WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:03.319 I am a man who believed that I died twenty 2 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:05.440 years ago, and I lived like a man who is 3 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:10.000 dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything, 4 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:28.640 Gary Webb. 5 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:31.519 I am an investigative journalist can In nineteen ninety. 6 00:00:31.239 --> 00:00:33.560 Six, I wrote a series of stories in termed Barkwayans, 7 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:35.679 which was about CIA involvement in. 8 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:45.200 I knew a man who wasn't said Duck smiles at this. 9 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:53.600 All all a man can do is smile back both 10 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:54.439 and stolen bone. 11 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:55.399 The secret society. 12 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:57.960 It's so sick that we can't talk about. What does 13 00:00:57.960 --> 00:00:59.759 that mean for America? 14 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.320 The conspiracy theorist are going to go. 15 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:04.359 I haven't seen the number three two two. 16 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:10.040 My sad duty to report this afternoon that my friend 17 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:14.519 and colleague Tim Russell collapsed and died earlier this afternoon. 18 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:17.120 I might die in this cult night in the area 19 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:17.719 of tomorrow. 20 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:21.519 I'm afraid what possible difference can I make. 21 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:28.920 And no official of my administration, whether his rank is 22 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:33.640 high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words 23 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.799 here tonight as an excuse to sense of the news, 24 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:42.120 to stifle descent, to cover on BAM mistakes, or to 25 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:45.079 withhold from the press and the public the facts they 26 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:45.719 deserve to. 27 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:58.640 Know what the fuck is up. Welcome to another already 28 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:02.760 dead can already fucked it up. Austin's out today. Today 29 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:06.200 we have jewels. We have We are joined by Foundering 30 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:08.680 as the guest today. Jewels will be back or not 31 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.759 Jewels like keep going swapping jewels and Austin also be. 32 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:15.879 Back next week. So you had one job, man, I 33 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:16.479 have one job. 34 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:19.680 I have one job. I have one job. Well, I 35 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:22.479 do other things. I'm gonna whatever, but yeah, we have 36 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:25.199 awesome be back next week. But today we have a 37 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:26.280 guest with you and jewels. 38 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:29.039 Jewels. This is fine. We love jewels here. But Austin 39 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:29.800 will be back next week. 40 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:31.560 I'm just mostly letting you guys because we stream this 41 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:33.680 to Austin's platforms as well, and just so you guys know, 42 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:35.960 he will be back. He'll be back next week. We 43 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:39.120 have William Ramsey on with us next week. I for one, 44 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.520 have a stack schedule for you guys soon. I have 45 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.120 a Vegas episode dropping soon. I'm doing a part two, 46 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:46.960 a bunch of other stuff. Tripley episode should be dropping 47 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:49.439 any fucking minute now, and I have one with them 48 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.080 next month. Me and Austin as well, So a lot 49 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:54.800 of shit. Good to be with you, guys, What is 50 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:57.240 up foundering? You want to let my audience know who 51 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:58.960 you are? Obviously, as we can tell by the chat, 52 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.919 I think most people do, but uh, just to be sure, 53 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:03.719 I know, just for good measure, let some of the 54 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:06.560 audience that don't know who you are let him know 55 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.400 about you, what you're about, all that good stuff. You 56 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:10.439 were hyped by that song, by the way, I could tell. 57 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:11.080 I was hyped. 58 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:12.599 Yeah, well I was hyped also to see some of 59 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.879 my homies on that screen, just like like Tim Russer, 60 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.560 you know, calling out Bush for being in Sculling Bones. 61 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:21.240 It's like that's a real guy, right, like he you 62 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:23.479 could just tell by this that grin on his face 63 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:26.400 as he's asking that question, just he knows he's being 64 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:27.719 super naughty, Like. 65 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:29.400 Did you justiz on Geronimo? I know you did it. 66 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:30.319 I know you did it. 67 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:33.000 And you know he asked the same thing to carry too. 68 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.560 John Kerry, Yeah, who was also in Sculling Bones? Right? 69 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:39.840 Is it jis on Geronimo or piss on Geronima? I forget? 