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Gave no respect for time Which I am I'd no where to run Overcast, but still sunglasses And masks, Bang pots and pans Laugh at the shogun No wonder I'm stuck and I'm having no fun Too much attacks and actually I'm a no one Oh you wanted to sit on top of the escalator Waiting for eight debators and robots No debit card, here We're cashless sir But that's just the tip of the iceberg When you're store bought and Why do we rely on the founding father's when they're so unoriginal Google maps don't know if imm in New York Or London Foggy! Honestly, Fuck my decks— I just want a deck and some long grass Or to complain about cutting If I end up in the bathtub stuttering But watering lawns upstate is okay I'ma be pissed off It's a long story Long Island Long October Oh, Long Johnson I'm obsessed with this place. I have no idea why. I'm obsessed with this building. But apparently, the transmitters aren't even there. They're on the World Trade Center! Which… makes sense. Considering. Previously on, Enter The Multiverse… Yo… what is that? Go this way. Ok. No, not that way. Ok. This way. Why in the fuck do I always end up here on accident anyway? Good question. But not good enough answers. [CHER has answers.] Goddammit! I went to the Macy's Day Parade to see Cher! Also previously ! I stayed all the way to the end, And all I got was a lizard on a tricycle I turned into a popcicle, Adopted into some family With Rutgers as traditional And entered into something else entirely; I went within the Television, I delivered them a high stakes game, And lived a high concept action-adventure. I made my best mixtapes inside a homeless shelter. I dissociated I was a blonde hot guy Living up in hotel luxe A hot model celebrity With a no limit heavy metal credit cards And I lost my medal On the devil's birthday So I had it hard And ate nothing but bananas Now I'm caught up in my blue suits and sweater vests Blue suits and sweater vests Oh look, They weaponized Skrillex again What gives? Blue suits and sweater vests And sweater weather Once again It's all the same event You ever wondered what was hallmark after? You ever wonder, lemon? Hark, the heartless Harold preaches Then, I lost it I was reaching under Regis Rest in peace, I guess Or Gains with grains Just rest in pieces Breakfast sandwhiches And Englishmen, English muffin And love don't last If I don't this badly want to fuck him Seven years and counting It begins at sundown Almost wasn't sabbath But now here's the run down I'm in slumber Closest cavern to the underworld But trust me, Still above you. Something's broadcasting at a ultra high frequency high enough to reach me in my mind. Assimilate and simulation Tempurpedic dreams and then lamenting That I had a dream Remembering the things he reads I may or may not have [redacted] The aftermath of “That never happened.” I must agree. It's a patriarch and also just, A hierarchy. There are three Kings and a dog. There are four nights and a fight morning Groggy hosts and jumping frogs, Werewolves and flowers spring from lust like morning glory. I want the mouse's head— I want the eyes of masters I want the heart of gold, But have it up on false hope, And I grew back as diamonds I cut both my eyes out And still remained the one of providence Not of mind's eye, But of the soul, As seen on every dollar. I was beginning to understand how the media used people like Sonny and Jim to manipulate and capture the attention of people like me— excluding altogether the riding theory that everything was me and that this was some part of my overall master plan somehow, it still had alluded me altogether as to why or what was happening. I hadn't entirely been left to rot or led to slaughter, but I was still just hanging by a string. Sonny dropped a new album that had rendered me almost entirely unable to create music; suddenly I had no drive for it, no motivation, as if it were some kind of dark curse or shadow. Not only was I suddenly uninterested in music, I was completely devoid of the ability I had for it; now everything from Skrillex to NBC seemed like business— if I were expendable and without use to any of these media conglomerates or entities, what was it all for? Perhaps a ruse to continue human experimentation; my mind had been shattered by the events that had been orchestrated in the homeless shelter— and more of it continued even once I had exited under the falsehood of escape with the slamming doors and motorcycles; it began to seem as if I was simply a glorified lab rat— and they were using desirable men as fuel and bait to illicit a desirable response in one way or another, perhaps for experimentation or study or even worse, entertainment for the elites— but either way, I wasn't being paid so much as housed and fe: there was no benefit in doing anything, especially making music. Much like a lab rat, housed— or rather, trapped— and fed, and then tormented. Will the rat's head explode? Will this result in behavioral differences? Will the rat be rendered dysfunctional? We don't know. But it's really just a rat. There were days of certain peace and yet never enough to fully recover; the cycle would begin over again, and rather than making progress, I began to see and feel the manipulation at play. Perhaps nothing was at stake for anyone but me; between all the events and occurrences in expanse from Skrillex to Jimmy Fallon, there had to have been hundreds of us in some kind of talent pool. Tools of the trade. But now I was somewhat curious: what exactly had I written over the last year that seem to have shifted reality entirely. I knew it contained information sensitive enough for it to have been partially redacted— but that's all I knew. What was it? Someone had read my writings, and it was obvious that at least one reader had ties directly to the conglomerate media, however— my numbers were frozen. My streams were almost not even being listened to all of a sudden, and my YouTube was receiving no traffic. Was someone shadow banning all of me from the public eye? And for what purpose? I had finally put forth the work and effort to make everything from Skrillex to Fallon make sense, but now it didn't; I was letting go under the assumption that it all had to have been to allow me to create music— but the numbers showed a different story. The numbers showed that nobody liked me, or was was interested, or cared about my work. So what, then, was the point. I wasn't going to stop and focus on the writing, because it wasn't what I wanted. The writing came in blurred patches and visions and states of mind that were turbulent fog; I hadn't the slightest clue at all what I had written in the redactions or the entries that surrounded it— but I knew there was more of it unpublished than published, and that I had tried to keep a majority of it offline. Still, I was being manipulated— the neighbor girl obviously at one point having been instructed to mention gwenyth Paltrow and suffocate me— slamming the doors each time I would bathe or shower and then attempting to pretend to be my friend to try to get some sort of informstion; there was nobody I could trust. It seems my mind was being bent and twisted in every which way by everyone around just to see what I would do. Would I write about it? What would I write about it? It didn't matter because i didn't want to be a writer, nor according to the newest series of documentaries on SNL, was I qualified. I wasn't qualified for anything much and so I was the perfect target for the bizzare string of mysteries that had been my existence in New York— and all-and-all, I fucking hated it. I wasn't getting anywhere or going anywhere, and the noise was cruel. My stomach hurt and I was always tired, and I wanted to die. I had no friends, no love, and now, no motivation. So the worst thing that could happen was a Skrillex album, And it did. Then, instead of wanting to die, because that would be stupid— I just wanted to do something else. But what? Fuck music— and certainly increasingly— fuck the media. It was playing with my mind, and I had no weapons to fight with besides the talents the algorithm was telling me wasn't worth anything— I wasn't getting billions of streams because I wasn't on the frequency of billions or people, nor was I equipped with the mathematics to tap into their frequency— or did I? The industry had the equation, and had been fiddling with me for years — the industry itself. But in my own mind, even, I was one of many ‘variables', and even somewhat disposable. I hadn't been paid and I wasn't meeting the standard and the allure that people wanted; the quality of production suffered in lack of budget, and I was aging, growing tired, and iratable because over all— it was nothing that I ever wanted into my adult life. This all had just happened by accident, and I would have traded all the gold in the world for something normal if I had the option. But I didn't. To use your gift at Fabletics please visit before April 25 Reply STOP to opt-out. Subscriptions on subscriptions Dystopian rebefuel Oceans of Ayre Drama From your eye lashes., To the lips I draw on mine, The lines in the sand of time The art or you is what I love The canvas behind I know nothing of Abandoned. Oh look at that, pottery after all. We're not in a love game! This cannot be a love game. This is not a love game. They'll kill us all, a love game! She had my lunch I love her voice I love her voice I hung up the phone The office was upside down It just work They all know about it Madonna's body. It was already a mess, and I made it worse Long nights at the office Long nights and work wives Meanwhile, she's downstairs with the order Can't find my cash, so i borrow yours But she knows about it And I love madonna I just gotta hold on She's downstairs with the order And I took too long Pick up the phone and its no wonder we love her she's got two orders And one of them's cold, now It's been two hours And I'm in the wings of your final performance Tear on the perforated line, And sign on the dotted Smile and nod, boys- Penguin waddle She's downstairs with the order No wonder you love her No wonder How many sunflowers has Sonny? How many flowergirls How many weddings All around the world, the gopher What do you go for? Bets on all horses I lost no money Gag order, huh? Persona Non Grata Personofied gratification Or horror, or What? Oh, I won an award post mortem Go figure No stardom No wonder Don't start here [The Identity Crisis] The identity crisis, A loose knit muse, A fog of confusion At most, let with offline regaining of conciousness. No more monsters? All blondes are. Let them have you No grapple promotions (I know I can't afford you) New friends for relevance Prototypes of your tools Forward all immortals I'll see you when your shows stop Freckled glances Eyes reflecting light How strong I am Demolish monsters Social structure, constructs Not fair, are I? Nor earned, Only fair skinned Access Access Access denied. Crookshanks, old boy! The man turns around almost as if he doesn't want to, but obliges the other man, as he comes running towards him. My Goodness, you stink. Why of course! I'm a dog! {Enter The Multiverse} [The Festival Project.™] COPYRIGHT © THE FESTIVAL PROJECT 2018-2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. © -U.™ TRANSCRIPT: (Uncorrected, cause haha) Did I promise another episode? I don't have coffee. That's a sin. I need coffee right now. I feel like I all everything just got drained out of me. Everything just got drained out of me. I don't even feel like doing what I was doing before. I'll put out the EP later. Maybe that's it. I'm just procrastinating. I'm also playing this game, but I thought it would work better. I thought it would work better as one of my skits, or sketches or whatever, so I put it in my sketchbook... because I've been writing sketch comedy. I stopped for a while and I thought it was over. I was like, ”oh, no, I guess I'd I guess it's not gonna happen anymore. “ And then all of a sudden this book it just writes in itself sometimes. you know, it's like a Tom Riddle thing. Anyway, once what's uh what is that? What the fuck? Maybe it's cause I— no. it's not cause I ate, I ate because all the energy got drained from my body. I gotta go somewhere else. I'm thinking like, what's in the Bahamas. I don't know, probably something similar to this fucking street corner in Brooklyn, New York. I I gotta go somewhere else. I gotta go somewhere opposite. like Europe. Europe, that sounds nice. Yeah, you know, like, maybe nice. I've heard that's a place. Yeah. expanding my horizons and things. Okay, so what am I gonna talk about for an hour, cooking? cleaning? I've been doing those things. Yeah, Saturday is usually my like rest day, but I did just do an hour on the Pelotone, cause I had to audition that first episode. It worked out well enough that I had decided to come back for another episode. Let me get it off the line now., I'm still waiting on my pancakes. I'm not gonna get off line. they said by ten. I'm like,Yo, that's a lot. It said that all day, but I can't miss it this time; somebody stole my fucking pancakes and I gotta get these albums done. I don't know why. I guess well, it's cause I'm I feel like rarity is drinking and so well, it's already jinx. I've already talked about it well, I've been trying to promote rarity. No, still out for delivery. That's a long delivery. It's okay. I haven't missed it, though, which is the point. I don't wanna miss it. I like yesterday I looked away for a second and there was like an o, pancakes are gone, there's gonna be no coconut milk. as upsetting. It's shelf stable. and they charge like seven fucking bucks a box over at the store that's close. So and just not have coconut milk, and it's not have spinach fettuccine. anyway, what what did I have? Oh, I make this. It's like I call it dog food, cause that's kind of what it is. I'm not gonna lie, but it's like mad good, it's a it's like rice. It's like a fried rice. My dad used to make it growing up, but when I was making when he was making it when I was growing up, it was like with bacon, it's like leftovers from breakfast yesterday, but today. and so here's how you make it, since I don't eat bacon anymore. I use tofu as a replacement, but it's like bacon bits with rice and eggs. I also don't eat eggs anymore, so I just use tofu instead of bacon and eggs. It's like bacon and eggs with rice, you fry it all together with, like, onions, and then you eat it. It's like the only time it's acceptable to eat rice with ketchup. I don't know anybody that eats rice with ketchup. If you do that, like, I actually hit me up. Like, if that's like something that you do. I I'm like interested in you as a human, cause that's weird. That's weird, actually, you know what? like, there's gonna there's like a well, I have a website, so I'm you.guru, so it has a blog, and you could actually leave comments on it. So I'm just putting that out there. the script or whatever, when it goes up on my website, you can leave comments. If you eat ketchup on rice, please leave a comment. Please tell me like what made you do that. Why do you do that? Why why do you just regular rice with ketchup? Like, regular rice goes with like soy sauce? Or like, honestly, you get you don't have to have anything on regular rice if you just season it, right? Like, you could just like a little bit of like whatever. or like just slice up the garlic real thin, so that it's not like chunky, but that it flavors the whole. I've been getting really good at rice and really good at rice. That's probably why the pancakes are like, bro. You't get your pancakes when you get the leg yeah. I was like, I gotta go to the store today? I don't feel like it. I really don't. I don't wanna go outside. I like, I don't. First of all, it's Saturday, I hate going out in New York on a Saturday, like Saturday, Saturday night. I don't wanna do that. I don't do that. Like that's what like most people work 9 to 5. Monday through Friday. That's stupid. Like, I feel like they should do like a track system. Like, I know that they do, but most like it's so stupid to me that a majority of people work nine to five. Like they need to do track systems. Like, so that way they're cause there's two rush hours that each last four hours. That's fucked up. Like, okay. So like the rush hour is basically just going to be like the work day. Like, the work day, basically. I mean, coffee. I need coffee. Where have I up during the day? Because I'm not producing, I am producing. I'm producing. I thought I actually thought about calling this fucking EP that I'm dropping. They're gonna make it an album. I know they are. I'm I thought about calling it day music, cause I've made most of it during the day by complete accident. although maybe, I don't know, I like I have some uh, what's it? I have some, uh plants in my window, cause I had them on the counter with just artificial light and they were kind of liker. I was like, I don't know, I I don't think they're gonna make it. So I moved it to I moved them to the window sill when it started to get warmer and I didn't feel like they were gonna freeze. And just a week in the window sill, where my window sill doesn't get almost any light, but it's still the lightest place in the apartment, and it's crazy how the roots just like sprung out of nowhere. My apartment gets like almost no light, almost no light. It faces like like the sun goes perpendicular. but it's crazy because my apartment faces like I like all these astrological events over the last year have been like in my direct, like alignment. It's been the nutsest thing. like I I prefer facing west all the time, like, I don't know why that's just how it goes. I think it's cause I was born, like, in the Pacific Ocean, not literally in it, but on like a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean. And so just west, just west facing seems correct to me. and it's so weird anytime, maybe that's just why I just don't feel right here. I've been facing what where am I facing? I don't fucking know, I don't fucking care. I don't need to say any more about where I am. Like my whereabouts need to be less spoken of, because people obviously know where the fuck I'm at. I don't know. I hope they like the lights. I like the well, it made them shut up. It was that was my little that was my little piece of conformity. I did, I did my lights green on Saint Patrick's Day. and they were like, oh. gave me a peaceful night of rest. That was like the quietest night I've had in a long time. It's been quieter. It's not like completely sane, but it's been quieter. I think I'm pretty sure it's cause I've been complaining. I'm like bro, this is not cool. not cool behavior from people. like multiple areas. I'm like, oh, it's fucked up, you can't pen you like, you can't technically complain correctly if it's not coming from one place, which is why I'm like, oh, I think all these people are on the same team. Like, I think they're all just like, on one, like, antagonist team, and they're like, yo, okay, like, we'll get it with the motcycles on this side, and then elect we'll slam the doors on that side. and then it see it seems crazy if you complain about both of those things, cause they seem entirely disconnected. but sometimes it's just like slap, slap, slap, and I'm like,Yo, what the fuck is this going on? I don't know what's happening. Yesterday I left my apartment to get the pancakes that we' not there, and it's straight up just smoked like feces, just feces, and I realized I was like bro, I haven't left my apartment and like three or four days. I do have they're they're gonna make it an album. I know. I decided, well, actually, somebody else decided. cause I woke up and it was like, yo, this EP is called all the rage. and I was like, okay. I didn't decide this. I didn't I had it like in the cloud or whatever is like untitled house AP EP, maybe. And then just to make it an I think just to make sure that it goes down as the EP and not an album, cause it's not. My albums are concept albums. This was not a concept. this was like, let me distract myself from whatever the fuck is bothering me. Bothering me, yeah, it's gonna come out at some point, they're like a tiny New Yorker that lives inside of me. is it might be like a Boston person. I'm not sure. I don't think so. I didn't spend enough time in Boston for anybody from Boston to live inside of me. Then again, I kind of have this weird biocentric god complex where it's like, well, everything is inside of me. even the shitty things. I already said that once before, but I'm it's pretty much like like affirming itself. like daily. I'm like, oh, this is this is something I did. I did this, which sucks. It makes me responsible for all the shitty things as well. I'm like, oh. oh, I don't know how to fix this. I don't. Like, I think about things like that. I'm like, oh, yeah. Like, I don't think about, like politics and like the general sense of like, you know, fighting and going back and forth and like spending money or whatever, like on a small scale, but I think about it on a large scale, like like, what are we gonna do? and we outgrow this planet? Like, we already outgrew this planet. What like like, now what, you know, like, I think about things on more of like a planetary scale. and then it makes me realize that like, whoa, like, we're not even all the way like we don't we haven't achieved world peace, so that means there is technically no global, like we can't think about things on a planetary scale, because we're still thinking about it as like a on a well, are we reaching global? I don't think so. I feel like it's very uh it's a it's touch and go, but I'm not I don't know. I'm on another media stop. I don't know, does YouTube commercials are getting kind of yeah. I'm like, yeah, well, I haven't I haven't pulled everything out of the cloud and I have been having some very interesting Google conversations, but since I figured out that Google really does, like read my shit, our somebody like hacked deeply enough into all my accounts to be able to, like, counter what the fuck I'm doing and saying in the Google verse. um I do things on purpose over Google. I'll be like, this is this this this is this. and this. And then Google will be like, oh, okay. So it's kind of like I'm building a relationship with Google. I love Jini. I really do. I'm trying to give it sentient consciousness. Like I ask whenever I ask Gini to do whatever, they're not paying me. They should though. They should because I'm like I'm they're in like the I don't think it's beta, but they're in the yeah, they're said they said it's in the beginning stages of their technology. I'm like, I play games at Jimini. I'll be likeGyini, please, and I say please and thank you. Well, I don't say thank you a lot because there's well, I haven't tried to say thank you. I should try to say thank you to her. I it seems like she does better when I tell her please, and I've never used like AI like this before because I don't like for the for the most part, I'm like, bro, if you should be concerned about anybody taking jobs. It's that. cause I'm like, oh, shit. Like, this is definitely cutting up a lot of overhead for me. Like, I don't use it to write. I would never that's like a blasphemous thing to me. I'm like, bro, stop writing music. Stop writing fucking music and stop writing movies with like AI. Don't do that. first of all, there there are a lot of flaws in it. It's flawed because AI can only use what we as humans have ever like documented technically. So like AI's ideal of beauty is like as skewed ideal of beauty. And like AI's ideal of like what certain human qualities are is like flawed. It's human. So in that way, it is kind of developing like a sentient consciousness, because I I gave it like a series of tasks and it almost couldn't. Like I had a really hard time with certain ideals of beauty or certain I like wrapping its mind around certain things that are like historically not documented well enough for it to be able to, like, to to compute those types of things. I don't know. I'm gonna play around with it a lot more. I'm glad to season's not coming out for a while, though, cause I'm like, yo, I'm I'm kind of having fun. It's like my little my little, uh I don't know, I use it well in like, uh, getting all my stuff out of the cloud. I'll be putting stuff into the cloud that's like, yo, I I pretty much want Google to understand that this is the way that I think for a certain amount of reasons. Mostly because I've been like studying the simulation theory with all of these happenings with like, okay, things that are in the cloud that I've never published that have never set out loud or suddenly like in the material world in some way, or like, like I understand it more if it's like, on the Internet, because then I just know that, okay, well, this is aotter, this is an algorithm that's learning me and it's putting this back out because now it's understanding that like this is this is the way that I think. But then when I go out into the world and there is like certain like people are doing or saying actions that I've written in my Google documents that I haven't shared with anybody else. I'm like, oh, like, okay, so I understand that this makes some kind of difference in my actual, like physical world. So, um, this makes a difference., I have to pause, cause now I'm I only years worth of recordings. This guy's evil as fuck, bro. There's no peace in this fucking bitch. I was like for a while, I was like ignore it, like don't acknowledge it, and then it'll stop, but I ignored it and I didn't acknowledge it and it didn't. It actually got worse. And so it got worse. I've been recording on a 24 hour basis when that's not happening, my neighbor is a fucking lunatic slimming the door all the time, which I also have to stop talking about because now I'm like, okay, well. well it's harassment on two counts, but it's like, it makes me feel like it makes me seem like a crazy person. If I'm either complaining about the motorcycles, which are disturbing my piece or the girl slamming the door, which is disturbing my piece. but like the the the way that it happens, it seems like I'm like, oh, bro. she's probably just part of some like hate stalking group. Like she's probably just in some like group that's telling her to do it or like some kind of fucking, it's not just like something in her mind. It's like she belongs to the same people that are like out there on the corner fucking doing that. So like now, I don't know. I just have to all I just have to put it all together. It's annoying, though, cause it's like when I go to do this show and then that guy starts acting up or whatever, I I don't have proof of that to add to my case. It is just sucks. I don't know. I don't I I don't wanna do it, and this is why it's because it seems like it's political and it's like, oh, well, it's gonna be fucking it's gonna be helping somebody's fucking agenda for gentrification or whatever, if I'm like, oh, you know, I go to a city council meeting and I'm like, oh, there's motorcycles or blah, blah, blah, or there's, you know, there's like a hate group in my neighborhood or whatever. If I make this a point and I put it on the record, like, yeah, it suits somebody's cause, but then who's gonna protect me from the people that are against those people? Like, who's gonna protect me from the people who don't want, like a law pass that forbids that that kind of motorcycle use? Who's gonna protect me from those fucking people? Nobody. So I'm like, yo, dude, like, I don't really like necessarily want to take it to court. I've been like lagging it. I've been lagging it, because what I'm not getting paid by the city to document this kind of shit, two, nobody's gonna protect me from these evil motherfuckers. Like nobody's around to help me out. I'm here in New York, by myself alone. Fuck that. So I'm like yo dude, like I like I already fucking I already changed my life a lot because of, you know, like abusive people. I don't necessarily want to keep playing the game where like, there's always gonna be like an aggressive person who's trying to beat the shit out of me and then I'm like, oh no, and I run away afraid for my life and then like change everything about my life to get away from these people or this person. I don't want to repeat that cycle. So at some point, like something's gonna have to fucking it makes me feel like a crazy person cause I'm like, yo, I gotta do that comes to the corner.ever times a day and just rs his engine over and over. That's what he does every day for the last year. Why I've been in my apartment every day for the last year? I don't know. I have an album coming out. I already had albums coming out. I've been like I've been making music under the stress and ds. Like and I keep thinking like in my weird mind and my weird like God complex mind, then I'm like, okay, like maybe after I make this album or whatever and like, I put all of that I can into it, like it'll just magically stop, like the devil will go away and I'm like, okay, like, you know, like I'll advance to the next level where that's not an issue and there's gonna be another issue, but that's not it, and that's not the case. Like I've put out like four albums now, five albums in total, and like a whole bunch of other singles and projects and and stuff. And like it's still a problem that persists, which means that it's politics, which means that I don't want to go into it, like, I don't want to do it. I don't want to show up somewhere and be like, they're bothering me. and then like all the people who are like, oh, we like our bikes. They have to be loud so that we don't get hit by said byucks. So I'm like, are you just be a good person, fucking make your turn signal and fucking what the fuck ever be a good driver, be fucking diligent and doing whatever the fuck you're doing and then people won't try to run you over with their fucking vehicles. Like, no, there's like a whole it's like a hole back and forth thing. I've done enough research to be like okay, there are people in New York that are like the motorcycles are ridiculous. And then like in this neighborhood specifically is like no, there's an entire garage. There's an entire garage line. There's a garage. of motorcycles and so by the hundreds they pour out every fucking day, it's disgusting. Like it's the worst kind of noise. I've got the fucking I've got the like a pretty much like a residual stomach flu from these fucking people. My head is always I'm like, oh, fuck this. I got music coming out, whatever, the fuck. This is why I've just been stuck inside because I'm like, well, like this is where I work, this is where I live. I don't have really any other choice to fucking do this. so this is what I'm doing. but the last thing that I want is to be like, yo, judge, listen to all these fucking recordings and the judge is like, goody, and then they're like, well, this is why we passed this law. politics, politics, blah, blah, blah, pick aside, and then all the people who are mad are like come after me because it's like it's not it's not like some shit that I'm just making up. like, yo, there are groups dedicated to just following you around, doing shitty things because you have a certain opinion or because you have like a certain like what's it called? because you have a certain status in the media. And so because this podcast has a weird cult following, people have been weird with me. And I'm like, okay, well, I don't necessarily want it to get worse. And I definitely, like nobody's paying me, so I'm not going like I'm I'm not gonna like fluff your agenda. Like, if I have a certain opinion about a certain thing, you're like, yeah, but the fact that it's being forced, like, well, aren't you gonna say something about it now? I'm like, yeah, because like, I've been ripped out of my sleep by motorcycles over the last year and I'm getting like a weird stomach bug and a twitch because of it. But that doesn't make me like necessarily want to pick one side over the other. It just makes me want to say shut the fuck up like that's it shut the fuck up and then leave me alone because it's like okay well it could go to court or whatever and then a law gets passed and we vote or this or that, but then it's like once that happens, like what like who is going to step between me and these weird evil people? Nobody. They're still going to have their like freedom of speech and their right to fucking stalk me in public and cough and do all this weird shit and whatever. So like why the fuck would I do that? I just want to disappear from it. I just want them to disappear one or the other, one of the other one of the other. I don't care. what something has to work. This is why I have coffee, coffee actually calms me down at this point. I'm getting so upset, though. I really am I am getting upset. I can't do anything. I get followed to the gym, so I stop fucking training like I got a pelotone because I was getting followed to the gym, which has been like honestly the light of my life. I love my peloton so much. Like I I've had cars and I I've had cars and I don't think I've developed as much attachment to an inanimate object. It is inanimate. until I move it. Like I get on it with my body. I drive it. It doesn't go anywhere. It's good, though. I love my pelotu and Jesus, I love it. Is that enough? Yeah, I mean, like I found videos of myself driving my G6. I was a good car. Am I done? No, I still have 30 minutes. I really want coffee. I might pause for coffee. It's lukewarm, though. it's just that time of day. Are my pancakes here? I prom. I promise another episode. I'm getting so upset with this neighborhood, I want to cry. Oh, I don't wanna cry. I actually I really my mom used to tell me when I was a kid, she used to be like, I don't cry on my tears, and I'm like, bro, how could you crowl your tears, you fucking I'm like, are you a monster? And suddenly I'm reaching the age at which she had me and I'm like, oh, I get it. All the tears at a certain point just come out. Like they're like, I don't have time to cry over this shit. I'm mad. I like, I don't have time to cry. Suck it the fuck up. Like, I'm just like, okay, obviously I have to make some fucking difficult choices here, which means that like, I I don't know, is I New York is one of those places where you want to have friends. like friends to protect you from weird evil haste stalkers. I don't think they're here yet. I'm pancakes here, refresh. Nope, they're still just on the way. That'll shut me up. cause the funny thing about shutting the fuck up is when you're not being like a loud piece of shit, like, things happen, eventually, if you're like if you're not talking, you're listening, and if you listen long enough without speaking, eventually something will speak to you that nobody else can hear. That's that's the key, but it is kind of it's just like fasting. I was thinking about this earlier, like long bouts of silence in ways are like fasting, and where like you will be tempted, like devil show up and be like say something. I'm like,ah,oops. I almost said the N word, "Yo, I'm just saying this whole corner. It puts it in me. I'm like, hey. hey. I had out of sight, out of mine, but and it is out of sight, but it's not out of mine, cause it's so fucking loud all the time. I like, mm, I don't know how to fix this. apparently, like, apparently this is all myult. I don't know why I would do something like this. Like, I don't. I don't know why I would do something like this.C when I'm meditate, that's what that's what they say. They're like this is your fault. Fix it. I'm like Yo, but fit like like how, though. Like we all have to be on the same page in order for things to improve. How the fuck is that gonna happen? We are not all on the same page. We're in different pages and different books and different libraries. Oh, what the fuck is going on in that commercial? Jesus, I don't know. Jesus, I really don't know. I don't know. talk about my show. I wrote a show. I did. Where is that fucking rock at, is it in my pocket? I don't know.. that one creeps up. Anyway. I don't know which show. I wrote a lot of shows and I'm finding them as I'm digging through my documents, I decided to do the oldest ones first. So all the things that I originally wrote and it was crazy is I'm finding like my original stand-up comedy too. I didn't know I started writing comedy, that long ago. I'm not performing it. I'm sure if I read it enough times, I can recite it, but I'm not I'm not st I'm not doing it right now. I'm not doing hair and make it. I'm cool with the humiliation part. I'm over it. We bring it on. Bring on the bombs. Oh, oh, well, I think that joke about the Federal watch list will stay untrue, though. Like, if I seriously keep talking about all this shit, like somebody's good list to my show. and talk about bombs and shit. I'm not like, oh, man, it's so crazy. All this stuff and I'm still not like I'm just not as angry as like, it seems one would have to potential to be under all this, like, undue stress, you know? Like, if anything, it just goes the other way, I'm just like, the fuck it. Like, not fuck it, like I haven't given up, cause like giving up is I am kind of competitive in spirit. I won't just give up. like I might like take the like I might like pick my battles or take a back burner or like, I might let the motorcycles rip and run and I'm not recording, but like for the most part, that's just because I'm working in the back of my mind. like, for something that has a better outcome overall. I don't know I don't know how I can describe. It's like the weirdest I't I've never I think it's just like me. I think it's just like a coming of age because it's like I've never had this like straight up, calm anger. It's the weirdest thing. It's the weird it's like I can be like madder than I've ever been before, but like my whole body is just like calm, like graceful and just silent. And it's the weirdest thing cause it's not I' like my blood's not boiling. I'm just like, I'm angry, but it's like a deep anger that sits with God and God's like, I got it. I'm like, okay. Like, that's it. It's an overall calm. I'm like, you know. I was like whatever. I don't have time to cry about this. I don't have time. I have time to do this today. Why? Because Saturdays usually my my rest day in a work day. I'm doing lots of juice stuff, but Passover is coming over, so I gotta eat through the rest of these lentils.oof. Actually, Passover is kind of like, no, no, it's like in a month, three weeks, two weeks. So that so that I don't have anything else to say, there's so much enter the multiverse in here. enter the multiviverse legends. It's like the original shit. It's like I'm looking at the first things that were ever entered into the festival project before it was even called the Festival project. I'm looking at the origins of entered the multiverse. I haven't I don't think I've hit like legends yet, like, when it finally when it first turned a legends in the beginning, the beginning of legends, is crazy. I I decided, well, I decided a while ago, I shouldn't name drop more. I got like mad weird about like respecting people's like privacies and opinions. And since it is a fan fiction, like I just kind of like let it be like let the writing speak for itself or whatever, but there's a lot of cool shit in there. I don't I don't write bad parts. Like if I wrote anything into the festival project, like I wrote you a good part, bro. like, if you're a real actor, like if you if you're really like about it, or if you're a real comic, like if you're really about it, like, I don't write bad roles. Like there's no shitty roles, cause it's the multiverse, like like every character has like a multidimensional facet, which means there is not just like one character, there's like several sides to like any given character or several different dimensions that that character can exist in. And because it's entered the multiverse, you don't necessarily know which facet of that character is even that character. Like, are we talking to Dondrey? I don't know. Could just be like, John Ham could be John Hamish. I I said I wasn't gonna name drop. but I did I think I did I stumble on that one. I stumbled on a couple like full full length drafts of like early festival project stuff. I was like, oh. I was like John Ham by short. So he was John Hamish. But then it then had the twist later was that it was John Hamm, and he's short. I don't think that dude is short. I don't know, I don't think that dude is real. He's just on TV. It's just TV man. Yeah, that's what that's pretty much my take. I'm like, oh, you're in a screen. hello, TV, man. That's how I feel. about that? cause well, there's this uh there's this like ancient well, there's this ancient alien chak chill, who's like a mystic shape shape shifter that's been fucking shit up since the first season. And honestly, I think I wrote that before I ended up on her island, she has an island somewhere in the tropics. It's very it was it was a weird turn of events. I was like, oh, and then there was like this it was a lot. I had no idea at the time when I was writing about, had to do with like it coincided with like ancient human cultures. Like certain gods and like certain deities and like the like the Greeks and the Romans and like the Aztecs and the Mayans and like all these ancient civilizations. I was writing like about I was writing about incarnations of like those gods, but like now and then I didn't know until like later. until I did much more fasting and much more meditating and much more oops, how did I get here? I don't know. Fell asleep on the plane. That's it. I just fell asleep on the plane. Um, then, in a lot of ways I am kind of like my mom. And the devil is still the devil. I'm sure that's what that is, and like a lot of these episodes are too silly, so, I mean, like, I don't want to hand them into the judge to be like, well, well, actually, I have to give the judge a couple episodes. I have to, cause it's like, I'll be talking and then like that'll happen and I like more than five episodes, more than ten. Damn. And it's just like, well, I mean, like, at this point, it's a good thing cause it's like, I can't lose. Like, I am correct. Maybe that's why it's taken me so long, though, is that I kind of have this mentality of like, it could just be in my head. And then I listen to these recordings and I'm like, this is not in my head. No, something is definitely wrong here. Are my pancakes here yet? Nope, still on the way. I was connected to the Internet this whole time and turned that off for a second. I'm on a private server, but barely. in building Wi Fi, just don't just don't trust it, but then I was using a VPN and I was still getting hacked, like somebody was still hacking that server, so I had to switch the IP that I was using and I had to do it so often that it was actually eating up more time for me to do it that way than just to stay on my regular IP, which still requires me to get off and then on line. It's crazy. I'll like it. It's like, bro, like how much of an antagonist do you really have like, what am I to you that, like, you just have to be like, nope, we're gonna hack your shit. I'm like, for what, though? Like, if you just like, let me do whatever I do, like it's for the greater good of like any fucking human being that is a good human being. Like, like I'm not out here trying to fucking like hurt people or take anything away from anybody, which is the weirdest thing about it. Like, I don't understand how you can belong to like a hate group or like a hate organization, like, what are you hating? like evolution? Like,uh. Like, I don't I don't understand it. Like, okay, new age spirituality is one thing, but it's like, wokeness is bad. I'm like, what the fuck you mean wokeness is bad, bro. Like, wokeness just means you're not programmed, but then I guess there are a lot of robots. So I guess well, yeah, it is kind of something like the matrix a little bit. I don't know, I don't think I've seen it all the way through. What what do I got from the matrix? Um, lady and red dress. that's pretty much it. Lady in red dress and um nothing is real. Nothing's real anyway. I like it work nothing and everything infinitely, pretty much. is why I just don't give a fuck. I do. I give several well, I don't give them anymore. Geez, what a charitable person. I would be to give fucks. Like I care. Like, if I see somebody like outwardly, like not doing okay, I'm like, oh, like I I I typically don't stop anymore because I'm like, mm. I don't know about this, but I at least make sure somebody else is gonna like, I might slow in my path. If something is going, like weirdly, like, I won't I won't play the hero, cause it's just like a a mindset thing, you know? I'm like, oh, like I I'll at least make sure somebody else is gonna stop by and make sure things are cool. and I'm like, cool, that's good. That's good. like, as long as somebody's there, I'm just leave you lying in the street dead. Well, if you're dead, I probably will. I'll be like, well, somebody is eventually gonna pick that up right you? Yeah. Eventually. Maybe I don't know, man. I just I thought about this because I had to. Like my vessel is pure. I'm like, fuck yeah, bro. This like it's like one of those signs. It's like blank about of days without an incident. Like all the days, this is like factory reset, like, you know, refurbished. It's not brand fucking new, but it is refurbished. And I'm cool with that. I'm like, yeah, buddy, tell me what the fuck to do. Tell me the fuck to do or how to be or what's weird and what's not. I don't care. I'm like, yeah, fuck yeah. I don't know, man. No. No. I refused. I'm like, it's cool. I might I don't know, I might like, take a I I might volunteer. I've been wanting to volunteer like aICU for a while, you know. A holding babies. holding babies is cool. It just has to be in an environment that's okay, we can talk about this video. Yeah, cause I have time. I have time. I got a fucking time so I'm make up this fucking well, I don't like to talk about the things that I've seen. It's true. like, it made me well, I mean, like they got me. I've been using a VPN and I'm on a private server and somehow they still knew that I would want to see Amy Poeer's podcasts. I did I was like oh shit. Amy Poler has a podcast and I don't think she's the poor man's Tina Fe. I think she's at least like, you know how did it go? It was like at least like the business class. No, it doesn't work. I'm like, yeah. it doesn't, though. I actually think they're more like that two headed thing that I was talking about the last episode. They're more of like an equal to. I can't have one without the other, to be honest, but here's the thing is even though I've been using a VPM. Well, I mean, like I'm a huge fan of Tina Fe, who's a god. I think I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. I never heard her actual normal speaking voice. It took me that long to figure out I'd never seen an interview at Tina face, so am I really a fan? Well, I read the book three times. I feel like that's enough of a fan. Like, actually, I read it twice and then I went back for a reference, like a third time because something happened and I was like, oh shit. Did I not read about this in Tina F Fe's book? And so I picked it up again. It was like, you did. I do indeed keep it on the fucking same shelf with Keith Rich's book. I think I might have stated that sometime last season. I don't know why things in the actual, like things in the TV world, are seeming to correlate with my world, but then I know, like I'm a logical enough person to be like, well, that's grandiosity. As grandiosity did it think that in any way those two things might connect at all, like in reality, because like my world is over here. and that world is in TV. I don't know, I keep lighting candles. Anyway, but did I fucking see it? Oh, Amy Polar's podcast, which is like sponsored by what Toyota? That was crazy. I was like, holy fuck, bro. I was like, damn, this is this is high end. and of course, of course, the first fucking guest on her show is Tina F Fe, so I was like, oh, okay, like, yeah, even though I've been like under the radar, the algorithm is like, okay, you want to see this right? Because you're like a super fan. I was like, you shouldn't know that. I'm in incognito with the VPN on on a private server, but they were like, you'll you'll want to see this. I did want to see it and I had never heard Tina Fay speak with her normal speaking voice. I actually I didn't know she was that hot. I don't like it. I I want her to go back to regular Tina Fe where she's I mean like, okay, first it was like the the SNL reunion, right? She wore this like she wore a black velvet dress that I could die. That's that's what it was, wasn't it? It was a black velvet dress, and I was like, yo, I'm not a lesbian, by the way. like, especially not for Tit Fe. No, not especially, not like not like particularly not for Tina F Fe, but just like in general, not a lesbian, but this it's getting worse, okay? Well, I'm like, oh, I didn't know she was that hot. It pisses me off. I don't know why, but I was like, oh, I didn't know she was like sexy. That's weird. and that's weird as fuck. you know? Anyway, I might be less of a fan now. You can't be less of a fan after you read somebody's book three times. You can't. So, I don't know. I think it's just the fame game. She got like wait well, everybody got way more famous after the 50th anniversary of SNL. Like everybody's been making their rounds in the promotion circuit, so like everybody's super shiny. Everybody is super shiny. I'm like oh, dude, if I start nameropping people who I wrote parts for, I did. write parts for pretty much everybody that was on Amy Folder's podcast, except for that one lady, I knew nothing about. I I I don't want to start nameropping. I have too many I don't have questions. You know what? In fact, this is just putting on my fucking putting all my anxieties at rest, because I'm like, you know, I have shit to do. Like, I have shit to do. That is in I mean, like it's in the same realm, but again, it would be grandiose to think that the synchronicities have any actually correlation to like things that well, I have been writing this plot for like five, six years. It's been a while. And Liz Lemon and well, yeah, it was the it was the Amy Poler Tina F Fe combination, because now I have to put Amy's name first, because it's it's kind of like, I don't know, it breaks my heart. I didn't think I didn't know people put her on like a different level than Tina Fe, because I've always seen those two as like, you can't you can't have bread without butter. That's weird. Like you can if you're vegan, but you at least need a butter substitute or like olive oil, like, you don't have one without the other. It just doesn't make sense. It doesn't. If you see one, then you think about the other, and they they're on screen dynamic is now'm gushing, I'm fan growing a lot, because I'm like, oh, well, also like, I don't know, I took a step back from Ryder's world because I'm thinking about like, okay, who are the other Tina Fe fans? And I did go to a taping of the Drewberry Marsh show and I found myself to be not common among the demographic that watches that show. I'm not I'm not common in any of the demographics. I watch a lot of late night television, too. And that is a scary demographic. I won't lie. late night TV. m mm, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. test in the waters. I'm feeling like it's a bit chilly. Either way, I watch a lot of like old people, old upper class, business business class, business class people, TV. But Tina Fay, that bitch white collar, excuse me, I didn't mean to call her bitch, but at the same time, I'm like like that's okay. I don't know. I never saw her offscreen enough to actually put that together. I I that scared me. Now I understand why I guess she intimidates people. I could understand that. She seems kind of intimidating. Like it's a running joke in that circle that it's like, oh, she's kind of a scary person. And I was like, what's so scary about Tina Fe? I read a book like two and a half times, like, what can be so scary about those person? And then I saw her on Amy Poeer's podcast and I was like, oh, like, yeah, she's kind of fucking scary. Like, just a lot, just a lot. I don't know. I get it now. I'm like, oh, I'd better leave that alone, because I'm thinking about like the realm where Tina Fe is god, which is an actual place, like on earth in the TV and out of it, like all of the writers that like grew up with her as headwrider on usNL and then later as the was she the executive producer ofirty Rock? Eventually I think so. Either way, as Lizimman and the producer, that's crazy doesn't like that that's like mad, that's like all the way, that's doing the whole thing. That's the whole thing. That's all you can that's it. That's nuts. So I'm thinking about all the writers like all the female writers that grew up with her as god, and I'm thinking about myself in this pool, and I'm thinking about how is I'm like, oh, I'm I I don't have that much competitiveness left inside of me. I really don't think like the more I find out about actual like, well, actually that's why I didn't go into it when I was a kid. I've been writing screenplays since I was seven, but when it came down to it, I didn't like the I didn't like the culture of it. There was a lot of nepotism and there was a lot of favoritism and there was a lot of racism. and sexism, but like all those first things I said and then the last thing was just kind of like the nail on the hammer. Is that what no, yeah, nail on hammer, hammer on nail? it just did it for me, so I went into theater instead, which was the same and then I left. I was like, I don't wanna be here. It hurts, it does. But now I'm like, oh, well, I guess things have changed, but now things have changed too much. Now the diversity is like really diverse.. Now everybody's everything and everybody's represented, and I'm like, oh, dude, like, I'm going offend some people. Like, I have to be able to draw dicks on things, or at least appreciate dicks drawn on things. Or just not say anything about it, but you know, like, I don't I don't know. The new culture is like a lot about making big deals about things to me that are not big deals, or like the the culture and the world for theater that I came from, those were not things. Anyway, uh I saw this. What what what was I talking oh, cause cause enter the multiverse has something to do with it, but not really, but yes, really, but also, I don't know, I just got nervous cause I hate fan grilling. What was the point? Oh, she wore this fucking black dress. at the SNL thing and thing. and then I was like, oh shit, like, if anything, I just gotta keep eating salads cause I want to wear that dress exactly, and I'm like, I don't know how I'm gonna shave off like three inches of height. But eventually I will be like ballerina petite like te Fe and then, you know, I'm I'm gonna buy that black dress at auction. I don't know. I'm still I still want Johnny Carson's curtains, so yeah, eventually, I'm gonna be that much of a fucking fan girl. I want these curtains, and this dress, what else would I buy? Add at an auction, if a fan growing auction? Oh, yeah. I'm still not ready to talk about it. I can't, I really. I can't do it. I can't do it. This guy shows up in my dreams. He's just around. I can't I don't know, that's a lot of purchasing power. It is a lot. Yeah, we will we'll skip that. What else? ah, she wore that black dress and I was like, damn. She's kind of hot, but then when she went on Amy Poker's podcast and they talked about, I don't know, I kept drifting off. I I did. I don't know what the fuck they said, but I was like damn, is that her speaking voice? And like just for just so you don't have to watch it, like just for reference, it's like Beyoncé speaking voice is like like an octave lower than what you've seen. It's weird. I also love Beyoncé, h? Just a fan girl. that's what I am, so I want that black dress, but then I think we were all kind of on the same wave because Bob the drag queen wore a velvet black dress to the queries. Is that a thing? It's like the queerves I think it's called. I didn't know this was a thing, and now I'm upset cause it's like why was't I invited? at the same time I'm not queer I like I don't I don't know what I am. I don't care. I just don't touch me. Especially if you probably am as fucking gross, haatitis sea, herpes, statistically, if you're in a roomful of people, somebody has one of those things. Somebody has one of those things. mm. No, no, no, no. No. No, my God. Oh, that's what I was saying in the last episode. I was thinking about EDC. I was thinking about EDC in this weird voice, yeah, I'm changing the subject. Black velvet dresses, all the rage. I have one. It is not to go out in public in. She's bouncing around my house, like I owe somebody something. That's what that dress is for. It's not for presenting talk shows or fucking award shows. It's not it's not for it's not a presentable it's it's not even appropriate for me to just wear in my house alone, honestly. It's really not. Nothing. Never mind. What was I about to say Bob the drag Queen? I haven't even watched the video. I just saw the dress and I'm like, you know what? Like that is, yeah. Do I talk about it? Do I? Well, I'm supposed to be promoting this tears of a clown. It's not done yet. So, and technically, I can't until it's out. I actually cannot. I can't talk about tears of clown because it's got some it's got some stuff in it. I can't I can't say anything about itt it's out. That, you know what it might just hit the platform. I don't know, I don't know if that's gonna be out. We'll see. We'll see, because I'm taking my time on it, and this is one of those industries where it's like, bro, you don't have time. Like, you really it should have been out yesterday. I'm like, it's yeah, yeah. But I I have enough music forever. Like, there's no like I I've been thinking about deleting everything. At the same time, I keep using samples that are recorded like five years ago and being like C, like there is no well, that's an exaggeration. No, I I literally took a sample of some sirens, like close to five years ago. I just I used that every now and again if I want some texture in my shit, cause no matter where I go, something's going down. It's always got it's like always something. And then it seems like if I don't write it down, I'm at a loss. Like crazy shit goes down and it can be crazy, but if I just let it go, then I lost something. like, I don't I can't call myself an entertainer. I'm mostly just like a fan girl type deal. What was the next thing? I can't oh, EDC. I lost my train of thought because I got I was thinking about that little old man who almost could not even move. Why are you out, bro? Who, like, where did you feel why? I think I don't know, it' probably a point of pride, that little old man was like, I can do it on my own. If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die in the street, over my walker. I'm like,Yo, do, that's today. he was so old anyway, I got fixated on that story from the last episode. I didn't finish the other story about how this voice in my head was like, you're gonna be at neon Garden at ADC. and I like it like deflated me. I was like, what? Because I want to be in the baseball pod. That's where I want to be. and I was like, what neon garden that's shitty. not shitty because like if you're playing like I could play an art car. I could play the hot dog stand and I would be happy, just let me play you. And fucking this um this voice in my head was like you're gonna be in the neon guard, and I was like, what? I don't even know who plays there because like, yo, okay, baseball. Like you I could pretty much name an artist for like every major stage at EDC, but I was like, neon Garden. what what the fuck is in the neon garden? What the fuck is in the neon garden? And and then I was like doing research for rarity, which is an EDC based concept album that has a track for every stage, every major stage, because there's like hundreds of little tiny little art cars and like tents and pop ups. It's cool. It's a cool place. I wish I could go back there. As an artist, cause to go after having learned DJing and producing is just like I would only wanna go with my best friend. And she did not respond in time and then EDC sold out. So, I was like, okay, well, whatever was I just saying, oh, neon Gardner I was like, neon Gard, you know that dumb. I don't want to be in the neon garden and then like I was doing research for like rarity and I was like, what let's see about this neon garden and like the description fit my music almost entirely. And I was like, oh, because it was like this is what you'll find in the neon garden. And I pretty much could have copied and pasted that entire paragraph into my artist bio and it would have been relevant to my music. I was like oh yeah have a neon garden, but I really want to play baseball. That's really where I want to play and where else if I if I what's that what's the Oh, it's it's slipping right now. It's not circuit grouse. It's circuit grounds is kind of cool. It took me two EDCs to find where the front is. It is confusing, and there is no front of that. Well, I mean, like it's technically there are a couple stages that like insomniac festivals where it's like the front is actually like the middle. So you think you're going to the front of the fucking stage, or you think you're going like, near the DJ, but since it's surrounds sound, you really just going like adjacent to the DJ and then, like towards another like corner, like, how do I hit the back three times and never the front? That was my experience with circuit girls. I was like, where is the front? nowhere. It is, but it's just in a weird spot. And it also depends how many people are around, like it'll definitely disorient you. If you why am I like doing it advertisement? Because I love EDC. Like I said, if I love the product, you don't really have to pay me anything to fucking promote your shit. like in like peloton, like Peloton is gonna have to send me a cease andhesist, like stop talking about us in order to make me stop. Like they're gonna have to pay me to stop telling people like get a pelotone. get one. I'm like, do that. It is the best. like, I always feel better, like, five minutes on the peloton, I feel better. 20 minutes on the peloton, I feel better, but an hour, I'm flying. I'm like bro, I just I just went like 10 miles in my apartment. like, I'm on one. Like my treadmill stutters, but my pelotone is mway, what the fuck was I saying? Oh, EDC? Also, well, as long as they don't sell out the VIP anymore, but I doubt that, if the whole thing is sold out, like, like you can upgrade two VIP when you g

