WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:05.480 Hey everybody, I'm David Flora, I am David Steco and welcome to a 2 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:13.000 blurry photos news you can use supplemental. This is in lieu of an episode 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:15.560 this week. We're sorry that we don't have one most of our We found 4 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:20.320 out this week that the FDA has canceled our podcast as it was too high 5 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:29.800 and saturated fat. So here's a lean cuisine fatty watch the sodium, but 6 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.159 four reels. We just wanted to send you something to tide you over to 7 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:37.799 the next amazing episode that we bring you. And we got a couple of 8 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:42.600 stories, and this is kind of why we don't have an episode this week, 9 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:48.600 True Tales of the Mondane and it thoroughly understood. Say, we're flipping 10 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:51.520 the script this week. We're gonna talk about something you already know about. 11 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:55.840 Yeah, well, this week we had planned on doing an episode all about 12 00:00:55.920 --> 00:01:00.240 a road trip down to the PARSEC Awards in Atlanta, Georgia. Roadcast. 13 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.359 It was gonna be a roadcast. We're going to talk about all kinds of 14 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:07.280 stuff in the states that we were passing through. We were gonna gole plan 15 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:14.840 just so weird. We were gonna get so unspeakably weird and stuff fell through, 16 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:22.480 and we'll tell you why. It turns out that the PARSEC Awards, 17 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:27.480 which we had originally been told would probably be on Saturday, they weren't. 18 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:32.519 They weren't. They got moved to Sunday after we'd made our travel arrangements, 19 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:34.480 and then we just couldn't change them. We're just too busy and important. 20 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:40.120 Well, I was going on a trip to fabulous Colorado. I already had 21 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:45.319 changed my ticket, which cost more money to go instead of Chicago to Denver, 22 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:49.959 from Atlanta to Denver, and I was leaving on Sunday, which was 23 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.680 the day after. We thought we'd go down there and see how the awards 24 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:59.359 turned out and then get out of there on Sunday. Well, apparently they 25 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:07.040 got changed just about a month ago, and the PARSEC Awards announced the official 26 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:10.039 time on their website, on their on their blog, and on me. 27 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:15.159 I don't. I wasn't checking the way. We didn't. We didn't read 28 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:16.960 their blog. We just took their word for it. But to day, 29 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:22.919 hoops a daisy. We uh. So we had planned on getting down there, 30 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:27.599 we'd we'd already set up hotel reservations and all that stuff, so we 31 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:31.120 were able to cancel some of that. But here's the deal. We found 32 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:35.080 out about it the Wednesday before we were supposed to go. Yeah, like 33 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.319 forty eight hours before we were going to leave, Right, that was too 34 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:45.439 late to change my flight from Atlanta to Denver without paying somewhere in the ballpark 35 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:50.280 of seven hundred dollars. And thus begins poor mister Flora's journey and the descent 36 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:55.599 into madness. So far be it from me to waste a dragon con pass 37 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:00.080 that I had already purchased, That's right. Plus I had to get down 38 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:05.520 to Atlanta to fly on vacation. I was perfectly willing to lose my dragon 39 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.800 con Pass. I walked away from it. So I started looking at flights 40 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:14.639 down there, super expensive, somewhere at least three hundred bucks to get to 41 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:17.960 just get down there one way. Looked at the train. You know people 42 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:22.960 still take trains, Yeah, which I would love to Why because they're as 43 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:27.120 expensive as flying, well, three hundred dollars. It's the same prices as 44 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:30.800 flying. I would have loved to have taken a train whatever. So uh, 45 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.840 in lieu of of renting a car myself, which I figured was going 46 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:38.719 to be almost as expensive when you chalk up gas and probably you know, 47 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:46.360 some kind of hotels and the rookers on the way, um truck truck stop 48 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:51.120 hookers, seat seat covers, right, that's right cover as we learned that 49 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:54.759 on our CV episode. So gross, all of a sudden done, that 50 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:59.000 was probably going to be pretty pretty expensive in itself. So what did I 51 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:02.439 do? I opted for the Greyhound yep, bought myself a ticket on the 52 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:08.840 hound. Oh man, and uh did a seventeen hour journey from Chicago to 53 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:14.800 Atlanta riding the doll and the old hound down there. Oh uh did you 54 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:18.319 make friends? No? I didn't. There there was one baby early on 55 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:24.240 in the trip who rode from Gary, Indiana down to Indianapolis. And thank 56 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:27.800 goodness, that was just one one stop because it was a baby. Babies 57 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:30.680 love buses, everybody knows that. Yeah, and they left sitting next to 58 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.000 me on business Oh yeah, it wasn't It really wasn't that bad. More 59 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:36.360 room than a plane, and for the most part, save a couple of 60 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:43.399 trips between cities, I had a seat to myself. So it really yeah, 61 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:46.000 you know, it worked out. I was able to actually work on 62 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:49.040 the tarot ups whom part of it, so I'd work on that and then 63 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:56.040 kind of fall asleep. Nice. But I got down to Atlanta Nightmare and 64 00:04:56.079 --> 00:05:00.079 then walked to dragon CONU And I have to say I was not prepared for 65 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.720 Dragon Con. Well, there's a lot of dragons, and there's a lot 66 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:09.879 of cons, a lot of cons. I get it. It was a 67 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:15.199 hot mass of humanity spread across a few blocks of downtown Atlanta. It was 68 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:24.000 not my ideal situation game. I don't want to say I'm xenophobic, but 69 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:28.240 that's a lot to take in. Yeah, I did not appreciate this. 70 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:32.040 Luckily, I had bought my pass already and I was able to skip a 71 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:38.680 line that stretched from inside this huge ballroom of a hotel out the door, 72 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.920 down the hall, and then out the other door to the outside of the 73 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.560 hotel. I would have been in line all day, you would have. 74 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.279 