assets things that just produce income which I think is what you were saying what you want to. Investment things that are throwing off cash now not something where I'm going to put money in and hopefully it goes up in value and I'll be able to take some out the future is that accurate. 39:55.80 Max Shank Yeah, yes, and it's tricky too because um, if there was an investment that didn't follow the rules of risk and reward everyone would invest into it so risk and reward are proportional and. 40:07.88 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 40:13.95 Max Shank If you buy I don't know let's say Tesla right now you're probably not going to hundred x your money over the next few years I don't see how it could happen I'm already stunned that that company is worth so much. It makes no sense is divorced. 40:21.21 mikebledsoe No. 40:33.60 Max Shank It's divorced from reality. Um, so we could have a separate conversation about that. But there are companies that you could purchase that can hundred x over the next couple years but they can also go to 0 40:45.19 mikebledsoe Um, um. 40:51.39 Max Shank So The risk is much higher and the reward is much higher. So If you're looking to diversify your wealth then it would make sense to be really clear on that risk reward. You can. Only gain more if you risk more generally speaking if it's going to be a passive investment because you're not in control of what a cryptocurrency is going to do. You're not in control of what a company's going to do and usually the the more secure it is the less volatile it is. 41:26.41 mikebledsoe yeah yeah I I this is where you and I differ because you you tend to go more on the conservative route and so that the 2 things I invest the 2 things I've invested in so far. Ah. 41:28.55 Max Shank The less It has the potential to grow. So. 41:36.55 Max Shank Is true. 41:44.20 mikebledsoe The most heavily has been startups and the second would be crypto and I've 2 of the 3 are winners and the but 1 of them which was my biggest investment ah went to 0 in a month 41:51.11 Max Shank M. 42:01.10 Max Shank Right. 42:02.50 mikebledsoe So I was just I basically just took money put it in the toilet and flushed it that one hurt and I I learned to I yeah I learned I learned to vet a little better. Um and then cryptocurrencies. 42:06.45 Max Shank Might as well have bought a boat. 42:13.37 Max Shank Well, you have a different skill set too. You have a different skill set too. So your investment style matches your personality type it matches your skill set. You have a lot of experience with startups I've got almost. 42:21.19 mikebledsoe E a. Um, I Also spot Trends in the Market. Um I'm very good at seeing patterns in the market and I can tell when people are going to be interested in something. 42:35.33 Max Shank Can you can you let me know next time you have one of these predictions nostra Daic Theta a crypt the cryptocurrency which could certainly go to 0 right. 42:42.18 mikebledsoe Theta Theta Yeah, yeah, it's got utility. Um I doubt it because a lot.. It's a video streaming. It's got a video streaming utility and a lot of it. Big video streaming companies have already adopted it it it ah it reduces the amount of Bandwidth necessary to exchange more data I don't know how the fuck it works but it works Um, and. 43:12.73 Max Shank Sounds like the the the company from that show Silicon Valley pied piper like takes your data and makes it smaller. That's one of the greatest shows ever as hilarious. 43:20.75 mikebledsoe That's right I Love that show. Ah, it's a good show. Oh man. Yeah, if you if you're in the entrepreneurial world or ever been around startup ah in the startup world. It's It's ah pretty good. 43:35.41 Max Shank You can win more by not diversifying all the richest people the fastest didn't diversify Zuckerberg no diversity. Ah Elon Musk not they're not diversifying. It's like a a spike. There's no. 43:37.29 mikebledsoe Ah. 43:42.82 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 43:53.52 mikebledsoe Yeah, no. 43:53.68 Max Shank Well-roundedness to the investment. There's no there's no pyramid of like I have some here and some here and some here and some here and you can go further and you can earn more and you can also lose everything so you just have to find the appetite for risk reward that will. Allow you to sleep at night because if you earn a little bit less but you sleep soundly every night. It's probably a good idea and there's a good phrase to be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy. And if you can avoid being too greedy. You won't be ah you know having heart palpitations when you're thirty years old because you're worried that you know all your investments are gonna go to 0 so you just gotta you gotta to match that. 44:44.76 mikebledsoe Oh yeah, what? but. 44:49.68 Max Shank Mentality and what kind of Lifestyle you want to live and I feel like the advantage with investing and with insurance and if you want to stockpile