70 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:43.560 Is more like it's got the alliteration going on, so 71 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:44.240 it sounds good. 72 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:47.199 A right, Yeah, I don't know, but you know that's 73 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:49.199 the thing, right, the like that's the rumor of sculling bones. 74 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:52.800 They like the yeah, yeah. 75 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:55.360 They may drink something out of his skull or something. 76 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:56.879 I've heard it. 77 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.479 And then they like tie a ribbon around their boner 78 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:00.199 or something. 79 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:01.639 They're all saying, jizz. 80 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:04.919 No, I think they tie a ribbon around their boners. 81 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.800 And then they like talk about their sexual exploits. It's 82 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:13.840 very gay. It's very It's kind of like, uh, Bohemian grove. 83 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.360 Is it Reagan? Most goddamn faggy thing? 84 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:17.800 No? 85 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:20.040 Who said that? 86 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:24.199 The faggiest goddamn thing I've ever seen? So if I'm 87 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:27.000 gonna trust anyone's gonna be nixt anyway. So yeah, hey, 88 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:31.639 I'm foundering. I like conspiracies and I sing about them. 89 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:35.439 I'm a musician. I'm a piano player. I play classical piano. 90 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:38.240 But then I started getting to jazz and ragtime, and 91 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:42.120 you know the heathen the heathen genres, right, the devil's music, 92 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:46.279 and I I kind of like start getting censored a lot. 93 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:48.639 And then I realized that you can actually sing things 94 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:51.480 generally and get away with it more than just saying 95 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:54.319 things because you can kind of hide behind that thin 96 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:58.879 sheen of art, right, and with so much degenerate nonsense 97 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:01.639 being pushed by the record industry, I'm like, I feel 98 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:03.879 like I could use their tricks against them, and so 99 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:08.839 I try to kind of take commandeer their poppy formulas 100 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:12.759 and catchy rhythms and and I try to use use 101 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.120 it against to fight back against the status quo. 102 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:17.639 Wait, is Ben Folds your pseudonym? Is that what it is? 103 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.160 Is Ben Folds your pseudonym? 104 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:22.160 Yeah? 105 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:24.240 You know he does a bunch of like rap covers. 106 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:26.000 That's just the first thing again for those who didn't 107 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.079 get that deep cut. I know, I know him for 108 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.480 doing like like really really over the top like rap, 109 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:33.920 like explicit rap covers, and it's like very like very white, 110 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.560 like I don't even know how to explain how you 111 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:36.959 do it. 112 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.079 Like uh, bitches ain't ship but hose like that kind 113 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:40.399 of stuff. 114 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:42.720 Stuff like I don't know, I did an era like yeah, 115 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:45.519 like these people that they were pretty talented, you know, 116 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:48.120 and they went the pop route, but it was back 117 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:50.240 when you could actually you had you had to, you know, 118 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:53.040 even weird al Right, He's got a lot of talent 119 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:56.560 and the idea of using doing this parody and sort 120 00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:00.800 of as this biting, satirical way to challenge the status quo. 121 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:03.319 It's based. It's really cool, and it is something that's 122 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:06.360 been going on for to be real, thousands of years. 123 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:08.399 Like that is how you made fun of the Caesar 124 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:11.439 back in Roman times, right, Or like if you want 125 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:13.680 to make fun of the king during Shakespeare times, you 126 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:16.839 could do it. You could make fun of the Shylock jew. 127 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:19.639 That is good. It's stealing all the money, right, Shakespeare 128 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:22.279 is doing that right, Like it was the medium, it 129 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:26.040 was the chance for the pressure valve right, the court 130 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:29.160 gesture was the guy who basically could make fun of 131 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.600 the king and get away with it and then off 132 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:34.319 right exactly. 133 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:35.720 So I don't know. 134 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:37.600 It's like I feel like it's something that they went 135 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:41.079 after hard starting in the nineties to two thousands, and 136 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:42.639 it really ramped up in the last ten fifteen years 137 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.560 as they went after comedy, they went after the satire artists. 