Yeah. So I was able to skip this line and go up and get 75 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:53.040 my pass and that was great. But then I had to figure out where 76 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:58.639 to go because it's Dragon Con is spread around a few hotels down in the 77 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.000 See. That's what blows my mind. Like anything like I can understand, 78 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:04.480 like when we have like C two E two or or our nerds, our 79 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:09.480 personal nerd circuses here in Chicago, like, yo, that's McCormick. It's 80 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.480 it's it's a huge, giant convention hall. But it's in one hall, 81 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:15.319 so one place. Run around and see everything. I can't imagine like having 82 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:20.199 it spread from like multiple locations. Yeah, I have to say this C 83 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:26.199 two E two here is was much preferable because first I went to the wrong 84 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.600 hotel and then I had to you know, trek two blocks to get my 85 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:32.759 pass, and then had to trek back. And this is in Atlanta in 86 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:39.079 the summer, had a light jacket on, I had my backpack with because 87 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:43.079 I was your worldly possessions. Yeah, because I was going from Dragon Con 88 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:47.160 to Denver. I have no idea how you did that. That is that's 89 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:53.560 this miserable, miserable. Okay, tell me how much more miserable it can 90 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:57.120 get. Well, it's fun to see the costumes. Yeah, the couseplay 91 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:02.920 is great. Being squeezed in next to humanity is not great. But seeing 92 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:08.160 all the crap you can buy and trying to, you know, stay afloat 93 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.519 in the river of people that that go buy the booths and stuff. Yeah, 94 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.040 it's it's it's okay. I came out of it with a thor coffee 95 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:20.079 mug Sweet. I came out of with two games, one of which is 96 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:26.759 the Illuminati Card Game, Sweet Peter Jackson Illuminati Card Game, which is a 97 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:30.720 lot of fun. So in the end, the dragon Count experience was me 98 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.600 strikes and Gutters, Strike, stricks and Gutters, and then the next day 99 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:36.639 I'm going to skip ahead a little bit, but then I'm going to come 100 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:41.199 back because I've got to tell you when I've got a story from when I 101 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:46.439 flew into d I A after I got to my final destination, I was 102 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:50.800 able to follow the PARSEC Awards on Twitter and summarily find out that we did 103 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:55.680 not win. So we didn't win an award at the Parsac this year. 104 00:07:56.040 --> 00:08:00.800 At glad that I didn't drive there. Is it? Is it better this 105 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.079 way? Is it better than to have gone down there, the two of 106 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:07.959 us, and then sit in the audience for them to not color name No, 107 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:11.120 because I would have spent the entire time making out with a girl dress 108 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:15.560 like silock or something like Oh, I would have That's the route I would 109 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.720 have gone. I honestly, you always find the positive. It's right. 110 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:22.920 I would have gone down there and been barely cognizant that there was an award 111 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:26.519 ceremony. I would have had too much fun giggling and running amuck with all 112 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:30.399 the nerdery present. I would have had too much fun. I honestly, 113 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:33.039 there was a little part of me. I had never said this to you. 114 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:35.440 I never told this to you until this moment that I was like, 115 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:39.799 Man, when I get down there, I'm gonna be kind of hard pressed. 116 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:41.600 I want to go to the award itself. I don't want to go 117 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:46.720 like run amuck and check out all all the stuff that's happening and just text 118 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.360 me if we win, I'll run over to you know, speech Hall c. 119 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.960 We'll figure it out. But turns out not a problem, a problem 120 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.480 which I would like to take this opportunity to, however, extend the highest 121 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:05.840 of fives to Blastropod Cast with the very talented Detri Bolardo and his insipid roommate 122 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:09.120 Mark Solov, who I mean, he pays some electricity bells, but really 123 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:11.240 it's tot getting the job done there. So highest to five is because they 124 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:15.600 did win. They won in their category. Yeah, so way to go, 125 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:18.039 guys. That's that's Chicago bringing home some pride. True, we lost 126 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:22.039 our best fact to the fiction podcast to the Hubble Cast, which is run 127 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:26.000 by NASA and the European Space Agency. So I lose anybody to lose to, 128 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:30.080 right, I'm happy to get my ass kicked by NASA. I guess 129 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.480 it's about a NASA T shirt today. I didn't realize I was funding the 130 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:41.039 enemy you are, but fogoes hereby declares itself the mortal enemy of space exploration 131 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:46.399 henceforth until we are the ones sending probes into space. How do you like 132 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:52.080 it now, NASA? Who's Who's blurry Phogos? Blurry Phogos is our three 133 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:58.159 beer version of the podcast, which you probably hear that this pretty much always 134 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:03.159 blurry Phogos. But anyways, congratulations to the winners. It was it was 135 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:07.840 a good trip in concept, but we got some stories out of it. 136 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:13.279 Nonetheless, he suffered. He's just you just plane suffered. Here's a story 137 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.279 about what I do for this podcast. Gather an y'all, When I got 138 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:20.600 into da ever heard of it? Because if you haven't, you should listen 139 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.639 to our d IA podcast. Lolo Rocca's favorite episode, our number one fans 140 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:31.840 favorite episode. I can't give a better seal of approval than that. When 141 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:37.399 I got into DA. That's Denver International Airport. Thank you. Of course, 142 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.440 the past couple of times that I've been there, I have been like 143 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.759 on the run from the cops. I've got to got to get a picture 144 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:48.960 of these murals. But I'm on the run from the cops. I've wanted 145 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.200 to find the murals, yeah, and see them, but I've always had 146 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:56.320 a quick turnover. The layover hasn't been that long because I switched planes in 147 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:01.240 DA. So this time I was determined, it's like, I'm