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True Tales of the Mondane and it thoroughly understood. Say, we're flipping
the script this week. We're gonna talk about something you already know about.
Yeah, well, this week we had planned on doing an episode all about
a road trip down to the PARSEC Awards in Atlanta, Georgia. Roadcast.
It was gonna be a roadcast. We're going to talk about all kinds of
stuff in the states that we were passing through. We were gonna gole plan
just so weird. We were gonna get so unspeakably weird and stuff fell through,
and we'll tell you why. It turns out that the PARSEC Awards,
which we had originally been told would probably be on Saturday, they weren't.
They weren't. They got moved to Sunday after we'd made our travel arrangements,
and then we just couldn't change them. We're just too busy and important.
Well, I was going on a trip to fabulous Colorado. I already had
changed my ticket, which cost more money to go instead of Chicago to Denver,
from Atlanta to Denver, and I was leaving on Sunday, which was
the day after. We thought we'd go down there and see how the awards
turned out and then get out of there on Sunday. Well, apparently they
got changed just about a month ago, and the PARSEC Awards announced the official
time on their website, on their on their blog, and on me.
I don't. I wasn't checking the way. We didn't. We didn't read
their blog. We just took their word for it. But to day,
hoops a daisy. We uh. So we had planned on getting down there,
we'd we'd already set up hotel reservations and all that stuff, so we
were able to cancel some of that. But here's the deal. We found
out about it the Wednesday before we were supposed to go. Yeah, like
forty eight hours before we were going to leave, Right, that was too
late to change my flight from Atlanta to Denver without paying somewhere in the ballpark
of seven hundred dollars. And thus begins poor mister Flora's journey and the descent
into madness. So far be it from me to waste a dragon con pass
that I had already purchased, That's right. Plus I had to get down
to Atlanta to fly on vacation. I was perfectly willing to lose my dragon
con Pass. I walked away from it. So I started looking at flights
down there, super expensive, somewhere at least three hundred bucks to get to
just get down there one way. Looked at the train. You know people
still take trains, Yeah, which I would love to Why because they're as
expensive as flying, well, three hundred dollars. It's the same prices as
flying. I would have loved to have taken a train whatever. So uh,
in lieu of of renting a car myself, which I figured was going
to be almost as expensive when you chalk up gas and probably you know,
some kind of hotels and the rookers on the way, um truck truck stop
hookers, seat seat covers, right, that's right cover as we learned that
on our CV episode. So gross, all of a sudden done, that
was probably going to be pretty pretty expensive in itself. So what did I
do? I opted for the Greyhound yep, bought myself a ticket on the
hound. Oh man, and uh did a seventeen hour journey from Chicago to
Atlanta riding the doll and the old hound down there. Oh uh did you
make friends? No? I didn't. There there was one baby early on
in the trip who rode from Gary, Indiana down to Indianapolis. And thank
goodness, that was just one one stop because it was a baby. Babies
love buses, everybody knows that. Yeah, and they left sitting next to
me on business Oh yeah, it wasn't It really wasn't that bad. More
room than a plane, and for the most part, save a couple of
trips between cities, I had a seat to myself. So it really yeah,
you know, it worked out. I was able to actually work on
the tarot ups whom part of it, so I'd work on that and then
kind of fall asleep. Nice. But I got down to Atlanta Nightmare and
then walked to dragon CONU And I have to say I was not prepared for
Dragon Con. Well, there's a lot of dragons, and there's a lot
of cons, a lot of cons. I get it. It was a
hot mass of humanity spread across a few blocks of downtown Atlanta. It was
not my ideal situation game. I don't want to say I'm xenophobic, but
that's a lot to take in. Yeah, I did not appreciate this.
Luckily, I had bought my pass already and I was able to skip a
line that stretched from inside this huge ballroom of a hotel out the door,
down the hall, and then out the other door to the outside of the
hotel. I would have been in line all day, you would have.