food and cash and gold and that kind of thing. It's ah set it and forget it. You don't want to be. Thinking about it all the time that defeats the purpose of buying Insurance. You know. 45:10.64 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah, but this whole thing reminds me of my girlfriend and I about we had been dating for about five or six months and you know I I was heavily investing in crypto and and. She had some money to invest in something. Yeah, you might want to look at crypto I can't tell you what to invest in I'm not you know I'm just saying hey I I like my returns have been pretty fucking. Good. This is the an example of what can happen and I've been pretty conservative so in the crypto world I'm conservative. Ah. I'm not looking for I'm not looking for the unicorns right? So there's you know, really solid fundamentals and all this because well part of it is because I I look at the dot com era and I see a lot of. 45:48.41 Max Shank Blows blows my mind. Um, yeah. 46:05.97 mikebledsoe Similarities between web 3.0 and and http://the.comboom bust and which means that 99% of the your invest of of these companies these coins all these these nfts they're all going to go to nothing ah but 1% is going to become. You know Google Youtube Twitter Facebook you know these these new things will emerge so pay attention and invest in things and you don't have to get in that early if you want to make if you want to turn you know $10000 into a b. Then yeah, you might have to get in and when something's selling at ¢3 ah per per coin. But I'll get in when it's 10 or fifteen I don't give a shit because it's going to 500 I mean I'm gonna get a ah hundred x out of it. So um, yeah, that. Um, I'm fairly conservative. My girlfriend gets into the market and she is checking it every day and you know it's going up and she's so excited it goes down. She's she's like what the fuck freaking out and I go stop looking at that shit the only the only time you should look at it is if it's not going to. 47:06.57 Max Shank Is it. 47:15.90 Max Shank Right. 47:21.46 mikebledsoe Either You have the the constitution to where it's not going to bother you. You're not getting an emotional swing out of it being good or bad or you like what you were saying is set and forget it buy a bunch of cryptocurrencies and then put it on a decentralized wallet somewhere folks not not an exchange. 47:26.28 Max Shank Home. 47:41.32 mikebledsoe Not on coinbase not on Voyager get on a decentralized wallet like trust wallet and or exodus. 47:50.50 Max Shank I'm I'm waiting for Mike's investing handbook. It sounds like you have a figured out man. 47:53.69 mikebledsoe I Ah my I'm gonna be working with my buddy he he built a course I'm trying to get him I want to interview him and then promo the course because I the the information I've gotten from him has been incredibly valuable. 48:11.30 Max Shank Nice there you go. 48:12.54 mikebledsoe And he knows what the fuck he's talking about he comes from the financial background so he used to be in in bait he used to be in banking and then he's and and so you know he he worked in debt and then he got into crypto so the guy the guy's been thinking about money for twenty plus years in ways that we haven't. And but yeah, set it and forget it. 48:34.22 Max Shank You know what you were saying what you were saying earlier about your girlfriend there checking it all the time you know you wouldn't check the value of your house every single day if you owned a house. Oh my god. 48:45.68 mikebledsoe Oh she does that too. We just bought a house. She's like checking the value the homes in the area because because because the market is actually moving really fast where we live. It's like oh we probably already made like $50000 like maybe. 49:01.33 Max Shank Well yeah, maybe and you know, checking something like that all the time can can be good if if you're a trader if you're looking to move stuff around quickly and when you have a smaller account. It's easier to move more of your. 49:12.69 mikebledsoe Yeah. 49:20.62 Max Shank Percentage of your portfolio more quickly so you have more agility and you could be more nimble but it kind of reminds me, you were talking about the pelosi trading thing earlier and I was just thinking about how. We have technology like never before just based on technology Alone. We should all be working less and earning more and living healthier and living longer. But we don't and there are all these traps out there. 