gonna see 148 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:03.480 these murals. I'm gonna take pictures and I'm going to put them up on 149 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.799 the website. You know, people want to see this and this is I 150 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.039 want to see them in person. I had about a twenty minute layover, 151 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:16.080 and I was like, that is that's plenty of time to go to the 152 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:18.360 terminal that these are in, take pictures, and come back. The train's 153 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.600 pretty fast. Yeah. I got off the plane and I went straight to 154 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:26.759 the train and went to the terminal where the murals are found. The murals, 155 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:31.200 I took the pictures. I go back to where I came out of 156 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:37.080 the train and realize it's a do not enter where I came out of. 157 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:43.039 So what I had inadvertently done, was subverted the entire security protocol of the 158 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:48.960 airport. Yes, yep, so high. I begin sort of panicking and 159 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.879 I run up to some poor person at an information booth and I was like, 160 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.480 where can I get back on the train. They're like, what do 161 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.879 you mean back on the train? I was like, I just got off 162 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.879 the train. I want to get back on to go to this terminal. 163 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:05.919 They're like, well, you have to go through security. And I was 164 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:09.840 like, what, yeah, you do? You crossed the cord and you 165 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:15.120 came out of the secure zone. I hadn't seen any signs. Whether it 166 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:20.200 was in my haste to take the pictures or my excitement to take the pictures, 167 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.799 or poor signsmanship by the airport. I did not realize that I was 168 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:26.200 going out of security, or I would not have done it. Do you 169 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.799 know. Here's for our listeners one fun fact about d IA. Like the 170 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.759 security area, they set it up like thunderdome. So there's this big like 171 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:39.799 railing all the way around it, like on an elevated like the second level 172 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:41.960 of the terminal, so you can just look down and all you see is 173 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:48.159 this sea of humanity funneling through metal detectors, and no matter what time of 174 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.879 day, you look down there and you're like, that's five hours of my 175 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:54.840 life right there. There's no way I'm getting through that in less than five 176 00:12:54.879 --> 00:13:01.480 hours. So I run to the security place what they've just described to you, 177 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:07.879 and of course there's a massive humanity waiting to get scanned and probed. 178 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:11.720 My heart's beating. I'm like shaking my hands like, well, this isn't 179 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:16.840 this isn't happening. Because I was pretty much gonna miss my flight. It 180 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.480 had already started boarding by this time, and I was just getting to security. 181 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.919 So I wait in line for a minute or two because the line was 182 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.440 slow moving. You know, there's people just not given any fox, just 183 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:33.399 kind of walking zombie like through it, or not walking at all. And 184 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:37.120 finally I get to a point where I flag down a TSA person and they 185 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:41.039 come over, you know, nonchalantly, just kind of stroll over. Look 186 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:46.240 at here someone has in a hurry. Where who will? So I put 187 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:52.200 on my best panic face, which wasn't hard to do, and I explained 188 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:58.360 the situation to this lady of the TSA and she's sort of like half smiles 189 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.600 and slowly unladed, which is the chord, you know, for the line, 190 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:07.159 and shoose me through to the to the person who's checking boarding passes and 191 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:11.080 stuff. And my story was not that I had come from the terminal where 192 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:16.759 my next flight was to look at murals. It was, oh, I 193 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:22.919 got lost right, way better story, what I mean? Yeah? Yeah. 194 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.759 And she was like, so you got on the train and your next 195 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:28.759 flight takes off in the same terminal you were in, and I was like 196 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:33.519 yes. She's like that's really stupid. And I was like, I know, 197 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.559 right, because what are you gonna say, hey, you well right? 198 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:39.600 But plus I had made that up, right, I had, so 199 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:45.000 I wasn't gonna be like, wait a minute. Yeah. So I get 200 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:48.440 to the place where you have to take all your clothes off and you know, 201 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:52.240 throw everything you own in there so they can scan it through. And 202 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:54.840 then you get scanned and there are a couple of elderly people right in front 203 00:14:54.879 --> 00:15:03.759 of me, the elderly old people, and they gave zero shots, no 204 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:09.159 about anybody being in a hurry. That's fine, it's they're prerogative. It 205 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:11.919 whatever. Man. It's because when you're that old, there's a statistical chance 206 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:16.039 that if you're going someplace you don't want to go to you might just die 207 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.120 on the way, So that's why they go slow. I don't blame them 208 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:24.440 doctor appointments at that point, they're not They don't care anyway. Blurry photos 209 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:28.679 we hate the elderly man. I don't know about phos. Blurry photos is 210 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:33.080 not a friend of the elderly anyway. I finally get up there to where 211 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:35.360 I you know, they have the machine where you put your arms up and 212 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.559 they scan you right, and all of a sudden, this man rolls up, 213 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:43.759 this older woman in a wheelchair. I could tell they're like, no, 214 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:48.080 weird next because wheelchair, you know, yeah. And the guy like 215 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.919 leans over and taps my shoulder and he's like, excuse me, I've got 216 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:52.799 this wheelchair. And I was like, I'm sorry, you have to go, 217 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:58.279 and I jump in the machine. You start screaming being me up. 218 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:02.759 I like jump in the machine and I throw my arms up, they scan 219 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:06.759 me. I jump out. I get my stuff like i'd throw my shoes 220 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:11.399 on without tying. I leave a bunch of change in the bucket, stuff 221 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:14.720 everything I can, you know, into bags that I'm that I'm carrying. 