Yeah. So I was able to skip this line and go up and get
my pass and that was great. But then I had to figure out where
to go because it's Dragon Con is spread around a few hotels down in the
See. That's what blows my mind. Like anything like I can understand,
like when we have like C two E two or or our nerds, our
personal nerd circuses here in Chicago, like, yo, that's McCormick. It's
it's it's a huge, giant convention hall. But it's in one hall,
so one place. Run around and see everything. I can't imagine like having
it spread from like multiple locations. Yeah, I have to say this C
two E two here is was much preferable because first I went to the wrong
hotel and then I had to you know, trek two blocks to get my
pass, and then had to trek back. And this is in Atlanta in
the summer, had a light jacket on, I had my backpack with because
I was your worldly possessions. Yeah, because I was going from Dragon Con
to Denver. I have no idea how you did that. That is that's
this miserable, miserable. Okay, tell me how much more miserable it can
get. Well, it's fun to see the costumes. Yeah, the couseplay
is great. Being squeezed in next to humanity is not great. But seeing
all the crap you can buy and trying to, you know, stay afloat
in the river of people that that go buy the booths and stuff. Yeah,
it's it's it's okay. I came out of it with a thor coffee
mug Sweet. I came out of with two games, one of which is
the Illuminati Card Game, Sweet Peter Jackson Illuminati Card Game, which is a
lot of fun. So in the end, the dragon Count experience was me
strikes and Gutters, Strike, stricks and Gutters, and then the next day
I'm going to skip ahead a little bit, but then I'm going to come
back because I've got to tell you when I've got a story from when I
flew into d I A after I got to my final destination, I was
able to follow the PARSEC Awards on Twitter and summarily find out that we did
not win. So we didn't win an award at the Parsac this year.
At glad that I didn't drive there. Is it? Is it better this
way? Is it better than to have gone down there, the two of
us, and then sit in the audience for them to not color name No,
because I would have spent the entire time making out with a girl dress
like silock or something like Oh, I would have That's the route I would
have gone. I honestly, you always find the positive. It's right.
I would have gone down there and been barely cognizant that there was an award
ceremony. I would have had too much fun giggling and running amuck with all
the nerdery present. I would have had too much fun. I honestly,
there was a little part of me. I had never said this to you.
I never told this to you until this moment that I was like,
Man, when I get down there, I'm gonna be kind of hard pressed.
I want to go to the award itself. I don't want to go
like run amuck and check out all all the stuff that's happening and just text
me if we win, I'll run over to you know, speech Hall c.
We'll figure it out. But turns out not a problem, a problem
which I would like to take this opportunity to, however, extend the highest
of fives to Blastropod Cast with the very talented Detri Bolardo and his insipid roommate
Mark Solov, who I mean, he pays some electricity bells, but really
it's tot getting the job done there. So highest to five is because they
did win. They won in their category. Yeah, so way to go,
guys. That's that's Chicago bringing home some pride. True, we lost
our best fact to the fiction podcast to the Hubble Cast, which is run
by NASA and the European Space Agency. So I lose anybody to lose to,
right, I'm happy to get my ass kicked by NASA. I guess
it's about a NASA T shirt today. I didn't realize I was funding the
enemy you are, but fogoes hereby declares itself the mortal enemy of space exploration
henceforth until we are the ones sending probes into space. How do you like
it now, NASA? Who's Who's blurry Phogos? Blurry Phogos is our three
beer version of the podcast, which you probably hear that this pretty much always
blurry Phogos. But anyways, congratulations to the winners. It was it was
a good trip in concept, but we got some stories out of it.
Nonetheless, he suffered. He's just you just plane suffered. Here's a story
about what I do for this podcast. Gather an y'all, When I got
into da ever heard of it? Because if you haven't, you should listen
to our d IA podcast. Lolo Rocca's favorite episode, our number one fans
favorite episode. I can't give a better seal of approval than that. When
I got into DA. That's Denver International Airport. Thank you. Of course,
the past couple of times that I've been there, I have been like
on the run from the cops. I've got to got to get a picture
of these murals. But I'm on the run from the cops. I've wanted
to find the murals, yeah, and see them, but I've always had
a quick turnover. The layover hasn't been that long because I switched planes in
DA. So this time I was determined, it's like, I'm gonna see
these murals. I'm gonna take pictures and I'm going to put them up on
the website. You know, people want to see this and this is I
want to see them in person. I had about a twenty minute layover,
and I was like, that is that's plenty of time to go to the
terminal that these are in, take pictures, and come back. The train's
pretty fast. Yeah. I got off the plane and I went straight to
the train and went to the terminal where the murals are found. The murals,
I took the pictures. I go back to where I came out of
the train and realize it's a do not enter where I came out of.
