September 11, 2018 • 16 mins
Elvis talks about September 11th and what we did on the show today. Also we try an experiment where we talk to each other with our eyes closed!
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talk about on your on your podcast present minute morning show?
(01:26):
ALR haven't got lots to cover today. It's a fifteen
minute morning show. That means we have fifteen minutes. I
gotta hold my paper fifteen minutes. I really got to
go pay oh really. So it will also be kind
of a test to see how Danielle does with her pee.
I can handle this, But Danielle, you have a full
cup of coffee you haven't touched on the morning. I
drank a cup of coffee on my way here, and
then I'm still drinking. This is your swimming pool still open.
(01:49):
It is paid question. Why why did you wait until
we started the fifteen minute morning show podcast? We could
have held off until you went to peep, you know,
because we were having meetings and it just I looked
at a time and I know there was something else
Nate wanted everyone to do and I didn't want to
hold and you know you want us to time you
and you can run down to Pelet's see how fast
you can go and let me get my time. Remember
(02:11):
last time on the air, Danielle and I raced each
other and she beat me. And I don't know how
she possibly have done that because they whis quickly. But
the men's room is heady on. I need that timer.
It's a it's a fifteen minute morning show and that's
my You just reset my fifteen minutes. Remember the time
right here, there's time the timer on my iPhone. I
(02:32):
got a timer too, so okay, okay, get your timer ready.
Are you ready? I'm gonna time Garrett's time. By the way,
this could be like a sixteen minute morning show podcast.
Go no, I don't have to be morning show. About
two minutes? Ready? Are you ready with a timers? Gonna go? Pee? Ready?
Set go pee? Follow over with a microphone. All right,
(02:55):
there she goes to pee. I think it's gonna be
a minute ten. If she had a three two four two,
that would take much longer. A minute ten. I think, yeah, washns,
I'm gonna over a minute ten you think so, because
the women's room is way down the hall. Last time
on the air, she beat me and I couldn't believe it.
And I was like, a minute, I know, but you didn't.
You have to pooh, no, I don't do that scary
(03:17):
and wait for the shake. He just runs back out.
Did you wash your hands? All right, let's move on.
We're waiting for Danielle. We'll see what the total time is.
You're saying a minute, ten, I'm saying over. We'll see.
She's pretty fast actually, um okay. So today was our
nine eleven show, the seventeenth anniversary, So this was our
(03:40):
eleven show and people always say, well, what are you
gonna do? We don't know. Do we get here? We
have a few things planned, but not a lot. The
one thing we did have super plan today was the
visit from our friend Max and the New York City
Gay Men's Chorus, which just totally blew everyone away with
their live performance of Max's song. And I just think, uh,
(04:00):
it was a great kift. What do you guys think
about that moment? I thought it sounded really good. I
was able to hold on, hold on how much time?
One seventeen? Pretty good? I know, scary guest. I'm gonna
ten I guessed over, but you know what, it was
really close to ask the big question. Yes, I washed
my hands. Okay, thanks, all right back to okay, So,
(04:21):
any thoughts about today's show, especially with Max and the
game course that was amazing? Yeah, So okay, So I
was on location and then I got two chance to
come back and I saw Jake kind of like, you know,
just touching up all the video getting ready to posted
at Elvis duran dot com. And I thought it was
really good. I love the lyrics, I love the feeling.
It sounded great. The gayance course that sounded so awesome
in the background. Uh it was like a really good,
(04:43):
you know, uh positive song. Yeah, it was uplifting. It
was great. Yeah, I like it a lot. I thought
it was really good, good because I'm wondering if I
what it sounded like outside the studio because we were
here and there incredible and what a talented bunch of
guys amazing and it was it was cool. Elvis. I
would say what I did was I went in another studio,
plugged headphones in and close my eyes and when you
have a chance to go back to listen on the
(05:04):
Elvis d and on demand channel. Do it because it
gives the song. You can hear the lyrics, you could
hear the inflections. I had goose bumps and I was crying.
You can focus. It's good, perfect. Yeah, you know what,
I love sound, things that are all sonic, as they
would say, I love sound. But I'm gonna I'm gonna
(05:24):
add to what Garrett said, and I would say, then
go watch the video on Elvis rand dot com because
watching the chorus behind Max harmonized both and then watching
Max put such emotion into his performance. His arms were flailing,
he was just you could see the passion for New
York and for today in the performance. So yeah, Garrett's crazy. Both.