138 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:47.879 And it's like I'm looking around, I'm like, where are 139 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:50.160 the weird owls today? And I'm sure there's a lot 140 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:51.879 of folks that are doing it, but they're just they're 141 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:54.759 just censored. So I felt like, you know what, I 142 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:57.680 might as well just throw my proverbial hat in the ring. 143 00:06:57.800 --> 00:06:58.639 So here we are. 144 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:00.519 Even weird now. I don't really I mean, I guess 145 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:02.920 I never like followed his his career closely. 146 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:04.879 I don't feel like he ever really got too uh 147 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:07.399 you know, too contentious, per I don't know, I don't 148 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:09.360 remember anything that was like two over the line. It 149 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:12.879 was all pretty pretty like locker room not even locker 150 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:14.759 room like almost like fart humor kind of like that, 151 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:16.480 uh is that kind of ad? 152 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:19.279 That wasn't the Illuminati nos song? And then he had 153 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:22.160 like a song, some song about a rabbi, to fly 154 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:24.000 for to fly for a rabbi. 155 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:25.759 He did that, he pushed that, and then he like 156 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:28.920 appropriated the black people's music, right, like doing all the 157 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:32.319 Michael Jackson stuff. So he was kind of yes, you're right, though, 158 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:36.160 I will mention speaking of these guys, the old old guys. 159 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:40.439 Tom Larrr would be the counterpart to that, right. So 160 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:43.199 he was a guy who played piano and did people 161 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:45.839 know him for the Element song where he sings all 162 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:49.839 the elements, He's like, there's antimoni, austinic, aluminium, selenium, and hydrogen, 163 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:51.879 and oxygen and nitrogen and radium. But he did a 164 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:54.560 whole bunch of of songs that got banned. In fact, 165 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:56.959 he was almost arrested in Australia when he was on tour, 166 00:07:57.079 --> 00:07:59.399 and and so he kind of he did He did 167 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.600 a lot of this by eating satirical stuff, making fun 168 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.680 of of the Henry Kissingers of his era. In fact, 169 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:10.160 that's why he started. He stopped writing music writing satire 170 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:13.120 songs in the seventies when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel 171 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:15.920 Peace Prize because he's like, in a world where Henry 172 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:19.480 Kissinger wins a Nobel Peace Prize, basically, political satire doesn't 173 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:23.079 It's like it's it doesn't really exist anymore. It's not 174 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:25.600 even needed anymore. Well, here we are now and things 175 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:30.040 have gotten even way deeper into clown world. So it's like, actually, 176 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.799 you know, the satire I think is still useful because 177 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:36.799 every headline I read is like, is this the Onion? 178 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:38.000 Is this the Babylon Bee? 179 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:38.840 It's wild. 180 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:40.759 I do think we're at a paradigm shift, though, I 181 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.600 think I think things are changing. You know, we bring 182 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:45.879 up that I've brought brought up the elon thing multiple times, 183 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:48.120 and episodes we are the media now. Obviously it's kind 184 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:50.120 of like gay in a certain way and from eating 185 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:51.960 elon thing you're the kind of fuck off nerd. But 186 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:54.639 it is like there's something too that like we are 187 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:56.639 kind of the media now. I mean to the extent 188 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:00.000 that they are now basically giving press passes supposedly the 189 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.519 podcasters and like new media types and stuff like that. 190 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:04.519 That's like, I believe that's news from like today. 191 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:07.720 That's right what I was thinking. They're they're also bringing 192 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:09.919 back I think they got rid of four hundred people's 193 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:12.960 press passes and now they're restoring them, and then they're 194 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:15.759 inviting it basically anyone. Like half of my feed today 195 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:18.759 was like I just supplied to be get a press 196 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:21.399 pass for the White House, and I'm like, hey, that's 197 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:25.120 actually that's awesome. I mean, I don't great people to 198 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:27.200 be the is the White House pianist. That's my goal. 199 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.080 Ye, Like for example, like a Radix Vum the I 200 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:31.799 saw somebody throw her name in the in the the 201 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:34.080 thing she's done a lot of great coverage a particular thing, 202 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.480 you know, the whitmerkid napping. She made a documentary on 203 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:39.200 it or something she's working on it. It's working on 204 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:40.879 