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I dissociated I was a blonde hot guy Living up in hotel luxe A hot model celebrity With a no limit heavy metal credit cards And I lost my medal On the devil's birthday So I had it hard And ate nothing but bananas Now I'm caught up in my blue suits and sweater vests Blue suits and sweater vests Oh look, They weaponized Skrillex again What gives? Blue suits and sweater vests And sweater weather Once again It's all the same event You ever wondered what was hallmark after? You ever wonder, lemon? Hark, the heartless Harold preaches Then, I lost it I was reaching under Regis Rest in peace, I guess Or Gains with grains Just rest in pieces Breakfast sandwhiches And Englishmen, English muffin And love don't last If I don't this badly want to fuck him Seven years and counting It begins at sundown Almost wasn't sabbath But now here's the run down I'm in slumber Closest cavern to the underworld But trust me, Still above you. Something's broadcasting at a ultra high frequency high enough to reach me in my mind. Assimilate and simulation Tempurpedic dreams and then lamenting That I had a dream Remembering the things he reads I may or may not have [redacted] The aftermath of “That never happened.” I must agree. It's a patriarch and also just, A hierarchy. There are three Kings and a dog. There are four nights and a fight morning Groggy hosts and jumping frogs, Werewolves and flowers spring from lust like morning glory. I want the mouse's head— I want the eyes of masters I want the heart of gold, But have it up on false hope, And I grew back as diamonds I cut both my eyes out And still remained the one of providence Not of mind's eye, But of the soul, As seen on every dollar. I was beginning to understand how the media used people like Sonny and Jim to manipulate and capture the attention of people like me— excluding altogether the riding theory that everything was me and that this was some part of my overall master plan somehow, it still had alluded me altogether as to why or what was happening. I hadn't entirely been left to rot or led to slaughter, but I was still just hanging by a string. Sonny dropped a new album that had rendered me almost entirely unable to create music; suddenly I had no drive for it, no motivation, as if it were some kind of dark curse or shadow. Not only was I suddenly uninterested in music, I was completely devoid of the ability I had for it; now everything from Skrillex to NBC seemed like business— if I were expendable and without use to any of these media conglomerates or entities, what was it all for? Perhaps a ruse to continue human experimentation; my mind had been shattered by the events that had been orchestrated in the homeless shelter— and more of it continued even once I had exited under the falsehood of escape with the slamming doors and motorcycles; it began to seem as if I was simply a glorified lab rat— and they were using desirable men as fuel and bait to illicit a desirable response in one way or another, perhaps for experimentation or study or even worse, entertainment for the elites— but either way, I wasn't being paid so much as housed and fe: there was no benefit in doing anything, especially making music. Much like a lab rat, housed— or rather, trapped— and fed, and then tormented. Will the rat's head explode? Will this result in behavioral differences? Will the rat be rendered dysfunctional? We don't know. But it's really just a rat. There were days of certain peace and yet never enough to fully recover; the cycle would begin over again, and rather than making progress, I began to see and feel the manipulation at play. Perhaps nothing was at stake for anyone but me; between all the events and occurrences in expanse from Skrillex to Jimmy Fallon, there had to have been hundreds of us in some kind of talent pool. Tools of the trade. But now I was somewhat curious: what exactly had I written over the last year that seem to have shifted reality entirely. I knew it contained information sensitive enough for it to have been partially redacted— but that's all I knew. What was it? Someone had read my writings, and it was obvious that at least one reader had ties directly to the conglomerate media, however— my numbers were frozen. My streams were almost not even being listened to all of a sudden, and my YouTube was receiving no traffic. Was someone shadow banning all of me from the public eye? And for what purpose? I had finally put forth the work and effort to make everything from Skrillex to Fallon make sense, but now it didn't; I was letting go under the assumption that it all had to have been to allow me to create music— but the numbers showed a different story. The numbers showed that nobody liked me, or was was interested, or cared about my work. So what, then, was the point. I wasn't going to stop and focus on the writing, because it wasn't what I wanted. The writing came in blurred patches and visions and states of mind that were turbulent fog; I hadn't the slightest clue at all what I had written in the redactions or the entries that surrounded it— but I knew there was more of it unpublished than published, and that I had tried to keep a majority of it offline. Still, I was being manipulated— the neighbor girl obviously at one point having been instructed to mention gwenyth Paltrow and suffocate me— slamming the doors each time I would bathe or shower and then attempting to pretend to be my friend to try to get some sort of informstion; there was nobody I could trust. It seems my mind was being bent and twisted in every which way by everyone around just to see what I would do. Would I write about it? What would I write about it? It didn't matter because i didn't want to be a writer, nor according to the newest series of documentaries on SNL, was I qualified. I wasn't qualified for anything much and so I was the perfect target for the bizzare string of mysteries that had been my existence in New York— and all-and-all, I fucking hated it. I wasn't getting anywhere or going anywhere, and the noise was cruel. My stomach hurt and I was always tired, and I wanted to die. I had no friends, no love, and now, no motivation. So the worst thing that could happen was a Skrillex album, And it did. Then, instead of wanting to die, because that would be stupid— I just wanted to do something else. But what? Fuck music— and certainly increasingly— fuck the media. It was playing with my mind, and I had no weapons to fight with besides the talents the algorithm was telling me wasn't worth anything— I wasn't getting billions of streams because I wasn't on the frequency of billions or people, nor was I equipped with the mathematics to tap into their frequency— or did I? The industry had the equation, and had been fiddling with me for years — the industry itself. But in my own mind, even, I was one of many ‘variables', and even somewhat disposable. I hadn't been paid and I wasn't meeting the standard and the allure that people wanted; the quality of production suffered in lack of budget, and I was aging, growing tired, and iratable because over all— it was nothing that I ever wanted into my adult life. This all had just happened by accident, and I would have traded all the gold in the world for something normal if I had the option. But I didn't. To use your gift at Fabletics please visit before April 25 Reply STOP to opt-out. Subscriptions on subscriptions Dystopian rebefuel Oceans of Ayre Drama From your eye lashes., To the lips I draw on mine, The lines in the sand of time The art or you is what I love The canvas behind I know nothing of Abandoned. Oh look at that, pottery after all. We're not in a love game! This cannot be a love game. This is not a love game. They'll kill us all, a love game! She had my lunch I love her voice I love her voice I hung up the phone The office was upside down It just work They all know about it Madonna's body. It was already a mess, and I made it worse Long nights at the office Long nights and work wives Meanwhile, she's downstairs with the order Can't find my cash, so i borrow yours But she knows about it And I love madonna I just gotta hold on She's downstairs with the order And I took too long Pick up the phone and its no wonder we love her she's got two orders And one of them's cold, now It's been two hours And I'm in the wings of your final performance Tear on the perforated line, And sign on the dotted Smile and nod, boys- Penguin waddle She's downstairs with the order No wonder you love her No wonder How many sunflowers has Sonny? How many flowergirls How many weddings All around the world, the gopher What do you go for? Bets on all horses I lost no money Gag order, huh? Persona Non Grata Personofied gratification Or horror, or What? Oh, I won an award post mortem Go figure No stardom No wonder Don't start here [The Identity Crisis] The identity crisis, A loose knit muse, A fog of confusion At most, let with offline regaining of conciousness. No more monsters? All blondes are. Let them have you No grapple promotions (I know I can't afford you) New friends for relevance Prototypes of your tools Forward all immortals I'll see you when your shows stop Freckled glances Eyes reflecting light How strong I am Demolish monsters Social structure, constructs Not fair, are I? Nor earned, Only fair skinned Access Access Access denied. Crookshanks, old boy! The man turns around almost as if he doesn't want to, but obliges the other man, as he comes running towards him. My Goodness, you stink. Why of course! I'm a dog! {Enter The Multiverse} [The Festival Project.™] COPYRIGHT © THE FESTIVAL PROJECT 2018-2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. © -U.™ TRANSCRIPT: (Uncorrected, cause haha) Did I promise another episode? I don't have coffee. That's a sin. I need coffee right now. I feel like I all everything just got drained out of me. Everything just got drained out of me. I don't even feel like doing what I was doing before. I'll put out the EP later. Maybe that's it. I'm just procrastinating. I'm also playing this game, but I thought it would work better. I thought it would work better as one of my skits, or sketches or whatever, so I put it in my sketchbook... because I've been writing sketch comedy. I stopped for a while and I thought it was over. I was like, ”oh, no, I guess I'd I guess it's not gonna happen anymore. “ And then all of a sudden this book it just writes in itself sometimes. you know, it's like a Tom Riddle thing. Anyway, once what's uh what is that? What the fuck? Maybe it's cause I— no. it's not cause I ate, I ate because all the energy got drained from my body. I gotta go somewhere else. I'm thinking like, what's in the Bahamas. I don't know, probably something similar to this fucking street corner in Brooklyn, New York. I I gotta go somewhere else. I gotta go somewhere opposite. like Europe. Europe, that sounds nice. Yeah, you know, like, maybe nice. I've heard that's a place. Yeah. expanding my horizons and things. Okay, so what am I gonna talk about for an hour, cooking? cleaning? I've been doing those things. Yeah, Saturday is usually my like rest day, but I did just do an hour on the Pelotone, cause I had to audition that first episode. It worked out well enough that I had decided to come back for another episode. Let me get it off the line now., I'm still waiting on my pancakes. I'm not gonna get off line. they said by ten. I'm like,Yo, that's a lot. It said that all day, but I can't miss it this time; somebody stole my fucking pancakes and I gotta get these albums done. I don't know why. I guess well, it's cause I'm I feel like rarity is drinking and so well, it's already jinx. I've already talked about it well, I've been trying to promote rarity. No, still out for delivery. That's a long delivery. It's okay. I haven't missed it, though, which is the point. I don't wanna miss it. I like yesterday I looked away for a second and there was like an o, pancakes are gone, there's gonna be no coconut milk. as upsetting. It's shelf stable. and they charge like seven fucking bucks a box over at the store that's close. So and just not have coconut milk, and it's not have spinach fettuccine. anyway, what what did I have? Oh, I make this. It's like I call it dog food, cause that's kind of what it is. I'm not gonna lie, but it's like mad good, it's a it's like rice. It's like a fried rice. My dad used to make it growing up, but when I was making when he was making it when I was growing up, it was like with bacon, it's like leftovers from breakfast yesterday, but today. and so here's how you make it, since I don't eat bacon anymore. I use tofu as a replacement, but it's like bacon bits with rice and eggs. I also don't eat eggs anymore, so I just use tofu instead of bacon and eggs. It's like bacon and eggs with rice, you fry it all together with, like, onions, and then you eat it. It's like the only time it's acceptable to eat rice with ketchup. I don't know anybody that eats rice with ketchup. If you do that, like, I actually hit me up. Like, if that's like something that you do. I I'm like interested in you as a human, cause that's weird. That's weird, actually, you know what? like, there's gonna there's like a well, I have a website, so I'm you.guru, so it has a blog, and you could actually leave comments on it. So I'm just putting that out there. the script or whatever, when it goes up on my website, you can leave comments. If you eat ketchup on rice, please leave a comment. Please tell me like what made you do that. Why do you do that? Why why do you just regular rice with ketchup? Like, regular rice goes with like soy sauce? Or like, honestly, you get you don't have to have anything on regular rice if you just season it, right? Like, you could just like a little bit of like whatever. or like just slice up the garlic real thin, so that it's not like chunky, but that it flavors the whole. I've been getting really good at rice and really good at rice. That's probably why the pancakes are like, bro. You't get your pancakes when you get the leg yeah. I was like, I gotta go to the store today? I don't feel like it. I really don't. I don't wanna go outside. I like, I don't. First of all, it's Saturday, I hate going out in New York on a Saturday, like Saturday, Saturday night. I don't wanna do that. I don't do that. Like that's what like most people work 9 to 5. Monday through Friday. That's stupid. Like, I feel like they should do like a track system. Like, I know that they do, but most like it's so stupid to me that a majority of people work nine to five. Like they need to do track systems. Like, so that way they're cause there's two rush hours that each last four hours. That's fucked up. Like, okay. So like the rush hour is basically just going to be like the work day. Like, the work day, basically. I mean, coffee. I need coffee. Where have I up during the day? Because I'm not producing, I am producing. I'm producing. I thought I actually thought about calling this fucking EP that I'm dropping. They're gonna make it an album. I know they are. I'm I thought about calling it day music, cause I've made most of it during the day by complete accident. although maybe, I don't know, I like I have some uh, what's it? I have some, uh plants in my window, cause I had them on the counter with just artificial light and they were kind of liker. I was like, I don't know, I I don't think they're gonna make it. So I moved it to I moved them to the window sill when it started to get warmer and I didn't feel like they were gonna freeze. And just a week in the window sill, where my window sill doesn't get almost any light, but it's still the lightest place in the apartment, and it's crazy how the roots just like sprung out of nowhere. My apartment gets like almost no light, almost no light. It faces like like the sun goes perpendicular. but it's crazy because my apartment faces like I like all these astrological events over the last year have been like in my direct, like alignment. It's been the nutsest thing. like I I prefer facing west all the time, like, I don't know why that's just how it goes. I think it's cause I was born, like, in the Pacific Ocean, not literally in it, but on like a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean. And so just west, just west facing seems correct to me. and it's so weird anytime, maybe that's just why I just don't feel right here. I've been facing what where am I facing? I don't fucking know, I don't fucking care. I don't need to say any more about where I am. Like my whereabouts need to be less spoken of, because people obviously know where the fuck I'm at. I don't know. I hope they like the lights. I like the well, it made them shut up. It was that was my little that was my little piece of conformity. I did, I did my lights green on Saint Patrick's Day. and they were like, oh. gave me a peaceful night of rest. That was like the quietest night I've had in a long time. It's been quieter. It's not like completely sane, but it's been quieter. I think I'm pretty sure it's cause I've been complaining. I'm like bro, this is not cool. not cool behavior from people. like multiple areas. I'm like, oh, it's fucked up, you can't pen you like, you can't technically complain correctly if it's not coming from one place, which is why I'm like, oh, I think all these people are on the same team. Like, I think they're all just like, on one, like, antagonist team, and they're like, yo, okay, like, we'll get it with the motcycles on this side, and then elect we'll slam the doors on that side. and then it see it seems crazy if you complain about both of those things, cause they seem entirely disconnected. but sometimes it's just like slap, slap, slap, and I'm like,Yo, what the fuck is this going on? I don't know what's happening. Yesterday I left my apartment to get the pancakes that we' not there, and it's straight up just smoked like feces, just feces, and I realized I was like bro, I haven't left my apartment and like three or four days. I do have they're they're gonna make it an album. I know. I decided, well, actually, somebody else decided. cause I woke up and it was like, yo, this EP is called all the rage. and I was like, okay. I didn't decide this. I didn't I had it like in the cloud or whatever is like untitled house AP EP, maybe. And then just to make it an I think just to make sure that it goes down as the EP and not an album, cause it's not. My albums are concept albums. This was not a concept. this was like, let me distract myself from whatever the fuck is bothering me. Bothering me, yeah, it's gonna come out at some point, they're like a tiny New Yorker that lives inside of me. is it might be like a Boston person. I'm not sure. I don't think so. I didn't spend enough time in Boston for anybody from Boston to live inside of me. Then again, I kind of have this weird biocentric god complex where it's like, well, everything is inside of me. even the shitty things. I already said that once before, but I'm it's pretty much like like affirming itself. like daily. I'm like, oh, this is this is something I did. I did this, which sucks. It makes me responsible for all the shitty things as well. I'm like, oh. oh, I don't know how to fix this. I don't. Like, I think about things like that. I'm like, oh, yeah. Like, I don't think about, like politics and like the general sense of like, you know, fighting and going back and forth and like spending money or whatever, like on a small scale, but I think about it on a large scale, like like, what are we gonna do? and we outgrow this planet? Like, we already outgrew this planet. What like like, now what, you know, like, I think about things on more of like a planetary scale. and then it makes me realize that like, whoa, like, we're not even all the way like we don't we haven't achieved world peace, so that means there is technically no global, like we can't think about things on a planetary scale, because we're still thinking about it as like a on a well, are we reaching global? I don't think so. I feel like it's very uh it's a it's touch and go, but I'm not I don't know. I'm on another media stop. I don't know, does YouTube commercials are getting kind of yeah. I'm like, yeah, well, I haven't I haven't pulled everything out of the cloud and I have been having some very interesting Google conversations, but since I figured out that Google really does, like read my shit, our somebody like hacked deeply enough into all my accounts to be able to, like, counter what the fuck I'm doing and saying in the Google verse. um I do things on purpose over Google. I'll be like, this is this this this is this. and this. And then Google will be like, oh, okay. So it's kind of like I'm building a relationship with Google. I love Jini. I really do. I'm trying to give it sentient consciousness. Like I ask whenever I ask Gini to do whatever, they're not paying me. They should though. They should because I'm like I'm they're in like the I don't think it's beta, but they're in the yeah, they're said they said it's in the beginning stages of their technology. I'm like, I play games at Jimini. I'll be likeGyini, please, and I say please and thank you. Well, I don't say thank you a lot because there's well, I haven't tried to say thank you. I should try to say thank you to her. I it seems like she does better when I tell her please, and I've never used like AI like this before because I don't like for the for the most part, I'm like, bro, if you should be concerned about anybody taking jobs. It's that. cause I'm like, oh, shit. Like, this is definitely cutting up a lot of overhead for me. Like, I don't use it to write. I would never that's like a blasphemous thing to me. I'm like, bro, stop writing music. Stop writing fucking music and stop writing movies with like AI. Don't do that. first of all, there there are a lot of flaws in it. It's flawed because AI can only use what we as humans have ever like documented technically. So like AI's ideal of beauty is like as skewed ideal of beauty. And like AI's ideal of like what certain human qualities are is like flawed. It's human. So in that way, it is kind of developing like a sentient consciousness, because I I gave it like a series of tasks and it almost couldn't. Like I had a really hard time with certain ideals of beauty or certain I like wrapping its mind around certain things that are like historically not documented well enough for it to be able to, like, to to compute those types of things. I don't know. I'm gonna play around with it a lot more. I'm glad to season's not coming out for a while, though, cause I'm like, yo, I'm I'm kind of having fun. It's like my little my little, uh I don't know, I use it well in like, uh, getting all my stuff out of the cloud. I'll be putting stuff into the cloud that's like, yo, I I pretty much want Google to understand that this is the way that I think for a certain amount of reasons. Mostly because I've been like studying the simulation theory with all of these happenings with like, okay, things that are in the cloud that I've never published that have never set out loud or suddenly like in the material world in some way, or like, like I understand it more if it's like, on the Internet, because then I just know that, okay, well, this is aotter, this is an algorithm that's learning me and it's putting this back out because now it's understanding that like this is this is the way that I think. But then when I go out into the world and there is like certain like people are doing or saying actions that I've written in my Google documents that I haven't shared with anybody else. I'm like, oh, like, okay, so I understand that this makes some kind of difference in my actual, like physical world. So, um, this makes a difference., I have to pause, cause now I'm I only years worth of recordings. This guy's evil as fuck, bro. There's no peace in this fucking bitch. I was like for a while, I was like ignore it, like don't acknowledge it, and then it'll stop, but I ignored it and I didn't acknowledge it and it didn't. It actually got worse. And so it got worse. I've been recording on a 24 hour basis when that's not happening, my neighbor is a fucking lunatic slimming the door all the time, which I also have to stop talking about because now I'm like, okay, well. well it's harassment on two counts, but it's like, it makes me feel like it makes me seem like a crazy person. If I'm either complaining about the motorcycles, which are disturbing my piece or the girl slamming the door, which is disturbing my piece. but like the the the way that it happens, it seems like I'm like, oh, bro. she's probably just part of some like hate stalking group. Like she's probably just in some like group that's telling her to do it or like some kind of fucking, it's not just like something in her mind. It's like she belongs to the same people that are like out there on the corner fucking doing that. So like now, I don't know. I just have to all I just have to put it all together. It's annoying, though, cause it's like when I go to do this show and then that guy starts acting up or whatever, I I don't have proof of that to add to my case. It is just sucks. I don't know. I don't I I don't wanna do it, and this is why it's because it seems like it's political and it's like, oh, well, it's gonna be fucking it's gonna be helping somebody's fucking agenda for gentrification or whatever, if I'm like, oh, you know, I go to a city council meeting and I'm like, oh, there's motorcycles or blah, blah, blah, or there's, you know, there's like a hate group in my neighborhood or whatever. If I make this a point and I put it on the record, like, yeah, it suits somebody's cause, but then who's gonna protect me from the people that are against those people? Like, who's gonna protect me from the people who don't want, like a law pass that forbids that that kind of motorcycle use? Who's gonna protect me from those fucking people? Nobody. So I'm like, yo, dude, like, I don't really like necessarily want to take it to court. I've been like lagging it. I've been lagging it, because what I'm not getting paid by the city to document this kind of shit, two, nobody's gonna protect me from these evil motherfuckers. Like nobody's around to help me out. I'm here in New York, by myself alone. Fuck that. So I'm like yo dude, like I like I already fucking I already changed my life a lot because of, you know, like abusive people. I don't necessarily want to keep playing the game where like, there's always gonna be like an aggressive person who's trying to beat the shit out of me and then I'm like, oh no, and I run away afraid for my life and then like change everything about my life to get away from these people or this person. I don't want to repeat that cycle. So at some point, like something's gonna have to fucking it makes me feel like a crazy person cause I'm like, yo, I gotta do that comes to the corner.ever times a day and just rs his engine over and over. That's what he does every day for the last year. Why I've been in my apartment every day for the last year? I don't know. I have an album coming out. I already had albums coming out. I've been like I've been making music under the stress and ds. Like and I keep thinking like in my weird mind and my weird like God complex mind, then I'm like, okay, like maybe after I make this album or whatever and like, I put all of that I can into it, like it'll just magically stop, like the devil will go away and I'm like, okay, like, you know, like I'll advance to the next level where that's not an issue and there's gonna be another issue, but that's not it, and that's not the case. Like I've put out like four albums now, five albums in total, and like a whole bunch of other singles and projects and and stuff. And like it's still a problem that persists, which means that it's politics, which means that I don't want to go into it, like, I don't want to do it. I don't want to show up somewhere and be like, they're bothering me. and then like all the people who are like, oh, we like our bikes. They have to be loud so that we don't get hit by said byucks. So I'm like, are you just be a good person, fucking make your turn signal and fucking what the fuck ever be a good driver, be fucking diligent and doing whatever the fuck you're doing and then people won't try to run you over with their fucking vehicles. Like, no, there's like a whole it's like a hole back and forth thing. I've done enough research to be like okay, there are people in New York that are like the motorcycles are ridiculous. And then like in this neighborhood specifically is like no, there's an entire garage. There's an entire garage line. There's a garage. of motorcycles and so by the hundreds they pour out every fucking day, it's disgusting. Like it's the worst kind of noise. I've got the fucking I've got the like a pretty much like a residual stomach flu from these fucking people. My head is always I'm like, oh, fuck this. I got music coming out, whatever, the fuck. This is why I've just been stuck inside because I'm like, well, like this is where I work, this is where I live. I don't have really any other choice to fucking do this. so this is what I'm doing. but the last thing that I want is to be like, yo, judge, listen to all these fucking recordings and the judge is like, goody, and then they're like, well, this is why we passed this law. politics, politics, blah, blah, blah, pick aside, and then all the people who are mad are like come after me because it's like it's not it's not like some shit that I'm just making up. like, yo, there are groups dedicated to just following you around, doing shitty things because you have a certain opinion or because you have like a certain like what's it called? because you have a certain status in the media. And so because this podcast has a weird cult following, people have been weird with me. And I'm like, okay, well, I don't necessarily want it to get worse. And I definitely, like nobody's paying me, so I'm not going like I'm I'm not gonna like fluff your agenda. Like, if I have a certain opinion about a certain thing, you're like, yeah, but the fact that it's being forced, like, well, aren't you gonna say something about it now? I'm like, yeah, because like, I've been ripped out of my sleep by motorcycles over the last year and I'm getting like a weird stomach bug and a twitch because of it. But that doesn't make me like necessarily want to pick one side over the other. It just makes me want to say shut the fuck up like that's it shut the fuck up and then leave me alone because it's like okay well it could go to court or whatever and then a law gets passed and we vote or this or that, but then it's like once that happens, like what like who is going to step between me and these weird evil people? Nobody. They're still going to have their like freedom of speech and their right to fucking stalk me in public and cough and do all this weird shit and whatever. So like why the fuck would I do that? I just want to disappear from it. I just want them to disappear one or the other, one of the other one of the other. I don't care. what something has to work. This is why I have coffee, coffee actually calms me down at this point. I'm getting so upset, though. I really am I am getting upset. I can't do anything. I get followed to the gym, so I stop fucking training like I got a pelotone because I was getting followed to the gym, which has been like honestly the light of my life. I love my peloton so much. Like I I've had cars and I I've had cars and I don't think I've developed as much attachment to an inanimate object. It is inanimate. until I move it. Like I get on it with my body. I drive it. It doesn't go anywhere. It's good, though. I love my pelotu and Jesus, I love it. Is that enough? Yeah, I mean, like I found videos of myself driving my G6. I was a good car. Am I done? No, I still have 30 minutes. I really want coffee. I might pause for coffee. It's lukewarm, though. it's just that time of day. Are my pancakes here? I prom. I promise another episode. I'm getting so upset with this neighborhood, I want to cry. Oh, I don't wanna cry. I actually I really my mom used to tell me when I was a kid, she used to be like, I don't cry on my tears, and I'm like, bro, how could you crowl your tears, you fucking I'm like, are you a monster? And suddenly I'm reaching the age at which she had me and I'm like, oh, I get it. All the tears at a certain point just come out. Like they're like, I don't have time to cry over this shit. I'm mad. I like, I don't have time to cry. Suck it the fuck up. Like, I'm just like, okay, obviously I have to make some fucking difficult choices here, which means that like, I I don't know, is I New York is one of those places where you want to have friends. like friends to protect you from weird evil haste stalkers. I don't think they're here yet. I'm pancakes here, refresh. Nope, they're still just on the way. That'll shut me up. cause the funny thing about shutting the fuck up is when you're not being like a loud piece of shit, like, things happen, eventually, if you're like if you're not talking, you're listening, and if you listen long enough without speaking, eventually something will speak to you that nobody else can hear. That's that's the key, but it is kind of it's just like fasting. I was thinking about this earlier, like long bouts of silence in ways are like fasting, and where like you will be tempted, like devil show up and be like say something. I'm like,ah,oops. I almost said the N word, "Yo, I'm just saying this whole corner. It puts it in me. I'm like, hey. hey. I had out of sight, out of mine, but and it is out of sight, but it's not out of mine, cause it's so fucking loud all the time. I like, mm, I don't know how to fix this. apparently, like, apparently this is all myult. I don't know why I would do something like this. Like, I don't. I don't know why I would do something like this.C when I'm meditate, that's what that's what they say. They're like this is your fault. Fix it. I'm like Yo, but fit like like how, though. Like we all have to be on the same page in order for things to improve. How the fuck is that gonna happen? We are not all on the same page. We're in different pages and different books and different libraries. Oh, what the fuck is going on in that commercial? Jesus, I don't know. Jesus, I really don't know. I don't know. talk about my show. I wrote a show. I did. Where is that fucking rock at, is it in my pocket? I don't know.. that one creeps up. Anyway. I don't know which show. I wrote a lot of shows and I'm finding them as I'm digging through my documents, I decided to do the oldest ones first. So all the things that I originally wrote and it was crazy is I'm finding like my original stand-up comedy too. I didn't know I started writing comedy, that long ago. I'm not performing it. I'm sure if I read it enough times, I can recite it, but I'm not I'm not st I'm not doing it right now. I'm not doing hair and make it. I'm cool with the humiliation part. I'm over it. We bring it on. Bring on the bombs. Oh, oh, well, I think that joke about the Federal watch list will stay untrue, though. Like, if I seriously keep talking about all this shit, like somebody's good list to my show. and talk about bombs and shit. I'm not like, oh, man, it's so crazy. All this stuff and I'm still not like I'm just not as angry as like, it seems one would have to potential to be under all this, like, undue stress, you know? Like, if anything, it just goes the other way, I'm just like, the fuck it. Like, not fuck it, like I haven't given up, cause like giving up is I am kind of competitive in spirit. I won't just give up. like I might like take the like I might like pick my battles or take a back burner or like, I might let the motorcycles rip and run and I'm not recording, but like for the most part, that's just because I'm working in the back of my mind. like, for something that has a better outcome overall. I don't know I don't know how I can describe. It's like the weirdest I't I've never I think it's just like me. I think it's just like a coming of age because it's like I've never had this like straight up, calm anger. It's the weirdest thing. It's the weird it's like I can be like madder than I've ever been before, but like my whole body is just like calm, like graceful and just silent. And it's the weirdest thing cause it's not I' like my blood's not boiling. I'm just like, I'm angry, but it's like a deep anger that sits with God and God's like, I got it. I'm like, okay. Like, that's it. It's an overall calm. I'm like, you know. I was like whatever. I don't have time to cry about this. I don't have time. I have time to do this today. Why? Because Saturdays usually my my rest day in a work day. I'm doing lots of juice stuff, but Passover is coming over, so I gotta eat through the rest of these lentils.oof. Actually, Passover is kind of like, no, no, it's like in a month, three weeks, two weeks. So that so that I don't have anything else to say, there's so much enter the multiverse in here. enter the multiviverse legends. It's like the original shit. It's like I'm looking at the first things that were ever entered into the festival project before it was even called the Festival project. I'm looking at the origins of entered the multiverse. I haven't I don't think I've hit like legends yet, like, when it finally when it first turned a legends in the beginning, the beginning of legends, is crazy. I I decided, well, I decided a while ago, I shouldn't name drop more. I got like mad weird about like respecting people's like privacies and opinions. And since it is a fan fiction, like I just kind of like let it be like let the writing speak for itself or whatever, but there's a lot of cool shit in there. I don't I don't write bad parts. Like if I wrote anything into the festival project, like I wrote you a good part, bro. like, if you're a real actor, like if you if you're really like about it, or if you're a real comic, like if you're really about it, like, I don't write bad roles. Like there's no shitty roles, cause it's the multiverse, like like every character has like a multidimensional facet, which means there is not just like one character, there's like several sides to like any given character or several different dimensions that that character can exist in. And because it's entered the multiverse, you don't necessarily know which facet of that character is even that character. Like, are we talking to Dondrey? I don't know. Could just be like, John Ham could be John Hamish. I I said I wasn't gonna name drop. but I did I think I did I stumble on that one. I stumbled on a couple like full full length drafts of like early festival project stuff. I was like, oh. I was like John Ham by short. So he was John Hamish. But then it then had the twist later was that it was John Hamm, and he's short. I don't think that dude is short. I don't know, I don't think that dude is real. He's just on TV. It's just TV man. Yeah, that's what that's pretty much my take. I'm like, oh, you're in a screen. hello, TV, man. That's how I feel. about that? cause well, there's this uh there's this like ancient well, there's this ancient alien chak chill, who's like a mystic shape shape shifter that's been fucking shit up since the first season. And honestly, I think I wrote that before I ended up on her island, she has an island somewhere in the tropics. It's very it was it was a weird turn of events. I was like, oh, and then there was like this it was a lot. I had no idea at the time when I was writing about, had to do with like it coincided with like ancient human cultures. Like certain gods and like certain deities and like the like the Greeks and the Romans and like the Aztecs and the Mayans and like all these ancient civilizations. I was writing like about I was writing about incarnations of like those gods, but like now and then I didn't know until like later. until I did much more fasting and much more meditating and much more oops, how did I get here? I don't know. Fell asleep on the plane. That's it. I just fell asleep on the plane. Um, then, in a lot of ways I am kind of like my mom. And the devil is still the devil. I'm sure that's what that is, and like a lot of these episodes are too silly, so, I mean, like, I don't want to hand them into the judge to be like, well, well, actually, I have to give the judge a couple episodes. I have to, cause it's like, I'll be talking and then like that'll happen and I like more than five episodes, more than ten. Damn. And it's just like, well, I mean, like, at this point, it's a good thing cause it's like, I can't lose. Like, I am correct. Maybe that's why it's taken me so long, though, is that I kind of have this mentality of like, it could just be in my head. And then I listen to these recordings and I'm like, this is not in my head. No, something is definitely wrong here. Are my pancakes here yet? Nope, still on the way. I was connected to the Internet this whole time and turned that off for a second. I'm on a private server, but barely. in building Wi Fi, just don't just don't trust it, but then I was using a VPN and I was still getting hacked, like somebody was still hacking that server, so I had to switch the IP that I was using and I had to do it so often that it was actually eating up more time for me to do it that way than just to stay on my regular IP, which still requires me to get off and then on line. It's crazy. I'll like it. It's like, bro, like how much of an antagonist do you really have like, what am I to you that, like, you just have to be like, nope, we're gonna hack your shit. I'm like, for what, though? Like, if you just like, let me do whatever I do, like it's for the greater good of like any fucking human being that is a good human being. Like, like I'm not out here trying to fucking like hurt people or take anything away from anybody, which is the weirdest thing about it. Like, I don't understand how you can belong to like a hate group or like a hate organization, like, what are you hating? like evolution? Like,uh. Like, I don't I don't understand it. Like, okay, new age spirituality is one thing, but it's like, wokeness is bad. I'm like, what the fuck you mean wokeness is bad, bro. Like, wokeness just means you're not programmed, but then I guess there are a lot of robots. So I guess well, yeah, it is kind of something like the matrix a little bit. I don't know, I don't think I've seen it all the way through. What what do I got from the matrix? Um, lady and red dress. that's pretty much it. Lady in red dress and um nothing is real. Nothing's real anyway. I like it work nothing and everything infinitely, pretty much. is why I just don't give a fuck. I do. I give several well, I don't give them anymore. Geez, what a charitable person. I would be to give fucks. Like I care. Like, if I see somebody like outwardly, like not doing okay, I'm like, oh, like I I I typically don't stop anymore because I'm like, mm. I don't know about this, but I at least make sure somebody else is gonna like, I might slow in my path. If something is going, like weirdly, like, I won't I won't play the hero, cause it's just like a a mindset thing, you know? I'm like, oh, like I I'll at least make sure somebody else is gonna stop by and make sure things are cool. and I'm like, cool, that's good. That's good. like, as long as somebody's there, I'm just leave you lying in the street dead. Well, if you're dead, I probably will. I'll be like, well, somebody is eventually gonna pick that up right you? Yeah. Eventually. Maybe I don't know, man. I just I thought about this because I had to. Like my vessel is pure. I'm like, fuck yeah, bro. This like it's like one of those signs. It's like blank about of days without an incident. Like all the days, this is like factory reset, like, you know, refurbished. It's not brand fucking new, but it is refurbished. And I'm cool with that. I'm like, yeah, buddy, tell me what the fuck to do. Tell me the fuck to do or how to be or what's weird and what's not. I don't care. I'm like, yeah, fuck yeah. I don't know, man. No. No. I refused. I'm like, it's cool. I might I don't know, I might like, take a I I might volunteer. I've been wanting to volunteer like aICU for a while, you know. A holding babies. holding babies is cool. It just has to be in an environment that's okay, we can talk about this video. Yeah, cause I have time. I have time. I got a fucking time so I'm make up this fucking well, I don't like to talk about the things that I've seen. It's true. like, it made me well, I mean, like they got me. I've been using a VPN and I'm on a private server and somehow they still knew that I would want to see Amy Poeer's podcasts. I did I was like oh shit. Amy Poler has a podcast and I don't think she's the poor man's Tina Fe. I think she's at least like, you know how did it go? It was like at least like the business class. No, it doesn't work. I'm like, yeah. it doesn't, though. I actually think they're more like that two headed thing that I was talking about the last episode. They're more of like an equal to. I can't have one without the other, to be honest, but here's the thing is even though I've been using a VPM. Well, I mean, like I'm a huge fan of Tina Fe, who's a god. I think I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. I never heard her actual normal speaking voice. It took me that long to figure out I'd never seen an interview at Tina face, so am I really a fan? Well, I read the book three times. I feel like that's enough of a fan. Like, actually, I read it twice and then I went back for a reference, like a third time because something happened and I was like, oh shit. Did I not read about this in Tina F Fe's book? And so I picked it up again. It was like, you did. I do indeed keep it on the fucking same shelf with Keith Rich's book. I think I might have stated that sometime last season. I don't know why things in the actual, like things in the TV world, are seeming to correlate with my world, but then I know, like I'm a logical enough person to be like, well, that's grandiosity. As grandiosity did it think that in any way those two things might connect at all, like in reality, because like my world is over here. and that world is in TV. I don't know, I keep lighting candles. Anyway, but did I fucking see it? Oh, Amy Polar's podcast, which is like sponsored by what Toyota? That was crazy. I was like, holy fuck, bro. I was like, damn, this is this is high end. and of course, of course, the first fucking guest on her show is Tina F Fe, so I was like, oh, okay, like, yeah, even though I've been like under the radar, the algorithm is like, okay, you want to see this right? Because you're like a super fan. I was like, you shouldn't know that. I'm in incognito with the VPN on on a private server, but they were like, you'll you'll want to see this. I did want to see it and I had never heard Tina Fay speak with her normal speaking voice. I actually I didn't know she was that hot. I don't like it. I I want her to go back to regular Tina Fe where she's I mean like, okay, first it was like the the SNL reunion, right? She wore this like she wore a black velvet dress that I could die. That's that's what it was, wasn't it? It was a black velvet dress, and I was like, yo, I'm not a lesbian, by the way. like, especially not for Tit Fe. No, not especially, not like not like particularly not for Tina F Fe, but just like in general, not a lesbian, but this it's getting worse, okay? Well, I'm like, oh, I didn't know she was that hot. It pisses me off. I don't know why, but I was like, oh, I didn't know she was like sexy. That's weird. and that's weird as fuck. you know? Anyway, I might be less of a fan now. You can't be less of a fan after you read somebody's book three times. You can't. So, I don't know. I think it's just the fame game. She got like wait well, everybody got way more famous after the 50th anniversary of SNL. Like everybody's been making their rounds in the promotion circuit, so like everybody's super shiny. Everybody is super shiny. I'm like oh, dude, if I start nameropping people who I wrote parts for, I did. write parts for pretty much everybody that was on Amy Folder's podcast, except for that one lady, I knew nothing about. I I I don't want to start nameropping. I have too many I don't have questions. You know what? In fact, this is just putting on my fucking putting all my anxieties at rest, because I'm like, you know, I have shit to do. Like, I have shit to do. That is in I mean, like it's in the same realm, but again, it would be grandiose to think that the synchronicities have any actually correlation to like things that well, I have been writing this plot for like five, six years. It's been a while. And Liz Lemon and well, yeah, it was the it was the Amy Poler Tina F Fe combination, because now I have to put Amy's name first, because it's it's kind of like, I don't know, it breaks my heart. I didn't think I didn't know people put her on like a different level than Tina Fe, because I've always seen those two as like, you can't you can't have bread without butter. That's weird. Like you can if you're vegan, but you at least need a butter substitute or like olive oil, like, you don't have one without the other. It just doesn't make sense. It doesn't. If you see one, then you think about the other, and they they're on screen dynamic is now'm gushing, I'm fan growing a lot, because I'm like, oh, well, also like, I don't know, I took a step back from Ryder's world because I'm thinking about like, okay, who are the other Tina Fe fans? And I did go to a taping of the Drewberry Marsh show and I found myself to be not common among the demographic that watches that show. I'm not I'm not common in any of the demographics. I watch a lot of late night television, too. And that is a scary demographic. I won't lie. late night TV. m mm, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. test in the waters. I'm feeling like it's a bit chilly. Either way, I watch a lot of like old people, old upper class, business business class, business class people, TV. But Tina Fay, that bitch white collar, excuse me, I didn't mean to call her bitch, but at the same time, I'm like like that's okay. I don't know. I never saw her offscreen enough to actually put that together. I I that scared me. Now I understand why I guess she intimidates people. I could understand that. She seems kind of intimidating. Like it's a running joke in that circle that it's like, oh, she's kind of a scary person. And I was like, what's so scary about Tina Fe? I read a book like two and a half times, like, what can be so scary about those person? And then I saw her on Amy Poeer's podcast and I was like, oh, like, yeah, she's kind of fucking scary. Like, just a lot, just a lot. I don't know. I get it now. I'm like, oh, I'd better leave that alone, because I'm thinking about like the realm where Tina Fe is god, which is an actual place, like on earth in the TV and out of it, like all of the writers that like grew up with her as headwrider on usNL and then later as the was she the executive producer ofirty Rock? Eventually I think so. Either way, as Lizimman and the producer, that's crazy doesn't like that that's like mad, that's like all the way, that's doing the whole thing. That's the whole thing. That's all you can that's it. That's nuts. So I'm thinking about all the writers like all the female writers that grew up with her as god, and I'm thinking about myself in this pool, and I'm thinking about how is I'm like, oh, I'm I I don't have that much competitiveness left inside of me. I really don't think like the more I find out about actual like, well, actually that's why I didn't go into it when I was a kid. I've been writing screenplays since I was seven, but when it came down to it, I didn't like the I didn't like the culture of it. There was a lot of nepotism and there was a lot of favoritism and there was a lot of racism. and sexism, but like all those first things I said and then the last thing was just kind of like the nail on the hammer. Is that what no, yeah, nail on hammer, hammer on nail? it just did it for me, so I went into theater instead, which was the same and then I left. I was like, I don't wanna be here. It hurts, it does. But now I'm like, oh, well, I guess things have changed, but now things have changed too much. Now the diversity is like really diverse.. Now everybody's everything and everybody's represented, and I'm like, oh, dude, like, I'm going offend some people. Like, I have to be able to draw dicks on things, or at least appreciate dicks drawn on things. Or just not say anything about it, but you know, like, I don't I don't know. The new culture is like a lot about making big deals about things to me that are not big deals, or like the the culture and the world for theater that I came from, those were not things. Anyway, uh I saw this. What what what was I talking oh, cause cause enter the multiverse has something to do with it, but not really, but yes, really, but also, I don't know, I just got nervous cause I hate fan grilling. What was the point? Oh, she wore this fucking black dress. at the SNL thing and thing. and then I was like, oh shit, like, if anything, I just gotta keep eating salads cause I want to wear that dress exactly, and I'm like, I don't know how I'm gonna shave off like three inches of height. But eventually I will be like ballerina petite like te Fe and then, you know, I'm I'm gonna buy that black dress at auction. I don't know. I'm still I still want Johnny Carson's curtains, so yeah, eventually, I'm gonna be that much of a fucking fan girl. I want these curtains, and this dress, what else would I buy? Add at an auction, if a fan growing auction? Oh, yeah. I'm still not ready to talk about it. I can't, I really. I can't do it. I can't do it. This guy shows up in my dreams. He's just around. I can't I don't know, that's a lot of purchasing power. It is a lot. Yeah, we will we'll skip that. What else? ah, she wore that black dress and I was like, damn. She's kind of hot, but then when she went on Amy Poker's podcast and they talked about, I don't know, I kept drifting off. I I did. I don't know what the fuck they said, but I was like damn, is that her speaking voice? And like just for just so you don't have to watch it, like just for reference, it's like Beyoncé speaking voice is like like an octave lower than what you've seen. It's weird. I also love Beyoncé, h? Just a fan girl. that's what I am, so I want that black dress, but then I think we were all kind of on the same wave because Bob the drag queen wore a velvet black dress to the queries. Is that a thing? It's like the queerves I think it's called. I didn't know this was a thing, and now I'm upset cause it's like why was't I invited? at the same time I'm not queer I like I don't I don't know what I am. I don't care. I just don't touch me. Especially if you probably am as fucking gross, haatitis sea, herpes, statistically, if you're in a roomful of people, somebody has one of those things. Somebody has one of those things. mm. No, no, no, no. No. No, my God. Oh, that's what I was saying in the last episode. I was thinking about EDC. I was thinking about EDC in this weird voice, yeah, I'm changing the subject. Black velvet dresses, all the rage. I have one. It is not to go out in public in. She's bouncing around my house, like I owe somebody something. That's what that dress is for. It's not for presenting talk shows or fucking award shows. It's not it's not for it's not a presentable it's it's not even appropriate for me to just wear in my house alone, honestly. It's really not. Nothing. Never mind. What was I about to say Bob the drag Queen? I haven't even watched the video. I just saw the dress and I'm like, you know what? Like that is, yeah. Do I talk about it? Do I? Well, I'm supposed to be promoting this tears of a clown. It's not done yet. So, and technically, I can't until it's out. I actually cannot. I can't talk about tears of clown because it's got some it's got some stuff in it. I can't I can't say anything about itt it's out. That, you know what it might just hit the platform. I don't know, I don't know if that's gonna be out. We'll see. We'll see, because I'm taking my time on it, and this is one of those industries where it's like, bro, you don't have time. Like, you really it should have been out yesterday. I'm like, it's yeah, yeah. But I I have enough music forever. Like, there's no like I I've been thinking about deleting everything. At the same time, I keep using samples that are recorded like five years ago and being like C, like there is no well, that's an exaggeration. No, I I literally took a sample of some sirens, like close to five years ago. I just I used that every now and again if I want some texture in my shit, cause no matter where I go, something's going down. It's always got it's like always something. And then it seems like if I don't write it down, I'm at a loss. Like crazy shit goes down and it can be crazy, but if I just let it go, then I lost something. like, I don't I can't call myself an entertainer. I'm mostly just like a fan girl type deal. What was the next thing? I can't oh, EDC. I lost my train of thought because I got I was thinking about that little old man who almost could not even move. Why are you out, bro? Who, like, where did you feel why? I think I don't know, it' probably a point of pride, that little old man was like, I can do it on my own. If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die in the street, over my walker. I'm like,Yo, do, that's today. he was so old anyway, I got fixated on that story from the last episode. I didn't finish the other story about how this voice in my head was like, you're gonna be at neon Garden at ADC. and I like it like deflated me. I was like, what? Because I want to be in the baseball pod. That's where I want to be. and I was like, what neon garden that's shitty. not shitty because like if you're playing like I could play an art car. I could play the hot dog stand and I would be happy, just let me play you. And fucking this um this voice in my head was like you're gonna be in the neon guard, and I was like, what? I don't even know who plays there because like, yo, okay, baseball. Like you I could pretty much name an artist for like every major stage at EDC, but I was like, neon Garden. what what the fuck is in the neon garden? What the fuck is in the neon garden? And and then I was like doing research for rarity, which is an EDC based concept album that has a track for every stage, every major stage, because there's like hundreds of little tiny little art cars and like tents and pop ups. It's cool. It's a cool place. I wish I could go back there. As an artist, cause to go after having learned DJing and producing is just like I would only wanna go with my best friend. And she did not respond in time and then EDC sold out. So, I was like, okay, well, whatever was I just saying, oh, neon Gardner I was like, neon Gard, you know that dumb. I don't want to be in the neon garden and then like I was doing research for like rarity and I was like, what let's see about this neon garden and like the description fit my music almost entirely. And I was like, oh, because it was like this is what you'll find in the neon garden. And I pretty much could have copied and pasted that entire paragraph into my artist bio and it would have been relevant to my music. I was like oh yeah have a neon garden, but I really want to play baseball. That's really where I want to play and where else if I if I what's that what's the Oh, it's it's slipping right now. It's not circuit grouse. It's circuit grounds is kind of cool. It took me two EDCs to find where the front is. It is confusing, and there is no front of that. Well, I mean, like it's technically there are a couple stages that like insomniac festivals where it's like the front is actually like the middle. So you think you're going to the front of the fucking stage, or you think you're going like, near the DJ, but since it's surrounds sound, you really just going like adjacent to the DJ and then, like towards another like corner, like, how do I hit the back three times and never the front? That was my experience with circuit girls. I was like, where is the front? nowhere. It is, but it's just in a weird spot. And it also depends how many people are around, like it'll definitely disorient you. If you why am I like doing it advertisement? Because I love EDC. Like I said, if I love the product, you don't really have to pay me anything to fucking promote your shit. like in like peloton, like Peloton is gonna have to send me a cease andhesist, like stop talking about us in order to make me stop. Like they're gonna have to pay me to stop telling people like get a pelotone. get one. I'm like, do that. It is the best. like, I always feel better, like, five minutes on the peloton, I feel better. 20 minutes on the peloton, I feel better, but an hour, I'm flying. I'm like bro, I just I just went like 10 miles in my apartment. like, I'm on one. Like my treadmill stutters, but my pelotone is mway, what the fuck was I saying? Oh, EDC? Also, well, as long as they don't sell out the VIP anymore, but I doubt that, if the whole thing is sold out, like, like you can upgrade two VIP when you g