49:46.15 mikebledsoe E. 49:56.28 Max Shank And people check every day like oh what's going on in the world and it's probably it's It's probably the biggest trap there is because it takes you out of the here and now the flow which is the only thing that's going to. 50:01.48 mikebledsoe Um, that's the same thing right? Yeah yeah. 50:14.94 Max Shank Really bring you fulfillment when you become the task. Whatever it is. You're doing um people who retire early they gotta find something to do ah sometimes the only thing they find to do is drinking themselves to an early grave. So. You get these people. Maybe they owned a chain of dental offices retire at 40 They got to go out on the golf course or learn carpentry or start a band with their other old friends at the country Club. You got to do something and you got to do something that takes you into the here and now and into that flow. And the worst thing you can do is try to stay abreast of things that have no ah that you have no chance of influencing your life in a positive way as a result of knowing these things So when I think about. The Ah Friend safety Net which is really like a psychological safety net because you should be your own. Best friend Hopefully ah, you're you're abusing yourself mentally by trying to stay on top of what's going on and oh this.? Ah. Dude is winning at swimming against the ladies and I'm outraged about it and what the fuck it's like who cares? are you gonna do something about it. No then like just live your life and it's hard because it's very entertaining I think getting trapped. 51:33.67 mikebledsoe A. 51:49.40 Max Shank Into a tribal identity is like 1 of the worst things you can do you're like oh I identify as he him or she her or I identify as trans or maybe I I could identify as black or whatever. 52:05.57 mikebledsoe Or even liberal or conservative. 52:07.50 Max Shank Ah, well God Yeah, why would you want to like wear their logo on your t-shirt like are you out of your mind. They don't care about you? Um, so I think about that as being one of the biggest traps there is I think. 52:23.43 mikebledsoe Well you you you don't have to ah those traps work because. 52:25.70 Max Shank If Your identity is if your identity is based on. Ah if your identity is based on a group it means that your individual character is Worthless. You're like looking for something Oh I'm part of this group. Not. I'm me and I can do this this that or the other thing is just I'm on this team if that's all you have to offer is I'm on this Team. You suck as a person probably. 52:54.10 mikebledsoe Yeah, well, it's easy you you can stop thinking for yourself and adopt whatever somebody is telling you you should be mad about or what you should care about because you now fit into this this group identity and it's um. 52:59.38 Max Shank Right. 53:13.71 mikebledsoe It's really really sad. Yeah, it's really really sad, but and it's hard for us to tell people this because I've told people this before and they're like well it's easy. You're a white guy and I was like I was like yeah what did you see? did you see ah somebody posted the other day. 53:13.87 Max Shank It's mental illness. It's mental illness. It's like it's like if you. 53:26.20 Max Shank I'm a black lady How dare you assume my race or gender. 53:33.20 mikebledsoe About ah the if you identify as a woman as ah as a woman owned business. So if your business is owned by a woman then you have all this access to these government grants and all this all this stuff and I was like oh this is brilliant I can just. 53:44.70 Max Shank Amazing. 53:49.94 mikebledsoe Identify as a woman because it obviously doesn't seem to be a problem right now and some people were posting like oh then you would get you know that would be fraud I'm like okay so do we have men and women or or are we going to reward some people for. Being born a certain way. 54:08.40 Max Shank You know it's kind of like these otherwise healthy people are electing to participate in Schizophrenia every day by the way they're using their computers. Like plugging into the hive mind to have all these voices yelling at them of they should be this way or they should be this way and then they're yelling back into the void. No, you should be this way fucker and it's like whoa my God and look we have. 54:33.26 mikebledsoe Ah. 54:40.49 Max Shank Such crazy technology. We have so much leverage potential at our fingertips and we're using it to yell at a stranger about something We don't have any nuanced opinion of we're just carrying water for someone else who's trying to blind us all to the fact that. 54:52.25 mikebledsoe No. 54:57.51 mikebledsoe Um, are you carrying water for Putin Oh my gosh. Um. 55:00.37 Max Shank Ah I don't carry water for anybody. But I recognize but I recognize but I recognize that carrying water blindly for Ukraine isn't necessarily a good idea either and I have the confidence to admit that I don't know a god damn thing about North Asian Fucking Politics you know what? I'm saying it's it's crazy that everyone has such a strong opinion about these things but all it does is distract all it does is distract from you know I feel like a ah a record that's just on repeats like the only thing that really matters is jurisdiction. 55:20.54 mikebledsoe Yeah, well, it's it's funny because if you come out with no opinion. 