it's in the it's in the it's in the it's 205 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:43.799 in the wings. And then, uh, that's risky stuff too, 206 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.320 because even those people are still in jail, right they 207 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:49.080 released the JA sixers, but not even those guys yet. No, 208 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:51.200 there was a news that came out today there was 209 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:54.080 two people, uh to there was a new one of 210 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.039 the trials that was for two of them. I think 211 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.840 that they got denied that I believe their appeal, so 212 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:00.879 they're they're I mean, it was looking good for a 213 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:03.000 lot of these people, but another another couple of them 214 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:04.000 that fell through. 215 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:04.960 It's kind of mixed bag. 216 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:06.720 I mean, even the fact like once you look at 217 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:10.960 the rates of of imprisonment when it comes to comes 218 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:14.240 to what's some word I'm looking for, the entrapment caught. 219 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:16.519 The case when it comes to federal cases, especially in 220 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:18.440 slam shit. 221 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:20.639 Slam dunk, you know, yeah, yeah, it's retarded. 222 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:23.000 And the fact that even like some mixed bag, and 223 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:24.679 it's like almost I want to say, in the realm 224 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:26.720 of over half of them have essentially gone free. So 225 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:28.960 it's like we're at the point where it's ridiculous. And 226 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:32.759 then there was the Attorney general from Michigan, I think 227 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:35.960 just the other day was talking about fucking she put 228 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:38.279 out right after the pardons. She was like, she put 229 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:41.519 out this weird message about how like just reminding people 230 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:45.720 that the president can't do anything about state crimes, and 231 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:47.679 like that's a big part of the dynamic when it 232 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:50.360 comes to this Whitmer stuff is some stuff is like federal, 233 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:51.000 some state. 234 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:52.919 And then also they've been kind of dragging their. 235 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:54.679 Feet on some of the charges to where it's like 236 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:56.919 it's kind of like just chilling in the wings. So 237 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:58.919 I mean, that's that's kind of like the next in 238 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:01.480 my opinion, the logical thing should be pardoning, but it's 239 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:03.360 I think might be part of the reason why where 240 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.159 it's not as simple as a lot of other things. 241 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:07.480 But yeah, anyways, I also Dave's camp. I thought it 242 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:08.720 was another one that I like saw out there. But 243 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:10.480 just there're so many great people I know of them. 244 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:12.840 I'm like, that would be so fucking sick. I mean, 245 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:14.200 there's a good chance we might get a little bit 246 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:16.000 disappointed and then we just end up with like the 247 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:19.080 fucking like Lady truon USA or some shit, you know 248 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:20.000 what I mean, Like you know what I mean, like 249 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.840 that kind of sticky new like I don't know a 250 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:25.320 fucking Mario Nafall or something like as if I give 251 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:27.559 a fuck what he has to say, like nothing against him. 252 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:28.840 I just don't give a fuck about you. I don't 253 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:30.559 know anything about you. I just see you have a 254 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:32.279 big dealing. I alwould see your posts. I mean, I 255 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:34.720 don't know, just a faceless entity to me, you know 256 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:38.000 what I mean, Like just like a boring It's kind 257 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:39.200 of like a what's the word. 258 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.039 Looking for, like a Lex Friedman or something, you know 259 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.279 what I mean? But I don't know. My point being 260 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:44.279 is we could get let down. 261 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:45.960 I think we're just in a mixed bag when it 262 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:48.240 comes to Trump right now, it's kind of hard to 263 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:51.159 tell to get a feel on what this new administration 264 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:54.000 is gonna be. Like I keeps we're swinging back and 265 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.320 forth so hard from it's so over to we're so 266 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:59.480 back that it's like we're our head spinning. So it 267 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:01.120 just kind of we're your thoughts on that foundering, like 268 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:04.080 we're where you at because I've definitely I mean, shit, 269 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:05.799 we were just talking about have a Tim Foyle had episode. 