222 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:21.279 Did you turn around for a quick double crotch grab Hong Kong. No, 223 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:30.519 but have fun wheel chin you goodness. No. But what happens is as 224 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.960 soon as I get everything to where I'm holding it or wearing it, I 225 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:37.519 turn around and there's another wall of elderly people. And I'm talking a wall 226 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:45.039 shoulder to shoulder people who have just gotten through security and are slowly zombily shambling 227 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:49.000 forward out of the security area. I have to do my best parkour through 228 00:16:49.039 --> 00:17:04.799 them. Matt Cansberry again, my blood lunch, oh Man diabetes. If 229 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:07.400 you're elderly and you like our podcast, though you're exempt from this, by 230 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:10.960 the way, yeah, you're like when you are one of the good ones. 231 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:15.160 They you know, came by me. So I get through the elderly 232 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:19.359 patch and uh like a turn up patch, and I run down to the 233 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:23.160 train, and of course it's like hours before the train comes, even though 234 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:26.640 it was like a couple of minutes, and at this time it's already passed 235 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:32.039 boarding time, you know, like it's it's probably five ten minutes from when 236 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:36.319 the plane actually is supposed to take off from the runway itself. And I'm 237 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.400 just like, I'm hoping to God. And I get on the train, 238 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:41.839 I get to my terminal. I run out of the train, I run 239 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:45.720 up the escalator and I turn around and start running up the next escalator, 240 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.200 and I realize I'm not going anywhere, and I look down. I'm going 241 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:52.799 up the down escalator. So I have to turn around, get off that 242 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:56.880 escalator, and run across the roof to get a video of this farcicle adventure, 243 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.680 just pushing the elderly down, run up the wrong way. I've got 244 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:06.839 my my Iluminati game in the bag. I'm wearing boots that are untied, 245 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:11.039 and I've got this huge backpack on. So I get up the escalator and 246 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:18.079 I'm headed to gate forty nine and I'm at Gate twenty five at that point, 247 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:22.359 so I just start hoofing it through the airport. Now we're at altitude. 248 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:26.279 Yeah, not easy to do. That'll catch up with you fast, 249 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:30.480 and it did. It did. So my lungs are burning, my legs 250 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:34.799 are burning, and things are starting to not respond to my mental coma, 251 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:40.400 and I have to stop and just walk for a little bit. Nothing that 252 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:42.119 made me happier is if it. This is the moment where that old lady 253 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:48.559 passes you in her mechanized wheelchair. She gives you a little do you like 254 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:55.799 me? Now, I've got an oxygen tank. I hope you catch your 255 00:18:55.799 --> 00:19:03.720 flight, dick. So I'm gas and walking through slush squash style. Yeah, 256 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.839 and I get to I see gate forty nine, so I pick it 257 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.920 up again and I start kind of jog and I get there and I'm like 258 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:19.400 and the people are like, is he hyperventilating? Is what's going on here? 259 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:22.519 And I handed my boarding ticket and they're like, oh are you so? 260 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:27.200 And so oh oh okay, and like it wasn't my name whatever name 261 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:30.680 they said, it wasn't my name, but I couldn't talk. I couldn't 262 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:34.759 breathe, so I couldn't talk. So they opened the door to let me, 263 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:38.079 let me down the ramp and suddenly they're like, no, no, 264 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:42.240 stop, this isn't your flight. And I was like what what did I 265 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:47.480 miss it? And They're like, no, you're at gate fifty nine. 266 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:55.400 And I was like, wherever this plane's going, that's where I'm going. 267 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:02.359 I end up back in Atlantic. Yeah. So so I grabbed my boarding 268 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:07.359 pass bag and I'm like, tell them to hold it all my life, 269 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:12.720 tell them my tale. So I start jogging again and everything just kind of 270 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:18.440 shuts down and I start doing the Sasquatch lope. I finally see gate fifty 271 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.960 nine and the person is luckily still there. It's like the finish line of 272 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:29.119 a marathon. Yeah, but a marathon from like New York to Los Angeles. 273 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:32.920 Yeah, That's that's how it felt. And I kind of tried to 274 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:36.920 pick it up to jog the last, you know, twenty feet and I 275 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:40.759 get there and I and they're like, oh, what happened? Where did 276 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:44.319 you go? You? You landed like nine gates down where. What happened 277 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:48.000 is some merels, There is some meals by light. I said, tell 278 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:51.240 me, stupid, and there's the murals. And I lied, and then 279 00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:53.680 I was stupid, and it's forty nine. It's forty nine. I was 280 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:56.799 almost there, and then I lied to me. By the skin of my 281 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:03.519 teeth, I made the flight man. Does everybody's staring bailfully at you as 282 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:07.920 you're like, no, No, they weren't. You probably looked pretty miserable, 283 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:12.119 although I looked terrible. I mean, the sweat was just running off 284 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:15.960 of me, So I think people at least knew something was going on. 285 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:22.119 But every everything was cool, except for like a few days. From thenceforth, 286 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.240 my lungs O. The burn just coughed up everything that was in them. 287 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:33.960 It was just like a death rattle. Like no, every time I 288 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:37.759 breathe, there was lungs getting purified by the mile high air well. I 289 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:41.200 hope so, but that's that's what happened to d Ia. I'm going to 290 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:45.240 post these pictures that I took up on the website so that people see what 291 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:49.799 I ruined my lungs for and almost missed my flight. That's a harrowing adventure. 