(05:47):
Max was controlling the chorus like he would put his
hands up for when they was to sing and when
they were to stop, and it was like a conductor.
It was pretty cool to say, and one reason you
should watch the videos just to see what Max was wearing.
It's always of course he really just kind of closed. Well,
but back to this, this this thought of sound and
to what Garrett was saying, have you ever gone outside
(06:09):
and just listened and you can hear the world. That's
surrounding you. You never really stop and think about you know,
what sounds are happening to your left, what sounds are
happening to your right. You just know they're there because
you hear it to You don't have to hear you right,
But you ever stopped and listen. For instance, if you're
standing at a stream or the ocean, it surrounds you.
It's surround sound, and sound is something that we overlook
(06:30):
a lot because we're so so so tuned into what
we see. It's a great exercise, Elvis. Back in college,
I took a music theory class and that was our
first assignment was to go outside and with a pen
and paper, right down everything that you heard, just listening.
And I'm like, well, what are you listening to? This?
Listening to nothing? At least seven eight nine things you
(06:52):
can hear if you really listen. Well, Nature's soundtrack is
just beyond beyond fantastic. I mean, give yourself a chance
to just listen to the world around you. Why is
Danielle laughing? Why are you laughing? Because what is behind scary?
When scary started talking, started cracking up? Why you crack up? Well, Dennis,
(07:16):
come to the microphone. Our friend Dennis is visiting. I
don't think that microphone work. You have to use that
mike doesn't work. It does work, it doesn't. All right,
it's not connected. I'm telling you. It's okay. It's that
theory class just works, all right. Okay, so, yes, it
doesn't work. Go to any microphone you can find. Okay,
(07:38):
it's they're all on our first our first day with microphones. Okay,
I'm gonna ask one more time. Can you go to
a micro one? Other than that, we don't listen to
these bozos. Don't listen to them. They don't know what
you're talking about. Go to this one. Okay, you're taking
a music theory class. I don't know why that. I'm scary.
Taking a music theory class makes you latch was the theory? Yeah?
(08:03):
Yeah yeah. In college, you know, they have these elective credits.
We call them b S credits because they were just
like you just needed them to get by the gray.
It was at first going in, but I learned more
in that class during that semester than I than I
ever could have imagined. So I was thankful for having
had the experience. Afterwards, Yes, music theory where you don't
(08:27):
where you're talking about. You talk about the woodwinds, you
talk about the brass instruments, but before they even get
you into that, they talk about sound. As Elvis was
saying there, I think that was brilliantly put, brilliantly put, Scary,
and I applaud you. My intentions were easy going in
when I took the class. Afterwards, I was thankful. Can
(08:49):
I change the subject a little bit? Going off with
Garrett said about closing your eyes and listening to the music.
Something happened today with Scary and he did it again
just now. He was talking on the air and Nate
desperately trying to get his attention, and when Scary talks
and gets excited, he closes his eyes again. So we
were all waving wrap it up, wrap it up, and
he didn't see it. I think his eyes are open.
You just can't tell. And I know several people who
(09:16):
do this. You do close your eyes when you speak?
What do you I mean do you remember closing them?
I mean you know that it's complete darkness when you're speaking.
It's an involuntary action. Do you think you can see?
Can you see us when you're talking? You can't know,
there's no way. You can't physically closed all the way
because I'm I'm a person who could only concentrate on
one action at a time, so you can't speak and
(09:39):
see at the same time. He's like the horses in
Central Park with the horse. If I want to hyper
focus on my thoughts without anything else getting in the way,
I involuntarily closed me close your eyes, right, I know,
But now you're forcing your eyes to stay open as
you speak. So are you saying that what you're saying
really isn't as smart as it could be had you
(09:59):
had the opportun you close your eyes, Okay. I think
the other reason he closes his eyes is sometimes scarious
his things that are so outlandish that normally you would
see the rest of the room react, but his eyes
are closed. He can't tell that we're looking at him
like he's ridiculous, and that's why he keeps going. If
you know he doesn't see you. I think he deliberately
closes eyes on you because you tell him to be quiet.