270 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:08.679 I actually gave a message in that episode about like 271 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:11.000 cautious optimism, and I leaned at a lot of the 272 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:13.120 stuff with like the ceasefire and stuff, and there's been 273 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.559 lots of little details that I've changed since then. I'm like, fuck, 274 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:17.759 like I don't know of like I wouldn't put it 275 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:20.120 that way. I still am kind of like semi hopeful, 276 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:22.480 but I'm not as hopeful as I was when I 277 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:24.879 put that out. But even then, there's always into being 278 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:27.320 some other thing and then some other different thing in 279 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:29.039 like a different aspect of something. 280 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:31.200 I'm like, oh, okay, cool man, that's cool. But I 281 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:33.480 know I'm all over the place. How are you feeling? 282 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:34.639 How is your state of mind? 283 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:37.679 Not that I'm like too concerned about my actual well being, 284 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:39.799 but so far as coverage, I'm running a daily show 285 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:41.240 now too, so it is also like covering. 286 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:42.960 You're like, ah, it's much more. 287 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:47.759 You know, well, this it's exhausting. I mean again, this 288 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:50.759 pace is blistering that we are seeing with this the 289 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.559 social media landscape is is just it's really hard to 290 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:57.519 keep up. And I'm like a schizo autist type who's 291 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.879 always just like wanting the next thing, and even I'm 292 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.000 having to like just step back and but I guess 293 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.159 as to how I'm feeling I think I'm in line 294 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:09.759 with you, and to give you the most pretentious answer possible, 295 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:11.320 I'll be like, this is what it feels like to 296 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:13.799 be an artist, if that makes sense, and that this, 297 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:18.039 this sort of intense emotional rise and fall is kind 298 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.240 of something that you do when you create stuff, right, 299 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:23.159 when you're writing songs or whatever you're doing as an artist. 300 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:24.919 I mean, that's just what I do, right, And I 301 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:31.399 get this. I have this this bipolar like elation moments 302 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:34.840 followed by just these crashes of like it's just we're done, 303 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:37.600 it's over. I'm like I'm a failure, right, and it 304 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:40.360 feel like we're all being Things are changing so fast 305 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:42.559 that we're all being fast tracked into sort of this 306 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:47.799 artistic creative type mentality when just sitting back and just 307 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:50.919 letting things flow is not really going to happen anymore. 308 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:54.279 And I mean we saw that speeding up in the 309 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:57.120 last whatever few decades, maybe nine to eleven would be 310 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:00.840 that that point of when things really that crux. But really, 311 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:02.960 in the last of the COVID era, things have been 312 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:05.840 moving so rapidly and there's been so many rises and 313 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:08.600 falls from all on all side, no matter what you are, 314 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:12.360 where you fall on your political persuasion is where I mean, 315 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:14.320 I'm seeing a lot of these headlines. I'm being like, 316 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.759 all right, yeah, this is great, And then I can 317 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.360 imagine the liberal types are seeing these in they're just 318 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:23.559 they have this existential dread probably that they're feeling with 319 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:25.440 a lot of this stuff, and I like, I kind 320 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:28.480 of I'm a little bit concerned about them, but at 321 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:31.600 the same time, I'm like, you know, it's been the 322 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:34.600 COVID era was like existential dread for me, and we 323 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:35.919 can kind of get into that if you want, but 324 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:39.440 like I sort of got into the conspiracy and then 325 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:42.960 the virus pandemic stuff early on, and I was expecting 326 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.240 a COVID type thing for many years, and then when 327 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:47.279 it hit, I'm like, oh, this is it. So I 328 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:52.240 never really was afraid of like a disease. There's more 329 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:54.639 I was afraid of like the people around me that 330 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:57.519 were just I'm in California and it was just this 331 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:02.080 this delusion and this this unrest and this sense of 332 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:05.799 of just existential, like I said, this dread, and I 333 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:07.960 like I could feel it so oppressive all around me, 334 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.440 and I'm like, I'm just trying to like be happy, 335 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:12.519 and I was the one that was I was I'm 336 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:14.559 