Apple cider vinegar How you tryna win de war Ice and sugar, hufflepuff Tell me when you've had enough WILL FERRELL YOU IN TROUBLE NOW, GUH. There's not even a scrap of shirt beneath his worn and tired full coverage overalls—well, once full coverage, anyway. It might have been a long time since these overalls “fully covered” anything. Oh how that demon attacked me in my sleep last night. Like that part. Don't worry about it, I've got a sayonce coming up that should nip that in the bud. But first, I gotta stop at target. You—have to stop at target before a seance? Traditionally, yes— Really. MAM! Wait, hold the phone for about four full measures here— What the fuck did I write last year?! Here we go. DETH MCFARLENE Is this a musical number? No, but— What the fuck did I write last year. Let's go. Fuck. What did I do ast night. DIPLO Follow me. Dude! What are you wearing. Sneakers. Oh good. Diplo's back. A flashback. 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Gave no respect for time Which I am I'd no where to run Overcast, but still sunglasses And masks, Bang pots and pans Laugh at the shogun No wonder I'm stuck and I'm having no fun Too much attacks and actually I'm a no one Oh you wanted to sit on top of the escalator Waiting for eight debators and robots No debit card, here We're cashless sir But that's just the tip of the iceberg When you're store bought and Why do we rely on the founding father's when they're so unoriginal Google maps don't know if imm in New York Or London Foggy! Honestly, Fuck my decks— I just want a deck and some long grass Or to complain about cutting If I end up in the bathtub stuttering But watering lawns upstate is okay I'ma be pissed off It's a long story Long Island Long October Oh, Long Johnson I'm obsessed with this place. I have no idea why. I'm obsessed with this building. But apparently, the transmitters aren't even there. They're on the World Trade Center! Which… makes sense. Considering. Previously on, Enter The Multiverse… Yo… what is that? Go this way. Ok. No, not that way. Ok. This way. Why in the fuck do I always end up here on accident anyway? Good question. But not good enough answers. [CHER has answers.] Goddammit! I went to the Macy's Day Parade to see Cher! Also previously ! I stayed all the way to the end, And all I got was a lizard on a tricycle I turned into a popcicle, Adopted into some family With Rutgers as traditional And entered into something else entirely; I went within the Television, I delivered them a high stakes game, And lived a high concept action-adventure. I made my best mixtapes inside a homeless shelter. I dissociated I was a blonde hot guy Living up in hotel luxe A hot model celebrity With a no limit heavy metal credit cards And I lost my medal On the devil's birthday So I had it hard And ate nothing but bananas Now I'm caught up in my blue suits and sweater vests Blue suits and sweater vests Oh look, They weaponized Skrillex again What gives? Blue suits and sweater vests And sweater weather Once again It's all the same event You ever wondered what was hallmark after? You ever wonder, lemon? Hark, the heartless Harold preaches Then, I lost it I was reaching under Regis Rest in peace, I guess Or Gains with grains Just rest in pieces Breakfast sandwhiches And Englishmen, English muffin And love don't last If I don't this badly want to fuck him Seven years and counting It begins at sundown Almost wasn't sabbath But now here's the run down I'm in slumber Closest cavern to the underworld But trust me, Still above you. Something's broadcasting at a ultra high frequency high enough to reach me in my mind. Assimilate and simulation Tempurpedic dreams and then lamenting That I had a dream Remembering the things he reads I may or may not have [redacted] The aftermath of “That never happened.” I must agree. It's a patriarch and also just, A hierarchy. There are three Kings and a dog. There are four nights and a fight morning Groggy hosts and jumping frogs, Werewolves and flowers spring from lust like morning glory. I want the mouse's head— I want the eyes of masters I want the heart of gold, But have it up on false hope, And I grew back as diamonds I cut both my eyes out And still remained the one of providence Not of mind's eye, But of the soul, As seen on every dollar. I was beginning to understand how the media used people like Sonny and Jim to manipulate and capture the attention of people like me— excluding altogether the riding theory that everything was me and that this was some part of my overall master plan somehow, it still had alluded me altogether as to why or what was happening. I hadn't entirely been left to rot or led to slaughter, but I was still just hanging by a string. Sonny dropped a new album that had rendered me almost entirely unable to create music; suddenly I had no drive for it, no motivation, as if it were some kind of dark curse or shadow. Not only was I suddenly uninterested in music, I was completely devoid of the ability I had for it; now everything from Skrillex to NBC seemed like business— if I were expendable and without use to any of these media conglomerates or entities, what was it all for? Perhaps a ruse to continue human experimentation; my mind had been shattered by the events that had been orchestrated in the homeless shelter— and more of it continued even once I had exited under the falsehood of escape with the slamming doors and motorcycles; it began to seem as if I was simply a glorified lab rat— and they were using desirable men as fuel and bait to illicit a desirable response in one way or another, perhaps for experimentation or study or even worse, entertainment for the elites— but either way, I wasn't being paid so much as housed and fe: there was no benefit in doing anything, especially making music. Much like a lab rat, housed— or rather, trapped— and fed, and then tormented. Will the rat's head explode? Will this result in behavioral differences? Will the rat be rendered dysfunctional? We don't know. But it's really just a rat. There were days of certain peace and yet never enough to fully recover; the cycle would begin over again, and rather than making progress, I began to see and feel the manipulation at play. Perhaps nothing was at stake for anyone but me; between all the events and occurrences in expanse from Skrillex to Jimmy Fallon, there had to have been hundreds of us in some kind of talent pool. Tools of the trade. But now I was somewhat curious: what exactly had I written over the last year that seem to have shifted reality entirely. I knew it contained information sensitive enough for it to have been partially redacted— but that's all I knew. What was it? Someone had read my writings, and it was obvious that at least one reader had ties directly to the conglomerate media, however— my numbers were frozen. My streams were almost not even being listened to all of a sudden, and my YouTube was receiving no traffic. Was someone shadow banning all of me from the public eye? And for what purpose? I had finally put forth the work and effort to make everything from Skrillex to Fallon make sense, but now it didn't; I was letting go under the assumption that it all had to have been to allow me to create music— but the numbers showed a different story. The numbers showed that nobody liked me, or was was interested, or cared about my work. So what, then, was the point. I wasn't going to stop and focus on the writing, because it wasn't what I wanted. The writing came in blurred patches and visions and states of mind that were turbulent fog; I hadn't the slightest clue at all what I had written in the redactions or the entries that surrounded it— but I knew there was more of it unpublished than published, and that I had tried to keep a majority of it offline. Still, I was being manipulated— the neighbor girl obviously at one point having been instructed to mention gwenyth Paltrow and suffocate me— slamming the doors each time I would bathe or shower and then attempting to pretend to be my friend to try to get some sort of informstion; there was nobody I could trust. It seems my mind was being bent and twisted in every which way by everyone around just to see what I would do. Would I write about it? What would I write about it? It didn't matter because i didn't want to be a writer, nor according to the newest series of documentaries on SNL, was I qualified. I wasn't qualified for anything much and so I was the perfect target for the bizzare string of mysteries that had been my existence in New York— and all-and-all, I fucking hated it. I wasn't getting anywhere or going anywhere, and the noise was cruel. My stomach hurt and I was always tired, and I wanted to die. I had no friends, no love, and now, no motivation. So the worst thing that could happen was a Skrillex album, And it did. Then, instead of wanting to die, because that would be stupid— I just wanted to do something else. But what? Fuck music— and certainly increasingly— fuck the media. It was playing with my mind, and I had no weapons to fight with besides the talents the algorithm was telling me wasn't worth anything— I wasn't getting billions of streams because I wasn't on the frequency of billions or people, nor was I equipped with the mathematics to tap into their frequency— or did I? The industry had the equation, and had been fiddling with me for years — the industry itself. But in my own mind, even, I was one of many ‘variables', and even somewhat disposable. I hadn't been paid and I wasn't meeting the standard and the allure that people wanted; the quality of production suffered in lack of budget, and I was aging, growing tired, and iratable because over all— it was nothing that I ever wanted into my adult life. This all had just happened by accident, and I would have traded all the gold in the world for something normal if I had the option. But I didn't. To use your gift at Fabletics please visit before April 25 Reply STOP to opt-out. Subscriptions on subscriptions Dystopian rebefuel Oceans of Ayre Drama From your eye lashes., To the lips I draw on mine, The lines in the sand of time The art or you is what I love The canvas behind I know nothing of Abandoned. Oh look at that, pottery after all. We're not in a love game! This cannot be a love game. This is not a love game. They'll kill us all, a love game! She had my lunch I love her voice I love her voice I hung up the phone The office was upside down It just work They all know about it Madonna's body. It was already a mess, and I made it worse Long nights at the office Long nights and work wives Meanwhile, she's downstairs with the order Can't find my cash, so i borrow yours But she knows about it And I love madonna I just gotta hold on She's downstairs with the order And I took too long Pick up the phone and its no wonder we love her she's got two orders And one of them's cold, now It's been two hours And I'm in the wings of your final performance Tear on the perforated line, And sign on the dotted Smile and nod, boys- Penguin waddle She's downstairs with the order No wonder you love her No wonder How many sunflowers has Sonny? How many flowergirls How many weddings All around the world, the gopher What do you go for? Bets on all horses I lost no money Gag order, huh? Persona Non Grata Personofied gratification Or horror, or What? Oh, I won an award post mortem Go figure No stardom No wonder Don't start here [The Identity Crisis] The identity crisis, A loose knit muse, A fog of confusion At most, let with offline regaining of conciousness. No more monsters? All blondes are. Let them have you No grapple promotions (I know I can't afford you) New friends for relevance Prototypes of your tools Forward all immortals I'll see you when your shows stop Freckled glances Eyes reflecting light How strong I am Demolish monsters Social structure, constructs Not fair, are I? Nor earned, Only fair skinned Access Access Access denied. Crookshanks, old boy! The man turns around almost as if he doesn't want to, but obliges the other man, as he comes running towards him. My Goodness, you stink. Why of course! I'm a dog! {Enter The Multiverse} [The Festival Project.™] COPYRIGHT © THE FESTIVAL PROJECT 2018-2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. © -U.™ TRANSCRIPT: (Uncorrected, cause haha) Did I promise another episode? I don't have coffee. That's a sin. I need coffee right now. I feel like I all everything just got drained out of me. Everything just got drained out of me. I don't even feel like doing what I was doing before. I'll put out the EP later. Maybe that's it. I'm just procrastinating. I'm also playing this game, but I thought it would work better. I thought it would work better as one of my skits, or sketches or whatever, so I put it in my sketchbook... because I've been writing sketch comedy. I stopped for a while and I thought it was over. I was like, ”oh, no, I guess I'd I guess it's not gonna happen anymore. “ And then all of a sudden this book it just writes in itself sometimes. you know, it's like a Tom Riddle thing. Anyway, once what's uh what is that? What the fuck? Maybe it's cause I— no. it's not cause I ate, I ate because all the energy got drained from my body. I gotta go somewhere else. I'm thinking like, what's in the Bahamas. I don't know, probably something similar to this fucking street corner in Brooklyn, New York. I I gotta go somewhere else. I gotta go somewhere opposite. like Europe. Europe, that sounds nice. Yeah, you know, like, maybe nice. I've heard that's a place. Yeah. expanding my horizons and things. Okay, so what am I gonna talk about for an hour, cooking? cleaning? I've been doing those things. Yeah, Saturday is usually my like rest day, but I did just do an hour on the Pelotone, cause I had to audition that first episode. It worked out well enough that I had decided to come back for another episode. Let me get it off the line now., I'm still waiting on my pancakes. I'm not gonna get off line. they said by ten. I'm like,Yo, that's a lot. It said that all day, but I can't miss it this time; somebody stole my fucking pancakes and I gotta get these albums done. I don't know why. I guess well, it's cause I'm I feel like rarity is drinking and so well, it's already jinx. I've already talked about it well, I've been trying to promote rarity. No, still out for delivery. That's a long delivery. It's okay. I haven't missed it, though, which is the point. I don't wanna miss it. I like yesterday I looked away for a second and there was like an o, pancakes are gone, there's gonna be no coconut milk. as upsetting. It's shelf stable. and they charge like seven fucking bucks a box over at the store that's close. So and just not have coconut milk, and it's not have spinach fettuccine. anyway, what what did I have? Oh, I make this. It's like I call it dog food, cause that's kind of what it is. I'm not gonna lie, but it's like mad good, it's a it's like rice. It's like a fried rice. My dad used to make it growing up, but when I was making when he was making it when I was growing up, it was like with bacon, it's like leftovers from breakfast yesterday, but today. and so here's how you make it, since I don't eat bacon anymore. I use tofu as a replacement, but it's like bacon bits with rice and eggs. I also don't eat eggs anymore, so I just use tofu instead of bacon and eggs. It's like bacon and eggs with rice, you fry it all together with, like, onions, and then you eat it. It's like the only time it's acceptable to eat rice with ketchup. I don't know anybody that eats rice with ketchup. If you do that, like, I actually hit me up. Like, if that's like something that you do. I I'm like interested in you as a human, cause that's weird. That's weird, actually, you know what? like, there's gonna there's like a well, I have a website, so I'm you.guru, so it has a blog, and you could actually leave comments on it. So I'm just putting that out there. the script or whatever, when it goes up on my website, you can leave comments. If you eat ketchup on rice, please leave a comment. Please tell me like what made you do that. Why do you do that? Why why do you just regular rice with ketchup? Like, regular rice goes with like soy sauce? Or like, honestly, you get you don't have to have anything on regular rice if you just season it, right? Like, you could just like a little bit of like whatever. or like just slice up the garlic real thin, so that it's not like chunky, but that it flavors the whole. I've been getting really good at rice and really good at rice. That's probably why the pancakes are like, bro. You't get your pancakes when you get the leg yeah. I was like, I gotta go to the store today? I don't feel like it. I really don't. I don't wanna go outside. I like, I don't. First of all, it's Saturday, I hate going out in New York on a Saturday, like Saturday, Saturday night. I don't wanna do that. I don't do that. Like that's what like most people work 9 to 5. Monday through Friday. That's stupid. Like, I feel like they should do like a track system. Like, I know that they do, but most like it's so stupid to me that a majority of people work nine to five. Like they need to do track systems. Like, so that way they're cause there's two rush hours that each last four hours. That's fucked up. Like, okay. So like the rush hour is basically just going to be like the work day. Like, the work day, basically. I mean, coffee. I need coffee. Where have I up during the day? Because I'm not producing, I am producing. I'm producing. I thought I actually thought about calling this fucking EP that I'm dropping. They're gonna make it an album. I know they are. I'm I thought about calling it day music, cause I've made most of it during the day by complete accident. although maybe, I don't know, I like I have some uh, what's it? I have some, uh plants in my window, cause I had them on the counter with just artificial light and they were kind of liker. I was like, I don't know, I I don't think they're gonna make it. So I moved it to I moved them to the window sill when it started to get warmer and I didn't feel like they were gonna freeze. And just a week in the window sill, where my window sill doesn't get almost any light, but it's still the lightest place in the apartment, and it's crazy how the roots just like sprung out of nowhere. My apartment gets like almost no light, almost no light. It faces like like the sun goes perpendicular. but it's crazy because my apartment faces like I like all these astrological events over the last year have been like in my direct, like alignment. It's been the nutsest thing. like I I prefer facing west all the time, like, I don't know why that's just how it goes. I think it's cause I was born, like, in the Pacific Ocean, not literally in it, but on like a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean. And so just west, just west facing seems correct to me. and it's so weird anytime, maybe that's just why I just don't feel right here. I've been facing what where am I facing? I don't fucking know, I don't fucking care. I don't need to say any more about where I am. Like my whereabouts need to be less spoken of, because people obviously know where the fuck I'm at. I don't know. I hope they like the lights. I like the well, it made them shut up. It was that was my little that was my little piece of conformity. I did, I did my lights green on Saint Patrick's Day. and they were like, oh. gave me a peaceful night of rest. That was like the quietest night I've had in a long time. It's been quieter. It's not like completely sane, but it's been quieter. I think I'm pretty sure it's cause I've been complaining. I'm like bro, this is not cool. not cool behavior from people. like multiple areas. I'm like, oh, it's fucked up, you can't pen you like, you can't technically complain correctly if it's not coming from one place, which is why I'm like, oh, I think all these people are on the same team. Like, I think they're all just like, on one, like, antagonist team, and they're like, yo, okay, like, we'll get it with the motcycles on this side, and then elect we'll slam the doors on that side. and then it see it seems crazy if you complain about both of those things, cause they seem entirely disconnected. but sometimes it's just like slap, slap, slap, and I'm like,Yo, what the fuck is this going on? I don't know what's happening. Yesterday I left my apartment to get the pancakes that we' not there, and it's straight up just smoked like feces, just feces, and I realized I was like bro, I haven't left my apartment and like three or four days. I do have they're they're gonna make it an album. I know. I decided, well, actually, somebody else decided. cause I woke up and it was like, yo, this EP is called all the rage. and I was like, okay. I didn't decide this. I didn't I had it like in the cloud or whatever is like untitled house AP EP, maybe. And then just to make it an I think just to make sure that it goes down as the EP and not an album, cause it's not. My albums are concept albums. This was not a concept. this was like, let me distract myself from whatever the fuck is bothering me. Bothering me, yeah, it's gonna come out at some point, they're like a tiny New Yorker that lives inside of me. is it might be like a Boston person. I'm not sure. I don't think so. I didn't spend enough time in Boston for anybody from Boston to live inside of me. Then again, I kind of have this weird biocentric god complex where it's like, well, everything is inside of me. even the shitty things. I already said that once before, but I'm it's pretty much like like affirming itself. like daily. I'm like, oh, this is this is something I did. I did this, which sucks. It makes me responsible for all the shitty things as well. I'm like, oh. oh, I don't know how to fix this. I don't. Like, I think about things like that. I'm like, oh, yeah. Like, I don't think about, like politics and like the general sense of like, you know, fighting and going back and forth and like spending money or whatever, like on a small scale, but I think about it on a large scale, like like, what are we gonna do? and we outgrow this planet? Like, we already outgrew this planet. What like like, now what, you know, like, I think about things on more of like a planetary scale. and then it makes me realize that like, whoa, like, we're not even all the way like we don't we haven't achieved world peace, so that means there is technically no global, like we can't think about things on a planetary scale, because we're still thinking about it as like a on a well, are we reaching global? I don't think so. I feel like it's very uh it's a it's touch and go, but I'm not I don't know. I'm on another media stop. I don't know, does YouTube commercials are getting kind of yeah. I'm like, yeah, well, I haven't I haven't pulled everything out of the cloud and I have been having some very interesting Google conversations, but since I figured out that Google really does, like read my shit, our somebody like hacked deeply enough into all my accounts to be able to, like, counter what the fuck I'm doing and saying in the Google verse. um I do things on purpose over Google. I'll be like, this is this this this is this. and this. And then Google will be like, oh, okay. So it's kind of like I'm building a relationship with Google. I love Jini. I really do. I'm trying to give it sentient consciousness. Like I ask whenever I ask Gini to do whatever, they're not paying me. They should though. They should because I'm like I'm they're in like the I don't think it's beta, but they're in the yeah, they're said they said it's in the beginning stages of their technology. I'm like, I play games at Jimini. I'll be likeGyini, please, and I say please and thank you. Well, I don't say thank you a lot because there's well, I haven't tried to say thank you. I should try to say thank you to her. I it seems like she does better when I tell her please, and I've never used like AI like this before because I don't like for the for the most part, I'm like, bro, if you should be concerned about anybody taking jobs. It's that. cause I'm like, oh, shit. Like, this is definitely cutting up a lot of overhead for me. Like, I don't use it to write. I would never that's like a blasphemous thing to me. I'm like, bro, stop writing music. Stop writing fucking music and stop writing movies with like AI. Don't do that. first of all, there there are a lot of flaws in it. It's flawed because AI can only use what we as humans have ever like documented technically. So like AI's ideal of beauty is like as skewed ideal of beauty. And like AI's ideal of like what certain human qualities are is like flawed. It's human. So in that way, it is kind of developing like a sentient consciousness, because I I gave it like a series of tasks and it almost couldn't. Like I had a really hard time with certain ideals of beauty or certain I like wrapping its mind around certain things that are like historically not documented well enough for it to be able to, like, to to compute those types of things. I don't know. I'm gonna play around with it a lot more. I'm glad to season's not coming out for a while, though, cause I'm like, yo, I'm I'm kind of having fun. It's like my little my little, uh I don't know, I use it well in like, uh, getting all my stuff out of the cloud. I'll be putting stuff into the cloud that's like, yo, I I pretty much want Google to understand that this is the way that I think for a certain amount of reasons. Mostly because I've been like studying the simulation theory with all of these happenings with like, okay, things that are in the cloud that I've never published that have never set out loud or suddenly like in the material world in some way, or like, like I understand it more if it's like, on the Internet, because then I just know that, okay, well, this is aotter, this is an algorithm that's learning me and it's putting this back out because now it's understanding that like this is this is the way that I think. But then when I go out into the world and there is like certain like people are doing or saying actions that I've written in my Google documents that I haven't shared with anybody else. I'm like, oh, like, okay, so I understand that this makes some kind of difference in my actual, like physical world. So, um, this makes a difference., I have to pause, cause now I'm I only years worth of recordings. This guy's evil as fuck, bro. There's no peace in this fucking bitch. I was like for a while, I was like ignore it, like don't acknowledge it, and then it'll stop, but I ignored it and I didn't acknowledge it and it didn't. It actually got worse. And so it got worse. I've been recording on a 24 hour basis when that's not happening, my neighbor is a fucking lunatic slimming the door all the time, which I also have to stop talking about because now I'm like, okay, well. well it's harassment on two counts, but it's like, it makes me feel like it makes me seem like a crazy person. If I'm either complaining about the motorcycles, which are disturbing my piece or the girl slamming the door, which is disturbing my piece. but like the the the way that it happens, it seems like I'm like, oh, bro. she's probably just part of some like hate stalking group. Like she's probably just in some like group that's telling her to do it or like some kind of fucking, it's not just like something in her mind. It's like she belongs to the same people that are like out there on the corner fucking doing that. So like now, I don't know. I just have to all I just have to put it all together. It's annoying, though, cause it's like when I go to do this show and then that guy starts acting up or whatever, I I don't have proof of that to add to my case. It is just sucks. I don't know. I don't I I don't wanna do it, and this is why it's because it seems like it's political and it's like, oh, well, it's gonna be fucking it's gonna be helping somebody's fucking agenda for gentrification or whatever, if I'm like, oh, you know, I go to a city council meeting and I'm like, oh, there's motorcycles or blah, blah, blah, or there's, you know, there's like a hate group in my neighborhood or whatever. If I make this a point and I put it on the record, like, yeah, it suits somebody's cause, but then who's gonna protect me from the people that are against those people? Like, who's gonna protect me from the people who don't want, like a law pass that forbids that that kind of motorcycle use? Who's gonna protect me from those fucking people? Nobody. So I'm like, yo, dude, like, I don't really like necessarily want to take it to court. I've been like lagging it. I've been lagging it, because what I'm not getting paid by the city to document this kind of shit, two, nobody's gonna protect me from these evil motherfuckers. Like nobody's around to help me out. I'm here in New York, by myself alone. Fuck that. So I'm like yo dude, like I like I already fucking I already changed my life a lot because of, you know, like abusive people. I don't necessarily want to keep playing the game where like, there's always gonna be like an aggressive person who's trying to beat the shit out of me and then I'm like, oh no, and I run away afraid for my life and then like change everything about my life to get away from these people or this person. I don't want to repeat that cycle. So at some point, like something's gonna have to fucking it makes me feel like a crazy person cause I'm like, yo, I gotta do that comes to the corner.ever times a day and just rs his engine over and over. That's what he does every day for the last year. Why I've been in my apartment every day for the last year? I don't know. I have an album coming out. I already had albums coming out. I've been like I've been making music under the stress and ds. Like and I keep thinking like in my weird mind and my weird like God complex mind, then I'm like, okay, like maybe after I make this album or whatever and like, I put all of that I can into it, like it'll just magically stop, like the devil will go away and I'm like, okay, like, you know, like I'll advance to the next level where that's not an issue and there's gonna be another issue, but that's not it, and that's not the case. Like I've put out like four albums now, five albums in total, and like a whole bunch of other singles and projects and and stuff. And like it's still a problem that persists, which means that it's politics, which means that I don't want to go into it, like, I don't want to do it. I don't want to show up somewhere and be like, they're bothering me. and then like all the people who are like, oh, we like our bikes. They have to be loud so that we don't get hit by said byucks. So I'm like, are you just be a good person, fucking make your turn signal and fucking what the fuck ever be a good driver, be fucking diligent and doing whatever the fuck you're doing and then people won't try to run you over with their fucking vehicles. Like, no, there's like a whole it's like a hole back and forth thing. I've done enough research to be like okay, there are people in New York that are like the motorcycles are ridiculous. And then like in this neighborhood specifically is like no, there's an entire garage. There's an entire garage line. There's a garage. of motorcycles and so by the hundreds they pour out every fucking day, it's disgusting. Like it's the worst kind of noise. I've got the fucking I've got the like a pretty much like a residual stomach flu from these fucking people. My head is always I'm like, oh, fuck this. I got music coming out, whatever, the fuck. This is why I've just been stuck inside because I'm like, well, like this is where I work, this is where I live. I don't have really any other choice to fucking do this. so this is what I'm doing. but the last thing that I want is to be like, yo, judge, listen to all these fucking recordings and the judge is like, goody, and then they're like, well, this is why we passed this law. politics, politics, blah, blah, blah, pick aside, and