55:39.44 Max Shank And Authority who's in charge and when do do they get to police that authority of theirs and if you're a leader. The only thing you shouldn't do is fuck up the money or get into Wars and that's what's happening and we're all just like but what about this guy swimming. 55:43.32 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 55:58.92 mikebledsoe Um, ah it's incredible. 56:01.50 Max Shank It's like yes it Yes, it's stupid. Yes, it's stupid. Okay, but also there's there's not like a healthy priority list. You know I'm saying it's it's insane. 56:09.91 mikebledsoe Oh I totally get it why why does why was that the most talked about thing for 2 or 3 days last week when. 56:19.20 Max Shank Because it's hiding other stuff that was way more sinister. No question and look if it bleeds it leads I get it. But you don't have to participate in it. You will definitely live more angrily. If you are constantly plugging into that thing and I get really excited about it because I've coached a lot of people both ah business wise coaching training wise and as soon as you realize that the biggest limiting factor in getting what you want is you. 56:39.15 mikebledsoe Are. 56:52.74 Max Shank Then your whole perspective changes about everything because that's also the only thing that you have control over. Yeah I think ah. 56:53.97 mikebledsoe But but it's much easier to blame other people for my lack come on. How am I supposed to use my scapegoats to feel better about myself for not doing shit. 57:06.62 Max Shank You know what that makes sense I I would be so much better off if that guy wasn't swimming against the ladies. It's I think that's where the most of my problems are being caused good God man. Okay, so. 57:16.65 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah. 57:24.88 Max Shank What do we got here. We have. Um, we have a culture the the culture is sick but the technology is awesome. So if you can avoid participating in the culture at large and create a group a family ah of friends and relationships that engage in. Healthy Behavior. You essentially have the keys to the Kingdom psychologically if if you pretty much avoid the media ah and focus on improving your own life. That's also the best way to lead is. By example, you know you just live your life The way you want to on your terms. And you'll be way better off and you'll find that you have lots more time. Everyone's like oh I'm so busy I'm so busy, but the the truth is it's more of ah, a verbal tick to let people know that you're not Lazy. It's not I don't have time I'm so Busy. You're basically just telling them I'm not lazy I'm not lazy I'm not lazy right? but. 58:23.93 mikebledsoe Yeah, or I have a I have a terrible method for setting priorities. 58:30.42 Max Shank I Can't prioritize my life even with space age technology I can't prioritize my life even with space age technology I'm so busy I'm so busy I have no time I have no time I have no time. It's ridiculous. So ah, ah. 58:41.62 mikebledsoe Yeah I've had I've had students come through. It's It's hilarious students come through and they're like I don't have time to do the program and they're single and living with their mom I go. 58:50.64 Max Shank And. 58:59.28 mikebledsoe You don't have time to do the pro. What what are you doing like you're 23 like what do you? You think you don't have time right now this is gonna be a rough one. There's gonna be a rough life for you. 59:10.40 Max Shank It feel like we got a little off the rails there I think I I think I I think I took us I think I took us right off the rails. You know I get all fired up sometimes. 59:14.18 mikebledsoe We did all right? Let's go Back. It's definitely all your fault. Um, so all right? So securing your future fitness we'll we'll ah we'll start wrapping here. Securing your future fitness How tos. 59:31.78 Max Shank Walk a lot. Um, learn how to prevent falling which is stepping and lunging and learn how to prepare for falling which is rolling and falling. Is a really good example of risk and reward because the probability that you will fall is basically 100%. You're not going to live your life without falling now given a fall There's maybe a less than 1% chance that you will die or maybe a 1 % chance that you will die but a 1 % chance of death should be plenty of motivation to learn how to fall well and learn how to lunge so that you can prevent falling and that's because even though the risk ah probability wise is very low. You will kill yourself in a fall the cost of that error is total death total annihilation so because the cost is so high even if the probability is low. You want to prepare yourself for falling and then the last. 01:00:39.45 mikebledsoe Yeah, you know what it might have been I want to interject here because it might have been you. It might have been another coach that I've been interacting with over the last decade who knows but they talked about a relationship to the ground and ah was a you that use that terminology. Okay. 01:00:44.55 Max Shank Yeah. 01:00:52.91 Max Shank Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. 