292 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:53.880 Do you know what I did? What? Nothing? I laid on 293 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:56.799 my couch, Dude, that was it. All the while you're going through 294 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:00.880 these amazing trials and tribulations, I'm just like, oh, I guess I 295 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:06.440 could watch another episode of Breaking Bad. You know. It's like the I 296 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:08.799 watched the whole season, but I just keep finding myself drawn back to the 297 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:14.720 first episode of Orange is the New Black. For anyone who's not seen that 298 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:18.480 show, it's the first episode is just nothing but boobs. It's just like 299 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:21.480 a softcore porn movie. And then then then they're afterwards, they're like, 300 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:26.720 well, you're hooked. Here's the show. Yeah, so that's what happened. 301 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:30.279 That's why we don't have an episode this week. That was a hell 302 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:33.359 of an explanation. I hope you're satisfied, people, but we did want 303 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:37.839 to give you an episode where we told you about stuff that was going on. 304 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:42.680 And we're also gonna talk some listener mail that we got. Oh wait, 305 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:47.240 I have something. Yeah, your tarot reading was totally right. I 306 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:52.359 got promoted at work by my boss, who was an influential woman. Hello. 307 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:55.960 Yeah, so now, per the terms of my reading, I have 308 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:00.440 to be careful of my ego and not to let that go too far. 309 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.119 And it's you know what, and it's already come in handy because I was 310 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:08.039 halfway through ordering some golden robes and I said, whoa, pump the brakes, 311 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:12.400 check yourself before you rick it. So it's just it's just velvet. 312 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:17.039 Now, it's just like your regular, workaday, royal purple velvet. Well, 313 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:19.079 yep, I don't want to seem too cocky, right right, I'm 314 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:22.039 a working man's deity. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you. I'm a big 315 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:26.519 deal and I expect to be burned at the stake. Yeah, yeah, 316 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:29.079 thank you, missus, thank you. R J. Taro the third, 317 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:42.400 So, let's let's talk about some listener mail that we go see the mail. 318 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:45.799 The mail you don't stop, she don't care where she goes. Male 319 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:49.680 is always there. Do you like that the mail is actually a female? 320 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:56.079 That's what I just did. Expectations blown, knick it off, d flow. 321 00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:59.400 I'm gonna start out with, um, did you guys like our wraps? 322 00:23:59.559 --> 00:24:03.200 We rap apped, We spent we spent a while on that. Yeah, 323 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.400 some sweet those are some sweet lyrics, some some hot beats. So 324 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:10.880 our first one comes from Peter. Peter says, hey, guys, love 325 00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:14.039 the show and love the humor. Thanks Peter, Uh could brush up on 326 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:18.880 those Irish accents though, kind of dodgy. And then he goes on to 327 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:22.319 request the the EVP that we wouldn't play. He wanted the red pill. 328 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:37.960 Here's the deal, Peters from Ireland. Oh that's why UH can help us. 329 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:41.880 Thank you Peter for writing in, and yeah, good on you, 330 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:45.400 because you're absolutely right. And in fact, when I replied to him with 331 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:48.839 the EVP, I told him that our tagline should be blurry photos kind of 332 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:53.039 dodgy. Yeah we are kind of dodging uh, and he enjoyed that EVP. 333 00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:56.759 Thanks for writing in, Peter, and and please feel free to write 334 00:24:56.759 --> 00:25:00.759 in some more with your Irish slant on things. Yeah, please do I 335 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:03.720 want to and maybe some some cool lessons on how to sleep of our our 336 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:07.319 game. Yeah, he wrote us back, said great, EVP, he's 337 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:10.400 shooting bricks. Now. That's the power of the link. It's what this 338 00:25:10.440 --> 00:25:15.839 will do our own very very low stakes version of the ring. Just listen 339 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:19.400 to it, you get the heebies something geb and he said it was very 340 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:22.640 disturbing. It would make a great intro for a Slayer album. That's true. 341 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:26.519 That's that's how you know, Peter Rocks. Yeah, so cool, 342 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:29.119 Thank you, Thank you, Peter, thank you. And if you got 343 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:33.279 any any cool uh stuff from Ireland that we may be missed in our Irish 344 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:36.960 Legends episode, which there are a ton so I'm sure you do, let 345 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:40.839 us know and we'll we maybe do a podcast episode about it. Yeah, 346 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:41.920 you know, we got a we got a pun, got a pun in 347 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:47.559 the mix. Oh yeah yeah. Oh baby, you've been gone so long. 348 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:52.200 I've missed you so much. I'm so happy to have the Bahama Mama 349 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:56.200 return to the fold. Bahama Mama. Yeah, we haven't heard from you 350 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.799 in months. Wow. I can't stay mad at you. I'm just so 351 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:03.519 glad you're back. I don't care where you go. I don't care why 352 00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:06.319 you had to leave. I just need to be the kind of man that 353 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:12.039 makes you stay all right. Back to the bush, here we go. 354 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:18.319 The rich aristocratic people of the Egyptian times. This is from our Asconatin episode. 355 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:22.079 The rich aristocratic people of the Egyptian times wanted their families to be very 356 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:30.880 quote narrow minded. Thus they wrapped their skulls. Oh narrow minded. Bahama 357 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.720 Mama, You're like a tropical breeze on a on a on a day that's 358 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:40.039 just too hot. I work out. Yeah, thank you, Bahama Mama, 359 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:45.599 Please write us more often. We also heard from Emerson Emerson, winner 360 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:49.960 of the twenty thirteen minutes Creptic contest prize package. Emerson hits us with some 361 00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:52.880 puns. Yeah, he gets puns up in our face, oh man. 362 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:57.960 From our Aconatin episode, Emerson said there's a popular Pharaohs club and ancient thebes 363 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:07.319 called for twitties our tats. Emerson also says whenever a spy is called decrypting 364 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:19.400 secret messages from his broadcast source, it's renamed a blunderstation. Bompas Hi poppy. 