He doesn't see it, and he just keeps going. I
(10:22):
think we do have videos somewhere of Scary trying to
make a point and his eyes are closed for like
almost sixty seconds. So whatever, when you make a speech,
Let's say, you know, when you go back to Edward R.
Murrow High School to make a speech to all the
class members of the school, the school where you graduated from,
do you close your eyes during the entire speech. No,
(10:42):
I don't because I'm looking at my cards, I'm looking
at what I have to say. I've done that before.
I'm like, no, if if if I close my eyes,
I'm not going to be able to say anything because
I can't read. When you ask the weird question, oh,
my eyes are completely closed. You know. Gray T does
something similar. He can't speak on radio while looking at you.
That is difficult. He looks down and then you try
(11:04):
to get his attention. He won't. He doesn't know. But
but in my defense, for many many years, you know,
when I first started here, I always had me out
on the street, so I would always hear your voice
through a cell phone and I couldn't see you. So
to actually be sitting in the studio having a conversation
with you staring at you, it's quite awkward because I
(11:25):
always went on the noise that I would hear getting
back to you, sounds that you hear. So this is
very similar to scary. You can't focus on what you're
saying to us if you're looking at us at the
same time. Yeah, you have forced me to now do this,
and I don't like it at all, Like I feel
very uncomfortable when you know, how do you feel when
you're talking to someone and they're not looking at you.
(11:46):
Doesn't that that kind of it weirds me out when
I'm talking to someone and they don't look me, Isn't
it Like, don't they say that's something about body language
that means something when they're not looking at you, that
dishonesty or something. I don't I don't know. I don't
know what the person. Yes, I want to speak to
me and look eyed eye, but this is not in person.
This is on the radio. This is in person. I'm
sitting right across from that. But it's different from me.
(12:08):
For me, I feel like when I go on the radio,
I step into this bubble, this other world. So in
my world, I don't have to really look at you.
I can hear you and I can talk to you
that way. Well, so you're in another dimension when you're
on the radio. Correct, But you're let's be honest, you're
really not you're in this room with us, So how
(12:28):
can you can't look at because in this world, in
this world that I'm in with you guys, you guys
are all characters to me, we're not really So this
is like Mr Rogers Land of make belief. That's right. Yes,
anything on the radio is all make believe for me.
They're saying the general lowering of the eyes during conversation
can send the message that you think you're better or
(12:49):
have a higher social standing than the person you're living.
I don't think that's what does it say. It says
you're saying to them you're not important. Oh see, that's
that's why we get to decide when you're important. You're
not in control. You know that you're very important. No,
that's definitely Scary. You know we've talked like Scary he
shuts people up. Remember last week he said save your breath? Yea,
(13:10):
and Scary stopped Brodie in the middle of a sentence
and said, by by by about save your breath. I
won't even let you finish your sentence. I didn't get
a thought out. I'm gonna defend Scary. Sometimes with the
business we're in, you know, when we have five seconds
counting down to a break starting. You have to get
your point across quickly. And if somebody's saying something that
you know what they're going to say, you need to
shut them up and then tell them, Okay, we know
(13:31):
what you're saying that. Yeah, save your breath. I just
it's so insulting. Save your breath. But he knew when
he was gonna say, right, yeah, this is true, even
though he wasn't looking at me because his eyes were closed.
For the record, if you're really going back to original point,
(13:52):
Elvis Brown, if you actually are, if you actually want
to listen, yes music there, you want to listen to
what you're saying, close your eyes and you can hear
the sounds better. Okay, my eyes are now closed. Let's
say okay, everyone, let's all close our eyes will do
the fifteen minute Morning show podcast. All right, eyes closed, alright.
So this is weird. I feel odd trying to communicate
(14:15):
with you without being able to look at you. You see,
for me, it's perfect because I feel like I'm back
on the phone talking to you. But I feel like
I don't know when to say something because I can't
see one. Other people are going to talk. What we
seem to be doing okay so far. Hey, straighten eight? Yeah,
are your eyes closed? I can't find the microphone? Eyes
hear you? Do you hear straight and night? Do you
guys hear? We hear you? You're okay? Yeah? Do you
(14:35):
want me to say something? Is this odd? I can't
do this? This is very difficult to do with your
eyes closed. What about you, Brody? Can you? Yeah? I
feel like we're in a room where the lights around
and someone's looking for the switch. Garrett, how about you?