So what I had inadvertently done, was subverted the entire security protocol of the
airport. Yes, yep, so high. I begin sort of panicking and
I run up to some poor person at an information booth and I was like,
where can I get back on the train. They're like, what do
you mean back on the train? I was like, I just got off
the train. I want to get back on to go to this terminal.
They're like, well, you have to go through security. And I was
like, what, yeah, you do? You crossed the cord and you
came out of the secure zone. I hadn't seen any signs. Whether it
was in my haste to take the pictures or my excitement to take the pictures,
or poor signsmanship by the airport. I did not realize that I was
going out of security, or I would not have done it. Do you
know. Here's for our listeners one fun fact about d IA. Like the
security area, they set it up like thunderdome. So there's this big like
railing all the way around it, like on an elevated like the second level
of the terminal, so you can just look down and all you see is
this sea of humanity funneling through metal detectors, and no matter what time of
day, you look down there and you're like, that's five hours of my
life right there. There's no way I'm getting through that in less than five
hours. So I run to the security place what they've just described to you,
and of course there's a massive humanity waiting to get scanned and probed.
My heart's beating. I'm like shaking my hands like, well, this isn't
this isn't happening. Because I was pretty much gonna miss my flight. It
had already started boarding by this time, and I was just getting to security.
So I wait in line for a minute or two because the line was
slow moving. You know, there's people just not given any fox, just
kind of walking zombie like through it, or not walking at all. And
finally I get to a point where I flag down a TSA person and they
come over, you know, nonchalantly, just kind of stroll over. Look
at here someone has in a hurry. Where who will? So I put
on my best panic face, which wasn't hard to do, and I explained
the situation to this lady of the TSA and she's sort of like half smiles
and slowly unladed, which is the chord, you know, for the line,
and shoose me through to the to the person who's checking boarding passes and
stuff. And my story was not that I had come from the terminal where
my next flight was to look at murals. It was, oh, I
got lost right, way better story, what I mean? Yeah? Yeah.
And she was like, so you got on the train and your next
flight takes off in the same terminal you were in, and I was like
yes. She's like that's really stupid. And I was like, I know,
right, because what are you gonna say, hey, you well right?
But plus I had made that up, right, I had, so
I wasn't gonna be like, wait a minute. Yeah. So I get
to the place where you have to take all your clothes off and you know,
throw everything you own in there so they can scan it through. And
then you get scanned and there are a couple of elderly people right in front
of me, the elderly old people, and they gave zero shots, no
about anybody being in a hurry. That's fine, it's they're prerogative. It
whatever. Man. It's because when you're that old, there's a statistical chance
that if you're going someplace you don't want to go to you might just die
on the way, So that's why they go slow. I don't blame them
doctor appointments at that point, they're not They don't care anyway. Blurry photos
we hate the elderly man. I don't know about phos. Blurry photos is
not a friend of the elderly anyway. I finally get up there to where
I you know, they have the machine where you put your arms up and
they scan you right, and all of a sudden, this man rolls up,
this older woman in a wheelchair. I could tell they're like, no,
weird next because wheelchair, you know, yeah. And the guy like
leans over and taps my shoulder and he's like, excuse me, I've got
this wheelchair. And I was like, I'm sorry, you have to go,
and I jump in the machine. You start screaming being me up.
I like jump in the machine and I throw my arms up, they scan
me. I jump out. I get my stuff like i'd throw my shoes
on without tying. I leave a bunch of change in the bucket, stuff
everything I can, you know, into bags that I'm that I'm carrying.
Did you turn around for a quick double crotch grab Hong Kong. No,
but have fun wheel chin you goodness. No. But what happens is as
soon as I get everything to where I'm holding it or wearing it, I
turn around and there's another wall of elderly people. And I'm talking a wall
shoulder to shoulder people who have just gotten through security and are slowly zombily shambling
forward out of the security area. I have to do my best parkour through
them. Matt Cansberry again, my blood lunch, oh Man diabetes. If
you're elderly and you like our podcast, though you're exempt from this, by
the way, yeah, you're like when you are one of the good ones.