01:00:59.31 mikebledsoe And and I remember talking to you about that and I really when I started holding that frame my training shifted and I became ah I prioritized my relationship to the ground and then I anytime I came across like my. Ah, like older people in my family I would talk to their their. Yeah they well they fall into bed So The bed is about hip height so they can just like roll into bed. They can roll out and then they. 01:01:22.59 Max Shank They're afraid of the ground they're afraid of the ground a lot of time they're afraid Chest high. 01:01:35.77 mikebledsoe They they fall back into the recliner they fall into their car. They get out. They sit in their office chair. They fall into their office chair. It's all it's got to be cushy and they have no practice whatsoever. Getting up and down off the ground. So a lot of like older family members and things like that they asked me about how to be in better shape because I walk in they're like wow you're 40 so got a 6 pack. Yeah so how do you do that I go well at first I work on my relationship to the ground and then I teach them how to. Get up and down off the ground which basically means like let's get all the way down and then you'll figure it out but practice that and I I put my you're the same way cause I've seen your bed. The bed is on the floor because I know that if I practice if I sleep on the floor that's guaranteed. 01:02:09.60 Max Shank Yeah. 01:02:23.47 mikebledsoe I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna get down at least once that entire day off the ground if I do that for the rest of my life. It's not gonna be a problem for me whereas for most people it is so I just wanna throw that in there because that was so valuable. 01:02:32.33 Max Shank A. 01:02:39.51 mikebledsoe Ah, such a valuable frame for me to adopt. 01:02:40.74 Max Shank I Think our listeners are just wondering why you've seen my bed. 01:02:50.26 mikebledsoe I've seen his steam room too. 01:02:50.63 Max Shank Hey now it wasn't steamy before you got in there. Ah I couldn't I can't help myself. Ah and also ah bone density being being able to support ah heavy-ish. 01:02:57.40 mikebledsoe I Hope what else in. 01:03:10.22 Max Shank Amount of force with your skeleton being able to carry stuff very um, important skills. Um, that's actually what my primal athleticism program is all about it's a daily practice primarily for longevity. You're not going to be. Deadlifting £600 you're not going to be cranking out 20 handstand pushups but you're going to learn how to skip and bounce and roll and crawl and fall and climb and carry things and those are some of the most important skills I think. Just because we're in the fitness industry people overemphasize certain things because it's the brand of their cult. You know people are like oh muscle wasting you got to be careful muscle wasting and it's because we're in essentially the muscle business if you're a dude right? ah. 01:04:03.64 mikebledsoe Yeah, pretty. 01:04:07.23 Max Shank But a lot of skinny people live a really long time. So It's really more important that you are strong and you are able to use your muscles in an adaptable way kind of back to what we talked about before the Chief attribute is elasticity which is really. About adaptability to a wide range of forces at a wide range of angles at a wide range of positions and that's what my elasticity program is all about and it doesn't have to be complicated. Um, you could probably just do TaiChi every day go for walks and. Not eat too much and have friends and live a really long time. Yeah. 01:04:49.30 mikebledsoe Love it. So the things I would add on the fitness side is master your breath so learn learn how to breathe well into every part of your body I Like to think about my. 01:04:57.73 Max Shank Oh. 01:05:07.19 mikebledsoe About I'm breathing through a sphere and I'm breathing into the bottom I'm breathing into my back I'm breathing into the top all of that equally I can I can breathe just into the bottom I can breathe just into the top I have control over where the air flows and I do things like tape my mouth shut. At night to make sure that I'm only nose breathing and game changer and I don't have to take my mouth shut for it to stay shut. But I Still do it just to you know, be sure and so ah for. 01:05:29.25 Max Shank Breathe through that nose Hell yeah, that's game changer for a lot of folks. 01:05:41.41 Max Shank Ah. 01:05:46.42 mikebledsoe For that if if your breath isn't handled then you know everything else will fall apart and put in a lot of emphasis. Ah after Breath Spine being able to feel and articulate at each Vertebrae I Found to be extremely useful and I found that once I. Put my attention there. My athleticism overall went up my hand-eye coordination improved all that happened when I started putting attention on the spine and I have no you know Spine pain anymore whereas I used to have a lot of core issues and. 01:06:21.20 Max Shank Plus your chakers. We all lined up to line the chakris. 