I feel like no one's here. I feel right at
home personally, and I feel like I'm on the telephone.
I'm on the phone with you, guys. I can hear you.
I will say scary? Does look better this way? I'm
gonna open my eyes. I can't handle that. I will
(14:57):
tell you, you you know what, what we just did. As
stupid as that, mounted try today, when you're alone with
your friends, would say, okay, for the next sixty seconds,
we're assuming at sixty we can't watch a clock. Let's
all speak to each other and have a conversation with
our eyes closes. Good luck. It's weird, but a lot
of people listen to this podcast while driving, though yes,
(15:17):
I didn't say do it now, I said today with
your friends. Think about how many people go through their
lives like that that they can't see, and that's how
they have to that's how they listen to it. I
must assume you get used to it everyone. I don't know.
I get why Scary does it because it feel you
feel like no one's in the room, so you feel
like you could just say whatever and forever how long
you want. So Scary, with your eyes closed, you feel
(15:37):
you can focus a little more on what you're saying. Therefore,
your communication is more effective when your eyes are closed.
Not just me, though, help you. It might be different
for others. We should staple them shut. You know, he
could never do TV and like read a teleprompting. You
had to do the news with the TELEPROMPTU they do
all the thinking for you. Just you just read the words.
(15:59):
There's is a closed I know, but he's giving us
words from from him from his brain. Yeah, you know
what I'm saying. This is the strangest fifteen minute morning
show podcast. The Fifteen Minute Morning Show
So for the fifty minute morning show, let's talk about
brooklynnon and Brooklyn and dot Com. You never think of
your betting your sheets being all that important until you
get bad sheets. When you get great sheets like we
have from Brooklyn and dot com, it changes everything. We
spend so much time on our beds. Why don't we
take care of ourselves. Let's pamper ourselves. The problem is
with really great betting, it can be marked up. Like
(00:22):
I know people who have paid close to a thousand
dollars just to put sheets on the bed bets insane.
Our friends Vicky and Rich at Brooklyn and they decided
five star hotel quality sheets should be available to all
of us, so they cut out the middleman. They know
the manufacturers that old fashioned spirit. They understand that sheets
just don't feel great. They look great too. With different
colors and materials to choose from Brooklyn and dot Com
(00:43):
has changed the way I sleep with these sheets. The
more you wash them, the softer they get. I want
you to check them out. Get twenty dollars off and
free shipping when you use the promo code fifteen at
brook lynnon dot com. They also have a sixty nights
satisfaction guarantee a lifetime warranty. You can't go wrong with
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fifteen brook lynnon the Best Sheets Ever? What would you
talk about on your on your podcast present minute morning show?
(01:26):
ALR haven't got lots to cover today. It's a fifteen
minute morning show. That means we have fifteen minutes. I
gotta hold my paper fifteen minutes. I really got to
go pay oh really. So it will also be kind
of a test to see how Danielle does with her pee.
I can handle this, But Danielle, you have a full
cup of coffee you haven't touched on the morning. I
drank a cup of coffee on my way here, and
then I'm still drinking. This is your swimming pool still open.
(01:49):
It is paid question. Why why did you wait until
we started the fifteen minute morning show podcast? We could
have held off until you went to peep, you know,
because we were having meetings and it just I looked
at a time and I know there was something else
Nate wanted everyone to do and I didn't want to
hold and you know you want us to time you
and you can run down to Pelet's see how fast
you can go and let me get my time. Remember
(02:11):
last time on the air, Danielle and I raced each
other and she beat me. And I don't know how
she possibly have done that because they whis quickly. But
the men's room is heady on. I need that timer.
It's a it's a fifteen minute morning show and that's
my You just reset my fifteen minutes. Remember the time
right here, there's time the timer on my iPhone. I
(02:32):
got a timer too, so okay, okay, get your timer ready.
Are you ready? I'm gonna time Garrett's time. By the way,
this could be like a sixteen minute morning show podcast.
Go no, I don't have to be morning show. About
two minutes? Ready? Are you ready with a timers? Gonna go? Pee? Ready?