365 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.000 Oh, this is topical. What happens when recording the podcast on one 366 00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:33.279 too many beers. Slurry photos. That's every episode for me. Blurry photos, 367 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:37.640 blurry photos. He who goes up, Hey, did you just look 368 00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:41.599 at me? You don't look at me? The only God can look at 369 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:47.880 me. Oh that's not all Emerston hit us with no Emerson actually brought the 370 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:52.680 heat. Emerson brought us a story. So a story. Oh yeah, 371 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:55.160 yeah, he brought some heat. Okay, here we go, this is 372 00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:56.920 good. Before I begin, I'd like to say I'm a skeptic first, 373 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.400 in a believer. Second, I accept science and rational thought, with the 374 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:06.200 obvious exception of listening to us. I don't believe in the paranormal without proof, 375 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:08.119 but I'm always up for a great mystery. So, without further delay, 376 00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:11.279 here are the events as they occurred to me so long ago. I 377 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:14.920 was young, around eight, if memory serves, and I was at my 378 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:18.519 grandmother's house in Baldwinsville, New York. It's a big place, and I 379 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:21.880 was sleeping in the basement, easily the spookiest place in the house at night. 380 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:25.839 I awoke late one evening and found myself either unable or unwilling to move 381 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:29.759 or speak, And to my astonishment, they were figures moving in the dark, 382 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.039 dozens of them, all moving in orderly lines out of the back into 383 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:37.200 the darkness. To describe them as difficult. Their faces and bodies were featureless 384 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.799 and colorless. More or less, they were short beings or specters, or 385 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:47.160 shapes with empty eyes and wide open mouths that appeared to be black pits embedded 386 00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:51.319 in their faces. Dude, they made no sound. He gave no hint 387 00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:55.240 that they were aware of me. This ethereal parade of entities continued for what 388 00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:59.319 seemed like hours, the whole time I was paralyzed with fear or perhaps something 389 00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:03.920 a bit more blameable wink. Eventually, the sun rose and they faded away 390 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:07.039 with the new day's arrival, never to be seen again. I was the 391 00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:08.960 only witness to any of this, and this is the first time I've spoken 392 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:12.880 of this outside the safe confines of my own brain. I was not dreaming. 393 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:17.799 I awoke to this and never went back to sleep. Was it ghosts 394 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:22.480 probably not beings from another dimension? Unlikely? Or did the reptilians project images 395 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.640 into my brain to get me hooked on GMOs? Probably? Most likely? 396 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:30.279 I like where his head's at? Who knows? He says a little hat 397 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:34.559 higher there. What happened was most likely a textbook example of sleep paralysis. 398 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:37.960 I can't say for sure, as I've never had another incidence, so who 399 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:42.359 knows. Really, it's a mystery. Amazing. Oh man, that's thank 400 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:45.920 you so much for sharing that. Yeah, that is awesome and spooky. 401 00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:52.519 Is help just to watch these things eight years old seeing this man, No, 402 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:57.480 there's no I would have screamed my fool head off instantly. What if 403 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:03.279 you couldn't? Sounds like he wasn't able to do much now, you know. 404 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:07.079 You know we said with the in the Shadow Person episode, with the 405 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:15.400 sleep paralysis, there comes that percentage of people who their brain makes things out 406 00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:18.400 of what they're seeing. Yeah. Right, this is sort of the paradolia 407 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:25.480 that's that's going on where their their brain makes the patterns seem like something recognizable, 408 00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:30.880 and too often it's something horrendous or scary or spooky or something like that. 409 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.359 So while it could be explained that this is some form of that that's 410 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:38.440 going on with his brain, he says it happened for a while, which 411 00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:42.920 to me is odd because after a while you think your brain would kind of 412 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:45.680 kick in and say, wait a minute, you know, maybe this isn't 413 00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:51.640 right shadow munchkins walking single file. But if you're but if you're not fully 414 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:53.799 awake, I mean, time dilation is so weird when your brain's in that 415 00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:57.119 state, Like, how can you really know how long anything was happening for? 416 00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:00.799 True? True? And so you're left with the impression. I mean 417 00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:03.359 it's like a dream. Sometimes you'll have a dream you feel like hours have 418 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:06.160 passed, but it's just been between snooze buttons, you know. Yeah, 419 00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:08.640 so it's a hard thing to keep a good idea of you know, when 420 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:12.400 you're when you're in that in that position. Absolutely, Yeah, that's that's 421 00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:15.400 another good point to it as well. Um, and you know, since 422 00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:19.480 this has come back up, um, I actually have an interesting PostScript to 423 00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:23.720 our Shadow People episode. Yeah, it turns out that one of my coworkers 424 00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:29.759 has a form of narcolepsy. Not where or you just pass out or anything 425 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:33.400 like that, but it has to do with how she sleeps. Whereas a 426 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:38.759 normal person will take several hours to achieve a deep rem sleep where your brain 427 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:42.680 is active it's where the dreaming happens, she achieves it in about two minutes. 428 00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:48.880 Wow, So the entire time she's asleep, she's having these very vivid 429 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.039 dreams, and and so I asked her, and I you know, she, 430 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:55.359 I was like, do you get a sleep prowlysis? She said occasionally? 431 00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:57.000 And I asked her, do you get the hallucinations? She's like, 432 00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:00.599 yeah, it seemed like the shadowy people moving around, things like that. 433 00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:06.559 And since we got that other listener who wrote in about sometimes the dreams are 434 00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:08.440 really erotic, I asked her, you know, why not if that ever 435 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:13.000 happens as well? She said sometimes. She's like, but the thing is 436 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:16.680 that even even the dreams that are sexual aren't necessarily like positively sexual. Interesting. 437 00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:22.720 She said that the unifying theme for all of her dreams is that they're 438 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:30.039 all just extremely graphic, whether it be sexually or visually or violently, they're 439 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:35.319 just very very graphic. And I just thought that was really interesting. So 440 00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:38.640 she so she has the occasional sleep paralysis with the hallucinations, but in this 441 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:45.400 very scientific context of a sleep disorder. So it was just a really interesting 442 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:46.880 perspective. And I wish that I had known about this before we recorded. 