a I have a kid, and I was like the 337 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:19.120 only parent that was like, yeah, kids can play and 338 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:21.120 like we can go outside and hang out. And everyone 339 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:23.480 was just afraid for like two years and and just 340 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:26.200 going through that, and I feel like we're we're being 341 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:29.320 subjected to a lot of this stuff, this rise and 342 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:31.759 fall as a way to disorient us, and and a 343 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:33.159 lot of it is because they don't really know what 344 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:35.679 the fuck they're doing. I mean, I'm not one who's like, oh, 345 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:38.080 there's a grand plan and this is all part of everything, 346 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:40.639 but there certainly is a plan that has been going 347 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:43.960 on for a while, and there's been bumps. And the 348 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:46.799 Trump aspect is you know, I'm still on the fence 349 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:49.039 about I mean, I wish I knew I had a 350 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:51.879 better answer for it. But I see a lot of 351 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:53.600 good things that are happening in the last week or 352 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:56.440 so that I'm pleasantly surprised by. And then a lot 353 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:58.519 of stuff it's like, oh, we're just going to reinforce 354 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:02.399 the narrative and we're just gonna memory hold this. And 355 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:05.600 even today with the drones stuff, they're just like, oh, yeah, 356 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:08.799 the drones that was us and we lied about it. 357 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:11.039 I mean I say we because it's the US government. 358 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.480 It's a different administration, but it's still the US government, 359 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.840 and right they have the answers to what this act was, 360 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:20.559 same people. And so I'm like, Okay, how much is 361 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:22.720 actually changing? How much is this is a new face, 362 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.440 But enough is changing that I'm like something there is 363 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.120 a they're fighting with each other, and they've been fighting 364 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:32.080 these different factions and it's not just two, but like, 365 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:35.919 certainly there are ones that have more sway than others. 366 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:41.120 So again, try to You can't be especially as a parent, 367 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:43.759 you can't be pessimistic all the time because then that 368 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.879 just gives bad vibes. Right, So I'm trying to be 369 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:51.000 optimistic as much as I can, even through COVID. I'm like, 370 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:52.759 this is the best thing that could happen, because now 371 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.720 people are going to start questioning vaccines. Now I can 372 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:59.519 like confidently say maybe we should talk about the vaccine 373 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:04.319 issue without getting completely buried and just like insults and 374 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:07.640 threats and everything. And so I'm seeing the dialogue and 375 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.119 the narrative, the Overton window and all that stuff is 376 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:13.000 shifting in a way that I'm like, I can't see 377 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.119 it as anything but empowering. So I'm trying to feel 378 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:18.000 I'm trying to feel empowered as well. 379 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.359 Yeah, well they they I'm sorry, sorry, no, it's just 380 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:25.240 passing it back to you. Exactly stepped, but go ahead. 381 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:28.960 I was gonna say they kind of kind of kept 382 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:31.559 us trapped in this little paradigm for so long now, 383 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:34.359 you know, just like trying to pin each side on 384 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:36.680 each other. But like you said, there's a lot more 385 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:37.759 than just two sides. 386 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:42.680 I think we're seeing that play out like every day 387 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:46.440 and all these news cycles, and I think that even 388 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:48.559 the people in charge right now are kind of like, 389 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:50.640 oh my god, like we don't really know what is 390 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:53.000 going to happen, and they're not like there's certain things 391 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:56.680 that need to be disclosed. I mean, the JFK and 392 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:00.200 all this stuff, and you know, props to the the 393 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:02.680 new the new Press secretary and kind of getting all 394 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:05.079 this stuff out there and all that, and and even 395 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:08.079 talking about the drones. I'll give Trump credit for that 396 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:10.160 for just he said the other day when he was 397 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:13.799 signing executive orders, He's like, yeah, so was it Susan Wiles? 398 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:13.960 Right? 399 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:16.200 Is whatever the lady? She's like, He's like, yeah, can 400 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:18.039 you figure that out, Let's find out what the heck 401 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:21.759