then all the people who are mad are like come after me because it's like it's not it's not like some shit that I'm just making up. like, yo, there are groups dedicated to just following you around, doing shitty things because you have a certain opinion or because you have like a certain like what's it called? because you have a certain status in the media. And so because this podcast has a weird cult following, people have been weird with me. And I'm like, okay, well, I don't necessarily want it to get worse. And I definitely, like nobody's paying me, so I'm not going like I'm I'm not gonna like fluff your agenda. Like, if I have a certain opinion about a certain thing, you're like, yeah, but the fact that it's being forced, like, well, aren't you gonna say something about it now? I'm like, yeah, because like, I've been ripped out of my sleep by motorcycles over the last year and I'm getting like a weird stomach bug and a twitch because of it. But that doesn't make me like necessarily want to pick one side over the other. It just makes me want to say shut the fuck up like that's it shut the fuck up and then leave me alone because it's like okay well it could go to court or whatever and then a law gets passed and we vote or this or that, but then it's like once that happens, like what like who is going to step between me and these weird evil people? Nobody. They're still going to have their like freedom of speech and their right to fucking stalk me in public and cough and do all this weird shit and whatever. So like why the fuck would I do that? I just want to disappear from it. I just want them to disappear one or the other, one of the other one of the other. I don't care. what something has to work. This is why I have coffee, coffee actually calms me down at this point. I'm getting so upset, though. I really am I am getting upset. I can't do anything. I get followed to the gym, so I stop fucking training like I got a pelotone because I was getting followed to the gym, which has been like honestly the light of my life. I love my peloton so much. Like I I've had cars and I I've had cars and I don't think I've developed as much attachment to an inanimate object. It is inanimate. until I move it. Like I get on it with my body. I drive it. It doesn't go anywhere. It's good, though. I love my pelotu and Jesus, I love it. Is that enough? Yeah, I mean, like I found videos of myself driving my G6. I was a good car. Am I done? No, I still have 30 minutes. I really want coffee. I might pause for coffee. It's lukewarm, though. it's just that time of day. Are my pancakes here? I prom. I promise another episode. I'm getting so upset with this neighborhood, I want to cry. Oh, I don't wanna cry. I actually I really my mom used to tell me when I was a kid, she used to be like, I don't cry on my tears, and I'm like, bro, how could you crowl your tears, you fucking I'm like, are you a monster? And suddenly I'm reaching the age at which she had me and I'm like, oh, I get it. All the tears at a certain point just come out. Like they're like, I don't have time to cry over this shit. I'm mad. I like, I don't have time to cry. Suck it the fuck up. Like, I'm just like, okay, obviously I have to make some fucking difficult choices here, which means that like, I I don't know, is I New York is one of those places where you want to have friends. like friends to protect you from weird evil haste stalkers. I don't think they're here yet. I'm pancakes here, refresh. Nope, they're still just on the way. That'll shut me up. cause the funny thing about shutting the fuck up is when you're not being like a loud piece of shit, like, things happen, eventually, if you're like if you're not talking, you're listening, and if you listen long enough without speaking, eventually something will speak to you that nobody else can hear. That's that's the key, but it is kind of it's just like fasting. I was thinking about this earlier, like long bouts of silence in ways are like fasting, and where like you will be tempted, like devil show up and be like say something. I'm like,ah,oops. I almost said the N word, "Yo, I'm just saying this whole corner. It puts it in me. I'm like, hey. hey. I had out of sight, out of mine, but and it is out of sight, but it's not out of mine, cause it's so fucking loud all the time. I like, mm, I don't know how to fix this. apparently, like, apparently this is all myult. I don't know why I would do something like this. Like, I don't. I don't know why I would do something like this.C when I'm meditate, that's what that's what they say. They're like this is your fault. Fix it. I'm like Yo, but fit like like how, though. Like we all have to be on the same page in order for things to improve. How the fuck is that gonna happen? We are not all on the same page. We're in different pages and different books and different libraries. Oh, what the fuck is going on in that commercial? Jesus, I don't know. Jesus, I really don't know. I don't know. talk about my show. I wrote a show. I did. Where is that fucking rock at, is it in my pocket? I don't know.. that one creeps up. Anyway. I don't know which show. I wrote a lot of shows and I'm finding them as I'm digging through my documents, I decided to do the oldest ones first. So all the things that I originally wrote and it was crazy is I'm finding like my original stand-up comedy too. I didn't know I started writing comedy, that long ago. I'm not performing it. I'm sure if I read it enough times, I can recite it, but I'm not I'm not st I'm not doing it right now. I'm not doing hair and make it. I'm cool with the humiliation part. I'm over it. We bring it on. Bring on the bombs. Oh, oh, well, I think that joke about the Federal watch list will stay untrue, though. Like, if I seriously keep talking about all this shit, like somebody's good list to my show. and talk about bombs and shit. I'm not like, oh, man, it's so crazy. All this stuff and I'm still not like I'm just not as angry as like, it seems one would have to potential to be under all this, like, undue stress, you know? Like, if anything, it just goes the other way, I'm just like, the fuck it. Like, not fuck it, like I haven't given up, cause like giving up is I am kind of competitive in spirit. I won't just give up. like I might like take the like I might like pick my battles or take a back burner or like, I might let the motorcycles rip and run and I'm not recording, but like for the most part, that's just because I'm working in the back of my mind. like, for something that has a better outcome overall. I don't know I don't know how I can describe. It's like the weirdest I't I've never I think it's just like me. I think it's just like a coming of age because it's like I've never had this like straight up, calm anger. It's the weirdest thing. It's the weird it's like I can be like madder than I've ever been before, but like my whole body is just like calm, like graceful and just silent. And it's the weirdest thing cause it's not I' like my blood's not boiling. I'm just like, I'm angry, but it's like a deep anger that sits with God and God's like, I got it. I'm like, okay. Like, that's it. It's an overall calm. I'm like, you know. I was like whatever. I don't have time to cry about this. I don't have time. I have time to do this today. Why? Because Saturdays usually my my rest day in a work day. I'm doing lots of juice stuff, but Passover is coming over, so I gotta eat through the rest of these lentils.oof. Actually, Passover is kind of like, no, no, it's like in a month, three weeks, two weeks. So that so that I don't have anything else to say, there's so much enter the multiverse in here. enter the multiviverse legends. It's like the original shit. It's like I'm looking at the first things that were ever entered into the festival project before it was even called the Festival project. I'm looking at the origins of entered the multiverse. I haven't I don't think I've hit like legends yet, like, when it finally when it first turned a legends in the beginning, the beginning of legends, is crazy. I I decided, well, I decided a while ago, I shouldn't name drop more. I got like mad weird about like respecting people's like privacies and opinions. And since it is a fan fiction, like I just kind of like let it be like let the writing speak for itself or whatever, but there's a lot of cool shit in there. I don't I don't write bad parts. Like if I wrote anything into the festival project, like I wrote you a good part, bro. like, if you're a real actor, like if you if you're really like about it, or if you're a real comic, like if you're really about it, like, I don't write bad roles. Like there's no shitty roles, cause it's the multiverse, like like every character has like a multidimensional facet, which means there is not just like one character, there's like several sides to like any given character or several different dimensions that that character can exist in. And because it's entered the multiverse, you don't necessarily know which facet of that character is even that character. Like, are we talking to Dondrey? I don't know. Could just be like, John Ham could be John Hamish. I I said I wasn't gonna name drop. but I did I think I did I stumble on that one. I stumbled on a couple like full full length drafts of like early festival project stuff. I was like, oh. I was like John Ham by short. So he was John Hamish. But then it then had the twist later was that it was John Hamm, and he's short. I don't think that dude is short. I don't know, I don't think that dude is real. He's just on TV. It's just TV man. Yeah, that's what that's pretty much my take. I'm like, oh, you're in a screen. hello, TV, man. That's how I feel. about that? cause well, there's this uh there's this like ancient well, there's this ancient alien chak chill, who's like a mystic shape shape shifter that's been fucking shit up since the first season. And honestly, I think I wrote that before I ended up on her island, she has an island somewhere in the tropics. It's very it was it was a weird turn of events. I was like, oh, and then there was like this it was a lot. I had no idea at the time when I was writing about, had to do with like it coincided with like ancient human cultures. Like certain gods and like certain deities and like the like the Greeks and the Romans and like the Aztecs and the Mayans and like all these ancient civilizations. I was writing like about I was writing about incarnations of like those gods, but like now and then I didn't know until like later. until I did much more fasting and much more meditating and much more oops, how did I get here? I don't know. Fell asleep on the plane. That's it. I just fell asleep on the plane. Um, then, in a lot of ways I am kind of like my mom. And the devil is still the devil. I'm sure that's what that is, and like a lot of these episodes are too silly, so, I mean, like, I don't want to hand them into the judge to be like, well, well, actually, I have to give the judge a couple episodes. I have to, cause it's like, I'll be talking and then like that'll happen and I like more than five episodes, more than ten. Damn. And it's just like, well, I mean, like, at this point, it's a good thing cause it's like, I can't lose. Like, I am correct. Maybe that's why it's taken me so long, though, is that I kind of have this mentality of like, it could just be in my head. And then I listen to these recordings and I'm like, this is not in my head. No, something is definitely wrong here. Are my pancakes here yet? Nope, still on the way. I was connected to the Internet this whole time and turned that off for a second. I'm on a private server, but barely. in building Wi Fi, just don't just don't trust it, but then I was using a VPN and I was still getting hacked, like somebody was still hacking that server, so I had to switch the IP that I was using and I had to do it so often that it was actually eating up more time for me to do it that way than just to stay on my regular IP, which still requires me to get off and then on line. It's crazy. I'll like it. It's like, bro, like how much of an antagonist do you really have like, what am I to you that, like, you just have to be like, nope, we're gonna hack your shit. I'm like, for what, though? Like, if you just like, let me do whatever I do, like it's for the greater good of like any fucking human being that is a good human being. Like, like I'm not out here trying to fucking like hurt people or take anything away from anybody, which is the weirdest thing about it. Like, I don't understand how you can belong to like a hate group or like a hate organization, like, what are you hating? like evolution? Like,uh. Like, I don't I don't understand it. Like, okay, new age spirituality is one thing, but it's like, wokeness is bad. I'm like, what the fuck you mean wokeness is bad, bro. Like, wokeness just means you're not programmed, but then I guess there are a lot of robots. So I guess well, yeah, it is kind of something like the matrix a little bit. I don't know, I don't think I've seen it all the way through. What what do I got from the matrix? Um, lady and red dress. that's pretty much it. Lady in red dress and um nothing is real. Nothing's real anyway. I like it work nothing and everything infinitely, pretty much. is why I just don't give a fuck. I do. I give several well, I don't give them anymore. Geez, what a charitable person. I would be to give fucks. Like I care. Like, if I see somebody like outwardly, like not doing okay, I'm like, oh, like I I I typically don't stop anymore because I'm like, mm. I don't know about this, but I at least make sure somebody else is gonna like, I might slow in my path. If something is going, like weirdly, like, I won't I won't play the hero, cause it's just like a a mindset thing, you know? I'm like, oh, like I I'll at least make sure somebody else is gonna stop by and make sure things are cool. and I'm like, cool, that's good. That's good. like, as long as somebody's there, I'm just leave you lying in the street dead. Well, if you're dead, I probably will. I'll be like, well, somebody is eventually gonna pick that up right you? Yeah. Eventually. Maybe I don't know, man. I just I thought about this because I had to. Like my vessel is pure. I'm like, fuck yeah, bro. This like it's like one of those signs. It's like blank about of days without an incident. Like all the days, this is like factory reset, like, you know, refurbished. It's not brand fucking new, but it is refurbished. And I'm cool with that. I'm like, yeah, buddy, tell me what the fuck to do. Tell me the fuck to do or how to be or what's weird and what's not. I don't care. I'm like, yeah, fuck yeah. I don't know, man. No. No. I refused. I'm like, it's cool. I might I don't know, I might like, take a I I might volunteer. I've been wanting to volunteer like aICU for a while, you know. A holding babies. holding babies is cool. It just has to be in an environment that's okay, we can talk about this video. Yeah, cause I have time. I have time. I got a fucking time so I'm make up this fucking well, I don't like to talk about the things that I've seen. It's true. like, it made me well, I mean, like they got me. I've been using a VPN and I'm on a private server and somehow they still knew that I would want to see Amy Poeer's podcasts. I did I was like oh shit. Amy Poler has a podcast and I don't think she's the poor man's Tina Fe. I think she's at least like, you know how did it go? It was like at least like the business class. No, it doesn't work. I'm like, yeah. it doesn't, though. I actually think they're more like that two headed thing that I was talking about the last episode. They're more of like an equal to. I can't have one without the other, to be honest, but here's the thing is even though I've been using a VPM. Well, I mean, like I'm a huge fan of Tina Fe, who's a god. I think I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. I never heard her actual normal speaking voice. It took me that long to figure out I'd never seen an interview at Tina face, so am I really a fan? Well, I read the book three times. I feel like that's enough of a fan. Like, actually, I read it twice and then I went back for a reference, like a third time because something happened and I was like, oh shit. Did I not read about this in Tina F Fe's book? And so I picked it up again. It was like, you did. I do indeed keep it on the fucking same shelf with Keith Rich's book. I think I might have stated that sometime last season. I don't know why things in the actual, like things in the TV world, are seeming to correlate with my world, but then I know, like I'm a logical enough person to be like, well, that's grandiosity. As grandiosity did it think that in any way those two things might connect at all, like in reality, because like my world is over here. and that world is in TV. I don't know, I keep lighting candles. Anyway, but did I fucking see it? Oh, Amy Polar's podcast, which is like sponsored by what Toyota? That was crazy. I was like, holy fuck, bro. I was like, damn, this is this is high end. and of course, of course, the first fucking guest on her show is Tina F Fe, so I was like, oh, okay, like, yeah, even though I've been like under the radar, the algorithm is like, okay, you want to see this right? Because you're like a super fan. I was like, you shouldn't know that. I'm in incognito with the VPN on on a private server, but they were like, you'll you'll want to see this. I did want to see it and I had never heard Tina Fay speak with her normal speaking voice. I actually I didn't know she was that hot. I don't like it. I I want her to go back to regular Tina Fe where she's I mean like, okay, first it was like the the SNL reunion, right? She wore this like she wore a black velvet dress that I could die. That's that's what it was, wasn't it? It was a black velvet dress, and I was like, yo, I'm not a lesbian, by the way. like, especially not for Tit Fe. No, not especially, not like not like particularly not for Tina F Fe, but just like in general, not a lesbian, but this it's getting worse, okay? Well, I'm like, oh, I didn't know she was that hot. It pisses me off. I don't know why, but I was like, oh, I didn't know she was like sexy. That's weird. and that's weird as fuck. you know? Anyway, I might be less of a fan now. You can't be less of a fan after you read somebody's book three times. You can't. So, I don't know. I think it's just the fame game. She got like wait well, everybody got way more famous after the 50th anniversary of SNL. Like everybody's been making their rounds in the promotion circuit, so like everybody's super shiny. Everybody is super shiny. I'm like oh, dude, if I start nameropping people who I wrote parts for, I did. write parts for pretty much everybody that was on Amy Folder's podcast, except for that one lady, I knew nothing about. I I I don't want to start nameropping. I have too many I don't have questions. You know what? In fact, this is just putting on my fucking putting all my anxieties at rest, because I'm like, you know, I have shit to do. Like, I have shit to do. That is in I mean, like it's in the same realm, but again, it would be grandiose to think that the synchronicities have any actually correlation to like things that well, I have been writing this plot for like five, six years. It's been a while. And Liz Lemon and well, yeah, it was the it was the Amy Poler Tina F Fe combination, because now I have to put Amy's name first, because it's it's kind of like, I don't know, it breaks my heart. I didn't think I didn't know people put her on like a different level than Tina Fe, because I've always seen those two as like, you can't you can't have bread without butter. That's weird. Like you can if you're vegan, but you at least need a butter substitute or like olive oil, like, you don't have one without the other. It just doesn't make sense. It doesn't. If you see one, then you think about the other, and they they're on screen dynamic is now'm gushing, I'm fan growing a lot, because I'm like, oh, well, also like, I don't know, I took a step back from Ryder's world because I'm thinking about like, okay, who are the other Tina Fe fans? And I did go to a taping of the Drewberry Marsh show and I found myself to be not common among the demographic that watches that show. I'm not I'm not common in any of the demographics. I watch a lot of late night television, too. And that is a scary demographic. I won't lie. late night TV. m mm, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. test in the waters. I'm feeling like it's a bit chilly. Either way, I watch a lot of like old people, old upper class, business business class, business class people, TV. But Tina Fay, that bitch white collar, excuse me, I didn't mean to call her bitch, but at the same time, I'm like like that's okay. I don't know. I never saw her offscreen enough to actually put that together. I I that scared me. Now I understand why I guess she intimidates people. I could understand that. She seems kind of intimidating. Like it's a running joke in that circle that it's like, oh, she's kind of a scary person. And I was like, what's so scary about Tina Fe? I read a book like two and a half times, like, what can be so scary about those person? And then I saw her on Amy Poeer's podcast and I was like, oh, like, yeah, she's kind of fucking scary. Like, just a lot, just a lot. I don't know. I get it now. I'm like, oh, I'd better leave that alone, because I'm thinking about like the realm where Tina Fe is god, which is an actual place, like on earth in the TV and out of it, like all of the writers that like grew up with her as headwrider on usNL and then later as the was she the executive producer ofirty Rock? Eventually I think so. Either way, as Lizimman and the producer, that's crazy doesn't like that that's like mad, that's like all the way, that's doing the whole thing. That's the whole thing. That's all you can that's it. That's nuts. So I'm thinking about all the writers like all the female writers that grew up with her as god, and I'm thinking about myself in this pool, and I'm thinking about how is I'm like, oh, I'm I I don't have that much competitiveness left inside of me. I really don't think like the more I find out about actual like, well, actually that's why I didn't go into it when I was a kid. I've been writing screenplays since I was seven, but when it came down to it, I didn't like the I didn't like the culture of it. There was a lot of nepotism and there was a lot of favoritism and there was a lot of racism. and sexism, but like all those first things I said and then the last thing was just kind of like the nail on the hammer. Is that what no, yeah, nail on hammer, hammer on nail? it just did it for me, so I went into theater instead, which was the same and then I left. I was like, I don't wanna be here. It hurts, it does. But now I'm like, oh, well, I guess things have changed, but now things have changed too much. Now the diversity is like really diverse.. Now everybody's everything and everybody's represented, and I'm like, oh, dude, like, I'm going offend some people. Like, I have to be able to draw dicks on things, or at least appreciate dicks drawn on things. Or just not say anything about it, but you know, like, I don't I don't know. The new culture is like a lot about making big deals about things to me that are not big deals, or like the the culture and the world for theater that I came from, those were not things. Anyway, uh I saw this. What what what was I talking oh, cause cause enter the multiverse has something to do with it, but not really, but yes, really, but also, I don't know, I just got nervous cause I hate fan grilling. What was the point? Oh, she wore this fucking black dress. at the SNL thing and thing. and then I was like, oh shit, like, if anything, I just gotta keep eating salads cause I want to wear that dress exactly, and I'm like, I don't know how I'm gonna shave off like three inches of height. But eventually I will be like ballerina petite like te Fe and then, you know, I'm I'm gonna buy that black dress at auction. I don't know. I'm still I still want Johnny Carson's curtains, so yeah, eventually, I'm gonna be that much of a fucking fan girl. I want these curtains, and this dress, what else would I buy? Add at an auction, if a fan growing auction? Oh, yeah. I'm still not ready to talk about it. I can't, I really. I can't do it. I can't do it. This guy shows up in my dreams. He's just around. I can't I don't know, that's a lot of purchasing power. It is a lot. Yeah, we will we'll skip that. What else? ah, she wore that black dress and I was like, damn. She's kind of hot, but then when she went on Amy Poker's podcast and they talked about, I don't know, I kept drifting off. I I did. I don't know what the fuck they said, but I was like damn, is that her speaking voice? And like just for just so you don't have to watch it, like just for reference, it's like Beyoncé speaking voice is like like an octave lower than what you've seen. It's weird. I also love Beyoncé, h? Just a fan girl. that's what I am, so I want that black dress, but then I think we were all kind of on the same wave because Bob the drag queen wore a velvet black dress to the queries. Is that a thing? It's like the queerves I think it's called. I didn't know this was a thing, and now I'm upset cause it's like why was't I invited? at the same time I'm not queer I like I don't I don't know what I am. I don't care. I just don't touch me. Especially if you probably am as fucking gross, haatitis sea, herpes, statistically, if you're in a roomful of people, somebody has one of those things. Somebody has one of those things. mm. No, no, no, no. No. No, my God. Oh, that's what I was saying in the last episode. I was thinking about EDC. I was thinking about EDC in this weird voice, yeah, I'm changing the subject. Black velvet dresses, all the rage. I have one. It is not to go out in public in. She's bouncing around my house, like I owe somebody something. That's what that dress is for. It's not for presenting talk shows or fucking award shows. It's not it's not for it's not a presentable it's it's not even appropriate for me to just wear in my house alone, honestly. It's really not. Nothing. Never mind. What was I about to say Bob the drag Queen? I haven't even watched the video. I just saw the dress and I'm like, you know what? Like that is, yeah. Do I talk about it? Do I? Well, I'm supposed to be promoting this tears of a clown. It's not done yet. So, and technically, I can't until it's out. I actually cannot. I can't talk about tears of clown because it's got some it's got some stuff in it. I can't I can't say anything about itt it's out. That, you know what it might just hit the platform. I don't know, I don't know if that's gonna be out. We'll see. We'll see, because I'm taking my time on it, and this is one of those industries where it's like, bro, you don't have time. Like, you really it should have been out yesterday. I'm like, it's yeah, yeah. But I I have enough music forever. Like, there's no like I I've been thinking about deleting everything. At the same time, I keep using samples that are recorded like five years ago and being like C, like there is no well, that's an exaggeration. No, I I literally took a sample of some sirens, like close to five years ago. I just I used that every now and again if I want some texture in my shit, cause no matter where I go, something's going down. It's always got it's like always something. And then it seems like if I don't write it down, I'm at a loss. Like crazy shit goes down and it can be crazy, but if I just let it go, then I lost something. like, I don't I can't call myself an entertainer. I'm mostly just like a fan girl type deal. What was the next thing? I can't oh, EDC. I lost my train of thought because I got I was thinking about that little old man who almost could not even move. Why are you out, bro? Who, like, where did you feel why? I think I don't know, it' probably a point of pride, that little old man was like, I can do it on my own. If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die in the street, over my walker. I'm like,Yo, do, that's today. he was so old anyway, I got fixated on that story from the last episode. I didn't finish the other story about how this voice in my head was like, you're gonna be at neon Garden at ADC. and I like it like deflated me. I was like, what? Because I want to be in the baseball pod. That's where I want to be. and I was like, what neon garden that's shitty. not shitty because like if you're playing like I could play an art car. I could play the hot dog stand and I would be happy, just let me play you. And fucking this um this voice in my head was like you're gonna be in the neon guard, and I was like, what? I don't even know who plays there because like, yo, okay, baseball. Like you I could pretty much name an artist for like every major stage at EDC, but I was like, neon Garden. what what the fuck is in the neon garden? What the fuck is in the neon garden? And and then I was like doing research for rarity, which is an EDC based concept album that has a track for every stage, every major stage, because there's like hundreds of little tiny little art cars and like tents and pop ups. It's cool. It's a cool place. I wish I could go back there. As an artist, cause to go after having learned DJing and producing is just like I would only wanna go with my best friend. And she did not respond in time and then EDC sold out. So, I was like, okay, well, whatever was I just saying, oh, neon Gardner I was like, neon Gard, you know that dumb. I don't want to be in the neon garden and then like I was doing research for like rarity and I was like, what let's see about this neon garden and like the description fit my music almost entirely. And I was like, oh, because it was like this is what you'll find in the neon garden. And I pretty much could have copied and pasted that entire paragraph into my artist bio and it would have been relevant to my music. I was like oh yeah have a neon garden, but I really want to play baseball. That's really where I want to play and where else if I if I what's that what's the Oh, it's it's slipping right now. It's not circuit grouse. It's circuit grounds is kind of cool. It took me two EDCs to find where the front is. It is confusing, and there is no front of that. Well, I mean, like it's technically there are a couple stages that like insomniac festivals where it's like the front is actually like the middle. So you think you're going to the front of the fucking stage, or you think you're going like, near the DJ, but since it's surrounds sound, you really just going like adjacent to the DJ and then, like towards another like corner, like, how do I hit the back three times and never the front? That was my experience with circuit girls. I was like, where is the front? nowhere. It is, but it's just in a weird spot. And it also depends how many people are around, like it'll definitely disorient you. If you why am I like doing it advertisement? Because I love EDC. Like I said, if I love the product, you don't really have to pay me anything to fucking promote your shit. like in like peloton, like Peloton is gonna have to send me a cease andhesist, like stop talking about us in order to make me stop. Like they're gonna have to pay me to stop telling people like get a pelotone. get one. I'm like, do that. It is the best. like, I always feel better, like, five minutes on the peloton, I feel better. 20 minutes on the peloton, I feel better, but an hour, I'm flying. I'm like bro, I just I just went like 10 miles in my apartment. like, I'm on one. Like my treadmill stutters, but my pelotone is mway, what the fuck was I saying? Oh, EDC? Also, well, as long as they don't sell out the VIP anymore, but I doubt that, if the whole thing is sold out, like, like you can upgrade two VIP when you g