01:06:25.39 mikebledsoe Gotta gotta align no chakra's baby and and yeah it ah it helps so those are my 2 big things in regard to movement and then obviously you just got to learn how to eat you got learn what works for you experiment. 01:06:36.11 Max Shank The fitness side. 01:06:43.50 Max Shank We could do a whole thing on the fitness side of longevity because you know all the moving parts are so important you know your feet taking care of your feet I don't want to drag out this conclusion too long, but there's an old Chinese proverb that says we age from the roots up and I don't necessarily. 01:06:44.91 mikebledsoe I'm a big. Yeah. 01:07:03.50 Max Shank Live my life by Proverbs I don't know the origin of but I think it is still good to take care of your feet. 01:07:10.28 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah, so ah, we're just hitting the top ones all right? Yeah, we could go on and on on that so in regard to finance and the money. What's ah overall securing your future. 01:07:28.40 Max Shank Number 1 thing number. Yeah, we sure did I think you gave us a little mini crypto master class there ah teaser it's coming soon. Ah, get get comfortable with less. 01:07:28.91 mikebledsoe We we I think we talked primarily about that. But yeah, just quick synopsis. 01:07:47.37 Max Shank To start out with you know, you're not gonna find a lot of fulfillment from buying yourself a bunch of toys and being fancy. It's way better to start hungry and stay hungry. Ah eat until you're 80% full, go ahead and defer gratification. You can work for money or you can put money to work for you and people put themselves in debt trying to keep up with the joneses and it's all status games. It's totally not worth It should ah start with a very spartan lifestyle if you're already kind of in. And extravagant mode. But you're not really comfortable with your finances like you know it's a mistake you got to be able to defer gratification for later and those are the people who earn the most is the ones who can. Be a little bit more patient so that's probably the first that's probably the first thing deferred gratification. Don't get into debt. 01:08:46.74 mikebledsoe Yeah, ah debt debt is mainstream. So ah, it's incentivized right now. Um I'm not gonna say all debt is bad I carry some debt which I would consider be good debt. 01:09:04.79 Max Shank Like a house. 01:09:05.75 mikebledsoe But um, like a house something that's low interest. It allows me to free up cash to put into things that are higher return, but my debt is optional if I wanted to clear out my debt right now I could do it. It's just not a financially intelligent move. Um, because where the money's at otherwise is is creating way more earnings than than what I would save on my debt payments on the on the interest. So yeah, kill the debt create Value. So always be. And what I mean by create value is be in touch with the things that other people value. So We we talked about writing as being one of the most valuable things I agree with that learn how to communicate Well ah one of my previous mentors. He wrote a book. Called last safe investment and categorized labor in the 4 categories one was physical labor technical labor creative labor and interpersonal labor and with each one of those the value goes up so labor is physical. Labor is the lowest value technical labor is the second lowest value. And then Creative labor is the next one up and the highest value labor is Interpersonal. So ah, you know writing being Creative. There's technical aspects to it of course but leadership sales things like that being interpersonal copywriting is something that bridges the creative and interpersonal. So. When you're thinking about which what type of labor you want to improve on unless you're going to be a professional athlete. Ah, you're going to probably see the biggest return on developing yourself as a leader or in your creative abilities and then last. Money for me is invest in emerging technology pay attention to what technologies are emerging that's going to be a good wave to catch. But as we talked about you know with emerging Technologies A lot of those will go to nothing. So. Choose wisely. 01:11:16.97 Max Shank I I like it you and I have different investing strategies and and it's good I would add to the labor set well enough at all at all what you compare to um. 01:11:24.96 mikebledsoe Yeah I think we both do we both do? well. So it's neither 1 or wrong. Yeah. 01:11:35.78 mikebledsoe Yeah I mean compare. 01:11:36.89 Max Shank You know, ah compared to compared to dwayne the rock johnson I'm fat and broke. So it's all it's all the way you compare to but I would add to the labor side of things find at least 1 thing that has an expent. 01:11:43.33 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah. 01:11:55.56 Max Shank An exponential return on your time ah write a book make a video co

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