Set go pee? Follow over with a microphone. All right,
(02:55):
there she goes to pee. I think it's gonna be
a minute ten. If she had a three two four two,
that would take much longer. A minute ten. I think, yeah, washns,
I'm gonna over a minute ten you think so, because
the women's room is way down the hall. Last time
on the air, she beat me and I couldn't believe it.
And I was like, a minute, I know, but you didn't.
You have to pooh, no, I don't do that scary
(03:17):
and wait for the shake. He just runs back out.
Did you wash your hands? All right, let's move on.
We're waiting for Danielle. We'll see what the total time is.
You're saying a minute, ten, I'm saying over. We'll see.
She's pretty fast actually, um okay. So today was our
nine eleven show, the seventeenth anniversary, So this was our
(03:40):
eleven show and people always say, well, what are you
gonna do? We don't know. Do we get here? We
have a few things planned, but not a lot. The
one thing we did have super plan today was the
visit from our friend Max and the New York City
Gay Men's Chorus, which just totally blew everyone away with
their live performance of Max's song. And I just think, uh,
(04:00):
it was a great kift. What do you guys think
about that moment? I thought it sounded really good. I
was able to hold on, hold on how much time?
One seventeen? Pretty good? I know, scary guest. I'm gonna
ten I guessed over, but you know what, it was
really close to ask the big question. Yes, I washed
my hands. Okay, thanks, all right back to okay, So,
(04:21):
any thoughts about today's show, especially with Max and the
game course that was amazing? Yeah, So okay, So I
was on location and then I got two chance to
come back and I saw Jake kind of like, you know,
just touching up all the video getting ready to posted
at Elvis duran dot com. And I thought it was
really good. I love the lyrics, I love the feeling.
It sounded great. The gayance course that sounded so awesome
in the background. Uh it was like a really good,
(04:43):
you know, uh positive song. Yeah, it was uplifting. It
was great. Yeah, I like it a lot. I thought
it was really good, good because I'm wondering if I
what it sounded like outside the studio because we were
here and there incredible and what a talented bunch of
guys amazing and it was it was cool. Elvis. I
would say what I did was I went in another studio,
plugged headphones in and close my eyes and when you
have a chance to go back to listen on the
(05:04):
Elvis d and on demand channel. Do it because it
gives the song. You can hear the lyrics, you could
hear the inflections. I had goose bumps and I was crying.
You can focus. It's good, perfect. Yeah, you know what,
I love sound, things that are all sonic, as they
would say, I love sound. But I'm gonna I'm gonna
(05:24):
add to what Garrett said, and I would say, then
go watch the video on Elvis rand dot com because
watching the chorus behind Max harmonized both and then watching
Max put such emotion into his performance. His arms were flailing,
he was just you could see the passion for New
York and for today in the performance. So yeah, Garrett's crazy. Both.
(05:47):
Max was controlling the chorus like he would put his
hands up for when they was to sing and when
they were to stop, and it was like a conductor.
It was pretty cool to say, and one reason you
should watch the videos just to see what Max was wearing.
It's always of course he really just kind of closed. Well,
but back to this, this this thought of sound and
to what Garrett was saying, have you ever gone outside
(06:09):
and just listened and you can hear the world. That's
surrounding you. You never really stop and think about you know,
what sounds are happening to your left, what sounds are
happening to your right. You just know they're there because
you hear it to You don't have to hear you right,
But you ever stopped and listen. For instance, if you're
standing at a stream or the ocean, it surrounds you.
It's surround sound, and sound is something that we overlook
(06:30):
a lot because we're so so so tuned into what
we see. It's a great exercise, Elvis. Back in college,
I took a music theory class and that was our
first assignment was to go outside and with a pen
and paper, right down everything that you heard, just listening.
And I'm like, well, what are you listening to? This?
Listening to nothing? At least seven eight nine things you
(06:52):
can hear if you really listen. Well, Nature's soundtrack is
just beyond beyond fantastic. I mean, give yourself a chance
to just listen to the world around you. Why is
Danielle laughing? Why are you laughing? Because what is behind scary?