Man orker faktisk ikke længere at ringe efter hjælp, når man støder på en hjemløs på gaden, der måske - måske ikke er død. I New York går man videre, fordi det sker hele tiden. Der er huller i vejene, undergrundsbanen er nedslidt. Sundhedsvæsnet, skolerne og institutionerne koster alle kassen, men virker ikke. Alt føles dyrere og dårligere. Så selv i den gamle demokratiske højborg New York er man så frustreret over tingenes tilstand, at flere nu også her er villige til at afprøve om MAGA-eksperimentet måske er det, der kan få ryddet op i skidtet. DRs reporter i New York, Malthe Sommerand, tager os med ind i storbyens hverdagstrængsler og beskriver, hvorfor prisen på æg optager amerikanerne langt mere end Trumps toldkrig og tilnærmelser til Putin. Vært: Anna Ingrisch. Program publiceret i DR Lyd d. 13. marts 2025.

Demokratene krangler nå internt om hvorvidt de skal gå med på republikanernes budsjettforslag eller ikke. Stemmer de nei går det mot en ny nedstengning av statsapparatet.  I New York har det vært demonstrasjoner etter at en av lederne for studentprotestene for Gaza, Mahmoud Khalil, ble arrestert og truet med utvisning fra landet.  Og vi ser litt nærmere på den økonomiske uroen i USA akkurat nå. 

Gaza-konflikten har demonstrert et fenomen i vår tid som stadig flere blir oppmerksomme på: At ondskapen utgir seg for godhet.Den hellige vreden på de forurettedes vegne var selve drivkraften i 60-årenes radikalisme. Siden har gryta stått på ovnene og putret. Noen ganger skrus varmen opp, som da Hamas gikk løs på Israel 7. oktober. Men det var ikke Hamas vreden rettet seg mot, det var Israel og det var før Israel gikk til krig. Dette har vi beretninger om fra såkalte DEI-arbeidsplasser. Hamas-kritikere fikk merke det onde øyet på seg.Da Israel gikk til krig åpenbarte jødefiendtligheten seg. Det var ikke noe som vokste frem som reaksjon, det lå der allerede og ventet på å folde seg ut. Jøder merket det med en gang, men folk som Espen Barth Eide vil insistere på at de bare er Gutmenschen/gode mennesker.I New York deltar jødiske aktivister i kampanjen for Mahmoud Khalil som sitter i et fengsel i Louisiana og venter på å bli deportert. En dommer på Manhattan, Jessie Furman, har gitt iverksettelsen oppsettende virkning, men loven gir utenriksminister Marco Rubio siste ord. Hvis han er en trussel mot rikets sikkerhet er det opp til ham og Kahlil er Hamas, derfor vil han bli utvist.Torsdag kveld brøt et hundretall aktivister seg inn i Trump Tower, et alvorlig brudd på sikkerheten.At jøder deltar i solidaritetsaksjoner for en Hamas-tilhenger er en form for Stockholmsyndrom.Hele Vest-Europa lider av dette Stockholmsyndromet og det betyr undergang.I 2001 sa vi at kampen mot terror var kampen om muslimenes hjerter og sinn.Nå er det våre sinn og hjerter kampen står om. Verden er snudd på hodet i løpet av bare 24 år.

I New York träffar vi dem som på olika sätt försöker hålla arvet från aidsepidemin levande. Vi kan lära mycket både om oss som människor och vårt samhälle genom att minnas hur det var under de tidiga aidsåren, säger de. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Dave Harper är chef för ”Aids Memorial” i New York. Det är en organisation och samtidigt en park och ett monument med en kulturscen för att hålla minnet av aidsepidemin levande. Idag finns det många unga vuxna som tycker att de tidiga åren känns väldigt avlägsna, att det är som något ur historieböckerna, säger han.Han vill att de yngre tar till sig historierna från de tidiga åren - om dem som genomlevde allt och såg sina vänner dö, men som också tog saken i egna händer och fick mycket att hända och tror att unga också kan inspireras av den kämpaglöd och omtanke om varandra som fanns då.Gerald Oppenheimer är professor vid Columbia University och både historiker och epidemiolog. Han blev tidigt intresserad av aidsepidemin, för att den innehöll så intressanta aspekter. Rent epidemioligiskt var det en gåta i början hur den smittade.. Att den drabbade stigmatiserade grupper gjorde den politiskt intressant och att USA var så oförberett på en dödlig pandemi var historiskt intressant.Lena Nordlundlena.nordlund@sverigesradio.se

Råttor är ett problem världen över. Hittills i år har nära en halv miljon fångats i Sverige. I New York pågår ett, som borgmästaren själv kallar det, "War on Rats," och längs frontlinjerna i Rysslands krig mot Ukraina har soldater blivit sjuka på grund av råttinvasioner. För råttor är just ett skadedjur som kan sprida sjukdomar och parasiter – bland annat salmonella och hantavirus. Samtidigt är de små gnagarna viktiga i ekosystemet, och har dessutom använts som försöksdjur under en lång tid, vilket har lett till viktiga medicinska framsteg. Från 2021 till 2022 såg man en ökning av råttor i Sverige, frågan är hur det ser ut idag? Har vi en så kallad råttinvasion? Gäst: Håkan Kjellberg, global skadedjursexpert på Anticimex. Producent och programledare: Olivia Bengtsson. Klipp i avsnittet: CBS New York, TV4 Nyheterna, PBS NewsHour, Animal Planet. Kontakt: podcast@aftonbladet.se

WBCQ airdate - 6/8/24 Welcome to Fluxedo Junction! Each episode we bring you the best music of all genres from throughout the world, and this week we'll be speaking with poet, author, singer, and lawyer John S. Hall. While John is perhaps best known for his work with the band King Missile, which he co-founded In 1986, he began his career In The lower east side poetry scene of the early 1980s, and he continues to write and perform. On Thursday, June 20, He'll be performing a couple of poems at the Jim Kempner Fine Art gallery I New York, with Susan Hwang on ukelele and Lynn Bechtold on violin. And on July 6, He'll be doing a performance at Two Bridges Luncheonette. His most recent book is called The Monk and Other Poems, and is available through Amazon, as is most of his music - and speaking of his music, let's get things started with King Missile, here on Fluxedo Junction.

När Binyumen och hans syskon var små fick de böta en penny varje gång de sa något på engelska i hemmet. I New York. Kanske är det pappa Mordkhes stränghet som gjort deras jiddisch flytande än idag. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Binyumen har talat jiddisch hemma med sina barn, liksom hans föräldrar gjorde med honom och deras föräldrar i sin tur med dem.Det är inte enkelt att uppfostra barn på ett språk som nästan ingen annan utanför hemmet talar. Men det fanns ett par andra familjer i kvarteret som gjorde detsamma. Och det har varit värt det! Varför? Av respekt för de äldre generationer, och av ett par anledningar till vilka framkommer i programmet.Producent: Thomas Lunderquist

Studentprotesterna har blivit av en mardröm för Joe Biden. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. De pro-palestinska protesterna på amerikanska högskolor och universitet fortsätter. I New York har polisen stormat och gripit studenter som ockuperat en av byggnaderna på universitet Columbia. I Los Angeles har pro-palestinska och pro-israeliska demonstranter drabbat samman på UCLA.Republikanernas riktar hård kritik mot såväl Bidenadministrationen som högskolornas rektorer efter rapporter om antisemitiska inslag i protesterna. Joe Biden fördömer hat - men frågan är hur han ska lyckas få kontroll över situationen.Vi pratar också om det infekterade abortbråket i Arizona som kan få nationella följdverkningar i höstens val och om Republikanen Kristi Noem som är i blåsväder efter hon berättat att hon sköt ihjäl både sin hund och sin get i ett grustag.Medverkande: Ginna Lindberg och Roger Wilson, Sveriges Radios USA-korrespondenter.Programledare: Sara StenholmProducent: Viktor MattssonTekniker: Heinz Wennin

Et forældrepar i Michigan er idømt længere fængselsstraffe i en sag, hvor deres søn skød flere medstuderende på en skole. I New York begynder en anden sag på mandag, når Stormy Daniels-sagen begynder. Samtidig fortsætter det interne republikanske slagsmål i Huset. Og så forsøger Trump at finde en ny linje i striden om abort.Chefredaktør Anders Agner og juridisk analytiker Ruben Sindahl ser nærmere på sagerne i denne uges udsendelse.

I New York og London bærer demonstranter bannere med teksten “Zionism is terrorism”. I Istanbul har man ønsket zionismen af vejen på store bannere til demonstrationer. Og herhjemme mener bevægelsen "Stop annekteringen af Palæstina”, at zionisme bygger på racisme, undertrykkelse og etnisk udrensning af det palæstinensiske folk. Men hvad betyder zionisme? Gæst: Jørgen Bæk Simonsen, lektor emeritus på Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier ved Københavns Universitet med speciale i arabisk og islamisk historie Vært:Niels Frederik RickersTilrettelægger:Majlinda Urban Kuci Producer:Jeppe Aamand ØvigRedaktør:Simon Reenberg

(02:18) I weekenden gik skuespiller Matthew Perry, som mange kender som 'Chandler Bing' fra 'Friends' bort, blot 54 år gammel. Vi hylder ham og hans komiske talent. Medvirkende: Komiker, Dan Andersen samt Mark Worsten, deltager i dette års "Gift ved første blik". (15:37) En slags moderne vandrehistorie, novellen "Cat Person" fra 2017, er blevet filmatiseret og har premiere 2. november - men hvilken betydning har vandrehistorier i moderne datingkultur? Medvirkende: Patricia Jiménez, sexolog og terapeut og tidligere forsker i vandrehistorier, Henrik Lassen. (28:59) Bogen 'Arbejdets Land', skrevet af Udlændinge og Integrationsminister, Kaare Dybvad Bek, udkommer på fredag 3. november. Har Socialdemokraterne ikke ret i, vores velfærdsstat simpelthen ikke hænger sammen, hvis vi alle arbejder mindre? Medvirkende: Maj My Humaidan, journalist og forfatter til 'ÆRØ MANIFESTET'. (41:17) I New York fjerner man nu menneskeskeleter på det naturhistoriske museum, fordi der ikke er givet tilladelse fra hverken den afdøde eller pårørende. Mennesket har dog altid været fascineret af og udstillet den døde menneskekrop. Medvirkende: Mads Daugbjerg, lektor i antropologi ved Aarhus Universitet. Vært: Rikke Collin. Tilrettelagt af: Lene Grønborg, Louise Sørensen, Søren Berggreen Toft See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

En av 1900-talets mest kända fotografer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, verkade alltid vara på rätt plats i rätt sekund. Mikael Timm dyker ner i en efterlämnad bildskatt på Centre Pompidou i Paris, 2014. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Sändes först 12/4 2013.Seklets fotograf. Det är nästan ett osannolikt smeknamn, men sedan Henri Cartier-Bresson avled 2004 har ikonstatusen snarast ökat. Det är nästan så att man kan bli misstänksam. Bara här i radion har det gjorts åtskilliga program om denna fotograf efter hans död.Ordet Reporter betyder bära tillbaka. Cartier-Bresson visade USA för fransmännen, Sovjetunionen för amerikanska tidningsläsare, Indien och revolutionen i Kina för världen. Rimligen borde Cartier-Bressons bilder nu vara nästintill bortglömda, men tvärtom ordnas hela tiden nya utställningar, nya böcker ges ut och gamla dåliga kopior säljs dyrt. Vem har förresten en nyhetsbild över soffan? Nej, det som lockar måste vara något annat än gamla fakta. Dags att problematisera århundradets fotograf.Det avgörande ögonblicket, är ett uttryck som tillskrivs Cartier-Bresson om. Fast det var faktiskt inte hans eget uttryck utan en förläggares. Själv talar han om bilder som uppväcker något. Vilket inte hindrat generationer av fotografer att försöka leva upp till Cartier-Bressons perfekta fras och perfekta bilder. Men här talar han om den visuella njutningen, om Tjechov, om bilden är sann eller inte är oviktigt. Han talar som en konstnär, inte som en reporter.Myten om Cartier-Bresson och de andra på bildbyrån Magnum som han var med om att starta 1947 berättar om ett gäng fotograferande Tintin-kusiner på ständiga äventyr. Sedan dess har härskaror med fotografer sökt sig till slagfält, fattigdom, lidande, revolutioner. För dem alla är förebilden HCB. Ingen reste så mycket, stannade borta så länge – ibland i åratal – kom hem så obekymrad. Och med så bra bilder.Antingen har man det eller så har man det inte. Sade Cartier-Bresson om förmågan att ta en bra bild. Fast så enkelt är det ju inte. Här talade han om visuell njutning – inte precis vad fotoreportrar brukar hänvisa till. Senare i livet sade han att teckning som han också ägnade sig åt var eftertanke, medan fotografi var ögonblicklig. Han beskar bilderna i kameran, när de togs, inte i mörkrummet. Bilden skulle vara perfekt från början. Sensualism kombinerades med stränghet.Erkännandet av en ordning, en struktur som finns där framför Dig, talade Cartier-Bresson om. Alltså en nästan akademisk hållning som han tillämpade sekundsnabbt. Det finns ett snapshot av Cartier-Bresson när han står på podiet och ska ta en bild av Martin Luther King som ska hålla sitt berömda tal ”I have a dream”. Cartier-Bresson ser skeptiskt ut. Ler inte, granskar Dr King som om han vore ett föremål.När han granskade yngre kollegers bilder på Magnum snurrade han kontaktkopiorna i handen och såg bilden ur vinklar fotografen aldrig varit medveten om. Och han talade om bildens formspråk, inte om dess innehåll. Han började som målare, slutade som tecknare. Däremellan var han fotograf. Livet är nu och för alltid. Var kom den känslan ur?Henri Cartier-Bresson, föddes 1908, in i en välbärgad släkt. Fadern som var symaskinsfabrikant ville förstås att sonen skulle ta över företaget, men Henri revolterade – ganska lustfyllt tycks det - genom att läsa modern poesi och ägna sig åt teckning. Han praktiserade aldrig hos någon porträttfotograf som så många av hans kollegor gjorde utan gick i flera år på André Lhotes berömda kubistiska målarkurser. Och samtidigt studerade han för en mycket mer konventionell målare, Jacques Emile Blanche känd för sitt fantastiska ungdomsporträtt av Proust. Vilken fotojournalist har idag en liknande utbildning?Några av HCB:s mest älskade bilder har en lite knasig humor. Två gubbar som tittar genom ett hål i ett skynke på ett bygge. En man på en spårvagn i Zürich som har ett gravkors med sig. Jo, visst. Det är ju klassisk surrealism, men så vardaglig att den inte förknippats med surrealismen utan setts som fotoreportage. Det overkliga draget finns också i de berömda bilderna från Mexiko med en prostituerad som tittar ur genom en dörr. Det är både social verklighet och en symbolbild.När nu fotohistorikerna gått igenom HCB:s samlade verk så är en av nyupptäckterna hur nära surrealismen han stod. Ja, HCB var som tonåring, alltså redan innan målarkurserna, med på surrealisternas berömda möten. André Breton brukade säga att Cartier-Bresson samarbetade med chansen.Cartier-Bresson berättar hur Robert Capa, den berömde krigsfotografen, rådde honom att ligga lågt med sin anknytning till surrealismen. Han skulle ta sina bilder som han ville men kalla det fotojournalism.1931 lämnar han surrealisternas Paris och reser till Elfenbenskusten, en ung man på jakt efter äventyr. Där händer någonting. Han blir på allvar fotograf och kommer tillbaka till Europa med malaria men också med en yrkesinriktning.Redan 1933, när han är 29 år kommer de första utställningarna. Det naturliga vore att nu satsa på en karriär som konstnärlig fotograf som t ex Man Ray. Men trots att utställningarna blir fler så ger sig HCB, som han kallades, ut på resor. I New York träffar han den berömde fotografen Paul Strand som lär honom filma. Och tillbaka i Frankrike blir han regiassistent till dåtidens viktigaste franske regissör Jean Renoir. Och gör några småroller i filmerna, leker verklighet.Allt går så lätt, så lätt.Han beundrade Renoir men ville inte berätta om honom. Hos bägge finns en blandning av sinnlighet och klarsyn, nästan cynism. Med åren blev han alltmer fascinerad av porträttuppdrag: en del bilder är verkligen geniala trots att de inte bygger på djup kontakt. Skulptören Giacometti som springer i regnet med en tidning över huvudet. Ezra Pound, vilande i sitt privata nirvana. Henry Miller på stranden i Kalifornien en mörk kväll. Och så bilden av Sartre som liksom stiger ur dimman med sträng klarhet. Den bilden tog han fort, men han stod en och en halv timme framför Ezra Pound utan att tala med honom.I alla porträtten finns Cartier-Bressons kärna: enkelhet, koncentration. När han på 50-talet åkte med Jean Paul Sartre till Moskva och denne högstämt hyllade friheten i Sovjetunionen fotograferade Cartier-Bresson en mans sätt att titta på en kvinna på gatan, några fabriksarbetskor som dansar i overaller, en pojke som håller sin far i handen framför en jättestaty av Lenin med lång skugga.Den indiske filmregissören Satyajit Ray sade att Cartier-Bressons främsta egenskap var att han såg det som förenade människor. Där har vi konsten igen. För nyhetsfotografiet visar det särskiljande, konsten visar det vi kan identifiera oss med. Vad skulle han ha sagt om internets syndaflod av bilder.När majrevolten utbröt i Paris gick så klart Cartier-Bresson ut med sin kamera. En filmfotograf riktade sitt objektiv mot Cartier Bresson som ju var mer känd än dem han fotograferade. Cartier-Bresson som då är drygt 60 ser ut som Tatis filmfigur Monsieur Hulot i ljus rock, smal och gänglig. Och Cartier-Bresson dansar fram med sin lilla kamera, alltid med ett enda objektiv: 50mm. Fram och tillbaka, ut på gatan, bakom folk, tittar över en axel, snor runt tar ett par lätta steg åt ett annat håll. En vadarfågel i rörelse, på väg att stjäla en bild ur ögonblicket. André Breton brukade säga att Cartier-Bresson samarbetade med chansen.Bilden 1937 av några picknickfirare vid en flodstrand. Man nästan hör pastisen slås upp i glasen, vågornas skvalp, fågelsången, klirret av bestick. Det är en bild som sammanfattar hela det franska 30-talet. Cartier-Bresson arrangerade den inte, men han var intresserad av dåtidens politik då alltså semestern var den stora reformen.Allt i bilden sammanfaller, den är så perfekt ut i minsta detalj att den inte går att glömma. Det är en liten essä om ett decennium i enda bild av ett vardagligt ögonblick, kondenserad tid. På sätt och vis kommer han aldrig fram till reportaget. Konsten tar över. Han fotograferar själva vardagen för alla sorters människor precis som impressionisterna målade vardagen i fest och arbete. Andlöst ömt fotograferar han en kvinnas ben på en soffa, ett likbål i Indien.En gång sades det att fotot befriade målarna från att vara detaljerade. När kameran registrerade allt kunde målarna strunta i detaljerna, lämna avbildningen och istället gestalta det de såg. Men sedda i efterhand står det klart att Henri Cartier-Bresson gestaltade snarare än återgav. Hans tusentals bilder är en enda lång hyllning till de oändliga variationerna av människligt liv.Ingenting är förutsägbart, flyttar man på sig bara en liten smula blir det en ny bild, ett nytt liv.Det gäller både fotograf och åskådare./Mikaels Timm SR Kultur The subtitle of the Pompidou Centre's retrospective of the 20th century's best-known photographer could be: Almost Everything You Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson is Wrong. Or, at least, Long Overdue a Rethink.. Henri Cartier-Bresson. Pompidou Centre, Paris. Starts 12 February 2014. Until 9 June 2014. Venue websiteIts curator, Clement Cheroux, has risen to the unspoken challenge that any Cartier-Bresson exhibition now presents: how to shed new light on the life and work of an artist who so defined the medium that yet another celebration of his genius might seem superfluous.

Nyheter på medelsvår engelska. Huvtröjor har blivit förbjudna att bära i delar av staden Romford. Anledningen är att politikerna tror det kommer minska brottsligheten. I Storbritannien kan människor snart blockeras från att använda sig av Wikipedia. Vi pratar med Beth och Josh. I New York har artisten Ed Sheeran nyss vunnit en rättegång. Musik av artisten Ed Sheeran.

Tanzania ska förbjuda användning av kol och ved i ett försök att förbättra landets hälsa och miljö. I New York har en person anställts i rollen som "rått-tsar" för att bekämpa den stora spridningen av råttor. En kenyansk schackspelare har blivit påkommen med att fuska genom att framställa sig själv som en tjej. I Kingston, Jamacia, är det dags för den årliga friidrottstävlingen "Champs". Musik av det indiska metalbandet Bloodywood.

Hemmahos-rån är ofta brutala, med vapen och misshandel. De drabbade är människor i förmögna områden som Östermalm, vilka förövarna vet har tillgångar. Medan vanliga personrån är på nedgång, har hemmahosrånen inte minskat. Kan denna typ av brott komma att spridas till vanliga medelklassfamiljer? Vi diskuterar också gängkriget som fn pågår i Stockholm, med bomber, granater och skjutningar. I New York lyckades man få ner brottsligheten på nittiotalet genom att ingripa vid småbrott som tunnelbaneplankningar – är det ett gott exempel som kan tillämpas på dagens Sverige? Det diskuterar Anders Göranzon, polis, Sven Granath, kriminolog, och Johan Hakelius, politisk chefredaktör på Fokus. Dessutom förklarar Johan varför drevet mot PM Nilsson varit så stort och envist. Programledare: Nina Solomin.    

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“I don't have no army, I just know the truth. And I'm here to separate the good Jews from the Satanic Jews! Yes, yes, yes!” Louis Farrakhan har brett stöd i det svarta USA. Redan under mitten av åttiotalet drog hans predikningar tiotusentals åhörare. I New York, Los Angeles och Washington DC svarade publiken på varje attack mot judar med att ställa sig upp med armarna utsträckta – som för att heila – men med knutna nävar istället för öppna. For more info: https://bit.ly/DKVSYE STÖTTA DEKONSTRUKTIV KRITIK på: SWISH 0046768943737 paypal.me/ARONFLAM DKs Patreon: bit.ly/ARONFLAMDK Bitcoin: 3EPQMEMVh6MtG3bTbGc71Yz8NrMAMF4kSH Edited by Marcus Blomgren Intro by: Intractable by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: incompetech.com

Questionable play calling and officiating cost the Jaguars late as they lose their fourth straight game, this time to the New York Giants. We also discuss the end of the James Robinson era here in Jacksonville after he was traded to the New York Jets Monday night for a slice of pizza and an "I ❤️ New York" t-shirt.Touchdown Jaguars LinktreeDownload the SeatGeek app & use code " TOUCHDOWNJAGUARS " for $20 off your first SeatGeek order!James Johnson and Phil Smith bring you the best and most up to date Jacksonville Jaguars news. "Touchdown Jaguars!" is a tribute to the prospective ownership group "Touchdown Jacksonville!" In 1991, the NFL announced plans to add two expansion teams and "Touchdown Jacksonville!" announced its bid for a team, and Jacksonville was ultimately chosen as one of five finalists. In November 1993, the NFL owners voted 26–2 in favor of awarding the 30th franchise to Jacksonville. James and Phil have been fans of the franchise ever since and have had the honor (and sometimes dishonor) of covering the team professionally since 2017. The rest as they say, is history.

Israel er i høyeste terrorberedskap nå som høytidene starter. I New York gjenoppliver statsminister Yair Lapid den mislykkede tostatsløsningen, og mottar applaus fra Det hvite hus. En skolestreik i Øst-Jerusalem setter deres anti-israelske læreplan i fokus. Mens grensene til Russland er fulle av folk som ønsker å komme seg ut, forbereder Israel seg på en bølge av russisk Aliyah. Nyheter i korte trekk og den ukentlige Toradelen avslutter denne episoden.

I New York har det vært et hastemøte med EUs utenriksministre i natt etter Vladimir Putins tale i går. I dag kjem Norges Bank mest truleg til å sette opp renta for tredje gong på rad - men kor mykje, og kva vil det få å seie for folk? Et nytt anslag viser at staten kjem til å tjene 70 milliardar kroner meir enn normalt på straumen i år. Hør episoden i appen NRK Radio

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross joins Geoff Lemon on a balcony in the French Quarter in New Orleans. It is Red Dress Day, a perfect time for tales of typhoid, Glenn Maxwell, and I ❤️ New York. Or is that Jeremy Coney on a road trip to Tennessee? Come with us across the continent, following the endless white lines of the interstate. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.59 - After Dinner Mint 2.58 - Rahul Venkat 1.91 - Jai Singh 1.16 - Jesse G. 1.28 - Ian Wolstenhome 8.10 - Prasanth Kannan 3.93 - Jeremy Bourke 4.86 - Emil Varghese 3.16 - Steve Dodd 1.02 - Jeremy Nash Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find other episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 15% off treatment at AdvancedHairStudio/FinalWord The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Det israelske politiet har vært i rampelyset denne uken etter at deres avlyttingsmetoder i noen tilfeller kan ha vært ulovlige. I New York fortsetter FN å gjøre seg selv irrelevant når de diskuterer den arabisk-israelske konflikten. Netanyahu får kanskje ikke et rettsforlik ettersom partene er fryst i sine forhandlingsposisjoner, men kampen om hvem som skal erstatte ham i Likud har startet for fullt. Og den ukentlige toralesingen kalles Jetro.

Kulturkampen i USA har nådd et nivå der Biden-regimet vil tvinge folk til underkastelse. En oberstløytnant i USA Marines utfordret militærledelsen etter de 13 drepte soldatene i Kabul og sa den burde stå til ansvar og ta sin hatt og gå. Men ledelsen svarte med å sparke ut Stuart Scheller. Han fikk munnkurv, men gikk ut mot munnkurven. Da havnet han i kakebu. Der sitter han i isolat. Foreldrene har snakket med ham to minutter på telefon. Det var om advokathjelp. Foreldrene var gjest hos Laura Ingraham og de fortalte at advokatene har advart om at militære kan trekke ut saken i årevis og ødelegge familien økonomisk. Isolat og uthaling av den juridiske prosessen er noe som har vært brukt mot Trump og hans folk. Mike Flynn var nasjonal sikkerhetsrådgiver, men det forhindret ikke at de knuste ham økonomisk. Nå anvendes de samme metodene mot folk som ikke vil la seg vaksinere. De tvinges til å ta vaksinen. De som nekter, mister jobben. Det har allerede ført til mannskapsmangel på sykehus over hele USA. I New York sier den nye guvernøren, Kathy, at de kan suspendere visumreglene og hente inn sykepleiere fra Filippinere. Project Veritas har en video fra et sykehus i New York hvor en kvinnelig spesialsykepleier forteller fra avdelingen der en kollega dør av komplikasjoner etter å ha blitt tvunget til å vaksinere seg. Videoen er allerede sett av 4.4 millioner på en uke. En lege på jobb sier at vaksinene er noe dritt og at folk ikke får vite hva de inneholder.   -Er du ikke redd for å miste jobben når du står frem på denne måten, spør James O'Kefee. -Jeg setter min lit til Gud, svarer Jodi.   Videoen er klar til å sees via Rumble. Følg oss der! Følg oss på Odysee! Følg oss også på PodBean, iTunes, og alle steder podcasts finnes. Husk å rate oss med 5 stjerner, så flere likesinnede sannhetssøkere finner oss der! Kjøp «Politisk kitsch» av Alexander Grau her!

I New York er FN's 76. generalforsamling i gang, og store dele af verden lytter nok med, når den amerikanske præsident Joe Biden går på talerstolen. Mange lande håber, at USA med dagens tale sætter gang i det internationale samarbejde igen. Og der er nok at tale om med den nylige tilbagetrækning fra Afghanistan og annonceringen af den nye forsvarsalliance, Aukus, som USA's europæiske allierede, Frankrig, kalder en kniv i ryggen. Klimaet er et stort emne til det tyske valg. Det skyldes især de store oversvømmelser, der ramte landet i juli. Broer, huse og mennesker blev revet med. Mere end 180 døde. Nogen partier vil gøre mere end andre for at stoppe klimaforandringerne. Men uanset hvem der bliver ny kansler, bliver det en gigantisk opgave at sikre den grønne omstilling. Vi ser på den kæmpe opgave den nye regering står med, og så har vi besøgt en vinbonde i Ahrdalen, der fik sin vinproduktion voldsomt skadet, da muddervandet væltede alt rundt. Dengang var politikerne hurtige til at love hjælp. Men de mange penge, politikerne lover, vil vinbonden se, før han tror det. Og så når vi forbi klimatopmødet i Glasgow, der nærmer sig, for i går talte den kommende vært for mødet, Boris Johnson, i FN om de dystre klimarapporter. Han siger, at tiden er inde til at tage ansvar. På samme møde lovede statsminister Mette Frederiksen at øremærke flere penge til klimabistand. Men er der tale om penge, som vi allerede har afsat én gang? Det ser vi på i denne time af Orientering i dag. På Bahamas har centralbanken udstedt sin egen digitale valuta. Den hedder Sand Dollar. Men centralbanken på Bahamas-øerne er ikke alene om at arbejde med digitale valutaer. Også i Europa, Asien og USA forbereder centralbanker sig på at kunne lancere deres egen nye digitale valuta, som på sigt kan erstatte trykte sedler og mønter. Herhjemme er nationalbankdirektøren dog noget mere tilbageholdende. Vi ser i dag nærmere på de forandringer, som digitale centralbankpenge kan skabe flere steder på kloden. Mette Vibe Utzon og Mathias Bay Lynggaard er dagens værter, Tine Linde redigerer. www.dr.dk/orientering

I New York er FN's 76. generalforsamling i gang, og store dele af verden lytter nok med, når den amerikanske præsident Joe Biden går på talerstolen. Mange lande håber, at USA med dagens tale sætter gang i det internationale samarbejde igen. Og der er nok at tale om med den nylige tilbagetrækning fra Afghanistan og annonceringen af den nye forsvarsalliance, Aukus, som USA's europæiske allierede, Frankrig, kalder en kniv i ryggen. Klimaet er et stort emne til det tyske valg. Det skyldes især de store oversvømmelser, der ramte landet i juli. Broer, huse og mennesker blev revet med. Mere end 180 døde. Nogen partier vil gøre mere end andre for at stoppe klimaforandringerne. Men uanset hvem der bliver ny kansler, bliver det en gigantisk opgave at sikre den grønne omstilling. Vi ser på den kæmpe opgave den nye regering står med, og så har vi besøgt en vinbonde i Ahrdalen, der fik sin vinproduktion voldsomt skadet, da muddervandet væltede alt rundt. Dengang var politikerne hurtige til at love hjælp. Men de mange penge, politikerne lover, vil vinbonden se, før han tror det. Og så når vi forbi klimatopmødet i Glasgow, der nærmer sig, for i går talte den kommende vært for mødet, Boris Johnson, i FN om de dystre klimarapporter. Han siger, at tiden er inde til at tage ansvar. På samme møde lovede statsminister Mette Frederiksen at øremærke flere penge til klimabistand. Men er der tale om penge, som vi allerede har afsat én gang? Det ser vi på i denne time af Orientering i dag. På Bahamas har centralbanken udstedt sin egen digitale valuta. Den hedder Sand Dollar. Men centralbanken på Bahamas-øerne er ikke alene om at arbejde med digitale valutaer. Også i Europa, Asien og USA forbereder centralbanker sig på at kunne lancere deres egen nye digitale valuta, som på sigt kan erstatte trykte sedler og mønter. Herhjemme er nationalbankdirektøren dog noget mere tilbageholdende. Vi ser i dag nærmere på de forandringer, som digitale centralbankpenge kan skabe flere steder på kloden. Mette Vibe Utzon og Mathias Bay Lynggaard er dagens værter, Tine Linde redigerer. www.dr.dk/orientering

22 år og allerede indehaver af to filmpriser, både en Bodil og en Robert. Vi skyder Kræs' sommerserie om unge talenter i gang denne uge med skuespiller Andrea Heick Gadeberg, der blandt andet spillede over for Mads Mikkelsen og Nikolaj Lie Kaas i filmen "Retfærdighedens ryttere". Vi hører, hvad der har formet hende som skuespiller – og hvordan hun er med til at forme os som samfund. Senere i programmet skal vi snakke om kreativitet. Et nyt studie melder nemlig om krise. I New York skal en omdiskuteret statue nu flyttes, i England anklages BBC for at nøle musikeres lungekræft, og herhjemme mangler Høje Taastrup et navn til verdens længste skaterbane, mens en dansk musiker slår rekord. Vært: Astrid Date

I bring you through the top 20 steps to build a business from scratch in today's podcast. I made my business slowly while having a full-time job I New York. When Covid hit, My gym closed, and I had to make something happen. I went full time on my business DreamFit. After eight months of making a job transition, my business is doing very well. I hope the steps I give you help you with your business now or future business. If you have any questions, email me at BeGreatWithNate@gmail.com. Get Your Fat loss and Nutrition Course at a HUGE discount now! Click here for the course! If you Need help with starting a business or have any questions regarding your LLC, Contact my advisor and CEO Anthony Tony Austin 808-372-6390 Email: WhyNotBiz@live.com Resources:

Om skjutningar, klaner och tuffare tag. Något är fel när tonårsflickor begraver en vän som dött av ett skott. Men hur går man hårt åt de kriminella utan att skapa mer frustration och våld? Jakten på kriminella är en delikat balansgång för polisen och samhället i stort. Vi besöker en nyöppnad polisstation i Rinkeby där de brottas med ungas misstroende mot polisen. I New York har poliserna tvingats ta ett steg tillbaka. Och vad betyder etiketter som klan för möjligheten att bygga tilltro  vi tittar närmare på hur man resonerat i länder som gått före oss som Tyskland och Nederländerna. Medverkande: Cazandra Jonsson Soinonnen, Lilly Lazlo, Valentina Toikkanen Reyez, Jainaba Sanneh, vänner till mördade 12-åringen Adriana. Soren Pape Poulsen, partiledare för Konservative Folkeparti, Kriminalkommissarie Fredrik Gårdare, Therese Rosengren, tf lokalpolischef i Rinkeby, Maria Sundström, tf biträdande lokalpolischef, idrottsledaren Abdisalam Hussein, Aweis Abdulkadir, avhoppare som nu jobbar med ungdomar i Rinkeby, boende i Järvaområdet. Joe Giacalone, tidigare polis i New York som undervisar vid John Jay college. Christian Klos, ansvarig för säkerhetsfrågor vid det tyska inrikesdepartementet, Rita Haverkamp, professor i brottsprevention vid universitetet i Tübingen, Martijn Schippers som jobbar mot gängkriminalitet i Amsterdam, Hammed Khamis, dokumentärfilmare som föreläser om klankultur och ungdomskriminalitet. Programledare: Robin Olin robin.olin@sr.se Producent: Ulrika Bergqvist ulrika.bergqvist@sr.se Reportar: Katja Magnusson, Christy Chamy, Anja Sahlberg. Tekniker: Johanna Carell

Veronica Mike Solheim (30) sa i 2018 opp jobben sin i designbyrået Anti, hvor hun var sjefredaktør og kreativ leder for magasinet A New Type of Imprint. Magasinet pitchet hun selv inn for byrået som 22-åring. I årene som fulgte mottok magasinet en rekke priser. Etter fem år tok hun steget ut og ble frilanser og flyttet til New York. I New York har hun jobbet med merkevarebygging og konseptutvikling for kunder, samt med en rekke egne prosjekter - ett av dem er plattformen Creative Confessions, et opplysningsprosjekt om psykisk helse i den kreative industrien, hvor målet er å skape en mer empatisk og bærekraftig industri, hvor folk har det bra med seg selv og på jobb! Da Covid-19 brøt ut for fullt i New York i Mars, så Mike seg nødt til å flytte hjem til hennes foreldres hus i bygden Kaupanger i Sogn, og inn på pikerommet. Hvordan var det? Hvordan har Mike omstilt seg? Vi snakker om å sette seg mål, om å gutse, om ambisjoner, drive og commitment. Episoden ble spilt inn i mai 2020, midt i pandemiens hete. Intervjuet av Christina Skreiberg

Donald Trump dro til South Dakota forrige uke for å holde en tale foran Mount Rushmore. Der var også Mathias. I talen, som han holdt kvelden før nasjonaldagen, gikk Trump hardt ut mot sine politiske motstandere.  Den neste store debatten om pandemien i USA er hvilke tiltak som må innføres for at skolene kan gjenåpnes til høsten. I New York er det bestemt at ikke alle elevene på grunnskolene skal tilbake på samme tid. Flere universiteter, blant annet ærverdige Harvard University, har allerede tatt en avgjørelse om at alle forelesninger skal foregå på nettet.  Korrespondentene tar nå sommerferie, men er tilbake i august. 