They you know, came by me. So I get through the elderly
patch and uh like a turn up patch, and I run down to the
train, and of course it's like hours before the train comes, even though
it was like a couple of minutes, and at this time it's already passed
boarding time, you know, like it's it's probably five ten minutes from when
the plane actually is supposed to take off from the runway itself. And I'm
just like, I'm hoping to God. And I get on the train,
I get to my terminal. I run out of the train, I run
up the escalator and I turn around and start running up the next escalator,
and I realize I'm not going anywhere, and I look down. I'm going
up the down escalator. So I have to turn around, get off that
escalator, and run across the roof to get a video of this farcicle adventure,
just pushing the elderly down, run up the wrong way. I've got
my my Iluminati game in the bag. I'm wearing boots that are untied,
and I've got this huge backpack on. So I get up the escalator and
I'm headed to gate forty nine and I'm at Gate twenty five at that point,
so I just start hoofing it through the airport. Now we're at altitude.
Yeah, not easy to do. That'll catch up with you fast,
and it did. It did. So my lungs are burning, my legs
are burning, and things are starting to not respond to my mental coma,
and I have to stop and just walk for a little bit. Nothing that
made me happier is if it. This is the moment where that old lady
passes you in her mechanized wheelchair. She gives you a little do you like
me? Now, I've got an oxygen tank. I hope you catch your
flight, dick. So I'm gas and walking through slush squash style. Yeah,
and I get to I see gate forty nine, so I pick it
up again and I start kind of jog and I get there and I'm like
and the people are like, is he hyperventilating? Is what's going on here?
And I handed my boarding ticket and they're like, oh are you so?
And so oh oh okay, and like it wasn't my name whatever name
they said, it wasn't my name, but I couldn't talk. I couldn't
breathe, so I couldn't talk. So they opened the door to let me,
let me down the ramp and suddenly they're like, no, no,
stop, this isn't your flight. And I was like what what did I
miss it? And They're like, no, you're at gate fifty nine.
And I was like, wherever this plane's going, that's where I'm going.
I end up back in Atlantic. Yeah. So so I grabbed my boarding
pass bag and I'm like, tell them to hold it all my life,
tell them my tale. So I start jogging again and everything just kind of
shuts down and I start doing the Sasquatch lope. I finally see gate fifty
nine and the person is luckily still there. It's like the finish line of
a marathon. Yeah, but a marathon from like New York to Los Angeles.
Yeah, That's that's how it felt. And I kind of tried to
pick it up to jog the last, you know, twenty feet and I
get there and I and they're like, oh, what happened? Where did
you go? You? You landed like nine gates down where. What happened
is some merels, There is some meals by light. I said, tell
me, stupid, and there's the murals. And I lied, and then
I was stupid, and it's forty nine. It's forty nine. I was
almost there, and then I lied to me. By the skin of my
teeth, I made the flight man. Does everybody's staring bailfully at you as
you're like, no, No, they weren't. You probably looked pretty miserable,
although I looked terrible. I mean, the sweat was just running off
of me, So I think people at least knew something was going on.
But every everything was cool, except for like a few days. From thenceforth,
my lungs O. The burn just coughed up everything that was in them.
It was just like a death rattle. Like no, every time I
breathe, there was lungs getting purified by the mile high air well. I
hope so, but that's that's what happened to d Ia. I'm going to
post these pictures that I took up on the website so that people see what
I ruined my lungs for and almost missed my flight. That's a harrowing adventure.
Do you know what I did? What? Nothing? I laid on
my couch, Dude, that was it. All the while you're going through
these amazing trials and tribulations, I'm just like, oh, I guess I
could watch another episode of Breaking Bad. You know. It's like the I
watched the whole season, but I just keep finding myself drawn back to the
first episode of Orange is the New Black. For anyone who's not seen that
show, it's the first episode is just nothing but boobs. It's just like
a softcore porn movie. And then then then they're afterwards, they're like,
well, you're hooked. Here's the show. Yeah, so that's what happened.
That's why we don't have an episode this week. That was a hell
of an explanation. I hope you're satisfied, people, but we did want
to give you an episode where we told you about stuff that was going on.
And we're also gonna talk some listener mail that we got. Oh wait,
I have something. Yeah, your tarot reading was totally right. I
got promoted at work by my boss, who was an influential woman. Hello.