When scary started talking, started cracking up? Why you crack up? Well, Dennis,
(07:16):
come to the microphone. Our friend Dennis is visiting. I
don't think that microphone work. You have to use that
mike doesn't work. It does work, it doesn't. All right,
it's not connected. I'm telling you. It's okay. It's that
theory class just works, all right. Okay, so, yes, it
doesn't work. Go to any microphone you can find. Okay,
(07:38):
it's they're all on our first our first day with microphones. Okay,
I'm gonna ask one more time. Can you go to
a micro one? Other than that, we don't listen to
these bozos. Don't listen to them. They don't know what
you're talking about. Go to this one. Okay, you're taking
a music theory class. I don't know why that. I'm scary.
Taking a music theory class makes you latch was the theory? Yeah?
(08:03):
Yeah yeah. In college, you know, they have these elective credits.
We call them b S credits because they were just
like you just needed them to get by the gray.
It was at first going in, but I learned more
in that class during that semester than I than I
ever could have imagined. So I was thankful for having
had the experience. Afterwards, Yes, music theory where you don't
(08:27):
where you're talking about. You talk about the woodwinds, you
talk about the brass instruments, but before they even get
you into that, they talk about sound. As Elvis was
saying there, I think that was brilliantly put, brilliantly put, Scary,
and I applaud you. My intentions were easy going in
when I took the class. Afterwards, I was thankful. Can
(08:49):
I change the subject a little bit? Going off with
Garrett said about closing your eyes and listening to the music.
Something happened today with Scary and he did it again
just now. He was talking on the air and Nate
desperately trying to get his attention, and when Scary talks
and gets excited, he closes his eyes again. So we
were all waving wrap it up, wrap it up, and
he didn't see it. I think his eyes are open.
You just can't tell. And I know several people who
(09:16):
do this. You do close your eyes when you speak?
What do you I mean do you remember closing them?
I mean you know that it's complete darkness when you're speaking.
It's an involuntary action. Do you think you can see?
Can you see us when you're talking? You can't know,
there's no way. You can't physically closed all the way
because I'm I'm a person who could only concentrate on
one action at a time, so you can't speak and
(09:39):
see at the same time. He's like the horses in
Central Park with the horse. If I want to hyper
focus on my thoughts without anything else getting in the way,
I involuntarily closed me close your eyes, right, I know,
But now you're forcing your eyes to stay open as
you speak. So are you saying that what you're saying
really isn't as smart as it could be had you
(09:59):
had the opportun you close your eyes, Okay. I think
the other reason he closes his eyes is sometimes scarious
his things that are so outlandish that normally you would
see the rest of the room react, but his eyes
are closed. He can't tell that we're looking at him
like he's ridiculous, and that's why he keeps going. If
you know he doesn't see you. I think he deliberately
closes eyes on you because you tell him to be quiet.
He doesn't see it, and he just keeps going. I
(10:22):
think we do have videos somewhere of Scary trying to
make a point and his eyes are closed for like
almost sixty seconds. So whatever, when you make a speech,
Let's say, you know, when you go back to Edward R.
Murrow High School to make a speech to all the
class members of the school, the school where you graduated from,
do you close your eyes during the entire speech. No,
(10:42):
I don't because I'm looking at my cards, I'm looking
at what I have to say. I've done that before.
I'm like, no, if if if I close my eyes,
I'm not going to be able to say anything because
I can't read. When you ask the weird question, oh,
my eyes are completely closed. You know. Gray T does
something similar. He can't speak on radio while looking at you.
That is difficult. He looks down and then you try
(11:04):
to get his attention. He won't. He doesn't know. But
but in my defense, for many many years, you know,
when I first started here, I always had me out
on the street, so I would always hear your voice
through a cell phone and I couldn't see you. So
to actually be sitting in the studio having a conversation
with you staring at you, it's quite awkward because I
(11:25):
always went on the noise that I would hear getting
back to you, sounds that you hear. So this is
very similar to scary. You can't focus on what you're
saying to us if you're looking at us at the
same time. Yeah, you have forced me to now do this,
and I don't like it at all, Like I feel
very uncomfortable when you know, how do you feel when
you're talking to someone and they're not looking at you.
(11:46):
Doesn't that that kind of it weirds me out when
I'm talking to someone and they don't look me, Isn't
it Like, don't they say that's something about body language
that means something when they're not looking at you, that
dishonesty or something. I don't I don't know. I don't
know what the person. Yes, I want to speak to
me and look eyed eye, but this is not in person.