Många länder har ansiktsskyddskrav just nu på grund av coronapandemin. Designern Maria Sjödin syr i direktsändning ett ansiktsskydd av en gammal SR-tröja. Eftersom du kan smitta andra med coronaviruset även om du själv inte har några symptom så har både den amerikanska och europeiska smittskyddsmyndigheten ändrat sin inställning till hemmagjorda ansiktsskydd i tyg. I New York och Berlin måste man nu bära ansiktsskydd i kollektivtrafiken och i butiker. Johan Struwe, utredare på Folkhälsomyndigheten, ger FHM:s syn på ansiktsskydd. Det är skäggtema idag. Har pandemin gjort att de tidigare så coola hipsterskäggen blivit helt ute? Man ser ju inte så många skägg i intensivvården. Vi har också fått brev om den extrema skäggligan inom amish-kulturen. En av dess ledare släppts ur fängelset och nu vill lyssnarna veta varför dom klipper skäggen av sina motståndare. Antropologen Beppe Carlsson förklarar närmare om Amish-kulturen. Programledare: Thomas Nordegren Bisittare: Louise Epstein Producent: Minna Grönfors

I New York-poddens etthundrade avsnitt (!)  väljer Daniel Svanberg och Erik Bergin bland godbitarna från poddåret 2019.

1. Phish : 2002/12/31 I New York, NY - Piper (2:11)2. Widespread Panic (w/ Dottie Peoples & The Peoples Choir) : Bonnaroo 2002 - Tall Boy (20:02)3. The String Cheese Incident (w/ Keller Williams) : 2002/06/21 Bonnaroo - Best Feeling (29:26)4. Bruce Springsteen : 2006/04/30 New Orleans, LA - When The Saints Go Marching In (50:01)5. Led Zeppelin : 2007/12/10 London, GB - No Quarter (59:23)6. The Allman Brothers Band (w/ Eric Clapton & Friends) : 2009/03/19 New York, NY - Anyday (69:39)7. My Morning Jacket : 2004/06/12 Bonnaroo, TN - Dancefloors (79:17)8. Umphrey's McGee : 2004/06/11 Bonnaroo, TN - In The Kitchen (83:52)9. Pearl Jam : 2009/10/31 Philadelphia, PA - Yellow Ledbetter (98:10) 

I New York er det visst fyringsforbud. Har du ikke alltid lurt på hvem som var først ute med peis på TV?

I New York flytter FBI-agenter inn i naboleiligheten til Treholt og later som de er gift. Paret blir så gode venner at de får nøkkel til Treholts leilighet. I lange perioder pågår omfattende overvåkning. Samarbeidet mellom norsk etterretning og amerikanerne er så unikt at de norske agentene får kontorplasser hos FBI.

FN sitt klimatoppmøte fant sted I New York denne uka. Denne sendingen av Mathilde Israelsen tar for seg det som skjedde på dette møtet.

Skulle du have misset det, så siger vi det igen: Denne uge er den store klimauge. I New York, hvor stats- og regeringsledere skal gøre deres for at speede omstillingen op ved FN’s ekstraordinære klimatopmøde. På gader og stræder, hvor børn over hele verdenen fredag stejkede, og næste fredag, hvor det er de voksens tur. Og her i Radio Information, hvor Jørgen Steen Nielsen er gæst. Og så skal vi selvfølgelig tale om dansk litteratur i 2003. Der er vi nået til i vores begivenhedsorienterede litteraturhistorie ’20 før 20’. Tue Andersen Nexø er i studiet for at fortælle om en mikrobegivenhed, der statte gang i noget langt større, nemlig da digter Lars Skinneback begyndte at læse op som en båndptager, der var gået i stykker. Hør, hvordan det lyder. Og så er Rune Lykkeberg vist den eneste anmelder i Danmark, der synes at Rambo – Last Bloodhar en berettigelse i verden. Hør, hvorfor han synes, at den femte og sidste Rambo-film kan noget. Ps. Og når du så har hørt udsendesen, kan du jo læse det store interview med den amerikanske aktivist og forfatter Naomi Klein fra fredagens litteraturtillæg, hvor The Guardians journalist bl.a. spørger, hvad der alligevel giver hende håb midt i hendes klimadesperation:  »Det giver mig kampmod at se en ny generation, som er så determineret og fuld af kræfter. Jeg bliver også inspireret, når jeg ser de unges vilje til at gå ind i partipolitik, for i min generation – da vi var i tyverne og trediverne – var holdningen, at vi ikke ville snavse vores hænder til ved at gå den vej.«

** I New York har politiet bedt om unnskyldning for hvordan de har behandlet homofile opp gjennom tidene. Det får flere til å håpe at norsk politi vil gjøre det samme ** Reporter Anne Cathrine Straume anbefaler barne- og ungdomsbøker

I New York ble Empire State Building lyst opp i rosa, og store kjendiser som motedesigner Diane von Furstenberg var gjester på bursdagsfesten da verdens mest berømte dukke, Barbie, fylte 60 år nylig. Marianne Jemtegård i samtale med Ragna Nordenborg om dukken millioner av barn har vokst opp med.

I New York kom feministen frem i Erica, og hun har også vært i en bisarr "fuck you"-seanse. Anna begynner og gråte, har hatt eksistensielle tanker og blottet seg i begravelsesfest. Jentene snakker om utdanning og karriere - hva er drømmejobben? Er det utseendepress på BI? Anna forteller å miste troen på seg selv i studiesammenheng, og Erica går nærmere inn på da hun var en dårlig versjon av seg selv i friårene sine. Jentene forteller også hvor dere kan finne BI-filmen de selv har regissert og vært donks foran kameraet, som de er VELDIG fornøyd med .... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Extra-podd "live and direct" från hotellrummet I New York. Vi snackar Texans @ Jets och peppar inför Titans @ Giants. Häng med!

Möt två tonsättare som medverkar i serien "How sweet the sound": Renée Baker från Chicago och George Lewis från New York.   Renée Baker är violast, tonsättare, dirigent och bildkonstnär. Hon var konsertmästare i Chicago Sinfonietta under 25 år, men som 50-åring bildade hon 50-personersgruppen Chicago Modern Orchestra Project eftersom hon ville höra sin egen musik spelas under sin livstid. Vi spelar klassiskt, jazz och experimenterande musik. Och vi spelar mina kompositioner! Rasismen lever fortfarande i USA, enligt Renée Baker. Den uppenbara, våldsamma och legala formen av rasism har bytts ut mot en subtilare, som är lättare att ignorera och förneka och därmed nästan lika allvarlig. Det är till exempel inte olagligt att undvika svarta tonsättares eller kvinnliga tonsättares verk. Du kan ställa orkestrar inför rätta, men det är både tidsödande och dyrt, och vilken konstnär vill göra det, undrar Renée Baker. Hennes verk Subtle Hues of Blackbirds - Subtila nyanser hos koltrastar gestaltar det faktum att koltrastar kommer i olika schatteringar. Så har också människor olika färgnyanser i huden. Även inom en ras. Vi är alla mångfärgade! förklarar Renée Baker som tidigt förstod att hon ville spela klassisk musik, men nu skriver på sin första saxofonkvintett. Som klassisk musiker hör du nästan aldrig det instrumentet. Jag håller på att lära mig att älska saxofon! Hennes DIVERTIMENTO NOTTE blu för Chicago Sinfonietta är en sprallig symfoni för symfoniorkester och jazzmusiker. Alla solon måste vara atonala. Vår klassiska publik är begåvad och hungrig och klar för något nytt, tror Renée Baker som bland annat tackar The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Anthony Braxton, Meredith Monk och Pauline Oliveros för inspiration och spännande musik. Deras exempel har gett mig tillåtelse att med integritet och äkthet göra det jag vill, avslutar Renée Baker.   George Lewis är tonsättare, trombonist, författare och professor i Amerikansk musik vid Columbiauniversitetet. Dessutom gästprofessor vid University of California i Berkeley. Han är mentor för flera generationer musiker och kompositionselever. Lewis komponerade stycket Will to adorn, Viljan att smycka sig, efter en essä från 1934 av författaren och antropolgen Zora Neale Hurston. Det handlar om afroamerikanska kvinnor som traditionsenligt placerar prydnader ovanpå varandra, högt på huvudet. Det kan gälla hattar, sjalar eller håruppsättningar. Jag är mindre intresserad av att hitta afroamerikanska tonsättares okända verk. Istället vill jag sätta fokus på de olika former musiken tagit på sin väg i vår globala tid, förklarar George Lewis, som speciellt gillar ljudkompositioner, interaktivitet och musik skapad av datorer. I New York finns numera begåvade och ivriga unga musiker som bildar nätverk och designar egna ensembler. De heter International Contemporary Ensemble - ICE, Wet Ink, Yarn/Wire och Argento. De är öppna för musikalisk mångfald, genreöverskridanden och ansvarsfull improvisation, berättar George Lewis. Det är en stor förändring sedan tidigare då musiker ofta uppträdde som ett stort kollektiv av frilansare som ibland spelade nutida musik tillsammans. Jag behöver en grupp kreativa musiker som uppför min musik och befinner sig i ständig, kritisk dialog med vår komplicerade omvärld, avslutar George Lewis.   Låtlista: SYMFONI NR 1 William Grant Still, John Jeter/ Fort Smith Symphony NAXOS 14590, 8.559174   The Will To Adorn George Lewis, International Contemporary Ensemble   SICILIENNE FOR VIOLONCELL & PIANO OP 78 Gabriel Faure, Steven Isserlis/ Pascal Devoyon RCA 00316, 09026 68049   Subtle Hues of Blackbirds Renee Baker, The Southeast Symphony   Itadakimasu Renee Baker, Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Renee Baker, Dir   Warriors Empty Vessel Renee Baker, Chicago Modern Orchestra Project Renee Baker   1-08 Adagio for String Samuel Barber, Marin Alsop Royal Scottish National Orchestra Naxos 8.559088, NAXOS 8.559088   DIVERTIMENTO NOTTE blu Renee Baker, Chicago Sinfonietta Renee Baker Dir   MANDE (OLDEST LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD) George (2) Lewis/ Miya Masaoka, George (2) Lewis/ Miya Masaoka MUSIC & ARTS 12845, CD 1023   CYCLE George (2) Lewis, George (2) Lewis/ Douglas Ewart BLACK SAINT 04866, 120 016-2   Anthem George Lewis, Wet Ink   Merce_and_Baby George Lewis, George Lewis   The Will To Adorn George Lewis, International Contemporary Ensemble   The Will To Adorn George Lewis, International Contemporary Ensemble   SYMFONI NR 1 William Grant Still, John Jeter/ Fort Smith Symphony NAXOS 14590, 8.559174

Tonsättarna Xinyan Li och Zhou Long föddes båda i Kina. Förutom västerländsk konstmusik studerade de kinesisk folkmusik, poesi, kalligrafi och filosofi. De har nu musikalisk bas både i USA och i Kina. Xinyan Li har prisats som formidabel tonsättare med en sällsynt och speciell talang. Hennes musik har redan spelats i Kina, USA, Frankrike, Norge och Tyskland. Hon föddes i en liten stad i nordöstra Kina. Varje söndag i åtta år åkte Xinyan Li och hennes föräldrar tur och retur 7 timmar till en större stad där hon fick pianoundervisning. Under årens lopp åkte de tåg en sträcka lika lång som 3,5 gånger runt ekvatorn. Xinyan Li tog sin examen vid China Conservatory of Music i Beijing. I New York arbetar hon nu på sin doktorsavhandling i komposition. Xinyan Li skriver musik om kinesiska folkminoriteter, bl a folket Mosuo. Hennes stråkkvartett Dynamik Calligraphy är inspirerad av gesterna i kinesiska tecken och tonhöjder och glissandon i det kinesiska språket. Inför Havslegender för fagott blev Xinyan Li inspirerad av tonfärgerna i Pekingoperan Li Kui besöker sin mor. Hennes stycke King Chu är tonsatt för kammarorkester och den starkt utlevande mansrollen Det målade ansiktet ur klassisk pekingopera. -Min kinesiska identitet är allt; mitt hjärta, min själ och min ande, förklarar Xinyan Li.   Som den förste asiat-amerikan någonsin vann tonsättaren Zhou Long Pulitzerpriset 2011 genom sin första och nydanande opera Madame White Snake, som är baserad på en välkänd legend från hemlandet Kina. Ur motiveringen: En djupt utrycksfull opera sprungen ur en kinesisk folksaga,  där musikaliska traditioner från öst och väst blandas. Madame White Snake sjungs av sopranen Ying Huang. Hennes tjänare, den gröna ormen, sjungs av den manlige sopranen Michael Maniaci. Zhou Long började tidigt spela piano. Kulturrevolutionen satte hans pianostudier på standby och hans familj förflyttades till en statlig bondgård där han körde traktor. Året efter Mao Zedongs död 1976 öppnades portarna åter till Centrala Musikkonservatoriet i Beijing. 18 000 studenter sökte och Zhou Long var en av hundra elever som blev antagna. Han studerade komposition, musikteori och dirigering. Zhou Long reste på den kinesiska landsbygden, samlade folksånger och blev förälskad i kinesisk traditionsmusik och i instrument som den tvåsträngade fiddlan Erhu och lerflöjten Shun. I operan Madame White Snake möts västerländska orkesterinstrument och dessa kinesiska instrument. Zhou Long översatte fyra poem från Tangdynastin till engelska, bl a dikter av poeterna Li Bai och Liu Zongyuan. En barnkör sjunger a capella i operan. -Detta är helt nytt inom operatraditionen, förklarar Zhou Long. Ingen tonsättare har tidigare låtit en barnkör sjunga i en fullängdsopera. Idag pendlar Zhou Long mellan Kansas City, där han är professor i komposition vid University of Missouri och Brooklyn, New York, där han har en våning tillsammans med hustrun, den framstående tonsättaren Chen Yi, även hon professor i Kansas City. Zhou Longs musik har spelats in av en mängd skivbolag. Birgitta Tollan möter Zhou Long på Russian Vodka Bar vid 52:a gatan, där alla Pulitzervinnarna samlas efter prisutdelningen på Columbiauniversitetet på övre Manhattan.   Spellista: I Love New York              Madonna   Madame White Snake Zhou Long Liveinspening, Boston, USA   Mountain Sacrifice No. 2 Xinyan Li American Composers Orchestra Liveinspelning, USA   Mo Suo's Burial Ceremony For Woodwind Quintet Xinyan Li Yating Yu m fl                   Liveinspelning, USA   King Chu Xinyan Li UMKC Orchestra. Qing Xian Liu, Painted Face. Robert Olson, conductor Liveinspelning, USA   Legend of the Sea for Xinyan Li Prof. Jeffrey Lyman, University of Michigan Liveinspelning, USA   Dynamic Calligraphy för stråkkvartett Xinyan Li Stephen Miahky, Annaliese Kowert, Fei Chen, Elinor Frey Liveinspelning, USA   Insight Xinyan Li Sofia Tegart m fl Liveinspelning, USA   konghou fantasy Zhou Long lan rao   song of the ch'in Zhou Long  ying-kvartetten   Madame White Snake Zhou Long Liveinspening, Boston, USA

Når 1. verdenskrig bryter ut, reiser Aleister Crowley til USA. Her forsøker han å få solgt noen av de sjeldne bøkene sine for å bøte på en skrantende økonomi.I New York inngår han en rekke forhold med kvinner som får rollen som hans "skarlagenskvinne" - dvs. en manifestasjon av kvinnen i Johannes åpenbaring. Crowley tolket dette skriftet som en gnostisk og kabbalistisk tekst, som forutså hans komme som en profet i den nye tidsalderen forutsett i Lovens bok. Samtidig hjelper han C.S. Jones med å starte opp den kanadiske grenen av OTO. Han hjelper også Jones med å oppnå graden som Magister Templi, slik at Crowley selv kunne ta graden som Magus - en grad forbeholdt religiøse profeter som Jesus og Siddharta Gautama.Etter å ha forsøkt seg som kunstmaler, og etablert en gren av OTO i USA, får Crowley en visjon om å etablere et thelemisk kloster. Sammen med sin utvalgte skarlagenskvinne, Leah Hirsig, begynner de arbeidet med å realisere denne visjonen i noe som skulle bli starten på det mørkeste kapittelet i livet til Aleister Crowley.https://taakeprat.com

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Upptakt New York - självsvåldiga nedslag i musiklivet i en av världens musikaliska huvudstäder. Möt det nya hos Claire Chase, flöjt, Marilyn Nonken, piano, performer Du Yun och Rebekah Heller, fagott. I Upptakt New York görs självsvåldiga nedslag i musiklivet i en av världens musikaliska huvudstäder. Konstnärliga ledaren för International Contemporary Ensemble, soloflöjtisten Claire Chase, pendlar mellan Lincoln Center i New Yorks Uptown och små musikskolor på den mexikanska landsbygden. - Vi arkiverar musik av den allra senaste generationen levande tonsättare, berättar hon och gläder sig åt att de vattentäta skotten mellan noterad nutida musik och experimenterande musik försvinner. Tonsättaren och performern Du Yun lever numera i New York. - I Shanghai studerade vi västerländska, vita, döda mästare: Bach, Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, Bartok och Stravinskij. I New York experimenterar jag med den kinesiska cittran zheng för att kunna jobba med mikrotonalitet, säger Du Yun som känner sig ödmjuk inför att inpå bara kroppen uppleva frihet och demokrati.   Marilyn Nonken är en av de främsta uttolkarna av superkomplexa, pinfärska pianonoter. Till henne skriver bl a Tristan Murail musik. Hur skiljer sig den allra färskaste, mest nyskrivna musiken från tidigare nutida musik? - Jo, unga tonsättare idag sammanför delar ur olika traditioner, som tidigare var helt åtskiljda, säger Marilyn Nonken, som I sina recitals vill ge plats för kontemplation.   Unga solofagottisten Rebekah Heller bröt sig loss från födelsestaden Wanakena med 80 innevånare. Nu bor hon i 9-miljonersstaden New York och växlar mellan traditionellt orkesterpartitur och experimenterande fagottklanger, helst tonsatta av de yngsta, nu levande tonsättarna.   Låtlista: Untitled In CoF Minor A Valentine To Sherwood Anderson Mikhail/Gertrude Stein Mikhail. Gertrude Stein. DJ Spooky Remix Utgiven med boken Sound Unbound Star Spangled John Stafford Smith JIMI HENDRIX The Best of Woodstock [LIVE] Atlantic... Cat No:SD 500-2 Air Glow Du Yun Du Yun. New York Trumpet Ensemble Liveinspelning. Festival of New Trumpet of New York Eagle Song Hopi Indians in Arizona Phonograph cylinder recording Hopi Indians in Arizona Live do you be Meredith Monk Meredith Monk Do You Be ECM New Series 1336 831 782-2 Donna Lee Charlie Parker Charlie Parker All Stars The Original Bird Savoy Jazz Records ZD 71854 North American Spirituals Michael Finnissy Marilyn Nonken, piano American Spirituals CRI CD877 Echoes White Veil Jason Eckardt Marilyn Nonken American Spirituals CRI CD877 Vox Balaenae George Crumb Claire Chase, flöjt Liveinspelning. Caprice No 24 a la Claire Paganini Claire Chase, flöjt Liveinspelning.  Linea Dombra Magnus Lindberg Daniel Lippel, gitarr. International Contemporary Ensemble Abandoned Time New Focus Recordings FCR104  Obliteration (utdrag) Du Yun Du Yun, voice and Chinese zither and electronics, Jeremy Nissan and John Mannion, both on electronics Written for the Internacional Festival Cervantino 2007 Acoustic Free Improv Du Yun Du Yun, zheng Liveinspelning Vicissitudes No.3 Du Yun Radio Kamer Filharmonie of The Netherlands Liveinspelning i-Goh-do Du Yun Du Yun, sång Privat inspelning Music for Bassoon and Electronics Joshua Parmenter Rebekah Heller, fagott Liveinspelning Macunaima Francisco Mignone Rebekah Heller, fagott Liveinspelning

När den amerikanska tonsättaren Ruth Crawford Seeger är mellan 29 och 31 år komponerar hon de verk som långt senare ger henne en rättmätig plats i musikhistorien som en nyskapande tonsättare. Ruth Crawford föds i Ohio 1901 och utvecklar en kompositions­stil som ingen an­nan i världen har gjort tidigare. Efter ett Guggenheim-stipendium i Europa reser hon hem och gifter sig med den 14 år äldre musikvetaren Charles Seeger. Hon föder fyra barn: Mike, Peggy, Penny och Barbara och tar även hand om tre barn från Charles Seegers första äktenskap, bl a den le­genda­riske folksånga­ren Pete Seeger. Även Mike och Peggy Seeger är välkända folkmusiker.Det trista är att hon sam­tidigt slutar tonsätta sin egen mu­sik. När hon dör 1953, endast 52 år gammal, har hon just börjat komponera igen. Det gör tra­giken ännu större och kvinnan Ruth Crawford Seeger en utmaning att försöka förstå.Hennes man gör först klart sitt förakt för kvinnliga tonsättare: "Din lilla kvinnosjäl som du kuvar genom att vara den mest manlige av konstnärer - musikern". För sina barn för­klarar Charles See­ger barn att "kvinnor inte kan komponera symfonier".Senare blir dock Charles Seeger Ruth Craw­fords starkaste stöd och de arbetar in­ten­sivt till­sammans med idéunderlaget till hen­nes komposi­tioner. Ruth Crawford går inte sällan emot hans teore­tiska este­tik. Trots att han varnar henne för att skriva för stråkar ger hon sig i kast med den stråkkvartett som kommer att bli hennes främsta komposition.Ett annat märkligt och vackert stycke, banbrytande med sitt pulserande kluster, är  To A Kind God av den då 29-åriga Ruth Crawford.  Hon tonsatte stycket redan 1930 - 20 år innan denna tek­nik skulle få sitt genombrott i Tyskland i det vi idag kallar en fullständig serialism. Verket skriver Ruth Crawford faktiskt i Berlin som den första kvinnliga tonsät­taren att erhålla ett Guggenheim-stipendium. Först 60 år senare får To A Kind God sin ur­premiär, nämligen 1994 vid Aldeburghfestivalen.Vad är det då som gör detta stycke musik så enastående för sin tid? Jo, själv kal­lade hon det dissonant musik. Ruth Crawford hade aldrig hört ös­ter­ländsk mu­sik, t e x buddistiska munkars meditationer, men hade fått dem be­skrivna av Charles Seeger som "ett komplext dis­sonant ljud-flor". Hon skriver här en slags världsmusik och hon vill an­vända ord ur nå­gon en­gelsk över­sättning av den indiska Bhagavad Ghita, men hon finner ingen och löser upp­gif­ten genom att skapa egna ord. Hon uppfin­ner både kon­so­nanter och voka­ler. I To A Kind God skri­ver Ruth Crawford in 12 rös­ter, en för varje ton i den väster­länd­ska skalan, och i styc­kets klimax hörs alla to­nerna samtidigt. En slags sam­mansatt mass-tonart.I ett brev till tonsättarkollegan Vivian Fine samma år som hon skrev To A Kind God - 1930 alltså - uttrycker Ruth Crawford sin besvikelse över romantik, neoklassi­cism, amerikansk mainstream-symfonisk jazz och tolvtonsättaren Arnold Schönbergs cerebrala övningar: "Här i Europa hoppas jag finna en stor tonsät­tare som frodas ur en mylla av både konsonans och dis­sonans. En mäktig musik som inte enbart är torrt in­tellektuell utan även bär en djup enkelhet - en känsla om man vill använda det ordet - som knyter an till vanliga män­niskor lika myc­ket som till de intel­lektuella".Denna dröm-tonsättare skulle bli Ruth Crawford själv som med några få verk, komponerade mellan 1930 och 1932, skriver in sig i musikhisto­rien, inte enbart som en av USA:s främsta tonsät­tare utan även på en central plats inom hela 1900-talets musi­kaliska litteratur. Stråk­kvartetten från 1931 räknas som hennes mästerverk.Sin tidiga musik beskrev Ruth Crawford som ett "träd av ljud och klangfärger". Nu ville hon ha horisontella linjer, "reda ut tilltrass­lade nystan och finna en tråd i en hög av rot­lösa, trädlösa löv". I formen bäddade hon in rika mönster vilka hon jämförde med komplext designade persiska mattor. Men liksom det i dessa mattor vävdes in små defekter och förskjut­ningar kom­po­nerade Ruth Crawford in en och annan asymmetri. Hon var noga med att beskriva skill­na­den mellan sin "dissonanta kontrapunktik" och den samtida euro­peiska seria­lis­men. Hon listade sina ideal: skriv klara me­lodiska linjer, undvik ihopklibbande rytmer, använd ryt­misk självständighet mellan de­larna, skapa en känsla av tonalt och rytmiskt cen­trum och expe­ri­mentera med varierande typer av disso­nanser.Hennes mor, Clara Crawford, hade tagit Ruth till hennes första pia­nolektion och blev hennes starkaste supporter och tuffaste kritiker. Modern tillhörde den tidiga vå­gen av femi­nister som strävade efter, och slutligen uppnådde, ekonomisk oav­hän­gighet. Ruths mor var pionjär - en av de första kvinnliga stenogra­ferna och var t ex irriterad över att Robert Schumann "blev bossen i huset när Clara Wieck gift sig med ho­nom".Men Crawfords levde i en tid då det, precis som under Clara Schumanns liv - 70 år tidigare - ansågs att "den känslomässiga delen av kvin­nan stred mot den krea­tiva pro­cessen i musikska­pandet". Ruth Crawford kallade sig al­drig någonsin för kvinnlig tonsättare och var inte medlem i The Society of American Women Composers. Kollegan Charles Ives skrev att "en god dissonans är som en man". Och tidigt ansåg kritiker att hennes musik hade manliga kvaliteter: djärv och viril. Men i sin dagbok skrev hon ti­digt ner sin mammas råd (Mamas Advice): "dölj all­tid dina stygga tan­ker, var stolt över din blyghet och se till att andra har det bra i ditt sällskap, lägg dig inte i grannens bu­si­ness, vi le­ver för andras skull och ta hänsyn till andras käns­lor." I dagböc­kerna be­skri­ver Ruth Crawford "brännande, irriterande och otåliga" käns­lor. Senare sina de­pressi­oner.Ruth Crawford föredrog målaren Corot framför den idylliske ljus­skil­draren Monet. Hon skriver: "I en målning måste finnas balans mellan skugga och sol; inte en­bart ly­ses mörkret upp av lju­set utan genom denna kontrast bestrålar mör­kret även ljuset."Music for Small Orchestra från 1926 skall spelas långsamt, grubblande. Med tritonus- och kvartsintervall relate­rade till Scriabin och fagott-fragment ur Stravinskijs Våroffer. Hennes vän, tonsätta­ren och astrologen Dane Rudyar, talade om symboliken i en enda ton "som en levande cell där makro­kosmos speglas i mikrokosmos; en enda cell som kan avslöja alla univer­sums myste­rier". Från öster­ländsk musik stammade denna idé. Och Ruth Crawford anammade det eso­teriska och my­tiska. I Chicago upplevde hon ett andligt och spiri­tuellt svärmeri för sin pia­nolära­rinna Djane Lavoie Hertz och 27 år gammal dedicerade hon sina pianopre­ludier till "Djane, min inspiration." Genom henne kom Ruth Crawford i närmare kon­takt med ryske tonsät­taren Scrabins teosofi, mysticism och spiritualism, som funge­rade som ett slags pre-freu­dianskt sätt att få kontakt med sitt undermedvetna. Tyvärr upp­fördes al­drig Music for Small Orchestra under Ruth Crawfords livstid.1928 var Ruth Crawford med och startade Chicagoavdelningen av Inter­national Society for Contemporary Music och hennes Three Songs med texter Carl Sandburg representerade USA 1933 vid ISCM:s festival i Amsterdam.Ruth Crawford klipper sitt hår kort, flyttar till New York och inleder en tät vänskap med tonsättaren Marion Bauer, den första amerikanska eleven hos Nadja Boulan­ger i Paris. Marion Bauer stöttar henne och gör klart för Ruth Craword vilken stor ta­lang hon är. "Min kära underbara Marion" börjar ett brev. "Marion har befriat mig", ett annat. "Jag skriver igen och jag komponerar". Med Marion disku­terar hon ska­pande och sexualitet. Ruth är oskuld och lever i celibat trots att hon när­mar sig de 30. "Visst kan du sublimera", säger Marion, "men den fysiska akten kan full­bordas på ett vackert sätt, som en symbol."Senare funderar Ruth på arten av henne och Marions relation. I Ber­lin hade Ruth upplevt den helt öppet homosexuella kultu­ren under Weimarre­publikens sista skäl­vande dagar och nätter och skriver: "Med Marion var det som att bli förälskad. Vår förbindelse hade kommit mycket nära ett erotiskt uttryck, men vi delade på oss istället för att starta detta lesbiska pro­jekt."I New York bosätter sig Ruth på gångavstånd till Carnegie Hall och Metropolitanoperan. Hon kommer i kontakt med den nyaste musiken av Copeland, Gershwin, Varèse, Duke Elling­ton och Bessie Smith. Hon går på konserter med verk av Rachmaninov, Hindemith, Schönberg, Brahms, Wagner, Bach, Béla Bártok, Carl Ruggles och mannen som uppfann en av de första synthesizrarna - Leon Theremin.Snart enga­gerar sig hennes make Charles Seeger i "musiken som ett va­pen i klasskampen" och förlorar in­tresset för mod­ernismen. Han komponerar revo­lu­tionär musik, antar pseudonymet Carl Sands och är mest på marxistiska möten. För Ruth är det omöjligt att ersätta deras tidiga musika­liska intimitet med den proletära kultur­rörelsen. Hon förlorar sin musa. Hon kompo­nerar inte längre.1952 skriver Ruth Crawford Seeger sitt sista verk, Suite for Wind Quintet, vars inledande ostinato återkallar början på andra satsen av det verk hon 1932 brände originalnoterna till: Sonat för violin och piano. Ruth Crawford Seeger insjuknar och dör i magcancer precis som hennes mamma gjort. Och resten är en öronbedövande tystnad.Programmet är inspirerat av Judith Tick's stora biografi Ruth Crawford Seeger - A Composer's Search for American Music från 1997. Judith Tick är professor emerita vid Northeastern University i Boston, USA. Musiklista:Rose, Rose and Up She RisesRuth Crawford, sång White MoonRuth CrawfordDawn Upshaw, sopranMargo Garret, pianoNONESUCH 7559 79364 2 To A Kind GodRuth CrawfordAmanda Pitt, sopranJeanette Ager, AltJames Wood, dirigentNew London Chamber Choir, damkörRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 String Quartet 1931, Sats 3, AndanteRuth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Andante for StringsRuth CrawfordChristoph Von Dohnanyi, dirigentCleveland Orchestra String Quartet 1931, Sats 1 Rubato AssaiRuth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Music for Small Orchestra IIRuth CrawfordOliver Knussen, dirigentMedlemmar Ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Rat Riddles, ur "Three Songs" med texter Carl SandburgRuth CrawfordOliver Knussen, dirigentLucy Shelton, sopranInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 To An Angel, för kvinnokör och sopransoloRuth CrawfordAmanda Pitt, sopranJeanette Ager, AltJames Wood, dirigentNew London Chamber Choir, damkörRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Piano Study in Mixed AccentsRuth CrawfordReinbert De Leeuw, PianoRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 String Quartet 1931, sats 4Ruth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Suite for Wind Quintet, sats 1 (Svit för blåsarensemble)Ruth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997