Yeah, so now, per the terms of my reading, I have
to be careful of my ego and not to let that go too far.
And it's you know what, and it's already come in handy because I was
halfway through ordering some golden robes and I said, whoa, pump the brakes,
check yourself before you rick it. So it's just it's just velvet.
Now, it's just like your regular, workaday, royal purple velvet. Well,
yep, I don't want to seem too cocky, right right, I'm
a working man's deity. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you. I'm a big
deal and I expect to be burned at the stake. Yeah, yeah,
thank you, missus, thank you. R J. Taro the third,
So, let's let's talk about some listener mail that we go see the mail.
The mail you don't stop, she don't care where she goes. Male
is always there. Do you like that the mail is actually a female?
That's what I just did. Expectations blown, knick it off, d flow.
I'm gonna start out with, um, did you guys like our wraps?
We rap apped, We spent we spent a while on that. Yeah,
some sweet those are some sweet lyrics, some some hot beats. So
our first one comes from Peter. Peter says, hey, guys, love
the show and love the humor. Thanks Peter, Uh could brush up on
those Irish accents though, kind of dodgy. And then he goes on to
request the the EVP that we wouldn't play. He wanted the red pill.
Here's the deal, Peters from Ireland. Oh that's why UH can help us.
Thank you Peter for writing in, and yeah, good on you,
because you're absolutely right. And in fact, when I replied to him with
the EVP, I told him that our tagline should be blurry photos kind of
dodgy. Yeah we are kind of dodging uh, and he enjoyed that EVP.
Thanks for writing in, Peter, and and please feel free to write
in some more with your Irish slant on things. Yeah, please do I
want to and maybe some some cool lessons on how to sleep of our our
game. Yeah, he wrote us back, said great, EVP, he's
shooting bricks. Now. That's the power of the link. It's what this
will do our own very very low stakes version of the ring. Just listen
to it, you get the heebies something geb and he said it was very
disturbing. It would make a great intro for a Slayer album. That's true.
That's that's how you know, Peter Rocks. Yeah, so cool,
Thank you, Thank you, Peter, thank you. And if you got
any any cool uh stuff from Ireland that we may be missed in our Irish
Legends episode, which there are a ton so I'm sure you do, let
us know and we'll we maybe do a podcast episode about it. Yeah,
you know, we got a we got a pun, got a pun in
the mix. Oh yeah yeah. Oh baby, you've been gone so long.
I've missed you so much. I'm so happy to have the Bahama Mama
return to the fold. Bahama Mama. Yeah, we haven't heard from you
in months. Wow. I can't stay mad at you. I'm just so
glad you're back. I don't care where you go. I don't care why
you had to leave. I just need to be the kind of man that
makes you stay all right. Back to the bush, here we go.
The rich aristocratic people of the Egyptian times. This is from our Asconatin episode.
The rich aristocratic people of the Egyptian times wanted their families to be very
quote narrow minded. Thus they wrapped their skulls. Oh narrow minded. Bahama
Mama, You're like a tropical breeze on a on a on a day that's
just too hot. I work out. Yeah, thank you, Bahama Mama,
Please write us more often. We also heard from Emerson Emerson, winner
of the twenty thirteen minutes Creptic contest prize package. Emerson hits us with some
puns. Yeah, he gets puns up in our face, oh man.
From our Aconatin episode, Emerson said there's a popular Pharaohs club and ancient thebes
called for twitties our tats. Emerson also says whenever a spy is called decrypting
secret messages from his broadcast source, it's renamed a blunderstation. Bompas Hi poppy.
Oh, this is topical. What happens when recording the podcast on one
too many beers. Slurry photos. That's every episode for me. Blurry photos,
blurry photos. He who goes up, Hey, did you just look
at me? You don't look at me? The only God can look at
me. Oh that's not all Emerston hit us with no Emerson actually brought the
heat. Emerson brought us a story. So a story. Oh yeah,
yeah, he brought some heat. Okay, here we go, this is
good. Before I begin, I'd like to say I'm a skeptic first,
in a believer. Second, I accept science and rational thought, with the
obvious exception of listening to us. I don't believe in the paranormal without proof,
but I'm always up for a great mystery. So, without further delay,
here are the events as they occurred to me so long ago. I
was young, around eight, if memory serves, and I was at my
grandmother's house in Baldwinsville, New York. It's a big place, and I
was sleeping in the basement, easily the spookiest place in the house at night.