443 00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:51.880 I would have tried to get her on the show Why Wonder Why Figures, 444 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:55.519 Running Figures? I think it Maybe I'll bet you there's some deep psychology to 445 00:32:55.559 --> 00:33:00.559 it that that's just like what you your brain tries to create is something that 446 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:06.240 it's the most familiar with. Weird, It's incredibly interesting. Yeah, it's 447 00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:10.359 it's great, so so weird, And it feels like we're right on the 448 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:17.200 edge of being able to explain it scientifically or being able to explain it paranormally, 449 00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:21.920 right, I mean, I'm I'm leaning ninety nine point nine percent of 450 00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:24.920 the scientific side of it. Well, but but there are like some interesting 451 00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:30.160 I don't want to see non scientific but like not linear mathematic explanations like why, 452 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:35.119 just like what you're saying, why the brain chooses certain things? Why 453 00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:38.160 why would the brain need to generate graphic imagery? What what is it about 454 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:43.480 that that makes that selective? How does the brain find those images and incorporate 455 00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:47.359 them? Why why does it take this such a consistent form YEA from person 456 00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:51.519 to person, because it should be very different. It should be very different 457 00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:54.759 depending on the person. And to me that the graphic nature of what you 458 00:33:54.759 --> 00:34:00.480 were just talking about could probably be explained like like my brain already works to 459 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:02.720 think, oh, well, you know, there's some something's not getting shut 460 00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:07.280 off or something is firing in the brain that causes it to be more visceral. 461 00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:12.679 But in the case of like Emmerson when he writes in and says the 462 00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:16.760 mouths and the eyes were like gaping pits in there, why in the world 463 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:21.760 would your brain put that in there? Yeah, when you see people every 464 00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:25.119 day, it'd be easier almost to fill in with a more familiar face, 465 00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:29.119 right, Yeah. Well, you know, I have a theory in my 466 00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:31.440 head that is back to my no science or research. It's just something that 467 00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:35.679 I came up with. But I feel like it's it's almost akin to a 468 00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:39.239 yawn, where your body wants to and there's a thousand reasons of your body 469 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:44.360 yawns, but one of them is to get this burst of oxygen to bring 470 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:45.840 a breath in and hold it. And so it kind of it and it 471 00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:50.719 involves all these other systems. You know, your muscles move differently, you 472 00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:52.800 kind of zone out a little bit. It's it's amazing how many things happen 473 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:57.480 just from a good old fashioned yawn. It's amazing how I want to yawn 474 00:34:57.559 --> 00:34:59.559 right now. I know I was thinking about it as I was saying, 475 00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:02.800 like that, don't do it, um, But the same thing that happens 476 00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:09.760 with my theories that I wonder if there's some neurochemical that is generated with that, 477 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:14.639 with that imagery that the brain needs that the body is requiring, whether 478 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:20.320 correctly or due to some imbalance, and so the brain is determined. If 479 00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:24.599 I keep this graphic imagery running, then maybe you're you're you're getting a low 480 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:29.639 grade dose of adrenaline while you're asleep because it thinks it's in danger. You're 481 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:32.519 you're creating this false fight or flight. You've got a fear response, so 482 00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:37.000 you're you're getting maybe the heart rate higher. Maybe you know, like, 483 00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:39.199 is it is it a way of fooling the body into performing a certain way 484 00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:43.679 while you're asleep, and not necessarily because your body needs it, but it 485 00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:46.480 thinks it does. There's some maybe a disorder or something wrong where your brain 486 00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:51.480 is not properly determining what it needs. But I almost feel like it's a 487 00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:54.239 it's not the end, it's a means to an end almost. That's that's 488 00:35:54.320 --> 00:36:00.599 my idiot three dollar theory that is based on nothing and expensive. So that's 489 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:04.159 three dollars each of you owe me. Man, It's always fun to talk 490 00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:07.760 about the shadow person stuff. It blossoms into it just really really cool. 491 00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:10.679 Yeah, so thank you again, Emerson. Yeah, thank thanks for sending 492 00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:15.079 that and thanks for sharing, and thanks for the puns. Yeah, we'd 493 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:19.719 lighten it up. Yeah, we heard again from Peyton. Bob what oh 494 00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:22.920 man um and Bob. Bob wrote in to say that he believes he got 495 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:29.719 schooled by Gray Cat. Fancy Feast does not f around, but Bob has 496 00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:31.880 got skills like nobody's business. Yeah, Bob, don't don't. Don't feel 497 00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:37.199 bad about your skills. Yo. Yeah, just because great gray Cat wrote 498 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:43.320 in the mule log that's a good one. It's good. And Bob concedes 499 00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:45.679 to that. But Bob, don't let that stop you. No, don't 500 00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:51.719 stop. We love your puns. I'd like to believe that uh gray Cat 501 00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:55.480 was actually inspired by all of the magnificent puns that Bob has brought along. 502 00:36:55.559 --> 00:37:00.559 So I think that I think that Bob could even can even share in the 503 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:02.320 glory of a good great cat. I think so I think we can all 504 00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:07.039 share and great cats at home like no good way I did. That was 505 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:13.440 me worked all week Dan on that pun. Oh and we've got a little 506 00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:21.119 uh got a sweet piece of email here. Oh God, our friend Jay 507 00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:28.159 writes in the song Here Comes the Hot Stepper is a song available as a 508 00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:32.159 downloadable content for the video game Just Dance two. So the rest assured Dave 509 00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:37.679 has been paid forward at least a little to new generations. Thank you Jay 510 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:44.440 for verifying that I was not insane for remembering any Camus and Here Comes the 511 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:47.280 Hot step I went home and looked up that video, and I've got to 512 00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:52.679 say it was the first time it had ever come across my ears. Ever, 513 00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:55.480 you never heard that song, never heard the song. It was weird, 514 00:37:55.719 --> 00:38:01.280 ash, Come on, have you seen the video? It's weird. 