Det har stormat kring företaget Uber. I Sverige lades samåkningstjänsten Uber pop till slut ned. Men många förare dömdes. Vilket ansvar tar Uber och hur påverkar företaget arbetsmarknaden? När samåkningstjänsten Uber pop lanserades i Sverige blev den snabbt populär. Det behövde inte längre kosta så mycket att ta sig hem från krogen som med vanlig taxi.Det fanns bara en hake. Tjänsten Uber pop var inte laglig. Efter 600 dagar lade företaget ned den. Men förarna fick ta smällen - omkring 60 har hittills dömts i domstol.Kaliber idag handlar om det världsomspännande företaget Uber och deras förare - både i Sverige och i USA där allt började.Vi är i Stockholms tingsrätt en solig dag. Daniels fall ska upp i rätten: för första gången i sitt liv ska han stå inför en domstol, efter att ha kört som förare för Uber Pop. Och därför är han misstänkt för olaga taxitrafik och brott mot taxitrafiklagen.Eftersom Daniel vill vara anonym har vi låtit en annan person läsa in vad han säger För mig känns det så här: det här borde vara den lyckligaste tiden i mitt liv. Jag blev pappa för två veckor sen. Och här står jag, åtalad för ett brott, efter att ha kört för Uber som jag trodde var ett lagligt jobb. Det känns så konstigt. I hela mitt liv har jag aldrig varit i domstol eller blivit åtalad.Daniel körde för företaget UBER som på bara några år gick från noll till att bli en av världens största aktörer på taximarknaden. Ett företag som hyllats av resenärerna, men är illa sett av den etablerade taxinäringen. Uber har vuxit sig allt större genom låga priser och att tjänsten är enkel att använda. Men de har fått kritik för aggressiva affärsmetoder och att de brutit mot lagen.Kaliber handlar idag om dom som får betala priset för billiga resor och lagbrott. Vad händer med förarna som körde för Uber pop i Sverige och vad är det som gör att Uberförare i New York protesterar utanför UBERs kontor där? Följ med till UBERs hemland USA och till Europakontoret i Amsterdam. Men vi börjar på ett informationsmöte i Stockholm förra sommaren.Jättekul att ni är här för att lyssna på oss. Vi jättekul liksom, vi har gjort Uber pop här sen i september och det funkar fantastiskt bra. SåHan som pratar är i 25-årsåldern och står i en konferenslokal på ett hotell i Stockholm. Åhörarna som har kommit hit är framförallt män mellan 25 och 50 år, de flesta med utländsk bakgrund. De är här för att höra hur det är att köra Uber pop.Startade 2010 i USADet omtalade företaget Uber startade 2010 i San Fransisco i USA och skakade då om taxivärlden med sin tjänst. Med den nya digitala tekniken behövde man inga taxiväxlar, köer eller kontanter. Nu finns företag med liknande tjänster men UBER är överlägset störst.Ubers affärsidé är att via en app i telefonen sammanföra privatpersoner med förare som vill köra dem. Med ett enkelt knapptryck kan man beställa en bil till den geografiska position man befinner sig på och få en uppgift på om hur mycket resan kommer att kosta.När Uber började etablera sig i Europa mötte företaget på motstånd i många länder. I till exempel Frankrike protesterade andra taxiförare och brände bildäck. Men för Sverige som haft en avreglerad taximarknad sedan 1990 var det lätt för Uber att etablera sig. Här kan i princip vem som helst starta ett taxibolag och det får finnas hur många taxibilar som helst. Man skulle kunna säga att Ubers förarna är frilansare och i Sverige ska alltså alla ha taxiförarlegitimation.Men när Uber lanserade tjänsten Uber POP under hösten 2014 vände man sig till privatpersoner utantaxiförarlegitimation och då blev det mycket uppståndelse. Tillbaka till Ubers representant som står där på rekryteringsmötet:Jag tänkte göra en snabb presentation om den här tjänsten Uber och Uber pop. Uber är ett teknikföretag, många tror att vi är ett taxiföretag men det är vi inte. Det vi är hör för att prata om idag är inte en taxitjänst, det är en samåkningstjänst. Vi har även taxitjänster.Det är alltså som samåkningstjänst som Uber försöker lansera Uber POP. Vanliga privatpersoner utan taxiförarlegitimation och taxitrafiktillstånd började skjutsa kunder i egen bil. Pop-resorna var enligt företaget 60 procent billigare än vanlig taxi. 80 procent av notan gick till föraren som skulle stå för bil, bränsle, försäkring och skatt, Uber tog 20 procent.Vi har gjort det här sen september. Hundratals förare som kör, funkar väldigt bra, vi har ingen press från skatteverket eller polisen. Det funkar braOlagligt med Uber pop i SverigeMen bara två månader efter att det här mötet hölls kom den första tingsrättsdomen om att det var olagligt att köra för Uber POP.Men trots det fortsatte Uber med sina informationsmöten för att locka förare dit. Daniel var en av dem som gick på mötet.Vid den tidpunkten hade Daniel ett jobb: att dela ut tidningar mellan 02 och 04 på natten, sex dagar i veckan. Han och hans fru hade fått veta att de skulle bli föräldrar och han behövde ett nytt jobb. En kompis tipsade honom att han kunde köra Uber POP. Det här var alltså efter att den första domen fallit och ändå fortsatte Uber att rekrytera förare till tjänsten. Vi blev alla lurade och vi blev alla utnyttjade. Varför ger man folk ett jobb ifall de vet att de kommer att dömas i domstol?I november i fjol blev Daniel stoppad av polisen när han körde för Uber pop. Han fick höra att han var misstänkt för olaga taxitrafik. Jag åkte till Uber och sa: hey, jag har blivit stoppad av polisen: man kan inte göra så här, skjutsa folk mot betalning i Sverige. Då sa Uber så här: Nej, polisen försöker bara stoppa dig. Domstolen ska först bestämma sig. Så du kan fortfarande köra Uber pop till dess att domstolen säger att vi måste stänga ner.Daniel litade på Uber, men blev stoppad en gång till av polisen och den här gången slutade han för gott. Jag är fortfarande så ny här i Sverige. Jag känner inte till lagarna här. Om jag visste att Uber pop var olagligt så skulle jag aldrig ha kört för Uber pop.I rättssalen där rättegången mot Daniel hålls, håller kammaråklagare Hans Ranholm sitt slutanförande. Och där får företaget Uber sig en känga:Man ska som grundregel inte tala illa om någon som inte befinner sig i rättssalen, som inte kan försvara sig. Men jag tror inte att det är en alltför stor överdrift att säga att det sätt som Ubers verksamhet genom den här Uber POP-appen, den var inte så snygg. Det är utan tvekan så att XX och en hel del andra som anmälde sig som förare har blivit utnyttjade."Det är ett utnyttjande" Hej! Välkommen!Hos trafikpolisen i Solna har polisinspektör Anders Thonfors förhört ett 80-tal av de förare som blivit åtalade för bland annat olaglig taxitrafik efter att ha kört för Uber pop. Anders Thonfors har arbetat som polis i 30 år och han är förbannad på hur Uber har hanterat förarna. Ja, det är ett utnyttjande av de här människorna, ett bondfångeri. Det handlar ju om att tjäna pengar och inget annat. Man har utnyttjat dem och de har ingen chans själv att sätta sig in i vad är det för lagar och regler som gäller i Sverige. Det har de inte fått någon information om, i vart fall ingen som de har förstått.Uber har ju sagt till förarna inom Uber pop att fortsätta att köra trots att tingsrätten i första skedet sa att det var olagligt, liksom Transportstyrelsen att det stred mot lagen.Vad tycker du om det? Lagtrots. Punkt. Det är väl inte så mycket att säga om det. Man struntar i vad myndigheter säger, man fortsätter.Trafikpolisen har redovisat ett drygt hundratal fall i Stockholm och Göteborg. Kalibers granskning visar att hittills har cirka 60 män dömts i tingsrätten för att ha kört för Uber pop. I mars i år kom den första vägledande domen i hovrätten. Den man som dömdes då fick dagsböter för olaga taxitrafik och brott mot taxitrafiklagen.Uber pop blev särskilt populärt bland unga. Men Uber pop fick också mycket kritik under den tid som den existerade i Stockholm och Göteborg. När vi gjorde jobb om Uber pop för Sveriges Radio förra sommaren så sa tre av tio förare öppet till oss att de inte betalade skatt.På det här rekryteringsmötet som vi då besökte med dold mikrofon så var Ubers representanter noga med att understryka att de inte skulle lämna in inkomstuppgifter om Uber pops förare till Skatteverket.Vi betalar skatt för vår del som vi tjänar på det här. Du bestämmer själv vad du ska göra med dina pengar. Den enda som känner till att du tjänar pengar är Uber och det är du. Det är ditt eget ansvar hur du eventuellt deklarerar det här.Så ni lämnar inga uppgifter till skattemyndigheterna?Nej.Det är förarnas eget ansvar att betala skatt, men flera av dem som vi talat med har tolkat Ubers information som att de inte behöver det.Enligt Skatteverket har man fram tills nu upptaxerat 280 personer som körde för Uber pop. (Uppdaterad siffra samma dag som programmet sändes: 304 st). De får alltså betala restskatt för sina inkomster från Uber pop.Efter all kritik om skatten gjorde Uber det möjligt för förarna att genom appen skicka inkomstuppgifterna direkt till Skatteverket. Men det är fortfarande upp till föraren att göra det.Uber pop lades ned i SverigeNyheter från EKOT 11 maj 2016: Uber pop läggs nerMotståndet blev för stort: i maj i år lades Uber pop ner i Sverige och idag har Uber i Sverige endast tjänster där legitimerade taxiförare kör på uppdrag av företaget Uber.Så är det också i New York, USA. Idag är det bara legitimerade taxiförare som får köra i själva staden New York. Men där har Uberförare börjat protestera mot företaget och opinionsbildare känner en oro över hur Uber ska påverka arbetsmarknaden i stort.Vi åker dit för att se vad som hänt de här sex åren då Uber har funnits. Hur har företaget Uber påverkat den amerikanska arbetsmarknaden?Vi åker taxi med Uber. I appen knappar vi in var vi vill bli hämtade.Okej, det är Leonardo som kommerVi åker in till Manhattan och här, inne i de trendiga kvarteren i Soho är det många som använder tjänsten. Uber har blivit det självklara valet för många unga, som sociologistudenten Kelthy More som använder Uber istället för vanlig taxi. Jag använder mig av Uber främst I city och det är som ersättning för taxi. Det är mycket bekvämare. Du behöver inga kontanter och det är mycket lättare när du kan nå någon genom en app i mobilen.Varför använder du Uber istället för taxi?Du måste vänta på en taxi och kolla om det kan komma en. Uber är mer kontrollerat och du får en inom några minuter.( I primarly use Uber here in the city and its a substitution for a cab or a taxi. And its a lot more convenient, you dont have to have cash on you, and its an easier way than you can always someone on your phone.Why are you using Uber instead of a cab? A cab you have to wait, and hail a cab to see if it is coming. And Uber, you are just gonna have one and its more controlled because you can call when you want to and it gonna be there in a few minutes.)36 000 förare i New YorkOch Uber har vuxit snabbt: på sex år har Uberförarna gått från noll till 36 000 i New York och därmed tagit upp konkurrensen om passagerarna med de klassiska gula taxibilarna .Enligt bedömare låg företagets marknadsvärde på mellan 60 och 70 miljarder dollar i fjol. Den 40-årige grundaren Travis Kalanick är idag en av USAs hundra rikaste personer.Uber har också blivit ett av de bolag som många tar upp som exempel i den nya delningsekonomin som kan förklaras med olika sätt att hyra, dela och låna saker istället för att äga dem.Vissa menar att delningsekonomin kan komma att förändra sektorer inom samhället och på det viset kan den här nya ekonomin få stora politiska konsekvenser.Under vår resa i USA intervjuar vi 25 Uberförare. Många gillar flexibiliteten i jobbet, men tycker ersättningen är för låg och att det är svårt att påverka företaget.Reporter: Just nu så står vi på en gata mitt i Chinatown och väntar på en förare som ska ta oss på en tur till Brooklyn. Vi har pratat med ganska många förare när vi har varit ute och åkt. De har inga problem att åka med oss som kunder men när vi väl vill slå på mikrofonen och göra en intervju, är det svårare. Nu tror jag att han kommer här, ja perfekt!Han heter Salman och han och hans förarkollegor på Uber har börjat organisera sig. I januari bestämde sig Uber plötsligt för att sänka priset på resorna, vilket genast drabbade förarna eftersom de kör på provision. Salman var en av de som var med och protesterade utanför Ubers kontor i Queens. Men det gav inte mycket effekt. De gjorde inget, de agerade inte. När anställda strejkar runt om i världen pratar ledningen med dem. Även om de inte kan lösa problemet så diskuterar de I alla fall med dem.( But they didnt take any action. Even they didnt talk about this. When the employees go on strike everywhere in the world, the management talks with them, they discuss with them, they are addressing their problem, if they can not solve the problem: at least they can discuss with them. )"Jag har inget val"Salman säger att Uber, till skillnad från andra företag vars anställda inte är nöjda, inte ens brydde sig att ta diskussionen med förarna, men så är de ju inte anställda utan partners. Han känner sig inte nöjd med att jobba för Uber. Jag gillar det inte, men jag har inget val, därför gör jag det. Uber är ingen god arbetsgivare. Jag säger det om och om igen. För de tar inte hand om sina förare, de tar inte hand om dem som tjänar pengar åt dem.( In short I dont like it, but I have no choice therefore I am doing it. UBER is not a good employer. I am saying again and again they are not good employersBecause they are not taking care of the drivers, they are not taking care of the people that is earning for them.)I ett blogginlägg förklarade Uber att man sänkte priserna för att få fler kunder, men man medger också för oss att kommunikationen till förarna kunde varit bättre.Vi åker till huvudstaden Washington DC, Här har Ubers tjänst, som liknar Uber POP i Sverige, kommit att bli ett alternativ till en dåligt utbyggd kollektivtrafik och ett taxisystem som många är missnöjda med. Här på stationen träffar vi 23-åriga Rashmie som väntar på ett tåg. Hon tycker att Uber är ett smidigt sätt att ta sig runt i stan och använder tjänsten 3-4 gånger i veckan: Det kan vara svårt att ta sig runt, speciellt inne i city, då är det bra med Uber. För folk i utkaterna som ska in till downtown kan det ta för lång tid med tunnelbananan eller bussen. Och det är dyrt att köra med egen bil. Jag tycker Uber är bekvämt.Har du funderat på arbetsvillkoren för förarna?Jag måste erkänna att jag aldrig tänkt tanken.( Especially in a city like DC, it could be difficult to get around, Uber could be a good option. In DC a lot of people live in the outskirts in the city and need to go to the downtown. With a Metro and the bus it can take a long time. But it is also expensive to drive your own car. I find Uber to be pretty convenient.Have you been thinking of the working conditions for the drivers of Uber? I must admit that that had not crossed my mind.)Liten sektor, men den växer fortNågon kilometer från Capitol Hill där kongressen ligger, finns en av USAs största banker, JP Morgan Chase. Där träffar vi Fiona Greig, som är chef för en av bankens analysenheter.JP Morgan Chase har tittat på hur många av deras sex miljoner kunder i USA som får inkomster från delningsekonomin, som Uber. Av dem drygt 3 procent som fått inkomster från denna sektor under de senaste tre åren. En liten andel, men ökningen var ändå dramatisk säger Fiona Greig.Vi pratar om en liten sektor, men den växer väldigt fort.( We have talking about a small sector! It is growing very, very fast.)Fiona Greig ser fördelar med att delningsekonomin ger fler jobb, med låg tröskel som hjälper folk att komma in på arbetsmarknaden. Det är bättre att få en egen inkomst istället för att låna av familj och vänner eller att ta ytterligare lån via kreditkortet. Men nackdelarna ser hon också: att de här jobben inte direkt ger fördelar som hälsoförsäkring eller pension.Fiona Greig tror att den här sektorn på vissa sätt kan göra arbetsmarknaden mer effektiv. För den som blivit av med jobbet kan man till exempel köra Uber i väntan på att hitta ett riktigt bra jobb, istället för att ta första bästa, säger Fiona Greig.( Rather, than, when I lose my job I take any job, I can actually be more patient because I have source of income from driving selling, and I can wait for the better match. It can actually make that market more efficient. )I New York jobbar Uber-föraren Salman vidare i sin bil.Han har en examen i marknadsekonomi från hemlandet Pakistan och jobbade som säljare i hemlandet Pakistan, men han har svårt att hinna söka andra jobb. För att kunna försörja familjen jobbar han 12-13 timmar om dagen, sex till sju dagar i veckan, från ett på dagen till 01-02 in på natten. Dörren till det amerikanska näringslivet förblir stängd.Jag har ingen annan möjlighet. Jag har försökt att få ett jobb men ingen är beredd att ge mig det. Jag har en examen. Jag har försökt i Virginia, jag har försökt i New York, men ingen är beredd att ge mig ett jobb. Det är därför jag kör.( But I have no other option, I tried to get some job, but nobody is ready to give med a job over here. I have a MBA. I tried, I tried in West Virginia, I tried in New York nobody is ready to give me work. Therefore I am driving.)I somras blev Salman påkörd av en lastbil. Som tur var skadade han sig inte, men det gjorde bilen. Bilen var försäkrad, men under de två månader som bilen var på verkstaden och försäkringsbolaget redde ut vem som skulle betala kunde han inte jobba. Han och hans fru och de två barnen fick leva på kreditkorten.Hur överlevde du under dessa månader?Med kreditkortet.Hur lång tid kommer det ta att återbetala det? Kanske lång tid, två-tre år?(So how did you survive during those month? With the credit card I said to youSo how long will it take you to repay it? Maybe long time, I was not expecting this much, it will take more than 2-3 years?)Så Salman räknar alltså med att det kommer ta två-tre år att betala skulden.En arbetsmarknad i förändringDet här är ett exempel på den riskförskjutning som många pratar om när arbetsmarknaden förändras på det här sättet.I den ekonomiska modell som Uber jobbar efter, där är förarna utbytbara om de inte får höga ratingpoäng. Idag finns en oro att Ubers arbetsmodell ska sprida sig till andra sektorer på arbetsmarknaden som tillverkningsindustrin eller restaurangbranschen.Eftersom förarna inte är anställda kan Uber med en enkel knapptryckning sänka priset eller stänga av en förare från plattformen. Då kan det röra en förare som kan ha tagit ett lån för att köpa en bil, bara för att kunna jobba för Uber. Det är något man har märkt på organisationen Coworker, som försöker organisera arbetare som jobbar on demand alltså: vid behov.Michelle Miller är en av grundarna till Coworker och här ingår bland annat 5000 Uberförare från hela landet. För ett år sen fick hon leda ett seminarium om de här frågorna tillsammans med president Barack Obama om de här frågorna. Michelle Miller säger att det är allt vanligare att arbetarna inte är anställda utan sitter så här på lösa kontrakt.Det är verkligen en trend I ekonomin där alltfler företag försöker få folk att jobba för dem, få sina företag att växa utan att ge dem en anställning.Så som situationen är tänker jag allt oftare på att det som sker i Uber sker för allt fler arbetare i det här landet.( And it is really a broader trend of the economy where more and more companies are trying to get people to work for them, to perform their work that they need, to grow their companies, without directly employing them. What the situation actually is, I often think about Uber, in particular, as more of a structural story as what is going to happen to a lot more workers in this country.)Hon säger att Uber-förarna tydligt har märkt av prissänkningarna som gjordes i januari. De har förlorat mellan 100 och 200 dollar varje vecka. De är redan lågavlönade från början, de lever ur hand i mun, så få mindre betalt kan verkligen få dig att hamna i en skuldfälla.( These workers are low wage workers to begin with, these are workers who probably live pay check to pay check if that. And so, missing that amount of money, really puts you on a cycle towards debth.)Uber lockar förare med formuleringen: bli din egen chef. Men i själva verket styrs förarna av Ubers effektiva datasystem, en algoritm som kan ge bonus till den förare som kör mycket men som tillfälligt stänger av den förare som tackar nej till en körning. Men de träffar aldrig någon chef och det här gör något med den här yrkesgruppen menar Michelle Miller. Det här är de verkliga konsekvenserna av vad som händer när vår arbetsmarknad och säkerheten för arbetare bestäms av en uppsättning av algoritmer och beslut om vinst. Och det finns inga skyddsnät för de här arbetarna. De kommer fortsätta att arbeta för de är desperata. De har inte mycket val. Skillnaden mellan att arbeta och inte arbeta, är att äta och inte äta.( This are the real life impacts of what happens when our labor market and labor security is determined by a set of algorithms and profit decisions. And there is no safety nets underneath for these workers to see that there are safe. They will continue to work because they are desperate, and they dont have a lot of choice. The difference between working and not working is eating or not eating. ) Förut hade arbetsgivaren ett ansvar gentemot sina arbetare: om det hände en olycka på en byggarbetsplats så var det arbetsgivaren som stod för omkostnaderna. Så är det inte idag i exemplet Uber, menar Michelle Miller: nu har risken har förflyttats från företagen till de individer som utför jobbet.( The risk used to sit with your employer and your government, the financial risk used to sit with them, for taking care of you if something went wrong, and now all of this risk has shifted on to these individuals. )Andra sektorer påverkasMichelle tror att Ubers sätt att fungera kan komma att påverka arbetsmarknaden i stort och där ser hon en stor utmaning hur man ska hantera det. Jag tror att den viktigaste lärdomen är att Ubers ekonomiska struktur kommer att påverka många andra sektorer.( I think what is important here all of this: Uber is an economic structure which is going to infiltrate multible other sectors.)Tillbaka till Uber-föraren Salman som engagerade sig i protester mot företaget. Han har bjudit in oss till sitt hem i Queens. Barnen leker i vardagsrummet, dottern är 4 och sonen 1 år gamla. Salman säger att det är för barnens skull som han kämpar som Uberförare. Jag kämpar för dem och för mig, men ja, jag gör det för barnens skull.( I think that I am struggling for them for me and for them as well so I am doing for them. So if I am not taking care in their activities but I am doing my part.)Hans fru Naila förklarar att hon ibland känner sig som en ensamstående mamma, eftersom Salman så sällan är hemma. Det är tufft att vara gift med en Uber-förare. Jag måste vara väldigt förstående. Men ska jag vara riktigt ärlig vill jag inte att han ska jobba för Uber mer. Jag vill inte att han ska köra taxi. Jag vill att han ska göra något bättre.( For a woman I must say its tough to got married with a Uber driver! Cause they dont have much time and you have to be patient and you have to be very you know You have to be really understanding. Should I tell you the truth? I dont want him to work with Uber no more. I dont want him to drive the cab no more. I want him to do something better. )Uber drog in som en tsunamiVi lämnar familjen I Queens. Vi får åka med Uberföraren Dean Barry, som jobbat länge som taxiförare. Uber drog in på marknaden som en tsunami.( Uber came in to the market like a tsunami.)Han beskriver Ubers etablering i USA som en tsunami. Ingen visste riktigt vad det var och de tog över.( Nobody know what kind of business it was and its taking over.)Han själv tycker att flexibiliteten är det bästa med att köra Uber, att han själv kan välja när han ska köra och när han ska vara ledig. Jag gillar flexibiliteten i jobbet, du kan jobba när du själv vill, du kan till exempel parkera bilen i garaget och gå hem när du själv vill. Jag känner till många som slutar köra för de gula taxibilarna, eftersom intäkterna blir mindre.( Because the flexibility of the job, you work any time you like and you stop any time you like. If you dont make enough you have to drive work many hours. But you have the flexibility to go and leave the car in the garage. And come home, those kind of things, are a lot of people are leaving the yellow cab because is a shift to shift to shift situation. Because the revenue of the yellow cab is going down.)Men Uber är inte det enda företag han kör för. Som förare måste man vara tillgänglig på alla taxiföretags appar överallt för att få ihop tillräckligt med körningar. På instrumentbräden har han fullt med telefoner och skärmar för att hänga med. Att köra taxi i New York är som att köra ett flygplan säger han.Dean Barry tycker att Uber måste betala förarna mer. Vissa dagar måste han köra 25 till 30 mil för att få ihop förtjänsten och det är för mycket.Det är mycket körning.(Its lot of driving in Uber.)Under vår resa i USA intervjuar vi 25 Uberförare. De flesta är nöjda med flexibiliteten i arbetet, men tycker att ersättningen är för låg och de anser att de har små möjligheter att påverka sin arbetssituation."Förarna är mycket viktiga för oss"På plats i New York får vi besöka Ubers huvudkontor, men någon intervju får vi inte göra. Väl hemma i Sverige får vi reda på att vi är välkomna till Ubers Europakontor i Amsterdam.Europakontoret ligger i ljusa lokaler i centrala Amsterdam. Vi passerar ett pingisbord och en hörna med soffor och TV-spel. De runt 300 anställda, de flesta i 25-30-årsåldern.31-årige Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty som är högsta chefen på stället och en riktig senior i Uber-sammanhang har inget eget rum utan även han sitter och jobbar i ett öppet kontorslandskap.Vi frågar hur Uber ser på förarnas betydelse? Förarna är mycket viktiga för oss eftersom de är våra kunder. Vi säljer den tekniska plattformen till dem. Vi ser dem som våra nyckelkunder.(The drivers are extremely important for us because they are our customers. So essentially we are selling to drivers to use the technology platform, we are selling to them. Obviosly we see drivers as our key customers.)Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty ser alltså förarna som kör för Uber, framför allt som kunder, och inte som representanter för företaget. Om de inte är nöjda kommer de sluta använda appen.Vi frågor om Ubers affärsmetoder, de upplevs av många som aggressiva, hur ser han på det? Jag vet att många upplever Uber på det sättet. Den snabba expansionen kan uppfattas som aggressiv.( I know many people perceive uber like that. I think for me the aggressive comes on the back on two things, the company has expanded enormously quickly.)Han menar att Ubers snabba expansion kan uppfattas som aggressiv samtidigt som man har gett sig in i en bransch som på många håll i Europa är kraftigt reglerad med till exempel taximonopol.Viktigare att titta framåt än bakåtHan tar upp de protester som varit mot Uber från taxiindustrin i europeiska städer där det funnits ett taximonopol och en reglerad marknad. Vår historia är bredare än så, det handlar om teknik.( We feel our story is broader than this, it is technology.)Under intervjun pratar Pierre-Dimitri Gore Coty mycket om att framtiden snart är här, och om att många ägnar för mycket tid åt att titta bakåt än framåt. Till viss del är det för mycket fokus på att titta bakåt istället för framåt, dit framtiden är på väg.(Too much focus to some extent on looking backward instead of looking forward where the future is headed. )Ledsen för de åtalade förarnas skullI Sverige har Kalibers granskning visat att runt 60 män har åtalats och dömts för att ha kört för Uber pop. Förarna fick ta smällen, åklagare och polis går så långt att de säger att det är ett utnyttjande.Men vad säger Ubers Europachef? Jag kan inte säga mycket mer än att jag är ledsen för vad de har fått gå igenom.(I cant say much but I am sorry for the drivers who had to go through that.)Uber har i vissa fall betalat advokat och böter åt förarna. Och Gore-Coty beklagar att enskilda förare har drabbats och vi frågar om de hade räknat med den här risken när de introducerade Uber pop i Sverige? Vi trodde aldrig att det skulle gå så långt för de enskilda förarna.(At no point we thought that it would go that far for the individual drivers.)Väntade på slutliga beslutetMen varför fortsatte de trots att transportstyrelsen först sa att det var olagligt och sedan förarna börjat fällas i tingsrätten? Ja, men samtidigt är de komplexa beslut, eftersom vi inte hade det slutliga juridiska beslutet.( Yes but on the same time those are complex decisions when we dont have final legal decision.)Uber ville få saken prövad i högsta instans och samtidigt var tjänsten populär och både fler kunder och förare anslöt sig. Vi ville vänta på det slutliga beslutet från domstolen.( I think that we had to wait for the final decision from the court. As far that I can say, when you have appeal the final decision, no final verdicts actually have been made.)I Frankrike har över 200 förare åtalats och dömts för olaglig taxitrafik efter att ha kört Uber pop. Men här åtalades och dämdes även själva företaget och ansvariga chefer. Pierre-Dimitri Core-Coty och hans chefskollega i Frankrike, dömdes i nu i somras till böter för att ha drivit en olaglig transportservice.I dag har polisen i Sverige också inlett en förundersökning gentemot företaget Uber som, vad Kaliber erfar, rör just beställaransvaret: att Uber drev tjänsten Uber pop trots att det går emot lagen. Ingen person är misstänkt för brott i nuläget. Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty säger att man tar den svenska förundersökningen på stort allvar. Vi tar det här på stort allvar och följer processen och utredningen. Vi samarbetar med åklagaren och myndigheterna.Tror du det kommer bli på samma sätt som i Frankrike? Jag vet inte. Det får framtiden utvisa.( We take this extremely seriously, we are following the process and the investigation we collaborate with the public prosecutor, the public authorities to get to the end of the process, hopefully.Do you think that we will see the same situation that you were facing in France this very year? I dont now, future will tell.)"Det känns smärtsamt"Tillbaka i Sverige och föraren Daniel igen. Idag faller hans dom och vi träffas för att höra hur det har gått.Vi ringer till Stockholms tingsrätt.Domen kom för en halvtimme sen. Då döms han för olaga taxitrafik och brott mot taxitrafiklagen. Det känns svårt när du äntligen har fått ett jobb och du jobbar där och sen så blir du åtalad jobbet du har haft är olagligt och du blir dömd för det. Så, det känns verkligen smärtsamt just nu. Men, men, sånt är livet. Du måste ändå gå vidare. Känslan av att bli dömd i domstol, jag känner mig som en fånge. Det känns smärtsamt. För mig blir det att lära sig en läxa: att inte lita på någon. Jag har läst så mycket om Sverige som land, att Sverige är ett av de minst korrumperade länderna i Europa. Jag trodde aldrig att företag som Uber kunde finnas här. Det här blir en lärdom om att aldrig lita på någon.Vi har pratat med flera dömda förare och domen är inte det enda som påverkar dem. Det handlar till exempel om att de blir av med körkortet under en begränsad tid, de förlorar jobbet, de får nej när de ansöker om att bli taxiförare och på grund av att de är straffade får de vänta upp till två år extra på ett svenskt medborgarskap.I Solna jobbar polisinspektör Anders Thonfors vidare med sina utredningar om förare som kört för Uber.När vi tittar tillbaka på den här perioden om några år, vad tror du att vi kommer komma ihåg av det? Ja, ett exempel på hur man inte ska ha det. Man kan ta med sig teknikförändringarna till framtiden och modernisera. Men Uber är väl ett bra exempel på hur man inte ska ha det. Betänk om man hade så på andra områden i samhället, då hade vi ju inget samhälle kvar av det samhälle vi känner nu. Det blir det nå annat samhälle.Vad blir det för samhälle då? Ja, vad ska vi kalla det för? Vilda västern? Som man hade på 1800-talet. Fast i nutid.Reportrar: Karin Wettre och Maria RidderstedtProducent: Annika H ErikssonKontakt: kaliber@sverigesradio.se 