I awoke late one evening and found myself either unable or unwilling to move
or speak, And to my astonishment, they were figures moving in the dark,
dozens of them, all moving in orderly lines out of the back into
the darkness. To describe them as difficult. Their faces and bodies were featureless
and colorless. More or less, they were short beings or specters, or
shapes with empty eyes and wide open mouths that appeared to be black pits embedded
in their faces. Dude, they made no sound. He gave no hint
that they were aware of me. This ethereal parade of entities continued for what
seemed like hours, the whole time I was paralyzed with fear or perhaps something
a bit more blameable wink. Eventually, the sun rose and they faded away
with the new day's arrival, never to be seen again. I was the
only witness to any of this, and this is the first time I've spoken
of this outside the safe confines of my own brain. I was not dreaming.
I awoke to this and never went back to sleep. Was it ghosts
probably not beings from another dimension? Unlikely? Or did the reptilians project images
into my brain to get me hooked on GMOs? Probably? Most likely?
I like where his head's at? Who knows? He says a little hat
higher there. What happened was most likely a textbook example of sleep paralysis.
I can't say for sure, as I've never had another incidence, so who
knows. Really, it's a mystery. Amazing. Oh man, that's thank
you so much for sharing that. Yeah, that is awesome and spooky.
Is help just to watch these things eight years old seeing this man, No,
there's no I would have screamed my fool head off instantly. What if
you couldn't? Sounds like he wasn't able to do much now, you know.
You know we said with the in the Shadow Person episode, with the
sleep paralysis, there comes that percentage of people who their brain makes things out
of what they're seeing. Yeah. Right, this is sort of the paradolia
that's that's going on where their their brain makes the patterns seem like something recognizable,
and too often it's something horrendous or scary or spooky or something like that.
So while it could be explained that this is some form of that that's
going on with his brain, he says it happened for a while, which
to me is odd because after a while you think your brain would kind of
kick in and say, wait a minute, you know, maybe this isn't
right shadow munchkins walking single file. But if you're but if you're not fully
awake, I mean, time dilation is so weird when your brain's in that
state, Like, how can you really know how long anything was happening for?
True? True? And so you're left with the impression. I mean
it's like a dream. Sometimes you'll have a dream you feel like hours have
passed, but it's just been between snooze buttons, you know. Yeah,
so it's a hard thing to keep a good idea of you know, when
you're when you're in that in that position. Absolutely, Yeah, that's that's
another good point to it as well. Um, and you know, since
this has come back up, um, I actually have an interesting PostScript to
our Shadow People episode. Yeah, it turns out that one of my coworkers
has a form of narcolepsy. Not where or you just pass out or anything
like that, but it has to do with how she sleeps. Whereas a
normal person will take several hours to achieve a deep rem sleep where your brain
is active it's where the dreaming happens, she achieves it in about two minutes.
Wow, So the entire time she's asleep, she's having these very vivid
dreams, and and so I asked her, and I you know, she,
I was like, do you get a sleep prowlysis? She said occasionally?
And I asked her, do you get the hallucinations? She's like,
yeah, it seemed like the shadowy people moving around, things like that.
And since we got that other listener who wrote in about sometimes the dreams are
really erotic, I asked her, you know, why not if that ever
happens as well? She said sometimes. She's like, but the thing is
that even even the dreams that are sexual aren't necessarily like positively sexual. Interesting.
She said that the unifying theme for all of her dreams is that they're
all just extremely graphic, whether it be sexually or visually or violently, they're
just very very graphic. And I just thought that was really interesting. So
she so she has the occasional sleep paralysis with the hallucinations, but in this
very scientific context of a sleep disorder. So it was just a really interesting
perspective. And I wish that I had known about this before we recorded.
