This Must Be the Beginning (you have to speak truth) (Show #719) | Download MP3 from Jun 10, 2020

Previous DJ - "Brings up remote feed"
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live stream feedback loop"
Claude Debussy - "Clair De Lune"
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live stream feedback loop"
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live radio feedback loop"
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Clem Leek - "Mystery Moor"
Ifny - "Howdy is the Portal to the Future"
Cowboy Junkies - "Sweet Jane loop"
Dustin O'Halloran - "Opus 20"
Ken - "You Have to Speak Truth" [Spontaneous monologue, over Dustin O'Halloran layers & Clem Leek clock loop.

What happens if I stop being silent? Maybe they see me speaking and it gives them an idea.
Other people are now realizing it's OK to speak, and we're a little crowd now, a whole lot of people, who are happy to finally start speaking some truth. And the crowd is growing, the crowd is growing...
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Full transcript of spontaneous monologue "You Have to Speak Truth"
Some people speak as they think, and that's their method of thinking, is to speak. Some people never speak. Some people don't believe they have a voice. Some people have a history of having been asked to be silent. Some people are afraid of what happens when they speak, because once, maybe something happened when they spoke. Maybe it was something really bad. Maybe it just scared them a lot. Maybe they were very young when it happened. Maybe they saw something happen to somebody else. Maybe they saw an image on a screen, of something happening to somebody. And they believed that it was happening to them, because that's how our brains respond to images we see. And so forever they've been a little more silent. A little more silent, maybe a lot more silent, than they otherwise would've been. Maybe they've spent the rest of their lives being silent.
Although, sometimes people start...sometimes people, they stick out a little bit. They want to see what happens. What happens if I stop being silent? I mean, I know that I'm not supposed to speak, and I know that everybody disagrees with me, and I know that even though some people agree with me, they're not going to stand up with me when I speak, because they're afraid, too. And they'd probably just like to let me go down. They're glad it's not happening to them. Maybe they're a little bit happy that I spoke and said something that was true, but they're a little bit...they're not...
Maybe they, maybe they walk over next to me when I'm speaking. Maybe they see me speaking and it gives them an idea. Maybe they could, well, not quite speak, but maybe they could just stand next to me, and, well, they could... Yeah, they're just nodding their head, the person came up next to me, and they're not saying anything, but they're nodding their head. They look like they're agreeing. They're expressing some kind of support. It makes me a little less afraid to speak now. And there's someone, I can see someone off in the distance, and they, they, they're kind of, almost, it looks like they're laughing at me, and I feel scared again, I feel like maybe I shouldn't be speaking. Someone over there is taking notes. Someone over there is filming me, pointing a camera, and I don't know what