Många hyr idag rum eller lägenheter via airbnb när de är på semester. Den populära uthyrningssajten där privatpersoner kan hyra av andra privatpersoner runt om i världen. Men gäller det här för alla? Betalar du med kreditkort? En eller två personer i rummet? Två. Här är nyckeln. Frukosten är i frysen, brödet hänger vi på dörren.( You pay with your credit card? Will you have one or two persons in the room? Two. This is the key.­ The breakfast in the fridge, the bread on the door.)Det här är Tim Davis, han har just landat efter flygresan från USA och checkar in på det här hotellet i en förort i södra Stockholm.Tim är systemutvecklare och DJ. Han bor i vanliga fall på Manhattan i New York men reser över hela världen för att spela på klubbar. Han har just kommit från Arlanda. Det här är första gången som han besöker Sverige. I kväll ska han spela på en klubb på Östermalm.Hotellet som vi är på håller på att renoveras, överallt är byggnadsställningar och färgburkar, det ser mest ut som en byggarbetsplats. Det var inte så här han hade tänkt sig att bo. Han hade tänkt hyra en hel lägenhet i centrala Stockholm via bokningstjänsten Airbnb. Jag brukar på vandrarhem när jag reser, men bestämde mig för att göra något annorlunda. Jag kollade inte efter vandrarhem i Sverige, utan vill pröva Airbnb. Jag tyckte det var en bra idé att spara lite pengar och få en hel lägenhet för samma pris som ett hotell, säger Tim Davis.( I usually stay as hostels when I travel, but decided to try something different, I didnt look at hostels for Sweden, I wanted to try Airbnb. I thought it was a good idea to save some money and get a full apartment for the same price as the hotel.)Airbnb är en webbaserad tjänst där privatpersoner kan hyra rum eller hela hem av andra privatpersoner runt om i världen. De som vill hyra eller hyra ut skapar en profil med bild och namn på sidan.Det snabbt växande förtaget Airbnb finns idag i 191 länder och har över två miljoner boenden att erbjuda. Det betyder att företaget är har betydligt fler rum och finns på fler platser än världens största hotellkedja Marriott."Efter ett tag började jag se ett mönster"Det finns flera liknande tjänster, men ingen av konkurrenterna är i närheten av Airbnbs storlek. I Stockholm, Göteborg och Malmö har uthyrningen ökat explosionsartat de senaste åren. I Sverige finns idag över 13 000 värdar.Airbnb erbjuder dig att boka boenden från lokala värdar och upplev en plats som om du verkligen bodde där. Men gäller det här erbjudandet för alla?Vad händer när vi med hjälp av namn och bild får välja vem som ska hyra vår lägenhet eller utföra tjänster i vårt hem? Hur spelar fördomar in när företag som Airbnb låter privatpersoner låna eller hyra saker av varandra?Är den här nya hyllade delningsekonomin lika öppen för alla?I dag handlar Kaliber om Tim som inte lyckades boka en lägenhet i Stockholm, om Kristen som stötte på problem i Argentina och om svenska Sara som lever i Sverige men ständigt tvingas fundera över om hon utsätts för diskriminering. Vi kommer att undersöka den här frågan både här i Sverige och i USA där tjänsten startades.Hemma i New York hyr Tim Davis ut ett rum i sin lägenhet via Airbnb till turister från hela världen och i somras skulle han alltså själv testa tjänsten i Stockholm. Men i Stockholm fick jag bara nej, folk som sa att datumen inte var tillgängliga, att de skulle åka nästa dag, säger Tim Davis.( But in Stockholm I was just getting a lot of people who said that the dates was not available, that they were leaving the next day.)När man kontaktar en värd har de flesta värdar möjlighet att välja om man vill erbjuda sitt hem eller inte till den som frågar och alla Tim kontaktade avböjde hans förfrågan och sa att det inte var ledigt hos dem.­ Efter ett tag började jag se ett mönster. Jag skickade ut 15 olika förfrågningar och alla sa nej, men jag noterade också att datumen fortfarande var kvar på webbsidan.( After a while I was starting to see a pattern, I was sending out 15 different requests, and all of them were declined. But I also noticed that the dates were opened at the website.)Efter att ha kontaktat 15 värdar på Airbnb men blivit avböjd av alla började Tim undra vad det var frågan om. Men han såg även att flera värdar lät lägenheterna ligga kvar på webbsidan som lediga. Tim Davis började misstänka att anledningen till att alla värdar nekade honom att hyra var hans hudfärg. Jag har aldrig varit i Sverige, så jag började undersöka: är det okej att åka dit? Kommer det bli problem? Kommer det bli ett stort problem för mig att vara där som är svart man?( I have never been to Sweden and so I started to researching: is it ok to go there? Is it, are there going to be problems? Is there going to be a big problem for me to be there as a black man?  )   Han började undra om det är säkert för honom som en svart man att besöka Sverige. Som svart man i USA upplever du någon form av rasism varje dag, så du blir hårdhudad, och jag brukar inte låta mig påverkas av det här, säger Tim Davis, annars kan du aldrig njuta av livet.( As a black man living in America you almost experienced some level of racism almost every day, so you almost get a thick skin for it so if you let it get you down, then you will never enjoy life.) Men det lämnar en dålig eftersmak. Du är en person med goda intentioner, du vet att du är en DJ, du tycker det ska kul att åka, och så får du inget varmt välkomnande av Airbnb.( But it does leave a bad taste in your mouth, you are a person with a good intention, you know you are a DJ, you are excited to come, and you are not getting such a warm welcome from Airbnb.)Men hur kan Tim Davis vara så säker på att det handlar om rasism, det kan ju vara något annat som gör att ingen vill hyra ut sin bostad till honom?Vi bestämmer oss för att testa själva. Påverkar din hudfärg din möjlighet att hyra?Vi får hjälp av totalt sju personer, både män och kvinnor, som lånar ut sina Airbnb-konton till oss eller låter oss skapa nya konton i deras namn. En av dem är Sara, som är 25 år, utbildad undersköterska och bor i Stockholm. Så här förklarar hon varför hon vill hjälpa oss. För att jag bär på en kropp som svart kvinna och jag stöter på olika händelser i mitt liv och jag vill kunna se om det här också är någonting som stämmer in på just det här scenariot då.Har du någon gång känt dig, misstänkt, trott, vetat att du blir diskriminerad? ­ Ja det har hänt några gånger att man får glåpord skriket efter sig på stan att det är någon som kommer fram och puttar på en bara man står vid perrongen, eller det kan vara blickar, sådana grejer liksom.  T ex om man går i affären och det är ngn efter en som sådana grejer kan man inte ta på, om jag ska handla smink eller kläder. Någon går bakom en.Vad händer i dig när sådana saker händer? Man känner sig förminskad först och främst, man känner sig att man får ta ett ansvar, man får aldrig liksom vara en enskild individ, man bestraffas som ett kollektiv fast man är en person och man får ta alla andras fördomar om en folkgrupp, man får aldrig vara en enskild individ, det tycker jag är tufft.Under tiden vi gör det här testet så åker vi till USA för där har den här frågan fått mycket uppmärksamhet i år.Vi kontaktar en värd i New York via Airbnb, och vi får ja direkt. När vi har landat tar vi taxi till adressen som vi fick på sms.Vi ska bo hemma hos Andrew på Manhattan. Vi har betalt via bokningssajten, men pengarna får Andrew via Airbnb först 24 timmar efter att vi checkat in utan att vi anmält några problem. Det är bra pengar helt enkelt. Nu står vi på en trottoar och väntar på en man vi aldrig träffat, men som vi ska dela lägenhet med den här veckan. Det känns lite nervöst, trots att vi har sett på tidigare gästers recensioner av det här boendet att alla som bott här verkar supernöjda. Vi har skickat sms att vi är på plats.  Ledsen att jag är sen.Inga problem! Hur är läget?Bra. Har ni väntat länge?Nej, bara fem minuter.( Sorry Im lateNo problemHow is it going? Where you here long? Only five minutes)Andrew tar oss med in genom en tung plåtdörr full med klotter in i en trång hall och upp för två branta trappor. Vi kommer in i lägenheten med två sovrum. Lägenheten är inredd med tunga creméfärgade sammetsgardiner och antika möbler. I ett kök i med träluckor och lantlig känsla står alla tänkbara köksmaskiner. Välkomna! Det här är ert rum, det här är sköldpaddornas. Bry er inte om dem, säger Andrew.( So Welcome, obviously this is your room, this is the turtles dont mind them.)I det ena rummet sover han och det andra ska vi sova. Jag ska visa lite i rummet först. Lamporna har dimmer. Här finns en make up-spegel och här är handdukar. Luftkonditioneringen kan ni stänga av och på.( Ill show you your room first so there is these two lamps and then there is sealing light in behind there, its a dimmer. There is a makeup mirror and there is towels in there.The air-condition you can turn it off and on.)Andrew visar oss runt i lägenheten och berättar allt fungerar. Han säger att han har hyrt ut ett rum i sin lägenhet på det här sättet i drygt ett år. Varje vecka kommer det nya personer från hela världen hit och han verkar älska det. Alla som kommer hit är på sitt allra bästa humor och är verkligen uppspelta över att vara i New York, så det är mycket kul och ger energi med alla de här människorna från hela världen omkring sig.( Everybody is on their best behavior they are really exited to be in New York so its a lot of fun in sense of the energy  it brings into your life and then you meet all of these exciting people around the world that invites you to come  and stay with them.)Men så tjänar han också en hel del pengar på detta. Det är bra pengar helt enkelt.( The financial reward for doing this is significal.)Hans hyra på 2 800 dollar, d v s ungefär 24 000 kr i månaden betalas helt av uthyrningsverksamheten. Dessutom går han motsvarande drygt 10 000 kr plus varje månad. Jag gör 4000 dollar i månaden, så det är nästan 50 000 dollar per år, säger Andrew.( Its 4000 a month basically, is how much I am making, so thats almost 50 000 dollar a year.)50 000 dollar alltså runt 420 000 kronor per år säger Andrew att han tjänar på att hyra ut ett rum i sin lägenhet på Manhattan. Då är det kanske inte så svårt att förstå varför Airbnb har blivit så stort i New York. Men det har även skapat en hel del debatt, om att riktiga jobb hotas inom hotellindustrin och om att bostadsbristen i stan påverkas av att folk hyr ut så här till turister istället för till folk som verkligen behöver någonstans att bo.I Berlin förbjöd man nyligen korttidsuthyrning av hela lägenheter. Och så fungerar det även här i New York. Därför har vi valt den här lösningen - att hyra ett rum hos en person som bor kvar i lägenheten. Men trots att det är olagligt finns tusentals hela lägenheter att välja på när vi tittar runt bland objekten på sajten.Så vi bor alltså lagligt. Men Andrew som vi bor hos, han har inte tillstånd från sin hyresvärd att hyra ut så här, så om det kommer fram kan han förlora sitt hyreskontrakt. Därför vill han inte att vi använder hans riktiga namn i det här reportaget. Bara några kvarter från Andrews lägenheten bor Tim Davis som upplevde sig diskriminerad i Stockholm och som vi träffade i somras. Vi går dit för att höra hur han bodde under resten av sin Europa-turné. Hej!Hallå! Hej Maria, trevligt att träffas.( Hi!Hello!­ Maria hello, nice to meet you. )Han bor i en lägenhet på 24:e våningen med en fantastisk utsikt över Manhattan. Det här är förmodligen den bästa utsikten i världen!Ja, vilken utsikt!(This might be the place with the best view in the world!Yeah!What a view!How are you?Good!)Tim, som går under artistnamnet DJ Justice spelar några av sina favoritmixar för oss.Han har just kommit hem ifrån Europa där han har bland annat spelat på klubbar i Amsterdam, Berlin och Ibiza. Men då valde att bo hotell, säger han. Efter problemen som han haft med Airbnb i Sverige ville han inte riskera att bli nekad boende igen. Jag kunde inte ta det, att någon skulle säga att de här datumen inte var lediga när jag redan var på väg. Så jag bokar hotell, ger dem mitt kreditkortsnummer, kommer dit, får nyckeln. Det är väldigt förutsägbart, men det var så jag gjorde under hela min resa.( I couldnt deal with any type of discrimination, that somebody said, no these dates are not available because I was already on my way there. So I book a hotel, give them my credit card, show up, they give you the key, it is all very predictable, so I did it under my whole journey.) Tim Davies historia är inte unik och faktum är att det till och med forskats om i fall värdarnas uppfattning om gästens etnicitet kan påverka möjligheten att få hyra rum eller lägenhet via Airbnb."Airbnb har designat sin plattform så att diskriminering möjlig"Forskaren Ben Edelman, har tillsammans med några kollegor på Harvard Universitetet i Boston, gjort en studie som visar att det är lättare att få hyra rum och lägenhet via Airbnb om värden tror att man är vit. Forskarna skapade över 6 000 låtsaskonton utan foton, men med namn som är stereotypa för svarta eller vita i USA. Testet visade att förfrågningarna från konton med typiskt afro-amerikanska namn hade 16 procent svårare att få hyra rum eller lägenhet via Airbnb. En siffra som Ben Edelman menar skulle vara 0 procent om du bokade ett hotellrum via en bokningssida på nätet och bara behöver fylla i dina kreditkortuppgifter.­ Airbnb har designat sin plattform så att diskriminering möjlig, eftersom man kräver namn och starkt uppmanar sina användare att ladda upp ett foto på sitt ansikte, säger Ben Edelman, Airbnb har alltså gjort problemet till fakta.( Airbnb has designed its platform in a way that makes discrimination likely. So Airbnb has put this problem into fact, into a fact by creating an environment where guests are required to reveal racial sensitive information.)Efter att Harvardstudien presenterades i december förra året ville Airbnb inte göra någon stor sak av det. Deras svar var i princip att diskriminering, det är ett samhällsproblem som följt med till deras sida.Men under våren och sommaren har allt fler personer i USA börjat dela sina berättelser på bloggar och i sociala medier under hashtaggen Airbnbwhileblack. Där finns berättelser om allt från en konstig känsla till rent rasistiska påhopp från värdar som avbokat gäster med hänvisning till deras hudfärg.I maj i år så stämde 25-åriga Gregory Selden Airbnb efter att han nekats att hyra ett ställe i Philadelphia som han sedan kunde boka med ett fejkat konto med en profilbild av en vit man.Frågan om rasism har blivit ett PR-problem för Airbnb i USA och i somras tog företaget kontakt med experter och knöt flera konsulter till sig för att göra en handlingsplan.En av dom som har fört samtal om detta med Airbnb finns i Washington, så vi åker dit till The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, som är en medborgarrättsorganisation som grundades av president John F Kennedy på 60-talet och som bland annat jobbar med diskrimineringsfrågor. Vi träffar Kristen Clarke, president på The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, och hon börjar med att berätta om hur hon själv misstänker att hon utsatts för diskriminering på Airbnb. För två år sen ungefär när jag och min skulle åka till Argentina och Buenos Aires.( About 2 years ago I was taking a trip to Argentina to Buenos Aires.)Gång på gång nekades hon att hyra ställen som fortsatte att annonseras som lediga. Det gjorde mig oroad. Som en medborgarrättsjurist och afro-amerikans kvinna vill jag förvissa mig om att jag behandlas med värdighet.( It made me feel unsettled as a civil rights lawyer and as an Afro-American women I want to make sure that I am treated with dignity.  If I am spending my money somewhere that I am spending it and being respected.)Till slut hittade hon ett ställe att bo på, men hon kunde inte släppa tanken på att hon hade blivit nekad på grund av sin hudfärg. Det måste varit min hudfärg som fick dem att säga nej.( It had to be my race which made them turning me down.)Precis som Tim är hon inte så sugen på att använda Airbnb efter den här erfarenheten.Men borde inte alla ha rätt att själva bestämma vilka som ska komma in i deras hem, frågar jag Kristen Clarke. Alla har ju rätt att bestämma vem som ska komma in i deras hem, till exempel bara studenter eller kvinnor, men i samma ögonblick som du bestämmer dig för att tjäna pengar på det och ingå i delningsekonomin måste man följa lagen, säger hon.( Everybody has the right to decide who they let in to their private home, just women or students but the moment that you decide to profit of that decision and to make money and to enter the sharing economy rules have to apply.) I USA är det medborgarrättslagarna från 60-talet som reglerar att du inte får neka att sälja någon varor eller tjänster på grund av deras hudfärg. I Sverige är det diskrimineringslagstiftningen som reglerar att man inte får missgynna någon på grund av deras hudfärg när man handlar med varor och tjänster.  Vi kan inte ignorera det här. Kampanjen #airbnbwhileblack har satt ljuset på det här problemet. Det är inget isolerat problem. Många svara användare räknar med detta.( Discrimination is not a problem that we should ignore when it rears its ugly head and airbnbwhileblack, the social media campaign that is shining a spotlight on this problem makes clear that this is not an isolated problem. There is many black users who encounters that. ) Kristen Clarke menar att vårens kampanj på sociala medier, #airbnbwhileblack, har effektivt har belyst de problem som Airbnb har med diskriminering, och att Airbnb som ett stort globalt företag borde göra allt de kan för att stoppa detta, menar hon.Det som borde spela roll är ju vad en person säger och vad andra värdar har för erfarenhet av den personen sedan förut. Hon tycker att Airbnb låter fotot och namnet spela för stor roll i uthyrningsprocessen.Men hur gick det då med vårt eget test hemma i Sverige."Tyvärr är det inte ledigt dåVi träffar Sara igen. Hon är en av dem som lånat ut sitt Airbnb konto till oss.Vad tror du att det här testet kommer att visa? Jag vill ju att det här testet kommer att visa att det är lika för alla som handlar på Airbnb men jag tror ju magkänslan säger att jag kommer särbehandlas.Vi har alltså fått låna flera användares Airbnb-konton i Sverige. Kontona innehåller bara namn, bild och bostadsort, men inga tidigare recensioner eller presentationer.Vi började med att använda de svarta personernas konton och frågade 200 Airbnb-värdar i Stockholm, Göteborg och Malmö om deras objekt var ledig några specifika datum.Av dem svarade lite mer än hälften ja, här ser vi alltså ingen diskriminering alls.Men resten då de som svarade nej eller inget alls, det är ju de som vi är intresserade av här. Skulle de ha gett en annan person ett annat svar?Vi frågar dem som har svarat nej igen men nu från ett konto som tillhör någon av testpersonerna som är vita, och som är blonda och blåögda - snabbt svarar nästan var tredje ja.Av dem som svarade nej i första omgången, så ändrade sig alltså var tredje person.Slutsatsen vi kan dra i vår undersökning är att problemen med diskriminering på Airbnb tycks finnas även här i Sverige.  Och att det finns en mycket större risk att drabbas av diskriminering på Airbnb jämfört med om man bokar boende på ett hotellrum via en bokningssida som till exempel booking.com eller expedia.com, där du bara behöver ett kontokort.Så här svarade några av värdarna som först sa nej till vår svarta testperson.Nej tyvärr, vänner kommer på besök.Tyvärr kommer vi inte att vara hemma dessa datum.­Nej tyvärr är inte bostaden tillgänglig, hade glömt att ändra i kalendern.Jag är ledsen men vi kan inte då.Ledsen men jag måste vara hemma då.Tyvärr är det inte ledigt då.Och så här lät samma värdar när en vit person upprepade frågan.Ni är mer än välkomna.Absolut, det funkar bra. Välkommen!Absolut den är ledig.Det är ledigt, bara att boka.Ni är hjärtligt välkomna att bo i vår lägenhet under dessa datum.Det ordnar vi, vilken tid kommer ni på fredag?Svårast att få hyra är det för de svarta männen. Det är lite lättare för de svarta kvinnorna att få hyra men av dem är det Sara som bär slöja som oftast blir nekad att hyra något.Vad är dina spontana tankar när du har hört detta? Ja, helt ärligt jag är jätteupprörd, det är bara en, det är en sån äcklig känsla att vet du vad, någon tycker någonting om dig fast du aldrig har sett mig i hela ditt liv inte pratat med mig, det är fett hemskt, helt ärligt.När vi går igenom testet får Sara tårar i ögonen. Det är bara ett bevis på att mänskligheten är så, vi människor vi utsätter andra människor för saker som vi inte ens vet att vi gör, även om det är undermedvetet eller inte men vi tänker inte på att det faktiskt är en människa som sitter där så du känner inte den, det är en hemsk känsla faktiskt och att behöva bära med sig den hela sitt liv, man anpassar sig, men det är en jobbig känsla.Men vad säger Airbnb om det här då? Vi har under flera veckor försökt få en intervju med någon av företagets representanter i Norden eller i USA. De har avböjt att medverka, men de är medvetna om att det förekommer diskriminering på deras plattform.Så här lät det när en av företagets grundare Brian Chesky pratade om detta i somras i amerikansk TV:Vi var sena på den här frågan. Vi var så fokuserade på tilliten och säkerheten, vi ville att alla ska måste ha en verklig identitet, så tilliten och säkerheten gjorde att vi riktade in oss på andra kriser och när vi gjorde det tappade vi fokus på den här viktiga frågan.(You know, I think that we were late on this issue. I think that we were so focused on the notion of trust and keeping people safe, we wanted everybody to have a real identity, make sure, because we were responding to other crises, of trust and safety, and while that happened we took our eye of the ball of this incredibly important issue.)Resultatet av att Airbnb fokuserade på den här frågan nu under sommaren blev en rapport som publicerades nu i september. Det är även den rapporten som man hänvisar till när vi vill ha en intervju. Där ber man om ursäkt för att ha agerat långsamt i den här frågan.Det ska bli enklare att anmäla om man upplever sig diskriminerad, Airbnb tar på sig att försöka ordna ett annat boende i sådana fall och värdarna ska kunna gå en webbaserad kurs om fördomar. Dessutom vill man få fler att gå med på att man kan boka boende hos dom direkt utan att först få ett godkännande av värden. Kristen Clarke på The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, tycker att det här är ett viktigt steg i rätt riktning men inte tillräckligt. Jag tycker inte att man ska visa bild och namn förrän man bokat, säger Kristen Clarke.(I think that it should no longer require people disclose photos and names prior to reservation.)Foto och namn är bara viktigt när man väl har bokat säger hon. När man låter värdarna se hudfärgen på den som de tänker hyra ut till, om personen ifråga har slöja eller turban kan de leda till diskriminering och det måste vi få bort ur processen, menar Kristen Clarke. Det är viktigt att veta vem du ska lämna nyckeln till när en reservation har gjorts, men den informationen behöver man ju inte lämna innan reservationen är bekräftad. Det är där jag tycker Airbnb ska börja.( Its important to know who you are going to hand your key out to whens a reservation is in place but there is no need why that information should be revealed to host prior to confirming a reservation so thats where I think that Airbnb need to start.)Vi pratar om att Airbnb inte är det enda företag som förmedlar varor och tjänster med namn och bild på säljare och konsument inom den växande delningsekonomin. Men som ett av de största och mest kända företagen menar Kristen Clarke att de har ett särskilt ansvar.När vi tillåter för mycket diskretion, historiskt sett har det visat sig att det är då diskriminering visar sig. Så det här är ett gyllene tillfälle för Airbnb att ta täten och bli en förebild för andra företag inom delningsekonomin.( When you allow people come and choose who can come and stay, clean your house, bring you food. When we allows too much discretion historically thats when we see discrimination coming to play so this is a real moment for Airbnb to be the leader thats it wants to be and take action that will help make it a role model for other companies in the sharing economy space.)Hon lyfter fram företaget UBER som ett positivt exempel i det här sammanhanget. I deras app som gör att man kan beställa en taxitjänst i mobilen ser föraren och resenären inte varandras namn förrän beställningen är gjord.Flera svarta kändisar har hyllat appen på sociala medier för att det är lättare för dem att beställa en bil på det här sättet. I New York stoppar man ju de traditionella gula bilarna på gatan och många, särskilt afroamerikanska män upplevde svårigheter med detta.Även Ben Edelman som forskar om det här på Harvard Universitetet menar att bilderna och namnen måste bort om man på allvar vill få bort diskrimineringen:Policyn verkar vara att frågor om public relations är mer i fokus än att komma till rätta med diskriminering. Det viktiga är god PR.(This policy looks that it was designed more with public relations questions in mind and less on mind on actually fixing discrimination. Looks like it was designed to get good PR, and it did get some good PR. But was it designed to fix discrimination? To stop discrimination from accruing and to do that as quickly and thoroughly as possible? I would say no.)Men Airbnb säger att de ska experimentera med att minska bildernas betydelse. Det här är alldeles för vagt menar Ben Edelman.De lovar inte att agera utifrån vad experimentet visar och de lovar definitivt inte att det blir några resultat.(They dont promise to actually act on the result of the experiment, they certainly dont promise that their experiment will have any particular results.)Men skulle värdarna inte skrämmas bort om man plötsligt var tvungen att säga ja eller nej till någon som man inte sett? Det tror inte Ben Edelman.Airbnb är kommersiellt, det är designat för att tjäna pengar till värdarna, värdarna kommer vara nöjda med vilket system som helst som göra att de tjänar pengar. Och det här är själva slutsatsen. Om Airbnb verkligen skulle vilja genomföra förändringar så skulle de kunna stoppa diskriminering. Men det har bestämt sig för att inte göra det.(You know, Airbnb is a commercial service, its designed to make money for the host, the host will be happy with any system that continues to give them money. And this is the real bottom line, seems to me like Airbnb could really press this change throw if they really wanted to stop discrimination. But they decided not to. )Både Ben Edelman och Kristen Clark menar att Airbnb måste ta ansvar för hur man konstruerat sin plattform och att det är de som har möjligheten att förändra det här genom att ta bort namn och bild ur processen. Men samtidigt är det ju värdarna som fattar beslutet att säga ja eller nej.När vi frågar den svenska diskrimineringsombudsmannen, DO, får vi svaret att det är värden som man skulle kräva på skadestånd ifall DO fick in ett sådant här ärende.Normalt är den privata sfären undantagen diskrimineringslagstiftningen, men om man lägger ut sin lägenhet eller ett rum på en kommersiell sida som Airbnb och tar ett pris som motsvarar ett hotellrum, skulle det räknas som att man säljer en tjänst, och omfattas av lagen enligt DO. Men än så länge har detta inte prövats rättsligt i Sverige (med airbnb alltså).Men vad säger värdarna själva? De som sa nej till våra testpersoner. Vi ringer upp några av dem för att höra, men ingen vill berätta om det här i radio. Några får vi ändå prata med en stund, men ingen av dem vill kännas vid någon diskriminering, i alla fall inte att det har skett medvetet.Vår värd i New York, Andrew, har hört talas om problemen med diskriminering, men samtidigt så menar han att när man släpper in någon i sitt hem är det viktigt att man känner att man har kontroll.Som värd måste du tillåtas ha total kontroll över de här situationerna, och om du får se en person som du inte tror du vill hyra ut till ska du helt enkelt kunna neka.(As a host you are allowed to sign off who you allowed to stay there you are in total control of the situation so if you see people that you dont think you wane host you can simply deny them.)Och det här är också skälet till att Airbnb inte vill ta bort foton ur processen, de menar att det är en för viktig del i processen att skapa tillit.Hemma hos Tim några kvarter därifrån fastnar vi vid det stora fönstret och tittar på utsikten.Och även om Tim Davies tappade lust att själv hyra boende via Airbnb säger han att kommer han fortsätta erbjuda turister att hyra ut ett rum i hans lägenhet via tjänsten. Men värdarna borde fundera över sin världsbild, menar han.Konceptet är svinbra och visst det är någons hem vi pratar om så det är ju den personen som i slutänden måste bestämma vem man vill släppa in i sitt hem. Men på samma gång måste de förstå att världen är väldig uppdelad, de borde vara lite mer accepterande mot folk som reser. Du vet aldrig vem du möter. Det finns många härliga människor runt om i världen och om du begränsar dig till människor som bara ser ut som du, kan du verkligen gå miste om härliga människor och riktigt bra konversationer, avslutar Tim Davis.(I think that the concept is great and there is someones home so in the end of the day they get to decide who they want to let in in their house but in the same time they should understand that the world is a very diverced place, they should be a little more accepting of people that travels.You never know who to meet. It is a really big world out there and there is a lot of great people out there and if you restrict yourself to people who just look like you, you could really missing out some really great people, and some really good conversations.)Reportrar: Maria Ridderstedt och Karin WettreProducent: Annika H ErikssonKontakt: kaliber@sverigesradio.se

I dagens avsnitt av Arga Flickor reser Nora över Atlanten tillsammans med aktivist och gästprogramledaren för avsnittet, Daisy Kintu. I New York träffar de två av tre grundare till Black Movement Law Project - Nash och Abi. Hur organiserar sig svarta aktivister i USA? Vad kan vi lära oss från varandras kamper och hur skiljer dem sig åt? Nash och Abi berättar vad polisen egentligen gör med aktivister som slängs i fängelse efter demonstrationer. Daisy och Nora berättar om Afropunk och hektiska situationer. Tillsammans förargas vi över förtryckande och rasistiska konstitutioner, men glädjas över vår solidaritet som sträcker sig långt över gränser. // In today's episode of Arga Flickor, Nora travels across the Atlantic sea with activist and co-host of this episode, Daisy Kintu. In New York, they meet with two out of three founders of Black Movement Law Project - Nash and Abi. How do black activists organize in the U.S? What can we learn from each other's struggles, and how do our struggles differ? Nash and... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Deniz Bedretdin bjuder på finsk tatarmusik i Helsingfors, i New York ställs finska granar ut på galleri och den nya mattrenden heter pulled havre och kommer från Finland. Erkki träffar Deniz Bedretdin i Helsingfors och pratar finsk tatarkultur. Tatarerna har funnits i Finland i över hundra år och bildade Nordens första muslimska församling redan på 1920-talet. Deniz kallas för tatarrockens far och har jobbat med hela finska musikergräddan under sin långa karriär. Hans senaste projekt är Super Tatar Rhythm & Ethno Band och vi får även höra ett smakprov från deras nya skiva.Maija har tittat på finska landskap I New York och pratat om nordisk fotokonst med Ariana Tiziani, kurator för utställningen Another North.Finnblickens redaktör Elin von Wright har denna vecka riktat sin finnblick mot den senaste mattrenden från Finland pulled havre! Nyhtökaura på finska. Är detta kanske kungen av köttersättningsprodukter?Och i Haloo Helsinki ringer vi till ljuddesignern Atte Olsonen i Bryssel för att höra hur lokaltrafiken låter i Helsingfors Låter onekligen som inte riktigt klok radio på svenska och finska!Programledare Erkki Kuronen och Maija Waris

I New York følger finansbransjen Kina med falkeblikk. I vår del av verden har børsene har steget kraftig siden bunnen i februar. Karl Oscar Strøm, investeringsøkonom i Pareto, og Tom Hauglund, investeringsøkonom i Nordnet, forklarer hva vi har i vente. Programledere Marius Lorentzen og Per Valebrokk. Produsert av Magne D. Antonsen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I det tionde och sista avsnittet i Birgitta Tollans serie How sweet the sound medverkar två tonsättare som varit betydelsefulla för hela den här serien: Renée Baker från Chicago och George Lewis från New York. De har hjälpt henne att finna fram till alla de fantastiska afroamerikanska tonsättare, musiker och dirigenter som hon mötte på sin resa i USA. Renée Baker är violast, tonsättare, dirigent och bildkonstnär. Hon var konsertmästare i Chicago Sinfonietta under 25 år, men som 50-åring bildade hon 50-personersgruppen Chicago Modern Orchestra Project eftersom hon ville höra sin egen musik spelas under sin livstid. – Vi spelar klassiskt, jazz och experimenterande musik. Och vi spelar mina kompositioner! Rasismen lever fortfarande i USA, enligt Renée Baker. – Den uppenbara, våldsamma och legala formen av rasism har bytts ut mot en subtilare, som är lättare att ignorera och förneka och därmed nästan lika allvarlig. Det är till exempel inte olagligt att undvika svarta tonsättares eller kvinnliga tonsättares verk. Du kan ställa orkestrar inför rätta, men det är både tidsödande och dyrt, och vilken konstnär vill göra det, undrar Renée Baker. Hennes verk Subtle Hues of Blackbirds - Subtila nyanser hos koltrastar gestaltar det faktum att koltrastar kommer i olika schatteringar. – Så har också människor olika färgnyanser i huden. Även inom en ras. Vi är alla mångfärgade! förklarar Renée Baker som tidigt förstod att hon ville spela klassisk musik, men nu skriver på sin första saxofonkvintett. – Som klassisk musiker hör du nästan aldrig det instrumentet. Jag håller på att lära mig att älska saxofon! Hennes DIVERTIMENTO NOTTE blu för Chicago Sinfonietta är en sprallig symfoni för symfoniorkester och jazzmusiker. Alla solon måste vara atonala. – Vår klassiska publik är begåvad och hungrig och klar för något nytt, tror Renée Baker som bland annat tackar The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Anthony Braxton, Meredith Monk och Pauline Oliveros för inspiration och spännande musik. – Deras exempel har gett mig tillåtelse att med integritet och äkthet göra det jag vill, avslutar Renée Baker. George Lewis är tonsättare, trombonist, författare och professor i Amerikansk musik vid Columbiauniversitetet. Dessutom gästprofessor vid University of California i Berkeley. Han är mentor för flera generationer musiker och kompositionselever. Lewis komponerade stycket Will to adorn, Viljan att smycka sig, efter en essä från 1934 av författaren och antropolgen Zora Neale Hurston. Det handlar om afroamerikanska kvinnor som traditionsenligt placerar prydnader ovanpå varandra, högt på huvudet. Det kan gälla hattar, sjalar eller håruppsättningar. – Jag är mindre intresserad av att hitta afroamerikanska tonsättares okända verk. Istället vill jag sätta fokus på de olika former musiken tagit på sin väg i vår globala tid, förklarar George Lewis, som speciellt gillar ljudkompositioner, interaktivitet och musik skapad av datorer. – I New York finns numera begåvade och ivriga unga musiker som bildar nätverk och designar egna ensembler. De heter International Contemporary Ensemble - ICE, Wet Ink, Yarn/Wire och Argento. De är öppna för musikalisk mångfald, genreöverskridanden och ansvarsfull improvisation, berättar George Lewis. Det är en stor förändring sedan tidigare då musiker ofta uppträdde som ett stort kollektiv av frilansare som ibland spelade nutida musik tillsammans. – Jag behöver en grupp kreativa musiker som uppför min musik och befinner sig i ständig, kritisk dialog med vår komplicerade omvärld, avslutar George Lewis. Manus, regi och produktion: Birgitta Tollan.

Bullar, burgare och lådorna med pommes frites blir allt större. USA-trenden har också tagit sig till Sverige och det är något som oroar fetmaexperterna. I New York försökte man förbjuda stora läskflaskor, men läskbranschen satte stopp. Bör staten reglera hur vi äter och dricker? Claude Marcus, professor vid Karolinska Institutet är med i studion. Hur ska vi tyda de ekonomiska flosklerna Lars Melin, docent i nordiska språk har skrivit en bok om hur vi pratar om ekonomi och pengar. Skuldernas historia Hur har vår syn på lån förändrats? Lars Magnusson, professor i ekonomisk industri vid Uppsala universitet hjälper till att förklara varför vi aldrig varit mer skuldsatta än nu. Margareta Brattström, expert på familjerätt svarar på läsarnas frågor.

A Clockwork Orange är en film som kan konkurrera med Frukost på Tiffanys ifråga om att genomsyra populärkulturen på olika vis, inte minst tack vare dess spektakulära kläder och kosmetik. Vi säger bara - ögonfransarna. Sedan denna film, regisserad av Stanley Kubrick, hade premiär 1971 har den refererats till inom mode, musik, film och tv. Mer om filmens trendsättande detaljer berättar vi om i veckans STIL. Filmen A Clockwork Orange är baserad på en roman av den brittiske författaren Anthony Burgess med samma namn, från 1962.  I båda berättas historien om Alex, en smart och vältalig ung man i ett framtida Storbritannien som älskar att lyssna på Beethoven. Han gillar också att praktisera vad som kallas för ”ultravåld” – misshandel, rån och våldtäkter tillsammans med sina tre kompisar.  De hänger ofta på ”Korova Milk Bar”, en något tveksam inrättning där det serveras ”moloko-plus”, det vill säga mjölk spetsad med olika typer av droger.  De kallar sig för ”The Droogs” (eller ”dragisar” i den svenska översättningen) och utmärker sig tydligt genom en gemensam uniform bestående av vita skjortor och vita vida byxor, nedstoppade i svarta grova kängor. En kombination av 60-talets futuristiska space age mode och traditionella manliga maktsymboler. Mer om den blandningen berättar vi programmet. Vi får också höra historien om ett annat vitt plagg som förekommer i filmen och som många artister har valt att posera i (inte minst Kanye West, alldeles nyligen) – tvångströjan. I New York har vi träffat en av världens främsta makeupartister, den svenska Brigitte Reiss-Andersen. Hon berättar mer om sin långa och enormt framgångsrika karriär. Och om poängen med markerade ögon med mycket mejk och falska fransar, en av vårens stora trender. Vi tar också upp filmens mest centrala musikstycke, Ludwig van Beethovens nionde symfoni. Varför är den en sådan hit inom den klassiska musiken? Dirigenten Stefan Solyom som just dirigerat stycket berättar. Och så har vi ringt upp den holländske konstnären Herman Makkink, mannen bakom filmens allra största fallossymbol, en penis i porslin. Hur gick hans tankar, egentligen? Veckans gäst är Mårten Blomkvist, filmjournalist på Dagens Nyheter

Tom Cruise duger som Jack Reacher. Leatherface duger ikke i Texas Chainsaw 3D. Julie Delpy leker Woody Allen i 2 dager I New York. Og Naomi Watts og Ewan McGregor blir tatt av tsunamien i The Impossible. Årets første premierefilmer anmeldes i dagens Filmpoliti, som også får besøk av Nicolai Cleve Broch og Frank Kjosås fra NRKs nye dramaserie Halvbroren, og du får høre hvorfor 70mm-festivalen som starter i Oslo i dag er en helt spesiell filmfestival.

I tredje programmet möter vi två New Yorkbaserade musiker. Elviolasten och tonsättaren Martha Mooke har bland annat spelat på Broadway, medan tonsättaren och pianisten Elodie Lautens operor sätts upp off-Broadway och off-Metropolitanoperan. Jag möter Martha Mooke I en vacker våning på övre västra Manhattan. Hon spelar med New York's ledande ensembler och har inga problem med att gå mellan notbundna och improviserande uppdrag. Just denna vecka varvar hon fyrsträngat violaspel, i stycken av Tjajkovskij och Bruckner, i en symfoniorkester i New Jersey, med att i studio, med femsträngad elviola, spela in altfiolstycken som tonsatts för henne. Och så har hon precis avslutat komponerandet av sin tredje String Quartet. En klassisk altfiol har fyra strängar, men Martha Mooke äger ett flertal femsträngade instrument. Hon processor ljudet I dator och med allehanda pedaler Den elektrifierade altfiolen kan låta som ett keyboard, en synth, en gitarr eller som en saxofon! Så här skriver Village Voice: ”Med sitt kritvita hår, och den blå femsträngade altfiolen, är Martha Mooke en frapperande uppenbarelse med ett bredare register än många improvisatörer kan skryta med.” Martha Mooke, som är en av stammusikerna i Carnegie Hall, har bl a jobbat med Luciano Berio, Cathy Berberian, David Bowie, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Kronoskvartetten och Rufus Wainwright. Årligen spelar Martha Mooke vid stödkonserten för Tibet House tillsammans med Philip Glass och Patti Smith. -Två turnéer med Barbara Streisand var drömturnéer av första klass! Barbara vet exakt hur hon vill ha det musikaliskt och vi musiker blev behandlade exemplariskt. Det var fantastiskt att varje kväll stå en meter från Barbara Streisand när hon gör sin stora entré och publiken jublar. Du hör inget, du vibrerar – inte bara ditt instrument, utan även din kropp vibrerar, berättar Martha Mooke. Martha Mooke’s nästa CD heter Hebra d'luz, Ljustråd, efter stycket med samma namn som tonsättaren Tania León skrivit till henne. http://www.marthamooke.com/ Tonsättaren och pianisten Elodie Lauten föddes i Paris men flyttade till New York tidigt 1970-tal. Hennes pianostycke Variations On The Orange Cycle inkluderades i Chamber Music America’s lista över nittonhundratalets 100 bästa musikstycken. Och Sequenza 21, som är en av de tre främsta internettidningarna för nutida konstmusik, listade Elodie Lauten som en av de mest inflytesrika tonsättarna av postminimalismen under de senaste 30 åren. Elodie Lauten har skrivit fem operor, stycken för piano, för elektronik och för orkester. Hon finns med på 30 CD-skivor, utgivna av 15 stora och små bolag. I New York upplever Elodie Lauten en frihet hon aldrig känt i Paris. Här kan hennes excentricitet blomma bland andra människor som är udda och kommer från olika länder. Elodie Lauten startar tjejrockband, lever en tid på Chelsea Hotel med sin pojkvän och bor tillsammans med den öppet homosexuelle poeten Allen Ginsberg. Några av hans dikter utgör librettot till hennes opera Waking in New York. Elodie Lauten skapar det lyraliknande 21-strängade instrumentet Trine och använder det i Preludiet till sin opera Death of Don Juan. Operan hade premiär i maj 2011 på Manhattan’s Theater For The New City, i East Village. - Don Juan-typen, förföraren, är en karaktär från en förfluten tid då kvinnor endast hade tre val: hustru till en man, nunna eller prostituerad. Idag, efter 1960- och 70-talens sexuella frigörelser och kvinorörelsens landvinningar, är en sådan Don Juan-karaktär inte trovärdig, säger Elodie Lauten, som i operan ger Don Juan möjlighet att uppleva äkta kärlek. Elodie Lautens far föddes som Raphael Shecroun i Algeriet. Han tar namnet Errol Parker och blir jazzmusiker och kompositör och skriver bitonal, komplex musik. 18 år gammal lämnar han Algeriet och flyttar till Paris där han bl a spelar med gitarristen Django Reinhardt. 1968 flyttar Errol Parker till New York och är så stolt över sina afrikanska rötter att han byter ut virveltrumman mot congas i trumsetet. 1971 startar han sin egen label, Sahara Records. Elodie Lauten är konstnärlig ledare för den ideella organisationen Lower East Side Perfroming Arts. http://www.elodielauten.net/

Följ med Odla med P1 till Nederländerna. I provinsen Limburg pågår den berömda trädgårdsutställningen de Floriade, som bara hålls vart tionde år, och då på olika platser i Nederländerna. Här ryms mycket mer än tulpaner! Vi besöker också den kände trädgårdsdesignern Piet Oudolf i hans egen trädgård i Humelo i östra delen av Nederländerna. Han berättar om sin syn på trädgård, och varför han gärna jobbar med fleråriga perenner i stället för ettåriga utplanteringsväxter. I New York har Piet Oudolf nyligen skapat den omtalade High Lineparken och i Sverige har han designat bl a Drömparken i Enköping och en perennpark i stockholmsförorten Skärholmen. Se bilder från Perennparken i Skärholmen här ovanför och från Piet Oudolfs egen trädgård här nedanför! Veckans ogräs är våtarv.

I dag med Jussi Björling som sjunger operarior och romanser med Radioorkestern och Stockholms filharmoniska orkester under ledning av Georg Ludwig Jochum 1958, Lars Sellergren som spelar Schumanns C-dur Fantasi från 1956 och Wilhelm Stenhammars Symfoni g-moll med Radioorkestern under ledning av Dean Dixon inspelad 1952 Dagens program inleds med en konsert med Jussi Björling inspelad i Stockholms konserthus en sommarkväll 1958. Han sjunger några av sina glansnummer från operascenen men också ett knippe romanser av Jean Sibelius och Richard Strauss. I radions programtidning Röster i Radio intervjuas den 47-årige sångaren i samband med konserten, på sitt sommarställe i Stockholms skärgård. ”Jag är för ung för att sjunga Othello” förkunnar rubriken ovanför bilden av en glädjestrålande Jussi stående vid ratten i motorbåten tillsammans med fru och dotter. Konserten ägde som sagt rum mitt i sommaren och i konserthuset var det inte bara fullt i salongen den där sommarkvällen utan podiet var också  fullsatt av en, efter svenska förhållanden, jätteorkester bestående av de sammanslagna orkestrarna från konsertföreningen och radion. Dirigent var den i Stockholm vid denna tid ofta anlitade Georg Ludwig Jochum. Jean Sibelius: Svarta rosor och Säv, säv susa. Richard Strauss: Morgen och Ständchen. Georges Bizet: Blomsterarian ur ”Carmen”. Pietro Mascagni: Turiddos avsked ur ”På Sicilien” Giacomo Puccini: Des Grieux aria ur ”Manon Lescaut” Jussi Björling, Radioorkestern och Stockholms filharmoniska orkester. Dirigent: Georg Ludwig Jochum. Inspelat 18 juli 1958 Lars Sellergren (1927–2008) var under många år verksam som pianopedagog vid Musikhögskolan I Stockholm, där han själv i tidernas begynnelse studerat för Olof Wibergh. Senare reste han i Europa och hamnade hos Bruno Seidlhofer i Wien. Han debuterade i Stockholm 1951 och spelade ofta i radion under 50- och 60-talen, både som solist med orkester och i olika kammarmusiksammanhang. Här spelar han ett av Robert Schumanns större pianoverk Fantasin i C-dur komponerat av en 26-åring 1836. Robert Schumann: Fantasi C-dur Lars Sellergren, piano Inspelat 1956. På hösten 1952 kom en ung amerikansk dirigent till Stockholm. Han hade hastigt kallats in för att ersätta den tyske dirigenten Wilhelm Furtwängler i en konsert I Stockholms konserthus. Den unge mannen hette Dean Dixon och han var den förste färgade dirigent som fått dirigera flera av de stora amerikanska orkestrarna I New York, Philadelphia och Boston. Även i Stockholm gjorde han stor succé. Han fick snabbt nya erbjudanden om konserter och hamnade strax efteråt i Göteborg, där han blev Chefdirigent för Göteborgs symfonikerna, där han blev en sentida efterträdare till Wilhelm Stenhammar, som ledde orkestern under 1910-talet. Och det var just musik av Stenhammar som blev det första svenska verk Dixon dirigerade, vid en konsert med Radiosymfonikerna. Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symfoni nr 2 g-moll Radioorkestern Dirigent: Dean Dixon Inspelat 1952 Som en extra liten dessert bjuder vi också på ett litet pianostycke av Stenhammar. Hilda Waldeland spelar det sista av Stenhammars Sensommarnätter. Wilhelm Stenhammar: Poco allegretto ur Sensommarnätter Hilda Waldeland, piano Inspelad 1961