I would have tried to get her on the show Why Wonder Why Figures,
Running Figures? I think it Maybe I'll bet you there's some deep psychology to
it that that's just like what you your brain tries to create is something that
it's the most familiar with. Weird, It's incredibly interesting. Yeah, it's
it's great, so so weird, And it feels like we're right on the
edge of being able to explain it scientifically or being able to explain it paranormally,
right, I mean, I'm I'm leaning ninety nine point nine percent of
the scientific side of it. Well, but but there are like some interesting
I don't want to see non scientific but like not linear mathematic explanations like why,
just like what you're saying, why the brain chooses certain things? Why
why would the brain need to generate graphic imagery? What what is it about
that that makes that selective? How does the brain find those images and incorporate
them? Why why does it take this such a consistent form YEA from person
to person, because it should be very different. It should be very different
depending on the person. And to me that the graphic nature of what you
were just talking about could probably be explained like like my brain already works to
think, oh, well, you know, there's some something's not getting shut
off or something is firing in the brain that causes it to be more visceral.
But in the case of like Emmerson when he writes in and says the
mouths and the eyes were like gaping pits in there, why in the world
would your brain put that in there? Yeah, when you see people every
day, it'd be easier almost to fill in with a more familiar face,
right, Yeah. Well, you know, I have a theory in my
head that is back to my no science or research. It's just something that
I came up with. But I feel like it's it's almost akin to a
yawn, where your body wants to and there's a thousand reasons of your body
yawns, but one of them is to get this burst of oxygen to bring
a breath in and hold it. And so it kind of it and it
involves all these other systems. You know, your muscles move differently, you
kind of zone out a little bit. It's it's amazing how many things happen
just from a good old fashioned yawn. It's amazing how I want to yawn
right now. I know I was thinking about it as I was saying,
like that, don't do it, um, But the same thing that happens
with my theories that I wonder if there's some neurochemical that is generated with that,
with that imagery that the brain needs that the body is requiring, whether
correctly or due to some imbalance, and so the brain is determined. If
I keep this graphic imagery running, then maybe you're you're you're getting a low
grade dose of adrenaline while you're asleep because it thinks it's in danger. You're
you're creating this false fight or flight. You've got a fear response, so
you're you're getting maybe the heart rate higher. Maybe you know, like,
is it is it a way of fooling the body into performing a certain way
while you're asleep, and not necessarily because your body needs it, but it
thinks it does. There's some maybe a disorder or something wrong where your brain
is not properly determining what it needs. But I almost feel like it's a
it's not the end, it's a means to an end almost. That's that's
my idiot three dollar theory that is based on nothing and expensive. So that's
three dollars each of you owe me. Man, It's always fun to talk
about the shadow person stuff. It blossoms into it just really really cool.
Yeah, so thank you again, Emerson. Yeah, thank thanks for sending
that and thanks for sharing, and thanks for the puns. Yeah, we'd
lighten it up. Yeah, we heard again from Peyton. Bob what oh
man um and Bob. Bob wrote in to say that he believes he got
schooled by Gray Cat. Fancy Feast does not f around, but Bob has
got skills like nobody's business. Yeah, Bob, don't don't. Don't feel
bad about your skills. Yo. Yeah, just because great gray Cat wrote
in the mule log that's a good one. It's good. And Bob concedes
to that. But Bob, don't let that stop you. No, don't
stop. We love your puns. I'd like to believe that uh gray Cat
was actually inspired by all of the magnificent puns that Bob has brought along.
So I think that I think that Bob could even can even share in the
glory of a good great cat. I think so I think we can all
share and great cats at home like no good way I did. That was
me worked all week Dan on that pun. Oh and we've got a little
uh got a sweet piece of email here. Oh God, our friend Jay
writes in the song Here Comes the Hot Stepper is a song available as a
downloadable content for the video game Just Dance two. So the rest assured Dave
has been paid forward at least a little to new generations. Thank you Jay
for verifying that I was not insane for remembering any Camus and Here Comes the
Hot step I went home and looked up that video, and I've got to
say it was the first time it had ever come across my ears. Ever,
you never heard that song, never heard the song. It was weird,
ash, Come on, have you seen the video? It's weird.
I don't know. We don't die? Yeah, anyone left here? Yeah?
I know what. Bow don't know. Chang chang. Oh man,
it was awesome. Sorry, that was a jam. I guess I was
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You're not talking about Paul Revere and the Raiders. You're talking about that
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what it's called, but I know what you're talking about. What is it
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which means you mean it all the more h Indian law. It's what
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I put some pictures in there. Oh sweet, just in case you
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