This is on the radio. This is in person. I'm
sitting right across from that. But it's different from me.
(12:08):
For me, I feel like when I go on the radio,
I step into this bubble, this other world. So in
my world, I don't have to really look at you.
I can hear you and I can talk to you
that way. Well, so you're in another dimension when you're
on the radio. Correct, But you're let's be honest, you're
really not you're in this room with us, So how
(12:28):
can you can't look at because in this world, in
this world that I'm in with you guys, you guys
are all characters to me, we're not really So this
is like Mr Rogers Land of make belief. That's right. Yes,
anything on the radio is all make believe for me.
They're saying the general lowering of the eyes during conversation
can send the message that you think you're better or
(12:49):
have a higher social standing than the person you're living.
I don't think that's what does it say. It says
you're saying to them you're not important. Oh see, that's
that's why we get to decide when you're important. You're
not in control. You know that you're very important. No,
that's definitely Scary. You know we've talked like Scary he
shuts people up. Remember last week he said save your breath? Yea,
(13:10):
and Scary stopped Brodie in the middle of a sentence
and said, by by by about save your breath. I
won't even let you finish your sentence. I didn't get
a thought out. I'm gonna defend Scary. Sometimes with the
business we're in, you know, when we have five seconds
counting down to a break starting. You have to get
your point across quickly. And if somebody's saying something that
you know what they're going to say, you need to
shut them up and then tell them, Okay, we know
(13:31):
what you're saying that. Yeah, save your breath. I just
it's so insulting. Save your breath. But he knew when
he was gonna say, right, yeah, this is true, even
though he wasn't looking at me because his eyes were closed.
For the record, if you're really going back to original point,
(13:52):
Elvis Brown, if you actually are, if you actually want
to listen, yes music there, you want to listen to
what you're saying, close your eyes and you can hear
the sounds better. Okay, my eyes are now closed. Let's
say okay, everyone, let's all close our eyes will do
the fifteen minute Morning show podcast. All right, eyes closed, alright.
So this is weird. I feel odd trying to communicate
(14:15):
with you without being able to look at you. You see,
for me, it's perfect because I feel like I'm back
on the phone talking to you. But I feel like
I don't know when to say something because I can't
see one. Other people are going to talk. What we
seem to be doing okay so far. Hey, straighten eight? Yeah,
are your eyes closed? I can't find the microphone? Eyes
hear you? Do you hear straight and night? Do you
guys hear? We hear you? You're okay? Yeah? Do you
(14:35):
want me to say something? Is this odd? I can't
do this? This is very difficult to do with your
eyes closed. What about you, Brody? Can you? Yeah? I
feel like we're in a room where the lights around
and someone's looking for the switch. Garrett, how about you?
I feel like no one's here. I feel right at
home personally, and I feel like I'm on the telephone.
I'm on the phone with you, guys. I can hear you.
I will say scary? Does look better this way? I'm
gonna open my eyes. I can't handle that. I will
(14:57):
tell you, you you know what, what we just did. As
stupid as that, mounted try today, when you're alone with
your friends, would say, okay, for the next sixty seconds,
we're assuming at sixty we can't watch a clock. Let's
all speak to each other and have a conversation with
our eyes closes. Good luck. It's weird, but a lot
of people listen to this podcast while driving, though yes,
(15:17):
I didn't say do it now, I said today with
your friends. Think about how many people go through their
lives like that that they can't see, and that's how
they have to that's how they listen to it. I
must assume you get used to it everyone. I don't know.
I get why Scary does it because it feel you
feel like no one's in the room, so you feel
like you could just say whatever and forever how long
you want. So Scary, with your eyes closed, you feel
(15:37):
you can focus a little more on what you're saying. Therefore,
your communication is more effective when your eyes are closed.
Not just me, though, help you. It might be different
for others. We should staple them shut. You know, he
could never do TV and like read a teleprompting. You
had to do the news with the TELEPROMPTU they do
all the thinking for you. Just you just read the words.
(15:59):
There's is a closed I know, but he's giving us
words from from him from his brain. Yeah, you know
what I'm saying. This is the strangest fifteen minute morning
show podcast. The Fifteen Minute Morning Show
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