EP 22 CEASEFIRE AND SIDE-EYE

A black van. A sudden sponsor read. A confident claim that a centuries-deep conflict is “done.” We play the joke straight, then let the absurdity do the heavy lifting, exposing how easy it is to accept neat endings when the truth is heavy and our timelines are tired. The bit about a ceasefire wrapped with candy words isn’t just a gag; it’s a mirror held up to headlines and our own urge to move on.

From there, we veer into a shameless music plug that knows it’s shameless. We talk bangers, FLAC files, DACs, and the mythic pull of “perfect” frequencies, poking fun at audiophile lore while admitting why it’s tempting: when policy feels immovable, sound feels like a world we can shape. You’ll hear a riff on how art becomes a refuge, a hustle, and sometimes a truth engine that outpaces the news. We even test a heresy: does value come from control, or from circulation? The piracy riff is satire with a point, asking whether reach matters more than receipts when you’re trying to move hearts.

Under the jokes runs a thread about responsibility. If compromise lives “in the heart,” it can’t stay there; it has to show up in attention, in patience with complexity, in refusing to treat real harm like a plot twist with a tidy bow. We challenge quick closure, invite you to question the story beats you’re fed, and still leave space for joy in the making of things that matter. Laugh with us, argue with us, then decide what kind of story you’re willing to live inside.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Hello and welcome back to the show.
We got a little bigger show foryou.
Um What is going on?
Uh this is the only show thatdoesn't that isn't literally

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this is the only show that isn'tfunded by the CAA The CIA This
is the only show that isn'tfunded by the CAA.
Do you think those do you thinkthose other show isn't it a
little suspicious?
The kind of information that isput out in like the types of

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connections and like isn't itsuspicious?
Like at all?
No, probably not.
There's a black van behind me.
Oh oh oh look at that.
There's a black oh there's acouple oh I'll be back in one

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second, okay?
I'll be I'll be I'll be back.
This show is brought to you bythe CIA.
Now now that this is a pro CIAshow, let's talk about the the

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uh conflict in Gaza.
There was a ceasefire deal, andthis happened a few days ago,
and it's it's done.
It's it's over.
We're we're the conflict's over,the whole thing's done, sweep it
under the rug.

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It's all it's all candy andsugar and and um nothing to uh
worry about at all.
You know?
It it's just you know it's twolittle kids fighting and you you
break it up, you say, hey, yeah,we're gonna take we're gonna put

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you guys to sleep.
We're gonna it's time for bedand they go to bed and they
never fight again.
It's all good now guys.
There's nothing to worry about.
There's not a there's not ashred of doubt in my heart that
this whole thing i you know thisthis multi generational

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multi-century you know conflictis is that it's done.
It in one day we figured it out,we just had to tell 'em, hey,
knock it off, you little rascal.
It's done.
It it's it all just a little wagof the finger and it's all good.

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There's nothing to worry about,and you can you can sleep
soundly now.
If you already weren't sleepingsoundly in this country on you
know your temperatic mattress,well you can sleep soundly now.
There's there's not a there'snot a star in the sky that won't

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shine unless you sleep tonight.
That's what I've always said andI'll say it again.
It it we're okay now.
It's all good.
We did it we we did it guys, wedid it.

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It's we just we just went inthere, we just said knock it
off, and we just we just stoppedthem.
Just dead in their tracks, justoh okay, yeah, my bad.
Sorry I didn't know.
Oh, that was our bad.
Oh that was our ba it was ourfault, it wasn't their fault,

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and then they say it was theirfault, it wasn't our fault, but
don't worry, we're gonna stopnow.
It's all over it's all over now.
And yeah, and the solutiondidn't even it didn't even cost

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a dime.
It didn't even cost a penny justjust like that.
You know, free the conflictconflicts cost money.
Compromises are free becausethey're in your heart.

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Just remember the compromise isin your heart.

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There's always a destination toget to, and there's always
another option, but we can'tachieve any type of everlasting

(05:57):
peace without my next upcomingprojects.
I have this song I'm working on,and it is a banger.
Like it's such a banger that Idon't I can't even use it as an

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intro song for the show.
It's like so good that I can'teven I can't I can't even like
tease it.
Like I'm afraid somebody's gonnasteal it.
And like if even if I did like a10-second clip, like they're
gonna put that up on theirthing, and they're gonna make a
lot of money because it's reallygood.
And you should definitely alwayslisten like pretty much like

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just like only listen to mymusic.
Like my music, Blake Cunninghamat Spotify, B L I K E C U N N I
N G H A M.
Is like it's like it's like useit, like use it to its full
capacity.
Like when you like you couldyou're you're only listening on

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like a base a basic likefrequency.
Like you there are otherfrequencies like this is like
hi-fi, flack, like DAC, likethis is like some hi-fi stuff,
like you gotta like go in andlike you gotta ch change the
like fundamental frequencies tolike like 432 to like maybe even

(07:30):
like 252 hertz in above likeeven into the 200 kilohertz
range, like you have to listenin such a way that like you
uncover like the fundamentaltruths of the U universe and
make maybe even like geo geogeologic like shapes and not

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geologic but geometric shapes,but if you want to find geo
geologic shapes as well, I meanthat it's open to all kinds of
of uh in uh interpretation andall varieties of interpretation.
So the bottom line is go intoyour Spotify and like like or

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whatever of whatever streamingplatform or service or I don't
know you go go ahead.
You you can even pirate it.
I don't care if you can if it ifit's popular if it's somehow
it's viol like uh violated themainstream in such a way that uh

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people are looking to pirate it,then go ahead and pirate it.
There's nothing wrong with that,and there's and there shouldn't
be something wrong with that.
So just go ahead, just deleteall the other artists out of
your life, and uh check my musicout, Blake Cunningham and

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Spotify, everlasting peace andglory, and have have an amazing
day out there because you neverknow when it might be your last.