515 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:12.239 I don't know. We don't die? Yeah, anyone left here? Yeah? 516 00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:20.719 I know what. Bow don't know. Chang chang. Oh man, 517 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.840 it was awesome. Sorry, that was a jam. I guess I was 518 00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:31.280 too busy listening to Cherokee, peper Cherokee. Oh no, you're a thing. 519 00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:34.880 You're not talking about Paul Revere and the Raiders. You're talking about that 520 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:37.880 damn yea Cherokee Cha cha song. Herest's what I'm talking about. It's not 521 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.559 what it's called, but I know what you're talking about. What is it 522 00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:45.159 called? Choctaw? Lady, Lady parts, you're close Keep going, keep 523 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:49.599 keep trying to keep going. You're somehow getting more offensive, not meaning to, 524 00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:53.119 which means you mean it all the more h Indian law. It's what 525 00:38:53.159 --> 00:39:00.320 it's called. Oh god. We also have a YouTube comment actually yeah from 526 00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.280 our YouTube, which is really great. It's do you guys like to watch 527 00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:07.440 a video of our podcast? But has no video content but an audio track. 528 00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:09.000 I put some pictures in there. Oh sweet, just in case you 529 00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:14.519 actually look at it while you listen to it, just stare at it. 530 00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:19.440 I just tried to make a face on a podcast. I think it worked. 531 00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:25.880 But the Pagan flutist liked our our Witches episode, Actually sweet, what 532 00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:29.719 do you have to say? Said really enjoyed hearing a non biased to a 533 00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:35.280 positive history of their people, and invited us to message them if we have 534 00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:38.559 any more questions about which her e. We indeed will have more questions about 535 00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:44.519 your people, many many questions. But that's awesome. Where are your hut 536 00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:51.440 Wickens? I'm very proud, yeah, because I'm always scared when we put 537 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:55.119 these episodes out that that somebody who is living the life or knows you know, 538 00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:58.840 a ton about it is going to write in and be like you, 539 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:01.760 yeah, yeah, why are you do, you are in the s to 540 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:07.960 ask it. Okay, you just damp it right now, gang it you 541 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:12.639 dead dead now. I'm so sorry. My mom left that voicemail on your 542 00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:15.599 phone. I don't even know she got your number and it was uncalled for. 543 00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:21.400 She was so mad mad. Yeah, no, I love that pagan 544 00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:23.559 flutist. Thank you very much. And uh yeah, we we always have 545 00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:29.039 questions about witchcraft. We don't sure, we don't know anything. I'm i 546 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:31.159 gonna be honest. I'm surprised we don't get hate mail. Yeah yet, 547 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:35.800 I mean I guess that that says we got a long way to go, 548 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:37.159 right yeah, because you know what they say. You know, if if 549 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:40.480 you're not making someone mad, you're not doing it well, which means we're 550 00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:45.119 not doing it well at all, because nobody seems really that mad. So 551 00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:49.960 it's time to enter into the racist sexist corner with your host, Dave Stecco. 552 00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:55.760 You know what, I hate women who don't look like me. You 553 00:40:55.840 --> 00:41:01.639 know, chase my thighs, you know what chives my onions. You know, 554 00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:06.719 I saw this girl the other day and guess what, her skin wasn't 555 00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:09.000 the same color as me. So you know, there they go again, 556 00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:15.679 they're at it again, and so ends the Day's to go race a sexist 557 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:20.159 corner. Thank you guys so much for writing in though. Yeah we love 558 00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:22.719 it. This has kind of turned into an episode all on its own, 559 00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:28.679 but we just thought we'd throw something together for you. Least interesting episode ever 560 00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:31.239 or is it? This is the episode where we make a huge announcement that 561 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:38.880 will forever change the future of blurry pop, Poto tests and blew it slurry 562 00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:45.320 photos, y pogos. Blurry Photos is probably to announced, but we're now 563 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:50.000 on the inter nuts. Do you want to watch it on a radio? 564 00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:54.559 We can do that too. Blurry Photos who the best show on Ham Radio? 565 00:41:54.960 --> 00:42:02.400 You got two kans and string you go podcast Erica. So anyways, 566 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:06.559 you guys know what to do if you like us, share share it with 567 00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:09.199 somebody. Yeah, one person a week who cares. Yeah, that's super 568 00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:13.559 easy. That's that's an easy goal. And and it's like, imagine you 569 00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:17.199 were the first person to hear Thrift shot by Mackalelmore and then you like walked 570 00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:21.280 into work. It's like, no, listen to this song, listen to 571 00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:22.840 the words. Then everyone would be like, oh my god, you are 572 00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:27.880 awesome because you found it this is your opportunity to find something that's awesome. 573 00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:36.679 Yep, yep, we're like Macklemore. Hella cool great anyway, Um, 574 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:39.159 go go on there. If you haven't, if you don't have Facebook, 575 00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:42.559 then then don't worry about it. But if you do and you haven't liked 576 00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:45.079 us yet, then go do it. Yeah, it's five seconds and Twitter 577 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:50.599 is always fun. Blurry underscore photos. We don't spam anything there, Nope, 578 00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:52.639 we have nothing to spam. Really, it's it's too much work to 579 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.159 do ye you YouTube. Obviously we're starting to pick up a little at traction 580 00:42:57.159 --> 00:42:59.159 on. So that's love. That's cool, love it, you know the 581 00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:01.440 rest. Just tell somebody to teach somebody how to use the Internet and then 582 00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:06.599 keep being the awesome groovymo phos that you are. Yeah, please do so 583 00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:12.119 anyway for this blurry photo supplement. I am David floga Is. I'm and 584 00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:16.679 you don't know me, Dave Stecco. I'm David. You don't you shut 585 00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:22.599 up? Just by die I'm by I was blow good bye, all right,